6—TH E JEWISH NEWS

Friday, July 14, 1950

People Make News

A survey of the cultural and
educational needs of Jewish
Domrnunities in Central and
South America
and the West
Indies Will be
made this sum-
mer by Morde-
cai Halevi,
prominent if ew-
ish educator, it
was announced
by the World
Zionist Organi-
zation, 16 E. M. Halevi
66th St., New York, sponsor of
the undertaking. Mr. Halevi left
by air July 10 and will be gone
for six weeks, visiting Mexico,
Guatamala, El Salvador, Costa
Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecua-
dor, Venezuela, Curacao, Nether-
lands West Indies and Cuba.
Hitt trip is intended to stimulate
cultural and educational activi- 2
ties among Jews in those coun-
tries and to foster closer rela-
tionship between them and
Jewry in North America, the
World Zionist stated.
* * *
Dr. Israpl Goldstein, rabbi of
Congregation Bnai Jeshurun in
New York, and a member of the
World Jewish Congress Execu-
tive, has been named chairman
of the Western Hemisphere
branch of the executive. The
World Jewish Congress speaks
for affiliates in
66 countries. Dr.
Goldstein is
chairman of the
World Confeder-
ation of General
Zionists, a past
president' of the
Zionist Organi-
zation of Amer-
ica and former
treasurer , of the
' Goldstein Jewish ,Agency.
In tribute to his services in in-
ternational relief work, inter-
faith activities and in Jewish
cultural and welfare fields, the
British War Relief Society es-
tablished the Dr. Israel Gold-
stein Children's Nursing Home
in England, the Jewish TheOlogi-
cal Seniinary of America has
established the Dr. Israel Gold-
iktein lectureship, the World
Confederation of General Zion-
ists has established, irr his name,
an immigrant's hostel in Tel
Aviv and a youth village in Jer-
usalem. A tract of land in Israel
has been named for him by the
Jewish National Fund of Amer-
ica.
* * *
CINCINNATI—A R T H U R L.
REINHART has resigned as ex-
ecutive director of the National
Federation of Temple Brother-
hoods. SYLVAN LEBOW has
been named acting director.
* * *
Rabbi Maurice B. Pekarsky,
outstanding Hillel director and
well-known An Jewish
educator, h a s
been granted a
a year's absence
from his post as
director of the
Bnai Brith
Hillel Founda-
tion at the Uni-
veTsity of Chi-
cago to institute
the Hillel Foun- Pekarsky
dation at the Hebrew University
in Terusalem, which will be the
200th Hillel unit. Rabbi Pekar-
sky sails for Israel the middle
of August together with his
family.

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*

PROF. I. L E 0 SHARFMAN,
head of the University of Mich-
igan economics department, has
been named by President Tru-
man as -a member of an emer-
gency fact-finding boars to in-
vestigate a labor dispute be-
tween the Pullman Co. and the
Order of Railway Conductors.
• *
Several candidates have . w
w.::).-
drawn from the race for the
State Senate in the Fifth Dist-
Dist-
rict in Detroit to back the can-
didacy • of Leon A. Cousens,
-
s, at
at-
•
torney, leader in
the Workmen's
Circle (Arbeiter
R i n g), Jewish
Labor Commit-
tee and Ameri-
cans for Demo-
cratic A ctio n.*
Mr. Cousens i
running on a
platform pledg-
ing support to
Governor Wil- Cousens
liams, especially in his sponsor-
ship of the corporation profit
tax. Cousens was chairman of
the project to issue annual
awards to community leaders,
sponsored by Branch 463 of
Workmen's Circle, of which he is
President.
•

France Considers 2nd
Major Loan to Israel

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel
has applied to France for a
second $15,000,000 long-term
loan, it was revealed by the
French commercial attache.
Speaking to a press confer-
ence, he said that the first
$15,000,000 had been granted
over a period of the first six
months of this year for the
purchase of French goods.
The attache said that the
application was made by Da-
vid Horowitz, Israel Under
Secretary of the Finance
Ministry, during conferences
with, French officials. He add-
ed that the French Finance
Ministry has been ordered to
give the application imme-
diate attention.

More Longhairs Found
In Israel by Heifetz

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Violinist

Jascha Heifetz, who returned
from a four-week tour of Israel,
said at a press conference that
the percentage of serious music
lovers in the new state is high-
* * *
er than in the U. S. Heifetz
Rabbi Samuel Berliant of played 10 concerts with the Is-
Jackson Heights, N.Y., presi- rael Philharmonic Orchestra,
dent of the
with Leonard Bernstein conduCt-
R a bbinical
ing.
Council of
Describing the Israel Philhar-
America, a n -
monic as a "first-rate excellent
nounces that a
orchestra," comparing favorably
delegation
o f
with the better/ American
rabbis has left
orchestras, Heifetz stated that
for Israel to
the music of contemporary Is-
study the reli-
rael composers "shares the
gious needs of
tendency of all modern music to
n e w
settlers
try not to sound too much like
music."
and to establish
a liason with
Berliant
religious leaders in Israel.
SUPER RIVIERA
The American rabbis will
visit the various camps and set-
tlements to observe what pro-
visions have already been made
for the religious requirements
of the new settlers and to study
the facilities for religious edu-
cation of the children.
DELIVERED!

NEW YORK — (JTA) — The
90th birthday of Abraham Ca-
han, editor-in-chief of the Jew-
ish Daily Forward, will be cele
brated with a public dinner in
September, it was announced
here. Cahan reached the age of
90 on July 7.
The dean of Jewish journal-
ism and one of the most color-
ful personalities in Americari
Jewry, Cahan attained a dis-
tinctive place in American lit-

erature as a novelist and short
story writer. Most of his years
were devoted to building up the
Forward and to cementing the
Jewish Labor movement. His
"Rise of David Levinsky" has
been acclaimed one of the best
American novels of this gener-
ation.
Mr. Cahan is a strong sup-
porter of Israel. A chair in
labor history has been estab-
lished in his name at the He-
brew University in Jerusalem.

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TEL AVIV, (JTA)—LEONARD
BERNSTEIN, American guest
conductor of the Israel Philhar-
monic Orchestra, has departed
for Holland to participate in the
forthcoming music festival.
Dean Dixon, American Negro
conductor, is expected to arrive
in Israel soon.

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Brandeis University has an-
nounced the appointment to its
faculty of. IRVING FINE, noted
young composer and conductor,
who will assume his duties as
composer in residence and lec-
turer in music next fall. Fine,
who has spent the past year in
Paris surveying contemporary
trends in French music on a
Fulbright Research Fellowship,
has been awarded a Guggen-
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