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has been opposed to Federal aid. In recent years, howeveh an increasing- number of leaders nave been favoring it Virtually all Jewish secular and religious groups oppose aid.
A major factor in the division of opinion is the Jewish day schools. There are about 290 with an enrollment of more than 64.-
000. Most, under Orthodox auspices, combine religious and secular subjects. The schools have been pressed financially because of increasing enrollments and limited facilities, says the. New York Times. Many Orthodox leaders believe it is the responsibility of the Government to make available funds for all pupils in the study of secular subjects, regardless of the schools they attend.
These leaders have been pressing Jewish welfare funds and federations throughout the U.S. to intensify their support of Jewish education, particularly the all-day Jewish schools. They have emphasized that these schools produce the scholars, rabbis, and educators needed to develop American Jewish communities.
The delegates re-elected Moses
1. Feuerstein of Brookline, Mass., as president of the Union. Mr. Feuerstein is vice president of the Maiden Knitting Mills and president of the Maiden Mills Sales Company, t
At a symposium, Dr. Saftison R. Weiss, executive vice president $f: the union, rejected- chtSfe^t^ traditional Judaism *^^f|frfd *nd < wi
Orthodox Union, Divided, Rests In Cooler, From Controversy Over Federal School Aid, Compulsory
The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, recognising irreconcilable views on Federal aid to religious-sponsored private schools, shelved the topic at its final plenary session in Washington, D.C., says the New York Herald Tribune. Delegates adopted a "cooling-off" resolution which sets up a special committee to formulate a position acceptable to all.
As for prayer in the public schools, an almost equally controversial question among religious groups, the delegates expressed respect for the recent Supreme Court decision which banned spoken prayer and they took a stand favoring a "moment of silent devotion."
"We see no objection," the resolution said, "if the school day were to start with a period of silence. In this period let every pupil think in terms of his faith and nis parent's religious heritage."
Vehement difference* of opinion on Federal aid flared and resulted in a vote of no re-affirmation of the Union's long-held policy. This policy had opposed federal aid as a violation of the Constitutional separation of church and state.
The differences still seethed below the surface, although both sides recognised the need for avoiding [further appearance of disagreement in the eyes of the public After the resolution was adopted, Moses I. Feuerstein, president, said he regarded it as "a great step forward" in that Jwth
tion of a "single monolithic statement of policy."
The final action taken was led off by Rabbi Joseph Karasick, of New York, chairman of the convention. An emergency session was ordered, says the New York Herald Tribune. While breakfast coffee cups were stilled, Rabbi Karasick said:'
"At this momene we are too divided, perhaps too stubborn, and certainly too close to the heat of the discussion. This convention has gone on record already that there is room for difference of opinion on this issue. I suggest a cooling-off period of approximately sixty days, at which time the .Union will convene a special conclave to hear the various sides of this issue and, if possible at that time, to make our definite stand known. I believe that this question should be reviewed once again on the local and regional levels of the Union and the arguments presented at this convention should be circulated among the membership for complete study and review,"
The "cooling-off" resolution was a compromise resulting from sharp debates on the subject. Among those favoring it were Reuben E. Gross, New York lawyer, a member of the union's board of directors, who advocates Federal aid, and Samuel L. Brennglass, vice president of the union, an opponent of aid, says the New York Times.
Presiding at the session was Herbert Berman, chairman of the resolutions committee, also an opponent of aid. During debates In the five-day meeting, Mr. Gross asserted that the separation of church and state "is a myth propagated by secularists in public fife."
He contended that support for religion "is so imbued into the American system that its elimination would require a complete revamping of our schemes of taxation on the national, state, and local levels."
On the other hand, Mr. Berman, Mr. Brennglass, and others said that such aid was based on expediency and would constitute a violation of the separation of church and state. Support for the resolution was also voiced by Rabbi Joseph Karasick. the convention chairman, who called for further discussion on local and regional levels during a "cooling-off" period.
- If r.~�ederttein called the rea-ofutioo a "great step forward." Aa ft rjjtuH, he added, "repreeentatrree of both points of view within tfea American Orthodox coraamaHy, which, our oargifthfttion represents, wiQ aow be able to axpreaa their epfaiomoa Aa tent withoutjha
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the very fon nation of our faith Is the concept that eternity is superior to time and impervious to its vacillations and ravages."
Opposing Mr. Gross's viewpoint earlier were Paul H. Vishney, of Chicago, secretary of the board of directors of the Jewish University of America, and Herbert 'Berman, secretary of the Synagogue Council of America, the representative synagogue and rabbinic body of the three branches of Judaism � Orthodox, Conservative and Reform.
Mr. Gross said that absolute separation of church and state could be possible only if there were "complete secularization of all thinking and doing on the public level." He contended that it was important to realize that support for religion "is so imbued into the American system that its elimination would require a complete revamping of our schemes of taxation on the national, state, and local levels."
Mr. Gross also argued that the Supreme Court decision on the Regents' Prayer ensured "the Jew nothing more than freedom from religious embarrassment," says the New York Times. Differing, Mr. Vishney criticized those persons both inside and outside the Jewish community who have urged Jews not to support the Supreme Court decision rfand to withdraw from activity in this area." Mr. Vishney said that those who questioned the right of minorities to object to-majority practice "do not understand the very function of the Constitution."
Mr. Berman.> also an official of the Union ox Orthodox Jewish Congregations,, likewise differed with his Orthodox colleagues who favor Federal aid to religious schools. He said that this was a stand based on expediency. He warned that it was in conflict with other program! supported by the Jewish community, such aa attempts to amend the Sunday Law and the rights of Jewish children not to participate In religious observances of other faiths in the public school system.
Virtually all Jewish religious and secular groups oppose any Federal aid to Jewish religious education. The exception fa a small but growing group of Orthodox lay and religious leaders.
Robert R. Nathan, economist and Government consultant, asserted that bitter ecoaomfc conditions, particularly fall employ, meat; would help eliminate social aad religious discrimination.
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�-.s  "This episode in the debate has ^     v^      ^vdeep.and serious implications," Mr. �&$^&^tS>may said, reports the New York r-r-Tjhnes. "We would hope that Mr. . Shukairy's blessing bestowed upon �the Tacuara group will serve to 'focus attention on this phenomenon Und produce a backwash of public ^sentiment inside and outside the jjUnited Nations."
fa The Israeli delegate said Mr. iiSabri's technique was a "little $leas clumsy." It consisted, he said, $ot "trying to pin the Nazi label .\r0nto Israel and Zionism, in the ^hope that the public mind may be confused as between Hitlerism and those to whom it has caused such untold suffering. The public mind ?will draw its own conclusions," he jsaid.
Mr. Comay remarked that the ^activities of known Nazis in the c^JCairo   Government   had   become ^well-known. He specifically mentioned Johannes Von Leers, a propaganda expert in Hitler's Government, who, Mr. Comay said, has become "Cairo's top adviser" on anti-Semitism. He also mentioned Maj. Leopold Gleim and Maj. Ber-^Inard Bender as former Gestapo of-jt�ficers now holding.high posts in "r^'*the secret police in the United 1 Arab Republic.
Mr. Comay expressed surprise that a spokesman had been a close ^associate of the former Mufti of .^Jerusalem, a Hitler collaborator. :^Of the 12,000,000 civilians mur-^dered  in  Naii-occupied   Europe, ^ half were Jews, Mr. Comay declared, and thousands of Jewish
ff^^ survivors found their way to Is-rael after the war, says the New York  Times.  "These  are  nmnnp
York Times. "These are among ^"''if th> people whom Mr. Sabri and Mr. Shukairy and their friends ve the monumental indecency to
To Kill 90,000
A big-time Nazi extermination officer, henchman of Adolf Eich-mann, begged the world's pardon at Santiago. Chile, but insisted that he didnt think he ever killed anybody. The quest had been long and the trail frequently lost, reports the New York Herald Tribune, but it finally caught up with: Walter Herman Julius Rauff, wanted war criminal, charged in World War II with the liquidation of at least 90,000 Jews.
Before a court in Santiago, Rauff � operating as a salesman 'way south � said, like the late Eichmann, that all he did was to follow the orders of higher-ups.
But he is wanted, by the West German government, obviously stung by charges that it can order the deportation from Spain of a journalist for Der Spiegel but does little to hunt down men like Rauff.
So, Rauff, mild of mien and gray of thatch � iust as the executed mass killer Eichmann showed himself � was arrested presumably on information supplied by the West German government.
In Punta Arenas, on the Strait of Magellan, South America's southernmost city, Rauff was arrested and flown to Santiago for extradition hearings. His had been one of the chilling SS names brought into testimony at the Nuernberg trials.
like many others on the wanted list of Nazis, Rauff had seemingly vanished in the ashes of the Third Reich.
How did he get to Chile? No in-formation has been disclosed. He was reported, as was Eichmann, to have kicked around for a while in the Middle East, says the New York Herald Tribune. There are quite a few top Nazis of Hitler's regime who found work and favor in. for example, Egypt, where they still reside and are on the government payroll.
From the Middle East existed a kind of Nasi underground railway that led old comrades to ostensiblv safe plaeea where they wouldn't be detected. Eichmann hid out in Argentina, where he was discovered by Israeli agents who kidnaped hhn and took him to Israel for trial.
Rauff, a widower with two sons, has been an SS Standartenfuehrer, or colonel. A eokmei's rank was Efehmana'a, too. But that kind of colonel   out-ranked   Wehrmacht
Dr. Israel S. Wechsjer, a former president of the American Neurological Association .and the American Friends of Hebrew University, died In New York, at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he had served since 1917 aa staff physician, teacher, andj subsequently, chief of service in neurology, says the New York Time*. He was 76 years old and lived at 25 East 84th Street.
Dr. Wechsler, a native of Le-spedi, Rumania, Was brought to the U.S. by his parents in 1900. He received a medical degree from the New York University and Bel-levue Medical College in 1907.
His teaching career in neurology began in 1017 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He became clinical professor there in 1931. His students knew him for his soft and gentle manner in imparting knowledge, and in later years for his pride in their successes, for which he held no professional rivalry.
His 1927, "Textbook of Clinical Neurology", became a standard work in the field and is about to be published in its ninth edition. He was also a psychiatrist and a diplomats of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
A 1929 volume, "Neuroses," drew from Dr. Sigmund Freud an invitation to vipit him in Vienna. Dr. Wechsler accepted, and they remained in correspondence until Freud's death.
Dr. Wechsler's great interest outside his career as a physician, scholar, and teacher was the development of the Hebrew University and its medical' school. He served on its board of- governors from 1930 and a^ deputy
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Former D. P. Urges Jews To Rise Above Ghetto Mentality
The American Council for Judaism heard a denunciation of "ghetto mentality," which was described as the attitude that made many Jews passively accept destruction in Europe, or makes Jews today in the United States retreat Into Jewish communal life.
Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, a University of Chicago professor who came to the United States after surviving internment at Dachau and Buchenwald, says the New York Times, told the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Council for Judaism that "ghetto philosophy" was well illustrated by the conduct of the Frank family in "Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl."
"The Frank family," he said, "created a ghetto in the Hinter Haus where they went to live . . . I think we should contrast their story with that of other Jewish families who went into hiding in Holland.
"These families, from the moment they dug in, planned escape routes for when the police might come looking for them. Contrary to the Franks, they did not barricade themselves in rooms without exits."
A psychiatrist who heads the orthogenic school at Chicago, Dr. Bettelheim turned to the current scene:
"Jewish parochial schools are increasing in numbers and importance. Jewish families settle in suburbs with predominantly Jewish population. This is why I feel that, with such tendencies toward withdrawal into a modern American type of ethnic or religious isolation, we cannot easily dismiss the idea that ghetto traditions are still with us.
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