…EDITORIAL: Mankind's Conscience: Surrender to Terror? Mankind's conscience is on trial! For nearly three years, planes have been hijacked, attacked, blown up, innocent men, women and children murdered in a spreading campaign of terror imposed on an international community—and the world was silent! Innocent people were attacked in a Munich airport, and there was silence! Seven aged survivors from Nazism perished in a fire in a German home ...…
…Jewry's Rights to Israel: History's Verdict Affirmed THE JEWISH NEWS Conscience of Mankind at Munich • Henrietta Szold and Youth Aliya Waiting for Just Spark From USSR Michigan Weekly Editorials Page 4 Vat. LVI, No. 23 A noted columnist turns back pages of history questioning Jewry's rights to statehood ... Allusion to New Left's antagon- ism to Zionism ... Christian attitudes and Jewish historic rights —Commentary Page 2 analyzed. Re...…
…Retarded Look With Hope to Jewish Community Brotherhood ... A Repeat Performance Who Really Is a Jew? Atrophied Education Editorials Page 4 Vol. LVI, No. 22 The retarded have long been a silent minority in the midst of the Jewish commun- ity. Little by little, advances have come—largely through a successful program at the Jewish Center—but much remains to be done. How the parents of the retarded are cop- ing with their problems and the n...…
…Sephardic Chief Rabbi Supports Plan to Ease Conversions in Israel JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Itzhak Nissim on Monday called for the creation of a special "bet din"—rabbinical tribunal — to devote itself exclusively to the handling of conversion cases. Rabbi Nissim's statement was the first public response from the rabbinate to the cabinet decision to investigate ways to speed up the conversion process. It presently takes a...…
