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Address '61 Campaign Closing Dinner Witnesses to Destruction of Ghetto
Label A. Katz of . New Or:
leans, president of Bnai Brith,
will be speaker at the closing
dinner of the 1961 Allied Jew-
ish Campaign 6:30 p.m. May 3
at the Jewish Center, an-
nounces Paul Zuckerman, Cam-
paign chairman.
Katz is the youngest man
ever to hold the office since
the Jewish service organization
—today the world's largest—
was founded in 1843. He was 40
when elected in May, 1959, at
a triennial convention in Jeru-
salem.
Katz' participation in Jewish
communal activities include
membership on the National
Cabinet of the United Jewish
Appeal; the executive commit-
tee of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds;
the board of directors of United
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
(HIAS) ; the board of the Amer-
ican Association of Jewish Edu-
cation, and as a vice chairman
of the Joint Defense Appeal.
Workers and leaders in the
Campaign held the last report
meeting before the closing din-
ner this afternoon.
At the meeting, the chairmen
of leading sections of each of
the Campaign's seven trade and
professional divisions; its
Women's, Junior and Metropoli-
tan Divisions, were honored.
More than 2;500 Campaign
workers are making an inten-
sive two-week effort to cover
all Campaign slips before the
closing dinner.
Zuckerman again empha-
sized that there is to be no
clean-up of • Campaign cards.
"We owe it to the Campaign I
LABEL KATZ
and to the contributor to so-
licit each pledge patiently and
carefully," he said.
"I want each giver to be en-
couraged to ask about the serv-
ices his Campaign dollar per-
forms."
Zuckerman said that nine out
of every ten gifts to the Cam-
paign have been for the same
amount or more than the las
year's gifts.
"There is an increased
mand for service on all f
this year and our contrib
are responding with incr
giving," Zuckerman said.
He emphasized areas of
cal service that the Campaig
supports. The Fresh 'Air So-
ciety provided a three-week
summer vacation for 1,600
children, half of whom were
on whole or partial camp
Call Miami Rulings 'Victory
for Religious .Freedom'
according to a joint AJCongress-
ACLU statement, "signal a his-
toric advance in the effort to
protect the public school child
from invasions of. his religious
conscience, a protection em-
bedded in the separation of
principle of the First Amend-
ment. This is not an attack on
religion per se, or the 'free ex-
ercise thereof' clause of the
First Amendment, as those who
oppose this suit have claimed,"
the statement declared.
The statement noted that "in
ruling that the Bible may be
read in school without com-
ment, Judge Gordon made clear
that 'there is nothing in the
Florida law that requires a stu-
dent be told that it is a quote
from the. Bible or that the stu-
dent should be told from what
book or verse the quotation
was taken.' Particularly signifi-
cant," the two organizations
commented, "was the judge's
statement that 'if so, it might
be considered sectarian com-
ment, which is forbidden by the
Statute and the court is not
passing on that point of law.'
"Judge Gordon made clear,"
the AJCongress-ACLU state-
ment added, "that he based his
ruling upholding Bible reading
on the finding of fact that 'there
is no evidence before the court
except• in an isolated incident
that any comment or explana-
ttion was made on the verse
read from the Bible and there
is express restriction in the act
itself from so doing'."
"We note," the statement
added, "that the decision did
d-mark rulings," not hold Bible readings per se
to be a breach of the wall of
separation between church and
state. The question of the con-
IF YOU TURN THE
b ri
stitutionality of the Florida
state's Bible reading law, there-
fore, still awaits a final deci-
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
sion. We plan to press our ap-
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
peal on this point to the Flor-
ida Supreme Court and even-
tually to the U.S. Supreme
Court."
NEW YORK, (JTA)—At-
torneys for the American Jew-
ish Congress and the American
Civil Liberties Union, today
termed "a victory for religious
freedom" three key rulings in
the decision of a Dade County,
Fla., court in Miami's 'religion-
in-the schools case.
At the same time, they an-
nounced they would appeal
other parts of An opinion by
Circuit Judge J. Fritz Gordon
that upheld Bible reading and
the recitation of the Lord's
Prayer in public schools. The
appeal on thes,e sections of the
decision will be vigorously
pressed, the two organizations
said, "because of our belief that
these practices violate the
church-state separation princi-
ple of the First Amendment."
The AJ Congress and ACLU,
which represented five parents
in challenging sectarian prac-
tices in the Miami schools, said
they were "highly gratified" at
these "precedent-making rulings
by Judge Gordon:
"1. For the first time' in
American history, a court has
probhited sectarian holiday ob-
servances in public schools such
as those depicting the Nativity
and Crucifixion of Jesus.
"2. For
rst time in
Americ
ourt has
prohi
of reli-
gio
chools.
in Flor-
ited the
for after-
asses by
scholarships which the Cam-
paign provides.
The Jewish Home for Aged
cares for more than 300 men
and women, whose average age
is 84 years, each month. Sixty
additional older persons living
in their own homes come to the
Home daily to share in all of
its activities.
The Jewish Vocational Serv-
ice interviewed more than 2,000
people with employment and
vocational problems. More than
a quarter of the people inter-
viewed were adolescents.
The Community Workshop
studied the employment pos-
sibilities of 100 people with
severe physical, intellectual
and emotional problems.
Five thousand children and
adults used Camp Tamarack on
a year-'round basis last year.
The Hebrew Free Loan Asso-
ciatimi advanced $79,000 in in-
terest free loans to 236 people
for emergency business or per-
sonal help.
An 'average of 175 older
adults attend the Jewish
Community Center daily. Two
thousand, five hundred ele-
mentary school children went
id
ularly
,000 teen-agers a
dren, under the age
who went to nur er
The
ng
dren's
,412
to
fa
ervice
refugees re-
s from German _ y to-
taling $104,820.
Eleven thousand days of care
were provided for medically
indigent patients at Sinai Hos-
pital and 37,000 visits were
made to the Shiffman Clinic.
All this service is in just one
area, Health and Welfare, and
doesn't even deal with the more
than 3,000 students who receive
Jewish education through the
United Hebrew Schools and the
work of our Jewish Community
Council, Zuckerman said.
Eighteen years after liquidat- lwald, former commissioner of
ing the Warsaw ghetto, which the ., "Jewish District of War-
once housed more than 500,000 , saw;" George Michalsen, for-
Jews, a number of Himmler's mer deputy to Odilo Globocnik
top lietenants are now facing who headed Aktion Reinhardt;
and Heinrich Klaustermeyer.
trial in West Germany.
Three of them—Hahn, Klaus-
Witnesses who can . testify
against some of the Nazi arch- ' t erme yer and Hoefle—have
criminals and liquidators of the been arrested. Michalsen is un-
ghetto are now being sought by der investigation.
the World Jewish Congress in ' Anyone who has personal
knowledge of the criminal ac-
New York.
The World Jewish Congress tivities of these men should
Nehe-
New York headquarters is seek-
of the
iah Robinson,
ing witnesses who can give
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