New Shoe's on the Soil of Israel
8—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 4, 1952
Half of Czech Jews
Seek to Emigrate
TEL AVIV, (JTA) —A half of
the 14,000 Jews still living in
Czechoslovakia have applied for
permission to• leave the country,
according to a report reaching
here froth Prague. ,
The report said that no cul-
tural Jewish activity exists in
Czechoslovakia and that the sy-
nagogues there are empty be-
cause the Jews are afraid to en-
ter them. Orthodox Jews are re-
quired to work on the Sabbath
under the existing laws.
Another report said that sev-
eral hundred Jews were among
the people recently deported
from their homes in Hungary to
unknown - destinations. They in-
clude rabbis, community ' leaders,
A cobblery instructor at the Bessie Gotsfeld Children's Village and intellectuals and workers. There
Farm School in Raanana, Israel, instructs a pair of youngsters are still 140,000 Jews residing in
in the fine points of the art.,Shoemaking is one of the vocational Hungary, the report stated.
workshops at the village sponsored by Mizrachi Women's Organi-
zation of America.
And Ye Shall Live!
By Dr. Noah E. Aronstam
"And I will lay sinews upon
you and I will bring up flesh
upon you . . . and ye shall
live."
—Ezekiel 37:6
I thought that my lyre lie shat-
tered as dust,
Forever fogotten, it never would
rise
To distill in sweet accents the
tnrobs of my heart,
Of hopes and of visions far
precious thou prize.
Then the burden of the prophet
awoke in my. mind:
"Tell me, oh Mortal, think ye,
will the bones e'er live,
And be vested with garments of
sinews anew,
With strength to forge forward,
with love to attain,
With trust in the future, that
never again
Shall they cease from their toil
• -
and cleave to the soil?"
"Aye, spake the Lord, ye dry
bones shall live and breathe
as of yore."
And as I mused, my lyre grew
suddenly strong,
And burst forth in a jubilant
JDC 37th Annual Meeting
In New York City Jan. 5
The annual meeting of the
Joint Distribution Committee
will be held in New York City
on Jan. 5, at Hotel Astor, it was
announced by Moses A. Leavitt,
executive vice-chairman of the
Overseas relief agency which has
already established a record of
37 years auninterrupted - service
in behalf Of needy Jews: over-
seas.
At this conference, consisting
of a single Saturday night_ses-
sion, members of JDC's board of
directors and national council
will hear reports on the present
situation of distressed Jews in
Europe, Moslem lands and Israel.
• Basis for the meeting's delib-
erations will be first-hand dis-
cussions on overseas problems by
Edward M. M. Warburg, JDC
chairMan and general chairman.
of the UJA, and Dr. Joseph J.
Schwartz, JDC overseas director
general on leave and executive
vice-chairman of UJA.
Jewish Inimigration
In Canada Increases
SOI :
"Ye Shall Live!"
OTTAWA, (JTA) — A total or
4,756 Jewish immigrants entered
Letter of Thanks to JCRS
Accompanied by $1,000
From Grateful Japanese
Canada in the first nine months
of this year. The number of
Jews who reached Canada as
immigrants in the correspond-
ing period in 1950 was only 1,823.
It was noted here that the num-
ber of German. immigrants in
the first nine .months of 1950
was 3,920 as compared with 16,-
427 this year.
Montreal's French Canadian
population opposes -any type of
immigration into Canada, ac-_
cording to a survey prepared by
Prof. Guy Debreuil for the Can-
adian Citizenship Council. ,The
survey showed that Angl °-
Saxon Canadians favor moder-
a t e immigration including a
large proportion of immigrants
of British origin, and Jewish
Canadians are in favor of wide
iminigration.
DENVER — An across - the -
Pacific bond of brotherhood was
forged through the recovery of
a_ Japanese pearl-grower at the
Denver Sanatorium of the Jew-
ish Consumptives' Relief Society.
A $1,000 check and the follow-
ing letter from I. Jitamura, of
Kobe, president of the Japanese
Pearl Growers Association, to
Joseph Goldstone, a Chicago
JCRS Board leader, who is pres-
ident of the Imperial Pearl Syn-
dicate of America, tells this dra-
matic story:
"About two years ago, one of
our pearl growers, James Kana,i,
who was interned during the war
was suffering from an advanced
stage of tuberculosis. Through
your good efforts he was admit-
ted to the Denver Sanatorium of
JCRS and after 11 months he
was discharged as completely
cured.
"We of the pearl growers as-
Distribution of Protestant
Bibles . Halted in N. J. Schools
RUTRFORD, New Jersey,
(JTA)—Thelocal Board of Edu-
cation has temporarily halted
the distribution of Frrotestant
sociation shall never forget what Bibles , by the Gideon Bible So-
the Denver Sanatorium of the ciety in the schools of Ruther-
JCRS has done to help Mr. ford after a protest by Rabbi
Kanai back to good health and Herman Schwartz of Temple
as a small measure of our ap- Beth El of Rutherford, a Cath-
preciation we have gotten to- olic priest and various citizens
gether from all of us $1,000 and of the town.
are forwarding same to you."
The Bibles were to have been
distributed in schools by teach-
Public, Private Schools • - ers to those children whose par-
ents had consented to their re-
Celebrate Xmas, Hanukah ceiving them. However, after
Rabbi Schwartz and others had
In a number of local schools protested, the Board of Educa-
Hanukah was celebrated along- tion—which had originally given
side with Christmas, and songs permission for the distribution
of both festivals were included --:--decided to seek legal advice
in the programs. •
before going ahead with the
At the Town and Country program. Rabbi Schwartz made
School, where 60 pereent of the
children are Christian, "Christ- the point, later supported by
mas in America" and "Hanukah Joseph L. Bustard, Assistant
in Israel" featured the celebra- Commissioner of Education of
tion and all joined in the sing- New. Jersey, that the program
ing of "Rock of Ages" and other
songs. Mr. and Mrs. Roper, di- violated the constitutional guar-
rectors of the school, arrahied. antees of separation of chureh
the. program.
and state.
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Two Israel Soldiers Slain
By Arabs in Negev Ambush
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Israel LONDON, (JTA) — A total of
has protested to .the Israel-Jar- 610 Iraqi Jews who were outside
dan Mixed. Armistice Commission Iraq and failed to return within
against the killing of two Israeli three months after the publica-
soldiers and the wounding of a tion of a formal government
third by a party of Arabs who notice to that effect have been
ambushed the Israelis near officially deprived of their prop-
S'dom in the Negev. The three erty and citizenship, it was re-
men, who were traveling in a ported here recently from Bagh-
truck when they came under dad. The regulations under which
fire, managed to kill one of their the action was taken was first
attackers before they were over- published six months ago in a
powered and their arms and uni- series of anti-Jewish moves by ,
forms were stolen from them.
the Iraqi Government.
Agency Drive in U.S. for
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SAVINGS
ACCOUNTS
Israel Medical Personnel
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A drive
to recruit American medical
personnel for urgently needed
service in Israel was announced
by the Jewish Agency. •
A spokesman for the Agency's
immigration department, which
handles the selection of most
categories of American technical
and professional personnel for
Israel, said that doctors, nurses.
and X-ray and laboratory tech-
nicians are being sought for 18
to 24 months of service either
with Kupat Holim, the central
sick fund which serves over 50
percent of Israel's population, or
Malben, the welfare agency of
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, which cares for "hard core"
cases among the new immi-
grants. •
Panel to Discuss MacIVer Report
Rabbi Leon Fram, Haske 11
La.zere, William Cohen and
Samuel J. Rhodes will comprise
the panel which will discuss the
MacIver Report at a meeting
of the Center Open Forum, at
8:30 p.m., Wednesday, at the
Woodward Center. Dr. Norman
Polansky, of Wayne University,
will be moderator.
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