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Campaign Closes May 181
Allied Jewish

Irving Kane Guest Speaker at Victory Celebration Dinner

With Irving Kane, of Cleveland, president of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, as guest
speaker, the 1962 Allied Jewish Campaign will come to a close next Wednesday, at the traditional community victory
dinner at the Jewish Center.
To assure the campaign's success, the 3,000 campaign workers are contacting, during the remaining days, the
last of the 26,000 contributors so that every Detroit Jew who is in position to share in the great humanitarian efforts
of the current drive should be counted among the participants in efforts in behalf of more than 50 local, national and
overseas
causes.
Paul
Zuckerman, campaign chairman, expressed the appreciation of the officers of the drive that the distinguished
president of the Council of Federations has accepted this community's invitation to speak at the victory dinner on May 2.
Final reports on campaign activities will be submitted at Wednesday's dinner by heads of the divisions that have
been active enrolling participants in the major Detroit Jewish community philanthropic effort.
Kane said he was "privileged to speak in a community that has contributed so significantly to the success of
CJFWF programs." Kane has been called a "lawyer-businessman who is one of the leading Jews in America," in an

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Algerian Provisional Govt.
Denies Anti-Israel Threats

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

All Israeli Faiths . Mark
Passover, Easter: 15,000
Join March to Mt. Zion

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Some 15,000 Israelis and tourists
participated in one of the most colorful phases of Israel's
Passover celebration, when they marched to joyful music from
the Jerusalem railway station to Mount Zion.
The parade started at the depot, where special trains
brought many pilgrims from all parts of Israel. As youth bands
struck up the music, bearded old men wearing the traditional
hassidic garb mingled with young boys and girls in sports club
gear, while tourists joined, clad in their usual gay costumes.
The parade led up Mount Zion, where all looked across the
Jordanian lines for a glimpse of the distant Wailing Wall,
in the Old section of Jerusalem.
The Mandelbaum Gate, crossing point from Jerusalem
into the Old City under Jordanian jurisdiction, was the scene
of other activities. Hundreds of Christians crossed into the
Old City to celebrate Easter.
In other narts of Israel, in all Arab towns and villages,
a third celebration was under way. For the first time in eight
years, the Day of Nebi Musa—birthday of Mohammed—fell on
Easter Sunday during the Hebrew Passover. Thus, three
major religious communities in Israel were celebrating their
holidays simultaneously.
The Greek Orthodox community marked Palm Sunday.
Private sedorim were held in homes everywhere. Impro-
vised festivals were held in kibbutzim and other collectives
which were hosts to many of the thousands of visitors who
streamed into Israel for the holiday. as well as to foreign
diplomats stationed in Israel.
The Ghanaian Ambassador and his embassy staff were
guests at Kibbutz Einat near Petach Tikvah. Visitors and
officials from Niger, the Ivory Coast, France and Tanganyika
were guests of Deputy Defense Minister Shimon Peres.
Tel Aviv Chief Rabbi Isar Y. Untermann, who officiated
at the ZOA House, set aside a special matzoh for the Jews of
the Soviet Union. Prayers for Russian Jewry, barred by Soviet
officials from being able to purchase matzoh this year, were
included in Passover eve services in many synagogues attended
by thousands of worshipers. A special additional plate of matzoh
also was set at the Second Seder at Hamlin House, with Isaac
Hamlin presiding, as well as at other sedorim, as a mark of
sympathy for Russian Jewry.
The Army had its sedorim at various places. The central
seder was held with Army Chief Chaplain Shlomo Goren
officiating. Chief of Staff Zvi Tsur and other officers, as well
as hundreds of servicemen, took part. Children of the officers
asked the "four questions" and received gifts.
Authorities meanwhile opened an investigation to deter-
mine the reasons for a sudden shortage of matzoh, developing
on the eve of the holiday. A Commerce Ministry spokesman
said that demand had been lagging until shoppers suddenly
swamped stores with a last-minute rush to buy. The Chief
Rabbinate gave special permission to bakeries to operate
during the intermediate days of the holiday, to provide suffi-
cient additional matzoh for the remainder of Passover.
The key question under investigation will be whether
distribution of matzoh is more effective when bakers are
organized in a combine, to assure nationwide planned produc-
tion. Such a combine was approved last year, but this year the
matzoh bakers withdrew their request for authorization to set

up such a combine for this Passover.

PARIS—The provisional government of Algeria denied Tuesday that it plans
to play a militant anti-Israeli role, expressing "doubt" about a statement attributed
to Provisional Vice Premier Mohammed Ben Bella who has been quoted as saying that
independent Algeria would contribute 100,000 soldiers to the Arab battle against
Israel.
Ben Bella was quoted two weeks ago by the Mideast News Agency of Cairo as
having made such a statement while in the capital of the United Arab Republic. But
Mohammed Yazid, Minister of Information in the Algerian provisional government,
denied Tuesday at Tunis that the Vice Premier had been quoted correctly.
Yazid told newsmen at Tunis that a "certain press" is conducting a campaign
to "create a myth of division in our ranks." Castigating such efforts without naming the
semi-official Cairo agency that had quoted Ben Bella, Yazid said: "Theories have been
built on propositions attributed to Mr. Ben Bella that he has never made."
In the report from Cairo by the Mideast News Agency, Ben Bella was quoted
as allegedly saying that "a Palestinian liberation army should be formed to act as an
avant garde for the Arab liberation of Palestine." The agency attributed to him also a
statement in which he had purportedly said that if given the opportunity he would be
"one of those Arab soldiers who will effectively participate in the liberation of
Palestine."
Yazid, however, has now indicated that Ben Bella could not have made such
statements because they fall outside the "collegial responsibility" imposed on
members of the provisional governments cabinet. The alleged Ben Bella statement had
evoked considerable anxiety here both in French circles and among Jewish
leadership.
(The JTA reports from Jerusalem that a request to extend aid for they
resettlement of Algerian refugees, most of whom are now in Morocco and Tunisia. has
been received by the Israel government from the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees. in Geneva. Israel, which holds membership on the Commission's
25-nation executive committee, was one of several countries to have received
the request.)

Protestant Literature
Reportedly Lessening
Anti-Jewish Comments

Syria Issues
New Threats
Against Israel

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A decline in the
number of negative references to Jews in
Protestant Sunday School texts was reported
in a study being conducted by the Union
Theological Seminary here.
The study found that, with few exceptions.
Jews were more advantageously presented by
Protestant educators now - than were other
religious groups.
Dr. Bernhard E. Olson, who had initiated
the study at Yale University, and who is con-
tinuing the investigation at the Seminary, said
that this does not mean that all Protestant
denominations present Jews and Judaism in a
favorable light. The lessons of many conserva-
tive Fundamentalist groups that refer to Jews
could be rated negatively, he declared.
Citing the frequent charge that the seeds
of anti-Semitism might possibly exist in the
Christian message, especially if it is carelessly
presented, Dr. Olson explained that religious
texts sometimes give the "simplistic" idea that
the "Jews killed Christ," without regard to the
Roman role in the crucifixion or the fact that

Direct JTA Teletype Wires to Jewish News
LONDON, (JTA)—A strongly hostile anti-
Israel declaration was issued in Damascus by
the Syrian provisional government. calling for
the "creation of a coherent Arab nation" to fight
Israel. "This should be our first task," the
declaration stated, according to a cable from
Damascus published here.
"It is essential," the declaration continued,
"to mobilize the intellectual and social powers
of Palestinians, and put before them their re-
sponsibilities toward the Arab cause." The

Jesus was

a Jew.

Syrian government asserted that "a new start"
must be made toward "Arab unity," hinting at

a possible rapprochement between Syria and
the United Arab Republic.
At the same time, a Syrian radio broad-
cast reported that Syria is slated to get a new
shipment of Soviet arms. The broadcast said that
the new arms agreement was reached during
a recent visit to Moscow by a Syrian delegation.
A conference at which "all aspects of the
Palestine problem" will be discussed, evidently
aimed at an effort to coordinate common poll-

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