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Bonds Aid Building of Schools
Weekly Quiz
Czech Jews Well
Provided with Matzoh
BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX highest form of physical and
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Jews in
(Copyright, 1115,
spiritual freedom.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Czechoslovakia were provided
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the
of
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is
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origin
with all the matzoh they needed
Why
are
there
six Psalms
Jewish
observance
of
the
Sab-
this Passover, it was reported by
at the beginning of the Fri-
Rabbi Bernard Farkas, of Prague, bath?
day
evening
services?
Most critics will agree that
who is in Israel on a month-long
private visit. Rabbi Farkas said
the Czech matzoh bakery had
sufficient matzoh to supply a
number of other countries, in-
cluding East Germany.
Dr. Richard Ellmann
Writes Introduction
to Wilde's Writings
Israel Bonds are helping the country's educational system
keep pace with the growth of population by financing the
construction of school buildings as an investment in Israel's
future. $10,000,000 of the current Second Development Issue
of Israel Bonds are allocated for this purpose. Above, chil-
dren throng the playground of the school in Kiryat Menahem
In Jerusalem named in honor of Max Bressler, president of the
Zionist Organization of America and national chairman for
Goradians of the Israel Bond Organization.
People Make News
E. N. Cole, General Motors
group vice pres
ident in charge
of the car
and truck di-
visions, was
elected presi-
dent of the
Detroit Area
Council of the
Boy Scouts of
America. Cole
succeeds Mer-
Cole
ritt D. Hill,
former Ford Motor Co. vite
president.
NATALIE EVELYN GAINES,
who divides her time between
Detroit and New York, recently
won third place for sculpture
in the Temple Emanu-El Men's
Club Art Exhibition in Nev0
York for a life-size portrait.
Prof. SELMAN WAKSMAN,
Nobel Prize winner for his dis-
covery of streptomycin, is
spending a month in Israel z-,s
the guest of the Technion, Is-
rael Institute of Technology.
Dr Waksman, who is professor
emeritus at Rutgers University
in New Jersey, is consulting
with Prof. David Ginsburg, act-
ing president of the Technion,
and with Technion staff mem-
bers, with respect to the devel-
opment of the microbiology lab-
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Haifa. He will attend meetings
of the Israel Microbiological
Society in Jerusalem, April 29
and 30. He is accompanied by
Mrs. Waksman.
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Dr. Richard Ellmann, profes-
sor of English at Northwestern
University, wrote the introduc-
tion to a new volume, "Oscar
Wilde—Selected Writings," pub-
lished in London by Oxford
University Press.
Dr. Ellmann is the son of
Judge and Mrs. James I. Ell-
mann of Detroit.
Exhibit of Israeli
Artist in Baltimore
BALTIMORE, Md., (JTA) —
An exhibit of drawings by Anna
Ticho, an Israeli artist,
opened at the Baltimore Mu-
seum of Art and will run until
May 6. The exhibit includes 24
pencil and ink drawings, most
of them Israeli landscapes. Mrs.
Ticho, who was born in Austria
and now lives in Jerusalem,
has had independent showings
of her works in Vienna, Paris.
New York and in several cities
in Israel.
the Sabbath was an original 'de-
velopment of the people of Is-
rael. Actually the division of
the days into weeks indepen-
dent of the days of the month
is a purely Israelite institution
and is generally unknown
among other cultures of early
Semitic times. Old Semitic texts
mention an Accadian "Shap-
patu" which was a day cursed
with ill luck and fell on the
7th, 14th, 21st and 28th days
of the lunar month. People who
could afford to postpone their
work on these days did so. The
Hebrew day of rest was certain-
ly no day of bad luck. It was a
fortunate day. It had no con-
nection with the day of the
month and all observed it —
not as taboo — but as positive
religious experience.
i It was the day on which the
I Almighty rested after creating
, the universe. Therefore its
observance exemplified a belief
in the Almighty and in His
creative acts and powers. Its
I purpose is stated explicitly in
the Bible — For on it did the
Almighty rest from all his work
which He created. In addition
to this motif, Jewish tradition
adds the idea that the Sabbath
is a memorial of the Exodus
from Egypt. The Sabbath is
then the pillar of freedom in-
suring every individual his
On the Sabbath eve the serv-
ice has introductions, the first
part of which are six Psalms
(95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 29). The
introduction was put in gener-
ally to indicate that one should
start the Friday evening pray-
ers a little earlier than the
week-day evening prayers, since
one should seek to add to the
Sabbath, it being such a choice
day. Some say that the six
Psalms represent the six days
of the week and they are fol-
lowed by the Poetry of Solo-
mon Alkabetz, the Kabbalist,
whose "L'Cho Dodi" Poem is an
act of accepting the Sabbath
and ushering it in. Some con-
sider them Psalms which are
supposed to put the worshipper
into the mood of song and
Prayer as he prepares to con-
front the majesty of the Sab-
bath Day.
591 Israel Frontier Miles
Israel has a total of 591 miles
of frontier with the neighbor-
ing hostile Arab states. The
largest sector, 330 miles, bor-
ders Jordanian territory, with
the remainder adjoining Leban-
on, Syria and Egyptian areas.
Don Frohman Chorus
Mumford High,
May 27
Dr. JOHN H. GAETH, direc-
tor of the Hearing Clinic at
I Wayne State University. has
been appointed honorary chair-
man of "May—Better Hearing
Month" for the metropolitan
Detroit area.
.
Charles Aaron,
former pr es i-
dent and now
an honorary,
vice president i
of the National
Jewish Wel-
fare Board,'
has been,
e I e cted presi-
ident of the
World Federa-
tion of YMHAs
and Jewish
Community
Centers, s u c-
ceeding Irving
Edison of St.
Louis.
Aaron
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Prof. RAHEL SHALON, head!
of the building research station
and Dean of the Post-Graduate
School at the Technion, Israel I
Institute of Technology, has
been invited to deliver a lecture I
at the second Congress of the !
International Council for Build-
: ing Research Studies and Docu-
mentation to be held at Cam-
bridge, England, in September.
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Brig. Gen. EZER WEIZ- I
MANN, Commander-in-Chief of
the Israel Air Force and one
of his country's outstanding
military heroes, will arrive
shortly for a one-month tour
of major communities in the
United States and Canada in
behalf of the Israel Bond drive.
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OGDEN R. REID, former
American Ambassador to
Israel, will be one of the prin-
cipal guest speakers at the 33rd
annual convention of the Na-
tional Federation of Jewish
Men's Clubs, according to an
announcement by Philip Gold-
stein of Washington, D.C., presi-
dent of the Federation. More
than 1,000 delegates from the
United States, Canada and
Puerto Rico are expected for
the convention which will, be
held at the Concord Hotel
Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., April 29
through May 2.
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