Progressive Bar.Mitzvah Standards Irving Rhodes' Pioneering Efforts in Journalism Editorials Page 4 THE JEWISH d1= TROI - r A Weekly Review An No Tears Necessary for Ben-Gurion NA f Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. XXXV I I 1, No. 24 Editor's Complacency lool%oil Uensioni Shop 17100 W. 7 Mil e Rd.____NE 8-9364—Detroit 35, February 10, 1961—$5.00 Conunentary Page 2 Per Year; Single Copy 15c North African Jewry's Status ernainsTense;Morocco Battle gainst Israel Is Intensified "Expect Prolonged Process in Organizing Government of Israel After Rebukes to Lavon JERUSALEM (JTA)—President Izhak Ben-Zvi began what apparently will be a long drawn-out and difficult process of obtaining a new Prime Minister and Cabinet to replace the Ben-Gurion coalition government which • fell as a result of the Lavon Affair. Meanwhile the dominant Mapai party had moved to force , Lavon out of his post as secretary-general of the Histadrut, Israel's labor federation. Frenzied political trafficking within the Mapai secretariat, which followed the Prime Minister's surprise resignation, brought a decisive turn when Finance Minister Levi Eshkol left the ranks of the Mapai moderates to declare that .Lavon must go. The Mapai secretariat, in a closed meeting on Feb. 3, then passed a resolution declaring that Lavon did not speak for the party in his Histadrut post. The vote was said to be 28 to 11 against Lavon. The following day the (Continued on -Page 3) (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) CASABLANCA — David Azoulay, the Secretary of the Casablanca Jewish Communify, announced his resignation from the Chamber of Com- merce and Industry of Casablanca as a protest against the disCrimination directed against him by the Chamber. The resignation was a protest against the action of the Chamber in relieving him of his post as Secretary of the Chamber, in the recent worsen- ing of Moslem-Jewish relations in Morocco, because he was a Jew. Simultaneously the Moroccan radio again devoted its morning editorial to the Jewish problem in MoroCco. The . principal target of the broadcast was Abdallah Ibrahim, leader of the Moroccan opposition and former premier. The commentator charged Ibrahim with "playing the game of. the Zionist , the Israel radio and Golda Meir," Israel's Foreign Minister. The commentator charged that the Israel radio had denounced the Moroccan regime for its recent anti-Jewish activities and that the Jewish attack had been based on statements made by the . Moroccan opposition. The government radio also charged opposition . members with 'working for foreign interests." In another broadcast the government radio suggested that the Arab (Continued- on Page - 14) OA Commences $72,740,000 Drive with $14,850,000 Gifts; Meyerhoff Named National Chairman, Succeeding Klutznick; Allocate $10,102,154 in Global Aid for Victims of Nazism R efugees f o. Get Relief Dv° Large UJA and JDC Gifts NEW YORK—The budget of $10,102,-154 for 1961, ear- marked for programs of relief, rehabilitation and cultural and educational reconstruction in 30 countries around the world, NEW YORK, (JTA) The was presented Sunday by Jacob Blaustein, of Baltimore, senior • Felix M. and Frieda Schiff War- vice-president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims burg Foundation announced a Against Germany, at the annual allocations session of its board contribution of securities valued of directors. More than 150,000 victims of Nazism are expected at $250,000 to the "Adopt-a- to benefit from the funds. The allocations will raise to $80,000,- Project" campaign of the United 000 the sums granted by the Conference. since 1954. Jewish Appeal of Greater New York. In presenting the budget, Blaustein sounded a warning that conference funds are scheduled to end in four years, and The gift will provide scholar- that Jewish communities and central welfare organizations ships and fellowships in the field ' relying upon its grants "will be called upon to shoulder, in of social work to prospective stu- ever g. owing measure, the costs of aid programs for Nazi dents, and funds for faculty victims." members to take refresher The budget of 110,102,154, Blaustein stated, contained two courses and additional studies. major - components: $7,789,617 for relief, rehabilitation and The announcement of the contri- bution marked the 85th anniver- resettlement projects and $1,944,037 for cultural and educa- tional reconstruction. sary of the birth of the late Mrs. Warburg. ' ."Some 400 •Jewish organizations have applied for grants The "Adopt-a-Project" cam- this year calling for more than $20,000,000—twice the sum paign WaS undertaken by the UJA available for. allocation," Blaustein said. "Confronting those to make a special provision for great demands is the inescapable fact that our funds are specific ' areas of need in Israel limited to some $10,000,000 per year and cannot be increased." — consolidation of agricultural Allocations of $1,944,037 will aid five major programs in settlements, mental health and Jewish-cultural and educational reconstruction, BlauStehi stated. scholarship. They include education, research and . pUblication, scholarships * * and fellowships,' upkeep of rabbinical. schools and the com- • CHICAGO, (JTA) —'Maxwell memoration and documentation of the era of Nazi persecution. Kunin, a Chicago Jewish philan- The programs are. addressed to the reconstruction of Jewish thropist and realtor, who died hi institutions and of spiritual and cultural centers ravaged at • Nazi hands, and to the rehabilitation of scholars, editors, writers 1959 at the age of 59, bequeathed . and teachers who .are Nazi victims. 25 per cent of his estate to the Jewish education, primary, s,econdary, higher and adult, . Joint Distribution Committee, ac- cording to a will filed in pnbaU.Vi. the largest and most far-ranging of the programs thisyear,;;;;:: . court here. - will receive allocations of $1,032,000. Allocations have climbed Leroy Krein, the Kunin attor- year by year •to reach an eight year peak in 1961, institutions ney, said the bequest was to be E urope making up the foremost group of beneficiaries: •Nearly three-quarters of the outlays are scheduled for primary - spent "solely for the relief of needy immigrants in Israel.." Mrs. and secondary schools, and capital grants to enlarge their facili- Kunin told the • Jewish tele- ties Will reach record proportions in 1961. graphic Agency that her huSband, Urgent appeals to the German and Austrian Governments who was born in Philadelphia, for an early agreement on compensation measures for victims took a great interest in Jewish of Nazi persecution in and from Austria, were sounded Satur- charitable institutions and was day night at the opening of the annual meetings of the con- a member of two congregations, ference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and of one Reform and one Orthodox. the Committee for Jewish Claims on Austria. • - An inventory of the estate in- • Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the two organizations, dicated assets of $8,900,000. The - voiced his deep distress that Nazi victims from Austria, in the exact sum JDC will receive will tens of thousands, have already, waited over two decades for depend on the appraisal of the (Continued on Page 10) estate. .- • Better Start for '61 Drive BAL HARBOUR, Miami Beach, Fla. — The nationwide '1961 United Jewish Appeal was officially launched Sunday as • 400 American Jewish leaders meeting here at the Americana Hotel contributed or reported gifts totaling $14,850,000. The great outpouring of contributions came at a dramatic closing session of a three day National Inaugural Conference which was marked by the resignation of Philip M. Klutznick, of Park Forest, Ill., as general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal and the unanimous election of Joseph Meyerhoff, of Baltimore, to the post. Klutznick's resignation fol- lowed his appointment by President Kennedy as a key member of the United States mission to the United Nations, as the U.S. representative to the UN Economic and Social Council. (The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Klutznick's nomination by President Ken- nedy without oppoSition). MeS7erhoff, a nationally P rominent communal leader a nd an outstanding figure in Joseph Meyerhoff the home building field, becomes UJA's sixth general chairman in the organization's 22-year history. Founded in 1939 at the height of Hitler's onslaught against Europe's Jews, the UJA has fed, rescued and resettled more than 2,700,000 Jewish refugees. and distressed persons, raising more than a billion dollars for its humanitarian aid. In 1961 it seeks $72,740,000 to assist 580,500 men, women and children, including unabsorbed immigrants to Israel, distressed Jews in other overseas lands and refugees to this country.. Albert A. Levin, of Cleveland, UJA"s national chairman and chairman of the inaugural conference, hailed the outpour- ing of gifts "as a sign of American Jewry's continued interest in aiding Israel's immigrants as a heartfelt tribute by American Jewry to two great Americans, Philip M. Klutznick and Joseph Meyerhoff. The $14,850,000 in starting gifts received exceeds the amount contributed to start last year's campaign by more than two and a half million dollars." Sunday's response followed a strong plea by Major-Genera Hahn Laskov, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, that American Jews help "step up the process of absorbing some 320,000 still unintegrated immigrants in Israel, in order to insure the country's remarkable democratic- gains." Accepting the UJA general chairmanship, Meyerhoff said: "I do so in the solemn realization that more than half a million (Continued on Page 9)