President Joins in Dedicating Temple DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-3 Friday, May 13, 1955 Continued from Page 1 country what it is, to pay his respects to that faith and to the event and to the people who have made it possible.” The President's talk was the fourth occasion that Pres- ident of the United States has played a role in the history of the congregation. .President Franklin Pierce signed its charter, the only one granted by Congress to a Jewish con- gregation. President William McKinley laid the cornerstone for the former temple. President Harry S. Truman laid the cornerstone for the present building. The religious service of dedication took place before the President spoke. Afterwards greetings were extended by national Jewish leaders. The dedication climaxed the congregation's observance of the American Jewish Ter- centenary. (In New York, the American Jewish Tercentenary Committee revealed that Dr. Wayne C. Grover, Archivist of the United States, had predicated that current explora- tion of documents in the National Archives "will result in the location of a truly significant body of manuscripts re- flecting the rich and varied contributions of American Jews to our national history." Plight of N. African Jewry Remains Acute In spite of the Aliyah program in North Africa, whereby the Jewish Agency sends about 30.000 Jews to Israel each year, the normal population rise in these countries offsets this emi 2. gration and con- , ditions remain acute in the lands of Moroc- co, Tunis and Algiers, Rabbi Benjamin Goro- detzky, personal; representative of the Lubavitcher Rabbi — Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson — stated upon hisRab. Gorodetzky arrival in New York, this week. Rabbi Gorodetzky lauded the work of the Joint DiStribution Committee, paying especial tri- bute to Moses Beckelman, Euro- pean head of the JDC, and urged continued assistance to North African Jewry. The • Lubavitcher program in North Africa embraces 74 schools with over 4,000 children who are taught elementary and vocation- al subjects. Publications in French and Hebrew, specifically designed for these backward countries, have been printed by the Lubavitcher Overseas Divi- sion. Aided largely by the JDC, the Lubavitcher education program has successfully systematized the educational planning in North Africa and has advanced it. from its previous shocking level. COME . I . SEE ... RIDE The Beautiful BUICK 4 DOOR HARDTOP The Only One In its Price Class! -For The BEST DEAL SEE 'CHARLES WEINSTOCK (27th Year with Buick) At BUICK'S RETAIL STORE 6164 CASS AVE. Near G.M. Bldg. TR. 5-9700 Sign Oil Pact with USSR, But Israel Keeps Drilling JERUSALEM, (JTA) An agreement increasing Israel's oil purchases from the Soviet Union from 200,000 tons to 370,- 000 tons has been signed by Ambassador Joseph Avidar, the first such talks to be undertaken by him since his recent ap- pointment to the Moscow Em- bassy post. The most favorable oil drilling to date in Israel is located near Beersheba, on the site of the Vacation Bound? Enjoy tele-viewing during those long stay- at-home evenings that may occasionally occur during even the most actively planned vaca- tions. For those of us confined to our rooms or cabin because of a "sitter" problem . . . television will help the evening hours slip by quickly and pleasantly. 57 World Jewish Communities Greet American Jewry on Its Tercentenary Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News NEW YORK—American Jewry, which has become the leading Jewish community in the world outside of Israel, must face in- escapable responsibility of mak- ing "main decisions for the future development and destiny of the Jewish people as a whole," Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, declared here Tuesday at a reception. The event, attended by more than 150 prominent civic lead- ers, was sponsored by the World Jewish Congress as a tribute to the American Jewish community on its Tercentenary anniversary. A highlight of the program was the presentation by Dr. Is- rael Goldstein, chairman of the Western Hemisphere Executive of WJ Congress to Ralph E. Samuel, chairinan of the Ter- centenary committee, of two bound volumes containing con- gratulatory messages to the American Jewish community from Jewish communities in 57 countries throughout the globe. Greetings written in a dozen different languages by organiza- tions and communities affiliated with WJCongress came from such far off areas as India, Fin- land, Rhodesia, Malta, Japan, and Ecuador. In his remarks at the recep- tion, Dr. Goldmann said, "Amer- ican Jewry has, during the last two decades, become the lead- ing. Jewish community in the world. It's life and development , will set the tune of Jewish life everywhere. After the disap- pearance of the largest part of European Jewry it is natural that the hegemony of Jewish life and leadership has passed to the community of the United States of America. This imposes great obligations on American Jewry and creates responsibili- ties which this community has not yet begun • to discharge fully." Mapai Scores Win In Histadrut Vote JERUSALEM,' (JTA) — T h results of the Histadrut elections revealed a tremendous victory for the Mapai, the Israel Labor Party. Of the 500,000 members of Histadrut, Israel's Federation of Labor, 75 per cent participat- ed in the elections. . Of the total votes cast, the Mapai received 60 percent, com- pared. with 57 percent received in the last election. The L'Ach- dut Avodah group received 16 percent and the Mapam secured 12, percent. In the last elections these two groups received together, on the united Mapam list, 34 percent of the total vote. The Communists received four percent which is one-half percent more than in the last elections. T h e Progressives, known as Haoved Hazioni, and the Gen- eral Zionist laborites each re- ceived two-and-a-half percent of the total vote. The religious laborites received an even small- er fraction of the votes cast. 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