Romanian Flood Relief Receives $30,000 From JDC
NEW YORK (JTA)—In response of Synagogues as part of a fund- service" Bnai Brith could provide
to an urgent appeal from Dr. raising tour on behalf of the 500,000 to "ameliorate the human plight."
Moses Rosen, chief rabbi of Romanians made homeless by the
(A similar offer and allocation
Romania, the Joint Distribution floods.
was sent to Mayor W. D. Rogers
Committee has contributed $30,000
In an interview with the Jewish Jr. of Lubbock, Tex., a city seri-
fbr flood relief in Romania, it was Telegraphic Agency, Dr. Rosen ously damaged by a tornado).
disclosed at a press conference in said he was gratified at the re-
In Tel Aviv, Koor Industries,
the New York offices of the JDC sponse of world Jewry to the needs Ltd., Israel's largest industrial net-
by Chief Rabbi Rosen. of Romanian Jewry in the current work, revealed the dispatch of aid
At the conclusion of the confer- disaster.
to flood struck areas of Romania.
ence, Chief Rabbi Rosen and
He emphasized the S30,000 con- The Israel concern has for several
Louis Broido, JDC chairman, left
tributed by the Claims Confer- years been a supplier of goods to
for Washington to present the
ence and the $30,000 presented Romania, ranging from bus bodies
check to the Romanian Embassy.
to the Romanian ambassador in to pesticides and building mate-
Washington by the Joint Distri- rials.
Romania has suffered the worst
floods in its history, Chief Rabbi bution Committee.
Two subsidiary companies of
At a lunch at the Jewish Theo- Koor—ISL Industrial Service Co.,
Rosen stated. Close to 300,000 peo-
ple were made homeless. Over 200 logical Seminary of America, Dr. Ltd., and Alda, Israel Foreign
deaths have been reported. Many Rosen accepted a relief check for Trade Co. Ltd., have already sent
Jewish communities throughout $500 from Jacob Stein, president blankets and other materials, as
Romania have been devastated, he of the United Synagogue of Amer- well as food and drugs. Various
added, and hundreds of Jewish ica, part of the World Council.
enterprises of the 36-plant Koor
families have been made home-
In the interview, Dr. Rosen ex- network arc collecting money and
less.
preSsed mixed feelings over the clothes for immediate dispatch to
Chief Rabbi Rosen has issued an emigration of three-quarters of the flooded communities.
Mogen David Adorn. Israel's
appeal to Jewish communities all Romania's postwar Jews to Israel.
over the world for assistance. Ho He was happy about their "vital official red cross agency, has dis-
teported that a special fund was interest" in Israel, but realized the patched a series of relief shipments
to the bereaved victims of the
set up in Bucharest to assist the loss to his country.
He said the exodus had resulted Peruvian earthquakes. The ship-
flood victims and on the joint
assistance program by the JDC in a decrease in the number of t ments included medicines, band-
and the Federation of Jewish Com- Romanian rabbis from 600 to three, ages, blood plasma, blankets and
munities of Romania which aids including himself. But he noted children's clothing, according to
over 15,000 needy Jews in Romania. that the remaining 100,000 Roma- t an announcement today by the
nian Jews were renewing their American Red Mogen David for
There are about 100,000 Jews in
: Israel.
Romania today, Chief Rabbi Rosen faith.
The chief rabbi, who has estab-
"Saving
'
lives:" Dr. Eliahu Elath.
said. There are about 150 synago- listed an amenable though sensi-
pi ., csident of Mogen David Adorn.
ties throughout the country. 20 of rive relationship with the Commu- ' said. "is a universial commitment.
them in Bucharest, he added. nist Romanian government, de- We must go where we are needed.
Chief Rabbi Rosen stated there dined comment on the possible I whenever we are needed."
a resurgence of Jewish educa- reaction in his country—by the :
tion in Romania with 2,000 stu- government or by the Jews —
dents attending courses in Hebrew should open Soviet-Israeli hostili-
in Bucharest and other cities. ties break out in the Middle East.
to Vandalized Synagogue
These courses are organized by
Romania is the only Iron Curtain
the Federation of Jewish Corn- country maintaining diplomatic NEW YORK (JTA) — A Torah
munities, and Chief Rabbi Rosen is ' relations with Israel, but it is also scroll that was slightly damaged
the lecturer at a number of the a member of the Eastern-bloc during the Fascist rule in Romania
classes. Other prominent Roman- Warsaw Pact.
and later restored by the Israeli .
tan Jews lecture on scientific and I
Dr. Rosen contended, however, Ministry of Religion was presented
cultural topics.
that an open Soviet-Israeli war to the recently vandalized Congre-
I gation Ahavath Torah Synagogue,
Chief Rabbi Rosen had an audi- , was "not possible."
once with Governor Nelson A.
Stein told the JTA that a group the Bronx.
Making the presentation to Rabbi
Rockefeller and with Mayor Lind- ' of 35 to 40 members of United
say. Lindsay also presented Chief Synagogue Youth will visit B o_ David Toiv were Mayor Teddy Kol-
mania and the Soviet Union this lek of Jerusalem and Rep. James
Rosen with the key to the city.
Dr. Rosen spoke at a luncheon summer on a seven-week "pilgrim- Scheuer. Rabbi Toiv said the cere
tendered in his honor by the World age." A group of 440 also will visit mony represented "the literal and
Council of Synagogues which was Israel. In Romania, the teen-agers dramatic fulfillment of the proph-
presided over by Jack Stein, of will help raise funds to aid the et's foretelling: 'For out of Zion'.
Great Neck, N.Y., president of the flood victims. shall go forth Torah and the word
.
.
of the Lord from Jerusalem'." '
United Synagogue. (Morris Speiz-
visiting Israel two
Rep.
man of Charlotte, N.C. is president Bnai Brith, Israel Firm
months s ago, had asked Mayor Kol-
of the international religious body.)
lek's aid in replacing Ahavath
Aid
Disaster
Victims
Stein, on behalf of his organiza-
Lion, the congregational branch of WASHINGTON — Bnai Brith Torah's scroll.
Conservative Judaism, presented expressed to the Romanian ambas-
Rabbi Rosen with a contribution sador here its distress over the European Student
recent floods which devastated
for the Romania relief fund.
Workshops to Be Started
Dr. Louis Finkelstein, Chancel- large areas of that country.
PARIS (JTA) — With the ap-
Dr. William A. Wexler, president
for of the Jewish Theological Sem-
inary presented Rabbi Rosen with of Bnai Brith, in a letter to Am- proval of the European Council of
a rare edition of the Sifri corn- bassador Corneliu Bogdan, for- Jewish Community Services, stu-
warded a $500 allocation from dent community workshops will be
mentary on the Bible.
Dr. Rosen and his wife were Bnai Brith's emergency relief fund established throughout Europe as
guests here of the World Council I and offered whatever "further forums for dialogues between Jew-
ish youths and elders and between
various student groups.
Michael Harris of London, chair-
man of the council's commission
sir
on youth, said the workshops would
be co-sponsored by the commis-
sion and the World Union of Jew-
ish Students. He addressed the
council's 22nd statutory meeting
here.
Claud Kelman, vice president of
the Fonds Social Juif Unifies, the
French Jewish social agency, and
president of the European Coun-
cil, recommended full and con-
tinued council support of the youth
commission's program.
He said the council "will try to
do even the impossible—to provide
financial support for the Commis-
sion's efforts on behalf of youth. -
The council agreed to aid the
Romanian Federation of Jewish
Communities in alleviating the
disaster caused by the floods in
that country.
It was also agreed to establish
the Council's full operational in-
dependence following the cessa-
tion of Joint Distribution Commit-
tee supervision at the end of 1971.
This would be done by the crea-
tion of a council secretariat, al-
though JDC technical aid would
Isaac Bonewits, 20, smokes his Sherlock Holmes pipe in Berkeley, continue to be accepted.
The council's meeting marked
Calif., and enthuses over his new degree from the University of
California— bachelor of arts in magic, the first such ever awarded. its 10th anniversary and the 25th
anniversary of the liberation of the
Friday, June 19, 1970 - 39 Nazi concentration camps.
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