NEW YORK (JTA)—Reports
that the central synagogue of
Moscow, largest and most impor-
tant Jewish house of worship in
the Soviet Union, was stoned on
the first day of Rosh Hashanah,
while High Holy Day services
were in progress before a con-
gregation crowded beyond ca-
pacity, were confirmed by highly
reliable sources. The Jewish
Daily Forward first reported the
occurrence.
. According to reports, Moscow's
central synagogue was jammed
with worshipers, while an over-
flow crowd of hundreds of other
Jews milled in the street outside
the edifice, when suddenly a hail
of stones smashed through sev-
eral windows, shattering the
glass and showering the worship-
ers with broken splinters of
glass.
Services were being conduct.
ed at the moment by Moscow's
Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Lev-
in. Shocked by the stoning,
members of the congregation
were thrown into panic, many
of the Jews running for the
exit doors. However, those who
were trying to leave found
themselves halted by the
crowds on the outside.
The reports pointed out that
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none of the Soviet militia was
on duty at or around the syna-
gogue at the time the attack took
place. Usually, there are militia
men on duty in front of the syna-
gogue on Jewish holidays.
There were no reports of in-
juries resulting from the attack
and the subsequent panic, how-
ever. The reports did state that
no one was arrested and that no
mention of the entire occurrence
has been made to date either in
the Soviet press or on the Soviet_
radio.
The reports on the violence
occurring on Rosh Hashanah in
the synagogue were coupled
with an interview given by
Chief Rabbi Levin to the Mos-
cow correspondent of the New
York Times from which it
could be seen that Jewish re-
ligious leaders in the Soviet
capital are nervous about what
may happen to their syna-
gogue.
The Chief Rabbi told the cor-
respondent that the practice of
Jewish tourists and Israeli Em-
bassy personnel of leaving reli-
gious articles in the synagogue
"was being utilized by black-
marketeers" mainly as Georgian
TEL AVIV — Chief of Staff Zvi Tzur has disclosed that the
Army- is forming new units to handle military technologies
hitherto unknown in Israel . . . Joseph Meyerhoff, president of
the PEC Israel Economic Corporation, said that the sale of Israeli
securities in the United States would help to provide the capital
which Israel industry needs to compete in world markets.
JERUSALEM—A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said Jews.
One such attack appeared in
the Ministry was considering steps to tighten the Law of Return
in view of the large number of Jews fleeing :to Israel to escape the Moscow newspaper Trud
which charged that the syna-
arrest for trial abroad.
gogue was being used by Israeli
United States
diplomats to distribute Zionist
NEW YORK—The largest turnout in the history of Wilden- literature and to gather "espion-
stein Gallery attended the opening last week of the first United age and other slanderous infor-
States showing in nine years of the paintings of Reuven Rubin, mation."
In his New York Times inter-
noted Israeli painter . .. The Philanthropic Fund of the Ameri-
can Council for Judaism has allocated $68,000 this year for aid view, in Yiddish, the Chief Rabbi
to the Jewish refugees from Algeria now living in France . . . denied there had been a threat
An exceptionally wide range of export and investment oppor- to close the synagogue because
tunities exist in Israel, it was reported here by members of a of such activities, but he added
United States trade mission who returned from a visit to Israel that the congregation was expect-
sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce . . . A dis- ed by the government to adhere
certain standards of behavior
tinguished audience of top Jewish leaders attended a memorial to
not to permit black-market
gathering, addressed by Israel Foreign Minister Mrs. Golda Meir, and
activities and other such prac-
for Dr. Giora Josephtal, Israel's late Minister of Development tices as marriage matchmaking.
and Housing, who died this past summer in Switzerland . .. A
Matchmaking still survives to
collective memorial service honoring the thousands of men and some extent in certain social
women who have left legacies totaling $30,000,000 during the groups of the Soviet Union. It is
past 45 years was held by the Federation of Jewish Philan- frowned upon ideologically. Rab-
thropies.
bi Levin said that two weeks ago
the president of the congregation,
India
Naum
Paler, warned the mem-
NEW DELHI — - The government of India has accepted an bership S. against
such activities.
Israeli offer of scholarships for post-graduate study and research
Rabbi Levin told the Times
in soil science for the 1962-63 academic year by sending two correspondent that 300 Jews
Indian students to go to Israel under the scholarship program. attend daily services at the
Moscow synagogue, on Sabbath
Europe
their number reaches up to
BRUSSELS — Israel Ambassador Amiel Najar conferred 1,000 while on the High Holy
with Professor Walter Halstein, president of the Commission of Days the worshipers overflow
the European Economic Community, in connection with the into the street: He asserted
recent decision of the EEC Council of Ministers to open negotia- that the financial condition of
tions with Israel for some type of trade ties with the six nations his congregation is "good" and
of Euromart.
explained that the financing
BERLIN—A mixed German Jewish and non-Jewish audience of the synagogue comes from
greeted with applause and laughter the opening of the first Ger- private contributions.
Moscow was reported in the
man performance of "The Tenth Man," which deals with syna-
gogue patterns in the United States and is being presented in 1959 census as having a Jewish
the Berliner Theater as an American contribution to the 12th population of 236,000. In addi:
tion to the central synagogue,
annual Culural Festival in West Berlin.
Moscow has a "prayer room" in
MILAN—Police here are searching for clues to the identity of the Maryina Roshcha district of
vandals who . smeared a Milan synagogue with swastikas on the the city and one in the district
first night of the Jewish New Year. •
of Cherkizovo. Also a small syn-
FRANKFURT—Arrested in Hoff where he was working in a agogue at Malakhovka, a suburb
factory, Josef Erber, 65, is awaiting trial here on charges that on the eastern outskirts of the
he was a Nazi SS sergeant who made the "selections" for the city.
Auschwitz gas chambers.
The Malakhovka synagogue had
been burned down by arsonists
in 1959, on the evening of Rosh
Israel Consul in Chicago Announces Hashanah,
resulting in the death
of the sexton's wife. No one had
Start of Hebrew Ulpanim in Midwest ever been reported arrested as
a result of the Malakhovka oc-
The Consulate General of Is- attended by 45 Hebrew teachers. currence.
rael in Chicago announced that
The first classes for inten-
Rabbi Levin was asked by the
the midwest is to have its first sive study of Hebrew will open interviewer about the status of
H e b r e w Ulpan in the near Oct. 15 on the northside of Chi- the yeshiva which he has been
future, under joint sponsorship cago at Cong. Ezras Israel and conducting in a room at the syn-
with the American Zionist Coun- on the southside, at the Smith agogue. The rabbi reportedly said
cil and the Jewish Agency.
Side Hebrew Congregation.
he has six students at the ye-
Prof. Aharon Rosen of the
Enrollment is proceeding at shiva now and that he had hoped
Hebrew • University has com- the Consulate General of Israel to enroll eight or nine more from
pleted a seminar on adult He- and at the office of the Jewish out of town, but the lack of hous-
brew teaching, held at the Loop Agency and the American ing in Moscow had made this
Synagogue, Chicago, which was Zionist Council.
• impossible thus far.
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Moscow Synagogue Attacked During
Services; Worshipers Are Panicked