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Vol. 40, No. 34
FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1962
39
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The World's Week
Compilad from JTA  Reports
In Jerusalem, a dl.spute between the Mini.stry of Finance and David Horowitz, governor of the Bank of Israel, over the latter's charges the Treasury failed to carry out neces¬ sary anti-inflationary measures was taken up at a Cabinet meeting. The Cabinet decided to consider the dispute closed, with a statement to be published shortly by the Finance Ministry.
In New York, Ally. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy -was urged, in a joint statement by the American Jewish Congress, Jew¬ ish Labor Committee, Jewish War Veterans, Union of Ameri¬ can Hebrew Congregations, Union of Orthodox Jewish Con¬ gregations of America and United Synagogue of America, "to establish without delay the facts" in the recent destruction of a Negro church in Lee County, Georgia.
In Bonn, the German Ministry of Justice is contemplat¬ ing giving former judges of the Nazi People Courts the op¬ portunity to resign from posts they now hold in the West German judiciary.
In Jemsalem, Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim appealed to the Vatican to refrain from recommending the adoption by the forthcoming Ecumenical Council of a calendar reform which would affect the fixity of the Jewish Sabbath.
At (he United Nations, it was reported that Acting Sec¬ retary-General U Thant told newsmen in Brazil that the establishment of a U.N. fact-finding committee to inquire into tho whereabouts of Nazi criminals in South America cannot be considered, since the point is not on the agenda of  the  forthcoming General  Assembly session.
In Frankfurt, four former Gestapo officers were indicted by the public prosecutor in the city of Wupperthal for par¬ ticipating in the murder of thousands of .Jews during the Nazi occupation of Soviet territory.
In Tcl Aviv, Jewish Agency plan,s, for the absprption of at least 1000 young Jewish irpmigr'aiits from Latir! America and, if necessary, even more, were announced by Moshe Kol, head of tbe agency's youth immigration department.
In New York, the American Jewish Congress called for New York state legislation that would grant Sabbath ob¬ servers an exemption from the Sunday closing law.
In New York, Gottlieb Hammer, executive vice-chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., left for Israel to con- suit with Jewish Agency and government officials on prob¬ lems of housing, financing and rehabilitation for Israel's newcomers.
In Boston, the First American Israel Mutual Fund an¬ nounced the filing of a registration statement with the Se¬ curities and Exchange Commission seeking registration of a $27.5 million issue of its shares of beneficial interest. A pub¬ lic offering is planned.
Tennis Champ Given Trophy
Howard Schoenbaum (left), vice president of the Jew- Lsh Center, presents first place trophy to Cheri Papier, win¬ ner of the  14 and older girls' singles tennis tournament.
U.S. Envoys Alert In South America
ISRAEL MilPS ITS STRATEGY FOR U.N. ASSEMBLY SESSION STARTING SEPT. 18
JEIRUSALEM (JTA) — Final discussions were being held at the Foreign Ministry here this week in preparation for Israel's policy to be followed by the Gov¬ ernment's delegation to the nejrt United Nations General Assem¬ bly, convening Sept.' 18.
Michael S. Ciomay, Israel's per¬ manent representative at the U. N., has been here for two weeks, participating In the discussions under the leadership of Foreign Minister Golda Melr and a team of high Foreign Ministry officials who will form part of Israel's Assembly  delegation   this  year.
High on the agenda of the cur¬ rent discussions are the Arab refugee question and the possi¬ bility that a group of UJ^l. mem¬ bers may propose another reso¬ lution this year, similar to last year's unsuccessful draft, calling for direct Arab-Israeli peace ne^ gotlations.
The refugee issue is slated to face a showdown at the next Assembly because the mandate for the operation of the U.N. Re¬
lief and Works Agency fqr Pale¬ stine Refugees is to expire next June 30.
Dispatches printed In the Jor¬ danian press predicted that the annual report to be submitted to the next Assembly by Dr. John H. Davis, commissioner-general of UNRWA, will claim that all projects aimed at absorption of the Arab refugees have failed be¬ cause the refugees insist only on returning to  Israel.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States embassies in Ar¬ gentina and Uruguay are con¬ tinuing to watch anti-Jewish acts in those countries, the State Department assured. It seems that the Argentine authorities are "fully awafe of bhe need to take firm measures in the presr ent circumstances," the State De¬ partment added.
The assurance was given by Assistant Secretary of State Frederick G. Dutton to Senator Jacob K. Javlts, New York Re¬ publican. "Our officers in Buenos Aires," Mr. Dutton said, "will continue to press with members of the Argentine Government the concern of all decent men when¬ ever minority groups are subject to unlawful acts."
THE U.S. emijassy in Monte¬ video, Uruguay, reported mea¬ sures taken by Uruguayan au¬ thorities including establishment ot street patrols by the police reinforced by Uruguayan army army troops, highway patrols, and 100 police normally assigned to the interior of the country, as well as police raids against the headquarters of organizations suspected of involvement in the anti-Jewish   incidents.
The U.S. embassy In Monte¬ video reported to W^hlngton; "The Uruguayan public and press
have become very concerned at these unfortunate incidents, which are thought to be the work of a very few extremist mem¬ bers of a society. It would ap¬ pear this concern is reflected in a vigorous effort on the part of their governmental authorities to halt this series of criminal acts."
LATEST REPORT of violence came from Buenos Aires, where an anti-Semitic group attacked a Jewish center In suburban Lomas del Palomar while a social func¬ tion was In progress. Jews in the center fought back. They cap¬ tured one of the attackers, Or¬ lando Tedeschl, and handed him over to the local police. During the fracas, someone fired a shot. One ot the alleged Nazi .attackers, named   Barbieri,    was   wounded.
THE LOCAL police freed Te¬ deschl, and, instead of probing into the nature of the attack, detained Bernardo P. Flnkelsteln, one of the Jews at the scene, and charged him with beating Tedeschi. The police refused to probe the event further, attribut¬ ing the clash, merely to "a roup of unidentified hoodlums." The police also refused to accept the complaint   of the Jewish   center.
The action of the police provok¬ ed protest on the part of the Jews   who   witnessed   the   clash.
Mrs. Gotsfeld, Mizrachi Leader, Mourned After Death In Israel
Chronicling
The News
Editorial 2
Securities News 5
Synagogues   5
Shopping Guide 5
Society  6, 7
Sports    8, 9
¦TEL AVIV—Mrs. Bessie Gots¬ feld, honorary national president of the Mizrachi Women's Or¬ ganization of America, the major women's religious-Zionist organi¬ zation in the United States, died here recently at the age of 72. '' For more than a quarter of a century, Mrs. Gotsfeld served as Israel representative of the or¬ ganization she had helped to found, developing a network of child care and social welfare pro¬ jects supported by American Miz¬ rachi Women.
TO THOUSANDS of children and young peopie brought to Is¬ rael by Youth Allyah she was guide, confidant, and substitute mother.
Mrs. Gotsfeld's first experience with refugees and social welfare work in the United States came In aiding Jewish refugees fleeing religious   persecution   in   Czarist
Russia.
Mrs. Gotsfeld was born in Galicia. Poland, and emigrated to the United States in her early tijens. Shortly after her marriage to the late Mr. Mendel Gotsfeld, she moved her home from New York City to Seattle, Wash. There she rapidly assumed a leadership position In the rehabilitation and resettlement of thousands o£ Jew¬ ish refugees arriving in the West Coast  port  from  Russia.
FOLLOWING World War I, her established interest in Zion¬ ism and a flair tor organization and administration found expres¬ sion in an effort lo bring togeth¬ er on a national level several auxiliary women's groups ot the Mizrachi (religious-Zionist) or- ganizi^tion.
In 1925, the goal was achieved with the founding of the Mizrachi Women's Organization of Ameri¬
ca, which has grown to some SO.¬ OOO women, with more than 350 local chapters in the United States.
After a preliminary survey in Palestine in 1926, Mrs. Gotsfeld recommended the organization establish vocational training cen¬ ters for adolescent girls in Israel. The project was adopted and bore fruit in the establishment of the Beth Zelroth MizrachI in Jeru¬ salem, a school in which young women were taught home eco¬ nomics, dress-making and other skills In an atmosphere of tradit¬ ional Judaism.
IVIRS. GOTSFELD set up and established orphans' homes, child¬ ren's centers and nurseries in Is¬ rael to provide care for the young¬ er victims of Nazism during the •30s.
With the establishment of Is- (conffnutd on pag* 4]
Conference Plans World Bureau Of Jewish Education
JERUSALEM, (.ITA) — The World Conference on Jewish Education concluded its six-day sessions here with tbe adoption of a resolution providing for the establishment of a World Bureau of .Jewish Education to act as a central clearing house for collecting and dis.seminating Information on Jewish edu¬ cation throughout the world.
It is expected that the bureau will begin with an annual budget of $250,000 which will ( come' in part from various parti¬ cipating organizations. The Con¬ ference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany will also be asked to allocate funds for  the  bureau.
THE BUREAU would also "form the basis for the subse¬ quent formation of plans to help meet education needs and raise the educational standards in all Jewish communities in light of their own views ajid con¬ ditions and in full respect for their   autonomy."
The World Conference, which was attended by 500 laymen and professional educators from 32 communities in countries outside Israel, directed that the bureau be supervised by a World Coun¬ cil on Jewish Education, to be "representative of the major Jew¬ ish communities, ediucatlonaj bodies and all significant trends, religious and cultural, in Jewish life."
THB   OOMPOSITION   of   the
World Council was not decided by the delegates who requested instead that the Conference of Jewish Organizations, which sponsored the education confer¬ ence here, "consult with their member organizations and other appropriate groups and religious institutions" to plan the structure of the Council and provide the "widest possible constituency for its  work."
A number of Jewish education leaders are to assist OOJO In its work of establishing the Educa¬ tion Council. Yehuda Heliman of New York, secretary of OOJO, said the group would begin the task immediately and complete the work within the six-month period recommended by the dele¬ gates.
THE DELEGATES left to the World Council the decision about where the new education bureau should be located. Sentiment here was divided among Jerusalem, a major European city and New York. There is a possibility that the bureau might have two lo¬ cations, one of which probably wili  be in Jerusalem.
Delegates at the final session of the Education Conference here applauded enthusiastically when Moshe Sharett, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive, road a cable from the Rabbinical Council ot America, the leading organization of Orthodox rabbis, declaring itself read to "partici¬ pate In the permanent work" of the now group.
King Greets Jewish Leader  In  Morocco
CASABLANCA, Morocco JTA King Hassan n of Morocco re¬ ceived Dr. Leon Benzaquen, hon¬ orary president of the Federation of Jewish Communities In Moroc¬ co. The Jewish leader, who at one time was a member of the Moroccan Cabinet, brought greet¬ ing to the King on behalf of Mor ocean Jewry in connection with the  Moslem  feast  of  Mouloud.
A Jewish lawyer, M. Botbol, was elected chairman of the Bar Association in the city of Mek nes. This is the first time that a Jew has been elected to this position since Morocco became an   independent  country.
Chaplain Sondhaus
CHAPLAIN SANDHAUS APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF VA SERVICE
WASHINGTON, P.C. ~ Chap- Iain Morris A. Sandhaus, liaison between the Chaplain' Service of the Veterans Administration and the Commission on Jewish Chap¬ laincy of the National Jewish Welfare Board since the end of World War II, has been appoint¬ ed rector of the Chaplain Serv¬ ice uf the Veterans Administra¬ tion, it was announced here by James S. Gleason, Jr., administra¬ tor of the VA.
The appointment makes Chap¬ lain Sandhaus the first Jewlah chief of any of the Federal Gov¬ ernment's   chaplaincy  services.
THROUGH ITS Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy, JWB serves and ecclesiastically endorses all Jewish chaplains in the Armed Forces and in VA hospitals.
A native of Qlevelond, Chap¬ lain Sandhaus joined the Veter¬ ans Administration in Sept, 1646, as assistant chief of personnel. In 1951 he became assistant to the director ot Qhaptaln Service. Chaplain Sandhaus was rabbi of Congregation Sons of Israel^ Yon- kers,  N.Y.,  from  1937 to 1942.
IN THE LATTER year he en¬ listed as an Army chaplain. He served at Port Devens, Masp., and for two years was on duty with Western Base Headquarters In England, Channel Base Head¬ quarters in France, and later was named Assistant Division Chaplain of the 89th Division, with  the  rank  of major.
Educated at the College of the City of New York and New York University, Chaplain Sandhaus was ordained by the Mesivta Torah Vodaath, Brooklyn, N.Y. He is a former president of the Washington Chapter of the Mili¬ tary Chaplains Association of America and a former national chaplain of the Jewish War Vet¬ erans  of  the  U.S.
INDONESIA   BALKS
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Chances now seem very remote that an Israeli team of sportsmen wiil participate in the -Asian Games which open in Djakarta, Indo¬ nesia, on Friday. Although Is¬ rael was officially invited, no participants' cards have yet been. sent to the 37 Israeli contestants to  serve  them  in  lieu of  visas.