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TORONTO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY aSrd, 1962
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"A POSTCARD FROM SALAN". — A bomb explodes close to main synagogue.
(By A C;N StoH ReportM) .
A problem which is affecting the prestige of the Jewish community has focused itself in the recent arrest of Louis Farrell, 43, of Sussex St., Toronto.
Farrell, charged with bootlegging, claimed to be a rabbi. An investigation revealed that Farrell's actual "position" Av-as that of-a- tempo sxy scroll reader who had been with the Downtown Lubavitch Synagogue a merfS three weeks, and that he
was not a member of the congregation.
"RABBI" SHOP SIGNS
As .a result of Farrell's arrest many in our Jewish community feel that the Canadian Jewish Congress and all rabbinical organizat ions publish the names of all bona fide rabbis, who are spiritual leaders of congregations.
It has been noted that some shopkeepers, for in
stance used the titje "rabbi" in their advertising, and on their shop signs..
One leading citizen interviewed by this reporter stated:
"A rabbi is the spiritual leader of a community - the degradation of his title must cease. Incidents such as Farrell's arrest cannot fail but to lead those uninformed of the true facts of the case to have doubts about the quality of this leadership."
DEVilLUfttlOII EMDORSED BY 66.43 VOTES
CJN REPORTS FROM ALGIERS
'NOT AFRAID'
MOST OF 120,000 JEWS
TO STAY ON
ALGIERS. (CJN -JCNFS) — "Have you a postcard of Salan," I jokingly asked the proprietor of a newspaper and tobacco kiosk. "It is engraved in our hearts," he answered, In the course of the conversation it turned out
that he was a Jew.
The position of Jews m Algeria today is like that of all Europeans — only more so. In a country of fear and tension the Jews are in a particularly invidious position, the special target of F.L-N. animosity, ne-
Commentary •      M. J. Nurenberger
THE USSR, THE WORLD AND THE JEWS
/ firmly believe: there will be no war between the Soviet Union and the West. I think we shoiild re-orieniate our thinking about Russia and change, to a certain extent, politipal vocabulary. The cliche concept East and West that is. Western Europe and Russia-^was^ born in Prussia. "Drang
sian capital to the' primitive Land of the Moiijiks. today Russia is a part of the West, its future conditioned upon the existence of the Western world to which she belongs, whether slie wills it or not. East, front the standpoint of Modern Russia, is far away, in China, where the potential enemy of the entire West /5 growitig by leaps and bounds. *     * *
The friction between the Soviet Union and Red China has nothing to do with Khrushchev or Mao Tse Tung^ No matter who wilt lead the highly
- industrialized Soviet Union, he will have to face the silent colossus ofjhe.Efir East. These are the facts of life. A paramount feature of our new reality is: .Soviet Russia is dependent upon the West. If there is at present a thaw in the cold war, it otdy shows
". that Khrushchev was the first to perceive this new reality. He is a political realist, a pragmatic Marxist.
All this may be true. There is. however, an underlying antagonism within this "Western" world. It originates from ideological differences which shotdd not be overlooked, ft is Convnunisnt versus Democracy.. Communism is hot only a different social philosophy and political weltan-schaung. Communism, which embraces dictatorship of the proletariat as a "trdnsitidiiary" regime for society, also accepts the necessity of ruling by force, by deceit, by coercion, by any means "sane- ' tified by the ultimate goal". The individual is not important; society is: Our democracy is built upon the opposite thesis, namely. that the goal cannot . sanctify the means and that society is created for the individual.
Therefore democracy must bestrong. ' ■
One of the common er'rors. about the position, of the Free World in relation to the European Com-mtinist orbit- seems .to stem from the misconcep-tiow that the Soviet- Unioti is-strong and we are . weak. This is a fallacy. V^e are much stronger strategically, econQmically and politically. We are , strong because we believe tit man, because we do-not sacrifice the-individuaf on the altar of ariy V : "ideglogy". We^elieve that no one has ihe_jight-: : to offerahtimmsacrificeonany altar.
But we must remain strong otherwise we could becomejhe victims of Trojan horses and qtiislings who would destroy us froth within if the opponent knows our weakness: fW--
,    J7i in general and
to the Jewish people liying~itt the Free World as well.- The recmi debate — whether the Jews of tixe , dem'ucraiic. West should remain silent in the face of the obvious aitonpt by the Soviet government: to st4ppress Jewish i^^^^ in Russia — stems
from: the same hhistakert concept that Russia is irtyiUnarable to piihlic.opinioii or to criticism froin -abroad.  Maybe  Stalin's  Rtissia  was;: however lihrUshchev'$ orientation and his goal to become . a part of the West is, dependent upon his accep-,.ianc^j by the .West.. He knows it. Thus we should Inteijsify oMr public crittcisrn of any excesses committed against the Jewish poptilation behind the /    \       • • Ti-s I; "s nothing to do wit
ver quite certain of the solidarity of its fellow-French citizens,
"We have been here longer than the Arabs, we owe e\er3thing to France. We shall neither desert France nOr our homes, but stay and fight together with other Europeans and loyal Moslems," community notables and Jews in the street alike told nie.
MURDER—NOT FRONTPAGE NEWS
Life in Algiers is an incredible mi.\tiire of the normal and the bizarre. In the daytime the crowds bustle through the shopping centres under the noses of the troops and gendarmes
the ready and armoured cars at strategic comers. In many shops and public building you are "frisked" for guns and bombs; briefcases and handbags must be opened. People crowd into the cafes, restaurants, schools, and synagogues as if nothing had^chang-ed, but after nine o'clock lew vehicles are seen on the streets. People have become accustomed to daily murders — a couple of dozen, on the ave-lage — and they no longer make front-pag*/'^ new.s.
CITY JEWS STAY ON
. VVhcrcas many Jews from the towns of the interior have left the country, making their way to France or occasionally to Israel, relatively few Jews have left Algiers or Of an. For one thing, they hope that, a miracle may happen and a F.L.N, dictatorship may be prevented. If they left now they would lose their ri.^hts. MUTUAL MISTRUST
in any case, it woiild be hard for them to dispose of their property; because everyone is in the same boat. Flats and businesses are a drug on the market, the auction-rooms are packed full— but there are few i)uy-ers. The . F.L.N. has threatened to blow up any properties sold to Arabis, and to punish "deserters."
Likejheir fellow-Europeans, the Jews show a strange mixture of solidarity and mistrust> tal-kativeiness and secrecj'. "Anyone you talk to may
be F.L.N., O.A.S,. or anti-OA.S. secret service, so you have to be careful," I was often told. "Above all, don't mention names."
In the old days Algerian Jewry produced many Left-wing and Liberal intellectuals, who had close ties with Arab nationalist circles. Today they are few and far between. Many discovered that the F.L.N, itself was prepared to mak<^ use of them, but not honestly co-operate with them, and became disillusioned. .Like the community of Spanish origin, which was strongly Left-wing until the revolt, many Leftist Jews lund that in the e»'es
of the F.L.N. they were still enemies. A few left the countrj', for France or Tunisia; a few were imprisoned or killed.
There was a time when a Jew was automatically a Gaullist; today like other Europeans, they regard him sadly, as a lost leader handing over a million Euiro-pjean^ and eight million Moslems to the tender mercies of the F.L.N. It is always difficult to predict the future, particularly where Algeria is concerned, since this East, the West, and the "third world" all have a share in shaping its destiny. But if the resylt of the negotiations in witzgrland is toprpdu-
RADE MINISTER HEES liRfiES CANADA TO INVEST IN ISRAEL
OTTAWA (QJN]. — The rael. Tliis mission of Cana-Hon. George Hees, Canada's dian Jewish investors in Is-Minister of Trade, told a ca- rael is about to lea\e tor the pacity audience at Ottawa's | Holy Land. Bnai Jacob Synagogue, on i   Mr. Hees addressed the
Sunday,  that  the    govern-. Brotherhood of the B'nai ment has invited a number ,    .   ,,      ^, , .. of Canadian businessmen to]-'''^""'' ^'^"^ ^'"b. He. was explore the possibilities of introduced to the audience establishing industries in Is-iby iVlr.; Julius Lewis."' hnM
ce an F.L.N. Government — which few Algerians doubt \vill take the form of a one-party dictatorship — the overwhelming majority of the Jews will leave, most of them for France, at least as their first stop. Most already have relatives' in France, most have at least visited it, and they know by e.vperience that Algerian Jewish settlers-have done well there.
A minority told me — in confidence — that they were thinking of trjing Israel. A still smaller minority told me, in even greater confidence, that they believed that they would get on \vell with the Arabs, as their ancestors.; didj
^before ihe^V^eSciTarrlv-F ed in 1830. A few have <even been buying up property from their. fellow-Jews as they leave. Judging by experience in other newly independent Arab States they have a tr}'ing time ahead. But all Algeria's remaining 120.000 Jews have to make up their own= minds, and all we can do is watch with sym-
'■ pathy and vigilance.
JERUSALEM, (JCNS) — By sixty-six Coalition to fbrtv.^ three Opposition votes the Knesset "Israel Parliament, oh Monday approved the government's new economic policy. The Minister of Finance, Levi Eshkol, said the matter had been under secret consideration for one year.
He aLso stated that the multiple system of exchange rates no longer contributed towards improvement in the balance payments gap. He added that he did not expect 3ii increase in the Cost of Living AIIo\vance would be necessary until July.
HOTEL PRICES UP
Other developments resulting from the devaluation of the Israeli pound are:
• The management of the Sheraton Hotel, the newest and largest in Israel, promptly informed their guests that their bills would be 40 per cent higher, as prices were fixed in dollars.
Other hotels are waiting to see how their costs will be affected. It is expected that hotel managers will shortly meet the Tourist Corporation to work out a new scale of charges.
CAR PRODUCTION AFFECTED
• As a result of the higher costs of imported raw mat^ rials for the car industry, makers here decided to shelvt plans for local production of car components.
This industry is now employing 300 workers. The car market has remained almost paralysed as agents conthiih ed their negotiations with the Government, before putting new prices on their models.
Prices of Kaiser Ilin cars will go up by nearly 1 £2 J)00.
• The Government had accepted loans totalling hundreds of niillions of pounds from the public. These loans were linked to the dollar, and the Government vroulid honour its obligation, Mr. Levi Eshkol told the Knesset.
• The 500 engineers who were on strike for nearly six weeks returned to work. Most of them will get rises^^of between 12 and 14 per cent.     . .
AGREE WITH MANUFACTURERS
JERUSALEM, (JCNS) -r- The Israeli govenunent has agreed with the Manufacturei^^AsSociation to keep mpre or less unchanged thg^ces 6f alt existing ,stpcjES>Jjt\^
pnces of-goods stiif in ports reniains unJsblveiL _
Under the agreement the government Avadved its daiin to a surtax on stocks in hand. It is beliiSved that by this arrangement prices will remain unchanged for the majority of chemical, pharmaceutical, food, metal, and textile commodities. Meanwhile, those with dollar-linked loans are given three months to decide if they would prefer switching to inde.x-lirtked arrangements, or within that period if they ;vant to repay in whole or in part their loans at the old rate, or retain present link but prolong repayments for one third of the agreed period.
Representatives of the Manufacturers' AssociJation again repeated their assurance to keep prices down, but without prejudice to their  interests."  They asked for further talks also on a number of points which were still not clear.
»T RAY GOULD, CJN IH.H ll.,orHf   ^^^^^^ritish   trOOpS whom
• '■ ■ thev    terrorized , indulged
The latest bulletin issued :large-scale ternjnstactivi: by the "Canadian Friends of i^P^! '^e Moslem the Middle East" has eon- f ^ Christian majorities vinced informed circles here ''^^ countiy.
that this ant^Semitic propa-; m^^^^^miss^^mixMi^^ ganda is emanating from the I* Ottawsi embassy of a foreign \} nation.
The group, operating from j a London, Ontario office, followed last week's mockery of the 6 million Jews exterminated in Europe during World War II with a
PLUNDERED PALESTINE
"Jews owned less than 1% of Palestine, yet they plundered and occupied all priv-
MONTREAL, (CJN) -• Prime Minister John Diefen-baker told the Temple Emur
bul; 1 nu-El Annual Fellowship Din letin this week which makes i ner here last week-end that
a vicious attack on the legality of the state of Israel.
COMMITTED ATROCITIES
there", the Prime Minister stressed the urgency in maintaining the United Nations as an organ for the manifestation of brbtherhoodi toleran-
ate and public property in 80"6 of Palestine", the bul-I letin charges. Great Britain is accused of every conceivable unscrupulous and immoral tactic in assisting "the international Zionist gangsters".
This 1 a t e s t - publication claims that Ben Gurion and l;is associates committed crimes aijd atrocities against the. British in Falestinie while Britain was engaged in its life and ileath struggle; with Npzi Germany duriiig World Warn.
The author or authors unknown go on to state that while the United Nations was trying to peacefully settle the 'Palestine situation", Jews, aideid and abetted  by the
with war or
A-
:)\/q peop/e iriifte wor/ii^^w more dependent iti its very existence upon pea^e than are we, the Jews. Bill io preach tinilaterdVdisarnmnent and'Surren-dertp: Soviet. Riissia's hostile policy iqivards the Jews, behind the: Iron Curtain is a type of meek-ues."! which invite^ more. trotibU:
CANADIAN HADASM^ GIFT
jm'f^JQ^^^^^^ CHAIR
JERUSALEM, (JCNS) — Premier Ben^uribn \yas presented with a 200-year*dld French-Cahadiah rocking chair by Hadassah-Wizo of Canada on February 20, when some Hadassah wom^n met the Israeli Prime Minister. The chaif-is-the saiie age as Caoiaida's Jewish Commimity, which was foimd^^
President Ben-Zvi, who^tendered an pffi^ tiori for the Canadian delej^tion,was prei^tcd wth an Eskimo carving of green soapstone '^nd Avaliiis hjisk c»nriBg. representing i: hunter examining n float-■ I - ■ ::■
their gathering had become'ce.   and understanding "symbolic of the truth that \ mong all riieii. there is so much more that unites men of various..iaces and religious   faiths than divides them".
' - JEWS
"DEFIED CHARTER"
After referring to alleged Jewish atrocities committed against Arab women, the bulletin turns to obtuse distortions of fact, and quotations of international law. with at I frequent reference to the vChaiter of the United Ha-.
tions which, ir claims, was defied on countless occasions by the Jews in Palestine,"
The bulletin concludes 8 pages of tiresome and complicated raving,: With the assertion that "tiie illegal occupation of Palestine' by, Jews will soon come to an end"..:'
Leading citizens are hopefully looking to Ottawa for some action on the obscene and- slanderous activities of the "Friends :of the Middle East". Perhaps a full RCMP investigation into the matter vvould be in order.
TOLERANCE STRESSED
Commenting that although fellowship may begin at home it 7 "can never end
Britaifis Chief Rabbi " For
manii
SYDNEY, Australia (JCNS) —- British (ihief Raljbi Israel Brbdie s ta ted on t he Aust ra-lian radio network, on Sunday, that no,purpose would be achieved by executing Eichmann. Vi
He said that the trial and its publicity had already achieved the motive of informing youth of man's inhumanity to man. He warned ^^ainst making Eichmann "a hero by execution,
pr s, and
martyr to anti-Semites former ^Nazis."
GENERAl HERZOC IM TORONTO
Barrister-tiuTied - soldier, Brigadier-General Haim Her-zog, for the past three years T)irector of .;^Israel ; Army Intelligence, is visiting To ronto this weeE" for discussions with United Jewish Appeal Campaign leadership.
Making the announcement, cam paign chiai rman ; Noel Zeldin said: - -
"For. many Jews living in critical areas around the world, this is a year of great tensjon-and uneasiness. Their lives are Continually beset by dangers a^^d difficulties which can only be solved by emigratidn to Israeli" For the United Jewish' Appeal of Toronto this must be; ^ year of tremendously increased effort.
"Our campaign bbjecti\'e is $3,180,000. I am confident' that the enthusiasm anci devotion of the whole cq)rl:|iii^u-
nity will ensure the achieve^
ment of this goal."
SERVED ON GENERAL STAFF
■ Brigadier-General Herzog, brother of the Israeli Ambassador to Canada, studied law at the University of Cambridge and London and -was admitted to the Bar in both Britain and.Israel. ■ In World War II General Herzog graduated as an officer from the Royal Military Academy in Engleind and served as an infantry an^^ armoured officer and on >lie General Staff. He participated in the North-West European Campaign ,as well Sis' campaigns in France:, Belgium, Holland afnd Germany, including the crossing—of the Rhine. He has been an officer of the Israel Defetise Forces since 1948 and sen--ed in the! l?iraeli War tif Xti-
-Of'Staff. From 1954 to 1957 he \yas Commander Jei^isa; lem District, aiid frbrn 1957 to 1959 served as Chief of Staff Southern Command. :.:
dependence as Briga4e (ihief
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