THE DETR OIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 6, 1962 2-- 40

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from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic

Soviets Take Anti-Israel Stand in Debate
at United Nations on Syrian Border Strife

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
In the first Arab-Israel dispute
analysis of state- to come before the Security appears that the United States
ments made by the Soviet dele- Council since the K e n n e d y 'delegation was seeking to take
gate during the brief. Security L.dministration took office, it a neutral stand but ended up
United States
leaning toward the Arab side.
NEW YORK — The Joint Defense Appeal, fund-raising arm Council debate on the Syrian
conflictindicated
of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith and the American that the border
Soviet Union
had taken
Jewish Committee, announced the appointment of Marvin Kratter, its most an t
at
president of a real estate investment corporation, as chairman the United t - Isra
Nations
in many
of the 1962 JDA campaign to be launched on April 17 with a yea
rs.
goal of $6,100,000 . . . Aage Hessellund Jensen, Danish Am-
Platen D. Morozov,
the USSR
bassador to the United Nations, was presented the annual representative
on the Council,
By LYNNE YOUNG
. Pointe, brought civil suit to
brotherhood award of the Sutton Place Synagogue here for his not only continued the strongly
If you're a Jew who doesn't recover property being held
part in aiding Jews to escape from Nazi hands during World pro-Arab, anti-Israel bias which
War II . . . Cong. Rodeph Sholom observed its 120th anniversary has been standard policy but he look like a Jew, doesn't have a under lien by Grosse Pointe
at a dinner at the Hotel Astor and the Park Avenue Synagogue also hinted that anti-Israel sanc- Jewish - sounding n a m e, a nd Properties, Inc. Maxwell also
doesn't have Jewish friends, you sought to dissolve an agreement
marked its 80th anniversary with a special program at the tions and even one
expulsion of might be able to pass the test with the defendant that gave
synagogue, with Sen. Jacob Javits as principal speaker at both Israe
from the United Nations for living in Grosse Pointe— the corporation power to screen
functions on April 1.
ALBANY, N. Y.—A resolution calling upon the United should be considered by the assuming, of course, that you prospective buyers of the un-
Security
Council.
uc. proposals to have a position in an occupa- finished Maxwell mansion in
Nations Commission on Human Rights to investigate anti-Semitism He linked
such
in the Soviet Union was passed here by the New York State the contingency — which he tion held high in public esteem. Grosse Pointe Park. The "score
The amazing story of how the card" used to grade a prospec-
Senate . . . Three humane slaughter bills introduced in the State apparently took for granted —
Senate and Assembly during the current legislative session appear that the Security Council would Grosse Pointe Property Owners tive buyer was made an exhibit
to have died in committee as the session headed for adjournment condemn Israel in the renewed Association "passed" or "failed" in the case.
people who sought homes in
this week.
An ironic postscript to the
clashes with
NEWARK, N. J.—The United Jewish Appeal of Essex County Tiberias
area. Syria in the Lake the Detroit suburb is told in Grosse Pointe story was added
"Some
of
My
Best
Friends
...",
on
Oct. 18, 1961, when David
launched its 1962 campaign with a record-breaking total of
Morozov also argued that the a new book by Benjamin R. Brinkley, the NBC-TV commen-
$1,270,000 at a special gifts dinner on Sunday.
Security Council "must examine
BOSTON—Resolutions urging the State Department to take what further concrete measures Epstein, national director of tator, offered a program about
a "firm position against Arab interference in the conduct of the are necessary at the present the Anti-Defamation League of gangsters. Brinkley established
affairs of American citizens" were adopted unanimously by time in order to oblige Israel to Bnai Brith, and Arnold Forster, that professional hoodlums fre-
both houses of the Massachusetts Central Court. carry out its obligations." Not its civil rights director, pub- quently live in the nicest homes
HARTFORD—Joint services and school activities will corn- waiting for a Security Council lished by Farrar, Strauss and in the best neighborhoods across
mencc in time for the next high Holy Days in the merger of decision, he called Israel the Cudahy. the nation. To prove his point
In order to protect the "ex- he showed pictures of several
two of Hartford's oldest Orthodox congregations, Ateres Knesseth "aggressor" and e x on era ted
clusivity" of the community palatial estates belonging to
Israel Synagogue and Beth Hamedresh Hagociol. Syria as the "victim."
from
"undesirables," the Asso- gangsters. The estates were in
READING, Penn.—Sister St. Robert, the administrator of He accused Israel of "flagrant
St. Joseph's Catholic Hospital, said that the hospital's kosher violations," and dug into recent ciation dreamed up and oper- "exclusive" Gosse Pointe!
kitchen is a boon to the moral of staff and the Jewish patients history in a bid to "prove' that ated an elaborate—and original • The authors of "Some of My
who occupy 10 per cent of the institution's 350 beds. Israel has never heeded the — method of measuring the Best Friends ..." wonder in
BETHLEHEM. Penn.—An annual series of lectureships to rules of the UN charter or the worth of man. It hired a pri- print what passing grades were
feature world statesmen, to he known as the Jacob Blaustein terms of the 1949 armistice pact vate detective to fill out a attained by the gangsters.
questionnaire that separated
Lecturers in International Relations. has been established through with Syria.
"desirable" from "undesirable"
a $25,000 grant from the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation
Israel
strongly
defended
its
by means of a point system Hebrew Corner
of Baltimore at Lehigh University here.
position in the debate. Michael And to make certain—passing
CHICAGO—A small Orthodox synagogue on the west side S. Comay, c h a i r m a n of the
of Chicago. Cong. Chevro Kisho Machzikai Hadas, bombed and Israeli delegation, said Israel grades were on a sliding scale.
severly damaged last New Year's Eve, is ready to rebuild its would not be intimidated by Out of a maximum possible 100
da work
would meet h er on
points, Poles could pass with 55 myE very
house of worship with the help of nearly $6,000 contributed Syria and its "friends."
way to work. She played in the
points, Southern Europeans yard together with all of the Chil-
chiefly by non-Jewish neighbors in the community.
dren: "uncle. uncle", she would call
He insisted that the Security
DENVER—A new synagogue, Hebrew school and home for Council probe the entire back- with 75, Jews with 85. People me. One day she disappeared. "Where
Marion?" I asked. One of the
the temple's senior citizens will be built in this city by Beth ground of the current fighting of Irish descent could pass with is
as little as 5 points but Negroes Children came to me and said:
Hamedrash Hagodol, one of Denver's oldest houses of worship. and stop with Israel's March 17 g
mother died". Marion was
ar
naddeOrtiheenytaalsutohm
o k eannoot h
ad
atic
naollypafsasilin
v e rr t T
o hree af t a itvheesr, at (no
ed
g t a
d. s coo ubled-
TUCSON—A Jewish congregation has been formed at the raid on Syrian gun positions. He
gan the wandering from one family
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base with 71 members and Capt. Irwin challenged the Syrians to pledge the test.
Ziff as lay leader.
not bear his tragedy. He broke
themselves before the Security
down and became ill. What could be
A "Blue Form" was used spe- done
SAN FRANCJSCO—Returns in all divisions of the 1962 Council to kep the peace in the
the girl? How could this
cifically for scoring prospective Young with
(soft) soul bear this tragedy?
campaign of the San Francisco Jewish Welfare Federation are Lake Tiberias area.
Jewish buyers. It asked the. The General Israel Orphan's Home
showing increased giving over that reported for a comparable
for Girls in Jerusalem accepts and
same questions b u t allowed cares
period in 1961 .. . The newly-formed national "Christian Citizen"
for such girls. The new build-
fewer points for the same ing is well adapted for study and
organization "poses the threat of relegating Jews and other non-
rest, where the girl can develop her
"achievements."
For
instance,
Christians to positions of fourth-class citizenship in this country,"
talent, to study and be healthy.
the scoring on the "Blue Form"
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
There is a tong history to the
in the opinion of Stanley S. Jacobs, director of the San Francisco
hom e. It started i 1902, i n the
Editor,
Seven
Arts
would
have
conservative
dress
Anti•Defamation League office.
days of the Turkish
a
e ru
in small
Feature Syndicate
in the Measharim" neighbor-
A Carmelite monk by way of count three points instead of room
Europe
hood. Since then the institution de-
four,
and
a
good
education
veloped immensely. In 1956 it moved
LONDON—Professor Arthur Lehman Goodhart, New York- conversion from Judaism has would give a Jew a maximum to
their beautiful building in the
born master at the University College at Oxford, was lauded for asked the Israel Supreme Court of four points instead of five. Kiryath Moshe quarter.
I a cam
a gift of 150,000 pounds sterling ($420,000) to construct some to rule that an apostate falls
nice t o v
Marion. She
The screening method, used in
room together with lives
her
new buildings at the college . . . Israel is the principal topic on within the "Law of Return,"
for some time without adverse friends. of her age, and studies at
the agenda of a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers which which says that every Jew has a criticism, was made
the school in the building. Little
public
in
by
little
the
wounds
of
the
past
to are
settle
in Israel.
opened Sunday at Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia, it was learned of law
known
to be Courts 1960 when John A. Maxwell, a are healed.
as un-
from a Mecca radio broadcast monitored here . . . The Federa-
Translation of Hebrew Column.
predictable
as
prima
donnas,
but former resident of Grosse (Published by Brith Ivrith Olamith,
tion of Women Zionists of Great Britain and Ireland raised a it is inconceivable that
an Is-
0 Jerusalem)
record stun of more than half a million pounds ($1,400,000) reli court, or any court for that
during the past year and enrolled 1,000 new members, . Mrs. matter, would hold that a "goy"
Michael Sieff, chairman, told the annual meeting this week . . .
Twenty-five books on Jewish themes have been translated into the is a "Jew." It may be difficult
Japanese language as a result of the growing interest of the to define who is a Jew, as was
Japanese intelligentsia in general subjects dealing with Judaism, demonstrated by the sharp dis-
it was reported from Tokyo. _ putation in Israel some years
VIENNA—Two Austrian students, Peter Porsche and Kuno ago, but it is quite easy to de-
Schroffel, were found guilty after a trial at Innsbruck for dese- termine wno is not a Jew. A
riIlitt main 'Prr1 Cli"
crating a Jewish cemetery there last November and were sen- ChriAian is not a Jew, nor is
tented each to eight months in prison. one who abandoned the Jewish
THIERS, West Germany—Dieter Otto, a 27-year-old German, fold for the Christian camp. The
was sentenced to jail for six months for shouting insults publicly Carmelite monk is a classic
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at a Jew. example of the man who wants
GENEVA—The World ORT Union reported here that there to eat the cake and have it too.
,1902- 4
is an urgent need for large apprenticeship centers in Israel's The question "who is a Jew"
principal urban areas if the country's manpower resources are is neither unique nor new. It has
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to be made adequate to meet the current rate of industrial been troubling Jewish scholars
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expansion of the country. over the centuries, particularly
BRUSSELS—Queen Elizabeth attended a gala evening Mon- where apostates were involved,
1956— ] .1i421]
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day at the Theatre Royal De La Monnaie, organized by Belgian and responsible literature is
friends of Youth Aliyah. marked by many inquiries about
the status of people claiming to
Israel
be Jews. The governing principle
JERUSALEM—Sweden's Prime Minister Tage Erlander ex- has always been that a Jew,
pressed the hope here at a State dinner in his honor that "the even if he sinned, still remained
recent liberalization of Israel's trade policy may result in in- a Jew, and was thus recognized
creased trade between the two countries." . . . Erlander also by the Jewish community. A
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invited Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to visit Sweden some- Jew's fringes were never to be
time this year . . . Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the examined to the end ofproving
Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, an- that he was a Jew. Neither
nounced here that he will meet next month with West Germany's atheist nor agnostic was ex-
Economics Minister, Ludwig Erhard, to discuss a Conference eluded from the klal, the Jewish
request that Germany add Jews who left eastern Europe after community, only the meshumed,
the restitution cut-off date of October, 1953, to the rolls of those the apostate, who could no longer
entitled to German compensation. be counted by reasons of his
TEL AVIV—Several policemen and a number of workers conversion.
were injured here in a clash which developed from a demon-
As far as Jews are concerned,
stration by Communist-inspired workers in protest against the the monk in Israel is among the
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decision by the Histadrut, Israel's Labor Federation, not to departed, and the departed have
demand immediate cost-of-living allowance increases. no need for visas.

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