This Week in Jewish History Jewish Community Group Reform Congregations CLEVELAND (JTA)—The Jew- in NYC Report Decline has in Religious School .Pupils ish Community Federation, on housing Calls for Open Housing verman, will offer recommenda- tions and suggestions to-implement the- policy statement. adopted a statement encouraging suburban municipali- ties "to open up more fully to THE DETROIT JEWISH 1 ► 2WS Friday, March 12, 1971-15 members of all racial, religious, national and economic groups." In its unanimous vote, trustees also said that "in order to facili- Ateilt<17) . ■ ...." ,- tate urgently needed new and in- • AMP. ) novative housing, both public and private for all people, communities --•KS2/0" Michigan's 0 should be encouraged to remove $ ' ter-- Largest Selection all artificial barriers which exist . of Fine American ,‘ to the board of Jewish Education and Imported Cigars qt Al Jolson got a three-minute hand in New Haven on interrupting for the New York Reform religious in current zoning and building $ regulations." At Everyday Low Low Prices! i his musical "Wonder Bar" to sing "Der Chazen." schools. Ile said that in 1968-69 there The Federation statement up- 21178 Greenfield Rd., Oak Pa \ A five-member Toronto family converted to Judaism. was a decline of about two per dates a policy position on housing Rev. Judah Loeb Bugasch, cantor of Bnai Reuben, Philadelphia, cent, a dip of five per cent in 1969- that was adopted in 1960. Presi- Bottle 'n' Gift $ 70 and a further decline of seven dent Maurice Saltzmann told trus- for 37 years and oldest cantor in the city, died at 70. TOBACCONIST in Green-II Shopping Cantor year. per cent during the current A Jewish family that had sought protection after being shot at tees that the Community Relations Open Evenings ad Sudays The current enrollment is 28,457 in Community, headed by Robert Sil- by Nazis was fined in Mainz for disturbing the peace. :411VAID<>21V,AiliVAW.AP› (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 great-grandchildren. re' c,xs, sif.00. 0 V r N2r< 0 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. - QUALITY • SERVICE s PRICE NORTHLAND FORD LEADS THE WAY aolp Es GEORGE': RUSKIN so NORTHLAND FORD 10 MILE & GREENFIELD IMPROVED "1"PASSMIER alyailm is,. v., /*M r kS Mr •■ •• ■ •• ■ • Certified Kosher and Parve for Passover by Rabbi Bernard Levi Improved Maxim gives more rich strong percolated flavor than ever. Now Maxim's improved Freeze-Dried process locks in even more fresh-perked flavor. 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