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Vol. 41, No. 32
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Israel Announces Decision To Join Test Ban Treaty
Taking p9rt In the Jewish Center's Annual Swim Show are (left to right); Sherri Felnstein, Leslie Center, Dennis Mendelson, Toni Stephan, Stu Greenberg and Randy Fein¬ stein.
3 USSR Jews Appeal Against Sentences For Selling Matzoh
LONDON (JTA) - The three Jews who were given prison sen¬ tences by Soviet authorities last month, for allegedly seUing home- baked matzoh before last Passover, have lodged an appeal against the sentences in a Moscow court, it was reported from  Moscow.
THE THREE, appealing the sen¬ tences for alleged profiteering, in the sale of matzoh, are: Golko Bo- gomolny, a shochet, who was given one year in prison; and two women, Mrs. Klavdiya Blyakhman and Mrs. Malka Brio, who were sentenced to six inonths each. A fourth Jew, Emil Katz, 82, was convicted along with the others, but was set free because of his state of health and his age.
Judge N. A. Ryasky, deputy pres¬ ident of the Moscow court, declined to reply to inquiries by newsmen over the appeal.
THE JEWS were compelled to bake matzoh at home for last Pass¬ over because of a ban issued two years ago by the Soviet authorities preventing the public bakeries from producing matzoh.
Foreign Minister Says Nuclear Pact May Help Lessen Tension With Arabs
JERUSALEM — The Israel Government oficially announced its decision to join in the nu¬ clear test-ban treaty which was concluded in Moscow by the United States, Britain and the So¬ viet Union. Israel's adherence to the nuclear pact was understood to have been unanimously approved during interministerlal contacts between Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Foreign Mini¬ ster Golda Meir and the members of the Cabinet. Israel's  decision to  join  in  the
Pictured above are some of the young participants in the Center's Swim Show. They are (top row, left to right): Toni Stephens, Sharon Eberle, Sue Mock, Suzanne Eberle and Kathy Mackin. (Second row, left to right): Marlene Gurevitz, Jean Eberle, Lenora Friday, Suzanne Barbee, Sue Gurevitz, Rosanne Kramer and Kristine Stephens. (Bottom row, left to right): Sherri Feinstein, Randy Fein¬ stein, Shelley Kaufher, Kathy Yoakam, Anna Lou Schumick and Anne Kegelmyer.
GENTEIi'S WATER SHOW OPENS TOMORROW; 'NEPTUNE ON BROADWAY' WiU BE THEME
"Neptune on Broadway" is the theme of the 12th Annual Water Show to be presented tomorrow at the Jewish Center outdoor pool, 1125 College Ave. There will be two performances; One Saturday, Aug. 10, and the other Sunday, Aug. 11, each starting at 7 p.m. Admission will be 50c for adults and 35c for children.
THE EVENING'S entertainment consists of swimming stunts, diving, water ballet and trampoline acts. Special attrac¬ tion this- year will be synchronized canoeing with a Polynesian theme.
Miss Peggy Pierce, aquatic di¬ rector of the Jewish Center, is.di¬ recting the cast ot 300 with assist¬ ance from her teacliing staff. Miss Pierce said, "This is a wonderful opportunity for the community to observe how many of the .children ilave acquired and mastered swim¬ ming skills from participating in the Jewish Center swimning in¬ struction program. We hhve over 300 children enrolled this season."
AQUATIC COMMITTEE chair¬ man, Mrs. Pete Rose, has appoint¬ ed the following: Admissions, Marty Kaufher, Meyer Feinstein, Tom Miller, Marvin Rose; Refreshments, Mrs. Ed Feinstein, Mrs. Meyer Feinstein, Mrs. Kenneth Noteman; Properties, Fred Berman, Hayden Stephens; Sound and Lighting, Vir¬ gil Gin, Wade Doyle, Master of Ceremonies, Laddie Fkike; Publi¬ city, Mrs. Nate Nateman, Mrs. Martin Greenberg.
The speed team will help sell food and the boy scouts will usher.
B'nai B'rith Women Attend Convention, Receive Two Awards
'•The theme of this year's B'nai B'rith Women's convention in St. Louis, Mo., was 'Gateway to Ser¬ vice,' which is a most appropriate theme for one of the foremost ser¬ vice organizations in the nation," said Mrs. Abe Green, president of Candlelight Chapter, while recount¬ ing her experiences at the conven¬ tion, which was held June 22-25.
The keynote convention address was given by Dr. Abram L. Sachar, president of Brandeis University and honorary chairman of B'nai B'rith Hillel Commission. Among the other addresses, one of "the most impressive was given by Mrs. Tom! Keitlin, active member ot the Anti-Defamation L.eague.
Candlelight Chapter once again was proud and very pleased to win the Betty and Orchid awards, which are given for over-subscriptions in allocations. The chapter also was given an award for its monthly bul¬ letin.
Convention delegates Mrs. Joseph Blum and Mrs. Leon Blaugrund were in total agreement that "each of the workshops presented were impressive and each one made us realize how very important the work If B'nai B'rith is."
pact, which has been conveyed to the ambassadors ot the three pow¬ ers, is in accordance with the tWrd article of the treaty which permits accession at any time by other countries. The official Gdvernment announcement stated;
"THE Government ot Israel
welcomes the tripartite treaty init¬ ialed in Moscow on July 25 banning nuclear weapons tests in the atmos¬ phere, outer space and under the sea. Israel has consistently support¬ ed in the past all efforts to ban nuc¬ lear tests. The Government of Is¬ rael regards this agreement as an important step towards the relaxa¬ tion of international tensions and expresses the hope that it will be followed by further concrete mea sures tor the attainment of com¬ plete and general disarmament. The Govemment of Israel announ¬ ces its intent to sign the treaty when it is open tor signature."
Lessening ot tensioi^s between the East and the West, as a result of the partial ban on nuclear testing agreed to in Moscow by the Soviet Union, the United States and Brit¬ ain, wUl undoubtedly prove to be a decisive tactpr in the r^Jations between the Arab states and Israel, Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister, declared in a radio broad¬ cast.
AN UNDERSTANDING between the Eastern and Western bloc, said Mrs. Meir. opens up the possibility of achieving an understanding and peace between the Arab states and Israel.
Asked whether Israel's adherence to the treaty would not affect Is¬ rael's friendly relations with France, which has announced that it would shun the pact, Mrs, Meir replied that Franco-Israeli friend¬ ship is so deep that it contains even the "negative" element, whereby each State acts on its own when its interests dictate such action. France, she declared, has never tried to influence Israel's attitude on an issue which Israel's Govern¬ ment deems to be right for Israel.
COMMENTING on the fact that Egypt promptly announced its will¬ ingness to adhere to the East-West pact,.while Israel apparently hesita¬ ted for a couple of days, Rfrs. Meir said: "I wish Egypt would njoy another scoop - to be known as the first to desire a general disarma¬ ment agreement with Israel."
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IN LOS ANGELES, five youths who are allegedly mem¬ bers of the American Nazi Party, were held for trial In Superior Court, Sept. 4, on charges of causing a disturbance. They were arrested last Spring, when they caused a dls- turbence while Israel Independence Day was being celebrat¬ ed.
IN TEL AVIV, Israel's aircraft Industry will be in a position to sell the domestically-made French-type Fuga jet trainers abroad by next Fall, it was stated by representatives of the industry. Israel makes these trainers in sufficicent quantity now, and it is believed that some African countries may want to buy the surplus Israeli output of this tjrpe of craft.
IN NEW YORK, Dr. Vladimir I. Veksler, world-famous Jewish-Russian scientists, will share this year's Atoms for Peace Award with an American, Dr. Edwin M. McMillan, It was announced by the Ford Foundation, sponsor of the an¬ nual award. The recipients will share the prize of $75,000 and each will receive a gold mdal.
IN JERUSALEM, the Israel Electric Corp. allocated 250,000 pounds ($83,000) for the initial research and survey work on the setting up of an atomic energy power station In Israel.
IN MONTREAL, tlie Canadian Defense Ministry has agreed to act on a request by the Canadian Jewish Congress that Jews serving in Canada's armed forces be given leave to observe Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Succoth, either at home or in the Jewish community nearest to their military stations.
IN NICOSIA, CYPRUS, the Turkish communal cham¬ ber announced that it will send 100 secondary school gradu¬ ates to Israel for agricultural training, after which the students will be given capital, land and animals to engage in farming in Cyprus.
In NEW YORK, a 69-year-old American woman, who has been residing in Israel, was confined to the U.S. Public Health Hospital in Staten Island, as a possible smallpox carrier. Mrs. Ellen Siegel, who arrived July 25 from Israel with her husband, Louis, to visit their* children and friends in America, was ordered quarantined by Judge John F. Cooling, Jr., in Brooklyn Federal Court.
IN PHILADELPHIA, strong endorsement of President Kennedy's civil rights program was voiced by the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia in a statement urging Con¬ gress to enact the bills proposed by the President. The statement expressed sympathy with "the long-strained pa¬ tience of our Negro fellow-citizens."
Interviews In Harlem Describe 'Muslim Agitation'
BY SAMUEL SCHREIG (Special  lo the Ohio Jewish      I Chronicle)
Wiuie some responsible Jewish Leaders dismiss reports of a recent rise in anti-Semitism among Neg¬ roes as "Muslhn Agitation", Jew¬ ish merchants interviewed in New York's famed Harlem tell a differ¬ ent story.
"I have been doing business here for some 15 years," a dry goods store owner said, "and I tell you that Harlem is beginning to look like Munich. There's too much hate on the part ot too many people, not necessarily Muslims."
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centers around 12Sth St. where many business establishments are owned by Jews. While many store owners in the area are white, not all are Jewish. A Catholic merchant of Irish descent said that he was tired of being called "Jew" by dis¬ satisfied customers.
The coordinator of the American Jewish Committee's three-month old "Committee on Race Relations"
attributed the surge ot Anti-Semit¬ ism to economic problems and said of general militancy in the Negro community these days. Mr. Fleish¬ man, AJC's expert on race prob- Semitism is generally prompted by individual problems wliich come up between Negro and Jew usually re¬ lated to business matters creating a mass stereotype that the Jew ex¬ ploits the Negro.
DISHEARTENED BY recent events, many Jewi^ merchants expressed their dissatisfaction with the Jewish tight on behalf of Negro Civil Rights causes.
"Those freedom-riding rabbis who caused a big ado in Birmingham caused more harm than good. They placed Jews in the south in jeop¬ ardy while Negroes back here either don't know aboiit it or don't appreciate it. Why should we stick our necka out and get a Idck in the pants in return?" A Jewish liquor store owner protested.
"NOT SO," said the AJC spokes¬ man. "The Negro press is doing a fine job in reporting Jewish partici¬
pation in Civil Rights demonstra¬ tions, and responsible Negro organ¬ izations such as the NAACP, Core anfl the Urban League voice their gratitude at every opportunity." The AJC maintains that as a Jew-' ish organization it has an obliga¬ tion to combat all types ot bigotry, stating that "rights of Jews are not safe when the rights ot any people are not safe." AJC has taken notice of the rise in Negro anti-Semitism and hopes to combat it through its new committee on race relations.
Mr. Puner, spokesman for the Anti Defamation League disagrees with the AJC and denies that anti- Semitism among negroes has risen in the past months. He asserted that two ADL investigators assigned to the Harlem area found no in¬ crease in anti-Semitic feelings. Ac¬ cording to Mr. Puner, racial tension in Harlem is primarily between white and Negro and is not a Jew¬ ish problem exclusively.
WHILE THE AJC and the ADL
offered conflicting views on the rise of  anti-Semitism  among  Negroes,
Jewish merchants in Harlem indi¬ cated that anti-Jewish feelings was "getting out of hand." One mer¬ chant said that he was so concern¬ ed tl^at he is ready to sell out. "The trouble is," he added, "that potent¬ ial Negro buyers are aware ot his problem and are awaiting the op¬ portunity to buy it cheap." Other merchants said that they contribute daily to local churches, of which there are many, and civic groups "to keep the peace." Som? mer¬ chants make it a point to hire Negro salesmen and keep them¬ selves in the background.
T^e National Association tor the Advancement ot Colored People at¬ tributes "the whole stinking mess" to the Black Muslims. Core's James Farmer believes that 'non-Muslims as well have been agitated,and pro- poses that responsible Negro leaderstiip give this matter urgent consideration.
JEWISH    MERCHANTS    in   the
Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brook¬ lyn, known as "Little Harlem," report that soap-box hate-peddlers
often urge passerbys to boycott the "Jewish plantation bosses."
An elderly Negro Harlemite offers ed what he called "a cure for this disease." "Have Jewish men and women distribute photos of Nazi concentration camps and little Jew¬ ish babies ttirown into the gas chambers to show some of my ig¬ norant brothers what hate can lead to."
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