Sihalom Ends Controversy; to HaveOne, Kosher Kitchen
JERUSALEM—The Zim Israel Lines notified Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim
Tuesday that the SS Shalom will have only a kosher kitchen, ending a lengthy
controversy with Orthodox elements which began when plans were announced
for two kitchens, one kosher and one non-kosher.
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The Shalom is scheduled to go into service next month.
The company asked the chief rabbi to order issuance of a rabbinical certifi-
cation of the ship's kosher facilities. The request was transmitted to the Chief
Rabbinate Council.
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11 World Leaders Ask Israel,
Arabs to Accept International
Embargo on Shipments of Arms
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
LONDON—An appeal to the Arab states and to Israel to accept
an embargo on arms shipments and to accept international supervision
of nuclear and rocket weapons systems and plans, was issued Monday
by 11 world .figures led by Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher.
The group warned of the "grave danger" of war in the Middle
East and declared that the signers "appeal to the sanity and humanity
of the Arab states and Israel. We ask their governments to accept
international supervision of nuclear and rocket weapons systems and
plants and for an internationally supervised embargo upon further
arms shipments to that region."
Deputy Defense Minister Shimon Peres, meanwhile, emphasized the need
for alertness and increased effort on the part of Israel to prevent war in the
Middle East. In an address to the Tel Aviv Press Club, Peres stressed that Egyp-
tian President Gamal Abdel Nasser was determined to increase his country's
military strength. He said that the only ways Israel could prevent war in the
region were by maintaining a deterrent power, increasing its friendship with
various countries, settlement of the Negev and Galilee, and intensifying its
scientific and technical potential.
(In a speech on Saturday, Nasser again threatened war on Israel. He charged
that "the Jewish vote" influenced President Johnson, who is being accused of
partisanship in favor of Israel by the Arabs.)
Other signers were Prof. Max Born, Danilo Dolci, Pastor Martin Niemoller,
Prof, Linus Pauling, Prof. C. F. Powell, Prof. Eugene Raboniwitch, Joseph
Rotblat, Prof. Abdus Salam, Jean Paul Sartre and Dr. Albert Schweitzer.
Israel Envoy Confers With French
Foreign Ministry on Jordan Water Plan
Israel's Army Seen Ready to Defend
the Country Against Arabs on Jordan Issue
PARIS, (JTA)—The possible international implications of Israel's Jordan
River irrigation project was understood to have been the subject discussed
between -Walter Eytan, Israel's Ambassador to France, and Jean Souto, director
of the French Foreign Ministry's African and Middle Eastern Division.
France, in- recent weeks, has repeatedly asserted that Israel's water projects
were "a natural and legitimate" undertaking which should not cause any interna-
tional complications. Maurice Couve de Murville, the French Foreign Minister,
was understood to have spoken in this vein during two meetings earlier this
month with Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister.
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—General Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's Chief of Staff, said that
the Israeli Army was ready for the test if the Arabs carried out their threats
to oppose by force the Israeli Negev irrigation program which will indirectly
tap the Jordan River. He reiterated that it was Israeli Army preparedness which
maintained the gap between the Arabs' desire to attack Israel and the possibility
- of carrying out such an attack.
Key Atomic Discoveries
by 2 Jewish Scientists
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Discoveries considered by some
of the leading scientists in the world as "a major advance
in the physics of elementary atomic particles" have been
made independently by two Jewish scientists and confirmed
by 33 scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory
which is headed by another Jew.
The three scientists are Dr. Yuval Ne'eman, deputy
director of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission; Dr. Murray
Gell-Mahn, professor of physics at the Cali-
fornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena;
and Dr. Maurice Goldhaber, director of
the Brookhaven Laboratory. A fourth physi-
cist who contributed materially to the new
scientific breakthrough is Dr. S. Okubo,
of the University of Rochester.
Dr. Ne'eman, of Israel, now a visiting
fellow at the California Institute of Tech-
nology, is credited with having been the
first in the world to have discovered a
unitary system for classifying certain
Dr. Gen-Mann atomic particles in groups of eight. In-
dependently, Dr. Gell-Mann did work along the same lines.
Under Dr. Goldhaber, Brookhaven scientists—aided by others
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Rift Grows Over 'The Deputy .;Nazis Among
Pickets. Protesting Presentation of Play
There was a strange .combination of elements that gathered Wednesday to protest the
presentation of "The Deputy," by..alf Hochhuth at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, New York.
While the Jewish War Veterans abandoned earlier plans to join
protesting pickets, there
were Protestants as well as Catholics in the demonstrating line w'
:eluded representatives of
George Lincoln Rockwell's AmeriCan Nazi Party.
A serious controversy has arisen over the play, and Jewish ranks are as divided as the
non-Jewish. The Jewish producers of the play remained adamant in their determination not to be
stopped in their task of presenting a play they insist presents the truth about Vatican failure to
come to the rescue of doomed European Jewry.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—On the eve of the American premiere of the. controversial play "The
Deputy"—which charges that the late Pope Pius XII had failed to speak out in protest against the
Nazi mass-murder of Jews—a group of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish laymen and theologians, led -
by the editor of a Catholic magazine, issued a plea for calm judgment, in accord with American
constitutional guarantees of free speech.
The announcement of the formation of an interfaith "right to be heard" committee was made
at a press conference against the background of threats that the theater where "The Deputy" is to be
put on will be picketed by .Catholic lay groups, by Jewish war veterans, and by members of the
American Nazi Party.
Edward M. Keating, editor-publisher of Ramparts, a Catholic laymen's magazine published
at Menlo Park, Calif., announced formation of the committee, and backed up its aims with a
statement declaring that, in his opinion as a Catholic, "I believe that, as a Pope, Pius XII should
have spoken out" on Hitler's efforts to obliterate European Jewry.
Members of the "right to be heard" committee, in addition to Keating, include: Dr. Abraham
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Vatican Spokesmen Reveal Attitudes on Jewish Issues
By JULIO DRESNER
JTA Correspondent in Italy
(Copyright, 1964, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
ROME—A panel meeting broadcast by the Vatican Radio Station dealt with
this subject that so far has hardly ever been treated by it: "The Jewish problem
and the State of Israel, seven replies to a question.". The panel was composed
Of three well-known journalists, a lawyer, a judge of the constitutional court,
an ex-minister, and th iresident of the Union of Jewish Communities. A Jesuit
priest presided.
The transmission had not been sufficiently pre-announced, and the newspaper
stories about it did not give a complete picture. What could be gathered from
`le papers and from reports by those who happened to listen in, the discussion
did not remain within the above subject but flew out to the religious field. For
instance, the editor-in-chief of Osservatore Romano said that, by principle, there
can be no problem and no question about the equal civil and moral rights for
Jews, neither in the political field which, however, regards the State of Israel.
For him Judaism remains .a religious problem, and the right way to see it was
shown by the initiatives taken by the Ecumenical Council.
Jewish leader Piperno pointed to the main problem of the State of Israel—
peace.
The renowned journalist, Missiroli, drew from the Father Daniel episode
to affirm that Israel is a theocratic state and, as such, in contrast with principles
of modern democracy.
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