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the weekend April SUB to at-
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delegates are
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theme of this year’s conveo-
ie The Sabbath: Covenant be
tween G-d and Man. All the ses
sions and lectures, beginning with
the Friday night open forum, will
deal with various aspects of the
Sabbath. Among the topics to be dis
cussed are: The individual Jew and
the Sabbath; The meaning of the
Sabbath meals; The concept of
Shalos Seudos; The significance of
Sabbath observances; The meaning
of Kiddush, Havdallah, and Melava
Maikab—the Saturday night farewell
to the Sabbath.
All sessions will be geared to dele
gatee’ personal participation. Ample
time has been provided for an in
formal exchange of ideas and ex
periences with the delegates from
the various communities in the
south.
Among the visiting dignitaries will
be Moses I. Feuerstein, American
orthodox Jewry's national lay leader;
Dr. Samson R. Weiss, lUuatriouB
Jewish thinker, author, lectwer; Dr.
Joseph Kamineteky, national key
figure of the Day School movement;
Reuben E. Gross, writer, speaker,
idea-shaper; Sam S. Margolin, Dean,
Southern Law University; A1 H.
Thomas, President, Southeast Re
gion; Saul Bernstein, Editor “Jewish
Life”; Rabbi Pinchas Stoiper, Na
tional Director at Orthodoxy’s syn
agogue youth movement. In addi
tion, Rabbis from the various south
eastern Jewish communities are ex
pected to be in attendant
lead in round table
groups
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. xxxix
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1964
NO. 15
Investigation Underway
Fight on Israeli Ship in Brazil
Results in Killing an Official
Jewish Leaders Call Upon Soviets
To Stop Calculated Anti-Semitism
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA>—Police
authorities here continued to inves
tigate today details surrounding an
incident abroad an Israeli vessel, the
SS Theodor Herzl, which resulted in
the death of a Brazilian civil servant
and the wounding of another man.
The incident took place as the ship,
carrying 570 persons, including 66
Jewish emigrants from this country
going to Israel for permanent settle
ment, was about to leave this port.
While the police have not yet dis
closed the details, it was learned
authoritatively that 10 or 12 Bra
zilian civil servants boarded the ves
sel Just as it was about to sail, stat
ing that they had received reports
that some of the sailors Intended to
smuggle gold from this country. The
Brazilian officials insisted on search
ing the crew’s quarters. They fmmd
no gold but did find a few small
articles, like American cigarettes,
a couple of transistor radios and
some eyeglasses which members of
the crew had bought here as gifts to
relatives and friends.
When the officials tried to con
fiscate these trinkets without issuing
a receipt, a fight broke out between
the Brazilians and the sailors. At
that point, it was learned, some of
the Brazilians went ashore and came
back with machineguns. In the en
suing fracas, one of the guns wm
fired. One member of the boarding
party was killed. The wounded man
had acted as an interpreter.
Police officials here have said they
do not put credence in this version
of the incident suspecting that the
search of the tiiip resulted from a
provocation. The ship departed safe
ly for Haifa, but the investigation is
Still proceeding.
Groups Backing
Conference
The 24 co-sponsoring organizations
of the conference are:
American Jewish Commit tee,
American Jewish Congress, Amer
ican Israel Public Affairs Commit
tee, American Trade Union Coun
cil for Hiotadrut, American Zionist
Council, B’nai B’rith, Central Con
ference of American Rabbis, Confer
ence of Presidents of Major Amer
ican Jewish Organizations, Hadas-
sah, Jewish Agency for Israet-
American Section, Jewish Labor
Committee, Jewish War Veterans of
the United States of America, Labor
Zionist Movement.
Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi, Na
tional Community Relations Advisory
Council, National Cornell of Jewish
Women, National Coimcil of Young
Israel, Rabbinical Assembly, Rab
binical Council of America, Syna
gogue Council of America, Union
of American Hebrew Congregations,
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congre
gations of America, United Syna
gogue of America, and the Zionist
Organization of America.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -The two-
day emergency American Jewish
Conference on Soviet Jewry con
cluded here Monday night with an
appeal to Soviet Government leaders
to end official anti-Semitism and to
grant the 3,000,000 Jews of the Soviet
Union full equality with other re
ligious and ethnic groups in the
country. The 24 participating Jew
ish organizations which convened
the conference adopted plans to en
list the help of Americans of all
faiths in drawing world attention to
the “oppression of Soviet Jewry.”
The 500 deiegates, addressing
Augusta
lo Honor
Hill Silver
The Augusta Federation of Jew
ish Charities will honor its treasurer,
Hill L. Silver with a dinner Sunday,
April 19, at the Adas Yeshurun Syn
agogue.
For thirty years Mr. Silver’s de
votion to the Federation and to Jew
ish life has been an inspiration to
the ideal of brotherhood in the Jew
ish community, sponsors of the
Silver tribute announced.
Principal speaker at the dinner
will be Dr. William Wexler, presi
dent of the Southern States Region
of the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds.
Sovief Communist Party Criticizes
'Judaism Without Embellishment 7
LONDON, (JTA)—The ideological
Commission of the Soviet Com
munist Party last weekend criti
cized the publication by the
Ukranian Academy of Sciences of
the anti-Semitic book, “Judaism
Without Embellishment,” it was
reported here from Moscow. The
book, which contains anti-Jewish
caricatures reminiscent of Nazi
propaganda, has already been at
tacked by Communist parties in
various Western countries.
The statement, which was adopted
at a special meeting of the Ideolo
gical Commission and was publish
ed in Pravda, organ of the USSR
Communist Party, said that the
book contained statements and il
lustrations that "may insult the
feelings of believers and be inter
preted in a spirit of anti-Semitism."
The party announcement added
that the book “contradicted the
party’s Leninist policy on religious
an) nationality questions, and mere
ly feeds anti-Soviet insinuations of
our ideological foes who are trying
at all costs to create a so-called
Jewish question.” The statement
reiterated, however, the official
assertions (hat the Jews in the
Soviet Union "are all respected in
the same situation as other peo
ples.”
Pravda indicated that, after the
furor caused by the book abroad,
the Ideological Commission was
specially convened to review the
entire question of anti-religious
literature.
The Sunday Observer hailed the
action of the Soviet authorities in
moving with “unexampled speed” in
reacting to the publication of the
anti-Semitic book. In an editorial
commenting on the statement con
cerning the book by the Ideoligkxd
Commission of the Soviet Commun
ist Party, the Observer expressed
the hope that the action would
“serve as a precedent” for the fu
ture. The Observer’s expert on So
viet affairs, Edward Oankshaw,
said that the Communist Commis
sion’s action “is an indication of
how sensitive the Soviet Govern
ment is to charges of anti-Semit-
(Further condemnations of “Juda
ism Without Embellishment” were
printed last weekend in the Euro
pean press. In Paris, “France Ob-
servateur,” a left-wing newspaper,
asserted that no one can deny now
that anti-Semitism exists in the
USSR. The Jewish Resistance Or
ganization in France sent a pro
test against publication and dis
semination of the book, to the So
viet War Veterans Organization.
Two periodicals in Belgium, in
cluding one dominated by leftists,
also voiced their protests.)
NICE, France, (JTA)—Alexei Ad
jubei, editor of Izvestia and son-
in-law of Soviet Premier Khrush
chev, Sunday denied here charges
of anti-Semitism in the Soviet
Union. He was in France as a
guest of the France-USSR Associa
tion. He sought to refute such
charges by pointing out, “for ex
ample,” that, during his visit to
France, he had turned over edi
torial direction of one of the lead
ing newspapers in the Soviet Union
to a Jew.
themselves to the authorities of the
Soviet Union, adopted an 18-point
resolution calling for the elimination
of discrimination against Soviet
Jews and restoration of their full
cultural and religious rights. The
conference expressed its “anguish
and indignation at the treatment of
Jews in the Soviet Union.”
At the same time, the conference
called for a national day of prayer
to be observed in every American
synagogue, as a part of a national
protest against “the calculated as
sault by which the destruction of
the Jewish community within the
Soviet Union is being panned.”
The conference received a mes
sage Monday night from Albert Car
dinal Meyer, Roman Catholic Arcto-
Mehep of Chicago, who stated: ‘To
the name of God, Who will not be
mocked, and in the name of human
ity made in the image and likeness
of God, I jam you in protest against
any evil and all efforts to destroy
the spiritual and cultural freedom
and ri^its of men everywhere.”
A delegation of conference leaders
met with Secretary of State Dean
Rusk at the State Department Tues
day morning to discusss the senti
ments expressed at the conference.
The possibility of a meeting be
tween American Jewish leaders and
Soviet authorities “on the hipest
level” was raised at the conference
by Louis H. Weinstein, of Boston,
chairman of the National Commun
ity Relations Advisory Council, and
Morris B. Abram, president of the
American Jewish Committee. Mr.
Weinstein said he hoped that Su
preme Court Justice Arthur J. Gold
berg, and U. S. Senators Jacob K.
Javtis and Abraham A. RibicoCf
would be in the group, if and when
such a delegation is invited to Rus
sia.
The conference delegates were
told that ’if Soviet authorities invite
us to a discussion of the status of
Soviet Jewry in terms that signify
the earnest desire of the Soviet Gov
ernment for good-faith exploration of
the issue, we will be prepared to
form a delegation to go to USSR to
meet with Soviet officials of the
highest level.”
The 18-point resolution, protesting
“the denial to Soviet Jews of the
basic institutions and facilities grant
ed to other religious and ethnic
groups within the Soviet Union,” in
formed the Soviet Government that
“considerations of humanity and
justice” required it to:
1) Eradicate anti-Semitism by a
vigorous educational effort conduct
ed by Government and Party;
2) Permit the free functioning of
synagogues and private prayer meet
ings; 3) Remove hindrances to the
observance of sacred rites such as
religious birial and rircumcision;
4) Permit production and distribu
tion of reii^ous articles and cal
enders; 5) Restore facilities and
permission to produce and distribute
matzoh and kosher food; 8) Grant
the right to publish Hebrew Bibles,
prayer books, and other religious
texts; 7) Permit synagogues in (he
USSR to organize a nationwide fed
eration; 8) Sanation tbe association
of such a federation with organiza
tions of their coreligionists abroad;
) Permit Jews to make religious
pilgrimages to Israel.
Also to 10) Allow all qualified
applicants to attend Moscow Holy
Places and rabbinical seminaries,
and to permit rabbinical students to
study at seminaries abroad;
11) Provide schools and other fa
cilities for the study of the Yidtfish
and Hebrew languages, and Jewish
history and culture; 12) Permit Jew
ish writers, artists and other intel
lectuals to create their own insti
tutions for the encouragement of
Jewish cultural and artistic life;
131 Re-establish a Yiddish pufetiah-
ing house to publish books in Yidditii
by classical and contemporary Jew
ish writers; 15) Re-establish Yiddish
state theaters and permit publica
tion of a Yiddish-ianguage news
paper with nation-wide droulatioo;
15) Eliminate discrimination against
Jews in all areas of Soviet public
life; 18) End the anti-Semitic cam
paign in tbe press; 17) End (he dis
criminatory application of the death
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Paris Probes
Shule Smear
PARES (JTA)—Police here
investigating an outbreak of anti-
Semitic vandalism in a part of Paris
densely populated with Jews, where
the Agudath Hakehiloth Synagogue
was smeared with swastikas, while
a number of Jewish homes were
daubed with anti-Jewish slogans.
The synagogue building was only
recently designated by the French
Ministry of Culture, as a historic
shrine.
At the intervention of the
for Franco4araeli Friendship, In
terior Minister Roger Frey has per
sonally ordered the police to do aQ
in its power to bring the culprits
to justice.
DANISH ROYALTY
HELP JEWS MARK
RIGHTS 150th
COPE2VHAGEN (JTA)—King Fred
erick IX and Queen Ingrid of Den
mark attended fecial services
April 7 at the synagogue in Krystal-
gade, commemorating the 150th an
niversary of the royal decree on
March 29, 1814, which grated foil
civic rights and duties of Danish
citizenship to the country’s Jewfch
population.
The 1814 decree, which
in effect even during the fire years
of the Nati occupation of Denmark,
provided for Jewhh religious tastruc-
tion and rannjniMj the Danish Jew
ish communities aa the ragulatfeg
authority for aB the retigloua attain
of the Jews of each city.