Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1958-11-28

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Vol. 36, No. 49
COLUMBUS, OHIO. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER^ 1958
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Davotad to Amarlean and Jewilh Ideali
Unqualified Refugee Aid Sought By Arabs, Soviet
ADL Regional Decade Of Progress Highlights
Highlights of regional ADL meeting, honoring lOth anniversary of group: Upper left. Governor CNeill chats with Cincinnati Judge Benjamin Schwartz, who Intro¬ duced him at Sunday luncheon; upper right, J. Harold Saks, left, presents scroll to Seymour Gorchoff on occasion of the anniversary; center, panel which discussed "Decade of Progress" — left to right, J. Albert Clark, I. Keith Tyler, Mrs. Alvah Peter¬ son, Latvrence H. Williams (moderator), OrvlUe Jones, Donald Beatty, C. Maurice Wletlng and Paul J. Lynch; bottom, post chairmen who were honored — left to right. Jack Sohlff, Louis Matusoff, Bichord Abel and Balpfa Lazarus. (Photo and pa«te-up by Topy.) (story on page 5)
PROMINENT MOTION PICTURE EXECUTIVE HEADS ANNUAL FOUNDATION CONCERT
Robert S. Benjamin, prominent motion picture executive and com¬ munity leader, has accepted the post of chairman of the annual dinner concert of the America- Israel Cultural Foundation, It waa announced today by Samuel Rub- In, Foundation President. The event will be held Feb. 2, at the Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Rubin said.
The America - Israel Cultural Foundation maintains a broad program to foster cultural de¬ velopment in Israel euid promote cultural Interchange between that country and the United States. It supports more than 40 of Is¬ rael's major institutions of art, music, theater, letters and arch¬ eology; provides scholarships in the creative and performing arts to gifted Israelis for study at home and abroad.
It also awards grants under a Middle East Fellowship Fund to postgraduate students from Asian and African countries for study in Israel; and conducts extensive cultural programs for Israeli im¬ migrant, Arab, and other rural and border settlements.
Mr. Benjamin Is heading the committee for the dinner concert for the second year. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United Artists Corporation, as well as President and a director of tbe J. Arthur Rank Organiza¬ tion, Inc., he is also a senior member of the New York law firm of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Krim.
Long identified with humani¬ tarian organizations, Mr. Benja¬ min has served twice (1955-1956) as chairman of the United Jewish Appeal Amusement Division; chairman of the Joint Defense Appeal (1958-1767) and Is present¬ ly chairman of the Ambassador's Ball honoring Ambassador and Mrs, Eban to be held In Great Neck on Nov. 22.
Mr. Benjamin is also serving as chairman of a dinner which will honor Eleanor Roosevelt In De- comber to be given by the Lexing¬ ton Democratic C!lub, and is fi¬ nance chairman of the Advisory Council of the Democratic Na¬ tional Committee.
IN THIS ISSUE   I
I A colorful (THianukah carnival Is scheduled Dec. 14 at the Jew¬ ish Center. Get the details on page II.
[ AZA and B'nai B'rlth Girls have scheduled a special program for the weekend. It begins tonight at Agudas Achim Synagogue. See page 5.
I    Boris   Smolar   returns   to   Th Chronicle this week on page 2.
RAINFALL LACK CONCERNS ISRAEL
JERUSALEM, (JTA)— Wide¬ spread concern among Israel farmers was reported over the continued absence of rainfall whkh normally comes In the mid¬ dle of November to end a lengthy summer dry spell.
Citrus growers were parti¬ cularly hard hit by the prolonga¬ tion of the dry weather. Their plantations were affected not only by the costs of artificial irrigation but also by the fact that the continued hot weather favored the spread of the Medlterrean fly, tho scourge of the citrus plant.
A new 1,500,000 pound reservoir, assuring Jerusalem an adequate water supply, was completed and dedicated this week.
ANNOUNCE  OIFT
LONDON, (JTA)—The Harry and Abe Sherman Foundation an¬ nounced a gift of 100,000 pounds sterling ($180,000) to the Hebrew University for completion of the seven-story Administration build¬ ing which will be knovirn as the Sherman Building.
B'nai B'rith Opens Campaign
Kick-off time for B'nal B'rlth Zlon Lodge's membership drive Is 1:30 p. m. Sunday at the Jewish Center. Co-chairman Harold Co¬ vel and Ernest Stern have set a goal of 300 new members and expect to have the entire cam¬ paign force present at this open¬ ing affair.
Vice-chairmen, each heading a team are: Seymour Stern, Dick Neustadt, Meivin Harris and Dr. B. T. Mindlin; captains are: Al Braverman, Paul Sloan, Morris Fleishman, Abe Silverman, Herb¬ ert Weyl, David Lerner, Lawrence Rubenstein, Ike Cohen, Irv Rubin, Howard Fatt, Peter Forchhelmer, Allan Tarshlah, William Roth, David (dayman, AJ Engelman, Glen Wasserman, Sol Zeldln and Manuel Sobel.
The drive will last until Dec. 14. A trophy will go to the captain and his team signing the largest number of new members.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (JTA) —An Intense fight continued be¬ hind the scenes at tho United Nations thl.") week as the Arab States, supported by the Soviet bloc, fought to compel the United States delegation to pledge con- tmuation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Arab refugees beyond June, 1960, when its mandate expires.
The Americans want the entire refugee relief program to be sub¬ ject of a fresh study and they have   offered    funds   to    finance
such a survey. Arab insistence on ' continuation of the present relief set-up has been spurred by the welcome given to Israel's new ^ compromise proposals for settle¬ ment of the refugee problem which gave promise of breaking the logjam.
AS THE FIGHT continued, therefore, the Arabs, backed by the Soviet bloc, continued in a bitter assault on Israel in the General Assembly's Political Com¬ mittee. Although Bulgaria, along with the other members of the Soviet   bloc,   contributes   nothing
MOSCOW STEPS UP PROPAGANDA BARRAGE AGAINST ISRAEL, ZIONISTS
LONDON, (JTA)—The Moscow Radio laid down a propaganda barrage against Israel and the Zionist movement this week in which it blasted Nelson Rocke¬ feller, Governor-elect of New York, as an instrument of "inter¬ national  Zionism."
At the same time, short-wave broadcasts from the Soviet capital denounced alleged shipment of arms by West to Israel and Jor¬ dan, because these shipments would kindle "war passions." The broadcasts made no reference to Soviet arms shipments to United Arab  Republic,
THE SOVIET propagandists ex¬ pressed pious concern Jest the Western armament of Jordan lead to an arms race between that kingdom and Israel because of their "existing feelings ot hostil¬ ity."
The New York governor-elect was assailed as "a vigilant trus¬ tee of international Zionism" and the broadcasts linked his family oil interests with the Zionist movement. This was how Mos¬ cow described tho alliance of the socialist Mapal Party and Stan¬ dard Oil:
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"WBIZMANN, the leader of the conservative Jews, played an Im¬ portant role in the World Zionist organization toward the establish¬ ment of the State of Israel. Wiez- marvn's group enjoyed the support of Shell the oil monoply, which tried to establish a large oil em¬ pire rivaling in its wealth of India. Weizmann was associated with the oil companies as a chem¬ ist.
i "With the leaders of Zionism, the British oil monopolists se¬ cured a number of industrial establishments   in   Palestine,   in-
I eluding Palestine Electric, Jordan
I Oil Exploration Company, the Zionist Central Bank, and the Anglo-Palestine   Bank.
! "But after World War II, when Britian lost her influence In the Middle  East,   the  Zionists  trans-
j ferrcd their allegiance. The Rocke¬ feller family penetrated the world Zionist organization and conse¬ quently effected a change in the government away from Weiz- mann's conservative party, called the General Zionist Organization, to the reformist, pro American party, Mapal, which Is led by Ben
I Gurlon
Jewish youngsters In Poland and North Africa are among 200,000 distressed Jeivs In 26 countries whose needs and aspirations will receive attention of delegates to 44th Animal Meeting of Joint Distribution Committee, Dec. 11, In New York. Delegates will adopt budget covering child chare, feeding and clotlilng programs, care of aged and handicapped, health and medical services, education ahd cultural programs and other assistance or coming year. Pictured above are (top left) an Infant receiving bath In JDC child-care station In Tunlsa; (top riglit) JDC lunch or two destitute Jewish youngsters in Poland; (bottom left) group of Polish Jews recently repatriated from Uussla who are learning trade to start life anew; and (bottom right) Jewish schoolboy In Morocco who must study Arabic as well as Hebrew and other subjects. <fDC resumed Its activities In Poland at the end of 1867, after eight-year lapse. Funds or JDOs activi¬ ties are provided by United Jewish Appeal.
to UNRWA, its spokesman got up this week to ridicule the Is¬ rael proposals made by Ambas¬ sador Abba S. Eban as "typical Zionist logic." So abusive was the attack on Israel that Arthur Lourle, deputy chairman of the Israel delegation, rose to reply. Mr. Eban also took the floor during the continuing debate, after Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Yemen spokesmen had summarily rejected the Israel offer to re¬ peat its readiness to pay com¬ pensation to Arab refugees even before achievement of a polltiOal settlement.
MR. EBAN pleaded with the Arab governments to give thought¬ ful consideration to the imple¬ mentation "of a regional inte¬ gration plan In which Israel will play  Its  full  share."
"It is our belief," he said, "that there is value in the proposal we have made here—not only intrins¬ ic value but also as a challenge, the challenge of movement versus immobility."
Newspapers in Jordan gave front page space to reports of Mr. Eban's proposals for settle¬ ment of the Arab refugee prob¬ lem, quoting them extensively in editorial in Falislinsaid the Arabs were responsibile for the exist¬ ence of the refugee problem and held them at fault for refusing to co-operate in 1947 with the U.. partition decision, with in¬ vading Israel in 1947 and with obstructing the resettlement ef¬ forts  of  the  past   10  years.
FALAgTIN warned both the refugees and the Arab 'host' governments that the UN discus¬ sion of what Will be done with the Arabs after 1960 " may be the last opportunity" to find an equitable solution, with outside assistance, of the refugee situa¬ tion.
Israel's new position was re¬ garded by many as a statesman¬ like formulation. One top rankingf delegate said of Mr. Eban's speech: "I think that Israel l}as now really contributed toward taking this problem out of dead center."
A RANKING member of the British delegation, said he felt Israel has provided a starting point from which work might go on toward a possible solution of the refugee problem.
In the Special Political (Com¬ mittee, Pierre de Vaucelles, French delegate, declared that his govern¬ ment views tlie Israel statement with "particular interest." How¬ ever, the French representative warned against "any attempt prcniaturely tp find an overall resolution" of the Arab refugee problem.
UJF OFFICE MOVES
The offices of the United Jewish Fund, Jewish Cltora- munity Council and Jewish Family Service, now located at 55 East State St., will be sit¬ uated at 40 S. Third St., room 330, as of Dec. 1, 1958.
JEWISH   MEMBERS
LONDON, (JTA)—Leo Abse be- came the 20th Jew to sit In the current Parliment with his elec¬ tion, officially confirmed this week as the member from Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Mr. Abse, a La- borite, won handily in a by-elec¬ tion.
GRANT BY U. 8.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A Unlt-^ ed States Public Health Service grant of $21,000 for a study In Israel of the effect of cultural, nutritional and genetic factors on the hardening of the arteries was announced by tho Hebrew Ual- versity-Hadassah Medical Scbool,