Dr. Hardy Swarensky, editor of “Die Juedische Wochenschau,” most important German-language Jewish publication in South America, was honored here last night at a banquet commemorating the 15th anniversary of his semi-weekly publication.
Ambassador Arieh Kubovy of Israel presented Dr. Swarensky with a Jerusalem Bible and with a certificate of his inscription in the Jewish National Fund’s Golden Book. Dr. Abraham Mibashan, noted Jewish leader, presided at the banquet at which Chief Rabbi Amram Blum, and representatives of the United Israel Appeal and the DAIA, central representative body of Argentine Jewry, spoke.
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