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The Prague Outrage

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Communist- Bigotry:

Inter-related Factors

Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorpokting The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

January 2-31

The Rosenberg Case,

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Russia Extends Its Anti-Jewish Campaign

Fantastic Espionage Charge Made
Against JDC and Jewish Doctors

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`In Thee Shall All Be Blessed.

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TEL AVIV—The Israel Medical Association on Tuesday called
on Jewish physicians and scientists throughout the world to
unite in protest against the defamatory campaign launched by
the Soviet Union against Soviet Jewish physicians and against
the American Jewish philanthropic organization, the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee.
The Association acted on receipt of mews here that a group
of Jewish doctors had engaged in a conspiracy to kill leaders of
the Soviet Union. They were held responsible for the death in
1948 of A. D. Zhdanov, former secretary of the Communist Party
Central Committee.
The charges broadcast Monday by the Moscow Radio were
described here in medical circles as similar to the campaign
launched against Jewish doctors in Germany by the Nazi regime.
The new attack, following on the heels of the Prague anti-
Jewish purge trials, was accepted here as proof that the Soviet
Union has definitely embarked on an open anti-Semitic program.
In connection with the Moscow statement against the nine
Jewish doctors charged with conspiracy to have killed Zhdanov
and other Soviet leaders, and identifying these doctors as being
"connected with the International Jewish Bourgeois Nationalist
organization 'Joint' set up by the American Intelligence Service,"
a statement was issued by Edward Warburg, JDC national chair-
man, as follows: "The American Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee has been engaged in the relief and rehabilitation of
Jewish victims of war and persecution since 1914. During these
38 years it has operated at one time or another according to
weed in some 60 countries of the world. It has never engaged in
political activities or deviated from its principle of exclusive
adherence to its humanitarian role. The charges as reported
in the newspapers, whether during the course of the Prague
trials, or in these latest reports from Moscow, that JDC has
engaged in. espionage ,ssr participated in. plots against-the. lEtussian
government, or any government, are fantastic. We categorically
deny there is any truth whatsoever in any of these charges."

Jewish Center to Sponsor
Five Music Month Events

On the eve of the inauguration of General Dwight David Eisenhower as President of
our great land, we pray that he be blessed with health and with the strength that is neces-
sary to carry on the trying duties of leadership. May his hands be strengthened and may
he lead us and the world to peace. May he, and through him our nation, enjoy the Scrip-
tural blessing (Exodus 12:2, 3) :

"And I will make thee a great nation, and 1 will bless thee, and make thf name great; and
be thou a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse;
and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed."

With the free world largely dependent upon America's freedom and power. with the
totalitarian forces of destruction Once again challenging the democracies of the world
under the leadership of our nation, we look to our country's newly chosen Pilots for pro-
tection of America's basic ideals and we acclaim our President with the recognition of
the tests that face us:

"Sail on. 0 Ship of State!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,

Is hanging breathless on thy fate!"

This attractive three-color poster announcing the coining
of Jewish Music Festival, Jan. 31—March 1, is one of 25 program
aids issued by the National Jewish Welfare Board-sponsored
National Jewish Music Council.
Jewish Music Month will be celebrated by the Detroit Jewish
Community Center in five events, sponsored in cooperation with
other organizations in the community, Mrs. Sidney J. Allen,
chairman of the Month for the Center, Was announced.
Opening the series will be a program of t ,Te-ivish Folk Music,
Tuesday, Feb. 3. The second event, Monday. Feb. 9, will be
devoted to a panel discussion of music in Israel.
The 70th birthday of Lazar Saminsky, often called the
father of Reform Jewish music, will be celebrated Feb. 17.
In a program open to Center members only—all others being
public—on Feb. 22, the Center Symphony Orchestra, under the
direction of Julius Chajes, will present a demonstration rehearsal,
designed to interest young people.
An evening of orchestral music by Jewish composers is
scheduled for Feb. 24.

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