Veret Visits CampNearMars Marseilles, Franco—Paul Veret, Executive Director of the Fedora tlon for Jewish Service ot Omaha, stopped off here on his tour of Israel and Europe to visit Grand Arenas, reception camp for North African Jews en route to Israel, where they will make their permanent homes. "Mr. Veret is chairman of a *tudy group organized by the United Jewish Appeal to enable directors to see at first hand the needs of the Jewish communities of Europe, Israel and North Africa and the work being done on their behalf with funds raised by the UJA, which Is the major beneficiary of the Federation for Jewlib Service of Omalia. .The group spent 11 days In Israel touring the country seeing the welfare and reconstruction activities of the Jewish Agency and the American Joint Distribution Com'mitteo chief beneficiaries of the UJA. Before coming to Marseilles they stopped off In Rome, where they witnessed the programs spon•ored by tho JDC on behalf of the needy Jews of Italy. More than 2.8O0 North Africans were In the camp at the time of •Mr. Veret's vjsit. "Jt was a moving experience to see these men, women and children, two-thirds of them from Morocco, only a few days removed from violence nnd bloodshed, lodged in safely and being prepared to not up lilt amongst tlvir brethren hi Israel," he said. "Nobody can tell for certain ' what will eventually happen in North Africa nor what the future will bring to the 500,000 Jews rcidinR there. It was gratifying therefore, to speak to these people nnd to know that they were changing from the uncertainty of their former lives to tho promise of surety and security that awaits them in Israel." Set up In 1917 as a reception camp for emigrants on their way to. Israel, Grand Arenas is situated on the outskirts of Marseilles. In general, migrants stay at the camp for only a few days until they arc REFOKM KDCCATOK8 New York (WNS)—Formation of a now organization designed to co-ordinate the work and thinking of supervisors of Reform Jewish religious schools was announced hore by Dr. Maurice N. Kiscndrath, pcrsldent of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Named the National Association of- Temple Educators, the new Croup will function under the auspices of. the Union's Commission of Jewish Education, of which Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof, of Pittsburgh, Is chairman nnd Pr. Emauel Gnmoran director. The Commission Is Jointly mlmlnlstercd by the temple union nnd tlin Central Conference of A m e r i c a n Rabbis,
Sunday Radio The American Jewish Hour presented by the Jewish War Veterans Is heard every Sunday afternoon over KI30N from 6 to 0:30 o'clock. The program consists of current news nnd salute to a lending Jewish personality. "Words We Live. By" tho new summer series of the Eternal Light program Is broadcast every Sunday from 11:30 a. m. to 12 noon over KFAB. The series features a cycle of dialogues be, tween Mark Van Doren, poet and critic, and Maurice Samuel:;, author and lecturer. The series will extend until September 4.
placed on .ship:;, Since 1917 more than 200,000 men, women and children have passed through tho camp on then way to Israel, Last month, more than 2,000 arrived jn the camp, till of thom from North Africa, and about 3,000 including holdovers from previous months, left for Israel. Transients live in barracks and are served by a staff of 3S. A feature of the camp is the hospital which contains 30 beds and is staffed by two doctors, two nurses, cooks and maintenance personnel. Before visiting the camp the study group mot a ship at the Marseilles dock, newly-arrived from Morocco with 250 emigres who were taken to the camp at Grand Arenas.
First Woman Cantor Named Oceansldo, N. Y. (WNS)—The appointment of the first woman ever to be named a cantor of a Jewish house of worship was an-' nounced this week by Temple Avodah, n Reform synagogue In this I/on|; Island suburban community. The new womnn cantor, Mrs, Betty Robbing, ,11, was unanimously appointed by the trustees of the congregation. Mrs. Robblns will sing her first service September 3, the eve of Kosh Ilashanah. A spokesman for the School of Sacred Music of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion In New York City saiil she might well be the first woman cantor in 5,000 years of Jewish history. Mrs. Rubhins, n refugee from Nazism, has lived In various countries before coming to the United .States In 1914. Horn in Greece, she received a religious education In Danzig, Poland, nnd was soloist In the choir of tho German synagogue In that city for six years. With her parents, she fled the Hitler invasion of Poland in 1939 nnd emigrated to Australia, where she continued studying music. There In 1943 «he met and married Sheldon nobblns, then with the United States Air Force, and returned with him to the United States In 1944. Mr. Robblns is now an inspector for the New York Health Department.' Mrs. Robblna, mother of four children, has been leading soprano with the fifteen voice choir of Temple Avmlah during the past few years. Tho congregation numbers 200 families.
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Landy Case New York (JTA)—The Navy Department's refusal to commission I'Jugcne Landy, the 21-yearold Jewish youth who graduated last Friday from the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, Long Island, witli second highest honors, was ridiculed by newspapers from all part of the country regardless of political differences among them. The Navy Department refused Mr. Landy the commission on the grounds that his mother had been a communist and that ho was 'close to his mother." Most newspaper comments praised Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas for stepping in on the case and ordering an Investigation of tho circumstances of the Landy case. Earlier, Sen. Herbert H. Lehman Issued a blast at the Navy's action and demanded an Investigation. The Daughters of the American Revolution, which had awarded Mr. Landy a plaque for academic achievement, announced it would not withdraw tho award. The youth, who has won a scholarship to study admiralty law at Yale Lai. School, sailed oil a Sun Oil Company tanker for a 30-day voyage to earn money to continue his studies at Yale.
Air Attack Victims Buried in Israel Tel Aviv (JTA)—An entire country mourned ns the 58 victims of n Bulgarian air attack on an unarmed El Al Constellation passenger plane was laid to rest In a common grave in the new Tel Aviv cemetery. Leaders of the nation were among the thousands who participated in the moving services as rabbis, two Catholic priests and a Protestant cleric performed the religious services. The victims, In unmarked coffins were laid to rest In a long, common grave which the Catholic priests sanctified. Meanwhile, the Swiss Government Informed the United States that the American protest against the wanton assault ot Bulgarian airmen had been delivered to Sofia, nnd the Bulgarian Government, in an amazing public confession, admitted that trigger-happy Bulgarian fighter pilots hnd shot down the Israeli passenger liner without having first given it ample warning to land. The Bulgarians promised compensation to tho families of their victims, payment to Israel of the cost of the plane and measures to prevent a recurrence.
Center Kitchen be Renovated The .Hum ol' $20,000 was uUocated for renovation of the Jewish Community Center kitchen and serving room by the executive committee of tho Federation for Jewish Service at their meeting Monday afternoon. Members of the Federation, of Jewish Women's Club were on hand to look o\er the plans. A special subcommittee headed by Robert Kboper, Federation vice-president, assisted by Harry Trustln, Federation treasurer, and S. Elmer Gross, chairman of the Center Buildings and Maintenance Committee, submitted the All organizational copy for final plans which were approved the Rosh Hashonah edition of by the executive committee, A resolution was also adopted the Jewish Press must be in our hands by Friday, Aug. 19. asking the temple and synagogue* to cooperate with the women'! or. Letters were sent last month to organizations presidents re- ganlzations In permitting them the use of their facilities while the questing the news releases. Center kitchen Is undersong 3«pairs. Under the plans adopted, the serving room connected to tho auditorium will be enlarged by removing the wall which separates It from the mimeograph room. This will nearly double the size ot the serving room. The dumb waiter will be electrified to ease the handling of the food from the kitchen below. New electric cooking equipment and Ramat Gan, Israel (WNS) — cupboards will be installed In the Israel's newest institution of high- kitchen. er learning, Bar-Ilan University, The plans also include a storage was dedicated here last week at cupboard to be built in the alcove in the auditorium alongside of ceremonies attended by more than the serving room. 2,000 guests. Including Premier Jack W. Marer, federation presMoshe Sharett, members of the ident, presided at the executive Israel Cabinet and Parliament, meeting. Others attending were: representatives of 50 universities Milton Abrahams, Mrs. David from all parts of the world and Brodkcv, Mrs. Vttwitrd E. Brodkey, Harry 13. Cohen, Arthur A. the entire diplomatic corps. Cohn, Leo Eiscns'tatt, Leo Fox, Greetings from President Elsen- Mrs. Mike Freeman, Arthur II. Elmer Gross, Mrs. J, H.~ hower were read in which the Goldstein, Kulakofsky, Ernest A, Nogg, HarPresident expressed the hope that ry Trustln, Solomon Goldfarb, Althe new university "will follow lan Marer, Mrs. Henry Newman ' the example ol its sister Jewish and Mrs. Jake Wine. institutions in the United States and that the name Bar-Ilan will come to stand for the highest traditions of academic learning In
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The new university, which was established by tho American Mlzrachl organization as an educational link between Israel and the Un!ted*Statcs and which is named after Rabbi Melr Berlin, late leader of the world Mlzrachl movement, willopen on September. 20 as a liberal arts college offering undergraduate courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Sciences. Professor Pincha3 Churgln, formerly of New York, is the first'presl^ dent of the university. More than 150 students, Including 30 from the United States, Britain and Canada, have registered for the first academic year. Tho American Mlzrachl organization raised $5,000,000 to establish the university. Eight buildings of tho planned total of twentyNew '.lOrk (JTA)—The publica- tions—Israel's Ministry for Cul- four have been erected on the tion of a new Hagtiadah telling ture and Education, Israel's Chlet forty-Ilvo-acre campus at a cost the heroic story of the Warsaw Rjib'jinatc, the Hebrew University so far of 52,000,000.
'Hagaddah' Proposed On Warsaw Ghetto uprising has been proposed by Dr. Isaac I. Schwarzbart, director of the World Jewish Congress' Organization Department, as a method of Immortalizing the epic event and of making the observance of Its anniversary a perpetual Memorial Day for world Jewry. The projected Hnggadah would be read In Jewish homes, schools and at commemorative ceremonies throughout the globe on the anniversary of the uprising —the 27th day r,f NIsan—In the same manner that the Passover Haggadah Is read each year by Jews everywhere to signalize the Exodus from Egypt. In announcing the proposal, Dr. Schwarzbart disclosed that he has approached four central institu-
at Jerusalem, nnd the Synagogue Council of America—with the suggestion that a Joint committee be organized to prepare such a. Haggadah. He Is currently preparing the first draft of a "Haggadah of Warsaw" that might serve as a basis for the committee's work. Dr. Selnvarzbart expressed the opinion that the effort to Include in the Passover Hnggadah a "ritual of. remembrance" for the six million dead is not in consonance with the Passover spirit. "There la no common denominator between tho Haggadah devoted to the! joyous celebration of liberation nnd' freedom nnd the commemoration of tho destruction ot one-third of our people," he said.
APPOINTMENT. OPPOSED New York (WNS)—Opposition to the appointment of Mrs. Betty Robblns to tho post of cantor ot 0 Reform temple in Oceanslde, Long Island, was expressed this week by the School of Sacred Music of the Hebrew College-Jewish Institute of Religion, nn Institution for the training of cantors of Reform synagogues. The school based Its opposition on the fact that Mrs. Robblns, regarded as the first woman cantor in Jewish history, has had no cnntorlal training. De claring that the olflce o£ cantor Is a sacred calling, the school voiced the opinion that only those who have been adequately trained for it should be opnomlccl to olli ciate nt synagogue services.
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NIXON TO yiilT ISRAEL Washington (WNS)—A goodwill tour of Israel and the Arab countries will bo made late this Fall by Vlce-Prcsfdent Richard M. Nixon, It was learned here. It is understood that during his visits the Vice-Fresident will attempt to strengthen tics between the United States and Israel, on the one hand, and tho United States and the Arab countries, on the other. Mr. Nixon, it Is said, will tell both parties that the United States tavors tho development o! ench, but will'not support one at the expense of the other. Before sailing last week-end for the Middle East, Tlep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., of New York announced he will make an unofficial offer to act as a mediator between Israel and the Arab states. Tho Congressman will seek to persuade Egypt to invite Israel to attend tho second meeting of tho Asian-African conference In Cairo. INTERFA'TH CATIIKDItAL Boston (JTA—The ninth annual Jewish service was held Sunday at the Cathedral o" the Pines, an Inter-faith chapel at Rlndgo, New Hampshire, dedicated to tho memory of American civilians ondl military personnel who died in United Slates ware. The Cathedral hns been host to 36 Tellglova denominations, each worshipping in its own fashion. At the service Suncjay, a pair of bronze mcnOTnVVs IlnnWng an ark wero dedicated. Rabbi Albert Yanow of Brookline, Mnss., conducted the service while the ser* mon was delivered by Rnbhl Ro< land B. Glttelsohn of Boston, j
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