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ymvtxvTY or jmagia 33 sf JAN 1 ’59 LIBRARIES The Southern lsrsi .s- A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry— Estab i7/d 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