Hebrew, Yiddish Colleges-Merge
NEW YORK—Two institutions of place.
higher Jewish learning, the Jewish. The banquet was tendered in
Teachers Seminary and Herzliah honor of three national person-
Hebrew Teachers Institute, are alities with long records of dis-
scheduled to m e r g e, it was an- tinguished service to the American
nounced at a banquet held at the Jewish community: Samuel Bon-
Americana Sunday. chek, national president of Far-
Abraham Goodman, chairman of band LZO; Israel Breslow, national
the board of trustees of the 46- president of Workmen's Circle and
year-old Herzliah, and Jacob Katz- vice president of ILGWU; and Men- •
man, chairman of the board of the del Haber, veteran Zionist leader
49-year-old seminary, informed the and president of Herzliah.
600 guests that their respective Dr. Ira Eisenstein spoke of "the
schools are scheduled to join forces old issues" which "no longer divide
for the 1967-68 academic year
us as sharply as they did once." He
Dr. Gershon Winer, dean of the emphasized the "softening of intel-
Jewish Teachers Seminary, has lectual distinctions" as demon-
been selected to head the combined strated by the merging of the two
• institutions when the merger takes institutions.
Socialist International to Probe
Position of Jews ip Soviet Union
LONDON (JTA)—The Bureau of cial importance to the fact that
the Socialist International com- the •Nenni group in Italy wanted
pleted Monday, after a two-day to be associated with a study of
meeting in London, its organiza- the situation of the Jews in the
tion of a group of seven Socialist USSR.
leaders to form a working party * • •
for investigation of the situation
of the Jews in the Soviet Union.
At the request of Pietro NOmi,
leader of the United Italian So-
cialist Party, his name was added
to the membership of the working
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Biro-
party. Robert Pontillo, interna-
tional secretary of the French So- Bidjan section of Siberia, which
cialist Party, was named by the was once set up by the Soviet gov-
bureau as chairman of the investi- ernment as a Jewish Autonomous
Region, now has a Jewish popula-
gatory group.
The working party will hold a tion of about 14,000 persons, con-
stituting
only about 9 per cent
plenary session next month. It was
instructed to have its report ready of the total population there, ac-
by next October, for presentation cording to a new book on Biro-
to the annual meeting of the In- Bidjan written by Jacob Levavi,
ternational's council, to be held Pin an Israeli author.
Levavi, who spent five years re-
Switzerland.
Dr. S. Levenlierg, Labor Zionist searching the history and the cur-
rent
situation of BiroBidjan, was
leader here, told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency Monday that the Monday the recipient here of the
Leib
Yaffe Prize, named in mem-
establishment of the working party
to study the position of Soviet ory of the well-known poet who
%% as director of Keren Hayesod,
Jewry "is an unprecedented step
in the history of the Socialist In- fund-raising arm of the World
ternational, and is due to the deep Zionist Organization. The 1,000
Socialist interest in human rights." pound ($333) award was given to
Levavi by Dr. Israel Goldstein,
He pointed Out that three of the chairman of the Keren Hayesod.
parties represented in the working
Of the five deputies represeRt-
group—those of Britain, Italy and
France—are members of parties ing the region in the local So-
represented in the governments of viet, only one is a Jew, accord-
to Levavt. All official busi-
their countries. He attached spe- ing
ness is conducted in Russian.
The only Jewish identification
found by Levavi in the region
was the thrice-a-week publica-
tion of the Yiddish newspaper
Birobidjaner Shtern.
(The New York Times reported
Sunday from Khabarovsk, far-
eastern Siberia, that the Soviet au-
thorities are now attempting to at-
tract non-Jews from various parts
of the Soviet Union to settle in
s, 7
EXCITING
BiroBidjan.
WEEKS
(The report describes the arrival
...FOR JEWISH $945
there last weekend of 142 families
HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS
from
Eastern Russia, and says:
AGES 15 TO 18,
'When their trains arrived in Biro-
ROUND TRIP
BY JET
Bidjan,
immediately west of here,
r Z-DAY
after a two-week journey, they were
EUROPEAN
STOPOVER
greeted by representatives of vari-
ous state farjin that Jewish Au-
In Israel, ITT
tonomous Region, who sang the
Participants enjoy:
praises of their farms."
* visit. to Biblical landmarks and
(Although founded in 1928 as a
holy places
* Meetings with government offi-
Soviet alternative to Zionism. Biro-
cials and lectures on Israeli life
Bidjan
failed to become a magnet
* Gatherings with Israeli youth
* Trips through the length and
for many Jews and has long since
breadth of the land
been
open
to all ethnic groups.)
*.Work period with•kibbutz
BiroBidj an. Study
Wins Israel Prize;
14,000 Jews There
✓
Shalom Captains:
New and Retired
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 24, 1967-11
U.S. Hikes Cotton Quota From Israel by 60 Pct.
JERUSALEM (ZENS) — A new volved protracted negotiations, the
agreement has been negotiated be- U.S. will increase the quota from
tween the U.S. and Israel increas- 14,500,000 square yards a year to
ing by 60 per cent the quota of 23,000,000. The agreement covers
Israeli cotton which may be ex- the period from Oct. 1, 1967, to
ported to the U.S.
Dec. 31,. 1970, the Economic Re-
tinder the agreement which in- view reports.
FOR THE
Zim Lines' SS Shalom has a
new captain — Bernard Berko-
witz (right) who is shown here
with his predecessor, Captain
Werner Freudenberg. The latter,
after a month's leave, will be-
come master of the Zim SS Herzl.
The Freudenberg-B erkowitz
story was told in a special ac-
count in The Jewish News,
March 10.
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Drive in U.S. for Purchase
of Products From Israel
Get DOUBLE
NEW YORK (JTA)—A proposal
that, a campaign be undertaken in
the United States for the purchase
of Israeli products so as to Counter-
act the Arab boycott and, at the
same time, to offset unemployment
in Israel has been made here by
Rabbi Isachar Dov Bergman, presi-
dent of the National Council for
Tora Education of the Religious
Zionists of America.
Dr. Bergman voiced the proposal
at a celebration Sunday night of
the council's 25th anniversary, at-
tended by 1,200. Rep. Leonard
Farbstein, New York Democrat,
one of the principal speakers at
the event, read a message from
President Johnson lauding Dr.
Bergman. He assured the audience
of President Johnson's continuing
and constant friendship to Israel.
The Conference on Jewish Ma-
terial Claims Against Germany
last year allocated a. total of $86,-
000 for relief, research and publi-
cations projects in Czechoslovakia.
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Refused Lebanon Entry
LONDON (Z I N S) — Gavin
Astor, president of the Times
Newspapers of London, Ltd., was
refused entry by the Lebanese
immigration inspectors when he
landed at Beirut last week, ac-
cording to a report of the Jewish
Chronicle.
The refusal was on the grounds
that he is a director of the Alli-
ance Assurance Co. which is on
the black list of the Arab League.
When the Lebanese authorities
had second thoughts and decided
to allow him to enter after all,
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