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JEWISH NEWS
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2nd, 1966
Bef^in Wants U.N. To InvestUcate German Situation
SRAEI PMIAMENT DEBATES NEO-NAZI THREAT
World Jewish Congress Leader Says New German Chancellor Kiesinger Is Rehabilitated
ROUMANIAN CHIEF RABBI WILL SPEAK IN TORONTO
by The CJ\ Reporter Dr. Moshe Rosen, Chief Rabbi of Roumania, will arrive in Toronto on Tuesday, December 13th, as guest of the Beth Jacob High School and Teachers Seminary dedication Jinner. Ur. Rosen is the first chief rabbi of a Communist state to visit this country. He will be the guest speaker at the Beth Jacob affair which is expected to attract more than 1500 Tor-ontonians.
Dr. Rosen, 54, recently has been invited for ten weeks to teach Jewish history at Yeshiva University as visiting professor, dealing especially with East-West contemporary relations.
Last week, speaking in Washington at the 68th North American convention of Orthodox Jewish congregations,- the Chief Rabbi of
Roumania invited American Orthodox Jewry to send its religious leaders to a special East-West Jewish conference scheduled to be held in Bucharest, capital of Roumania, in February. The North American Orthodox rabbinate and the Orthodox Jewish congregations accepted the invitation and will participate in this historic rally.
The Roumanian government is said to have agreed to the holding of such a conclave in its capital city where delegations from North America, including Canada, Western Europe and Eastern European countries, are expected to participate.
In his address in Toronto, Dr. Rosen will speak about living Judaism uniting Jewish communities in all countries under all regimes.
Demands Israel urge U.N. to debate Neo-Nazi
clanger; Menachem Begin
CALL FOR DEFENSE OF TORAH SCHOOLS HERE
First Rosen.
Rabbi from communist country here: Dr. Moshe
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3y M, J. Nurenberger
TO THE GERMAN COMMUNITY
The sensational story recently printed in a Toronto Gerhian-language newspaper — in which the extreme, ultra-chauvinistic German viewpoint was featured so prominently — has aroused understandable misgivings in our community. Yet one point must be made clear: this is an internal problem for the German Canadian community and it is this community alone that must deal with such a threat to its own reputation and in the larger perspective of intercommunity relations in our city.
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In all my reading of German-language publications, never have I come across such antidemocratic propaganda.
I,do not maintain that this particular publication agitates the German newcomers in this country into joining either the National Democratic Party in Germany or any similar group of those accused by the Bonn minis^ter of interior of neo-Nazism. Nevertheless if this were the purpose of such writing, no one could have done a more thorough job than had this Toronto weekly. In fact, the entire front page story makes no mention of Germany having lost the war; but it calls the events of 1945 a "calamity". Furthermore it reads exactly like a release from a certain "news agency' 'in Hamburg that disseminates neo-Nazi
propaganda abroad.
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Of course, the publishers of this weekly are conscious of living in Canada; they know they must limit themselves to certain expressions acceptable in a society which has not forgotten why this nation was at war with Hitler-Germany. Thus this pattern of playing between emotional German nostalgia — and sorrow for the poor Nazis who
by a CJN reporter
For the first time this week, Toronto's traditional Jewry was joined by a leader of the Conservative United Synagogue Daj' School Ifovement, Earl Berger, in a demand that the Jewish community press for its right to its share for the support of tlje secular curriculum of its all-day schools.
While Dr. Berger made this statement at the Canadian Jewish Congress conference Saturday night, one of Toronto's talmudic scholars, Rabbi Shmaryahu Karelitz, former chief rabbi of Brussels and now dean of Rosh Yeshiva of Yesoday Hatorah here, called upon orthodox>' to unite both in a fundrais-ing campaign for all-day schools and for an action to obtain government subsidies for Hebrew educational institutions.
Dean Karelitz, addressing a yeshiva dinner at the Agu-dat Israel Center, belittled all commotion raised about "dangers without" which supposedly threaten Judaism. The threat, he said, comes from within, from the lack of unity and the resistance to independent action of Torah Jewry in the defense of what really matters: our educational system.
The financial crisis affecting Jewish day schools, making it impossible for hundreds of parents to send their children to such in-stitituons, also has inspired some participants in the Canadian Jewish Congress deliberations to raise the problem of demanding government subsidies.
Yeshiva and university students joined in an impressive demonstration a-gainst the Canadian Jewish Congress for its refusal to speak up for the right of the day schools to be supported from public funds. The youthful denionstrators especially protested thepresenceatthis conference of the Canadian Jewish Congress of Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the'. American Jewish Congress, a relatively uninfluential group in the United States which is known for its opposition to day schools and .Torah education. Dr; Prinz was invited as the main speaker at this conference
the picketers in a free country though it cannot agree to their position that Congress officially opposes government support to day schools. The Congress here still is debating this issue; no final decision has been taken yet.
The dignified demonstration of the traditional students against the Congress and Dr. Joachim Prinz has impressed the conclave. Dr. Prinz himself declared that he was for the American principle of separation of church and state, which is his reason for opposing government subsidies to religious schools. Commenting on this statement the Globe and Mail reporter declared that in Canada such separa-
tion actually does not apply.
This issue - whether the Jewish communitj' shall press for its right to subsidies from the government on behalf of its day schools - now is becoming paramount problem of the.com-munity. Many feel that unless such government subsidy is forthcoming, the day schools will remain private educational institutions only for those who can afford it, and not for the masses who wish tobringuptheirchildren in the spirit of Torah and tradition.
Many regret that Congress has not seen fit to take a clear position on this vital question. By this it could have missed the boat.
Special report to The Canadian Jewish Newt
Last weekend the Israeli parliament (Knesset) resolved to submit to its foreign affairs committee a motion by Herut leader and chairman of Gahal (Liberal Revisionist Alignment), Menachem Begin,- asking the United Nations to outlaw the use of swastikas as a political symbol. Mr. Begin, leader of the Opposition, made his suggestion during a debate on the Nazi resurgence in Germany which aroused Israel. He also demanded that Israel approach all friendly nations to support a UN initiative following the recent growth of the neo-Nazi party in Germany.
Foreign Minister Abba Eben informed the Knesset that the Cabinet had discussed this issue on Sunday and would agree to a closed debate in the foreign affairs committee.
Revisionists To Discuss Problem
Mr. Begin made his proposal during the Knesset discussion of the new German problem. In a dramatic speech, he warned the people of Israel not to forget the mistakes made at the beginning of Hitlerism.
(This coming weekend in Montreal, the Zionist Revisionist Organization will discuss the German problem at its leadership meeting in the Mount Royal Hotel. Chaim Landau, Israeli Member of Parliament and a delegate to the United Nations Assembly, will report to the leadership conference.)
In Toronto last Sunday, an American rabbi, Dr. Joachim Prinz, chairman of the international governing council of the World Jewish Congress, told the regional Canadian Jewish Congress meeting at Shaarei Shomayim that next month he will visit Germany to "study" the problem.
In London, England, Dr. Nahum Goldmann President of the World Jewish Congress made a similar statement. He also said he would visit Germany to take a firsthand view of the situation there.
Prinz: Kiesinger Cleared Himself
The Canadian Jewish Congress conference here went on record declaring the neo-Nazi resurgence in Germany "a danger to mankind."
Dr. Joachim Prinz, a former Berlin rabbi and now an American citizen, said that he was concerned about the NPD successes but he would not compare the old Nazis of the 'thirties to the radical nationalists of the present.
The World Jewish Congress leader also said that the new German chancellor, Dr. Kurt George Kiesinger, although a former Nazi, has cleared himself in the last two decades.
In Berlin, Mayor Willi Brandt, the Socialist leader, also expressed his confidence in the new chancellor in whose coalition government of Christian Democrats and Socialists he will be the minister of foreign affairs.
In France and in some countries behind the Iron Curtain, the new Kiesinger-Brandt Cabinet has been termed an improvement over the former government.
Official Israel also considers Kiesinger and Franz Josef Strauss, who will be a power in the new government, genuinely friendly to Israel. In the Knesset Abba Eben did not agree with Menachem Begin on his conclusions regarding Germany.
Labor For Kiesinger
In Moscow some diplomats detected a note of hope that Brandt and Kiesinger would find more common ground with the Eastern bloc than had the former Bonn regime.
In London, England, Foreign Secretary George Brown decried the expressions of despair about Germany. This was the general tone of Labor Socialist reaction to the recent development in Germany: not to overestimate the threat of the NPD.
While the Canadian Jewish Congress conference in Toronto accepted a strong resolution against the neo-Nazi revival in West Germany, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, speaking in London as president of the World Jewish Congress, urged Jews the world over not to become panicky over the recent new trend in Germany which "is not too dangerous".
Israel Cautious
A similar line was taken in an editorial by the Jerusalem Post which speaks for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the country's ruling party, Mapai.
Stating though "there are neo-Nazis today, the number fortunately is still small. If the world lumps all the Germans together and declares 'they were all always Nazis, and always will be,' there is every likelihood that other Germans . . . will seek to get on the bandwagon and join the new Nazis."
The Jerusalem Post concludes "Germany must not blame other countries for the return of the Nazis and other countries must not give it an excuse to do so by refusing to distinguish between those who are Nazis and those who wish to oppose them and do not seem to know exactly how this is done."
A leading Israeli belonging to'the governing party stated that Kiesinger and FranzJosef Strauss belong to tne Adenauer scnooi regaramg Israeli and Jewish affairs.
ORTHODOX STUDENTS IN TORONTO REPUDIATE JEWISH CONGRESS
suffered-so much — and expressing contempt for   whereas, orthodox circles
the "(traitors" such as Adenauer and ;Brandt who "sold" Germany to the Allies is in full accordance with the neo-Nazi line.
Are the publishers of this Toronto weekly so naive that they do not know this, or do they believe the German-language community here is a closed society where one can publish any msult to those who dred in the-war against Nazism?
maintain, not one observant Jewish thinker or orator had been asked by Congresslead-ership officially to address the conference.
The Canadian Jewish Congress told this newspaper that It respects the right of
by K. Schechtman CJN Reporter
About 30 orthodox university students . last Sunday night picketed the 20th Central Regional Conference of the CJC in protest, against its refusal to seek government aid for Jewish Day Schools. The sensational demonstration which drew international attention and was covered by national TV, radio outlets and the press also protested the presence of the Congress' guesl speaker. Dr. J. Prinz of Newark, New Jersey.
The Mitzvah Society of Toronto,   an independent group of 'Torah true university students andprofession-als concernedwith the spiritual welfare and democratic rights of our co-religionists,' condemned Dr. Prinz as a leading secularist and as-similationist. Paul Forman, a U of T student in Dentistry and spokesman for the group, claimed: "Dr. Prinz pretentiously and falsely presents himself as a spokesman for American Jewry. In fact he speaks but for a few splinter groups of secularists. American orthodoxy has long since repudiated the right of Dr. Prinz and the American Jewish Congress to speak in their nanie."
Reporters and those attending the CJC closing banquet were deeply impressed by the sincerity and dedication of the demonStratingstu-; dents as evidenced by their orderly anddi^rilfiedmarchi^ ing m the midst of a heavyN downpour. Drenched by the rain the picketers marched
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in front of the Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue for nearly two hours.
It has been noted that this is the first time in the history of Candian Jewry that Orthodox Jews, who are the founders and the most involved in the Day School movement, stood up to speak for themselves in public. One of the group, David Woolf, told your reporter that 'Orthodox Jewry repudiates aiyone speaking for us in matters of Torah education. Torah education is our most sacred legacy, and only orthodox people involved therein may speak about anything involved therewith.'
Mr. Woolf added that the group is especially upset that the CJC officials have shelved and ignored a resolution passed at an earlier convention to petition the provincial
cates its right to speak for Canadian Jewry."
The demonstrators handed out leaflets • which emphasized all these points.
Some of the pickets read: MAKE GOVT. AID CJC'S CENTENNIAL PROJECT!; PRINZ - SYMBOL OF THE VANISHING JEW; JEWISH CHILDREN DEMAND CIVIL RIGHTS. We noticed another picket which carried a quotation from Dr. Prinz's March on Washington speech: THE MOST SHAMEFUL AND TRAGIC PROBLEM IS SILENCE!
Dr. Prinz, showing embarrassment and aggravation, told TV and press reporters that he feels Jewish schools should be supported by the Jewish community only. He would not comment on the Jewish Welfare Board's refusing support.
Congress officials withheld comment. But leading
government for aid to paro- 'rabbis and educators in -chial schools. "Is this dem- dividually polled by this
ocracy?" he asked. He claimed, that "by such highhanded action^ of ignoring its  delegates,  CJC abdi-
newspaper were unanimous in praise'for the initiative and dignity of the students' demonstration. Maity were
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pleased by the local and in-ternation^ attention drawn to the problem involved. "It was a great Kidush Hashem (Sanctification of God's. Name)," exclaimed some of the rabbis.
Mr. Forman declared that the Mitzvah Society, which has been active in other educational efforts, will follow up this demonstration by further positive actions. "We asked all rabbis to dedicate this or the following Sabbath to the plight of the Jewish Day Schools and Jewish education. We intend to approach the provincial government ourselves as well as all political parties (rf Ontario to include this issue in their forthcoming election platforms."
Comment: In the USA orthodox Jewry finally was successful in bringing about a Federal Aid program which will   benefit Jewish Day Schools. Also, in New York State,   where   most Day Schools and Yeshivoth are located.  Governor Rockefeller recently signed into law a bill which will provide free text books to educational institutions, including parochial schools. The Lubavit-cher Rabbi, the Agudath Israel Organisation, and the Torah Umesorah Day School Movement were instrumental in this great breakthrough which will ease the financial burden of Torah education. Dr. Prinz, speaking for the American Jewish Congress, had denounced both measures as .'unconstitutional' and undertook to challenge them m the courts.
LABOR ZIONIST LEADER IN TORONTO - Itzhak Korn, noted Israeli Labor Zionist leader, will be in Toronto as guest of the city's Labor Zionist Movement on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, December 7th and 8th.
Mr. Korn is secretary-general of Ihud Olami, World Labor Zionist Confederation, and also is amemberof the Secretariat of Mapai and serves in thepraesidiumof the World Jewish Congress. He was secretary-general of Tnuat Ha-Moshavim, Israel's cooperative settlement movement and a member of the Israeli parliament.
Mr. Korn, born m Kishinev in 1911, is a resident of Israel Since 1940. At present he is touring the western hemisphere. — . .
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