:41 Rabbi Yihye Alshekh, Israel's Bible
Wins Worldwide Contest
,... co [ Champion,
Other judges were Father
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
Louis Smith is Named
CJFWF National Cash
Collection Chairman
L.A. Jewish Community Group
Bequeathed $1 Million; Largest Yet
Louis P. Smith, of Boston,
LOS ANGELES, (JTA)—The ficiaries without regard to race,
has been named national chair- Jewish Community Foundation, color or creed.
to The Jewish News)
Louis
Semkowski,
director
of
the
.
man of the special cash collec-
of the Los Angeles
JERUSALEM — Rabbi ' Yihye • Pontificial Biblical Institute; Hans tion drive just launched by the an agency
Federation-Counil, has
.
Jewish
Alshekh, Israel's Bible champion, Rom/Iola, director of the Swedish
Council of been bequeathed more than.
won the world Bible champion- Theological Institute; Yehuda
Jewish Feder- million, the entire estate' Of the
S Q ship at the second. International Elitzur, Bible lecturer at Bar-Ilan
ations and late Sara Federman Hersh
0 Bible Contest which ended early university, and Menachem Haran,
Welfare tnauer.
Bible lecturer at the Hebrew
P; Wednesday morning.
Funds, it was
as
t of the
Irving Hial, p
Rabbi Alshekh and • Mrs. Yo- University. There was also a
announced by
:5
is was 'the
as landa De Silva of Brazil were panel of advisors headed by Zal-
CJFWF presi- federation, s
ift in the histo
I tied with perfect scores and man Shazar, member of the
dent, Irving largest sin
eles Jewish phila
of Los
were each given an additional Jewish Agency Executive.
Kane
The event was opened with
Smith is thropy
question to decide •a single win-
tb
president of
. ner. Rabbi Alshekhtook the title brief addresses of greeting to the
Kuttnauer, a
W
the Combined An
z with a total score of 65 out of a contestants by President Ben-Zvi.
im, Califo m
perfect
score
of
65.
Mrs.
De
Prime
Minister
Ben-Gution,
mem-
Jewish
Philan-
pm '
ber of a p
.. thr o pies of f ily. Her fathe
ci3 Silva- took second place with 63 bers of Parliament and other dig-
points. Tuvia Goldman, the United nitaries, including members of
an, was one
L. P. Smith Greater Bos-
r States Bible champion, was third the diplomatic corps and mem-
ton and has
the Cedars o Le
05 place winner. Runners up were bets of the clergy, occupied the
long been active in local and
tal and of th He
t'
i Jacobus Johannes Combrinck of front rows. The spectators sat overseas Jewish welfare efforts.
oan society.
LEADING
ta South Africa and Edmund Read through six hours of questions
In accepting his new assign-
ent of
Maurice
Turn
and
answers
until
the
early
morn:
INSTITUTIONS
mnt, Smith called on all the
of New Zealand.
e gift was
e foundation, sa
.
Council's member communities
Thirteen other competitors had ing hours.
r its size but
SERVE
que not o
A been eliminated in earlier rounds
The Prime Minister handed to back vigorously ,its - "extra- a ct that Mrs. Kutt-
ordinary
action
in
launching
41
the
winners
their
prizes—a
gold
tz when they obtained less than 20
hater, in her will, gave the
to Rabbi Alshekh, a silver the first national cash effort in foundation broad authority and
P points. They included contestants medal
from Austria, Belgium Wales, medal to Mrs. De Silva and a its history," and urged them discretion in dispensing the gift,
NOODLES lid FARM
a, i—i, . , bronze medal to Goldman. Mrs. "to mobilize for the greatest rather than confining the terms
.Malta, France, C
possible
collection
in
the
re-
d,
Finla
De
Silva
also
gat
a
hug
and
a
an
Argentina, H
of the bequest to narrow limits
ss from the Prime Minister as maining months of this year.
d the Ivo
an
Chile, S
which might eventually become
"There
are
millions
of
dol-
e
audience
cheered.
As
each
Coast.
obsolete. The foundation han-
lars
on
the
books
of
our
fed-
e. • than 3,000 spectators inner received his prize, his
dles
gifts for designated bene-
untry's flag was raised and his erations and welfare funds past
ja • ed the National Convention
tional
anthem
was
played.
The
due
for
1960
and
previous
C ter for the contest. Many, in-
ding President Yitzhak Ben- rime Minister handed special years. The pressures for these
I
Davis • edals to all of the other finalists. funds have mounted severely
i and Prime Minis
Lights burned in many homes in the past few months," Smith
• e. i
en-Gurion, sat
throughout
Israel as , people said, "as immigration to Israel
f
t'
checki
and,-
es he 1 stayed up to follow the contest has increased beyond all ex-
ontestants h o s
pectation and_ beyond all bud-
-
ansl rs returns on their radios..
e
=
idth of
getary provisions, and as - na-
t abov the a estant and
tional and local unmet needs
el of
6 ind them w the
have mounted here at home.
es headed b •upr•Court Five Jews Running
"These pressing human needs
n.
Haim
eo
Ju
in Turkish Elections
can be met only by cash pay-
ISTANBUL, (JTA)--Sarni Co- ments—now." •
Smith asked each Council
hen, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
correspondent in Turkey, has community to appoint a cash
been named • to • the Republican collection committee to han-
People's- party list for the gen- dle this special effort; to at-
eral elections Oct. 15 for a new tempt, by personal and . individ-
ual appeals, to reach contribu-
Parliament.
DEVELOPED & UNDEVELOPED
Cohen is one of five Jewish tors with the largest amounts
If You Own Land or Real candidates for Parliament in the outstanding; and to undertake
Estate in Israel We Can Buy elections. Dr. Isaac D. Taranto is a planned, comprehensive cam-
It From You Here and Pay
the second Jewish candidate of paign to bring in speedily sub-
stantially more cash than that
the Republican People's party.
You in American Dollars.
community obtained during the
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The newly established Justice same period last year.
party has offered two Jewish can-
didates, Leon Alauf, a business- Chicago Public School
man, and Isaac Chiprut, an at-
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torney. The fifth Jewish candi- Authorities Probe
17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.,
date is another attorney, Eliya Nazi Propaganda Acts
Detroit 35, Mich.
Bahar, for the New Turkey party.
Chicago
CHICAGO, (JTA)
public school authorities have
embarked on an investigation of
American Nazi propaganda and
recruitment activities in six Chi-
cago high schooLs and one jun-
ior college • as *a result of evi-
dence furnished by the Jewish
War Veterans of the 'United
States.
Superintendent of schools T.
J. Lubera ordered the probe
after seeing the Nazi propa-
ganda distributed to thousands
of teen-aged youths at the
schools.
The propaganda was disse
e
mated by a group called
"Fighting American Nation
ists" which claims to have
rolled hundreds of youths in
Chicago area. The propag
distributed turned up mainly
the northwest side of Chicago.
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NEW YORK, (JTA) — ,The
Jewish Agency announced that
1,264 American . Jews emigrated
to Israel from the United States
during the past Jewish year.
These immigrants included
professionals. who were pro-
cessed through Professional
and Technical Workers Aliyah
(PATWA), chalutzim of the
various Zionist youth move-
ments, retired persons and mid-
dle class immigrants.
• Louis Segal, member of the
Agency executive and chair-
man of the Aliyah department,
said that the American aliyah
this year was 30 per cent above
that of the previous Jewish
year and the hig,hest rate at-
tamed since 1949..
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