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. HARRY ABRAM Fleet *onager JOE MAY CHEVROLET 12555 GRAND RIVER near Meyers I am as near as your phine HARRY ABRAM TE 4-4440 LI 8-4119 Zionist Leader Proposes 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. 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