Israel Welcomed as Member of UN Commission
on Human Rights; Soviet Bigotry Is Outlined

2,500 Jews Living in
Cuba, Govt. Says;
No Havana Rabbis

Some 17,000 students attend in-
stitutions of higher education_ in

Israel.

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NEW YORK (JTA)—A Zionist
GENEVA (JTA) — With con- stand a rational test and that the World Council of Baptists and
For Some
of the European Baptist Federa- youth group held a Purim celebra-
sideration of a draft convention on the word "anti-Semitism" was
tion," he declared.
tion in the Jewish Community Cen-
the elimination of all forms of re- a label, not an explanation.
of the
Focusing on the situation in the
ligious intolerance the main item
He said Russian Muslims were ter in Havana Sunday, according
best
buys
on an 18-point agenda, the United Soviet Union, he said that whereas permitted to send and receive over- to a report from Havana to the
Nations Commission on Human other religious communities there seas delegations and to undertake New York Times.
on new
The report stated the Castro
Rights convened its 21st annual were allowed to some extent to the traditional pilgrimage to
Pontiacs
session here Sunday — with Israel observe and propagate their re- Mecca. He asked why only Russian government permits Cuban Jews
represented as a member of the ligions, such facilities which were Jews were totally isolated from to pursue cultural, religious and
and
at some time or other granted to Jewish communities the world Zionist activities, having recently
body.
Tempests
allowed
three
Cuban
Zionists
to
at-
Jewish
religious
communities
were
over
and
from
all
religious
life.
The Israeli representative is Dr.
tend a conference in Israel.
Haim Cohen, a member of Israel's being for the greater part gradu-
The jurist said he was apologiz-
Cuba's Jewish population, which
Supreme Court and Israel's former ally and systematically withdrawn. ing for taking so much time but
attorney general. Ambassador Sal-
Justice Cohen said he was that he was doing so "not only to numbered about 10,000 in pre-
vador de Lopez, of the Philippines, "happy to report and acknowledge" draw the attention of our dis- Castro days, has now been reduced
AT
Chairman of this year's session, that the Russian Orthodox version tinguished colleague from the to about 2,500, most of the Jews
formally welcomed Israel as a new of the Bible had been reprinted in USSR and his government to this having emigrated to the United
member of the commission, along 1957 in an edition of 50,000 copies deplorable state of affairs but also States, the report said. It added
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'with two other new members, Iraq and that the Protestant version had to show that both religious belief that Jews in Havana still maintain
1 mock South of 7
five
synagogues,
but
have
no
rabbi.
UN 3-9300
been reprinted in 1958 in 10,000 and irreligious belief have in com-
and Jamaica.
They receive kosher meat and
Prof. Rene Cassin, of France, volumes.
mon that they are potential breed- poultry from the government
president of Affiance Israelite
He noted also that in UFA and ing places of religious intolerance. slaughterhouses and matzo from
Francaise, is also a member of the Tashkent the Muslim directorates The lesson of history is that true
were allowed to produce three religious freedom needs protection Canada.
Commission.
"Judaism and the Hebrew and
In addition to consideration of editions of the Arabic Koran be- from both."
Yiddish languages are still being
tween
1959
and
1962.
But
he
said
the religious freedom item,
after regular classes in Ha-
no such permission had ever been Mexican, Argentine Jews taught
which has been pending before
vana's Albert Einstein School. This
one UN body or another for sev- given for reprinting of the Hebrew to Link Education Activity institution has been nationalized,
eral years, the session agenda Bible.
MEXICO CITY (JTA) — A de- like all other private schools, and
He added that he was glad to
has an item, inscribed by Po-
cision
to coordinate the Jewish ed- only 60 of its 400 pupils are Jew-
land, forbidding the termination say that Muslims were allowed to
ucation
activities in Mexico with ish," the report stated.
of prosecution of Nazi war crimi- use Arabic as their holy language
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by
the
board
of
education
of
Nid-
similar
facilities
in
the
Soviet
A number of international and
See Mr. Mosher
other Jewish organizations are rep- Union for Hebrew. He said that for che Israel, the organization of Ash-
IF YOU TURN THE
Open Mon. thru Sat. Till 4:30
resented at the session as non- 40,000,000 Russian Orthodox wor- kenazic Jews in this country. It
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governmental participants, with,the shippers, there were, according to followed a proposal made to Nid-
NATIONAL BANK
che
Israel
recently
by
Marc
Tur-
press
reports,
20,000
churches,
right of speaking but not the right
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
kow,
general
secretary
of
the
Lat-
35,000
priests
and
sixty-nine
mon-
OF SOUTHFIELD
to vote. Among the organizations
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NEAR NORTHLAND
izations, Consultative Council of lievers. For Russia's 10,000,000 both Hebrew and Yiddish will work
Baptists
there
were
roughly
6,000
closely
with
similar
institutions
in
Jewish Organizations, World Jew-
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ish Congress, and International parishes and pastors—one place of Argentina.
Council of Jewish Women. The worship and one minister for each
sessions will continue until April 500 believers.
Justice Cohen then contrasted
15.
these data with the remaining
The draft convention dealing
90 synagogues and about that
with religious freedoms would call number of rabbis for nearly
upon all governments, including 1,000,000 Jewish believers — one
the Soviet Union but not mention- synagogue and one rabbi for
ing the USSR specifically, to per-
15,000 to 16,000. He said the ec-
mit full freedom of religious prac- clesiastical bodies of other re-
tice to all believers. Under the ligions in Russia were permitted
document. teaching of Hebrew to produce a variety of ritual
would be permitted, as well as objects and that mass sales of
the right of religious Jews to visit such objects, particularly can-
Israel.
dies, was an important source
Justice Cohen outlined at
of income for the church. How-
length at the commission's meet-
ever, he pointed out that the
ing Wednesday the discrimina-
production of Jewish religious
tions being practiced by Soviet
objects, such as prayer shawls or
authorities against Russian Jews.
phylacteries, was prohibited.
Justice Cohen, speaking on the
He told the commission that still
draft before the commission, said less understandable than this dis-
the greatest achievement embodied crimination was the fact that mat-
in the draft was that it covered ters had gone from bad to worse
theistic, non-theistic and atheistic since the repudiation of the Stalin
beliefs to ensure that disregard of era. In 1962, the jurist noted,
the freedom of religion should authorities announced publicly for
never again be allowed to bring the first time that Jews could no
longer bake matzo for Passover.
suffering to mankind..
Declaring that the Catholic He said that the feast of Passover,
church had stopped persecuting a remembrance of delivery from
members of other religions, he said bondage, had been branded in
that the highest councils of the Soviet propaganda as "subversive"
church, a reference to the Ecu- and as "killing love for the Soviet
menical Council, was now formu- motherland," though in fact its
lating principles of tolerance to observance was quite compatible
guide the Catholic church in the with love of motherlands. He said
that in all fairness he should add
future.
Justice Cohen insisted that the that very limited amounts of matzo
intolerance inherent in any re- were being baked this year within
7 PIECE SEDER DISH, with vividly colored hand decorated scenes of the 10
ligion was also inherent in the the precinct of a few synagogues,
plagues, with the order of the Passover Seder service in Hebrew and English.
belief that no religion can be true. and he expressed the hope that
this
was
a
step
in
•
the
right
di-
LARGE DISH: 161/2" diameter. INDIVIDUAL DISHES: 4" diameter.
quoted
the
Marxist
dogma
that
He
"Religion is the opium of the rection.
As Other observers have re-
masses." Asserting that the suffer-
ing once caused by monopolistic ported, Justice Cohen noted also
religions was now being caused by that the Jewish religion was dis-
reliance on atheistic doctrine, the criminated against in Russia by a
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Jurist said that the motivation for ban on organizations on a national
intolerance was the same in both basis and a ban on contact with co-
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from those of the next man. If the wide federation in Russia. "This
All-Union
Council
of
Evangelical
"next man" is a member of a small
minority, the jurist added, he and Christian Baptists is a member of
his views are doomed.
viminmem ■ mmimmme,
It was a matter of "bitter and
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fateful tragedy," Pustice Cohen
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Sunday
8:00
P.M.
Don Frohman's "Sabbath Morning
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