94,000 Microfilms of Jewish Documents
Zionists of Canada Finish
Among the most interesting doc-
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Ameri-
uments, according to the society,
can
Jewish
Historical
Society
an-
Ann • -Semitic Incidents Reported
Riora
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the completion of a proj- are the intention of naturalization
F plam IV' cjec t ion nounced
ect to microfilm 94,000 pertinent papers which by indicating nativ-
NEW YORK (JTA) — The , vent the autograph seekers from -
documents of Jewish interest in ity, show the paths of immigration
American Jewish Conference on reaching Miss Gill. The report was 0 re]
.
New York County archives. of Jews to the United States, first
Soviet Jewry reported this week obtained from witnesses whoSe
Plai the
amial
Requiring 15 months to finish, the from the West Indies, then from
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it had learned that police in Riga, identities have been withheld for f
program resulted in the acquisition Western Europe and finally from
personal reasons, the Conference

14—Friday, September 30, 1966

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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in Soviet Latvia, committed a num-
ber of anti-Semitic acts and ar- said.
MONTREAL (JTA) — The Zion of 65 reels of microfilm and the the East European areas.
rested several Jews after a concert
of Canada ex - compilation of an index of 17,000
An incident then developed be-
i Organization
, anization
An El Al Record
entries. In addition, bound posi-
given last July in Riga by Geulah tween Naomi Garber, a 15-year- i ist Orc by
tive
photocopies
of
the
documents
Jewish
girl,
and
a
police
major
plained
why
75
of
the
80
members
Gill, an Israeli folk singer. Miss old
El Al, Israel's national airline,
named Beskhleb Nitkov. The re- of its national executive had voted
a Zionist are now available for research.
Gill toured the Soviet Union last
flew a total of 1,337,000 passenger
proposals
Covering the period from 1685 kilometers (830,772 miles) last
July under a cultural exchange port said that the girl responded in I against
for in Canada
al federation
territorial
program with Israel.
a restrained way to a remark by !sought by the World Zionist Organ- to 1920, these papers deal with a year, about 30 per cent more thail
According to the report, mem- the police major she considered
wide range of New York and the total flown in the previous
bers of the audience at the con- to be anti-Semitic. The police ma- ization.
American history. Included in the y ear.
Lawrence Freiman, ZOC presi
cert, most of them Jews, crowded jor contended Miss Garber slapped
collection are documents dealing
dent, said that he and Sol D.
the stage entrance at the end of his face. She was arrested.
with the Mayor's Court and insolv- Classified Ads Get Quick Results
Police
also
reportedly
arrested
Granek,
ZOC
executive
vice-presi-
Miss Gill's concert to get her
ent debtors, as well as intention
autograph. Policemen and other M axim Kushlim, 23, a Jew charged dent, had accepted an invitation of naturalization and incorpora-
security officers moved in to pre- with having assaulted a police from Aryeh L. Pincus, Jewish tion papers. All the prominent
Agency executive chairman, to go
House Parent Wanted
lieutenant named Zayef and a to Brussels to negotiate on the New York Jewish families for two-
and-one-half•
centuries
are
repre-
Part time relief house parent, one
plainclothes
detective
named
Sp-
Farbstein Renominated
or 2 days a week for Agency's
rugis. Later that night, the witness- proposals. He said negotiations in sented. Such famous names as the
children's homes. Call David
es reported, police arrested Mrs. Canada and in Brussels "were Franks, Levys, Schifs, Seixas' and
for Congress; Anti-LBJ
Goldberg.
S. Roth, a 45-year-old Jewish wo- necessitated by the action taken Strauss' are frequently noted.
Candidate Weiss Beaten
man. She was charged with having by the Labor Zionist Movement of Even such prominent non-Jews as
Jewish Family &
NEW YORK—In a rejection of incited a riot against police and Canada, Mizrachi Hapoel-Hamiz- John Jay, Aaron Burr, and Dun-
Children's Service
his "peace platform," voters in with having led a delegation to - the rachi Organization of Canada, can Phyfe, the famous cabinet-
New York's 19th Congressional Dis- police station to seek Miss Garber's Achdut Avodah and Mapam, signi- maker, are recorded as having
DI 1-5959
trict turned down Councilman release. i fying their intention of forming a Jewish contacts.
Theodore Weiss' bid for the nom-
On July 14, according to the re- Zionist F e d e r a t i o n in Canada
ination to the U.S. House of Repre- port, police arrested Mordecai based on the party system."
sentatives and chose Rep. Leonard
The proposal for a Zionist ter-
Farbstein by a slim majority in a Blum
28, a Jewish
ritorial federation was one of
was charged
with engineer,
trying to who
free
runoff primary Tuesday.
several approved by the last
Miss Blum by force. Police said
Although Rep. Farbstein had an that Blum had hit a police officer
World Zionist Congress for most
early 2-1 lead, Weiss caught up. Of on the head and knocked his cap
areas of the world in which
256 districts. 230 reporting had a to the ground.
there are Zionist groups. The
total vote of 15,251 for Farbstein
The report said that police had
proposal for Canada, made by
to 14,353.
questioned witnesses at the theater Dr. Nahum Goldmann, presi-
Rep. Farbstein, who has held to obtain evidence in support of dent of the World Zionist Organ-
eat 10 years,
Congressional seat
their charges against the Jews
ization, and Pincus, called for a
h a regular ora l s tation Demo-
is
they arrested. But, the report said,
territorial Z i o n i s t federation
crat who backs President John- the police refused to accept test- based on free elections and the
son's Vietnam policy. Weiss, a imony volunteered by Jewish wit- political party system, and that !
Reform Democrat, was campaign- nesses. Witnesses against Mrs. a founding convention for the
ing with hopes that a wide vote Roth were policemen and a de-
federation be held by June 30,
in his favor would mean rejec-
tective named Popov, who said 1967.
.
lion of Mr. Johnson's policy in Mrs. Roth called the police anti-
In the interim, according to the
Vietnam.
Semites and Gestapo memberS.
Last June, in the regular pri- Miss Garber was released later Goldmann-Pincus proposal. the La-
mary, Weiss appeared to have won because, as a minor, she was not bor Zionist s, Mizrachi-Hapoel
by 61 votes in the first unofficial considered responsible before the Hamizrachi, Achdut Avodah and
count. Three days later, the offi- law. Three other Jews in the case Mapam would be giyen 50 per cent
cial canvass showed Farbstein had were said to have been tried Aug. representation and the ZOC-Cana-
a 151-vote margin. Over 1,000 votes 31 but the outcome of the trial dian Hadassah-WIZO would re-
ceive 50 per cent representation
were invalidated, however, so the was not known.
on the ZOC national executive.
State Supreme Court ordered Tues-
Votes resulting in a tie would be
day's runoff.
The 19th District is overwhelm-
referred to the chairman of the
Jewish Agency in Jerusalem for
ing Democratic. The primary win-
ner is assured of election in No-
arbitration. If one of the smaller
..,
vember.
Zionist parties voted with the ZOC,
Weiss couldn't vote for himself
,T140erisilta
this would also be considered a tie
thOT 4 0, fV0
in the runoff. He lives eight blocks
vote subject to the same arbitra-
•514 VICTO S
north of the district boundary.
tion procedures.
1>t
Freiman said the proposals
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Sen.
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William Proxmire, Wisconsin Dem-
ocrat, hailed Israel's foreign aid
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