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III Tl# O HI HIBN ISRAELITE
\; Friday, September 15, 196?
Jews Listed by Soviet Among
Its 'Numerous Nationalities'
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
The Soviet Union has released
some highly interesting and en
lightening literature in connection
with the 50th anniversary next
month of the October 1917 Rev
olution, whioh put an end to the
terroristic reign of the Czars.
In one of the richly-illustrated
brochures, the Russian Jews are
singled out with the “Russians,
Ukrainians, Uzbeks, Byelorus
sians, Kazakhs, Georgians, Lith-
uianians, Azerbaijanians Armen
ians and Tatars as “being the
most numerous of the more than
100 nations and nationalities in
the USSR."
On the issue of religion, the
brochure states that “as a result
of deep-going social and econom
ic changes and the rapid devel
opment of science and culture,
most Soviet people no longer pro
fess any religion. However," it
adds, “religious associations of
‘Aggressor’ Label
For Israel Denied
NEW YORK (WUP) — N.Y.
Times correspondent Richard
Eder reports from Belgrade that
“Rumania’s continuing refusal to
label Israel an aggressor had de
layed for more than 18 hours a
joint communique after a con
ference of Eastern European
leaders.”
“The meeting," Eder noted, “had
been called principally at the
initiative of Yugoslavia to discuss
coordination of economic assist
ance to Arab countries hurt by
the Six-Day War with Israel in
June.”
The final communique, Eder
reported, replaced the word
“aggression” with “existing dif
ficulties" that the Arabs were
encountering. The Rumanian
delegate had threatened to boy
cott the communique unless the
term “aggression” was deleted.
Jordon Death
Still Remains
Big Mystery
NEW YORK (JTA)—A report
on the re-autopsy in New York
of the body of Charles H. Jordan,
executive vice-chairman of the
Joint Distribution Committee,
who disappeared in Prague
August 16, and whose body was
found in a Prague river four days
later, has been received by Louis
Broido, JDC chairman.
The re-autopsy, which follow
ed an earlier autopsy by Czech
pathologists in Prague, was per
formed by Dr. Henry Siegel,
executive deputy chief medical
examiner of the City of New
York, and Dr. Russell S. Fisher,
chief medical examiner of the
State of Maryland, in the pres
ence of Dr. William Antopol, a
pathologist and chief of labora
tories of Beth Israel Medical
Center, New York City, and Dr.
Alexander Gonik, director of the
health department of JDC head
quarters in Geneva. No reason
for death was advanced.
“We found no evidence of
trauma such as fractures of any
part of the body, including the
skull or injury to the neck,” the
report stated. “There was no
evidence of a penetrating wound.
However, the advanced state of
decomposition could have ob
literated evidence of superficial
trauma such as bruises. The state
of decomposition of the body is
consistent with a body having
been immersed in water under
the reported climatic conditions
for a period ranging from two to
10 or more days. . .
“As is apparent, all the ma
terial and data necessary to ar
rive at the cause of death is not
yet available. A full report and
conclusion will be prepared af
ter completion of all the tests
can be made. Certain of these
tmt» may take several weeks to
finish."
churches and d e n o m inations
exist,” listing the “Judaistic”
among the major ones.
The rbrochure, which takes in
every aspect of modem Soviet
life emphasizes that “freedom of
conscience is guaranteed by law,
under which the Church is sep
arated from the State, and the
school is separated from the
Church.”
Of the 232 million USSR pop
ulation, only 12 million belong to
the Communist party, “member
ship of which does not offer any
material advantages," the broch
ure notes.
from Germany at the outset of
the Hitler regime and lived in
Palestine from 1933 until the
end of World War II when he re
turned to Germany. He took up
residence in East Germany, and
in 1957 the regime designated
him president of the East Berlin
Academy of Arts. Many of his
novels deal with Jewish themes.
Rabbi Says Israel’s Victory
Calls For New Jewish Theoh
Oust Arnold Zweig
From E. German Post
BONN (JTA)—Arnold Zweig,
internationally known German-
Jewish writer, has been dismiss
ed from his post as chairman of
the literature department of the
University of Humboldt in East
Germany, according to reports
received here. The Stuttgart
newspaper, Der Mittag, said that
Dr. Zweig had been dismissed
because he had refused to sup
port the Communist regime’s
anti-Israeli campaign.
Dr. Zweig, now 80, was exiled
His Sister Returns
Polish Hero’s Medal
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)—The
sister of a Polish Jewish hero of
the underground during the Nazi
occupation of Poland has notified
the Polish Embassy here that she
was returning the medal, post
humously awarded him, as a pro
test against the Polish policy
toward Israel.
Dr. Nina Tenenbaum, whose
brother, Mordechai Tenenbaum,
was a leader of the Bialystok
ghetto fighters, said she was re
turning the Grunwald Cross, one
of Poland’s highest decorations.
Poland followed the Soviet
example in severing relations
with Israel after the outbreak of
the June war and the Polish
Communist Party leader subse
quently warned Poland’s Jews
not to rejoice over Israel’s vic
tory.
NEW YORK (JTA)— Israel’s
recapture of Old Jerusalem and
the consequent unification of Is
rael’s capital have indicated that
Jewish theology will have to be
“drastically rewritten,” Rabbi
Richard L. Rubenstein director
of the B'nai B’rith Hillel Foun
dation at the University of Pitts
burgh advised here.
Along with Rabbi Balfour
Brickner, director of interfaith
activities for Reform Judaism in
this country and U. S. Senator
Abraham A. Ribiooff of Connec
ticut he was one of the featured
speakers at the International Con
gress on Religion, Architecture
and the Visual Arts in session in
New York.
Until June 5, 1967 when the
war in which Israel regained Jer
usalem broke out the dominant
theme of Jewish theology was the
same as it had been for the last
1,897 years — “wandemg and
exile” Rabbi Rubenstein declar
ed.“ Since June 5, 1967, the dom
inant theme has become home
coming. Diaspora Judaism since
70 C.E. must now be interpreted
as the religious culture which
kept alive the love of place and
the hope of homecoming in the
Jewish people while giving them
the psychological strength tp live
as an endangered minority With
out inner deterioration. \
Rabbi Rubenstein said the, re
cent developments in the Mil)
East indicate that a sacred
need no longer be viewed as cne
built for “a society largely dom
inated by wandering nomadic
professionals.” “I have chosen,”
he said, “to live and create la
my native land where I can only
partly be at home. It is possible
that in Israel I could be more
at home and less able to create.”
Rabbi Brickner advised that
houses of worship should be sit
uated in the centers of cities dis
pensing various services to the
surrounding eommunites. Sen.
Ribicoff deplored trends that he
viewed the diminishing the serv
ices of houses of worship “to the
people who need them.”
Joins JTA Board
NEW YORK (JTA)—Stephen
Lloyd Stulman, an investment
banker and active in various
Jewish causes, has joined the
board of directors of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, it was an
nounced here by Robert Arnow,
president of J.T.A.
Why
have you
forgotten
us?
Jews visitlng the Soviet Union hear this
anguished question again and again
from their Soviet brothers. Between
Hammer and Sickle tells why.
It tells why Stalin turned savagely
'against Soviet Jewry after World War
II. Why the existence of the State of
Israel is vital for Soviet diplomacy. Why devout
Jews are persecuted and at the same time secu
lar Jews are not allowed to assimilate.
The author, an Israeli born in Russia, has traveled
extensively there and obtained his
story firsthand. He offers a specific and
sensible plan to help alleviate one of
the tragedies of dur time—the slow dy
ing of Soviet Jewry.
A best seller in Israel, where it just was
awarded the Ussischkin Prize, Between Hammer
and Sickle is available from your- bookseller or
The Jewish Publ ication Society of America,
222 North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia,!
Penna. 19102. Price, $6.00
Excerpts from this book are appearing serially in The Southern Israelite