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Jews, Israelites Closely \vatcn y ^ Vetoes Three - Power
Big l our s Berlin Parley
BERLIN (JTA)—Issues of vital
concern to the Jewish people and
to the State of Israel were at stake
this week as the momentous meet
ing of the foreign ministers of the
United States, Britain and France
with their Russian counterpart
got under way here.
While the world watched de
velopments here for indications of
what the future may bring, the
Jews and the people of Israel were
also concerned over specific issues.
The Jewish people, mourning
the loss of six million victims of
occasions of its fears of a revival
of Nazism and had warned them
against the dangers of re-arming
Germany.
The Israel Government assigned
Dr. Chaim Yahil, deputy head of
its purchasing mission in Germany,
as its observer at the Berlin meet
ings and pressed diplomatic action
to direct attention to Israel’s vital
stake in any German settlement
that may emerge from the meet
ings.
Israel seeks $500,000,000 in rep
arations from East Germany but
Nazism during World War II, were has been given no opportunity by
concerned over the danger of a
rearmed Germany and the at
tendant possibility of a resurgent
Nazism.
In Jerusalem, Acting Premier
Moshe Sharett disclosed to the
Parliament of the Jewish State
last week that Israel had inform
ed the Great Powers on several
the Communist authorities to pre
sent her claim. The Communist
have violently denounced the
West German Government for
having signed the agreement with
Israel and world Jewish organi
zations under which it undertook
to pap reparations to the extent
of $822,000,000.
Jewish Education Said Imperiled
By Teachers Abandoning Profession
NEW YORK, (JTA)—"The en
tire program of Jewish religious
education in the United States is
being imperiled by the headlong
abandonment of the teaching pro
fession by its members seeking
greater security of working condi
tions and salary standards,” Dr.
Pinkhos Churgin, dean of the
Teachers Institute of Yeshiva Uni
versity, declared December 27.
Addressing the Annual Assem
bly of the Mizrachi National Edu
cation Committee at Yeshiva Uni
versity, Dr. Churgin said that
substantial progress has been re
corded in the last decade in Jewish
education at the day elementary
and day secondary levei; ’’ How
ever, the noted Jewish educator,
who is president-designate of Bar-
Ilan University in Israel, told the
100 delegates that “the record of
progress was darkened by several
shortcomings.”
Dr. Churgin warned that “the
fact that some 50 percent of all
Jewish children receiving some
kind of a Jewish education are to
be found in Sunday school classes
marks a dangerous decline in the
sense of Jewish responsibility of
their parents. The Sunday School
program has been clearly demon
strated to be totally inadequate
even by the most meager standards
of what basic information the child
needs to discharge his religious
obligations as a Jewish adult.”
“Similar danger signals appear
in any examination of the status
of the Jewish teacher,” he said.
“On the cither hand, notable prog
ress has been recorded in the
training of religious school teach
ers and the number of such teach
ers annually being graduted from
the various teachers institutes has
been increasing steadily. Never
theless, there is a growing short
age of Jewish teachers, not alone
because of the expansion in schools
and enrollment but also because
of an unprecedented professional
mortality of Jewish teachers,” he
declared.
Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, retiring
president of the Mizrachi National
Education Committee, told the
delegates that Jewish education
in the United States “should be of
as much concern to Zionists today
as the establishment of a Jewish
State was yesterday. The Zionists
of America will have to realize, if
they have not already done so,
tfriat the.political phase of Zionism
cannot any longer constitute the
major part of Zionist activity," he
added.
Isidor Margolis, executive di
rector of the education agency, re
ported that there are at present in
the United States and Canada at
least 160 Jewish day schools, from
the kindergarten through the l)i£b
school level.
Mr. Margolis added that regis
tration in elementary day schools
has been increasing steadily dur
ing the past five years and that
during “this school year to date
there has been an 11 percent in
crease in registration in such
schools over the corresponding
period in the previous school
year.”
N. Y. Jewry Spends
$13,000,000
On Education
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Jewish
families in New York City spend
in excess of $13,000,000 annually
for religious instruction for their
children, it was established by a
study sponsored by the Jewish
Education Comittee of New York
City and financed by the Federa
tion of Jewish Philanthropies.
Completing fhe second year of
a three-year study, the Jewish Ed
ucation Survey revealed today
that nearly one-third of all Jewish
children in the city and its sub
urbs attend after-school or week
end religious classes. Also, that
the number of school-age children
attending all-day schools is now
at 18,000, a three-fold increase
since 1935. An inventory and eval
uation of the practices and needs
of Jewish education in this city
are being made with the partici
pation of 100 educators and Jew
ish community leaders.
Philadelphia Temple
Seeks Million Dollar
Building Fund
PHILADEPHIA (JTA) — A
campaign for $1,000,000 to con
struct the new religious and ed
ucational building of Congregation
Kenesseth Israel was launched
here this week.
Plans for the new quarters in
clude facilities for worship, study
recreation, and meetings. The ma-
Resolution on Syrian Complaint
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA)
—The Soviet veto of the three-
power resolution calling for settle
ment of the Syrian complaint a-
gainst the Israeli hydro-electric
project on the Jordan River in
northeastern Israel left two reso
lutions on the problem before the
Council, both introduced by Leba
non. One would censure the pro
ject as a passible breach of the
peace, and the other calls upon
truce supervisor Gen. Vagn Ben-
nikc to attempt further concilia
tion of the two parties to the dis
pute.
The veto by Soviet Deputy
Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vi-
shinsky last Friday night, came
at the end of the 16th session of
the Council on the issue. His neg
ative vote, under Council rules,
defeated the resolution although
it had required seven votes. This
was the first time that the USSR
vetoed a matter pertaining to Is
rael.
Mr. Vishinsky had insisted that
the Western resolution disregard
ed Syria's right to a veto over
Israeli projects in fhe demilitarized
zone. This principle was opposed
throughout by the United States,
Britain and France,, sponsors of
the resolution.
After the vote, British delegate
Sir Gladwynn Jebb denounced
the veto as "melancholy and sin
ister.” UN Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold inferentiall y
scolded the Council by pointing
out that the problem was be
coming urgent in terms of the
world scene. He also asked the
Funeral Held For Magazine Salesman
After Search For Family Fails
A plucky 63-year-old magazine
salesman, David Barry, was laid
to his final rest in Atlanta Wednes
day, leaving a trail of friends he
called upon once or twice a year—
but without notification to his
family.
He died last December and L.
V. Mathews, his employer at In
ternational Readers League, had
left no stone unturned in the in
terim to local relatives and trace
Mr. Barry’s family.
Mr. Mathews secured a clue
from a man in Jackson, Miss., who
had been responsible fifteen years
ago for the salesman’s job. The in
formant recalled a conversation
about a wife and child—and even
sisters in Brooklyn, but none of
these could be located. There was
even the clue that the deceased’s
correct name was really Barro-
wich, but that too failed to pro
duce results.
Mr. Mathews was informed that
Mr. Barry may have been a
World War I veteran, but the
papers he might have possessed
were lost last year when a piece
of the traveling salesman’s lug
gage containing the records went
astray in NOYth Carolina. Since
his death, a check for $25 has
been received as a quit claim from
the bus company.
Mr. Barry came to Atlanta only
two or three time a year, on his
route which took him throughout
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and
even as far away as Arkansas,
selling the Hurst family group of
magazines. He had sometimes
visited one of the Atlanta Jewish
clubs where he found companion
ship, but Mr. Mathews does not
recall which. On a data card he
filled out in 1953, he had listed
religion as “Jewish” but no other
information which could aid in
location of his family.
Early this week, Mr. Mathews
called Hyman Jacobs to see about
a grave. His company is bearing
funeral expenses. Services were
conducted by Rabbi Harry Epstein
and Cantor Joseph Schwartzman.
Survey Shows Drop In Use of
Kosher Meat by Montreal Jews
MONTREAL (JTA)—The per
centage of Jews using kosher
meat, which was 87.2 percent in
1938, fell to an all-time low of
67.3 percent in 1951, according to
the findings of the research de
partment of the Canadian Jewish
Congress.
The high price of kosher meat
is driving an increasing number
of Jews, who care less about
Kashruth, to buy the cheaper meat
sold in non-kosher or non-Jewish
jor structure will be the modern
temple composed of two units,
separated by a movable wall from
the auditorium. The first unit will
hold 900 people and the second,
holding 1200, will be opened on
High Holy Days and for special
events.
The third unit of the new struc
ture will be the religious school,
containing 35 class rooms to ac
commodate 950 children, a library,
three Rabbi’s studies, club rooms,
a canteen for teen agers, two
larger kitchens and special kind
ergarten and nursery rooms.
stores. The retail prices of kosher
meat in Montreal range from 41
cents a pound higher for fancy
cuts, to 16 cents a pound higher
for the cheaper cuts than do the
prices charged in the chain stores.
Unlike the situation in many
other large Jewish communities in
the United States and Canada, all
matters concerning Shechita and
Kashruth are under the exclusive
control of the Montreal Jewish
Community Council, which is the
only organization authorized to
issue licenses to kosher butchers.
While the Council maintains ef
ficient and effective control over
all kosher slaughtering operations,
and over the supervision and in
spection of retail kosher butcher
shops to ensure that they are
conducted in conformity with the
religious requirements of Kashruth
it does not include within its
functions any provision for con
trolling the prices charged for
kosher meat sold by butchers
holding its license or “Kosher
Card.”
Council to adopt some resolution
giving Gen. Bennike authority M
work out a compromise solution
between the parties. The Council
adjourned without setting the
time of its next meeting.
Bonn Includes
Reparations In
Budget for 1954
BONN, (JTA) — The West Ger
man Cabinet has adopted a 1953-
54 budget which provides th£
equivalent of $73,800,000 for the
delivery of reparations goods to
Israel and $15,700,000 for the
payment of compensation, in
demnification and restitution
claims to victims of the Nazis, it
was understood here this week
No details of the budget, whicK
must still be approved by Parli-
ment, have been released official
ly.
The proposed payments for re
parations, indemnification, resti
tution and compensation amount
to 1.5 per cent of the overall bud
get.
The reparations figures would
imply that deliveries to Israel will
be made at the maximum rates
envisaged in the Luxembourg
Agreement, which calls for annual
payment of 310,000,000 marks
until 1962 but which would have
permitted Germany to reduce her
payments unilaterally to 250,000,-
000 marks a year.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann’s recent
visit to Bonn was principally coMe
cerned with obtaining assurances
from Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer and Minister for Economic
Affairs F. Ferhard that the higher
rates would be paid. The inclusion
of the higher figure in the budget
seems to indicate that an agree
ment for continued payment of
this rate may be reached early
next year.
This is the first time that
separate provision has been made
in the Federal budget for indemi-
fication, compensation and resti
tution. The reason for this is that
until recently disbursements by
the German Treasury for these
purposes were almost nil. What
was accomplished in the field of
restitution is almost entirely due
to the return of real estate andl
businesses to Jews by individuate
Compensation and indemnifica
tion hitherto rested almost exclu
sively on the shoulders of the Ger
man states.
Sholem Asch Denies
intent to Give Up
Residence in America
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Sholem
Asch, noted Jewish writer, denied
last week that he had the slightest
intention of giving up his Ameri
can citizenship or of taking up
up permanent residence abroad.
Mr. Asch sailed for southern
France to rejoin his wife who is ia
poor* health at Nice. He was re
cently involved in incidents at Hi
biscus Island, Miami Beach, wherg
he has a home, where a Yiddish*
speaking section of the Jewidl
community took exception to Mt.
Asch’s writing on Jesus.
In denying that he would take
up permanent residence abroad,
Mr. Asch pointedly remarked that
“that doesn’t mean that I have to
come back to Miami Beach, That’s
npt America.”