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Milwaukee Girl's Flag Technion Accepts
NCJW Presents Award Orthodox Union Again Sholem Aleichem Work
Translated into Polish
Blocks
Housing
Project
Design May Make Her Only 400 Freshmen
to 1947 Immigrant
VIENNA, (JTA) — A new
Affecting Williamsburg
A lecturer at Johns Hopkins
University has been named na-
tional "New American of the
Year," in a tribute by the
National Council of Jewish
Women to immigrants of this
decade.
Congressman Emanuel Celler
of Brooklyn, Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee of the
House of Representatives, pre-
sented the award to Dr. Sam-
uel Iwry of Baltimore, who was
selected from nationwide nom-
inees to symbolize the post-war
newcomers and their contribu-
tions to American communi-
ties:,
Dr. Iwry, the first scholar
to publish a paper on the Dead
Sea Scrolls, fled towards free-
dom for 12 years during which
he was captured and imprisoned
under three totalitarianisms-
first by the Nazis, from whom
he escaped, then by the Rus-
sians, and finally by the Japa-
nese. He arrived in Baltimore
in 1947, earned his doctorate
by study at night while teach-
ing at Baltimore Hebrew Col-
lege during the day, and was
appointed . to the . staff of the
Oriental Seminary at Johns
Hopkins.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Union of Orthodox Jewish Con-
gregations succeeded in block-.
ing a third proposal for a hous-
ing development which the or-
thodox group said might destroy
the Williamsburg section of
Brooklyn as a center of Jewish
religious and cultural life.
Opposition to the third Wil-
liamsburg site for a $10,000,000
state-aided development for 575
families was expressed by Rabbi
Samson R. Weiss, executive
vice-president of the Orthodox
Union. Previously, the Orthodox
Union had blocked an $8,400,000
project for 500 families and a
$13,200,000 development for 750
families in the area.
Czechoslovakia to Erect
Theodor Lessing Memorial
VIENNA (JTA) — Czechoslo-
vakian authorities have decided
to erect a memorial at Marien-
bad to Theodor Lessing, Ger-
man-Jewish philosopher, teacher
and writer, who was assassin-
ated by Nazi gunmen in that
town in 1933.
translation into Polish of Sho-
lem Aleichems famous "Tevya
the Dairyman" will be pub-
lished by a government pub-
lishing house in Poland, ac-
cording to reports from War-
saw. The translator is Anna
Dresner, who also rendered
works by I. L. Peretz into
Polish. The new edition will
be issued next year as part of
the Polish celebration of the
hundredth anniversary of Sho-
lem Aleichem.
Install New Chief Rabbi
in Constantine Algeria
CONSTANTINE, A l g e r i a,
(JTA) — Rabbi Isaac Zerbib
was installed as Chief Rabbi of
Constantine, Algeria's second
city, in a ceremony witnessed
by local Jewish leaders and high
government officials. Rabbi Za-
bib, 35, is a graduate of the
Paris Rabbinical School.
The post of Chief Rabbi had
been vacant for over a year. Its
previous incumbent was mur-
dered by Algerian rebels.
Modern Betsy Ross
MILWAUKEE, (JTA)-
Twelve-year-old Susie Neuman
may quilify as a modern Betsy
Ross one of these days.
She designed an American
flag incorporating a 49th star
for Alaska and sent a hand-
sewn replica to President
Eisenhower. To her delight,
she received a reply from the
White House, assuring her
that her design would get
thoughtful consideration.
Susie prepared the flag de-
sign for a contest sponsored
by the Milwaukee Jewish Com-
munity Center Day Camp.
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New Jewish Handbook
to Be Published by WJC
A handbook on Jewish af-
fairs was published Nov. 1 by
the World Jewish Congress in
New York.
The new volume is the 229-
page "Dictionary of Jewish
Public Affairs and Related
Matters" published by the
WJC's Institute of Jewish Af-
fairs.
HAIFA—More than 600 ap-
plicants for admission to the
Technion this year were not
accepted either because they
failed entrance examinations or
because of the lack of space at
the institute. From over 1,000
applicants only 413 were ac-
cepted.
Four Arabs are among the
first year students, all in civil
engineering, while women be-
ginners account for 20 of the
new students.
Meir Grossman Honored
on '70th Birthday; Lauds
JTA's News Service
LONDON, (JTA) — "The
news service of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency is today
the "most valuable service for
editors of the Jewish press the
world over," Meir Grossman,
member of the Jewish Agency
executive and one of the foun-
ders of the JTA, declared at a
celebration in honor of his
70th birthday, tendered by the
Association of Jewish journal-
ists.
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$1,000,000 Birthday
for Yeshiva U. Prexy
NEW YORK (JTA)—Friends
of Yeshiva University honored
Dr. Samuel Belkin an the occa-
sion of his 15th year as presi-
dent of the university by pre-
senting the institution with
$1,000,000 in gifts. The an-
nouncement of the gifts was
made at Yeshiva's 13th annual
Charter Day dinner, held in
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
The gifts are comprised of
the following: the Sadie Danci-
ger Estate, through trustees
Harold Feustenberg, of Chicago,
M.. and Harry Jacobs. of
Kansas City, Mo., has given the
university $500,000. Other ma-
jor gifts were announced from
Walter D. Floersheimer, Stan-
ley R. Broff, and Isidore Lip-
schultz, all of New York.
President Dwight D. Eisen-
hower, Vice President Richard
M. Nixon, and Adlai E. Steven-
son, and others paid tribute to
Dr. Belkin and the university.
Cultural Centers Opened
in 50 Israel Arab Villages
Cultural centers are to be
established in 50 Arab villages
in Israel by the America-Israel
Cultural Foundation, it was an-
nounced by Foundation Presi-
dent Samuel Rubin, speaking
before a gathering of 200 friends
and leaders of the Foundation
at a dinner at the Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel. The construction
of these buildings will be an
extension of a three-year build-
ing program recently underta-
ken by the Foundation for such
centers to meet Israel's pressing
need for cultural programs and
facilities in immigrant settle-
ments, Arab and other under-
developed areas, Rubin said.
Edmonton Jewry Opens
First Combined Appeal
EDMONTON, Alberta (JTA)
—The first Combined Jewish
Appeal in the history of the
Edmonton Jewish community
is underway with a goal of
$120,000, which is about
$25,000 more than was raised
in multiple campaigns here
last year.
The first single drive in-
eludes the United Jewish Ap-
peal, the United Jewish relief
agencies of the Canadian Jew-
ish Congress and the Edmonton
Jewish Community Council.
SILENCE
it takes a certain amount of horn-blowing to sell a
town, and if it seems as though one day long ago
somebody put away the horn and it has been for-
gotten, let's get it out and join the parade. Other-
wise we stand aside and watch the parade go by.
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advantages so industry can hear. Towns too must
sell if they are to stay in business, and no town ever
sold itself sitting silently by the side of the road,
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