U.S. Technical AsSistance
to Israel to End in 1962

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The United States technical
assistance program for Israel will be discontinued after
the American fiscal year ending Juhe 30, 1962, as a result
of what was described in the press here as "a cordial
agreement" between the Israel government and the U. S.
Operations Mission, which administers the program.
American aid programs, including grants in aid and
the supply of food surpluses, will not be affected by the
cessation of technical aid. The decision to terminate aid
was made in view of the steady increase in Israel tech-
nical know-how. The volume of U. S. technical aid, which
has been steadily decreasing in recent years, now stands
at $1,000,000 spent on American advisers in special fields
here and on study fellowships for Israelis abroad.

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A Digest of World Jewish Happenings,
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.

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World Zionist Congress

The Congress will be asked to establish a "scroll of duties"

for every enrolled Zionist, including provision of a Hebrew edu-
cation to children of members and active fostering of personal
settlement in Israel • . The World Jewish Congress will send
a six-man fraternal delegation to the Congress, including Samuel
Bronfman of Canada; Israel Sief, chairman of Congress direc-
torate in Europe; Moises Goldman, South) American chairman;
A. L. Easterman, London political director; Maurice Perlzweig,
director of International Department in New York; and Dr. E.
Riegner, coordinator in Geneva . . The Rabbinical Assembly
of America, central body of Conservative rabbis, will send a
three-man fraternal delegation of non-member observers, con-'
sisting of RabbiS Edward T. Sandrow and Armond E. Cohen,
and Ira Eisenstein, Reconstructionist Foundation president . .
The World Zionist executive in Jerusalem has called for elec-
tions of Congress delegates by Argentine Zionists, to settle a
dispute over the allocation of mandates.

United States .•

-BUFFALO—A history of the Buffalo Jewish Community,
"From Ararat to Suburbia," written by Dr. Selig Adler and
Dr. Thomas E. Connolly, will be published by the Jewish Publi-
cation Society on Dec. 8. The book is in effect a biography
of a cultural and ethnic minority in a metropolitan area. _
NEW YORK—The Joint Commission on Social Action Of
the United Synagogue of America, the Rabbinical Assembly of
America and the National Women's League, in a recent resolu-
tion calling for abolition of the House Committee on Un-American
Activities, expressed particular disapproval of the Committee's
charges against the National Council of Churches, calling them
"completely unjustifiable" and "an assualt on religious liberty."
... November 30 was "Histadrut Day" by proclamation of Mayor
Robert F. Wagner, who stated that Histadrut "has aided in the
absorption of countless thousands of immigrants and helped
convert them into free citizens of a dynamic democracy in the
Middle East."

Prepare for Hanukah in Jerusalem;

Chil-

dren in arts and crafts workshop of the Jerusalem YM-YWHA work on menorahs
in preparation for the Festival of Lights, just as do their counterparts at Jewish
Community Centers and Ys in the U.S. affiliated with the National Jewish Welfare
Board (JWB). Celebration of Hanukah is part of year - round Jewish cultural
activities at Centers in this country, which also conduct a variety of programs
which support the Jerusalem Y. The YMHA in Jerusalem is a project of the World
Federation of YMHA's an- d Jewish Community Centers, of which JWB is the Ameri-
can member.

Civil, War Centennial. Exhibit at Jewish
Museum to Feature Documents on Lincoln

A major exhibit of historical
memorabilia in commemoration
of the Civil War Centennial will
open Thursday at the. Jewish
Museum of the Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary of America, 92nd
St. and 5th Ave., New York.
More than 150 items on dis-
play, collected for a first time
presentation, will depict the civic
and military role of American
Jews (both Northern and South-
ern) during the time of the War
Israel
Between the States. The re-
TEL AVIV—Secondary school teachers throughout Israel sources of major collections of
staged a one-day warning strike in protest against what they documents, books and works of
called "foot-dragging" by the authorities in dealing with their art relating to the Civil War and
demands for improved conditions, including higher wages. The Abraham Lincoln have be-en
teachers had rejected a Government appeal to call off the strike made available for the exhibit
following . an extraordinary Cabinet session.
as were the holdings of collectors
' JERUSALEM—Leaders of the Habad Chassidic movement
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in New York, is supporting Chief Chaplain Shlomo Goren of
the Israel Army for the post of Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi in Israel.'

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and scholars specializing in the
field of mid-nineteenth century
American Jewish history. Invalu-
able mementos and records of
participants in ' the war were
accessible by their descendants.
The exhibit will encompass
the following themes: The
American Jewish community
which numbered 180,000 dur-
ing the Civil War, representa-
tives and their attitudes
toward slavery and toward the
war: the role of the Jews in
the armed forces, in govern.
ment, in medicine . and in
other _ fields; Abraham Lincoln
and Jews who were associated
with him; works on Lincoln
and the Civil War by Jewish

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Boris Smolar's

Between You
•• . and Me'

PARIS—A launching ceremony for the new Israeli ship,
Moledet, was canceled because of a strike in Nantes of shipyard
workers, who asked a special pay supplement for the ceremony.
AMSTERDAM—Queen Elizabeth visited a photographic exhi-
(Copyright, 1960,
bition, "Women of Israel," sponsored by The Netherlands WIZO,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
and commented on a nuniber of pictures published in the novel,
"Exodus," which she said she had read with considerable UJA Experiment
interest.
• Those who advance doubts about the future of Judaism in this
Latin America
country should have attended the first national conference of young
SANTIAGO, CHILE—Israel Ambssador Eliezer Doron has Jewish community leaders from all parts of the country in New
received a number of letters threatening his life .over the Eich- York . . . Their pessimism would have evaporated as they listened
mann arrest and trial in Jerusalem. Some letters warned that to the discussions conducted by young delegates, each of whom has
"the hour of vengeance is approaching." . . . A $70,000 building, made his mark as a leader in his local community . . . None of the
erected by the Santiago Jewish community, was, presented to the 225 delegates was older than 35 years, and it was therefore most
Israel Government as a gift for use as the Israel Embassy here. interesting to observe low the "young blood" in organized Amer-
Presentation was made on the occasion of the visit of Pinhas ican Jewish life reacted to various problems concerning Jews in
Sapir, Israel's Minister of Commerce and Industry.
overseas countries . . . It was refreshing to see how eagerly these
BUENOS. AIRES—The exchange of new ambassadors with young Jewish men and women, some of whom are second generation
Israel has been completed with the appointment of Dr. Reogelio American-born, were listening to the experiences in Jewish leader-
Tristany as Argentine Ambassador, thereby resuming the ties ship related by Edward M. M. Warburg, Philip M. Klutznick, • Dewey
which were broken following the seizure of Adolf Eichmann. D. Stone,' Herbert A. Friedman and others ... There was an atmos-
The change was dramatized at a dinner given for the Argentine phere of lively interest in questions which these young leaders
diplomat by Argentine Jewry.
asked during the sessions at the three-day conference.
Only two years ago, the father of one of the young delegates
Canada
OTTAWA—Canadian Friends of Bar Ilan University held a attending the conference expressed his doubt to me whether his
dinner honoring Dr. Joseph Lookstein, president of the uni- children would be as interested in Jewish communal affairs as he
versity's International Board of Governors. Bar-Ilan University was . . . A. "big giver" to Jewish philanthropic causes and one of
seeks to fuse the old and new Jewish and world culture, Rabbi the most prominent Jews in a large Jewish community, outside of
New York, he wanted his children very much to follow in his foot-
Lookstein declared.
steps but was not certain that this would be the case ... He would
Turkey
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INSTicNBUL—Five Israeli fishermen, who were sentenced to have enjoyed it no end to hear one of • his sons talking convincingly
five-year prison' terms last year on charges of fishing in Turkish at the young leadership parley about the responsibilities of the
waters, were released under a general amnesty law. They left young American Jewish generation toward Israel and Jews in need
in other overseas countries ... And it would have been even a
for Israel after spending 14 months in a Turkish jail.
ANKARA—Jewish leaders expressed concern over a new greater joy to him to hear his son telling me later privately that it
government regulation ordering the dissolution of all communal was high time for the older generation'of Jewish ,leadership in this
councils in Istanbul. Under the ruling each synagogue, Jewish country to make room for young men like himself in their ranks.
social and charitable institution and cemetery will have to have The UJA which inaugurated this conference deserves great credit
for levelOping potential new leadership. • •' •
an independent 'administrative council.

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authors in English, Hebrew
and Yiddish.
The documents to be featured
include: a manuscript copy of
the 13th Amendment to the
Constitution signed by Lincoln;
one of three original copies of
General RObert E. Lee's Order
No. 9 (stating that the war was
over); the order revoking Gen-
eral Ulysses S. Grant's Order No.
11 (expelling all Jews from
Grant's territory); two letters
f r o m the correspondence of
Abraham Jonas and Lincoln from
the Robert Todd Lincoln Collec-
tion, Manuscript Division, Li-
brary of Congress; the official
correspondence of Judah P.
Benjamin, Confederate states-
man; and sermons preached by
Jewish ministers during the war,
and in memory of Lincoln.
Among the paintings, sculp-
ture, and photographs to be
shown will be the portrait of
Lincoln from life by Solomon
N. Carvalho, the bronze head
of Robert E. Lee by Sir Moses
J. Ezekiel who fought in the
Confederate Army when a
cadet at the Virginia Military
Institute, and, later, sculptor
of the Monument to the Con-
federate Dead in Arlington
Cemetery. Also, the last photo-
graph of Lincoln taken by
Adolphus S. Solomons several
weeks before the assassination,
13 drawings by Winslow
Homer, and portraits. • of the
leading rabbis of the period—
Isaac Leeser and Sabato
Morals.
Other items included are the
Lincoln-Douglas Debates present-
ed by Lincoln to Abraham Jonas;
Lincoln's. White House Seal; and
the Congressional medal Of honor
awarded to six Jews who partici-
pated in the war.
The exhibit will remain on
view until Feb. 23, 1961. The
presentation of the show has
been a cooperative effort spon-
sored by national Jewish
groups.
The Jewish Museum of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America is open Monday through
Thursday, 1-5 p.m. and Sunday,
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is
free at all times,

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