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Editors Ask Eisenhower, State Dept.
ADL
Initiates
Act in Defense of Egyptian Jewry
Poster Project
. NEW ORLEANS—The execu- knowledge of all facts on the
Beginning this Sunday and
tive committee of the American Middle East situation, so that
continuing through the end
Association of English-Jewish they should be prepared to re-
of the year, 25,000 U. S. mail
Newspapers, in session here, at ply to attacks that may be
trucks
will carry a poster
the St. Charles Hotel, for three launched upon Israel and world
calling attention to the Gov-
days during the past week-end, Jewry by Arab propagandists
ernment's program of creat-
adopted an urgent plea to Pres- and anti-Semites.
ing equal job opportunities
ident Eisenhower and the State A decision was reached at the
for all citizens.
Department, requesting action meeting to hold the next na-
The poster project was in-
by our Government to protect, tional annual convention • in
itiated by the Anti-Defama-
the Jews of Egypt against the New York, in June. At that
tion League of Bnai Brith
policy inaugurated by the Nas- time, a symposium on American
which worked with the Presi-
ser regime aiming at.expropriat- Jewish problems will be con-
dent's Committee on Govern-
ing their possessions and at ducted by national leaders.
ment Contracts.
their expulsion from their Jacques Back, editor-publisher
Announcement of the post-
homes. of the Observer, of Nashville,
er, which bears an illustra-
The editors and publishers Tenn., was named chairman of
tion of Joe Palooka and four
pleaded with the President and the committee on arrangements.
citizens seeking equal job
Abraham Slabot, editor-pub-
the State Department to act,
privileges, was made by
through our Government's in- lisher of the Jewish Ledger,
Meyer W. Leib, local chair-
fluence as well as through the New Orleans, president of the
man of the ADL committee
United Nations, f o r speedy association, announced that at
of the Greater Detroit Bnai
peace efforts to effect direct the convention a presentation
Brith Council.
will
be
made
of
awards
to
news-
Arab-Israel negotiations in the
papers selected for their out-
Middle East.
Similar appeals were sent on standing editorial achievements
behalf of English-Jewish editors during 1956.
Committees selected at the By N. E. ARONSTAM, M.D.
and publishers to the UN and to
t h e American delegation at meeting for future association The Day enshrouded by the
action, prior to the convention,
the UN.
chrysalis of the Night
include Leo Frisch, Minneapolis- Wafts on its wings another
The AAEJN executive com- St. Paul Jewish World; Philip
mittee sent an urgent appeal to Slomovitz, Detroit Jewish News; Light nascent day.
and Shadow, Day and
all leading national Jewish or- Jack Fishbein, Chicago Sentinel;
Night
ganizations, urging the forma- Jimmy Wisch, Texas Jevaish
ton of seminars throughout the Post, Ft. Worth; Adolph Rosen- Are but one, just two facets
country by means of which berg, Southern Israelite, At- To declare the Unity of God.
American Jews should acquire lanta, Ga.
'Israel Obtains Oil for Country's Needs
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel's
Delek Oil Company has con-
chided agreements to acquire
enough oil to meet the coun-
try's needs, it was announced
here.
The oil, to be carried in the
three vessels of Israel's tanker
"fleet" will come partly from
Mobiloil and partly from Shell.
Both companies now operate in
Israel. Shell will refine and sell
33 per cent of the total, Mobil-
oil will handle 20 per cent and
the remainder will be Derek's
share for sale on the Israel
market.
The Palestine Electric Corn-
Light and Shadow
Detroiter Acclaims Israel HU Library
at State Annual - Meet of Librarians
In a talk before the annual accustomed to piecing together
convention of the Michigan the debris of catastrophe, 20,000
Library Association, held in volumes considered irreplace-
Muskegon, Mich., Avram Rosen- able were brought to the Israeli
thal, Detroit librarian, acclaim- sector." An abandoned Arab
ed Israel's Hebrew University high school was rented for li-
Library. For the past year, brary operations. Then, when
Rosenthal was on the staff of the Hebrew University moved,
the Israeli institution.
the library acquired its vacated
"Israel's librarians have space. Recently, a - cornerstone
brought honor and glory to the was laid for a new library on
entire academic world," Rosen- the Hebrew University campus.
thal declared. He described the
The present library has multi-
30-year-old institution as the lingual catalogues, devoted to
library of the world Jewish com- separate Hebrew, Arabic and
munity. - It is also the national Cyrillic alphabets. Rosenthal
library of the State of Israel.
praised the library staff for its
The library is formally known skill in speaking and writing
as the Jewish National and He- the many languages.
Aniong prime library aims is
brew Library and contains about
One million volumes. About the one to "integrate the new
one - and - a - half million, how- and diverse immigrants into the
evqr, are inaccessible because of cultural life of its nation."
their Mt. Scopus location, in an
"The similarity of their
aims to ours warrants our
Arab-occupied zone.
Rosenthal was one of the continued support and coop-
• library's representatives who eration with Israeli librari-
ans," Rosenthal told the
periodically check the order of Michigan
convention.
the Mt. Scopus branch.
Rosenthal
En route he became one of ed Hebrew and his wife learn-
at a Kibbutz on the
the few Americans to traverse
the Old City of Jerusalem, in Jordanian border. In . exchange
the Arab sector. A 20-minute for morning manual labor, he
ride to the destination seemed received afternoon lessons from
much longer in a darkened government-supplied teachers.
armored car in which passen- While in Israel, he was also a
gers were somehow afraid to flutist with the orchestra of the
Voice of Israel, national radio
speak.
network.
He likened the condition of
the Scopus library to that of
Pompei: both places show no Dr. W. F. Albright to be
forewarning of impending dis- Seminary Visiting Prof.
, aster. At the library, surround-
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Dr. Wil-
ed by Arabs in 1948, catalog liam F. Albright, the distin-
ea2(1s still lay partly sorted on
orientalist, professor of
a table. A pad with unfinished guished
Semitic languages at Johns
notations remains near an open Hopkins University since 1929,
book.
and director of
"But," explained Rosenthal,
num e r ous
"descended from a people long
arche o 1 o gical
expeditions i n
the Middle East,
Advise Earlier
will be Louis
Mailings Holiday
M. Rabinowitz
Because of the rush to mail
Visiting Pro-
cards - and packages for the
fessor of Bibli-
Christmas holiday, regular
cal History at
mail is sometimes delayed.
the Jewish
The Jewish News cannot be
Theo 1 o g ical
Dr. Albright Seminary of
responsible for news copy
America for the years.1957-1959,
reaching our offices after the
it was announced by Dr. Louis
12 noon, Monday deadline.
Finkelstein, Seminary Chancel-
We advise that articles for
lor.
publication be submitted a
Dr. Albright's announcement
full day sooner than usual or
of acceptance comes from Tur-
that they be brought to our
key, where he is working under
offices at 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.
the auspices of the State De-
All copy reaching us after
deadline will be used a week
partment to build good rela-
tions with Turkish scholars, and
later, if still timely, other-
wise the items will be dis-
visit as much of the country
carded.
and its archaelogical remains as
possible.
pany, Israel's largest consumer,
is currently shopping around
for an independent source for
the oil it needs: The Soviet
abrogation of the contract to
provide Israel with oil will not
be felt until later, Israeli circles
say.
Meanwhile, Moshe Carmel,
Minister for Transport, has told
the public there is no need for
a panic and that oil supplies are
nearly adequate. Restriction in
the use of electric power and
transportation were introduced
to save as much oil as possible,
he said.
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