'Hexing' in Synagogue Centenary of U. S, Jewish Chaplaincy Commentary Page 2 Vol. XL, No. 22 THE JEWISH NEWS 1„„. 1—i ORT's 40th Anniversary An Arab's Expose of Nasserism I A. N4 A Weekly Review * of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Printed in a 100% Union Shop Editorials Page 4 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd. — VE 8-9364 — Detroit 35, Jan. 26, 1962 — $5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c Soviet Charges of 'Espionage' Against Three Jews Viewed as Concentration of Anti-Semitism ORT's 762 Expansion Program %Vi 11 Help 40,000 in Many Lands . NEW YORK (JTA)—A budget for ORT activities in 1962 in 19 countries totaling more than $8,000,000 adopted by the World ORT Union, was approved here by the 40th anniversary national conference of Ameri- can ORT Federation. The 500 delegates who attended the conference also approved allocations totaling $2,795,000 toward the over-all budget. Dr. William Haber, president of American ORT, announced that the organization would, during 1962, support a pr gram of economic rehabilitation and oc- cupational training for more than 40,000 persons over- seas. The main areas where such services will be pro- vided are-Israel,-.,North Africa. Europe and Iran, Haber said. Plans for the ORT trade education programs in Israel call for expansion of instructional facilities to enroll 15,000 persons, he stated. In the last 16 years, Haber reported, ORT has "provided economic rehabilitation for 350,000 persons . overseas, at a cost of $63,965,000." The conference ratified an agreement with the Joint Distribution Committee under which ORT will receive $1,850,000 from funds raised by the United Jewish Appeal. • An additional sum, totaling $945,000, is anticipated from membership income of the Women's American ORT Federation and other affiliated groups. The bal- ance of ORT's financial needs overseas is expected to be raised by ORT organizations in other countries. and by contributions from governments and local communities where the ORT schools are located. _ (Continued on Page 3) - Torah for• Navy: JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel official sources angrily rejected the charges voiced in the Moscow newspaper "Trud" that Israeli diplomats in the Soviet Union had engaged in "es- pionage" and are helpful in activities for the American Central Intelligence Agency. Terming these allegations as "fabrications," a Foreign Ministry spokesman here said that they constitute "gross contraventions of international practice." The allegationS were termed "ridiculous and absolutely unfounded" by Israel's Foreign Minister Golda Meir in a statement made in Tokyo, Japan, where she is now on an unofficial visit. The charges in "Trud" provoked excited articles against the Soviet Union' in the entire Israeli press. The Soviet newspaper had said that Israeli diplomats in Moscow are using synagogues to spread Zionist literature and to collect espionage information. It men- tioned Joshua Pratt, the first secretary of the Israeli embassy in Mosc6w, as a person who had been in contact with the three leaders of the Leningrad-synagogue who were sentenced recently to long terms of imprisonment for being in contact with representatives of a "foreign power." The three Leningrad Jewish leaders are Gedalia E. Pechersky, 60; E. S. Dymkin and N. A. Kaganov. Both Dymkin and Kaganov are in their late seventies. The article in the Moscow paper said Pratt had "often passed out anti-Soviet and Zionist literature" to members of synagogues. Similar charges had been made by the Soviet newspapers earlier against two Israeli diplomats in Moscow, Yaakov Kelman and Yaakov Sharett, both of whom were ordered to leave the Soviet Union. "Trud" also alleged that Pratt headed a "spy ring" that recruited agents among Soviet Jewish citizens, and declared that the activities were carried on not only with the know- ledge of the Israel Government but also on orders of the United States Government. Accord- ing to Trud, there have been ties between the Israeli intelligence service and the Central Intelligence Agency, the organization conducting intelligence work for U. S. Government. (In Paris, the press carried a cable from Moscow stating that Trud has also reported the arrest of "the rabbi of Wilna." The Soviet paper did not name the rabbi, but linked him with "speculators and smugglers" on trial in Lithuania.) U. S. Considers Moscow Charge 'Concentrated Attack' on Soviet Jews WASHINGTON (JTA)—The charge made by the Moscow newspaper "Trud" that Is- raeli diplomats in Russia are spying for the United States Government's Central Intelli- gence Agency appears to be further evidence of the Soviet Union's "concentrated attack on its Jewish population," a State Department spokesman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The spokesman scoffed at the charge, asserting that the Central Intelligence Agency The USS Constella- tion, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, will sail with a miniature Torah scroll housed in an Ark in the ward- room used by her crew as a chapel. Above, Sanford Solender, executive vice-president of the National Jew- ish Welfare Board, presents the Torah to Commander Paul W. Reigner (ChC) , senior chaplain aboard the Constellation. At the ceremony were (I. to r.) Ensign M. S. Gitson, ship's Information and Education Officer, Solender, Chaplain Reigner and a member of the crew. Presentation was made during a tour of the carrier by leaders of JWB during which they met Jewish members of the crew and discussed JWB's work as government- authorized agency for religious and morale services to Jews in the U.S. Armed Forces with the Constellation's commanding officer and with other men aboard the ship. (Continued on Page 3) Trend Toward Interfaith Ability' Foreseen Leading to 'Productive Christian-Jewish Relations Era' LOS ANGELES', (JTA) — The American Jewish Committee concluded its four-day executive board meeting 1; ith a resolution stressing that "special efforts must be made to assure equal educational opportunity to all children in all public schools." Louis Caplan of Pittsburgh, president of the American Jewish Commit-tee, told the meeting that recent developments in Christianity in this country and abroad revealed "a marked trend toward growing interfaith cooperation and amity." He particularly stressed recent actions by Protestant and Catholic leaders in eliminating "negative stereotypes of Jews from Christian teachings", as part of this trend toward "a significant and productive era in Chris- tian-Jewish relations." He cited the following concrete developments here and abroad which he said pointed to interfaith amity and cooperation: 1. Establishment in Madrid of a committee of leading Catholics and Jews to promote interfaith cooperation in that country. 2. A resolution adopted by the Protestant Tenth Evangelical Church Assembly held late last year in Berlin which asserted the indissoluble link between Christians and Jews. 3. A statement adopted by the Catholic National Conference for Interracial Justice call- ing on Catholics "to work for the complete removal of anti-Semitic prejudice where it exists in ourselves and our nation." 4. The Vatican's recent action eliminating anti-Jewish material in descriptions of paint- ings hanging in the Catholic Church at Deggendorf, Germany. 5. The participation of leading Protestant and Catholic theologians in the publication of a study by the French historian Jules Isaac, entitled "Has Anti-Semitism Roots in Chris- tianity?" The study states that although the essence of Christianity contains no anti-Semitism, Christian teaching has been a source of this form of bigotry. It was announced at the meeting that the American Jewish Committee and the Cath- olic-sponsored Pro Deo University in Rome have created jointly the first Chair of Intergroup Relations ever established at a European institution of higher learning. Instruction in the courses will begin at the Pro Deo University next month. The intergroup curriculum, developed by the AJC.. will deal with understanding among. racial and religious groups and with the roots of discrimination and persecution. At the closing session it was also announced that a committee on national growth has been established, the functions of which will be to analyze the American Jewish Committee's areas of concern and to relate the needs of the times to AJC policy at home and .abroad,