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Religious Schools Start UJWF Education Program Sunday Closing Laws Target Os AJC Campaign NEW YORK (JTA)—Campaigns for an intensification of the en forcement of Sunday closing laws are being stepped up in a number of states, resulting in police action against Sabbath-observing Jews who keep their establishment closed on Saturdays but open on Sundays. In some parts of the country, pressure is being exerted upon leg islators to enact new and stronger ordinances prohibiting work and business on Sundays. Support for such legislation generally comes from church groups, from city merchants and from unions of re tail clerks and salespeople. OPPOSITION generally comes from highway merchants, Jewish organizations and other Seventh day Sabbatarians. The American Jewish Congress is now trying to secure exemption from the Sunday Stauffer To Be Feted By NCCJ Charles Stauffer, outstanding Phoenix community leader, will be honored at the annual testimonial dinner of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, a statewide civic group engaged in educational work to improve group relations in Arizona, scheduled for Monday, Apr. 29, at 7 p. m. in the Thunder bird Room of Hotel Westward Ho. The announcement was made by the chairman of the board of di rectors, James E. Patrick, presi dent, Valley National Bank. Approximately 600 individuals are expected to attend the dinner. Co-chairman of NCCJ’s 29-mem ber board of directors are: Harold Diamond, Junius E. Driggs, Charles E. Hoover and Mrs. Nor man Hurley. Charles Korrick is vice chairman of the board. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK PLEASE ENTER A SUBSCRIPTION TO THE AWARD WINNING The Phoenix Jewish News FOR ONE YEAR, FOR WHICH I ENCLOSE $3.50 2 YEARS $6.00 Name Address City - Zone State PHOENIX JEWISH NEWS 126 E. Roosevelt AL 4-7494 One Gift To UJWF Benefits 65 Agencies closing law for Sabbath observers in New York, Massachusetts and Maryland. Such exemptions exist in Connecticut, Indiana, Morth Da kota, lowa, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin. About two-thirds of all states have laws regulating Sunday com merce and others have delegated this authority to local govern ments. The city merchant and church groups seeking tougher ac tion against violators of the Sunday closing laws have been helped by a 1961 U.S. Supreme Court deci sion that Sunday statutes in three states did not violate the Constitu tion and were not religious laws. THE SUPREME Court in effect said that a state legislature, in the exercise of its police power, has the right to define which activities will be permitted and which pro hibited on Sundays. The court also said that Sunday laws, despite their clear religious origin—and despite the admitted fact that they favor the holy day observed by the majority—are secular. City Os Hope Luncheon Set “Give to Life with a Heart of Gold” is the theme of the donor luncheon to be given at Andy’s, 24th St. and Camelback on Wednes day, Mar. 6, at 12:30 p. m., by City of Hope Chapter 245. Art Brock, local television per sonality, will be featured; Muriel Polett will be vocalist, and Mrs. Arlene Petelle of Petelle Wig Shop will present a showing of Dion wigs. Door prizes will be given. Donor fee is $lO for members and $5 for guests. Donor chairman is Mildred Al pert. For reservations, call Rose Kritzstein at AM 6-4673; Fannie Freid, CR 4-7943; or Frances Ros en, 277-1088. Through the cooperation of the Rabbinical Council and the principals of all the religious schools, a month long program of education and participation in the United Jewish Welfare Fund Campaign will start on Mar. 1. A committee of religious school directors headed by Philip Chapman of Temple Beth Israel is handling the 1963 youth pro gram. The religious schools and the directors included are: Beth El Congregation, Zachary Merrin; Beth Hebrew Congregation, Rabbi Abraham Rosenblum; Har Zion Congregation, Aaron Scholar; Tem ple Beth Israel, Philip Chapman; and Temple Sholom, David Metz. The campaign office has pro vided educational materials includ ing case stories and special cam paign envelopes for use in the classrooms. It is hoped that any contributions made by the children will come from their personal al lowances or earnings, so that a pattern of personal responsibility for “Tzedakah” can be developed. United Jewish Welfare Fund is the annual campaign which is con ducted among the Jewish residents of Maricopa County on behalf of 65 national, local and overseas ben eficiaries, including the United Jewish Appeal. U.S. Barring Os Newsman Condemned NEW YORK (JTA) Newspap ers throughout the United States which subscribe to the Jewish Tele graphic Agency’s news service have condemned the exclusion of the JTA correspondent in Wash ington from a State Department briefing as a violation of the prin ciple of freedom of the press and as an insult to the English-Jewish press. Several of the newspapers, ac cording to a survey of editorial comment, called on Secretary of State Dean Rusk to reprimand the official responsible for the barring of the JTA correspondent and to take measures to ensure that there be no recurrence of such acts of discrimination. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency formally protested to Rusk that Robert C. Strong, director of the Office of Near Eastern Affairs in the State Department, had denied JTA correspondent Milton Fried man admission to a briefing on the Arab refugee problem on the grounds that the briefing was for American news media only and that Strong was dissatisfied with the news reporting of the JTA and Friedman. The JTA protest termed the incident a violation of freedom of the press and a discrimination against large sections of the Amer ican Jewish community served by the 46-year-old agency. , rAI v.rm Second class Every other Friday except w. iq VOL. XVI postage paid at March I, 1963 monthly July, August. 12 Phoenix. Ariz. $3.60 per year. 126 E. Roosevelt WOMEN’S PHONOTHON TO SPUR CAMPAIGN Special women’s volunteer teams are being mobilized to complete solicitation for the 1963 United Jewish Wel fare Fund Campaign. A spe cial “phonothon” project on three successive Sundays, Mar. 3, 10, and 17, should make it possible to contact all women who have not pre viously been reached through nor mal solicitation. Mrs. Morris Himelstein is the chairman of the Phonorama Sec tion for the Women’s Division and her vice-chairmen are Mrs. Man uel E. Bruder, Mrs. Bernard Fra zin, and Mrs. Seymour Seigel. The organizations, their captains, and teams who will participate in the Phonorama project on Mar. 3 are: Beth El Sisterhood, captain, Rose Siegel; team, Rose Foster, Rebecca Marcus, Sophie Rubin, Ruth Desman, Helen Rothstein, Beryl Joseph, Gertrude Kadish, Thelma Leboyer, Laura Konick, Frankie Firestein, Jackie Merrin, Ann Goor, Helen Davidson, Ann Roth, Ruth Alpert, Rose Lewis and Shirley Barahal. HANNA SENESCH Pioneer Wo men, captain, Pearl Dacks; team, Marion Diamond and Tanya A. Hershman. Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary, captain, Terry Char now; team, Faye Isaacs, Anne Go- United Synagogues Urge Death Penalty Abolishment NEW YORK The United Sy nagogues of America has endorsed a New York State Commission’s recommendation to abolish the mandatory death penalty. THE UNITED Synagogue is the congregational arm of the Conser vative Movement in Judaism and embraces more than 750 syna gogues in the United States and Canada with about 350,000 m e ru bers and adherents. The recommendation was con tained in an interim report issued by New York’s Temporary Com mission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code. It pro poses a bill extending the jury’s power of recommendation to all murder cases and rendering the jury’s determination binding on the court, thus eliminating the manda tory death penalty. THE PRESIDENT of the United Synagogue, attorney George Mais len of Freeport, N. Y., termed the proposal “a civilized step in the right direction” and urged the leg islature to “act at once.” He added, “We note the commis sion is still at work and has yet to recommend the retention or aboli tion of the death penalty. If it con tinues along the path it is now blazing, we can hope that its final report will that the law make it impossible for any r *■ W if «.* W p 11# JHH . j . JEJ! is HPI" wjSK'* ’ B '?.*■*. m m B ■Ms I VI n ■ ■ IV --IMF yp ® y Bjr B PITRIM RAI.L QUEEN CONTESTANTS —Shown above are candidates for Queen Esther at the PuHm Ball to be held March 2 in the Thunderbtrd Room, Westward Ho Hotel. They are: seated (left to riKht) 1 Marsha Fuohs, Beth El Men’s Club; Karen Nathanson, Congregation Beth Israel; Marleen Haskes, ilLmnn Lodge—B’nal B’rith; Gaye Joanne Buros, National Council of Jewish Women — SlTnix Sect ion" A n drea *Rae Rolnick, Hadassah-Phoenix Chapter; Vickie Milder, Jewtoh Free Loan; u,, R , Beth’ Hebrew Congregation; and Diane Lynn Hausnian, Phoenix B nai B rith Women. Stand fn^ y (toft to Temple Beth Sholom of Mesa; Marilyn Beechen, Brandeis University Natiortal Womens Committee; o H ailvprman Har Zion Congregation Sisterhood; Dena Beth Shelnbein, Hadassah—l hoenix Chap fr. i;.nilrFisenstein Temple Emanu-El of Scottsdale; Susan Nystad; Hadassah-Phoenix Chapter; Janet" Markovitz, City of Hope Chapter 245; Janice Lee Weinstein, Phoenix Brandeis Dlstiict *-°* A *» ami Francene Turken, Children’s Asthma Research Institute & Hospital—JLN.H.A.C. Not shown: Ellen Grodzinsky, Beth El Sisterhood; Stefanie Ramras, Hadassah-Phoenix Chapter; and Shelly Ros enbaum, Jewish War Veterans Post 194 and Ladies Auxiliary. lub, Maxine Silverman, Frieda Mo lay, Meryl Fischer, Ronnie Gross man and Bea Cahn. Kivel Auxiliary, captain, Jen Davidson; team, Betty Edelman, Dorothy Belkin, Shirley Wasser man, Etta Boshes, Freda Marcus, Sally Haskes, Sara Kurit and Lor etta Fadem. Ladies Bikur Cholim, captain, Rose Steinfield; team, Sadie Diamond, and Mrs. J. Gold berg, Temple Sholom Sisterhood, captain, Sara Landau; team, Es ther Kostant, Ada Marder, and Ar lene Gordon. ON MAR. 10, the Phonorama project will be “manned” by Shar on Hadassah, captain, Lil Feiler; team, Minnie Alphant, Beulah Bracker, Rose Conner, Ethel David, Helen Davidson, Ida Dolgin, Rose Drei fu s and Ruth Bard. N.J.H.A.C.-Denver, captain, Deb bie Rubinow; team, Mollie Turken, RAMAT-GAN ENSEMBLE CONCERT SET MAR. 13 AT ARCADIA HIGH The Ramat-Gan Chamber Orchestra of Israel, now on its first North American tour, will perform in Phoenix on Wednesday, Mar. 13. This outstanding string ensemble will appear at Arcadia High School auditorium, 4703 E. Indian School Road, beginning at 8:30 p. m., not at the Community Center, as previously reported. man, however duly authorized, to take the life given by the Almighty from his fellow man.” Center Board Directors Are Announced At the annual meeting of the Community Center the following men were elected to serve a three year term on the Center Board of Directors: Dr. Morton Commess and Joseph Weinstein (re-elected): Lester M. Goldberg, Jack Grodzinsky, Sam Landy, Harry Rosenzweig, Mal colm Strauss. The following men were elected to serve as executive officers for a one-year term. These elections took place at the Feb. 19 Board of Directors meeting. Jack E. Brown, president; Mar vin Mony, first vice-president; Lester Goldberg, treasurer; Yale Simons, secretary. Tina Hoffman, Bea Alpert, Flor ence Kay, Rose Peltz and Fran Chafitz. Center Women, captain, Made line Rose; Sabra Hadassah, cap tain, Anna Braunstein; City of Hope, captain, Helen Gries; Beth Israel Sisterhood, captain, Shirley Lagman; Council of Jewish Wom en, captain, Millie Tauman; and Tamar captain, Betty Ann Lipow. MAR. 17 will be the Junior Civic Leaders day in the Phonorama project. Their captain is Barbara Gould and the teams are being or ganized. United Jewish Welfare Fund is the annual campaign which is con ducted among the Jewish residents of Maricopa County on behalf of 65 national, local ana overseas oene ficiaries, including the United Jew ish Appeal. JBHH 'Mm Wmm W Hi' SERGIU COMISSIONA The Phoenix Chamber Music Society sponsors the concert, which will include performance of origi nal Israeli compositions as well as established chamber works. PHOENIX IS one of a select group of U. S. music centers to receive the ensemble, directed by 36-year-old Sergiu Comissiona, one of Israel’s most distinguished musicians. Tickets are $3 for adults, half price for students. Those who wish tickets mailed to them may call the Phoenix Chamber Music So ciety office, 253-8853. They may also be purchased at the Jewish Community Center, at Lederman Music and Sandy’s Records in Phoenix, Burnette’s Records in Scottsdale, ASU, or at the door on concert night.. 