Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1964-08-14

              Serving Columbus, Dayton, Central and Southwestern Ohio
Vol. 42, No. 33
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1964 — 6 ELUL, 5724
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The World's Week
Compiled from JTA and WUP Reports
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Abraliam Feinberg, American- born director of Supersol, Ltd., Israel's largest chain of supermarkets, signed a confession, according to police, admitting that he had set the fire which destroyed the Supersol office and warehouse here.
In his  confession,  as summarized  by  tl^e authorities, he stated that  he set  the fire  in order to destroy docu¬ ments  tha't  could have proved   he  had  made false book- i keeping entries, causing discrepancies in the firm's records.
Feinberg, who is now an Isi-aeli citizen, is a graduate of Hebrew Union College, former holder of a Fulbright Fellowship, and had been a volunteer aide in some im¬ portant archeological work in Israel.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Senate Foreign Relations Committee open hearings on Aug. 10 on Senate resolution 204, co-sponsored by 63 senators, providing for a condem¬ nation of Soviet anti-Semitism. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, Connecticut Democrat, was the original sponsor of the measure.
Sen. Ribicoff will also testify ^before the platform com¬ mittee of the forthcoming Democratic National Convention in support of a strong planl< against Soviet anti-Semitism.
HEIGHTSTOWN, N.J. (JTA)—More than 100 mem¬ bers of Zaad Rishon, an ,organization devoted to integrat¬ ing the black Jews of the New York area into the main¬ stream of Jewish life, attended an all-day outing sponsored by the organization at the Hechalutz Farm hera
Several members of Zaad Rishon ("The First Step") are second and third generation black Jews who have at¬ tended institutions of education in the white Jewish com¬ munity. Many of the younger children attend white Jew¬ ish religious schools.
, FBANKFUBT (JTA)—A one-time Budapest rabbi told a court trying two former aides of Adolf Eichmann here how he made a desperate effort to influence Hungarian church leaders to oppose the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews to Nazi death camps.
The witness was Dr. Fabian Hershkovitz, now director of the Department of Culture in Tel Aviv.
Dr. Hershkovitz said he had made the appeal in May, 1044, in the form of mimeographed leaflets. The text of the leaflet began: "At the final hour of their tragic fate, the Jews of Hungary address themselves imploringly to Hun¬ garian society. We must reveal to Hungary's Christian population that their Jewish compatriots are being de¬ ported."
NEW VOBK (WUP)—Hadassah's 50th annual con¬ vention will be held in Los Ahgeles- this week from Aug. 16 to Aug. 19. Some 2,000 delegates, representing more than . 300,000 members in 1,300 chapters, will assemble at the International Hotel to take up major problems affecting the United States and Israel.
GENEVA (JTA)—The United Nations Economic and Social Council this week forwarded to the next session of the General Assembly a proposal made by the United States, calling for outright condemnation of anti-Semitism as a specific form of racial discriminaton.
A Russian amendment to that effect, calling for the in¬ clusion of Fascism, Nazism, neo-Nazism and other forms of discrimination along with anti-Semitism, was also for¬ warded to the Assembly. The Council requested the next session of the Assembly to discuss the American draft as well as the amendment, but recommended the adoption of the American clause.
WORLD EDUCATION COUNCIL FORMED AT GENEVA CONFERENCE
Geneva, (JTA)—A 50-member World Council on Jewisii Education was " formally established at a world conference on Jewish educa¬ tion liere to deal on a global scale with the "critical shortages" in Jewish education.
The formal action was taken after a stiarp and lengtliy debate over the site for the Council's liead- quarters was resolved by a com¬ promise decision providing for in¬ terim offices in New York for ad¬ ministration and financing, and in Jerusalem for educational research. The principal headquarters will be determined at a meeting next year at which time the Council will elect its officers.
The Council wiil operate as a coordinating research t)ody to main- lain closer educational contacts among Jewish communities throughout the world, assist them in improving their educational fa¬ cilities and help establish those facililies in countries where they do not exist. It wiil concentrate on ways of overcoming the lack of qualified teachers, a shortage re¬ garded as the central problem in Jewish education, and on providing adequate textbooks and other peda¬ gogic materials.
The Council itself will be divided into five geographical regions "re¬ sponsive to educational callings" in their respective areas. The American Jewish community with 12 delegates will have the largest representation on the Council, Is¬ rael will have eight, Europe six (two of whom wUl be from Great Britain), Latin America five and "other countries" four. The latter subdivision includes one representa¬ tive each from Canada, South Af¬ rica, Australia and Iran.
¦ It is expecteci that the Council will establish a World Bureau of Jewish Education to conduct ils re¬ search activities and to serve as an informational clearing house on educational materials.
The Council will operate in five major areas; educational person¬ nel, educational material, youth and adult education, day schools and other forms of "intensive edu cation" and research and pubiica lions.'
The non-ideological character of the Council was stressed at the conference by Dr. Nahum Gold- mann.
Egypt May Have Supplied North Viet Nam With Torpedo Boats
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Washington, (JTA)—The possibility was being considered here this week that tlie North Viet Nam torpedo boats which attacked the American destroyer In the Gulf of Tonkin were supplied by Egypt. It has been definitely established that Egypt sold Russian military equipment, including Soviet torpedo boats, to Red China after Moscow ceased shipping arms to the Peiping regime because of ideological differences. Information received in Washing¬
ton indicated that Egypt recently obtainfed newer types of naval craft such as the Soviet-built motor
ANNOUNCE ANNUAL TORAH ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP EVENT
The Board of Directors of the Columbus Torah Academy, announ¬ ced this week that plans are being completed for the fourth annual Torah Academy Scholarship Dinner lo be held on Sunday, Nov. 8, at the Columbus Plaza.
Mr. Leon Schottenstein, president of the board, said, "The number of school families, plus friends and members of the community who help support our school, has grown in the past several years. We ex¬ pect a great number of new pat¬ rons at the dinner tiiis year and the modem accomodations at the Plaza will provide the required seating capacity. The dinner, naturally, will be prepat-ed in accordance with strict laws of Kashruth.
"Our keynote speaker will be Rabbi Leo Jung, a dynamic lec¬ turer and one of the great educa¬ tors of our day. A presentation by the Torah Academy students and the featured professional entertain¬ ment  will  highlight  the evening."
Chairmen of the dinner commit¬ tees are as follow: general chair¬ men, Mr. and Mrs. Pearson Press and Mr. Richard Sokive; ticket chairmen, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Phillip Gurwin, Mrs. Martin Greenberg; ad book, Mr. Julius Cohen; publicity, Mr. Hal Tanen¬ baum.
torpedo boats, including the missile- firing "Komar" boats and has a surplus of motor torpedo boats, previously received from the Soviet Union. At the same time it is known here that the Egyptian Gov¬ ernment, friendly to both Red China and North Viet Nam, has sold various categories of surplus Soviet arms in the Far East,
One of the opinions prevailing here is that President Nasser of Egypt is now "playing off" Peiping against Moscow, lo extract maxi¬ mum advantage from both, just as he has successfully played off the East against West. Leading Red Chinese military authorities have been stite guests in Cairo. Nasser recognized North Viet Nam, backed
the Viet Cong forces as "freedom fighters," and lauded Ho Chi Minh. Although Egypt needs arms tor its continuing military intervention in Yemen, it is nevertheless known that Nasser has not only resold surplus Soviet weapons but that he also sells weapons of his own manu¬ facture, made with the help of German technicians now working in Egypt on military establishments. Among arms sold by Egypt have been military aircraft, torpedo boats, tanks, artillery, automatic weapons, mortars, machineguns, and rifles.
Since Cairo desired to keep secret its arms manipulations with coun¬ tries out of f^vor wilh Moscow, like Red China,' it is considered here possible that neither American nor Soviet intelligence evaluated the extent of the clandestine sales and shipments. Torpedo boats, moving under their own power, could be accompanied by a refuel¬ ling ship and easily move from Suez to the Far East.
CJFWF MISSION REPORTS ON VAST RANGE OF NEEDS OVERSEAS DESPITE PROGRESS
New York, (JTA)—A vast range of needs still faces Israel and European Jewry despite significant progress, the Overseas Delegation of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds reported recently in a preliminary review of the situa¬ tion studied by the delegation during a threp-and-a-half-week period, in the course of which the CJFWF study mission held intensive discussions with high-ranking Israel and European Jewish leaders.
ALL GOLDWATER KIN KILLED BY NAZIS
London, (JTA)—A check of avail¬ able records' in Konin, the Polish ancestral home of Barry Gold- water's family, indicates that any relatives of the Senator's family probably were slaughtered by the Nazis, il was reported here from Warsaw.
The Senator's nomination spurred interest in those records in the Polish river town, a hamlet 115 miles  west  of Wgarsaw.
The grandfather of the nominee was a Jewish peddler named Mi¬ chael Goldwasser, who emigrated to the United Stales in 1849 when Konin was under Russian rule.
Mayor Zdzislaw Szklarkowski of Konin said that if any of the 3,000 Jews of the hamlet before the war were Goldwassers, they were dead now. He said the Nazis had or- gani'^ed a concentration camp in Konin and that there were no Gold¬ wassers among the few survivors.
He added that Ihe Nazis had destroyed all Jewish records and that an examination of Konin ar¬ chives had nol produced any traces of a Goldwasser family, which the Mayor said he understood had been a large one.
PORTRAITS AT GOLDEN AGE SHOW
Left, Gall Rubin of 97 S. Gould Rd. shows the portrait she made of Jessie Cohen of. the Heritage House to Mrs. Cohen. Miss Rubin will be one of the demonstrators who will do free-lance portraits at the Golden Age Hobby Show at the Gallery of Fine Arts on Sept. 18, 19 and 20. Any Central Ohio resident 60 years of age or older is eligible, to enter hobbies in the show. More Information is available to anyone calling the Senior Citizens Center, 221-6090.
BJ. SETS RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS WEEK
The adult education committee at Beth Jacob Congregation announces that the sixth annual Religious Emphasis Week programs are now being readied.
This year the opening night will be on Wednesday, Sept, 9 al 8:30 p.m. The second lecture will be presented Thursday, Sept. 10 and the third lecture Sunday, Sept. 13, both al 8:30 p.m.
The Sisterhood plans to have a lecture combined with a luncheon on Thursday noon, Sept. 10.
The youth of the synagogue will have a special program combined with a Sunday Morning Minyon on Sept.  13.
Dr. Maynard Goldmeier, chair¬ man of the adult education com¬ miltee, said, "In past years Re¬ ligious Emphasis Week has been an outstanding event for both Beth Jacob congregants and Columbus Jewry. Because of the provocative nature of the programs, Ihey have always been well accepted. Guest speakers for these events include nationally known leaders of the Orthodox  branch of Judaism."
Rabbi Stavsky conducts R.E.W. during the 10 days of Penitence, from Rosh Hashonah to Yom Kip pur.
Refreshments will be served fol- io.\ving each of ...tlie...evening pro-' grarii's. ¦ Thfere will be no solicita¬ tion of funds.
The meetings, which were held in London, Paris, Vienna and Israel, also reviewed basic responsibilities that American Jews share with their co-religionists is satisfying the needs of homeless, economically and culturally deprived Jews. The report was issued by Louis Stern of Newark, CJFWF president.
Lauding the Malben. program of Ihe Joint Distribution Committee for "setting a pattern of effective American Jewish aid," he cited ils pioneering advances in health and welfare including the setting of standards, development of profess¬ ional skills, demonstration of new methods, and strengthening of governmental and voluntary ser¬ vices and cooperation. He warned however, that the end of German Material Claims funds in 1965 is endangering the continuation of some of these programs, though the needs remain urgent.
The delegation was heartened, Mr. Stem said, by the report that 100 agricultural settlements will be¬ come self-supporting this year and will no longer need assistance from the Jewish Agency.
Israel's housing problems, accor¬ ding to Mr. Stern, remain very visible. Hundreds of thousands of homes have been built and the Ma'abarot temporary housing vir¬ tually eliminated, but housing con¬ struction is not keeping pace with the needs.
The delegation was especially concerned with the critical educa¬ tional needs facing the nation, par¬ ticularly for children from Asian and African countries whose edu¬ cation lags behind the rest of the population.
Mr.   Stern   additionally   reported
that the delegation's appraisal of philanthropic responsibilities inclu¬ ded: 1. Methods of implementing recommendations of the recently completed study of voluntary fund raising in Israel conducted under the auspices of the Jewish Agency ih cooperation wilh the Council; 2. An evaluation of promising changes now under way in services lo dependent youth; 3. The possibil¬ ities of providing additional Amer¬ ican technical aid lo help train needed professional personnel for essential programs, and 4. An anal¬ ysis of the overall problem of financing - including the Jewish Agency's debt, its various sources of income, and potentialities for the futui'e.
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Shopping Guide      8
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ANTI-JEWISH BOMBS IN KANSAS CITY
Washington (JTA)—The Federal Bureau of Investigation has re¬ ceived information on anti-Jewish bombings in Kansas City, Mo., and is believed to be participating in an investigation launched by Kan¬ sas City police, it was learned here.
Kansas City police officials an¬ nounced that a pattern of anti- Jewish terrorism has emerged in Kansas City during the past seven months. Five bombings or at¬ tempted bombings have occurred al the homes and businesses of Jewish persons, police said. The bombings were described as a pattern"  involving  antiSemitism.
Police are now probing the latest blast which last week destroyed the interior of a restaurant owned by Melvin Rolsky. Mr. Rolsky is Jewish, and his name has' figured in the news.
The first of the five incidents in the anti-Jewish pattern occurred Jan. 26, when two unexploded dy¬ namite bombs were found outside the homes of Irving Achtenberg, an attorney, and Dr. Lazare Sha¬ piro, a physician. The names of both intended victims had appeared in newspaper putjicity prior to the attempt.
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