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May 15, 1953 - Image 20

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1953-05-15

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Kfar Sekenim .Is New . Name on Israers Map

Bnai Brith Leaders Visit White House

I Bnai Brith leaders meet with President Eisen-
hower for a 30-minute conference at the White
Hotise , during the Order's yearly convention.
Shown from left to right are: Edward Schultz,
chairman of the Anti-Defamation League;

Frank Goldman, retiring president, who was
elected honorary president of the order; Presi-
dent Eisenhower; Philip Klutzniek, new Bnai
Brith president; Benjamin Epstein, director of
the Anti-Defamation League; and Maurice Bis-
gyer, secretary of the Order.

Released GI Hears Freedom Calling

Architecture Magazine
Features Article on
Synagogue Centers

The first Jewish prisoner to enter Freedoni Village, Korea was
Pfc. TIBOR RUBIN, of Long Beach, Calif. He is shown here re-
ceiving comforting words from Chaplain MURRAY ROTHMAN,
who gave the exchanged, prisoner a prayer. :and. mezuzah furnished
by the Jewish Welfare Board.

!Congress Would Doom McCarran Act Charges .

Architectural Forum maga-
zine, in its current issue, de-
votes a 16-page spread to three
new synagogues created by
famed architect, Eric Mendel-
sohn.
Among the three imposing
structures is the 'temple and
community center planned by
Cong. Emanuel, in Grand Rap-
ids. Designed in 1948, construc-
tion was begun in 1950 and is
not yet completed:
The center is planned in a
semi-circular arrangement, and
features an auditorium, social
lounge, school, offices; swim
ming pool, tennis 'courts - and
sundry other facilities.
The principal feature of the
auditorium is a 'moveable ark,
which. on High Holy Days can
be brought from its place in the
recessed wall to the center of
the podium.
The s y n a g o g u e, containing
17,000 square feet, is being built
at a cost of $360,000.
The magazine article features
the recent ly - completed Bnai
Amoona. Synagogue in St. Louis,
which Mendelsohn built as "a
challenge . . . in designing a
sacred building in the spirit of
our age of great changes." Also
described is Temple Emanu-
El in Dallas, Tex.
Since his arrival in the United
States 12 years ago, Mendelsohn
has built on and improved his
unique contribution to' archi
tecture through his ideal of

A new name will appear or care to them with funds_., con•
the map of Israel this week — tributed by American Jewry

Kfar Sekenim, or the Village of
the Aged—at Ein Shemer, about
halfway between Haifa and Tel
Aviv.
Nestling in the foothills of
Ephraim, it is a unique kind of
village, for every one. of its
thousand inhabitants i,s more
than 60 years old, with all of the
men aged 65 or over.
The village tells part of the
story of the thousands of aged
men and women who have, come
to Israel in the past four years
in the stream of immigration
which followed the establish-
ment of the Jewish state. Most
of these newcomers came with-
out any means of their own and
had no relatives in Israel able
to support them.
Completely helples s, they
turned to the Joint Disribution
Committee, which has for many
years been a byword of succor
and hope to Jews the world
over. JDC, through Malben, its
progralh on behalf of aged, ill
and handicapped newcomers to
Israel, provided vitally needed



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4

Hebrew U. Medical School
To Accept U. S. Students

brew University-Hadassah Med-
ical School in Jerusalem will for
the first time in its five-year
existence accept Amer i can
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in it's fall semester, it' was an-

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Dr. ELLIS RIVKIN (left) and
Dr. ELIAS L. EPSTEIN have been
appointed to full professorships
at the Cincinnati-School of He-
brew Union College-Jewish In-
stitute of Religion. Dr. Rivkin
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brew language and literature.

establishing in Israel.

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, May 15, 1953

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9ategoiteut '4

author of the controversial law,
author-.of
joined with Sen. Watkins 'in
sharply disagreeing with Eisen-
hower on objections to the Act.
Walter said the President has
"joined the army of critics who
have failed to read the Act they
criticize."

20

BILTMORE HOTEL

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Con- howees request for legislation "plastic continuity," which he
gressional leaders gavea cold to correct injustices in the Mc- describes as his lifelong aim.
reCeption to President Eisen-; Carran-Walter Immigration Act.
It appears that there is no Name Two Professors
chance of securing • any revision
during this session of Congress. At Reform Seminary
Sen. Arthur V. Watkins, chair-
man of the Immigration Sub-
committee which received the
"Where Vacation Dreams
President's plea for considera-
Come True"
tion of liberalizing immigration
SOUTH HAVEN'S FINEST
changes, said he has no present
RESORT
plans to schedule hearings. "It
OPENS JUNE 7
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from $R 50 Per Day
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%P.
only been . in operation two or
Including room-3 superb mealSA,
three months," he stated.
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peal.
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Phil Silvers comments "when-
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