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Number 38
Hungary .... liquidates ESETStETfor
BUDAPEST, (JTA)—The Tarbut school in Budapest, the only He- Wedding Law
ev school in Hungary, has been closed down following its inclusion ®
LONDON, (JTA)—The failure
of a joint legislature committee of
the House of Lords and Commons
to include a reform of the mar
riage laws to permit Liberal Con-
in the government school system. There is not one Jewish school for
children up to the age of 14 throughout Hungary However, there are
still two Jewish schools in Budapest functioning for children between
14 and 18 years of age.
The Zionist anthem Hntikvah is no longer sung in synagogues here .
at the conclusion of religious services. The pfficial Jewish weekly *+*!!
publication, Uj Elet, is increasing its anti-Zionist propaganda with
each issue, as is the general press in Hungry. Prominence is given to
reports on difficulties of life in Israel in order to discourage Hungar
ian Jews from seeking to emigrate to the Jewish state.
Rumania .. consolidates
BUCHAREST, (JTA)—The unification of the Ashkenazi and Sep
hardic Jewish communities here was formally proclaimed this week
at a meeting of Jewish community leaders presided over by H. Leibo-
vici, secretary-general of the Federation of the Federation of Jewish
C ommunities. The merger was entered into on the bisis of new by- j commission would grant auton-
laws adopted for the functioning of Jewish communities in Rumania omy, ih us permitting the healing
which provides that no more than one Jewish community shall exist breach in the Jewish com
ceremonies independently of the
Orthodox community has caused
considerable disappointment in
Jewish circles here.
The refusal of the Orahodox
synagogues to grant autonomy in
this matter to the Liberal synago
gue and the officials resulted in
a deep split in the Board of Dep
uties of British Jews some months
ago. It was hoped that the joint
in any Rumanian town or city.
Yom Kippur Better Education Month
Than Suit Says
Yehudi Menuhin
LONDON, (JTA) — Yehudi
Menuhin, well-known Jewish
violinst, will play on Yom Kippur
rather than be sued for breach of j
contract, it was announced here
this week. Efforts to alter the date
of his concert failed, the an
nouncement said, adding that Mr.
Opens Sept. 11
For U. S. Jewry
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Seventeen
major national Jewish organiza
tions have joined with the Ameri
can Association for Jewish Edu
cation in the annual observance of
Jewish Education Month and
Week and in issuing a “Call to
Jewish Parents” to provide relig
ious education for their children
by enrolling them in Jewish
munity without forcing the Orth
odox elements to backtrack. The
joint committee, whose report
was published here today, ex
pressed the opinion that the mat
ter should be handled separately
by each House.
Ukrainians With U.S.
Relatives Deported
WASHINGTON, (JTA—Soviet j time to time reported rumors of
Jews who have relatives either in ; such persecution to the Dep::rt-
the United States or in England
were rounded up at least in one
city in the Ukraine and expelled
to Siberia without even being
given time to sell their posses
sions, according to a reliable re
port received here this week.
The report said that the ship
ment of the Jews was carried out
“effectively and swiftly.” Whether
similar raids on Jews were con
ducted in other cities in the
Ukraine has not yet been estab
lished.
A State Department spokesman
told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency here this week that no
specific information has been re
ceived from the U. S. Embassy in
Moscow with regard to reports
that Jews have been deported
from the Ukraine to Siberia.
However, it was pointed out that
the American Embassy has from
Menuhin signed the contract last
'March withbtrf realizing the date ^ 00 * S th “ * all > Michael A. Sta-
coincides with Yom Kippur eve. 1 s y ’ presl e ” 0 ® ssoc a ”
.. , . , . . , won, announced here. The annual
Mr. Menuhin’6 concert will take ’ “
, ,, .......... observance will be held from Sept.
place on the night of Oct. 2, in j ^ to F
Manchester where he will per
form for the British Motor and Talmud torahs, yeshivoth, con-
Cyde Trades Benevolent Fund. Kregational Hebrew schools, Sun-
He declared today that he was schools and other Jewish
“very distressed” over the fact • schools throughout the country
that he did not succeed in per- wil1 conduct enrollment campaigns
suading the concert’s sponsors to *** their home communities during
accept another date.
this period. In addition, many
(The Associated Press reported communal organizations will par-
this week from London that the
concert promoters were willing to
.have Mr. Menuhin’s concert take
place the afternoon of Oct. 2, in
stead of in the evening, on con
dition that Menuhin agrees to ac
cept a fee of $800 instead of $5,-
000, or, if preferred, he could earn
the original contract figure by
guaranteeing that all 3,000 seats
in the concert hall would be sold
for an afternoon performance. Mr.
Menuhin’s manager refused to ac
cept any of these conditions, the
Associated Press said.)
ticipate in meetings and discus
sions devoted to problems of Jew
ish education. A number of events
in which the major national or
ganizations will participate are
being planned for New York City
and other communities.
T. V. A.’s Clapps Heads U. N. Group
LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA)—
Gordon R. Clapp, chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Tennes
see Valley Authority, has been ap
pointed by the U. S. Government
to head the U. N. Economic Sur
vey Mission for the Middle East
which is being set up as a sub
sidiary organ of the United Na
tions Palestine Conciliation Com
mission now meeting at Lausanne
in an attempt to bring a perma-
March on U. J. A.
Program Sept. 20
Frederic March will star in a
United Jewish Appeal New
Year Broadcast over the A.B.C.
Co. Network from 10 to 10:30
p. m. (E.D.T.).
In Atlanta, station WCON
will carry the program at 10
p. m.
Feature of the broadcast will
be “Handful of Earth,” drama
basedon recent transfer of Herzl
remains to Israel.
nent peace between Israel and the
Arab countries.
Mr. Clapp will be assisted by a
staff of about 40 and by three
deputies, one of them British, one
a Frenchman and one a Turk. The
names of the deputies will be an
nounced at a later date, U. N.
Secretary General Trygve Lie said
today. He revealed that Mr. Clapp
will come to Lake Success early
next week for consultaaions, after
which he will immediate proceed
to Palestine.
Mr. Clapp has been with the
Tennessee Valley Authority since
1933. Earlier, he was assistant
dean of Lawrence College at Ap
pleton, Wisconsin, from which he
was graduated in 1927. He is 44
years old. The survey, which he
will conduct in all countries af
fected by the Palestine war, is
expected to last about six weeks.
Its results will be reported to the
U. N. General Assembly, whose
next session opens at Flushing
Meadows next month.
Internal difficulties in the
Board of Deputies of British Jews
are threatening the communal life
mj J . of Anglo-Jewry, William Frank-
tiadassah to Keep el > London representative of the
« p . American Jewish Committee, de
sperate s nod dared at a press conference in
D .. flyf.l I New York week following his
IxCLlSlOg Method arrival for a six-week speaking
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Had as- en * a * ement in this country,
sah will continue to maintain a , 6 commu ^ al of Anglo-
separate fund-raising drive in the ^ vfiYY 0 **1*
United States, Mrs. Rebecca B ° ard ° f was al-
ckiiiiMon „ v, , ■ ways proudly recognized as the
Shulman, Hadassah liaison officer . , .... . _
forum for differing views, Mr.
told a press conference here re- Frankel said. “That boon is in
cently. She stressed that Hadas- : danger of disappearing because
sah’s educational work and its lor the first time the party system
fund-raising activities are indi- has become dominant ‘ The : * onist
. . majority in the community, as it
: >s entitled to do, has formed a
Mrs. Shulman, here on a two j controlling group, but the result
months visit, said that she had ha3 been that it has antagonized
explained Hahassah’s position to *he minority group, some of whom
Deputy Dispute Threatens British Communal
Life, Frankel Reports in Press Interview
merits of any particular issue, but
had become a rubber stamp for
decisions made by the Zionist
caucus outside. The troubles cul
minated in the refusal of the
Board of Deputies to certify that
Liberal synagogues were ‘synago
gues of persons professing the
Mr. Frankel was to speak Fri
day at a luncheon arranged by
the Atlanta Chapter of the
A. J. C.
Premier David Ben Gurion. She
have discontinued their member
ship. v
said that thfe Premier indicated
. . , .... . “The main complaint of the mi-
for independent fund raising for nQrities was that the Board no
its projects, which are not includ- longer had an open mind and that
ed in the United Jewish Appeal, it did not reach decisions on the
Jewish religion’ and therefore en
titled to celebrate marriages in
their synagogues under British
law. A^ result of this, the Liberal
and Reform synagogues, together
with the oldest constituent of the
Board, the Spanish and Portu
guese Congregation, which was re
sponsible for its formation in
1760, have dropped out of the
Board of Deputies. They are stay
ing out also because of the fear
that the Deputies might affiliate
with the World Jewish Congress,
an apprehension which is inten
sified by the fact that the new
President of the Board, the Rev.
Dr. Abraham Cohen, is a Vice-
President of the British section of
the World Jewish Congress.”
Mr. Frankel also pointed out
that, although the restrictions
necessitated by the planned econ
omy and the social welfare policy
of the Labor Government are “in
evitable” in Britain’s present cir
cumstances and are accepted by
the people as a whole, “they have
perhaps hit the Jewish community
disproportionately. The Jews, be
ing traditionally in the middle
class, have been affected as all
other people in the same class
with the high taxation and re
strictions on trade,” he noted.
In describing the effect of the
ment. A function of the Embassy
is to report such rumors to the
Department, it was explained.
Rosh Hashona
Rites Begin
September 23
Atlanta Jewry, as in every
community where there is a
congregation, will flock to the
Synagogues next Friday even
ing to begin the observance of
Rosh Hashonty
For Reform Jews, the High
Holidays will be ushered in by
a single-day observance. Or
thodox Jewry will hold the
customary two days’ services.
Temple services in Atlanta
will begin at 8 p. m. Friday,
Sept. 23, and 10 p. m., Satur
day, Sept. 25.
Services at the Ahajvath
Achim Synagogue will be held
from 6:15 to 7:15 p. m. Friday,
Sept. 23, and begin at 8 p. m.
Saturday, Sept. 24.
Or VeShalom services start
at 6:45 p. m. Friday, at 8 a. m.
Saturday. Similar time, approx
imately will be marked by the
Shearith Israel. Beth Jacob
and other congregations.
Fuller schedules will be an
nounced in next week’s South
ern Israelite.
Victims Shot
In Back in
Munich Riot
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Vic
tims of the recent demonstration
in Munich were shot in the back
by German police as they attempt
ed to flee, it was revealed this
week by affidavits received by
B’nai B’rith headquarters here.
The affidavits were obtained by
Saul Joftes, director of the B’nai
B’rith European office in Paris,
who was sent to Munich to inves
tigate immediately after the inci
dent took place.
Two Jews who were shot in the
back while fleeing German police
made sworn statements to the
B’nai B’rith. They were Benjamin
Haring, 39, and Leib Ribach, 29,
natives of Poland, who dictated
their testimony from hospital
beds. Both men escaped gassing
by the Nazis during the war.
Latin American
Maccabiad Opens
In Montevideo
MONTEVIDEO, (JTA) — The
first Maccabiad ever to be held
establishment of the Republic of! in Latin America opened here this
Israel on Great Britain, Mr., week with 400 Jewish athletes
Frankel asserted that “Foreign from Argentina, Brazin, Urguay,
Minister Ernest Bevin’s Palestine
policy was bound to collapse.”
Bolivia and Chile participating.
The six-day athletic competition.
Although there is still some rear- i which was opened with brief ad-
guard action by the British auth
orities,” he declared, “their pres
ent and previous activities were
dresses by Israel Minister to Uru
guay Dr. Jacob Tzur, the mayor
of Montevideo and the Uruguayan
motivated not by anti-Semitism I Minister for Physical Culture, will
but by a mistaken appreciation of j feature contests in soccer, basket-
(Continued on pige ten) ball, tennis and other sports.