Center Sabbath Issue Resolved: `Ung-SabbatharLikO' Programming Eliminated from Adopted Policy 'Positive Attitude Approach Emphasized to Assure 'Basic Concept of Jewish Tradition . A controversy that ensued here for nearly two years, over the problem of programming on Satur- days, at the Jewish Community Center, was resolved Wednesday night, with the adoption of the recom- mendations submitted by the Committee for Sabbath Programming, .which was selected five weeks ago by Max M. Fisher, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation. There were only two votes in opposition to the proposal. • The committee, which was selected by Fisher in his private capacity as an interested citizen but not officially in behalf of the Federation, was headed by Mandell L. Berman, with Stanley. J. Winkleman as co-chairman. Members of the committee named by Fisher included: Max Biber, Avern L. Cohn, Rabbi Leon Fram, Samuel Frankel, Morris Garvett, Charles H. Gershenson, Sidney J. Karbel, Louis LaMed, Rabbi Leizer Levin, Milton J. Miller, Rabbi Jacob E. Segal, Abraham Srere and Phillip Stollman. Irwin Shaw, executive director of the Center, served as secretary of the committee at Fisher's request. The committee's proposal was adopted unani- mously, but Rabbi Levin did not participate in the drafting of the report and was not present at the meeting at which it was given unanimous approval. The committee was charged by Fisher to view the objectives of Center programming on the basis of fostering "a positive attitude toward the Sabbath as a basic concept of Jewish life." Searching for "specifics," the committee com- menced its study by first eliminating "un-Sabbath- like" programs. It banned all activities that require the handling of money, prohibited smoking, curtailed such functions as the snack bar, shoe shine facility, massage room or use of vending machines. It then proceeded to approve "the positive specifics" and en- dorsed activities of informal clubs, assembly-type mass activities, older adults programs, story-telling for children, swimming and informal recreation and athletics. It proposed that a . representative committee of religious leaders,. educators and laymen should re- evaluate the program within the year. The Center board's decision has not, however, eliminated opposition, the Council of Orthodox; Rabbis again having registered their objections to the Sabbath programming plan at a meeting held on Tuesday. The complete text of the proposals of the Com- mittee for Sabbath Programming, as adopted by the Center's board of directors Wednesday, follows: I. PURPOSE AND PRINCIPLES The Committee for Sabbath Programming believes that in developing its recommendations to the Board of Directors of the Jewish Community Center of Detroit, it should be guided exclusively by the purpose and principles laid down in the charge delivered to the Committee by Mr. Max Fisher, (Continued on Page 32) THE JEWISH NEWS r=, --r- f= t -r A Weekly Review t\41c.1-11,6..N.1 of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper, Incorporating The Jewish Chronicle VOL. XL — No 9 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 35 October 27, 1961 100,000 May Emigrate Negotiate Protection of Jewry's Property Rights in Independent Algeria Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News PARIS—France and Israel were disclosed Tuesday to have started negotia- tions to protect possible property rights of Algerian Jews emigrating to Israel. Most Jews who have left Algeria have chosen to settle in France, a choice understood to be based on their desire to protect their claims to any compensation to be paid, either by France or an independent Algeria, to departing Europeans. Current talks being held at the diplomatic level here were aimed at securing similar rights of those Algerian Jews choosing to settle in Israel. It was reported that the French were showing an understanding attitude toward the question and it was hoped an early agreement would be reached. At present there are about 150,000 Jews in Algeria, and it was indicated that some 100,000 would emigrate when and if Algeria obtains independence under a regime controlled by the FLN, the Algerian independence movement. Massive Jewish Emigration from Algeria Predicted Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The possibility that French Jewry may have to face a problem of massive Jewish immigration from Algeria, regardless of the outcome of any political settlement in that area, was expressed here Wednesday by Daniel Mayer, a former French Cabinet Minister and chairman of the executive committee of the World ORT Union, in an address to the .1,200 delegates at the 16th biennial convention of Women's American ORT. Mayer said that French Jewry- would "need much assistance in the allevia- tion of these human problems." He referred .to France's postwar role as a haven for immigrants and pointed out that France alone, of all European countries, had a larger Jewish population now than before the war. This, he said, was due,t6 the tradition of sanctuary and friendly reception that France has always offered to refugees and also to a steady stream of immigrants, from North Africa. "Nevertheless," he declared, "this tide of North African Jews is a welcome addition" in spite of the fact that it presents serious problems of communal, cultural and economic integration. Mayer devoted his speech. to the dual character of ORT in its immediate tasks for the. refugees from Hungary, Egypt and Poland, along with its long range objectives of providing•vocational education in Israel, North Africa, Iran and India. UN 'Throws the Pooh' at Arabs Via PCC . • By SAUL CARSON JTA Correspondent at the United Nations (Copyright, 1961, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—In the battle raging here around the Arab refugee problem, Israel has just won a very important skirmish. On the insistence of the Arab delegations, the Palestine Conciliation Commission has filed an interim report dealing with the present situations concerning the refugees. The Arabs wanted that report to deal with the sole subject that interests them—complete "repatriation" of the refugees to Israel territory, or compensation by Israel for such property as the Arabs claim they left in Israel. The PCC filed the report. But, in doing so, the commission literally "threw the hook" at the Arabs. For, instead of dealing only with "repatriation" or com- pensation, the PCC dealt thoroughly also with reintegration of the refugees in the economy of the Middle East and with the one alternative to "repatriation" which the Arabs want to forget—resettlement of the refugees, in Arab lands. The PCC—a body consisting of representatives of the United States, France and Turkey—has to play a neutral role. It has to present both sides of any question . —or all sides, where there are more than two. The commission did .exactly that— it presented the picture as a whole. As part of. its interim report, it filed . the so-called "working papers'," documents which, ordinarily, are kept in the coin- mission's office. This time, however, the "working papers" were distributed to all delegations. The very titles of the , papers show that they contain information which the Arabs would rather have hidden in the dead archives. One of the papers is entitled: "Question of Compensation." The other hits the spot that hurts the Arabs most. It is entitled "The Question of Reintegration by Repatriation or .Resettlement." That word "resettlement" is verboten, as far as the Arabs are concerned. It doesn't exist—because the Arab leaders don't want the refugees to be resettled. Now the new African and Asian nations here—for whose good will and votes the Arabs and Israel are competing—have found out, through official UN docu• ments, that resettlement has as much of a place on the agenda as has the idea of "returning" to Israel a million sworn enemies calling themselves refugees. Actually, the documents are history; there is nothing new in any of the facts revealed. The significance of the revival of this history lies in the very fact that history is told anew—and that the attention to facts shows that Israel has been telling 'the truth while the Arabs have lied when they have insisted that "repratria- tion" is the only "solution" to the refugee problem. Here we read that the Arab states themselves have, in fact, agreed in the past to let the UN try schemes for reintegrating the refugees. Here, it is recalled, that, in 1952, the Assembly had voted the creation of a $300,000,000 reintegration fund—and that the Arabs, who had agreed to that plan, reneged. Here we find that Israel had, the and again, shown willingness to discuss the solution of the refugee problem, compensation, repatriation, the works—but that the Arabs have been false, running out on agreements they had made with the UN and its agencies. The PCC cannot be accused of partiality. Indeed, in this report, the commission came close to forgetting all alternatives to "repatriation." It was only because the Israel delegation here insisted that the entire record be included—that the com- mission yielded because it could not help itself. The fact is, however, that the commission did yield. The inclusion of those "working papers" is, for Israel, a skirmish, won. That (Continued on Page 6)