This Week in Jewish History
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schools. Ile said that in 1968-69 there
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A five-member Toronto family converted to Judaism.
was a decline of about two per dates a policy position on housing
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(From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
40 Years Ago This Week: 1931
NEW YORK (JTA)—After many
"Utro" ("Morning"), a new Russian-language newspaper in China, years of steady growth ii, pupil
was the first Jewish daily in the Far East.
enrollment in religious schools of
The Arab Executive declared a boycott of Jews, apparently in Reform congregations in the New
retaliation for Britain's allowing the Jewish Agency to employ only York area, a decline has been re-
ported during the past three years
Jews on its projects.
Prime Minister Hugo Celmins of Latvia assured JTA his state from a plateau of 33,000 pupils,
the New York Federation Of Re-
had no Jewish problem.
Samuel Gottlieb, believed the oldest Jew in Maine, died in Bangor form Synagogues disclosed.
The figures were provided by
at 104, leaving two daughters, three sons, 30 grandchildren and 30
Dr. Philip Jaffe, chief consultant
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10 Years Ago This Week: 1961
Premier David Ben-Gurion reportedly offered to serve as defense
minister, with Finance Minister Levi Eshkol as Premier, if the Cabinet
did not include the anti-Ben-Gurion Mapam and Ahdu Haavoda.
At his first press conference in two years, Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer voiced the fear that world reaction to the Eichmann trial
"may be a judgment against Germany." lie explained: "There were
many Germans who helped Jews whenever they could, and did it hap-
pily."
Three Estonian ex-Nazi officials were sentenced to death for the
murder of 125,000 persons, mostly Jews.
The Jewish Education Committee of New York marked the 50th
anniversary of the city's organized communal Jewish instruction.
Samuel. Bronfman, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress and
chairman of the North American section of the World Jewish Congress,
98 schools, the agency reported.
Factors contributing to the de-
cline, Dr. Jaffe reported, included
a falling Jewish birthrate, families
leaving the area, aging of mem-
bership and unaffiliation of younger
families, "accompanied by secu-
larization in an open society." The
study also found that Sunday school
enrollment had declined while mid-
week enrollment had remained
constant. During the current year,
the data showed, 57 per cent of
pupils enrolled in grades four to
10 on Sunday mornings also at-
tended either one or two mid - week
sessions.
turned 70 in Montreal.
The three judges in the Eichmann trial authorized telecasting of
the proceedings, as it "may well serve important values connected with
the performance of justice."
- Interior Minister Haim Moshe Shapiro announced that Israel would
abolish exit visas. To make up for lost monies, a special exit tax was
scheduled.
Virginia granted legal status to the American Nazi Party after it
gave its aim as "the. gaining of political power in the United States
by all legal means and elective processes" and "the education of the
American public."
A witness in Frankfurt testified that ex-Nazi commandant Karl
Chmielewski, accused of 297 murders, had killed 100 Jewish prisoners
in honor of Hitler's 53rd birthday in 1942.
Pincus Threatens to Void JNF Policy
Not to Sell Land to Private Parties
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Louis I. by Aryeh L. Dutzlin, the Jewish
Pincus. chairman of the Jewish I Agency treasurer. The issue in-
Agency Executive, said that he wolves a government proposal to
would exercise his veto power as sell JNF and state-owned land to
governor of the Jewish National the 240,000 families presently liv-
Fund to avoid a decision by the ing on it in order to bring additional
JNF's directorate March 1 not to revenue into the national treasury.
sanction the sale of JNF land to About 170,000 of the families
occupy JNF land.
private parties.
Pincus was asked by the execu- The JNF , founded 70 years ago,
tive to use the veto because the operates on the principle that its
JNF acted in defiance of a request land belongs to the "Jewish peo-
to hold the matter in abeyance pie" and therefore can never be
until it could be studied fully. sold. Occupants hold leases which
The executive appointed a special must be renewed every 49 years.
A JNF spokesman told the Jew-
committee for that purpose, headed
Sabin Denies
Saying Nasser
Was Murdered
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Prof. Albert
Sabin flatly denied that he ever
told. an American television news-
man that he had information that
'President Gamal Abdel Nasser of
Egypt did not die a natural death
but was murdered by disaffected
army officers.
Prof. Sabin, president of the
Weizmann Institute of Science,
admitted that he talked to Amer-
ican television journalists but
claimed that what he told them
differed from what was broad-
cast in his name.
Dr. Sabin said he told the jour-
nalists that be knew of a group of
Egyptian army officers who were
dissatisfied with the Soviet role in
their country and thought the
Russians should be more active in
the war against Israel.
He said he became aware of the
group when he visited Egypt in
1968, before settling in Israel, and
that its existence was confirmed
'by an Egyptian officer who desert-
ed to Europe before Nasser died
last year..
Sabin admitted that this led him
to the "assumption" that Nasser
may have been murdered but he
never stated it as a fact.
ish Telegraphic Agency that
Pincus could not veto the ag-
ency's decision because his veto
power was restricted to decisions
taken at meetings at which the
JNF governor is present. He did
not attend the directorate's meet-
ing March 1.
According to the spokesman, the
sale of the JNF land would bring
in only a fraction of the revenue
estimated by treasury experts. He
said the latter expected to realize
$141,750,000 over a 15-year period
but JNF experts estimated that the
total would be about $36,700,000.
Many of the families residing on
the land were said to be unable to
afford to buy it. "For this piddling
amount it is not worth violating
our hallowed principle of national
ownership of the land," the JNF
spokesman said.
A 1960 act of the Knesset applied
the non-saleable principle to gov-
ernment-owned land but the gov-
ernment is trying to get the act
rescinded because it needs the
cash. The matter has been under
discussion by the Land Administra-
tion Authority, a joint government-
JNF body in which the government
commands the deciding vote.
The sale plan was condemned
last month by Herman L. Weisman,
president of the JNF of America,
who claimed that converting the
land from leasehold to freehold
would encourage speculators and
profiteers. The JNF is the largest
land holder in Israel after the
State.
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