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LOS ANGELES (JTA) — but was "inherently dangerous forefront in its programs for
to the democratic fabric since care of the aged. it is still
Delegates to the biennial na
tional convention of the Na- Americans are not learning to far from recognizing many of
the urgent needs of older.
tional Council of Jewish Women get along with people of other people. She reported. too. that
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pledged their support to assist creeds and colors.
The speaker also told the studies revealed that needs for
the Romanian Jews pouring
the Jewish education were not
into Israel. The 800 delegates convention that while
being adequately met.
called on the 110,000 Council Jewish community is in the
-
LONDON — An official delegation of the Anglo-Jewish Asso-
ciation will visit Israel next year and will make it "abundantly members to give "maximum
clear that there is no question about the Association being anti- support" to the United Jewish
Israel or even lukewarm about Israel," R. N. Carvalho, president, Appeal 1959 campaign.
i in which'; Mrs. Frank Cohen. of New
said in an address at the Association's annual meeting
he appealed to British Jewry to respond generously to Israel's ' York. chairman of the Na
request for help in obsorbing the current mass immigration from tional Overseas Committee.
Eastern Europe . . . Dr: Ormsby-Gore, British Minister of State said that the Council's scholar-
for Foreign Affairs. declared in Parliament that - the prevention ship and fellowship programs
of Nazi resurgence in Germany should be one of the points in were "meeting the greatest
any negotiation on a peace treaty for Germany . .. The London need in Israel today—to help
County Council lifted a ban on the showing of the East German- the newcomer become an in-
made anti-Nazi film, "Teutonic Sword," and overruled a similar tegrated citizen."
ban by the Public Control Committee.
She reported that the NCJW
BONN — The Ministry of Interior ordered the confiscation of
Der Stern. Hamburg illustrated magazine. which carried an article had
150 scholarships
to
date granted
to education
and welfare
charging that the West German Office for the protection of the service leaders from 15 Jewish
Constitution has become a "facade" behind which former Nazis com munities abroad to study at
are re-established in- official positions.
United States universities.
AMSTERDAM — A long-range program to strengthen tradi- i Mrs. Benjamin Robinson of
tional Jewish life in Western Europe was proposed by the pre- Montreal, president of the In-
patory Central Committee of the Conference of European Rabbis ternational Council of Jewish
which. under the chairmanship of Chief Rabbi A. Schuster of Women. told the delegates that
Amsterdam. recommended to Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie of the .•,a great concern for Jewish
British Commonwealth that he convene another meeting of the survival is .being expressed in
Conference of European Rabbis in England in the Fall or Jewish communities throughout
Winter. s i the world" and that "a de-
VIENNA — Minister of the Interior Oskar Helmer presented mand for the teaching of our
medals of honor to Theodore Feder. director of the Austrian ' traditions
aditions to young people is
Office of the American Joint Distribution Committee; Egon Fink, : coming from the most sophis-
;
assistant director, and Albert Goldman. head of the Austrian ticated countries. such as Swe-
division of ART, for services rendered to Austria during the : den, Israel and South Africa."
influx of refugees from Hungary in the Autumn and Winter of i A growing trend among Jews
1956. There were 18.200 Jewish refugees among the total of : and other religious and racial
! groups in the United States to
170.000 who escaped to Austria.
; segregate themselves was re-
United States
aorted to the convention by
DENVER— Forty members of the Colorado Legislature have ; m?s. Joseph Willen. second ■
joined in sponsoring the Allen bill to ban discrimination in vice-president.
She spoke of the trend to
housing . . . The Denver Rabbinical Council has banned bingo,
raffles and games of chance in Denver'ssynagogues in spite of develop "homogeneous corn-
munities which are, in essence,
recent legalization of such activities . .s
WASHINGTON — The U. S. Export-Import Bank announced self-segregated. and which do
that the Moller Textile Corp. of Israel will be loaned 1,500,000 not cross lines either in
Israeli pounds to expand its facilities . . . Israel Ambassador schools or in other community
Abba S. Ehan called on C. Douglas Dillon. Under-Secretary of facilities."
State for Economic Affairs. to discuss the new economic assist-
She said this pattern not
' only isolated American Jews
ance to Israel.
NEW YORK — A call to Jewish communities throughout ,
observe
the world and particularly in the U.S. to continue
an annual memorial to the martyrs of the Warsaw Ghetto was Meyner and Weiler
issued here by Dr. I. Schwartzbart, director of the World Get Lehman Awards
Jewish Congress organization department. the 16th anniversary
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of the uprising occurring this year on May 5.
stitute of Ethics of the Jewish
CHICAGO — A new liberal arts college will be opened Theological Seminary of Amer-
on the campus of the Jewish University of America at Skokie ica presented its first annual
in September.
Herbert H. Lehman Ethics
ALBANY, N.Y. — Governor Nelson Rockefeller has before Award at a dinner held Thurs-
him legislation proposed by the American Jewish Congress. call-
ing for exemption of Sabbath observers from the state law —
prohibiting the opening of business establishments on Sundays.
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JERUSALEM — Israel's "door to Afro-Asia." the Gulf of
Aqaba port of Elath, has increased its shipping three-fold,
announcement having been made by Zim-Israel Lines that the
monthly tonnage has gone up from 3,000 to 10,000 tons per
month . . . The Foreign Ministry announced that Cambodia and
Israel soon will open legations in each other's capitals . . . The
first import of German-made cars was recorded in Israel with
the arrival of 120 tiny two-seater Isetta vehicles at the Haifa port,
and the importers have announced that the cars will sell for
3.500 pounds. about half the price charged for Israel-assembled
four-seat Dauphine Renault cars. and that if the cars sell well
an assembly plant may be opened in Israel to produce them . . .
Premier David Ben-Gurion had a 90-minute talk with Major
Gen. Carl von Horn. UN truce supervision chief. on security
conditions along the. Israeli-Arab armistice lines, Gen. von
Horn having - discussed the situation earlier in the week with
Dr. A. Biran. head of the Foreign Ministry's armistice division.
... The Victorian Symphony Orchestra of Melbourne. Australia,.
invited Noah Sherif. 23-year-old prize-winning composer and con-
ductor of the Hebrew University Orchestra. to dedicate a new
composition to the Victorian orchestra. which recently presented
Sherif's "Prelude" during a special concert in Melbourne marking
Israel's tenth anniversary.
TEL AVIV — The ruling Council of Histradrut has voted
to open its ranks to full trade union membership to all non-Jews
and decided that the old name of Histadrut, whose official title
is "Organization of Hebrew Laborers in Israel." should not be
changed ... The Council of Histadrut sent a message of greetings
to the 35th annual Histadrut campaign in the U S Retiring
U.S. Ambassador Edward B. Lawson and Mrs. Lawson were
tendered a reception farewell by the Israel-American Friend-
ship League, their names were inscribed in the JNF Golden
Book. and Lawson stated that his tour of duty in Israel had been
experience for me. both as a diplomat and per-
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