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• Rabbis Protest Religion:
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Concert
Golda Heir a Japanese
'50 Years at Ringside'
NEW 'YORK (JTA) — .The
New York Board of Rabbis,
representing 700 Orthodox, Re-
form and Conservative rabbis,
called on public school authori-
Nat Fleischer's Autobiography .
"Every nation has had its experiences. He began to make
quota of thrill providers in his mark especially when, on
boxing—with the Irish and the April 14, 1912, he was on the
Jews, in my opinion, leading desk of the New York Press
the field during the years cov- which was able to scoop all the
morning newspapers with the
ered in my reminiscences."
This is the view of Nat story of the sinking of the
Fleischer, sports writer, editor, Titanic. (He errs when he says
commentator and friend of prize that Nathan Straus went down
fighters, in his interesting auto- with • the Titanic—it was Na-
biographical book, "50 Years at than's brother, Isidore).
Ringside," published by Fleet
All the "great" in the ring
Publishing Corp. (70 E. 45th, pass in review in Fleischer's
N. Y. 17).
account. His recollections of the
His story is an exceedingly Johnson-Jeffries fight, the story
interesting one, and will - be of the first Negro's triumph in
read as an informative record the ring, is a fascinating nar-
of experiences with boxers by rative.
;laymen as well as those in-
There is an interesting
terested in sports.
chapter about the favoritism
Fleischer writes as a "sports shown by Jewish boxing fans
_romanticist." He explains that in the battles of _Leach Cross.
he "became interested in boxing Fleischer _writes: "L e a c h,
the -day I learned to make a more than any other ex-
fist."
opponent of fisticuffs, pop-
Now in his 72nd year, he ularized the sport among the
points out that his parents came Jewish in his city . "
to this country in 1868, brought
The triumph's of Benny Leon-
`a large family into the world ard and the rise to fame of Lew
and of the nine children who Tendler are among the impor-
.survived five have passed their tant accounts in this book.
70th birthdays. His grandfather
"Uncle Mike Jacobs" receives
died at 102, his grandmother at considerable attention in
101 and his father was past 80 Fleischer's story. Jacobs is
when he died.
highly commended for the fair-
His boyhood experiences make ness with which he dealt with
interesting reading, and so does boxers he sponsored and for
his account of his newspaper being concerned only with the
ability of the fighters he took
under his wings, including Joe
Israeli Student at
Louis. -
The list of best boxers in-
Istanbul University
cluded in this boxing history
Attacked by Arabs contains many names of Jews
ISTANBUL (JTA) — Police who succeeded in the ring.
and Istanbul University authori-
Nat Fleischer's "50 Years at
ties pushed an investigation Ringside" not only throws much
into the beating by a group of valuable light on the boxing
Arab students of Isaac Catalan, sport, but also reveals the genius
the only Israel student at the of the man who wrote this auto-
UniverSity. Catalan suffered biography.
head injuries.
Catalan was studying in the
university library when a Sy-
rian student called him outside
where about 20 other Arab stu-
dents were waiting. Some Turk-
ish students tried to prevent the
attack on Catalan but they too
were assaulted. The Arabs fled
after Catalan's head began to
bleed. He was treated at a first
aid center.
The victim filed a complaint
with Istanbul police and with
university officials, - reporting
that he had been constantly
harassed by Arab students since
he entered the medical school
a year ago. One objective of .the
University - police investigation
was to determine if the attack
was pblitically-motivated. The
incident has caused resentment
in university circles.
Forward Settles Row;
to Continue Publication
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
Jewish Daily Forward an-
nounced this week-end that
agreements had been reached
with _employes assuring con-
tinuation of publiCation. The
Yiddish-language daily earlier
had said it would have to sus-
pend on Feb. 8 unless labor
costs were reduced.
Alexander Kahn, general
manager of the 61-year-old
newspaper, said the agreements
provided for a reduction of
about 15 per cent of the 250
employes and a tightening up
on overtime work.
(Last week, AJP reported
that the Forward annually
loses $350,000.)
(It is reported also that the
only other American Yiddish
daily newspaper, the Day-Morn-
ing Journal, had its financial'
difficulties recently and the
staff had to take a 40 per cent
cut in salarieS.)
Israel Population,
2,022;500
JERUSALEM (AJP) — The
Government statistical _ office
reported this week that the ,
population of Israel has reached
the 2,022;500 mark. Of this
number, 1,801,806 are Jews.
ties to eliminate from school
programs all sectarian religiOuS
materials, pointing out that
Foreign Minister Golda Meir attends "Concert of Japanese
Music" at the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem, gift of
Samuel Rubin, president of the America-Israel Cultural Foun-
dation. The concert, a part of the Foundation's program of
cultural inter-change, was given by Japanese musicians on na-
tive musical instruments, one of which Mrs. Meir is examining.
Survey Shows Strength of NY Area Jewry
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jews
constitute 18 percent of all
residents of 22 counties com-
posing the New York metro-
politan area who are affiliated
cent in the nearby upstate New
doctrinal tearOings, religious
symbols and the like "unneces-
sarily divide, label and ernbar-
ri ass children." A resolution to
this effect was adopted at the
Board's 78th annual meeting,
where Rabbi David I. Goloven-
sky of New Rochelle, N. Y., was
elected president for 1959.
The rabbis reiterated their
long-standing demand for a fair
Sabbath Law which would per-
mit Jewish businessmen who
observe the Sabbath by closing
their firms to remain open on
Sunday.
COAL & OIL CO.
York counties and less than one
percent in Fairfield County,
Conn. Eighty percent of all
synagogue-affiliated Jews in the
with churches and synagogues, metropolitan area lived within
it was reported by ,the Protest- the boundaries of this city, ac-
ant Council of the City of New cording to the report.
York, whose research depart-
ment has conducted a study of
church and synagogue affilia-
tion in this region.
Sources for figures on syna-
gogue affiliation were the
American Jewish Yearbook
and the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies of New York.
In the five counties of New
York City, Jews supplied 26.6
percent of the church and syna-
gogue affiliated population. The
percentage dropped, off to 10.5
percent in the surrounding New
Jersey counties, to eight per-
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