Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1955 — Page 10
THE NATIONAL JEWISH POST
Friday, March 18, 195S
Fired Israeli Teacher Withdraws Charges Against Education Body
By SHLOMO ITZHAKI Jewish Post Correspondent
TEL AVIV (JP)—A labyrinth of conflicting testimony and alleged perjury has turned topsy-turvy the case of Rachel Bar-Giora, the American-born teacher who was fired by an Eilat school, re-
portedly because of her conversion to Christianity.
Mrs. Bar-Giora surprised Israel’s High Court of Justice when, just as her case was about to bej heard, she withdrew her request granted. Representatives of the that the ministry of education m i n i s try of education, however, ! gjv^ n show cause why she had been insisted they be permitted to clar-
NAMES IN THE NEWS
High-Flying Ben-Gurion Proves lie's Still Ready For Adventure
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SRAEL’S Defense Minister
dismissed from her position (JP,
Dec. 27, ’54).
Her request was immediately
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ify their department’s position. The court granted their request.
DENIED ALLEGATION
The director of the ministry’s
personnel department, Abraham! y ear at Rimon, presented to the court a j neering
sworn statement denying the alle- merit in the Ne* BEN-GURION
David Ben-Gurion, who will reach man’s alloted three score
and ten years this October, once again has
evidence
he’s a pioneer at heart. The former prime minister, who spent more than a
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AND TWO WEEKS AT A DELUXE mam tel-aviv hotel ARRANGED THROUGH
gation, made under oath by Mrs. Bar-Giora, that she had informed the ministry of her conversion prior to her appointment as a teacher. Rimon also asserted that Mrs. Bar-Giora had demonstrated complete lack of personal honesty, and she had gained her position by “fraud.” The secretary of the Teacher’s Seminary of Tel Aviv, known as Levinsky seminary, made a sworn statement, and presented supporting documents, denying that Mrs. Bar-Giora is a graduate of the seminary, as she had stated previously while under oath. DENIED EMPLOYING HER The third sworn statement was made by the principal of Beith Yaacov Religious school, who denied Mrs. Bar-Giora’s assertion that she had worked as a teacher for the institution. Following the testimony, the court ordered Mrs. Bar-Giora to pay 50 Israel pounds (about $27.77) to the respondents for failure to state why she had withdrawn her request that the min-
Western States region
Civic 26, by the Shearith Israel Broth-
leaders, religious leaders of many; erhood for his work in fostering denominations, and the Texas brotherhood.
Kallah of Rabbis honored Dr. Robert L Kahn, rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, Houston, on Mar. 16 for his 20 years in the rabbinate . . . Leaving for Jerusalem to head the Israel branch of the Seminary Machon Maharshal is
Rabbi Nathan K. Shapiro, dean of the Yavneh Hebrew Theological
Seminary. * * ¥
NEW aeronautical engineering building at the Israel In-
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gev sharing the rugged frontier
life, recently revealed his deter-1 stitute of Technology in Haifa mination to win the wings of the will be named the Bender Labor-
Israeli army paratroopers’ unit. Ben-Gurion told his plans to the Israel Army Chief Chaplain Lt. Col. Rabbi Shlomo Goren, who recently acquired the paratroopers’ wings himself. * ★ * Names In Review npHE Jewish Community CenA ter of Bensonhurst, N. Y., will hold a testimonial banquet and dance in honor of its spiritual leader, Rabbi Paul H. Katz, Mar. 26 . . . Rabbi Harold Schulweis, of Oakland, Calif., has been elected vice-president of the Rabbinical Assembly of America, istry show cause for her dismissal. Further legal action may be forthcoming against the teacher. Israel’s office of the state prosecutor has decided to proceed against Mrs. Bar-Giora before a district court on the grounds of fraud and perjury in the sworn statements she presented to the High Court of Justice.
atory in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bender of Breckenridge, Tex. , . . Harry L. Siegel, president of the Mifflin County (Pa.) Bar association and president of Chev Cholom synagogue, Lewistown, Pa., was presented with citation for his long service in promoting brotherhood at the annual dinner of the Mifflin County Round Table of the National Conference of Christians and Jews . . . Cantor Abraham D. Silensky, of Congregation Shearith Israel, Dallas, was given a plaque Feb.
Claims Conference Allocates $10 Million NEW YORK (JP)—The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has allocated $10 million this year for global relief, rehabilitation, cultural restoration and educational programs on behalf of victims of Nazi Persecution throughout the
world.
The allocation is the second made by the conference from its share of German reparations payments. The first allocation was $8,075,000. The bulk of the 1955 allocation is slated for use in the relief and rehabilitation of the indigent, sick or disabled.
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