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UiW/ serving. Columbus, Dayton, Centraf and Southwestern Ohio \\7/\ VIH 0 u I ¦ •' ,1 n fl n 1V .J HibX XV IS HDlH H Mnasnw TvoiaoisiH t TvoiDnoanjav Vol. 43, No. 26 FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1965 — 25 SIVAN 5725 Historical Pageant To Be Presented Do you remember the early beginnings of Zion Lodge. B'nai B'rith? Possibly you may have heard from your parents the "old time" activities of "the" organization in the first World War. The nostalgic memories of the past will be recalled in a pageant at the 100th Anniversary celebration of Zion Lodge at the Sheraton- Columbus Motor Hotel on Saturday evening, July 10. This celebration will be held in conjunction with the 113th annual convention of District Grand Lodge :an and Jawlih Idaaii #2. B'nai B'rith and the 32nd Annual Convention of the Women's Chapters of B'nai B'rith. Under the capable direction of Harold Eisenstein, director of Cul¬ tural Activities at the Jewish Cen¬ ter, the glorious Minstrel Shows of the "roaring twfenties" will be re¬ vealed by Larry Kent and Jules Vogel. You will be able to relive the days of past presidents . . . Jeffrey Lazarus, Abe Weinfeld, Leo Yas¬ senoff, Walter Katz, Dr. Morris Goldberg and Dr. S. D. Edelman, president of this era. Mrs. Benjamin Center and Mrs. Ralph Shapiro will give a brief glimpse of the days of the Hillel Players, a popular program feature of the meetings in the late twenties. Other members of the cast who will portray the leaders of B'nai B'rith in their trials and tribula¬ tions of the thirties and forties in¬ clude, Morrey Portman, Seyman Stern, I. M. Harris, Herbert Wol-- man. Milton Pinsky and Joseph White. Dancing to the tunes of Johnny Rogers and his 12 piece orchestra and a social hour will enhance the entertainment of the evening. Ad¬ mission to the program. Tickets evening is $2.50 per person. Tickets may be obtained from A. C. Strip, ticket chairman, 237-4370, N. Victor Goodman. Zion Lodge president, 237-5682, or at the B'nai B'rith Office, 231-6221. Members of the Columbus com¬ munity are coi'dially invited to at¬ tend the opening session and the Centennial Celebration on Saturday evening. July 10, at 9 p.m. at the Sheraton - Columbus Motor Hotel (Columbus-Plaza). Dr. Ivan Gilbert Alvin E. Schottenstein New Life Members honored at a luncheon recently at the home of Mrs. Julius Cohen, 1270 Brookwood PI., in¬ clude, front row from the left: Mrs. Frank Nutis, Mrs. Robert Paine, Mrs. Harold Harris. Mrs. Melvin Rackoff. Second row, from left: Mrs. Martin Greenberg, Mrs, Hilda Lessure, Mrs. Dora Abrams, Mrs. Helen Kollus and Mrs. Bernard Schottenstein. Not pictured are Mrs. Sam Princer and Mrs. Leon Handler. Hadassah Life Members Honored At Luncheon Bonds For Israel Committee Announces Governor's Dinner Alvin Schottenstein and Dr. Ivan Gilbert announced today that plans are being completed for a Bonds For Israel dinner party at the Gover¬ nor's Mansion on Sunday, July 18. Gilbert and Schottenstein are co- chairmen of the Governor's Dinner Committee. Invitations have been sent to outstanding community leaders through¬ out the State of Ohio to attend. Diplomatic notables, television, radio, and movie personalities will be in attendance. This is the State of Israel's seven¬ teenth year of independence. Un¬ precedented in world history have been the strides made by this infant nation in these past seventeen years. In becoming one of the fastest growing countries in the world. Israel has grown from a country of 650,000 Jews to a nation of 2Vi million. New cities, new harbors and high¬ ways, new irrigation systems, scientific and educational institu¬ tions have manifested themselves throughout Israel. Desert lands have bloomed and blossomed with crops and orchards. American tour¬ ists, after a visit to Israel, have agreed that Israel is in the realm of being the eighth wonder of the world. This year Israel Bonds is engaged in the herculean task of raising $100,000,000.00. This is one third of the State of Israel's total economic development budget. It is the funds derived through the sale of Israel Bonds that are mak¬ ing possible the growth of industry and agriculture, the expansion of irrigation, construction of roads, harbors and railways, the increase of elecric power, and the exp'oita- tion of natural resources. Levi Eshkol Pleads Fdr Party Unity TEL AVIV (JTA)—Premier Levi Eshkol's majority in the strife- ridden Mapai party met the leadership challenge from former Premier David Ben-Gurion head-on with a demand for the dissolution of all factions. In a policy statement, the party majority rejected minority charges and called for party unity for the forthcoming Parliamentary elections. The minority's demand for a Mapai convention to thrash out the issues dividing the party was not Life Members of Hadassah were honored recently at a Patio Lunch¬ eon held at the home of Mrs. Julius Cohen. Life Members, other than those pictured above, are as fol¬ lows. LILOH — Mesdames Ben Eisen¬ stein, Leon Mendel, Malcolm Rob¬ bins. ZIONA—Mrs. Emanual Cohen. B&P—Mesdames Goldie Mayer, Herman Seff. SZOLD — Mesdames Sam Gold¬ man, Richard Golden, William Bar- rich, Victor Ringer. MITZVAH—Mesdames Wm. Was¬ serstrom, Sam Subow, Leon Seff, Irving Seff, Leon Schottenstein, Jerome Schottenstein, Harold Schot- JDC Vice-Chairman Dies In Geneva NEW YORK (JTA) - Moses A. • Leavitt, executive v'ce-chairman of hte Join Distribution Committee, died at the University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, after suffer¬ ing from a stroke last month while attending a meeting of the Confer¬ ence on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, of. which he was treasurer. He was 70 years old. Mr. Leavitt has been 'with the JDC since. 1940. Earlier he served as JDC secretary during the years 1929-30. tenstein, William Schiff, Max Ruben, George Rosenberger, Sid¬ ney Putchat, Ben Morganstern, M. Melton, A. H. Kanter, Richard Grundstein. Mesdames Edward Golden, David Goldsmith, Harold Edelstein, Robert Curl, Ben Cohen, Maurice Bleich, Louis Adelman, B. W. Abramson. SHALOM — Miss L. Danziger, Mesdames Sam Eisenstein, Michael Karr, Herman Katz, J. Krakowitz, Norbert Kruger, Jule Mark, Nor¬ man Meizlish, Fred Roland, Howard Schoenbaum, Ben Shafron, Louis Shlonsky, Joseph Skilken, Sanford Timen, Robert Wasserman, A. A. Wolman. CHAI — Mrs. Martin Godofsky, Miss Mimi Greenberg, Mesdames Martin Kopp,' S. W. Lipson, Herbert Meizlish, A. J. Mellman. Ted Rogo¬ vin, Sprah Shamansky, Morris Skil¬ ken, Elmer Swack, "Emil Wasser¬ strom. Abe Yenkin, Ben Yenkin, Wm. B. Zipser. Life membership may be obtained by the payment of $125 (eight year Israel Bonds or four year Israel bond plus $18 are acceptable). The interest from Life membership goes toward Medical Center Research. Group LifeChairmen are: Chai— Mrs. Arthur Meizlish; Liloh—Mrs. Donald Cohen; Mitzvah—Mrs. Sam Subow; Shalom—Mrs. Harry Shol- nick; Szold-Mrs. Morris Swedlow; Ziona-Mrs. Sanford Shapiro; B&P — Mrs. Morris Lessure. rHE JOINT DISTRIBUTION GOMMIHEE RELEASES REPORT OF 1964 ACTIVITIES The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a major bene¬ ficiary of the United Jewish Fund and Council of Columbus, submitted the following report of its activities for 1964. A total of 430,555 needy Jews overseas were aided by the Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee in 1964, an increase of more than 20,500 over 1963. JDC aid increased in all major areas but one. In Europe the num¬ ber assisted in 1964 was Slightly more than 89,000, an increase of 3,000 over 1963. In Israel the number aided was almost 93.000, an in¬ crease of approximately 6,500 over the previous year. In the Moslem countries the num¬ ber assisted dechned by almost 20.000, from 84,000 to 6,150, reflect¬ ing the continued movement of Jews out of North Africa, Thej greatest increase was in a special reUef-in- transit program for refugees; 179,000 were assisted in this program as compared with 148,000 in 1963. These figures were reported in the JDC Statistical Abstract issued recently. The Abstract, the 19th annual edition, was prepared by the JDC Research Departrrient under the direction of Dr. Boris Sapir. In a foreword to the Abstract, Moses A, Leavitt, JDC Executive Vice-Chairman. commenting on the increase in the nurnber of. needy Jews aided in Europe said: "In Europe the influx of refugees from North Africa to France and from Eastern Europe to Italy continued on a larger scale than one year be¬ fore; over 17,000 from Tunisia and 3,120 from Morocco were assisted in 1964 in one form or another by French Jewish organizations co¬ operating with'JDC." The Abstract reports that JDC aid in 1964 in all parts of the world in¬ cluded cash relief fof 40,'}40; feed¬ ing, 63,500; assistance in 28 homes for the aged accommodating 4,605 residents; medical care in 57 in- situtions for 36,870 patients; aid in 34 institutions for 1,920 children and young people; support of 237 schools and kindergartens with an enroll¬ ment of 47,500 students; other cul¬ tural and religious instiutions bene¬ fitting 35,660 (including 435 students receiving stipends); and 5,202 re¬ construction loans granted by 38 JDC-supported institutions with a total loan value of $3,666,869. Almost 21,000 received vocational training in JDC-supported ORT training units in Israel. Another 19,000 received vocational training in Europe, the Moslern countries and India. Other special JDC assistance in¬ cluded the distribution of United States donated food supplies to a monthly average of 85,389 men, women and children in eight coun¬ tries in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Supplies distri¬ buted under the United States Food- for-Peace program totaled close to 13,500,000 pounds and was valued at almost $800,000. Countries in which needy Jews received aid during 1964 included Austria, Belgium, France, Ger¬ many, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portu¬ gal, Spain, Sweden, and Yugoslavia in Europe; Algeria, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia and other areas in the Moslem world; Israel, Australia; and India. Other countries were aided pri¬ marily by JDC-supported loan in¬ stitutions. Chronicling The News Editorial 2 Synagogues 4 Shopping Guide 4 Real Estate 5 Society 6, 7 Sports 8 Teen Scene 9, 10 even discussed during nine hours of discussion of the abortive leadership struggle. The majority thus rejected Ben-Gurion's demands that he lead the "Mapai slate for the forthcom¬ ing Parliamentary elections, pre¬ sumably with Eshkol stepping down as Premier in a Mapai electoral victory. The majority stand was ham¬ mered out at meetings of the Mapai Bureau with all Mapai Cabinet Ministers attending, a meeting of the Mapai secretariat and later a special drafting committee. At the end of the discussions, a statement was issued calling for unity to prevent a split, rejecting minority charges of "moral de¬ terioration in the party as "un¬ founded and without justification." The statement.condemned threats against the party's integrity either by calls to dissent or by establish¬ ment of a separate list for the elec¬ tions. A few hours before the meeting, the minority group had heard a specific call from Ben-Gurion to his followers to leave the party and set up a separate election list. It was then that he fired charges of "moral deterioration" of the party under Eshkol's leadership. It was reported then that the minority had decided to wait until July 1 for a leadership approach and that if by that date no solution to the leadership crisis was found, to proceed with an independent list of candidates for the Knesset elec¬ tions. The tiny Israeli Communist party also faced a split today. One fac¬ tion, which is pro-Israel, is headed by Samuel Mikunis and Moshe Sneh. Thd other is more pro-Arab and more extremist and is headed by A. Wilner and Toufik Tubi. Each faction has called a "gen¬ eral convention," one in Haifa and one in Tel Aviv, on June 23. Each faction was busy trying to per¬ suade delegates of overseas Com¬ munist parties, invited to Israel for the occasion, to attend their conven¬ tion. Center Cancels Some Programs For July 5 Since July 5 has been declared a legal holiday, the following Center programs, which meet either July 4 or 5, will be cancelled. Camps: Ora, Cojacee. Pioneer, Tween and Teen. The Tween Camp trip to Carter Caves, Kentucky will leave on Monday, July 5. Baseball and Softball: Junior Jets, Little League, Colt League, Pony League, and Teen Club Soft¬ ball. Classes: All swim classes, physi¬ cal fitness class and tennis in¬ struction. The swimming pool will operate 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on both days. The health club will have hoUday hours for men only both Sunday and Monday. July 4 and 5, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. All activities will resume opera¬ tion at the scheduled hours Tues¬ day morning, July 6. For further information call 231- 2731. The World's Week Compiled from JTA and WUP Reporfs NEW YORK (JTA)—Reports that Pope Paul VI has ordered the removal from the agenda of the forthcoming session of the Ecumenical Council, the Vatican declaration repudiating the deicide charge against Jews, were circulat¬ ing in Rome, according to a dispatch in the New York Times. The dispatch said that a spokesman for Amleto Cardinal Gicognani, Vatican Secretary of State and head of the Co¬ ordinating Commission which controls the Council agenda", declined to comment on the report that the Pope had sent the Commission a letter instructing it to withdrawn the dec¬ laration on Jews and other non-Christian religions from Council debate. BAMBEIUi (J#i)—The outbreak of anU-Semetic inci¬ dents continued here in spite of stepped-up protective meas- , ures carried out by the city authorities. A neo-Nazi vandal smeared yellow paint on the nameplate of the Bamberg Jewish Center building housing the communal activities of the city's 73 Jews. HAIFA (JTA)—A military court in Haifa sentenced Meyir Amzalag to 60 years' imprisonment on conviction on charges of desertion and espionage. According to the indict¬ ment, Amzalag deserted his unit 10 years ago and crossed into Jordan where he was captured over the Syrians. In Syria, after two years in jail, he was released and sent to North Africa. FYom there he returned to Israel under an assumed name to spy. '' WASHINGTON (JTA)—The House Foreign Affairs Committee reported out a watered-down version of a Senate concurrent reolution, eliminating from the enacting clause the .specific reference to Jews as victims of Soviet anti- religious and anti-cultural discrimination. Introductory clauses were substantially the same as contained in the Senate measure adopted May 14. JERUSAlwEM (JTA)—Israeli officials here declined to indicate whether Israel would approve Rolp Pauls, a West German career diplomat, as his coi^ntry's ambassador to Israel, after a statement yesterday in Bonn by Chancellor Ludwig El-hard taking a firm position over Israel's reported objections to the choice of Pauls, a career officer in the Ger¬ man army during World War II.
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Full Text | UiW/ serving. Columbus, Dayton, Centraf and Southwestern Ohio \\7/\ VIH 0 u I ¦ •' ,1 n fl n 1V .J HibX XV IS HDlH H Mnasnw TvoiaoisiH t TvoiDnoanjav Vol. 43, No. 26 FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1965 — 25 SIVAN 5725 Historical Pageant To Be Presented Do you remember the early beginnings of Zion Lodge. B'nai B'rith? Possibly you may have heard from your parents the "old time" activities of "the" organization in the first World War. The nostalgic memories of the past will be recalled in a pageant at the 100th Anniversary celebration of Zion Lodge at the Sheraton- Columbus Motor Hotel on Saturday evening, July 10. This celebration will be held in conjunction with the 113th annual convention of District Grand Lodge :an and Jawlih Idaaii #2. B'nai B'rith and the 32nd Annual Convention of the Women's Chapters of B'nai B'rith. Under the capable direction of Harold Eisenstein, director of Cul¬ tural Activities at the Jewish Cen¬ ter, the glorious Minstrel Shows of the "roaring twfenties" will be re¬ vealed by Larry Kent and Jules Vogel. You will be able to relive the days of past presidents . . . Jeffrey Lazarus, Abe Weinfeld, Leo Yas¬ senoff, Walter Katz, Dr. Morris Goldberg and Dr. S. D. Edelman, president of this era. Mrs. Benjamin Center and Mrs. Ralph Shapiro will give a brief glimpse of the days of the Hillel Players, a popular program feature of the meetings in the late twenties. Other members of the cast who will portray the leaders of B'nai B'rith in their trials and tribula¬ tions of the thirties and forties in¬ clude, Morrey Portman, Seyman Stern, I. M. Harris, Herbert Wol-- man. Milton Pinsky and Joseph White. Dancing to the tunes of Johnny Rogers and his 12 piece orchestra and a social hour will enhance the entertainment of the evening. Ad¬ mission to the program. Tickets evening is $2.50 per person. Tickets may be obtained from A. C. Strip, ticket chairman, 237-4370, N. Victor Goodman. Zion Lodge president, 237-5682, or at the B'nai B'rith Office, 231-6221. Members of the Columbus com¬ munity are coi'dially invited to at¬ tend the opening session and the Centennial Celebration on Saturday evening. July 10, at 9 p.m. at the Sheraton - Columbus Motor Hotel (Columbus-Plaza). Dr. Ivan Gilbert Alvin E. Schottenstein New Life Members honored at a luncheon recently at the home of Mrs. Julius Cohen, 1270 Brookwood PI., in¬ clude, front row from the left: Mrs. Frank Nutis, Mrs. Robert Paine, Mrs. Harold Harris. Mrs. Melvin Rackoff. Second row, from left: Mrs. Martin Greenberg, Mrs, Hilda Lessure, Mrs. Dora Abrams, Mrs. Helen Kollus and Mrs. Bernard Schottenstein. Not pictured are Mrs. Sam Princer and Mrs. Leon Handler. Hadassah Life Members Honored At Luncheon Bonds For Israel Committee Announces Governor's Dinner Alvin Schottenstein and Dr. Ivan Gilbert announced today that plans are being completed for a Bonds For Israel dinner party at the Gover¬ nor's Mansion on Sunday, July 18. Gilbert and Schottenstein are co- chairmen of the Governor's Dinner Committee. Invitations have been sent to outstanding community leaders through¬ out the State of Ohio to attend. Diplomatic notables, television, radio, and movie personalities will be in attendance. This is the State of Israel's seven¬ teenth year of independence. Un¬ precedented in world history have been the strides made by this infant nation in these past seventeen years. In becoming one of the fastest growing countries in the world. Israel has grown from a country of 650,000 Jews to a nation of 2Vi million. New cities, new harbors and high¬ ways, new irrigation systems, scientific and educational institu¬ tions have manifested themselves throughout Israel. Desert lands have bloomed and blossomed with crops and orchards. American tour¬ ists, after a visit to Israel, have agreed that Israel is in the realm of being the eighth wonder of the world. This year Israel Bonds is engaged in the herculean task of raising $100,000,000.00. This is one third of the State of Israel's total economic development budget. It is the funds derived through the sale of Israel Bonds that are mak¬ ing possible the growth of industry and agriculture, the expansion of irrigation, construction of roads, harbors and railways, the increase of elecric power, and the exp'oita- tion of natural resources. Levi Eshkol Pleads Fdr Party Unity TEL AVIV (JTA)—Premier Levi Eshkol's majority in the strife- ridden Mapai party met the leadership challenge from former Premier David Ben-Gurion head-on with a demand for the dissolution of all factions. In a policy statement, the party majority rejected minority charges and called for party unity for the forthcoming Parliamentary elections. The minority's demand for a Mapai convention to thrash out the issues dividing the party was not Life Members of Hadassah were honored recently at a Patio Lunch¬ eon held at the home of Mrs. Julius Cohen. Life Members, other than those pictured above, are as fol¬ lows. LILOH — Mesdames Ben Eisen¬ stein, Leon Mendel, Malcolm Rob¬ bins. ZIONA—Mrs. Emanual Cohen. B&P—Mesdames Goldie Mayer, Herman Seff. SZOLD — Mesdames Sam Gold¬ man, Richard Golden, William Bar- rich, Victor Ringer. MITZVAH—Mesdames Wm. Was¬ serstrom, Sam Subow, Leon Seff, Irving Seff, Leon Schottenstein, Jerome Schottenstein, Harold Schot- JDC Vice-Chairman Dies In Geneva NEW YORK (JTA) - Moses A. • Leavitt, executive v'ce-chairman of hte Join Distribution Committee, died at the University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, after suffer¬ ing from a stroke last month while attending a meeting of the Confer¬ ence on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, of. which he was treasurer. He was 70 years old. Mr. Leavitt has been 'with the JDC since. 1940. Earlier he served as JDC secretary during the years 1929-30. tenstein, William Schiff, Max Ruben, George Rosenberger, Sid¬ ney Putchat, Ben Morganstern, M. Melton, A. H. Kanter, Richard Grundstein. Mesdames Edward Golden, David Goldsmith, Harold Edelstein, Robert Curl, Ben Cohen, Maurice Bleich, Louis Adelman, B. W. Abramson. SHALOM — Miss L. Danziger, Mesdames Sam Eisenstein, Michael Karr, Herman Katz, J. Krakowitz, Norbert Kruger, Jule Mark, Nor¬ man Meizlish, Fred Roland, Howard Schoenbaum, Ben Shafron, Louis Shlonsky, Joseph Skilken, Sanford Timen, Robert Wasserman, A. A. Wolman. CHAI — Mrs. Martin Godofsky, Miss Mimi Greenberg, Mesdames Martin Kopp,' S. W. Lipson, Herbert Meizlish, A. J. Mellman. Ted Rogo¬ vin, Sprah Shamansky, Morris Skil¬ ken, Elmer Swack, "Emil Wasser¬ strom. Abe Yenkin, Ben Yenkin, Wm. B. Zipser. Life membership may be obtained by the payment of $125 (eight year Israel Bonds or four year Israel bond plus $18 are acceptable). The interest from Life membership goes toward Medical Center Research. Group LifeChairmen are: Chai— Mrs. Arthur Meizlish; Liloh—Mrs. Donald Cohen; Mitzvah—Mrs. Sam Subow; Shalom—Mrs. Harry Shol- nick; Szold-Mrs. Morris Swedlow; Ziona-Mrs. Sanford Shapiro; B&P — Mrs. Morris Lessure. rHE JOINT DISTRIBUTION GOMMIHEE RELEASES REPORT OF 1964 ACTIVITIES The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a major bene¬ ficiary of the United Jewish Fund and Council of Columbus, submitted the following report of its activities for 1964. A total of 430,555 needy Jews overseas were aided by the Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee in 1964, an increase of more than 20,500 over 1963. JDC aid increased in all major areas but one. In Europe the num¬ ber assisted in 1964 was Slightly more than 89,000, an increase of 3,000 over 1963. In Israel the number aided was almost 93.000, an in¬ crease of approximately 6,500 over the previous year. In the Moslem countries the num¬ ber assisted dechned by almost 20.000, from 84,000 to 6,150, reflect¬ ing the continued movement of Jews out of North Africa, Thej greatest increase was in a special reUef-in- transit program for refugees; 179,000 were assisted in this program as compared with 148,000 in 1963. These figures were reported in the JDC Statistical Abstract issued recently. The Abstract, the 19th annual edition, was prepared by the JDC Research Departrrient under the direction of Dr. Boris Sapir. In a foreword to the Abstract, Moses A, Leavitt, JDC Executive Vice-Chairman. commenting on the increase in the nurnber of. needy Jews aided in Europe said: "In Europe the influx of refugees from North Africa to France and from Eastern Europe to Italy continued on a larger scale than one year be¬ fore; over 17,000 from Tunisia and 3,120 from Morocco were assisted in 1964 in one form or another by French Jewish organizations co¬ operating with'JDC." The Abstract reports that JDC aid in 1964 in all parts of the world in¬ cluded cash relief fof 40,'}40; feed¬ ing, 63,500; assistance in 28 homes for the aged accommodating 4,605 residents; medical care in 57 in- situtions for 36,870 patients; aid in 34 institutions for 1,920 children and young people; support of 237 schools and kindergartens with an enroll¬ ment of 47,500 students; other cul¬ tural and religious instiutions bene¬ fitting 35,660 (including 435 students receiving stipends); and 5,202 re¬ construction loans granted by 38 JDC-supported institutions with a total loan value of $3,666,869. Almost 21,000 received vocational training in JDC-supported ORT training units in Israel. Another 19,000 received vocational training in Europe, the Moslern countries and India. Other special JDC assistance in¬ cluded the distribution of United States donated food supplies to a monthly average of 85,389 men, women and children in eight coun¬ tries in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Supplies distri¬ buted under the United States Food- for-Peace program totaled close to 13,500,000 pounds and was valued at almost $800,000. Countries in which needy Jews received aid during 1964 included Austria, Belgium, France, Ger¬ many, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portu¬ gal, Spain, Sweden, and Yugoslavia in Europe; Algeria, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia and other areas in the Moslem world; Israel, Australia; and India. Other countries were aided pri¬ marily by JDC-supported loan in¬ stitutions. Chronicling The News Editorial 2 Synagogues 4 Shopping Guide 4 Real Estate 5 Society 6, 7 Sports 8 Teen Scene 9, 10 even discussed during nine hours of discussion of the abortive leadership struggle. The majority thus rejected Ben-Gurion's demands that he lead the "Mapai slate for the forthcom¬ ing Parliamentary elections, pre¬ sumably with Eshkol stepping down as Premier in a Mapai electoral victory. The majority stand was ham¬ mered out at meetings of the Mapai Bureau with all Mapai Cabinet Ministers attending, a meeting of the Mapai secretariat and later a special drafting committee. At the end of the discussions, a statement was issued calling for unity to prevent a split, rejecting minority charges of "moral de¬ terioration in the party as "un¬ founded and without justification." The statement.condemned threats against the party's integrity either by calls to dissent or by establish¬ ment of a separate list for the elec¬ tions. A few hours before the meeting, the minority group had heard a specific call from Ben-Gurion to his followers to leave the party and set up a separate election list. It was then that he fired charges of "moral deterioration" of the party under Eshkol's leadership. It was reported then that the minority had decided to wait until July 1 for a leadership approach and that if by that date no solution to the leadership crisis was found, to proceed with an independent list of candidates for the Knesset elec¬ tions. The tiny Israeli Communist party also faced a split today. One fac¬ tion, which is pro-Israel, is headed by Samuel Mikunis and Moshe Sneh. Thd other is more pro-Arab and more extremist and is headed by A. Wilner and Toufik Tubi. Each faction has called a "gen¬ eral convention," one in Haifa and one in Tel Aviv, on June 23. Each faction was busy trying to per¬ suade delegates of overseas Com¬ munist parties, invited to Israel for the occasion, to attend their conven¬ tion. Center Cancels Some Programs For July 5 Since July 5 has been declared a legal holiday, the following Center programs, which meet either July 4 or 5, will be cancelled. Camps: Ora, Cojacee. Pioneer, Tween and Teen. The Tween Camp trip to Carter Caves, Kentucky will leave on Monday, July 5. Baseball and Softball: Junior Jets, Little League, Colt League, Pony League, and Teen Club Soft¬ ball. Classes: All swim classes, physi¬ cal fitness class and tennis in¬ struction. The swimming pool will operate 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on both days. The health club will have hoUday hours for men only both Sunday and Monday. July 4 and 5, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. All activities will resume opera¬ tion at the scheduled hours Tues¬ day morning, July 6. For further information call 231- 2731. The World's Week Compiled from JTA and WUP Reporfs NEW YORK (JTA)—Reports that Pope Paul VI has ordered the removal from the agenda of the forthcoming session of the Ecumenical Council, the Vatican declaration repudiating the deicide charge against Jews, were circulat¬ ing in Rome, according to a dispatch in the New York Times. The dispatch said that a spokesman for Amleto Cardinal Gicognani, Vatican Secretary of State and head of the Co¬ ordinating Commission which controls the Council agenda", declined to comment on the report that the Pope had sent the Commission a letter instructing it to withdrawn the dec¬ laration on Jews and other non-Christian religions from Council debate. BAMBEIUi (J#i)—The outbreak of anU-Semetic inci¬ dents continued here in spite of stepped-up protective meas- , ures carried out by the city authorities. A neo-Nazi vandal smeared yellow paint on the nameplate of the Bamberg Jewish Center building housing the communal activities of the city's 73 Jews. HAIFA (JTA)—A military court in Haifa sentenced Meyir Amzalag to 60 years' imprisonment on conviction on charges of desertion and espionage. According to the indict¬ ment, Amzalag deserted his unit 10 years ago and crossed into Jordan where he was captured over the Syrians. In Syria, after two years in jail, he was released and sent to North Africa. FYom there he returned to Israel under an assumed name to spy. '' WASHINGTON (JTA)—The House Foreign Affairs Committee reported out a watered-down version of a Senate concurrent reolution, eliminating from the enacting clause the .specific reference to Jews as victims of Soviet anti- religious and anti-cultural discrimination. Introductory clauses were substantially the same as contained in the Senate measure adopted May 14. JERUSAlwEM (JTA)—Israeli officials here declined to indicate whether Israel would approve Rolp Pauls, a West German career diplomat, as his coi^ntry's ambassador to Israel, after a statement yesterday in Bonn by Chancellor Ludwig El-hard taking a firm position over Israel's reported objections to the choice of Pauls, a career officer in the Ger¬ man army during World War II. |
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