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People Make News
Negotiations for the sale of
Kn,esset Defeats Motion, to Amend Security Law
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Is- quire the accused person to dis- missal of Cohen's : appeal and
rael's parliament defeated this prove a presumption of guilt Judge MD1.0 Witkon,' in hold-
week in heated debate four mo- instead of putting the onus for ing for acquittal, did not raise
Yeshiva University Rabbinic tions to amend the state secur- proving guilt on the prosecu- the issue of the security law.
The Prime Minister said he
Opposition parties who fought would not be "cowed" by the
SEYMOUR TURK, spiritual criticized by Israel's Supreme
to repeal or radically amend the opinion of a Supreme Court
leader of Cong. Pri Etz Chaim, Court as untenable.
2592 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn,
By a vote of 48 to 39, the law cited the court opinion. The judge since he was not a legis-
N.Y., as president.
Knesset beat back the motions Prime Minister' countered with lator. Menahem Beigin of the
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after Prime Minister David Ben- the opinion he obtained from Her& Party and Prof. Hans
KATIE LOUCHHEIM, the U.S. Gurion defended the law as re- the Attorney General, which' Klinghoffer of . the Liberal
State Department's Deputy As- quired by Israel's unique se- said Justice Landau's criticism Party assailed the Prime Min-
sistant Secretary for Public Af- curity situation. The Prime was that of one judge and not ister for accepting an opinion
fairs, will receive the "Woman Minister cited an opinion by of the court since Justice Zvi which took issue with a Su-
of the Year" award conferred Attorney General Gideon Haus- Berinson concurred in the dis- preme Court Justice.
annually by the Women's Divi- ner in favor of the law.
sion, American Friends of the
The measure, under which
Hebrew University, it was an- Mapam leader Aharon Cohen
nounced by Mrs. Louis S. Gimbel, was convicted for espionage,
Jr., national president.
had been described by Supreme
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Court Justice Moshe Landau as
RABBI ISRAEL MILLER, "unreasonable." The Justice had
of Kingsbridge Heights Jewish declared that "even concern for
Center, Bronx, the security of the state cannot
N. Y., w a s justify such a perversion of the
elected the accepted laws of evidence."
new chairman
Landau, who expressed regret
of theNational that the law obliged the high
Jewish Wel- court to reject Cohen's appeal
fare Board from his conviction, had re-
Commission ferred to provisions which re-
on. Jewish
Chaplaincy.
Three Jewish lay leaders, Ad-
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This is the
Instrument miral LEWIS L. STRAUSS,
PERFORMANCE!
through which HERBERT TENZER, and JO-
JWB serves as SEPH S. WOHL, one Reform,
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the govern- one Orthodox and the third
ment-author- Conservative, have been named
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for recruiting, Statesman Awards presented an-
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the Fisher Building have focused Alumni has elected RABBI ity law of 1957 which had been tion.
t h e national
spotlight on
Louis Berry
and George
Seyburn, w h o
were revealed
this week as
t h e prospec-
tive purchas-
ers • of one of
Detroit's _ most
important
structur e s.
Berry is one of
Detroit's most
Berry prominent Jew-
ish leaders and_ is a national
leader in UJA, the Weizmann In-
stitute and other world projects.
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Max A. Braude, director-
general of ORT, the Organiza-
tion for Rehabilitation through
Training, ar-
rives in New
York to begin
a one month
cross - country
"report to the
American Jew-
ish communi-
ty. Among the
major develop-
ments which
,
Mr. Braude
w i 11 discuss
will be the ef-
fect of the
massive influx
of North Afri-
can Jews into
Braude France, the
critical educational and man-
power requirements of Israel
for its economic progress, the
extension of ORT activities to
India and new technical assist-
ance projects in Africa which
. ORT has undertaken on behalf
of the U.S. Government.
During his visit, Braude will
participate in discussions with
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee and with officials of Amer-
ican - ORT concerning the fi-
_ nancing of training programs
conducted by ORT in 19 coun-
tries.
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The election of new members
.to the board of governorS of
- Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion was an-
nounced at its meeting in Cin-
cinnati last week. They are:
Rabbis Frederic A. Doppelt, Ber-
tram W. Korn, Sanford E._ Rosen,
lacob M. Rothschild and David
J. Seligson.
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Mrs. Harry 3. Finke, of Great
- Neek, Long Island, was elected
president of the Jewish Braille
Institute of
America, f o r
a second term
of two years.
Mrs. Finke, a
braille tran-
scriber and .
teacher of
-braille tran-•
: scribing on
_yolunte
- basis for a
• fttimber of Mrs. Finke
.ir.:ears, has served as chairman
of: Braille for the Nassau Coun-
ty (N. Y.) Chapter of the Amer-
:jean Red Cross and as chairman
- of - services for the blind, New
'York State Federation of Tern-
!pie SisterhoodS.
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;+ Dr. SOLOMON GAON, Sep-
hardi Chief Rabbi of the British
•Commonwealth; Dr. HERBERT
: GOLDSTEIN, professor of nu
,..clear engineering science at
Columbia University and presi-
:dent of the Association of
- Orthodox Jewish Scientists; and.
ROBERT R. NATHAN, interna-
tional economist, author and gov-
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New York City social welfare
executive MAURICE B. HEX-
and Worcester, Mass., in-
dustrialist JACOB HIATT have
been elected members of Bran-
deis University's board of trus-
tees.
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The Brotherhood of the Cen-
tral Synagogue of New York
sponsored an informal evening
of tribute to JAMES N. ROSEN-
BERG, veteran Jewish commu-
nal leader, in celebration of his
88th birthday.
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JAMES POGUE, of 22705
North Kane, Detroit, received
a merit award for sales achieve-
men by the National Life In-
surance Company of Vermont.
A representative. of the Austin
A. Kanter Agency, agents for.
National Life in Detroit area,
Pogue outsold every other Na-
tional Life agent in this terri-
tory.
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NORMAN L. SNYDER, presi-
dent of Creston Finance Com-
pany, Grand Rapids, was re-
elected president of the Michi-
gan Consumer Finance Associa-
tion at the annual meeting in
Detroit. Re-elected for 1963
with Snyder is WARREN D.
GREENSTONE, of Detroit, vice
president.
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DR. NATHAN A. PERILMAN,
rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of
New York, was honored at a spe-
cial service marking his 30th
year of affiliation with the larg-
est Jewish house of worship in
the world.
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DR. JACOB KLEINBERG,
University of Kansas chemistry
professor, will talk on "Some
Inorganic Syntheses at Mod-
erately Elevated Temperatures"
at 7:15 p.m. Monday, in the
Kresge Libra r y Auditorium,
W.S.U.
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NELSON GLUECK, president
ernment consultant, will be of Hebrew Union College—Jew-
among the guest speakers at the ish Institute of Religion, was
64th Anniversary national Bien awarded the Medallion of Valor
.-niaI - convention- of the- Union at the State of Israel commen-
. of Orthodox Jewish Congrega- dation dinner, Nov. 18, spon-
• tiOris of America; Nov. 21-25, sored by the State of Israel
at the Sheraton - Park Hotel, Bond Organization in Los An-
geles, by Harry S. Truman.
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