THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Jemmy 29, 1971 17
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This Week in Jewish History
40 Years Ago This Week: 1931
The exiled Leon Trotsky was reported to have become a Zionist.
Moses Berman, the oldest Orthodox rabbi in Los Angeles, was
chosen that city's first chief rabbi.
Two hundred cantors—including Josef Rosenblatt, Israel Alter,
Zawal Kwartin, David Rottman, Pierre Pinchik and Berele Chagy-
sang to an audience of 4,000 in Mecca Temple, New York, for the aid
of aged and Indigent members of the Jewish Cantors' Association.
Isaac Glickman, said to be the oldest Philadelphian, died at 120.
10 Years Ago This Week: 1991
West Germany arrested Harry Wentritt, inventor of the "gas van"
for more "efficient" killing of Jews.
The Vatican stated that Popes Pius XI and XII had acted to aid
Jews during World War II.
Philip M. Klutznick, former president of Bruit Brith, resigned as
chairman of the United Jewish Appeal on being named by President
Kennedy to the permanent U.S. delegation to the UN.
British historian Arnold Toynbee asserted that Jewish treatment
of Arabs in 1947 matched Nazi treatment of Jews in Europe. Israeli
diplomat Yaacov Herzog retorted that "the truth will not tolerate dis-
tortion at the bands of anyone, no matter how eminent"
Dr. Orlando de Sola, a relative of Rabbi David de So la Pool,
was named health and welfare minister of El Salvador — Central
America's first Jewilb cabinet member.
Only days after accepting a ministerial exoneration of former De-
fense Minister Pinhas Lavon in a 1954 "security mishap," Premier
Ben-Gurion resigned, claiming cabinet approval of the committee's
"whitewash" was "incompatible with fundamental principles of justice
and the basic laws of the state."
The Knesset formally accused Adolf Eichmann of 15 counts of
crimes against humanity and the Jews, and voted to reinstate death-
by-hanging as a possible fate in that one case.
Rabbi Israel H. Levinthal of the Brooklyn Jewish Center was hail-
ed by the Jewish National Fund for 50 years in the rabbinate.
Dorothy Thompson, the controversial journalist who turned anti-
Zionist, died in Lisbon at 66.
The Defense Department said a soldier who had joined in Amer-
ican Nazi Party activities had been discharged "for the convenience of
the government" But it retained a former Hitlerite general, employed
as U.S. Army supervisor of German civilian labor at the Dachau site,
who had said in 1960 that the concentration camps had been built after
the war as a ruse.
American Jewish Community,
World Jewry Topic of Moshe Davis
JERUSALEM—The second vol-
ume in the Text and Studies Series
in American Jewish History, edit-
ed by Prof. Moshe Davis, bead of
the Hebrew University's Institute
of Contemporary Jewry, and Prof.
Abraham J. Karp of Rochester
N.Y., is now in press and due to
appear shortly.
The first volume, "Belt Yisrael
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World Jewry," appeared recently.
The series is sponsored jointly
by the American Jewish Histor-
ical Society and the Institute of
Contemporary Jewry and pub-
lished by the Hebrew University's
Magnes Press.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, chairman
of the Berea Hayesod-United Jew-
ish Appeal, in his review of the
first volume, said it is "a note-
worthy contribution to Jewish his-
toriography. The first part of the
book is valuable mostly for its
texts; the second part mostly for
its studies, commentaries and
evaluations, dealing with funda-
mental problems which confront
Jewry in the Western Hemisphere,
such as that of mixed marriages,
and that of the Eretz Yisrael di-
mension in contemporary Jewish
life."
In his preface, the author
states the purpose of the book
as being to clarify the history of
the Jews In America In the light
of its European origins, the sur-
rounding American culture, the
problems of Jewish survival
everywhere and the Zionist
vision adminaling In the reality
of IsraeL
The theme on which Prof. Davis
closes his book, after analyzing
weaknesses of Jewish identity
among the youth, ignorance of
Judaism among young and old, the
inadequate functioning of the syna-
gogue, is the vital necessity of
strengthening the relationship of
interdependence between Israel
and Diaspora Jewry. The main-
spring of Jewish life, he concludes,
will be in Israel.
DC's Jewish Council
Fights State Aid to
Nonpublic Schools
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Jewish Community Council of
Greater Washington said Tuesday
that it was opposed to a recom-
mendation by a Maryland commis-
sion to establish a $14,000,000.
scholarship f u n d for nonpublic
school pupils in the state.
The commission was appointed
by Gov. Marvin Mandel, who is
Jewish, to study state aid to non-
public school education.
The Washington JCC embraces
heavily Jewish suburban areas of
Maryland as well as the District
of Columbia. It claimed that the
proposed scholarship program
"Does nothing for educational re-
form but in fact reinforces the
status quo." The council said that
Americans have the right to main-
tain private schools but must pres-
erve the important American prin-
ciple of separation of church and
state.
"It is unthinkable," the JCC
statement said, "that at a time of
fiscal crisis in the public schools,
the governor and the legislature
should be pressured to provide a
subsidy for essentially middle-class
parents who have determined to
send their children to private
schools."
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