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Free Theater Tickets! See Page Five .* Vol. No. 12, Issue No. 18 9 Tishri 5718 October 4, 1957 _The Arizona Posts World-Wide Rites Usher World Report In New Year (Compiled From the POST’s ——A Digest of Jewish World News— News Services) The Jewish New Year 5718 Lashed was ushered in throughout Soviet Anti-Semitism the world in crowded syna- many different points the Soviet govern- gogues with prayers for peace From and understanding. ment has been lashed for renewing and flaunting anti- In Israel all regular syna- English newspaper, the Manchester gogues and 1,000 temporary Semitism. The houses of worship were over- Guardian, charged that the kidnapping of Israel diplo- flowed. On Mt. Zion Jews by Soviet secret police was only were called to prayer with a mat Eliahu Chazan shofar salvaged from Bergen part of the plan to discredit the Israeli delegation. The Belsen, a notorious Nazi con- York Times that has learned that anti- centration camp. The holiday New said it was marred in Israel when ri- Semitic attitudes are ‘strong in the top Soviet leader- fle fire from Jordan killed an Israeli Arab shepherd in the ship’ and warned of a possibility of a ‘new campaign jjtj H Afula area. of terror’ against Soviet Jewry. ISRAEL PRESIDENT Isaac Ben Zvi declared that 5717 Even the Communist Daily Worker in New York was “a year of mighty strug- gle such as has not been our took a step from its usual pattern. The paper sharply lot since the War of Independ- assailed the Soviet liquidation of Jewish culture. The ence” and he said he hoped the coming year would see Daily Worker called ‘incorrect’ the Soviet policy that Israel moving “yet a stage ‘all Jews in the Soviet Union are linguistically and cul- further towards our exalted goal—the building of our turally assimilated and have no need for separate in- Israelis Enter School Here country and the ingathering of our stitutions’ Haim Assa (left) and Haim Haimov, step-brothers Tikvah, Israel, en- exiles.” from Petah have The president said he hoped University tered the of Arizona this fall. Mr. Assa is a senior in economics and is on a the world would see during special scholarship a Three Jews Elected to Bundestag granted by the Tucson Jewish Community Council. His step-brother is 5718 “truth and peace in Is- freshman in mechanical engineering. Both served in the Israel defense forces and Mr. Hai- rael”. Three Jews were rejected to the West German mov saw brief action daring the Sinai conflict. They will live in the Hillel House and Mr. In Russia Jews turned out Assa is teaching Hebrew at Cong. Anshei Israel. After they complete in heavy numbers to atte?fi! Bundestag in the national elections which brought their studies they plan to return to Israel and enter governmental service. holiday services in major So- Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s Democratic Party a viet cities. The single syna- gogue in Moscow was over- full majority of German’s lower house. Re-elected ZBT Pledges crowded. were Jeanette Wolff, Peter Blachstein and Jacob Alt- CHANCELLOR KONRAD Present Opens First Negro Adenauer of West Germany meir. Two other Jewish candidates were defeated.... Zeta Beta Tau, issued Rosh Hashonah greet- social frater- ings to German Jews The elections also brought defeat to several openly nity at University and the of Ari- noted with pleasure sub- zona. has pledged its first Ne- the neo-Nazi groups including the BHE Refugee Party stantial progress in the con- Key gro student. solidation the Jewish UCC Drive of com- Institute of Judaism has been opened in Tuebingen, is Stan of An He Gardner munity and pledged the Fed- member of Jewish Brooklyn, N. Y., and trans- . Elmer Present, pioneer Tucson’s com- Germany pastors. eral Government’s support for Lutheran ferred here fresh- in munity, this week touched off the 1957 United Community as an upper the future also. Rabbinate has Campaign man from New York Univer- In Istanbul, the Turkish Grand which seeks to raise $783,138 in health and welfare sity. In the United States houses funds. of worship also were to seZ up a rabbinical-lay commission to stimulate the Vaughn Binzer is president filled campaign from Oct. to capacity and above. American The 1957 runs 1 1 Nov. 19 and Mr. of the ZBT chapter. use of Kosher meat by members of the community. Present has urged full com- [Jewish leaders issued holiday messages munity support of ! and William Rosen- But there was some skepticism in communal circles Tucson’s Arizona Children’s Home, Ar- Ginsburg, president of the wald, general chairman of the No. thritis and Rheumatism Foun- about the success of the program. It is estimated that 1 charity drive. Tucson Jewish Community United Jewish Appeal, hailed dation, Catholic Social Serv- Council, who will head the American Jews for their great THE UNITED Community ice, about 40 percent of Istanbul Jews eat Kosher meats. Child Guidance Clinic, professional division and Elk aid to charities in 5717. Her- Campaign wraps Community Serv e, 21 drives in- ic Inc., Harwood who will head pub- bert R. Abies, president of the ... In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a beautiful 1,200-seat syna- to one. Among the benefitting | Family Service Agency, Flor- lic information. Council of Jewish Federations gogue has been opened agencies are the Tucson Jew- ence Crittenden Home, Girl The UCC kicked off its cam- and Welfare Funds, pointed ish Social Service, which Scouts, Boy Scouts. Salvation paign this week with a com- out in his message that more cares for many hardship cas- Army, Servicemen’s Center, munity-wide radio and televi- than $150,000,000 had been Israelis Charged With Inciting Revolt es, and the Tucson Jewish Tucson Community Council, sion hook-up. Campaign lead- contributed to aid Jewish wel- Community Center, the hub Tucson Nursery School, Visit- appeals sup- Dr. Israel Sheib-Yarme, one-time theoretician of ers made for full fare agencies. of Jewish community activit- ing Nurses Ass’n. YMCA and port of this year’s drive. Last In New York there was a the Stern Group, and Reuben Grinberg, another for- ies. i YWCA. year’s drive fell short of the special service in the United mer member of the underground movement, have been Among the other agencies AMONG THE KEY work- goal and necessitated some Hias synagogue for recent charity charged with inviting revolt against the government are the American Red Cross, ers in the drive are David N. cut-backs to work. escapees from Hungary. and state of Israel. In a formal arraignment in Magis- trate’s Court in Tel Aviv, Prosecutor Maim Cohen Moral Os This Story: charged the defendants with ‘continuing, practicing and commanding’ tasks in the underground organiza- tion since 1948, when all such groups were prohibited in the wake of the assassination of Count Folke Ber- Never Use A Pickled Shofar! charges nadotte, UN mediator. One of the specific said GREAT LAKES N. T. S., “But when I tried to blow was pickled in vinegar. air pump on the shofar. Mr. Grinberg had written a pamphlet which warned 111.— (Special)—The Jewish it in practice,” the chaplain “On the eve of erev Rosh “That did it.” the chaplain at naval "I lifted to readers that the Israel government had revived the chaplain this huge recalls, “Icould barely coax Hashonah, “Chaplain Shul- said. it my lips, training has found out that and lo and behold, there a shofar. If man relates, out practice of ‘ritual blood libel’ following the assassina- a ‘pickled’ shofar not only croak from the “I tried came forth a gentle sound.” tion of Dr. Israel Kastner, one-time leader of Hunga- can’t be blown but it can I did not know better I my vinegar pickled shofar. The shofar would blow, also chase away a congre- would have assumed it was and behold, not sound. but there . Lo a was one more rian Jewry and Israel government official. gation. once the horn of a stubborn Not even a hoarse croak. problem—how to keep the Israel has asked the International Red Cross to Chaplain Nisson E. Shul- mule!” “But the effect was tre- odor of vinegar from over- according to the Na- Two days b e so r e Rosh With the coming the congregation. Egypt’s fishing ves- man, mendous. first intervene in seizure of the Israel tional Jewish Welf are Hashonah the chaplain still breath everybody ran out of The chaplain found a sim- sel, Doar, and its six crewmen. The Israel Foreign Board, tells this story about was trying to blow the sho- the office holding their nos- ple remedy. As he blew the Ministry said it had no information on the fate of the how he had to call on the far to no avail. es. The vinegar was power- shofar to herald the New navy shofar could be “Along Sam the tail- ful.” ear, he draped his except neither had been returned so the came carefully ship or its crew that heard on Rosh Hashonah or,” says the chaplain, “and Well, as it happened the tallis over his head. to Israel A new Catholic secondary school has been here. he remembered that long chaplain tried everything to The sound was beautiful, opened in Nazareth. In Jerusalem it has been esti- When the chaplain first ago in Europe when a sho- air out the shofar. Nothing the odor negligible, but to the naval sta- far wouldn’t blow, they pic- helped. Finally he called never again will Chaplain total of 81,000 immigrants have entered reported mated that a tion he brought along a sho- kled it in vinegar.” on the navy fire depart- Shulman try to blow 9 Israel during the year 5717.