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House Is Told Rumanian 'Cleric' in Michigan Was Leader of Pogroms

21 Jewish Groups
Protest New York's
Sunday Closing Law

In a speech delivered on the this heinous background, this
floor of the U. S. House of person was admitted to the
Representatives, Congressman United States as a displaced
Seymour Halpern, of New York, person in July of 1950 . . .
ALBANY, N.Y., (JTA) — A charged that a former active Within a year, it is reported
delegation _representing 21 na- Romanian fascist now enjoys that he was "ordained" as a
tional and New York Jewish American freedom in the guise member of the clergy of the
groups told a New York State of a "priest."
Rumanian Orthodox C h u r c h,
priest."
legislative committee that the
He charged that Viorel Trifa and as Bishop Valerian he is
state's compulsory Sunday-closing was responsible for pogroms now serving in the city of De-
law forces Orthodox Jews, Sev- and atrocities in Romania and troit.
enth-day Adventists and other asked for an investigation of
"I put 'ordained' in quotes
Sabbathians to make a . "cruel his status. -
because the circumstances of
choice" between violating their
Trifa, who formerly lived in his so-called ordination are
highly questionable. Accord.
religious beliefs or suffering Detroit, now makes his home
economic hardship. in Jackson.
ing to a statement of the
The statement was made at a
In his charges, Congressman Rumanian Orthodox Mission-
ary
Episcopate in America,
hearing of the State Assembly Halpern said, in part:
„ From the mid-1930's he
Code:, Committee on proposals to
Trifa was ordained by an un-
am"nd the state Sunday law.
frocked priest, and charges of
(Trifa) began to play a lead-
simony have been registered
In New York, the Union of ing role in the Fascist Na-
by the episcopate against both
Orthodox Jewish Congregations tional Union of Rumanian
Trifa and the "priest" who
of America declared in a reso- Christian Students . . . He
'ordained' him.
lution that the New York state was president of this group.
"Apparently the ceremonies
Sunday closing laws was "patent- "Trifa and his organization con-
ly discriminatory" and that it tributed significantly through of this suspect consecration
"penalizes religious observance speeches, manifestoes and dem- were carried out despite a Fed-
by imposing upon firms operated onstrations to inciting the pog- eral court injunction sought
by observant Jews economic roms, and there is no doubt of and obtained by the episcopate.
"These are appalling reports.
sanctions." The Orthodox Union their active participation . . .
urged the New York Legislature At the subsequent court martial, Has not the time come for pub-
"to enact without further delay this man was sentenced in ab- lic opinion to be clearly aware
measures to exempt from the re- sentia to life imprisonment at of Trifa's background and his
strictions of the Sunday closing hard labor — Rumania at that presence in our midst? Should
law establishments which are time had not capital punish- not the circumstances of his
closed on the seventh day of the ' men t . admission and continued free
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week in observance of the Jewish
"I have learned that despite existence in our country be re-
Sabbath."
Theodore Conklin, speaking for
the Protestant Council of New
York City and the New York
Council of Churches, told the
legislators that "because of our
belief in the freedom of religion
for all, we shall support legisla-
tion for the protection of those
who regularly keep another day
of the week as Holy time and do
not labor or engage in business
on that day."

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examined by the appropriate gate the man and offered the
authorities?"
documentation which substanti-
Halpern urged the proper gov- ated his testimony to those
ernment authorities to investi-
authorities.

JNF Launches Large
Development Project
Throughout Israel

A new quarter billion dollar
land development program of the
Jewish National Fund has been
launched in Israel, announced
Dr. Joseph P. Sternstein, incom-
ing national executive director,
who has just returned from the
world conference in Jerusalem.
Other United States JNF offi-
cials attending the conference
were Albert Schiff, national
president, and Mendel N. Fisher,
retiring executive director. The
conference was convened by Am-
bassador Jacob Tsur, chairman
of the World Council of Keren
Kayemeth Lelsrael, and included
delegates from Canada and Eng-
land.

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Minneapolis Council
Lifts Ban on Sunday
Closing Exemption

MINNEAPOLIS (JTA) — The
Minneapolis City Council. which
had overridden a mayoral veto
of a Sunday closing law minus
an exemption for seventh-day
Sabbatarians, reversed itself un-
der public pressure and approved
without dissent an amendment
providing such exemption.
The exemption clause had been
a part of the original measure
but was struck out when City
Attorney Keith Stidd expressed
the opinion that it would create
legal complications. The City
Council promptly passed it 10
to two over the Mayor's veto.
The Mayor, who said he was
still opposed to the idea of a
Sunday closing law in principle,
said he would permit the amend-
ment to become law without his
signature. The amendment went
into effect Sunday.

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