THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, September 16, 1960 —
Around the World...
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News-Gathering Media.
United States
NEW YORK—Jewish families in small communities and
isolated areas who are unable to obtain a rabbi or student rabbi
to conduct High Holy Day services will receive special assistance
and guidance this year from the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations so that they may conduct their own . . . The
need for the Zionist movement to open its doors to other Jewish
organizations, especially in the United States, to work with the
movement for the common goal of supporting Israel and strength-
ening Jewish life everywhere, was urged by Eliahu Dobkin,
member of the Jerusalem section of the Jewish Agency in his
address to a session of the national conference of the Farband
Labor Zionist Order here . . . A special 100-day campaign to
raise a million dollars for the economic development of the State
of Israel was launched by the Fraternal Division of the Isr
Bond drive this week at a leadership conference at the P . a-
ere
dilly Hotel . . Cornerstone-laying ceremonies were hel
enter
this week for a new $400,000 synagogue and community lyn.
to be built by the Flatbush Park Jewish Center in Br can Re-
CHICAGO—Students from Israel and the Domi d
States
public have joined youths from 35 cities in the Un Hebrew
and Canada, including Detroit, in enrolling in e, for the
Theological College, 7135 N. Carpenter road, Sko , president
Fall term, it was announced by Dr. Oscar Z. Fasm he Jewish
of the college, which is the rabbinical school of
University of America.
building
NEWPORT, R. I.—The restored Touro Synagog
it was
which dates 'zo 1763, will be dedicated in Decemb
ciety
announced by Dr. Bernard C. Friedman, president of th
of Friends of Touro Synagogue National Historic Shrine.
LOS ANGELES—Twenty-eight medical scholarships gran
by the Halper Foundation at eight universities in this country
as well as at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School
in Jerusalem were announced for the 1960-61 academic year by
the Mount Sinai Hospital and clinic here.
PHILADELPHIA—Two experimental classes in Hebrew, the
first in this city's public schools, began this week with 25 high
school junior and senior students in each.
JVS Offers Counseling for High School Students
The Jewish. Vocational Service,
a Jewish Welfare Federation
agency, states that it has discov-
ered that almost all high school
juniors and seniors need the
aLswers to at least some of the
seven key questions the JVS
counselors often are asked.
The questions are: Will I be
eligible for college? Can I do
satisfactory college work?
college should I atte
ow can
I get financial
'stance for
college? What
d of work am
I best suite
or? What is the
future o
to
career I
have
en? What all
a service obligation?
T • JVS staff of trained coun-
sel° can help young people find
the right answers to these que
tions.
Charles F. Ro en,
al
Service presid
ng
ed
people
ho
in ollege
and th
on the
to
ad nta
nd edu
onal
the JVS care
ecent sur s have
counseli
y adults
shown t all too
work they
are unsuited for
a result are
are doing, and
most unhap . One of the func-
e JVS is to prevent
tions o
c career and jot unha
ness as possible," Rose
The JVS
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interests and abilities, giving the
individual a better understanding
of himself.
In addition to these services,
the JVS offers a job placement
program, which assists persons
16 years and over in finding full
or part-time jobs suitable to their
interests and abilities; a scholar-
ship and financial aid program,
ich gives assistance to those
req ng financial aid to enter
or c inue their educational
progra and a group guidance
program, which provides speak- _
ers, films and displays to youth
and parent groups interested in
finding out more about selecting
one's field of endeavor.
For an appointment or addi-
tional information on any of the
services offered by the Jewish
Vocational Service, call WO
1-8570. JVS has offices in the
northwest section and in the Fred
M. Butzel Memorial Building,
163 Madison. Albert Cohen is
JVS. director.
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AMSTERDAM—A non-Jewish businessman, Max K
and his family, who suffered a boycott and molestation b nhabi-
tants of the West German village of Koppern for If defense
of a half-Jewish cafe owner, Heinrich Sumpf, w se cause
action of
became an international incident, is duplicating t
the cafe owner and leaving West Germany.
as formally
BONN—The West German Foreign Ministr schoolteache
requested Italy to extradite Ludwig Zind, Germ Naples afte
convicted of anti-Semitic acts who was nabbed any . • . Deliv-
escaping from a one-year prison sentence in G Uzi submachine
ery of weapons, $6,700,000 worth of grenades a el in the spring
guns valued at $1,500,000, purchased from Is essing smoothly,
of 1959, is almost halfway completed and pr istry reports .. .
a spokesman for the West German Defense
eter Blum, was
A well-known Bavarian musician, 39-year-ol
s of murdering
arrested at his home at Schweinsfurt on cha
s a member of
Jews in Poland during World War II when he
the Nazi SS.
e been in-
BRUNSWICK—Israeli teachers' organizations
vited by the International Schoolbook Institute . h
erate in the improvement and further development of teaching
materials for German schools, in an effort to insure that German
students learn about Democracy, the evils of Nazism and the
civic benefits of intergroup understanding.
Israel
JERUSALEM—Ricardo Subiranay Lobo, new Cuban minis-
ter to Israel, presented his letters of credence this week to
President Itzhak Ben-Zvi . . . The Israel Agricultural Ministry
and the United Nations Technical Assistant Board have signed
an agreement for a 30-month experiment aimed at increasing
Israel's basic water resources through a program to dam ground-
waters for irrigation . . . Appoximately 1,000 Jews emigrated
to Israel from the United States during the Hebrew year 5720,
according to figures released here by the Jewish Agency . . .
Brigadier Yosef Avidar, former ambassador to the Soviet Union,
is expected to be named here soon as Israel's ambassador to
Argentina and resign his present post as director-general of the
Ministry of Labor.
TEL AVIV—Vacationing Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
moved into the "Youth Versus Veterans" ideological dispute in
his Mapai party this week with a statement that the party is a
democratic one and therefore every debate should be welcomed,
which was interpreted as his backing to the younger party ele-
ment headed by Agriculture Minister Moshe Dayan and Deputy
Defense Minister Shimon Peres . . . The Winthrop Drug Corpo-
ration, an American firm, is going to expand its trade activities
in Israel despite pressures from the Arab League's boycott office,
it, was reported here by Israeli agents of the corporation.
Canada
MONTREAL—The Canadian Department of National De-
fense assured the Canadian Jewish Congress that "instructions
have been issued fo each of the services to ensure that Jewish
personnel of all branches are, where practicable, granted leave
to observe the High Holy Daig, either at home or in the nearest
community."
Latin America
RIO DE JANEIRO—The Federation of Jewish Communities
in Brazil has urged all Jews in the country to register as Brazil-
ians of the Jewish faith in the national census which is being
launched by the government this week.
MEXICO CITY—Israel's Finance Minister, Levi Eshkol, ar-
rived here this week as the official representative of the Israel
government to Mexico's celebration of the 150th anniversary
.of the proclamation of the country's independence from Spain.
Asia
NEW DELHI—The Indian government has accepted a pro-
posal by Israel to raise Israel's consulate here to the status
of Consulate-General.
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