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Ecumenical Council Will Receive
Stronger Draft on Stand on Jews
ROME (JTA)—A spokesman for
the Ecumenical Council said this
week that the draft documenton ecu
menism, which includes proposals
on Catholic-Jewish relations, has
been strengthened for presentation
to the third plenary of the Council
opening next September.
Re-drafting was handled by the
Council’s Secretariat for the Pro-'
motion of Christian Unity headed by
Augustin Cardinal Bea, a strong
friend of the Jews. The spokesman
called the revised text "a distinct
improvement” on the draft discuss
ed in part at the Council’s second
session last fall. That sesssion did
not discuss the chapter absolving
Jews of the blame for the Cruci
fixion and warning Catholics against
anti-Semitism.
The spokesman said it now ap
peared "very wise” not to "rush
the scheme” on ecumenism last fall
because public reaction ‘‘caused Bis
hops everywhere to think thoroughly
about the issues involved and the
result is a stronger” text. No details
of the changes were disclosed.
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XXXIX
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1964
NO. 12
Euromart Officials Approve
Terms for Israel Trade Talks
BRUSSELS (JTA)—The Council of
Ministers, key policy-making body
—of the European
ity, approved this week a mandate
for a third round of talks with Israel
for a trade pact. The talks will get
underway shortly.
The mandate cotwisted of a series
of specific directives to EEC nego
tiators which are offers to Israel
of tariff exemptions on a number of
Israeli exports will be exempt from
the EEC common external tariff of
20 per cent. These include bathing
suits, grapefruit, bromine and de
rivatives, tires and tubes, cement,
glass, mens suits made from
synthetic fibers and similar items.
Such finished goods come from
raw materials exported by the Com
mon Market countries to Israel and
the EEC can therefore give the fin
ished products exemptions without
violating arrangements on the Gen
eral Agreement on Tariffs and
Trades which normally forbid ex
tension of tariff preferences to one
nation without giving all members
similar “most favored nation” treat-
Name Columbus
Leaders for
Bond Drive
COLUMBUS, Ga.— Mrs. David
Gerson and Dr. A. J. Kravtin have
been selected to serve as co-
chairmen of the 1964 Committee
for State of Israel Bonds in Co
lumbus.
A. J. Weinberg, Atlanta, general
chairman for State of Israel Bonds
for the Georgia-South Carolina
area, made the announcement this
week.
Both Mrs. Gerson and Dr. Krav
tin have long been active in com
munity affairs in Columbus.
The date for the campaign has
been set for mid April. Plans for
the community program will be
announced in a forthcoming issue
of The Southern Israelite.
Columbus
Will Honor
LeonColdberg
COLUMBUS — On March 20, the
Jewish community of Columbus will
honor Leon Goldbeig, Atlanta, re
tiring area rep
resentative of the
Jewish Wei fare
Board — Armed
Services Division.
Mr. Goldberg has
worked closely with
Columbus Jewry in
the coordina t i o n
and s e r v ice of
moral and religi
ous needs of tens
of thousands of Jewish soldiers who
processed through Ft. Benning dur
ing the last two decades.
Joint religious services will be
held at Temple B’nai Israel at 8
p. m. Friday, March 20. Joining
the Temple Congregation for this
tribute wall be the Ft. Benning Jew
ish Congregation and Columbus
JWB-ASC Committee.
ment.
Most of the provisions in the man-
of quickly but
sharp debate took place between
French and Italian delegates over
Israel’s orange exports. It was
finally decided that discussions will
be held in the mixed committee of
Israeli and EEC negotiators if an
agreement with another country
should adversely affect Israel’s
orange exports.
Israeli sources in Brussels ex
pressed satisfaction but indicated
that they expected long and diffi
cult negotiations would have to take
place before a working agreement
was reached.
Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign
Minister, who was in Brussels when
the mandate approval was an-
nounced^said the action was ‘‘an
important step forward.”
During a three-day visit to the
Belgian capital, Mrs. Meir met with
King Baudouin and leading Belgian
officials, declaring at a press con
ference die had found much under
standing and friendship for Israel.
She reiterated Israel’s willingness to
talk at any time and with all the
Arab States, "collectively or singly”
on all differences.
Matzoh Situation in Russia
Reported Worse than Last Year
LONDON < JTA)—The situation on
malmh halting in Soviet Russia has
not changed for the better this year,
despite impressions in some western
newspapers that it had, according
to information received here this
week from sources described as ab
solutely reliable Those sources in
dicated that, if anything, the situa
tion had worsened since Passover
of 1963.
The ban on matzoh baking has
actually not been rescinded. A Rus
sian Jew who wants to obtain
matzoh for his own use cannot do
so freely, as he could a few years
ago. The Government bakeries did
not, for the third year in a row, bake
matzohs for the coming Passover,
as had been reported, and there is
no flour available for Jews who
might be able to bake wafers in
their homes.
Last year, a Jewish group outride
Moscow was allowed to bake and
distribute a small quantity of
matzoh. This created the impression
started to bake matzoth in the home
of a member, and would produce
mission to bake matzoh this year. 13,660 pounds. The bakery, in Cher-
that private baking was permissible
but this group did not receive per-
Even in Tiflis, Soviet Georgia, the
authorities have refused to provide
flour and this ancient Jewish com
munity will be dependent for the
first time in its history on supplies
from abroad. Last year the Jews
in Tiflis baked their own matzoh.
Novosti, a Soviet feature syndi
cate, announced this week that the
Moscow Jewish congregation had
kizovo, a Moscow suburb was said
to have a daily capacity of up to
886 pounds. At the rate of two
pounds per person, the expected sup
ply would be enough for about 6,000
people. While no data are available
on the number of Moscow Jews who
require matzoh for Passover ob
servance, the city’s Jewish popula
tion is about 200,000.
United States at UN Denounce USSR
For Anti-Semitism; Israel Joins Attack
News From Far and Near
TORONTO (JTA)—Premier John
Kobarts of Ontario told the Ontario
Legislature this weekend that he
planned to take up the problem of
a flood of anti-Semitic and anti-
Negro mailings to major Ontario
cities at the Provincial-Dominion
conference at the end of this month.
The Premier said he felt that the
Attorneys-General of the various
provinces affected by the hate mail
ings should consult on ways to cope
with such agitation through mailings.
NEW YORK (JTA)—A new med
ical center sponsored by the Amal-,
gamated Clothing Workers of Amer
ica will be named in memory of
Sidney Hillman, the Jewish labor
leader who headed the union, it was
announced here Sunday night by Dr.
Sol Stein, director of the National
Committee for Labor Israel, at a
dinner in honor of Jacob S. Pot-
ofsky, president of the union. Some
800 leaders of management and
labor attended.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Amer
ican Jewish Congress called for
“vigorous opposition” to a constitu
tional amendment proposed in the
U. S. Congress by Rep. Frank J.
Becker, a Republican of Lynbrook,
L. I., which would permit religious
prayers and Bible reading in public
schools.
OTTAWA iJTA)—Canadian Prime
Minister Lester Pearson last weekend
received Israeli Deputy IVemier
Abba Kban for discussions on Mid
dle East problems. Mr. Eban also
met for an hour-long conference
with Canadian External Affairs Min
ister Paul Martin. Israel Ambassa
dor Gerson Avner was also present
during the conference.
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—One of
the sharpest attacks against Soviet
anti-Jewish practices in any United
Nations organ by a major power was
voiced this week by the United
States delegate in the Commission on
Human Rights.
Mrs. Marietta Tree, chairman of
the United States delegation, in
cluded even a reference to "cultural
or even ethnic genocide," in her
criticism of Soviet discriminations
against Russian Jews. She spoke
after nearly a month of filibuster
ing by the commission’s three Com
munist members — Russia, Poland
and the Ukraine—to keep her from
speaking on the issue.
Michael S. Comay, Israel’s rep
resentative to the UN, also spoke
on the issue, after waiting three days
to make a statement. He asserted
that Soviet Jews were the victims
of various forms of discrimination
which were causing distress not only
to their Jewish brethren in other
countries but also to many world
leaders who could not be accused of
ill will toward Russia. In accordance
with UN practice, neither speaker
mentioned the Soviet Union by
name. Mr. Comay warned about a
"pogrom” atmosphere in Russia.
The commission has been debating
a draft on the elimination of all
forms of racial intolerance. As part
of the draft, Mrs. Tree had intro
duced a clause which said specifi
cally that all governments adhering
to the proposed convention “eon-
Columbds, Angusta, Savannah, Chattanooga, Tampa
Among Cities Increasing Totals
$74,497,206 Raised by 125 Jewish
Communities in 1963 Spring Drives
NEW YORK (JTA)- A total of
$74,497,206 was raised for local, na
tional and overseas needs In the
1963 Spring campaign of 125 cities
—exclusive of New York City—in
the United States and Canada, ac
cording to final figures released by
the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds. Final figures on
1963 Kail campaign are being com
piled and will be released at a later
date.
The totals for the Spring cam
paign cities reflected a mixed pat
tern of performance in communities
of all sizes, with 44 cities register
ing increases, a few attaining their
1962 figures, and the others falling
short in varying degrees. The over
all change in the 125 cities was a
drop of four per cent from their
1962 results.
The report noted that more than
$48,000,000 of the over $74,000,000
pledged in 1963 came from 13 cities
with Jewish populations of over 40,-
000. Slightly more than $8,500,000
came from 12 cities in the 15,000 to
over 1962 included. Cleveland, Cin
cinnati, Winnipeg, Albany, Camden,
Dayton, Long Beach, Levittown,
Lynn, Richmond, St. Paul, San An
tonio, Scranton, Springfield, Mass.,
Stamford, Trenton, Vancouver, Au
gusta, Brockton, Butler, Chattanooga,
Columbus, Ga., Easton, Edmonton,
Evansville, Fresno, Hamilton, Man
chester, New Britain, Newport News,
40,000 category; nearly $12,000,000^ oklahoma City, Palm Beach, Perth
came from 37 cities in the five to
15,000 grouping, and nearly $6,000,000
from 63 communities containing less
than 5,000 Jews.
Cities which increased their totals
Amboy, Port Chester, Sacramento,
Salt Lake CKy, San Jose, Sarasota,
Savannah, Sioux City, Southern Il
linois, Tampa, Ventura and Water
bury.
demn anti-Semitism, whether man
ifested as a form of racial discrim
ination or otherwise, and shall take
action as appropriate for its speedy
eradication in the territories subject
to their jurisdiction.”
Platon D. Morozov, chief Soviet
delegate in the commission, indi
cated he considered his country to
be the principal target of the United
States and Israeli charges. He did
so by trying to amend Mrs. Tree’s
proposal in such a way as to point
to anti-Semitism as solely the result
of Nazism and fascism.
Mrs. Tree hit back hard. She said
she regretted that Morozov was
seeking to "confuse anti-Semitism
with Nazism, genocide and other
terms to make it only one of a
list of possible errors in recent
thought.” She said the commission
should face the fact that anti-Sem
itism was “a present danger,” that
it existed in countries where Nazism
was unknown and that it could not
be “covered up forever by recalling
the crimes of Hitler and the hor
rors of the concentration camps.”
Sharpening her point, she added
that there were "some states” where
laws forcefully forbid discrimina-
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Israel OKs
Jabotinsky
Internment
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel’s Cab
inet this week voted unanimously
to permit the Jabotinsky family to
bring the remains of Vladimir Jab-
otinsky to this country for reburial.
Mr. Jabotinsky, leader of the Zion-
ist-Revisionists, died near New York
City in 1940. In his will, he had
stipulated that his remains be taken
for re-burial in the Jewish State
to be formed in Palestine, but only
upon the decision of the Jewish
State’s Government. Former Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion was un
alterably opposed to such sanction
by the Government.
Today's action was taken after
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol had re
ceived an appeal on the issue from
Prof Eri Jabotinsky, an Israeli and a
son of the late Vladimir Jabotinsky.
The Herut Party immediately laud
ed the Cabinet’s decision. Menach-
em Beigin, leader of Herut, sent a
message to Mr. Eshkol expressing
the party's “gratitude for this his
toric decision.”