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A ,Digest of World Jewish Happenings
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.
General, Rabbi Will
Address Welfare
Board Conference
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United States
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NEW YORK—The more than 35 employes on strike for more
than a week from , their jobs at the Jewish-sponsored Hawthorne
Home for emotionally disturbed children have returned to work
at the institution of the Jewish Board of Guardians.
BUFFALO—The Buffalo section of the National Council of
Jewish Women is conducting a telephone census of all Jewish house-
holds in Buffalo and Erie County at the request of the city's
Jewish Center and United Jewish Federation with the aim of
improving services to the community . . . Emil L. Cohen was sworn
Among the distinguished
in this week as a supreme court judge in Buffalo on recommenda- leaders to address this year's
tion of Governor Nelson Rockefeller . . . Canisius College will
national biennial convention
present its Peter Canisius Medal for 1962 to Justice Philip Halpern of the National Jewish Wel-
on April 1, making him , the first non-Catholic to receive the award
fare Board, to be held April
since it was established in 1958 to honor "an outstanding American
4-8 at the Deauville Hotel in
whose career and achievements constitute a challenge and inspira- Miami Beach, Fla., are Maj.
tion for our American youth."
Gen. Frank A. Tobey (left),
chief of chaplains, Depart-
WASHINGTON—Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld, Reform spiritual
leader of the influential Washington Hebrew Congregation, told ment of the Army, and Dr.
a meeting of Protestant ministers that some compromise on the Bertram W. Korn, noted rabbi
and leading authority on the
question of a religion in the public schools might be possible if
Jewish participation in the
emotionalism can be removed from the discussions . . . Israel was
Civil War.
labeled "a bridgehead for imperialist forces that back conspiracies
in the Arab countries" in a Czechoslovak Arab-language broadcast
monitored here.
Goldmann Protests
WATERBURY. Conn..—The Waterbury Lodge of Bnai Brith
Denial
of Passport
and the Sheridan Council of the Knights of Columbus joined this
week for the first time to co-sponsor special events activities for to Official of WJC
the Waterbury area Heart Association.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Dr.
JERSEY CITY, N.J.,—The Hebrew Home and Hospital will Nahum Goldmann, president of
rush to complete two unfinished floors of its pavilion to cope with the World Jewish COngress, took
issue with Israel's Foreign Min-
the unexpected demands for the services of the institution.
MILWAUKEE—An institute for study of planning for future ister Golda Meir who originally
needs of the Milwaukee . Jewish Community Center proposed a ordered not to renew the Israeli
passport of Joseph Golan, an of-
branch building on the city's west side.
PHILADELPHIA—Four non-Jews and Rabbi Herbert Hendel ficial of the World Jewish Con-
of Temple Sholom of Levittown have complained to . Abington gress, because of dissatisfaction
School Board officials in nearby Bucks County against a plan by with his activities abroad, but
later—following Dr. Goldmann's
the township to accept a gift of 3,000 copies of the New Testament
intervention—agreed to renew
which would be used for Bible reading in the public schools in
the area . . . A newly refurbished synagogue was dedicated here it for one year only.
The Israel Foreign Minister,
this week at the State Correctional Institution, making it the first it was reported, objected espe-
Jewish house of worship in a penal institution in this state ... The cially to Golan's activities at the
Research Laboratories of Einstein Medical Center has started a i past session of the United Na-
four-year $141,000 study of a group of micro-organisms associated tions General Assembly. It was
with some infections and possibly with rheumatic and arthritic understood that Golan had ac-
conditions . . . A special legal document to insure prevention tive contacts with North African
of abuses at funerals - and to help provide "simple funerals in leaders and also " with leaders
keeping with traditional laws of Judaism" and assuring that the of the FLV, the Moslem move-
rites are in accordance with the wishes of the deceased was ment for On independent
worked out here by Rabbi Victor Solomon of Cong. Ezrath Israel Algeria. Emphasizing that "no
. . Plans for a $1,000,000 school building to replace the present citizen of Israel, or of any
three buildings of the Beth Jacob all-day school system were an- democratic": country, should be
nounced by President Bernard Levy.
denied a ciassport unless found
SAN FRANCISCO—Local school districts in California are guilty by ,'the law," Dr. Gold- !
using transcripts of records achieved by high school students, mann declared:
showing the student's race, religion and national origin, thus aiding
(In Jerusalem, Mrs: Meir de-
possible discrimination on these biased grounds, it was revealed dined to discuss the nature of
here by the Jewish Labor Committee.
Golan's activities which prompt-
BOSTON—A total of 2 bills involving amendments to or ed her action. She said that if
liberalizing Sunday closing laws of Massachusetts are now before requested to do so, she would
the state legislature for action at this session, it was reported by give_a full report to the Foreign
the New England region of the American Jewish Congress.
Affairs and Security Committee
of the Israel Parliament.)
Canada
MONTREAL—The Canadian Jewish Congress announced that
some Romanian Jews in Canada who were persauted by the Nazis
in Romania during the war might now be eligible for compensation
and urged that they contact the United Restitution Organization.
PETERBORO—The spiritual strength Canadian Jews draw
from the development of the State of Israel contributes to the
national strength of Canada, John Bassett, publisher of the Toronto
Telegram, said here at the 12th annual Citizen of the Year award
dinner.
Israel
JERUSALEM—The heads of four major industrial interprises
in Italy arrived here this week to explore the possibilities of plan-
ning Israeli vacations for employees of their firms . . . In light
of Israel's new economic policy, which devalued the pound, the
Jewish Agency this week revised its 1962-63 budget. increasing it
from the previous figure of 272,000,000 pounds to 370,000,000
pounds ($123,333,333).
Middle East
CASABLANCA—Moroccan Jews are citizens of the country
and "have the same right to obtain passports as any other citizens,"
Allal el Fassi, Minister for Islamic Affairs and leader of the right-
wing. nationalist Istiqlal Party, declared here.
ISTANBUL—Twelve well-known professors at the Technical
University here left for Israel as part of a cultural exchange in
which an equal number of Israeli scholars will visit Turkey next
spring.
Europe
STUTTGART -A trial of former SS leader Felix Landau on
charges of ordering the shooting of 20 Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland
in July, 1941, opened here with 26 witnesses from the United
States, Israel, France and West Germany scheduled to testify.
VIENNA—Dr. Ludwig Steiner, Austrian Undersecretary of
State, returned from Israel where he discussed with cabinet mem-
bers various aspects of restitution for victims of the Nazi era in
Austria.
LONDON—A 26-year-old Polish student at a polytechnic
institute, Julian Dominiak, was sentenced to seven months
imprisonment for telling a Jew "Hitler had done well by murder-
ing the Jews," according to a Warsaw dispatch received here.
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Boris Smolar's
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Between You
• • . and Me'
(Copyright, 1962,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
The American Scene:
About 36 states and- untold counties and municipalities now
have Blue Laws compelling merchants to keep their places of
business closed on Sundays . .-. A number of other states and
cities are still proposing Blue Law statutes, without providing
exemption for Sabbath-observing Jews who keep their business
closed on Saturdays . . . Religious Jews as well as Seventh
Day Adventists find themselves discriminated against because
their day_ of rest is Saturday . . . Not being exempted from
closing their business enterprises on Sunday, they are forced
to keep their places of business closed for two days each week,
thus suffering economic penalties for their religiotts rights . . .
Twelve states in • this country have taken the arguments of Sab-
batarians into consideration, and their Sunday Laws respect the
right to work on Sunday by those who observe Saturday as their
day of rest . . . However, in numerous other states, the fight for
the liberalization of the Blue Laws is now only at its beginning
.. - Such fights are now at their 'height in the states of Pennsyl-
vania and Massachusetts . . . Some time ago, a court in Massa-
chusetts ruled in favor of Jewish storekeepers whose Sabbath
is Saturday and not Sunday". . . The judges declared the Lord's
Day Act unconstitutional because it favored one religion over
another and also denied the equal protection of the laws guaran-
teed under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution . . . Never-
theless, the state Legislature of Massachusetts has now before it
more than 30 bills on the existing Sunday Law for action at this
year's session . . . In Pennsylvania, the fight for the inclusion
of an exemption clause into the present Blue Law there is
presently being supported also by non-Jewish groups who con-
sider the legislation discriminatory against persons who keep
their business closed on Saturdays for personal religious reasons
. . . The remarkable thing about the Blue Laws in various
states is that some of them are being recognized as obsolete,
confusing and frequently ridiculous . . . In some states the Blue
Law prohibits even painting the outside of a house on Sunday,
or changing the spark plugs on a sports car, or .even fishing
and swimming on Sundays . . . Yet there seem to be plenty of
lawmakers who still favor the strict enforcement of these re-
strictive laws which were originated in 1648 in Connecticut.
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The Israeli Scene:
Now that Israel has devaluated its currency to the satis-
faction of the International Monetary Fund, the problem of
Israel's becoming linked with the European Common Market
has become urgent . . . Even Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion,
who usually stands aloof from economic matters, has given it
top priority . . . It had been predicted previously by Israeli
economic experts that Israel's growing export drive—particu-
larly of oranges, diamonds, textiles and agricultural produce—
would one day be in grave danger unless ways were found of
coming to terms with the Common Market . . . Now it is defi-
nitely being realized that a tariff wall around the countries of
Western Europe would create grave difficulties for Israel's
exports . . . Aside from the fledgling program in Africa, Israel
has been developing her economic relations almost entirely with
Western Europe . . . If tariff walls are raised against her by
Western Europe, and also by. Great Britain, she will find herself
without economic outlets for her dollar earnings . . . This is
why the entire machinery of the Israel government is now
mobilized to secure some kind of a link with the Common
Market which is composed of six nations of Western Europe—
Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg . . .
The group has twice lowered custom tariffs among member
countries, and has also cut duties on agricultural products, with
the result that each of these countries individually has made
great economic strides ... Their strength is best reflected in the
95 Arabs Enroll in
interest which Britain, and recently President Kennedy as well,
have shown in association with the Common Market .. . If such
Hebrew University
JERUSALEM, .(JTA) — countries as Britain and the United States must think seriously
Ninety-five Arab students, in- of seeking association with the Common Market, little Israel
cluding two women, have en- must certainly do so .. .
rolled in the Hebrew University
for the current semester.
Twenty-nine of the Arabs are
studying medicine, including
BY HENRY' LEONARD
one of the two women, who is
in her second year of the medi-
cal course.
Twenty-nine are also enrolled
in the law faculty; 23 in the
faculty of humanities; eight in
the faculty of sciences; four in
the School of Social Work; and
two in the faculty of agriculture.
Last year, 88 Arab students
attended the university.
-PAYEIN
Moscow Radio Arabic
Transmission Charges
Israel Plans War
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish New')
JERIJSALEM — A Moscow
radio Arabic transmission mon-
itored here Tuesday charged
that Israel had "learned noth-
ing" from the Sinai Campaign
and was "once more preparing
to wage a war of aggression
against Arab countries."
The broadcast asserted that
Prime Minister Ben-Gurion
"hopes to get support of the
imperialists for another adven-
ture."
In support of the charges, the
broadcast declared that Israel
had increased defense outlays.
A "Yiddishe Mummy"