Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1961-07-21

              COLUMBUS EDITION
Vol. 39, No. 29
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FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1961
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HUMAN REUTIONS INSTITUTE TO BE AT O.S,U. LAW SCHOOL'
The fourth annual Institute on Human Relations wil! be held July 24-28 in the Law Sc^hool Building on the Ohio State University campus. Theme for the week-long meeting will be: "Our Pluralistic Society: Its Nature, Function, Goals."
The Ohio-Kentucky Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith will spon¬ sor this program in c<x>peration With the Catholic Interracial Council, the Ohio Counoil of Churches, Ohio State University and the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
Designed to provide practical help in developing understanding and skills necessary for the com¬ batting of community relations problems, the Institute will be at¬ tended by teachers, social work¬ ers, law enforcement officers and labor, religious and civic leaders throughout the state. Many of those who will be attending have been presented with full tuition scholarships by B'nai B'rith Lodges and chapters throughout the state.
Some of the outstanding speak¬ ers to appear during the regular daily sessions include: Prank W. Baldau, Ohio Civil Rights Com¬ mission; Inspector Harvey Alston, Columbus Police Department; John V. P. Lassoe, Jr., National Association of Intergroup Rela¬ tions Officials (New York); Dr. William Gremlcy, Cleveland Com¬ munity Relations Board; Dr. Howard J. Ehrlich, Columbus Psy¬ chiatric Institute and Hospital and Dennis C. Flnneran Jr., As¬ sistant Editor of the Catholic Times.
Ohio Attorney General Mark McEMroy and Columbus City Councilman Russell M. Jones wUl jointly preseni a special program dealing with human relations In state and lcx;al government on July 25 at 7;ao pjn.
This unique presentation will be open to the general publ'o and will be held in the air-conditioned audItorli''~\ of the Ohio State Law School Ljilding.
For further information about the Institute, the spe 'al evening session on July 25 or scholarships available to persons interested in participating. Individuals are re¬ quested to contact Joel Ollander, ADL, 82 N. High St., Columhus. They may also phone CA. 1-5417.
Knesset Fights Ben-Gurion On Lavon Security Issue
IRRESISTIBLE 'MISS ISRAEl'
MIAMI BEACH—-Atida Plsantl, Israel's entry in the recent "Miss Universe" contest gets a ribbon fitting at the Carillon. Mak¬ ing adjustment is Mrs. Sidney Raff el, wife of the hotel's director, and official chaperon^ for "Miss Israel" during the pageant. Atlda, 19, WM born In Haifa of Turkish and Polish parentage. She plans to return to college to major in political science after her present two year hitch In the Israeli army is up.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — In the face of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurlon's insistence to thc contrary, Israel's Ciibinet recently reaffirmed approval of a report made to the Cabinet last January 31, absolving Pinhas Lavon of responsibility for a "security mishap" in 1954.
The Knesset, Israel's Parliament, will hold another special meeting, to deal with the explosive Lavon issue. There were pre¬ dictions that all of the parties in the Knesset except Mr. Ben- Gurlon's Mapai Party, will form a
coalition to reject the Prime Min¬ ister's efforts to nullify the find¬ ings of the earlier, seven-man ministerial committee that had cleared Mr. Lavon.
MR. BEN-GURION had already told a special meeting of the Knesset, whioh is In recess pend¬ ing the scheduled August IB elec¬ tions, that he considers that the ministerial committee "exceeded its terms of reference and usurp-
Eichmann Admits Passing On Order For Hanging Of Jews
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Adolf Eichmann admitted in court that his Gestapo Bureau IV-B-4 was responsible for transmitting orders for the hanging of Jews, the execution ot Poles, and the arrest ot Polish priests.
The admission cam? as Attorney General Gideon Hausner, chief of the prosecutilon, continued for the seventh consecutive day his relentless hammering at tho ex-Gestapo colonel being tried for di¬ recting  the  killing    of    6,000,000
European  Jews  during  the  Nazi regime.
HAVING MADE THAT admis¬ sion, however, Eichmann resorted once again to "loss of memory." He Insisted he "could not remem¬ ber" how many such orders his department had transmitted. He Insisted also that he had no re¬ sponsibility for Initiating "even a single one" of those murder or¬ ders. As to why the death orders were routed through his bureau^— that was something he did not Icnow, he told the court.
Mr. Hausner pressed him Into other admissions, however. The prosecutor got him to admit that Heinrich Hinunler, chief of Hit¬ ler's SS, the Nazi Elite Guard, had summoned Eichmann to field headquarters at Kiev, in the Ukraine, when the Nazis had oc¬ cupied that city.    Mr.    Hausner
ORT "Chapter" Now Being Formed Here
Invitations have been issued to all organization presidents to attend ORT's first membership tea at the home of Mra. David Roth, 2775 Elm Avenue, at 1 p.m.  on Wednesday, July 26.
ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training) is a world-wide system of vocational schools of many types designed to provide for the building and rebuilding of human lives through the teaching of modern skills. Recognized as the vocational training agency of the Jewish people for
the past 81 years, ORT believes the best kind of help that oan be given to a man Is the kind which ultimately enables him to help himself.
SINCE WORLD WAR H, ORT
has trained 350,000 people, many of them in flight from oppression, others chained by generations ol poverty to the bleakest kind of existence. This year ORT trained over 40,000 students In more than 70 modern skills and trades, rang¬ ing from basic carpentry and metal-work to electronics and laboratory techniques ...from welding and dressmaking, to pre¬ cision toolmaklng and ftishlon de¬ signing.
In addition to the standard tech¬ nical high schools, ORT also maintains special programs for those lacking the educational re¬ quirements,    aptitudes    for    ad¬
vanced skills, or time to attend long-term, full-time studies. ORT training aims at elevating the living standard of large masses of sorely underprivileged  people.
OR'TS NETWORK of over 600 installations are located through¬ out Europe, the Near and Middle East, AfricEi, North America tind South America. They are financed in part by the World ORT Union and Its affiliates; In part by the respective governments of the countries in which the schools are located; and in part by the Joint Distribution Committee, a member agency of the United Jewish Ap¬ peal. Women's American ORT contributes to the program through its membership  dues.
Any member of the Jewish com munlty Interested in learning more about ORT Is Invited to at¬ tend and may do so by calling Mrs. Roth at BE. 1-4730.
tried to prove through that ad¬ mission that, in October 1951, dur¬ ing a critical (Jcrm^n Array cam¬ paign, Himmicr issued an order forbidding all emigration of Jews after receiving a report from Eichmann.
SmX ANOTHEB admission drawn reluctantly from Eichmann showed that, in spite of his claim that he waa an unimportant, minor functionary in the Nazi ap¬ paratus, he attended an important conference in 1940, with a galaxy of topmost Nazi officials. This conference decreed that Poland should be "Germanized" and that Jews and Gypsies be annihilated.
Attending the parley in addition to Eiohmann—by Eichmann's own admission today — were Reinhard Heydrich, the Gestapo chief, later assassinated at Prague; Otto Oh- iendorf, commanding general of the Elnsatzgruppen, whose as¬ signment called for shooting Jews before the death camps were opened—this Nazi was hanged later at Lansborg; Arthur Seyss- Inquart, later Governor-General of Holland, also hanged after the Nuremberg war crimes trials; and Odilo Globochnik, senior general at Lublin, who operated the first gas chamber for the mass murder of Jews.
ASKED   BY   MR.   HAUSNER
Whether It was true that he had been "in good company" when he attended that conference with the Nazi leaders, Eichmann answer¬ ed: "It was ordered by Himmler. My office, IV-B-4, was ordered to handle the time-tables, the roll¬ ing stock."
There was another outbreak in court when Mr. Hausner was pressing Eichmann on whether he knew that German Je^/s were be¬ ing killed by "Elnsatzgruppen, as well as "local" Jews In German- occupied areas. Elchman explain¬ ed that he thought German Jews wore not being killed. However, he said, knowing "the customs in Eastern territories," he made sure to send German Jews to Lodz "whic.h was a safer place than the Eastern territories."
A BEARDED, elderly Jew among the spectators, hearing Eichmann say he thought Lodz was "a safer place," rose from his seat  and shouted:  "Lodz  was  a
safer place? All my children Were killed there, you dog!" Several policemen hurried the distressed man out of the courtroom.
Mr. Hausner introduced two documents, showing that a Nazi official in the Jewish Affairs bur¬ eau of the Ministry for Eastern Affairs had suggested that Jews be gassed instead of being shot, adding the phrase: "Eichmann agrees'." The prisoner replied that he had never assented to such a proposal, insisting that inclusion of his name was "a falsification." Eichmann requested the court to order a probe of these documents by a handwriting expert "Then everything will be clear," he per¬ sisted.
MB. HAUSNEB quoted Eich¬ mann as saying, during the police interrogation in Israel prior to the trial, that the German Security Office had agreed to the gassing of Jews through Eichmann's of¬ fice. The prosecutor pointed to "the strange coincidence" that gassing methods were introduced shortly after Eichmann's com¬ plaint to Muller that all SS men would become sadists If they had to continue to shoot Jews.
ed a juridical prerogative." But Justice Minister Pinhas Rosen countered with a vigorous denial of Mr. Ben-Gurlon's charge.
Prior to the vote In the Cabinet, Mr. Ben-Gurion explained his "ir¬ revocable" stand which had led to his resignation and the subse¬ quent fall of the Government. That step, in turn, was followed by the dissolution of the {govern¬ ment, and the necessity of new elections. Meanwhile, Mr. Lavon had been ousted from his post as secretary-general of Histadrut, Israel's Federation of Labor.
ISRAEL HAS BEEN governed hy a caretaker goverimient since Mr. Ben-G u r 1 o n ' s resignation which followed a Cabinet decision to uphold the ministerial commit¬ tee's findings. Mr. Rosen had been chairman of that committee.
Mr. Rosen rejected particularly Mr. Bcn-Gurion's claim that, by clearing Lavon of a charge that as Defense Minister in 1954 he gave the order which led to the security disaster, thc committee in effect "convicted" a senior army  officer  for the mishap.
MB. ROSEN BBTOBTEO that, if tho Prime Minister wanted to find out who actually gave the decisive order, he could have called the un-named senior officer to account under normal Investi¬ gative procedures. If that had been done, the Justice Minister said, Lavon would have been obliged to testify.
The Justice Minister also charged that the Prime Minister's
complaint about the lack of val¬ idity of the corrunittee's findings on procedural grounds was not made when the committee was set up and began its Investigations, but oniy after the committee brought in a report which the Prime Minister found distcisteful. At the recent Cabinet meeting, the (jovornraent was also criticiz¬ ed for the manner in which It an¬ nounced the launching of Its meteorological rocket, Shavlt-II. The Cabinet decided that, In the future, reports on experiments of international significance be Sub¬ mitted first to a ministerial com¬ mittee for approval prior to public announcement.
This session of the (Cabinet also approved a series of recommen¬ dations by a special oommittee which examined proposals re¬ stricting Government sales ot arms to foreign countries. One clause in the new recommenda¬ tions would ban re-sale of Israeli arms to a third party. If the na¬ tion buying the arms from one one that had purchased from Is¬ rael would use such weapons to maintain a colonial regime.
THIS BULE WAS PBOPOSED
as a result of recent reports— denied both here and at Bonn— that West Germany had re-sold to Portugal a large quantity of Israel-made Uzzl submachine- guns. Portugal, according to that report, was said to have used the Israeii-orginated weapons against the independence movement In Angola, Africa.
During that discussion Foreign Minister CJolda Melr explained that, in all previous arms sales, her Ministry wa.s consulted. Where there was "the slightest doubt" about such a proposed deal, she said, the Foreign Minis¬ try's veto of such a deal was til- ways accepted "without question."
BEN-GURION TO JFK MY ACHING BACK!'
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Prime Minister David Ben-Gurlon has advised President John F. Ken¬ nedy to try methods developed by an Israeli physician as a possible cure for the American's chronic backache, it was reported here by the Jerustilem Post.
According to the newspaper, Ben-Gurion recently called In U.S. Ambtissador Walworth Btirbour, and told the envoy of the method developed by Ben-Gurion's per¬ sonal physician. Dr. Moshe Feld- enkrais. Barbour reportedly sent on the suggestion to Mr. Kennedy, through State Department chtm- nels.
Ben-Gurion has been studying for four years coordination and physical efficiency methods work¬ ed out by Dr. Feldenkrals. The Premier's well-known habit of standing on his head for a period each day was reportedly devel¬ oped as pi-oof that his back was strengthened as a result of the F'eldenkrais method. Dr. Felden¬ krals was reported to have advis¬ ed that his method be tried by a young American of approximately President Kenedy's age and phy- siccal condition, before the sys¬ tem Is adopted for treatment of Mr. Keimedy's back condition.
Stephen A. Arnold Is New Rabbi To City
Dr. Jerome D. Folkrrian, Rabbi of Temple Israel, has announced the selection of Rabbi Stephen A. Arnold as Assistant Rabbi, filling a vacancy created by the resignation of Rablri Robert A. Rothman, now of Temple Adath Israel, Lexington, Ky.
Dr. Folkmaa indicated that Rabbi Arnold has already taken up his duties as Assistant Rabbi at Temple Israel but his wife will join him here when they establish their residence in Colunibus on Aug. 1. Rabbi Arnold's formal Installation
will be conducted at Temple Israel on the evening of Friday, Sept. 8, 1951.
BABBI ABNOLD was ordained at the Hebrew Union College— Jewish Institute of Religion, Cin¬ cinnati, on May 20, 1961. He re¬ ceived his primary and secondary schooling on Chicago's North Shore. He was tictlve In youth work at the North Shore Con¬ gregation Israel, Glencoe, where he was confirmed. At the High¬ land Park High School, he partici¬ pated in many dramatic produc¬ tions and was elected to the National  Honor  Society.
In 1954 he was graduated from Beloit College and served for a year as Assistant to the Alumni Secretary. While a student there, he majored in Speech and dramat¬ ic Arts. He was active as an offi¬ cer of his fraternity, a member of the student senate, and ot sev¬ eral religious organizations. In recognition of his participation In both summer and winter theater, Mr. Arnold was elected to the National Collegiate Players.
HE   ALSO   STUDIED   in   the
Graduate School at Northwestern University where he held a schol¬ arship in anthropology. He also worked as an orderly at Evan- ston Hospital. Rabbi Arnold entered the He-
Rabb] Arnold
brew Union College — Jewish In¬ stitute of Religion In 1956. He pursued the regular course of rabbinical study and tilso main¬ tained his Interest in dramatics. During tho summers he worked for the Union of Amerlcaui He¬ brew Congregations in youth camps. Last summer he assisted in the American Jewish Archives at the Hebrew Union . College — Jewish  Institute  of  Religion.
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