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Observant Soviet Jews Far Short
of Matzoth Requirements; Bakery
Reopens After Temporary Closing
USSR Anti-Semitism Denounced at UN by U.S., Israel,
Other Delegations; Charges of Espionage Repudiated
The Federation of Jewish Relief Organizations made a last minute
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LONDON—Soviet sources reported the reopening of the matzo change Tuesday in procedures for sending matzoth to Russia because
bakery of the Moscow Jewish Community Monday after it was shut of administrative regulations at the receiving end.
Matzoth were to be sent Tuesday and Wednesday by regular air
down for alleged fire hazards, it was reported here Tuesday from the
mail
instead of air charter or air freight, as originally planned. Regular 1
it al.
According to Soviet sources, the bakery, which operated for two air mail is considerably more expensive than the originally planne
days before fire authorities shut it, was reopened after repairs were means of shipment.
The parcels in the last consignment of 1,000 pounds will be
made to comply with fire safety requirements. The community rented
shipped
to Moscow, Leningrad, Tiflis and Vilna and should arrive in
the private bakery to bake matzoth for Passover after state bakeries
for the third year in a row refused to bake the required unleavened those cities in time for use during Passover. Total shipments will be
10,000 pounds.
bread.
The Israel Embassy in Moscow emphatically denied charges by
Solomon Kander, chairman of the finance committee of the
the
Soviet
press that the Embassy was being used to distribute Zion-
Moscow Central Synagogue, reported that in the limited time remain-
ist and "anti-Soviet" propaganda to Russian Jews, it was reported
ing production would be far short of requirements. An estimated
here from the Soviet capital.
30,000 Moscow Jews maintain Passover.
The latest Russian press attack on the Embassy was made by
Jewish communities in Leningrad and Tiflis were reported to be
Trud,
Moscow newspaper, which asserted that pamphlets and other
bakeries,
but
Jews
outside
those
own
in a better position because they
material
had been "furtively" distributed in a Moscow synagogue.
because
cities will have to bake their own—a difficult problem both
The
article
singled out Abraham Agmon, first secretary of the Em-
year
and
because
home
this
Union
of the shortage of flour in the Soviet
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ovens must be used.
Rabbi Untermann
Elected Israel's
Neiv Chief Rabbi
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM Tel Aviv Chief
Rabbi Isse Yehuda Untermann. 78,
was elected as Israel's Ashkenazic
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RABBI UNTERMANN
Chief Rabbi Tuesday, filling a
post which has been vacant since
the death of Rabbi Isaac Halevi
Herzog in 1959.
Rabbi Untermann was elected
over Chief Army Chaplain Shlomo
Goren by a vote of 60 to 59.
The incumbent Sephardic Chief
Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim was reelected
over Rabbi Ovadia Hadaya.
Goldmann Warns of Assimilation, Urges Zionist
Efforts for Survival of Jews Throughout World
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
by Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
JERUSALEM—The Zionist Actions Committee opened its current session with an address
president of the World Zionist Organization, in which he warned against the danger of assimilation.
Asserting that disintegration was today more serious and difficult than when the Zionist movement emerged, Dr.
Goldmann said that the time had come for the Zionist movement to shift from exclusive work for Israel to the fight for
securing the survival of the Jewish people the world over.
Israel, he noted, was strong enough to allow the Zionist movement such a shift of priorities "without naturally giving
up work for Israel in the fields of immigration, absorption and settlement."
The realization of this task of "saving the Diaspora and tying it up with Israel," he declared, is dependent upon the
full and meaningful cooperation with Israel which ought to regard the Zionist movement as the main chosen instrument.
Fortunately, he said, Israel is strong enough to devote its attention to the future of the Jewish people outside
Israel, while in Israel people have begun to realize the importance of a partnership with the Diaspora.
Another condition, Dr. Goldmann said, is the revival of the spirit of the Zionist movement, especially in the United
States where it must begin to lose its "inferiority complex," widen the narrow limits of its activities, become a pioneer in
the fight to reorganize Jewish communities in representative bodies and manifest flexibility in relationships with organiza-
tions outside the World Zionist Organization by opening the way for their cooperation.
Dwelling on the danger of assimilation, Dr. Goldmann stressed the tendencies of Jewish isolationism.
. There are great communities, including the American Jewish community, he declared, where a majority are far from
accepting the principle of united international Jewish action. This lack of organized Jewish action within both an internatioal
and national framework is a permanent source of weakness for effective organizational efforts, he said.
Moreover, he added, the American Jewish community
remains far from any representative body able to speak on
its behalf.
Moshe Sharett, chairman of the Jewish Agency Execu-
tive, placed before the current meeting of the Zionist World
Actions Committee Tuesday a program of action which in-
cluded proposals for major changes in the organization of
the governing bodies of the World Zionist Organization.
These included a proposal to replace the shekel
with a permanent WZO membership card with fees paid
to the national Zionist federations and a proposals to
make non -party Zionists eligible to join the WZO, en-
titling such groups to join local Zionist councils and
to be represented in the council, governing bodies and on
the World Zionist Congresses.
Discussing the tasks of the Zionist movement, Sharett
said that the rising assimilation of Jews compelled a
reorientation in the direction of non-Israeli Jewry and the
awakening of Jewish institutions in other countries to
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President Johnson-Eshlool Visit
in Washington Set for June 1, 2
(Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News)
WASHINGTON—The White House announced offi-
cially on Tuesday that Israel's Prime Minister Levi Eshkol
will visit President Johnson on June 1 and 2,
This will be first time the two statesmen will meet.
It also was announced officially that King Hussein of
Jordan will meet with President Johnson in Washington
April 14.
(In Israel, an official. communique Tuesday said
"Prime Minister Eshkol will be happy to have the oppor-
tunity of meeting President Johnson and exchanging
views on subjects of joint interest to the two countries.
During the visit, the Prime Minister looks forward to
meeting again with leaders of the American Jewish com-
munity. and other friends in the United States.")