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XXXIII ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1958 NO. 51
Malik Warns Nations Must
Observe Human Rights
UJA Parley Sets $100 Million
As Special Fund Needed for '59
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP)—
Dr. Charles Malik, President of
the 13th General Assembly which
concluded its session last Satur
day, but who will probably not
represent Lebanon again in the
foreseeable future, warned the
nations of the world that they
must observe “human rights or
nature will avenge itself.”
Dr. Malik, formerly renowned
as the spokesman for the Arab
states here, sounded this warn
ing on the occasion of the Leon
ard Bernstein conducted concert
given in the General Assembly
on December 10 in honor of Hu
man Rights Day.
“You can grant independence
to every struggling people in
the world,” Dr. Malik declared,
“but if you have not promoted
and respected human rights and
fundamental freedoms, you have
done little ... A peace that is
not based on fundamental hu
man dignity,” he added, “is a
violation of man and therefore
already a state of war. An order
that does not respect the funda
mental fredoms with which we
are born is already a state of
unnatural disorder. A system in
which conscience is tortured
and enslaved and man cannot be
himself, as he is meant to be by
nature, such a system already
harbors its own doom. For it is
against nature and therefore
against man, and nature kno^s
sooner or later how to avenge
itself.”
Speaking as the philosopher-
diplomat to whom fate was kind
er than that which befell his
colleague from Iraq Fadhil el
Jamali, Dr. Malik opened his
heart to the large gathering
crowding the Assembly Hall
which had resounded with a
Beethoven masterpiece under
Bernstein. “All tyranny, all
darkness, all arbitrariness, all
perversion of man and of the
truth,” he said in a ringing voice,
“shall pass away, for if the mill
stones of nature and of God
grind slowly, they also grind ex
ceedingly. The cynic, the corrupt,
the perverse, he who worships
power and finds in it his only
justification, of course does not
believe that. But the manifold
cleverness with which he hides
"Conditional” plans to increase
enrollment at the Hebrew Acad
emy were discussed Sunday by
Dr. Irving Greenberg, president.
He announced the conditional
decision of the Board of Trustees
to add at least two kindergartens,
two first grades and two second
grades this coming September.
Dr. Greenberg’s explanation of
the Academy policy in view of
increasing demands for enroll
ment by parents concerned over
the prospect of the closing of
the public schools was a feature
of an open public meeting at
tended by around 400 persons.
Principal speaker was Rabbi
Yaakov Rosenberg of Miami, who
described the need by the Jewish
community for the “all day
school.” He stressed the positive
ness and creative potential of
such schools as the Academy if
these factors are to be outstand
ing among Jews. He quoted Dr.
John Dewey, famous American
philosopher and educator, on the
“importance of cultural multi
plicity in our American demo
cratic society.”
his acts and prevents the full
blaze of human rights from fall
ing upon them, already betrays
his shame before history and his
dread of its implicit judgment.
“The arrogance of power and
injustice has its day,” Dr. Malik
continued, “but only to be an
example and a warning unto
future generations. And blessed
is the weak and helpless who is
granted the power and the op
portunity to defy this arrogance,
not for the sake of defiance, but
in the name of truth and man . .”
El-Jamali Executed
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP) —
Reports reached the UN this
week that Iraq’s former Foreign
Minister, Fadhil el-Jamali, had
been executed along with three
others of the former pro-West
Government.
Israeli Editors Oppose
Government’s New
Press Restrictions
JERUSALEM, (J T A) — The
editors of Israel’s daily news
papers will meet in an emergency
session to consider measures to
be taken to combat what they
consider the government’s latest
attack on freedom of the press.
The editors object specifically
to the latest order to civil ser
vants not to give newsmen access
to any information — secret or
non-classified — unless it was
intended for publication pur
poses.
Among the countermeasures to
be considered by the editors are:
a refusal to publish official
government communiques; in
structions to reporters to boycott
government press officers, and,
possibly an appeal to interna
tional organizations and world
public opinion.
The height of absurdity in re
lation to the new instructions
was reached, according to local
newspapermen, when a govern
ment office refused a list of the
names of judges in a public
architectural competion for a
government building. At the same
time, advertisements were placed
in the press listing the names
denied reporters.
Dr. Greenberg stated the three
conditions necessary to enlarge
the Academy’s capacity to take
additional students are:
1. Finding an adequate build
ing to house the enlarged school.
2. Locating enough satisfactory
teachers and staff.
3. Demonstration by people of
the community of willingness to
support the enlarged institution
fiancially.
The Academy president said
the school has the responsibility
to maintain its standards under
which it has functioned for the
past six years in providing a
maximum Hebrew cultural edu
cation.
“This responsibility,” he added,
“is due parents and children who
wish this intense education for
themselves and who are in the
midst of receiving it. The Aca
demy also has a responsibilty to
members of the Jewish commun
ity who have supported the He
brew Academy in the past to
provide this ‘kind of education’
for the community.”
The Academy, he indicated, is
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
three-day annual national con
ference of the United Jewish Ap
peal concluded here Sunday
with the adoption of a decision
to raise a $100,000,000 special
fund for the UJA—'“over and
above” the regular 1959 nation
wide UJA campaign—to care for
thousands of newcomers pouring
into Israel from Eastern Europe
and to start rehousing 100,000
earlier immigrants still living in
makeshift shanty towns.
More than 1,200 Jewish com
munity leaders from all parts of
the nation attended the confer
ence. The delegates re-elected
Morris W. Berinstein to his sec
ond consecutive term as UJA
general chairman to lead its 21st
yearly campaign.
Besides voting to conduct the
special fund drive, the delegates
charted plans to raise the maxi
mum possible amount through
the regular UJA to meet the
needs of UJA beneficiary hu
manitarian agencies requiring
more than $105,000,000. Through
both the special fund and the
proceeds of the regular cam
paign, the UJA seeks to provide
urgently needed migration, re
settlement, rehabilitation and
Synagogue Council
Hails Protestant Move
About Soviet Jews
NEW YORK, (AJP) — The
Synagogue Council of America,
representing the six Conserva
tive, Orthodox and Reform Na
tional organizations of American
Jewry, has expressed the appre
ciation of the Jewish community
to the National Council of
Churches which recently adopted
a resolution calling for an inquiry
into reports of suppression of the
human rights of Soviet Jews.
The resolution was unani
mously approved last month by
delegates to the Fifth World
Order Study conference of the
central coordinating agency for
34 major Protestant denomina
tions representing 39,000 Ameri
can Protestants.
willing to undertake additional
responsibilities if these do not
‘minimize our previous responsi
bilities or endanger the exist
ence of the school.”
Also on the December 14 pro
gram were students of the fifth
and sixth grades presenting a
skit on the theme of Kibbutz
Galiot, Jewish communities out
side Israel.
Mrs. Sidney Cavalier and her
committee decorated the AJCC
auditorium for the meeting.
It was announced that another
meeting will take place at 8 p.m.
January 6, at the Atlanta Jewish
Community Center, when a panel
will answer individual questions.
Appearing on the panel will be
Samuel Rosenberg, director of
the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish
Education and consultant to the
Hebrew Academy; Irving Fried,
director of the Academy, and
school officers and trustees in
cluding Dr. Greenberg, Joseph
Cuba, education committee chair
man, and Dr. Larry Bregman,
chanrman of the admissions com
mittee.
welfare aid to more than 630,000
persons in Israel, 24 other coun
tries abroad and the United
States during 1959.
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman,
UJA executive vice-chairman,
announced that the campaign
now closing had benefitted more
than 540,000 Jews in need
throughout the world in 1958. He
said the 630,000 who look to the
UJA for help in 1959 come un
der these major programs:
1. Jewish immigrants coming
to Israel from Eastern Europe.
“They have been arriving at the
rate of several thousand a month
since early Fall,” he said. “We
have no way of knowing how
LONDON, (JTA)—A museum
will shortly be established in
Kovno, former capital of Lith
uania and now part of the USSR,
to commemorate the 70,000 Jews
and others murdered by the
Nazis in the city, once a flourish
ing center of Jewish life and
culture. The museum will house
a collection of documents and
photographs detailing the bar
baric Nazi treatment of their vic
tims, who now lie buried in mass
graves, just outside the city.
THE HAGUE, (JTA) — The
Leyden Town Council hid Torah
Scrolls in the Town Hall during
the Nazi occupation to prevent
their being destroyed by the
•Nazis, it was announced here by
the president of the local Jewish
congregation. He made the dis
closure during the celebration of
the 100th anniversary of the Ley
den Synagogue. It was also re
vealed that citizens throughout
the town took in and hid hun
dreds of their Jewish neighbors,
thereby saving their lives.
AMSTERDAM, (JTA) — The
Town Council of Amsterdam this
week approved a proposal to con
vert the former Jewish Theater
in the center of this city into a
chapel with an eternal light burn
ing in memory of the Jews mur
dered by the Nazis. During the
German occupation the theater
was used as a marshalling point
for Jews to be deported from
Holland to extermination camps.
Honored in So. Africa
... To Cabinet
SALISBURY, Southern Rho
desia, (JTA) — Benjamin Dis
raeli Goldberg, former Parlia
mentary Secretary for Home Af
fairs, was named Minister of
Health and Education in the new
Cabinet of the Central African
Federation this week.
Irish born and Rhodesian edu
cated, Mr. Goldberg is an at
torney practicing in Umtali where
his family is well known. A stu
dent of Australian immigration
procedures, Mr. Goldberg was
formerly responsible for immi
gration in Southern Rhodesia.
... To Supreme Court
JOHANNESBURG, JTA) — A
52-year-old Jewish attorney of
Pretoria, A. Galgut, was ap
pointed this weejc to the Trans
vaal Division of the South Afri
can Supreme Court.
Chairman of the Pretoria Bar
Council, Mr. Galgut has been
acting as a judge for the past
year. During the last war he
served as a Lieutenant Colonel
in the South African forces and
was cited twice for bravery.
long they will continue to come
in such numbers, but we must be
certain that all who can come
will get the necessary help.”
2. Speeding housing to move
110,000 immigrants out of make
shift huts,
3. Help provide farm machin
ery, irrigation, livestock and
power needed to advance 130,000
immigrant farmers in Israel—in
cluding scores of thousands not
yet fully absorbed, and the or
phaned, aged and handicapped.
4. Help for 220,000 Jews in
need in countries other than Is
rael—including some 15,000 Jew
ish repatriates to Poland from
the Soviet Union; more than 100,
000 Jews in Moslem lands, the
majority of them children, and
thousands of Jewish refugees
from North Africa, Egypt and
Hungary still waiting in Europ
ean reception points for perma
nent havens.
Dr. Dov Joseph, treasurer of
the Jewish Agency which car
ries out the absorption of Israel’s
immigrants, reported to the dele
gates on the upsurge of immigra
tion to Israel from East Europ
ean countries. “For the past few
months Jews have been arriv
ing in very large numbers in Is
rael from an East European coun
try which some years has kept
its doors virtually closed to such
emigration,” he declared.
Dr. Joseph pointed out that
“outstanding progress has been
made by Israel in receiving and
absorbing the tidal wave of im
migrants who have arrived since
its establishment in 1948” but
stressed that some 250,000 of the
nearly 1,000,000 immigrants who
have come into the country still
require major assistance before
they can be considered com
pletely absorbed.
Toronto Court Rules
Against Closing Stores
On Religious Holidays
TORONTO, (JTA) — Toronto
Judge H.J.M. Donley ruled this
week that under Canadian law
no municipality has the right to
force retail shops to remain
closed on religious holidays.
The case arose when some 25
retailers were summoned on
Good Friday last Spring for keep
ing their shops open. Among the
shopkeepers were bakers, grocers
and even a seller of Jewish
prayer books and religious
articles. All were doing business
in Forest Hill Village, a suburb
of Toronto.
When a local magistrate held
that the retailers had violated a
local ordinance, they took the
case to a higher court. The
definitive ruling here, based on
an earlier decision of the Su
preme Court of Canada, held that
only the Federal Government had
the power to enact laws forcing
shop closings on religious holi
days. The attorney for the de
fendants was S. M. Harris,
chairman of the Ontario Joint
Public Relations Committee on
B’nai B'rith and Canadian Jewish
Congress.
Ancient Haggadah
LONDON, (JTA) — An ancient
Haggadah dating back to the 15th
century brought 4,000 pounds
($11,200) at auction here this
week. The manuscript, in Hebrew
and Arabic, is one of the oldest
known copies in existence. It was
bought by a dealer, Henrich
Eisemann.
400 Persons Hear Conditional
Ideas for Larger Hebrew Academy