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Fate of Cairo Jewish Community
Looks Bleak as Numbers Dwindle
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A
gloomy picture or the life of
the Jewish community in Egypt
is given in a repori from Cairo
by Joe Alex Morris Jr., special
correspondent of the New York
Herald Tribune.
Only a "slender fraction" of
the estimated 80,000 Jews who
lived in Egypt has now re-
mained there, the American
correspondent said.
Morris attended the annual
meeting of the Cairo Jewish
Community Council in the Tem-
ple Ismailia. "The meeting," he
reports, "was conducted by two
vice-presidents of the commun-
ity. The president emigrated
two years ago, and they are still
looking for a suitable replace-
ment.
"The council also took note
of the departure of three other
Plan 5-Year Jerusalem
Development Programs
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JERUSALEM. — Mordecai
Ish-Shalom, Jerusalem's new
Mayor, announced plans Tues-
day for 120,000,000 pound five-
year development program for
Israel's capital. He said the
Plan was based on an antici-
pated increase in population
from Jerusalem's present
160,000 to 200,000 by 1965. Sev-
eral quarters, which have be-
tome slums, will be razed and
replaced by modern buildings,
eenters for small industry and
new arterial roads, to speed up
eity traffic, he said.
members which 'left a large gap'
in its activities. Some 30 of the
400 remaining eligible mem-
bers of the community were
present to hear the annual re-
port.
"The meeting had been -sched-
uled a week earlier, but was
postponed for lack of a quor-
um. The rules of procedure
state that in such cases the
meeting can be held a week
later, without a quorum."
The Cairo Jewish commun-
ity, it was reported at the
meeting, has 70 properties, in-
cluding 18 temples, three
schools, a home for the aged,
a social center and a free lunch
establishment for the poor, but
only a few buildings which
bring in any income.
The schools have some 500
students, 300 of them Jewish.
The community's big problem is
to maintain its services with a
steadily declining income. Re-
ceipts by the rabbinate for ad-
ministrative services were less
than one-third of income re-
ceived the previous year; gath-
erings at the various temples
were down by the same amount,
and the school deficit has in-
creased by about $10,000 to
$30,000.
"The Council's estimate of
the future was pessimistic. It
advised members that 'this defi-
cit cannot be overcome nor
sensibly reduced.'
Historical Society
to Open Centenary
of Miss Szold's Birth
The 58th annual meeting of
the American Jewish Historical
Society, which will be held in
Baltimore Feb. 20 and 21, will
honor the achievements of a
distinguished American, Hen-
rietta Szold, the centenary of
whose birth wll be observed
throughout the year.
At a luncheon meeting Feb.
21 at Baltimore Hebrew Col-
lege, the society's host for the
annual meeting, the principal
address will be delivered by Dr.
Miriam Freund, national presi-
dent of Hawassah, whose subj-
ect will be the career of Miss
Szold.
The American Jewish His-
torical Society' also will pay
tribute to Canadian Jewry, the
200th anniversary of whose
founding will be memorialized
at a special ceremony planned
for the evening of Feb. 20.
Among those participating in
the program are Dr. Joseph
Kage and Dr. Louis Rosenberg,
both of Montreal.
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placed Persons Commission, this
week called for wider support
of the Israel Bond drive. He
urged Americans of all faiths
to purchase Israel Bonds as a
means of strengthening free-
dom throughout the world. He
expressed his views in a letter
"The only reducing which to Irving Berman of Falls
seemed likely was in the al- Church, in connection with an
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Wingate Children's Home at Kibbutz Nir Etzion built with
funds provided by British Jewry in Wingate's memory.
,PA/V Protests Sponsorship
by Firm BackingArab Boycott
The Jewish War Veterans of
the U.S.A. expressed strong ob-
jections to the sponsorship of
a report on the president'S trip
by the Brown and Williamson
Tobacco Company-, manufactur-
ers of "Life" cigarettes.
In a letter to David Sar-
noff, president of the Radio
Corporation of America, which
owns NBC, JWVA's national
commander, Bernard Abrams
of Jersey City, referred spec-
ifically to the program "Jour-
ney to Understanding" which
has been partly sponsored by
Brown and Williamson over the
NBC Television Network.
"Brown and Williamson To-
bacco Company," Commander
Abrams -wrote, "is a wholly-
owned subsidiary of the British
American Tobacco Oompany,
which has demonstrated a meth-
od of doing business that is a
complete rejection of demo-
cratic principle and ethical
practices. British American's
action in yielding to the Arab
boycott by refusing to ship
some of its fralichised brands
into Israel has been an affront
not only to this young democ
racy but to the very. principles
that underly the president's
trip."
Commander Abrams pointed
out that "it would seem, there-
fore, that the use of fundS of
British American to dissemi-
nate the ideas implicit in ."Jour-
ney to Understanding" is noth-
ing more than gross hypocrisy
to which NBC has become an
unwitting party. In a -time
when the major, networks are
en an unfortunate angel for its
so-called think' programming."
The letter to General Sarnoff
was sent prior to the an-.
nouncement by the Federal
Trade Commission that "Life"
cigarettes w e r e advertising
falsely. Commander' Abrams,i
however, commented on this
item as follows:
"This is another example of
the ruthlessness and disregard
of morality that characterizes
the general operation of the
parent company. • In our judg-
ment, the broadcasting indus-
try is not, in matters such as
this, doing all it should' to pro-
tect the public from spuriouS
claims by sponsors."
JWV has been waging an edu-
cational campaign to acquaint
people with the facts about the
Arab boycott not only against
firms which do business with
Israel, but also against firms
owned by Americans of the
Jewish faith or in some eases
have executives who are mem-
bers of the Jewish faith. JWV
has characterized firms who
have yielded to this coercion as
"participating in the • worst
kind of international black-0
"It is too bad that the goals
and .objectives of 'Journey to
Understanding' should be
marred by a poor choice of
sponsor," Commander Abrams
said. "Too often the broadcast-
ing industry has accepted ad-
vertisers over the airwaves,
which, in the final analysis; be-
long -the people of the
United States, whose products
soliciting public support for or practices are a refutation of
their business practices, it the American principles of hon-
would seem that NBC ha oh
est