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r-RIDAY,    MARCH   29,    1963
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Devoted to American and Jewhh Idtali
ISRAa PRODS BONN FOR REPLY HALTING NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS
JERUSALEM (JTA) - The Is¬ rael Cabinet this week discussed the attitude of the West German Govemment permitting German scientists to work on nuclear mis¬ siles in Egypt to tie used against Israel. It was reported later that Israel expects from the West Ger¬ man Government a formal reply on this issue, and does not regard as final a statement made at a press conference in Bonn by a govern¬ ment spokesman, Guenther von Base, that the German authorities could not halt the work of German scientists in Egypt.
Israeli officials were surprised by the Bonn Government's request to Switzerland, asking that the Swiss extradite Joseph Bel-Gal, an Israeli, and Prof. Otto Jukelik. an Austrian. The two are in jail at Basle, charg¬ ed with having "tiireatened" the daughter of Dr. Jens Goerke, one of the West German scientists em¬ ployed by the Egyptian Govern ment.
THE GERMAN REQUEST is bas¬ ed on the allegation that Ben-Gal and Jukelik were involved not only in trying to influence Dr. Goerke to disassociate himself from the Egyptian weapons program but also in the abortive gun attack Feb. 20 against another German rocket ex¬ pert. Prof. Hans Klelnwachter.
Informed sources here denied that Prime Minister David Ben- Gurion plans to communicate with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on this entire subject. "So far, there is no such intention,'' it was stated. Ben-Gurion is still on vacation, and is not expected to return to his office until Tuesday. He did not participate in today's meeting of the Cabinet.
Bonn's general attitude is evok¬ ing misgivings in official circles here, however. "We find it impos¬ sible to understand how the Ger¬ man Goyemmtnt can treat lightly ttiis matter, affecting Israel's very existence, and how it can he will¬ ing to plead helplessness in the face of work by Nazi-oriented experts employed by Egypt in its plan to destroy  Israel,"  officials  said.
Ambassador Comay Speaks At UJFC Advance Gifts Dinner
The 19Q3 campaign of the United Jewish Fund and Council was officially launched Thursday evening, March 21 at the Wind¬ ing Hollow Country Club. Approximately 100 communily key leaders and contributors were present at which time $410,800 was announced for the Advance Gifts and all other major cam¬ paign divisions.
Herman M. Katz, general campaign chairman, reported that the generous response at the cam-
GOVERNOR RECEIVES CIFT
Governor James A. Rhodes joined the other governors of the United States and Puerto Rico In issuing a procla- Uon declaring Sunday, March 24, 1963, as Child's Day for Youth Aliyah. The proclamation praises the important work of Youth Aliyah and Hadassah, the International Agency for the re^cuiC of Jewish Children and their rehabilitation in Israel. Shown presenting the governor with a gift from Ha¬ dassah and Youth Aliyah are Mrs. Malcolm Robbins, presi¬ dent of the Columbus Chapter of Hadassah and Mrs. Robert Hallet, vice-president of fund raising. The gift is a miniature replica of one of the Seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
paign opening for' 1963 should pro¬ vide the basis for a successful cam¬ paign. The overwhelming number of gifts announced that night rep¬ resented increased ^fts for the in¬ creased needs in behalf of more than 40 local, national and over¬ seas beneficiaries.
AMBASSADOR Michael Comay, permanent representative of the State of Israel to the United Na¬ tions, was guest speaker. He em¬ phasized the unusual rapid develop¬ ment and growth oii the part of Israel in the Middle East and in¬ dicated that world Jewry, but more particularly the American Jewish community, had played a very in¬ fluential part in helping to bring into Israel and to resettle thousands of refugees.
The   new   immigrants  have  not
only benefited by their new haven and opportunity for a new life, but have helped to strengthen and se¬ cure the State of Israel. Ambassa¬ dor Comay emphasized that though the government of Israel has and will continue to do all it could to assist the new immigrants, its limited finances, wtiich are being diverted to a large extent into de¬ fense and security, makes it im¬ perative that world Jewry continue its tiigh level of support for refu¬ gees coming to Israel. Israel, he stated, was established to carry out the responsibility of providing an unrestricted homeland for all Jews in distress or jeopardy.
KATZ OUTLINED THE increas¬
ed growth of the services and pro¬ grams of the agencies supported by UJFC. "The.se agencies," he ' said, "must receive increased sup¬ port it they are to continue to pro¬ vide minimum levels of services."
Herbert H. ScViiff, president ot the UJFC. stressed the fact that the UJFC is a federated campaign in which one gift is given for more than 40 agencies and that under the auspices of the UJFC ail mem¬ bers of the community have an op¬ portunity to work together in be¬ half of all the causes supported by the Fund. Over the year, he stated, the Fund has helped to bring to¬ gether all elements of the commu¬ nity.
THE WINDING HOLLOW dinner was a minimum affair of $500 spon¬ sored and conducted by the Ad¬ vance Gifts division, headed by Harold Schottenstein with Dr. Ivan Gilbert, Ed Schlezinger and Joseph Summer as associate chairmen.
Rabbi Folkman delivered the in¬ vocation and benediction.
Twig 21 Honored As Top Contributor
At their annual limcheon, held at the Ohio Union on Tues¬ day, March 19, and attended by 400 Twig members from all over Columbus, the Twigs of Children's Hospital honored Twig 21 as its top contributor to the hospital in 1962. Twig 21 contributed $7264.77 to the hospital. Of this amount, $5490.27 was made in the Thrift Shops operated by the Twigs and staffed and sup¬ plied with rummage by Twig 21 for nine days during the year;
$1019.79 was made in the Children's
The World's Week
Compiled from JTA Reports
lu London, dispatches received from Moscow revealed that Alexander Tvardovsky, editor of "Novy Mir," the Moscow literary journal lhat has been publishing the memoirs of llya Ehrenburg, the Soviet-Jewish author who has been criticizing the Stalin era with its anti-Semitism, has been dismissed from Ws post.
The installments of the Ehrenburg memoirs had just reached the point where the fjftnous Russian-Jewish author was aljout to bring out details of the Stalinist purges and persecutions against Jews, when Moscow suddenly armounc¬ ed Tvardovsky's dismissal.
In New York, an appeal to the United Nations Com¬ mission on Human Rights in Geneva, requesting interven¬ tion with the authorities of the Soviet Union for permission to Russian Jews to bake matzoth or to import matzoth from this country, was sent by the New York Board of Rabbis. The Board, comprised of Orthodox, Reform and Conserva¬ tive spiritual leaders in New York^ is the largest rabbinical body in the worlds
In Johannesburg, courts in Pret irla and Johannesburg were adjourned this weekend to p. rmlt judges to atlend, funeral services here for Supreme Court Justice Simon Kuper, the South „ African Jewish leader who died last week from bullet woimds fired at his home by an unknown assailant. He waa eulogized earlier by Judge President Q. de Wett In the Pretoria Supreme Court and by Judges Dowllng and Ludorf Ln Johannesburg. Some 2,000 persons attended funeral services at the Westpark Jewish Cemetery.
In Jomsalem, .Interior Minister Moshe Shapiro dis¬ closed In Parliament that a Ministerial Committee had been set up to consider chaensg In the Law of the Return and citizenship regulations because of experiences which have led to "embarraslng situations."
The Law of Return gives any Jew who comes to Israel the right to automatic citizenship, except for cases of criminal activities In other coimtrles. One of the embarrass¬ ing situations to which the Minister referred was the re¬ quest of a former Polish Jew converted to Catholicism, Brother Daniel, for admittance to Israel under the law as a Jew by nationality.
Movie Project put on by_Twig 21 at the Drexel; and $638.46 was made at the annual Twig Bazaar last November.
Mrs. Samuel Gup and members of Twig 21 made the table decora¬ tions and place cards for the lun¬ cheon.
Mrs. Albert Esta»kin, Mrs. Sam¬ uel Fine and Mrs. Sidney Tyroler were Thrift Shop Co-Chalrmen for 1962. Mrs. Meyer Ginstturg and Mrs. Lester Seligson were Co- Chairmen of the Movie Project, and Mrs. I. M. Brenner and Mrs. Richard Lieberman were Co-Chair¬ men of the Bazaar. Mrs. Ben Zuck¬ erman was Chairman of Twig 21 in 1962.
TWIG 21 HAS a membership of 40 women and has Co-Chairmen heading it in 1963, Mrs. Ben Zuck¬ erman and Mrs. Samuel Gup. It has just completed three days in the FoiiS-th Street Thrift Shop dur¬ ing which it earned $1500. Mrs. Al¬ bert Esterkin, Mrs. Samuel Fine and Mrs. Richard Lieberman were the co-chairmen for ttiis pieriod in the Shop.
Mrs. Walter Zeidner is a new memtier of Twig 21.
TWIG 21 IS repeating its Drexel Movie Project with Mrs. Meyer Ginsburg as Project Chairman and Mrs. Lester Seligson as her Vice- Chairman. The moyies are: "Tlje Tiiree Words of Gulliver," on &t- urday. Mar. 30, "Paleface," on Sat¬ urday, Apr. 6, and "Lad—a Dog" on Saturday, Apr. 13. Tickets are $1, covering the three movies, and may be purchased from Mrs. Gins¬ burg, 235-7505, Mrs. SeUgson, 252- 3315, from any member of Twig 21, or at the door.
Members of Twig 21 will be pres¬ ent at the theatre to supervise tUe chlldran.
'BORDER STRET' IS FILM DEALING WITH UPRISING IN GHEHO
On Thursday evening, Apr. 11, the Beth Jacob Brotherhood will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising by sponsoring "Border Street," a film dramatizing the gallant battle of the Jewish survivors in the War¬ saw Ghetto.
Marvin Rosen and Marvin Green- 1)0 rg, co-chairmen of the Brother¬ hood, announce that tickets are av,ailable at $1 and may be pur¬ chased trom any Brotherhood mem¬ ber.
"Border Street" was made in Po¬ land and has English titles. It will be shown at the Beth Jacob Social Hail on Thursday, Apr. 11, at 8:15 p.m.
The second night of Passover marks the 20th anniversary. A spe¬ cial ritual committee, sponsored by the leading rabbis in America, wrote the following prayer which is recited by many on the Seder night;
"Now. the remnants of our people who were left in the ghettos and camps of annihilation rose up against the wicked ones for the sanctification of the Name, and slew many of them before they died. On the first day of Passover lhe remnants in the Ghetto of War¬ saw rose up against the adversary, even as in the days of Judah the Maccabee. They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided, and they brought redemption to the name of Israel liirough all the world."
Seen meeting together before the Advance Gifts dinner signaling the formal opening of the United Jewish Fund and Council Campaign above are (left lo right); Harold Schot¬ tenstein, advance gifts chairman; Leon Schottenstein, co- chairman for the Columbus UJA 25th Anniversary celebra¬ tion; Herman M. Katz, general campaign chairman; Ambas¬ sador Michael Comay, permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations; Samuel M. Melton, UJFC treasurer; and Herbert H. Schiff, UJFC president. Seen on the dais below during the dinner portion of the meeting are (left lo right): Samuel M. Melton, Ambassador Comay, Herman M. Katz, Harold Schottenstein, Herbert H. Schiff, Dr. Jerome D. Eoikman, Rabbi of Temple Israel and Ben M. Mandelkorn. In the foreground are some ot the. persons attending, the forma] opening of the 1963 Campaign.
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'M' Day Drive Set For Mar. 31
Allen Gundersheimer, Jr., 1963 "M" (Men's) Day chairman announced that on Sunday, March 31, more than 300 men in the Ti-ades and Professions Division of the 1963 United Jewish Fund and Council Campaign will launch the traditional "M" Day so¬ licitation at 9:30 a.m. at The Jewish Center. In addition the campaign results of a number of T & P sections which have been soliciting during the past few weeks will be reported at 10:30 a.m. The reports of these workers
along with the launching of the T & P sections should move the cam¬ paign into high gear. ¦ Gundersheimer stated that in one day over 2,000 individuals will have had the opportunity to make their 1963 contribution through the "M" Day workers or will already have been  contacted.
SOL D, ZELL, chairman of the 1963 Trades & Professions Division said,   "giving is   a  privilege  and
more than just an obligation. To¬ day there ai'e many thousands of Jewish men, women and children engaged in the struggle for secur¬ ing a dignified way ot life."
According to Zell, over 160,000 Jews came to France in 1962 from Alegia, Tunis and Morocco. He went on to say, "It was an uproot¬ ing of Jhousands of families, leav¬ ing behind everything they had worked for  — their homes, busi¬
nesses,, professions, and even mem¬ bers of. their families. More than 60,000 Jews came into Israel in 1962. They had been prepared for 40,000, and immediately made prep¬ aration for the unprecedented in¬ crease. The doors to Israel must remain open."
ZELL CONCLUDED that through "M" Day efforts both the solicita¬ tion and reporting activities will give everyone in the .Trades and Professions Division the opportuni¬ ty to relate meaningfully to the lives of others throughout the worid.
Gundersheimer expressed grati¬ tude to the many workers fqr hav¬ ing accepted their assignments and whom he felt would be well receiv¬ ed on the one day vigorous effort.
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