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A full page exclusive reporis from the Eichmann trial (page 3); A non-Jewish reader of the Canodian Jewish News becomes target of neighbours — Many other facinat-ing features and stories in today's I2-pag^e^
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SERVATIUS MAY SUMM0N fflSTORIAN TOYNBEE AS WITNESS FOR THiEICHM^^^^^ DEFENSE
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TEL AVIV, (JCNFS) — Df. Tropolevsky, Argentina's former Ambassador to Israel, told a Press Conference here on Tuesday that Martin Bormann, whom Hitler had appointed Feuhrer before his suicide was in Argentina when Adolf Eichmann was captured last year.
Bormann had been living under a false name and had disappeared into Brazil when he heard of Eichmann's capture by Israeli agents in May 1960.
This news electrified Israel, as Bormann was the "Number Two" Nazi and "Number One" on the wanted list of the International Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.___•
; DEMANDS NEW I   M.E. POLICY
ATTACKS ISRAEL
SENATOR FULBRiGHT
ARNOLD TOYNBEE
Coinrtientary •      M. J, Nurenberger
TRAVELOGUE: ISRAEL NO SUBSTITUTE FOR PEACE
JERtS.\LEM — It would be »n taggetMon to ••■
•nine that,. tfte.»riiJaa;^*t«l«n«ina?t^ ?•!„ 1b: the Eichmann trial. I^iJkirig'jit the worid picsa, on* could easilj be misled into belieTing that Etchmana — Ml fate — is Israel's main concern. In general, one can say about Israel that less significant events in this country receive more coverage in the world press than the most Important occurrences. Of course the Eichmann trial is not the least significant of these. Historically, from the Jewish point of view, from the 1JNIVERS.4L Jewish standpoint, its m^janing is immea.surable. But, as far as Israel is concerned, the state, the people^ the country. — there are problems of va.'ft urgency which smnplimv fx;.! ■ onr attention.
Of ttiese, I would say that Israel's greatest task and chief concern is — peace with its neighbours. Beneath the superficial mood of laissez-aller, of complete disinterest in what the Arabs are doing, lies the crux of everything that really matters. For, despite the fact that for the next five or ten years the Israelis are rightly confident and optimistic about their military superiority, the citizen who looks ahead, towards the next generation MUST analyae the changing world around him.
The Israelis live for the future. Thejf exult with the happiness of people who are absolutely immune to. difficulties created by the present situation. The challenge is: the future. Only that counts. That's why nowhere m the world children look as well fed and well eared for, nor are they as beautifully dressed, as In Israel. They are the happiest citizens of the country. Ihe Jewish-children of Israel have lost the sad expression that have been characteristic as "Jewish" for centuries. One could almost mvariably detect the subconscious fear for the future In the eyes of a Diaspora Jew. This expretsioa has completely disappeared from the face of the Sabra. He is a normal human being, freed from all the complexes of the Galut Jew. He forges hia own destiny. He is not dependent upon others.
Behind all this manifestation of self-assurance, thos* in Israel \vJ>o are looking realistically towards the future ask liien7.;i'!ves:
Are hc really independent? Is there today — In the nuclear a/re^ a truly indepciident nationMs it possible for .Englishmen to say that they are completely detached from what happens around them?
At; a period hi history when not only the English Channel but the Atlantic and the Pacific have ceased to be a natural frontier and a line of defence, how can one justly state that this country Is able to ignore the march of historj?
The Israelis areTiitten by the^ building bug. The fever ;of construction to this tiny land is at an all time high. New roads, new highways, new towns, hew citiei rise overnight., Little Israel has. become, in its own way, s great power.However, those who look ^ forward are concerned with peace. MacArthur once said. "Irt wftr there is no substitute for victoi7." I should like to add, after . g war there is no subistitute. for peace.
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Israel yearns for peace. Despite the fact that the clouds of war hang over the beautiful blue sklM of the eastern Mediterranean, there still is hope. While Nasser apparently wants war, others in the ares are determined to abide in peace. Nasser continues to terrorise the Arabs. But the Arab world in beginning to reaHie the Nasser danger too. The Christians of Lebanon, the Moslems of Tonisia and many across the Jordan long for peace. An incident could provoke war. But a series of evenU may brinr about peace. Israel is waittog for the first Arab statesman who dares say lie wants that peace. Somewhere, In the vicinity of Israel, young Arabs are pi«partog for .such'aday. .
Israelis, concerned about the future. However, be< eanse c^the fact that it peacffully continues its way of life alidkueps on jbnilding, this, little great power is bound jo reach its go.il: peace.
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TORONTO JEWRY MOBIllim FOR IA ST WEEK OF UJA CAMPAICN
FAVOURITE OF IHE ARUBS
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{By Th« CJN tXaii reporter) Campaign chairman. Max Tan-
enbaura. and all divisional and
group chairmen have sent out
urgent calls to United Jewish
Appeal workers and contributors
for a victory drive in this final
wetk.-<..o£.. i^jp—-Campaign. Tho
Closing Celebration is scheduled
for Thursday, May 18, 8 pjn., at
Beth Tzedec Synagogue.
GREAT OBLIGATIONS TO BE MET
Every membert of the Jewish community who has hot yet made a pledge towards the 196i
Campaign is being asked to give now and give an increase. Toronto's commitment to needy Jews at home and overseas Is greater than ever this year and gifts must be generous to maintain the great humanitarian pro-grianis.oi resettlement and rehabilitation around the world.
exceij:j:nt results
Intense campaigning is being carried on In the Constnictioii, Foods and Services and Metropolitan Divisions. In the latter, chairman Harry Frank is turning in an excellent Job. Fred
Bookman's work is outstanding Ui t;t»e Insurance Group and Nat andlnring Hennick are cleaning up In the Jewellery Group. H. Wayne Tanenbaum who has workod,steadily throughout the Cfi^'-t'*^ js landing a hand\.with generaT coverage "afief completion of work in his own Heavy Industry Division. Julius Weiner of the Ladies and Children's Wear Group and Phillip Kom-bliim of . the Furniture Group have set a fa.'it pace.
AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED
A group ol nien in the Over-
the-Top Committee has been meeting early every Tuesday morning for five weeks to plan the victory strategy and set leadership for card coverage. Saul Sigler has been outstanding in this group in the feirt two-.weeks. ' iSpeclai/awarcis lof'"dBJSingU^
ed leadership and devoted work Vill be presented at the Closing Celebration. This gala occasion, called "Campaign Capers." will officially mark the end of the 1961 Campaign with a musical revue of the Campaign highlights.
NORTH YORK PARENTS CHOOSE TIME FOR RELIGIOUS CUSSES
(By th« ON Reporter) All parents of public school children In the Township of North York will have the opportunity within the next few weeks to help determine at what period of the day religious education will be given, according to a decision of the North York School Board.
On Thursday last at a special meeting held at 6.00 p.m. — there was '•standing room- only" for spectators as early as five minutes after this — the Board prepared the format for such a questionnaire. This is the climax of the dispute that has been going on for close to two years on the thorny question of religious education in the public schools. Parents will be asked whether they wish to exempt their chlldreni from classes in religion.
Since it was pointed out that mwiy parents will be .unable to exempt their children until they know at what time of the "day the class will be given, it was understood after a motion by Mr, Stan-bury that this question will be Interpreted to indicate whether or not- parents favour or-oppose religious education in the public schools. -—:
In addition all parents will also be asked to indicate which of four prescribed times they favour for such classes; the times are 9.00 ajn., 11.30 ajn., 1.30 pjn, and 3.30 p.m.
The Board of Education has received numerous briefs and messages from commimity orgar nizations in all parts of North York suggesting the frame of re^ ference and the format for this ;,questlonnalre. The organizations Included Ministerial Associations, Churches, Citizens' Groups, the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Ethical Ediication Association.
The North York Parents Committee for a Pair Religious Education Programme, led by Mr. R. Val Scott of Downsview, has
latmched a campaign urging parents to vote in favour of the
3.30 period at the time that is fairest for all concerned. The committee ha^ representation on It from all parts of North York and has members of many vary ing denominations.
Among the individuals on this committee are Mrs. Grave Levia who Is active in Home-and School circles; Mrs. Jean Dodds, a former trustee on the North York Board for the - Don Mills area; Mr. James - Peters, resident of North York who is a lecturer in English Literature at Byerson Institute of Technology; Mrs. Reesa Kassirer, Don Mills housewife and social workers.
Other members are Mrs. Greta Allen,.Mrs. Mabel Aplin, Charies B. Cohen, Mrs. Joan Benz, James Coles. Kenneth Crockfbrd, Mrs. Margaret Davis. H. G. Kim Game, Mrs. Ruth Green. Mrs. Audrey Hosie, Carl King, Mrs. Josephine
BONN DEFERS HELP TO ISRAEL; CONDEMNS NAZI PAST
BONN,-(JCNFS) - The West German Federal .Government is prepared to give tlie Israeli court
FULBRIGHr CAtLS FOR U.S/PRO-ARAB POLICY
WASHINGTON, (CJN) — Senator William Falbright af Arkansas, cliainnan etthepowcrfal ForrigB rations committee »t the Senate, is emerging as the ' most active protagonist of Arab interests in the United States, The Canadian Jewidi News learned excluslvdjr here.
Man Of Soutti
Falbright, who now clabns that he ;;ad opposed the Cuban ' ad-ventore, is also against President Kennedy's Middle East policy.
The Arkansas senator was a candidate for Foreign secretary
[prior to the appoiiitmMirof Dean Bask. UeweVsTBiiBerity (roups
had opposed lilm.
He was overtly eontested by the leaders of the Negro oi-gani-zatiwis as a Sontheriier coin-mltted to the raidal policy of the reaetlonarjr Democratic wing. He never forgot the sUght by President Kennedy, nor has be forgiven..—- .:
Wants "Ghange"
In recent weeks he has been agitating for a reevaloatloh of America's foreign policy toclnd-ing the JMiddle East orientation.
Rdiable soorces in Washington dMiare'that Mr. Fnlbright is Afi-manding a cliange in favour af tha Arabs.: ' '   \ ■ '
trying Eichmann every possible assistance for the interrogation of witnesses, a spokeman for the Minister of Justice declared . in Parliament.
He said that. Gerhian antho-ritcs would help Israel as far as Oerman and interiiational law permitted.
STATEMENT BY FOREIGN OFFICE
The German Foreign Office issued the foUovring statement on Eichmann:
The disclosure of the hor-rifyuig and frightful truth will serve as a warning and an admonition to all the world, but especially to Germans for all time to.come. It will show that man, when he renounces the religious and moral, principles which give meaning and dignity to his existence as a hnnian bebig, becomes capable^ of tlie most horrible crimes.
It Is possible to cite facts which, favored, the devclopnirnt of the (Continued on page 12) ;
MacKetizie. Mrs. Del McCIennan. James H. McLaughlin, and Eric Wyeth.
The committee members belong to various denominations Including United Church, Anglican, Society of Friends, Jewish, Unitarian and others. The chairman, Mr. Val Scott, can be reached at ME. 3-6908.
An organization which has announced Its intentior of advocating the nine o'clock time is "The Citizens Committee of Concerned Parents" which wbrks In cooperation with thfi thn&e North York Ministerial Associations. ^
JERUSALEM, (CJN) — The Canadian Jewish News learned exclusively this week that Dr. Robert Servatius, the German legal defender of Eichmann is planning to ask the court to summon the historian Dr. Arnold Toynbee as a witness for Eichmann. Toyn-bee has recently become popular with some Anti-Semitic groups because of his equation of Zionists with Nazis.
It lis however doubtful that the court would summon anyone hot directly involved in the particular case of Eichmann. Thus far presiding Judge Landau has consistently refused any political witnesses, on either side.
HITS AT "JEWISH APARTHEID"
PfflLADELPHLA, (CJN) —. Judaism, a "pUot model" of a world-wide religion, could become "one of the great spiritual possessions of the whole human race" when Jews and non-Jews abandon their "ethnic or national reservations" about Jews, according to Arnold J. .Toynbee, tlie 3ritJi9J> Wstorian..
"For the past 2,500 years". Dr. Toynbee said, "the Jewish amimunity in the world has been pau*-ing^part-way between rmaining^a^^^^ com* munity" of *the old typ« fiJiS becoming an open religious oommunlty of the new type."
Non-Jewish Westerners have not "wholly given up their tradition of apartheid vis-arvis the Jews,** while Jewish Westerners "have not wholly given up their tradition of ethnic self-segregation, which is, of course, apartheid in reverse," Dr. Toynbee said in a speech to the seventeenth annual conference of the "American Council for Judaism", an anti-zionist group.
IDENTICAL VIEW
Dr. Toynbee described Zionism and anti-Semitism aa "expressions of an identical point of view" — that it is "impossible for Jews and non-Jews to grow, together into a single community, and that, therefore, a physical separation is the only practicable way out."
"The watchword of anti-Semitism is 'Back to medieval thetto,"' he declared.
Last March, Dr. Toynbee, in a letter to Harry Snellen-burg jr., chairman of the conference, noted that his earlier criticism of Zionist-Israel actions were "not directed against the Jews and Judaism." The historian said he deplored what he called Zionism's and Israel's "^rejectipn of historic Jewish moral standards." He said it was "mischievous misrepresentation" to equate Judaism with Zionism and Identify all Jews vrith Israeli actions.
Earlier this year in a discussion in Montreal, Dr. Toynbee had asserted that the Jewish treatment of: Palestinian Arabs in 1948 was as morally indefensible as the slaughter of the Jevvs by the Nazis. This drew fire from Yaacov Her rog, Israeli Ambassador to Canada, who later held a two-hour debate with the historian. 'The debate brought no par-ticulM cohduslon. although Dr. Toynbee was invited to visit Israel. .
NEGRO COMPOSES JEWISH LITURGf
PATERSON, N. J. — For members of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, (Nathan  Barnert; Memorial  Temple)  and their ; yoimg organist last  Sabbath evening service had special significance.
The organist, William Parley Smith of Englewood, NJ., a 20-yeBr-old Negro, made hia debut as a composer of Jewish liturgical music.
Mr. Smith, working with the congregations cantor,. Joseph Posner of Fair Lawn, has created a musical setting in a moderii fdiom f6r the traditional responses during the one and p^ne-haif hoiir service. His work was sung by the ■cantor and choir.
MODERN YET FUNCTIONAL
The organistTand the cantor labored for. six months lii , composing for the nine sections of. the service. The organist, who. does, hot read Hebrew, explained that by.: listening and getting accustomed to the tone of the language he was able to, set the transliteration to music.
Noting that he used Jewish (Greek) modes and. the resources of the Hassidlc idiom, he added: .
"The melodies are not of traditional source, but they, are definitely Jewish. The harmonies are twentieth century, i composed something that Is modem, cletm, traditional wid still functional."
BabbI Martin Freedman said:
"Mr. Smith's artistic efforts have resulted in the. creation of an esthetic, beautiful and profoundly inspiring Sabbath service. I am astounded by .his grasp of' the traditional modes, his infusion of spiritual significance^ and the clean, sharp, modernity of his musical mind.     /' ~
•'This whole creahve (endeavor; In wlUchmiy co^ ion is' proud to play a part, has again proved that^man can think, if not speak, to a basic comnaon faith." .
Mr. Smith, who is; a Baptist, has been the Reformed temple's organist for two years. He. is the sixth in the 114) yearrold history of the congregation.      \ ' / '
DEPENDENCT OF ISRAEL
In his talk, Dr. Toyiibee warned that "if the Jewish communJ-ty in the West were to contLnue to be an ethnic-^even if wily a partly ethnic and partly religious community coexistiiig with the present State of. Israel, it could hardly avoid falling, sboner or later, Into the position of being a political' tiepehdency of Israel, considering Israel's, present mood and present policy on the one hand, and on tiiejther hand the eniotiohal hold that the State of Israel.has upon the-hearts of all Jews as a result of; the traditional association of Judaism; wlth~ the prayer for return to Palest i-ne."'..v;
The Jew who does not choose to emigrate to Israel, he added. In effect declares his intention to remain a citizen of his West: em homelaiid without any eth-nlc reservations. "A Jewish com-rhuhity that had at>andoned the ethnic basis of Its distinctive identity would still retain the religious basis of It," the histo. riah said. 'It wquld simply be completing the long drawn but process of Its transforrnatloh from a local cbnummlty, based on ;blood and soil,' Into a worldwide community based on a distinctive common religion."
"So far as I know," he added, "there is nothing In the J[ewlsh religion that Is incompatible witJi thi» development.'*
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