Vol. XXXIV—No. 20.
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Jewish Agency Progress leporf on Israel Jerusalem (VVN.S)-On the eve Of Hie 24th World Zionist Congress, which opened here on Tues'day, tile Jewish Agency issued ;i report which shows that Bincc • 1951, 21 .'1.000 Jewish immigrants entered Israel. At the end of the year, the number of uimiigrants in transit centers was reduced to 70.000. The report nlso showed that 123 new agricultural settlements were founded in that period. Last year, thanks to a new "ship-to-village" plan, 70 percent of the Immigrants were taken directly to prepared settlements in new and border development areas, which helped reduce the ntiml>cr of people in trim; •it camps. Immigration Needs Figures for immigration during the four-and-three-quarter year period revealed that 1,482 Jews from the United States settled In Israel, whiln Argentina contributed l.fiOG Jewish immigrants. The largest number of Jewish immigrants from n single country, 108,000 camo from Iraq, while 33,800 came from Rumania. After a hiatus of more than three years, Jewish mans immigration from North Africa was resumed In August, IMJ. The needs of North African Jewry, endangered by nationalist upheavals an'.1 general political uncertainty, were met nt the expense of n program, approved at the last Zionist Congress, filmed at obtaining middle class immigrants from Western countries. youth Training
.Youth Allyah Institutions mid farm nnd training centers absorlied about 23,000 youths during this period, and there are Btill 11,000 children in the movement's various centers. About half of all the children Youth Aliyah cared fof have gone into agriculture, the report showed, with the remainder choosing the army or various other occupations. Seventy percent of the children absorbed during this period were boys. Some $40,000,000 was spent on Youth Allyah activities. 8OV1KT JKWS London (JTA)—More than 20 Soviet Jews were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from three to ten years at a trial held in Moscow at the end of March for "possessing and distributing illegal Zionist literature." the Manchester Guardian, leading British newspaper, reports.
Dr. Arthur Lelyveld
Lelyveld Named To Fund for Israel Dr. Arthur J. IxOyveld, National Director of the IS'nai B'rith Hiliel Foundations, lias been appointed Executive Vlee-1'resident of the American Fund for Israel Institutions. The American Fund supports many of the leading educational and cultural institutions In Israel and In turn receives support from the Omaha Jewish Philanthropies Campaign. Dr, Jxiyveld was formerly the spiritual leader of Temple Israel. CAUTIOUS CEASK-iaiEK Jerusalem (WNS) — Israeli newspapers this week welcomed the cease-fire agreement which Mr. Iliunmarskjold arranged between Egypt and Israel, hut all cautioned that a crisis had been postponed, not dispelled. It was noted that the cease-fire order provides only that there shall be no shooting across or penetration of frontiers but does not obligate Israel and Egypt to refrain from all "warlike or hostile nets," as provided In the armistice. Israel contends that Egypt's claim to be still nt war with Israel ami Its closing of the Suez Canal are "warlike or hostile acts," and therefore violations of the armistice.
Jerusalem V, ^nie Soviet .statcntent pledging support to United Nations efforts to secure a settlement of the Arab-Israel conflict was welcomed with much criticism and caution by Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett. Addressing the Israel Parliament, Mr. Sharett insisted that the Soviet statement "still bar; to pass the test of action." He lambasted the Soviets for their "unstinting" support of the Arab cause and for having added fuel to the Aral) fires by supplying arms to Egypt. K<M! Htutrmrnt Noting that the Moscow statement contained phrases which might be considered "innovations'' compared with earlier pronouncements, the Israel Foreign Minister declared: "We sincerely hope that the new formulations herald u change for the better In the climate of relations between ourselves and the Soviets, the deterioration of which we never desired." He warned, however, that the "Sovlels have lent and are lending sincere and wholehearted'support to the Arab states' aspirations." It is noteworthy, Mr. Sharett went on, that "in talking of a peace settlement between Israel and the Arab stales, no mention was made of direct negotiations— a principle which the Soviets have always upheld for the sett lenient of international affairs." Negative AspnctH The negative aspects of the Soviet statement take on additional importance, he said, in view of an article in last Sunday's Izvestia— Soviet Government organ—emphasizing in great detail the onesided friendship of the Soviets for the Arab states and in which Israel is accused of violating the UN Charter by her actions along the border. That article also stigmatized Israel as a tool of United States and British aggressive circles and the article differentiated between the armistice demarcation lines and permanent frontiers, Mr. Sharett pointed out. The whole intent of the article appears to be obscure the positive aspects of the Foreign Ministry declaration and to stress Its negative aspects the Israel Foreign Minister charged.
Mayor Rosenblatt Receives ADL Book
•ACTIVE C'ONC'KKN' New York <JTA>—The "active concern" of t". •• United States Government for the welfare of Israel was emphasized here by Edward B. Lawson, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, In an recorded message to the annual dinner of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce held at the Waldorf As• toria Hotel. Ambassador Lawson referred to President Eisenhower's call for "the courage to be patient," and said he believed Jaracl would abide by tills kind of courage. "It fs in full good faith and conviction that I say to you now," tho Ambassador added, "that I believe Lirael will choose the way of reason and steadiness and patience,
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Chairmen Named For Survey Study Two chairmen of volunteer committees to probe the attitudes concerning Jewish education In Omaha were named at the first meeting of the Omaha Commission on Jewish Education held last week, it was announced by Dr. M o r r i s Margolin, commission chairman. They are Mrs. Morton Hlller and Edward D. Iirodkey. Mrs. Miller's committee will interview parents of children in school, those whose youngsters have dropped out and the parents of children who have not attended any of the schools. Mr. Brodkcy'.! group will contact leaders of all Jewish organizations here to solicit their views. Dr. Margolin, who also heads the Bureau of Jewish Education, pointed out that about $100,000 Is being spent annually to educate nearly 1,000 youngsters. The Federation for Jewish Service through the Jewish Philanthropies Campaign furnishes a 538,000 subsidy for Jewish education in our city. One of the questions that the survey will attempt to answer, is Dr. Margolin said: How can our educational program be improved? He added, the survey which is part of a national sampling, is sort of a inventory of the progress being made in Jewish education. The national survey, which is being made by the American Association for Jewish Education, is the most thorough and widest Jn scope that has ever been attempted, Dr. Margolin stressed. Seventy cities arc Included and results of tho national sampling will be compiled some time next year. Dr. Uriah Engclman, national survey co-director, will arrive here May 7 to conduct the Omaha sampling.
'The Bride's Dream' At Center Sunday
Sunday Radio "Tho Cedar and the Reed" will be presented on the Eternal light program broadcast over KFAB from 11:30 a, ra. to 12 noon. It Is a dramatization of the story of Rabbi ben Eleazar and his visit to a vUlago.
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Mayor John Bosenblatt, second from the right, receives a copy of "Crofts-Currents," the latest book puMlshed by tbn Anti-Defamation League of B'nal B'rith, The presentation, in the Mayor's office, m i made by Leo Elsenitatt (second from left); vice-chairman of the regional advisory boArd; Harry Collck (extreme left), member of Omaha ADL Committee, «nd Sol Llttnxn (right), regional dlreotor of the League. .
Workmen's C i r c l e Dramatic Club will present "Tho Bride's Dream," a four-act play in Yiddish at 8:30 p. m., this Sunday In the Jewish Community Center. The dramatic club stages a play each year to raise funds for its project of supporting two adopted children.one in Israel and the other in France. Tho production Is Under the direction of Louis Witkin, the club's dramatic director. Admission is 75 cents per person.
• Jerusalem (JTA)—Opportunities for reducing Arab-Israel tension have arisen now as never before in Israel's history, but the danger of war has similarly increuscd as never before, Premier David Ben Gurlon told an extraordinary session of the Israel Parliament Sunday. He reported on Israel's security, on the constant efforts of the Israel Government to secure peace and on his talks with Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary General. Danger of Wnr The apparent contradiction, Mr, Ben Gurion said, can easily be explained by the fact that the danger of war has obviously nroused the concern of great, and small nations to realize that any conflagration in the Middle East is likely to spread throughout the world. This, the Israel Premier emphasized, has been revealed by Mr. Hammarskjold's mission and perhaps also by the shift in the Soviet policy with regard to the Middle East. Strives for I'eare "Israel has always striven and will continue to strive to maintain peace in the region," the Premier continued. "To our regret this is not the attitude of our neighbors for whom the signing of the armistice agreements mean nothing more than a scrap of paper. They have never ceased openly and secretly to prepare for a 'second round' lo wipe Israel off the map. As long as they arc not certain that they can achieve this by military strength, they use boycott and economic blockade and guerrilla warfare In open defiance of their undertaken obligations." Mr. Ben Gurion then reviewed the acts of violence committed by Egypt and Jordan against Israel leading to ever-increasing tension. The danger, he said, became more acute after a stream of Soviet arms and hg,ivy bombers and tanks began to flow.into Egypt in addition to arms which she had already received from Britain and supplies which Saudi Arabia and Iraq have been receiving from the United States.
Justice Frankfurter Hits 'Dual Loyalty* Concept New York (WNS)—Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, in a special message to the recently concluded convention of the American Jewish Congress in New York, declared that faith in the traditional American Ideals "does not preclude active sympathy with, and support of, such aims as Israel represents. Noting that the AJ Congress* meeting was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Louis Dembitz Brandels, Justice Frankfurter pointed out that the venerated jurist's "efforts on behalf of Zionism and the establishment of Israel presented for him no irrelevant problem of what timid souls call 'dual loyalty.' The history of our Republic is the story of the most significant admixture of peoples in history. The ideal, beyond any other, that holds us together is our belief in the moral worth of man, whatever his race, color, or religion. This faith does not preclude active sympathy with, and support of, such aims as Israel represents. The depth and range of Louis D. Brandels' contribution to. American life afford {he most telling meanihg of hi? conception of American citizenship."• ' l