5 Teachers Quit;
Say Director Was
in Hitler Youth
Briton Sees Pressures
Aiding Soviet Jews
LONDON, (JTA) — Richard
Grossman, Labor member of Par-
liament, and authority on Soviet
affairs, declared here that "there
is a new hope that external pres-
sure, if fairly and diplomatically
applied, can achieve for Russian
Jewry a status it has not enjoyed
since the Russian Revolution."
Speaking on the BBC Hebrew
Service, he said that two recent
developments have made Soviet
authorities "even more anxious"
to silence foreign criticism of
their treatment of Russian Jewry.
He described these as the sharpen-
ing ideological conflict inside the
Communist world, and the desire
of Soviet Premier Krushchev for
a relaxation of tensions with the
West. He said these. factors, plus
the need to buy American wheat
and British fertilizer factories,
opened the way for external pres-
sures to greatly improve the status
of Soviet Jews.
The existence of Israel, he
added, makes the hope of assimi-
lat Russian Jewry "purely uto-
pian." With Israel in existence,
political Zionism has become the
ideology of survival for Russian
Jews and "the emotional nexus
which binds Russian Jews to Zion
is stronger than ever." He assert-
ed that, therefore, an essential
part of the improvement of the
status of Soviet Jewry which the
West must seek is a simultaneous
improvement "in the Soviet at-
titude toward Israel."
NEW YORK (JTA)—The ap-
pointment of a former Hitler
youth movement member, Mrs.
Helga Houmere, as director of the
International Nursery School, a
private institution in suburban
Queens, led to protest resignations
by five members of the staff of
the school. They included four of
the school's eight teachers. None
of those who quit questioned the
educational qualifications of Mrs.
Houmere. But they told the
school's board they would not
serve under Mrs. Houmere because
of her Hitler youth background.
The__ school is located in the
Park way Village development,
whose 600 families are about 60
per cent Jewish. Nine of the
school's 12 board members are
Jewish. Six of the Jewish mem-
bers joined with three non-Jewish
colleagues in approving Mrs. Hou-
mere's appointment.
When the furor over the ap-
pointment developed, the board
gave Houmere an 11-1 vote of con-
fidence. Mrs. Phyllis Golding, the
head of the school board, said that
a consultant who helped screen
applicants for the position, and
who approved Mrs. Houmere, was
Jewish.
Mrs. Houmere, who previously
had taught in a New York nursery
school for nine years, defended
herself from the implied charges.
She said that, in becoming an
American citizen, she had to prove
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she was not a Nazi and that, if
the staff members at the Flushing May 3rd—Detroit Institute of Arts
school had the opportunity, they
would realize that her childhood
association with the Hitler youth
movement "has never had any
bearing on my attitude toward all
people."
He added that such member-
ship was compulsory at the time
when she was 14 years old. She
also said she had attended only
one meeting of her youth group
and that she abhorred the Hitler
philosophy.
Jewish Professor Is Beaten
Tore Anti-Semitic Paper- From Book-Store Window
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (JTA)—The
He said he entered the store
bolt," another anti-Semitic sheet.
owner of a book store in this uni-
and tore the newspaper off the Dr. Robison said Warner told him
versity town waived examination
if the faculty member tore down
window, precipitating an argu-
at a preliminary hearing on charges
that one, Warner would hit him
ment
in
which
Warner
allegedly
of assaulting a Jewish professor in
with the bat. State police testified
called him a vile anti-Semitic
that college students who gathered
a dispute over a display in the
name.
when the argument became heat-
store of anti-Semitic material. The
Warner then went behind the ed said they saw the professor
owner, James Warner, was freed
on bail pending action by the counter, Dr. Robison said, and re- tear down the second sheet and
turned carrying a baseball bat and Warner hit him on the back of
grand jury on the charges.
a newspaper called "The Thunder- the head with the bat.
Gerson Robison, professor of
mathematics at State University
College here, suffered a head 10 — Friday, April 17, 1964 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
wound that required eight stitches.
He returned to his teaching duties
three days after the alleged as-
sault in which he was struck with
a baseball bat.
Dr. Robison said the fight
started when he passed the
bookstore and saw a copy of
"Common Sense," an anti-Semi-
tic publication, posted in the
window. That issue had a head-
line: "Judaism Is Communism."
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TEL AVIV — The cornerstone
for Beth Shalom Aleichem will be
laid here on April 27 on a plot
donated by the Tel Aviv munici-
pality, it was announced Tuesday
at a special reception.
The reception was sponsored by
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lehman of
New York on behalf of the Beth
Shalom Aleichem Committee. May-
or Mordechai Namir and various
writers and poets attended the
reception.
Lehman said the house will
serve as an archives for the papers
of the famous Yiddish writer
which are now held in a New
York trust and by his son-in-law,
D. J. Berkowitz. The house will
also serve as a source of informa-
tion for Israeli youth on Jewish
life in the past century and will
sponsor research on Jewish humor,
life and literature. Meyer L.
Brown, honorary president of the
Farband Labor Zionist Order, a
sponsor of the project, also spoke.
Yugoslav on UN Force
Seeks Asylum in Israel;
Belgrade Asks Return
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Is-
rael government has been request-
ed by Yugoslavia to return a Yugo-
slav member of the United Na-
tions Emergency Force in Gaza,
who surrendered to an Israeli unit
in the Negev and requested asy-
lum. The details of the incident
were reported by Prime Minister
Levi Eshkol to the Cabinet. The
government has not yet taken a
decision on the legal aspects of
the matter.
According to the Yugoslav re-
quest, the • soldier deserted from
his unit after he was charged with
theft. The soldier acknowledged
that he was charged, but said
that he is not guilty.
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