Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1958-12-12

              COLUMBUS EDITION
Serving Columbus, Dayton and Central Ohio Jewish Communlti,.
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COLUMBUS EDITION
VoL 36, No. Bl
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1958
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O*voted to Amarlean and Jswlih Idesli
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Soviet Hurls New Charges
At Israel
JERUSALEM — "When tho world-known physicist, a Jew by nationality, Albert Einstein asked the Zlpnlst leader Chaim Welz- man: 'And what Will happen to the Arabs |f Palestine is given to the Jews?" Weizzman replied: 'The Arabs? They are hardly o£ any Importance' . . .
The above paragraph is taken from a booklet, "Israel," publish¬ ed recently by the Soviet State Publishing Agency. The booklet is the first comprehensive Soviet publication on the State of Israel, and is an official compilation ot all the slanders, misstatements and halftruths smearing Israel and peddled by Moscow In recent years to please the Arabs.
Since the booklet purports to bo a "scientific" masterpiece, quo¬ tations are given with an indica¬ tion of their source. The above quotation Is taken, according to the booklet, from another "mast¬ erpiece" about Israel—the patho¬ logically anti-Israel book "What Price Israel" of Alfred LlUenthal of the American Council For Ju¬ daism.
IT APPEAK8 that Moscow is worried by the fact that forty-one years of Communist rule did not eliminate Zion from the hearts of millions of Russian Jews, who still dream of coming to Israel. This was most dramatically dem¬ onstrated during tho 1957 Mos¬ cow Youth Festival, when tens ot thousands of Russian Jews tried to attend each performance of the Israeli folk-dancers and singers, when hundreds surround¬ ed Israeli visitor, some covertly slipping into their hands and pockets hastily scribbled notes like "Please do not forget us here," and others just touched an Israeli or a jacket made in Israel.
Ever since the Festival, Moscow shitted its anti-Israel campaign into high gear. Soviet papers regularly carry — besides politi¬ cal attacks on Israel which are primarily Inteded for Arab ears— "descriptions" of the "horrible" conditions in Israel, "tho hunger, unemployement, exploitation ot immigrants," etc. Moscow even went to the effort of sending a group of "tourists" to Israel just to include among them one of their agents who afterwards pub- ¦ lished defamatory articles about this country! Now Moscow has topped its previous efforts by publishing a 142-page booklet on Israel.
THIS BOOItLET has every¬ thing: true to tradition, it re¬ writes history—eliminating from it the Soviet support of the es¬ tablishment of Israel in 1948. Next, the book denies "any apec- lal Jewish contributions" to European civilization. (The Bible, by the way, is described in the Soviet Encycolpedla as a "collec¬ tion of folk tales.") Then it re¬ peats the stories about the "hor¬ rors" facing immigrants in Israel, and'to explain why they still come and come, it explains that in refugee camps in Europe Jews were submitted to "horrible tor¬ tures to force (iiem to go to Is¬ rael."
Considerable space is devoted to attempts to refute the ideology of Zionism and of Jewish nationhood In general ( though In the same book persons are Identified as "Jews by nationality", of course the Arab angle Is'^'not ""forgotten either. Far from it. Scores of pages are taken up with descrip- tlone of the "Imperialist nature" of Israel again "documented" by such material as a twelve page "translation" of tho "secret mas- terplan" on occupation of the Arab countries, "prepared by the Israel General Staff" and "dis¬ covered by an Indian journalist."
Eban Calls Syria Shelling ^An Act Of War' In UN
Three leaders of the 1959 United Jewish Fund get toRether to make plans for the drive. Campaign chairman Abe Yenkin, center. Is flanked by Charles Goldsmith, left, chainnan of the trades and professions division, and Herman Hatz, right, chair¬ man of tbe advance gifts division.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) -Israel Ambassador Abba Eban told the United Nations Security Council that the Israel Govern¬ ment considers the bombardment last week of Israel villages by Syrian artillery as "an act of war." He emphasized that a repe¬ tition of «iilitary attacks by Syr- inns would lead to "drastic and exhau.stive" retaliation.
However, Mr, Eban pleaded with the Security Council to help avoid [ persons hurt and very great prop such a step. "The Government of I.'irael," he said, "is ardently anx-
dor Abba Eban to Gunnar Jarring ion convened an emergency meet- of Sweden, current chairman ot ing of the Cabinet In Tel Aviv to the Security Council, charged that consider the situation after MaJ. a heavy Syrian artillery barrage Gen. Carl von Horn, United Na- was opened in midweek against tlons truce chief, was summoned seven villages in the Huleh Lake | to the Israel Foreign Ministry to
discuss the Syrian attack. A JEWI.SH Telegraphic Agency
area,  scene  of a continuing  dis¬ pute   between   Israel   and   Syria over reclamation Work. As a result of the huge artillery
correspondent, touring the shelled villages,   reported   that  the  work
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Chronicle Wins Dayton Acclaim
The Chronicle passe(i around cigars last week just like any proud father after the birth of a bouncing new baby. For that's what happened; at the ripe old age of 37, The Chronicle gave birth to a new "baby," a Dayton edition of the paper.
The first is.sue, a 10-pager crammed with news about .the Dayton-Jewish community, was distrib¬ uted in Dayton last Friday (Dec. 5). The edition will be published every/ Friday throughout the year, the same as the Columbus edition.
Leaders of the Dayton Jewish community were quick to acclaim the Chronicle as a sizeable step forwai'd-in a community which has never been served by a Jewish newspaper.
Rabbis Seiwyn D. Ruslander, Samuel Fox and Joseph P. Sternstein; William N. Leviton, president, and Robert Fitterman, executive director, of the Jewish Community Council, all extended good wishes to the paper and praised it as a valuable addi¬ tion to communication within the community.
Publication of the Dayton edition means Tho Chronicle, only weekly newspaper in Central Ohio devoted exclusively to the Jewi.sh community, has now expanded its readership to include southwestern Ohio.
Emphasizing the Dayton Chronicle's determina¬ tion to serve the needs of the Jewish community, the paper front-paged a letter from publishers Rich¬ ard E. Neustadt and Milton J. Pinsky, which read in part:
"We have been overwhelmed by the acceptance and untold cooperation that leaders of your many organizations have extended. It is our de.sire to service your community in a manner befitting the situation, to bring you Jewish news of tho nalion and the world and to keep you informfd on locai Jewish community organizational activities, sorial.-;, sporting events."
Inus to avoid this contingency, if it can." He spoke at the opening meeting ot the urgent session of the SDCurity Council convoked to deal with Israel's complaint against Syria's aggression In at¬ tacking Israeli villages in the Hu¬ leh area, pouring some 800 artil¬ lery shells  into  thera.
It was the first time Israel had asked Security Council considera¬ tion of differences with her Arab neighbors since 1954 when such a request was made in connection with Egyptian seizure of the Bat Galim, an Israel trawler.
THE   itEQUEST  by   Ambassa-
barrage, the complaint added, one  ot years had been literally shot to Israel shepherd was killed, three  bits.  Homes had to be evacuated
after roofs were blown off and erty damage was caused. Mr. I walls were toppled. Scores of Eban's letter linked the artillery   homes were abandoned shells.
barrage with the murder by Syr- iem gunners of Mrs. Joyce Doran, wife of the British air attache in Israel.
THK   LETTER   asserted   that "these attacks have now developed
Arrtiy officers said some 800 shells exploded In one area alone in one hour of firing. They said It was a miracle that the casualties had been so light because the shelling   started   suddenly   at   a
and   security   and   which   constl tutes   a   serious   breach   of   the United   Nations   charter   and   the
a character which threatens peace  time when children of the villages
usually set out to meet parents returning from work in the fields. The army officials also reported Israel - Syrian general armistice I that an examination of shell aplln- agreement. The Government of ters and unexploded shelly Indl- larael accordingly turns to the cated that the ammunition was of Security Council to 'bring about Russian manufacture. The Syrians an immediate end to these aggres-1 reportedly used Russian made aions." 120-milIimcter   guns   and   81   and
Prime Minister David Ben Gur-   CO-milllmeter   mortars.
Urge Church-State Policy
ADL Seeking
Dignified View
Of Problem
The Anti-Defamation League of B'nal B'rith last week set a policy calling for application of the prin¬ ciple of separation of church and state "with a sense of dignity and with duo conlderation for the conflicting interests of all parlies concerned."
The policy was made in relation to the highly controversial sub¬ ject of religion and the public scliooLs.
It was adopted by the national povernihg body of the League at it.s 45th annual meeting in the Hotel Savoy Hilton after a report hy Richard Abel, of Columbus, Ohio, chairman of a special com¬ mittee which had been studying the problem tor a year.
As presented by Seymour Grau- hard ot New York, who headed a drafting committee, the policy ex¬ pressed the belief "that sectarian
At the same time, the League Township, N.J., Ross, California, called tor "sound educational lead- knd CJhicago, III. where various ership and wise community judg. religious groups "who tor years ment to maintain the distinction have lived side by side in com- in the public school between re- plete amity have suddenly been Ugious observances apd programs torn apart by the conflict." devoted to the cultural aspects of I Among the issues discussed by these holidays. Such care will pro- ' the committee wore those of bible tect the rights of every child for reading and distribution, the sub- whose well-being school and com- ject ot prayer in the public munity jointly have responsi-1 sehool.s, the question of released ''""y-" and dismissed time, and religious
The policy statement stressed holiday observances. Tho League that programs related to re- : policy statement concluded: tiglous holidays may "reflect the -adL is firmly committed to social and cultural character of a 'the values of religion and its oen- community and its people" but. trality in JewLsh lite. It is equally stressed that they should "involve | committed to the principle of no  religious commitment." separation ot church and state as
In his annual report to the the means whereby the religious League, Benjamin R. Epstein, its ' freedom ot all Americans Is safe- national director, pointed out that   guarded.  ADL,  therefore  believes
"current frictions in many com¬ munities over the issue unfortun¬ ately tend to undermine good in- tergroup relations which has been developing in this country over the years."
Mr.  Epstein  noted  that at this time ot the year especially  com-
obsorvances of religious holidays j munity tensions rise over facets have no place in the pu"blic of such religious observani-es. He schools" and that the League cited the recent conflicts In New therefore "opposes such prac- Hyde Park, N.Y., Ossining, N.Y., ¦ iocs." , Valley   Stream,   L.   I.,    Delaware
Sees No Better Arab Relations
UNITED NATIONS, N, Y., (JTA)—Dr. Charles Malik of Leb¬ anon, president of this year's Gen¬ eral Assembly, does not see "at the present momenL at least a sign ot improved Arab-Israel re¬ lations." Mr, Malik made the statement this week in reply to questions at a luncheon tendered him by the United Nations Cor¬ respondents Association.
Conceding that "Israel is an in¬ ternational reality," the president ot the General Assembly viewed the Middle East problem as one that is "very difficult" and at least in part a result of the pro¬ found conflicts between the Great Powers. The former Foreign Min¬ ister of Lebanon said that the basis of the differences between Israel and the Arab states Is moral and psychological rather than one of technological imbal¬ ance.
Jewish Education In Morocco Lauded
MONTREAL   (JTA> Jewish
education and conumity ortjnni- zation were helphfui in en:ibliiig the Jews of Morocco to survive discrimination against t h e m. Francis Lacoste, French Ambas¬ sador to Canada, declared here, addressing a reception of Canad¬ ian Friends of the Aliancc Uni- verselle Israelite. He stated tiuit he had close experience witli the Alliance while he was ResidoiU in Morrocco.
The Israel Ambassador to Can¬ ada, Arhtur Lurie, praised the work of the Alliance in Israel and stressed the importance ot the in¬ stitutions it had established in Palestine before the creation of the Jewish State. Other speakers Included Saul Hayes of the Uni¬ versity, Jules Braunschig, of the Alliance, and Justice Harry Bats- chaw of the Superior Court ut Quebec.
JORDANIANS   MOCK   NASSER'    AGREEMENT CONCXDDEU
NEW YORK (AJP) — A UPI | JERUSALEM (JTA) — A $1B,- report from Amman this week re- 000,000 trade agreement between vealed that "Jordanians paraded Israel and England was signed slogan-draped donkeys through here. Israel will buy from Finland thes treets of Amman In a new and will sell to the European demonstration deriding Oamel i country citrus fruit, tires and Abdel Nasser. textiles.
^Non-Jew Buys Israel Bonds
Percy Gardiner, right, leading Toronto, Canada, Industrialist and financier, presents a check (or his purchase of $7S,000 o{ Israel Bonds to Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, center, Cleveland, chair¬ man of the Board of Governors of the Israel Bond Organization, and Rabbi Abraham L. Felnberg, of Holy Blossom Temple, In whose honor the bonds were purchased. This was the largest purchase of Israel Bonds by a non-Jew in Canada.
that religious training is an essen¬ tial aspect of every child's educa¬ tion, that it is the perogative ahd responsibility ot the home and synagogue or churCh to provide that education, and that it is un¬ wise to burden the public schools with tills responsibility. Sound policy dictates that all Americans Join in strunffthening their re¬ ligious Institutions to perform this, roliginiis educational work auc- lessfully and lliat they avoid In- \-c)lving tho power of the; state throiijili tho public schools to I at hlo\'o  that  goal."
Kiulior in the day, the meeting hoard a statement from Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts iloclaring thnt a change in otir basic Inimlgrutlon policy Is long overdue and that in the new Congress convening next month he would press for legislation ollminatinH tlie restrictive and . discrimiiintory features of the liiuuigratidn and Nationality Act of  19S2.
The Senator's statement was Is¬ sued in conjunction with a study on immigration he made for the .Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith. The study will be published this week as one ot the League's
One   Nation   Library"   series   Of
lan phleta.
Senator Kennedy, in a message transmitting tho report, said that "It Is my hope that the new Con¬ gress will undertake a complete review and appraisal of the scope and effect of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1932. Sufficient time has now elapsed to determ¬ ine Its effectiveness as an Instru¬ ment pf national policy, to dls« cover Its defects and to appraise tbe manner In which It meets our needs.