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painting.
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statements of anger and anguish.
"Yet out of all this has come a
man brimming over with enjoy-
ment of the sweetness of life—
and this is the note I enjoy and
find refreshing in his work.
Technically, his inspiration has
been ' Cezanne's way of translat-
ing nature into chords of lumi-
nous color; and Cezanne, as he
wrote in his book, 'Painter's Self-
Portrait,' has been the source of
his deepest artistic convictions.
He paints, in this exhibition, both
the countryside of his beloved
Adirondacks and the countryside
of his beloved Cezanne, in both
oil and pastel. In either medium,
an emotion is expressed which is
the man himse
d
• e zest for life."
• apse of
Detroit is not alone in its rec-
ark time of ognition of Rosenberg's creative
int ngs were work. Scores of art institutes
have had exhibitions of his works
and- • the following institutions
are among those that own his
paintings: .
ue-
30,000,-
cal develop-
under, way.
Rio's Jews Fail Harmonious Relations Strengthen
to Join Israel's Objectives of Jewish Community
By MAX M. FISHER
same time become aware of
The new economics and auto-
BibleCompetition President,
Jewish Welfare
vast new fields in which we are
Albany Institute of History and
Art, Art Institute of Chicago, N.Y
Bar Association, Baltimore
of Ar Berkshire
field, alel Mus
salem, rael; Bo
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Clev
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of Art,
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nion C ge,
ati; N.
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wish Museum,
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alfa; Metropoli-
Museum of Art, Boston Museu
Fine Arts, William Rockhill
Gallery of Art, Kans
wark Museum, New Y
blic
brary; Philadelphi
m of
Art, Philbrook A
er, Tulsa;
Phillips Galler
gton; Roose-
velt House
College, N.Y.C.;
Smiths. •
stitution, Washing-
ton'
ield Museum of Art,
setts; Stephen Wise Con-
s House, N.Y.C.; Smith College
useum of Art, Tel Aviv Museum
of Art, Israel; University of Santo
Domingo, Cuidad Trujillo; United
States Embassies in London, Paris
and Rio de Janeiro; Walker Art
Center, .Minneapolis; Wadsworth
Atheneum, Hartford.
"
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil,
(JTA) — Forty-three Catholic
and Protestant contestants —
but not a single Jew—from this
city, have registered to com-
pete in a statewide. Bible corn-
petition here on Sept. 14 to
determine who will represent
Brazil at the International Bible
Contest to be held in Israel in
October. •
In Sao Paulo, however, four
Jews registered along with 16
Christians for the Brazilian
semi-finals to be sponsored by
Israel Ambassador Yosef Tekoa.
in the contest will in-
„dude t
ctor of the Univer-
rof. Pedro Cal-
mon an •
Catholic and
Protestant
en.
In his regular
io program
here today, Rab
H. Lemles
sharply criticized
e fact that
not a single Jew om Rio de
Janeiro had regis ed for the
local Bible cont
Federation
When we consider the un-
knowns and complexities of our
world that face us in the New
Year, it is somewhat unsettling
to the most fortunate of us.
Consider what a terrifying
place our world is to the unfor-
tunate . . . to the physically or
emotionally handicapped, to the
aged, to children whose parents
lack the desire or the means of
caring for them, to the unem-
ployed, to those who are ill, to
those in lands that discriminate
against Jews. Consider our fellow
Jews in lands where being a Jew
is beset with mistreatment and
even of persecution. Consider the
Jews of Israel, for all their cour-
age and resolution, engaged in a
heroic struggle to transplant an
entire population from poverty
to economic well-being, from in-
security to solid adjustment and
to transform their country from
a- haven into a national home.
• One of the ironies of mod-
ern civilization is that each
time we increase our knowl-
edge of ourselves, we at the
totally ignorant. At the turn
of the century when life was
less complex, helping the poor
meant leaving a basket of food.
Now we know that there are
involved social maladjustments
beyond poverty. We have dis-
covered that the children of
well-to-do parents can some-
times be more deprived • than
poor children.
Medical science has made mar-
velous strides and people live
far longer than they used to. Now
the problem is how to make those
extra years the blessing they
should be, rather than a tremen-
dous burden for the old person
and his family to bear.
Jewish education now goes be-
yond the rote of learning lan-
guage or history; it includes
adaptation to the American Jew-
ish scene. Community centers
and camps now perform the use-
ful social function of teaching
children — and adults — how to
play and live together. This be-
comes a mighty force for Jewish
identification and Jewish group
survival.
on Has Role of Rapid Growth in Israel's Economics
The Sed
egion is rapidly
ecomin
e of the centers of
Israel'
onomic life.
T
fact requires the con-
ion of first-class communi-
ions to the region; these, in
turn, cheapen transport and con-
tribute to the viability of fur-
ther enterprises, not only in the
domain of minerals, but also in
agriculture and related under-
takings.
The tropical vegetation of the
Sedom swamp can serve two
purposes: the growth of certain
grazing plants such as artemesis
and striplex, which are rich in
vitamins and can stand the high
" •
salinity of the swamps, is being
promoted, and the _raising of
cattle is being introduced and
acclimatized to the local heat.
The second. project, which
perhaps has even a brighter
future than cattle raising, is the
propagation of the juncus brush,
growing wild in the swamp, and
its utilization 'as raw material
for producing paper.
In addition, there are experi-
ments under way to grow fresh
vegetables with salt water by a
special method which ensures
the speedy drainage of the
water so that the salt is re-
moved from the plant roots be-
fore it can damage them.
Here, too, just as everywhere
else in Israel, the Jewish Na-
tional Fund participates in im-
portant development work with
a view to making the fullest use
of all . nature's gifts, whether
large or small, to strengthen
and consolidate the economic
foundations of Israel. In Sedom
and Eyn Gedi, on both banks
of the Dead Sea, the Jewish
National Fund is engaged in
land reclamation and is assist-
ing in experiments with salt-
tolerant plants, e.g. the juncus
brush for cellulose products,
date palms, etc.
• ••••:**-.
mation have vastly complicated
the problem of finding suitable
employment for the physically
handicapped and for the worker
burdened by social discrimina-
tion.
Population shifts are spread-
ing. Jewish families over an ever
expanding suburbia. This has cre-
ated an enormous problem of
logistics. Iris difficult to get chil-
dren to centers of formal and
informal Jewish education, and
equally difficult to locate enough
of those centers near scattered
areas of Jewish population.
Marvelous progress in the
field of civil rights has thrown
us into close proximity with
our neighbors which makes the
problem of harmonious rela-
tions ever more important.
Fortunately for the community,
we are organized into a federa-
tion of agencies and services as
an aid in strengthening Jewish
life everywhere: Dedicated com-
munity leaders aided by highly
trained communal workers de-
vote themselves to working to-
ward the solution of these and a'
host of other equally complex
problems the year-round. Once a
year we conduct the Allied Jew;
ish Campaign and the funds rais-
ed for a world of service imple-
ment the work to be done.
The end result is that life in
Detroit, throughout the world—
and notably in Israel—is made
more meaningful, more under-
standable, more bearable, more
pleasant, for thousands of our
fellow Jews, among them our
friends and neighbors. The prob-
lems we face as we enter the
New Year are sombre and ex-
tensive; it is good to know that
we shall continue addressing our-
selves to meeting them together,
with determination, generosity
and dignity.