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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XUII
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, April 26, 1968
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BALTIMORE (JTA)— Enact
ment ol a bill exempting ob
servers of the seventh-day Sab
bath from provisions of the
Maryland Sunday closing laws
was hailed by the Council of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations
of Baltimore, which conducted a
campaign for the proposal.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Na
tional Council of Jewish Women
has endorsed the Poor People’s
March on Washington conceived
by the late Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner,
president of the NCJW, expressed
the hope that the March would
be accomplished with complete
observance of the law.
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ROME (JTA)—An Italian Com
munist Senator assailed the Po
lish Government’s anti-Jewish
campaign which he termed “an
attempt by the authorities to di
vert attention from the true na
ture of unrest in Poland.” Sen
ator Umberto Terracini, who des
cribed himself as being of “Jew
ish origin,” made his statement
in a letter to the editor of the
Rome Jewish community bulle
tin.
Poland Comn %*«» oVXt '^ JsSSfr
No. 17
on Zionism foi
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LONDON (JTA)—The death of
a Polish novelist, Zofja Kossak,
who as a member of the wartime
Polish underground helped organ
ize a committee to rescue Jews
from the ghettoes of occu
pied Poland, was reported here
Monday from Warsaw. Mies Kos
sak died on April 9 at the age of
76
Arrested'' by the Nazis under
an assumed name, she was never
identified during a lengthy in
ternment in the Auschwitz death
camp. After the war, she came
to Britain where she lived for 12
years returning to Poland in
1957.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA) — Informed sources said
here that the resignation of Arth
ur J. Goldberg as United States
Ambassador to the United Na-
ttGfts was “imminent” They also
reported that he may be replaced
by another Jewish leader, Sol M.
Linowitz, who is at present Am
bassador to the Organization of
American States. It was also re
ported that President Johnson
may soon announce the resigna
tion of Mr. Goldberg and the ap
pointment of his successor. It was
indicated that Mr. Linowitz was
not the only candidate under con
sideration for the UN post.
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)—A
Brazilian senator denounced the
Polish Government's “anti-Sem
itic bacchanal” and declared that
Poland had assumed an anti-Se
mitic policy as a means of ob
scuring its internal difficulties.
The denunciation was made by
Senator Aron Steinbruch, a mem
ber of the opposition, speaking
on the Senate floor. “The Polish
regime is applying the same
methods against Jews as the
Nazi did on the eve of World
War II,” he asserted. He also
protested the persecution of
writers and young poets in the
Soviet Union.
Yeshiva
Military
A First
TEL AVIIV (JTA)— The
world’s first military yoahiva
will open here in August
under the amptem of the 'Is
rael Army Chaplain.
It will serve as a dormi
tory for religious students
who will have to wear Army
uniforms.
To be eligible for admis
sion, applicants will have to
have bad two years of study
at a civilian yeshiva end to
have completed mil itary
training and officers’ candi
dates courses. A civilian
branch of the yeshiva will be
opened for students from
abroad.
LONDON (JTA)—A new inter
nal Communist party struggle in
Poland, pivoting on the month
long campaign to link student un
rest to an alleged Zionist plot
against Poland, developed. A
party official close to party leader
Wladyslaw Gomulka charged in
a speech that the anti-Zionist
campaign had descended to the
level of “doifmright filthy de
faming of people.”
That admission was made by
Josef Kepa, the Warsaw city sec
retary, who stressed that Gomul
ka had indirectly criticized the
campaign and declared last month
that Zionism was not a threat to
Poland’s Communis system. Go-
mulka’s injunction for modera
tion was ignored in the internal
power battle and, if anything, the
campaign rose in intensity,
Kepa’s speech was reported by
the Polish News Agency a day
after it was made and a day later
Kamimierz Rusinek, secretary
general of the Polish Veterans
Organization, compared Israel’s
“Zionist aggression” against the
Arabs with the Nazi slaughter of
European Jews. Rusinek made
the charge at a ceremony organ
ized by the veterans group to
honor the month-long ghetto up
rising in 1943.
Kepa denounced “the political
adversary” — whom he did not
identify—as seeking “to use our
correct political ideological fight
against Zionism for various aims
contrary to the posthon of the
party." His speech was considered
• umumSmi ofihdMue Ay GonaUca
who has tbeen facing the enevart
challenge to his power since he
became Poland’s key leader in
1956. Kepa said “we must under
take a sharp fight against down
right filthy defaming of people.’’
Kepa’s warning was ignored by
Rusinek, who also charged that
“rich Jews in the United States
and England cared more for their
millions deposited in banks then
about the fate of Jews burned
in the crematoria of Auschwitz.”
He asserted that “there is no
Passover With A Difference
Samaritans Mark Pesach With
Ritual Slaughter j«n Mt. Gerizim
Twelve sheep were slaughtered
over ✓Sunken stone altar on Mt.
s-Qsijflm (Mountain of Blessing
oir which the Samaritans offer
their Paschal sacrifice) in Na
blus climaxing the Samaritan
community’s Passover celebra
tions. The ceremony on the
mountain overlooking Nablus
took place at sunset before about
4,000 spectators, opening with a
procession of elders and digna-
taries from the home of the
High Priest.
The site of the sacrificial
ceremony was enclosed by a
fence. Within this fence the male
members of the community,
dressed in white and wearing red
fezes, formed two circles near
the altar with their wives and
children standing nearby. The
animals were then slaughtered
and the men began to sing and
dance joyously. Some of the men
dipped their hands into the blood
The assembled Samaritans In ceremonial robes chanting prayers
at the opening of the ceremony. (Israel San Photo)
of the slaughtered animals and
dabbed this blood onto their own
foreheads and the foreheads of
their children. Now they began
to chant prayers.
Two barrels of water were kept
boiling over the altar fire for use
in preparing the animals for
roasting. The innards were re
moved and burned over the al
tar fire. After the sheep were
cleaned they were placed over
open fires on spits for about three
hours of roasting. The festival
meal started at midnight.
Benyamin Zedaka, 22, the only
Samaritan student at the Hebrew
University, where he is studying
Bible and Jewish History, here
under gives an account of the
Samaritan community’s history
and traditions and discusses some
of its problems:
The Samaritan community to
day numbers 400 souls — this is
whatTemains of a Nation which,
at its peak, numbered almost a
million. The Samaritans consider
themselves descendants of the
tribes of Ephraim and Menashe,
who lived in Samaria and of the
Priests of the tribe of Levi who
lived amongst them.
One of the differences between
Jews and Samaritans is in their
attitude to the holiness of BJoupt
Gerizim. The Samaritan* base
themselves on the Pentateuch,
sea the Mount as a holy place,
just as the Jews regard Jeru
salem as sacred. The difference
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Country in Euro, displayed
90 much heroism in saving Jew*
as did the Polish nation and there
is no country that had so many
victims for helping the Jews.”
Mar than a dozen Polish or
ganizations and a visiting dele
gation of Argentine Jews placed
wreaths on a granite monument
on the site of the ghetto razed
by oocupyig Germans.
The newspaper Kurier Polski
attackhed the Jewish State Thea
ter for not denouncing the
“worldwide Zionist campaign
slandering*’ Poland. The attack
followed an earlier press cam
paign which forced the Jewish
Cultural and Political Association
to take an anti-Zionist stand. The
attack on the Yiddish theater
took place against a background
of continuing purges of officials
suspected of being “Zionists, re
visionists and Stalinists” held re
sponsible for nearly a month of
student demonstratios.
A Lubli newspaper reported
that five Jews had been expell
ed from the local branch of the
veterans organization which is
beaded by Interior Minister Mie-
czyslas Moczar, believed to be
the major force behind the anti-
Semitic campaign. Nearly 60 Jews
have been purged in the cam
paign.
In another development, Jew
ish organizations in the United
States, particularly the American
Jewish Committee, came under
attack in the state-oontroiled
Polish press for allegedly plan
ning to slander Poland during
observances of the 26th anniver
sary of the Warsaw Ghetto up-
risig. In a dispatch from New
York, StanisLaw Gladinaki of the
official Polish Press Agency as
serted that the political signifi
cance of these ceremonies was
being shown by the American
Jewish Committee “which does
not pull any punches when It
comes to slandering Poland.” The
Glabiski dispatch was widely
published in Polish newspapers.
The PAP charged that the an
niversary celebrations in New
York City on April 22 bad been
planned in advance to adopt res
olutions directed against People’s
Poland” and thet a New York TV
documentary on the ghetto revolt
had been deliberately changed to
eliminate “all fragments showing
the assistance of Poles” to the
Jews and that a new commen
tary unfriendly to Poland had
been incorporated.
The American Jewish Commit-
campaign
tee, in a statement by executive
director Bertram Gold, retorted
that the organization “has never
pulled punches in the defense of
human rights of Jews and of all
people nor does It pull punches
4n applauding those governments
that have extended huma rights."
In a statement issued in Lon
don, Dr. Nahum Goldmam, pres
ide! of the World Jewish Con
gress, deplored the refusal at the
Polish Government to re-schedule
its official ceremonies toaugurat-
ting the Jewish pavilion at the
size of the Auschwtz death camp.
Repeated requests hed been made
to the Government for such •
change because the set date was
the last day of Passover tad also
th Jewish Sabbath. Dr. Goldmann
said the refusal could ably mean
that the ffolish Government “has,
with intent, prevent*** large num
bers of Jews and Jewish organ
izations which respect these tra
ditions from being present at
Auschwitz.”
An offer to permit Polish Jews
to (emigrate to Israel if they wish
ed, made recently by Gomulka,
was “a mere ruse according to
Israel’s former Minister to War
saw, Katriel Katz. He told the
Times of London that Jews in
Poland did not dan apply for
exit visas because “they would
be fired immediately from their
jobs and would beooma marked
Mr. Katz who is recovering to
a London hospital from tnjurtos
sustained in a plane crash the
Qecmlha regime, in order to de
nigrate the student revolt and
preserve itself is once again re
viving the old Polish fear of
Germany and its traditional anti-
Semitism by suggesting that there
lean beween West Ger
many and Zionist agents against
Poland.*’ Mr. Katz is chairman of
the Tad Vashem, tbs memorial
and rachivee on the Nasi bolo-
caust in Jerusalem.
Seize Eichmann Aide :r r
WEST BERLIN (JTA). — A
63-year-old West Berlin saloon
keeper has been arrested on
charges that he was responsible
for the deportation of 6,000 Jews
while working as an aide to the
notorious Adolf Eichmann in
World War n. The charges were
brought by the West Berlin
Prosecution Department against
Richard Hartmann who has been
running a saloon in the center
of Berlin for the past ten years.
SIX-DAY WAR VICTIM EYES HIS WRECKED HOME IN A
BORDER SETTLEMENT. Defense must be the Israel government’s
main concern; it can no longer share in the car* of hall a mintn™
unabsorbed immigrants. America’s Jewish communities irtust carry
the load alone through the United Jewish Appeal’s emergency fund
In 1068. Your gift to the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation's annual
campaign meets this crucial need.