May You Be Inscribed in the Book of Life for a THE JEWISH NEWS ""7— 1=Z CD 1 Good and a A Weekly Review Happy Year 1\4 1 G 1-41 GAN of Jewish Ev6nts A Happy New Year to Jewish Communities Everywhere Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. XL, No. 3 Printed in a 100% Union Shop 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd. — VE 8-9364 — Detroit 35, Sept. 15, 1961 — $5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c Jewish Self-Defense Repels Arab Attacks; Clash with FIN May Force Mass Emigration of Al Brian Jews By EDWIN EYTAN synagogue with his children carrying his youngest child in his arms. Suddenly an Arab terrorist approached the family ORAN, Algeria — A tension-laden calm prevailed near the Rue de Leoben synagogue and knifed Schroun Wednesday between the Jewish mellah here and the nearby several times from behind. Moslem quarter, after two days of wild fighting marked by Within minutes, Jewish youths sprang into action, a well organized defense by trained Jewish commando units sealing off the mellah and pursuing the knife wielder. who repeatedly beat off attacks by numerically superior An exasperated Jewish crowd attacked Arab pass- Arab assailants. ersby and broke into Moslem shops on the Central Rue de The area between the two sectors was patrolled by la Revolution, the street separating the two quarters. More steelhelmeted French troops who had pushed through a and more Jews rushed into the streets chanting "French no-man's land. Despite radio appeals by the FLN, the Algeria." Algerian revolutionary movement, Oran arabs apparently Meanwhile, the terrorist was found hiding in an Arab were ready to renew hostilities at the earliest possible mo- shop and the crowd lynched him and the shopkeeper. Shortly ment. Jews who had been residents and shopowners in the after noon, an FLN reprisal unit armed with broken bottles, Arab quarter moved into the crowded mellah. Arabs who knives and iron bars tried to storm the Jewish quarter' had shops and homes in the mellah pulled out and went to screaming "Death to the Jews" and "Moslem Algeria." For the Arab quarter. the first time in North African history they were met by well During the two days of bitter fighting—which coin- organized Jewish defense units. After a short but bloody cided with the two days of Rosh Hashanah—three persons, clash, the FLN attackers broke into a retreat pursued by the all Arabs, were killed and 26 wounded, including nine Jews, Jewish commandos. Only the arrival of police units saved according to unofficial reports. Police detained 76 persons. the FLN attackers from a severe beating. The fighting began on Monday morning in the heart In the afternoon, Rosh Hashanah services were re- of the mellah. Jewish artisans and small tradesmen were sumed under protection of a strong ,.Jewish guard around either sitting in front of their homes or walking along the the synagogue. Despite the guard, Arabs tried to infiltrate street, as is the custom in Eastern countries on holidays. A the mellah and renewed fighting broke out which soon be- Jewish hairdresser, Menahem Schroun, was walking to the (Continued on Page 3) JTA Correspondent Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News Committee Selected by Max M. Fisher .c its - on .CentOr Programming; Saturday Functions Are Delayed Until November 4 iiNCJW Israel Scholars: Seven students from Israel arrived in the United States for graduate study at American Universities, including the University of Michigan, through the Overseas Scholarship Program of the National Council of Jewish Women. The arrivals, and the universities where they will study, are, from the left: Joseph Ritter, Tel Aviv Welfare Department supervisor, Western Reserve University, School of Applied Social Sciences, Cleveland; Rafael Lewy, English teacher.. at the Hebrew University High School in Jerusa-lem,;... University of Minnesota; Mrs. Margalith Ben-Zvi, sole. teacher in a school for deaf children in Beersheba, Central •?- Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis; Abraham Zalkin, sec-' ondary School Inspector in southern Israel, Columbia University Teachers College, New York; Miss Rivca Kostrinsky, psychologist and educational counselor for the Jerusalem child guide clinic, University of Chicago; Mordecai Gonen, assistant district inspector for the Israel Ministry of Education in Haifa, University of Michigan; and Shraga Adiel, assistant director general for elementary education for the Israel Ministry of Education, Columbia University Teachers College. The Council awarded 14 scholarships in 1961, making a total of 177 awards in 17 countries since the program was started in 1946. Charles H.. Gershenson, president of the Jewish Community .Center, Wed- nesday night announced a decision of the Center's board of directors to delay the introduction of Saturday afternoon programs until Nov. 4, pending consideration of an appropriate program by a specially-formed committee. Gershenson stated: "Delay in the conduct of a Saturday afternOon schedule has been decided upon by the Center board in order to have time to receive and consider recommendation of the appropriate nature and extent of such a program, as will be proposed by a Special Committee named by Mr. Max M. Fisher, at the suggestion of the lay and rabbinic leaders who have taken part in the various discussions." Action taken by the Center is a result of a negotiating committee appointed by 'Fisher, not as president of the Jewish Welfare Federation but in his private capacity as a member of the community. That committee, composed by Judge Theodore Levin, Mandell Berman, Phillip Stollman and Abraham Srere, with Fisher and Mrs. Jostph N. Ehrlich as ex-officio members, has met during the past three weeks with members of the Committee for Sabbath Closing of the Center, .Center leaders and local rabbis, and as a result the leaders of the various groups agreed upon a plan to negotiate a compromise, pending temporary delay in the introduction of programs at the Center on Saturday afternoons. Eshhol to: Iltirect -11Formation of New Isra•el GoVeriiiiiiiiicnt.'13-G May Remain Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News TEL AVIV — The Central Committee of Prime Minister Ben-Gurion's Mapai party approved Wednesday a strategy of having Finance Minist er Levi Eshkol seek to form a new government, with the understanding that Ben-Gurion would head that government. That strategy was decided upon at a meeting Friday of the Mapai coalition negotiations committee which was attended by Ben-Gurion and confirmed by the central committee which acted after hearing a report by Eshkol on his fruitless effort at negotiations with other parties for a new coalition. The central committee decided to recommend to President Ben-Zvi that he ask Eshkol to undertake the task. David Ben-Gurion last week refused to accept President Ben-Zvi's request that he under- take formation of a new government. The rejection was made in a letter to the President in (Continued on Page 5)