30 Jewish Students Take Part in 'Living Arabic' Experiment On the Record By NATHAN ZIPRIN (Copyright, 1955, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate) LET THEM DAVEN . . I am generally reluctant to inject myself into a religious d,isputation„but it a ems to me the Israeli rabbinate was trodding an erroneous path when it put its foot down against Reform "davening" by students in the library of the jerusalem Archaeological School, sponsored by the Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of America. The way to, "tshuveh," repentance, it seems, is through "davening" of any kind rather than alienation from shul. Ideological opposition to Reform Judaism loses its deeper significance when it sacrifices the great principle of tolerance. A CORRECTION . . . Homer Bigart in the New York Times recently said of Ben-Gurion than he gives the impression of an Old Testament patriarch who nevertheless refuses to turn cheek to enemy. Coming from such an excellent journalist as Bigart, the clearly unintentional mistake was evidently due more to haste of pen than lack of awareness that the turn-your-other- cheek-to-your-enemy doctrine, so rarely observed by our Chris- tian friends, derives from the New Testament. QUESTION AND ANSWER . . . The understandable effort of Orthodox synagogues to derive pecuniary gains from bar- mitzvah observances that have become so colorful a tradition in the Jewish community of America raises a number of seemingly unanswerable questions. Since to induce sin is as sinful as sin itself, the question arises about the religious propriety of Ortho- dox synagogues in approving Sabbath bar-mitzvah celebrations whose attendance entails desecration of the Sabbath by guests who must travel to shul from distant places. One rabbi with whom I discussed this quandary said the synagogues were acting on the wholly proper assumption that no Jew desecrated the Sabbath for a bar-mitzvah. A more realistic and perhaps more candid reply was recently given by a reader in a Yiddish news- paper when he declared in a letter to the editor that "the syna- gogue is not responsible for what the worshippers do on the outside" since it is a "democratic institution and not a detective agency." Israel Bonds Aid Textile Industry group of 30 Jewish boys and girls, all of whom are majoring in Oriental studies in Israeli secondary schools, are spending part of their summer vacation in purely Arab environments in northern Israel. The project, in which the students are "living Arabic," is sponsored by the Prime Minister's Office Advisor on Arab Affairs and is headed by Y. M. Kister, veteran Arabic teacher. Boys in the group are spend- ing three weeks with their Scientist Says Coffee Can Grow in Israel REHOVOT, (JTA)—Dr. Yaa- kov Pelleg, director of the Agri- cultural Research Station here, told newsmen last week that coffee can be grown in Israel. And he proved the point by serving them a cup of coffee brewed from local beans. He added that much remained to be done in the experimental stage, , including the determina- tion of the best growing -areas and which types of beans best suited Israel's coffee-drinking public. But he • said he had no doubt that enough of the beans can be grown to satisfy the home market and underscored the sig- nificance of that statement by noting the world market price . of caffee—$1,300 per ton. Research on Israel's coffee- growing potential has been car- ried out here for ten years by Dr. Israel Gindel of the station's staff . He has tried out about These cotton loom workers 50 different varieties of coffee adjust a new piece of equip- beans and has narrowed the ment at Kitan Ltd., a leading range to 16 varieties best suited Israeli textile mill, which was to local growing. He added that built and is being enlarged a final decision on where, which with the financial assistance and how to grow coffee in Israel of State of Israel Bond funds. will be taken after completion Kitan is one of 16 textile mills of experiments on the station's which receive Israel Develop- ten-dunam coffee plot here. ment Bond capital . Israeli textiles account for more than $65,000,000 in total gross pro- duction • annually, including $5,000,000 for exports. Much of the cotton, flax and wool used by Israel's textile indus- try is grown and processed in Israel. Be `Sure to Vote On Primary Day, Tuesday, Aug. 7 "A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every dis- trict—all studied and appreciated as they merit—are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty." — Benjamin Franklin Voting is the right that guarantees all other rights. Let nothing come between you and your vote this year. Study the candidates, and `Jewish Consciousness ' Strong iti Red Lands, LONDON, (JTA) — Four American rabbis who have just completed a tour of the Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslo- vakia found that there was strong "Jewish consciousness" among Jews in these countries despite prohibitions or restric- tions on the teaching of the Jewish religion in schools or classes. The rabbis, members of a delegation of the New York Board of Rabbis, said here that the general facilities for the promotion of Jewish religion and cultural life are meagre in the Communist countries. They reported that their visit to the larger Jewish centers had been greatly appreciated and that if similar visits from other Jewish communities could be arranged the Jews of the Com- munist countries would un- doubtedly welcome them. The four stopped -off in Lon- don to meet with Barnett Dan- ner, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and other Board leaders as well as with Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie and the spiritual leader of the Sephardic community. The four are: Rabbis Harold H. Gordon, Jacob C. Grossman, Joseph Miller and Israel Mow- showitz . Mexico's First Minister to Work for Trade Increase TEL, AVIV, . (JTA)—Mexico's first Minister to Israel, Gustavo Ortiz Hernan, arrived here by air. He said that his main task will be to increase Mexican- Israel trade. He noted that his country was in a position to ex- port raw materials, coffee, sugar and rice, while Israel could ex- port chemical fertilizers and optical instruments. during the day as office boys and apprentices in Arab work- shops and brushing up on their language studies in the evening. The girls, under the direction of Miss Nuzha Darwich, head of Washingtin, D.C. — Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth paid high tribute to the "generosity, patience and resolution" of the Jewish people as she officially opened a handsome new build- ing supported and maintained by the Bnai Brith Women for the use of Jewish children and girls. The institution, located in the Stepney area of L o n d o n, is called the Alice Model Nur- sery and Jewish Girls Residen- tial Club. The building cost $140,000, according to word re- ceived here at Bnai Brith head- quarters. During the same week the centenary of Sigmund Freud's birth was celebrated in Lodon at a gathering in Woburn House sponsored by the First Lodge of England and the Leo Baeck Lodge and Chapter. Among those present were Freud's daughter, Anna; son, Ernst; and other members of the Freud family. hear what they have to say. Talk over the issues. Then be sure you're Honor Veteran Zionist registered, so you can walk up to that voting booth with confidence JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) — an Election Day—and vote as a The veteran South African Zi- free American! onist leader Nicolai Kirschner' sion of .his 70th 'birthd-45% ' Department, leave Haifa every morning for the Druze villages of Isfiyah and Dalait Hacarmel, where they help Arab women in their housework and also teach Hebrew to the women. Dr, Goldberg's School Now Enrolling for the Sept. 1956 Term Nursery Kindergarten Grades 1 - 3 State-Approved. Licensed Teachers. Individualized Attention. W. A. Goldberg, Ph.D., Director 19451 Birwood Ave., Detroit 21, UN 4-5942 Elect ARTHUR W. KOLLIN for Oakland County PROSECUTOR DEMOCRAT • • • • Former Assistant Prosecutor Former Member UAW-CIO *Vete ra n Lawyer • Member Temple Beth Jacob Elect ... MYRON H. VIDGE Drain Commissioner Democratic Ticket Ballot No. 284 • Practicing Attorney Wayne County, 32 Years Preferred Candidate, Detroit Citizens' League "The Man for You" Richard C. COLBY LEGISLATURE 6th District Republican — 16th Ward • Native Detroiter • War Veteran Queen Mother Dedicates Bnai Brith Building Published as a public service in co- was honored here on the operation with The Advertising Council . JERUSALEM, (JTA). — .A teacher. in Nazareth, working the Histadrut's • Arab Women's occa- CONGRESSMAN DIGGS ENDORSED BY: AFL-CIO; Building Tradesman; Foreign Language, Veterans, Civic, Business and Religious Organizations