...„ Fridey, June 13. 1947
Beth Yehudah Pupils
Contribute $1,010 to
The Allied Campaign
Page Nineteen
THE JEWISH NEWS
Palestine, U.S. Groups Arrange
Publication Plans For Hebrew Bible
Scan Jewish Schools
In Attempt to Raise
Teaching Standards
NEW YORK, June 3, (JTA)—
A commission soon will be ap-
pointed to make an intensive sur-
Pupils lit all departments of
Yeshivah Beth Yehudah contrib-
tiled $1,010.23 to the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign, it was announced
at the annual meeting of the Ye-
shivath, June 4. Some 500 boys
and girls attending the Beth
Yehudah Day School, afternoon
Yeshivah and Beth Jacob girls'
classes participated in the drive.
Among the leading solicitors
were Jerry Isaacs who raised
$14.65, Nachem Weiss, $24; Soroh
Lewis, 12; and Mire' Wolles, $12.
Speaking in behalf of the pu-
pils, Fred Sherman, 3710 Richton,
one of the pupils, said: "Students
of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah again
have participated in the Allied
Jewish Campaign. We know and
have learned about the great
causes for which this campaign
is being conducted. We wanted to
take part in this work and to do
our small share. We gave from
our pocket money, we sold 5 cent
tickets to our friends and rela-
tives. So we tried to reach our
goal of $2 per student. A good
number of classes have surpassed
their goal."
Students in Hebrew, Yiddish
and Sunday schools joined in
support of the drive, in coopera-
tion with the Junior Service
Group.
UPA .Expenses
Near 53 Million
For Year's Work
NEW YORK (JTA)—A total of
$52 621 000 the bulk of which
vey of the Jewish teaching field comprised contributions from
as a prelude to action byindi-
American Jews, was spent last
vidual communities to raise the I
professional and economic stand-1 year by the United Palestine Ap-
ards of instructors in Jewish peal and its agencies in Palestine
religious schools.
for the rehabilitation and reset-
'
The establishment of an in- tlement of immigrants as well
quiry body was decided upon at
the annual meeting in Baltimore! as for the over-all development
of the American Association for of the country, according to a
Jewish Education. report made Public at an execu-
In a report to the meeting pre- tive committee of the UPA by
pared jointly by representatives Dr. Israel Goldstein, national
of the Association and the Ameri-
can Federation of Hebrew Teach- chairman.
Heading the list of the ex-
ers it was revealed that teachers'
salaries have failed to keep pace penditures in the budget of the
with the cost of living. Only Jewish Agency was the cost of
seven of 24 communities which ; immigration which totalled $13,-
replied to a questionnaire were' 650,928 for an estimated 26.000
paying annual salaries of $4,000, Jewish refugees who reached
in
The first Hebrew Bible under exclusively Jewish auspices will be or more. Other conditions of em- Palestine last year. Included
published under an arrangement between the Hebrew University ployment, aside from salaries, are : this sum is an expenditure of
Press Association of Jerusalem and the Jewish Publication, Society sub-standard, the report said. $3,224,911 for pre-migration aid
It recommended
that a in
code
of and relief to refugees outside of
practice
be established
each
of America.
The Hebrew text, based on the oldest Masoretic manuscripts,
Palestine as well as for their
Umberto
Cassuto
of
prepared by the eminent Hebrew scholar, Prof.
community governing the rela- training abroad and transporta-
the Hebrew University, will be used for the Hebrew edition and tionship between the teacher and lion to Palestine. Care of immi-
the Jewish Publication Society translation for the Hebrew-English the school. A scale of salaries grants on arrival which involves
edition.
comensurate with decent living feeding, clothing and providing ,
• The type-setting, using a new Hebrew type face designed by the
pr
at standards should be set witho-
initial accommodations accounted
Hebrew University Press Association, will be done in Philadelphia
the Press of the Jewish Publication Society. The Hebrew Bible will vision made for cost of living for $2,745,434, while training of
adjustments, and a Board of Li- newcomers in Palestine cost
be printed in Palestine, and the Hebrew-English Bible in America.
The photograph shows the signing of the-deon rac , in e o fn L. s cense should be established to
Hebrew
University.
(Seated
from
protect the welfare of the teacher, $1,716,309.
of the American Friends of the
To help cope with Palestin 's
to
R.) A. Ibn-Sahav, honorary manager of the Hebrew University
Press Association, representing Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of the report added. It also urged a acute housing shortage accentu-
Seminary Ordains 9;
new- -
B. Finkel, direc- system of scholarships and in-ser-
y the steady influx of nee
Publication Society of America; the
(standing)
Glueck, Neuman and
Hebrew Samuel
University; and Maurice vice training to encourage the aced by
Jewish
s Agency allo-
tor of the American Friends of
tor
Schreiber Get Awards
for construction
Jaebbs, executive vice-president of the Jewish Publication Society. teacher to continue his studies, corners the
and the creation of camps and cored $3,,
Hebrew high schools which would of housing projects. Aside from
NEW YORK:—Dr. I. I. Rabi,
Honor Society Expels
train students for future teachers. private construction, 4,700
hous-
ing units were built last year
Nobel prize winner and professor
'Gentleman's
Agreement'
of physics at Columbia Universi-
ty, speaking at commencement
exercises of the Jewish Theolog-
ical Seminary of America, on
June 8, predicted that Einstein's
theory of relatively "in a few
generations will be as familiar to
the man in the street as Newton's
laws are now."
Nine graduating students of the
Seminary's Rabbinical School
were ordained as "rabbis, teach-
ers and preachers in IsraeL"
Fourteen students of the Semin-
ary' Teachers Institute and Sem-
inary College, and of the Sem-
inary School of Jewish Studies
also were graduated.
Dr. Louis Finkelstein, presi-
dent of the Seminary, conferred
honorary degrees on Dr. Nelson
A. Glueck, president of Hebrew
Union College, Cincinnati, and
Dr. Abraham A. Neuman, presi-
dent of Dropsie College, Phila-
delphia. Rabbi Abraham Schrei-
ber, Palestinian scholar, received
in absentia the Louis Ginzberg
Fellowship.
The Maimonides citation was
conferred on Dr. Israel S. Wech-
sler, associate professor of neur-
ology at Columbia University.
Revisionists to Address
Tel Guiborim Auxiliary
Tel Guiborim Women'i League
will install officers Tuesday eve-
ning at the Bnai Moshe. Mrs.
Helen G. Friedman, sister of
Dov Gruner, will come here
from Lancaster, Pa., for this
meeting. The principal address
will be delivered by B. Natan-
yahu of New York, executive
director of Revisionist Zionists.
Seymour Tilchin will be chair-
man. M. Manuel Merzon will
greet the gathering in the
name of the Revisionists. Rev.
Anton Rosenfeld and Miss Gu.ssie
Rimar will provide the musical
program. Refreshments will be
served. The group is sponsoring
a new settlement in Galilee.
The Book That Deserves Its
Place on the Country's
Best Seller List
Sculptor for Bias Mail
NEW YORK (JTA) — William
Hunt Diederich, internationally
known sculptor, has been expell-
ed from the National Institute
of Afts and Letters for mailing
rich founda-
W
NE YORK—A
anti-Semitic literature under the tion
to spread hostility against
organization's name.
Jews and Negroes has been or-
Diederich, who was present ganized by George W. Armstrong,
during the meeting on his expul- 82, oil operator and land owner,
sion, the first in the Institute's the American Jewish Committee
history, did.not deny the charges, revealed this week in calling
but criticized the group for "turn- upon the House UriArnerican Ac-
Mg him in to the Federal Gov- tivities Committee to investigate
ernment.
Armstrong's activities.
According to the American
with Jewish Agency help. The
program for the current year
provides for 7,295 housing units
to accommodate between 12,000
and 13,000 people.
For agricultural development
the Agency spent $6,567,399, the
major portion of which went for
the establishment of new settle-
ments and consolidation of those
already in existence. Thirty-four
new settlements were founded in
1946, bringing to 330 the number
of agricultural settlements in
Palestine which played an impor-
tant role in the absorption of
newcomers. The Agency expend-
Warsaw Ghetto Liquidator Jewish Committee, Armstrong re-1 ed $3,076,190 for the resettlement
Chicago to con- of ex-servicemen in agricultural
Brought to Poland for Trial cently visited
suit with prominent lawyers and economic enterprises.
foundation's
WARSAW, (JTA)—Gen. Jur- about plans for the
March 10, Armstrong! Complementing the agricul-
gen von Stroop, under whose di- future. On nis
plans to disseminate tural development program of
rection the Warsaw Ghetto was disclosed
against Jews the Jewish Agency, the Jewish
here
hatred
and
prejudice
liquidated, has been brought
scale never be- National Fund, whose activities
from Landsberg, in the U. S. zone and Negroes on a
of Germany. He will be tried by fore attempted. He advocated re- are largely financed by the UPA,
sections of the 14th and expended $16,143,547, of which
a Polish court. Stroop is already peal of
the Consti- more than two-thirds, $11,025,339,
under sentence of death in Ger- 15th Amendments to
limiting the went for land purchases. The bal-
many for having ordered the mur- tution, "thereby
ance covered a wide range of
der of U. S. fliers. On the same franchise to the nation's white operations including afforestation,
One of the publica-
special plane with Stroop was
hydrological
Karl Musfeld, who was in charge tions, dedicated to Rep. John E. road construction,
supply, anti-ma-
of the Maidanek crematoriums. Rankin of Mississippi, contains surveys, water
general land
Musfeld also faces trial as a war rabble-rousing attacks on Jews larial projects and
Laura Z a me tkin Hobson's
"Gentleman's Agreement," pub-
lished by Simon & Schuster, 1230
Sixth St., New York 20, remains
on the best-seller list throughout
the land.
This is an indication of the
widespread interest in the fight
for justice and against anti-
Semitism.
Mrs. Hobson's story of the non-
Jew, who, assuming the role of a
Jew, learns from personal experi-
ence some of - the degradations of
anti-Semitism, has proven one of
the most valuable exposes of
bigotry in this country.
While there have been numer-
ous criticisms of the book on the
ground that its Jewish characters
could have been more representa- criminal.
tive, the fact remains that the
vehemence with which the hero
of the book assumes a militant
role in battling for justice makes
the book very valuable.
Aside from the fact that it also
is a good novel, "Gentleman's
Agreement" is, as stated, a weap-
on against bias, and as such de-
serves the wide circulation it is
receiving.—P.S.
and Negroes. amelioration.
Michigan -
Fitzgerald Students Show
Interfaith Relationships
In Original Musical Play
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, president of the
American Jewish Congress, Jacob
S. Potofsky, president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America, and Emil Rieve, pres-
ident of the Textile Workers
Union, received on behalf of
their organizations awards from
the CIO Committee to Abolish
Discrimination, for "outstanding
service to the cause of economic
and political democracy in the
Fifth grade students at the Fitz-
gerald School will offer a second
presentation of their original in-
terfaith play at 7:30 p. m. Tues-
day, June 17, in the school audi-
torium.
Based Otti ideas developed
through their reading of Florence
Mary Fitch's "One God," in the
school library, the play is a mu-
sical and dramatic demonstration
of the relationships of the Cath-
olic, Protestant and Jewish chil-
dren. The students explain the
symbols and ceremonies of their
own faiths and join . in singing the
hyras of all three.
The original performance was
given for mothers of the children,
and the second performance is by
request, to allow for a larger
geld of race relations."
audience.
American Jewish Congress
Gets CIO Anti-Bias Award
Ask House Investigate
Oil Operator's Plan
To Curb Jews, Negroes
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