Chaitles Feinberg Is Named Chairman Balfour Concert Committee Notes Wide Interest in Event Community-wide interest is re- be heard in such favorite roles as television, notably more than 30 of Israel Art Exhibit at Wayne State pOrted in the annual Balfour Con- "Lucia di Lammermoor" and "Rig- on the Ed Sullivan show, have ert of the Zionist Organization of Detroit, to be held Oct. 31 at Ford Auditorium. Dr. Alex Friedlaender, chairman of the committee in charge of this year's event, states that many or- ganizations as well as hundreds of individuals have been calling the Zionist office to make advance reservations. The concert this year will fea- ture Roberta Peters, the Metro- politan Opera's world-famous col- oratura soprano, and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Serge Fournier. Miss Peters created an interna- tional sensation last summer with her debuts at the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. The American artist appeared in "Rigoletto" and in "The Magic Flute" in 'Vienna and in latter work at Salzburg. In Vienna she was accorded one of the greatest triumphs in recent history and in Salzburg she was unanimously named as the Festival's "outstand- ing artist" and "one of the great- est Mozart singers of the cent- ury." This season at the Metropolitan Miss Peters has the leading role in Gian Carlo Menotti's new opera, "The Last Savage," and will also Yehuda Bacon, who recently had several . shows in London, is among the arIcists whose works are represented in the forth- coming Israel art exhibit spon- sored by the Jewish National Fund Oct. 9-16 at the McGregor Memorial Center, Wayne State University. Above is a gouache by Bacon, whose work is rated by Jerusalem's Bezalel Museum as among the finest in Israel. At the right s a head of Jeremiah, done by A. Wachenhauser, one of the country's leading portrait 'Fantasy, Folklore • • •m Singer Stories Spirits, witches and demons abound in "Short Friday" by Isaac Bashevis Singer. to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on Nov. 20. In this new collection of 16 short stories, Singer ranges from the folklore and customs of the 17th Century Jews in Poland to some macabre happenings in present-day Miami __Beach . . . In "Esther the Second," a devoted wife sends her spirit back to earth and who is in fact a local pranks- ter. In the title story, "Short Fri- day," an old couple who were de- voted throughout their whole mar- riage, enjoy a Sabbath feast to- gether on the shortest Friday of the winter; and discover to their joy, that they will be even closer in death. CHARLES FEINBERG Among the works. which depict the unique character of Israel is a lithograph by one of its fore'most painters, Naftali Besem. The black- white-gold work features the lion of Judah, denoting the Jewish peo- ple. Below this. is the fish, oldest living inhabitant of the earth and signifying our people's age. Can- dles represent religious signif- icance. And above these are the great cities built by the Jews for "strangers." Another painting, a water color by David Gilboa, is a view of Safed, where the artist lives and paints. He is one of the colony's chief artists. Cosponsors of the exhibition are Bnai Brith, Metropolitan Detroit Council; Bnai Brith Women's Council; Hadassah; Labor Zionist Organization; Mizrachi-Hapoel Ha- mizrachi; Mizrachi Women; and the Women's Auxiliary of JNF. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 24—Friday, October 2, 1964 and His Orchestra LI 1-2563 • Candids • Formals • Movies ALL Your Photography Done in a Distinctive Way For Those Special Occasions By Eban Visits Mexico to Talk With Leaders MEXICO CITY (JTA) — Deputy Prime Minister Abba Eban of Is- rael arrived here for a week - long Encouragement of private in- vestment in Israel on a sustained basis was reaffirmed as a contin- uing objective of Israel govern- ment policy by Pinhas Sapir, Israel Minister of Finance, Commerce and Industry at a meeting in New York Sept. 17. He spoke at a re- ception given in his honor by Rassco Israel Corp., New York, at the Jewish Agency building, 515 Park. The Minister's remarks came on top of Rassco's announcement earlier this month that the com- pany's last fiscal year which ended on March 31, had broken all rec- ords in terms of growth, earnings and dividends. Established 30 years ago, "Ras- sco" Rural and Suburban Settle- ment Co., Ltd., has become one of Israel's leading real estate develop- ment and diversified investment companies. For fiscal 1963-64 it has declared a record 15 per cent divided (50c a share) on its 1,- 112,000 outstanding 8 per cent cumulative preferred ordinary shares. visit to Mexico as guest of the Mexican government. He will hold a series of talks with top Mexican government officials, and will also deliver addresses before Jewish organizations. Eban will confer with President Lopez Mateos, Presi- dent- Elect Diaz Ordaz and Foreign Minister Gorostiza. He also will address the Mexican Congress, speak at a mass meeting of the Jewish community and give a lec- ture to the students and faculty of Mexican National University, the largest in Latin America. All of his addresses will be given in Spanish. His visit is expected to bring to a new peak the highly cordial re- MEDICAL PIONEER lations between the two countries. Jonas Baron, a Jewish physician, While the Mexican government as a rule pursues a neutral foreign was one of the pioneers in medi- policy, including its stand on the cine in 9th Century Hungary. He , Middle East dispute, public opinion wrote the first comprehensive book on surgery to appear in Hungary. generally favors Israel. J. CLARKE is CALL MR. ROSEN 341-4141 goanclations Ay gatit ROBERTA PETERS FOR THE BEST IN MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT Corsets-Brassieres Expertly Fitted SAM EMMER And His Orchestra 20127 W. 7 MILE RD. DI 1-1609 Parking in Rear 538-5575 BERNARD H. W INER 2F Candid Photography Bar Mitzvahs — weddings KE 1-8196 ORCH ESTRA CALL: LI 7-0896 or LI 5-2737 supervised and manned by mem- bers of the Technion faculty, parti- Rassco Establishes High Record; Sapir Encourages Investments in Israel Want The Best? SAM BARNETT Scientists affiliated with the Technion-Israel Institute of Tech- nology in Haifa have set up a pilot plant in the plains of Zebulun, in biblical Acre, to ,extract foodstuffs for human conctiniption from al- falfa, it was announced by B. Sum- ner Gruzen, president of the American Technion Society. Gruzen reported that the new plant was established at a cost of 5175,000. with most of the funds coming from the 'London firm, British Glues and Chemicals Com- pany, which is working in close co- operation with the Union of Zevu- lun Kibbutzim. The plant will be cularly those affiliated with the Food Technology Department. to comfort her bereaved husband. According to Prof. Gideon Zim- In "Zeidlus the First," the devil merman, chief of the food technol- tempts Zeidel Cohen, the scholar, ogy department at the Technion, through intellectual pride, to be- the chief aim of the new pilot come the Pope. In "Blood," Risha plant is to "develop efficient becomes infatuated with a ritual methods for extracting palatable slaughterer, and the act of killing proteins, vitamins, steroids (for and the act of love take on a pharmaceutical purposes), chlo- strange relationship that tempts rophyl and fibers from the clover- the fates. Taibele, in "Taibele and like plant, which contains all these Her Demon," is afraid to betray substances." the demon who visits her at night, made her singing known to mil- lions outside the opera house. Reservations for the concert are being taken at the Zionist office, 353-3636. Ask the Folks Who've Had Israel Scientists Test Cattle Fodder painters and former director of a large school in Vienna. * * * Charles Feinberg, recognized na- tionwide as a collector of art and literary memorabilia, has accepted chairmanship of the forthcoming Art of Israel exhibit to be present- ed Oct. 9-16 at the McGregor Me- morial Center, Wayne State Uni- versity. 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