The Jewish Times

              it is now everybody's business to work
for and secure a better understanding between
man and boy . . ." Edward I. Rasnick, honor-
ary president, Jewish Big Brother Association.
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Israel Charges Tampering
Leaders Ask CJA
Have Top Priority
In Fund-Raising Here
The executive committees of the Associated Jewish Philan-
thropies and the Combined Jewish Appeal of Greater Boston
this week issued a call to the community to maintain the Com-
bined Jewish Appeal as "the first priority fund-raising medium
for basic Jewish communal and philanthropic needs."
In a series of resolutions adopted
�t the all day planning conference
� the third conclave of its kind de-
Voted to formulations of immediate
and long range plans to strengthen
the Combined Jewish Appeal � the
two executive committees once
again urged the Jewish people' of
Greater Boston to grant the over-
whelming portion of their philan-
thropy dollars to the CJA.
Calling for maximum support of
the decisive 1955 Combined Jewish
Appeal which gets underway in a
few weeks, the leaders emphasized
the need for still "higher standards
of giving, broader coverage in terms
of number of contributors" and ac-
celerated payment of Combined
Jewish Appeal pledges.
The All Day Planning Conference
again called attention to the grow-
ing multiplicity of independent fund
raising campaigns which constitute
a threat to the central Jewish com-
munity organization which should-
ers the responsibility of financing a
network of 201 health, welfare, edu-
cation, and recreation agencies help-
ing Jewry at home, nationally, over-
seas and in Israel.
It reaffirmed the basic principle
that "all valid Jewish appeals de-
serving the support of the full Jew-
ish community belong in the Com-
bined Jewish Appeal, except when
there is mutual agreement between
it and an outside agency that the
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Hearings on
Refugee Bill
Postponed
|VASHINGTON � Hearings
on a bill to speed up immigra-
tion under the Refugee Relief
Act have been indefinitely
postponed ' as Congress ap-
proaches its summer recess.
For the past several weeks, the
Senate Judiciary Committee has
tried in vain to reach an agreement
on amendments to the act. How-
ever, either failure to get a quorum
or strong differences of opinion
among the committee members
have obstructed the committee's
efforts.
During the first session of the
84th Congress, extensive hearings
were held on the controversial ref-
ugee program. Several Jewish or-
ganizations offered suggestions to
liberalize the program. As a result
of the hearings, a compromise meas-
ure was sent to the full committee
without recommendations. The com-
promise measures were reportedly
termed very limited.
A special House Immigration Sub-
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Tel Aviv May Have
Woman As Mayor
TEL AVIV � The next mayor of this city may be a woman
�� Mrs. Golda Myerson. Israel's labor minister, but weeks may
elapse before a final decision is reached.
Mrs.  Myerson,  a  former  school
teacher in the United States, is the
leading candidate for the mayor-
alty of Israel's largest city.
The post will be filled by the new
municipal council elected last week.
However, it will take a coalition
lineup to put Mrs. Myerson over
and a deal involving the mayor of
Israel's part of Jerusalem may be
necessary.
One possible barrier in her path
is the view of some ultra-orthodox
Jews that an ancient Jewish tenet
bars a woman from such a post.
They cite the Fifth Book of Moses,
Chapter 17 Verse 15: ". . . One from
among thy brethren shalt thou set
as king over thee . . ."
The famous 12th Century Jewish
philosopher Maimonides interpreted
this to signify the choice of only a
man as ruler. But the leading 20th
Century scholar, Chief Rabbi Abra-
ham Izhak Kook, who died in 1935,
ruled more liberally that women
could vote for members of the Jew-
ish-elected assembly in the days of
British rule in Palestine and could
also be members of the assembly.
Mrs. Myerson's Mapai Party is the
largest bloc in the 31-member coun-
cil, but its 10 seats are short of a
majority. The Mapai is counting on
the votes of two members elected
�B the "religious blox" list of the
MRS. GOLDA MYERSON
Next Mayor?
Mizrachi Party.
Observers said the Mizrachi is in-
clined to take the liberal, modern
view that women can mix in poli-
tics. But the religious party is re-
ported demanding that in exchange
for supporting Mrs. Myerson, a re-
ligious leader be chosen in Jeru-
salem.
The Mizrachi feels that the ad-
ministration in the Holy City should
not be headed by a representative
of a primarily secular party.
IMS
VOL. X NO. 50             AUGUST 4 ,1955              Price Ten Cents
Ike Backs Sobeloff
In Appointment Bicker
WASHINGTON �Nomina-
tion of Solicitor General Si-
mon E. Sobeloff to be a United
States Appeals Court Judge
was again endorsed this week
by President Eisenhower.
The President said he was un-
aware of the Congressional contro-
versy over his nomination of Mr.
Sobeloff but thought that the nom-
ination was an "excellent" one.
Earlier the Senate Judiciary Sub-
SIMON   t.   SOBELOFF
Backed by Ike
committee hearings on the Sobeloff
nomination were indefinitely' post-
poned at the request of Sen. James
0. Eastland (D., Miss.) and Sen. Olin
D. Johnston (D., S. C). Both South-
ern Senators requested "a reason-
able length of time" to study Sobe-
loff's  qualification.
The President said at his weekly
news conference that he did not in-
tend to challenge the right of Con-
gress to make a thorough investiga-
tion. He also said that he has had a
number of contacts with the Solici-
tor General and was impressed with
his "jusidical type of mind."
Other Southern Senators and
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Evidence
Is Removed
From Plane
JERUSALEM � Parts of an
Israeli airliner shot down by
Bulgarians last week "had ob-
viously been tampered with
in an effort to remove incrimi-
nating evidence," the Israeli
Foreign Ministry charged this
week.
"Israel investigators -gained the
definite impression that the El Al
airliner had been attacked by a ma-
chine gun," the ministry statement
declared.
"Numerous bullet boles could be
distaniguiahed in parts of the plane
scattered over a wide area in Bul-
garian territory in the vicinity "of
the Greek border.
"This became clear despite the
fact that parts had clbviously been
tampered with in an effort to re-
move  inorkninatinig  evidence."
There were camflietmig reports
from Greece as to wihetlher the
plane had been downed by fire
from attacking  planes.
Joel Balki, an El Al executive,
was quoted in rep-arts from Saloni-
ka as saying the downing of the
airliner "obviously was tihe out-
come of a murderous attack per-
petrated with beastly cold-blood-
edness by two Bulgarian MIG-type
fighters." But in Athens Ben-Jaeov,
Israel's diplomatic representative,,
said the Salonika reports were
"completely unfounded."
Balki was a member of the in-
"quiry commission.
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Gal Reporter Wishes;
If Sox Can't Win
Pennant, Let Indians
BY  ROSE-MARIE  BROOKS
THE RED SOX JUST MIGHT LOSE THE PENNANT . . .
There we've said it and while we're not happy, it's all too
true. There are other teams besides the Red Sox and there are
other big bats besides Ted Williams!
How do we know? We met Al
Rosen of the Cleveland Indians.
Al is just the kind of a ballplay-
er that makes the Ail-American
pasttime   the   great   sport   that   it
~sQi    lA/e    Were  ^)auina    . . ,
Houston School Probe
Merits Our Attention
BY ROBERT E. SEGAL
We may all take heart from the recent decision of the Na-
tional Education Association to call upon America's 1,250,000
teachers to roll up their sleeves for political action.
Widespread attacks upon the public schools, insidious and
shrewd efforts by self-appointed Minute Men and Minute Wo-
men to have key books removed from school
libraries, teacher shortages, the inability of
citizens in general to upgrade the dignity of
the teaching profession and the senseless politi-
cal dillydallying over the provision of badly-
needed new school facilities are all factors in
the public education crisis, deserving the atten-
tion of everyone who has the destiny of the
nation at heart.
Now that the NEA, a venerable and honor-
able association of teachers and school adminis-
trators, has taken the initiative, even though
this bold action probably will draw the fire of professional
politicians, we need more than ever to inform ourselves regard-
ing the problems with which school people wrestle on our
behalf.
Symptomatic   of   the   gravity  of  I inspired   attacks  by   insecure   and
the school crisis are the politically- i             Continued on Page Six
SEGAL
is � he's young, handsome, a typi-
cal proud husband and father, he
loves sports, he can hit that long
ball (I guess that means a home-
run hitter) and he likes to win�
what more can anyone ask of a
favorite ballplayer?
The Cleveland Indians had
dropped two out of three games
to the Red Sox but the young third
baseman felt in good spirits when
we met him because the Indians
had just that afternoon, taken the
series closer, 6-3, and Al had come
out of a batting slump to bring ia
three runs.
"It hurts not to hit and be able
to win those games/*'-said Al who
looked like an average young busi-
ness man, attired in a toast brown
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Hebrew   Lesson
THE HAGUE � Queen Juliana
of the Netherlands has said that
she will very probably undertake
the study of Hebrew under an ex-
perienced Jewish teacher.
Queen Juliana made the state-
ment to Chief Rabbi Dr. Samuel
Rodrigues Pereira during a re>
cent visit to new Jewish homes
for the aged here.
She told of her desire to leant
Hebrew when he showed her
the Scrolls of the Law at the new
institutions, and she showed th�
greatest interest in examining
them.