A miniature Maccabiad, modeled after the famous Palestinian games, inspired widespread comment in Jewish circles here today.
Developed as an educational project at the Jewish Communal Center during the last three years, the games were opened with a pageant of the boys club teams participating in the meet.
Among the tableaux which they depicted were sailors at Tel Aviv, Palestine, throwing a lifeline to German refugees; the industrialization of Haifa; the opening of the “Gates of Hope” to Jewish settlers, and representative types of Jerusalem people.
A tree-planting ceremony symbolic of the afforestation program of the Jewish National Fund was participated in by Boy Scouts. The bugler of the center’s troop blew taps during the planting of a tree provided by the New York State College of Forestry in memory of the late Louis Marshall.
The annual roll call of the center will bring Rabbi Milton Steinberg of the Park Avenue Synagogue, New York City, here Thursday evening as guest speaker. Rabbi Steinberg will talk on “The Making of the Modern Jew.”
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