Joel Sperka Is Principal Speaker
for Beth Yehudah's Dinner-Show

The final, tally of reservations,
reported at the closing meeting
of Beth - Yehudah's dinner and
show committee this week, re-
vealed that the 1960 affair will
once again be a "capacity
event."
It will be the third year at
which the annual event attracted
an attendance of 600.
Wolf Cohen, Yeshivah presi-
dent, said that this year's suc-
cess, "is in large measure due
to the out-
standing j o b
of the chair-
man, Morris
Karbal."
David Gold-
berg, chairman
of the arrange-
ment commit-
tee, announced
that Joel
Sperka will
' Joel Sperka deliver the
principal address of the evening.
Sperka was a student of the
Yeshivah Beth Yehuda since the
first grade and graduated from
its high school at the age of 16.
He went to the Telshe Yeshiva
in Cleveland and for three years
continued as an undergraduate
student at Wayne State Univer-
sity.
He 'received his B.A. degree
from Wayne attracting wide at-
tention when he was awarded
the Presidents Key, a new award
presented by Wayne to the stu-
dent achieving the highest
scholastic standing in the grad-
uating class of 1958. He also
received high honors from the
Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society.
Upon his graduation, he left
for Israel where he studied at
the world famous Ponoviz Yes-
hiva in Bnai Brak and made a
reputation for himself in tal-
mudic learning. He received the
Smicha (ordination) this su
mer in Bnai Brak and J
salem.

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The entertainment portion of
the program will feature Jackie
Mason, noted humorist who has
met with acclaim from TV and
other audiences in major cities.
The Dinner and Show will be
held 6 p.m. Sunday at the Latin
Quarter. A Cocktail hour will
precede the dinner.

Israel Threatened
by Teachers' Strike

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

JERUSALEM — The Israel
Cabinet, at an extraordinary ses-
sion Tuesday, strongly urged the
Secondary School Teachers As-
sociation, which called a one day
strike for Thursday, not to dis-
rupt education activities.
Abba Eban, Minister of Edu-
cation, was instructed to convey
the government's position to the
teachers, who called the strike
to protest delays in examination
of their pay and working condi-
tions, in a long drawn out dis-
pute.
The conflict has been com-
plicated by a warning from the
Histadrut, from which the sec:
ondary teachers split away, to
form an independent union, to
the government, not to negotiate
with the teachers. The govern-
ment, in effect, has been corn-
plying with that warning during
the year-long dispute.
Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion proposed to end the
deadlock by setting up a gov-
ernment arbitration service. The
teachers' association said they
had to reject the proposal be-
cause it had been watered down
to make it acceptable to the
Histadr

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Jews Are Prisoners in Communist, Arab Countries

By SAUL CARSON
JTA Correspondent at the
United Nations

(Copyright, 1960, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—
There are about 350,000 Jews in
Eastern Europe — outside the,
Soviet Union—who are virtual
captives of discriminatory prac-
tices in regard to emigration.
Approximately 270,000 Jews in
North Africa are also virtual
prisoners. The Communist coun-
tries of Eastern Europe, as well
as the Arab countries of North
Africa, h-a v e (among other
things) policies that are similar
when it comes to Jewish emigra-
tion — especially potential mi-
gration of Jews to Israel. They
won't let them go—under one
pretext or another.
These facts have emerged
here, and are being studied by
UN delegations, from a report
filed by the Coordinating Board
of Jewish Organizations compos-
ed of Bnai Brith, Board of Dep-
uties of British Jews, and South
African Board of Jewish Dep-
uties.
Romania has the largest con-
centration of Jews left in the
Soviet . bloc, outside the USSR
itself. There are about 200,000
Jews in Romania now. Accord-
ing to the report, Romania has
"a long tradition of anti-Semi-
tism." Its policy on the right of
Jews to leave the country "has
been marked by arbitrariness
and spasmodic shifts."

gary, where there are still be-
tween 80,000 and 90,000 Jews.
"Government leaders," states
the report, "acknowledge that
anti Semitism continues." Be-
tween 1946 and 1950, Hungary
permitted' the emigration of
40,000 Jews. The government
permitted no emigration be-
tween 1950 and 1956. During
and immediately after the Hun-
garian uprising, in 1956, about
20,000 Jews left the country—
among a total of 170,000 who
fled Hungary. Recently Hungary
has been permitting its people,
including Jews, to visit relatives
abroad for short periods of two
weeks to four weeks. The report
expresses the hope that Jews
desirous of going to Israel may
be permitted to do so.
Poland has also been on a
see-saw. For -years, the borders
were closed. After the Gomulka
regime came to power, in 1956,
a double shift got under way.
On the one hand, Polish Jews
were being repatriated - from
Russia. On the other ha • • O-
land opened its doo
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iod,
emigrants. In a
-year
,100 Po-
to early 1958
out
some
lish Jews-- cludi
the repatr . es from Russia—
left_for I el. The flood slo d
to a tri le of about 3 000 i
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1959.
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ow.
Jews s 1 left in P
is con ded in Pola
90 pe ent of the
is of the cou
taro
go to rael now.

Figures show just how un-
even that policy has been.
About 200,000 migrated from
gomania - to Palestine and Is-
rael between 1944 and 1952;
less than 2,000 in the next
five years, to 1957. In 1959,
the doors were opened-L.-be-
tween 12,000 and 15,000 Ro-
manian Jews went to Israel.
As suddenly as this liberali-
zation had begun — just as
quickly did it cease. One of
the most inhumane aspects
of this - policy has been
separation and break-
nces,
families. In many i
ed from
husbands were sep
one or
wives, parents
dren.
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Czechoslova is now has about
15,000 Jews. Of 45,000 Jews
there who survived the Nazi
holocaust, 23,000 emigrated to
Israel. Since 1954, "emigration
has slowed to a virtual halt."
o has about 200,000
ews now. At first, emigration
was unrestricted; 25,000 Jews
rated from Morocco to Is-

rael in 1955 alone. In 1956, the
doors were closed. Officials say
there is no discrimination re-
garding Jewish emigration. The
report says: "The facts are oth-
erwise."
Tunisia has about 67,000 Jews;
27,000 emigrated to Palestine
and Israel from 1947 to 1956.
Libya has 4,000 Jews; by 1951,
32,500 had left for Israel. In
both countries Jewish emigra-
tion is severelywrestricted, virtu-
ally impossible.
These are some of the facts
before the UN now. In January,
a subcommission of the Human
Rights Commission will discuss
an item entitled "the right of
everyone to -leave any country,
including his own, and to return
to his country." When that
comes up, this report will be on
the table, in front of the dele-
gates looking into the matter.
The Coordinating Board of Jew-
ish Organizations has seen to it
that the facts are clear. The
rest is up to the United Nations.

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cational a istance on
omen
national s e to Jewi
through• t th
in cOuntri
world, were nounced here
vention
the biennial
National Wome e of
the United Synagogue of Amer-
ica. Mrs. H. Herbert Rossman,
who was re-elected president of
the group, told the 1,500 dele-
gates that Jewish women in
countries throughout the world
"look to American Jewry for
practical help in developing
educational progra'ms for adults
and for children in their syna-
gogues."
The convention voted to in-
crease from $500,000 to $1,000,-
000 the quota to be raised by
the Women's League for the
Mathilde Schechter Residence
Hall, a girls' dormitory to be
built at the Jewish Theological
Seminary. The Residence Hall
will provide housing for young
women from all parts of the
world, training for teaching
professions in the field of Jew-
ish education.
The convention also adopted
a quota of $500,000 for the
coming year for the Torah
Fund campaign to support the
Jewish Theological Seminary.
Principal speakers at the con-
vention included Avraham Har-
man, Israel Ambassador to the
United States, and Dr. Edward
T. SandroW, president of the
Rabbinical Assembly of Amer-
I ica.

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