Rep. Farbstein ^Maps House Drive to Resurrect
Ribicoff Denunciation of Soviet Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A drive
Will be made in the House of Rep-1
resentatives, when Congress re-
convenes, to adopt a new resolu-
tion resurrecting the spirit of the
deleted Senate "Ribicoff amend-
ment," denouncing Soviet anti-
Semitism, Rep. Leonard Farbstein,
New York Democrat, announced.
Meanwhile, h ow e v e r, it was
learned - that another congressman
of Jewish faith, Rep. Abraham J.
Multer, New York Democrat, en-
dorsed the Fulbright substitute
amendment which replaced the
more specific and forceful Ribicoff
measure.
The deleted Ribicoff amend-
ment to the Foreign aid bill piu-
Pointed Soviet- oppression of
Jews, while a substitute by Sen.
W. J. Fulbright eliminated all
direct reference to that problem,
and merely spoke of the persecu-
tion of any persons, because of
their religion, anywhere in the
world.
In remarks on the House floor
immediately before adjournment,
Rep. Multer lauded the vaguely
worded Fulbright substitute, and
the action of the Senate-House
conference committee which Sub-
stituted it for the Ribicoff amend-
ment. He found Sen. Fulbright's
measure to be "most salutary." He
said "the conferees are to be com-
plimented" for adopting the Ful-
bright language. .
Sen. Fulbright, Arkansas Demo-
crat, who is chairman of the Sen-
ate Foreign Relations Committee,
was the lone senator to vote
against the Ribicoff amendment.
The Ribicoff amendment was fa-
vored by 82 senators.
Rep. Farbstein, the only Jewish
member of the House Foreign Af-
fairs Committee, said "It is vital
that the Congress serve notice to
the Kremlin that the Congress will
not forget the plight of Soviet
Jewry." He said "it is a pity" that
the conference substituted the
Fulbright mendment for the
"really effe tive and meaningful
one offered tly Sen. Ribicoff.
. Confide e was voiced by Rep.
Friendly Ties With Franco Regime
Told by Leader of Jeivish Community
Commenting on the propos,d , present situation of Sephardic
law about the legal status of non- ' Jews throughout the world: More
Catholic religious minorities. Max ; than 70 specialists from various
Mazin, president of the Jewish ' countries, including Israel, took
communty in Spain, and also vice part.
president of the Jewish-Christian :
Franco recently declared the
Friendship Assocation, made the Transit Synagog of Toledo a
following statement:
Sephardic Museum. This synagogue,
"This new law is important fir founded by Samuel Abufalia in the
Spain and its Jewish people, in 14th Century, served as a church,
view of the fact that it wouid like many others, after the ex-
establish conditions now generally Pulsion of the Jews from the
accepted throughout the whole nation.
world. The fact that such condi- '
Lions have not already been in-
traduced in Spain may be attrib-
uted to the problem's unimport-
ance, from a numerical viewpoint,
due to the relative insignificance
of non-Catholic minorities which
amount to about 50,000 persons,
in Spain's total population of more
than 33,000,000."
Mazin estimated that the Span-
ish Jews who reside in the coun-
try total about 7,000, of which
3,000 live in Barcelona, 2.000 -,in
Madrid, 1,700 in Melilla, and
between 200. and 300 in Ceuta.
The Jews have a synagogue in
each of the peninsular cities In-
dicated and in Ceuta and Melilla.
With regard to relations between
the Spanish government and the
Jewish minority, Mazin said:
"Sinre ancient times a tacit un-
derstanding. a benevolent attitude.
has prevailed. In 1924 General
Primo de Rivera promulgated a
decree, of importance to all Sep-
hardic Jews, that is to say, Jews
who were expelled from Spain by
the Catholic sovereigns, in 1492. In
virtue of that legislation, many
Sephardic Jews, especially in
Greece,. Egypt and Turkey, were
able to obtain Spanish protection
and later Spanish nationality.
Spanish, governments since that
time have maintained this attitude
toward the Sephardic Jews. The
help which the present regime pro-
vided to Jews during the last
world war is well-known. More
recently, groups of Jews of Span-
ish nationality proceeding from
Morocco, and numbering between
2,000 and 2,500, were able to estab-
lish themselves in Spain without
prejudice or discrimination of any
_Farbstein that a House resolu-
tion would succeed. Thomas Mor-
gan, Pennsylvania Democrat, the
chairman of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee. is believed
to take a position ''on this issue
different from that held by Sen.
Fulbright.
1 State Department sources mean-
while /bade known that the depart-
ment stall opposes "for tactical rea-
sons" any Congressional expression
against Soviet anti-Semitism. It
was said that the experts relied
upon by the department for infor-
mation on Soviet Jewry felt such
an expression would prove counter-
productive.
, (During the heckling he experi-
enced in Asbury Park, N.J., on
Wednesday, Sen. Barry Goldwater
expressed chagrin that young peo-
ple, who hurled epithets at him,
had failed to take (seriously his
condemnation of Soviet anti-Semi-
tism and his criticism of the State
Department for having forced the
elimination of the amendment ex-
pressing protest against USSR
prejudices against Jews from the
foreign aid bill).
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Supreme Court Justice Arthur J.
Goldberg, replacing Justice Felik
Frankfurtei, has swung the balance
of the United S t al e s Supreme
Court more sharply to the liberal
side, according to the annual sum-
mary analysis of the court's de-
I cisions, issued by the commission
on law and social action of the
I American Jewish Congress.
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leased on the eve of the new term
of the Supreme Court, noted that,
during its last term, the court de-
cided a higher percentage ofis cases
in favor of individuals exercising
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