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A Digest of World Jewish Happenings
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.
Jewish Center Will Hold Winter
Camp Programs for Kids, Family
The Children's Division of the
Jewish Center will have a "Win-
ter Day Camp" at the
Mile Branch, 15110
n
United States
Mile, Oak Park,
a.m. to
NEW YORK—Dr. Nahum GOldman, president of the. World 3 p.m. Mond
ough Thurs-
Jewish Congress, has sent a message to the secretary general of day.
the World Council of Churches, expressing great satisfaction that
The c
is for children from
the Assembly of the World Council in New Delhi unanimously grad
adopted a resolution opposing anti-Semitism . . . Enrollment in
sportation will
Hebrew classes in New York high schools increased by 18 per cent
d from the main
\ this year, it was reported this week by Judah Lapson, director of the
the Center to the
Hebrew Culture Council . . . A 12-week series of. beginning Hebrew
lessons on television was started this week over WNBC-TV, spon- ranch.
Two other winter amping
sored by the Radio and Television Commission of the New York
Board of Rabbis in cooperation with the American Zionist Counti programs have beef planned.
. . . The Israel Bond drive in New York alone has resulted th . Camp Giborim at Camp Tam
rack will provide winter
year in sales exceeding $10,300,000, topping the total 1960 figur
Sun-
children; grades 3-6
it was announced here by Ira Guilden, chairman of the Great
New York Israel Bond Committee.
WASHINGTON—The State Department indicated this week
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that it was studying reports of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union
and expressed "concern" over the reports.
WALTHAM, Mass.—Brandeis University has announced a $100,-
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000 grant from the Lester Martin Foundation in tribute to Jonah
to The Jewish News)
J. Goldstein, retired judge of the New York Court of General
TEL AVIV — An 11-hour
Sessions, and a $1,000,000 endowment to the University from•Mrs.
Florence G. Heller of Chicago for the Florence Heller Graduate marathon bargaining session
collapsed Tuesday morning and
School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare.
salaried engineers, agron
LOS ANGELES—A group of scholars, church leaders and 6,000
omists
and chemists walked off
literary figures have published a public appeal to the Soviet Union their jobs
in public institutions
urging Soviet authorities "to reconsider their policies towards and government
offices.
Soviet Jews so as to restore justice for those sentenced and for the
The engineers' union which
weak and defenseless minorities they represent.
has been bargaining for higher,
wages for several months met
Canada
OTTAWA—An Israeli trade mission left for home this week Monday night with officials of
after meeting with Canadian government officials and completing the government and the His-
tadrut, Israel's Labor Federa-
a three week tour of Canadian industry.
tion in last ditch talks. The
MONTREAL—The Canadian Labor Congress has disclosed that, engineers have claimed that the
at the request of the 150,000 member Montreal Labor Council CIO, wage gap between them and
it will ask the government of Canada to take up the situation of common laborers had be
Russian Jewry at the United Nations . .. A commemorative rally rowed by a rec
in-
held here under the auspices of the Jewish labor and SoCialist crease for
•rers. A com-
circles called on the Canadian government to protest to the United mittee
by the Hista
Nations against Russian vielation of human - rights principles by rec
a small •
denying equal religious and cultural rights to the Jews in the
gineers wa•ut the
Soviet Union.
gineers rej•te •
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demanding mi
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esse
s, percent i
PARIS—The CRIF, representative organization of French
work
in
the
• ense
nst
has decided to make a vigorous protest to the Soviet Embassy a
lay other ag
the recent trials in Moscow and Leningrad of Jewish religi
to cont .
leaders.
the
GENEVA—Israel leads the world in the ratio of doctors
was
total population, with one physician for every 420 persons,
reported here by the World Health Organization.
BRUSSELS—Queen Elisabeth was presented here with a
Atto
ry Hartman,
tificate marking the planting in Israel of a forek,bearing her nam
• nfrew Road, has be-
made during an audience with the queen by a delegation repre- I io i V
come associated in the general
senting the Jewish National Fund.
VIENNA — The Austrian parliament has voted . unanimous insurance business with the
approval of an amendment to the indemnification law_ clearing the Korotkin Agency & Associates,
last step to enable the government here to pay compensation to whose offices are at 950 Fiist
National Building.
former Austrian victims of Nazism.
Don and Milt Korotkin - fol-
LONDON—The Soviet government, it was reported here by
Sir Barnett Janner, has thus far failed to reply to a statement made lowed their father) Bill Korotkin,
a month ago by the Board of Depkities of British Jews regarding the in the insurance business, and
their agency has been operating
reports of the sentencing- of Soviet Jewish religious leaders.
for 40 years in this city.
day to Wednesda
"A Fam
amarack
. to 5 p.m.
Mo . The . progr will fea-
ture winter sports for the entir
family.
For registration and infori
tion ab t, V ter prog
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contact
dren's D . ion,
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he Cent
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BAKER'S
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ngineers
Strike in Israel
The Jackson National Life
Insurance COmpany has named
MILTON WEISS, 20463 Chey-
enne, assistant superintendent
of agents, according to A. J.
Pasant, company president.
Weiss, who has 18-and-a-half
ears experience in insurance,
has joined the Victor Insurance
agency, 19200 James Couzens.
He is a member of Congrega-
tion Bnai Moshe -synagogue and
the James Vernor P.T.A. Mr.
and Mrs. Weiss are the parents
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JERUSALEM—The Cabinet has approved , a recommendation to
Set up a special banking institution to finance the construction and
purchase of new vessels for the future expansion of Israel's mer-
chant marine.
Sanctuary for Dead Sea Scrolls
Being Constructed in Jerusalem
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Con- Based on a novel architectural
struction has begun in Jerusalem concept, the structure itself, ex-
I of a sanctuary to house the famed
Dead Sea Scrolls, it was announc-
ed by the D. S. and R. H. Gottes-
man Foundation, which is donat-
ing the funds for the construc-
tion of the new building.
Four of the Dead Sea Scrolls
were donated to the State of Is-
rael in 1955 by the late D. Sam-
uel Gottesman, prominent Jewish
industrialist and philanthropist.
To be known as the "Shrine
of the Book," the new structure,
which is being built adjoining the
new Israel National Museum near
the Hebrew University campus,
•will house the D. S. and R. H.
Gottesman Center for Rare Bibli-
cal Manuscripts and will includ
a permanent exhibit of the
Sea Scrolls and other
and historical docum
cept for its double - parabolic
dome, -is underground, an idea
suggested originally by the fact
that the Scrolls were found in
a cave.
The Scrolls to be housed in
the Shrine will include, among
others, the two oldest manuscripts
of the Book of Isaiah; the Man-
ual of Discipline, containing the
book of statutes and regulations
of the Essenes sect;- and the
Commentary . on Habbakuk. The
Bar Kochba* letters and docu-
ments, discovered in Israel last
year, will also be on permanent
display in the Shrine.
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