NEW. YORK, (JTA) — The
Jews of Romania, estimated to
number between 170,000 and
180,000, practice their religion
with absolute freedom, -pursue
Jewish cultural activities freely,
and are given genuine protec-
tion against anti-Semitism by
their government• Dr. Moses
Rosen,. Chief Rabbi of Romania,
reported here.
Dr. Rosen, son of the late
Rabbi Abraham Rosen, is a 49-
year-old Romanian-born scholar.
He is here for a 10-week series
of lectures in higher Jewish
studies at YeshiVa University's
Bernard Revel Graduate School.
His inability to arrive at no
more than educated estimate of
the number of Jews in Romania
was cited by Rabbi Rosen- as
proof of the protection given to
Jews in his country now by the
Romanian government. He ex-
plained that no official –clocu-
meni whatever is permitted to
indicate any citizen's ethnic
origin or religious affiliation.
The Jewish population estimate
is based, he said, on synagogue
attendance, Talmud Torah .en-
rollment, the amount of matzot
consumed annually, and -the
ords of Jewish burial and ceme-
tery societies.
"On the official level," he
stated, "I can say categoric-
ally that , anti-Semitism no
longer exists in Romania. It is
well known that, before the
end of the Second World War,
Romanian anti-Semitism was
directly encouraged and sthn-
ulated from above, by the
governinent itself. Now the
reyerse is true. Of course,
decades of officially sponsored
anti-Semitism had left traces
of this tendency among some
of the people. But education
on all levels, from elementary
schools to the universities, is
sponsored by the present gov-
ernment in the direction of
bringing the people out of its
anti-Semitic past."
Prior to World . War II, he
said, there were about 800,000
Jews in Romania. During the
war years, about 400,000. Jews
were annihiliated by Romanian
fascists and Gerthan Nazis. The
Jews in the country now, he
reported, have their own Fed-
eration of Jewish Religious
Committees. There are about
500 synagogues in about 100
Jewish communities in the coun-
try. Bucharest alone has 42
synagogues. In the Great Syna-
gogue of Bucharest, where Dr.
Rosen officiates, the attendance
weekly Sabbath service
on Friday nights runs between
800 and 1,000 wrishippers, he
said. -
There are. Talmud Torahs in
all Jewish communities, he add-
ed, 10 of them, in Bucharest.
Talmud Torah tuition is free.
There is a yeshiva at Arad,
headed by a well-known scholar,
Rabbi Shimon Miller. Not only
rabbis but ritual slaughterers
are trained there, Dr. Rosen
said.
Romanian Jewry, he stated,
is well supplied with all its
religious needs, having a suf-
ficient number of prayer
shawls, prayer books, Bibles
and other Holy works. Five
years ago, he said, the Ro-
manian, Jews received from
Switzerland 20,000 prayer
books and BibleS. From . Is-
rael, the Jews receive every
year etrogim, lulavim needed
for the Succot holidays. A fac-
tory at Klausenberg bakes
800,000 pounds of matzot each
year. The Government has .set
aside special vineyards for
grapes uses for kosher wines.
There are special state stores
handling only meats that are
kosher.
Jewish ecclesiastical officials,
from rabbis and kosher slaugh-
terers to teachers, receive Gov-
ernment salaries plus subsidies
paid from the Jewish religious
community's income, the Chief
Rabbi said. Culturally, the Jew-
ish people have their own lit-
erature, their o w n theatres

performing in Yiddish. He cited
as an example the fact that the
drama, "The Diary of Anne
Frank," translated into Yiddish,
has now run for 300 perform-
ances in Bucharest.
Rabbi Rosen himself edits a
monthly religious newspapet,
with a circulation of 5,000
copies, printed in Romanian,
Hebrew and Yiddish. News of
intzrest to Jews from all over
the world, he pointed out in a
copy of his newspaper, is print-
ed in the paper, including items
from the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. Asked whether he had
prihted any of the recent re-
ports about the arrest and im-
prisonment of leading Jewish
religious - leaders in Leningrad
and Moscow, Rabbi Rosen said
he had not seen those reports
until he arrived here last Sun-
day.
Romanian Rabbi Leaves
U.S. to Set Up New
Congregation in Israel
MINNEAPOLIS, (JTA) — An
elderly rabbi, who survived the
Nazis in his native Romani
answering a call from
oup
of Jewish compatriot
Israel.
His departure wi
ark the
end of the congr
tion he has
served in Minn
olis since com-
ing to this ci
n 1950.
Rabbi Me
M. Rabinovici,
now spiritu
eader of Congre-
gation Sh'a h Israel in Min-
neapolis, w
lead a congrega-
tion with
same name i.
Haifa. Lead
of the Minn

apolis congregation decided to
disband it when the scholarly
septuagenarian deeided to ac-
cept the Israeli call. - Some of
his Israeli , congregants were
guided by the rabbi as spiritual
leader in Romania.
When the Nazis invaded Ro-
mania, Rabbi Rabinovici was
sent to a concentration camp
where he ignored Nazi threats
and continued to minister to
fellow-Jews. Freed when the
Russians entered Romania, he
immediately organized a yeshiva
and managed to persuade the
Soviet authorities to allow him
to transfer the yeshiva's staff,
pupils and equipment to An-
twerp. From there he went to
Paris where he started a pro-
gram for the spiritual rehabili-
tation of Jewish survivors of
the Hitler holocaust.
Moscow Mum on Trials
of Jewish Leaders,
Sen. Javits Reports
NEW YORK JT
The
secr
rla
impris-
nt of J
re ious
eaders in Le grad and os-
cow are "a expression of t
Soviet Unit) 's out-spoken, ant
Israeli policy," S'enator Jacob K.
Javit of New York, declared
upo eturn from a 10-day visit
to SR
perse ti
the
i
ead-
e
aid
giving
of
at s e will not tolerat
the emigration of Russian
to Israel or any a

such a move." Mr. Javits, who
went to Russia primarily to in-
vestigate the status of Soyiet
trade with the United State
visited and worshiped at
Great Synagogue in
ow,
and found the Sabbat ervice
there proceeding as u 1.
However, he emph zed, not
one of the Russia religious
Jews he met would iscuss the
reports about the r ewed per-
secutions launched
inst Jews
recently by the
sian au-
thorities. The Senato aid he
could not reach a sin
thoritative, Russian governmen
official with whom he could dis-
cusg the situation of the Jews
in the USSR.

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