INF Commended Ancient Tradition. of Scholarship
in Judue's Book Reborn at Israel's Ponivetz Yeshiva

Judge Bernard A. Rosenblatt.
a . pioneer American Zionist
leader, a former president of
the Jewish National Fund of
America and director of the
Israel Land Development Co.,
now president of the JNF Foun-
dation, -is applying his many
years' experiences in the field
of economics in Israel's behalf,
in his new
book, h e
Ame r i can
Bridge to the
Israel Corn-
monwealth,"
published b y
Farrar, Straus
and Cudahy.
A strong be-
liever in the
American sys-
tem of free
enterprise,
Judge Rosen-
blatt advocates
This patriarch is one of 600 Israelis participating in
its application
Judge Rosenblattt o Israe l's Yarhei Kalah (Months of Gathering) at the Ponivetz Yeshiva
in Bnai Brak, which has revived a tradition.. of scholarship
econemy. He views Israel as
dating from the Babylonian exile.
the historically - spiritual medi-
• • •
ator between East and West and
In the Babylonian cities of
sees Israel as setting an exam-
ple for economic cooperation by Sura and Pumbedita 2.500 years For 1st Time, Israel's
all elements in human society, ago, the Hebrew months of Adar Foreign Income More-
and therefore also as offering and Elul (the months before
the strongest example for world Passover and Rosh Hashanah) Than Expenditures
,wer e called Yarhei Kalah JERUSALEM (JTA) — For
peace.
the first time since the estab-
Judge Rosen bla t t's book of- "Months of Gathering."
Those 60 days were spent in lishment of Israel. foreign cur-
fers many tributes to the work
of the Jewish National Fund. study — not by the rabbis or rency receipts were larger than
which has been one of the ma- scribes who throughout the year foreign currency expenditures.'
jor causes to which he has de- ; did nothing else, but by the during the fiscal year 1958-1959.
voted many .ears of service. In ; workers for whom this was an according to Dr. Zvi Dienstein.
recognition of his efforts, the opportunity to put aside their foreign currency controller for
foreword to his book was writ- • daily routine twice yearly and the Israel Treasury.
1 Foreign currency revenue
ten by Dr. Harris J. Levine. turn to the Book.
In this way. whole exiled Jew- during the period, he announc-
president of the Jewish Nation-
ish communities ' renewed and ed. tot a lled $608 . 000. 000 . exceed_
al Fund of America. who states
increased their knowledge of ing the earlier estimate by 3.5
about the book's author.
their faith. • percent. Expenditures aggregat-
"As one of the chief archi-
Five years ago. in Israel. the , ed 5574.000.000. 2.2 percent be-
tects with Justice Brandeis of Yarhei Kalah was reborn , at low the estimate for the fiscal
the famous Pittsburgh Platform. Ponivetz Yeshiva. One of the 85 year.
which for a ,generation has in- yeshivoth receiving a subsidy
Total reserves at the end of
spired the pioneers and builders from the Joint Distribution March. Dr. Dienstein said. were
of Zion. Judge Rosenblatt could Committee, from funds provid- 'S140.000.000. the highest ever
not but disc ern in the Jewish ed by the United Jewish Appeal.: recoi-ded by Israel at the end
.National Fund the classic in-
Gearing the program to the 'of a fiscal year. Foreign indebt-
strument of land reform which summer weeks when regular , edness increased by S52.000.-
is everywhere the basis of all yeshiva students are on vacs- 000, reaching a total of $597.-
social advance. -
tion. Ponietz Yeshia annually 000.000. However. Di - . Dienstein
A keen observer: an authority opens its doors to hundreds of noted, there was a - welcome -
on Israeli affairs, Judge Rosen- Israeli citizens from every walk trend away from the "inconven•
Blatt. who lived iii Palestine for of life. . ient - short-term debts to the
several years. re.iews the many
Soldiers. executives, farmers. cheaper long-term debts.
industrial and economic prob- policemen, teachers and busi-
The controller also announced
lents facing the young nation. nessmen come from all corners that, of the S374.000.000 State
the planninit that was done by of the land to attend. Some of Israel bonds sold. 557.000.-
Zionism in behalf of a future come with their wives. for 000 had been converted by own-
state prim to Israel's rebirth— whom special lectures are gig- ers into Israeli pounds: S7.000.-
especially under the leadership en. For weeks they cut them' ; 000 repaid in dollars: and S310.
of Justice Brandeis-and he de selves loose from their normal . 000.000 still outstanding.
—
scribes in detail the famous occupations. shut out the world
Pittsburgh Platform which, he and study Torah.
Suspend Bonn Officials
states. "stilt siands as a model
Rabbi Kahaneman. the dy- for Nazi Complicity
of social justice toward which - namic and kindly director of
BONN i.ITA) — west Berlin
Israel may well strive. -
Ponivetz Yeshiva. counted 600 Attorney General Herbert Hen-
Judge 11M-tenblatt condemns persons in the Yarhei Kalah nine and p u bli c P rosecu t or
monopolistic tendencies a n d which took place last year.
Karl Heinz Domann. of the
shows the dangers that stem
West Berlin District Court.
from certain socialist tenders- Sholem Alcichem Heads
were suspended from their
cies. Ile disciissed constitutional List for UNESCO Honors • offices as a probe got under
government relating to IsraelU
NITED NATIONS ( AJP) — w a Y on charges that they had
and the church-state issue in
The executive hoard of the been guilty of participation in
Israel. ' - All the people in Israel United Nations Educational. the sentencing to death of Nazi
may not follow religiously every Scientific and Cultural Organi- v ictims.
rule and regulation of Judaism.
L,ltiorl(I. NESCO). meeting in
but inevitabl ■ they form the liv
Teehnion Names Chemical
has pp - d
ing firidge between the past and
Building for U.S. Scientist
anniversaries
of
great
men
to
be
the future." he declares with re-
HAIFA (JTA)--A new tech-
gard to the religious question. ! celebrated with UNESCO par- • meal high school named for
i
n
t
h
e
'
ticipation
during
1959
- 60.
An interc , :ing chapter
Heading the list is Sholem New York industrialist Alexan
book deals with the Law of the '
der Knoff and his wife was in-
Return, and there is a realistic Alei•hem. born Feb. 18. 1859.
Second
on
the
list
is
the
French
augurated
at the Haifa Institute
review of the refugee issue and
• of Technology. A cornerstone
the integration of newcomers in Philosopher Henri Bergson.
was laid simultaneously for a
new chemical engineering
Reform Jews Announce
faculty building named for
Israel Aids Algerian Arabs Adult Education Plan
Dr. Karl Compton of the
With UN Refugee Support , NEW YORK (JTA) — The Massachusetts Institute of
UNITED NATIONS (AJP1— Union of American Hebrew Technology.
The Office of the UN Iligh ; Congregations has established a
Commissioner for Refugees at Department of Adult Education New Reform Cono-reo
r . ation
Geneva reported this week and Teacher Training for mem- to Use Unitarian Church
that the government of Israel. : . bers of the organization's Re-1 CLEVELAND (JTA)—A new
congregation, which has
a regular contributor to the form synagogues in the United Reform
1
refugee _programs. has made States and Canada. Rabbi l ► lau- as yet no home of its own. will
an additional contribution of rice N. Eisendrath. president. use the facilities of the First
Unitarian Church of Shaker
$1,500 available for the put- - • announced.
chase of 7.200 tins of orange He said Dr. Chaim Essrog Heights in suburban Cleveland
juice for the specific use of , would head the new department for its Friday night serVices on
the Arab refugees from Al- which will be part of the invitation from the Unitarian '
UAHC Division of Education. congregation.
• geria.
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Israel, Ghana Still Blissful, Foreign Minister Assures

UNITED NATIONS -(AJP)—
Replying to questions at a
press conference here last
week, Ghana's Foreign Minis-

ter Ako-Adjei emphatically de-
nied a rumor that "the honey-
moon between Israel and Gha-
na was over"—as one reporter

had put it.

He said his country had good
Score Anti-Semitism
relations with Israel even be-
in South African Parliament fore it became independent.

JOHANNESBURG (JTA)
"Anti-Jewish" references in
South Africa's Parliament were
denounced in a statement issued
by the South African Board of
Jewish Deputies.
At the same time. an influen-
tial newspaper,rthe Rand Daily
Mail. attacked such practices
editorially, calling on the Pre-
mier to "intervene and stop
this evil before it gets out of
hand."

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