Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1949 — Page 13

Friday, July 15, 1949

THE NATIONAL JEWISH POST.

Closeup of the Orthodox Extremists Jerusalem Fanatics Beat Up Bookseller, Burn Down Shop, In Fight On Modern Ideas "World Wide Srr*Ice JERUSALEM—As a result of its militant defense of the sanctity of the Jewish Sabbath, much publicity has been received lately by a small, extremely fanatic religious sect These are the Guardians of the City, the Holy City, who call themselves in Aramic, “Netura’y Kar’ta.” Religious zealots of the medieval pattern, most of them wear heavy robes and fur-trimmed hats. They are as proud of their scraggly beards and long side-curls as they are of th»ir intimate knowledge of biblical law. They —

74 PEB CENT OF CHILDREN IN SYRACUSE ATTENDING REGULAR JEWISH SCHOOLS SYRACUSE, N. Y-—A survey of attendance at Jewish schools in Syracuse this week clashed with the widely accepted theory that only 25 per cent of U. S. Jewish children get such

education.

The Jewish UKDGER of Syracuse, reporting on the survey, said that of 575 children between the ages of eight to 13, only

26 per cent do not attend any Jewish school.

A substantial 38 per cent attended weekday sehols. Figuring in also those attending Sunday school only, 74 per cent of the children covered in the survey are getting formal Jewish

Education in Syracuse.

The survey was made by the Bureau of Jewish Education.

live by the Holy Writ and they “Law and Piousness.” When the A’run's” place. The bearded old feel that all other Jews should field headquarters learned about rebel, who looks like a Rabbi

govern the details of their daily the surreptitious lending library himself, fought the attackers niwir — lives by it, too. and this information was passed with his cane but there were too PHILADELPHIA CONGRESS UNIT

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cen-of the devout Orthodox Jews could discourage the old book Gua ” ,lan f ha<1 manaffed to , P HILA DELPHIA-The American Jewish Congress in this city of Israel, who all told, do not to- deale r, and he courageously de- ^ the ° ,d maa and * V0 7 t ™ ng and £ one a11 out in a campaign to secure tal more than twenty per cent ot ««. Ms adversartea by restocking ^“fenn " hlch «*»* * P«*. the

the population of Israel. By de- his sho P with a larger selection.

voting their lives to the study of the Talmud and to prayer, and to relentless and sometimes ruthless crusade to force all Jews to do likewise, the Guardians of the City have attracted considerable attention to themselves and brought into the open a very deli-

cate issue.

A Local Fight But, this story is not concerned with the broader problem. It is more a feud than a struggle, and concerned with the struggle between the Guardians of the City, who have been described as be-

At about the same time, “Reb A’run” added a phonograph record repartment to his little place. He installed a phonograph and a large collection of records. The records were not for sale, however. He wanted them only to entertain the customers. And the list of his customers was steadily growing despite the boycotts, the picketing, the anathemas, and flnelly, the exorcism pronounced upon him by the Guar-

dians.

As the shop became the soc

The old man was laid up for Am< ^rican denizification program in Germany,

a few days, but he is back in his shop now, defiantly displaying

his newspapers, playing his records, and renting novels to the women of the section through the back door. The Guardians are also back watching the shop angrily, cursing the customers who

The drive includes a petition with Congress booths located

throughout the Philadelphia area and suburbs and manned by Congress members. The goal set for the petition is 50,000 signatures which will be forwarded to Pennsylvania’s Senator Martin and

104, She Likes

Her Steak

LONG BRANCH, N. J.—Mrs. Myers.

xnjr, uuiBiug me customers wno R ose Gejb ( w fi 0 ]jg es almost any A post card campaign is also

go in, and planning new attacks kind of food ate a big steak thig

on old "Reb A’ruu.’

Poles Move To Expel Jewish Fund Delegate WARSAW—(JTA)-Dov Chom-

big steak this

week during the celebration of

her 104th birthday.

The festivities were held at the home of her son, Edward Gelb, but Mrs. Gelb maintains her own

residence.

The birthday cake bore no

Part of the strategy with the mailings addressed to Senators Tom Connally, Martin and Myers, stating the serious concern of Philadelphia with the recent negative trends in our policy toward our late enemies. Other activities during the

and an old book-shop keeper, A- A’run" added cigarettes to his Ha y esod - 5s compelled to leave Philosophy that the way to keep neaHnnaf dist i ribut i° n of p drun David Weisflsh, who has been stock, but his best profit-making I ? 0,and after a six - mon th stay in young is to "pay little attention the AJC exnHini pr * pared by described as being onlv "200 .. .. the countr y- i n view of the fact to y° u r age." me AJC explaining the facts, year behind the times It is he loaneH V WhlCh that the Polish authorities havG She reads newspapers reg- 311 maSS 0rganizations J^has beeneolngon fo^ten years T a , I Ce ’’ ,S !o extend hla visa, It was "'erly without flaasef Sslde, ^ arM ’ bolh J<,wlsh « e“r^-S aw opened ** r - *“ —ed here this week. Loea, Je, son, she hfs 13 U* aid in the AJC'a

„p a small newspaper and mag. “rious erlsls administrative authorities in the tawt Ge.b, her —.— _i women of Mea Sheanm had city of Lodz have recently made d,ed 60 years ago.

read nearly all the books, and “inspections” in the main offices

husband,

Ians that the Jewish Sabbath

must be strictly observed. He too r” “ " “ believes that all Jews should gov- pnn ed ^ srae l.

ern their lives according to ancient Jewish law as laid down in

ing the first six monthToi Ms ^O- 04 ” 2 -^’to ^e Unite^Sewish

Poland into one party, to be year - t was rep bs °^is Appcal drive in the flrst sij£ >wn as the “Jewish Workers ^ ,ms ween, months of 1949, Mrs. Ernest G.

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Guardians stronghold the Mea ke cou j d not a ff ord t0 order new of the Jewish National Fund and KKE P COMING Shearim quarter of New Jerusa ones from New Y ork. He solved the Keren Hayesod there. ROME—(JTA)—-More than 23,lei ” v. A. » • a min the P rblem by buying several The merging of the Hashomer ^ ) 7 eW1Sh , Pefugees Ieft Ita 'y f°r

r-* ” nd ,he ^ zion -“ eTO,rt ''

been translated into Hebrew and known Party,” was announced here this

Worse And Worse week following a two-day con-

To the Guardians, this was vention of the two groups at-

cient jewisn law as ia.u uuwn irreverence to sacrilege tended by approximately 200 the Bible. Yet, being comparative- g irr vercnCG t0 sa cruege. Adolph Berman chairi » v,n cGmothink nf a Hebrew is a sacred language, re- aei egaies. Aaoipn Berman, cnair ly modern he is somethink of a s ^ ed on] f th q abbath and man of the new party, speaking deviationist and a rebel. ^ 1 ’ on the international situation, In the first place, he is a Zionist . ’ . , . ,stressed the need of the Jewish and he has always believed in the 1 ° y su eC S ' n 1 state for peace. Vice-chairman* need for a Jewish State. To the tl ° n ’ the moder " noVGl u s were Nachum Strachman emphasized Guardians of the City, this is sac- of dan g cr °us ideas the equality the i nse p ara bjijty 0 f Israel from rilegious—for they believe that women, for example. Two tbe w or j d Zionist Organization only after the return of the Mess- weeks ago, the Guardians organ- and underlined the necessity of iah and the rebuilding of the ized a full-scale attack on “The Jewish immigration to Israel Temple can the Jews have a state Casino”, as they now call “Reb from all countries,

of their own. So when “Reb A- '

W first put », hu Zion*. STATE RITES FOR ISRAELI

newspapers and magazines, the

Guardians tore them up MISTAKENLY SHOT AS TRAITOR

He patiently put out new ones JewUh Telefra . hlc A?enfy

which the Guardians promptly JERUSALEM—(JTA)—The funeral of Meyer Tobiansky, Hatore down and burned. His stub- ganah member who was mistakenly executed last year as a traitor, bomness eventually wore down took place here this week with full military honors. Sephardic Chief his tormentors and they didn’t Rabb. Ben Zion Usiel, who delivered the eulogy, and representatives bother him for a while. of the Israeli Army high command, were among those who attended.

As the years went by, “Reb Speakers of the Knesset Joseph A’run” started collecting famous Sprinzak voiced the Israeli parlianovels that had been translated ment’s sorrow over the execution

into Yiddish. These he stacked in c f Tobiansky.

the back room of his dark, dingy A review of the case was or- .TF'RtmAT pm ,tt ai and dirty little shop and loaned de red by Priemier David Ben Gur- DOrts renchina' Towich Acr^nr-v to his customers. Soon it had be- lon —who is a-so Defense Minis- headqu'irters here this week on co«,e a regular lauding library, , hc applica.ion of Tub- , T T and his best customers were the Jansky’s widow The Judge Ad- If^ a * t" Ir ^ q urNraxo axf rtxax g-.,u rxc -I-Juaxcrx 1,tnSK y S W1QOW. X OC J UUgC AQ g tate that hundreds Of J6WS W wives of the Guardians. These vocate General sifted the evidence that county have impris-

flght.

Rabbi D. A. J. Cardozo Rabbi Meyer Finkelstein chairmen of the campaign.

and are

NEW YORK-(JTA)-Ameri-can Jewish women contributed

Wadel, chairman of the UJA’s women’s division, announced this

week.

Iraq Arrests Jews Again For 'Zionism'

women came quietly to “Reb and reexamined the trial records A’run’s” back door. establishing Tcbiansky’s innoc- Zionist.

He would hand out books—any ence. The reports say that because books—which they would take i n an effort to rectify this mis- corporal punishment is now ilhome to read at night while their carriage of justice so far as the legal in Iraq, prison officials husbands were at the temples, survivors are concerned, the chief there are instigating Moslem inpraying. of the general staff of the Israeli mates to attack the Jewish prisNow the Guardians, as befits Army, with the approval of Mr. oners. Since only the affluent their name and task, have two Ben Gurion confered pcsthum- Iraqi Jews are able to orlbe the headquarters in the Mea Shearim ously on Tobiansky the rank of jail wardens to permit them to section. Their general headquar- captain. The state will arrange remain unshackled, the report ters is called “Pride and Hon- suitable compensation for the continue, the majority of the imesty,” and their field ^icadquar- widow and son. The funeral pro- prisoned Iraqi Jews are In chains ters, where intelligence informa- cession passed the school where and their condition is generally tion is gathered and from which the 13-year-old son of Tobiansky worse than that of Moslem pris-

opeiaticns are directed, is called is a student oners.

Here it is!. . . The First School Order for the 1949-50 Term

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TEMPLE BETH EL oi Great Neck OLD MILL ROAD, GREAT NECK. NEW YORK DR. JACOB PHILIP RUDIN, Rabbi MARTIN J. ZION, Assistant Rabbi

June 20, 1949

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