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Bnai Brith Convention States Position
on Rights, Bias, Emigration, Education

111 Verdict on Eichmann's Appeal
for Life Will Be Given. May 29

WA S H I N G T O N, (JTA)— fields of education, employment lectual and spiritual problems
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
Resolutions calling on the Ad- and housing. He urged new re- of our day," makes "outmoded"
JERUSALEM—The reading of the judgment
ministration to press for ratifi- search and investigations in all the traditional concept of Jew-
by the Israel Supreme Court on the appeal by Nazi Hi
cation by the United States Sen- these areas. in addition to "new ish education "as an automatic
Adolf Eichmann from his death sentence will take
ate of the International Geno- civil rights legislation and sub- transmission of the total Jew-
place on May 29, it was officially announced here
cide Convention. and asking the stantial educational programs ish heritage."
Tuesday.
West German government to to arouse community action."
But despite these changes, the
Dr. Robert Servatius, the West German attor-
"make full compensation" to
A call for "accelerated ef- report held, the department re-
Bnai Brith for the full amount
ney
who
has been the former Gestapo Colonel's ill
of 4,000,000 Deutschmarks ($1,- forts" in the area' of adult Jew- jects "the cliche that apathy
chief defense counsel, is scheduled to come to Israel
education, with de-emphasis and indifference towards Juda-
250,000) still due and owing,
on May 27 in preparation for the reading. If the
" growing parochialism" ism and Jewish issues character-
were adopted here by the tri- on
z ennial
Appeals Tribunal upholds the Jerusalem ,District
convention of Bnai Brith. within the American Jewish ize the vast majority of Ameri-
Court judgment and verdict of death by hanging,
Pointing out that "over 60 community. was sounded here can Jews.”
Servatius is expected to make one final move for
Rabbi Morris Adler, spiritual
countries of the world have al- in a report by the organization's
his client—an appeal for clemency to President
ready ratified and subscribed to Department of Adult Jewish leader of Cong. Shaarey Zedek,
ti
Itzhak Ben-Zvi.
the Genocide Convention," the Education. T h e department addressed thg delegates at a
Eichmann, whose capture and presence in an
resoluton on that subject said pledged to conduct its programs pre-convention Sabbath seminar
O
that U.S. failures to do so "ad- in a manner designed "to ex- last week. He said that Ameri-
Israel jail cell was disclosed on May 23, 1960, was
pose
the
Jewish
adult
to
the
versely affects America's moral
can Jews could become victims Hi placed on trial in April of last year on charges of
leadership in the democratic many options for living as a Jew of their own success, with the
having had a key role in the Nazi wartime slaughter Hi
in a dynamic society."
world."
threat of the loss of a "tremen-
of six million European Jewish men, women and
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"Our
goal,"
the
report
stat-
dous amount of Jewish social
In its request for German
children.
The trial lasted until August.
ed,
"is
not
to
'hard
sell'
any
idealism which they had at-
restitution payments, the resolu-
The three-man court which heard the long trial
particular brand of Judaism, tained as a marginal group in
tion approved by the 1,200 dele-
found Eichmann guilty on Dec. 15 and imposed sen-
or to claim primacy for any
the 1920's and 1930's."
gates pointed out that half of
tence the same day. Servatius filed notice of appeal
Rabbi Adler also said that
the amount originally agreed interpretation or institution
and a special tribunal of five Supreme Court justices
upon, totaling 10,000,000 of Judaism, but rather to de-
the synagogue "is in danger
began hearing the appeal on March 22.
Deutschemarks, has been paid, velop a thoughtful, literate
of taking on the character of
community." The department
but that the balance—due to
a social and communal insti-
Informed sources said Wednesday that the
be paid by March 31, 1962—is said its approach is "guided
tution, muting religious motif iii reading on May 29 by the Israeli Supreme Court of
by the fact that Jewish his-
past due.
and content." He pointed to iii its judgment on the appeal by Eichmann will be i!!
the development of teachers iii completed on that day.
The resolution said that, if tory has been shaped by
iii
and scholars and Jewish edu
necessary, the German govern- scholars and leaders ranging
The judgment, reportedly '70 pages in length, iii Hi
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cation as the solution.
ment should "amend the Fed- from ultra-Orthodox to secu-
iii required six weeks to write.
eral Restitution Law to require larists."
On internal matters. Katz re ,,,
The law does not specify any time limit for
Describing "a new breed" of ported that Bnai Brith "had , :
payment in full to all non-profit
organizations like Bnai Brith American Jew, which it charac- budgeted and spent" $20 mil ...
E:: : an appeal to President Ben - Zvi.
The President is expected to study the bulky
serving charitable purposes." terized as ."native-born, often a lion on its programs and activi-
In other resolutions: The third or fourth generation ties during the past . three years, pi files of the celebrated case and make his decision.
American, college-educated, and and predicted that the organiza ttl If that decision is against clemency he will so inform
United Nations Commission
on Human Rights was com- at ease in his American envir- tiorl's continuing growth in iii the Justice Minister who will then prepare a written Hs
mended for adopting at its onment." the report said that membership and its "unmet iii statement of annroval for the carrying out of the
1962 session a resolution call-
the concept of Jewish educa- I backlog of demands" would •
death sentence. The Police Minister will fix the iii
tion for this group "which is in I cause the figure to rise to $40 iii date for the execution.
ing upon all governments to
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form national advisory com- search of answers to the intel- ! million within 10 years.
mittees on human rights to
assist in combating "various
forms of bigotry and discrim-
ination based upon such
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
concern "into Jewish problems" great psychological and educa-
grounds as religion, race, or
The chief prosecutor of the
to The Jewish News)
national origin."
WASHINGTON — An appeal on the part of all world Jewry. tional imp ort. Once it is de- Eichmann trial who came to
"We must look for proper Glared that it is a universal Washington for the major ad-
The United States was called to U.S. Jewry for "a supreme
upon to demonstrate "its moral effort to secure the existence" solutions; we must strengthen crime to commit, conspire or dress to the Bnai Brith tri-
leadership in the struggle, of Israel as an implementation our Jewish education. "In other incite acts which may cause ennial convention told a pre-
against discrimination in gen- , of "the desire" cf the six mil- words," he said, "we must be serious bodily or mental harm banquet session with reporters
even better Jews than we are. to innocent people of a certain that he continues to receive fan
eral, by acceding to the
lion Jews
dered during This is . the testament of those racial religious or national mail from German citizens. The
UNESCO convention which'
Nazi era was who departed. This is what they group, another step in the right letters, he said, range the full
bans any form of religious, ra-
cial or ethnic discrimination."
sounded here would have willed us had they direction will have been taken," scale of emotions and opinions
he said.
Tuesday night been able to say so."
from those who say they were
All governments were urged ,
Hausner declared that the
by Israel At-
Some 60 nations have ratified unaware of Hitler's reign of
"to recognize the principle that
world
must
be
on
constant
„,poior
torney
Gen-
e
the genocide convention and terror against Jews and are
stateless persons should be
i al Gideon alert against a resurgence of Israel is only one of three now ashamed of those actions
granted the nationality of the
the
anti-Semitic
terror
which
Hausner
in
nations
which has given it , to those who villify him per-
country of ther residence and
t h e principal stalked Europe under Hitler. added emphasis by enacting 1 sonally as well as all Jews.
prescribe standards for' -,reduc-
address to "Hatred must be faced and domestic legislation
tion of future statelessness."
He quoted a letter which said
nicre than combatted," he said. "Wher-
A residue of hatred for that a monument to Hitler
On another matter, conven-
ever we recognize the well-
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dele-
tion delegates endorsed the
Jews still remains in Ger- should be erected "because he
gates and known signs of anti-Semitism,
call often made by Label A.
many, Israel Attorney Gen- at least tried to exterminate
of prejudice, of the denial of
guests
at
Bnai
eral Gideon Hausner implied the Jews. - The letter writer
Katz. national president, for
a common obligation between
Hausner
Brith's
trien-
"unity in the Jewish eommun- .
at a news conference Tues- also expressed the hope that
one human being and others
ity." They voted to continue , n i a 1 convention banquet .
day night.
"Nasser will finish the job."
they must be denounced and
Avoiding any direct refer-
the organization's participation 1
fought."
in various "consultative and co-lence to the Eichmann trial in
The Israeli Attorney General
ordinating assemblies created' which he served as chief prose-
within the Jewish community." tutor. Hausner, a surprise said that adoption and imple-
Also ratified was Katz's ap- I speaker whose appearance was mentation of the International
peal to explore further means not previously announced, said Genocide Conventilon by the
toward collaborative activity of that the moral to be learned nations of the world would go
this character." Bnai Brith is from the Nazi holocaust is that a long way towards assuring a
a constituent of the World Con- "every surviving Jew has now barrier to the rise of a news"
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Hitler—although be conceded
fe•ence of Jewish Organizations, to do for his people not only
that "such laws will not by
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what
he
would
have
done
any-
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and of the Conference of Presi-
themselves save us from evil.
dents of Major American Jew- way, but more."
"They will, however, be of
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•Di'S trDPP
Included in the audience
ish Organizations.
The delegates and guests which heard Hausner paint a
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attending the convention also dramatic and moving picture of Hebrew Corner:
heard Henry Edward Schultz Nazi cruelty were government
of New York, chairman of the officials, members of Congress Beth Alpha Synagogue
In the ancient synagogue of Beth
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Bnai Brith Anti - Defamation and representatives of the dip- Alpha,
in the Valley of Jezreel, no
lomatic corps.
League, report that exposure
prayers are offered today. But it was
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The Israeli official asserted in existence in the fifth century.
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of discriminatory practices in
when the country was ruled by the
that the Hitlerian terror had Byzantines.
certain resort hotels has re-
left world Jewry "crippled"
In 1928 members of Kibbutz Beth
sulted "in more and more
revealed the walls of the an-
and he said that to assure Alpha
trade and professional asso-
cient synagogue while digging in the
continuance
of
its
existence
ground.
They continued to dig with
ciations taking a stand against
and also uncovered the floor
"we must make up for the caution,
meeting at such hotels." He
of the synagogue, made of large
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cataclysmic losses in man- mosaic work and in it many pictures,
said a similar exposure of real
made of very small stones.
power and spiritual values.
estate owners and agents who
In the mosaic work we find figures
Asserting that Israel offered of vessels of the Temple, a shofar,
engage in discriminatory prac-
candlestick, palm branches and also
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tices has led to numerous the basis for such hope, he lions, twelve constellations with the
asked for "a supreme effort to
of our months. and also a
corrections of these abuses. secure its existence to insure names
picture depicting the tying to the
Benjamin R. Epstein, national
altar of our Father Isaac and the
its development so that it will angel calling "Lay
not thine hand
director of the ADL, reported be able to implement the hopes apes
the lad."
that studies during the last dec- which hinge upon it."
In this synagogue there was a place
where the rich threw money and the
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ade "have made clear that dis-
Said Hausner: "We shall poor took the money from it. But, so
crimination against Jews has surely thereby implement the as not to know who was the poor
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person,
only
one
person
could
ap-
become institutionalized and desire of those six million who proach the place, and then they could
virtually a built-in part of mod- had constantly prayed and not know whether he was taking
from the place or putting
ern American living." He said yearned for the state but never money
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money there. In this manner they
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cared for the honor of the poor.
this was true of many areas of lived to see it."
of this column published
social life, as well as in the
He called also for greater Translation
by Brith Ivrith Olamith, Jerusalem.

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