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froNs-Section, I - .S. 4.

Communal Issues and Needs

testant American Bible Society
noted that "public interest in
OR RIGHT? By the the Bible in 1951 was the great-
t.EFT
time we go to press, the final est in history." In that year, the
Society distributed 16,001,945
sessions of the National Confer-
(owe of Jewish Communal Serv- copies of the Bible. Next Sep-
ic will be well under way. tember the 5th authorized Pro-
e
NUJCS
is meeting jointly in testant version of the Bible will
be published in a first printing
(71ileituo from June 1-5 with the o
National Association of Jewish of 925,000. Advance sales cur-
rently stand at 600.000.
C,•titer Workers and the Na-
A comparison of these figures
tionai Council for Jewish Eclu-
with those of the only author-
cation.
ized Jewish version in the Eng-
Beline. closed doors there was lisp language is enough to make
retteWs , ' the struggle between one weep. In 1950, the Jewish
snti-Communist
forces
pi o
been going on
for Publication Society "distributed"
wnieh
only 19,700 copies of the Bible in
E ars within these or- English. In 1951. the number
n:mons. This year the fight was 23,319. Coupled with the
the election of a comparatively small sales of the
li
ee noe, s, - ond
pre-O,,en: to succeed Martin other JPS books—about 80,000
cohn. The candidate supported volumes in all were distributed
1) -,. the anti-Communist forces is in 1951—these
s
figures are in-
Sehllf. of Washington. D.C., , dicative of a - trend within the
a . 1 _, J. /NB
he national secretary.
American Jewish community
representative. He is opposed by which should be giving its lead-
How a rd Edelstein. of Bridgeport, ere sleepless nights and gray
wii,) has the support of the left- hair.
witIti forces. As for the fight
When Jews stop reading the
within the ranks of the. Jewish
Center Workers — probably the Bible. when Jews stop reading
bitteres: of all—no details are Jewish books, then its high time
y et avaiiable. for some serious soul-searching
ZIONIST ELECTION ISSUES: by our religious and communal
heads as well as by every indi-
Wh..ther the ZOA shall or shall victual whose Jewishness is
id , :,Lily or affiliate itself something more than an acci-
w: 11 th, General Zionist Party
dent of birth.
Israel emerges as the basic
SHORT SHORTS: Should the
.u e of the
synagogue be open to all Jewish
- Tiered
flu • e -
groups in the community or
for
c.mps
should it be restricted for meet-
pr ,. :,ide IA of the
ing purposes only to groups ap-
Z. A. t h e hot-
proved by the synagogue board?
t in m n
The question was raised by the
Ti,e isstiel':•:
Milwaukee chapter, of American
st broke o u
Council for Judaism after it was
into the open at
barred from meeting in the com-
the Atlantic
munity hall of Temple Emanu-El
City convention
Bne Jeshurin. which- most of its
Shapiro
last yea r. pre-
members attend . . . The JWB
stunably was settled to every- Division of Religious Activities is
(+he's satisfaction in Jerusalem • , sending Rabbis Max D. David-

By ALLEN LESSER

An American Jewish Press Feature

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Egyptian Officers
Attend Opening of
Synagogue at Sinai

STOCKHOLM, (JTA) — Dr.
Nahum Goldmann, co-chairman
of the Jewish Agency executive,
was received by Swedish Premier
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A syna- Tage Erlande who escorted him
gogue was opened at Auja el through the Swedish Parliament.
Hafir, the Sinai border town
where the Israeli-Egyptian Mix-
ed Armistice Commission meets,
at a ceremony attended by Unit-
ed Nations observers and Egyp-
tian and Israeli members of the
MAC. The synagogue was offi-
cially opened by Col. A. Mishnela,
Chief Israel Army Chaplain.
Rabbi Shlorno Goren, who will
hold services in the house of
worship, presented the congre-
gation with a Scroll, declaring?
"Israel received the Scroll at
Sinai, and now Israel returns to
with , the Scroll." Before
;the synagogue was opened, a
memorial was dedicated to the
memory of the Israeli soldiers
who died in the liberation of the
town.

u; the World Confederation of son and Max D. Eichhorn to Eu-
General Zionists, and now will rope in July to attend the con-
ference of Jewish chaplains in
be fought alrover again at the
>nyention. next week in New Europe . . . Rabbi Aryeh Lev is
c,
expected to leave soon for Korea
The meeting of NCRAC ex-
Flatly oposed to identification ecutive committee went off last
or affiliation, though differing week as expected—it passed on
in minor details, are presidential the controversial Evaluative
candidates Ezra Z. Shapiro, of ;Committee the. MaeIver) report
Cleveland, and Abraham A. Re- to the NCRAC plenum, Which
delheim. of Brooklyn. In an ad- will be held later this month in
dress in Pittsburgh last week, ' Atlantic City . . . The 6,000
Shapiro welcomed ZOA Presi- volume library of the late Prof.
dent Browdy's forthright state- :Max Raclin. noted legal scholar
in•nt against identification or of California U., was donated by
;iiiation, and Witi1011t, [:en-i his daughter to the Hebrew U.
ti•hine, name of Rabbi Irving Library in Israel.
Miler, the third c a n d i d a t e,
chat ged the group supporting
litin with saying one thing and j Cedar Po- int Resort
n:•atiii4:: another. Miller has de-
Will Open 011 June 14
clareci himself for identification
w,th. the Israeli General Zion-
Cedar Point - on - Lake Erie
ist:i anis is supported by men
. opens June 14 with every indi-
wH) t.;ught for affiliation.
Hack of this major issue is cation that the famous resort
the realo- sition of all the call- , will enjoy its brightest year.
didates toat drastic steps must , - Advance Breakers Hotel room
he taken to halt the •iul:huling ; reservations. especially h e a v y
d••im• •l the ZOA and to -re- ! registrations by entire family
vis,lize* :ts program aini ores- groups. far exceed those of last
ht.•.•. Ea•-h one knows that the I year. Conventions. picnic and
ii. -...1 7()A president is Iii lug t o ' other bookings also o u t s t r i p
ha ,,,- an extremely difficult tune . 1951. The Point closes Labor
a:.,1 tn:,t he will have to mus- Day-
ter behinc.1 him the best brains : Guests of the 1.000 outside-
room Breakers Hotel will find
of 1,• nsoyement.
1%4- believe that the ZOA will many improvements chief of
prosper best if Ezra Z. Shapiro which is the enlarged hotel auto
is elected. A Zionist veteran parking lot for about 600 cars.
Mrs. Lloyd N. Beuthel will re-
desoite the fact that he i. - ; still
,t yoting man, Ezra Shapiro . view popular novels f o r the
reoresents the kind of lay corn- I pleasure of guests weekly.
ti:.!,ity ieader we'd like to see , For t h e convenience and
es e . • o: at the helm of .i•wish ' pleasure of guests, the free mov-
As Ole Candi- • irig picture shows will be held
4s oils:mons.
:.e,• , of !ale Committee tot Re-every Monday this
yi afization of the ZOA. Sha- 'little theater.
p1: o ha:, the pledged assistance I Accent will continue on the
of such tried and able workers clean and wholesome tone of
in the movement as Dewey D. the Midway Amusement section
Stone. Louis Lipsky. Rudolf Son- where new rides. games and
neborn• Jacob Alkow, J u d g e shows will be seen.
Louis Lcvinthal, Robert Szold, ' The resort's family picnic .at-
1--ibbi Solomon Goldmau. and tendance increased greatly last
many others of equal caliber. year and bookings for family
In Jerusalem last year he clear- outings, industrial, educational,
ly demonstrated his ability to patriotic and civic groups are
work with an Israeli Govern- running far ahead of last year.
went v:•hose political views do Train or bus excursions have
not agree with his, and to reach been booked from D e t r o i t,
successful conclusions with them Mansfield. Cambridge. Z a n e s-,
Barberton,
011 Zionist affairs and is.sues. ville, C o I u ni b u 3.
The ZOA needs a man like Ezra Cleveland. Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Sh ipiro at the helm. and South Bend, Indiana.
11 1.:OPLE OF THE ROOK: Re-
THE .JEWISH NEWS
c•ntly the Rev. Eric M. North. 22
Friday, June 6, 1952
general secretary of the Pro-

—

Swedish Premier Receives Agency Head, Dr. Goldmann

Dr. Goldmann, and Israeli Min-
ister Avraham Nissan, who ac-
companied him. expressed ap-
preciation for the Swedish press'
sympathetic handling of the
Israeli and Jewish reparations
claims on Germany.

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