JWB Presents Three '64 Weil Awards; Australia Urged
Toronto Parley Hits Russian Bigotry;
Florence Heller Elected President
to Move Against
Urges Action Against Hate Mongers
Flood of Hate Mail TORONTO (JTA) — Resolutions represented at the two-day session.

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

The 1964 Frank L. Well Awards of JWB were presented at JWB's
national convention in Boston to (from left) Dr. Abram L. Sachar,
president, Brandeis University; Walter D. Heller, San Francisco,
chairman, JWB's, Armed Forces and Veterans Services, and Arthur
S. Kling, Louisville, Ky., former president, JWB's Midwest Region.
They were voted this honor for distinguished contributions, Dr.
Sacher's "to the advancement of American Jewish culture;" Heller's
"to the welfare of Jewish personnel in the U.S. Armed Forces;"
Kling's "to the advancement of the Jewish community center field."

BOSTON (JTA) — Lewis H.
Weinstein, chairman of the Na-
tional Community Relations Ad-
visory Council and the Conference
of Presidents of major American
Jewish Organizations, told dele-
gates to the National Jewish Wel-
fare Board convention here that
"isolation is as dangerous to
American Jewish life as it is to in-
ternational affairs." He called
upon American Jewry to "pool its
leadership."
"The best example of this
kind of pooling of leadership,"
he said, "was our recent Wash-
ington Conference on Soviet
Jewry when 500 national and lo-
cal leaders met to arouse the
conscience of the world against
the campaign of destruction of
religious and cultural life of the
Jews in Russia.

"The kind of leadership we Jews
need, to meet our goals, is marked

Orthodox U.S. Groups
Re-Evaluate Relations
With Major-Movements

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A major
reassessment of the role of Orotho-
dox Jewry within the total Ameri-
can Jewish community is being
undertaken by the Union of Ortho-
dox Jewish Congregations of
America, it was announced by
Moses I. Feuerstein, national
president of the organization. The
reassessment, he said, will have
special reference to relationships
between the UOJCA and non-
Orthodox organizations in agencies
such as the Synagogue Council of
America, the National Jewish Wel-
fare Board, the National Com-
munity Relations Advisory Coun-
cil and the Conference of Presi-
dents of Major American Jewish
Organizations.
Noting that various recent de-
velopments had given "special im-
mediacy" to the reassessment un-
dertaking, Feuerstein cited among
these the letter sent in March to
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol of Is-
rael by the presidents of seven
American Jewish non-Orthodox or-
ganizations. The letter made var-
ious allegations which Orthodox
Jewry called "hostile."
Feuerstein declared that "the
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congre-
gations has regarded this as a
move calculated to alienate the
Orthodox Jewish community, by
publicly insulting it by means of
defamatory allegations, and as an
effort aimed at dividing the Amer-
ican Jewish community. The hos-
tility to traditional Jewry thus
shown was a major factor in con-
vincing all elements in UOJAC
circles that a reassessment of re-
lationships is overdue."

DON FROHMAN CHORUS
May 3rd—Detroit Institute of Arts

by a profound sense of commu-
nity, a solid personal commit-
ment to Jewishness and Jewish
education, culture and creative
survival; and personal identifica-
tion with the Jewish people and
the Jewish ethics."
Budgets totaling $1,591,500
for 1965 and $1,651,500 for 1966
were adopted.

The session voted to establish
a Solomon Merit Fellowship to
help alleviate the critical short-
age of social work personnel in
Jewish centers and YMHA's
throughout they country. The fel-
lowship, which was established by
65 friends in honor of the retir-
ing president of the NJWB, will be
awarded annually for study in the
field of social work.

Sanford Solender, executive vice
president of the JWB, said that
the principle function of Jewish
centers and Y's was to help the
Jew experience being a Jew as a
vital living matter, and to pro-
vide an opportunity "for Jews of
all ages to learn of and experience
their heritage and to apply it to
their everyday life."
Dr. Abram L. Sachar, president
of Brandeis University, said that
American Jews have been "finally
emancipated from their self-con-
sciousness." He attributed this de-
velopment to the establishment of
the State of Israel. "Self-confi-
dence." he declared, "can only
grow as Israel grows. "When we
travel to Israel, we must not go
merely as tourists or yet as rich
cousins, but as pilgrims in com-
munion with a motherland, as Jews
and, respected as Americans, rep-
resentatives of another free land."

Mrs. Florence G. Heller, Chi-
cago, who was elected president
of the National Jewish Welfare
Board, is first woman to head
the organization and is first
woman president of a national
Jewish organization not exclu-
sively made up of women or pro-
fessional social workers. Elect
tion took place during national
Biennial Convention of JWB
held in Boston.

CANBERRA—Continued distribu-
tion in Australia of Nazi leaflets
and new anti-Semitic incidents
pompted Laborite Senator S. Cohen
to urge in Parliament Wednesday
that the federal government take
firm action to curb the flow of
such material into Australia.
The Nazi leaflets appeared in Syd-
ney and Melbourne on the anniver-
sary of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt.
The walls of a building housing a
Melbourne Jewish newspaper which
were daubed on the anniversary
were found smeared again Wednes-
day and a window in the building
was broken.
In a related development, a
group of men in brown shirts and
trousers believed to be mem-
- hers of a national socialist party
in Australia met in a Sydney sub-
urb to celebrate Hitler's birth-
day. In a television interview,
Sen. Cohen displayed an invita-
tion from the Nazi group to a
birthday party for "our be-
loved fuehrer."
The Nazi-type mailings made up
principally of "viscious attacks"
on Jews and Negroes is entering
Australia from the United States,
Sweden and South Africa, Sen.
Cohen told Parliament. He said it
was learned that the material was
sent to known distributors in Aus-
tralia and then posted to a wide
variety of recipients, including
Jews.
Sen. Cohen urged the customs
and excise ministry to examine the
possibility of starting proceedings
against anyone knowingly receiv-
ing bulk supplies of such mate-
rial. He added that the distribu-
tion had been going for some
time.

calling upon the Jewish community
of Canada to act on a number of
major immediate issues, including
protests against the oppression of
Russian Jews, intensification of
Jewish youth work and stepping
up the fight against the widespread
dissemination of anti-Semitic liter-
ature throughout Canada were
adopted here at the 19th regional
conference of the Canadian Jewish
Congress.
Nineteen communities in this
province, including Toronto, were

3 Arabs Escape Jail;
Israeli Inmates in Plot

ASHKELON, (JTA) — Three
Arabs arrested and held in the
police station here as suspected
infiltrators from the Gaza Strip
escaped to Egyptian territory over
the weekend after a jail break. Ten
other prisoners, Arab and Jewish,
who had also been in on the plot,
were blocked by a guard with a
revolver.
The jail break began when a
Jewish prisoner called in one of
the two guards in the police sta-
tion, which is about five miles
north of the Gaza Strip, saying
he needed a mattress. When the
guard entered, the 13 prisoners
jumped him, as well as the second
guard who had come to help his
colleague.
The latter, however, managed to
free himself from the prisoners'
grip and fire his evolver, blocking
the escape of all but three of the
prisoners.

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Major Jewish Groups
Accept Apology by
Mayor of Antwerp

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
ANTWERP — Major Jewish or-
ganizations of Antwerp agreed at
a meeting Monday night to accept
an apology _ from Mayor Lode
Crayebeck for an incident earlier
this month in which he unloosed
a stream of anti-Semitic insults at
two men when he learned they
were Jews.
The apology was expressed by
the mayor in an open letter to the
Antwerp press. The Jewish organ-
izations agreed to consider the in-
cident as closed.
However, other Jewish organ-
izations and former Nazi camp
inmates continued to express in-
dignation over the incident. The
Union of Jewish Deportees sent
a letter to Justice Minister Ver-
meylen asking for action against
the mayor. The Israeli Associa-
tion of Political Prisoners in
Nazi Camps sent a resolution to
the Belgian government express-
ing its indignation.
Both the Jewish organizations
and the Zionist Federation, how-
ever, indicated disapproval of the
actions, of members of the Zionist
youth movement, Dror, who daub-
ed on walls in the center of the
city demands for the mayor's resig-
nation. The Zionist youth were
caught by police but later released.
The incident occurred when
Mayor Crayebeck entered a cafe
near its hall and invited himself
to a table occupied by the two
Jews. He began a cordial conversa-
tion with them and then, inadvert-
ently learning they were Jews,
shouted anti-Semitic abuse at
them.

Canada Labor Congress Asks
Laws to Curb Bias Propaganda
OTTAWA (JTA)—The Canadian
Labor Congress urged the govern-
ment here to enact legislation that
would stamp out hate propaganda
that incites to violence against ra-
cial or ethnic groups. In a special
brief submitted to Minister of Jus-
tice Guy Favreau, the CLC also
called for legislation that would
require authors, publishers, dis-
tributors and printers of certain
materials sent through the mails
to identify themselves clearly in
print.
The brief complained that Cana-
dians have been subjected in re-
cent months "to a barrage of anti-
Semitic and anti-Negro literature,"
some of it distributed through the
mails.

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