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THE JEWISH NEWS-21
Friday, January 9, 1953

Miriam's

Stories for

Bnai Brith Helps
Dent Iron Curtain

Our Boys

and Girls

An American Jewish Press Feature

Hello Boys and Girls:
You know from your study of
Jewish history that Jews have
been unwelcome in almost_every
country in the world at some
time. Right now, Jews are be-
ing persecuted behind the Iron
Curtain. Here is a little story
about Spain, during the Inqui-
sition — that fearful period of
danger for Judaism in the fif-
teenth century . . The Royal
Onions.
* * *
Isaac Gomez, an early Ameri-
can settler, kept a diary for his
descendants to read. According
to Isaac's diary, his great great
grandfather was a Spanish
nobleman and a friend of the
king.
The king discovered, one day,
that his friend was about to be
seized by agents of the Inquisi-
tion. He sent him a note say-
ing "Gomez, the onions begin
to smell!"
Gomez understood the hint
and rushed his wife and chil-
dren out of the country. He
himself was taken captive, but
finally freed. He joined his fam-
ily in France.
And from the nobleman Go-
mez was descended Isaac Go-
mez, a proud American citizen.

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MEET TANCHUM
A favorite character in Jew-
ish folklore is Tanchum, a little
boy whose mind runs in mys-
terious circles. See if you can
figure him out . . .
One day Tanchum was sent to
the market by his mother to
buy a chicken. She waited and
waited. No Tanchum. Evening
shadows began to fall. Then
stars came out in the sky. At
last, Tanchum came walking
down the street to his house, a
pitcher of water in his hand.
Tanchum's mother looked at
the pitcher of water. "I sent
you for a chicken," she scolded,
and you brought back a pitcher
of water!"
Tanchum explained carefully.

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"I went to the woman who sells
chickens. The woman said her
chickens were.excellent. The fat
was worth more than the chick-
en._ So I said to myself—Why
should I buy chicken if the fat
is better than the chicken?
"So I went to the butcher for
fat. The outcher said his fat
was wonderful. It was like oil.
So I said to myself—Why should
I buy fat if I can get oil, which
is cheaper than fat? I went to
the grocer for oil. The grocer
said his oil was marvelous. It
was as pure and clear as water
— so I said to myself —Why
should I buy oil when water is
better than oil? And I can get
water for nothing!"
Tanchum looked up at his
mother triumphantly.
"That is why," he ended his
story, "I brought you a pitcher
of water instead of a chicken."
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Tanchum's mother was going
to the market( to shop. Before
she left the house, she told
Tanchum not to forget to eat
something if he became hungry.
"There is milk in the jug,"
she said. She poured some of
the milk into a. bowl and left
it on the table for Tanchum."
An hour later, his mother re-
turned. There was Tanchum
sitting at the table, his arms
folded, and there was the bowl
of milk on the table. Beside
the bowl stood -the dog, licking
up the last drops.
"Tanchum," said his mother,
"Weren't you hungry?"
"Yes," answered Tanchum, "I
was very hungry."
"Then why didn't you drink
the milk?" asked his mother.
"Because the dog got there
first," said Tanchum.
"Why didn't you tell the dog
to go away?" his mother asked
again.
"I don't talk to him," said
Tanchum. "I have my pride,
too. He tore my pants yester-
day."
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Did you know that very soon
we will celebrate another inter-
esting Jewish holiday—the New
Year of the Trees. Are you sav-
ing. pennies so that you can
plant a tree in Israel on that
day?"
Your Friend, MIRIAM.

Israel Cows Get Medali
HAIFA, (IIP)—It was a • big

day for 200 Israeli cows • here
who received championship titles
from the Ministry of Agriculture.
Each of the animals, the cita-
tions read, had yielded more
than 500 kilos of milk in their
lifetime.

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Four Torahs Sent to Israel by Histadrut

A 210-year-old Torah extri-
cated from Nazi hands in Rip-
pin, Poland, will be among four
Scrolls to be sent to the religious
affairs department of Histadrut,
Israel's labor federation, for use
in the Jewish State, Isaac Ham-
lin, secretary-general of the Na-
tional Committee for Labor Is-
rael, announced. Accompanying
the Torah will be 13 volumes of
the Talmud.

Agency to Transport
700 Hong Kong Jews

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BILL MALONE (left) of the
Crusade for Freedom interviews

Dr. MAURICE GOLDBERG, a
member of the national Bnai
Brith Anti-Defamation League,
as part of a program of the 14
lodges and chapters of Bnai
Brith in Washington to pene-
trate the Iron Curtain with re-
corded messages on the Ameri-
can way of life.

Israel's Cigarette Output
Reaches 165,000,000 Smokes
Monthly; Raise Own TobacCo

RAMAT GAN, (IIP) — Israel's
fast-growing cigarette industry,
using modern assembly line
methods patterned, after those
in the U. S., boosted its produc-
tion schedule in 1952 to average
an output of 165,000,000 cigar-
ettes monthly.
Significant in the report was
the disclosure that most of the
tobacco used in the manufac-
ture of the Israeli cigarettes,
outside of leafs used in special
blends, was grown in the coun-
try. Helping the development of
tobacco plantations during 1952
was a loan of IL. 86,339; chiefly
for the cultivation of Virginia
tobacco.

J. L. Hudson Co. Plans
Its Centers for 1954

Construction of Northland
Center, the world's largest re-
gional shopping center, is on
schedule, and plans are under-
way for opening the entire pro-
ject early in March, 1954, it is
announced by Oscar Webber,
president of the J. L. Hudson
Co.
Leasing of the approximately
70 stores and shops which will
surround the 470,000 square foot
branch of Hudson's is progress-
ing.
Northland Center, Inc., a sub-
sidiary of Hudson's, is still ac-
cepting applications for many
types of small specialty shops in
the remaining space.
If Northland Center is opened
on schedule in 1954, it will be
possible to start construction of
Eastland Center before the end
of that year, Mr. Webber stated.
Located at Kelly and Eight Mile
Roads in Harper Woods, East-
land Center is planned _as the
second project in Hudson's pro-
gram for ultimately ringing De-
troit with at least three major
branch units, each forming part
of a complete, integrated, one-
stop shopping center.

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JERUSALEM, (JTA) '- Trans-
fer to Israel of 600 to 700 Jewish
refugees living now in Hong
Kong will begin in a month, a
Jewish Agency spokesman said
this week. Preparatipns are al-
ready under way to move them
from Hong Kong in groups of
50 each month.
The spokesman reported that
immigration continues from
Bulgaria, via Italy, and that an
average of 70 Bulgarian Jews
arrive in Israel each month. Air
transportation for immigrants
from Persia will be inaugurated
for the winter to replace land
travel which cannot be resumed
via Turkey until next spring.
The spokesman said the Ag-
ency had appealed to the Con-
ference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany, to al-
locate $250,000 a year from Ger-
man reparations. payment for
establishment and maintenance
of a spiritual memorial to the
martyred Jews of Europe.

Oscar Levant carries in his
pocket a classified ad clipped
from his home-town paper:
"Man wanted to do work in a
dynamite factory; must be will-
ing to travel."

The Rippin Torah, once used
in the only synagogue of the Po-
lish town, was purchased in the
United States by Isidore Feld,
chairman of the United Organ-
izations for the Israel Histadrut
— a division of the National
Committee for Labor Israel —
after its authenticity had been
established by his former towns-
folk. Mr. Feld, himself born .in
Rippin, acquired the Torah for
$300 two years ago. It was
brought to the United States by
Mordecai Baker.
Mr. Feld said that of the 2,400
Jewish families once living in
Rippin, only 200 individuals sur-
vived the Nazi purges during
World War II, and these no
longer live in the Polish town.
He said that when the Nazis
overran the town and destroyed
the synagogue, they also took
the Torah with the intention of
destroying it. However, he re-
lated, non - Jews stole the
Torah from the Nazis and later
sold it to Mr. Baker, who took
it to America.
Two other Torahs were con-
tributed-to the Histadrut by the
Rippiner Benevolent Society, of
which Mr. Feld is an ex-presi-
dent.
The fourth Torah was do-
nated by the synagogue, Chevra
Sfard Anshe Poland, the Bronx.
The synagogue also contributed
the 13 volumes of the Talmud.

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ALL NEW 1953 -

Ford Calendar by Rockwell

The attractive hostess in the
coffee shop of the Dearborn
Inn, in Michigan, didn't notice
that the stranger from Vermont
was studying her face carefully.
The next day she found herself
posing as the yourig Mrs. Henry
Ford of 1896 for a painting by
the famous illustrator, Norman
Rockwell, that will hang in mil-
lions of American homes in 1953.
That morning in Michigan,
Rockwell was involved in pains-
taking research and planning
for a series of six illustrations
for Ford Motor Company's spe-
cial 50th Anniversary Calendar
of 1953.
The publication of the calen-
dar, with the vivid Rockwell
paintings reproduced in full,
rich colors, will inaugurate an
extensive program of 50th Anni-
versary events which will con-
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headquarters in Dearborn and
at branch plants and offices
across the country._

FRIDAY and SATURDAY
JANUARY 9th and 10th