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Crated Furniture of Algerian Jews Removed From Ships Paris (JTA)—Algerian authorities are now making difficulties for Jews leaving the country to take movable property with them. Crates loaded with furniture belonging to a number of Jews have been removed from ships waiting to depart from Algerian harbors. The unstable situation in the strife-torn Algeria has induced
ADL Meeting Sept. Several hundred leader.1; from a five-state are expected for the Omaha meeting of the Plains States Regional Hoard, AntiDefamation League of H'nai B'rith, Dr. A. A. Groenberg, its planning committee chairman and National Commissioner, announced. A dinner meeting on Saturday, September 15 at the Indian Hills Motel will open the twoday conference. Speaker will he Herman Edelsberg, the League's Washington, D.C., office director. Mr. Edelsberg serves as his organization's legislative representative in the capital. Sunday's agenda will include discussion and analysis of area problems. Reservations for the meeting may be made by calling the ADL office, 341-3575. Its address is 537 Securities Building.
Trees Planted in Dr. Sabin's Name Jerusalem OTA)—Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine bearing his name, told a gathering assembled for the planting of a forest in his honor that he was delightful to learn thai not a single case of polio hat' been recorded in Israel durng August. The Forest, planted by the Jewish National Fund in the United States Freedom Forest, will comprise .15,000 trees.
legion File Used By Anfi-Semifes Probe Instigated
the remaining few thousand Jews to leave the country. A temporary youth home will be opened here for 120 Jewish children from Algeria who were evacuated from the territory earlier this summer and are unable to return to their families. Thirty of the youngsters are known to have lost their parent.1; or are unable to rejoin their families for various reasons while 90 lost contact with their families during the unrest. An attempt will be made to aid the hitter in finding their parents. Of a total of nearly 400 children evacuated from Algeria in July, about 40 have returned there to rejoin their parents.
E. German Gity's Only Synagogue Heopened London (JTA>—The only synagogue in Leipzig, East Germany, was consecrated recently after the completion of the redecoration of the interior of the building which was used as a storeroom during the Nazi regime. There are some 300 Jewa in the city today compared with n Jewish population of nearly 10,000 in 1938.
Women iake Flea For Hospital Bazaar The Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs will again have its own booth at the annual Children's Memorial Hospital Bazaar to be held all day Monday, October 29 at the Sheraton-Fontenelle Hotel, it was announced by Mrs. Arthur H. Goldstein, chairman and Mmes. Morton Richards and Alfred Sophir, co-chairmen of the project for the Women's Federation. "In the past several years the Jewish women have done an outstanding job for this cause," said Mrs. Goldstein. She added "that we want to do even better this year." A self-addressed envelope to be returned to Mrs. Goldstein was mailed to the women of the community suggesting that they indicate on it the number of articles they are planning to contribute. Handmade articles are particularly needed and appreciated.
Rabbi and Mrs. Groner Return The "S h i k u n," cooperative housing, rising everywhere in Israel to provide living quarters for immigrants, became a familiar sight to Rabbi Benjamin Groner, spiritual leader of Beth Israel synagogue and Mrs. Groner during their tour of the new state. Urban Service Centers "Much building is going up on Israel's frontiers, as part of a long-range security program," Rabbi and Mrs. Groner noted. "Most interesting are the urban service centers, usually a short d i s t a n c e from a development area, such as Kirynt Gat in the south which was s t a r t e d in 1950." 1 Kiryat Gat, founded to serve the Lachish development area, is a typical example of the way all kinds of business and enterprises are concentrated instead of a few scattered merchants in a single area," the Rabbi said.
Chaplain Smomoh Goren at a military installation. They saw Professor Don Patinkin, former Chicagoan, now chief consultant in economics to the government, who is responsible for much of the guidance in the n a t i o n's economic development. They toured the textile mills in Dimona and also visited King Solomon's mines in the Negev. They also were permitted to greet imigranls as they reached the shores of Israel, an unforgettable experience in their estimation. In Jerusalem they saw Justin Lewis who is attending the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Lewis, he previously studied at the Hebrew University and is on leave frc<n Brandeis University. Sense of Dedication "The high sease of dedication of the people of Israel is most evident among the Rabbis who
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rael National Research and Development Council recently inaugurated the world's first experimental solar energy pool, 25 by 25 meters, in Sodom, on the Dead Sea. The pool's two objects are generating electric energy and desalinating water for irrigation. (Incidentally, .it also produces salt.) The idea of the solar pool wa3 first conceived in 1947 by Professor Rudolf Bloch of the Dead Sea Works, who found that in certain lakes in Hungary and the Antarctic the temperature of the lower layer of the water was. higher than that of the upper layers, since, owing to the salinity of the lower layers, the heat does not escape to the surface. In planning artificial solar ponds, the Israeli scientists were faced with the difficulty that the heavy saline, layers at the bottom naturally tendto mix with the upper layers, and it is the successful solution of this problem that lias made it possible to lay out the experimental pool at Sodom. The task of building the pool was allotted to the Council's Negev Research Institute in April, 1901. The project is financed by the James de Roths-
San Francisco fJTA)—Four individuals in the Los Angeles area were reported this week to have been listed by American Legion officials as prime suspects in the theft of confidential Legion files which had been turned over to professional anti-Semites. No Authorization Two weeks ago, leading Californians began complaining they were receiving scurrilous anti-Semitic and anti-Negro material from Southern California rabble-rousers. Investigation indicated that someone had obtained without authorization a secret roster of nev/ officers of the Legion Department of California. Geneva (JTA>—Loans by a Four Suspects special housing fund of the Legion officials promptly denounced the misuse of the stol- Joint Distribution Committee to en files and cited the organiza- refugees from North Africa in tion's continuous program of Franco,' have reached a total of Becking to stamp out religious 200,000, Charles Jordan, Overand racial bigotry. The investigation was extended to L03 seas JDC Director, reported. He said that the, past 12 Angeles and produced evidence pointing to the four individuals months represented ft record in Who were in a position to ob- loans from JDC loan... institutain such Legion records by • tions. Ho reported that 41 such stealth and who ore known to loan agencies in 19 countries be active jmti-Semites. The four provided 7,095 loans totaling suspects \vero reported to bo $3,360,000 an increase of 337 under further investigation. loans and $250,000 over the
Foundations. Extensive experimentation on solar ponds has been carried on for some time at the Lwael Institute of Technology in Haifa, and the Dead Sea project benefits from the active collaboration of Professor Irmai and Dr. Eilata of the Technion. Dr. Zyi Tabor of the Research Council last yoar produced the first small solar energy motor.
James Lipsey Panelist At Boys' Club Parley
Ilnbbl and Mrs. Groner greet immigrants arriving in IsraeL James L. Lipsey, a member of the Board of "This makes many more facil- freely withdraw from their pulGovernors of the ities available to nearby resi- pits," Rabbi Gvoncr said, "in order to undertake the work of Boys' C l u b of dents." teaching, guidance and adminisOmaha, is a panLike U.S. Shopping Center elist on the "Pub- " In Kiryat Gat are shops, doc- tration—areas most vital to the social building and progress of licity and Public tors and libraries, almost like Israel," Relations" panel an American shopping center, Both he and Mrs. Groner reit the Second An- the Omahans o b s e r v e d . The nual Boys' Clubs community's slogan is "A roof marked about the 2 p.m. closing of America Mid- for every man—a roof for every hour on Friday and the festive crowds that milled about the west Region Lay- nation." streets on Saturday nights, when men's Conf erSpeaking of books, the Gron- business reopened after the Sab— ence being held ers saw scientific and technical bath. James Lipsey in Dayton, Ohio, volumes displayed rather than September 6 and 7. Mr. Lipsey popular n o v e l s , and is wellis a partner in Universal Adver- known that I s r a e l publishes Moroccan Jews Protest tising Agency, Omaha advertis- more books per capita than any Official's Statement ing and public relations firm. other country in the world. Casablanca (JTA)—Dr, Leon The ferver and enthusiasm of Benzaquen, honorary president Israelis as they go about their of the Federation of Jewish business was very impressive to Communities in Morocco, and the Groners who n o t e d that David Amar, Federation presi"working for a common goal at- dent, sharply protested the retenuates the differences of their cent statement by Mlal El Pasprevious 12-month period. Loans respective outlooks and social si, president of the Istiqlal parwere made in Australia, Israel, philosophies in' building Israel ty, and Minister of State in charge of Islamic Affairs, that South America, France, Poland as the home of the Jews." Visited at Herzog Home the Jews in Morocco were not and Italy to help integrate 1,680' refugee and repatriated famThey said that while in Jeru- regarded as Moroccans but as ilies. salem they visited Mrs. Isaac residents enjoying Moroccan Mr. Jordan noted that loan Halevi Herzog, widow of the protection. Dr. Benzaquen, a former Morapplications still pending from chief rabbi of Israel, at her home Tunisian families will require ""where they were privileged to occan Cabinet Minister, said far more funds than the original spend time in the study of her that El Fassi's statement lmd disturbed the Moroccan Jewish estimnte3 and that additional late husband." • funds will have to be vastly ex- •. They visited with Asher Zidon, population. He demanded that panded to meet the needs of assistant parliamentarian of the the Federation bring action thousands of Algerian Jews now Knesset, and Moshe Unna, who against El Fassi for underminin France whose major eco- is drafting a formal constitution ing the morale of the Jewish nomic problem now U housing." for Israel. They were with Army community.
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