Boris Smolar's

'Between You
.. and Me

(Copyright, 1960.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

Election Prospects

In this election year, religion may become an issue .
In addition to electing a new President and Vice President,
American citizens will also elect 437 new members of the House
33 new members of the Senate and a substantial number of
state officials . . . Both Republican and the Democratic parties
are on record as opposing the injection of racial or religious
issues in the campaign . . . However, the issue of religion has
already been injected by those opposed to the nomination of
Senator Kennedy .. . There will be quite a number of Jewish
candidates for Congress on the lists of both political parties
. . • The 1958 elections of Congressmen and Senators in a
number of states showed that anti-Jewish propaganda against
Jewish candidates, even when conducted subtly, was a complete
failure . . . Nevertheless, major Jewish organizations are con-
sidering plans to prevent any attempt to inject even anti-Jewish
undertones in the election campaign by speakers who may be
tempted to do so to "smear" Jewish candidates . . . Usually,
Catholic candidates are the first targets of biased election prop-
aganda . . . Negro candidates come second and Jewish, third.

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Cultural Outlook

1960 will witness a great upswing in Jewish cultural activ-
ities .. . In fact, the year may mark an important turn in the
history of American Jewry as far as understanding for the need
of Jewish culture is concerned . . The level of support for
Jewish cultural activities by organized American Jewish com-
munities is expected to be definitely much higher than in any
previOus year . . . Indications point to the possibility that
individual American Jews may become interested in the coming
year .in providing special funds for Jewish cultural purposes
. . ...:Hitherto, some outstanding cultural foundations in the
United States have been established with Jewish money and
have greatly enriched all phases of American creative effort
. With the recent decision of the General Assembly of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds to establish a National Jewish
Cultural Foundation, individual Jews may be stimulated to
contribute generously from their foundations also for this body
. . . Not to speak of the organized Jewish communities which
will have to designate members to the board of directors of the
Foundation . . . Parallel with the activities that the Jewish
Cultural Foundation will develop during the new year, the
Jewish Agency is alSo determined to develop • greater cultural
programs among JeWs in the United States . . . Cultural projects
now being conducted by the Jewish Agency in this country
may be transferred to the American Zionist 'Council in order
to put, them under direct auspices of American Zionists, and
the Council may undertake special fund-raising for this purpose.

High Mark Set in Israel Bond Sale

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Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish •News

Bonds administration may rec-
ommend an increase in the cur-
rent 4 percent return paid. on
Israel Bonds. -
He reported completing talks
with Pinhas Sapir, Minister of
Commerce and Industry, on an
agreement placing the Israel
Bond offices and staffs at the
disposal of the Ministry's • new
organization to promote invest-
ments in Israel industry.
He announced that former
President Truman and Moshe
Dayan, Israel's new Minister
of Agriculture and former
Chief of Staff, will be guest
speakers at the Israel .Bonds
conference in Miami, February
26.

JERUSALEM — Israel bond
sales during 1959 totalled $52,-
500,000—a 15 per cent increase
over 1958 and the second best
year of sales in the history of
Israel Bond campaigns, Dr. Jo-
seph J. Schwartz, executive
vice president, said here Wed-
nesday.
He emphasized that the in-
erease was achieved in the ab-
sence of any crisis and said this
indicated a growing confidence
in Israel's stability and devel-
opment possibilities.
Indicating that there was
every reason to expect another
increase during 1960, Dr.
Schwartz said that if the pres-
He who is gracious to the
ent "tight money" policy con-
tinues in the United States and poor lends to the Lord.—Prow.
throughout the world, the Israel 19:17.

International Wine Growers
Association announced here
that Israel-produced wines
will no longer be identified
by use of the general conti-
nental descriptions usually
linked with geographical lo-
cations.
. Israel champagne will
henceforth be labeled "Sas-
sonia," from the H e b r e w
word for "bubbly." Israel
port will be called "Partom,"
the name of a wine men-
tioned in the Books of
Esther and Daniel and in
Jewish religious lore. Sau-
ternes will be k n o w n as
"Lavan Atik," and sherry
will be called "Shariar," a
word of Aramaic origin. A
rich red wine known as
Pommard will hereafter be
listed as "Nimrod."

Refugee Congregation Ends
Existence; Assets to JNF

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Moshe
Shapiro, Israel's new Minister
of the Interior, issued a direc-
tive cancelling the population
registry regulations issued by
his left-wing predecessor, which
provoked the world-wide "Who
is a Jew?" controversy in mid-
1958. ..
Shapiro, a Mizrachi leader,
ordered in a new directive that,
hereafter, only persons with a
Jewish mother or persons who
undergo religious conversion
may be registered as Jews. The
directive, which became - effec-
tive upon issuance, was sent to
all population registry offices.
It will affect some 350 pend-
ing applications, largely from
persons who are neither con-
verted to Judaism nor posses-
sors of a Jewish mother—but
who seek a "Jewish" listing on
their identity cards.
The directive, the first public

SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA) —
A congregation founded by a
group of refugees from Hitler's
holocaust is ending its existence,
but its name will be perpetuat-
ed in Israel.
Officers of Congregation Emes
W'Sholom voted to disband
because its members have be-
come integrated in San Fran-
cisco's general and Jewish com-
munity and no longer need the
congregation. As a final act,
the directors voted to plant 460
trees in Israel through the Jew-
ish National Fund to perpetuate
its name. .

promulgation of Prime Minis-
ter David Ben-Gurion's new gov-
ernment, was issued less than
one week after Shapiro as-
sumed his Ministry. It not only
restores the status quo of
March, 1958, but it also further
obliges each applicant to de-
clare — when so asked—non-
membership in any other faith.
This clause was aimed at pre-
venting listing. of an Israeli as
a Jew who, although having a
Jewish mother, became bap-
tized.
The new directive cancelled
the earlier regulations issued
by 1VIapam's Israel Bar-Yehuda
as Minister of the Interior, by
which an Israeli could list him-
self as a Jew on his own declar-
ation of non-membership in an-
other religion.

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LONDON, (TA) — Iraq has
decided to lift its boycott of
Imperial Chemical Industries,
giant British chemical corn-
bine, which had been banned
from commercial activities in
Iraq because of ICI's alleged
commercial contacts with Is-
rael, according to dispatches
from Baghdad.
Until the boycott was im-
posed, ICI had been Iraq's prin-
cipal supplier of- chemicals; ex-
plosiVes, paints and dyestuffs.
According to the Baghdad re-
port, ICI presented documen-
tary material to the Iraq gov-
ernment, "proving" that it has
no trade ties with Israel and
"appealing" for a reversal of
the boycott order.

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9—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, January 8, 1960

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