$20,000,000 Corporation to Provide Housing in Israel; Backed by Unions NEW YORK, (JTA) — T h e Amun-Israeli Housing Corpora- tion, a company to finance $20,- 000,000 worth of low cost hous- ing in the Jewish state, has been organized here. The corp- oration is sponsored on a non- sectarian basis by labor and American businessmen. The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved plans for the floating of a $10,000,000 bond issue which will pay three percent interest and will be am- ortized over a 15-year period. The Israel Government will guar- antee that at least 10 percent of the investment will be repaid in dollars. The corporation plans MizrIchi Women Seek I $500,000 for Child Aid to build 8,000 homes in the $2,500-$3,000 class. Among the sponsors of the project axe officials of the Inter- national Ladies Garment Work- ers Union, Hotel and Restaur- ant Workers Union, William Green, president of the A.F.L., and Philip Murray, president of the C.I.O. Among the business- men associated with the corpor- ation are Nelson Rockefeller, Beardsley Ruml, and Charles Silver, president of the Ameri- can Woolen Company. The I.L.- G.W.U. has pledged the purchase of $1,000,000 worth of the bonds which will be sold in denomina- tions of $100 to $1,000. People Make News JOHANNESBURG, ( J T A ) — President Luigi Einaudi of Italy has awarded the Star of Italy to DR. H. SONNABEND, vice-chair- man of the South African Jew- ish Board of Deputies, for his liaison work with Italian parti- sans during his military activi- ties in Italy in 1944 and 1945. For part of the war, Dr. Son- nabend was responsible for the welfare of some 70,000 Italian prisoners of war in the Sonder- water Camp, in the Transvaal. * * * RABBI TxON FRAM will be in Cincinnati March 18 to 23, attending the Institute on Jew- ish Theology convoked at the Hebrew' Union College by the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Rabbi Fram has writ- ten one of the preliminary papers on the fundamental be- liefs of modern Jews which will be the basis of discussion by the rabbis and laymen w h o will represent Jewish congregations from all parts of the United States and Canada. * * * Daniel G. Ross, New York at- torney, was appointed chairman in charge of arrangements of the fourth an- nual conference of the national planning a n d campaign com- mittee of the Jewish Theolog- ical Seminary of :America, to be held in New York the week- end of April 28, it was an- nounced by Abbell of Ross Chicago, na- tional chairman of the commit- tee. * PHYLLIS PULLBERG, of 3720, Calvert, 12-year-old personality dancer and pianist, won the March 12 talent contest at the Halevy Music Center. George Margolin will be guest master- of-ceremonies next Sunda y. Those wishing to compete may contact Dr. William Klein, TO. 9-1828. * * * PARIS—Dr. Vidal Modiano, president of the Union of Sep- hardim in France, was elected president of the CRIF—Repre- sentative Council of French Jewry. A leader in the French section of the General Zionist movement and a member of the executive of the World Jewish Congress, he succeeds Judge Leon Meiss, who was elected honorary president. WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The nomination of Morris de Castro to be Governor of the Virgin Islands was approved by the Senate Interior and Insular Af- fairs Committee. A native of Panama, Mr. de Castro has lived in the Virgin Islands since he was four years old. He has held various govern- ment positions, including that of Commissioner of Finance and confidential secretary to the Na- val governors of the Islands. Mr. de Castro has also served as president of the Virgin Island synagogue, Congregation Bless- ings and Peace. DALLAS — S. Herbert Kauf- man, of Harrisburg, was re- elected president of the Nation- Federation of NEW YORK—(JTA)—A quota of $500,000 for emergency aid to Jewish child refugees in. Israel was adopted here this week at the concluding session of the Eastern Conference of the Miz- rachi Women's Organization of America. More than 300 delegates voted the sum for emergency aid after hearing Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the American sec- tion of the Jewish Agency, warn that curtailment of immigration "could be the tragic result" if funds from the United States are not increased greatly. He revealed that funds origi- nally earmarked for absorption of new immigrants by the Jew- ish state were endangered by "the urgent necessity for Israel to spend large amounts of money on rearmament in view of the armament of the Arab states." THE JEWISH NEWS-19 Friday, March 17, 1950 Amer-icon Experts Plan Tel Aviv Water Supply Rabbi Scores Christian Efforts at Conversion TEL AVIV (ISI) —American water experts have completed NEW YORK—(JTA)—Speak- plans for supplying this city ing before a group of ministers with water sufficient for a pop- of the Reformed Church of ulation of half a million. Under America, Rabbi William F. Ro- senblum of Temple Israel, at- the new plan, 53,000,000 cubic tacked efforts by Christian re- meters of water will be provided ligious leaders to convert Jews yearly instead of the present to Christianity. 5,000,000. Rabbi Rosenblum suggested that since "there are so many WHY WArr hundreds of millions of Chris- tians who do not practice what For Special Pickup Days they profess" missionary efforts We Pick Up "might more profitably be di- ANYTIME rected to their salvation" rather than to the conversion of Jews. and give 3 day Service! For Passover LAND (rLAKES SWEET RITTER — Shirt's Beautifully Finished BELLE ISLE LAUNDRY WOotfward 5-51 00 for a richer, more enjoyable Passover N:, Temple Broth- erhoods at the close of its 13th biennial con- vention. Harold Dubinsky of St. Louis was elect- ed first vice- president a n d chancellor of the Jewish Chautauqua So- ciety the NFTE's Kaufman major national educational project. Approxi- mately 350 delegates and visitors from 60 Reform Temple brother- hoods in 26 states and Canada attended the convention, to plan methods of increasing the American Jewish layman's in- terest in his faith and congre- gation. make ii MANISCHEWITZ all the way DORA MANDELBAUM, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Mandel- baum of 2923 Pasadena, has received a bachelor of science degree in pharmacy at the De- troit Institute of Technology. Miss Mandelbaum was senior representative to the Student Council and assistant editor and art director of the Institute yearbook. Iraq, Agency Prepare For Jewish Migration JERUSALEM, ( JTA ) — T h e Iraq Government has set up a special commission to assess the value of property of Iraq Jews who wish to leave that country, unconfirmed Bagdad dispatches reported. According to these reports Jews wishing to leave must sell their property at prices fixed by the commission. Meanwhile, despite the fact that neither the Israel Foreign Office or the Jewish Agency has received official notification of the Iraq Government's decision to permit the Jews to leave the country, the Agency is •already making plans for the migration of Iraq Jews and their absorp- tion in Israel. Greece to Take Over Salonika Jews' Hospital ATHENS, (JTA) —The Greek Government has informed the Jewish community of Salonika that the Baron de Hirsch Jew- ish Hospital in that city will requisitioned since the building has now been evacuated by Brit- ish troops leaving Greece. The hospital, the largest in northern Greece, will, according to the government, be used as a general public hospital "and will admit all Greeks, conse- quently all Jews." Jews in Salonika have been using a well-equipped dispen- sary and clinic since the Baron de Hirsch Hospital was taken over by the British. The Jewish community planned to use the hospital as a shelter for needy Jewish families in Salonika. Ef- forts are now being made in Athens to prevent requisition of the hospital by the government. An enlarged passanger shed . For 1950 returns, the Census which enables. simultantous op- Bureau will have 1,500 electric eration of entry and exit ser- punches handling 1,000 cards vices was opened at Haifa Port. daily. Peak of the Passover holiday... the Manischewitz Matzo you love —finer, fresher, more crisp and delicious, the way Manischewitz has baked it for over 60 years. 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