This Week in Jewish History

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

(From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

40 Years Ago This Week: 1931
Registration was closed for Jewish settlement in Birobidjan.
Jewish tombstones in Berlin were desecrated with. Hitlerite slogans
by two 11-year-old boys.
Two days of Arab-sparked clashes with the police in Nablus
resulted in the jailing of 22 ringleaders.
Eleven years after his death, the estate of banker Jacob Schiff
was finally evaluated—at $34,400,000 net.
Poland's oldest Jew, Zalman Sokolovitch, active as a merchant
to the end, died at 110.
Another Jewish suicide in financially troubled Poland was regis-
tered when a 70-year-old man jumped from a fourth-story window.
Hungary's new Cabinet included three outspoken anti-Semites.
Lord Passfield, promulgator of the British White Paper restrict-
ing Jewish immigration to Palestine, resigned.

10 Years Ago This Week: 1961
South Africa's first two locally trained rabbis were ordained in
hannesburg.
Composer Aaron Copland received the Edward MacDowell Medal
as President Kennedy called him "a significant force in the cultural
life of this nation and the world community."
A Jewish tombstone of the eighth century, bearing a Hebrew
inscription, was reported unearthed in the People's Republic of China.
Mapai won 42 of the Israeli Knesset's 120 seats, a loss of five.
Sovietish Heimland became the first Yiddish publication allowed
in the USSR in 13 years. Editor Aron Vergelis said this proved the
government's encouragement of Yiddish culture.
Lawrence Wien, president of the Federation of Jewish Philan-
thropies of New York, bought the Empire State Building from Col.
Henry Crown, a Jewish industrialist of Chicago, for $65,000,000, a
record for a single structure.
The U.S. Post Office ruled that defamatory post cards mailed by
American Nazis violated postal statutes.

The school officials were granted
4, ..,4h6:- permit to start the needed
4v`tretiovation, the Jewish Telegraphic
.,:Agency was told. But when the
officials found they could not make
the necessary alterations in the
period of the initial grant, they
r.equested an extension.
Rabbi Pincus Lipner, founder
and principal of the day school,
c11-: :has 200 pupils, said some
*storms had been brought up
t...4tieptable standards and
gi*-:=for the extension. The
beardI'eused by a 3-1 vote,
holding that the two buildings
could not be made safe.
Some 15 parents who attended

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JERUSALEM — Representatives deem the soil of Israel was brought
of 700 Jewish settlements in Israel by the founder of modern Zionism
before the Fifth Zionist Congress.
will participate in the "Kol Ha-
Adama" ("Call of the Land") con-
vention, organized by the Jewish
National Fund for the end of
August. Among the honored guests
who have promised to attend is
Prime Minister Golda Meir.
The "Kol Ha-Adama" conven-
tion is a continuation of a Keren
Kayemet tradition begun before
the establishment of the state. It
is being held in 1971 to mark the
fund's 70th anniversary. Mt. Herzl
was chosen as the site for the fes-
tivities since the idea of a national
fund of the Jewish people to re-

the hearing accused the commis-
sioners of anti-Semitism in their
protest. They sought a meeting
with Mayor Joseph Alioto, who
refused to see them but agreed
to speak with Rabbi Lipner next
week.
The Hebrew Academy uses a
school building near a synagogue,
located in a lower middle class
neighborhood. However, the JTA
was told, the school building could
not accommodate all 200 pupils.
The JTA was told also that, if
the permit is not renewed and the
repairs completed, the day school
will have to give up the converted
residences, and will not have
necessary classroom space when
the school year resumes next
month.

80 Venezuelans, Friends
; Hebrew U., in Israel

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A group
„, some 80 Venezuelan friends of
the Hebrew University are touring
Israel as part or a three-week
program which will include the
cornerstone laying of Casa Ven-
ezuela, a teaching building on
Mount Scopus for the University's
department of Latin American
studies&
This is the first such tour of
university friends from Latin
American countries. The visitors
range from six to, almost 70 years
of age.
During the first week of their
visit, adults participated in a
seminar dealing with Israel and
diaspora problems. The teen-
agers have a program of tours
- and lectures which will bring
them into contact with Israeli
youngsters, while the under 12
set is attending a special sum-
mer camp.
The group begins a country-
wide tour today which will end
Aug. 31, when the group is sched-
uled to leave for home.

It's Nice
To Deal With

JNF Convenes Kol Ha-A dama Conference

S.F. Board to Rescind Building Permit
of Hebrew Day School Called Unsafe

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — The
City Board of Permanent Appeals
rejected a request from officials
of the Hebrew Academy, the city's
only Jewish day school, for an ex-
tension of a building permit needed
to meet complaints by city fire
department officials that two con-
verted residence buildings used by
the day school were unsafe.
In giving the initial permit three
months ago, the board held that
the two buildings could be made
safe if the school officials installed
fire sprinklers, fire escapes, sheet
rock insulation and widened the

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