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Grecnberg, Beber Elected Delegates Two Omahans were elected dolegates to the national IVnni IS'rith convention at the 87th annual conClave of B'nal B'rlth District Grand Lodge No. 6 held over tho July 4 weekend In Chicago. They are Dr. Abe Cireenberg. Federation vice-p r e s i d e n t nn>.) member of the national Ji'nal B'rlth board, and Sam Uebor, Fed•ration past president .Sam Iicrck Of Fremont. Nebr., was also clect4d a delegate to the national convention to be held In Washingtii'i. D. C, sometime next year. Marvin Treller was named as an alternate. Member* attending the regional convention from Omaha were Dr. Greonbcrg, Sam Pullak, Ruben LJppctt of the Henry Monsky Lodge and Morris Franklin of the (Nebraska Lodge. Highlights of the conclave were addresses by B'nal B'rlth president Philip Klutznlck, n former Omahan, and Governor Memnen Williamscof Michigan.
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Global Report ISKAIX KLKCT1ON Tel Aviv (WNSj — Almost 62 percent of the eligible voters in the country have registered for the forthcoming national election, to be neld on July 2G, it was disclosed here with release of figures showing a registration of 1,000,689. Of the total number of registrants 973.801 are Jews and 8G.8H5 Arabs. To meet the heavy vote, Nome 2.000 polling stntions will be set up in .sonic mil localities.
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The Hague (JTA I--Queen Juliana received Dr. Norman Sallt, president of the Synagogue Council of America. In a private audience here. The Council represents Orthodox Reform and Conservative synagogues in the United States. During the audience, Dr. Salit presented the Queen with a framed cltntioi from the Council expressing the gratitude of the Jews to the Dutch people for the assistance they gave the Jews during 'the late war and the Nazi 1 Milton R. Abraham, !, attorney. occupation. •nd R. II. Hiller, executive, were appointed committee chairman for the Chamber of Commerce, It was announced litre by M. Cooper Smith, Chamber of Commerce viceVice-president. Mr. Abrahams will head the Tel Aviv (WNS) — Dr. Israel Chamber's education committee Kastner, former head of the Hunwhose major project will be an ox- garian Jewish Rescue Committee change program where teachers who was branded a Nazi collaboraVisit businesses and industries and tor by District Judge Benyamin businessmen and industrialists tour Halevy when he ruled ngalnsl Omaha's schools. ICastner in a criminal libel action The public affairs committee lie brought against his accuser headed by Mr. Hiller arranges for Malkiel (Jruenwald, denied here in special luncheons honoring local a report on his role In Hungary groups and featuring outstanding during tlie Nazi occupation over guest speakers'. having collaborated with t h e Nazis. ^ C'ASA»r.AN<;A IlIOTS Casablanca (JTA)—Moslem na- Declaring he hoped to clear his tionalist mobs wrecked and burned name when he appears In court on a number of Jewish-owned stalls July 31 to testify in the perjury In the nld medlna (native quar- com;>lalnt filed against him by Dr. ter)' market here as fighting be- Gruenwald, Dr. Kastner said "It tween the nationalists and French was not I who collaborated with police and troops continued into the Germans, but some Germans, .the second week. The Moslems be- particularly the Nazi leader Col. lieve that the Jews are collabor- Kurt IJecher who collaborated with me." Not ony had he and his ating with the French. Tho situation remains contused colleagues "done nothing against in this city where more than 100 Jewish interests, but we wrote an persons have already lost their heroic chapter of devotion and saclives and where the police forces rifice which deserves great appremake their way through the Mos- ciation." He credited Colonel Bechlem quarters In battle dress mid er with having saved many thouIn frontline patrol fashion. It is sands of Jew.s, declaring that the Impossible at this time to assess Jews who remained alive at the Jewish losses In either lives and end of the war in such camps as property, although few Jews are I'elsen, Terezin and others sur.believed to be among the casual- vived because Colonel Becher, ties. However, a number of Jewish Him.'.iler's deputy, was n realist merchants have been ruined by the who foresaw Illtler't; collapse and lacking and destruction of their therefore intervened so as to have an alibi. .property.
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UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OVERSEAS SURVEY JULY-AUGUST
Kastner Denies Collaboration
Settlement Reached On Claims in Austria .
Vienna (JTA)—Tho long drawn out negotiations between the Austrian Government and world Jewish organizations for compensation for Jewish victims of Nazism in Austria came to an end Monday when Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the joint executive board of the Jewish Committee for Claims on Austria, accompanied by Moses W. Bcckelman, head of the Jewish negotiations delegation, arrived here and met with Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab, Vice Chancellor Adolph Schaerf and Finance Minister Ueinlmrdt Kamitz. Dr. Emll Maurer, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Austria, attended the meeting at which the settlement was reached. Dr. Goldmann arrived here following a meeting of tho Joint executive board in Zurich this week at which the settlement reached
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earlier between the Jewish .delegation and Austrian negotiators was accepted. In a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Dr. Goldmann said that the settlement is "fair and acceptable to world Jewry." A formal statement announcing the total sum Involved in the settlement Is expected to be Issued by the Austrian Government. In the meantime, it was learned from private sources that the sum Involved will reach $22,000,000. The Austrian Government will establish a trust to administer a fund which will, during the next 10 years, pay to Austrian and former Austrian Jews now residing abroad lump sums in compensation for their claims.' Before setting up this trust, the Aust/ian Government will consult (Continued on Page 3.)
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Soviet Statement On USSR Jews Issued United Nations, N. Y. (JTA) — For the first time since the establishment of the United Nations, (he Soviet delegation here disseminated to the press Sunday a statement on Jewish religious life in the Soviet Union. The stalment did not touch upon the liquidation of Jewish cultural Institutions in the USSn, nor did it make any mention of the fate of "mls,sing" Jewish wri lei-s in Russia, or alxjut the conditions of life In Biro- BidJan which was proclaimed a Jewish autonomous region more than 25 years ago. Tho statement, which attracted attention in United Nations circles, was written by M. Rablnowitz who was not identified by the Soviet delegation; and whose name has never before appeared in public. The text of the stater ; ment reads: "Citizens of .the Jewish nationality arc found among the Inhabitants of cities and villages in different regions of the Soviet Union. Religious Jews attend prayers at the synagogues and observe the rituals prescribed by their religion. Synagogues are always well attended on Passover, Shovuoth, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Succoth and other religious holidays and at Ylzkor. "In the Soviet Union, the Jewish
Sunday Rad The American 'Jewish Hour presented by the Jewish War Veterans Is heard every Sunday afternoon over KBON from 6 to 6:30 o'clock. The program consists of current news and salute to a leading Jewish personality. "Words We Live By" the new summer series of .the Eternal Light program is broadcast every Sunday from 11:30 n. m. to 12 noon over KFAfi. The series features a cycle of dialogues between Mark Van Doren, poet and critic, and Maurice Samuels, author and lecturer. Tho series will extend until September 4.
faith enjoys (he same rights as the Russian Orthodox Church and other churches and religions. Adherents of '.he Jewish faith in the USSR h'avo their religious societies or communities. Synagogues or prayer buildings have been placed at the disposal of these communities by the local administrations and they have nil the necessary facilities for prayers and for the performance of rituals. If a Jewish religious society has been Organized In a district where ho special building is available for a synagogue, the society may .apply to the local authorities for a special building for: a synagogue, or for a land allotment for the construction of a synagogue this allotment, being provided ;free' pf charge.:;..
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"The religious society has: the right to lease premises for a synagogue from the local authorities or from private owners, "the only condition required for the organization of a Jewish, or any other religious society in the USSR is that there be no less than twenty members. The Jewish religious societies have their own shochtlm, mikvahs etc. Before Passover the state designates special" bakeries In places with a large Jewish religious population for baking matzolis for sole. Especially appointed religious observers ore required to sanction the use ol the matzohs ns ritual bread. Those who desire may bake matzohs at home. "Foreign visitors interested In tho status oj the Jewish religion in the USSR usually visit the synagogues. No one in the Soviet Union Interferes with religious Jews In performance of tho rituals prescribed by the dogmas and traditions of their faith. The right of Soviet citizens to profess any religion, or none at all Is guaranteed by Soviet legislation. "The Jewish religious societies In the Soviet Union have no central governing body. Nor was there any before, the revolution. Each society conducts Its activities Independently under tho leadership of an elected executive board, auditing committee and rabbi. In practice, however, the rabbis of neighboring synagogues, get to(Contlnucd on Pago 3.)
Fifteen executive directors Including Paul Veret of Omaha Tuesday saw Israel President Itvhak lien-Zvi open the 66-mile-long Yaikon-Negev pipeline at Rosh IIA'Aym, Israel, making possible the irrigation of another 50,000 acres of arid desert soil. Pictured at the left are some of the members of a United Jewish Appeal Survey Mission who left Sunday aboard a El Al airliner to carry out a four-week survey of UJA-financed migration, settlement, welfare and rehabilitation programs in Israel and western Europe. They are: left to right—Mr. Veret, Executive Director Federation for Jewish Service, Omaha, Neb., Julius Blsno, Executive Director, United Jewish Welfare Fund of Los Angeles, Irving Bernstein, an executive of the Field Dept., United Jewish Appeal, who resides in Beverly Hills, Calif., and Nathan Rosenberg. Executive Director, Allied Jewish ComnHH nity Council of Denver, Colo. This completes the first section of the pipeline which is expected to turn the desert wastes of tho Ncgev into a blossoming land of prosperous farms. The Irrigation project which cost approximately $40,000,000 was built mainly with United Jewish Appeal and Israel Bond funds and took three years of concentrated efforts. The line has three giant reservoirs ahd pumping stations which raise the water 750 feet from tho sourcs o f the Yarkon near Tel Aviv to the reservoir at Tekuma in the northern Negcv. The pipeline will Incieaso the amount of irrigated land by 25 per cent. Accoiding to the Associated Press, 10,000 persons witnessed tho ceremony from a new amphitheater that overlooks a crumbling crusader fortress.
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U.S., Israel Sign 'Atoms for Peace1 Washington (JTA)—The United States and Israel have formally concluded an "atoms for peace" agreement under which uranium is to be released to Israel for research and development program for humanitarian uses of atomic energy. Signatories to the initialed ' agreement included George V. Allen, Assistant Secretary of-State •for Near Eastern Affairs Israel Ambassador Abba Eban, and Admiral Lewis Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commlssionf Ambassador Ebon expressed his appreciation to the many officials of the State Department and tho Atomic Energy Commission who have enabled Israel to bo "among the first beneficiaries of this constructive and farslghted program. He said that Israel being the second country to sign the agreement indicates that it will not be lagging far behind the rest of the world in utilizing the benefits ot tho program. The Government of Turkey on June 10 was the-first country to complete negotiations with the United States. BANK LOAN Snn Francsico (WNS) — Th« Bank of America here has granted a loan ot .130,000,000 to the Israel Government, to bo repaid within two years together with interest at the rate ot four percent per year. Negotiated by Pinchas Sapir, dl« rector ot tho Israel Treasury, while on his recent visit .to the United States, tho loan Is to be use? fo* capital Investment tho import ot certain goods. The Bank of Amep« ica in the past has made smaller loans to Israel and the Jewish Na« tlonal Fund. . _j