NEW YORK (JTA) — Yeshiva University announced it had started the first educational pro- gram specifically designed to pre- pare students for teaching at the Jewish high school level. The program, leading to a mas- Israeli Hotels Will Be Impelled to Reduce Rates JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Israeli hotel owners are openly concerned over the competition given them by hotels in the liberated Eastern Jer- usalem area which are offering ac- commodations at considerably cheaper prices. It seems that even after the Arab hotels in Eastern Jerusalem raised their room rates by 30 per cent, these rates are still 25 per cent cheaper than the rates charged by other hotels in Israel. Economists believe, that there re- mains for the hotel owners in Is- rael but one way out, and that is, to reduce the room rates of all hotels in the country. It was announced that hotel own- ers in Eastern Jerusalem have re- jected the proposal to join the "As- sociation of Hotels in Israel." They stated that they will remain within their independent framework as long as the political struggle over Jerusalem continues. The libera- tion of Jerusalem made available 4,000 additional rooms for tourists in Israel. ters degree, has been developed by the religious education depart- ment at Yeshiva University's Ferkauf graduate school of human- ities and social sciences. Dr. Alvin I. Schiff, department chairman, said that the rapid growth of Jew- ish elementary day schools in the past 20 years had substantially increased the number of students entering Jewish day high schools, which now total 60 in the United States and Canada, compared with six in 1945. Dr. Schiff said that despite this growth, none of the nation's Hebrew teachers colleges or uni- versities had developed programs for teaching in Jewish high schools. Sidney-Hill Northwest Club THROUGH Book Couzens Travel Agency PRESENTS "A Very Special NCRAC Leaders to Study Arab-Israeli Relations NEW YORK (JTA)—Leaders of the National Community Relations Advisory Council left for Israel Monday on a three-fold study mis- sion involving post - war Arab- Israeli relations. The group, headed by NCRAC chairman Jordan C. Band of Cleve- land, has been invited by the Israel government to investigate prob- lems growing out of Israel's efforts to secure peace with her Arab neighbors, problems of the postwar period in which the Jewish com- munity relations field has special competence and interest, and worldwide problems in this period Bureaucracy Derided which are of common concern to TEL AVIV (ZINS)—Jewish bur- both Israeli and American Jewish eaucracy originated from the desert communities. and its inventors were none other The mission will returri to the than the underlings of Moses. This United States Oct. 22 to report on is the conclusion arrived at by a its findings at an NCRAC execu- number of volunteers who came to tive committee meeting. help Israel during the crisis and resolved to remain there perman- ently. The reason for it is the fact Suit Challenges 'Law that the volunteers were required on Busing of N.J. Pupils to sign piles and piles of papers in NEWARK (JTA) — A suit was support of Weir application to be- come pernranent•residents. The Is- filed in the New Jersey Superior raeli press tells the story of one Court here challenging the con- volunteer, a youth from the United stitutionality of the new state law States, who ironically remarked: that provides free bus transporta- now I understand why it took the tion for private and parochial Israelites 48 years to reach the school pupils. Joining in the action, sponsored promised lain' from Egypt: the first 39 year they were busy sign- by the state branch of the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Unione are the ing papers. Teaneck Board of Education, five of its nine members and three Prosecutor Asks 7 Years Bergen County taxpayers. They charge that free busing of pupils for Ex-SS Officer in nonpublic schools "constitutes (Direct JTA Teletype Wire an establishment of religion" — to The Jewish News) BONN — The prosecution asked in violation of constitutional guar- a Stuttgart court Wednesday to im- antees of separation of church and pose .a sentence of seven years at state, as embodied in the First bard labor on Albert Widmann, 54, and 14th Amendments. The new law went into effect a former officer in Hitler's elite guard and chief chemist in the Nazi Sept. 7, the first day of school for many of New Jersey's 2,000,000 regime's criminal police bureau. Widmann has been on trial on pupils. It provides busing at public charges of complicity in the slay- ' expense — estimated at 8,000,000 ing of 7,000 mental defectives in per year — for private and paro- Minsk during the Nazi occupation chial pupils living within 20 miles of their schools. there• Friday, September 15, 1967-13 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Yeshiva U. to Prepare High School Teachers Mid-Winter-12 Day Luxurious Caribbean Cruise" ON THE MAGNIFICENT S. S. Queen Anna Maria 26,600 Tons (With Stabilizers) DEPARTS •. FEB. 25, 1968 RETURNS ..MAR. 8, 1968 Unbelievable Low Price! $539 All First Class per person Personally Escorted From Detroit By: Chuck Randolph PORTS OF CALL: • SAN JUAN • ST. 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