The. percentage of Asian and
African born Israelis nearly
tripled between the years 1948
and 1958.
This fact was among the find-
ings of a study prepared by Jacob
Lestschinsky for the Institute of
Jewish Affairs of the World
Jewish Congress, which appear-
ed in "Current Events in Jew-
ish Life—a Quarterly Survey."
Lestschinsky found that the
proportion of natives of Africa
and Asia has increased from less
than 10 per cent to
27 per cent . . . a r
large immigration of
Yeminite Jews to I
During these 1
s the per-
centage of Eur
n and Ameri-
can born Isr
has decrease
from over
er cent to 36 per
MRS. JACK VORZIMER
cent. Eve
e percentage -.of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Vorzimer Israelis
in the Jewish
are now honeymooning in Cali- State
ased from
fornia following th •
r cen ,
h
on Aug. 5 in
ort.
money at
The study shows hat families
Hotel.
of seven persons or ore are 25
ong fami-
orzimer is the former times as numerous
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LaBow, daughter of Mr.
Mrs. Samuel LaBow of
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LONDO
NGLAND
and DR. SAMUEL EILON
reader in Engineering • produc
tion at the Imperial College of
Science in London.
* * *
SANFORD SOLENDER, Mt.
Vernon, N. Y., executive vice-
president of the National Jew-
ish Welfare Board, has been
named chairman of the Ad Hoc
Committee on Welfare appoint-
ed by Secretary of Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare Abraham
Ribicoff, to praise and make
recommendations on all of the
welfare programs in the De-
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare.- Mrs. Pauline Ry-
man, Detroit, is a member of
the committee.
* *
An 18-year-old New Orleans
resident, DONALD MINTZ, was
elected as the new president of
Ben and Norma Shacket the National Federation of
Temple Youth, affiliate of the
Scholarship Fund Set Union.
of American Hebrew Con-
gregations.
for Hillel Day School
* * *
Rabbi. Jacob E. Segal an-
MAURICE A. BETMAN of
nounced this week that a spe- Northwestern Mutual Life Insur-
cial Memorial Scholarship Foun- ance Company recently won a
dation has been set up by the all-expense paid trip to Milwa
Hillel Day School of Detroit in kee for the company's annu
memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ben convention.
Slate Jewi
Shacket, who met their deaths
*
*
in a recent airplane crash.
Dr. WILLIAM E. STIRTO
Week Next Spring
The memorial fund, to be vice president of the University
The role of Jewry and J
called the • iSen and Norma of Michigan and director of the
the building of
will
Shacket Scholarship Founda- U-M Dearborn Center, was named
ally next
tion, will be utilized to enable by Governor Swainson to lead a be `"ahlight
statewide campaign to encourage Spring a Jewish History
cultural activities throughout the Week observance, sponsored by
state, and to make Michigan's the American Jewish Historical
achievements in cultural fields Society, Dr. Abram Kanof, the
better known among her own society's president, annou
people, and the rest of the world.
The aim of the
ance is
The Governor announced the ap- to spur an int
in American
pointment of Dr. Stirton as Chair- Jewish histo
d Jewish Ameri7
man of the State Cultural Com- cana, to
den understanding
mission.
of the r
ionship betwe
* * *
ish i
s of democr
Election of JACK D. GORDON, Ame
n forms and
president of Washington Federal and
throw light
Savings and Loan Association, as Je
problems t
president of the South Florida of
"past, Kanof
d.
Division of the American Friends
an,of New
of the Hebrew University, was Yor bi Philip Go
a member o he society's
announced in New York - by
Daniel G. Ross, national chair- exec 'ye council, has been n
man of the board of the Ameri- ed g ral chairman of
commi
s, educa-
BEN and NORMA SHACKET can Friends. * * *
tors and religious leaders plan-
BERNICE BENJAMIN of Ann ning the History Week.
deserving young children in the
community to attend this Con- Arbor will be among 22 Ameri-
Rabbi Goodman is executive
servative day school, which is can and Canadian young men and secretary of the National Jewish
opening its - fourth academic women to depart Aug. 30 for Welfare Board's Jewish Book
year this September with an Kibbutz Maabarot to participate Council of America and adminis-
enrollment of close to 90 stu- in the American Work-Study trative secretary of the World
Program in Israel for six Federation of YMHA and Jew-
dents.
Friends who wish to honor months, sponsored by the Stu- ish Community Centers.
the memory of Mr. and Mrs. dent._ Zionist Organization under
An array of historical mate-
Shacket may send their contri- the auspices of the Youth Depart- rials, including posters, bibliogra-
ment
of
the
American
Zionist
butions to the Scholarship Fund
phies for adults and children,
Council and the Jewish Agency pamphlets and study outlines is
at Hillel Day School, 18977 for
Israel.
Schaefer.
being prepared as program aids
* * *
Mr. Shacket, a land-developer
in connection with the observ-
LOUIS UNTERMEYERS, fa- ance,
and builder, helped to organize
Kano
mous
poet
and
literary
.critic,
haS
"Friends of DeHoCo," a group
T
ill b e obtainable
been
named
consultant
in
Eng-
that aids the rehabilitation of
the society, which re-
lish
poetry
by
the
Library
of
inmates of the Detroit House
ly estabr
of Correction. He also was a - Congress in Washington.
quarters 70-year-old ar-
*
member of Jewish War Veter-
chives of historical materials at
Milton P. Siegel, assist
ans, Perfection Lodge, F.&A.M.,
150 Fifth A ue•
• NAw York.
rector
general
of
orld
and Adas Shalom Synagogue.
nce will
Health
Organization,pre-
Mrs. Shacket was active in
nnual
cub scouting work, Pioneer Wo- sented with the "S Beber me ewisl
Award"
men, Hadassah and Adas Sha- Distinguished Alum ►
in
*la
lom Synagogne. Both gave their of Aleph Zadik ph, Bnai phia
962.
Brith
Youth
Orga
ation.
support to Hillel Day School.
Hearing Tests A lable
rman to Split T
lies whose heads were born in
Africa and Asia as among thos
born i s uro Ameri
Thes
num
are I • li-b
ose heads
bor Israel, Europ
ica are still in the ma
is pr,
be a
enc
he
Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Maslowsky
(Resha Jaffin), who were recently
married . .
another satisfied
client of
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Increases Divi
to $1.00
Jose
Opposition to Military
"The Detroit H• ng Cen-
on, executive vice
ter's mobile hearin,
t of Borman Food
Sponsorship of Meeting trailer
will be back at the State Stores, Inc., reported that the
Senator J. W. Fulbright (D.-
Ark.) acknowledge with appreci-
ation JWV's support of his op-
position to military sponsorship
of meetings designed to educate
the public on problems essen-
tially political in their purpose
and thrust.
JWV had written the senator,
expressing its support of that
position and pointing out that "It
is our opinion that those mem-
bers of the Senate who have
taken a position in opposition to
you on this issue have completely
misunderstood the nature of the
problem and deprecate its seri-
ousness."
Fair again this year," reports
Ralph Rupp, director of the
Detroit Hearing Center, a Torch
Drive • Agency. He announced
that arrangements have been
completed to provide the same
free hearing testing program
for fair visitors that was avail-
able last year. The Center staff
tested 2,055 people, with 48%
showing hearing which was be-
low normal.
The trailer will be located
just outside of the northwest
corner of White Hall, and the
testing program will run from
10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. daily, Sept.
1 through 10.
board of directors proposed an
increase of the authorized cap-
ital from 1,500,000 shares to 5,-
000,000 shares of common stock.
The increase is to be presented
to the stockholders at the an-
nual meeting on Oct. 18. Subject
to the approval of the increase
in authorized stock, the direc-
tors voted to split the presently
outstanding common stock on a
two for one basis, by the dis-
tribution of one additional share
for each share - held.
Kron reported that the direc-
tors voted to increase the cash
dividend 25%, from 80c to an
annual rate of $1 per share.
II011,Lag
DR. DAVID ABIR, head of
the department of mechanics at
the Haifa Technion, will be the
only Israeli participating in the
8th Annual Anglo-American
Aeronautical Conference to be
held in London Sept. 3-14. He
has been invited to take part by
the Royal Aeronautical Society
in London, and the Institute of
Aeronautical Sciences in the
United States, both of which
he is affiliated.
* * * -
The Joseph Whitworth Prize
for 1960 of the British Institu-
tion of Mechanical Engineers
has been awarded to BINYA-
MIN AVI-ITZHAK, M. Sc., in-
structor in the department .„ of
,,.industrial and management en-
gineering of the Technion, Is-
rael Institute of Technology,
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Ellen LaBow Weds Report Rapid Growth of Asian, African
Population in Israel; Tripled in 10 Years
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