Baruch Litvin Is Honored for Service N.Y. Hassidic Croups Mobilize Defense Against Assaults
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
Police officials acknowledged additional police personnel, the
to Torah Judaism/ by Yeshiva U.
to The Jewish News)
NEW YORK — The Hassidic that the crime rate had increased Hassidic Jews of Crown Heights
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and other orthodox Jewish resi- in the area but said that it was are still "prisoners at night in their
Yeshiva University's Community Service Division, at its National
Synagogue Leadership Conference in Long Beach, N.Y., last week
honored Baruch Litvin, left. of 57 Lodewyck, Mount Clemens, for
dedicated and meritorious service to Torah Judaism and the Ameri-
can Jewish community. Proceeding (from the left), are Dr. Samuel
Belkin, president of Yeshiva University; Ludwig Jesselson, chairman
of the conference and a member of the board of trustees of Yeshiva
University, and Mrs. Litvin.
Baruch Litvin's Compilation of Replies
to David Ben-Gu•ion's Inquiry
`Who Is a Jew?' Due in September
Ben-Gurion first posed the ques-
The widely discussed issue of
"Who is a Jew? in Israel," as tion in his letter four years ago—
it was propounded by the former on the 13th day of Heshvan. Of
Israel Prime Minister, David Ben- the 45 responses received, only
Gurion, who also posed the question one refused to give permission to
in a series of letters to the world's have his statement included in
most distinguished Jewish schol- Litvin's book. Of the 45, 32 of the
ars, will be published in English replies were in Hebrew. Several
translations in September. of the correspondents prepared
Baruch Litvin, nationally pro- their own English translation of
minent Orthodox Jew who became this volume.
famous in the Mount Clemens
Credit is given to Sir Leon
"Mehitza" case he took as high as Simon of London and Arthur
the Michigan State Supreme Court Lourie, Israel's Ambassador to the
to protect the principle of separat- Court of St. James, as having
ing men from the women in syna- been helpful in securing permis-
gogue services, has just completed sion for the publication of the
three years' labors of gathering letters.
the manuscripts, securing each
The foreword was written by
correspondent's permission for use Prof. Hoenig and a prologue by
of his reply to Ben-Gurion and Dr. Immanuel Jacobovitz.
completing arrangements for a
Among the scholars whose re-
publisher.
sponses to Ben-Burion are includ-
Shengold Publishers of New
ed in this volume are the late
York will issue Litvin's book under
Chief Rabbi Itzhak Herzog, the late
the title Jewish
Identity." Dr. Rabbi Y. L. Maimon, Col Solomon
"
Sidney B. Hoening of Yeshiva
University collaborated with him Goren, Israel Supreme Court
Justice Moshe Silberg, Justice
in arranging the book for publica- Haim Cohen, Dr. Joseph Soloveit-
Lion.
chik, the Lubavitcher Rebbe Mena-
hem Schneerson, Dr. Louis Finkel-
stein, Dr. Solomon Freehof, the
late Prof. Yeheskel Kaufman, Prof.
Hugo Samuel Bergmann, Prof.
Ernest Simon, Prof. Harry A.
Wolfson, Prof. Saul Lieberman,
Prof. Abraham Heschel, Dr. Mor-
decai M. Kaplan, Sir Leon Simon,
Y. Agnon, and other noted
scholars.
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dents of the Crown Heights Sec-
tion of Brooklyn, who have been
harassed in recent months by re-
peated muggings, assaults, rob-
beries and other forms of violence,
have begun patrolling the area in
four radio-equipped cars, each
manned by six husky unarmed
men, in an intensive effort to put
an end to attacks.
The residential area, heavily
populated by orthodox Jews and
dotted with small synagogues and
yeshivas, is adjacent to the notori-
ous Bedford-Stuyvesant section
where a number of boys of the
Lubavitcher Yeshiva were attacked
in front of their school several
weeks ago by a group of 50
Negroes.
Rabbi Samuel Schrage, admini-
strator of the United Lubavitcher
Yeshivoth, who organized the all-
night patrols, said that about 120
Orthodox men had volunteered to
man the radio cars which cover
the area from sunset to dawn
every night except Friday night.
He said that non-Jewish volun-
teers, 12 white persons and eight
Negroes, have volunteered to man
the patrols on Friday nights.
The radio patrols, according to
Rabbi Schrage, have been instru-
mental in three arrests since the
system was set up last week. The
cars, which are equipped with two-
way radios furnished by a taxi
company, are in constant communi-
cation with a headquarters set up
by the group in a vacant store.
also true of other areas.
homes, fearing to go out.
They said that "extra police"
had been assigned to the area in
the wake of the numerous attacks
directed at Hassidic Jews. They
also offered to cooperate with the
radio patrols.
The Brooklyn Jewish Community
Council, representing 800 organiza-
tions in the borough, has demanded
improved police protection. In a
letter to Mayor Robert F. Wagner
and Police Commissioner Michael
J. Murphy, Supreme Court Justice
Emil N. Barr, acting president of
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Euromart-Israel Pact
Goes Into Effect July 1
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BRUSSELS—The trade pact be-
tween the European Economic
Community (EEC) and Israel,
under which Israel is to receive
tariff concessions on a number of
its exports to the six-nation Euro-
pean Common Market, will go into
effect July 1, it was announced
here Tuesday.
The agreement, which was 30
months in the making, will be
signed here on June 4. It will be
signed by Henri Fayat, current
president of the Council of Minis-
ters, the policy-making body of
the EEC, and Dr. Walter Hallstein,
president of the EEC executive
committee, for the EEC.
It will be signed for Israel by
Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's foreign
minister, Akiva Govrin, minister
without portfolio in charge of
external trade; and Ambassador
Amiel Najar, head of the Israel
mission to the EEC.
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