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THE DETROIT JEW ISH NEWS — Friday, March 30, 1962 —
_Aground the world...
Ladies Home Journal Story Credits Pope John With Saving Jews
"In Hitler's last mad drive to
exterminate the Jews, 250,000
terrified
men, women and chil-
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings
dren were helpless. One man,
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
unknown then, acted to save
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.
them. Today, he is known and
loved by millions."
United States
The wan then, was Monsignor
UNITED NATIONS—Britain became the fourth country —
following. the Central African Republic, France and Israel—to
ratify the Convention Against Discrimination in Education adopted
in 1960 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization . . . The 18th session of the United Nations Commis-
sion on Human Rights opened here with the question of discrimi-
nation against religious rights and practices on its agenda, which
will entertain business sessions until April 13.
WASHINGTON—A letter from Secretary of the Navy Fred
Korth, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of U.S.
Navy Commodore Uriah P. Levy, was presented in ceremonies
here to Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld, spiritual leader of the Washing-
ton Hebrew Congregation, which Levy helped to found in 1852.
. . . Voluntary agreements by 50 nationally prominent firms to end
job discrimination was announced Monday by President Kennedy's
Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity . . . Adolph Held,
chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee, was received here by
President Kennedy, who accepted an invitation to address a rally
scheduled by aged citizens in New York's Madison Square Garden
on May 20 . . . President Kennedy appointed Jacob Blaustein on
the six-member board of governors of the United Service Organiza-
tion as successor to former Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball
whose term on the USO board has now expired.
NEW YORK—Rabbi Theodore Jungreis of the Bethpage Jewish
Community Center saw that '70 commuters celebrated Purim on a
Long Island passenger train last week, complete with a reading of
the Megillah and the happy noise of graggers, following his concern
that the commuters would otherwise miss the celebration . . The
92nd St. Y.M.H.A. received a $500,000 gift for the construction of
a new building from the Henry Kaufman Foundation . . . "Impli-
cations of Sabbath Programming for the Jewish Community Center"
will be explored by a panel of experts Monday at Yeshiva Uni-
versity's School of Social Work, 110 W. 57th St. . . . The New
York Young Republican Club has urged the state legislature to
enact an amendment to the Sunday closing law which would permit
merchants observing a Sabbath on another day of the week to keep
their establishments open on Sunday ... An official of the Agudath
Israe' of America, Rabbi Morris Sherer, urged the New York
State Cemetery Board to adopt a new cemetery licensing procedure
which would forbid the closing of cemeteries in New York on
Sundays, as several cemetery managements have proposed . • .
Representatives of rabbinical organizations, headed by Rabbi Meir
Cohen, director of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United
States and Canada, urged Governor Rockefeller to back a proposal
that the State forbid interference with the conduct of funerals
on Sundays. A history of Czechoslovakian Jews from 1918 to 1948
is now being prepared by the Society for the History of Czecho-
slovak Jews, Inc., financed in part by the Conference on Jewish
Material Claims Against Germany.
PHILADELPHIA—An exercise in medical logistics was carried
out here with complete success when 55 newborn babies and 120
adults were moved into new quarters at the Northern Division of
the Einstein Medical Center.
BRIDGEPORT—Temple Beth Shalom of Stratford has estab-
lished what is believed to he the first religious school class in the
New England area for mentally retarded Jewish children.
CINCINNATI—The boards of the Cincinnati Community He-
brew Schools and the Yavneh Day School have ratified plans for
their merger into the new Cincinnati Community Hebrew Schools.
CHICAGO—The Chicago Board of Rabbis and the Bnai Brith
Women joined with Catholic and Protestant spokesmen to denounce
the "reluctance of Chicago's three network television stations to
provide adequate time for religious programs."
mental TV station that became was to extricate refugees from
WABC-TV), publishing (he was
publisher of Charm Magazine),
department store advertising
and management (vice presi-
dent of Saks Fifth Avenue). But
the Balkans.
Baptismal certificates were
being recognized by the Nazis
as credentials to leave the
country. Roncalli proposed to
at the time of this incident, he issue these to Jews who would
was a special envoy for the War undergo this ceremony. Thou-
sands were thus saved.
Angelo Roncalli, the Apostolic Refugee Board and his mission
Delegate of the Vatican in the
Middle East. Today, he is Pope
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The author is a distinguished
OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS • . •
American, Ira Hirschmann. The
paragraph opens his dramatic,
brief article entitled "One
Man's Humanity"- in the April
Ladies' Home Journal. He tells
how he met with Monsignor
Roncalli on a tiny Turkish
island near Istanbul in 1944
during the war and how that
meeting meant escape from
Hungary for thousands of Jews
marked for slaughter
Hirschmann has had a varied
career, encompassing Radio-TV
(he helped to found the experi-
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Latin America
RIO DE JANEIRO—The S.S. Theodor Herzl, Zim-Israel Navi-
.2.ation Company's luxury liner, last week became the first Israel
liner to dock at this city. bringing 571 passengers from Europe.
SAO PAULO—With broadcast participation on behalf of nearly
all of the top religious leaders in Brazil—including the blessings.
of the Cardinal of Brazil, Archbishop D. Carlos Carmello de Fas-
(oneellos Motta—a Council for Jewish-Christian Fraternity was
established here last week.
Europe
LONDON—The Union of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia
I, making preparations to publish, in the Servo-Croatian language,
Simon Duhnow's "History of the Jewish People," it was reported
here from Belgrade . . . The principal factor in achievement of
the historic pact on reparations and restitutions from West Ger-
many was the Jewish unity achieved for this particular endeavor,
Dr. Nahum Goldmann declared here at a reception given by the
.Jewish Trust Corp. to mark the publication of Dr. C. Kapralik's
new book. "Reclaiming the Nazi Loot."
VIENNA—The Austrian parliament unanimously adopted the
draft for a 12th amendment to the Nazi compensation law under
which compensation will be provided for victims of the Nazi regime
in Austria who have received no funds of this kind since the end
of World War II
GIESSEN, West Germany—Former Nazi police officials Kurt
Kirschner, Hans Hoffmann and Theodor Pillich were sentenced to
more than three years in prison each for their part in the murder
of 172 Polish Jews during World War II.
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Israel
JERUSALEM — A ministerial committee was authorized by
Isrcel's cabinet to reconsider the proposed legislation on libel and
slander, opposed by the press because, newspapermen say, the
legislation does not define the terms libel and slander . . . More
than $10,000,000 will be spent by Israel on port developments
and expansions during the fiscal year 1962-63, according to a
decision made here by a ministerial committee dealing with
economic planning.
TEL AVIV—The Israel Government has agreed that contribu-
tions to the Jewish National Fund and to the Keren Hayesod will
be deductible from income taxes .. . Former Austrian Jews will
receive "absurdly small" amounts of compensation as provides
the newly adopted amendment to Austrian law which would offer
some restitution to former Austrians who had been persecuted by
the Nazis, the World Association of Jews From Austria charged
here.
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