Yeheskel Barnea, Consul of
Israel in Chicago for the Mid-
west, will be the guest of honor
at the Israel Bond Women's
Division "Toda Raba', luncheon,
Tuesday, Oct. 29, at the Jewish
Center, it was announced by
Mrs. Morris L. Schaver, chair-
(JTA) — A protest against a
United Nations decision to hold
no session of the UN Human
Rights Commission this year
was filed here by the Interna-
tional Confederation of Free
Trade U n i o n s. The Human
Rights Commission deals with
anti-Semitism.
The Economic and Social
Council, parent body of the
Human Rights Commission, had
d e l e t e d the annual Human
Rights Commission's meeting
from this year's schedule, due
to the fact that the facilities at
the United Nations headquar-
ters in Geneva will be taxed by
a conference scheduled to be
held there on trade and devel-
opment. In a 29-page memor-
andum, detailing various human
rights violations around the
world, the ICFTU requested
that the Human Rights Com-
mission be authorized to hold
its annual meeting in West
Berlin.
YEHESKEL BARNEA
man of the Women's Division.
The luncheon will climax the
High Holy Day cash collection
campaign.
Born in Transylvania, Ro-
mania, Consul Barnea was active
in the underground in Hungary
and Romania against the Nazis.
He was arrested by the Nazis in
Hungary and escaped, and he
was sentenced by the Romanian
government to five years' im-
prisonment. He immigrated to
Israel in 1944 after the sur-
render of Romania and worked
in a kibbutz for two years.
He joined the Haganah and
saw service in the Israel War of
Liberation. After the War of
Independence he entered the
Hebrew University, specializing
in Middle Eastern affairs and
political science. He received
his degree in 1953 and then
studied for his Master's degree
in London.
He joined the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs in 1955 and was
later appointed attache to the
Israel Embassy in Rangoon. In
1960 he was appointed charge
d'affairs of the Israel legation
in Ceylon, and was named Con-
sul in Chicago last year.
For reservations to t h e
luncheon, call the Israel Bond
Office, DI 1-5707.
Israeli Gold Medals
Issued in Netherlands
In commemoration of the 15th
anniversary of the birth of Israel,
the State-Mint of the Nether-
lands, has struck some gold
medals, which are distributed
through Schoene's Handel in
Edele Metalen, The Haag, Neth-
erlands.
The medals weigh 6 and 12
grammes, have a diameter of
22% mm and have a gold fine-
ness of 900/1000. The obverse
bears the heads of King David
and King Solomon. The reverse
side bears the Menorah and the
Hebrew word for Israel and 50
shekel, 100 shekel, with as orna-
mental border the symbols of the
12 tribes of Israel.
Mapai Party Gets
Beersheba Mayoralty
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Mapai
party obtained the Mayor's post
in Beersheba in negotiations
with the Religious Party and ap-
peared likely to win the mayor-
ship of Ashdod as well.
Former Judge Eliyahu Nawai
was elected Mayor of Beersheba.
He will lead a coalition of Mapai,
Mapam and the religous parties.
In Ashdod, a Mapai-religious bloc
will be headed by Mapai and a
religious party member will be
Deputy Mayor. The agreements
left by some of the younger reli-
gious party members resentful.
They contended that the reli-
gious par ties could get the
Mayor's post in Ashdod.
Schayes Holds Record
Dolph Schayes now holds the
record for the most games
played in the National Basket.
ball Association with 1,035.
Wisdom is b e t t e r than
strength . . . The words of wise
men are heard in quiet. —Ec-
cles, 9:16, 17.
rael's cabinet, at its Sunday ses-
sion, requested a full . report
from Minister of Police Behor
Shitreet about a demonstration
staged Saturday when heavy
police reinforcements narrowly
averted a clash beween mem-
bers of the League Against Re-
ligious Compulsion and resi-
dents of the ultra-Orthodox
quarter of Mea Shearim.
The cabinet request followed
a complaint voiced to the gov-
ernment by Interior Minister
Moshe Shapiro, who charged
that the organizers of the
League demonstration had gone
beyond the conditions laid
down when they were given a
permit for Saturday's demon-
stration.
Several hundred members of
the League, many of them arm-
ed with clubs,, tried to pene-
trate into the Mea Shearim
quarter. They called for support
of • the League's demands for
civil (instead of religious) mar-
riages, permission of automobile
traffic on the Sabbath, and
abolition of Israel's blue laws.
About a dozen trucks carry-
ing the League's demonstrators,
many of whom had come from
leftist kibbutzim, were halted
by the police, and the demon-
strators were forced to walk
afoot. Policemen standing shoul-
der to shoulder kept the secu-
ligious population, as the
League demonstrators brandish-
ed their clubs and shouted in-
vectives at the Orthodox.
Finally, the secularists held a
rally attended by about 2,000
persons, while police kept the
religious elements from break-
ing up the demonstration. As
religious persons heckled the
secularist speakers, police once
again intervened to keep the
two sides separated.
Book on Bene Israel
Published in Bombay
BOMBAY, (JTA) — The first
volume of "The Origins and
Early History of the Bene Is-
rael," a major new work by Pro-
fessor Samuel Shellim, was pub-
lished here with an introduction
by M. S. Kannamwar, Chief Min-
ister of the State of Maharashtra
of which Bombay is the capital
city and where the Bene Israel
community lives.
In his introduction to the
work, Kannamwar notes that the
Bene Israel Jews arrived in In-
dia 2,000 years ago and have
since made their contribution to
Indian life in every generation
and have played their part in the
s t r u g g l e of India for inde-
pendence.
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Denver Community
Disputes Opening of
Center on Sabbath
DENVER (JTA)—Officials . of
the Denver Jewish Community
Center and of the Denver Rab-
binical Association announced
here that a series of meetings
would be held to develop a
mutually acceptable solution to
differences over opening of the
Center on the Sabbath.
At the first meeting of repre-
sentatives of the two organiza-
tions, Sanford Solender, execu-
tive vice-president of the Jewish
Welfare Board, and Rabbi Aryeh
Lev, director of the YWB chap-
laincy division, attended as
guests.
The meetings were agreed on
after the Center, bowing to the
wishes of the rabbinical group,
cancelled plans for a poll of
members as to whether the Cen-
ter should be open on the Sab-
bath. Solender discussed at the
initial joint meeting the experi-
ences of other Centers with the
problem, particularly in Detroit,
Cleveland and Chicago.
_ It was agreed that the first
step should be creating a climate
of harmony, common u n de r-
standing and common objectives.
For that goal, the broad aspects
of Center - synagogue relation-
ships will be studied at future
meetings, as well as specific
questions of Center Sabbath pro-
grams.
That - if/Tann)/ And Despotism May Perish.
August Bondi's life was spent in battling
injustice. When not quite fifteen, Bondi
took part in the Revolution of 1848 in his
native Austria. After the revolution failed,
the Bondis emigrated to America. That
was the beginning of the odyssey of
August Bondi which was to place him
beside John Brown in Kansas.
An ardent abolitionist, Bondi arrived
in Kansas in May, 1855, in the company
of Jacob Benjamin. There they were
joined by Theodore Wiener. The three
immigrants settled on the Mosquito
branch of Pottawatomie creek, near Osa-
watomie. Bondi's abolitionist statements
soon brought him to the attention of the
pro-slavery border ruffians. His life was
threatened and Bondi enlisted the aid of
John Brown's sons. When Brown himself
arrived, Bondi and Wiener promptly
joined his military company. In the civil
war that followed the Pottawatomie Mas-
sacre, in which John Brown executed five
border ruffians, Bondi took part in almost
every battle as a follower of "God's
angry man."
During the Civil War Bondi served for
three years in the 5th Kansas Volunteer
Cavalry. He was finally invalided out of
the service because of serious wounds
suffered in Arkansas. At the war's end
Bondi settled in Salina, becoming one of
its leading citizens.
Bondi's credo, stated in his autobiog-
raphy, is still relevant to modern prob-
lems. "I do not regret," he wrote, "a single
step or instance in my long life, to further
and assist the realization of my devout
wishes that tyranny and despotism may
perish, and bigotry and fanaticism may be
wiped from the face of the earth." August
Bondi devoted his life to these aims.
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Free Trade Unions
Israel Midwest
Secularists Clash With Extremists
Protest
Shelving
of
Consul Guest at
Rights Sessions at UN in Jerusalem; Cabinet Asks Report
Women's Lunch
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Is- larists separated from the re-
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,