. •. Book Pa '6;F e - st:iv- id O -fft-Center Tomorrow Night "Books shall be thy companions; book cases and shelves thy pleasure— ..nooks and gardens." —From the ethical will of Judah ibn Tibbon, 12th century Spanish-Jewish scholar Detailed Book Fair Festival Program. on Page 6 Misconceptions in Arab Refugee Issue THE Thanksgiving Message Editorials Page 4 Vol. XL, No. 12 A The Vanishing Landsman- shaften 1=3 cDi — r Weekly Review NI I I—II GA NI Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle 1001ZinU•encioriln p " Odd Comparisons of Jerusalem with Berlin Commentary Page 2 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd. — VE 8-9364 — Detroit 35, Nov. 17, 1961 —$5.00 Per Year;- Single Copy 15c Allegations Against Arrested Soviet Jews Denied; Renewed Anti-Sernitism Stirs Protests High. Court Holds Rockwell Has Right to ‘Free Speech' WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The United States Supreme Court in effect upheld the Constitutidnal right of George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi party, to hold a public meeting in New York. The high tribunal refused to rule on a petition by New York City Parks Commissioner Newbold Morris, who had appealed from a ruling by the New York State Court of Appeals; Rockwell had originally asked for the permit for a rally sched- uled for July 4, 1960. On the grounds that such a rally would foment rioting, due to Rockwell's anti-Semitism, the permit was refused by Commissioner Morris and Mayor Robert F. Wagner. On appeal the New York court ruled in favor of Rockwell, declaring "the right of free expression is not to be entrusted to administrative, previous restriction for contemplated violations of the law." Third Algerian Jew Killed PARIS, (JTA)—Anxiety again gripped the Algerian Jewish community when 60-year-old Camille Levy was shot to death by three unidentified terrorists. The killing followed the murders last Week of David Zermati, president of the Jewish 'community of Setif, Algeria, and Dr. Joseph Cohen, a well-known Algiers physician. Algerian police said they could not determine whether the terrorists who killed Levy were members of the Algerian FLN rebel organization or of the OAS, the French European underground group. Book Month Symbol: This repro- duction of the three-color Jewish Book Month poster announces the dates of the national celebration now being observed by 2,000 Jewish organizations throughout the land under: auspices of the Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board. JERUSALEM, (JTA)--The 'full text of the article in the Soviet news- paper Leningradskaya Pravda which linked the three arrested leaders of the Leningrad Jewish community with "espionage activities," contains no direct mention of Israel or of the accused maihtaining any contact with Israeli diplo- mats in the Soviet Union. The paper carries a report of the trial of the three Jewish leaders and said that they were charged with supplying information "to a certain capitalist country." A report by the United Press International from Moscow carried in the Jerusalem Post said that the Leningradskaya Pravda reported that "two witnesses testified that the defendants had transmitted 'espionage material' to Israel embassy officials during services in a Leningrad synagogue." "The Israeli officials," the UPI report from Moscow continued, "were identified by the witnesses as Yaacov Sharett and Eliahu Hazan." Pointing out that Sharett is the son of former Israel Prime Minister - Moshe Sharett, the UPI report said that he was expelled last summer from Russia on charges of espionage and that Hazan was likewise expelled after being arrested in Odessa in 1957. The UPI report also said that the Leningradskaya Pravda "also claimed that the defendants distributed 'anti-Soviet literature,' presumably Zionist pamphlets published in Israel." It is believed here that this part of the UPI report referring to Israel was in the nature of an elaboration rather than a direct quotation from the Leningrad newspaper. - Reports that the three Jewish leaders in Leningrad were arrested and sentenced because they transmitted "espionage material" to Israeli Embassy officers during religious services were officially termed here as "completely without foundation." (The Soviet authorities also arrested three Jewish leaders in Moscow.) Eliahu Hazan, formerly a member of Israel's Embassy staff at Moscow, was arrested by Soviet authorities at Odessa in 1957, and expelled from the Soviet Union. Sharett was arrested at Riga last summer and also orde'red to leave the USSR. Sharett said here that, during his tenure in Moscow, he , had met hundreds of Jews at the Moscow synagogue, but he does not recall the names of the three Jews arrested in Leningrad. His only "conversation" with Jews he met, Sharett said, consisted of the traditional greeting, "Shalom Aleichem," which usually drew the customary "Shalom" in response. The espionage charges against him- self and Hazan, Sharett said, are "fantastic." Other officials here said the Soviet allegations in both expulsion cases were "groundless." Observers here speculate that the charges against the Rus- sian Jews and the linking of those men with Sharett and Hazan may have been intended by Soviet authorities to counter - balance espionage cases recently brought here against Israelis charged with handing secret information to an unnamed "foreign power." The Israel Foreign Ministry, it was said, is not likely to respond to the allegations in the Leningrad newspaper, unless it is followed by a formal note from the Soviet Union. No such note has been received. The Israel Embassy in Moscow has been requested to send to the Foreign Ministry the complete text of the article in the Leningradskaya Pravda. It was pointed out that, neither at the time of Hazan's expulsion, nor when Sharett was ordered out of the Soviet Union, did the Soviet govern- ment connect them in any way with the Jews since arrested and sentenced at Leningrad. Nor, it was pointed out here, did the Soviet government ever make diplomatic representations or complaints to the Israel government, charging any such connections either against Sharett or against Hazan. According 'to the Leningrad newspaper, the three Leningrad Jewish leaders were convicted after 20 witnesses testified that they had transmitted "espionage material" to the two Israelis during religious services in the Lenin- grad synagogue. The Leningrad newspaper charged that the three Jews sen- Continued on Page 7 This Is Section A of Two Sections Special 8-Page Book Fair Supplement in This Issue TheSpecial Supplement dedicated to Detroit's Annual Jewish Book Fair, appears between Pages Tp: fold it, remove the Supplement between these pages, then fold, and trim - alongtop edge to make it into an 8-page brochure.