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Hy A. Keidan was honored at
a family Hanukah dinner last
Tuesday by the presentation in
his honor of a Jewish National
Fund Garden of Trees in Israel,
in recognition of his lifelong
interest in Zionism.
His brother-in-law, Prof. Sam-
uel M. Levin, president of the
Detroit Jewish National Fund
Council, accepted the gift from
the various members of the
family and friends on behalf
of JNF.
A member of the Detroit Real
Estate Board, Keidari has for
many years been engaged in
local real estate activities.
An avid student of Hebrew,
Keidan, for half a century, has
been affiliated with Cong.
Shaarey Zedek, of which he is

Isidore Sobeloff, executive perience of experts from all
vice-president of the Detroit parts of the United States and
Jewish Welfare Federation, has Canada. It also contains many
joined with a group of outstand- practical illustrative aids cover-
ing campaign and community ing the full range of campaign-
organization experts in the au- ing. •
Sobeloff's construction is a
thorship of a new book de-
sighed to provide a practical chapter of summation which
blueprint for maximum philan- emphasizes that the manual is
thropic fund raising by Jewish a guide for a continuing cam-
communities. paign to help build communi-
Published by the Council of ties while raising maximum
Jewish Federations and Wel- funds. It recognizes in its pro-
fare Funds, the 142-page man- cedures and techniques that the
ual, titled "Building the Suc- campaign is the bridge between
cessful Campaign," brings to. the cause and the contributor
gether the best thought and ex _ and that the successful cam-
paign performs a basic social
function in bringing them to-
gether, he points out.
The publication—completely
revised after its initial appear-
ance ten years ago—fills a long-
felt need to meet changing con-
ditions in Jewish community
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israel's fund raising, and should pro-
Foreign Minister Golda Meir vide invaluable guidance for
announced plans to withdraw seasoned .campaigners and an
from Israel government serv- excellent text for new leaders.
Each chapter of the manual
ice and Mapai Party activities
after the national elections contains practical guides for
organizing and operating 'cam-
next fall.
Her decision was revealed paigns. It also stresses the role
at a Mapai Party session at of the Welfare Fund Appeal as
Kfar Hayarok, in which ideol- a unifying force in organizing
ogy was discussed on the high- the community.
The publication includes an
est party levels.
One resolution stressed that introduction by Joseph Willen,
there was a new need for unity Executive Vice-President of the
within the party and urged the Federation of Jewish Philan-
membership to do everything thropies of New York, and a
possible to safeguard and ex- summary by Sobeloff.
The manual was a project of
tend unity in the face of the
"great tasks" ahead of the or- the Council's campaign services
ganization and the state of committee.
Israel.
Despite a spate of advance
rumors, former Gen. Moshe
Dayan was not named to the
central secretariat of the party
and the present leadership was
Removed by
kept. Before the resolutions
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were voted, the two main fac-
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tion's within the party—the s o-
called Tel Aviv Group, com-
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posed of veteran party leaders,
Call
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and the younger group led by
Gen. Dayan—announced their
dissolution. Premier David
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Ben-Gurion, himself a Mapai
leader, attended the session.

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•Israel Cabinet -
After '59 Election

Long a resident of Gratiot
a member of the board of direc-
tors, having actively participated Ave., where the family clothing
in obtaining properties for the store was maintained, in his
synagogue both at its present early years he was well-known
site and at its new site. as a basketball player and has
Keidan is now busily engaged retained his interest in athletics.
in the congregation's new build- His numerous grandnieces and
Mg campaign. His brother, the grandnephews delight in t h e
late Judge Harry B. Keidan, was feats of magic and the stories
chairman of the board of direc- of sports of their bachelor uncle
tors of the congregation. who resides at 3200 W. Chicago.

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