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NEW _YORK, (JTA) — A. B_ e lay and rabbinical leader-
leader-
ship of Reform Judaism Oct. 22
Keeper of Israel Polinsky, of Duluth, Minn.., and in
New York.
J. Silberman, of Scars-
National Archives Marvin
dale, N. Y:, have been named
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Descendants of two "immigrant" families are shown as they
plant a "unity tree" at the base of the Statue of Liberty in
New York Harbor to symbolize contributions of all ethnic
groups to the establishment and development of the United
States. The men are (left) A. B. KAPPLIN, director of Bnai
Brith's citizenship and civic affairs program, whose father
emigrated from Lithuania in the 1880's, and ALEXANDER
HAMILTON, a descendant of this country's first Secretary of
State. The ceremony opened a nationwide fund-raising drive
to establish a museum as a permanent shrine to America's •
millions of immigrants. Bnai Brith hag voted $5,000 to the

. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Dr.
Alexander Bein, director of the
Central Zionist Archives, has
been named National Keeper of
the Archives by Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion. The first to
hold the post, established under
the Archives Law of 1955, he
was nominated by the Supreme
Archives Council at its first
sitting.
Under the archives statute,
Dr. Bein's responsibility will in-
clude safeguarding historically
important files, letters and other
documents of Government Min-
istries and local authorities. He
will also have limited cowers
with respect to certain privately
owned material.
Dr. Bein was appointed di-
rector of the Zionist _Archives
last year, after having served
as its deputy director since
1936. He is the author of a
biography of Dr. Theodore
Herzl and of a history of the
Zionist colonization movement,
"The Return to the Soil."

ampaign.

'Gemiluth Hasadim'

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Hebrew Free Loan Society Follows
Tradition as 'Poor Man's 'Bank'

sum to start its good work as
By DR. HELEN HIRSCH
"If Thou lend money to my the living embodiment of
people, to the poor by thee Simon's great precept:
"Upon three things does
. .. ye shall not lay upon him
the existence of the world
(Exodus 22.24)
usury."
This is the story of a Biblical rest: the Torah, service of
precept faithfully followed for God and `gemiluth hasadim'."
All over the states societies
over half a century by a group
of devoted men who founded sprung up with the same pur-
an unique institution as the in- pose. and have served millions
strument to put into practice of their needy brethren. The
the ideal which they cherished. Hebrew Free Loan at 108
A strange, seething place was Second Avenue, New York City,
New York's lower East Side in founded in 1892, has raised its
1892—like no other spot in loan from $10 to a maximum of
$50-0.
America.
B
_ut there is yet another aspect
On the memorable night of
January, 1892, 11 . men raised to the story of the Hebrew Free
the meager $95 with which to Loan Societies, whose work the
help their countrymen in dis- U.S. Labor Department praised
tress. But how could. such aid as "noble in' its aims .and
be effective? • For inspiration, admirabie." There are records
they turned to the font of stating that these good societies
their religious spirit and found had helped millions of needy
the solution - in Deuteronomy people totalling the impressive
sum of over a hundred million
(15:7-8):
"If there be among thee dollars! And the societies' un-
needy men, anyone 'of thy shakable faith in, human honesty
brethren within thy gates in has been splendidly justified by
thy land which the Lord thy their records; losses have been
God giveth thee, thou shalt' negligible during the -past half
not .harden thy heart nor shut century totalling less than one
thy hand from thy needy per cent! This is an eloquent
brother; but thou - sh&,t open tribute to an ideal and to the
wide thy hand unto him and honesty of the people who were
thou shalt surely lend him helped.
Do not our sages aver that
, sufficient for his need which
he who "saves one - life shall be
his want requireth."
And did not Maimonides say regarded as if• he had saved
that the highest degree of the whole world?" The Hebrew
charity was "that of one who Free Loan Societies all over the
takes hold of him Who has be- United States boasting of out-
come impoverished and gives standing records of service in
him a gift or a, loan or who their individual' communities,
goes into partnership with him shine as a beacon of light of•
or finds work for him, in order unselfish- assistance, as a fore--
to strengthen his hand so that most example -of true Judaism
he be spared the necessity of and Americanism in a troubled
holding out his ' hand for world • of conflicts.
charity." • -
. No 'minutes have come down Public Administration Course
to us recording the memorable at Hebrew University
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Is-
meeting held that cold January
rael's
first special diploina
night, but the discussion and
final decision are known—there course in public administration
was dire • need for "gemiluth will get under way here during
basadim" (deeds of loving kind- the coming academic year at
' ness) at a time when pawnshops Eliezer Kaplan School of Eco-
and loan sharks were the des- nomics and 'Social Science of the
perate man's only help. There-, Hebrew University. The new
fore these 11 men decided to course, to be conducted with the
found a free loan society, an cooperation of the Israel Civil
institution of self-help, which Service Commission, will be
would make modest sums .avail- Open to civil servants and those
able to go a. longer way and already -holding baccalaureates
from the university. For the
reach more needy people.
Thus the Hebrew Free Loan former, the course will last two
was born in 1892 with a small years, and for the latter, one.

16 Immigrants Arrive
from Satellite Lands
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Sixteen
Jewish emigrants from the Sov-
iet Union and Romania arrived
here. In the group was a 19-
year-old girl from Lithuania,
Luba Gussaita, who survived
the Nazi occupation by being
secreted in a convent where she
has been placed by her grand-
mother and an aunt. The girl's
two relatives are now in Kib-
butz Affikim, where Luba was •
reunited with them.'

general chairman and associate
chairman, respectively, of the
1956-57 Combined Campaign for
American Reform Judaism.
The campaign is the national
fund-raising 'arm of the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions and. the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Re-
ligion. It will seek to raise $2,-
500,000 in the coming year for
the maintenance needs of these
institutions. It will be formally
inaugurated at a mobilization s of

ings to our beloved mother Bro-
chah, Parents-in-law, brothers
and their families, all relations
and friends, members Mishkan
Israel, Beth Aaron, Vis Israel,
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, and
Lublin, Members of the Detrbit
Vaad Hordbonnim and all the
creative organizations for Torah
and Israel. May the New Year
bring us all Peace, consolation,
full redemption to Jewry every-
where.
Wishing All a Happy and
Prosperous' New Year:

Rabbi and Mrs. Isaac
Stollman and Family

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