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World’s Fair Rejects Demand
Over Anti-Israel Mural
NEW YORK < JTA)—Robert Moses,
president of the New York World's
FW, rejected a demand by the
Amerjcan-farael Pavilion for re
moval of an anti-Israel mural in
the Jordanian Pavilion which Moses
conceded was “political in nature
and aidiject to mtataterpretatioa’'
The mural dnws an Arab refugee
youth and hie mother making an
■weal to the world to help “the
million of us westing our lives in
exile misery waiting to go home”
and assailing “strangers from
abroad" who ‘began buying up land
in Palestine and stming up the
people.”
Amerioan-lsrael Pavilion officiate
protected the mural to Moses, as
setting that “such propaganda runs
counter to the spirit of the Fair
expressed in the theme ‘Peace
TurangB understanding ana carter
to regulntionB of the Fair.’ The per
tinent regulation rends: "The Frtr
Corporation wtil not permit the op
eration of concession or exhibit
which reflects discredit upon any
state or nation "
Mioses replied that “The Pair can
not censor the mural you refer to,
even though it is political in na
ture and subject to rruswterpneta
tan. We believe no good purpose
would be served by exaggerating
the significance of this reference to
national awns or attributing racial
animus to it."
Upon receiving the rejection, the
unveiled aft the pavOhn • IMfta,
a mortar that Aid aohHBikki
projectiles doing the 1MB Imei
War of Independence. A pavilion
spokesman eaftd theft the pavilion
had initially decided gainst dteptav
of the mortar lor fear of ^
offendng other countr 1
would dtspkay it, aktwu
identification on the gunu
name. \
King Hinocin of Jordan, v
sted ttie Jordanian Pavfliu
the weekend, told reporters
not consider the mural offer
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
Vol. XXXIX
AHANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1964
NO. 18
Religious American Jewry
Acts in Support of Civil Rights
WASHINGTON (JT^)- Religious
American Jewry of all three de
nominations — Orthodox, Conserva
tive and Reform — will be called
14**1 to participate actively in a
massive, national demonstration of
“prayer and potetks,” aimed at pas
sage by Congress of the currently
pending civil r&ts legislation,
leaders of the Synagogue Council
of America announced here.
The announcement was made by
Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the
Synagogue Council, which embraces
lay and rabbinical organizations gi
the Orthodox, Reform and Conserv
ative persuasions; and Rabbi Irwin
M. Blank, chairman of the Council's
Social Actions Oommassioa
The two Council leaders, along
with about 1,000 other Jewteh
leaders from all over the country,
including laymen and rabbis will
participate here in a national inter
religious convocation designed to
spur passage of the federal civil
rights legMaban.
Co-sponsoring the convocation,
with the Synagogue Council’s Com
mission are the Commission on Re
ligion and Race of the National
C'xxwil of Churches whose affiliates
are the Protestant and Orthodox
Nazis Who Killed
Thousands Given
Mild Sentences
BRUNSWICK, (JTA)—Three form
er SS officers were recently sent
enced to prison terms ranging up
to five years each, and a fourth
was acquitted on charges of mur
dering thousands of Polish Jews at
Pinsk during the Second World
War
Former SS Majors Franz Magill,
63, Kurt Wegener, 55, were given
five-year terrhs, while former SS
Lt Hans Walter Zech-Nenntwich
was sentenced to four-and-a-half
years Waiter Bomscheuer, 49, was
freed for lack of evidence. Magill
was found gisity of complicity in
the murder of 5,000 Jews in Aug
ust, 1941, and Wegener was con
victed for his role in the killing of
1,700 Jews in the same area at the
same time. Zech-Nenntwich was
found guilty of killing two Jews.
Christian churches, and the Social
Action Department of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference. Rabbi
Miller will be one of the principal
speakers at the session to be held
here at Georgetown University.
Hie action pra&nm to be proposed
for the American Jewish commun
ity, said Rabbi Blank, will lead off
with a request that, at every Sab
bath service in every synagogue
and temple in the country, until the
pending legislation is passed, there
be held special prayers, sermons
be delivered on the miiject, and dis
cussion of the dvil rigks issue be
emphasised.
At the same time. Rabbi Blank
said, Jews across the nation will
be asked to intensify a mail cam
paign to members of the U. S. Sen
ate, where the dvil rigite bill is
being hobbled currently through a
filibuster. “We have mode far-
reaching pronouncements against
racial (Bacrtatoatton over the
years,” said Rabbi Blank.
Communities Urged to Strengthen
English-Jewish Press
NEW YORK (JTA) - Americai
Jewish commiaaties and the*r
leaders were admonished here last
week that unless they assure a
strong Etoghsh ^Jewish press and
thereby strengthen communications
among Jews there will be an in
creasing cause for concern over the
ability of U. S. Jewry to survive.
The warning was made at the
convention of the Jewidi publishers
currently in 9e6sion here by Philip
Slomovitz, editor of the Detroit
Jewish News. Referring to the new
volume “Intermarriage,” by Dr.
Albert Gordon and the article in
Look magazine, “The Vanishing
American Jew," Mr. Slomovitz
charged that the lessening Jewidi
interests are due in great measure
to a lack of knowledge about the
Jewish position in the world occas
ioned by Emited commuication
He told the convention of the Amer
ican Jewish Press Association that
in only a very few communities are
there flourishing Etogheh-Jerwirfi
papers that can reach all ages of
Jewish readers and that the lack
of interest in the Jewish press by
Jewish national movements is the
most determined aspect of present-
day Jewish experience.
Mr. Slomovitz said that an opti
mistic occurrence is the increasing
interest now being shown in the work
of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
which he described as a most vital
factor of Jewish survival efforts.
Morris Janoff of Jersey City, preti-
deut of the American Jewish Press
Association, prosklnd.
Mrs. Rose L. Halprin, chairmen
of the Jewish Agency American Sec
tion, addressed the meeting. She re
ported on the Action Committee
meetings in Jerusalem and gave a
picture of Zknian throughout the
work! today. Rabbi Herbert A.
Friedman, executive vice-chairmen
at the United Jewish Appeal, was
also one of the principal weaker at
the session.
Reform Jewry Urged to Create
Network of Six Day Schools
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Uison
of American Hebrew Congregations
has been called upon by a Reform
rabbi to study and implement plans
for ttie ertaMMmMDt under Re
form auspices of six Jewish day
Consul Dover to Leave Southeast
For Rotation Reassignment in Israel
Family Plans June Departure;
Simona Eyes National Service
by ADOLPH ROSENBERG
a round of farewells and careful
attention to crating their accixnulata
and getting them started towards
the Middle East.
Hie name of Mr. Dover's succes
sor and his arrival time will be
announced later.
Mr Dover himself came to At
lanta first in July of 1961, embark
ing on what has become a full and
packed career. His predecessors
were Nahum Astar now a Consul
in Australia and the second consul,
Moshc Leshem, now a full ambas
sador for Israel in the Congo at
Leopoldville.
Hie Dovers will leave America
Israel’s third Southeastern Consul
family this week began to face the
prospect of packing personal be
longings and heading for the mother
country.
It was officially announced this
week that Zeev Z Dover will leave
the Consulate post in Atlanta after
three years' service and return by
rotation to Jerusalem to take on
a new assi^ment with the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs.
Such a move of course will not
be accomplished overnight.
Mr. Dover and family plan to
leave Atlanta the latter part of
June. This provides ample time for
during July arriving in Israel in
ample time to settle down before
this fall when their oldest child,
daughter Simona, will enlist in the
Army to ftdfill her national service
obligation.
Having followed his public ac
tivities cioseiy since July of 1961
and occasionally receiving glimpses
into his thoughts objectives and ac
tivities "not for publication” The
Southern Israelite editor reviewed
with the consul the scope and high
lights of his three years in the
Southeast
In an exclusive interview Oonoul
Dover revealed these objectives and
responsibilities over the extensive
area of the Southeastern states
where he has had to make an im
port:
Safeguarding the interests of his
country services to and protection
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schools on the elementary and high
school levels in metropolitan cen
ters In this country.
The proposal was made by Rabbi
Ahrsn Rubin, spiritual leader of
Temple Sinai, Roslyn Heights. L.I.,
during a symposium on Jewizh edu
cation at the annual assembly at
delegates of the New York Federa
tion of Reform Synagogues.
Rabbi Rubin called upon Ameri
can Reform Judaism to continue as
the “experimental and creative
branch of Judaism” by fanning a
network of Jewish day schools in
six major dries. He inked that
this be carried out by the UAHC
to “bring fresh energy and renew
ed vitality for a vibrant positive
Jewish community.”
Taking issue wftth Rabbi Rabbi's
proposal, Rabbi Paul 11 Steinberg,
executive dean of the New York
school of the Hebrew Union OoUage-
Jewish Institute of Religion, said
he was “unalterably opposed to
the establishment of day schools
by the Reform movement” Anoth
er Reform leader, Dr. Julius Mark,
senior rabbi of Temple Eknanu-El,
criticised Reform Jews who advo
cate the establishment of parochial
schools. Addressing the dedication
ceremonies at the Temple’s new
religious school and auditorium.
Dr. Mark said that “parochial edu
cation means the segregation of
our children according to religious
beliefs.”
Negro Youth Jailed for Attacking Yeshiva Pupils
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The only youth arrested in a Negro
teenagers’ attack on pupils of a Brooklyn Yeshvia was
sentenced this week to 18 months in the State Training
School. Hie 15-year-old defendant, whose name was with
held, had been in trouble frequently and had been on pro
bation since July. He was sentenced in Children’s Court by a
Negro judge
Hie man who placed him under citizen’s arrest, Leo
Berkman, a city building inspector, received several tele
phone threats and police put his home under watch Two
teachers and some 15 pupils were roughed up in the attack
by 50 Negro youths on the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva in
the slum-ridden Bedford-Stuyvesant area. The fighting
started during a luncheon recess when the Negoes invaded
the school yard and began pushing and hitting the pupils
Berkman. who was driving by, stopped Ms car. Jumped
out and ran to the detrnoe of Utr children. After a brief
scuffle, he subdued one of the invaders and the rest ran
off.
A spokesman for the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People condemned tile assault as
“a tragic and shocking revelation of the corroding effect
of racial and reMgkxia bias.”
Hie American Jewish Congress said that it would be
“tragic” if the "cordial relations” between “responeible
elements in the Negro and Jewish communities” were
jeopardized by the incident The statement also uxpra—d
"sadness” over the fact that Negro children, themselves
victims of racial prejudice, ‘‘should attempt to release
their frustration and bitterness on other innocent children.”
The statement said tbs incident underlined the need for
all persons “to redouble our efforts to stiminato discrim
ination and bigotry,” and that It imposed “a Racial obli
gation on Negro leaders “to assure that the ideas of non
violent demonstrations in the dvil rights struggle were
understood by all Negroes, “including children.”
Hie Anti-Defamation League called the “unprovoked
attack" a “sad occurrence” and expressed the hope that
it was “an isolated incident and does not reflect any
planned pattern.” Hie ADL warned that “we must not
let this wrong go unheeded.”
Police put the school under aroond-th»clock protection
after the incident, in which the Negroes anti-
Semitic epithets, jeering at the pigiOs with such statements
as “You don’t belong in this country.”
Mmt adults, Negress amt white, watched Ms dart.
Except Bar Berkman, none cams te tee aid sf Me prert.
The hstewter eeBsd Me tedffltrrars of Ms adalte “dte-
graesfeL"