Soviet Anti-Jewish Policy Continues
to Draw Attention From World Groups
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at the Hebrew 'Union College-
Jewish Institute of Religion, Cin-
cinnati, told the delegates that
• "the third or fourth generation
American Jew has very -little in-
. feriority complex about his Jewish-
ness, but seeks identity in terms
of a set of ideals and principles
rather than only out of a vague
idea of ethnic affiliation."
The scholar said that 85 per cent
all Jewish children in the
nited States stopped their Jewish
education at age 13. He also said
that 18 per cent of marriages
among Jewish youth were mixed
marriages. He said the "sheer
drop" in the population growth of
the American Jewish community
threatened it with "ultimate ex-
tinction."
At a luncheon, Prof. Marie Syr-
kin, a member of the Jewish
Agency executive, stressed the
need for increased immigration to
Israel from the United States, not
only for the sake of Israel but for
the continued vitality of American
Jewry.
The convention, in a resolution
on American aliyah, recommended
that Lag b'Omer be designated as
American Aliyah Day.
Britain's CoMniunist Party
Reminds Moscow on Policy
LONDON (JTA) -- The execu-
tive committee of the British Com-
munist •Party, one of the first in
the West to protest anti-Semitism
in the Soviet Union, reiterated May
24 an appeal to Soviet Commnnist
Party leaders to eradicate the
"remnants of anti-Semitism."
This appeal was couched in the
framework of an assertion that
the British Communist Party had
consistently campaigned against
anti-Semitism in any form and
that greater progress had been
in the Soviet Union "in eliminating
anti-Semitism than anywhere else
in the world."
The statement said that the
Soviet Union had led in eliminat-
ing anti-Semitism despite the
"crimes against Socialist demo-
cracy between 1948 and 1953." a
reference to the Stalin era,
which "had adverse effects on
Soviet Jews, as in many other
fields of democracy and retarded
the process of eliminating all
forms of discrimination" in the
USSR. _
The statement then recited a
list of "measures_ taken in the
Soviet Union since 1953 to redress
earlier wrongs." These included
the • setting up of a Yiddish pub-
lishing house, publication of the
Yiddish language Sovietische
Heimland, organization of a num-
ber of drama and concert groups
"and Yiddish readers and writers'
conferences."
However, the executive added, it
was • "impossible" that in a his-
torically short period of less than
alf a century "every vestige of
ti-Semitism among the popula-
on could be eliminated. Rem-
nants of anti-Semitism r ema in
among individuals, as do remnants
of other reactionary ideas and at-
titudes against which there is. and
must be a continuous struggle."
For these reasons, the executive
Committee said, it was asking the
Central Committee of the Soviet
Coranumist Party to give "sym-
pathetic consideration" to certain
steps "in addition to all that has-
been done" to cope with anti-
Semitism.
One of the steps was that the
ideological struggle against the
remnants of anti-Semitism "be
improved." Another was 'an ap-
peal that "greater care" be ex-
ercised in conducting "ideo-
logical work"- against religion
and nationalism "so as to avoid
'impermissible crudities which
have nothing to do with a prin.
cipled Mar x i s t position and
which can be exploited by anti-
Semites to • further anti-Sem-
itism."
Referring to an earlier state-
ment on the issue, the executive
committee said that in January,
it had pointed out that religious
freedom implied the facilities to
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obtain ritual articles associated
with religious worship and • that
"facilities for obtaining of some
such articles" by Russian Jews
"are still insufficient."
The statement stressed that the
British Communists understood
"that the solution of these matters
lies with the Soviet authorities"
and that it was offering its sug-
gestions "in a fraternal way be-
cause what happens in the USSR
on all such questions is of deepest
interest to Communists every-
where."
Chief Justice to Attend
JFK Memorial Unveiling
(Direct JTA -Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
J.P_AtUSALEIVI — Chief Justice
Earl Warren has accepted an in-
vitation from the Jewish National
Fund to attend the unveiling of
the President Kennedy Memorial
July 4 in the Kennedy Forest near
Jerusalem, Yaacov Tsur, chairman
of the JNF, said Wednesday.
Confirming the chief justice's
acceptance, Tsur said that invita-
tions also had been extended to
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and Sen-
ators Robert and Edward Ken-
nedy. He indicated it was unlikely
that they would come. '
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DAIA Sees Good in Ties With U.S. Jews, but Shuns Unsolicited Protection
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Ar-
gentinian Jewry was advised Mon-
day by Dr. Isaac Goldenberg, pres-
ident of DATA, the central body of
organized Jewry in this country,
to maintain contacts • with all sec-
tors of the Jewish community in
the United States but to reject "un-
requested protection."
Dr. Goldenberg made that state-
ment in summarizing the proceed-
ings of the DMA's fifth national
convention, which had been in ses-
sion since last week at Mendoza.
The parley was attended by 218
delegates from every Jewish cen-
ter in the country.
Throughout the conclave, stress.
was laid by many speakers on
DAIA's ability to fight anti-Semit-
ism in Argentina and on the need
to continue such activities. Herzl
Gesang, secretary - general of
DAIA, told the convention that,
since the end of World War II,
1,800 German Nazis had found ref-
uge 'in Argentina.
Dr. Jaime Pompas of Cordoba,
declared that "the present tran-
quility enjoyed by the Jews of Ar-
gentina is due mainly to the ef-
forts of DAIA." Dr. Goldenberg
had warned that a recent survey
indicated that 1v MM M M M
Dr. Jaime Pompas of Cordoba,
declared that "the present tran-
quility enjoyed by the Jews of
Argentina is due mainly to the
efforts of DMA." Dr. Goldenberg
had warned that a recent survey
indicated that "more than 50
Israel's Chief of Staff
Confirms 30-Year Term
for Arab Infiltrator
per cent of the working popula-
tion of Argentina shows totalita-
rian inclinations."
One of the proposals discussed
at the end of the convention was
the establishment of closer con-
tacts between Argentinian Jews
and the local Arab population.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV—Maj. Gen. Yitzhak
Rabin, chief of staff of Israel's
defense forces, confirmed Monday
the sentence to 30 years' imprison-
ment imposed by a military court
on Mahmoud Hijazi, the Arab in-
filtrator who was captured by an
Israeli border patrol near •Jordian
in January 1965.
Neither the defense nor the pro-
secution had announced any inten-
tion to appeal the sentence.
Hijazi was sentenced two weeks
ago after his second trial. He had
been found guilty and sentenced to
death previously, but the death
sentence was overruled, and he
was given a second trial on the
grounds that he had not been de-
fended properly during the- first
proceedings.
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