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Vol. 37, No. 33
FRIDAY, AUGUST  14,  1959
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TORAH ACADEMY TO HOLD MEETING TO INFORM PARENTS
The enrollment committee of the Columhus Torah Academy ha.s rpgi.stered IB .ididents for the now firHt grade class. A maximum of 22 children Is the ultimate gonl.
An informal gathering i.s plan¬ ned on Aug. 20 for parents who are scel<ing information about the school. It will be held at the home of Jerome Schottenstein, 490 N. Colhmbia Ave. at 8 p.m. on that day.
OFFICERS, rabbis of the edu¬ cational eommittee, faculty mem¬ bers and the educational consul¬ tant for the secular studies. Dr. Loren Tomlinson, will be present to answer    parents'  questions.
Any parent with eligible children is invited to attend thi.s meeting. Anyone desiring transportation to the meeting should contact Mrs. Edward Weis.'J nt BE. 5-3577 at least  24   hours   in   advance.
Stress of the academic program is placed on a maximum Hebrew (rducrition, and follows the pattern of Hebrew Day Schools across the country. Academy type training with emphasis on individual at- tc'ntion enables the teacher to get the maximum effort from each chikl according to his .Thility.
I. Q. EXAM.S given the first graders periodically during the past year proved them to be not only above average in intel¬ ligence?, but above average in their desire to ab.sorb the dual language   requirements.
Clas.ses this year will be held in the schoolrooms af tho Agudas Achim Synagogue. Transporta¬ tion Is available for each child. A strictly kosher lunch is served each day.
During   Rabbi   Samuel   Ruben- stein's    absence,    contact    Rabbi iJnvid  Stavsky nt  CL.  3-7971   ' information.
STUDY   SAFEta'ABDS
NEW   YORK,   (JTA) A
sear<'h study, sponsored by uuTican Jewish communal and religions iigoncics, is underway to determine whether modern methods of prc-handling food animab for slaughter are hu¬ mane.
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Chronicling The News
Boris Smolar ponders the  Khrushchev visit. See page 2. The  prominent  Jewish  Women  of  today  arc   discu.w.scd   by David Schwartz in Panorama on  page  2.
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Javitz Tells Senate Not To Give Aid To Nasser
Discuss Benefit Game
Getting ready for the Shrine Benefit Baselmll Gome this coming Thursday are Ray Waticins (left), Sabre Shrine official of North American Aviation and Bernard .Schutzberg, Jewish Center assistant physlciiJ education director in charge of the Center's Little League program. The Oentor's All-Stars will play against the NAA Sabres at 7 p.m. that evening on the North American diamonds iowited on Hamilton Hd. Tickets are avail¬ able at the C-enter or from eoaches and officials of the CV-ntcr's Little league.
Economic Confab To Discuss Israel
Plans tor Israel's industrial and agricultural development dur¬ ing hor second decade of state¬ hood will be di.scussed at the National Economic Conference for Israel which will be held at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago from Friday, Sept. 18 through Sunday, Sept.- 20, it was an¬ nounced recently by Dr. Jo.seph J. Schwartz, vice president of the  Israi'I   Bond   Organization.
The Conference will launch the Fall campaign for State of Israel Bonds, which constitute the cen¬ tral channel for Amcrii'an invest¬ ment in Israel's I'conomy. More than 750 .lewish leaders from communities in the United States and Canada are expected to at¬ tend the Tsrael  Bond  Conference.
DK. VE.SHAIAHI; Foerder, chairman of the Bank Leumi Le- Israel, the largest bank in Israel, will be a guest speaker at the National Conference, Dr. Schwartz, announced;
Dr. Foerder, one of Israel's load¬ ing finaincial und economic ex¬ perts, is a member of tho Ad¬ visory Council of the Central Bank of Israel, a member of the Committee of Economic Cabinet Ministers, Chairman of the Israel Industrial Institution Ltd., and a director of numerous Israeli corp¬ orations.
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WASHINGTON, (JTA) ~ Sen¬ ator .lacob K. .iavits of New York told the .Senate that unless Presi¬ dent Nasser's illegal restrictions on use oif the Suez Canal are lifted, "we Cannot give aid or fail to protest aid proposed by inter¬ national agencies" to Egypt.
Tiiis was a direct reference to proposals for a loon to Egypt by the World Bank to finance wid¬ ening and deepening of the inter¬ national waterway. The loan is expected to come up for discus¬ sion here in September at the meeting of the Bank's board of gov<^rnors.
.SPEAKINtJ on the floor of the Senate, the New York Republican declared that Nasser had renewed the blockade of Israeli cargoes at the Suez Canal in violation of the Constantinople Convention and international lavv and, during the last ten days, had accompanied this by violent threats and declar- .'ition  of  belligerency.
He noted that Nasser had used (I speech by Moshe Dayan, Is¬ rael's former Chief of Staff, as a pr(.'text for his own attacks on Israel and pointed out that Gen. Dayan did not speak for the Is¬ rael Government. He said "It must, however, be made clear that provocations from whatever source only qxaCerbate and make more difficult maintenance of peace, and pose the danger of a recurrence of the events of 1956 and 1957 which should certainly be avoided."
He said, "All this occurred at a time when we have been in¬ creasing our assistance to Egypt and when We have been bending our every effort to bring about mutual cooperation with Presi- di-nt Na.sser."
EXPRE;SSING concern over "deterioration ' of Israel-UAR re¬ lations, Sen. Javits said: "I be¬ lieve it essential that our govern¬ ment determine to deal with the present crisis about the transit of shipping through the Suez Canal and not to temporize with it."
He said, "all of us will recall how our government came to President Nasser's aid, insisting on withdrawal from Sinai and the Suez Canal area ... the United States, on its Part, advanced .$5,000,000 through the United Na¬ tions tor the purpose of recon¬ structing the Suez Canal .., Presi¬ dent Nasser has reciprocated poorly."
Sen. Javits said the United States would not carry out its responsibilities in the Suez issue "by an airy reference of the issue to    Mr.    Hammarskjold    or    the
U. N." Ho pointed out that "the U. N. is no stronger than any of its members, and we are one of the strongest.
THIS IS not an issue to be de¬ cided by asicing little Israel to accept some abridgement of its rights, and by pressuring Israel to live under imposition, blockade and siege."
He said that "we cannot hope to bring about peace and com¬ merce between Israel and Egypt now. But We can hope to pursue a persistent policy ... to bring about
respect for international law." American policy, he added, had often been criticized for failure of consistency in its application. This is a situation in which such consistency is both practical and needed."
American policy now, he de¬ clared, must insist that "the Il¬ legal restrictions on tbe use of the Suez Canal must be lifted and the Inge Toft case settled. Other¬ wise, we cannot give aid or fall to protest said proposals by inter- I national agencies."
Tass Attempts To Shed Anti-Semitism
BY  DAVID HOROWITZ
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP) — On the eve of the arrival of Premier Niklta Khrushchev in the U.S. the Soviet Union ap¬ pears to be making an effort to clear up the question of anti- Semitism which is featured so prominently in the American press.
A major effort along this line was made in a dispatch sent here by the Soviet news agency Tass on the very day the an¬ nouncement was made that Khrushchev would visit Ameri¬ ca late next month. The dis¬ patch, dealing only with the re¬ ligious aspect of the Jewish problem, is based on a Soviet reporter's roundup of the syna¬ gogues, congregations and rab¬ bis in the USSR.
WHAT THE report conveys in a factual manner is a pic¬ ture of the individual syna¬ gogues throughout the Soviet Union, from the Ukraine and Byelorussia as far as the Urals, how    tliey     function,     conduct
their activities, specifying their rights and limitations.
Perhaps one of tile moat in¬ teresting disclosures in the Tass dispatch is the fact that in the USSR a school for the training of Rabbis exists and that it is a resource from which rabbis- can be supplied to communities which seek them. "An ecclesias¬ tical school was opened at the Central Synagogue a few years ago," the dispatch states. Young Jews from the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Georgia and Uz¬ bekistan ares tudying there." The Tass report goes on to say: "The school has recently turned out it first graduates. One of them, Geshei Gurvlch, became a rabbi in Perm, the Urals; an¬ other one, JHorduhai Livshits, a rabbi in Frunze. Central Asia, and so on."
This rcv<'lation is significant because any attempt to su- press the existence of the pro¬ gress of synagogues would be¬ gin,  first,  with  the  suppression
of a school ordaining rabbis.
THE TASS report, based on an interview with the "Superior Rabbi ot the Moscow Jewish Religious Community, Leib Lev¬ in, points out that there are four synagogues in Moscow which conduct daily services," and that "the rabbis converse with the members of the con- gi-egation and advise them on religious matters."
It further reveals that "the Choral Synagogue is the largest of its kind in Moscow. It con¬ ducts morning services on every week day, after which some of the believers stay on to study tho Talmud; the study of holy books continues after afternoon prayers. On Saturday mornings the believers study their weekly chapter from the Pentateuch tK^fore starting to pray."
The Tass story continues to state that "the Saturday serv¬ ices attract particularly large numbers of congregationists" and that "taking part in these services ia Cantor Max Barkan,
whose father waa a famous Cantor in Minsk, His bariton lends particular grace to Sat- ¦ urday services; a choir by com¬ poser Adollf Bidelman sings during the services."
THE SOVIET reporter cites Rabbi Levin as declaring that "voluntary donations of the congregation provide the funds necessary for maintaining tlie school, the aynagogue and other needs of the Jewish communi¬ ty ..." He revealed that the Moscow Central Synagogue "now has 800,000 rubles on its current account in the State Bank."
Aa for the religious education of children, the reporter said that Rabbl Levin pointed out that "Church organizations do not deal with children's educa¬ tion. Religious communities, in¬ cluding the Jewish ones, do not run children's schools, but," the Rabbi added, "no one pre¬ vents the believers giving the children religious education in the family."
War Vets Elect
Meeting in New Yorlt City at the 64th Annual National Con- vention of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA (Aug. 6-8), JWV'S National Executive Committee appointed Joseph F. Barr (left). Past National Commander, to succeed Ben Kaufman as National Executive Director of the organization. Kaufman is retiring. Barr is currently National Administrator of JWV and a prominent Washington Community leader. The Board of Trustees of the National Slirine to the Jewish War Dead, at a meeting held in connection with the 64th Annual National Con¬ vention of JWV( announced the appointment of Captain Joshua L. Ooldberg (right), OHC, USIV, District Chaplain of the Third Naval District and Staff Chaplain, Eastern Sea Frontier, as president of the Board of Trustees to succeed Fredericli S. Harris of Meriden, Conn.
NIXON IMPLIES TALKS WITH KHRU WERE ADOUT JEWS
NEW YORK (JTA) — Vice President Richard Nixon implied that, during his talks in Moscow with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, he discussed with the Soviet leader also the suppres¬ sion of Jewish communal life in the Soviet Union, a cable from Moscow  said.
At a presa conference held prior to his departure from the Soviet Union, Mr. Nixon was asked by Alexander Parksoii, of the Jewish Daily Forward of New York, whether, in hia talks with Khru¬ shchev and other Soviet leaders he had a chance "to touch on the reported discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union." Mr. Nixon replied:
"I recognize that there is a legitimate interest among mem¬ bers of the press in the subjects that I did discuas with Mr. Khru¬ shchev and the other leaders, but I have always followed the prac¬ tice of not diselosing the sub¬ stance of such talks or indicnting the subjects covered. I think this is the only proper course to fol¬ low and this way we encourage a very frank exchange of views when talks of this type do take place."
LEAVE  FOR ISRAE^L
NEW YORK, (JTA) ~ Sixty- two Zionist youths aged 18-85, af. filiated with the Zionist Organiza¬ tion of America, left by plane this week for a month's study tour of Israel.
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BEN SEIFERAS NEW PRESIDENT OF THE HEBREW SCHOOL
Ben Seiferaa, 65 N. Gould Rd., has been elected president of the Columbus Hebrew School.
Other officers elected were: Vice-Presidents, Julius Marguiles, Aivin Solove, Fred Yenkin; Sec¬ retary, Edwin Solomon; Treas¬ urer, Farrell Shar.
BOARD OP Trustees: Dr. B. W. Abramson, Rabbi J. L. Baiter, Albert A. Blank, Lazar Brener,' Mrs. Harold Covel, Dr. Ben Cohen, Aaron Dachner, Dr. jr. D. Folk- man, Dr. Marvin Fox, Melvtn B^lrman, Jack Qelln.
Irving Gertner, Martin Oodof¬ sky, Leon Oordon, B»n Grsenberg, (Oontlnaed on tuge 4)