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Record Stars Famed Cantor NEW YORK of The features the art of Josef Rosenblatt, an outstanding 20th Century cantor. All of the nine selections were recorded in the 19205, and they range in mood from the tenderness of a prayer recited upon awakening to the robustness of a Sabbath morning prayer of joy. The album is under RCA Camden label. For years Cantor Rosenblatt was sought after by the Metropolitan Opera Company. He never sang there, however, because he would not sign a contract which required him to sing on the Jewish Sabbath.

His voice remains one of the richest and most expressive of our time. Special album liner notes were prepared by the son, Dr. Samuel Rosenblatt, a Baltimore rabbi. SAY YOU SAW IT ADVERTISED IN THE PHOENIX JEWISH NEWS New Year Greetings To our many Friends Malcoff's Stein Sirloin FINEST CUISINE SERVICE 4801 North Central Avenue New Year Greetings from Os ARIZONA UPTOWN PLATA Central and Camelback LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S APPAREL AND SHOES HAPPY NEW YEAR National Dry Goods Inc. Wholesale Distributors of Men's Ladies Childrens Ready to Wear FAMOUS BRANDS STOCK ON HAND FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 235 W.

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A. RUDD 35 West Jefferson Street Jewish Sports Hero Vanishing Koufax Shows Merit As Dodger Hurler, Taussig Shipped to Phoenix Giants; Wooes Absent Except For World Champ Halimi Os North Africa By HAROLD U. RIBALOW (Copyright. 1958, Inc.) This last sports year has had its high moments, but they have been few indeed. Seldom have Jewish athletes been less dominating.

And, what is more significant, there seems to be no improvement to look forward to in the near future. I think some reasons for this trend should be given. The American Jew, as he reaches the rungs of the higher middle class, no longer goes into sports. Certainly not into prize fighting, baseball, or other popular sports. There are more Jews golfing, but not professionally, and more Jews in tennis, but, again, not in the top classes.

THE ATHLETE coming from the well-to-do family finds himself without the status that occurred to the slum-dweller. Once, the Jewish lad from the East Side was a hero when he became a headline fighter. The Jewish boy raised in Westchester or Long Island does not go into the ring, and if he did, he would not be the neighborhood stalwart that Benny Leonard was in New York or Barney Ross in Chicago. In addition, football, which once yielded many Jewish stars, is no longer the big sport it was, for education is now gaining more stress, and most Jewish boys in college, from the better homes, refuse to go out for football, and the poorer boys, in the state and city Happy New Year To The Entire Jewish Community from Phoenix Jewish Free Loan Association I' 1610 E. Camelback Rd.

May we also use this as means of asking our members who are not current in the dues to please send dues to Phoenix Community Center. This ad was paid tor by sponsors colleges, are in schools where football played. Thus it goes. AS A RESULT, the past year has not been a sparkling one. Don Taussig of the Frisco Giants did well as a rookie for a while, and then went to the Phoenix Giants.

Norm Larker of the Dodgers managed to hang on. Joe Ginsberg is still in the majors but apparently will never be any better than he is now, which too good. Only Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers, the swift lefthander, has become a regular pitcher of real merit for a team which, for at least half a season, was in the National League basement. Where are the real big stars, like the Hank Greenbergs, A1 Rosens and Sid Gordons? They are absent. in the minor leagues there are no really promising Jewish ball players, either.

BASKETBALL, which once was called a Jewish sport because of the predominance of Jewish stars and teams, has only Dolph Schayes as a professional star and Lenny Rosenbluth as a comer. In the college headlines, there will be a Jewish player once in a while, but not frequently. The new stars are huge, 7-foot Negro boys or farm lads from the Mid or Far West. Jews seem to grow that tall, and as a result, basketball has become a minor, instead of a major, Jewish game. Tennis, a sport which never had many Jewish players, did boast, a few years ago, of Dick Savitt and Herb Flam, both of the top grade.

Now Savitt is retiredhe plays only intermittently if Flam, after a breakdown, has not been heard from. The other Jews in the game, Sam Match, are okay, but of the second or third rank. THE ONLY important emergence of the last year has been that of a star in chess; at the same time, for the first time in memory, there is no outstanding Jewish boxer in the ring in this Alphonse Halimi, the North African-French Jew, is a champion. The new chess star is, of course, New Year Greetings To Our Friends ARIZONA EXTERMINATING COMPANY Reliable Termite Control Member of the National Pest Control Association, Inc. 808 North 2nd Street Phone AL 4-3395 New Year Greetings to Our Friends and Customers 1743 E.

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For example, Mikhail Botvinnik, another Jewish chess master real grandmaster regained his world title from Vassily Smyslov this year, and Bobby cannot be ranked with him until a few more years go by and he has an opportunity to meet, face to face, players like Botvinnik or Smyslov. For that matter, it is still debatable whether he can lick Reshevsky in a match, although he has done well against him in tourney play. WHILE THERE are only a handful of Jewish sports stars, those heroes of the past are gaining stature as the decades roll by. From time to time references are made to the great of baseball, for example, and Greenberg and Rosen are now ranked their careers are finished with the very best. Benny Leonard is still called the finest of the lightweights and Barney Ross a blazingly brilliant welterweight.

In Israel, sports are growing apace and this year baseball is be- ing added to the games the Israelis play. They are competing more and more all over the world and even if the Israeli representatives are not yet of major stature, it is not impossible that the Jews of Is- rael will fill in where the Jews of America are falling behind. It is not likely to happen soon. ISRAELI TENNIS players, for instance, are appearing more frequently all over the world, but they are not yet really good. And as there are no boxers in Israel (professional prize fighting does Section II not exist in the Jewish State), there anything to look forward to here.

But so great is Israeli interest in sports and games that there are' bound to develop some outstanding athletes in that land. Massacre Described LONDON (JTA) English translation of Crimes of the Fascist Occupants an Their Collab- orators Against the Jews of Yugo- has been published here. 5 It describes the terrible massacre of Jews in Nazi-occupied Yugo- of a pre-war popula- i tion of 70,000 were wiped out. Cemeteries Vandalized NEWARK acts of vandalism in Jewish cemeteries 1 here, all involving desecration by i overturning headstones and paint- ing swastikas on tombstones, have been traced to juveniles, police reported. Communists Expelled 1 TEL AVIV Is-1' labor federation, expelled all Communist members of its executive committee bureau for having Arab minority to organized resistance against the State of The Communists led rioting in Nazareth and other Arab cities on May Day.

Brazil To Remain Haven RIO DE JANEIRO President Juscelino Kubitschek declared the gates of Brazil wili be open to refugees and persecuted people of all races, religions, and nationalities. The statement come a reception at, he was hr iored by Brad's tnajor in rnigj-'tion societies. GREETINGS TO ALL from LEONARD'S 21 E. Adams AL 8-7801 PARK CENTRAL MALL PARK CENTRAL IT COSTS NO MORE TO SHOP THE STORE THAT BRINGS YOU THE BEST OF EVERYTHING AND GREEN STAMPS. TOO! CHILDREN'S WEAR AND SHOES Uptown Plaza, Central and Camelbeclc Wish the Jewish Community A Happy New Year from oldest home bo tide P.

W. WOMACK CONST. CO. look for the brand of the "hzy September 12, 1958 Free Mental Center Opens At Denver first patients arc being admitted on a nationwide basis to the newly-established, free, non-sectarian, Jewish sponsored National Mental Health Center. The medical policy of the first free mental hospital has been set to admit patients for whom 6 to 18 months of intensive treatment in an open-door setting can make the difference between a progressive downhill course or eventual recovery, said John Streltzer, center president.

Patients being admitted, he said, are untreatable as outpatients, yet well enovjgh to adjust to an openhospital situatiofr mental hospital has no locked wards or rooms, and patients are free to move about the hospital and its spacious grounds. Intensive care at NMHC includes group and individual psychotherapy, milieu, occupational thereapy, and recreational therapy. The staff consists of two psychiatrists, a psychologist, social worker, psychiatric nurses and aides, and an occupational therapist. SAY YOU SAW IT ADVERTISED IN THE PHOENIX JEWISH NEWS Happy New Year KARP Cabinet Shop CUSTOM CABINET WORK Show Cases Fixtures Bars Formica Specialists AL 2-2306 Happy New Year Seruisoft SOFT WATER SERVICE AM 1127 E. Indian School Phoenix Page Five.