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Prime Minister Nehru issued surprise statement
to the Arab world. Nehru said that Arab states must
recognize the existence of Israel and come to terms
with it. In Rome American Rabbi Morris
Kertzer was awarded the Pro Dec Catholic Unver-
stys Gold Medal He was the first rabbi to receive
such an award Meeting in Jerusalem group Of
Hebrew school teachers voted to form a worldwide
organization. :. Trials of murderous Nazis con-
tinued in Germany. Martin Knittler former SIS SUI
pervsor at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp,
committed suicide as he awaited trial; and Prof.
Guenther Seraphim, German history professor, de-
clared that Nazi commanders could have avoided the
executions He charged that SIS troops voluntarily
served as executioners. :.
The World Jewish Congress, meeting in Geneva,
heard report from l. NJ Sieff, British leader, that
thousands of Jewish youth all over the world are
drifting from Judaism. He asked that a global
Jewish body be set up to tackle the problem An
other report to the Congress charged that 80 per-
cent of Germans are still anti-JeWish. DR.. Nahum
Goldman, WJC president, said world Jewry would
not relent until Soviet Jewry is brought back Into
it's councils" -.
ISRAEL NEWS-Moshe Douek, who tossed a
bomb into the Knesset last year injurng several
Ministers, has been sentenced to Is years mprison-
ment Douek had defended himself at his trial.
Israes biggest Jail break occurred in July and last
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who broke out and was wounded in battle with
Israel police is paid Egyptian intelligence agent.
In Jerusalem Ben Gurion told the World Con-
ference of Jewish Youth that the Jewish people have
never been as united as they are today
And the touchy identity issue has been post
poned for year. The Israel cabinet adopted a COM
promise proposal because of the difference of opinion
on the definition of who is Jewish for the identity
card carried by Israel citizens The issue had raised
a storm in Israel and caused religious parties to
quit the KneSSet
AMERICAN NEWS Jewish War Veterans,
meeting in Los Angeles at their 63rd annual conven-
ton, accused the British-American Tobacco Com
pany and it's American subsidiary, the Brown-Wil z
hanson Company, of yielding to Arab pressure to
boycott the State of Israel. BroWn-Wilamson Com
pany officials said in Louisville KY, they had no
comment to make on the charges :. E. d. The Los An
geles Board of Education said it could not change
the opening of the fall public school term which CO.
incides with the first day of Rosh Hashanah How
ever the Board of Education asserted that no Jewish
child would be penaized for absence from classes.
. In Columbus, Ohio, plans are being made for the
opening of the first Jewish a-day school in the city.
The school begins with first and second grades.
Heritage Los Angeles weekly newspaper, is merging
with the Southwest Jewish Press of San Diego to
build statewide California Jewish weekly.
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NAMES IN THE NEWS RABBI EMANUEL
RACKMAN of Far Rockaway, N " brother of
MRS MAURICE FALKOW of Tucson has been
elected president of the Rabbinical Council of Amer
ica. Rabbi Racknan told the RCA convention that
comprehensive program to promote Orthodox Juda-
ism soon will be introduced on college campuses
throughout the country. JOHN KASPER, the
notorious anti-Semite, didn't wait long after his
lease from Federal prison in Atlanta He announced
he is forming new national anti-Semitic political
party which will attempt to nominate Presidential