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February 24; 1918v
THE NOV PIM ~ IEYVS `i
Author Hits Britain's Lack of Jewish Culture
thus hastening the com-
munity's "degeneration."
Aharon Megged, novelist,
OXFORD (JTA) — One of
Israel's foremost writers playwright and journalist,
had accused leaders of Bri- made his outspoken attack
tain's 400,000-strong in an interview with the
Jewish community of look- . Jewish Telegraphic Agency
ing down on cultiire, includ- at the Oxford Center for
ing Hebrew culture, as Postgraduate Hebrew
something "inferior," and Studies, where he has spent
the past eight months work-
ing on a new novel.
Praising British Jews for
RALPH YAMRON'S their warm-hearted loyalty
to Israel, Megged com-
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He admitted that there
were many talented Jewish
writers and playwrights in
Britain, but said that few of
(Formerly The
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ture.
Comparing Jewish life
in Britain with that in the
United States, which he
has visited several times,
Megged said Anglo-
Jewry was "a desert." In
the United States, he
noted, Jewish culture
had left its imprint on the
life of the whole country
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He praised the "Jewish
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U.S. Inspecting
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NEW YORK — The first
shipment of Israeli oranges
to arrive in the U.S. since
several poisoning incidents
in Europe is being inspected
in a New Jersey warehouse
by a U.S. Food and Drug
Administration team.
Some 101,000 cases are
being inspected. Canadian
officials last week found no
tainted fruit in 61,000 cases
that were unloaded from the
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FDA officials said they
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BUENOS AIRES —
Heavily Catholic Argentina .
will force officials of all
other religions to register
with the government.
Registration of some
groups may be refused, ef-
fectively banning them
from the count\ty.
Argentina has already
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U .S . Jewish History Quiz
-(Editor's note: This Paducah, Kentucky, to
quiz is part of a series Washington and helped
French universities, he ad- taken from onc„of the var- convince Lincoln to rescind
ded, there were some 700 ious courses offered by Order 11?
people studying Hebrew.
the American Jewish
In their apathy towards Committee's Academy
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culture, Anglo-Jewry's for Jewish Studies With-
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the community as a whole,
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Megged added. He had been
1. The first Jewish de-
told by publishers that in fense organization in the -uag wepnr -9 '.uvu.OHas
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Britain "there is no Jewish U.S. was?
yetpapiow
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readership," unlike the Un-
- 2. The first German
ited States, where Jews Jewish congregation in -miser Teug uone2a.auoD
•g !saqIiavisi uvoliamv
were among the most avid New York City was?
Jo sale2aiala Jo .preog • -E
readers and buyers of books.
Who
wanted
to
estab-
3.
lish a city of refuge for
Traffic Accidents persecuted Jews of Europe? Youth in Israel ,
4. The kidnapping and to Exchange
Up in Jerusalem baptism
of which Jewish
JERUSALEM (JTA) — youth set off a world-wide Cultural Ideas
Sixty-four persons were in- reaction against the Vati-
NEW YORK — A group
jured, one fatally, in a series can?
of
35 high school students
of traffic accidents on rain-
5. Which German Jewish from communities through-
slick highways recently 'in immigrant
rose from ped- out the United States are in
Jerusalem.
dler to founder of one of the Israel for a six-week cul-
Hanna Barestovski, a largest N.Y. banking
tourist from Argentina, was houses? He was also the ob- tural and educational ex-
killed in a two-car collision. ject of an anti-Semitic inci- change. They will visit
schools in Israel, and live
The worst accident was a dent in 1877.
with Israeli families. They
full-speed, head-on collision
6. Which prominent
between a bus and a truck. Southern Jew was the Sec- will travel and meet with
Fifty, passengers and the retary of State of the Con- Israeli youth, describe
American-Jewish life and
drivers of both vehicles federacy?
learn from their contem-
were injured.
7. Who was forced to leave poraries about life in Israel.
Baltimore for his outspoken
The trip was co-sponsored
Jewish Educators opposition to slavery?
by the World Zionist Or-
8. Who was the first ganization and the Depart-
Roles Studied
Jewish chaplain in the U.S. ment of Education and Cul-
PHILADELPHIA — The Army?
ture and the American
American Jewish Commit-
9. Who has written exten- zionist Youth Foundation.
tee announced the launch- sively on the history of the
ing of a study to determine Jews in the ante-bellum Technion Names
the attitudes of. Jewish South?
academicians to the Jewish
10. Which Jewish mer- Landscape Head
community and their de- chant, traveled from
HAIFA—Prof. Ronald
gree of Jewish identity.
Jason
Lovinger, professor of
The project will begin as a Holocaust Class
landscape architecture and
pilot study in the Philadel-
architecture at the Univer-
phia area as a cooperative for NY Teachers
sity
of Oregon, has been ap-
effort of AJCommittee's Nal
NEW YORK — Writer pointed holder of the Sidney
tional Jewish Communal Yuri Suhl and Dr. Hadas- Wolberg Chair -at the
Affairs Department and its sah Rosensaft, one of the Technion—Israel Institute
Philadelphia Chapter. Sub- earliest witnesses to testify of Technology. _
sequent studies will be about Nazi atrocities in the
A native of Chicago, Prof.
done in other parts of the post-war trial will be among Lovinger will plan the land-
country.
guest lecturers at an in-
scape curriculum for the
service training course for first-ever degree course in
New York City teachers, landscape architecture in
Histadrut Ivrit
"Teaching the Holocaust."
Israel just started at Techn-
Director Named
:The 15-week course is ion. He also will collaborate
NEW YORK — Shlomo being sponsored by the New with the dean of the faculty
Shamir was named execu- York City Board of Educa- of architecture at Technion,
tive director of the Histad- tion in cooperation with the Prof. Michael Burt, on a
New York regional office of new plan 'for the Hadera
rut Ivrit-HADOAR.
An Israeli journalist, the Anti-Defamation Forest, which will include a
Shamir was chief reporter League of Bnai Brith. The National and Municipal
for the„ Israeli Hebrew ,- weekly sessions will offer an Park.
weekly Panim El Panim. In array of teaching strategies
1967 he joined the Haaretz and introduce classroom in- M.E. Holidays
structors and curriculum for U.S. Troops
staff. -
Shamir published stories specialists to print and
FRANKFURT (ZINS) —
on the Six-Day War and has audio-visual resources on
An
Israeli tour operator is
the
subject
of
genocide
and
written extensively on
due to sign an agreement
the Holocaust.
Hasidism.
with the Egyptian govern-
In 1972 he came to the
ment for a package tour of
Unted States to serve as as- Czechs Release
Egypt and Israel by U.S.
sistant editor of the Jewish Dutch Jevciish
servicemen . stationed /D
weekly Allgemeiner Jour-
Germany.
nal. Shamir is the corres- Interpreter
Under the agreement, the
pondent for the Israeli
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — soldiers would fly in El Al -
newspaper Haaretz in New
A former Jewish employee and Egyptair planes. Until
York.
of the Dutch Embassy in the ties between Egypt and
Prague, Hubert Stein, was Israel get friendlier, the
Mail Delivered
released from a prison in planes shuttling the sol-
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Czechoslovakia after seven diers between the Egyptian
Cards and letters sent from years.
and Israeli legs of the tour
Cairo during January's
Stein worked as an in- would go via Cyprus.
peace talks arrived in Israel terpreter and translator at
two weeks later. Mail sent the embassy until July 197(1 Peace Stamp
from Mena House did not when he was arrested and
CAIRO (ZINS) — Egyp-
have the postage cancelled, . sentenced to 12 years im-
while letters mailed prisonment for alleged es- tian authorities have au-
elsewhere appeared to have pionage. Holland had re- thorized a new postage
peatedly urged his release stamp in honor of the Cairo
been handled normally.
peace conference. According
Egyptian officials did not on humanitarian grounds
guarantee delivery because
During the 1950s Stein to a Haaretz correspondent,
there is no Israel-Egypt spent nine years in jail as a the stamp may include a
picture of the Israeli flag.
result of the Slanaky trial.
postal connection.
.