VOL XL!
The Canadian
Jewish Weekly
GARDENVALC, QUE&.C, APRIL 10, 1959
At 19 Rabbi Is Youngest Ever
Israel Army Claims Cafl-Up Was
Publisher, 63, &* Of Russian
Immigrant, And VRfe Own J4
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Ordained In U.S. Mistake
Nineteen-year-old -Judah Rosenberg, leader of Congregation Oha-rey Tzedek V'Shalom, in Plain-field. N J,, who last June completed ma studies for the rabbinate at rYeahiva University's Rabbi Isaac
Seminary,
was ordained in New York at the triennial ordination convocation.
Mr. Rosenberg ia believed to be the youngest man ever ordained to the rabbinate in the U.S. and is 'probably the youngest rabbi ever :to hold a pulpit in the- United' {States, says The New York Times, In addition, he is one of the few !yoang men ever permitted to take ja four-year college course in conjunction with three years of seminary training. In Jane Mr. Rosenberg will receive his bachelor's degree in psychology from Yeshfrva College,
The young clergyman (he became a full-fledged rabbi when he completed his ral>binic course) enrolled in both the seminary and the college at 16. He comes by his calling quite naturally. His father was a rabbi in Hartford, Conn., Jater becoming a mejmber of..^^ Israeli Knesset, or TParliament. His grandfather held the Plain-field pulpit thirty years ago.
Mr. Rosenberg is a well-built young man who would look completely at home on a suburban dance floor. In a recent interview, tto rabbi admitted that taking a college course while in seminary had its difficulties. He acknowledged, however, that his family background was of inestimable value; copociolly in the field of
- The Israeli Army officially accepted the blame for the mobiliza-�>n annduncement which frighted many Israelis, and produced nsiderable confusion in Israel and abroad. The Army spokesman "by mistake" the Gov-
Papers Valued At Far Over Million
Lead, Danger To Freedom
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel I. New-house, publishers of newspapers in a number of cities in tfre United
ernment radio station had been asked to broadcast a mobilisation announcement that "was worded in a way that waa not at all suited to the original intention of the General Staff."
After having alerted the public to listen for an important announcement, the station later made a terse broadcast in nine languages ordering three reserve units ,to report for active duty, says the New York Times. Without explanation, either in the announcement or by th� Army spokesman, the broadcast waa repeated twice an hour later.
It was not until after these second announcements that the spokesman acknowledged they were all part of a practice alert, adding that call-up of the entire three unita was for "routine exercises.''!^ __. :. _� ,, � ,^, ....._..,
Premier David Beh-Gurion, who is also Minister of Defense, met with the Israeli General Staff to find out what had happened. Afterward the Army announced that its handling of the matter had been done in such a manner as to "create panic in Israel and misunderstanding abroad."
Most Israelis were relaxing again and many were referring to the incident as a rather grim April
States, have agreed to purchase what is thought to be a controlling Interest in Conde Nast Publications, Inc. The transaction was announced, but financial details were not disclosed. However, a Reuters dispatch from London. Ireardquarters of -the Amalgamated Press, Ltd., sellers of the stock, said the price was �1300,000 ($5,-040,000).
It has been known for several months that I. S. V. Patcevitch, president and chairman of Condi Nast, was discussing the sale of the stock, on which he has held an exclusive option, says the New York Times. Mr. Patcevitch said that Mr. and Mrs. Newhouse were operating as private investors and that there would be no changes made at Conde Nast. They will be invited to join the publishing company's board, he said.
reportedly valued at between $.160,-000,000 and $200,000,000.
Mr^-Nawhouse, 63 yoor old son
Coiidd Narst "publishes Togue; House & Garden, Glamour and the Vogue Pattern Book. It recently acquired Brides House, Inc., publisher. The New Yorker Magazine is printed on Condi Nast presses in Greenwich, Conn., as are other outside publications. In Great Britain it publishes Brides and in France, Jeune Mariee.
This marks the first magazine roperty purchased by the New-
ToKe:�But the BouT during which the announcement went unexplained waa enough to prompt the cail*up of five Syrian reserve units and an order for all regular officers, of the United Arab Re-public'a Syrian ^AJiBty to rejoin
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Jordan's General Staff also met hurriedly. The newspapers in the Old City of Jerusalem, which is in Jordan, carried a statement by the General Staff declaring that "all steps are being taken to meet the
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\ of a Russian immigrant, bought
; his first newspaper in 1922, when he acquired The Staten Island Advance for $98,000. In 1955 he bought The Birmingham News, in Birmingham, Ala., and its affiliat-
__ed properties, including radio and
television stations, for $18,642,000, says the Njew York Times. Among other Newhouse newspapers are the St Louis Globe Democrat, the
'Portland Oregonian, the Newark Star-Ledger, the Long Island Press, the Syracuse Herald-Journal and the Syracuse Post-Standard.
The Condi Nast properties, particularly Vogue, are synonymous with high fashion. This is a prime interest of Mrs. Newhouse, who attended the Parsons School of Design in New York. A native New Yorker, Mrs. Newhouse also has studied fashion, home furnishings .and the arta-inJSurope.� ^- -
Until the end of last year, the Amalgamated Press, which puts out more than seventy publications, alone had held the interest the Newhouses bought in Cond& Nast Although the exact number of shares is not known, it was said to be about half of the 988,727 common shares outstanding.
In December, Cecil Harmsworth King, bought control of Amalgamated from the Berry family,
fourteen newepa which�Inre�extensive�publishing asylum
Former U. S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman contended that unfair immigration laws had x: a used the U. S. to lose its lead in scientific achievement by limiting the entry of experts. He called lor revision and liberalization ol the immigration statutes. �
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"Bigoted immigration laws adopted during the past generation, climaxed i>y the McCarran-Walter Act of 1&52," he said, "have contributed as ifcuch as any 'other 'single factor ta the deadly danger in which the cause of freedom stands."
Mr. Lehman spoke at the tenth anniversary dinner of the New York Association for New Americans at the Harmohie Club, 4 East Sixtieth Street, in New York, says the New York Times. About 200 community, resettlement and philanthropic leaders attended. "Who can pay how far ahead in science we would be today if Congress had not created. so many immigration barriers and kept out of our country so many individuals of ability and
is not only in the scientific field, but in the whole fabric of American life."
Mr. Lehman said Congress and the Administration must work together in a non-partisan manner to eliminate the national origins quota system. He said that the real tragedy lay in the fact that the McCarran- Walter Act had prevented many who were forced to flee Europe from seeking the U.S. ----------
agency had aided 4,000 individuals last year. He predicted that in the current year the Association would help a similar number of Jewish newcomers in the New York area. He noted that the agency's family service depart" ment had helped 3o,000 families and that its vocational service department had found jobs for 2,400 persons, says the New York Times. The Association is a constituent agency of the United Jewish�Appeal. -�---------:-------
Jewish Body Seeks
UgdAidFor
Stateless
The Co-ordinating Board of Jewish Organizations has appealed to a United Nations conference at Geneva, SwitaeFland) to-adopt-a*-international agreement on state-lessness. The forty nation conference was called to find relief for people born without a nationality, says the New York Times. The Jewish group cited the principle in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that "everyone has the right to a nationality."
It stressed a proposal for a United Nations agency to give legal protection 4e the stateless.
theology.
Two thousand persons witnessed the conferring of Semicha, the highest degree in Jewish learning, on the 115 rabbis, graduates of the
traditional conferring of rabbinic authority upott one "who is qualified by virtue of scholarship, piety and integrity to be entrusted with the same." ft dates from the first transfer of toe mantle oTTeader-ship from Moses to Joshua, as recorded in the Old Testament
Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva University, appealed for greater emphasis on spiritual and moral training "to encourage and foster man's genius for peace and goodwill" at the convocation in Nathan Lamport Auditorium, Amsterdam Avenue and 186th Street, New York.
Dr. Belkin declared that the or-- duration "represents a significant milestone in a world dominated by an unparalleled pre-occupation with military proficiency. He stressed that a program of ''spiritual preparedness/' not armed might, "will dispel the misunderstandings among the peoples of the world."
Since 1943, when he became president, Dr. Belkin has ordained Ml Orthodox Jewish rabbinical leaders. The university ia composed of seventeen schools and divisions at six teaching centers in the city. The institution had its origin on New York's lower East Side in 1866 with the establishment of the seminary and became a university in 1945. It has ordained more than 800 rabbis.
The graduating class included fifteen chaplains on duty with the armed forces. Rabbi Simon Cohen, leader of the Suffolk Jewish Center, Deer Park, L. I., was the fourth brother in the family to be ordained by the seminary. Witnessing his ordination were his father, Rabbi Ben Zion Cohen, and his brothers, Rabbis Harry and Morris Cohen, says the New York Times. The fourth brother, Rabbi Sol. Cohen, is in Israel.
Lieut. Joshua Wachtfogel, the Jewish chaplain at Elmendorf Air Base at Anchorage, Alaska, was unable to attend the ceremony. He will receive his Seminary certificate by maiL
Israeli mobilization."
However, there was no indication that the Israeli action was anything more than it was to be, says the New York Times. Albert Grand, spokesman for the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, said that there had been no complaints of unusual troop activities- on either side of Israel's border*,
An official explanation of the announcement Vas given to Maj. Gen. Carl von.Horn, chief of the Truce Supervision Organization, by the Israeli Foreign Ministry's Director of Armistice Affairs. Mr. Grand said later that the explanation had been ^accepted."
A spokesmsti for the United
States Embassy in the Tel Aviv
said embassy ezficials were satis-
-f ied with the flsraeli explanation.
pers, as well as television and radio stations. The newspapers are
Vice Foreign Minister of the United Arab Republic, dectttrad that-feraci wa* "rewting to th* seme -measures*- she employed in October, 1956, before her incursion into Egypt.
In a milder tone, Ahmed Kheir, Foreign Minister of the Sudan, told the five other league
sentativea present that Israel dared to act only because the Arab countries were divided among themselves. He urged his fellow Arabs to unite in a solid front.
holdings in Great Britain. About that time, Mr. Patcevitch was given an option on the stock that baa been bought by the New-bWBMa. Ji waa Mr. Kinc. chai
pen, Ltd., and' Sunday Pictorial Newspapers, ~Ltd.,~^who~"disclosed" in London the price that had been paid for the Conde Nast stock. The outstanding stock is publicly held and traded on the New York Stock
Exchange. ___V �
The last earnings statement issued for Conde Nast, for the nine-month period ended Sept 30, showed a net loss of $225,000 on sales of . $2Q,OE�5,000. This compared
"It is to the discredit of West-em civilization, and of our own country, that some of these refugees have been searching in vain Jar a new homa^in spme coun-
f*r
hejsald.______
Inscribed silver-covered Bibles, in "appreciation of their outstanding contributions in the. field of immigration and the integration of newcomers into the American� scene/'�were__pr��.�u>nt*�d
Such an agencV, it sftlfl, could ne-gotiate with the states concerned when there was disagreement over a person's nationality. A tribunal to decide disputes over the rater-
The League session was convened after Cairo and Baghdad began exchanging accusations in the wake of the "abortive revolt at Mosul in northern Iraq last month by army officers supporting Presi-
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____of $19,742,000 in similar period of 1957, says the New York Times. Practically all of the New-house newspapers were in poor financial shape when they bought
Mr. Lehman and Mrs. David M. Levy, the association's first president, and one of its founders in 1949.
Lester Ginsberg:, president of the Association, reported that the
said.
"the arguments presented by some governments opposing the rights of individuals to appeal a government's actions to an inter--national tribunal do not apply
here," it said. The tribunal "would not adjudicate between a state and an individual but rather between two states or between a state and a United Nations agency," it explained.
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ating in the black.
In editorials several Israeli news-
epers denounced the Army's ndling of tfie matter and demanded that those responsible be punished. J
To many Israelis mobilization call was a jarring surprise, particularly since Israel s borders have been comparatively quiet in recent weeks .and there were no hints of either/ offensive or defensive action by the army. But the reaction to a limited call on only three army twits was a good illustration of how* dose to the surface lie the tension! of the Middle East
Spokesman for two members of the Arab League denounced Israel's mobilization announcement They spoke at the opening session of an emergency meeting of the Arab League Political Committee, convened in ato effort to mediate the dispute between the United Arab Republic and Iraq, says the New York Times. The mediation attempt seemed doomed because Iraq failed to appear or even answer the League's invitation.
In speeches-at the public session Dr. Farid fc�in�ddin*, popular
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