THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, August 28, 1959-32
French. Israel Consuls Patrons
of Israel Bond Event on Sept.10
With French Consul and Mrs.
Jean Desparmet and Israel
Consul and Mrs. David Tesher
as co-patrons, the French-Israel
Fashion Festival Dinner Dance
will be held at Knollwood
Country Club Thursday, Sept.
10.
At another event planned by
the Israel Bond Organization—
a pre-High Holy Day brunch
conference of religious .leaders
at Beth Aaron Synagogue on
Sept. 6— Matityahu D a g a n,
Israel Consul, will be the guest
speaker.
Ilka Chase, author and ac-
tress, will be featured at the
fashion dinner dance on Sept.
10. Miss Chase was for five
years a panel member of tele-
vision's "Masquerade Part y"
and recently starred in "Keep
Talking" telecasts. She has ap-
FRENCH CONSUL JEAN DESPARMET
peared in 20 Broadway produc-c.>
tions.
The. France - Israel • Fashion
Festival, which- will • be the
highlight of the Israel Bond
affair, was previewed at the
home of Baroness Edmund De
Rothschild in Paris, and has re-
ceived acclaim throughout the
Plans for a first-person re- the decisions made by repre-
fashion capitals of the world.
Israeli designers have created view of the recent Stockholm sentatives of Jewry from more
Assembly of the World Jewish than 40 countries. The Stock-
special effects as well.
The couturiers representing Congress by Detroit delegates hoim conference was the fourth
Paris are Balanciaga, Pierre have been completed, it was plenary session of the World
Cardin, Chanel, Jacques Heim, announced by Dr. Milton Jewish Congress in the past
Lanvin-Castello and Guy La- Blavin, chairman of the pro- 37 years.
roche. The couturiers from gram committee for the Mich-
The four Detroit delegates,
Israel are Lola Beer, Lili igan Council of the American who were part of a 50-man
Schleiffer, the "Aled" Sisters, Jewish Congress.
group representing the Ameri-
Maskit, and the Matzkin Broth-
Detroit delegates who at- can Jewish Congress, will be
tended the Stockholm meetings introduced by Zeldon Cohen,
ers.
For information. and reserva- during August will be featured president of the Michigan Coun-
tions for the fashion festival, in a round table review at a cil, who will moderate the dis-
call the Israel Bond office, 2200 public meeting 8:15 p.m. Tues- cussion. Michigan Council mem-
David Stott Bldg., WO 2-5091. day, at the Labor Zionist In- bers who are participating in
the planning the Sept. 1 meet-
Detroit Jewry's participation stitute.
in Israel Bond activities will be
The meeting, sponsored by ing include Mrs. William Cohen,
climaxed by the participation the Michigan Council of the president of the Detroit Wom-
of an expected delegation ap- AJ Congress, will hear Dr. en's Division of the AJ Con-
proximating 50 Detroit men and Leon Fram, honorary president gress, Mrs. Henry Caplan, who
women, at the national confer- of the Michigan Council, and will be in charge of refresh-
ence in Chicago, Sept. 18-20. A rabbi of .Temple Israel; Rabbi ments, and Mrs. Louis Menk.
special session of Detroiters Morris Adler, of Congregation
In addition to the four per-
will be addressed by Dr. Joseph Shaarey Zedek, a member of sons who will take part in the
Schwartz, vice president of the the national administrative Sept. 1 meeting, Detroiters who
Israel Bond Organization, Israel committee of the AJ .Congress; attended the session at Stock-
Foreign Minister Golda Meir Morris L. Schaver, representing holm included Mrs. Morris
and Israel Finance Minister the Farband Labor Zionist Or- Adler, Mrs. Morris L. Schaver,
ganization; and Philip Slomo- Mrs. Max Warren, Mrs. Philip
Levi Eshkol.
The Chicago conference also vitz, editor and publisher of the Slomovitz and Isaac Schaver,
will be addressed by Dr. Ues- Jewish News, who will describe son of Mr. and Mrs. Schaver.
hayahu Foerder, head of the
Bank Leumi Lelsrael.
Congress Delegates to Participate
in Round Table Review of Plenary
at Public Meeting Tuesday Evening
`Survivors Nobody Wants' Aided
in ORT's New Program. in Germany
HON. DAVID TESHER
MATITYAHU DAGAN
GENEVA, (JTA) — In the
post-war years, the World ORT
Union provided tens of thous-
ands of Jewish survivors of
Nazi concentration camps with
skills to rebuild their economic
life. Today, however, ORT must
provide skills to "the survivors
nobody wants"—those left be-
hind in Germany because of
disease or disability or because
they refused parting from mem-
bers of their family helplessly
maimed by the Nazis.
The changing role of ORT
in the past 15 years was high-
lighted this week in a report
issued here by the rehabilita-
tion agency. It disclosed that
the ORT's trade school in Mu-
nich, had been closed because
there were not enough Jewish
students left in the city requir-
ing the type of training the
school offered.
"The economic backdrop to
this story is the fact that any-
one, even the unskilled, willing
to work, can find relatively
well-paid employment in Ger-
many today," the report said.
"Young people, especially, want
to take immediate advantage of
such favorable conditions. It
was, therefore, considered more
advisable to open an apprentice-
ship placement service which
will guide and counsel candi-
dates and facilitate their em-
ployment in industry or en-
rollment in municipal trade
schools."
All the students at the Mu-
nich school — auto mechanics,
dressmakers, lingerie - makers,
furriers, watchmakers and den-
tal mechanics—were graduated
and found employment in their
trades. They were placed with
such outstanding firms as Sie-
mens International Business
Machines and the Institute for
Fashion and State Design, the
report stated.
An "ORT Vereinigung" was
established in Frankfurt to pro-
mote vocational training on an
individual basis for juveniles
and adults. Local ORT commit-
tees will be established to set
up similar programs wherever
the need might • arise," it is
emphasized in the report.
In Berlin, the ORT school
conducts courses in bookbind-
ing, radio-technics and hair-
d r e s s i n g. German-language
classes have also been estab-
lished at the request of the
local Jewish community. The
Berlin program, too, will soon
change over to an apprentice-
ship placement service. ORT
schools now have about 1,000
students in the whole of West
Germany.
Around the World...
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News-Gathering Media.
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Europe
PARIS—Upon their arrival at Marseilles on the Israel liner,
S. S. Theodor Herzl, Mr. and Mrs. David Ben-Gurion were
greeted by the Marseilles Prefect, M. Haas Picard.
STOCKHOLM—At a press conference staged by the Em-
bassy of the United Arab Republic, World Jewish Congress
charges were dealt with and an Embassy spokesman made the
claim that there were no persecutions of Egyptian Jews, that
"some traitors were expelled from Egypt and if Jews were
among them it was because of their actions and not their rade,"
and that free passage through the Suez will not be granted
Israel because Egypt still is at war with Israel.
BRUSSELS—A memorial record of Jewish martyrs and
heroes to perpetuate the memory of those who died in World
War II is being inaugurated by the Jewish community here, to
be known as "The Book of Brussels Jewish Martyrs."
LONDON—In an interview with the correspondent of the
London Daily Mail, Jordan's King Hussein said he would come
to the aid of the United Arab Republic "if President Nasser
were attacked by Israel," but indicated that there is no possi-
bility of Jordan and the UAR "entering a military alliance."
. . . Israel Ambassador Eliahu Elath stated that the close ties
between Israel and Britain were increasing, especially since the
visit in Britain of Israel's Foreign Minister Golda Meir. . . .
Ambassador Elath revealed here that Mapai had asked him to
stand for election to the Knesset but • that he had declined to
run because it would interfere with his literary and academic
activities, and he added that he was going to take up a post
with the Israel Institute for Foreign Relations and that he
would remain an adviser on matters of general policy in the
Foreign Ministry at the express desire of Mrs. Meir.
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United States
GLEN ROCK, N. J.—For the third time in seven months, a_
swastika, painted in bright red, was found on a sign at the site
here where the Jewish community is preparing to build a com-
munity center, and Mayor Fred Demarest announced that "these
destroyers of property, when caught, will be dealt with
severely."
NEW YORK—A survey of the foreign language press in the
United States, conducted by Editor and Publisher, shows the
current total circulation of the two remaining Yiddish news-
papers in the U. S. to be 146,000—the Jewish Daily Forward
having 71,219 in New York and 14,000 in Chicago and the
Jewish Day-Morning Journal circulating 53,116 in New York
and 8,000 in Philadelphia, the total circulation showing a great
drop from the '762,910 figure for 10 daily U. S. Yiddish news-
papers in 1914. The Council of Jewish Federations stated in a
report this week that young Jewish community leaders—grad-
uates of leadership training programs—made a greater impact
in community campaigns this year than ever before, and com-
mended the Detroit Junior Division of the Welfare Federation
for its effective activities.
DENVER—Three charitable foundations have made finan-
cial grants to the Utility Workshop, rehabilitation agency of
the Jewish Family and Children's Service, which now is be-
lieved in line for a Federal grant. . . . Ground has been broken
for the new building of Congregation Zera Abraham, oldest
Denver orthodox synagogue.
MEMPHIS — Beth Sholem East Memphis Congregation,
established four. years ago, launched a building campaign for a
12-classroom school, this Conservative synagogue last year hav-
ing enlisted 95 pupils in. the Sunday school and 45 in the -week-
day Hebrew school.
MINNEAPOLIS—University of Minnesota's Sigma Alpha Mu
fraternity will launch a $150,000 drive for construction of a
new campus fraternity house. . • . A check by - the Minneapolis
Federation for Jewish Service of its 6,000 households showed
that 621 of them — 10 per cent — had moved while 128 new
homes were established. . . . The Minneapolis Jewish Federa-
tion has set up a special committee and alloted $1,000 for a
study of the need for nursing and medical care for long-term
patients away from their homes.
COLUMBUS, 0. — The United Jewish Fund and Jewish
Community Council have voted to merge into a new organization
to combine the activities of both and to be known as the United
Jewish Fund and Council.
HARTFORD — U.S. Senator Thomas J. Dodd said he would
do everything in his power to secure passage of the Morse
amendment to the mutual security appropriations bill in the
Senate to bar aid to any country practicing religious discrimi-
nation against American citizens and stated that "no such coun-
try is deserving of assistance from the United States."
Israel
JERUSALEM—Israeli experts left for Burma to investigate
the possibility of an Israeli-Burmese partnership in the develop-
ment of timber growth to be used by Israel for expansion of its
plywood industry . . . Foreign diplomats called on the Israel
Foreign Ministry seeking information on Prime Minister Ben-
Gurion's trip to France and were told it was a vacation for the
Ben-Gurions in a villa on the French Riviera . . . Israel has pro-
tested to the UN Truce Supervision Organization against Syrian
violations of the Armistice Agreement along Lake Tiberias,
objecting to the construction by Syria of a brick factory in the
Arab village of Nuqueib, near the ten-meter strip of the Lake
Galilee shore which is considered Israeli territory. . . . A six-
man delegation from Sierra Leone in West Africa, including
three cabinet ministers, arrived in Israel for a two-week tour
of the country. This is the first cabinet level delegation to travel
abroad from the territory which becomes independent next year.
TEL AVIV—Production of copper, phosphates and other
raw materials in the Dead Sea area increased by 11 per cent
last year as compared with the previous year, production of
these materials in 1958 having reached 679,000 tons. . . . For-
mer Argentine President Pedro Aramburu, on a week's visit
here, praised the Israeli army for the deep sense of responsi-
bility shared by the rank and file.
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