BRIGHTON, Mass., (JTA)- The Jews of Russia were de- scribed as living "in a spiritual prison and in a cultural wilder- ness" by an American rabbi who recently returned from a visit to European Jewish com- munities. Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow, ad- ministrative vice-president of the Zionist Organization of America, also reported that most Jews of Bulgaria had left for Israel, and that there were only 20,000 Jews left in Poland of a pre-Hitler population of 3,500,000 Jews. The rabbi is the spiritual leader of Temple Bnai Moshe here. Rabbi Shubow said that the religious life he found among the Jews of Kiev and Moscow "touches only a tiny minority of the older generation. The youth are virtually lost because of the repressive measures ex- ercised by the Communist regime." Adding that there was still "a faint flickering of cul- tural life," the rabbi said that "the religious zeal of the few devotees can be beheld only with wonderment and admira- tion." "The Jews of Kiev are much more frightened than the Jews in Moscow," he reported. "The younger generation knows little or nothing of Jewish religious cultural life and values, and seems to be rapidly assimilat- ing." Michigans inland waters ex- ceed the size of Rhode Island. gar As a Public Service MIZRACH1 once again offers for the Forthcoming Holidays CARE KOSHER FOOD PACKAGES For Your • Relatives • Friends and • Needy Families in Israel ISRAEL FAMILY FOOD PACKAGE . . $ 1 8 25 (approx. 40 lbs.) ISRAEL FOOD PACKAGE . . $1 0 0 ' (approx. 20 lbs.) Make Your Selection Now! So your CARE KOSHER FOOD PACKAGE will arrive before the holidays. Contact Local MIZRACHI OFFICE 17596 WYOMING DI 1-0708 Russia Denies Jews Sanctified Burial; JFK Asked to Intervene (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) the Vostrakovskoe Cemetery sit- the darkest periods of the mid- uation, giving Jews the alterna- dle ages." He termed the Soviet tive of burial in mixed ceme- policy the "cruelest refinement teries or of cremation—which of inhuman persecution that they is contrary to Jewish religious could devise." The Senator said law—might be applied in other developments indicated need for Russian cities where Jewish cem- a renewal of protests and mus- eteries are becoming filled. tering of world public opinion. * * NEW YORK, (JTA) — The WASHINGTON (JTA)—Citing Soviet Ambassador to the restrictions imposed by the So- United States, Anatoly F. Dobry- viet Union on Jewish burial in nin, was urged by the National sanctified ground, Rep. Seymour Council of Young Israel to in- Halpern, New York Republican, tervene with his government asked President Kennedy to test to restore to Moscow Jews the the "thaw" in American-Soviet right to be buried in a Jewish relations by intervening to re- cemetery in accordance with lieve rising anti-Jewish pressures Jewish religious burial rites. in the USSR. In a telegram to Dobrynin, Halpern made known in the Rabbi David H. Hill, the coun- House that he wrote to Kennedy cil's national president, said with reference to constantly "consecrated burial is one of mounting Soviet anti - Semitism the basic requirements of the and the opportunity to alleviate Jewish religion." He asked that PARIS (JTA) — The 12,000 el-Mizan in the Kabylia region, the situation because of the a special section of a new burial Jews still living in Algeria were east of Algiers, where several "nuclear test ban treaty atmos- ground in Moscow be reserved reported to be in a state of panic resistance groups were said to phere." for Jews. Halpern made it clear that he as a result of the charges by be operating. thought not enough was being Algeria that Israel was involved Razak Abdel Kader wrote a done in the free world to chal- in an alleged conspiracy to over- book on the Arab-Israeli con- lenge anti - Jewish developments throw the government of Prem- flict, published in Paris two in Russia. He said the denial of APPLICATIONS FOR ier Ahmed Ben Bella. years ago, in which he traced burial rights indicated "the So- The reports indicated that the origins of the Arab-Israeli viet authorities have refused to virtually all of the remaining War and concluded that both let people live as believers in ARE NOW BEING TAKEN On New or Existing Homes Jews were ready to emigrate, sides would benefit from mu- Judaism; and now they have out of fear that the charge tual understanding. He report- gone so far as to actually deny QUICK SERVICE against Israel was prompted by edly spent one year working Jews the right even to a Jewish Phone Us Today a "basic anti-Semitism" in the on an Israeli kibbutz while burial." Ben Bella government, and by Palestine was still under the FRANKLIN Sen. Jacob K. 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Observers believed at the WITH The charge was considered so time that the book expressed the bereft of substance as to pre- official FLN line on the Arab dude even consideration of any Israel di4ute, but that the FLN AT official Israel comment.) was forced to reassess its judg- Most of the Algerian Jews ment when Ben Bella became MILT LEVIN were reported to fear that the the dominant force in the move- anti-Israel charge portended ment. It was recalled here that, 14505 MICHIGAN AVE. TI 6-1122 a government • clampdown in even before Ben Bella had risen the near future on emigration. to the leadership of Algeria, he They also feared tliat the re- had promised Egypt's Gamal signation of Algeria's elder Abdel Nasser that he would statesmen and parliamentary raise an army of 100,000 Al- president, Ferhat Abbas, might gerians to help "liberate" Pales- worsen the domestic situation. tine from Israeli rule. The Algerian Jews were re- In announcing the "Israeli ported to have been deeply plot," Information Minister Be- shocked by the statement of In- laouane and other officials formation Minister Mouloud stressed that Algeria's 6,500 laoune that most of the 10 ar- Jews—the remnant of the pre- rested foreigners, charged with independence community o f participation in the guerrilla 140,000—had nothing to fear. network, led by Abdel Kader (In New York, the National Rezek, were "foreign Jews." The Broadcasting Company transmit- Information Minister also said ted a report from its Algiers cor- at the press conference that respondent, Paul Davis, to the Abdel's wife was "a Polish effect that Israel had suddenly Jewess." become the chief target of Al- This followed an announce- gerian press hostility.) CLOSED SATURDAYS ment by Premier Ben Bella to OPEN SUNDAY 11 3 the Union of Algerian Moslem Judah Tour°, the American Students that Razak Abdel Ka- Jewish philanthropist, who gave der, a senior officer of the anti- a good deal of the money for the French FLN, known for his pro- Bunker Hill monument, and who Israel sympathies, had been ar- also was responsible for the be- rested for leading an insurrec- ginning of the development of tionary movement. The Premier the new Jerusalem. outside of said Algerian gendarmes had the Old City, fought as a soldier captured Abdel Kader's follow- under Andrew Jackson at New ers after a pitched battle at Dra- Orleans. LONDON — Fresh details on reports that Jews in Moscow were being refused permits to give their departed a traditional Jewish burial were received here Tuesday from the Soviet capital. The r e p or t s indicated that while Moscow officials had allo- cated a new site for a cemetery because one of the biggest Mos- cow cemeteries was full, the new site has no place within it for a Jewish cemetery section. Earlier reports were confirmed that the large general cemetery on Vostrakovskoe Street, which has within it a consecrated Jew- ish burial ground, was full, as was the Jewish section. It was also reported that the fact that the Jewish section has no more room for graves was not announ- ced in advance and there were incidents when burial groups ar- rived and were told on the spot that there was no more room in the Jewish section. In some of the cases, the mourners pursuaded officials to permit burial but in the others, burials had to take place in mixed cemeteries where no spe- cial sections exist for conse- crated Jewish burials. Both sep- arate and mixed cemeteries have been the custom in Russia since 1917. 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