Colombian Community of 1,000 Jews Runs Tight Ship, Boasts Strong Ties

NEW YORK (JTA)—As part of
a well organized community pro-
gram, the central representative
body of the Jewish community in
Barranquilla, Colombia, has taken
the initiative in carrying out a
regular census of its Jewish popu-
lation.
Details of this activity and of
Barranquilla Jewry's tightly or-
ganized community structure were
given to a meeting of the World
Jewish Congress here by Carlos
Kalusin, the community's presi-
dent.
Kalusin said that a census ini-
tiated last year had shown that
the community numbered nearly
1,000, the bulk being members of
the Ashkenazic community. The
Barranquilla Jewish leader re-
ported that no member of - the
Ashkenazic community had been
involved in intermarriage in the
past 25 years.
-
The community maintains the
Centro Israelita Filantropico,
the representative council of

1,500,000 Trees
in Kennedy Forest

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Officials
of the Jewish National Fund said
during a press tour of the John
F. Kennedy Memorial in the Ken-
nedy Peace Forest in the Judean
Hills, Sunday, that 1,500,000 trees
have already been planted in the
Kennedy Forest.
The memorial will be dedicated
July 4 in the presence of Chief
Justice Earl Warren and more
than 1,000 other visitors from the
United States.
The JNF officials also reported
that 2,000,000 trees had been plant-
ed in the adjoining United States
Freedom Forest with a goal of a
total of 5,500,00 trees in both for-
ests, equaling the number of Am-
erican Jews. -
Gifts for the Kennedy Forest
have reached $3,000,000, with
more than 100,000 donors parti-
cipating, the officials said.
The memorial . is more than 2,-
700 feet above sea level and-visible
for miles . around. Made up of 52
concrete pylons, it is in the shape
of a cutoff tree. Inside there will
be a Kennedy relief, an eternal
flame and a permanant exhibit of
highlights of his views on Israel
and Jews.
The 51 spaces between th-e py-
lons will be covered by settings
of stained glass, . each containing
an emblem of an American state,
including one for the District of
Columbia.
Israeli participants in the dedi-
cation will include Premier Levi-
Eshkol and Mayor Teddy Kollek
of Jerusalem. American Ambassa-
dor Walworth Barbour will also
take part. Yaacov Tsur, JNF world
chairman, will hand over the dedi-
cation certificate to Herman L.
Wiesman, president of the JNF in
the United States, who will accept
it for the White House. It is not
yet known whether members of
the Kennedy .family will partici-
pate.

Oldenbourg's 'Crusades'
Published by Pantheon

Long known for her historical
novels, Zoe Oldenbourg turns to
history in her new nonfiction book
"The Crusades," published by
Pantheon.
In this work, Miss Oldenbourg
outlines the medieVal society's vic-
timization of the poor, the relative
safety of the rich and the changes
in religion during this period, in-
cluding a comparison of Eastern
and Western versions of Chris-
tianity. She also traces the na-
tionalism we know today to its
beginnings in these highly am-
biguous wars.
Pantheon also reissued Zoe 01-
denbourg's first novel, 'The World
Is Not Enough:"

In the last 20 years, over 2,000,-
000 leprosy victims have been
treated with UNICEF - provided
sulfones at a cost of 75 cents for
the complete, three-year cure.

which Kalusin is president.
Under the Centro are four major
institutions: the Beth El Syna-

gogue, the Colegio H e b r e o
"Union," the Social Club and the
Chevra Kadisha.

Each - of these four constituent four centers of Jewish settle-
groups has its own president and
ment in Colombia, whose total
board who, with four community
Jewish population is about
delegates at large, form the board
10,000. Four years ago, the com-
of trustees of the Centro Israelita. munity completed a complex of
Kalusin said that the Colegio
a new buildings which include
Hebreo provided a full secular and the synagogue, the Social Club
Jewish education for almost 300 and the school.
In addition to the four major
committee's petition had not been children from nursery school
institutions, the small Barran-
accepted by the Soviet Mission, through high school.
the delegation would transmit it
Spanish, English and Hebrew quilla community also has Zionist
to the United Nations Human are the languages of instruction, groups, WIZO, a ladies auxilia-
Rights Commission.
and at present there are about and welfare groups, although
The petition, signed by more 70 non-Jewish children enrolled in caseload for such agencies is smi.
than 600 citizens from Lancaster is, the school. "In fact," Kalusin re-
according to Prof. Germain, only ported, "the prize for the best THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
the first of "grass roots protests" Hebrew scholar went to a non- 8—Friday, June 17, 1966
from small towns and cities in Jewish girl, . a couple of years
various parts of the United States ago."
Special Attraction — July 2
which will deal with the treatment
Barranquilla is one of the
JACK HILLIARD
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Union.
"Our committee is currently
communicating with people all
around the country in an attempt
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'Soviet Jewry Week' Held in Israel;
Mission in NY Turns Down Petition

TEL AVIV (JTA) — A formal
proclamation opening "Soviet Jewry
Week" was issued Sunday by Tel
Aviv Mayor Mordechai Namir.
In his proclamation, Mayor Na-
mir called on the government of
the USSR to provide to Soviet
Jewry the same cultural and reli-
gious rights enjoyed by other So-
viet minorities, and to allow Soviet
Jews to emigrate to Israel, if they
desire to do so.
He emphasized the need for such
permission to emigrate to those
who seek reunification with fami-
lies sundered through the Nazi
holocaust and World War II.
"Soviet Jewry Week" here is
being conducted under the spon-
sorship of. the Israeli section of
the World Jewish Congress. In
previous years, the section spon-
sored special programs relating to
Jewry in France, Britain and Latin
America.
The purpose, WJC officials said,
is to provide Israelis, especially
the youth here, with better under-
standing of the lives in Jewish
communities in lands outside
Israel.
In New York, two representa-
tives of a 10-member delegation
from the Lancaster, Pa., Commit.
tee to Save Soviet Jewry were
admitted to the Soviet Mission
to the United Nations, but a
"petition of conscience" which
they intended to present to Am-
bassador N i k o l a i Fedorenko,
head of the Soviet delegation
to the UN, was rejected.
Prof. Sumner Germain. head of
the Lancaster committee and as-
sistant professor of English at
Franklin and Marshall College,
said, after a 20-minute talk with
First Secretary Michael Antipox,
that the Russian representative
"either knew little, or was willing
to admit little about the plight of
Jews in the Soviet Union."
He told newsmen that. since the

Technion Students
Against German
Ties Grow in Number

IEVAIROINS

Congressmen Force Delay
on Bill Naming Hospital
for Known Bigot, Rankin

WASHINGTON (JTA)
The
House of Representatives was
forced to defer action on a bill to
honor the late Rep. John E. Ran-
kin of Mississippi because three
members objected to inclusion of
the measure on the consent calen-
dar. owing to the Rankin legacy of
religous and racial prejudice.
The bill would have named a
new Veterans Hospital at Jack-
son, Miss., for the Congressman
who freqently took the floor of
the House to vilify minority
groups.
Rep. Seymour Halpern, New
York Republican and member of
the committee on veterans affairs,
led the objections. He said Con-
gress would do "a grave injustice
to name a veterans hospital treat-
ing veterans of all races and reli-
gions after a man who often vili-
fied American Jews and Negroes,
including those serving in the
armed forces." Rep. Halpern
termed Rep. Rankin "a notorious
racist and anti-Semite."
Associating themselves with the
objections of Rep. Halpern were
Reps. William Fitts Ryan and
Theodore Kupferman, also of New
York. Under the rules of the
House, a measure may be stricken
from the consent calendar by three
objections.
This move will defer action for
a considerable period or kill en-
tirely that portion of the legisla-
tion pertaining to Rep. Rankin.

HAIFA (JTA) Students at the
Technion-Israel Institute of Tech-
nology decided June 12 by a ma-
jority vote against establishment
of official contacts with students
in West Germany.
In a referendum sponsored by
the Students Union, 1,438 students
—68 per cent of those participat-
ing—voted against any contacts
and 636, or 29 per cent, voted for
such contacts. Two-thirds of the
Technion's 2,300 students took
Israel Red Cross Service
part in the vote. In a similar poll
three years ago, 51 per cent of the Gets Piotrkov Ambulance
The close bond that exists be-
students voted against such con-
tween
the remnants of the once
tacts and 43 per cent for them.
flourishing Jewish community of
Piotrkov will be further strength-
Germany Mustn't Forget
ened by the decision of the Piot-
rkov and vicinity Society in New
Horrible Past, Survivors
York to present an ambulance to
Told at Europe Assembly
Magen David Adorn, the national
FRANKFURT (JTA) — Hubert Red Cross Service of Israel.
Malin, general secretary of the
International Union of Resistance
and Deportees, said he felt that
"the pages of history are being
turned too quickly" in West Ger-
many and that the happenings of
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