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The Southern Israelite
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VOL. XXIII
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Number 38
Proposed Israeli Constnuu^n Is Revealed
Preamble to Suggested Constitution
Texas Christian University
Honors Rabhi ‘*In Absentia
FORT WORTH, Texas, (JTA)—
For the first time in the 75 years
of its existence, Texas Christian
University will break its rule
against conferring honorary de
grees “in absentia,’’ in order to
honor Rabbi Henry Cohen, of
Temple B’nai Israel ,Galveston,
Texas, who because of his age is
unable to travel beyond the Gal
veston area.
By a special vote of the board
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A three-
point pledge of peace, justice and
I security for all is contained in
99 | the preamble of a draft of the Is-
| raeli Constitution which has been
accepted by a constitutional com
mittee as a basis for discussion.
The pledge provides:
1. “To build our commonwealth
honorary LL.D. degree to Rabbi
Cohen “by proxy.” The Galveston
rabbi will be represented by
Judge Theodore Mack of Fort
Worth. S * n accordance with the ideals of
Still active and the sole spirit- ' P eace and J ustice of the pr0 P hets
ual leader of his congregation, i I 8 ™®!'
Rabbi Cohen was the first presi- j 2. “To open our land to every
dent of the Galveston chapter of Jew who seeks entry and to
the American Red Cross; mem- i maintain the rights of the strang-
ber of the executive committee of ' ers within our gates.
the Jewish Agency for Palestine;
of trustees, Texas Christian Uni- anc j a member of numerous Jew-
versity will present on Sept. 20
Please Sir, No
“Oliver Twist”
NEW YORK, (JTA)—'Hie New
York Board of Rabbis last week
urged Eric Johnston, president of
the Motion Pictures Producers
Association of America, “to do
everything possible" to keep the
film “Oliver Twist” out of the U.
S. because it is a “vehicle of blat
ant anti-Semitism,” it was an
nounced here by Rabbi Harold H.
Gordon, general secretary of the
organization.
The board charged that the
showing of the film in American
theatres would undo the
ish agencies for relief and civic
causes. His biography, “The Man
Who Stayed in Texas,” was writ
ten to commemorate his 60th an
niversary with his congregation.
The Henry Cohen Community
House was built in Galveston in
1928 in honor of his first 40 years
of service with Temple B’nai Is
rael.
Peace Talks
In Process
JERUSALEM, Sept. 3 (JTA) —
Israeli, Egyptian and Arab Legion
military leaders met in no-man’s-
fine | land all day today in an attempt
work of such American films as
“G e n 11 e m an’s Agreement,”,
“Crossfire,” and others.
Dutch Rabbi
Sees Juliana
Mount Throne
AMSTERDAM, (JTA)—Chief
Rabbi Tobias Tal last week rep
resented the Dutch Jewish com
munity at the coronation cere
mony of Queen Juliana, who suc
ceeds to the Netherlands throne
following the abdication of her
mother, Wilhelmina.
Other prominent leaders of the
Jewish community participated in
various ceremonies with represen
tative of other faiths and cultural
groups as well as the armed
lorces. They also joined in the
final procession with representa
tives of all groups in the country.
to expend the special cease
fire now in existence since noon
yesterday, and to increase the
neutral zone arbund the Red
Cross enclave. No results of the
meeting have been announced.
The Jewish and Arab leaders
met with Brig. Gen William Riley,
American U. N. representative, at
a church near the Damascus Gate
to the Cld City. Correspondents
weie rigorously excluded, because
during the last peace negotiations
three weeks ago they reported
that the Egyptians’ bitter wrang
ling broke up the peace talks.
TEL AVTV, (JTA)—U. N. me
diator Count Folke Bernadotte
and Foreign Minister Moshe
Shertok will meet here this week
it is learned. Bernadotte is ex
pected to arrive at the Haifa
headquarters of the U. N. from
Amman, Transjordan.
3. “To promote the peace of the
Holy Land and the security and
prospei ty of all who dwell there
in.”
The pledge will be carried out
through a sweeping program that
will provide guarantees to all Is
raeli citizens of cradle-to-the-
grave insurance, “an ’ equitable
share” of the national income and
adequate education. Under the
provisions of the constitution
constitution “everyone has the
right to work” and the national
government must ensure a decent
living standard, regulate wages
and hours, protect women and
children and keep watch over
labor’s right to organize and.
strike.
Although the draft constitution
is still in a rough form, the eight-
man constitutional committee is
already working on the prepara
tion of laws based on trie provis
ions of the constitution. Dr. Leo
Kohn, deeply religious advisor to
the Israeli Foreign Office who
wrote the draft constitution, and
the committee’s members, repre
senting every point of the political
compass, drew their inspiration
from the Bible, particularly from
such prophets as Amos who rail
ed against those who "oppress the
needy and crush the poor.” A
memorandurfi which Dr- Kohn
wrote to explain the constitution
is full of references to parables
For The Residents of Israel
“The Jewish people,
“Humbly giving thanks to the God of our fathers for
having delivered, us from the burden of exile and brought
us back to our ancient land,
“Recalling the tenacious endurance and the heroic sac--
ri.ice of countless generations for the survival of our
our people and the preservation of its spiritual heritage,
“Gratefully remembering the faithful remnant which
maintained the continuity of Jewish settlement in Pales
tine throughout the centuries and the inspired efforts of
the national revival,
“Resolved to build our commonwealth in accordance
with the ideals of peace and justice of the Prophets of
Israel, to open our land to every Jew who seeks entry,
to maintain the rights of the strangers within our gates,
and to promote the peace of the Holy Land and the se
curity and prosperity olf all who dwell therein,
“Have adopted the following constitution:”
like the story of King Ahab, who
paid for the sin of seizing the
vineyard of an humble neighbor.
Dr. Kohn crystallized the Bib
lical teaching into this sentence
which opens the section on social
rights: “The economic order of
the state shall be based on the
principles of social justice.” These
principles, are not, however, al
ways easy to define. One problem
baffling the constitutional com
mittee is this: “If the citizens has
the right to work dbes that mean
the state is obliged 10 create work
for him or that the state must
divide all available work equal
ly?”
Another problem stemming
from the right to work clause is
if the citizens has the right to
work, does he also have the duty
to work? On this question there
is general agreement that Israel—
a pioneer country with deserts to
irrigate, swamps to drain and
cities to build — must oblige its
citizens to work. The Labor Party
j put it this way in its draft clause
submitted to the constiuional
committee: “Labor is the basis of
Israel’s existence, the source of
its being, happiness and wealth.
It is a matter of honor for all cit
izens to do productive work.” *
Dr. Kohn has proposed that
“prime responsibilities” of the
state which also should be dedi
cated to providing state insurance
against accidents, illness, disabil
ity and unemployment in old age.
Mapai, which controls the Jewish
Labor Federation, . Histadruth,
agrees that these things should be
done but feels the state is not rich /
or secure enough to finance old
age insurance by itself. It there
fore is pressing for a continuation
of the present system whereby
both workers and employers con
tribute to the old age pension
fund.
The major leftist parties seem
agreed that this is not the time to
push for an entirely socialist or
der because huge amounts of pri
vate capital will be needled for
decades to build the nation and
absorb more immigrants. They
will be satisfied with a constitu
tional pledge to aid the coopera
tive movement.
Permanent Youth
Council Formed
NARROVVSEUKG, N. Y. (JTA)
—A permanent body representing
Jewish youth and young adult
councils and other Jewish youth
groups throughout the U. S. was
Israel War Heroes Arrive to Aid Fall U. J. A. Drive
h.iuu/ia ru,Li—niue uieuiucrt oi me 'ri ieuusiii^ uiwwu ui itiuiaeii iuuui" are snown being greet
ed by Consul General Arthur Lovrie, upon their arrival In the United States where they will help in the
fall campaigning of the United Jewish Appeal. The five war heroes are, left to right in botiom photo,
Lieut. Shula Fried berg, 24, of the CHEN, Israeli counterpart of the WAC; Sgt. Major Nsra Harari Gold
stein, 23, Army welfare officer and former escort for European reefngees entering the Jewish homeland;
Lieut. Itzhak Ben Menahem, 19, twice - wounded platoon commander; Captain Alexander Albala, 25,
veteran of the Jernsalem-Tel Aviv highway battles;.and Cpl. Allza Pnueli, Palmach wireless operator
during the Jerusalem siege.
created here at the close of the
first National Jewish Youth Con
ference. The parley, which con
cluded this week, was held under
the auspices of the Jewish Wel
fare Board’s National Jewish
Youth Planning Commission.
The new body will retain the
name of the National Jewish
Youth Conferences. Its purposes
will be; to exchange experiences
and program ideas on youth and
young adult levels; to initiate pro
grams nationally which could aid
local communities; to act as a
sounding board of needs of youth
and young adults; to stimulate and
aid in the development of youth
and young adults councils; to fa
cilitate relationships with other
cultural and ethnic groups; to
serve as an instrument for coop
eration and exchange between
American Jewish youth, the peo
ple of Israel and youth all over
the world; to provide opportunity
for the development of leadership;
to provide a medium for demo
cratic represen tatipn from youth
and young adult councils on na
tional and international youth
serving bodies; to develop a me
dium of cooperation between the
Jewish youth and young adult
councils; and to provide a self-
(Continued on page eight)
CJFWF Studing
Israel Problems
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds, representing
2t>7 Jewish community organiza
tions in this country and Canada,
has begun an intensive study of
Israel’s current and projected
need tor voluntary contributions
from America, with the departure
for Israel recently of Harold Glas-
ser, director of the Council’s In
stitute on Overseas Studies.
Military Rites
For Pvt. Rinzler
Funeral services for Pvt. Gil
bert Rinzler, 20, Atlanta, who was
killed in action in Germany, Dec.
1, 1944, while serving with the
Army Ground, Forces, were held
Sept. 10 in the chapel of Green
berg & Flinn, with Rabbi Harry
Epstein and Cantor Joseph Sch-
wartzman officiating.
Burial was in Greenwood CeSn-
etery, with full military honors
conducted by Atlanta Post No.
112, Jewish War Veterans.
BOrn in New York City, Pvt.
Rinzler had lived in Atlanta six
years. He was graduated from
Boys High in 1943, and was at
tending Georgia Tech when he
entered service- He was a mem
ber of Tau Epsilon Pi social fra
ternity, and a member of the
Ahavath Achim Synagogue.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Rinzler, of
Atlanta ,and his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Reiss, of
New York City.