BY HENRY LEONARD

"I'm sorry, Rabbi Nubkin. I can't come to services
tonight . it's the only time we could find for
our temple board meeting."

Copt. 1962, Dayenu Productions

Bibliophile Gives Earliest Printed
`Zohar' to Brandeis University Library

LONDON, (JTA)—The British
Poale Zion party called on the
Soviet authorities to allow Rus-
sion Jews the freedom to main-
tain contact with Jews in other
lands and to facilitate the re-
union of Jewish families.
The resolution on Soviet
Jewry was adopted at the clos-
ing session of a two-day confer-
ence of the party here attended
by some 215 delegates. Other
resolutions appealed for labor
union in Israel and called for
controlled disarmament in the
Middle East.
Israel Ambassador Arthur
Lourie told the delegates that
while "it may be true that Is-
rael was now becoming indus-
trialized and has acquired some
of the less attractive features
of the affluent society," there
is, nevertheless, "a spirit of
pioneering and sacrifice and
this spirit is best manifested in
the towns and villages of the
Negev."
Ainong the leading British
personalities who addressed the
conference were George Wood-
cock. general secretary of the
Trade Union Congress, and
Tom Williams, _secretary of the
Labor Party.

which will be mounted as a per-
manent display here at the uni- SvrRciise University
versity's Golding Judaic Center. Gets $50.000 Gift
The "tree" is made up of seven
sections, mounted in oak-framed for Judaic Studies
panels, expounding the various,
SYRACUSE, N. Y., JTA) —
principles of Cabalistic theory The first lectureship in Judaic
and their inter-relationships.
Studies at Syracuse University
here has been established under
a $50,000 grant from Bernard G.
Canada Blue Law
Rudolph, a leader of the Jewish
community, t h e institution's
Hit as Violation of
Chancellor, William P. Tolley,
announced.
Religious Freedom
The lectureship, under the
OTTAWA, (JTA) —A case
affecting all Sabbatarians in Can- supervision of the university's
ada, involving claims that the department of religion, will
present Federal Blue Laws vio- launch the new program next
late the Bill of Rights guarantee- month with an address by Dr.
ing freedom of religion, was Moshe Davis, provost of the
taken under advisement here by Jewish Theological Seminary of
America.
the Supreme Court of Canada.
Rudolph, in whose name the
The immediate issue con-
cerned an appeal by two bowling lectureship will be known, is a
alley operators in Ontario who founder and president of the
had been fined $25 each for Syracuse Jewish Welfare Fed-
operating their establishments on eration, and has been active in
Sunday in violation of the Lord's numerous other philanthropies
Day Act. John J. Robinette, here holding, among other posts,
their attorney, told the High the chairmanship of the local
Court that the act imposes a United Jewish Appeal.
Christian religious observance on
all Canadians, whether or not Histadrut Executive
they are Christians. He main- Promises Clampdown
tained the act violated the reli-
gious freedom clause of the Bill on Wildcat Strikes
NEW YORK (JTA) — Aharon
of Rights.
W. C. Bowman, counsel for B e c k e r, secretary-general of
the Province of Ontario, argued Histadrut, Israel's Federation
that the Lord's Day Act was not of Labor, said "Histadrut would
aimed solely at the observance not allow any further increases
YstaEL
gtonz
of the Christian Sabbath on Sun- in Israeli workers' cu r re n t
day, but established a day of rest standard of living, but would
for all Canadians. Jews and other fight every effort to lower that
Sabbatarians in Canada are standard."
awaiting the High Court's de-
Noting that Israeli workers
as only gtand ktoduazd and tottl,cl cision with great interest.
have tripled their standard of
In 9arinEd cRIflon-tx-21on
living since independence 15
Two Jews Sentenced years ago, Becker said he op-
A LARGE
posed further increases, "in the
VARIETY OF
to Death in Russia
light of the , current economic
WINES
on Thievery' Charge struggle of our country."
Becker is in the United
and
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Two
States at the invitation of AFL-
more
Soviet
Jews
have
been
CHAMPAGNES
condemned to death in another CIO President George Meany.
TO SUIT
mass trial of so-called economic He made his statements in a
EVERY TASTE
criminals, this time in the radio interview here. Refer-
Ukrainian city of Ivanov- ring to recent wildcat strikes
CONCORD and
Frankovsk, according to the of- in Israel, he said that these
MALAGA also in
ficial organ of the Ukrainian will not be tolerated in the
GALLONS AND
future.
Communist Party.
HALF GALLONS
The r e p or t, appearing in
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"Pravda Ukrainy," published in Torah Fund Fete Planned
Kiev on Feb. 21, told of a trial
The National Benefactors So-
The Gift of Gifts
in which "several workers • in ciety of Torah Fund will hold
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a meat cooperative were con- its annual community leader-
victed of speculation and thiev- ship award luncheon at the
Certified strictly
ery." The newspaper named Americana, New York, March
' Kosher by the Chief
two of the convicted men, 28. Mrs. Pearl Krauss of Forest
Rabbinate of Israel
stressing the death sentences Hills, New York, will be lunch-
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WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA)-
The earliest known printed edi-
tion, of the "Zohar," classical
Cabalistic book on Jewish mys-
ticism, has been given to Bran-
deis University's Goldfarb Li-
brary by Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Spertus of Highland Park, Ill.
The Morocco - bound volume,
printed in Mantua, Italy, is of
considerable value.
Mr. and Mrs. Spertus also in-
cluded several other manu-
scripts of exceptional value dat-
ing from the 17th and 18th cen-
tturies. These include Hebrew
manuscripts, prayers written in
Palestine in 1790, scrolls writ-
ten about 1700, a Talmud print-
ed in Amsterdam about 1724,
occasional prayers printed in
Venice about 1795, and a
Hebrew manuscript, "Y a s hir
Moshe," copied in 1671.
Spertus, who is a member of
the Council of Bibliophiles of
Brandeis, has given the univer-
sity more than 1,400 volumes
from his personal collection of
standard Judaica and H_ebraica.
Among the Spertus gifts to
Brandeis is a Cabalistic "tree,"

Jewish Agency Will Streamline Handling
of Influx of Immigrants to Israel

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Jewish A g e n c y moved to
streamline the handling of im-
migration from the free coun-
tries of the world.
The Agency set up machin-
ery to coordinate. the activities
of its own immigration depart-
ment; PATWA, the organiza-
tion handling the immigration
of professional and technical
v.forkers; the economic depart-
ment and the absorption de-
partment.
The new setup was described
as the first step toward the
establishment of a coordinated
agency to handle immigration
from free countries.
Except in the United States,
a "chief emissary" will direct
and coordinate the activities of
the representatives of these de-
partments. In the U.S.A., this
function will be exercised by
the American branch of the
Jewish Agency. In Israel, the
absorption of these immigrants
will be the function of the Jew-
ish Agency's absorption depart-
ment. On the government side,
these activities will be concen-
trated in the Ministry of Corn-
mercy and Industry.
* *
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—M o s h e
Sharett, chairman of the Jew-

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delegates attending the 12th
national conference of the or-
ganization, Sharett noted that
the rate of immigration into
Israel was steadily rising. He
said the newcomers should be
received with open arms be-
cause they not only increase
the strength of the country but
also widen its economic and
cultural base.

First Prague Jewish M.D.
Abraham Kisch, an 18th cen-
tury Jewish physician in Prague,
through a special privilege ex-
tended him by Frederick the
Great of Prussia, became the
first Prague Jew to receive a
medical degree at a German uni-
versity when he received his
M. D. degree from the Uni-
versity of Halle in 1749.

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Urges Russia Allow
Jews Contact Others