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/ AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY VOL. 30 NO. 20 PLAIN TALK BY ALFRED SEGAL WE GET MISSIONARIES The Catholic Telegraph-Regis ter, diocesan newspaper of our town (Cincinnati) prints this news: "Cincinnati this week be came headquarters of the first foundation in North America of the Missionary Priests of Notre Dame de Sion, a society dedicated to the conversion of the Jews. Father Marcel Lerous, one of the leaders of the society in France, has been placed in charge of the work in this archdiocese. “ ‘Our purpose,’ according to Father Leroux, “ ‘is to aid the Jews to find their true spiritual home: The Church founded by Christ, Israel’s Messias.’ "During the past 12 years he has been in charge of convert work among the Jews of Paris. In that time he has been respon sible for more than 400 conver sions ... 'I shall be very pleased' said Father Leroux, "to get in touch with young men who are willing to consecrate their lives to this important work." This, you might say, begins to happen in the shadow of the He brew Union College at Cincinnati where for some 75 years rabbis have been raised up toward the purpose of making better Jews (Reform) out of us. To say noth ing of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations which in Cincinnati toiled through 70 years to persuade U. S. Jews toward their temples. (A few years ago the Union moved to New York.) Maybe I should tell Father Le roux before he gets good and started to bring us into the church that our rabbis themselves haven't been any too successful to gel us into the temples, except on the higher holidays. In considerable excitement at the thought of having Father Le roux’ missionaries pursuing me, I called on my friend Mr. Hillel of the Hillel Widget Corp. His cool wisdom, by which he has made 6uch a success at widgets, was in full operation, despite the warm weather. "It's nothing for us to get excited about, Segal," he said. "Between you and me a little competition might do us some good around here: Our rabbis on one side and Father Leroux on the other, each side working hard for the souls of Jews. It'll put the rabbis on their toes. v; V Mr. Hillel said that he himself f<*Ms quite lonely in the temple on vhe Sabbaths. This is to say, he is one of the few men in the tem ple on those days. All around him sit the widows who keep on mourning for their husbands every Sabbath. He rejoices when another man drops in to join with him and the rabbi in speaking to God. Mr. Hillel is of the old-fashioned order that thinks men are really the proper ones to speak to God in the temple. He recalls that the ancient temple was entirely man (Continued on Page 12) TEMPLE WITHDRAWS FROM COOPERATIVE SUNDAY SCHOOL ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (JTA) Temple Beth El, which last year united with Congregation B’nai Israel to form the Jewish Community Sunday School, has decided to withdraw from the cooperative project, it was disclosed this week. The arrangement pro vided for an equal sharing of the costs of the school between the two congregations. Front Page News . .. There are two aspects to the news item, carried last week by the entire American press, name ly that a Negro was elected to the board of education of Atlanta. By all accounts, this Negro, a Univer sity President, is fully competent to fill the post; in every way as competent as any other member or that of any other board of pub lic education. And, of course, we share with the rest of the country in the satisfaction that comes from the knowledge that the in cidence of color did not stand in the way of merited recognition. But, we cannot help asking: Is it not too bad that such an event is still the exception, so much so that it is still considered front page news . . . Irving Berlin: “Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.” Jewry's Interest in Elizabeth’s Coronation Queen Elizabeth ■" nT ~ tr *»• IlHft 4 PROCL4M4TIOM kw m M*ar. * »«■ •***• ettuMCwnS rs Vital «f Mmkt, m 4 njn *» frta eteiot A m Proclamation that, in effect, granted independence to the Uni ted States. An American Jewish Press Feature There will be a forest of 250,- 000 trees in Israel in honor of the coronation which took place on June 2, of Queen Elizabeth of England. It will be known as JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, JUNE 5, 1953 Jax Rabbi To Be * Honored l»i|i ' ||Mnf|| X N < - s n % Rabbi Sanders A. Tofield Rabbi Sanders A. Tofield, spir itual leader of the Jacksonville Jewish Center, will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Hebrew Literature, in course, at the 59th annual Commencement Exercises of The Jewish Theological Semi nary of America, to be held at 4 p. m., Sunday, June 7th, in the Seminary Quadrangle, 3080 Broadway, New York City, ac cording to Dr. Louis Finkelstein, Chancellor. Rabbi Tofield, who has been with the Jacksonville Jewish Center since 1947, was graduated from Tulsa University with a B. A. degree in 1930, and was or dained as rabbi and received the degree of Master of Hebrew (Continued on Page 4) feIHOLYL ft'-lg King James I and Bible Translation “Coronation Forest.” To link the coronation with Israel, Queen Elizabeth also had a dress made by the 17 and 18 year old girls of the Alice Seligs berg Vocational Training School. This dress, which has been sent Arabs Plan Boycott To Hart Israel BY MILTON FRIEDMAN (Copyright, 1953, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) ****** —WASHINGTON - While Secretary of Stale John Foster Dulles was in the Middle East presenting a goodwill pistol to Egyptian dictator Naguib, the Arab stales brandished a hostile pistol at the heads of American business firms. The Arabs notified U. S. businessmen that they would lose all Arab business if they continued to trade with Israel. Gen. Adib Shishekly, boss of Syria, called for intensification of the economic boycott as the best means f>i destroying Israel. The General notified aviation com panies and other firms that they would be deprived of Arab busi ness unless they terminated deal ings with Israel. American firms, which had protested to the State Department, waited to see what action Dulles would take during his visit to Syria. Time magazine, a pro-Adminis tration publication, later reported that during the Dulles junket, Gen. Shishekly "seemed to im press Dulles more than any other Arab leader ... At U. S. Ambas sador James Moose's reception, the two ducked out into the gar den with a few aides, conferred animatedly for two hours, came away with satisfied grins. Good guess: The U. S. would undertake to arm and help train Syria's lough little army." Dulles might have been im pressed by Gen. Shishekly but the attempts of Syria and other Arab states to intimidate U. S. business firms did not impress the victim ized firms. One organization, the from Jerusalem for inclusion in the coronation wardrobe, is of dark green velvet. It has a draped hobble skirt, and a backless strap less bodice embroidered with beads. The Alice Seligsberg School is conducted by Hadassah. The dress was on exhibit in the school, whose 10th anniversary was ob served recently. * * * Qu'een Elizabeth’s coronatipn calls attention to Jewish histori cal backgrounds in England. I»he earliest known settlers on the British Isles are said to have come there during the reign of William the Conqueror (1066-1087). They developed industries and prosper ed as merchants, but their pros perity ended during the third crusade, in the reign of Richard I, towards the end of the 12th cen tury. The London Jewish quarter was attacked and Jews suffered humiliations from that time on. King John (1199-1216) extract ed large sums from Jewish com munities. There was a breathing spell under Henry 111, but when the latter reached his majority, he, too, began to exact heavy sums from the Jews. • * * Then came the frightful Ritual (Continued on Page 8) $3.00 A YEAR Easy Washing Machine Co., Syra cuse, N. Y., outlined its indigna tion in a letter to Sen. Herbert H. Lehman. The firm’s export man ager, S. H. Lewis, wrote that “the Syrian Government would not permit the importation of washers because we were also selling washers to Israel.” Lewis warned that "if this sit uation is not effectively and quickly corrected, such practices might result in an ever-widening scope." The executive indicated doubt as to whether the State Department was really taking ef fective action. "We do not know what action our government has undertaken to effect steps to pro tect the interests of American free enterprise and trade ... The pres ent status of our brand of goods in these Arab countries does not indicate that such steps have been effective, because we are advised that we cannot sell Easy washers in Lebanon or Syria simply be cause we sell Easy washers in Is rael." “These Arab countries which are openly discriminating against legitimate American interests,” Lewis said, “are, we believe, at the same time . . . receiving sub stantial American aid in various forms. They are demanding and in some cases receiving American political support. The consider able amounts of money paid to these states as foreign aid by our government, either directly or in directly, is ultimately the money of the American taxpayer. It would thus seem incomprehensi ble to us that we should pay out own money to assist countries that boycott, or threaten to boy cott, our products.” Lewis said his company ven tured to assume "that the heads of the Arab governments have not been confronted with these subjects in clear and unequivocal terms." The company suggested to the Stale Department "that the time has come" for such action. "It is felt," said Lewis, "that it is the duty of our government to protect American interests in sit uations of this kind, which we feel are unjustified and discrimi natory." Lebanon was named in the charges of the washing machine company. What corrective action did Dulles take in Lebanon? Time magazine reported: “Dulles de lighted Premier Saeb Salaam of Lebanon, at his fifth stop, by his candor. Stoutly denying that U. S. Middle East policy is Zionist-dic tated, Dulles said that the Jews as a whole had voted against him in (Continued on Page 8)