NEW YORK — A group of
top-ranking leaders of the
Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds — central
body of Jewish communities in
America—will visit Israel this
summer for two-way consul-
tations with Israeli officials
on a variety of topics of mutual
concern, it was announced
Tuesday by Herbert Abeles,
Council president and leader
of the group.
It will be the first such
visit by key community leaders
under Council auspices, he
said.
Conferences will begin in
Jerusalem on Aug. 7, and will
continue through Aug. 25. The
bulk of the three-week period
will be spent in Jerusalem.
However, the schedule also pro-
vides for trips to Tel Aviv and
the north with several field
trips - for observation of immi-
grant absorption and other
programs of special interest
to the community leaders.
Abeles declared the group
would attempt to effect two-
- way exchanges of information
with the Israeli leaders. The
Council leaders will interpret
the development and organiza-
tion of American Jewish com-
munities to the Israelis and
will seek to obtain from them
greater understanding of the
needs as well as the develop-
ments in Israel.
The group has purposely
been kept small, lie explained,
to assure intimate contact with
key officials responsible for
the use of funds provided by
United Jewish Community Cam-
paigns.
The project has met with
warm response from Israeli
officials, including Prim e
Minister David Ben-Gurion,
who has expressed satisfaction
with the visit in a letter to
Abeles.
Current plans call for the
group to convene at the King
David Hotel in Jerusalem.
Topics to be discussed include:
The role of the Jewish Agency,
Israel's economic integration
of immigrants, agricultural de-

the issue is concerned with He- Goldberg, author of "On the
brew rather than Yiddish poet- Flowering."
This issue is the second of a
ry. Henry Rago's introductory
note describes the poets includ- series of special issues devoted
to foreign poetry. The most re-
ed as those "whose work began cent was the Japanese issue, of
to come out after the turn of May 1956, which exhausted the
the century, and whose poetry largest printing ever under-
either began or grew with the taken in the history of the
sense of Palestine as a place magazine and is now a collec-
and a destiny." The issue begins tors' item. The Israeli issue has
with Yakov Cohen, who was had even larger printing, in re-
born in Poland in 1881 and who sponse to what the editors de-
has lived in Israel since 1932. scribe as considerable excite-
It goes on to Yakov Fichman, ment in anticipation of it, both
born in Russia in 1881 and in America and in Israel.
resident in Israel since 1925,
The Israeli number will sell
the late Yehuda Karni, born in at the same 50c-a-copy price as
1884, who came to Israel in 1921 the regular monthly issues.
and died in 1940, and the late
David Shimoni, born in 1886, Canadian Jews Open
who made Israel his home from
1920 until his death last year. Campaign for Bar-Ilan.
A one-year campaign to raise
The issue includes seventeen
other poets. It ends with a se- $200,000 for faculty residences
lection of the younger writers. on the campus of Bar-Ilan Uni-
The youngest is a poet born in versity in Israel was initiated
Brooklyn, T. Carmi. He writes at a dinner of the Canadian
in Hebrew and has lived in Friends of the University in
Israel for the past sixteen years. Montreal.
The first contribution, $25,000
Among the best-known poets
represented are Nathan Alter- for the construction of two
year JDC appropriated $27, 1 man, author of "The Ten homes, was made by Maurice
398,000 for itis operations in Plagues of Europe," and Leah Pollack, of Montreal.
three major areas, Israel, Mos-
lem countries and Europe.
Permanent
Although hundreds of thou-
sands of Jews uprooted by
Protection
Zetc-e
Nazism and war have managed
to resume their normal lives,"
Properly
the JDC leader declares that
Planned
"it is for the conscience of the
world to note: there are still
refugees. Men, women and
HOWARD SAVIN
children are still crossing the
borders."
Off. BR 3-5862
Res. UN 4-7225
For 1958, JDC has adopted
a budget of $28,591,000 for aid
SUN LIFE OF CANADA
to more than 200,000 needy
Jews overseas. The financial
mainstay of JDC's overseas
rehabilitation and reconstruc-
tion programs, the report notes,
continues to be funds provided
through the nationwide cam-
paigns of the United Jewish
Appeal.

Poetry Magazine will publish
a special issue on July 3 de.
voted to contemporary Israeli
poetry. The issue coincides
with the tenth anniversary of
the State of Israel.
Henry Rago, editor of Poetry,
prepared this issue in consulta•
tion with Simon Halkin, the
distinguished poet and critic,
now at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem. Most of the trans-
lations are by Ruth Finer
Mintz, a young American poet
now on a fellowship in Israel,
and the others are by Margalit
Benaya, Meir Mindlin, Batyah
Greenberg, Robert Friend and
Sholom J. Kahn.
The issue consists of Israeli
verse in translation with a small
prose section presenting an
essay on the younger Israeli
poets and several pages of notes
on the contributors.
The editors emphasize that

JDC Provides Aid to 195,000 Jews
in 1957; Expect Increase This Year

In 1957, some 195,000 men,
women and children received
the aid of the Joint Distribution
Committee.
Among this group were thou-
sands of Jewish migrants from
Hungary, Egypt, Poland, North
Africa and elsewhere who were
"at one time or another the
direct concern of JDC, which
had to feed, clothe and shelter
them and provide medical care
and comfort."
The 1957 JDC annual report,
issued this week, reveals that
last year, following assurances
by Polish authorities that
"JDC would be able to work
without interference," the over-
seas welfare agency initiated an
assistance program on behalf
of thousands of Jewish repatri-
ates from Russia.
Turning to North Africa, the
summary cites the "continuing
insecurity" and "worsening ec-
onomic position" of Jews in the
area, and reports that "many of
them have come to consider
emigration as the only solution
to their problems.
Moses A. Leavitt, JDC execu-
tive vice-chairman, in a section
of the annual report titled
JERUSALEM (JTA) —Israel
"1957: There Are Still Refu- sources asserted that "political
gees," declares that in the past considerations, not legal prin-
ciples" were the determining
factors in the rejection by a
Soviet arbitration court last
Thursday of Israel's claims for
$2,400,000 in damages for the
unilateral Soviet cancellation
of an oil contract during the
Suez crisis.
The Israel experts said that
all persons and countries con-
ducting trade negotiations with
the Soviets would be wise to
keep. in mind Israel's experi-
ence. They added that the tri-
Made by
bunal's action "gives the lie"
to Soviet R.ussion claims of a
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honor of Israel's 1 0th Anniversary.
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damage suit said the contract
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velopment relations between
Israel and American Jewish
communities, American aid to
Israel, fund-raising, health and
welfare developments, Joint
Distribution Committee, Mal-
ben, Housing and clearing of
Maabarot, vocational training
and Yeshivot. The schedule will
conclude with an evaluation
session.
The Council leaders will also
make special visits to several
installations for on-the-spot
studies of various aspects of
the Jewish Agency's agricul-
tural and settlement programs.
There will be visits to Malben
facilities and discussions with
JDC leaders on the overall JDC
program and Israel's welfare
development.

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