Shocking Incident
at Basketball Game
By JESSE SILVER
(Copyright, 1965,
JTA,
Inc.)
An untoward incident occurred
during a basketball game between
two Catholic schools, Creighton U.,
of Omaha, Nebraska, and St. John's
at the St. John's gym in New York.
As play became heated, a spectator
in the stands yelled "dirty Jew"
at Creighton's Jay Warhaftig, a
Jewish sophomore from New York.
Seconds later, Warhaftig was
charged with an offensive foul.
The combination of the two inci-
dents coming almost simultaneous-
ly caused Jay to bounce the ball
on the floor in anger. He was
charged with a technical and his
coach said that proved to be the
turning point of the game, which
was won by St. John's. The
Creighton coach also said that:
"I'm sorry for Jay's sake, that it
happened. But he should have
controlled himself. Meanwhile, St.
John's coach, Joe Lapchick, who
developed many All-America Jew-
ish performers, said: "We just
don't stand for that sort of name
calling here. If any of our officials
had heard it, the person or per-
sons responsible would have been
put out of the gym immediately."
Warhaftig has been having his
troubles at Creighton. He quit the
team for seven games during the
Christmas break because he said
he was homesick. But he changed
his mind and returned to the
squad after his teammates voted
to allow him to rejoin them. It is
of interest that Warhaftig first
became acquainted with Creighton
when he met its coach at Dolph
Schayes' summer basketball camp.
Kennedy Book Heads
List of Herzl Press
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Seven new publications are
scheduled on the spring list of
Herzl Press, it was announced by
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, chairman
of the Herzl Foundation. High-
lighting the new books is "John
F. Kennedy on Israel, Zionism and
Jewish Issues" published in coop-
eration with the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America.
The Kennedy book is composed
of the outstanding statements on
Israel and Zionism made by the
late president during the sixteen
year period of his public life
1947-63.
The book of Kennedy statements
has an introduction by Rabbi Max
Nussbaum, president of the Zion-
ist Organization of America. The
material was compiled by Ernest
E. Barbarash with introductory
notes written by Gertrude Hirsch-
ler.
The other books are:
"Miracle of Israel" by Robert
Gamzey, editor of Intermountain
Jewish News, Denver; "Thus Were
Our Fighters," an anthology of
writings by soldiers who died for
Israel that has been compiled, ed-
ited by Reuben Avinoam; the
Herzl Year Book sixth annual vol-
ume, edited by Dr. Raphael Patai;
"Rabbi With Wings: Story of a
Pilot," by Rabbi Samuel Burstein;
"Teaching Israel: A Guide for Jew-
ish Schools" by Dr. David Kusele-
witz; "Soldiers in Judea: Stories
and Vignettes of the Jewish Le-
gion," by Roman Freulich.
Russian Embassy Protests American Interference in 'Domestic Affairs'
The Russian Embassy in Wash-
ington has just released a "Verbal
Statement of Embassy of the
USSR to U.S. Department of
State," made in Washington on
April 26:
"Attention has been paid in the
Soviet Union to the statement by a
representative of the U.S. Depart-
ment of State on April 15 with re-
gard to the letter from Douglas
MacArthur, Assistant Secretary of
State, to the chairman of the Sen-
ate Foreign Relations Committee,
in which it was pointed out that
the State Department decided not
to object to the adoption of a res-
olution on the position of the Jew-
ish population in the USSR by the
Congress of the United States. This
cannot be appraised otherwise
than as actual encouragement of
attempts to interfere in the do-
mestic affairs of the USSR and to
spread allegations having nothing
to do with the real- state of affairs.
"The Department of State ought
to know that persons of Jewish
nationality enjoy equal rights in
the Soviet Union with all the other
peoples inhabiting our country.
The Soviet multinational state is
based on principles which preclude
the possibility of national, racial
or any other discrimination. The
constitution of the USSR, proclaim-
ing the equality of all Soviet citi-
zens, points out directly that 'any
advocacy of racial or national ex-
clusiveness or hatred and contempt
are punishable by law.' This clause
in the Constitution has been unde-
viatingly observed in the life of
Soviet society, and any objective
person cannot but confirm this.
"The Soviet people, the Jewish
public included, have expressed
their indignation more than once
in the past, and express it now, at
the fabrications s p r e a d in the
United States about the position
of Jews in the Soviet Union."
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Paris Jews Appeal
to Gromyko to Let
Jews Emigrate
Torgny Segerstedt, rector of Upp-
sala University.
A message was received from
Lord Russell, the British philoso-
pher.
One of the principal speakers
at the conference, Prof. Herbert
Tingsten, former editor of the
influential Swedish newspaper,
Dagens Nyneter, told the ses-
sion: "Anti-Semitism in the So-
viet Union is carried out under
the guise of anti-Zionism, on the
theory that Zionists are guilty
of dual loyalty. But dual loyalty
should be possible in countries
where Jews are tolerated.
has two fatherlands, his own and
France. Swedish Communists
claim they can be loyal. to the
Soviet Union and to Sweden. I
can feel solidarity with the Soviet
Jews and with Sweden. Although
I am not a Jew, I have a second
fatherland—Israel—because Israel
has promoted world progress."
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tinian Communist who had spent
25 years in the USSR, holding a
high post in the Comintern for
three years. Later, he served 22
years in a Siberian prison camp.
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MEXICO CITY (JTA) — Presi-
dent Gustavo Diaz Ordaz formally
accepted two valuable paintings
which were bequeathed to the
Mexican government by an un-
identified Jewish couple in grati-
tude for the haven they found
here when they fled from Austria
in the 1930s.
The two old masters, estimated
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Hals' "Portrait of a Man" and
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PARIS (JTA)—A solemn appeal
to Soviet Foreign Minister Andre
Gromyko, currently in Paris on an
official visit, to permit reunion of
families separated by World War
II and Nazi persecution emerged
Monday night from a mass meeting
held here to commemorate the
22nd anniversary of the Warsaw
Ghetto revolt against the Nazis.
The appeal to the Soviet foreign
minister was made on behalf of
local Jewish organizations by Dr.
F. Menahem,president of the
Liaison committee. He told the
assemblage that "it is a tragic
fact that, 20 years after the war
and just as they are emerging
from an unprecedented tragedy,
3,000,000 Soviet Jews are deprived
of their culture and prevented
from freely exercising their faith."
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Party of the USSR, had never
been punished because ranking
members of the Soviet presidium
had supported his anti-Semitic
theses.
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Ukrainians Are Seized
for Transporting Matzo
LONDON (JTA)—A number of
Jews transporting packages of
matzo baked privately from the
city of Slavuta in the Ukraine to
Lvov were arrested, according to
reports received here Tuesday.
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Scandinavian Parley
Asks World Speak Up
for Soviet Jewry
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STOCKHOLM (JTA) — Resolu-
tions urging the world to inter-
vene with the Soviet Union on be-
hall of ending Soviet anti-Semit-
ism, calling upon the USSR auth-
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orities to safeguard the cultural
rights of Soviet Jews and to per-
mit Jews to leave the Soviet Union
for purposes of family reunifica-
tion, were adopted Sunday at the
conclusion of a two-day Scandina-
vian Conference on Soviet Jewry.
Leading scientists and writers
from Sweden, Denmark and Nor-
way attended the conference, un-
der the chairmanship of Prof.
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