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Lehman Chairman of Committee To Temple Beth Am
Mark Israel's Tenth Anniversary
Four hundred and fifty-eight distinguished American
]eaGLers, representing the world of religion, art, science, law,
labor, education, music, literature, theatre, motion pictures,
radio, television, baseball and public service, accepting the
invitation of former Senator Herbert H. Lehman, have joined
in an American committee to mark in the United States the
tenth anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, it
was announced today.
Senator Lehman has agreed to serve as thegeneral chair,
man of the committee, which will plan a series of functions to
be held during 1958, emphasizing "the community of interests
which binds Arabs and Jews and Americans in the dynamic
search for peace." ¢
Associated with Senator Leh-
man are sixteen Honorary Co-
Chairmen, including General Lu-
cius D. Clay (rot.); former Gov-
ernor Thomas E. Dewey; Adlai
Stevenson; Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
velt; former Senator William L.
Benton, chairman of the Board
of the Encylopaedia Britannica
Thornton Wilder, playwright and
novelist; John Gunther, noted au-
thor; Archibald MacLeish, distin-
guished poet, Boylston Professor
at Harvard University; George
Meany, President of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and Con-
gress of Industrial Organizations;
Walter Reuther, President of the
United Automobile Workers of
America; Carl Sandburg, poet
laureate; Professor Reinhold Nie-
buhr, Vice-President of the Fac-
ulty at Union Theological Semi-
nary; Bishop G. Bromley Oxman, i
Methodist Bishop for the Wash-
ington area, a former President
of the World Council Of Churches;
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John O'Grady,
Secretary of the National Con-
ference of Catholic Charities
Louis Lipsky, President of the
Zastern Life Insurance Company,
and Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, of The
Temple, Cleveland, dean of the
U. S. movement to bring about
the establishment of the State of
Israel.
In announcing the formation of
the Committee, Senator Lehman
underscored: "America's security
Interests are involved in tire Mid-
dle East as never before," and
that "America's special role in
the creation of he State of Israel
should not be forgotten."
He pointed out that: "Israel is
one of the world's most dynamic
symbols of man's capacity to cre-
ate and build, despite danger and
adversity, given the will and the
passion for creation--and for free-
dom.
"The world, especially the West-
ern world, has a deep spiritual as
well as temporal reason to take
appropriate notice of this 10th
anniversary of the rebirth of this
ancient state, whose- roots are
common with those of western
civilization itself. As tire Land of
the Bible was the cradle of the
spiritual heritage of all of us, It
is today the foothold and the focus
of freedom and democracy in the
Middle East."
Housing Project
Opens in Greece
.. ATHENS (JTA)--In cere-
monies attended by leaders of
the Jewish community of Greece
and representatives of Jewish
-organizations outside this coun-
try, a new, low-cost housing
project for 22 Jewish families
totaling 64 men, women and chil-
dren Was dedicated this week at
-Voles. The housing project was
built for Jewish families that
have been living in temporary
barracks since 1945, when their
homes were destroyed by an
-earthquake.
The first project of the kind
ever built here, th construction
was financed by the Joint Distri-
button Committee, the Jewish
community of Greece, the Jewish
Colonization Association and tire
Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany.
In addition to helping finance
the housing project, the JDC also
provided loans to 43 other Jewish
families to build individual
homes in place of dwellings de-
stroyed in the earthquake. JDC
has spent a total of $4,000,000
in Greece since 1945.
Jews in Soviet Union
Show Great Interest
In Israeli Youth
WASHNIGTON (JTA) Ex-
perts on Soviet affairs and Jew-
ish leaders here have expressed
serious concern that the recent
detention and interrogation of
Ellahu Chazen, Israeli diplomat
in Moscow, might be the first step
in a design of new large-scale
persecution of Soviet Jews.
The Kremlin seems to be
aroused and perturbed by the
warm reception that Soviet Jews
gave the Israel delegation to the
Moscow Youth Festival. The
Kremlin's displeasure has been
particularly aroused by the news
of widespread deliberate discrim-
ination against Soviet Jews in
e d u c a t i o n and the professions
which wasreported by members
of he Israel youth delegation.
Fear was expressed here that
the detention of the Iraeli diplo-
mat-who this week returned to
Israel--might be followed up in
Russia by wholesale raids on the
homes of Soviet Jews who have
been in contact with the Israel
delegation. Thousands of Jews
are in this category, Anyone pos-
sessing souvenirs, widely distrib-
uted by the Israelis during their
visit, is vulnerable to the charges
of "communicating with the one-:
my" and acting as a Zionist-im-
perialist agent.
It was recalled here that the
liquidation of Jewish culture in
the USSR, cuhninating in the so-
called "doctors plot" in 1953, fol-
lowed closely on the heels of the
spontaneous demonstration in
Moscow for Israel Ambassador
Golda Meir in 1948.
The attendance of Israel youth
at the Festival represented the
first opportunity for large num-
bers of Jews from abroad to com-
municate, person to person, with
Soviet Jewry, without the medi-
ation of official interpreters.
The Israelis have returned
from Moscow deeply stirred by
the discovery that the reaction of
hosts of Russian Jews to Com-
munist anti-Semitism since 1948,
which still persists in covert form
and is expressed in professional
and educational discrimination,
has been a desire for affirmative
identification with Jewry. Many
of them, including members of
Komsomol and the Communist
Party, desire to settle in Israel
although their opinions of Israel
policy are often confused by So-
viet press indoctrination.
"Ne00 °
No DowM
Religious School
Sets Hany Activities
With a family Succoth service
set for Wednesday, Oct. 9, and a
first-grade consecration sched-
uled for Friday, Oct. 18, the Tem-
ple Beth Am Religious School's
.fall semester activities are well
underway.
An outdoor Succa will be built
for the Succoth services at the
Temi)le, 4555 16th N.E. Gifts of
canned food will be brought by
the children and turned over to
charitable organizations.
The Religious School's first
grade, consisting of 23 children,
will participate in the consecra-
tion service with their teacher,
Miss Vera Hanis. The ceremony
will mark the beginning of their,
formal Jewish education. A total
of 135 children are registered in
the school's classes, from nursery
through ninth grade.
Another event scheduled for
Temple Beth Am is a talk on the
history of postage stamps of the
State of Israel by Mrs. Alvin
Luchs Friday evening, Oct. 25.
Mrs. Luchs has one of the most
outstanding collections of Israeli
postage stamps in the world.
Mr. Henry Jackson, U. S. Sena-
tor from the State of Washington,
will address the members of Tem-
ple Beth Am on Friday evening,
Nov. 1. The subject of his talk
will be his trip to the U.S.S.R.,
which will be illustrated with
slides of pictures he took while
October 7,
ISRAELI CHILDREN BOARD EL AL AFTER
TREATMENT AT DENVER ASTHMATIC HOME
in Russia. An invitation is issued
were restored to health at JNHAC, a free, nationwide and
to the entire Jewish community institution devoted to the treatment of children afflicted with
to attend, intractable asthma.
[ llEAI)$ REFORM TEMPLE
YOUTH GROUP
ROBERT MILLER of Lexington,
Kentucky was elected as presi-
dent of the National Federation
of Temple Youth, teenage branch
of the Union of American
Hebr¢w Congregations, repre-
senting[ over 1,000,000 congre-
ganes m the United States
Canada. Also elected were.
Henry Levy. Memphis, Tenn.,.
1st vice-president; Kenneth
Midlo, New Orleans, La., 2nd
vice-president; Ronald Bassey.,
Detroit, Mich., 3rd vice-presi-
dent; Guy D. Rosmarin, Trenton.
N.J., secretary; and Myra Katzen°
West Hartford. Conn., tr¢asurer.
Successfully treated at the Jewish National Home for
at Denver, Colorado, two Israeli youngsters, Hirsh Tauber,
left, and Sammy Stork, 11, both of ]laifa, board El Al's
New York for a happy trip home. Mrs. Beatrice Asherman,
the New York Council of Presidents of JNHAC, saw them off. The
Yom Kippur
and Baruch
By David Schwartz (JTA)
Bernard Baruch in his recently
published autobiography gives
Yom Kippur a wonderful testi-
monial. He tells how early in his
career he was heavily involved
in Amalgamated Copper specula-
tion. Just at a moment of crisis,
Yore Kippur came on and his
mother asked him to stay away
from the office for the one tiny.
A dutiful son, he stayed away.
As.a result, instead of being
wiped out, as he would have
been had he gone to the office
and done what he intended, he
profited to the extent of $700,000
--a sum which set him on Easy
Street.
Mr. Baruch's book, which has
hit the best seller list, should
send many non-observant Jews
back to observing Yom Kippur.
Perhaps, non-Jews, too. I remem-
ber when I was a school boy,
the music teacher of our school,
a non-Jew came to the syna-
gogue one day just to hear Kol
Nidre.
Non-Jews are beginning to ap-
preciate our wonderful institu-
tions. A marvelous sign of the
times was the visit of Chief. Jus-
tice Earl Warren and former
President Truman to the Jewish
Theological Seminary last week.
The Chief Justice of the United
States came down to "learn" as
we Sews say a "Sedra" of the
Talmud. I don't think we quite
appreciate what a wonderful
thing that was. Nothing like it
has ever happened before in his-
tory. Jewish history is full of
attempts by the powerful nations
to burn tim Talmud, but here
the Chief Justice of the great
nation on earth comes to a Jew-
ish institution to sit down and
humbly "learn" the" Talmud as
a guide in rendering justice. If
the incident had happened 2,000
or even several hundred y6ars
ago, our Jewish histories would
tell of the incident with wonder
and amazement.
And former President Truman
came down, too. Mr. Warren
Jewish Museum;
In Celebration
NEW YORK: In a
bration, the Jewish MuseuVa
New York is marking its
anniversary, in its present
ters at Fifth Avenue and
second Street, the former
of Mrs. Felix Warburg. .
Some 100 ceremonial obJ,
from many countries, repreSe'
ins several centuries of Je2
ritual art, have been borrO:'d
from the Cluny Museum in #
for the occasion. These preclO]
objects were originally colleCtS,
by J. Strauss, conductor and *:,,,.
the court of Napol" t,
sician
in
III, and later purchased bY ,,131j
oness Charlotte de RothSC,
who left them to the Cluny "
scum. .
Because so much Jewish
menial art disappeared
centuries of European
tion, the earliest objects
collection are of special
to Scholars. One
dates back to the 14th con
while there are various
mens of metal work from
15th to 18th centuries.
cause of the scarcity of
work haw special value i
termining the role of
craftsmen in the varius
in which they worked.
came to study the TalmUd,
Mr. Truman admitted he
for "a kosher dinner" with
the Talmudical seminar was
eluded. "0 0'
And we Jews have a lot . 0Of
for those who are not of.tier
faith, besides Talmud and 1¢o¢
dinners. Wlmt other people*c'
such a wonderful holiday a 0,
coth, when the ooorest din%ii
derneath
a'n
a c Opy 0.'
branches. I know a place o- *" "t
York's fashionable Upper ,10
Side where they serve mea.[]l]
the "backyards--a place Par*
enclosed with a few. ftoWe't$
around, and they charge {o'
times the regular price o0t#*
meal. But on Succoth the P
Jew has the same
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CINCINNATI (JTA)--,-The be-
liefs and practices of the great
religions of the world are set
forth with explanatory maps and
charts for Jewish religion school
pupils in a new textbook just
published by the Department of
J e w i s h Religions Education of
Hebrew Union College - J e w i s h
I n s t i t u t e of Religion, rabbinic
seminary here.
