Lewish POST Zionist and Travched Widely in the Interests of the Cause

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Page Three Thursday, March 16, 1950 Thursday, March 16, 1950 THF. JEWISH POST Page Two THE JEWISH POST 'PRIE·ST DIES ist group; by this m.eans P wanted FRENCH ZIONIST,., EX to impress his three associates with Cantor Silverman Concert DETROIT _ Aimee Palliere of Paris, who abandoned Catholic pl'iest- the extent of his own liberal phil Dr. Israel Gold'stein ' Master hood to beco;me a convet't to Judaism, passed on recently, according to osophy." / Phil Slomowitz; Detroit Jewish Chronicle columnist. He was.an ardent "-~'S':;;:;;;';:;:;;;;~:;;~;:;:;;~~- Tues., Mar. 28/1 at Playhouse lEWISH POST Zionist and travcHed widely in the interests of the cause. As vice-president II ..,...:.-- ...... '+' '+' • • . l1 of the Keren Kayemeth LeIsracl (Jwish National Fund) he visited many cities in France and tOUl'ed Algeria and 'funis. The Oldest A11{/lo-Je-urioh Weeldll in Wernn-n Ca ...... Of Those Blessed IIDoliarim Slomowitz. wrote: "He was a remarltable man and most loveable per .PASSING q.~_~ued weekly in the inte~ts of Jewi.;h Community activities sonality. One. of the blessing of our time is that Aimee Palliere was one in Winnipeg and Western Canada) illness, hunger, wretched cold, lack of voca by ~IELVIN FENSON of this generation's contel)lpOl'aries." PARADE Member of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency tional training) to another. PHONY "ISRAEL GROUp!! pictur,ed rather pitifully as a poseur 8PEC'l'ATOK Published every Tbur.sday by TIE-UP IN COPLON CASE Iwho got into trouble in an attempt ..". .... 4''' 4' 4' ~ ..._ THE JEWISH ·POST LTD. In a Jerusalem over Between appearances at the founding New York (Special) - One of the to appear important to his fellow Publisher.i flowing with dignitaries ceremonies of countless new kibbutzim FBI reports put in as evidence at employees. In introducing Sam Bronfman BEN M. COHEN (especially those American the trial of Judith Coplon, former I The report on -Mario Joseph on every steetcorner, Dr. wi~h a?~ C~n recently, Michael Garber, K.C., said: Blli!lneos !.bnager and ManAging Editor Israel Goldstein occupied adian settlers) and Important partICIpatIOn government· employee accused of Pezzola of San Francisco said: Phone 54 400 Evenings 591 m espionage) contains a reference. tg,; "In bureau interview Pezzola ad It may sound strange that the onJy a special place of distinc in party affairs of the World General Zionist an organization described as "a non- mitted writing letter 3-8-48 to 'Dear fault that' I have found with Mr. MELYrn FENSON, .BA. LEO J. LEZACK Conferedation (which he heads as president), Editor Ad~ing Mana~ tion for the full year end existent underground pro - Israel! Joseph' and signed 'Dick', which Bronfman is' that he is a little too Head Office: 213 SeJJcirk Ave., Winnipeg, Canada ing fall 1949, when he Dr. Goldstein not only managed to stretch anti-capitalist group." i letter indicated P associated with Excerpts from the FBI reports I an organization sending representa democratic for my taste. He believes Authoriz.ed as second cla.ss mail. Post Office Department. Ottawa served as treasurer of that shrinking treasury to cover essentials in regard to immigrant absorption in a year were found in Miss Coplon's pocket- Lives to various parts of··the world. in letting them talk, but I sometimes the Jewish Agency. book at the time of her arrest. P now admits that entire letter was wonder whether he is not always His tall, hulking that saw close to a third of a million new- Among the company of alleged fabrication, written to impress three thinking of the famous line of Gilbert comers arrive, but was instrumental in as spies, adventurers, foreign dignitar- fellow-employees of the Arabian Iraqui Airlift New UJA Task' figure, moving swiftly and sullivan, down Keren Kayemeth sembling the financial big guns among Israeli ies and bold operators described in American Oil Company with p's Only a few short weeks ago the Government of Israel, the reports was the employee of a 1 connection. with a non - existent "Let them exercise their brains street towards his office institutions and American agencies that re great oil company whom one report underground pro-Israel, anti-capital- fully conscious of the move it was tll-king and its full ram sulted in the organization of Israel's biggest and their cerebellum too, ... a figure impossible to Dr. Israel Goldstein In the end they will vote ifications, decided upon a limitation of Jewish immigration housing body ... "AMIDAR", which im mistake for an Israeli's As I tell them to." . to Israel. Only those who know with what sacrifice and suf because of his predilection for broad-brim ported Le Tourneau concrete pouring TO RELATE ISRAEL FINDINGS: An antl-Mapai joke, related here fering Israeli Jewry had for twenty-five years sworn to med, western style fedoras .. _ spelt out one machines to deposit livable (tho not beauti by the Vochenblat'. Sam Lifshitz defend the principle of full and unlimited immigration, could thing for all Israel . .'.' those blessed ful) concrete 'austerity' dewllings by the who recently toured Isra~l's leftist begin to understand with what misgivings and reluctance "dollarim" from the United States. thousands across the land. Mrs .. D. P. Gotlieb Speaks at circles, concerns the suggestion to the government could be forced into a position where im His scholarly and rabbinic attainments, With his appearance in Winnipeg next remove the "Bais" from the alpba .. migration would be limited by its own decision. eyen his presidency of the American JNF week to enthuse the body of UPA canvassers, Patroness Affair Monday bet. Es is nisht faran keyn .Bosor, The policy was adopted only after complete discussion or ZOA couldn't hold a candle to the tremend and tell the 'big guns' his straight from the Baytzim, Batim, keyn Beged (meat, and clarification with Jewish Agency leaders who knew the ous task he had undertaken. It was one thing shoulder view of current world-wide re eggs, houses, colthlng) .. : un nor financial resources available for immigration, housing, and to take a revolving door tour of immigrant habilitation needs of Jewry, Winnipeg should tzuIieb Ben Gurion ke~ men voil the preliminary stages of absorption of the new Aliyah. camps and return to N.Y. to cajole, plead, set new records in self-increases in UJA. bagain un dcm Bais! and browbeat American Jews into giving to Jacob Badner of Flin Flon is a \Vith UJA funds what they were, the total effort could care If there is any man in the world who has for no more than 12,000 newcomers a month. _ . just 40% avert disaster. It was another thing to hold voice in the wilderness, literally. the purses strings as Dr. Goldstein did, of an both the l'apport with American Jewry ... of the peak immigration of a year ago this month. His ads' in the Flin Flon Daily always-inadequate Jewish Agency treasury; and the direct, personal involvement with Reminder (a mimeographed, stapled The policy, reluctantly taken, included an important theatre. Cantor Silverman's treat to be forced to make the heart-breaking de Israel's crucial and overwhelming needs, it daily) lists along with his mink, Cantor Moses J. Silverman of escape clause: immigration would be limited ... but in a cisions as to how much money (read doctors, is Dr. Goldstein ... treasurer of the Jewish weasel and squirrel offers! the fol Chicago~ cantor at the' Ansh.e Emd ment of traditional synagogue music situation where an emergency impended, threatenng with milk, medicines, tents, bread) could be al Agency during Israel's first year of state lowing: "Listen to an outstanding synagogue of Chicago, will appear and latest Israeli songs has won him violence and oppression any Jewish community, its speedy located to one camp ... and how little (read hood. radio program ... L'Koved Shabat at a cor..cert sponsored by Winnipeg acclaim throughout the States and evacuation would, of course, be given prior concern regard B'nai B'rith lodge No. 650 and the over CF AR tonight at 7.15." Other Canada. This will be his only ap less of immigration quotas. editions of the paper carry full pro- Women's B'nai B'rith chapter on pearance in Winnipeg. Such an emergency has arisen ... an emergency which (Cant. on page 6) Tuesday, March 28, at the Playhouse automatically entails a complete scrapping of previous UJA targets on the international scene, and requiring the com Western ZOC Conference "CONSPIRACY LAUNCHED TO RAISE STANDARDS"-Rabbi Aron: plete emergency mobilization of Israel's total immigration and absorption instruments. With Iraqui Jewry, whose uncertain border-line tolera Votes $336,000 UJ.A. Assails Ignorance In Jewish Leadership tion by her government has swiftly worsened to a near .~ pogrom level, world Jewry stands confronted with a moral ''Who are the leadel's of your institutions? Is there a man of Jewish scholars." obligation besides which predilections for limited and order learning among them?" 'Sound ,Jewish education was the \ • ly immigration must fade. Just as the Jewish Agency and _This was the challenge flung at,Winnipeg Je,wry in a flt~1 dress casti~a- keystone of cultural advan.ce in JDC swung into high gear for the total evacuation of Yem \ tion of ignorance among leadershIp echelons m the Jewlsh conunumty, Am.erica, Rabbi Aron indicated. He enite Jewry last year, so must their apparatus today be by Rabbi Milton ro'on of the Shaarey Zedek synagogue, at the l"Ial'ch 5 said Winnipeg Jewry would soon placed at the disposal of Iraqui J~Wry. . Hebrew Theatre presentation at the Playhouse theatre. have an opportunity to develop the Certainly, it must be admItted that the plIght of The packed attendance heard their \ sound program required. Moslem land Jewish commuities has worsened directly as leading communal institutions named to raise standards of Jewish learning The well-prepared address was a result of the creation of the State of Israel. Those prophets and criticized directly for their fail- in this city,n said the speaker. Other hailed by the audience for its cour of doom who saw Israel weakening the security of American Mrs. D. P. Gotlieb, vice-president of Canadian Hadassah, will he the guest speaker at the $36 and Over Patroness Luncheon on Monday, March ure to insist upon Jewish knowledge galut communities had forged price- age and freshness of approach. Some Jewry were thoroughly false ... bu.t .their error was ~ geo as basic equipment of their leader- less links in the chain of Jewish 20 , at the Royal Alexandra hotel, at 2.30 p.m. Mrs. Gotlieb has just returned. were jolted at the frankness of the graphical one. It is such commumtIes a~ the J~wr:es of ship. cultural history. n"W~innipeg may Yemen and Iraq which have felt the horrIble proJectIon of from a lengthy stay in Israel. She comes well equipped to answer the many attack, and· the specific targets at questions on the immediate problems facing Israel, and her vast immigra "Rabbi Kravetz, Rabbi Chiel and I create a new Talmud; from Winni the sting of Arab defeat.. . have embarked upon a conspiracy peg may yet go forth famed new which the charges were fired. Yemenite Jewry numbered 4{)-60,000, and mcluded . -:"-. ,-,::-,",,<: --., tion and absorption problems. lar15'ely laborers and artisans adjusted t? .low ~tandards of -.' ". .'

living, and inwardly bouyed up by a relIgIOUS Impluse ~hat : -'"- . ",' made immigration to Israel in and of itself the long-awaIted . " , -..:.- -- SCORES ISRAEL'S "MISLEADING" STATEMENTS: redemption. . (Left to right) J. D. Dower, O.B.E.; Avraham Harman; Leo Pckarsky, banquet toastmaster: Mrs. Leo Iraqui Jewry, numbering perhaps 150,000, has neIther Pekarsky; J. M. Goldenberg, K.C.; Mrs. J. M. Goldenberg; Bernard Figler. Sweden Hits "Grave Deficienciesllin Bernadotte Murder Inquiry the strong hold of religious Zionism nor the history of Edmonton (Special) - On Sunday presided. Ninety-two delegates at- I cheon at which Mr. Harman spoke for the investigation nor utilized for further poverty and occupational discrimination of their Yemenite STOCKHOLM - An official Swedish report been committed at an isolated spot was described brothers that mitigates the difficulties of early re-settle night the 1950 U.I.A. campaign was tended from 14 centres in addition briefly. by Mr. Heuman as "directly misleading" as the attempts to find the culprits. successfully launched in Edmonton to hundreds of visitors. An innovation at the conference issued this week said that Israeli police had been ment in Israel. They are middle class, shop-keeping Eas~ern so gravely negligent in investigating the assas assassination had occurred on a rather busy main Mr. Heuman found it astonishing that no trace Jews with a fair sprinkling of intellectuals and profeSSIOn at a brilliant banquet, highlighted A sole~n memorial service marked were reports on Hadassah, Young road outside a shop and at a place where the of the murderers' jeep was uncovered. "Conse by the presence of Avraham the opemng of the session. This 5e1'- Judaea and Jewish National Fund. sination of Count Folke Bernadotte, United Na als. Their "luftmenschen" economy will make their integra tions Mediator for Palestine, that "doubt must assassins were seen by several witnesses. quently one of the most valuable clues to the tion into Israel as difficult as that of central Europeans. Harman, Israeli Consul General. vice was carried out by the Echnon- Mrs. J. M. Cantor of Regina, regional Mr. Heuman said he felt that the Israeli auth . identity of the assassins was neglected," he said. Contributors spontaneously set as a ton members ,0£ uMachalll in memory Hadassah chairman for Saskatche exist as to whether the Israeli authorities really Their alienation from the powerful hold of religious tradi tried to bring the inquiry to a positive result." orities should have provided an armed escort, and He said he also thought it especially remark tion characterizing Yemenites, will mean a realistic and standard of individual giving the of the men from this region who wan, and Mrs. H. Bloomfield of added: "It is indeed tragic to have to point out level of their contributions in 1948 died in the war of liberation in Is~ael. Edmonton (in behalf of M'rs. M. The report on the death of Count Bernadotte. able that no arrangement had been made to con practical appraisal of Israel: v.:ith no ~t~rry-eyed, .all-for that the most elementary precautionary measures (highest in history) plus ten per J. M. Goldenberg, regional chair- Marcus of Calgary, regional Hadas who was murdered in Jerusalem in September, front witnesses with the arrested members of the giving ecstatic gestures of kissm~ the SOlI ~pon arrIval. 1948 was drawn up by Maths Heuman, the public on the part of the Israeli authorities would have terrorist Stern group. Receiving the mass of IraqUl Jewry wIl~ tax Israel to cent, and in many instances this was man, reported that the swn of sah chairman for Alberta) presented prevented the carrying' out of the assault." substantially exceeded. A high- $1,O~3,OOO was raised in the region encouraging l"eports as to the state pros~cutor. It was ordered ~y the Swedish g'?V Summing up, Mr. Heuman commented: "The the very limit. But it was for s,!ch. emergen.Cles. that Israel ernment and has been submItted to the ForeIgn Among his criticisms of the "grave deficien was created' that the World ZIOnIst orgamzatIon formed; light of the banquet was the presen- dUl'mg the past two years. of Hadassah in these provinces. cies" of Israeli policies, Mr. Heuman said that the special difficulties for carrying on the inquirv tation to Mr. Harman of a golden Bernard Figler of Montreal re- One of the highlights of the day Office. that must have resulted from the organizational that the Jew'ish Agency organized; and that today's current Contrarv to an Israeli statement that the scene of the murder was not cordoned off, that book certificate commemorating his ported on his tour of the region and Was a stirring address by Harold an investig'ation on the site did not begin until allli technical weaknesses in the newly formed UJA drive launched. visit to Edmonton. descrih.ed the v~liant efforts that \ Freeman of Vancouver, guest of the murder was charact.erized by a remarlmble Jack Israeli police force and the t1nfm"orable external The dramatic and colorful copy we may shortlo: expect of both direct and indirect evidence, Mr. Heuman more than twenty-four hours after the outrage on t4e "Magic Carpet" airlift evacuation. of IraqUl Jewry The western zoe conference was are bemg rnad~ 1I'.. t?e small COffi- conference, who described obliga ... . had been ,committed and that the examination of and internal conditions in Jerusalem at the time officially opened by Maurice Stoch- muruties to maintain the funda- tions resting upon the Zionists of asserted t.hat the crime,. in fact, had been dis of the murder do not constitute a satisfactory should not blind us to greyer, harsher, work-a-day witnesses gave the impression of having been of fac~s insky, chairman of the arrangements mental values of Jewish life. the region. Following his address ti.ng'ui~lied by the presence of evidence of clues explanation of the obvious deficiencies of the behind the story. And only more and more dollars here, m to an extent seldom met with in cases of murder. a merely preJinlinary nature alid that it was committee. J. M. Goldenberg, K.C., John D. Dower, O.B.E., national the record-breaking quota of $336,000 neither critically scrutinized by those responsible inquiry." Winnipeg's UJA among others, will lighten that greyness of Saskatoon, regional chairman, vice-president. presided at the lun- was adopted. The Israeli statement that the murder had and harshness.

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