Sam Snead in Golf
Tournament Here for
Israel Bond Drive
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MADE EASY
Hebrew As I t Is Spoken in Israel Today
By SHUSHANNAH SPECTOR and Rabbi JOSEPH ZEITLIN
Editor's Note: Beginning with this issue, we are pleased
to begin this special American Jewish Press series as easy
lessons for self-study of Hebrew. Miss Spector, the author,
with whom we have made a special arrangement for the
republication of her book, points out properly that this is a
"short cut to Hebrew." This first lesson explains the Hebrew
letters and offers their English equivalents. The Sefardic
pronunciation is used in these lessons. The complete book,
"Hebrew Made Easy,"' is available from Miss Shushannah
Spector, 904 S. Miami Ave., Miami, Fla., at $1.50 a copy.
HEBREW LETTERS
Hebrew
Letter
English
Equivalent
Note
Name
(Silent) (') ALEF
BET
VET
The letter K (Alef) is si-
lent. It has no equivalent
sound in English. It is usu-
ally merged with the ac-
companying vowel sound.
It is designated in English
by (') or by dieresis (..) e. g.
`Me'ir or Mein In our text
(Alef) will be noted by
sign (') and not by a letter.
For example 11*$ will be
written 'en,
GIMMEL G (as in good)
1
D
DALET
H (as in
Hat)
HE'
V
VAV
Z (as in
Zeal)
ZA'YIN
Note difference in sound
between 1 and Y.
HET
I:I as in Hanukah (hard b—
note dot under h means
hard h. 1:1=ch as in Pesach.)
T
T ET
T—Note dot under T in
transcribing.
Y or I
YUD
Y (as in yes).
K
KAF
CH
CHAF
(as in
Hann._
kah)
z
3
Note the difference in
and 11
sound between
which appears three letters
later.
n
Pronounced as Ch in Chan-
ukah, Bach; so the Israelis.
-L-when written at end
of word.
L
LAMED
M
MEM
So written when used at
end of word.
N
NUN
I
S
SAMECH
(Silent) (') PAY IN
P
PE'
F
FE'
Z (as in
Matzah)
I
ZADEI
So written when used at
end of word,
Silent.
9 So written when used at
end of word.
Note dot under Z in trans-
cribing. Pronounced as TS
in Yiddish word Matsah or
in English Tsetse fly
So written when used at
end of word.
I
KOF
RESH
SH
SHIN
Dot under K. Note differ-
ence. between and
when transcribed into Eng-
lish,
p
SIN
t1
T
TAV
T
TAV
20—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 7, 1953
Sam Snead, nationally-fam-
ous golf professional from
Green-Briar Country Club, West
Virginia, will participate in an
18-hole tournament at Knoll-
wood Country Club in Birming-
ham, Aug. 18, in behalf of the
Israel bond drive.
He will compete with the golf
champions from Knollwood, Tam
O'Shanter and Franklin Hills
Country Clubs, it was announced
by Irving R. Warner, assistant
manager of the Detroit bond
office.
Snead, runner-up to Ben Ho-
gan in the 1953 National Open
Golf Tournament, will allow
equalizing handicaps to the local
competitors for top honors.
Admission to witness the special
tournament is by cash purchase
of a $500 Israel bond. The gal-
lery, limited to 100 persons, will
see the tee-off at 2 p.m.
Lou Luckoff and Louis Berry
have been selected co-chairmen
of the golf committee. Assisting
them are Joseph Holtzman, El-
wood Kukes, Bernard Siegel,
George Tann. Also on the tour-
nament committee are Israel
Davidson, James Ellmann, Paul
Zuckerman • and • John - Isaacs,
president of Knollwood.
Detroiters in Israel Learn
Importance of Bond Funds
Catholics, Protestants
Oppose Intermarriage
NEW YORK, (JTA) — An
overwhelming majority of Cath-
olics and Protestants polled in
an independent survey, initiated
by the magazine Catholic Digest
in an attempt to find areas of
conflict and guides to greater
tolerance, is opposed to inter-
marriage with Jews, according
to survey results released to
date. Figures show that 75 per-
cent of the Protestants polled
and 72 percent of the Catholics
opposed intermarriage.
Nineteen percent of the Cath-
olics queried and 33 per cent of
the Protestants were opposed to
Jews as next-door neighbors. A
total of 21 percent of the Cath-
olics and 25 percent of the Pro-
testants admitted against
Jews, while 61 percent of • the
Protestants said they would not
vote for a Jew for President.
In addition, 35 percent of the
Protestants responding to the
questionnaire and 33 percent of
the Catholics believe that Jews
are too ambitious for power.
Another 48 percent of the Cath-
olics and 46 percent of the Pro-
testants think Jews are too
clannish.
Threat to Bomb Israel
Consulate Proves Hoax
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Thirty
New York policemen searched
the Israel Consulate here for
nearly an hour after an anony-
mous telephone caller threat-.
ened to "brow up" the building.
No bombs were found, and
the 50 employees of the Con-
sulate who had been evacuated
returned to their desks.
Police officials gave two ver-
sions of the threat. One was:
"This is underground America.
Your consulate will be blown up
within an hour." The second
was: "This is the American
branch 'of the religious under-
ground of Israel. You're in dan-
ger. Your place will be blown
up within the hour."
Mexican Philanthropist
Wills Property to JNF
MEXICO CITY, (JTA)—Oscar
Cohen, a philanthropist and
one-time textile magnate in
Lodz, Poland, who has resided
at the Mexican resort town of
Cuernavaca, near here, for many
years, has announced that he is
giving his villa there and other
real estate to the Jewish Na-
tional Fund as a "living legacy."
The parents of 16 Mexican
chalutzim in the Hashomer Hat-
zair settlement of Magidu have
formed a committee to aid in
the reconstruction of the settle-
ment which was damaged by
fire recently. Dr. Adolfo Fast-
licht, honorary Israel consul, is
chairman of the committee.
DANIEL ELAZAR, of 16889 Pinehurst (left), and Miss LILLIAN
TRON, of 3334 Sturtevant, are two Detroiters now in Israel on a
Jewish Agency-sponsored study course. Here, JACOB RYCUS,
director of the Israel office of State of Israel Bonds, meets the
two young people. While in the Jewish state, Mr. Elazar and Miss
Tron, part of a contingent of 150 American and Canadian college
students, learned of Israel's development, no small part of which
has been aided by bond drive funds. They sent messages from
Israel urging Detroit Jews to increase contributions to the bond
drive.
American 'Zionists Join Nation
In Mourning Sen. Taft's Death
.
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
American Zionist Council, rep-
resenting all Zionist groups in
the United States, joined the
American nation in mourning
the death of Senator Robert A.
Taft who was considered a great
friend of the Zionist movement.
A statement issued by Louis
Lipsky, chairman of the Coun-
cil, says:
"Senator Taft was one of the
early advocates of the restora-
tion of Palestine as the Jewish
National Home. He believed
that he was loyal to American
ideals in favoring the creation
of an era of freedom for the
long oppressed Jewish people in
the Promised Land. He never
wavered from his faith in the
justice of that cause.
"He belitved that interna-
tional covenants should be kept
and therefore voiced his protest
against the Palestine Wh:te
Paper of 1939, which he regard-
ed as a breach of the Mandate
and of the Balfour Declaration.
"He was one of the most
faithful leaders in American
political life in support of the
Jewish cause after World War
II, and greatly aided in the
creation of the State of Israel
and in support thereafter of all
American efforts to aid Israel
to absorb the tens of thousands
of refugees coming from all
parts of the world and in con-
solidating the economy of the
new State.
"The bi-partisan support of
American policy on Israel was
due in large measure to his
consistent and courageous ad-•
Re-Appoint Eliashiv
Envoy to Russia
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Israel Foreign Office an-
nounced the re-appointment
of Shmuel Eliashiv as Min-
ister to the Soviet Union. The
name of the Soviet envoy to
Israel will be announced
within a few days. It is un-
derstood that the Israel Le-
gation in Moscow will be re-
opened within a few weeks.
vocacy of fair dealing toward
the State' of Israel and its dif-
ficult problems. The Jewish pei-
ple will long remember him as
a faithful friend and as a
statesman of high integrity."
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver said
in a statement : "I shall forev er
be grateful for the privilege of
having known him as a friend
and for having received from
him the wisest of counsel and
the greatest of help in' the work
of establishing the State of Is-
rael, a cause which appealed so
greatly to his fine sense of his-
toric justice. The Jewish Peo-
ple will forever treasure his
memory. It is with profound
sorrow that I see the passing of
a great and good man who will
be sorely missed in these criti •
cal times."
Service Group Stag
Day at Knollwood
Set for August 25
The fourth annual Detroit
Service Grpup Stag Day — the
day set aside for relaxation and
celebration of the 1953 Allied
Campaign achievements — will
be held Tuesday, Aug. 25, at
Knollwood Country Club, Milton
K. Mahler, Service Group presi-
dent, announced.
This day of reunion for cam-
paign workers will begin at 10
a.m. and will include indoor and
outdoor activities.
Already planned for the event
are golf, cards, prizes, dinner at
7 p.m. and an evening of fun
and entertainment.
Arrangements with the Club
for Stag Day were made by
Mahler and Irving W. Blumberg,
Service Group, vice-president.
Goodfellow Committee
Members Announced
Among committee members
announced for the Goodfellow
Fund are:
Football committee, L a r r y
Michelson, Alex Schreiber, Sam-
uel W. Madden, Jule Schubot;
committee chairmen, Nathaniel
H. Goldstick and Herman Lieb-
erman,