Religious Parties Gain in
Jerusalem; Lose Elsewhere
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM.—Final results in the polling in Jerusalem and
the Corridor settlements on Tuesday showed that the religious
parties had done better here than in the remainder of the country,
while the vote that went to the Mapai and General Zionist parties
was somewhat less than the ratio these parties reached through-
out the country generally.
, Of a total of 93,722 eligible<>
votes in Jerusalem and the Cor- march on its rivals by mounting
ridor settlements, 62,105, or a large Hebrew letter "Aleph,"
65.45 percent, went to the polls the party designation, on rafts
Monday in Israel's second gen- off the Tel Aviv shore, to keep
eral election. The final percent- the party before the eyes of
strollers on the Tel Aviv board-
age results in this area are:
- Mapai, 37; General Zionists, walk. -
Premier Ben-Gurion Sunday
11.86; Herut, 10.2; Podle Miz-
rachi, 7.13; Agudath Israel, 7.2; night denied statements to the
Mapam, 4.64; Progressives, 3.93; effect that American Jewry dis-
approves of government plan-
Mizrachi, 2.5; Communists, 2.07; ning
and controls in Israel.
Poale Agudath, 2. .
Speaking at an election rally in
With results from 987 pre- Jaffa, the Premier declared that
cincts tabulated out of 1,500 American Jewry is primarily in-
throughout the country, Premier terested in bringing to Israel
David Ben-Gurion's labor party Jews from all over the world
was leading in 'Israel's second who want or creed to come to
general elections with 38.63 per- the Jewish state. For this pur-
cent of the vote cast. The Gen- pose, he stressed, government
eral Zionist party, which had planning and economic controls
campaigned on - a program- of are necessary. He repeated the
free enterprise, was second with aim of his party to bring Israel's
19.89 percent of the total. The Jewish population to 2,000,000
standing of all parties on the within the next four years and
basis of returns from 987 pre- to establish 1,000 new settle-
cincts are:
ments in that period.
Mapai, 38.63; General Zionists,
The right of -Zionists through-
19.89; Mapam, 11.85; Herut, 7.45; out the world to intervene in
Ha,poel Hamizrachi, 6,36; Pro- Israeli affairs was asserted by
gressives, 3.58; Communists, 3.32; Dr. Israel Goldstein, former
Agudath Israel, 2.25; Mizrachi, treasurer of the Jewish Agency
1.76; Poale Agudath Israel, 1.72. and chairman of -the World Con-
The remaining seven parties federation of General Zionists.
each received.less than one per- He declared that the average
cent of the votes.
Israeli feels politically and eco-
Results in Haifa
nomically insecure without as-
- HAIFA.—(JTA) — Both Mapai sistance from abroad and, there-
and General Zionist parties did fee, such intervention is an ex-
slightly better in Monday's elec- pression of legitimate and in-
tions than they did throughout vited concern with Israeli af-
the-rest of the country. The final fairs. Dr. Goldstein also de-
results by percentages follow:
manded automony for territorial
Mapai, 39.67; General tionists, federations or groups such as
20.31; Mapam, 14.57; Hapoel the Amerrcan Zionist Council in
Hamizrachi, 5.33; Herut, 4.66; the implementation of Zionist
Progressives, 3.66; Communists, Congress policy.
4; Poale Agudath Israel, 2.48.
The other nine parties received
slightly above or less than one Orthodox Shules Ask
percent of the vote cast.
For Reforrn, Cantors,
.
The Tel Aviv Vote
TEL AVIV,—(JTA)—The Gen-
eral Zionist party showed' its
greatest strength. in Tel Aviv,
running a closessecond to the
Mapai party. With only 18 poll-
ing booths still to report, final
returns by parties stood as fol-
lows:
Mapai, 59,572; General Zion-
ists, 50,032; Herut, 18,995; Ma-
pam, 15,556; Hapoel Hamizrachi,
8,057; Progressives, 5,625; Com-
munists, 6,251; Agudath Israel,
4,339; Mizrachi, 3,905. The other
eight parties received scattered
results.
- The sale of alcoholic beverages
was prohibited throughout the
country on the election day.
Until the deadline, election-
eering was extremely hectic, but
orderly. Although all the major
parties held street parades and
meetings, with marching, slogan
shouting and banner waving,
the police reported no incident§
as the hotly contested campaign
closed.
In Jaffa the most distinct-
ive feature of the long lines of
waiting voters were the num-
erous veiled Moslem women.
Besides Syria, Israel is the
only Middle East country
- where Moslem women have
the • franchise.
The campaign to elect the 120
members of the second Knesset,
Parliament, starting
Israel's
slowly; gathered tremendous
momentum with thousands of
rallies held throughout the
country during the past month
and the citizenry subjected to a
barrage of election propaganda
never before equalled in this
part of the world. It is estimated
here that all the parties com-
bined will have spent between
two-and-a-half and three mil-
lion pounds ($7,000,000 to $8,400,-
000) on the election fight.
All the tricks of an American
election were employed in this
campaign. Automobiles fitted
with loudspeakers roamed the
streets of the cities by day and
night blaring out party slogans
and calls to party rallies. Bill-
boards were plastered with party
a p p e a 1 s. Illuminated signs
flashed the letters identifying
the party lists. Premier Ben-
Gurion's Mapai Party stole a
Educator Tells Critic
NEW YORK (AJP)—Replying
to- charges from an Orthodox
critit - that no Reform school
could prepare cantors for tradi-
tional synagogues, Dr. Abraham
N. Franzblau said that the He-
brew Union School of Sacred
Music. had filled calls for can-
tors "from 'a. number of Ortho-
dox congregations:"
Dr. Franzblau is dean of the
School, which is part of the He-
brew Union College-Jewish In-
stitute of Religion, the Reform
seminary.
In response to an earlier an-
nouncement by the school that
its cantors were being • trained
for positions in Reform, Con-
servative and Orthodox congre-
gations, Rabbi Irwin Gordon,
national director of the Union of
Orthodox congregations of
America, called the statement
"an overzealous piece of public
relations."
"lt appears that Rabbi Gordon
does not speak for all his group -
for we have received calls for
cantors from a number of Or-
thodox congregations, and have
filled the vacancies, apparently
to their satisfaction," Dr. Franz-
blau said.
He added that it was at the
request of "numerous" Orthodox
and Conservative- cantors "that
we are offering,' beginning- in
October, an all-day in-service
course on Mondays, for cantors
now serving such . congrega-
tions."
THE JEWISH NEWS-3
Friday, August 3, 1951
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AJ Congress Stirs
Debate with Resorts
Over Advertising Bias
NEW YORK, (AJP)—An Amer-
ican Jewish Congress survey
charging that resorts on the
Eastern seaboard were using ad-
vertising aimed at barring Jews
is the subject of sharp public
debate.
The survey report charged
that widespread Use had been
found of phrases such as "near
churches" to disguise the usual
"select clientelle" notices. The
Congress contends use of such
trick bias advertising was a vio-
lation of the anti-discrimination
laws in the several states in
which they appeared and urged
immediate action.
Publication of the Congress'
demand for action in daily pa-
pers here brought a qUick re-
sponse. Typical was one by John
F. McKenna, of Manhattan, who
wrote in an open letter to a
leading New York City daily that
the Congress "by its attack upon
the advertising of summer re-
sorts so near Catholic and Pro-
testant churches, is undermining
at once the freedom to practice
one's religion and the freedom
to be one's self."
McKenna said it was a "gross
infringement upon my freedom
to tell me with -whom I must
associate in the .close circum-
stances of a country boarding
house or hotel."
merican Jewish Press Photo
Jersey Joe Walcott, whose amazing defeat of Ezzard Charles
was termed one of the great upsets of the year in boxing, is pic-
tured. with his manager and friends as he purchases a bond for
Israel, part of the $500,000,000 Israel bond drive in the United
States. Champ Joe said he was proud to help the young Jewish
state.
South Haven Resorts Bought
To End Discrimination There
DENVER, (AJP)—One way for
Jews to beat resort discrimina-
tion is to up and buy the resort
—which is exac.ly what hap-
pened in South Haven, Mich.
Robert Gamzey, editor of In-
termountain Jewish News, re-
ported discovery of the new DETROIT • NEW YORK • NEWARK, N. J.
technique during a recent vaca-
tion trip with his family. -
Before the first World War,
the lakeshore resorts of South
Haven were notorious for their
"No Jews or Dogs Allowed" signs.
But Chicago Jewish vacationers
pushed into the resort area and
My Favorites
purchased property.
$1.39 lb.
They constructed summer
homes, be a c h developments,
synagogues, kosher butcher
shops and delicatessens and took
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Two New Yorkers Win
Israel Architect Awards
NEW YORK—Two Americans
were listed among winners of
an international architectural
competition for plans for a mon-
ument and park to be erected on
Mount Herzl, near Jerusalem,
memorializing Theodor Herzl,
founder of Zionism, announced
the World Zionist Organization,
sponsor of the competition.
First prize went to Joseph
Klarwein, an Israeli, who will be
commissioned to execute the
memorial. The American prize
winners were .13. Sumner Gruzen
and Associates and Oscar
Nitzchke, both of New York.
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