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THE SOUTHBtN ISRAELITE
Friday, July 24, 1970
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From the t f lies of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency •
40 Years Ago—1930 <
The Jewish Agency condemned the Palestine Inquiry Com
mission’s conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to sup
port Zionist complaints against alleged lack of sympathy on the
pert of the Palestine government. Britain indicated general «ip-
port of the findings. v
The Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union initiated
an effort to attract Jewish youth to industry and labor.
Pierre Van Paasen, an American Journalist dispatched to Buch
arest by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency found Rumanian Jews
“starving” despite full granaries.
Rabbi Meer Berlin, president of World Mizrachi, Orthodox
Zionists, was feted on his 60th birthday.
Prof. Monroe E. Deutsch was elected vice president of the
University of California, the second Jew in such a post in the
United States.
Bavaria enacted an anti-shechita law, effective Oct. 1, despite
assurances by the German Ambassador to the United States a
week earlier that such a measure would be illegal.
A Semitic Union was formed in Egypt to rally Arabs and
Jews for the common welfare of the country.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency, opposed
any restrictions on immigration to Palestine or property acquisi
tion there. “There can be no Jewish National Home without men
and land,” he said.
The Berlin budget commission rejected an anti-shechita bill
proposed by the National Socialists. On another front, a Hitlerite
deputy declared, '“We are not interested in the protection of
animals but we hope that anti-Semitism will keep Jewish visitors
away from the summer resorts in Thuringia.”
Dr. Drummond Shiels, British Under-Secretary for the Col
onies, said suspension of Jewish immigration into Palestine was
temporary, pending receipt of Sir John Simpson’s immigration
study. In New York, 25,000 Jews, keynoted by Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise, marched to protest the suspension.
A Jewish family in Falenka, near Warsaw, watched its house
bum down rather than violate the Sabbath by attempting to put
it out, or call the fire department.
10 Years Ago—1960
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and the Soviet gov
ernment both asserted Adolf Eichmann could properly be tried
in Israel. Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Zionist
Organization, pressed for a tribunal representing countries vic
timized by Eichmann, headed by an Israeli judge.
Isaac Toubin, executive director of the American Association
for Jewish Education, said that the $60 million spent for the re
ligions education of Jewish children in the current year was
“unprecedented” but “inadequate.”
History book publishers denied charges by the Association
of Teachers of Social Studies that their texts tended to “sugar-
coat” and “pussyfoot” on Nazi crimes against minorities.
The Justice Department said it was permissible for marines
to belong to neo-Nazi groups because, unlike Communist organiza
tions, they were not a threat to United States security.
Prime Minister Ben-Gurion reported that Israel had rehabili
tated 20,000 Arabs at a cost of $5.6 million.
The Central Committee of Mapai, overriding objections by its
own leader, Premier David Ben-Gurion, voted to expand the
Zionist movement despite the establishment of Israel. Arguing
against the Premier were Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Mrs. Rose
Halprin of the World Zionist Organization, Foreign Minister Moshe
Sharett and Finance Minister Levi EshkoL
Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon disavowed the sup
port of the American Nazi Party. The Justice Department consider
ed listing the party as a subversive organization. President Eisen
hower ordered Attorney-General William P. Rogers to investigate
neo-Nazism in the Washington area.
Five Soviet Jewish scientists—one a developer of the Ilyui-
shin-18 plane—were awarded Lenin Prizes.
Israel marked the 200th anniversary of the death of the Baal
Shan Tov, founder of Hassidism.
Israeli police began questioning the jailed Adolf Eichmann.
Argentina's demand for his return led to a “delicate,” “critical”
situation in relations with. Israel Argentina threatened to taka
the mattter to the UN if Israel did not meet its request within a
week.
Foreign Minister Golda Meir and Israel’s UN representative
Michael S. Comay met in New York with Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold on the Mideast conflict Mrs. Meir told a fund
raising audience that Israel would insist on Suez Canal transit
rights because “it is not Mr. Nasser’s private river.”
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FORMER GAZA
MAYOR FINED
FOR FATAH AID
TEL AVIV (JTA) — 'The
former mayor of Gaza, Mounir
El-Rais was fined $6,571 by a
military tribunal this week for
being in the service of the Pop
ular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine and for maintaining
contact with the enemy.
When arrested several months
ago, he had in his possession
$12,285 said to be destined for
the Arab terrorist organization.
The court, taking into consid
eration Mr. Mounir’s health, s did
not impose a prison sentence.
Girt Bossak •• *
At Starlight for v’
Young Adult Event
Mrs. Girt Bossak, Florida Re
gion BBYO director, will serve
on the faculty of the B’nai B’rith
Young Adult Judaism Institute
and Convention at Camp B’nai
B’rith, Starlight, Penna., this
week.
The Institute theme is “The
Law of the Land Is the
Law .... Or is it” Discussions
around Judaism’s view of dis
sent, civil disobedience, leader
ship and communication will be
discussed.
Mrs. Bossak, formerly of At
lanta, will also speak to about
80 advisors from Eastern cities
attending the Annual Eastern
Advisors’ Leadership Training
Institute at Camp B’nai B’rith.
She will lecture ’ on “Judaism
and BBYO” discussing the Jew
ish value system, how to adjust
the basic Jewish values sovthey
have relevancy for the American
Jewish teenager and the need
to reaffirm the old traditional
Jewish values.
“Until something better comes
along, this is what I’m peddling”
said Mrs. Bossak. “We have
something worthw h il e and
meaningful to offer.”
MISSISSIPPI
BB INSTITUTE
“Relevant Challenges of the
Day” is the theme of the 20th
annual B’nai B’rith Mississippi
Institute of Judaism scheduled
for August 2-5 at Holiday Inn
No. 2 in Meridian, Miss. Chair
men are George Altbach of
Gulfport and A1 Shapiro of Mer
idian.
Dr. Alfred Jospe, national di
rector of programs and resources
for the Hillel Foundation, and
Dr. Allen Pollack, assistant pro
fessor of Russian and European
History at Yeshiva University
in New York City, will serve
as faculty and lecturers.
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