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THE DETROIT JEWI SH NEWS — Friday, July 20, 1 962 —

New York 'Y'
Rejects Jurors'
Contest Choice

Tarbut Foundation Launches 1st Educational, Cultural Projects

The launching of the first four Benjamin Harris of Chicago,
Samuel Daroff of Philadelphia
educational and cultural proj-
ects by the Tarbuth Foundation and Prof. Shalom Spiegel of
New York.
The Young Men's and Young (Foundation for the advance-
The four educational and cul-
Women's Hebrew Association of ment of Hebrew Culture and tural projects launched in fur-
New York City has been chargediEd
Education), together with initial therance of the Foundation's
with "censorship" by three noted ! allocations
ations totalling more than comprehensive program encom-
pass: 1) the publication of a
poets who were serving as judges
of an Association - sponsored ! $100,000 for their implementa- series of modern Hebrew clas-
-
tion,
was
announced
at
the
first
sics designed to meet the needs
poetry contest.
The juror s, two of them ! annual meeting held in its head- of students of Hebrew in high-
Pulitzer Prize winners, resigned quarters, 515 Park Ave., New schools, colleges and teachers'
when one of their unanimous I York.
seminaries, for which an initial
choices was rejected as a winner
The Tarbuth Foundation was allocation of $50,000.00 has been
by the Association. incorporated • under the laws of made; 2) to facilitate the intro-
The Association said that 23- r the State of New York for the duction of Hebrew language
year-old Frederick Seidel's "Final, promotion of Hebrew education Icourses in public high-schools
Solutions" is libelous to a noted I and culture in
l and colleges in the United
living person. The name of the , all its aspects.
States, in cooperation with the
person and the so-called libelous ; Its formal es-
I National Hebrew Culture Coun
reference have not been dis- tablishmen t
cil, for which an initial amount
of $25,000.00 has been allocated;
closed.
was announced
The jurors included Louise with initiali
3) the initiation of a program
Bogan and Pulitzer Prize win- gifts by Abra-
of Hebrew instruction in sum-
ners Stanley Kunitz and Robert ham and Jacob
mer camps and institutes, for
Lowell
which a similar allocation of
Goodman of
The "Y" Poetry Center was New York, in-
$25,000.00 has been voted: 4)
to have made its first prize— I
the providing of in-service train-
$1,500 for publication by the eluding a large
ing for teachers of Hebrew in
Atheneum Press--through the allocation for
communities lacking teachers'
newly-received Helen Burlin Me- an accredited ,
seminaries.
college for He-
inorial Award.
Dr. Neumann announced that
Juror Kunitz also resigned his bew studies
'
the projected publication of the
post as director of the Poetry and teachers
series of modern Hebrew clas-
Center's writing workshop. Betty training in
sics will consist of 10 books in
Kray, executive secretary of the New York.
Dr. Emanuel
the first series, each containing
Y.M.H.A. Poetry Center for 12
the original Hebrew text, vocal-
years, also quit her post over Neumann, Dr. Neumann
worldZion-
ized, with introduction, notes
the matter:'
George Frankenthaler, presi- ist 1 e a d e r, who was the and vocabulary.
dent of the "Y" and a former original sponsor of the Founda-
A number of outstanding
justice of the state supreme tion, was elected as its presi- scholars and professors of He-
court, said legal opinion had con- dent. Abba Eban, Israel Minis- brew are being invited to edit
firmed the presence of libel in ter of Education and former Is- the series under the supervision
the poem and that "there can I rael Ambassador to the United of an editorial board, headed by
be no moral or legal obligation States, w a s elected honorary Dr. Abraham Halkin of the Col-
to publish libelous material." chairman, and Abraham Good- lege of the City of New York
man, chairman of its board of
and the Jewish Theological Semi-
directors. Other officers elected nary, in cooperation with the
at the annual meeting include Department of Education and
eace with Arabs David Morgenstern, secretary, Culture of the Jewish Agency,
and Jacob Goodman, treasurer. and the Jewish Education Com-
The board of directors was
enlarged by the addition of Dr. mittee of New York.
Reports on the progress of the
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Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland ,

extensive plans now being draft-
ed for the implementation of the
Tarbuth Foundation's program
will be presented at a National
Conference on Hebrew Culture,
sponsored by the Foundation, to
be held in New York during the
week-end of Nov. 17-18.
Abba Eban and Monsieur P.
E. Gilbert, former French Am-
bassador to Israel, will arrive in

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Ben-Gurion Sees

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During Decade

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JERUSALEM — Israel will
achieve peace with the Arab
world in the next decade or at
least know that peace is much
closer, Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion told members of the
from Germany to victims of
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to The Jewish News)
United Jewish Appeal Young
Nazism in Israel, " personal and
UNITED NATIONS — A full- institutional remittances in cash,"
Leadership Mission.
He said he hoped this goal scale portrait of Israel's economy and "transfers in kind."
would be achieved, if not because was provided here Tuesday by
"As the total net receipts
of good will on the part of the the United Nations Department
from donations and foreign
Arabs, than as a result of moral of Economic and Social Affairs.
loans," the survey reported,
pressure by the world's emerging In all instances the report pro-
"exceeded the deficit in goods
new independent states, particu- vided comparisons between Israel
and services, the cross foreign
larly those in Africa. and its neighboring states. The
exchange holdings of the Bank
The Prime Minister listed 183-page report, entitled "Eco-
of Israel and the commercial
three other main goals which he nornic Developments in the
said he hoped would be reached Middle East: 1959-1961," Is a banks increased substantially
from about $136,000,000 at the
in the next decade. One was an supplement to the United Na- end of 1958, to $273,000,000
increase of Israel's population by tions World Economic Survey
at the end of 1960." Israel's
one million, the second was the for 1961.
net inflow of private and offi-
development of the Negev, in-
Israel still has a trade de- cial capital totaled $379,800,-
eluding the creation of 15 more
ficit, the report showed. "The
-
000 in four years.
development towns, and the third !account on goods and services
In 1960-61, Israel received
was the lifting of the level of i since 1957," the report stated,
education for Israelis. "shows a large but relatively from the United States various
Ile said, in reply to questions, stable deficit, rising from about surplus grains valued at a total
that he did not anticipate any $332,000,000 in 195'7 to $339,- of $101,800,000.
Israeli industrial production
mass immigration of American 000000 in 1960, with a consider-
Jews in the immediate future. able decline in 1959, when it was shown in the report to
He added, however, an appeal stood at approximately $321,- have registered "substantial" in-
to young American Jews to 000,000."
creases. Domestic demands for
strengthen their ties with Israel
Israel's total exports in the industrial products had gone up,
by learning the Bible in its origi-
first half of 1961 amounted output and consumption of elec-
nal language, studying Jewish
$138,000,000—wlvile imports tricity have risen. Electric con-
to
history and by person-to-person
during the same period were sumption in industry went up
contacts through visits to Israel.
from 463,000,000 kilowatt-hours
Members of the mission also valued at $285,700,000.
in 1957 to 770,000,000 in 1960.
The survey reported that, be-
were received by President Ben-
The Israeli diamond indus-
Zvi and were guests at a lunch- tween 1957 and 1960, Israel
try increased its exports from
eon given by Mrs. Golda Meir, received a total of $1,059,300,000
and about $35,500,000 in 1957 to
Israel's Foreign Minister. They in what are called "official
in 1960 represent-
also met with Labor Minister private donations." The "official $56,400,000
ing 27 per cent of Israel's total
Yigal Allon. They visited the donations," comprising 33 per
JDC Malben on Aged Home and cent of the total, were in the value of 1960 exports.
In 1961, Israel had registered
flew to the Negev for a study of form of reparations from West
that part of Israel and the port Germany under the Israel-Ger- 70,300 automobiles, buses and
many Reparations Agreement, trucks," compared with 43,000
of Eilat.
The mission completed its for- contributions from the United in 1957. Egypt, with almost 13
mal sessions Thursday at a din- States and United Nations tech- times Israel's population, had,
ner at which they heard a report nical and economic assistance. in 1961, only 93,100 cars, trucks
"Private donations" were in and buses—a decline of some
from Arieh Pincus, Jewish
the form of personal restitution 10,000 from 1957.
Agency treasurer.

United Nations Department Gives
Full Picture of Israel's Economy

this country especially to ad-
dress the conference.
In addition to the officers and
four new members elected on
the board of directors, other
members of the board include
Prof. Mordecai Kaplan, Judge
Simon Rifkind, Judge Louis Lev-
inthal, Prof. Abraham Halkin,
Philip Lown, Ralph Wechsler
and William Salzman.

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