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XXXVI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1961
NO. 9
Angoff Scores
Jewish-American
Journalism
NEW YORK, (WUP)—Author
and lecturer Charles Angoff has
bitterly criticized “Jewish-Amer-
ican journalism” which, he finds,
is in “a mess” that has to be
“cleaned up.”
In a feature story entitled
“Call for a Cultural Council”
appearing in the February 17
issue of the Philadelphia Jewish
Exponent, Angoff states, among
other things: “Our quarterlies
still live up to a high standard
most of the time. Our monthlies
are often commendable, but now
and then sink to the level of yel
low journalism, or they wrap
themselves around with a total
irrelevance of the American
scene. Our weeklies, with some
notable exceptions, are little
better than a disgrace . . The
critical pieces in many of our
publications are often beneath
contempt. Men and women who
seldom read fiction review no
vels— and even pontificate about
trends in Jewish fiction, both
here and abroad.”
Author Angoff also has some
harsh words to say about some
of our spiritual leaders, the rab
bis, who he says are devoid of
geist, spirit, and whose “piety is
tenuous.*
XW-swswMsSm—I'Fi nisssss u
fers to two eminent rabbis of the
Middle West — “both men of
learning and genuine Jewish
spirit”—who had told him that
“they were appalled by some of
the young men who are coming
from the seminaries.”
AJC Leader Favors
Permit Grant For
Rockwell Speech
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Stanley
Lowell, chairman of the city’s
Commission on Intergroup Rela
tions, said this week that he per
sonally favored giving Ameri
can Nazi party leader George
Rockwell a permit to speak in
New York City. Rockwell was
refused a permit to speak in
Union Square last July 4, but
the Appellate Division of the
State Supreme Court recently
ruled that such a permit should
be granted. The city is taking
the case to the State Court of
Appeals.
Mr. Lowell, who is also a na
tional vice-president of the
American Jewish Congress, sug
gested that Jewish policemen be
assigned to protect Rockwell if
the permit were granted.
Eichmann Trial
Set For April 11
JERUSALEM, (JTA)The trial
of Nazi Adolf Eichmann will
open on April 11, it was official
ly announced this week. The
opening of the trial had been set
originally for March 9 but it was
postponed at the request of Dr.
Robert Servatius, Eichmann’s
West German defense lawyer.
The three-man court which
will try the Gestapo Colonel
charged with directing the ex
termination of 6,000,000 Euro
pean Jews will be presided over
by Supreme Court Justice Moshe
Landau. The other members will
be Judge Halevi and Judge
Yitzhak Ravel of the Tel Aviv
District Court. All three judges
were bom in Germany and im
migrated to Palestine during the
period of the British Mandate.
(A television film on Eich
mann, "On the Henchman’s
Trail,” will be shown on the
nation-wide German Television
network March 13, the Cologne
Broadcasting station* announced
this week. The film will attempt
to present a “profile” of the
Gestapo colonel through docu
ments and Interviews with sur
viving eye-witnesses. A book en
titled “There Were Many Eich-
manns” was published in Munich
this past weekend.)
Ben-Gurion Fails to rorm Cabinet;
October General Election Slated
JERUSALEM — Hope paled
this week that the nation would
be saved from a general election.
Prime Minister David Ben-Gur
ion at a meeting of about 50
Mapai members of Parliament
admitted for the first time in his
career that he could not form a
coalition cabinet.
Ben-Gurion asked his Mapai
party ministers to endorse Fi
nance Minister Levi Eshkol for
premier and let him retire. They
refused to do so. The party will
nominate him as its candidate
and the elections will probably
be held in October, after the
Eichmann trial is expected to be
over.
The 74-year-old premier, who
has headed the state of Israel for
all but one and a half of its 13
years, will continue as caretaker
premier until elections.
The Mapai party had been
warned earlier by the prime min
ister that in the event of new
elections he will demand veto
power over the composition of
the list of candidates which the
Mapai will put up, in order to
make certain that Pinhas Lavon,
Moroccan King Dies
New Crisis For Jews
CASABLANCA, (JTA) — Mo
roccan Jews were this week
mourning the death of King Mo
hammed V. Special services will
be held in synagogues through
out Morocco, in commemoration
of the late King’s liberal attitude
which dates back to 1942, when
he refused to countersign de
crees by the pro-Nazi Vichy re
gime introducing anti-Jewish
legislation.
During the Nazi years, the Mo
roccan ruler fought with deter
mination Marshall Petain’s de
cision to introduce yellow stars
for Jews in the North African
protectorate. Jews also remem
ber that, upon the creation of
the State of Israel, the Moroccan
ruler had refused to take part
in the Arab anti-Israel cam
paign.
Only a few days before his
death, King Mohammed V lifted
the emigration ban for the Mo
roccan Jews. The announce
ment of the ending of emigra
tion restrictions was made fol
lowing the visit of a delegation
Zionist League Urges Merger
Of All U.S. Zionist Groups
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The
merger of all American Zionist
groups into a single Zionist or
ganization and the severance of
connections with political' parties
was called for in resolutions
adopted at the National Board
meeting of the American Jewish
League for Israel in New York.
Other resolutions urged drastic
changes in the structure of the
World Zionist Organization and
supported the reorganization
program for the WZO proposed
at the Zionist Congress by Dr.
Nahum Goldmann, president of
the world Zionist movement
Samuel H. Daroff, president of
the League, addressing the ses
sion, said that non-affiliation
with political parties in Israel
"is not just a slogan” to the
League. “It is the essential ele
ment needed by Diaspora Jewry
to unite behind Zionism and Is
rael as a whole,” Mr. Daroff as
serted. “As soon as other Dias
pora groups end their affilations
with political parties in Israel
unity will be not only possible,
but feasible and extremely prob
able.”
Reports on the World Zionist
Congress were presented at the
all-day session by Ezra Z. Sha
piro and Judge Louis E. Levin-
thal, members of the Zionist
Actions Committee. Other speak
ers included Kleazar Lipsky, vice
president of the League, who
stressed the importance of grass
root activity to bring about the
one unitary Zionist organization
in America.
of Moroccan Jewish leaders to
the palace for “an important
communication.” They were
headed by former Cabinet Min
ister Leon Benzaquen and David
Amar, secretary-general of the
Council of Jewish Communities.
“All our Jewish subjects who
want to leave the country, will
be allowed to do so without any
restrictions,” the Moroccan ruler
was reported to have told the
Jewish delegation. However, an
aide to Mohammed made it clear
later to the delegation that “for
eign” organizations would not be
allowed to operate in Morocco
either to assist the emigrants or
to propagandize emigration.
It is feared that the King’s
death might bring into question
again the emigration of Moroc
co’s Jews as the new King, Has-
san II, will be able to count only
on the nationalistic Istiqla) party
and the armed forces and will
be opposed by many of the other
movements, including the Union
Nationale des Forces Populaires,
which are basically opposed to
the monarchy.
Embarek Bekkai, Morocco’s
Minister of the Interior, has
agreed to attend the congress of
the Council of Moroccan Jewish
Communities to be held on Mar.
19 at Rabat. Dr. Benzaquen will
be honorary president of the
congress.
Meanwhile it was reported that
Mayer Toledano, a local Jewish
attorney, has been dismissed
from his post as vice president
of the Casablanca Municipal
Council. A letter informing Mr.
Toledano of his dismissal from
the Council, gave no reason for
the move.
Mr. Toledano, who was hon
orary chairman of the Moroccan
section of the World Jewish
Congress, had served as his
country’s commercial counsellor
at the Moroccan Embassy in
Washington and wa* formerly
director of the Moroccan Minis
try of National Economy.
whom he ousted from Histadrut
leadership, is not included among
the candidates.
In making this declaration at
a meeting of the secretariat of
the Mapai party, Mr. Ben-Gurion
said he is not prepared to ap
pear on the same list of candi
dates with Lavon. However, he
promised not to interfere other
wise with the formation of the
list of Mapai candidates.
The announcement by Mr.
Ben-Gurion came as a shock
even to some members of the
Mapai secretariat who supported
him in the fight with Lavon.
Should Ben-Gurion succeed in
forcing a party majority not to
include Lavon in the list of can
didates, it may create aq intra-
party crisis far greater than the
original Lavon crisis, some of
his supporters fear.
The secretariat of Mapai nomi
nated Aharon Becker, head of
the Trade Union department of
the Histadrut, to become Hista-
Goldberg Honored
drut secretary-general, succeed
ing the ousted Pinhas Lavon.
Since the Mapai has a majority
on the Histadrufs ruling execu
tive committee, the nomination
of Mr. Becker was tantamount
to his election.
None of the parties which were
represented in the former coali
tion Cabinet are really in a mood
to hold elections. Even the op
position parties are not keen on
holding elections because their
treasuries would not permit the
spending of substantial sums far
an election propaganda cam
paign.
Microfilms of Hebrew
Manuscripts Available
To Scholars
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Jew
ish Theological Seminary Bow
has available on mil ill Him a
large collection of IMnew manu
scripts representing about 99 per
cent of all known important
works, it was announced this
week. The collection, which is
available to scholars, hat been
in the making since 1908 and Is
said to be the first project of Ha
kind in this country*
U.S. Secretary of Labor Gold
berg was awarded the Herbert
H. Lehman Medal, the asoat co
veted honor the Jewish Theologi
cal Seminary of America can
bestow, at a convocation held at
Temple Emanu-EI, Miami Beach,
February 27.
Mr. Goldberg was feted in
recognition of his 39 yean of
service “In the cause of Industrial
peace” through the application of
“those principles of morality and
ethics that render the relations
among men peaceful and hn-
fessor of Talmud
the seminary from 1088-11
the more than 780 microfilm
reels include all the Hebrew
manuscript collections in the
British Museum and in the Bib-
liotheque Nationale in Paris. An
important achievement of the
collection is the bringing to
gether, for the first time, qf Ml
the manuscripts of the Cairo
Genizah, which had been scat
tered in various libraries through
out the world.
S. African KKK
Enlists Members
JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) —
The Union of South Africa’s
Special Branch of police was re
ported to be investigating activi
ties of several men believed
seeking to enlist members for
the South African branch of the
Ku Kiux Klan. ,
Membership application forms
have been traced to a Natal man,
Ray Rudman, known as a ped
dler of anti-Semitic material.
Special Branch officers have
called on Rudman to interrogate
him.
JWV Banquet Speaker Morse
Has Unique Political Record
U.S. Senator Wayne Morse, principal speaker at the Sun
day, March 12, annual Commander’s Banquet of JWV Poet 112,
has one of the most uniqtie careers in American political his
tory.
Trained politically in the Progreeeive Republican Fighting
Bob LaFollette tradition, he woo a seat, in the Senate Id 19^4
on a program of “Principle Above Politics." Diapairing over
the prospects for liberalism in the Republican Party, ha re
signed from the party in 1962 and Operated as an indapand-
ent. In 1955, he joined the Democratic ranks and waa rnslsrtui
as a Democrat in 1956.
The public is invited to the Progressiva Club banquet
which will also be featured with presentation of a "disthtgukbed
citizen’s award to Max Cuba. Reservation* it H i parson eaa
be made by calling Elliott Goldberg at 1 Psachtfsi BuHdteg,
or calling him at JA. 4-0428 or TIL 4-4197. ’ , ,; ^