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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
THEOLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 26 NO. 11
Southeastern Jewry Told Jewish
Foreign Relief Drains
Needed U. S. Funds
RICHMOND. Va.—Overemphasis of financial relief for Jews
ibroad is "starving out" the institutions of American Jewry. Rabbi
Louis Wolsey, of Philadelphia, told the Southeastern Regional
convention of the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods.
The NFTB and the Jewish
Chautauqua Society, meeting
here with it, both are in finan
cial danger, Dr. Wolsey said. The
Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion, seminary of
Liberal Judaism and the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega
tions, are similarly pressed, he
said, from philanthropies drained
away overseas.
“If we neglect our cultural and
religious institutions in the Un
ited States,” the rabbi warned,
“we will soon no longer have Ju
daism either here or in Israel.”
Dr. Wolsey’s statement was reit
erated by Dr. Maurice N. Eisen
drath, president of the Union of
American Hebrew Congrega
tions, and S. Herbert Kaufman
of Harrisburg, Pa., president of
the National Federation of Tem
ple Brotherhoods.
Dr. Eisendrath declared that
“there can be no European Jew
ry, perhaps even no survival in
Zion, unless American Jewry re
mains spiritually strong.” Mr.
Kaufman said that the syna
gogue and its allied Brotherhood,
Sisterhood and Youth groups
“are basic to organized Jewish
communal life.”
As principal speaker, Dr. Wol
sey who recently became rabbi
emeritus of Temple Rodeph Sha
lom after nearly fifty years in
the pulpit, also took to task the
approach of fighting anti-Semit
ism by some Jewish defense or
ganizations, particularly those
that emphasize the growing trend
towards treating the Jews as a
minority, he said:
“All the books, all the sermons,
all the propaganda in the world
will not prevail one jot against
anti-Semitism, because that is
not the way. We have tried it
for 3,000 years, and we have had
more persecution in recent years
than ever before.”
He urged a positive approach
J° *he problem, a reciting of the
essons of history, of humanity
an d of constitutional government.
Our aim must be to Ameri
canize Americans,” he said, “by
refreshing their memories, on the
Philosophy and the lifeblood of
° u r nation.”
U. S. Guards Replace
Israelis and Arabs
At Old Govh House
isMT USa^em ’ (Halcor)—A spec
united Nations guard has re
aced the mixed Israeli-Arab
gion detachments which have
n the former Gov
ent House here, now head
barters of the U. N. Concilia
n Commission.
i ■ ——
47 Moslem Religious
Officials On Israel
Payroll
JERUSALEM Forty - seven
Moslem religious dignitaries were
paid out of the budget of the Is
raeli Ministry of Religions for
their religious services to Isla
mic communities throughout Is
rael, the World Mizrachi head
quarters here reported. The
ministry has appointed a' Mos
lem Archeology at the Univer
sity of Jerusalem, to study the
state of mosques and other Mos
lem holy places in Israel.
Year's Scholarship In Israel Offered
To American Youihs
NEW YORK (Palcor) —Nearly 150 scholarships for a year's stay
in Israel will be offered this year to American Zionist youth between
the ages of 18 and 25, it was announced today by the Youth De
partment of the Jewish Agency. 16 East 66th Street, New York City.
Sponsoring the scholarships
are various Zionist organizations
which will select candidates who
are to approved by a five-man
national board of judges com
posed of leading Jewish educa
tors. Particular significance is
attached to the fact that in this
area of Jewish youth education,
common ground was found by all
shades of American Zionists in
a coordinated endeavor.
The Zionist Organization of
ships. The American Zionist
America is offering 100 scholar-
Youth Commission, made up of
Junior Hadassah, Masada, IZFA
and Young Judea, as well as Ha
bonim, Hashomer Hatzair, Jun
ior Mizrachi Women, Hechalutz
Hadato have joined the plan and
will specify how many scholar
ships they propose to sponsor as
soon as financial arrangements
Mizrachi Completes
First Step In
Housing Project
RAMAT YITCHAK—The Miz
rachi Housing Project at Ramat
Yitchak, near Tel Aviv, has just
been completed and the first six
ty houses were handed over to
the owners last week. Housing
for another 18 families will be
provided during the next two
weeks, the World Mizrachi head
quarters reported. This project
marks the first stage in a mass
housing effort the WMO is now
engaged in with the support of
American Mizrachi.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1949 /
News Story Ends
Hunt for DP Kin
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A two-year search by Polish DP
Ava Miller (left) for her only living
relative ended happily in the New
York offices of United Service for
New Americans when she was re
united with her sister-in-law, Dr.
Anna Rentier. After the reunion,
which was brought about by publica
tion of a news story concerning the
vain hunt, it was discovered that the
two women lived only a block apart
in Brooklyn. The work of United
Service is iinanced through the
United Jewish Appeal, which re
cently opened its 1949 campaign for
5250.000.000.
have been made.
Candidates will be judged on
the basis of their leadership qual
ity and their knowledge of He
brew and Zionist and Jewish his
tory, according to Youth Depart
ment spokesman. The year in
Israel, under the * scholarship
plan, will be divided equally be
tween formal study and practical
work in a settlement. Upon their
return, they will be expected to
spend a year in service with the
organization which sponsored
their scholarships.
Christian and Jewish Experts To
Meet At Dropsie College Conference
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—A two day Conference on Modern Middle
East Studies will be held at The Dropsie College on Monday and
Tuesday, April 11-12, by Dropsie's newly established Institute for
Israel and the Middle East, it was announced by Dr. Abraham A.
Neuman, president. Participants will include both Christian and
Jewish authorities on this important area. The Conference will open
with a luncheon on Monday. April 11th and will include an after
noon session on Monday, and morning and afternoon sessions on
Tuesday.
Speakers at the opening ses
sion, at which President Neuman
will preside, are Harvey P. Hall,
Editor of the Middle East Journ
al, who will speak on “The Defin
itions of the Middle East Area;
Dr. Cyrus H. Gordon, Professor
of Assyriology and Egyptology at
the Dropsie College, who will
discuss “Modern Middle East
Studies in the United States”,
and Professor Edwin Samuel of
Jerusalem, Visiting Professor of
of Middle East Government and
Germans Use Former Washington
Embassy Nazi To Boost
Trade Exposition Here
Charges that a notorious official of the Nazi Embassy in Wash
ington is now serving as public relations advisor to the German
Bizonal Administration in connection with activities which include
promotion of the exposition of German industry to open in New
York on April 9, were made today by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi
League. ——
The individual is Dr. Heribert
von Strempel, who before tne
war was First Secretary to Hit
ler’s Embassy in Washington. He
was noted for his persistent ef
forts to make the American press
amenable to the Nazi point of
view.
Von Strempel was named in a
1941 “White Book” issued by the
House Committee Investigating
Anti-Zionist Arch
bishop Returns;
Sings New Tune
JERUSALEM (MNB) Mon
signor George Hakim, Arab Bish
op of the Greek Orthodox Com
munity in Galilee, has returned
to Israel singing a new tune.
Prior to recent hostilities,
Bishop Hakim was notoriously
anti-Zionist. When Arab-Is
raeli warfare broke out, he fled
to Beirut. Fr6m there he left
for Europe where he traveled
extensively preaching anti-Zion
ism. This month, the Bishop re
turned to Haifa on a United Na
tions plane, accompanied J?Y
three clergymen. On landing,
Bishop Hakim stated that now
Israel is a fact, the Jews must
treat Arabs fairly without dis
crimination. He said he had left
political life and hoped the Is
raeli Gov’t, would now permit
him to visit all sections of his
community in order to prepare
a memorandum on the position
of churches in Israel, which he
would submit to the Pope.
Administration at Dropsie, who
will speak on “A Curriculum for
Modern Middle East Studies.”
Speakers at the Tuesday morn
ing session will be John Marsh,
Secretary of the Middle East In
stitute, who will speak on “The
Aims of Students of Modern
Middle East Studies,” and Dr.
John A. Loftus, Professor of
Economics at the Middle East In
stitute, who will discuss “The
Aims of Middle East Studies.”
Professor Samuel will preside.
Un-American activities as hav
ing abused his diplomatic priv
ileges by disseminating Nazi
propaganda and race hatred in
the U. S.
The record includes corres
pondence between von Strempel
and Manfred Zapp, a Goebbels
agent, in which it was plotted to
propagandize wealthy Ameri
cans vacationing in Florida on
behalf,of the Third Reich. Von
Strempel also procured fraudul
ently a set of Maryland auto li
cense plates to facilitate the ac
tivities of Zapp.
The Anti-Nazi League also
pointed to public evidence that
von Strempel was closely assoc
iated with the propaganda activ
ities of Ullrich ' von
Gestapo chieftain at the Ger
mans’ Washington Embassy, and
press attache Ernest Hepp, who
worked in Washington and
Stockholm with Hitler’s friend,
Ambassador Hans Thomsen.
Commenting upon General
Clay’s assurances that none but
politically clean Germans would
be permitted to come to New
York in connection with the Ger
man industry exposition here,
Prof. James H. Sheldon, Admin
istrative Chairman and Hon.
Herman Hoffman, Chairman,
Board of Directors, of the Non-
Sectarian Anti-Nazi League in a
joint statement said:
“General Clay’s assurances on
this point are meaningless as
long as he takes no steps to bar
exhibiting companies whose
owners and managers were min
ions of the Hitler regime. In such
cases the imprint ‘Made in Ger
many’ really means ‘Favored by
the Gestapo.’ Until these con
cerns have been reorganized
from top to bottom Which has
not yet been done good Ameri
cans will not buy their products.
To clear exhibitors like Lanz
and Rosenthal, in the face of
their flagrant Nazi records, is to
invite Americans to send dollars
to Germany for the purpose of
rebuilding the old Nazi machine
that once before dominated Ger
man economy.
“In short, our complaint about
this exposition is based on the
still existing Nazi taint of the
German firms that will benefit,
and concerns individuals like von
Strempel who are climbing back
to power in Germany. General
Clay’s ‘assurance’ are limited to
the hired men who are to come
here as fronts and do not
touch the real culprits whose
presence in the background
makes the whole idea of this ex
position repugnant to patriotic
Americans.”
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