Jewish Groups Re ject NY City Plan Paraguayan Jewish Tombs Vandalized
for a Monument to Nazi Victims
NEW YORK (JTA)—A plan by
the New York City Art Commis-
sion to have a monument erected
in a city square in memory of the
6,000,000 Jewish martyrs of Nazism
is opposed by a steering committee
of 34 Jewish organizations, a
spokesman for the committee an-
nounced.
The art commission approved the
project, calling for the erection of
a 30-foot-high slab of granite or
marble in a small park facing Lin-
coln Center, a complex of mid-city
structures devoted to the arts. The
face of the slab would depict a
sculpture showing Cain killing
Abel, and would quote the story
of that murder as told in the Book
of Genesis. Under the biblical
quotation, there would be a dedi-
cation "in memoriam to the 6,000,.
000 martyred Jews of Europe,
1933-1945."
According to the spokesman
for the steering committee, that
body considered the design now
approved by the art commission
and rejected it a month ago. In-
stead of the proposed monument
and the Lincoln .Center site, the
committee prefers the erection
in Riverside Park of another,
more dramatic monument, which
the art commission rejected a
year ago.
The project approved by the
commission calls for a memorial
to cost $250,000, to be met by the
Committee for the Six Million
Jews.
The commission last winter re-
jected two proposals by Jewish
group sponsors, both proposed for
sites in Riverside Park. In reject-
ing both plans, the commission
said they ' were "too tragic" and
that parks should be for relaxa-.
tion "and not for commemoration
of massacres."
A flood of telegrams and letters
poured into Mayor Robert Wag-
ner's office, asking him to reverse
the decision which technically he
cannot do. He urged the Jewish
groups to work out a compromise
with the parks department and the
art commission.
Expressing "amazement" over
the art commission's approval of a
memorial project without the con-
sent of organized Jewry in this
city, the steering committee
planned to form a broad committee
which would conduct an art con-
test for a monument that would
be acceptable bath to the city and
the Jewish community.
Paraguayan authorities are searching for vandals who recently
smeared swastikas on a monument to the 6,000,000 Nazi victims in the
Jewish cemetery of Asuncion, according to information received by
the World Jewish Congress in New York. A number of Jewish tomb-
stones were also smeared, as shown in the above picture.
Wolfson Foundation Gives
$27.3 Million in 10 Years
LONDON (JTA)—The Wolfson
Foundation, established by promi-
nent , Jewish philanthropist Sir
Isaac Wolfson, has awarded grants
over the past 10 years totaling
9,750,000 pounds sterling ($27,300,-
000).
Among the grants made during
1965, a Foundation report said,
was one of 250,000 pounds ($700,-
000) for a new building for the
Wolfson Institute of Experimental
Biology at the Weizmann Institute
of Cancer Research in Rehovot and
one of 100,000 pounds ($280,000)
to provide basic equipment for the
faculty of science of the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.
Numerous smaller grants were
made to Jewish colleges, old age
homes and similar institutions in
Britain and Israel.
Akiva Hebrew Day School
Second Anniversary Banquet
Tuesday, Jan. 18 at 6:30 p. m.
Rotenberg Hall, B'nai David Synagogue
Southfield
yon presence is a vote for intensive Jewish Education
A Guarantee For A Jewish Future
London Detectives Patrol
Area of Stabbing Incident
LONDON (JTA)—Officials of
the Board of Deputies of British
Jews said Scotland Yard was im-
plementing its promise to provide
extra police protection in a sec-
tion of North London where two
Jewish youths were attacked by
a gang on Dec. 3. Plainclothes de-
tectives are now on around-the-
clock patrol in the area.
One of the 17-year-old victims
was stabbed so severely he re-
quired hospitalization. The youth,
the son of Agudas Israel leader
Meir Springer, was reported out
of danger. Local Jewish leaders
said that it might be necessary
for Jews in the area to organize
a self-defense group, despite the
special police protection.
Meanwhile, 13 boys, ranging in
age from 14 to 16, were _arraigned
in Hackney Juvenile Court, in
East London, in connection with
the stabbing incident. At the re-
quest of the prosecution, they
were remanded for hearings on
Jan. 18, and bail for each was
fixed at 25 pounds ($70).
Rabbi Dr. Simon Dolgin
Emil Cohen
of Beverly Hills, California
Guest Speaker
American-Jewish Humorist
Guest Artist
Dinner Music by Sam Barrett
Anti-Semitic Mailings
Flood NY Suburbs
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (JTA)—
A flood of mail, most of it anti-
Negro and some of it expressing
also anti-Semitic sentiments, is
is being sent to addresses in New
York City suburbs, particularly in
Westchester County, of which this
city is the center, it was revealed
by Israel H. Moss, executive di-
rector of the Westchester office of
the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith.
Included • among the mailings,
said Moss, are about 5,000 book-
lets, entitled "How Classroom De-
segregation Will Work," written
by Dr. Henry E. Garrett, retired
head of the psychology depart-
ment of Columbia University.
Some of the mail, he declared,
originates at Richmond, Va., and
some in Washington, D.C. Moss
linked many of the mailings with
persons believed to be members
of the John Birch Society.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 24, 1965-11
MAX STOLLMAN
Honorary Chairman
MORRIS NOVETSKY
General Chairman
JACK LIEBERMAN
Co-Chairman
IRVING HERSHMAN
Co Chairman
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DAVID I. BERRIS
Co-Chairman
Couvert $25.00
For Reservations call 342-9119
Arrangements Committee:
Mrs. Lil Aaron
Mrs. Fayga Dombey
Mrs. Frieda Stollman