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Vospecfs For if A raiB - New York (JTA)-Grim prospects for the survival of Jewish cultural mid religious life in the Soviet Union were expressed here by spokesmen for a delegation of 'It reform rabbis who returned from a visit to Russia, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. •
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Jerusalem (JTA)—As Israel's Cabinet lauded Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and Foreign Minister Abba Eb.in for the manner in which they handled tha most recent Syrain crisis, Mr. Eshkol warned the Government isolation, inequality, ignorance and the country that there is no certainty at ail that the Syrluid ducliii-." inns will now keep the peace. Invisible Jews "There is no way of knowing," The delegation s p o k e s m e n lie cautioned, "whether they will said that the synagogues in keep peace now or will continue Russia "were the gathering the aggressions against Israel places for the old, the halt and as their leaders keep saying the retired pensioners." While, they will," Then the Premier in addition (r> tlu* "svniif^mjiip added: "In the latter case. IsJews," there were small num- rael i.s ready to defend her terbers of "cultural Jews," Rabbi Pilchik said that the vast majority were "invisible Jews" who had little or no contact with Jewish life.
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'"We gained the strong impression." the delegation .spokesmen said, "that anti-Semitism in tho USSR has not been uprooted. On the contrary, it is now on tin1 increase. The official policy ot the Government is that anti-Semitism is a crime against the state. We strongly urge the USSR to implement this official policy as a matter of highest priority." Tcnneck, N. J. (JTA) —Police While the Christian communiannounced this week the arrest of four youths in the swastika ties seemed to show less ten.smearing of Congregation Beth sion and Ki'lf consciousness than Sholorn and said the smearing Russian Jews, Rabbi Pilchik appeared to have been a prank. said that he thought there was between the difOne of the youths was !7 and little difference which the Jews and the others 1C. Police said that ficulties other communities were sufferthe idea of daubing paint on the ing in the area of religion. synagogue was that of the 17In the cultural field, however, year-old and that he did the actual painting. Their names it was the consensus of the delegation members that "strictures were withheld. The police said that the de- and limitations were placed on facing, in which 111 swastikas the development of Jewish culwere painted on the building, ture which were not true of othbegan with the youth merely er nationality groups such as smearing paint on the walls, the Ukrainians or the Lithuanwindows and sidewalk and that ian or the Georgian." the idea of painting on swnstikas came later in the spree. Police Chief Robert Fitzpatrick had discounted the possibility of organized anti-Semitic activity in tho township. The 17-year-old was taken to the children's shelter at Bergen New York (JTA) — A ruling Pines County Hospital. The three others were released in that a New York .state law custody of their parents. They which mandates public school will be charged with juvenila systems to lend textbooks to delinquency in Hackensack ju- Christian and Jewish religious schools is unconstitutional is venile court. seen as setting the stage for a final court test of the controversial law. The Ferrall-Mangano l a w , New York UTA) — Funeral services were held here this which was enacted in 19G5 and week for Moshe Koussevitsky, amended at the last legislative fine of the world's leading can- session, was to have gone into tors, who died in his home in effect September 1. The law Great Neck, N. Y.; this week would give school districts up after a long illness. He was 67. to $15 for each pupil annually His body was flown to Israel in >;tate funds for three years for the purchase of textbooks for burial. Born in Smorgon, Russia, ho to be "loaned" to pupils of both became known as the greatest public and non-public schools. cantor in pre-war Poland as After three years, the pupil alchief cantor ot the famous Tlo- lowancewould drop to a $10 macka Synagogue in Warsaw. limit, The stale grants were set He fled from Warsaw when tho for all pupils, public and nonGerman army invaded tho city public, in grades seven through •-. .: ' '•••.'-•• and escaped to the Soviet Union 1 2 . • Jewish Groups Split where he remained during tho A split between Jewish groups war years. He gave tnany concerts in Russia during1 those on tho issue of government aid years, He came to 1ttie United to religious schools marked deStales nfter the war , resuming bato on the measure during its his cantoriul career. At hi* enactment and after it was signed into taw. Orthodox Jewdeath Sie was cantor of Beth El in Brooklyn. Mi groups supported the meas-
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Edward A. Zelinsky has been elected International Secretary of the P/nai B'rith's AZA organization. The lG-year-old Omahan w.is e l e c t e d at the International Leadership Kallah of BBVO held in Starlight. Pennsylvania this summer. During the 7 week camp program, the speciallyselected participants were involved in an intensive educational institute in Judaism conducted by noted Jewish personalities including Dr. Mordecai Kaplan, Dr. Ira Eisenstein, Dr. David Fcllman, Rnbbi Myron Fenster and many others. The newly elected Secretary will be among the three officers representing the 18,000 members of AZA at the North American Jewish Youth Conference in Nyack, New York, September 4-6. The son of Mrs. Harold Zelinsky, Edward now holds the same office once held by his father, the late Harold Zelinsky.
ure and hailed its enactment. Jewish civil rights groups assailed the measure. It was estimated that non-public school pupils in New York City wero to have received about $1,250,000 worth of books this year' under the Ferrall-Mangano Act. Aid <o Children The ruling on the law was made by State Supreme Court Justice T. Paul Kane, who held that the law violated both the New York State and federal constitutional provisions on separation of church and state. He held that "pupils are part of tho school" and that aid to pupils was the same as aid to schools. Both federal and state programs of such aid were based on tho premise that since the aid was directed to children, and not to the institutions they attended, the program did not violate tha constitutional ban on aid to religion. Test Case Dr. James E. Allen, Jr.. New York State Education Commissioner, said he expected the ruling would ba appealed. The decision on such actiou will ba
ritory and the lives of her citizens,'' The crisis on the Syrian border, specifically in the Lake Tiberias area, has lasted from August 15, the day the Syrians fired mortar shells against an Israeli Coast Guard vessel marooned on a reef in the Ink?, until last Friday. Israel sent its air force aloft on August'15 when the Syrians continued firing to prevent rescue of the Israeli wounded. Israel's jets knocked out the two Syrian gun posts behind a hill near the eastern shore of the
planes — one behind the Syrian lines, another into the lake, with its pilot. On Friday, Israel finally refloated its stranded Coast Guard cutter, in the facs of Syrian threats to use its massed men and armor near the Tiberias shore. M1G Wreckage This week Israeli officials continued to display at Tiberias the crushed wing and part of the undercarriage of the Syrian MIG-17 which was shot down into Lake Tiberias, together with its pilot on August 15. Israel decided to display tho wreckH(re BS 2 retort to CL Syr* ];\ki\ in »n ensiiiiy do^fi'-ht Israel shot down two Syrian inn claim that Syrian frogmen had recovered the MIG and the body of the pilot from the lake, despite United Nations and Israel surveillance. The plane had been brought down close to the northeastern s'noru of Lake Tiberias where the Syrian border lies 30 feet from the water's edge. An IsEdward also serves as Regional raeli spokesman said that small AZA Pledgeinaster, as well as pieces of the wreckage and posPresident of the Omaha AZA sibly the pilot's body might 100 chapter. have floated to shore, where they could have been retrieved by the Syrians. Asked if ther8 was any truth in the Syrian 'claim, an Israeli officer replied that, besides the wing and un'Continued on Page 8)
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made by New York State Attorney. General Louis Lefkowitz. Mr, Allen said "we have long needed legal clarification in this field of public policy and I expect this case will be appealed so that a final court decision will be available' for future guidance."
New Haven (JTA) —Connecticut State Sen. Edward.L. Marcus announced here that he will introduce legislation prohibiting use of the words "restricted area" in any real estate advertising, when the Connecticut General A s s e m b l y convenes next year. Mr. Marcus recently complained about an advertisement appearing in a local newspaper, in which the words "restricted area" appeared concerning the sale of a farm. The legislator demanded an Immediate clarification of tho phrase, pointing out that discrimination is strictly prohibited in the sale of real estate in Connecticut. The broker's explanation that the phrase meant that the land was zoned and no industrial or commercial usa would be permitted, was rejected by Mr. Marcus, who said that this reply does not "ring true." He said, that in his opinion, "the words connote all o( the things which the majority of us feel are detrimental to our society."
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