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Ladejinsky Firing Stirs Aclioh in Washington • Washington (WNS)—Prcslden Elsenhower thii week granted an appointment to Joseph Barr, national commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, to discuss The case of Wolf Ladejinsky, agricultural economist fired from his' |ll,000-a-year job as t "(security risk." In asking for the appointment, Mr. Barr told the President that it seemed to him thnt Milan D. Smith, executive slstant to Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Toft Benson, has "personally endorsed anti-Semitism as a basis for characterizing Ladejinsky as security risk." ' Last week Mr. 8mlth had made pub.'ic a letter in which the agronlmlst was bitterly attacked in antl-Srmltlc terms. The letter, written by George N. Vltt, Industrial editor of American Exporter Publications in New York and a White Russian who fled from the Bolsheviks la 1910, applauded the Agriculture Department for dismissing Ladejinsky and declared that many Russian Jews ha turned Into "Red*'... fellow-travelers . . , worst kinds of traitors." Mr. Ladejinsky is a Russian-born Jew who earns to the United States In 1932 and still has relatives-In Russia, • Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota a n d Representative Walter H. Judd of the same state have protested the action ot Out Agriculture Department In oust. Ing Ladejinsky and have called for White House action In the case. Irving M. Engel, president of the American Jewish Committee, in a letter to Secretary Benson "deplored" Mr. Smith's release of the VJtt Jetter as "a regrettable and harmful incident1' and urged Benson to moke a "prompt and public
New Art Class To Start Jan. 20
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The second semester of the Center Art Class will start Thursday, Jan. 20 at 1 p. m. following a successful conclusion of the Initial course with an exhibition in too Center lobby. Mrs. Meyer Beber, class Instructor stated, the object of the course Is to have students complete a picture In ten lessons. Beginners, Mrs, Beber added, will be taught fundamcntaU and will be able to paint a picture by the end of the course. New students may enroll at any session. <Fec for the course is ten dollars for ten lessons or one dollar per lesson.
- Center Orchestra Seeks New Members V -
Robert Malee, director of the Center's Little Sympathy Orchestra, has issued a call for additional •rchostra members. Prior orchestral experience Is not required, he •biphasized, for the primary aim Of the group Is to offer an enjoyable experience playing with a •mall ensemble. It affords the opportunity for those Interested In music to participate In on Informal orchestral group, Mr. Malec concluded. Tho Jewish Community Center Offers this activity at no charge, for further Information contact the activities office at the Center. Call IIA13G0. tlOHlHT HEAD ' New York (JTA)— Rabbi Philip tS. Bcrnatein, of Rochester, N. Y.. former president of the Central Conference Of American Rabbis, was elected chairman of the American Zionist Committee far Public Affairs. He succeeds Louis Llpsky veteran leafier of the American Zionist movement.
disavowal of the use of this com munlcatlon." Two weeks ago, after the Aerlculture Department announced the dismissal of Mr. Ladejinsky, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles come to his defense, pledging that if the Agriculture Department doe* not take the agronlmlst back the State Department will find a Place for htm. Mr. Jadcjirisky has been on the State Department payroll for years and had received his latest State Department clearance only last April. As. agricultural attache at the American Embassy in Toklo, he was considered one of the leading agricultural economists in the Far East, having inaugurated many significance land reforms In Japan. Defending Its ouster, the Agriculture Department pointed out that Ladejinsky had worked as an Interpreter for Amtorg, the Soviet trading organization, In 1931. It discounted anti-Communist articles he had written in 1944 and 1945 and hinted he might have made a deal with the Russians leading him "to believe his family would not be harmed."
Jubilee Service At B'nai Israel B'nal Israel Synagogue of Council Bluffs will highlight 1U observance of Its 50th anniversary year with a Jubilee Service this evening. Rabbi Maurice Solomon, Rabbi of Kehiiath Israel Synagogue in Kansas City, Mo., wiU be the principal speaker. Rabbi Solomon is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago, and the graduate school if sociology, University of Chicago. He has served on the advisory board of the United Jewish Appeal and on the national board of the Joint Distribution Committee and Jewish National Fund. In Kansas City, he 1* a member of the board of governors of the Jewish Federation, the Jewish Community Center, and advisor at the Menorah Hospital Medical center. Rabbi Solomon is the author of 'Homilctlcal Digest" and a contributing editor on the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle. All local service organizations and the Ministerial Association have been invited to attend. Rabbi David Korb and Cantor Steam will officiate. The Jubilee Banquet will be held lunday, Jan. 16.
Yiddish Cultural Series Program The 1955 Yiddish Cultural Series will present two outstanding Yiddish films and two concerts featuring well-known personalities In misic this Benson, Louis Witkin, ommlttec chairman announced. Other committee members.arc rfrs. Miriam Bondarin, Mrs. Philip >an<lcll, Mrs- Jake Fcldman, Abe ,'ohen, Max Crounsc, Ben Mlroff mil Joseph Rjidinowsky. "Two Sisters," a Yiddish film 111 open the program at 8:15 p. i., Sunday, Jan. 23 in the Jewish Community Center auditorium. The Farbimd Labor Zionist Con'rt will be presented February 20 nd the Workmen Circle Concert aturdny, March 19. A Yiddish llm, "God, Man and Devil" will onclurlc tho scries. Admission for thn series is two lollnrs and Individual tickets nro 5 cents. Call the Center Activities iffice at JA 13CG for tickets. AH Performances will bo at the 'enter and Will filart nt 8:15 p. m.
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Participation Stressed for Region Parley
S , or. me State of Israel for the Middle West, will address the Members of the Board o£ Governors of the Jewish Federation, Thursday evening, Jan. 20, at 8 o'clock,in the Jewish Community Center, Jack W. Marer, Federation President, announced. +• Five members will be elected to 9 the Federation Executive Commit* tee at this meeting, in accordance with the constitution of the Federation. Other current matters will The Center Cinema Club will be discussed. English Lawyer open its new film series with the Italian masterpiece "Paisan" SunMr. Pratt, the Israeli consul for day evening, Jan. 16 In the Recital the Midwest with offices in ChiHall of the Joslyn Memorial Art Museum, Mrs. Edward Zorlmky cago, received his law degree from and Jack Sandier, co-chairmen of the University of London in 1934, the series announced. and practiced law in England until Six films were selected on the 1938. • basis of a community-wide survey Following that he was an attorto determine what motion pictures ney In Israel, until 1953. He is a would be preferred. member of the Central Committee The second picture,. "It Happened One Night'! wiU be shown ot the Israel Bar.Association. HeFebruary 6. One of the greatcs joined the Israel Foreign Service romantic film comedies, it won five In 1953. academy awards In 1934. Army Officer "Spector of the Rose," an unIn 1947 and 1948, Mr. Pratt par. usual story . with outstanding tlclpatcd in the defense of Tel RED ANTI-SEMITISM choreography will be presented Aviv. He was a First Lieutenant Washington (JTA)—Anti-Semi- Sunday, Mar. & . in the Israel Army, tism in the countries behind the Alfred Hitchcock's most famous Iron Curtain, including the Soviet Mr. Pratf was vice-president of subtle mystery, "Tho Lady Van Union, continues to exist just as ii the B'nal B'rith Lodge "Shaare did, prior to Stalin's death, except ishes" will be' shown Sunday, Zlon" of Tel Aviv until his dethat It is now better concealed April 3. parture for Chicago, The French comedy "Glgi" is from the world, says a report issued here by the House of Repre- scheduled for Sunday, May 1. Another French "comedy-drama sentatives Select Committee on "The Well-Digger's Daughter" v/Ul Communist Aggression. The report, which deals with the round the scries with its showing "treatment of Jews under Com- Sunday, May 15. In addition, selected unusual munism," states that the accumu New York fJTA)—-A permanent latcd facts "give a clear answer to short subjects will be shown at Zionist student organization on the those who succumbed to wishful each performance, Tickets for the college campuses of the United. thinking and pro-Soviet propagan- scries are $2.50 and Individual ad- States and Canada has been estabda, and believed that the persecu- missions are 75 cents. For reserva- Hshed, It was announced by th» tion of Jews would end after tions call the Activities office at American Zionist, Council, under Stalin's death. The persecution of the Jewish Community Center, JA whose, sponsorship the new nathe- Jewish minority continues, 1366. tional group will function.. The even If it is Jess widely advertised fganlzatlon was formed by serand better concealed than In the ai hundred students from 60 colperiod just before the dictator's leges, who just concluded a condeath, On the 'Jewish front," as vention here. "~ In all other respects, the aims of The purpose of the new. organthe leaders of world Communism Tel Aviv (WNS)—After an Im- ization is "to interpre. to the genremain unchanged and are' pursued' as always with methods prisonment lasting 91 days, the eral community, students and faccaptain and crew of the Israel ulty, the meaning and promise ot hleh combine force with deceit, freighter Bat Galim, which was Zionism and the State to ot Israel; .Egression with deception." seized in the Gulf of Suez, were to encourage Jewish students in released by the Egyptians on New the study of, and participation In, VtK CABINET' Years Day. The ten men were nil aspects of affirmative Jewish New York (JTA) — Formation set free in the Wilderness of the living; and to aid them to creaay the United Jewish Appeal of a aza border strip where they were tive self-fulfillment through IdenNational Campaign Cabinet made jrdered to walk back to the Israel tification with . the ideals and ip of 53 business, profeslonal, re- Jorder, a considerable distance achievements o! the Zlonlat roovo Iglous and philanthropic leaders »way. ment including aliyah of Israel." 'ho will help plan and direct the The seamen said here they had Other alms of the Student ZionUJA 1955 campaign for $99,521,- wen well treated by civilian jail275, was'announced by Samuel H. :rs but had been beaten regularly ist Organization, as promulgated in resolutions adopted by the delearoff of Philadelphia, chairman in a military prison in Cairo and include: the promotion ot }f the Cabinet fof the third year robbed of their personal posses- gates, Hebrew language, the estabIn succession. The forthcoming na- sions during the first two days of the lishment of projects to benefit (onwlde drive will bo launched their detention. Zvl Shfdlo, capculture and economy, the Sunday, February 27, at a Na- tain of the crew, said the mistreat- Israel's creation of a program to Interpret .liaml Beach, Fla. ment during the first two days of Isarcl realistically and to combat detention "was systematic and well Arab propaganda, the encourageSGFHTAN ARRESTS organized." ment of migration to Israel, and London.(JTA)—Egyptian police "Our men were put in separate the establishment of a Zionist eduinnounced the arrest of five men cells : after we were taken to cation program in the student ind a woman, all Jews, on charges Cairo," Shldlo hald. "Our hands group on the campuses. >f "Communist activities and es- were chained behind our backs, ilonage for Israel." and, we wore beaten at regular The Egyptian Government an- Intervals—in my case, every 15 tounccment said the accused were minutes, in the cases of the men, 'Communists employed by Israel." about every hour. The soldiers :t alleged that the accused helped who entered our cells to beat us Omaha Chapter Hadossah Tews 'come from Arab countries did 'not question us—they simply nto Israel, where they were al- beat us, and they,seemed to be will present the, ninth in a series of the "Hadassan Story" cgcdiy trained In espionage and expert at the job." over KBON from 1030 to 10;45 etumed to Arab states in the caa. m. tacity of "Communist propaganllsts and spies." The Eternal Light program All aliens, must report their ad- will be broadcast over WOWAN PROCLAIMED resses during January of this year lUdio from 11:30 a. m, to 12 New York (JTA)—More than tccording to on announcement by i !00 members of the Union of Or- he Immigration and Naturnliza- noon. hodox Rabbis of the United States lon Service of the Department of Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin of md Canada unanimously adopted usllce. Aliens who ore temporarii resolution proclaiming the prb- y absent from the United States Los Angeles, Calif., will discuss ilbitlon of the Beth Din (Rabbini- lurfnff this period! must report "The Right to Knowledge" on tal Court) of the Conservative heir address within ten days aft- the Message of Israel program labblnate and of the latter's hew- T their roturn. Those failing to over KOIL from 10:05 to 10:30 y-rcvlsed Jewish marriage con- CDort arc liable for penalties and a. m. ract. CDortation, Omaha. Jewish 'leadership has been urged to set aside January 28-30 for participation in the 20th Annual Conference of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds of the West Central Region, which comprises 10 states neighboring on Nc< braska, "Emphasis will be placed thii year on participation by commu nlty .leaders so that each commu nity may gain from the experiena of others," Mr. Marcr, Omaha Federation president, said. "It is very Important that Omaha Jewish leaders and communal workers plan to attend and participate in the session." The conference meetings will be held at the Blackstone Hotel. Both large and- small communities the region will participate.
'Paisan to Open Cinema Series
Global Report
Zionist College Groups Formed
srael Freighter Crew Released
Sunday Radio
Alien Registration