Two young girls and a boy were the winners today of free trips to Israel, when they beat nearly 50 other contestants to place first in the national finals of the third annual Bible contest conducted jointly by the American Zionist Council’s Department of Education and Culture and the National Bible Contest Committee.
The winners are Barbara Trainin 13, of Brooklyn, a student at the Yeshiva of Flatbush; Leonard Katz, 13, of The Bronx, a student at the Hebrew High School; and Nancy Jasper, of Maplewood, N. J., a student at B’nai Jeshurun School, Newark.
The three winners were among 50 regional finalists out of more than 10, 000 entrants from more than. 600 Hebrew religious schools, day schools and yeshivot in the United States and Canada, who had competed in this year’s Bible contest. The 50 finalists were given stiff written and oral examinations yesterday by high-ranking scholarly quiz masters at the offices of the Jewish Agency Building, and accorded top honors by a group of Jewish scholars who acted as judges.
Two of the winners, in intermediate Hebrew and advanced Hebrew, were given the questions and required to reply in Hebrew. The third winner, Miss Jasper, placed first in a part of the competition restricted to pupils who have studied the Bible in English.
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