Chicago College Educational Heads 16 THE JEWISH NEWS — Friday, September 2, 1949 UN Warns Israel On Jerusalem Shift Hebrew Theological College in Chicago will expand its edu- cational activities, according to an announcement issued by its president, RABBI OSCAR Z. FASMAN (center). RABBI C. DAVID REG-ENSBERG, (left), a member of the Talmud Faculty for the past 25 years, has been appointed Dean. RABBI NORMAN E. FRIMER, (right) has been appointed Dean of Students. Maritime Union Gives First Histadrut Check NEW YORK — LIIB) — Fund- raising on the high seas con- ducted by the National , Mari- time Union of America in be- half of the Histadrut has Te- suited- in the first check for $500 to the Israeli labor federation, Harry Avrutin, associate field director of the American Trade Union Council for Histadrut, an- nounced. Avrutin stated that according to word received from Joseph Curran, NMU president, and M. Hedley Stone, NMU treasurer, the $300 contribution is to be considered "as a token contri- bution, and the first in a series of checks" which are expected to follow from other ships. Mr. Curran recently returned from a mission to Israel as a member of a CIO delegation which made a study of the Histadrut. Polish Government to Aid Synagogue Restoration Australia Refuses Sale Of Food Products to Israel - CANBERRA, Australia (JTA) —The state of Israel may buy plenty of Australian wool at open auctions, but its desire for wheat, meats, cheese and butter from this country cannot be met so easily, it was officially an- nounced in reply to a report that Harry Levine, Israeli Con- sul general to Australia, had forecast great developments in trade between Israel and Aus- tralia. New Turkish Law Gives Autonomy to Jews ISTANBUL (JTA) — Eighteen seats on the Jewish Com- munity's General Assembly here which have remained vacant for over a decade will shortly be filled by appointment, the Chief Rabbinate of Turkey announced. The Assembly is a 60-member body representing both lay and religious organizations. The action follows the recent government decree giving the Jewish community autonomy in the control of its own communal institution. Previously, Jews could not hold an election to fill the seats left vacant by death and resignation because the necessary permission was not granted by the Governor of Istanbul. WARSAW, (JTA)—The Minis- try of Reconstruction has agreed to advance 20,000,000 zkotys to- ward the cost of rebuilding of the two-century-old synagogue in the Praga suburb . of Warsaw, which was destroyed by the Nazis. • The cost of the reconstruction has been estimated at 30,000,000 zlotys. Ten million zlotys will be UNESCO Approves Draft raised by the Jewish Religious Of Legal Death Provisions Congregation of Poland and the Central Jewish Committee. It GENEVA, (JTA) — T h e UN is planned to build a museum Economic and Social Council, by for Jewish religious relics in the a 12-4 vote, approved a resolu- synagogue. tion calling on the UN Secretary General to transmit to all UN Israel Gov't. Cancels member-states the draft - of an Secret British Legislation inter-national convention under which missing Nazi and war TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Israel victims would be declared legal- Parliament adopted a decision ly dead. Spokesmen for the Is- Government and the World to cancel all secret legislation raeli Congress appeared be- introduced by the British Ad- Jewish the Economic and Social ministration in Palestine during fore Council to urge approval of the the last months of the Manda- resolution. tory regime. The parliamentary decision includes cancellation of Certain concessions awarded Polish Jews to Open secretly by the British adminis- Office in Israel tration to foreign companies during the last months of its TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A world authority. 44 conference of groups active in behalf of Polish Jews ended here following the adoption of a plan calling for the establishment in Israel of an office of the World Federation for Polish Jews. Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, president, reported that the organization had spent $1,250,000 for aid to Polish Jewish immigrants in the - - The golden rule of personal clean- liness should be observed particu- larly in the usual summer polio epidemic months. Food should be kept tightly covered and safe from flies and other insects. The same applies to garbage, which,. where lother disposal facilities are lacking, ;Should be buried or burned DIE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The govern- ment will ban the importation of all luxury goods which can be manufactured in Israel, Day Joseph, Minister for Supply and Rationing, declared at the open- ing of the textile industry's winter utility clothing fashion show. Joseph revealed that 85- 919 percent of all winter clothing that will be sold in Israel will be of local manufacture. Colgate Clock in New York harbor, with an illuminated dial 38 feet in diameter is the largest clock in the world. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF IN Montgomery, Alabama, a wealthy general strode confidently into his bank and sought to cash his check for a hundred JERUSALEM (JTA)—A three- dollars. An efficiency expert had revolutionized the bank's sys- ton bomb .whose projected deto- tem, however, and the paying nation brought protests from Transj ordan and British repre- teller declared, "I'll have to sentatives to UN headquarters ask for your identification, here and was the source of much please." "Dammit," roared concern for the safety of the the general, "I've been a de- Church of the Holy Sepulchre positor here for years and and other Holy Places was ex- you know me perfectly well.", ploded by the Israelis with al- "Kindly see the second vice- most no side effects. president," said the teller. United Nations headquarters The second vice - president warned the Israel • government took the general to the first that the transfer of any govern- vice-president and the first vice- ment offices from another part president took him to the presi- of the country to Jerusalem will dent. The president okayed the be considered a violation of the check just in time to keep the- status quo, a UN spokesman general from having an apo- announced. plectic stroke. A plan for the internationali- As he raked in his hundred dollars. the general suddenly demanded, zation of Jerusalem has already "What's my balance here now ?" The teller investigated and reported been worked out by a subcom- rather sheepishly, $234,405 47, sir " The general made out a new mittee of the United Nations check for $234,405.47, and said, "Now, dammit, get the president to Conciliation Commission f o r okay this one. I want ti in cash." The frightened president came Palestine, but it has not yet pattering over on the double and protested, "General, you're with- been approved by the Commis- drawing your entire balance with us!" sion, the UN spokesman re- "I certainly am," said the general. "I figure I better grab it while vealed. there's still one idiot in this bank who seems to recognize me." The body of Meir Naidevitz, Copyright, 1949, by Benr.ett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, an early member of the Stern Group, and a settler in the re- cently. established Neveh Yair Pogroms in Germany, Mrs. Rose Levine Dies; settlement, in the Negev, was Reached 100 Last July ORT Executive Reports found by an Israel Army patrol near the Egyptian border. The Mrs. Rose Levine, who cele- NEW YORK—"Today there are matter was turned over to the brated her 100th birthday last virtual pogroms in Germany joint Israel-Egyptian armistice with Jews being beaten and per- July, died Tuesday at her home, commission for investigation. secuted and what is happening, 3458 Edison. Born in Russia, she there is renazification—not de- 2,000 Turkish Jews nazification," stated Edward L. was a resident here for 35 years. Reached Israel in July Sard, executive director of the She was a member of Mishkan American ORT Federation (Or- Israel Synagogue. Funeral serv- ISTANBUL (JTA) — Approxi- ganization for Rehabilita- ices were held Wednesday at mately 2,000 Turkish Jews im- tion through Training), upon his migrated to Israel during July. return from the Congress of the Chesed shel Emes. Surviving are The total is an increase over the World ORT Union held in Paris. two sons, Ben and Alex, and two number of Jews who proceeded daughters, Mrs. Mary Bader and to the Jewish state during June Mrs. Ida Stein. and it is generally expected that Israel Government Frees the 2,000-monthly figure will be Russian Ckurch Property maintained in the future, despite TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Israel the discouraging reports reach- ing here from Israel concern- Parliament cancelled a law ing the economic situation in which empowered the Governor of Jerusalem to administer the the new state. property of the Russian Ortho- dox Church in that city. 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