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CI CI 14 Major Events Slated by Israel Bond
ZOD Presents Dr. Barnett's Works
to Receiving Hospital and WSU
..4 i Campaign; Accept Quota of $1,300,000
The State of Israel Bar Mitz- Women's luncheon on May 11 ' meetings.
vah Year Bond campaign will at the Town and Country Club
The r e Ii g i o u s activities
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i•- move into high gear in mid-May with Rickey Lane and Velvel committee is planning to call
= •, and June. At least 14 events as entertainment and Ira Fein- a meeting of rabbis and lead-
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are planned by the Detroit berg, Haganah war hero, world ing layMen before April 20-to
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traveler and lecturer, as guest plan a special program for
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Because this is Israel's 13th speaker.
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congregations and for Bar
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On May 24 the Detroit and Mitzvah boys, stressing their
C.T.; cepted a quota of $1,300,000 in South Oakland C h a p t e r s of special bond with Israel's
1 Israel Bond sales during 1961, Hadassah will stage the "Toast 13th anniversary.
r4 or $100,000 for. each year of to Israel" celebration at the
On A p r i 1 24, a Landsman
Israel's existence. This COM-
W pates with $1,037,800 in Israel Veterans Memorial Hall Ball shaften leadership get-together
room in the Civic Center. The will be held at the home of Mr.
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Bond cash sales during 1960.
The late Dr. Saul E. Barnett bequeathed his personal
The
Detroit
Bond
Committee
noted American Jewish humor- and Mrs. Hyman Lipsitz in Oak effects, office and medical equipment to the Zionist Organi-
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ist Emil Cohen will be the star, Park.
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zation of Detroit. A presentation of approximately 150 medical
1-( has scheduled a series of events and music for the d a n c i n g
James G. McDonald, first
books of this estate was made by the ZOD to Dr. James
which includes a P i o n e e rwhich will follow the entertain- U.S. Ambassador to Israel,
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E. Croushore and Dr. G. J. Beekhuis for Receiving Hospital
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ment will be furnished by will be the guest of honor at
and Wayne State University College of Medicine. At the
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Panchito and his Latin Amer- a reception on May 7. Cap-
presentation were, from the left; Dr. Eugene Plous, Dr. Alex
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'can orchestra. There will be taro Yoachai Bin-Nun, corn-
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Friedlaender, Dr. Sanford Bennett, Judge Ira G. Kaufman;
refreshments and a t o a s t to manding officer of the Israeli president of ZOD, Dr. Croushore, Chief of Staff, Wayne State
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Israel's Bar Mitzvah with Israeli Navy, will be the guest of
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University department of otolaryngology, Dr. Beekhuis, staff
In the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem wine.
honor on May 29 at the home
the whole horrible chapter of the
associate of the same department, and Dr. Bernard Weston.
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011 June 8, the Israel 13th
- holocaust is once again being re-
of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney She
vealed to us. Jewish youth will be-
anniversary dinner will be
vitz, 18300 Oak Dr.
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come acquainted with thenolocaust
held at the Sheraton-Cadillac
epoch and the world and new genera-
In June, preliminary to the
-ion in its midst will get to know
grand ballroom. It will be a anniversary dinner and the
about the fate of the Jewish people
led to the slaughter in the parts of
community affair and a cele- Labor Zionist affair there will
Europe dominated by Nazis-.
brated personality will be the be two parlor meetings — on
Four hundred journalists from all
guest of honor.
A Di
Digest of World Jewish Happenings
June 3 and 5. Robert Lurie,
parts of the world have indicated
their intention to come to Israel.
On June 21, the annual Labor TV producer and orator, will
from
Dispatches of the JeWish Telegraphic
Television companies and radio • sta-
lions have brought experts and equip_ Z i o n i s t - Landsmanshaften - appear at both gatherings. .
Agency
and Other News-Gathering Media.
ment in order to be able to transmit Pioneer Women's affair will be
The highlight of the summer
information on the trial to millions
held
at
the
Labor
Zionist
Insti-
and
the
top
Women's
Division
of listeners.
United States
For the Eichmann trial the Israel lute, with a noted Israeli figure Bond event of the year will be
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Kennedy p
Police has collected thousands of as the main speaker.
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the Israel-Italy Fashion Show Brith as an example of the assistance private groupsraise
testimonies and documents on the
are d render-
Preceding these main events and Dinner Dance with former ing
activities of Eichmann. According to
the nation's youth, in a letter to Herbert Goldstein chair-
the charge sheet against him he there will be a series of gather. "Miss • Am
- erica," Bess Meyer_ man of the Bnai Brith Interfaith Youth Fellowship dinner
committed crimes unprecedented in 'rigs,
the history of mankind. Eichmann
receptions and par 1 o r son, as the fashion commentator, which will honor the Maryland Congressional delegation next
himself has recorded his evidence
month.
on a tape recorder which has been
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E. Eichmann Trial
Around the frT - orld....
printed on 4000 sheets of paper. In
-this testimony he tells the whole
chapter of the extermination of the
Jews, the gas chambers, the crema-
toria, the death trains, the setting up
of ghettos, the plunder, the expul-
sions and brutalities. .
The court judging Eichmann is
composed of three judges. The pres
ident of the court is a Judge of the
High Court in Israel.
In the courtroom in Jerusalem a
closed bullet proof glass cell has been
installed in which Eichmann will sit
during the trial. In the courtroom
which seats 750, representatives of
the Israel diplomatic corps will be
present. A service for the photo-
graphing of documents has been in-
stalled which will publish the thou-
sands of documents subinitted by the
prosecution. Among the dozens of
witnesses who will appear there are
Survivors of the holocaust from
Various lands who will tell of the
Nazi extermination and Eichrnann's
share in it.
A Bar Mitzvah Message
SAN FRANCISCO—A $750,000 charitable foundation, the
Eva Heller Kohn Fund, has been established to provide funds
for Jewish philanthropic purposes,. in accordance with the will
By State of Israel Bonds
in -the life of the Jewish people of the late Mrs. Kohn, a member of a widely known San
Because every y o u n g man which is represented in the Francisco
family.
who becomes Bar Mitzvah this celebration of the 13th Anni-
NEW YORK—Israel-American trade reached an_ all-time high
year came . into the w o r 1 d versary of the State of Israel.
almost at the very same time
The slogan is: "This year of $152,337,600 in 1960, compared with $144,173,900 in 1959,
that the State of Israel was give the Bar Mitzvah gift with despite the Arab League boycott campaign, the annual dinner of
born, a special program has a special and meaningful link the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Industry was
told by its president, Nathan Strauss III. ,
been 1 a u n c h e d by State of to the State of Israel.
Israel Bonds to emphasize this
That gift is an Israel Bond—
Israel
link to Israel.
the ideal Bar Mitzvah gift in
• JERUSALEM—Factories and plants throughout Israel are
The program stresses that Israel's Bar Mitzvah year."
A beautifully decorated • cer- now conducting weekly Bible classes, with the cooperation of
every youngster who crosses
the threshold of childhood into tificate suitable for framing will employers and employees, it was reported here at the annual,
responsible Jewishness ; symbol- i be sent to the Bar Mitzvah;boy national Bible Conference . . . TraditiOnal Jewish burial will
ized• by the Bar Mitzvah - (or (or Bas .M i.t z v a h girl) as a be given the skeletons of Jewish martyrs discovered in caves
here they died nearly 1,800 years ago, while fighting under
Bas Mitzvah) should be made permanent record of thew
- Translation of Hebrew text edited aware of the historic milestone of an Israel Bend. The certifi. Bar Kochba in the last futile revolt against the Roman con-
by Brit Ivrit Olam Jerusalem.
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cate provides s p a c e for the querors of Palestine, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion announced
._ listing of the name s of all .. • Israel has transmitted to the United States State Department
persons who have sh
shared i n the a note on Israel's, views about the Middle East and is reported.
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not to be unhappy at the Kennedy Administration's decision to
purchase of the Bond.
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'go slow" on Middle East questions, Since it is felt here that,
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for the time being, the area is not a source of acute danger and
'Moroccan
that it is wise for the U.S. to make a careful study before con-
sidering action . . . Fifty-four percent of all Israeli families
own electric refrigerators, two-thirds have gas stoves, and urban
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wage and salary earners spent an aVerage of 27 percent more _
Recent
reports
from
Morocco
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in real income in 1960 than three years. before, according to
the Central . Bureau of Statistics . . . A new $4,000,000 invest-
a llri ',It/in mirtyp.iri ..rvpR;..i ,..71;rn -.1.1,:in smi
tlilin m,z2itn polic y toward the Jle'vcolillsh
ment project, involving investors from the United States.
-ion. According to a dispatch Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Argentina and Uruguay, w as
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Rabat, a Jewish motion pic- announced by David Dunsky, chairman of the Foreign Investors
7.4x i-) 11,1 Uy,7?ri -n''? ' ,l a matj'it-Til li . l. ► i, ,toLivr,:i) More expert will direct a film in Association, who declared that the funds would be transferred
to Israel this year for use in large existing enterprises and to
Morocco for the first time.
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The cinema expert, David establish new ones.
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TEL AVIV—Morris Morgenstern, New York investment
was officially presented
p-,7 ,nint# ,71;7 n 0 to Dayan,
newspapermen at a press con- banker, presented a replica of George Washington's letter to
at the Cinematographic the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island, to the Abraham
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Center in Rabat by Minister Mou- Goldstein._ Library at the ZOA House here. The presentation
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lay Ahmed Alaoui, who 'an- event included a lecture by Professor Israel Efros, President
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that Dayan would direct of Tel Aviv University, on the historic significance of the letter.
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the new, full-length feature, to
400 be
Europe
-- entitled "Children of the
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ONDON—The Supreme Court of Soviet Estonia announced
- The film, according to plans, th execution bv a firing squad- of two Estonian police officers
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ti. ,a—). .77n11 r17 1 :-:1 `.7t..?"niIr .1 .t•MI,- will be devoted partly to scenes vin d the :Nazi SS and helped operate extermination canips
jo e an estimated 125,000 persons, mainly Jews, were niur-
in Morocco. A group of Moslem %in heowhich
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71 nil movie experts will work with dered. The Chief of the - Estonian security police during the
Dayan on the picture, Minister Nazi occupation was also sentenced to death in absentia: he is.
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now living in England, and British authorities refuse to
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BONN—The Bonn public prosecutor opened a libel action
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young,
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against Dr. A. Schmidt, attorney of a major West German auto-
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can prisons, where they had been in Germany of slandering the Jewish community. The attorney,
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held for nearly three months.
when questioned during a meeting of the neo-Nazi Reichspartei
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December 1959 as to whether a synagogue could be regarded
. after several intercessions, by In- as a House of God, declared: "If we heard Martin Luther on the
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subject, there would be storms of laughter."
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ANSBACH, Germany—The prosecution in the trial of Karl
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the visit to Morocco of President
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P 1 '1 '?in4 Nasser of the United Arab Re- testified to the horrors which occurred under his direction.
public.
Africa
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to't2pr.i in g The Jews still held in prison
JOHANNESBURG—The
Israel pavilion at this year's Rand
are those arrested on charges
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show, South Africa's largest trade fair, has been awarded,
of being involved in a "Zionist" Easter
a gold
for the second year in succession. Israel's exports
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4,000 network. They are scheduled to to South medal
Africa in 1960 exceeded $1,863,000—more than double
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appear
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court
on
charges
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1959 figure—and Chief Rabbi Louis I. Rabinowitz expressed
titrlr y i7 111:t
npop 1.1n offenses against the internal and the
the hope that Israel-South Africa trade would increase further,
, external security of the state.
now that South Africa is leaving the British Commonwealth.
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