Gambling for Religious Fund-Raising Banned After Mafia Synagogue Tragedy NEW YORK (JTA)—Two key Brooklyn Jewish organi- zations, the Jewish Commun- ity Council and the borough's BINGO BETH ABRAHAM-HILLEL 5075 W. MAPLE •BETWEEN MIDDLEBELT i INKSTER MONDAYS 7:30 P.M. 1 1 1 i r . I. . 41 ...... % BINGO AKIVA HEBREW DAY SCHOOL SANS SOUCI HALL ON 9 MILE AT MIDDLEBELT EVERY SUNDAY. 3:15 P.M. +. • *******4 BINGO WORKMEN'S CIRCLE CENTER EVERY MON. 7:15 P.M. 18340 W. 7 MILE JUST WEST OF SOUTHFIELD .., BINGO CONG. BETH SHALOM 14601 WEST LINCOLN OAK PARK EVERY TUES. 7:30 P.M. • 4 BINGO CONGREGATION B'NAI DAVID EVERY THURS. 7:45 24350 SOUTHFIELD RD. SOUTHFIELD, MICH. BINGO CONGREGATION BETH ACHIM 21100 W. 12 MILE ∎, SOUTHFIELD WED., 7:30 P.M. ■ NEW YORK (JTA) — Twelve officers of the Amer- ican Jewish Congress are meeting with Jewish com- munity leaders in Latin America this week in a study mission that will take them to Brazil, Uruguay, Argen- tina, Chile and Peru. The AJCongress delegates will return to New York Sept. 2. The mission was organized in consultation and coordin- ation with officers of the World Jewish Congress in South America and leaders of local Jewish communities there, according to Phil Baum, associate executive director of the AJCongress and director of its commis- sion on international affairs, ENROLL YOUR CHILD IN THE B'NAI DAVID -- UNITED HEBREW SCHOOLS .• •• .:. • ••• AT THE B'nai David Synagogue 24350 SOUTHFIELD ROAD NURSERY SCHOOL: •• the auspices of the American Section of the World Jewish Congress, representatives of nine Caribbean Jewish com- munities will meet in Cura- cao Thursday to Sept. 1 to discuss their common prob- lems and discuss cultural and eucational programs. Jacques Torczyner, chair- man of the WJC-American Section, expressed the hope that among the •benefits that will emerge from the meet- ing will be a common pro- gram to enable the small Caribbean communities not only to share their resources with each other, but also to use available human re- sources of the vast U.S. Jew- ish community. Lavy M. Becker, honorary consultant to the WJC on small Jewish communities, has visited every Jewish community in the Caribbean at least once, and the de- cision. to convene the upcom- ing conference was taken as a result of a visit he made to the area last fall. Becker will be one of the partici- who will lead the group. Mark Turkow of Buenos pants in the conference. Aires, secretary-general of the Latin American branch Czech Synagogue of the WJC, will accompany the mission. Wrecked Burial In a statement explaining the purpose of the visit, of Remains Denied LONDON — The ancient Baum said: "Recent politi- cal changes in South Amer- synagogue of Hust, in the ica confront Jewish life with Soviet Ukraine, was burned a series of new and complex down at the end of May. challenges. The leaders of After the fire, the local mili- Latin American Jewry be- tia spread rumors to the ef- lieve it imperative that fect that the fire had been American Jews be apprised started by Jews. The local Jewish commun- first hand of the implications ity believes that the rumors of these swiftly evolving po- started by workers of a local litical events." He noted that "our visit factory who had been de- will be private and informal. manding that the synagogue Our hope is to obtain as be converted into a gymna- much accurate information sium and recreation hail. An application to the Soviet about the conditions of Jew- ish life in Latin America as authorities to allow burial of is feasible within the short the remnants of the scrolls in accordance with Jewish compass of our stay." The AJCongress delegates custom has been turned down. will be received by the Fed- The local Soviet demanded eracao Israelita do Estado that the remains be handed de Sau Paulo and Federacao over to the garbage collec- das Sociedades Israelitas, Rio tors for disposal. de Janeiro, Brazil; Comite Central Israelita del Uru- guay, Montevideo; Congreso Judio Latinoamericano and Delegacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DA- IA), Buenos Aires; Comite Representative de la Collecti- vidad Israelita de Chile, Santiago; and Asociacion de Sociedades Israelitas del Peru; Lima. a similar event at the Hebrew Alliance Synagogue, arrest- ing 10 persons. The raid was described as part of a police crackdown on such gambling in Jewish and Christian institutions fol- lowing complaints from par- ticipants in t h e games. Police sources indicated that it appeared such gambling was being conducted occa- sionally under control of or- ganized' crime elements but that there was no connection between Jewish spdnsors of the game nights and crime figures. The joint letter said spon- sors of such •gambling events were subject to prosecution and urged the organizations to pass the warning on to all other Jewish organizations. (See Purely Commentory on page 2.) • • 3 AND 4 YEAR OLDS • Openings for the Tuesday/Thursday Afternoon Sessions and the Monday/Wednesday Morning Sessions. PRIMARY GRADES: 5, 6 AND 7 YEAR OLDS 2 Hours on Sunday Morning. PRE HEBREW CLASS: For Second Grade Students Sunday 2 Hours and One Weekday 2 Hours ELEMENTARY • HEBREW SCHOOL: 8 YEAR OLDS 5 Year Course Leading to Graduation and Eligibility for Hebrew High School. 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Bnai Israel of Sheepshead Bay and the Hebrew Alliance Synagogue of Coney Island. • A reputed Mafia figure, Steven Chill°, 31, was shot to death during a Las Vegas Nite event at Bnai Israel and Caribbean Jews Plan Conference and ENROLL. YOUR CHILD NOW Day Schools Get Aid for Language Skills NEW YORK (JTA)—Jew- ish day schools throughout the V.S. are now eligible to receive federally-funded serv- ices of English-Yiddish bilin- gual teachers to enable pupils of such schools to acquire or improve English-language skills, Rep. Hugh Carey, (D., N.Y.) has reported. Under the initial interpre- tation of federal regulations issued last October, students in nonpublic schools, whose native language was other than English, were not eli- gible to participate in the bilingual educational pro- grams. 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