Welcome toDetroit, •Jewis - h- War Veterans of the U.S.A. Detailed Convention Program on This Page . . . Editorial on Page 4 Declining JEWISH NE German Jewry and Nazi I=, ''"r" F 01 —r Symptoms A Weekly Review Editorial Page 4 Prayers — in Congress and in Schools: President Madison's Principles F—i I GA r ■ I of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. XLI, No 26 Prin ted in a 100% Union Shop 17100 W. 7 Mile Commentary Page 2 Rd. — VE 8-9364 — Detroit 35, August 24, 1962 $6.00 Per Year; Single Copy 20c Vatican Tells Israel Sabbath fixity Won't Be Affected by Proposed Reform of Calendar JERUSALEM, (JTA)—An assurance from the Vatican circles that the fixity of the Jewish Sabbath as the seventh day of the week would not be affected by the projected calendar reform which will be brought before the Ecumenical Council for discussion was received by the Israeli Com- mittee to Combat Calendar Reform. Only the coordination of the dates of the Catholic Easter and the Greek Orthodox Easter will be discussed by the Council, it was indicated. London Denies Use of Square for Anti-Fascist Public Daily (Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News) LONDON—The Minister of Public Works Tuesday turned down an application by the anti-fascist Yellow Star Movement to use Trafalgar Square for a public meeting on Sunday, Sept. 2. A Ministry spokesman said the application had been refused "for the same reasons as set out in a statement issued concerning meetings by the National Socialist Organization, Mosley's Union Movement and the British National Party." This said it was not desirable for the square to be used for controversial meetings at a time when London is full of visitors. The Yellow Star movement had planned to fly the Star of David in the square. At a meeting last Sunday, the decided that if their application was refused, protest meetings would group follow. The seven-week-old Yellow Star movement opposing anti-Semitism, fascism and other racist movements, decided at a rally here to launch a nationwide campaign for signatures to petition Parliament to enact legislation making public incitement to race hatred and discrimination an offense. The resolution, which will be submitted to Home Secretary Henry Brooke, declares that incitement to hatred between racial groups "leads to humiliation and violence, loss of liberty and even life." The Yellow Star organization, whose name is derived from the emblem which Jews were required to wear under the Nazis, was established in East London this summer by the Rev. William Sargent who witnessed from a nearby church a meeting in Trafalgar Square sponsored by Colin Jordan's National Socialist movement. As part of the campaign for anti-racist legislation, the Yellow Star movement is seeking permission to hold a meeting in Trafalgar Square Sept. 1 under the slogan: "Racial Hate—No: Human Brotherhood—Yes." (Continued on Page 6) The projected World Calendar, which is to be discussed by the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican in October, had originally envisaged a 13-month year, each month with four weeks and with one "world day" year, which would not have been reckoned as an ordinary day of each the week. As a result of the extra day, the Jewish Sabbath. recurring every seven days, would after one year occur on a Friday, and in subsequent years fall one day earlier. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel. concerned with the effect that this would have on the observance of the traditional seventh day as the Jewish day of rest, set up a special committee enjoined to combat any reform The of the calendar which might tend to alter the fixity of the Sabbath. technical expert was a Jerusalemite, Zvi Wahl, an authority on the Julian, Gregorian, Moslem and Hebrew calendars who submitted alterna- tive proposals to the Ecumenial Council and to the United Nations. His proposals would achieve' a universal calendar without affecting the fixity of the Sabbath. He provided the Vatican with a detailed table for a permanent Easter which could be celebrated universally by all the churches. According to advice received by the Israeli Committee to Combat Calendar Reform, the Greek Orthodox (Pravoslav) Church has agreed to accept a fixed date for Easter in accordance with the recommenda- tions of the Ecumenical Council. Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim of Israel appealed to the Vatican to refrain Chief from recommending the adoption by the forthcoming Ecumenical Council of calendar reform. Thousands of Jewish War Veterans Convene • Here Next Week for 67th Annual Convention Several thousand men and - women, members of 700 Jewish War Veterans Posts and Auxiliaries functioning iri nearly all the States in the Union, will converge into Detroit, starting on Sunday, for a full week's sessions of the JWV 67th annual national convention. Lawrence Gubow, U.S. Attorney, president of the JWV Convention Corporation, who made known the convention program, announced that registration will commence Sunday at the Sheraton Cadillac Hotel, and that the formal opening of the convention will take place Wednes- day, at the Sheraton Cadillac, where a joint session of the 67th annual convention of the JWV and the 35th annual convention of the JWV Ladies Auxiliary will take place. The keynote address at the opening session will be delivered by Michigan's Governor John B. Swainson. Speakers at the opening session, in addition to Gubow, will include the national commander, Theodore Brooks; the head of the national auxiliaries, Mrs. Miriam Shor; (Continued on Page 3) JWV Convention Speakers: The Jewish War Veterans' convention state and local speakers, including, from the left: Governor ns will be add ressed sessio John B. Swainson; U.S. Attorney Lawrence Gubow , president by prominent nat ional, JWV convention corporation; of the 67th national Mayor Cavanagh; Senator Philip A. Hart; Lewis Weinstein, chairman of the National Community Relations Advisory Council, and National JWV Jerome Commander Theodore Brooks.