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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XLII ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1967 NO. 17
Many Notables Pay Tribute
To Adenauer at Funeral
BONN (JTA)— Israel’s former
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
who, over many years, had many
dealings with the late Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer, arrived here
to attend Dr. Adenauer’s state
funeral. Foreign Minister Abba
Eban arrived a few hours before
Ben-Gurion came in, and both
were temporary guests at the
home of Israel’s Ambassador
Asher Ben-Nathan at the Bonn
suburb of Bad Godesburg.
Although the funeral partici
pants included President Johnson
and President de Gaulle, the Ger
man press focused much attention
on the fact that Ben-Gurion had
come here for the funeral. Among
the first official mourners to ar
rive here was Dr. Nahum Gold
mann, president of the World
Jewish Congress. He laid a wreath
of white lilies and red carnations
at the foot of the catafalque in
the Cabinet room of the Federal
Chancellor’s office here which
had been occupied for so many
years by Dr. Adenauer.
Dr. H. G. Van Dam, general
secretary of the Central Council
of Jews in Germany, issued a
statement on behalf of organized
German Jewry, mourning the
passing of Dr. Adenauer. On be
half of the Council, Dr. Van Dam
stated: “Dr. Adenauer had in his
time helped the establishment of
this central and unified repres
entative body of German Jews,
and had taken a personal inter
est in it.”
in brief
Attend Book Show Says Israel Is Real
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Presi
dent Zalman Shazar and Nobel
Prize winner Shmuel Yosef Ag-
non were among the first digni
taries to visit the Lubavitcher
Book Fair here. The Lubavitcher
book exhibit at the Jerusalem
exhibit is being sponsored by
Merkos L’lnyonei Chinuch, the
educational arm of the Lubavit
cher movement, and by the Lu
ba vitch Youth Organization.
Greetings from Moscow
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Pass-
over greetings from Moscow
Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin
were received by Sephardic
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim and
by Dr. Israel Goldstein, president
of the World Hebrew Union in
Israel. Similar greetings have
been received from Chief Rabbi
Levin in previous years.
Compensation Pay
Begins in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Labor
exchanges throughout Israel are
scheduled to start paying unem
ployment compensation to the
jobless this week. Registration
entitling the jobless to receive
compensation went into effect
April 3. Thus far, the Labor
Ministry said, only 2,403 have
registered for these payments.
That low figure, in the opinion
of some officials, may indicate
that unemployment in Israel is
not as large as believed earlier.
Big Oil Tanker
Finally Sails
EILAT (JTA)—A 45-thousand
ton oil tanker formerly Owned
by the debt-racked Somerfin
Company left port at Eilat after
a four-month tie-up stemming
from settlement of demands
against the firm. The tanker,
which has been re-named Siris,
an abbreviation of the name of
its new owner, the British
philanthropist, Sir Isaac Wolf-
son, sailed to pick up a cargo of
crude oil for return to Eilat.
Knesset Recesses \
For Passover
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s
Parliament recessed last week
for the Passover holiday until
May 22. The lengthy session be
fore adjournment ' was devoted
to "spring cleaning” of fiscal and
procedural bills which had ac
cumulated during the winter and
which were read into law.
Hope for Mideast
KUSADASI, Turkey (WUP) —
Ozer Turk, Govemer of this tour
ist resort area, situated on a bay
to the south of Izmir, told the
editor of the World-Union Press
during a visit here that Israel rep
resents the one real hope for
peace and stability in the Near
East and that the Israelis, with
their technical and scientific
know-how, can become a blessing
to all the Arabs once they ceased
their hostile attitude towards the
dynamic Jewish State.
Human Rights
Leader Meets
Restrictions
NEW YORK — Morris Abram,
president of the American Jew
ish Committee and who has
served as a U.S. expert in UN
human rights bodies, disclosed
here that when he and his wife
went out looking for a New York
apartment they were told by an
agent that “there are some apart
ments I cannot show you.”
The noted Jewish leader made
this revelation as he addressed
the Fifth Herbert H. Lehman
Human Relations Award Dinner
of the AJC at the Americana
Hotel Thursday evening, April
20. The special Award went to
Nathan Appleman, prominent in
dustrialist and philanthropist.
In his fiery speech Mr. Abram
pointed out that one does not
have to go too far from the home
base to find violations of human
rights. He said the world “is
filled with combustibles and
that it was the role of the AJC
to reduce them.”
Urge Kosygin
To Make Good
On His Pledge
NEW YORK (JTA)—A resolu
tion calling on Soviet Premier
Alexei Kosygin to make good on
his pledge to allow Soviet Jews*
to join relatives in other coun
tries and criticizing the continued
lack of Jewish religious and cul
tural facilities in Russia was
adopted by delegates from 101
Reform temples of the New York
Federation of Reform Synagog
ues.
~'v l Calling on Premier Kosygin to
make good his promise with
‘-TURN TO PAOE 5
Soviet Attitude Toward Jews
Seen As Undergoing Change
NEW YORK (JTA)—The pos
sibility that the Soviet Govern
ment' might drop the designation
“Jew” from Soviet identity doc
uments this year, during cele
bration of the 50th anniversary
of the Soviet Revolution, was in
dicated in Moscow to an Amer
ican interfaith study mission
sponsored by the Appeal of Cons
cience Foundation.
The possibility was. reported at
a press conference by Rabbi Arth
ur Schneier of New York, Foun
dation president and member of
the mission which has just re
turned. He said also that it was
the unanimous opinion of the mis
sion that the outlook for the re
ligious survival of Soviet Jewry
was “dark.”
Rabbi Schneier said that the
lack of teachers and rabbis and
facilities to train them in Russia
had made the Jewish religion
“pathetically weak and growing
weaker.” He said the mission
learned that lay members of
synagogue councils in Russia
were “resigned to the fact that
NEW YORK (WUP) — The
Soviet Government has agreed
“in principle” to allow young
Russian Jews desiring to be rab
bis to register for seminary
studies in Western Europe, it
was disclosed here by a group of
Roman Catholic, Protestant and
Jewish clergymen, whose mem
bers had recently returned from
a visit to the USSR.
The group, whose activities are
sponsored by the Appeal of
Conscience Foundation dedicated
to easing the burden of Soviet
Jews, presented its report on the
new Kremlin decision at the
Overseas Press Club here on
they will have to learn to op
erate under lay leadership” unless
means are created for training
rabbis. ’
He said there were only three
rabbis for the 3,000,000 Jews in
the European part of Russia.
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levine in
Moscow is 74. Rabbi Lubanov in
Leningrad is 86. Rabbi Israel
Schwartzblatt in Odessa is 54.
Major communities like Kiev,
Riga, and Vilna have no rabbis,
no replacements being available
since their rabbis died.
Rabbi Schneier said the prob
lem was discussed with Peter
Makartsev, member of the Coun
cil on Religious Affairs of the
Soviet Council of Ministers. The
mission suggested to him that
since the Moscow yeshiva was not
functioning, Jewish students be
allowed to study at seminaries in
Europe, as Russian Orthodox and
Baptist seminarians are allowed
to do. The rabbi said that the
Soviet official agreed “in princ
iple” but said it would be nec
essary to comply “with the usual
Thursday, April 20.
The clergymen who visited
Russia included Rabbi Arthur
Schneier of the Park Avenue
Synagogue; Dr. Harold A. Bos
ley, Christ Church Methodist;
the Rev. Daniel Flaherty, execu
tive editor of the Jesuit weekly
America, and Francis E. Dorn,
secretary-treasurer of the Foun
dation.
Rabbi Schneier announced at
the Overseas Press Club that the
Foundation of which he is pres
ident, would make available
scholarships for some 25 candi
dates for the rabbinate to study
in countries approved by the
USSR. ^
regulations for such a venture, -
though he added there would be
“no problem.” The Foundation
offered scholarships to some 25
candidates for the rabbinate to
study in countries approved by
the Soviet Union. V
Rabbi Schneier said Makartiev
was asked whether mission mem
bers might properly invite rep
resentatives of religious groups
they had met in Russia to visit
thgrA in the United States, and
specifically if Chief Rabbi Le
vine \ could join in such a visit.
The Soviet official again said
there would be “no problem.”
The mission received a “flat dec
laration” from the official that
the new Jewish prayerbooks,
promised for several years, would
be ready for the High Holy Days.
The rabbi said the mission mem
bers were shown 430 plates from
which the prayerbooks in 1956
were printed and 50 new plates
to replace damaged ones. Rabbi
Schneier said paper had to be al
located and a printing plant as
signed to complete the 480 page
siddur.
Rabbi Schneier said that there
was also a need for prayer shawls.
Nothing has been done to provide
them, but A. Liepa, the Latvian
Republic Religious Affairs Min
ister, told mission that the need
was being met by “gifts from out
side.” Mission members said that
this was the first indication that;
such gifts, banned until noyf,
would be permitted.
Mission members found that
monuments on mass graves of
victims of the German occupation
did not mention that the victims
were Jews “in contrast to the fact
that Jews have the designation
‘Jew’ on their identification
cards.” At this point Rabbi Schne
ier mentioned the indication “that
during this 50th anniversary year
of the Russian Revolution, the
designation “Jew might be dropp
ed from the internal passports.”
Soviets to Allow Jews
Rabbinical Studies Abroad
B'nai B'rith Youth Survey
Considers Student Problems
CHICAGO (JTA)—B’nai B’rith
has announced its Vocational
Service Department was under
taking a study to discover if
Jewish youths make good on the
college and career plans they
formulate as high school stu
dents. *
The study reported at the an
nual meeting of the B’nai B’rith
Vocational Service Commission,
held here, was a follow-up of an
extensive BBVS survey conduct
ed in the early 1960’s of 6,649
Jewish students in the 10th, 11th,
and 12th grades.
The survey will seek to de
termine whether the youths, now
in college or earning a living,
attended the schools of their
choice and entered the fields
they hoped for while in high
school and how they compare,
as Jews, to the general popula
tion in successfully completing
their career plans.
Milton Berger of Philadelphia,
chairman of the commission, said
the stuejy will enable educational
and 'Vocational guidance person
nel to understand what factors
affect the career decisions of
Jewish yduth so that they may
utilize this information in their
current counseling, t
“If we know why Jewish
youngsters succeed or fail in
college and in their designated
professions,” Mr. Berger said.
“we can offer more competent
guidance to today’s youth who
encounter greater problems be
cause of the increasing competi
tion for college admittance and
the growing specialization in the
labor market.”
Delegation Tours
European States
BELGRADE (JTA)— A World
Jewish Congress delegation head
ed by Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
president, left here last week after
a three day visit to Yugoslav
Jewish communities as part of
their tour of Jewish communities
in Eastern Europe.
Dr. Goldmann, accompanied by
Dr. Ladislaw Kadelburg, presi
dent of the Federation of Jewish
Communities in Yugoslavia, was
received by Geza Tikwicki, a
member of-the executive council
of the Yugoslav Government. He
also paid a visit to the chairman
of the Belgrade Council, Mayor
Branko Peschitz.
Earlier, some 70 Jewish leaders
from all parts of Yugoslavia at
tended a reception for the WJC
delegation given by the Yugoslav
Jewish Federation. During the
reception, discussions were held
on such topics as neo-Nazism,
compensation for Nazi victims,
Jewish identity and Jewish youth.
Israel Gets
Big GPedits
From British
LONDON (JTA)—The British
Board of Trade has announced
that it had guaranteed for Israel
an export credit totaling 5,000,000
pounds sterling ($14 million). The
credit will go to the Industrial
Development Bank of Israel. The
Board of Trade stated the loan
had been granted after the visit
of Israel’s Minister of Commerce
and Industry Zeev Shareff “as a
guest of the British Govern
ment.”
Mr. Shareff, in a communique,
spelled out the terms of the credit.
“The Export Credit Guarantee
Department of the Board of
Trade,” the communique stated,
“is* being established in London
by S. G. Warburg Co., Ltd., in
conjunction with a consortium of
banks. The credit will be avail
able for contracts for capital
plant and machinery of 1.25 mil
lion pounds ($3.5 million) or
more.”
The Israeli Minister told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency that
interest on the loan was fix
ed at 5% percent, and there was
a two-year limit for Israel to
make use of the fund, and that
the period of repayrr\ent would be
10 years. He said part of the loan
may be used for bulk purchases
of plant and machinery of a val
ue of not less than 100,000 pounds
($280,000).