THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS —.-- Fr iday, January 26, 1962 -- 10
Around the World...
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.
United States
NEW YORK — More Jewish high schools will be established
by Alliance Israelite Universelle "to providd higher Jewish
education to the future inteligentsia of West European Jewry,"
as well as through its network of schools in the Mediterranean
area, it was announced at the . annual meeting here of the Ameri-
can Friends of Alliance by Jules Braunschvig of Paris, vice
president of the organization . . . The United Synagogue of
America, representing 744 Conservative synagogues, of which
212 are in New York State, has requested this state to repeal
laws permitting the playing of bingo in houses of - worship . . .
More than 200 Jewish educators from 30 states recently attended
the opening of a Hebrew Language Laboratory established by
the American Zionist Council in cooperation with educational
bodies in this country and Israel . . Herman Dana of Boston
has contributed $100,000 for the establishment of the Hymie
Danishevsky Fund for research in the field of child psychiatry
at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem
. . . Australian Jewry's plans for continued immigration were
discussed here by Sydney Einfeld, president of the Executive
Council of Australian Jewry, and leaders of the World Jewish
Congress.
WASHINGTON — The year 1961 was a good agricultural
year for Israel, with Israeli production of leaf tobacco, olive oil
and wheat up from pervious year figures, a United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture report on foreign crop markets showed .. .
Palestinian refugees "have been used by the Arab countries .. .
particularly Egypt . . . as political pawns for years," Democratic
Congressman Abraham Multer told the House last week.
MINNEAPOLIS — The St. Paul City Council received
barrage of protests over its passage of a Sunday closing law.
PITTSBURGH — A grant of $39,000 for a three-year re-
search program in connection with rehabilitation of mental
patients was given by the National Institute of Mental Health,
a U.S. government body, to the Pittsburgh section of the'Naional
Council of Jewish Women.
BOSTON — A gift of $150,000 to be used for the expansion
of the psychiatric services at Beth Israel Hospital here was made
this week by Mr. and Mrs. George Sherman, well-known Boston
philanthropists.
CHICAGO — A $100,000 gift of income-producing real estate
in this city was presented this week by Philip A. Shapiro,
Chicago alderman, and Mrs. Shapiro to the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America for the establishment of a lectureship in
Jewish laws at the seminary in New York City.
Latin America
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Israel Bond Fete
to Honor Cantor
on 70th Birthday
Eddie Cantor, national chair-
PANAMA — The establishment of the Union of Rabbis of
Central America was announced here at the conclusion of the man of • the Builders of Israel,
founding conference of the organization by Rabbi Abraham beloved 'personality in show bus-
iness, will be honored at a na-
Hershberg of Mexico City, the group's first president.
tional celebration of his 70th
birthday, which will be the cli-
Israel
JERUSALEM — Celebrations marking Tu B'Shvat (Arbor max of the inaugural of the
Day) were held throughout Israel on Jan. 21, featuring cere- 1962 campaign for the sale of
monial planting of tens of thousands of trees, parades, pageants Israel Bonds, it was announced
and student plays . . . No Israeli-made weapons which were sold by Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, vice
to foreign governments have been resold to any third party, president of the Israel Bond
Prime Minister Dailid Ben-Gurion reassured the cabinet here as Organization.
The nationwide birthday trib-
a result of recurring press reports alleging that Israel-made
Uzzi submachine guns were being used by the Portuguese to help ute to Cantor will be held at
repress independence rebels. in Angola, Africa . . . Abba Eban, the Fontainebleau Hotel in Mi-
minister of Education and Culture and former Israeli ambassa- ami, Feb. 24, as the climax of
dor to the United States, left here Monday for a week's visit a three-day conferenc of
to the United States in his capacity as president of the Weizmann United States and Can dian
Institute of Science in Rehovot . . . A review of the situation leaders to launch this ar's
of the Jews in various lands, including their" present situation drive for Israel Bonds.
Louis H. Boyar, Los An les
in the Soviet Union, was given to a plenary session of the Jewish
Agency Executive by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, - president of the business 4nd co. munity le er,
World Zionist Organization, shortly after his arrival h_ere from will serve as nat nal chair an
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BRUSSELS — Paul Philippson, president of the Service a minimu $6 500,000
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Social Juif here, notifed Jewish organizations throughout the 1962 for Isra
world that the deadline for filing applications for indemnification velopment.
by Belgian victims of Nazi persecution is Nov. 24, 1962.
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LONDON — A permanent Conference of Progressive Rabbis Hebrew U. A
in Europe was established here at the conclusion recently of a Friends Slate Parley
two-day meeting attended by Liberal rabbis from various Euro-
The American Friends of the
pean countries.
Hebrew University will hold a
DUSSELDORF — "Israel is just as much in need of world national conference, with the
Jewry as world Jewry is in need of Israel," Dr. Nahum Gold- participation of community lead-
mann, president of the World Jewish Congress, told the Central ers from all parts of the United
Council_ of Jews in Germany.
States, at the Americana Hotel,
BONN — Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the Conference Miami Beach; , Fla., Feb. 17 to
on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, reported that key 19, it was announced by Daniel
political figures in West Germany see the need for amendments G. Ross, chairman of the board
to the existing indemnification and restitution laws to satisfy of the organization.
the claims of persons eligible for compensaton who have, thus
Judge Louis E. Levinthal of
far, not been adequately covered.
Philadelphia will serve as chair-
man of the three-day conference.
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JOHANNESBURG — A group of 34 South Africans, includ-
ing physicians, engineers and teachers, left here for an arch- saying, Whom shall I send, and
aeology tour of Israel, the first such tour ever to be organized who will go for us? Then said I,
Here am I; send me.—Isa. 6:8.
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