Michael Peisner, UHS High School Senior,
to Compete in World Bible Contest in Israel
Michael Peisner, a senior in the
Hebrew High School of the United
Hebrew School, will be one of nine
American teen-agers representing
the United States at the 11th Inter-
national Bible Contest for Jewish'
Youth in Jerusalem May 11.
COLPA Wins Reversals
of Biased Job Practices
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Nation-
al Jewish Commission on Law and
Public Affairs (COLPA) reported
it had obtained reversals in dis-
criminatory employment practices
by a business firm and a city de-
partment involving two Orthodox
Jews. The agency was organized
tie help protect the legal rights of
observant Jews, particularly in re-
gard to Sabbath observance re-
quirements.
Julius Berman, COLPA presi-
dent, said that the New York Divi-
sion of Human Rights issued a
ruling in which it found "probable
Cause" to believe that the Com-
mercial Solvents Corp. of New
York had dismissed an Orthodox
Jewish assistant bookkeeper be-
cause of her religion.
In the other case, an Orthodox
Jew who applied to the New York
City personnel department to take
an examination for transit patrol-
man was refused because he had
asked that he be allowed to take
the examination on a day other
than the Jewish Sabbath.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
N.Y. Regents Support Blai ne Amendment Repeal
The Americans will be among
the 100 contestants participating in
the bible contest, conducted by the
World Jewish Bible Society in co-
operation with the department of
education and culture of the Jewish
Agency, bureaus of Jewish educa-
tion in the United States and Can-
ada and the Gadna Youth Organi-
zation in Israel.
The nine U.S. representatives
were the winners and runners-up
in the 10th annual National Bible
Contest last May in New York.
Some 20,000 American Jewish
youth participated in the competi-
tion, held in 45 regional divisions
throughout the United States and
Canada.
rael April 23. The Peisners are
members of Cong. Beth Shalom.
Following their arrival in Israel,
the American participants will join
their fellow contestants from all
over the world in a "Bible Camp"
as guests of the Gadna Youth Or-
ganization, where they will spend a
week in intensive study of the Bible
and preparation for the internation-
al contest.
At the conclusion of the contest.
they will spend a few days in Israel
visiting biblical sites and meeting
important personalities of Israel,
among them President Zalman
Shazar and former Premier David
Ben-Gurion, both of whom have
always taken a deep personal inter-
Michael, son of Mr. and Mrs. est in the Bible contest.
Balfour Peisner of Parkwood Ave.,
On the whole I am on the side
Huntington Woods, is in the 11th
grade at Berkley High School. He of the unregenerate who affirm the
placed second in the U.S. Bible worth of life as an end in itself as
quiz in the Intermediate Hebrew against the saints who deny it.
competition and will leave for Is-
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
ALBANY (JTA) — The New still requires action by the next
York Board of Regents has voted legislature and then approval by
11-2 to support repeal of the con-
troversial Blaine Amendment, the voters in a referendum.
In New York, the Committee
which prohibits state aid to paro-
chial schools. The regents, which for Public Education and Reli-
voted 10-5 on the same issue three gious Liberty (PEARL) predicted
years ago, aligned themselves with that repeal of Blaine could cost
the repeal bill approved last month the state's taxpayers a billion
by the State - Assembly, which dollars a year in support of reli-
would provide New Yorkers with gious schools.
the constitutional right to fight
private-school aid in court.
The Senate version of the bill
would make such suits possible
by means of a separate, non-con-
stitutional law. Repeal of Blaine
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