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EICHMANN'S PROSECUTOR IN TORONTO. — Gideon   Hausner, who became world famous as the prosecutor of Adolph Eichmann and played the key role at one of the greatest trials in history, will inaugurate the Great Weekend  o f Toronto's Beth Tzedec Synagogue. Mr. Hausner, a notive of Lemberg, eastern Golicia, educated in  Israel, will address   the worshipers during the Sabbath morning services this Saturday, 10:45, ot the sanctuary. He also will speak at the banquet hall on Sunday morning,  October  18th, and Sunday evening at the Couples Club dinner.
ishkol Challenges Crhard
JERUSALEM  (JCNS) -A demand for effective action by West Germany with-i out delay to end the activities ol German scientists i in  Egypt, was demanded, 1 the statement prepared for delivery by Mr. Levi Eshkol, the Israeli Prime Minister, to the Knesset, when it reconvened on October 12.
The Prime Minister also expected to refute claims that the scientists have not been successful in constructing effective weapons of destruction in Egypt, and to appeal to all friendly Powers to work for the recall ot these scientists by Bonn. The Israeli Cabinet has
; been discussing the whole question of relations with West Germany. Dr. Chaim Yahil, who is retiring shortly as director-general of the Foreign Ministry, reported on the background and future prospects. Mrs. Golda Meir, the Foreign Minister, was unable to attend because she was indisposed.
Full weight was given at the meeting to the bitterness of public opinion and the press at the recent statement in Bonn by Dr. Er-hard, the West German Chancellor, that legal action against German scientists in EgjTJt would be useless. It  has  been confirmed
here that Mr. Eshkol sent a note to Dr. Erhard before the Chancellor's press con fcrence, asking what steps Bonn had taken in connection with the scientisli working in Egypt.
Officials here assume that Dr. Erhard had not seen the | note before speaking to the press conference and that his remarks were not intended as a reply to Mr, Eshkol's communication.
Three Opposition parties — Herut, Mapam and the Liberals — have asked for a Knesset debate on the scientists and Bonn's failure to act in the matter.
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Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (right) ot recent Jewish meeting in Berlin with Israeli scientist Dr. Ludwig Y. Oppenheimer. — Dr. Op-penheimer's lote fother Franz wos Erhord's lifelong friend ond teacher. In centre Miss Helgo Klinge of the Hebrew University.
ISRAEL TO JOIN U. S. IN SPA Ci RESEARCH
TEL AVIV.—Israel's first I space reseairch jpay mater-venture   into   international'ialize within half-a-vear. Pro-
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THE KHRUSHCHEV EXIGiMA
h: all probability, there are. greater experts on international affairs and students of the Communist world who are puzzled at times by the Soviet enigma. It was Churchill who first spoke of this unsolvable riddle - that of the Soviet Union versus the non-Corn' munist world. However, while others may take a dispassionate view of this problem and ignore the complexities thereof, it is diffictdt for a Jew to maintain. such a blase, attitude towards the Moscow reality.
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The Soviet Union's position on the Jewish issue confuses us, to say the least. Frequently we are swayed by the general trend on this continent and in the English-speaking world at large to find a common denominator between our interests and those of Moscow. Paramount among them is, of course, peace. But a Jew — faced by the peculiar expressions of Soviet policy relating to the lives of more than three-million of our brethren in the Soviet Union and, even more, observing the flirtation with the Arabs at the expense of a people fighting for the right to live in peace — often is forced to reexamine his desire of beholding the peace-loving visage of Khrushchev.
Many times I think Khrushchev's popularity is due to the fact that his very physique symbolizes this two-faced Soviet policy vis-a-vis the Jews. First he is the benign, loving pater familias whom everybody tritsts; later he becomes the fanatical party-man and imcompromising politician who out-Stalin-izes Stalin himself. . -  - _^
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1( is important to summarize again the "Jewish position" shared by many liberals and intellectuals of other faiths who \vant peace with Russia. Doing so, of course, one tries to solve this puzzle.
To cite an example, several weeks ago the Soviet Union made some gestures which Arab adventurers construed as encouragement to wage war on Israel. Even the so-called "Palestinian Liberation Front" was spurred on to send an emissary to Moscow. ■*•'*.'*
Some may argue that all this is necessitated by political inierests. Of course, it :is: But there are Arabs Who, living in lands where nature, itself inspires fantasy, may not note the borderline between, reality and.imagination. And this could lead to oat-astrophe.        ■    • -   .   ; ^ ;
On the other hand, about a week ago Mikhail Bo-drow, the outgoing ambassador of the USSR in Israel, signed an agreement, in Jerusalem, by which Rtissiasold some property id the Israeli government.
This was the first time a great power indirectly recognized Israel's legality to be present in Jerusalem, and to acquire property in the Holy City. Others ordinarily avoid such recognition by insisting that official ceremonies he held in Tel Aviv. Also, Russia agreed to'accept payment in Israeli products iortwor thirds of the amount involved, which ppefis once more the Soviet market for Israeli citrus.
lessor A. D. Bergman, head of the Atomic Energy Commission, stated here.
Negotiations between ^he Government and the National Aeronautical and Space Agency of the United States have already reached the agreement in principle stage on the construction of a space satellite tracking station. Information received wrduld be pissed on to N.A.-S.A. as well as international space research institutions.
"It will be our debut in international space research," Professor Bergman stated, Immediate practical applications will include the deciphering of data from weather satellites. Other subjects pf interest include mapping of fields of radiation and magnetic belts in space.
Professor Bergman explained that negotiations with the U.S. may enable Israel to obtain equipment on loan from NASA and also keys to the codes transmitted by the satellites "It is something
very wortJbLwhile and also a i The activities of the track-type of space activity we can ing station will probably afford,' Professor Bergman j;omc under the auspices of said. the recently founded National
Committee for   Space   Re- cialist in decoding satellite
search together with other Jonathan Mass, of Haifa, an electronics engineer and spe-
signais. No final decision has. national research institutions.
The most likely candidate to head this project is Dr. however, been taken yet. Professor Bergman said.
He thought that the most suitable locationTbr the station will be somewhere on Mount Carmel.
Maclver to Jews:
NEW YORK. (JCNS) — The tendency of Jews to maintain "separatist organisations" belong to "an un-happier past" and should now be changed, according to Professor R. M. Maclver,
He spoke at the opening session of the Jewish Theological Seminan' of America's Institute for Religious and Social Studies, which began its 27th academic year. The institute is a graduate school
WEIGH THE DEICIDE ISSUE
ROME, (CJN). —Conservatives and Liberals in the Ecumenical Council Vatican II have resumed their ideological battle on the "Jewish issue," the wording of the text of the forthcoming Schema dealing with antisemitism. The latest development in the Council is a report that the Pontiff has indicated his support for a clear denunciation of antisemitism. as suggested by the Liberal majority. The Liberals demand a clear repudiation of the deicide charge against Jews and the stressing of Christianity's roots in Judaism,
ARABS ANGER COUNCIL
President of the New School} conducted with the co-oper-
for Social Research.
Professor Maclver, who has followed Jewish organisational life for many years, undertook a study of it in 1951, which led to a number of changes in its structure.
ation of Catholic. Protestant | shared by and Jewish scholars, who, groups.
into the texture of our civilisation," he said. These illustrated how a minority could fulfill part of its special responsibility — by focusing the attention of the entire community upon those aspects of the culture all constituent
gather once a week to discuss current issues.
Jews have made outstand ing contributions, and their culture  "has  been woven
The puzzle, nearly expldined, is not quite sol\(ed. There is yet a piece y^hich does not fid
Last Simliat Torah, outside Moscow's syhagogite, Jews were forbidden to carry Sifray "Torah in the traditional procession. In contrast, posing another dilemx ma, fifteen-to twenty-thousand Jews ,congregated\ ■around the Central Synagogue, most of them report-c'dly yotmger men and wdmeri. They sang and danced in the adjoining streets without any interference.
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LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES ACCEPT HELP FROM ISRAEL
NEW YORK (CJN) — The New York Times reports frpm'Mexic'o City: The. Government of Israel, highly successful thus far in its program of establishing closer relations with African and Asian states through technical assistance, is stepping up a similar program in Latin America.
ISRAEl, CHAD SIGN ACCORD
JERUSALEM, (CJN — A technical cooperation agree-merit between Israel arid Chad was signed in Jerusalem by Foreign Minister Golda Meir and the Chad Minister of Public .Works and the Interior. Mr, Silas Selin-
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The Israeli Government has can states." he said, "but
been active in establishing assistance programs in Latin America sinceone was installed in Brazil in 1961. The visit of Abba Eban. Deputy Premier-of Israel, to Mexico and other Latin-American states' this month is placing particular emphasis on an accelerated plan. Mr. Eban came to Mexico first and is following this with visits to Venezuela and. Colombia before-returning to New York and then home..
He said in an interview here that the object of his visits was to e§tablish closer political and "cultural ties with Latiri-American countries in suppprt of Israel's position vis a vis the Arab states.
"We have always had good relations with Latin-Amerir
they have been purely on a diplomatic level. These technical-assistance programs bring us closer at human level."
The emphasis on technical assistance by Israel in Latin America has been prompted by three basic factors. Mr. Eban explained. First, Israel is too far away, and is too limited in the exports she has to offer to interest Latin America in commercial ox-change; .second, Israel in her development has recently gone problems that most Latin American states are facing and. finally,, Israel,. because, of her ..small size and her distance from Latin America, cannot cause fears of intruding oh the sovereignty of slates in this hemisphere.
THE GROWTH OF NORTH YORK
North York's .population libwistands officially at 33Ir 1131 according to an ofticial aniiounceiherit of the public information office of this fastest growing township in Metro Toronto.
According to the same official sources, this figure represents the second largest annual increase since ythje township's inception in 1922. The information is that the last increase, as compared with 1963, is 27,536. /
The public information office also informed us that
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each year since 1949 North York has grown annually by the size of a city. In that year, North York had a population of 45,783. At JDreserit it is the second largest liiuni-cipality in OntJirio and the fourth largest in Canada.
Since the majority of our readers live in North York, which now is the largest Jewich center in Canada —
with its own schools and, synagogues of every type of religious expression—it is of particular interest to stress
the Jewish contribution to the development of North York.
■ _The Canadian Jewish New^s will publish a special North York supplement on Friday; November 27th, in which the Jewish particiiJation in the growth of North York; its. industry, its commerce.^will-be described in det^. It also will focus the at^tention of Canadian business tolthc opportunities ahead in this most rapidly developing community in Canada.
However, a minority has another special responsibility — the full participation in those specialised organisations of society which have little or no relevance to the differences between the minority and the majority of which it. is part, thus discouraging separatism without functional baisis, Min-oritv cultures, and especially' Jewish culture, could help to build the cohesion of the 2 r e a t e r community. Mr. .Maclver said. "The more freely the members of a minority sroun participate in the general affairs of the communitv and of those of c r o s s-cornmunity groups, the greater becomes the likelihood that the minority firoun will not be estranged from the rest of. the. communitv.'' ... '
By ALBERTO ROSSI
ROME — Leading dignitaries of the Church of Rome and Jewish personalities, including Chief -Rabbi Professor Elio Toaff, expect the Ecumenical Council to alter the most recent text on the Jews to be adopted by the Church.
I was told that the Secretariat for Christian Unity, under the leadership of Augustine Cardinal Bea will have a revised text of the "Jewish Schema'' li's coming : JWednesiday*, -. October 21st. It ^^nn bc^ade public then.
The Canadian Jewish News has been assured that the Cairo pressure and lobbying here against the pro-Jewish stand by the Catholic Church has resulted in a strengthening of the majority's position Which is, to publicly absolve the Jews from the deicide "guilt".
The newspaper, La Stampa, one of Italy's most influential organs of public opinion, stated editorially, the Church feels that any concession to the . Egyptian lobby would constitute an invitation, to further pressures on the part of those who oppose different points in the Council's program. Says La Stampa:
"The new and decisive fact in support of the declaration on the Jews stems precisely from the threats of some Arab government."
It has also been officially confirmed that the opposition of Jewish public opinion, as exnressed throughout the world asainst the ""corrected" Schema, has impressed the Pope. There is reason to believe that Jewish news-japer criticism, including the comments in The Canadian .fewish News, havp. been followed closely in Rome.
This atmosphere of Jewish opposition has induced Pope Paul VI to invite Abraham Joshua Heschel of the Jewish Theological Seminary for a .special audience to discuss Jewish opinion.
Dr. Heschel. who originally had collaborated with Car- ' dinal Bea on the first Schema, arrived in Rome: before Yom Kippur. He was receiv ed by the Pope in a private audience in the private chara bers of the Pontiff where the head of.the Catholic Church usuaUy mwts^ diploxnats and foreign^dighitaries. .
The interview was arranged by Cardinal Bea.
Rabbi Heschel refused to comment on his discussions with the Pope but, according to those Jewish leaders who believe in continuing the dialogue, his talks were fruitful.
- At is understood that Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveit-chik, leader of the Orthodox rabbinate, still is critical of these contacts. However, those who encouraged Dr. Heschel to travel to Rome say that they cannot accept the position that Jews are not interesed in what the Catholic Council will state on ' antisemitism. They point out that hundreds of thousands of children frequent Catholic parochial schools and a Schema against antisemitism definitely is of profound interest to the Jewish people.
Now the attitude of the unofficial .Tewish delegation here., headed by a representative of the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Theological Seminary, is that of wait and see, while the Egvptian embassy is making a last minute^ effort to coordinate all those who are prejudiced against the Jews.
Morris B. Kaufman Negev Dinner Committee Meeting at the home of John R. Devon J. Starkmari. M.S. Tilland Nathan Phillips Q.C. ' More pictures on Page 3
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