Nusbaum Gives Sum
To Beth Yehudah
For Week's Support
Miriam' s
Stories for
David J. Cohen, president of
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, an-
nounces that Abraham Nus-
baum, of the New York Lino-
leum Co., has made a contribu- i
tion covering the cost of one
week's Hebrew instruction at the
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have
participated
in
this
work.
school
on Dexter and Cortland.
Hello Boys and Girls:
How are your gardens coming ! They brought with them the pi- ; Nusbaum has
this summer? Are the flowers; oneer spirit that, many years served on the
blooming, the carrots and rad- before, had inspired most of Yeshivah board
for a number of
ishes crisp and sweet, the td- 1
matoes firm and ruddy? I hope : their parents to challenge the years, and is af-
so. This week 'I would like to : uncultivated Emek, reclaim its filiated with
tell you about some boys and land and make it into a thriving Cong. Beth Ab-
raham. He is a
girls in Israel—your age, or per- , garden.
national co-
haps a Jew years older—who are
Non', these young people are
chairman of the
making a garden in the desert.
.
challenging
the
barren
Arava.
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B a r - Ilan Uni-
versity project Nusbaum
At the southern tip of Israel From dawn to dusk they are
in Israel and a leader in the
is a vast desert—the Negev. And busy at their work. Farm
American Mizrachi movement.
at the southern tip of Negev lies chores are interspersed with
He has long been interested in
Arava. a barren plain surround- i guard duty. Guided by their
ed by mountains. At least it was scientist-e n gin e e r teachers, the religious education of Beth
f
Yehudah Schools.
completely barren until about a
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, nu-
year ago. Now, trees grow in the i they experiment with types of
trees
and
plants
to
determine
merically the second system of
desert, vegetables are cultivated
what
can
be
grown
in
that
Hebrew
education in the city
and chickens nest in the grass.I
and one of the largest of its
salty, sandy soil.
A miracle. Yes, a miracle,
brought about by the children One of their most exciting , kind in the country, receives a
of Israel, with the help, of tasks is the cultivation of vege- subvention from the Jewish
course, of trained scientists and tables by hydroponics. That's a Welfare Federation, and is de-
Ibig word, and a new one. Try it pendent upon voluntary gifts to
engineers.
It is the name cover the cost of its educational
If you were to fly over the —hy-dro-po-nics.
sand and rock that make up ' for a new scientific process with program.
the Arava plain you might spot which vegetables are grown in ! Beth Yehudah attendance has
troughs of water enriched with been maintained at a high leve 1
a tiny camp, some temporary i
farm buildings and a few rows , chemicals. At Be'er Orah, the during the entire summer. Thir-
of tents. This little settlement : young people have been so suc- teen rabbis taught during these
is known as Be'er Orah. Its . cessful with this new process weeks, when all classes met in
"farmers" are boys and girls, : that they dine on eggs, laid by , the mornings and the after-
most of them in the seventh chickens, who feed on grass, noons were devoted to recrea- :
grade in school, who are mem- grown by—try it again—hydro- • tional activities of the Day
bers of a volunteer group called ponies. I Camp.
I All this—in the desert!
Gadna.
These boys and girls have a! After dark, the boys and girls, $2,900.000 Ford Gift
mission. They have read in the like any youngsters at camp, ,.N., A
ss t i s Refugees
Bible about a vision of the have evening programs. They .I. 0 .A.ssist
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P rop het Isaiah in which the join in community sings, present i
A grant of $2.900.000 to the
prophet heard God declare: "I plays, listen to lectures, cele-
United
Nations
Refugee Emer-
will make the wilderness a pool brate Israel's national and re-
of water, and the dry land, ligious holidays. 1 gency Fund was announced this
springs of water." And they are The Israel government is so week by Paul G. Hoffman, direc-
tor of the Ford Foundation. to
working to make that prophecy pleased with the Be'er Orah ex-
be expended in an attempt to
into reality. periment that it is planning to
find a permanent solution to the
It was in December, 1950, that establish more camps, doing problem of 10.000,000 political
scientifiC-iiWtruments detected a similar work, in the same area. exiles and expelled persons in
supply of water in the Arava Within a few years these settle- Western Europe.
desert. At dawn on the morning ments will be made permanent,
The stipulations made in be-
of Dec. 15 a small group of they will grow into villages and half of the Ford Foundation gift
young men and women, riding towns.
by Mr. Hoffman. are that self-
in five trucks, arrived at that r Already, this work has at- help projects must be promoted,
spot. They brought with them tracted the interest of scientists . that the work must be non-dis-
tools, building materials and ; throughout the world. Next criminatory, that it must fur-
arms — because everywhere on • spring, scientists from forty-one ther -integration in communi-
the frontier Israeli settlements nations will gather in Jerusalem ties where the refugees live, that
must be guarded from enemies ; for the first annual fair and ex- governments must not be re-
who are jealous of Israel's hibition of work in land .reclam- lieved of their responsibilities.
achievements. ation. And one of the projects that emphasis be placed on
A week later, the first group; that will occupy them will be ! youth.
of children arrived. They con- I inspection of the achievements of
Henry Ford II has been named
tinued to come, in small groups, Be'er Orah—the great pioneer- chairman of Crusade for Free-
and remained for two weeks at ing step being taken by Israel's • dom.
a time. More than 4,000 already children toward the economic
security of their young nation.
Mothers' Club Council Plans
Old Home Week Celebration
Rosh Hashanah and
Aren't we proud of these'chil-
Yom Kippur Services
dren. boys and girls. Think about ;
Council of Mothers' Clubs will
In the
them and the extremely diffi- hold an old home week cele-
cult work they tackle with such bration at its Mother's Camp at
VETERANS MEMORIAL
enthusiasm, next time mother Cyprus Village, beginning on
BUILDING
reminds you of your garden Aug. 24. The camp it on Lake
Admission Free
tasks. It should make your Huron, 15 miles past Port Hu-
weeding and watering much ron. Eligible to attend the affair
Donations Gratefully Acknowledged
are campers who attended the
easier.
Rabbi Herman Rosenwosser
camp this year, and past camp-
Your friend, MIRIAM
Please Send Names in Advance for
ers at Glo-Rita Beach and Camp
Yom Kippur Yiskor to
Chelsea. Registration is cur-
Downtown Synagogue
6 — THE JEWISH NEWS
rently taking place at the Davi-
1205 Griswold Street
son Jewish Center.
Friday, August 8, 1952
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agency's enforcement and rul-
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last October. He will continue
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