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. Set .:44,1100 150 Paintings of Stars TO BE DETERMINED American Jevirris role in 95 2 on behalf of Israel .Jewish TebabOation overseas . Refugee a:4in U.S• Give Liberally to the %Jolted leviisia ikppe a1 .In Worthy Nature Guide The 150 paintings in color Which features "Stars: A Guide to t h e Constellations, S u Moon, Planets and Other Fea- tures of the Heavens," published by Simon and Schuster as a Golden Nature Guide, are only part of the attraction in this book. It is an exciting story, an excellent guide and contains so many informative elements that it is truly an educational factor in book publishing. Written and compiled by Profs. Herbert S. Zim and Rob- ert H. Baker of the University of Illinois and illustrated by James Gordon Irving, this book is exciting as well as instructive. Young and old will value it im- mensely and students will be greatly aided by its contents. 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 4 1 Insured 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. 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