Holland Royalty Welcomes Bnai Brith Leaders
Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Of This And That:
The "All Quiet" on the Syria-
Israel border is but a temporary
lull . . The Syrians, " with the
Queen JuliAna and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (left) welcome Bnai Brith president Label
A. Katz (center) to their country. Joining Katz at the royal reception at Soestdyk Palace are
Mrs. Charles D. Solovich, of Detroit, president o f Bnai Brith Women, and Maurice Bisgyer of
Washington, D. C. (right), Bnai Brith executi ve vice president. The Queen told the Bnai Brith
leaders that her nation owes much to its Jewish people who have been honored and valued
citizens for centuries. Both the Queen and Prin ce were pleased that the first meeting of the
Bnai Brith's International Council was held in Amsterdam.
Candidacy of Rabbi Soloveitchik San Francisco to Open
Campaign
for Chief Rabbi Gains Israel Support Education
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)—A
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM — Reports that
the refusal of Rabbi Joseph B.
Soloveitchik, of Boston, to be
a candidate for the post of
Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi may
not be final received prominent
,coverage in the Jerusalem press
Tuesday.
The reports were based on
the contents of a second letter
from the Boston rabbinical
scholar: In his first letter to
Mizraehi leader a n d Interior
Minister Moshe Shapiro, Rabbi
Soloveitchik had indicated he
was not a candidate. His second
letter to Chief Rabbi Reuven
Katz, of Petach Tikvah, indi-
cated that his position had been
motivated by personal and po-
litical issues introduced in pro-
cedures for election of a new
Chief Rabbi to succeed the late
Rabbi Isaac Herzog, who died
last summer.
Rabbi Katz expressed the
opinion that Rabbi Soloveitchik
could be persuaded to change
his mind if he received assur-
ances that partianship would
not influence the election.
Haaretz, Israel's leading non-
party newspaper declared edi-
torially • that Israel would be
the loser "if the greatest of
American rabbis and one of
the greatest sages of Torah of
this generation were to stand
by his refusal."
The issues presumed to be
disturbing Rabbi Soloveitchik
developed when Rabbi Yaacov .
M. Toledano, Minister of Re-
ligious Affairs, proposed some
changes in procedures for the
election of Chief Rabbis, to
which the Israel rabbinate reg-
istered strong opposition. The
dispute brought a deadlock in
the election of the Chief Rab-
binate Council, which was
broken up Sunday when the
cabinet authorized Rabbi Tole-
dano to extend the tenure of
the council for five months be-
pond its Feb. 20 expiration date.
for the posts to rabbis under
70.
That cleared the way for ap-
pointment by the government
of the four other members and
subsequent selection of a 70-
member electoral college which
will decided on appointnemt of
Chief Rabbis. Forty-two of the
70 mast be rabbis and the re-
maining 28 will be secular
representatives chosen from a
panel submitted by townships
and local councils.
The other candidates for the
post of Chief Rabbi are Tel
Aviv Chief Rabbi Isar Unter-
man, Rabbi Shlomo Goren,
Chief Chaplain of the Army,
and Rabbi Seivin of Jerusalem.
Diplomatic Relations
with Israel Reported
Planned by Adenauer
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM — Israel For-
eign Ministry sources confirmed
Tuesday that the Israel Mission
in Cologne had advance infor-
mation that "Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer intends to take up
the question of diplomatic re-
lations with Israel at the next
meeting of the West German
Cabinet.
It was presumed that the
matter was being discussed here
by Dr. Felix Shinnar, head of
the Israel Mission, who arrived
in Israel unexpectedly for con-
sultations with Israel officials.
•
Jewish buildings or homes.
JCC officials quoted police as
saying that most of the scrib-
blings are being done by chil-
dren and youth and apparently
have no political significance.
Working with police, the Coun-
cil has been combatting the ap-
parent fad by seeking to create
the realization that the young
scribblers are exploiting a sign
that stands for a brutality with-
out parallel in human history.
The official said that in the
two-month effort, they hope to
reach hundreds of thousands of
San Francisco residents of all
ages through special local radio
and television programs, school,
church and labor programs, as
well as a permanent program of
education to acquaint the chil-
dren of the area with the mean-
ing of the era for which the
swastika stands.
help of Nasser, are preparing that the speed with which new
new attacks on a gradually big- arrivals take to the language of
ger scale . . . The UN has prac- the country—and that without
tically given up settling the proper schooling—tends to in-
Suez business, and a military - troduce incorrect turns of
explosion may happen any hour. speech and contaminates the
Chancellor Adenauer, who is language used in the press .
due in Washington on March Scholars agree with him. •
Meyer Levin, the author; is
15, is, of course, personally, a
good friend of the Jews .. . He now involved in a new legal bat-
has set apart one day to discuss tle, this time with Ralph Nuss-
with Jewish representatives baum, producer of the Israeli
problems of interest to the Jew- film, "The Burning Sands." ...
ish people . . We hope that Levin claims that Nussbaum
the spokesmen of the major plagiarized his, Levin's, script
Jewish groups will get together "Ballad of the Red Rock."
and present a united front.
One of these days, a drama-
Someone in the know thinks tist will make a play out of An-
that West Germany and Israel dre Schwartz-Bard's novel, "Le
will establish diplomatic rela- Dernier Des Justes", which
tions right after the Summit means "The last . of the Just
Meeting.
Ones" . . The book written in
. The Arab boycott is hitting on French has not as yet been
all cylinders . . . After the Re- scheduled for publication in En-
nault withdrawal, now comes glish, but it will, for it is a
the Air France reversal on its _powerful novel about the tribu-
deal with El Al ... Washington lations of a Lamed Vovrick, one
bears a heavy responsibility in of the 36 Just Ones in Jewish
the success of the boycott .. . history . . . If the dramatization
As a matter of fact, the entire should come about it will be
Christian world, which has been more of an authentic literary
spouting democratic principles event than the Diary of Anne
so eloquently, is once again con- Frank.
doning totalitarian ideology,
just as it did at the' ime of Hit-
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Cite NJ Slaughter Bill
as Attack on Shehita
TRENTON, N. J., (JTA) —
New Jersey Jewish spokesmen
indicate that a new proposal
for humane slaughter intro-
duced in the current session of
the Legislature is worse than
the measure which died last
year in committee.
Representatives of more than
20 Jewish religious and com-
The five-month period was a munity organizations joined last
compromise between the three year in a concerted campaign
inonth extension suggested by of opposition to that measure
Rabbi Toledano and the year despite its specific approval of
extension proposed by coalition Jewish ritual slaughter.
members of the National Re-
They successfully urged delay
ligious Party.
pending completion of a study
During those five months, the by the Joint AdvisOry 'Commit-
government and the Chief Rab- tee of the Synagogue Council
binate Council will seek to pro- of America and the National
mulgate the regulations for elec- Community Relations Advisory
tion to the two posts of Ash- Council on methods of handling
kenazic and Sephardic Chief
Rabbis. The council last Friday
named its four representatives
to the eight-member election
eommittee, with a warning that
the four would be withdrawn
if Rabbi Toledano persisted in
his efforts to effect changes in
election procedures. particu-
larly one limiting the candidacy
two-month community education
program, using every mass me-
dium in the area, has been an-
nounced by the Jewish Com-
munity Relations Council to
combat a rash of swastika
smearing which followed the
world-wide daubing epidemic
last January.
The swastikas are being
scrawled on school books, public
building walls, sign posts, bill-
boards and similar public places.
Most of the Nazi emblems are
not being smeared on or near
Moshe Sharett, who is prob-
ably Israel's most cultured
statesman, is worried about the
deterioration of the Hebrew lan-
guage in Israel . . . He thinks
animals prior to slaughter,
which is considered the crux
of the problem.
The new bill specifically
states that its intent is to ban
shackling and hoisting of con-
scious animals in preparation
for ritual as well as non-ritual
slaughter, which is considered
a deliberate attack on shehita.
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