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AW INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
THEOLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 30 NO. 18
PLAIN TALK
BY ALFRED SEGAL
A CERTAIN
"GOOD NEIGHBOR"
As a faithful reporter of the
day's doings I must report a cer
tain honor that was visited upon
one of our citizens at the Isaac
M. Wise Temple of our town on a
Sabbath evening recently.
Our temple, by guidance of
Rabbi Samuel Wohl, annually
makes a special occasion of the
Sabbath on which is read the
commandment: “Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself,” from
Leviticus. On that account the
temple’s high school department
selects one who is nominated
“Good Neighbor of the Year,”
Jew or Christian.
The temple's this year's good
neighbor was Alfred Segal, a
columnist. I report this not at all
for the purpose of enlarging the
fellow's ego. He himself says that
he consents to this publication of
his virtue only if it suggests how
a Jew may practice Judaism
away from the synagogue.
Segal hadn’t been at all con
scious of being a good neighbor.
Far from brooding on any pur
pose of being a good neighbor, he
passes evenings grabbing off big
stacks of the discard at canasta,
or looking at murders in televi
sion, or in something more intel
lectual like reading.
Then one evening, a telephone
call summons him, and Rabbi
Wohl is on the line. He starts by
telling Segal he has good news
for him . . . "Our high school
council has chosen you good
neighbor of the year," and the
coronation, you might say, would
take place at next Sabbath eve
service.
Segal was taken by surprise.
Indeed, he had been saying pleas
ant good mornings to neighbors
in the apartment house in which
he resides and helping elderly
ladies into the elevator. But none
of that was th§ reason he was
being honored as good neighbor.
It seems they thought he had
done a good job of being neigh
borly in the column he writes for
the daily newspaper on which he
works. He confesses that in that
function he had tried to be neigh
borly even to people he had never
met and who didn't live any
where near him.
Well, yes, there was the guy for
whom he had just raised SSOO to
pay off his fino and get him out
of the Workhouse where, Segal
thought, he was being unjustly
imprisoned. In the neighborly
way he had spoken up against the
slums in our town and for decent
public housing.
He had written again and again
on the discriminations that are
on Negroes when they need jobs.
A few weeks ago it was mention
ed in this column that Segal had
been writing for rent control. The
citizen said that was just "a sign
of the Jew" in Segal. Segal felt
flattered. If caring about the rent
of people in tenement houses was
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U. S. TOURIST WILL GET
HIGH RATE ON CONVERTING
ISRAEL BONDS
NEW YORK, (JTA) Ameri
can tourists converting Israel
bonds to Israel pounds while
visiting the Jewish State will
henceforth receive 1.80 pounds
for each dollar in Israel bond
value, according to regulations
just issued by the Israel Finance
Ministry. As a result, Israel Bonds
now have the most favorable con
version rate available.
This new benefit for Israel
bondholders is based on the con
version rate of one pound for one
dollar, with an added premium of
eight percent to tourists. Each
tourist is limited to a maximum
of 1,000 Israel pounds in pre
miums each month.
A tourist converting SSOO in Is
rael Independence Coupon Bonds
will receive a total of 900 Israel
pounds (500 pounds at the regular
conversion rate, plus 400 pounds
premium). In the case of Israel'
Savings Bonds, conversion is
based on the purchase price of
the bond plus accumulated inter
est. As a result of the new regu
lations, Israel will become one of
the least expensive countries for
American tourists.
SHARETT GIVEN MILITARY
SALUTE ON ARRIVAL
IN URUGUAY
MONTEVIDEO, (JTA) lsrael
Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett
was given a military reception
here when he arrived from
Buenos Aires on the third leg of
his South American goodwill
tour. The Israeli minister was
met at the port by Uruguayan
Foreign Minister J. Pittaluga and
a company of sailors who gave
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Noted Hollywood stars Arthur Franz, Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston and Randolph Scott in the
opening scene of "Three Lives." the United Jewish Appeal's stirring television presentation which will
have its premiere on Monday. May 25th at 9:00 P. M. (E.D.S.T.) over many stations of the American
Broadcasting System TV network. The Hollywood-produced film, which graphically portrays the actual
experiences of three persons who found havens and hope through the UJA. will be shown by other TV
stations and at meetings of community organizations in the near future in connection with the UJA's
current emergency cash campaign for $25,000,000. Climax of this "drive within a drive," which is part
of the UJA's 1953 effort will come at an extraordinary National Action Conference in Washington,
D. C. on June 6 and 7. .
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1953
Leaves For Israel
Tuesday
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DR. MILTON ROSENBAUM
Dr. Milton Rosenbaum, Profes
sor of Psychiatry at the Univer
sity of Cincinnati College of
Medicine and one of the nation’s
foremost psychiatric teachers, will
leave for Israel on Tuesday (May
26) to assist in the establishment
of a new Department of Psychia
try at the Hebrew University-
Medic,al School, it was
announced jointly this week by
Mrs. Samuel J. Rosensohn, na
tional president of Hadassah, the
Women’s Zionist Organization of
America, and Dr. George S. Wise,
president of the American
Friends of the Hebrew Univer
sity.
Dr. Rosenbaum’s special assign
ment to Israel has been made pos
sible by a recent grant of $150,000
from the Julius and Marie
Scheider Memorial Fund for
Neuropsychiatry to the Hebrew
University-Hadassah Medical
School, the joint announcement
said.
the Israeli leader a military sa
lute. More than 2,000 Jews cheer
ed his arrival at the port.
New American Loan
Asked for Israel
JERUSALEM, (JTA) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles,
Mutual Security Administrator Harold Slassen and their aides wound
up a 26-hour visit in Israel this week that may prove to have been
the most important phase of their entire Middle East expedition.
Set back on his heels in Cairo
by Gen. Mohammed Naguib’s dis
play of intransigeance and re
fusal to consider any facets of the
world situation except Egypt’s
dispute with Britain, the Ameri
can diplomat and his party found
in the Jewish State what was
probhbly the only warm and gen
uinely friendly reception of their
tour.
Some reflection of this was
contained in the statement re
leased to the press here by the
American Embassy in Mr. Dulles'
behalf. In it the Secretary of
Stale said:
“It has been a stimulating ex
perience for Mr. Stassen and me
to visit Israel and to call on the
leaders of this dynamic country.
Our two days of talks included
interesting conversations with the
President, Premier, Foreign Min
ister and other leaders. Such ‘on
the spot’ talks are of great value.
"We came here primarily to
listen and observe. We did not
bring any ready-made solutions to
the serious problems of this area,
but we hope that through talks
which began in Cairo and have
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
BUILDING NEW HOME
DETROIT, (JTA) The Jew
ish News, one of the largest
Anglo-Jewish publications in the
country, announced this week that
construction had begun on a new
building which will house the
newspaper’s editorial, advertis
ing, circulation and business of
fices.
continued here and will continue
in other countries we will obtain
a belter understanding of these
problems and that we may help
in improving the climate for
peace and security in the Middle
East.
“I congratulate the people of
Israel on the progress made in
the first five years of the new
state and I wish them success in
meeting the problems lying
ahead.”
Israelis Discuss Bid For New
American Loan
The American officials, who re
ceived an extensive briefing on
Israeli economic problems as well
as on all phases of the Middle
East situation as seen from Israel,
were informed that Israel would
make a formal request in Wash
ington soon for a $75,000,000 loan
to fund the major part of short
term obligations amounting to
$11,000,000 which mature within
a year.
Israel will seek the loan from
the Export-Import Bank or from
private American banks with
such loans guaranteed by the Mu
tual Security Administration. Fi
nance Minister Levi Eshkol and
Minister of Commerce Perelz
Bernstein, who raised the issue
of the loan with the visiting
Americans, expressed the belief
that the funding of these obliga
tions would save the Jewish State
ten to fifteen million dollars a
year.
Meetings with the leaders of
the Jewish State at which the
whole gamut of Middle East prob
lems was covered and in which
the Israel viewpoint was present
ed to the Americans were packed
into a series of meetings the visi
tors had here and in Tel Aviv.
As Moshe Sharett, Israel’s For
eign Minister, met with Messrs.
Dulles and Stassen, Henry A.
Byroade, Assistant Secretary of
State, and Douglas MacArthur,
2nd, Counsellor of the State De
partment, Walter Eytan, director
General of the Foreign Ministry,
met with other American officials
to disucss some issues in detail.
While the formal communiques
did not throw too much light on
the nature of the discussions at
the various meetings, they were
known to have covered most of
the pending Middle East ques
tions. Mr. Sharett had indicated,
in advance of the Americans ar
rival that the talks would be a
continuation of conversations he
had initiated with President
Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles in
Washington last month. He said
the question of Arab-Israel rela
tions and of American economic
and military aid to Israel would
be raised. Israel, he added, would
take a number of suggestions
aimed at stabilising conditions in
the Middle East.
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