Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1958-12-19

              COLUMBUS EDITION
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Vol. 36, No. 52
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19,  1958
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Midwest Talks On Education Set Jan. 11-12
The Midwest Region of tlie Na¬ tional Council for Jewlsli Educa¬ tion will hold its 12th annual con¬ ference Sunday and Monday, Jan. 11 and 12, In t)etroit. The theme of the two day gathering Is "Ex¬ panding The Horizons of Jewish Education."
Communities to be represenicd include MUwauicee. Chicago, De¬ troit, Buffalo, Cleve'and, Aicron. Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo, LoulaVille, Indianapolis and Day¬ ton. Samuel J. Lelbowltz, director of the Dayton Hebrew Institute, will deliver a paper on the theme, "How Can larger Communities Assist Smaller Communities?" Conferenco chairman Is Albert Elazar, director of the United Hebrew Schools of Detroit. The luncheon session will be addressed by . Rabbi Maurice Pekarsky of the Hillel Foundation, University of Chicago.
The conference agenda will in¬ clude discussions on oo-curricular activities, camping, Hebrew high school texts, the Bible and archi- oiogy and curriculum construc¬ tion. One session will be devoted to "Working Toward Centraliza¬ tion of Jewish Education in Our Communities," with Dr. Elezar Goelman, director of the Buffalo Bureau of Jewish Education as speaker.
The National Council for Jew¬ ish Education Is the group repre¬ senting the profession of Jewish Education In the United States. It Is closely allied to the Ameri¬ can Association for Jewish Edu¬ cation and the National Council for Jewish Communal ..Service. ,
Dag Promises UN He Will Probe Attack
Ambassador Abba Ebon presents gift-cltatlon to Meyer .W. Weisgal, chairman of the executive council of the Welzmann Institute and world chairman of the Israel Tenth Anniversary. The presentation was made on behalf of the govern¬ ment   of  Israel.  The   citation,   signed   by   Israel
President Itzhak ben-2rvl and Prime Minister David Ben-Ourlon, lauds Weisgal's services to the Jewi.<.h state. L<eft to right are Arthur B. Krim, chairman of 16th annual Welzmann dinner, Mr. Wolsgal and Mr. Eban.
UNITED NATIONS, N.y. (JTA) —Secretary General Dag Ham- marskjold told the United Nations Security Council that he expects on his forthcoming visit to the Middle East not only to look Into the latest incident of the Syrian attack against Israel but also into the "underlying problems" affect¬ ing Israel and the United Arab Republic.
Mr. Hammarskjold virtually told the Council that he would prefer that It took no other action on the Israeli complaint against the Syrian shelling except to leave the dispute In his hands. His pro¬ posal was immediately endorsed by Henry Cabot L^dge, chairman of the American delegation, who took the floor right behind Mr. Hammarskjold. Both expressed deepest concern over the Dec. 8
Nasser Plays Game With His Own Rules
HOME FOR AGED PUNS OUTSIDE MEAL SERVICE
The Columbus Jewish Home for the Aged announced the inaugur¬ ation of a new service, which is to provide kosher meals for per¬ sons living outside the Home. This project is being carried out In cooperation with "Meals on WhceU" and the Jewish Family Service.
With this service the Home is able to provide kosher meals for aged or handicapped individuals who are unable to cook or shop for themselves. The "Meals on Wheels" which is a non-profit or¬ ganization, and operated by a group of dedicated volunteers, make available meals for individ¬ uals who would not othenVlse ob¬ tain proper nutrition and balanc¬ ed diets.
The Home recognizes that there may be some Jewish persons who observe the dietary laws and thus will provide Kosher meals, when desired. Abe Wolman, president of the Home stated—"We believe that through this service we will be able to serve some Jewish persons who are not able to enter the Home because of limit¬ ed facilities or who do not need institutional care at the present time.
"If there are aged or handi¬ capped persons who can benefit from this service, we will be pleased to be of service. This is another way the Home In cooper¬ ation with the 'Meals on Wheels' and the Jewish Family Service stands ready to meet community needs."
All persons Interested should contact the Jewish Family Serv¬ ice, 40 S. Third St, CA. 1-6181 for additional  information.
BY  SAUL CARSON
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—The difficulty with calling the shots In the Middle East from a desk at the United Nations Is Col. Nasser. He can change signals any time he chooses. Having no conscience whatever, he can set the ground rules in accordance with his de¬ sires at any given moment. And when a shift occurs—everybody here is affected, including Secre¬ tary General Dag Hammarskjold.
Hammarskjold's latest schedule for the Middle East had called for a conference with Prime Minister David Ben Gurlon on some basic Issues concerning Israel's armis¬ tice agreements with all four of its next-door Arab neighbors, with specific emphasis on th^pact with Jordan.
THE LAST THING Nasser wants is to let Hammarskjold dig down to fundamentals. So the United Arab Republic dictator has fogjjed a shift again. He did this by attacking Israel from the Syrian sector of his domain.
Thrf^rick is a familiar one. Two or three times in the past, Nasser h£is resorted to this device on the eve of a Hammarskjold visit.  It
has always worked before. In¬ stead of discussing basic issues, the Secretary General finds him¬ self compelled to meet an im¬ mediate crisis. The long-term Is¬ sue gets shelved.
TRUE, THERE ARE other rea¬ sons why Nasser needs an open quarrel with Israel at this time. Things are not going-too well for him. Iraq is too fearful of direct affiliation with the Cairo axis. Neither L,ebanon nor^Jordan is lining up with Nasser. Too^nany Syrian army officers are douWful of the wisdom of having alloVed their country to become an Egyl^- tian province. Even the Sudan, where Nasser thought he had things arranged neatly, turned against him.
There always has been, there still is now, one issue that's sure to bring these countries back into the Egyptian fold. That issue Is anti-Israellsm. And if Israel will not accommodate by attacking any of the Arab states—Nasser will provide the attack around which all Arabs could rally.
BUT HAMMARSKJOLiyS scheduling of a conference on basic    Issues    with    Ben    Qurlon
made it necessary that Nasser speed up his time-table. When his artillery shelled seven Israeli vil¬ lages, sending more than 800 bombs into the Israel plains from the gunposts atop Syrian heights —Nasser got his desired change in emphasis.
Israel has had to go into the "ecurlty- <3ouncll with a virtual ultimatum — threatening massive retaliation if another attack Is launched by Syria similar to the one ot Dec. 3. Now Hammarskjold will have to talk to Nasser, to ask him to please stop bombing Israel.
Now Hammarskjold will have to talk to Ben Gurion to ask for assurance that there will be no reprisal raids. And the discussion regarding Jordan's failure to live to several articles in Its 1949 armistice agreement — that will have to wait
HERE, AT THE U.N., there was too much readiness on the part of many Important forces to slough off that Dec. 3 attack against Israel as a minor skir¬ mish. The incident was far from minor.   True,   "only"   one   Israeli
was killed. But it was the disci¬ pline and the defense-readiness of the Israeli villages and settlements that kept the casualty lists down.
This correspondent saw, and held in his hands, some of the Iron hardware that had rained down on those Israeli feu-mers. The evidence had been brought hero from Israel within 48 hoonr of that Dec. 3 attack.
EXPERT MILITARY meh who examined the stuff, at the some time this correspondent did, were not slow in agreeing that the iron rained down on Israel from the Syrian heights on Dec. 3 was murderous. Had the villages not possessed deep shelters, and hod the settlements not trained 'Its people how to take shelter promptly—the deaths could have been numbered by the dozen. As it is, the property damage alone was counted at a million Israeli pounds.
But the latest attack by Nasser blew up more than kindergartens, dining halls and cowsheds. It also blew sky-bigh the agenda for the Ben Gurlon-Hammarskjold talks. In that respect the latest Nasser maneuver has already succeeded.
Final Arrangements Complete For Bond Chanukah Festival
EARLY DEADLIMS! ! !
Because of early deadlines durbiK the next two holiday weeks, oU copy must be in Thei Ctaroniole office by B a.ni. MtModw- LAte stories ran the tUk of being left out
Final arrangements have been made and a^ large crowd Is ex¬ pected Sunday night for the com¬ munity Chanukah Festival for Israel, co-sponsored by 16 organi¬ zations, to be held in the Jewish Center's Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Jan Bart, popular and versatile lyric tenor will sing and entertain with his famous stories. John Stanley Grauel, Executive Direc¬ tor of the American Christian Palestine Committee, and an ora¬ tor of note, will speak. Mr. Grauel is a veteran of Israel's war of Independence, having served aboard the ship ''Exodus".
Dr. B. T. Mindlin, chairman of the event, which is on behalf of the Israel Bond campaign, an¬ nounced that refreshments will be served by a hospitality com¬ mittee under the chairmanship of Mrs. David Paine.
MRa EMIL HAAS, chairman of hostesses, said the following women have agreed to serve as Hostesses:
Mesdames Bernard Abrams, Louis Ackerman, Albert Becker, Israel Berliner, Sanford Betker, Charles Block, David Brown, Har¬ ris Carmen, Samuel M. Cohen, Leo   Cohen,   Miss   Lottie   Cohen,
Ted Cohen, Sol Eisman, Miss So¬ phie Elkins, Edward Ellman, James Freldenberg, Robert Fried¬ man, Jack Gelln, Eli Gold, Sam Goldman, Daniel Goldsmith, Wil¬ liam Goodman, Miss Helen Gru- ber, Julius Gutter, Martin Hack- man.
Also Mesdames David Handler, Meyer Hoffman, I. Hurwltz, Ei¬ leen Jacobowitz, Harry Kaplan, William Kisch, Jack Kooperstein, Harold Korn, Milton Leeman, Isa¬ dore Levlne, Walter Levy, Henry Lewin, Ben Mandiekorn, Martin Marx, Harry Mathless, Miss Helen Niitls, I. Nutis, Robert Paine, Sam Paine, J. Nathan Polster, Harry Raffeld, Malcolm Robbins, Ivan Romanhof, Alfred Rosen, Harry Rubin.
Also Mesdames Alfred Rudnlck, Robert Saunders, Joseph Schec¬ ter, Sam Schlonsky, Max Schot¬ tensteln, Miss Helen Seldenberg, Sol Shaman, Alvin Shames, Tiilie Sblfman, Fay Smith, Herbert Solomon, Henry Sterling, Hattie Stetelman, Robert Stone, Sam Su¬ bow, Morris Swedlow, Arthur Tomkln, Cy Tanenbaum, Joseph Welner, Jack Winter, Charles Young, Aaron Zelman and Izak Zwlck.
DR. MINDLIN stated that Mrs, Melville Frank will accompany Mr. Bart at the piano. He also stated that opening and closing prayers would be delivered by Rabbis Elliot Flnkel and David Stavsity.
Co-sponsoring the festival are: Buckeye Lodge, B'nai B'rith; Candlelight Chapter, B'nal B'rith; Capitol Ladies Auxiliary, Jewish War Veterans; Columbus Com¬ mittee, State of Israel Bonds; Council of Jewish Women; Jewish War Veterans, Capitol Post; Llioh Chapter of Hadassah; Mizrachl Women; Pioneer Women No. 1; Pioneer Women No. 2; Raanana; Sabra Chapter Pioneer Women; Szoid Chapter of Hadassah; Zion¬ ist Organization of Columbus; Zlon Chapter, B'nai B'rith Women and Zlon Lodge, B'nai B'rlth.
OLD HAOQADAH SOLD
LONDON (JTA)—An ancient Haggadah dating back to the 16tb Century brought 4000 pounds ($11,200) at auction here this week. The ipanuscrlpt, In Hebrew and Arabic, is one of the oldest known copies In existence. It was bought by a dealer, Hen rich ELsemann!
Turkey Renews Israel Trade
ISTANBUL (JTA)—Turkey has just taken a move which will re¬ activate trade with Israel, brought to a standstill recently as a result of a Turkish Government decision to restrict Imports and exports to nations not encompassed In the European Payments Union.
Ankara authorities have allo¬ cated a quota of the equivalent of $14,100,000 for exports to Israel during the current year. The im- port quota from Israel is not yet fixed, but is not expected to be less than an equivalent sum. Is rael has already placed orders for $1,000,000 worth of Turkish products.
IN THIS ISSUE
There^ plenty doing at The Jewish Center. It^s all on page 10.
USY menil>ers will have a busy day Monday at TtfeMtb IsraeL Details on page 8.
The Chronicle covers the Columbus sports scene on page IL
All the latest social newB on page 1.
Incident In which, according to the Israeli complaint, Syrian \ar- tlllery fired several hundred shells into a number of Israel villages in the Huleh border region.
OBSERVERS noted that one ot Israel's prime purposes In filing, the current complaint—Which Was to obtain expressions of concern from the UN and the major pov- ers—seems already to liave been;. achieved. Mr. Hammarskjold WlU spend three days in Israel during, his forthcoming visit to the WAj die East He will fly to Jerusalem from Somaliland oil the mpming of Dec, 31 and will leave Jeru¬ salem for Amman Jan. 3. He will return to New York Jan. 8.
After a majority of the Security CTouncil, as well as Secretary Gen¬ eral Dag Hammarskjold, today upheld Israel's Insistence that the Syrian attacks on Israeli villages in the Huleh area Dec. 3 was a "grave" and "serious" Incident ihe Council agreed to Mr. Hammarsk-' jold's suggestion that he make a new effort to "attack the under¬ lying problems which are at the source of the tension" tietween Israel and Its Arab neighbors.
NEAR TBE END of the session Ambassador Abba Eban, chair¬ man of the Israel delegation, once more told the eleven member body that the entire responsibility, for the.tensions along the Syrian bor-> dei- Is the fact that "the United Arab Republic maintains a state of war." He told the Council that Syria has been maintaining a pol¬ icy of belligerence against Israel and of obstructing Israel's plans for completing water projects in the Huleh area since 1951.
Once again as be did a week ago, Mr. Eban told the Council tliat all that Israel wants is peace and implied that if it does not get peace it will have to resort to the kind of defense it undertook, against Syrian fire.
In answer to Mr. Eban, Dr. Omar Loutfl, head of the XJAR delegation, said that his country will "not be frightened by attacks or concentration of troops" and that "if attacked, will repel the attack."
MR.   HAMMARSKJOLD   told
the Security Council it has always been his "firm view" that '^o military action in contravention of the ceaae-flre clauses of tbe general armistice agreement can be JusUfled." He added: "Person¬ ally, I note the Incident before the Security Council with the deepest concern." He went on to say that another matter of concern were the underlying problems which had led to the present state of tension and the use of force. These problems called for serious efforts toward a peaceful solution eliminating the cause of tension.
Continuing, the Secretary Gen¬ eral said he is concerned about the "deterioration" of conditions around the Huleh region and the Northern demilitarized zone in the last year, and even more .con¬ cerned about "symptoms indicat¬ ing that the deterioration is con¬ tinuing." In this connection, he spoke of the dangers of a militaty build-up in "an area which has proved to be explosive." What had happened should be the turning point toward "more favorable" developments, he said.
US. delegate Henry Cbbot Lodge told the Council' "The events ot Dec. 3 deserve our serious concern because they in¬ volve in fact armed action on a large scale." The American repre¬ sentative said that the Counoi) "cannot condone action or the lue of force in Justification of earlier actions. We cannot agree," be said, "with those who say that th^ past justifies the present,!'     /