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KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y.,
(JTA) — The president of the
Rabbinical Assembly urged the
Soviet Union to allow its Jewish
religious community to invite
synagogue leaders from the
United States to the USSR "in
the same official manner in which
the Russian Orthodox - Church is
carrying on a dialogue with its
counterpart in America, the Na-
tional Council of Churches."
The plea was contained in
Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow's presi-
dential report to the annual con-
vention of the Assembly, the in-
ternational organization of Con-
servative Rabbis.
Rabbi Sandrow revealed that
a subcommittee of the Synagogue
Council of America, the organiza-
tion representing all trends in
American Jewish religious life,
had had a meeting with the Coun-
sellor of the Soviet Embassy in
Washington last month, the up-
shot of which was a pro forma
denial of a "Jewish problem" in
the USSR.
"The whole meeting was a
frustrating experience to me,"
Rabbi Sandrow said. "Yet, it is
my feeling that the Soviet Union
seeks the goodwill and under-
standing of all groups in Amer-
ica, both religious and secular.
Reports have been published in
the press that the synagogues and
streets surrounding the syna-
gogues were filled on Passover.
Maybe the Soviet Union is un-
happy with those officials who,
in spite of a constitutional prohi-
bition against anti-Semitism, have
carried on an anti-Semitic cam-
paign against our people." He
then went on to ask for the invi-
tation to a "dialogue" between
Russian and American Jews.
The Assembly president
praised the Supreme Court's de-
cision on reapportionment as a
"landmark in the constitutional
history of America" and regretted
that it was not yet time to ap-
plaud a victory for the King-
Anderson medical bill for the
aged, or for a strong civil rights
measure.
Rabbi Sandrow delivered a
slashing attack on the "radical
right" movement of "pseudo-
patriots who have been attacking
the Supreme Court, the State
Department, universities, public
schools, trade unions and even
religious groups." He warned that
any minority can become "the
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Goldmann in Germany on Drafting of Claims
BONN (JTA) — Dr. Nahum elected chairman of the indemni-
Goldmann, chairman of the Con- fication committee in the Bunde-
ference on Jewish Material stag, the lower house of parlia-
easy target for the Birch Society, Claims Against Germany, this ment.
the White Citizens' Councils and week started his second round
of conversations on the drafting
other such groups."
Noting that the Union of of West Germany's final indemni-
Orthodox Jewish Congregations fication and restitution law,
had announced a campaign to aimed at including into the Ger-
help provide Jewish communities man aid categories many thou-
throughout the world with spiri- sands of Jewish victims of
tual and educational leaders, Rab- Nazism not covered under the
bi Sandrow recalled that on his current law.
Goldmann met with Chancellor
return from the Far East earlier
in the year, he had urged an end Adenauer, Finance Minister
to competition for the affiliation Heinz Starke, Minister of De-
of Jews in other countries to this fense Franz Joseph Strauss and
or that congregational or rabbini- Heinrich Krone, Minister With-
out Portfolio. He will also confer
cal organization.
He asked that the stress must wi Erich Mende, leader of the
Free
emocratic Party, a mem-
be "first on saving these , com-
munities for Judaism," and then ber of \ the coalition government
trying to "mold them in our here; and Marin Hirsch, newly
image." This call 'still holds," he
said, and "we sincerely hope that
it will meet with a response from
our sister organizations."
In another address, it was
charged that "tens of thousands
of American Jews are running
toward the synagogue, while rab-
bis and congregations are often
unprepared to cope with the phe-
nomenon," by Rabbi Wolfe Kel-
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The principal theme of this
year's convention was Jewish
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Conservative movement was ham-
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sions and several workshops de-
voted to the subject. A call for
an "extraordinary conference" of
all religious groups to deal with
the problem of Jewish education
in America went forth from the
convention.
According to Rabbi Sandrow,
many rabbis in the Conservative
movement are not enamored of
the present campaign to establish
a single educational formula for
the world. "Education cannot be
neutral," he said, "and any such
attempt would have to be a com-
promise of several trends of
Judaism, and therefore 'neutral.'
We want everyone to express his
point of view, and we will articu:,
late ours. What we want is our
chance to try to create our vision
of a human being alongside the
attempt by the Orthodox and Re-
form to do the same. Orthodox
Jews would run schools one way,
Reform Jews another, and we
still another, and no synthesis
could please any of us.
"We do not want to 'flatten
out' Jewish education. But this
must not be construed as mean-
ing that we do not want Jewish
unity. However, any attempts to
achieve a unified curriculum for
Jewish religious schools, to my
mind, is something less than dem-
ocratic. Each group must aspire
to its own goal. We must create
authentic Orthodox, Reform and
Conservative education."
It is known here that the Rab-
binical Assembly does not favor
the International Conference on
Jewish Education, sponsored by
the Conference of Jewish Organ-
izations, scheduled to be held in
Jerusalem in August.
Israel Government
Hikes Teacher Pay
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM—Israeli school
teachers were awarded a 3.4
per cent salary increase Tues-
day to bring to a close a dispute
which had led to several walk-
outs last year.
The teachers unions and the
government submitted the issue
for arbitration to Zeef Sharef,
a former government secretary
who is now on the board of
the Weizmann Institute.
Teachers in both elementary
and high schools now have re-
ceived pay increases similar to
those approved earlier in the
year for engineers and other
professionals who also struck in
their fight for higher salaries.
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5 - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, May 25, 1962
Moscow Urged to Permit Soviet Jews
to Invite U.S. Synagogue Leaders to Visit