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Number 21
From the Four Corners
Find HaVCn in U«S> $180,000,000 budget for the next
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A total of six months, including $28,000,000,
A D L Parley Hears Douglas
Urge Civil Rights Group
62.600 Jewish immigrants—the
majority of them displaced per
sons—reached the United States
between May, 1946, and April,
1949, according to a survey made
public this week by United Ser
vice for New Americans in con
nection with the nationwide ob
servance of “I Am An American
Day" on Sunday.
to be lent directly to the Israeli I
Government.
Record U.i.A. Giving |
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A total of
$3,250,000 was received by the
! United Jewish Appeal of Greater j
i N. Y. at a series of dinners held 1
nere this week.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Sen. Paul
H. Douglas this week urged the
establishment of a Joint Congres
sional Committee on Civil Rights
“which would function on a year-
round basis both to investigate
cases of discrimination and to pro
pose new civil rights legislation
when it is required."
Speaking before 1,000 guests at
the concluding session of the an
nual three-day meeting of the
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith at the Waldorf-Astoria, Sen.
^Douglas also called for legislation
empowering the Civil Rights Di
vision and the Department of
Justice to investigate and prose-
Accepts Resignation S. E. Orthodox Calls N on-Kosher
Meals at Group Events" Destructive”
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Zionist Actions Committee decided
this week to accept the resigna
tions of Dr. Aboa Hillel Silver
i..ii Dr. Emanuel Neumann as
members of the Jewish Agency
executive, following the refusal cf
the two American Zionist leaders
to withdraw their resignations.
French Morocco Ban
PARIS, (JTA)—Two additional
Jewish publications issued in
Paris have been banned in French
Mcrucco, it was reported here this
week. The magazines now banned
are the Jewish National Fund’s
official organ, “La Terre Re-
trouve," and “La Riposte,” a
Hervth magazine, arlier, circula
tion of the French-Jewish weekly,
"L: Eefense,” was barred in
French Morocco.
Opf os?8 Franco
:.7 "SUING MEADOWS, (JTA)
Israeli representative to the U. N.
Aubrey S. Eban this week voted
against a resolution lifting the U.
N. diplomatic embargo on the
Franco regime in Spain.
Action by Actions Group
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A plen-
ar • session of the Zionist Actions
Committee here this week called
on the Jewish Agency to continue
its policy of supporting free and
• •-’Jmiied immigration to Israel.
Earlier this week the financial,
organizational and immigration
committees of the Actions body
met to formulate a policy. In the
'inancial group Agency treasurer
Dr. Israel Goldstein presented a
CHATTANOOGA— Representa
tives of southeastern Orthodox
synagogues, meeting here recently
for their fifth annual southeastern
convention, condemned the prac
tice of national and local Jewish
groups holding nori-Kosher func
tions.
This practice was described as
“being destructive of Jewish tra
ditions and identity and as dis
criminating in non-Dempcratic
fashion against observant Jews,
since every one can eat a Kosher
meal.
The group considered it manda
tory for all local and National or
ganizations to arrange for Kosher
functions only.
The convention also called upon
welfare federations to allocate
greater sums of money for the
support of Yeshivos and other
Torah institutions in America and
abroad.
At the same time, delegates
went on record favoring the need
for more all-day schools, improv
ed Sunday Schools and the five-
day-a-week schedule as a mini
mum of Jewish education.
I. Rosenblatt of Knoxville was
reelected president. Harry Stern
of Nashville was chosen chairman
of the board.
Speaking on “A Dynamic Ortho-
dozy," Rabbi Hershel Schacter of
New York said:
“The Jews of Europe died in
vain and our efforts for Israel are
naif-hearted if we do not build a
cute all violators of civil rights.
In an executive session preced
ing the evening meeting, New
York Justice Meier Steinbrink
was reelected for his fourth suc
cessive term as president of the
Anti-Defamation League.
Later, speaking at the evening
session, Steinbrink reaffirmed the
A. D. L.’s support of President
Truman’s civil rights program,
and saidi that “regardless of the
current impasse on civil rights in
Congress, the liberation of Amer
ica will persist." He noted that it
was this liberalism which was re
sponsible for the unprecedented
number of 700,000 Negro voters in
the South last year; for passage of
FEPC legislation in Washington,
Oregon, New Mexico and Rhode
Island; for the elimination of seg
regation from the public schools
of Indiana, and for the destruc
tion of the race discrimination
policy “which has shamed our
miltary forces." Questioning U. S.
policy in Germany, Justice Stein
brink charged that efforts to de
nazify and democratize Western
Germany had failed and that, anti-
Semitism and Nazism were be
ginning to sprout again.
DELEGATES AND SPEAKERS—Shown at the Chattanooga conven
tion r|re (seated r. to 1.) Mrs. P. Borstein, Mrs. A. Auerbach, Mrs. S.
Gray and Mrs. R. Kramer of Atlanta; (standing r, to 1.) Rabbi I. Gor
don of Yeshiva University, A. Auerbach of Atlanta, Rabbi „H.
Schacter of New- York and Rabbi H. Friedmajn of Atlanta’s Shearith
Israel Congregation.
firm structure of Jewish life in
America. Only Orthodoxy can as
sure the survival of Jewish life on
these shores, for only Orthodox
Judaism has been and can be suc
cessful in reproducing itself.’’
Isadore Margolis afad Samuel
Gordon, director and field director
respectfully of the Mizrachi Na
tional Education Committee, led a
discussion on the need for inten
sive Jewish education in the
Co-Chairmen of Atlanta Round Table
Herman W. Caldwell, Chancellor of The University System of Georgia, receives good wishes for the suc
cess of The National Conference of Christians and Jews, as he commences the co-chairmanship of the
Organization’s Atlanta Round Table. Seen left to right are: Bernard J. Kane, K. S. S. of Fulton Bag and
Cotton Mills, who also co-chairs the Atlanta group; Ralph McGill of The Atlanta Constitution, retiring
co-chairman; Sinclair Jacobs Pharmacy Company, the other co-chairman; and Dr. Caldwell.
Southeast.
At another session Rabbi A. I.
Rosenberg of Savannah spoke on
“A Practical Program for the
Synagogue,” outlining in detail
the importance of the Synagogue
strengthening itself internally
through bringing its membership
into contact with Jewish values
teachings and practices, making
the Brotherhoods, Sisterhoods
and Youth Groups instruments for
Jewish education rather than per
mitting them to exist simply as
social groups.
Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman of
Charleston stressed the importance
of the Orthodox Synagogue mak
ing its weight and influence felt
in the community.
“In most communities,” said
Rabbi Klaperman, “Those affiliat-
(Continued on page four)
British Rabbis
Say Revive
Sanhedrin
LONDON, (JTA)—Establish
ment of a Sanhedrin or high tri
bunal for the first time in almost
2,000 years of Jewish history was
proposed here at a conference of
Anglo-Jewish rabbis.
The Rev. Harris Swift of Lon
don proposed that the conference
adopt a resolution urging on the
rabbinate the desirability of con
vening an authoritative synod of
rabbis to consider the codes of
Jewish law and, in accordance
with traditional principles, rein
terpret them in the light of pres
ent-day requirements “so that the
Torah may once again live in the
fullness of the Jewish state and
the world.”
Rankin Would
Investigate ADL
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Rep.
John Rankin, of Mississippi, this
week told the House that he in
tends to introduce a resolution to
investigate “that subversive or
ganization,” the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith.
Rep. Emanuel Celler arose and
called Rankin’s remarks about the
A. D. L. a “canard.” Rankin ob
jected that this was a personal at
tack and/Speaker of the House
Sam Rayburn sent out for a dic
tionary to define the word, “ca
nard.” Rayburn decided that Ceil-
er meant that Rankin was a liar
and Celler was not allowed to fin
ish speaking.
Salonika
Cemetery
Imperiled
LONDON, (JTA)—The concern
of religious Jewry throughout the
world at the Greek Government’s
levelling of the Jewish cemetery
at Salonika and using tombstones
for an extension of the city’s sea
wall has been expressed by the
Agudah executive here to the
Greek Ambassador to London,
Leon V. Melas.
The executive asked Ambassa
dor Melas to urge his government
to halt the digging up of the ceme
tery and to consult with the rab
binate of Greece before taking
any similar action in the future.
“We feel the tragedy of Greek
Jewry during the war justifies
permitting the dead to rest,” the
Agudah statement declared.