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DIMENSION United Jewish Appeal THI8 IS THE WAY to fashion new lives for Israel’s aged immigrants. With UJA funds, the Joint Distri button Committee's Malben pro gram brings renewed usefulness to thousands of aged, ill and handi capped In Israel. The UJA Is the major beneficiary of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund and similar agencies currently holding cam paigns throughout many other Sou thern communities. The Southern Israelite A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925 Vol. XXXVIII ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1963 NO 12 Two-Times Refugee Serves as Russian Jewry to Have No Matzoth; l a “,Goldmann Blasts Red Government egatlon came to Atlanta last week, they held a conference with all of the Atlanta rabbis. The Atlanta spiritual leaders stressed their interest and con cern in finding ways to help the Jewish people of Russia. Anomolously, the person serv ing as interpreter for the Rus sian priests and staff during the three crowded days of meetings, conferences and tours with civic, communal and church groups was a person driven out of his native land by persecution — Jacob L. Friend. Mr. Friend, a member of the Ahavath Achim Hebrew School Religious School staff and a reg ular contributor to The Southern from Russia when the Commun ists first took over. He left via the Western route and attempted to establish a new life in Shang hai where he was later joined by his wife. When that city was overrun during World War II, he again was forced to flee In time, he came to America and to Atlanta where he and the eventually re united Friend family again set about establishing a new life. It was the feeling of the Rus sian priests that they themselves are suppliants from the hands of the Reds, so how can they be of assistance to persons of the Jew ish faith?—A.R. JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Soviet Jewry will be without matzoth this Passover again, a coord mg to a cable received here from Moscow from authentic sources. The cable said that Moscow bakeries are neither prepared for the baking of matzoth nor have they received any Pass- over flour rations as yet Unless the Soviet authorities permit Passover food from abroad, there will be no matzoth in the Soviet Union this year, the cable emphasized. Dr. Nahum Goldmann, ad dressing Monday the opening session of the General Zionist Council, said he received a re port revealing that Chief Rabbi J. L Levin of Moscow informed Soviet Bishop Says Synagogues And Churches Slandered WASHINGTON (JTA) — The head of a visiting delegation of Soviet churchmen Archbishop Nikodim of the Russian Orth odox Church, told a press con ference this week that if some Soviet newspapers denounce syn agogues and the Jewish faith the same organs say even worse things about the Russian Orth odox church Archbishop Nikodim added that he could say only that the posi tion of the Jews in the Soviet Union was stated "very clearly” by Khrushchev in a recent letter to British philosopher Bertrand Russell. He amplified this, how ever by commenting that events affecting “individuals” were not based on religion or nationality of the Individual but “entirely on their personal qualUies.” He sug gested that prosecution, as for economic crimes, was linked not with religion but only with the deeds of the “particular persons involved.” The Archbishop’s comments were In reply to questions he had been asked as to what Soviet Christians could do about the de nunciation by official Soviet pub lications of the Jewish religion and defamation of synagogues as alleged centers of crime. The Russian delegation arrived here as guests of the National Council of Churches. Seven More Jews Executed in Russia For “Economic Crimes” NEW YORK (JTA)—Another Russian Jew has been sentenced to death for alleged economic crime* and six others had their appeal for clemency rejected and were then executed, according to reports in a Soviet newspaper received here this week. According to the February 6 issue of Radiaska Bukovina, pub lished in Czemowitz, seven of ficials of the Education Depart ment in Vashkovitz, a town in Bukovina, were charged with embezzling 25,000 rubles. The chief accountant’s name was given as Brelinsky, a common Jewish name in the Soviet Union. He was sentenced to death The six others, whose names were not given, were sentenced to death to varying terms of impris onment. The February 10 issue of the Soviet paper reported that the Republic rejected the appeal for the Supreme Soviet of the Ukraine to grant clemency to a group of “economic criminals” sentenced to death in Czemowitz in October 1962. The newspaper reported that the sentences were then carried out. While the Soviet newspaper did not give any details about the trial, records showed that the only trial in Czemowitz for “economic crimes” at that time involved six Jews tried, convict ed and sentenced for currency speculation. The defendants then were named as Alter Bronstein, Yeffln L. Margo&hes, Mosiey- Meyer Zayata, Struel I. Zimil- evich, Isaak B. Ronis and Feliks Ya. Mester. the believers of all faiths as to what they might expect from Communist dictatorship." In a statement on the House floor, he said that Soviet anti- Semitic actions “permit no other interpretations.” He said “the world — and especially the new nations of Asia and Africa—will pass stern judgment on Soviet racism as the sordid facts are brought to light.” the members of his synagogue last week that matzoth will not be available in the Soviet Union this year. “The change in the tradition of Jewish life under the Soviet regime for decades, during which matzoth were pre viously provided, points to the tendencies of the present So viet rulers with regard to the Jewish problem,” Dr. Goldmann stated. The Soviet Government, Dr. Goldmann stressed, must realize that the Jewish people which lost a third of its number in the present generation cannot and will not be able to renounce 3,000,000 Jews who, although not threatened by physical ex termination, face the serious danger of spiritual, religious and national assimiliation. If the Soviet Government is sincerely opposed to anti-Semit ism, its duty is to halt anti- Jewish publicity which is re plete with dangers for Soviet Jewry, the leader of the world Zionist movement dec'ared. ‘“The Soviet Government cannot deny the fact that in comparison with other national minorities and religions in the Soviet Union there is a blatant discrimination against Soviet Jewry,” he em phasized. WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Sena tor Harrison A. Williams, Jr, New Jersey Democrat, Monday in a Senate speech Invited the WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep Cornelius E. Gallagher, New Jer sey Democrat, a member of the House Committee on Foreign Af fairs, told the House this week that "present-day Soviet anti- Semitlsm is a stem warning to Trial Starts for Israeli Musician Charged With Aiding Nazis and bringing them to trains which transported them to death camps. He was also accused of divulging the hiding places of 100 Jews who fled to Bendln from other areas and with handing them over to the Nazis for forced labor. After the charges were listed, the prosecutor said that despite the charges, it was Birenblat who removed one or two Jews from every transport and thus saved their lives. He added: “It is for this court to decide wheth er, in order to save his own life and the lives of a few others, the accused had the right to perform his other deeds despite compell ing conditions. After the defendant pleaded not guilty, the first witness, Isaac Neumann now an Israeli, was called. Neuman was a member of the Jewish underground in Czen- tochowa who was sent to Bendin to organize an underground there but was captured and brought before Birenblat. Neuman testified that despite appeals to Birenblat, he was kept for several days in a cell in Bir- enblat’s office. When he and a to page 5 TEL AVIV (dfA)— Hirsh Bir enblat, former conductor of the Israel Opera, went on trial here this week on charges of having helped to roundup Jews for ex termination by the Nazis as a Jewish policeman in Nazi-held Poland during World War II. In presenting the case, prose cutor David Libai said it was the first in which an Israeli court had been called on to determine whether service by a Jew as a policeman under the Nazis made him a member of a “hostile or ganize” under the Israeli law for the punishment of Nazis and their collaborators. This is the law under which Adolf Eichmann was tried, convicted and hanged. Birenblat was a member of the Jewish police in Bendin, a force established by the Nazi-appoint ed Judenrat for that ghetto. The charge sheet against him listed accusations that he handed over Jews to the Nazis, attacked Jews in enclosed camps, assembled Jews for “selection” for exterm ination, helped the Nazis herd 5,- 000 Jews of Bendin into death trains and rounding up Jewish children from a local orphanage attention of fellow Senators to a call by the Jewish War Veteran* for more vigorous action against Soviet anti-Semitism. The Sena tor pointed ont that In the last year and a half there has de veloped “accelerated harassment of Russian Jews.” He cited "the singling oat of Jews tor dis criminatory treatment” ta the Soviet Union. “Khrushchev's cynical denials, while official Soviet machinery pashes inexorably toward the extinction of Jewish enltnral life had little effect on the rep rehensible actions of Randan officials and publications,” the Senator said, "the closing of synagogues and the is rid sens •f so called economic crimes, pun ishable by death, are the most obvious facets of the stnister pattern of Soviet anti-Semitism.” He quoted extensive material an Soviet anti-Semitism, NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Synagogue Council of America, composed of all rabbinical and lay organizations of Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Jew ry in the United States, an nounced here that it has offi cially extended an invitation to Rabbi Jehuda Levin, Chief Rabbi of Moscow’s Great Synagogue, for a visit to this country with a delegation of other Jewish re ligious leaders from * the USSR. It is up to the Soviet authori ties to permit Rabbi Levin to accept this invitation. The announcement was made by Rabbi nioodore L Adams, chairman of the Council’s inter national affairs commission, at a reception in the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel to 10 high Chris tian religious dignitaries from the Soviet Union, headed by Archbishop Nikodim of the Rus sian Orthodox Church. The top Russian clergymen are in this country as guests of the National Council of Churches. During the reception, attended by more than 50 of America's top rabbiniaal leaden, as well as by leaders of the American Jew ish Commmittee and the Ameri can Jewish Congress, about two hours of questioning look place in which rabbis asked ths visi tors about the lack of an over all, Jewish religious organisa tion of Russian Jewry, the pro hibition against the lack of Hebrew Bible* and pray er books, the cloaing of amuy synagogues, and the Soviet re fusal to permit Jews to (mi grate for purposes of fomily re unification. Archbishop Nikodim, spokewnan for the sisted in every the Soviet laws permit for all religions. He relay the quasttoai Levin, in lfneilie, meet there agda. - ^ r