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Vol. 38, No. 30
FRIDAY, JULY 22,   I960
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Eichmann Selects Cologne Attorney As Counsel For His Coming Trial
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Bar Mitzvah In Israel
Not every Bar Mitzvah youth Is greeted by the leader of a nation. Vet, this is what took place when Dan Opatoshu, 13-year. old son of noted Broadway and television actor, David Opatoshu, celebrated his Bar Mitzvah In Jerusalem recently. Israel Prime Minister David Ben-Ourion presented him with a personally- inscribed Illustrated Bible in his office (above). To encourage families from abroad to have their child's Bar Mitzvah celebrated in the land of their forefathers, the Israel Oovernnient Tourist Corporation assures parents its fullest cooperation in arranging for the synagogue ceremony and the plamiing of other activities which should help rrmke the occasion an unforgettable experience for all participants.
Kennedy Wants New Mid East Approach
(Copyright 1980, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Senator John F. Kennedy of Massaciiu- setts who won the Democratic nomination for the Presidency ot the United States last week, is on record as calling for a new American approach to the Middle East aimed at hastening "the inevitable Arab acceptance of the permanence of Israel."
The nominee expressed his view^ on the Middle East Impasse In a Senate speech in June in which he urged that American policy
bo formulated with both "imagin-
KENNEDY WANTS NASSER TO GARRY OUT UN DECISIONS
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Sen¬ ator John Kennedy, Democratic candidate for President of the United States, made it clear at his press conierence here that he would expect the United Arab Re¬ public to carry out the decision of the United Nations against the existing anti-Israel blockade of the Suez (IJanal. He said this would help to clear the atmosphere for bringing: about an Arab-Israel peace.
Senator Kennedy expressed his view when he was told that there was an "apparent contradiction" between the Democratic platform pledging stronger aupport to the United Nations and encourage¬ ment of Arab-Israel peace nego¬ tiations "which are unacceptable, of course, except for compliance with long-standing UN resolu¬ tions."
The Presidential candidate re¬ plied: "I don't think that that's in any way paradoxical, those two positions. What we would like Is that the agreements and the posl- tlon of the United Nations taken (Continuad  on   pag* 4)
JERUSALEM (JTA)--Israel police announcod la.st week that Nazi mass murderer Adolf Eichmann had selected Robert Servatius, a Cologne attorney, as his defense counsel for hjs trial in Jerusalem.
Tho names from which Eichmann chose were on three letters offering to defend him. The other two letters were from attorneys In Chile and in New York. The Servatius letter said that Dr. Robert Eichmann of LInz, brother ot tho v/ar criminal, had authorize'! Servatius to offer his services
PICKET  SAMMY DAVIS
WASHINGTON, D.C, (WUP)— George L. Rockwell with several Nazi followers picketed a local night club last week in which Sammy Davis, Jr. appeared as the star. Protesting his marriage to a white girl, the "storm troopers" carried signs with such statements as "Go back to the Congo, yoa kosher coon" and "What's ibhe matter, Sammy, can't you find a tolored girl 7"
ation and restraint." He urged that the United States should not press the effort "so hard that the Arabs feel their neutrality and nationalism are threatened, but accepting those forces and seek¬ ing to help channel them along constructive lines, while at tbe same time trying to hasten the inevitable Arab acceptance of the permanence of Israel."
HE ALSO UEGED In his Sen¬ ate speech that the United States give Its support to programs "to hejp people instead of regimes, to work in terms of their prob¬ lems, not ours, and seek a perma¬ nent settlement among Arabs and Israelis based not on an armed truce but on mutual self-in/terest."
He argued also that "guns and anti-Communist pacts and propa¬ ganda and the traditional piece¬ meal approach are not enough." He called for refugee resettle¬ ment and a regional resources development fund in full partner¬ ship with the Middle East nations. He said all of these were "parts of a long-range strategy which Is both practical and In the best interests  of all   concerned."
THE OFFICIAL party plat¬ form on which Senator Kennedy will run for the presidency pledges the party to work "for guarantees to insure Independence for all states. We will encourage direct Arab-Israel peace negotiations, the resettlement of Arab refugees In lands where there is room and opportunity for them, an end to boycotts and blockades and un- (Contlnuad   on   page  4)
THE JUSTICE Ministry repre¬ sentative who presented Eich. mann with the three fetlcrs told him that the government would shortly offer to the Knesjet, Is¬ rael's Parliament, a bill to jr.nble a non-Tsraeil attorney tp appear in an Israel court. The reprcovn- tatlve also said that Eichmann's counsel would bo given every facility.
Previously, it had been an nounced that Gidoon Hauser, Israel's new Attorney General, would be the chief prosecutor in Eichmann's trial.
SEKVATIlrS, who d e f e nd e d many Nazi political leaders in the Nuremburg trials, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency earlier this month that he had offered his legal services in a letter to Plnhas Rosen, Israel's Minister of Jus¬ tice.
The Ctologne attorney, who said he had never been a member ot the Nazi party declined to give any information on who had en¬ gaged his services for Eichmann.
POLICE ofOcials meanwhile indicated, that the investigation of the Nazi and collection of ma¬ terial in preparation for tho trial may last longer than had origin¬ ally been anticipated, possibly as much as a year.
In the meantime, the Israel Ministry of Justice is drafting an amendment to the Lawyers Or¬ dinance to make it possible for non-Israeli attorneys to defend Eichmann in  an Israel court.
UNDER PRESENT law, only locally registered attorneys can appear in Israel courts. Foreign attorneys can appear only as aides to Israel lawyers or aa "friends of the court." In the lat¬ ter role, the court recognizes the counsel as working without re. muneration. Such a development was considercfi unlikely to hap¬ pen in the trial of Eichmann.
Meanwhile in Belgrade, Yugo¬ slav officials disclosed that evi¬ dence directly implicating Eich¬ mann In the deportation and ex¬ termination of Yugoslavian Jews during the Nazi regime had been uncovered in Zagreb, the Croatian capital, which was the seat of the Croatian, pro-Nazi Ustachi move¬ ment.
THE VUOOSI-A'V' authorities did not describe the nature of the evidence found against Eichmann and did not Indicate whether It Involved his relations with the UstachJ, whose forces were re¬ sponsible for the deaths ot thou¬ sands of Jews, Serbians and oth¬ ers, or Ills relations with Haj Amin el-Huss'eIni, one-time Mufti of Jerusalem. Eichmann acted as intermediary between tho Nazi regime and el-HuaseinI in the negotiations that led to the for. matlon by el-Husseini of a Mos¬ lem Brigade to fight with the Nazis against the AlUes.
In London, (Commander Avra¬ ham Selinger, director of Israel's sixth police bureau which is as¬ sembling data for the trial of Adolf Eiclimann, expressed the opinion that the trial of Hitler's
moss murder specialist would not be held  this year.
THE POUCE official came to London in the first of a series of visits to European cities seeking data for the trial. He said that Eichmann's crimes were commit¬ ted in Europe and "therefore I have come to colieot whatever evidence I can."
Declaring that It was difficult to specify when the Eichmann trial would take place, the police
official added: "I would say the trial will not be held this year— perhaps In 1981." Commander Selinger spent one day at the Wiener Library which contains one of tho largest collections of files and photographs on the tragedy of European Jewry In the world.
He said he had seen Ellchmann only a few days ago and that the Nazi criminal was impassive but cooperative. "He talks a lot and writes a lot," Selinger said. He smilingly evaded questions about the exact location of the jail in which Eichmann Is being de¬ tained. "This Is still a matter of security, not only as far as the outside world Is concerned but also for Eichmann's own secur¬ ity," he said.
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Toledo's Commiiiiitv Council, UJF Merge
TOLEDO, (JTA)—The Jew¬ ish C^jmmunlty (Council and the United Jewish Fund of Toledo were merged Into the Jewish Welfare Federation Of Toledo bringing under one head the planning and fund- raising operaUons for the Jewish community In Toledo and Lucas County.
The Federation wIU be re¬ sponsible for oonduettng the United Jewish Fund Cam¬ paign and also will be the central coordinating, social planning and communtty re¬ lations organization in Toledo and Lucas (bounty, O.
The merger follows a pat¬ tern increasingly evident through the country and was embarked upon in order to streamline the community's structure. The signing of the agreement culminates several years of negotiatlona conduct¬ ed by a joint Committee of tlie Jewish (immunity Coun¬ cil  and  United Jewish Fund.
Convert Your UJFC Pledge To Cash
Irving Fried
IRVING FRIED IS NEW PRINCIPAL AT TORAH ACADEMY
Harry Gilbert, president of the Columbus Torah Academy, has announced the appointment of Irving Fried to the position of principal of the academy. Fried will also be the Hebrew Studies instructor for the new third grade.
The now principal comes to Columbus from Atlanta, Ga., where he was the director of the Hebrew Academy ot Atlanta from 1954 to I960. Other teaching ex¬ perience was gained at the He¬ brew Academy of Trenton, N.J., and two Yeshivas and a Talmud Torah in the New York City area.
FRIED IS A product of the American Hebrew Day School sys¬ tem, having attended both Its elementary and high school Ye¬ shivas. He matriculated at Brooklyn (College during which time he took two years of Hebrew, and graduated from that Institu¬ tion In 1949. He went on to earn an MA. degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, and continued in further graduate work at Brooklyn (College and Emory University.
The new principal is married to the former Joan Lefkowitz, and iias three children, Karen, Lori, and Martin.
FOUR CLASSES will be In op- eraUon at the Torah Academy at (Continuad  on  paga  4)
'Home' Gets New Executive Director
Lazar D. Brener has been ap¬ pointed executive director for the New Columbus Jewish Home for Aged. Abe A. Wolman, presi¬ dent ol the Columbus Jewish Home for Aged, announced that the board of directors, at Its last meeting, unanimously approved the selection of Brener as Its director for the new Home which is expected to be under construc¬ tion this fall.
Brener is currently the asso¬ ciate director of the Jewish Fam¬ ily Service. He came to (Columbus in 1952 to serve as Maurice Bern¬ stein's, the former director, assis¬ tant. While with the Family Serv¬ ice, he participated in the study for a home for the aged and even¬ tually in  its establishment.
HE BECAME the administrator of the present Home in 1952, This Home is a converted private resi¬ dence on Woodland Avenue serv¬ ing 14 residents. Under his ad¬ ministration and direcUon these people received excellent care and attention.
Despite the limited facilities in the Home, Brener Introduced a variety of activities to occupy their time constructively and meaningfully. Those acquainted with the Home have been pleased with the manner in which the elderly people have been cared for and the kindly attention lav¬ ished upon them.
BRENER   WAS   bom   In   New
Orleans, La. He received his A.B. degree at Tulane University in 193§ and his M.S.W. graduate de¬ gree in social work also at Tulane University.  /
He has had social service ex¬ perience aa a caseworker in the Public Welfare Department in Now Orleans, as a psychiatric so¬ cial worker with the Veteran's Administration Mental Hygiene Clinic In Dallas, as a siipervlsor of family servicea in Fort Wayne before coming to Columbus in 1982.
BRENER HAS been active and haa served on the following com¬ munity   committees:   committees (Continuad  on   pMga  4)
Lazar D.  Brener
JEWS CONTINUE TO FLEE FROM CONGO; ARRIVE IN SaGIUM
BRUSSELS (JTA)—The num¬ ber of Jews fleeing from the Congo and arriving In Belg<lura comUnued  to mount here.
Many families from Luluabourg, one of the hardest hit centers of rebellious native assaults of Euro¬ pean whites, arrived here without luggage or funds. Among the ar¬ rivals was the Avzaradel-Bonna- vida family which had resided in Luluabourg for four generations.
THE   REFUGEES   caUed   the
situaUon In Luluabourg; "very grave" and expressed deep con- eern about male members of their families who remained and who are now presumed to be isolated In timt Congo city.
Some of the refugees arrived In nightclothea and described scenes ot violence and pillage. Many of them said they wanted to eml- grate to Israel.
JEWI8B SOCIAL welfare agon- (Continuad on pag* 4}