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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

Mt. Sinai Hospital
Ass'n First Fall
Meeting Sept. 24

o pre-
tional Refugee Service whoNew
oiled upon us to ,,
York arid come here.
With the initial meeting of the
Next arrivals in Middletown 1940-41 season, to be held in the
were the E. family—two tall Bagley Room of Hotel Statler
blonde Young brothers and their Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 2:30 p. m.,
ter. The E. brothers had not Mount Sinai Hospital Ass'n. will
sister.
been happy in New York where enter into its field of activities
they had been forced to live on
the earnings of the sister work-
ing as a domestic. So they jump-
ed at the chance to re-settle,
when the elder brother
e specially
found he could get a job in his
old trade as dental mechanic.
Now both the E. boys are work-
ing. Together they make $40 a
week. The sister still does house-
work—but it is in her own home.
Latest arrival in Middletown
is young Z., 22 years old, a cler-
ical worker. When he came to
America, Z. pleaded that he be
allowed to learn a skilled trade.
The National Refugee Service
arranged to have Z. placed in a
free trade school. Here he took
some courses and learned the
fundamentals of wiring. Z. went
to Middletown on the completion
of his course. The community
got him a job in a scrap iron
yard but they pledged themselves
0 that if Z. shows the necessary
stick-to-itiveness they will set
him up in an electrical shop soon.
MRS. JACOB HARVITH
Here in small cross sections
are typical resettlement stories. in the interests of a hospital un-
Altogether only seven lives arc der Jewish auspices, and for in-
involved, but they are lives tensive Red Cross production
which might have been broken work for the duration of the
and miserable. Multiply these emergency period.
cases a thousand times and you
Mrs. R. E. Murphy, well known
approximate the annual resettle- social worker and case work sec-
ment job the National Refugee retary for the Council of Social
Service and the American Jewish Agencies, will talk on "Women's
community are doing.
Contribution to the World." Mrs.
The effect of the refugee on Jacob Harvith, president, urges
the community is more subtle members to attend and bring
and harder to trace. We cannot friends.
know how each individual in a
At a recent committee meeting
community acts as he watches held in the home of Mrs. Ber-
these people become better and nard Rose, plans were in progress
better adjusted, better and bet- for the forthcoming annual lunch-
ter citizens. We do know that eon to be held in the Masonic
American Jewry has been drawn Temple.
closer together by the resettle-
Mrs. Simeon Cugell, general
ment program.
chairman, and Mrs. Al Gold-
Let me quote a few excerpts berg, co-chairman, announce that
from the reports of the Field special arrangements have been
Staff of the National Refugee made by the ways and means com-
Service — unchanged except for mittee to assist in securing reser-
the elimination of names.
vations. In order to facilitate
From the midwest: "The com- this plan, a rummage store at
mittee here has developed this 2333 Hastings, near Vernon High-
musical organization. Its conduc- way has been established and is
tor and concertmaster are refug- now available with Mrs. Jack
ees but the musicians, numbering Nadler, chairman. TO. 7-3545.
between 25 and 30, are all Amer-
Other Divisions who will be of
icans. It has the entire com-
assistance in the procuring of
munity, Jewish and non-Jewish,
reservations are: Mesdames Wal-
behind it and has drawn capacity
ter Golden, chairman of banks,
houses. It is the talk of the TO. 7-3370; Samuel Benavie, UN.
town . . ."
3-3370, chairman of cards; Leon
This from a town in the No•th- Katzen, TO. 8-4336, chairman of
west—a town with only 10 Jew- games; Charles Gitlin, chairman
ish families: "We attended dedi- of souvenir program, TO. 8-4008;
catory services in the town's only co-chairman, Bernard Rose, TY.
synagogue and its first rabbi, 6-2112, and Joshua Karbel, TO.
the refugee Rabbi C. The rabbi 7-6942; Mrs. Oscar Synder. sec-
was sent here only five months retary, TO. -9563. Mesdames
ago. He conducted his initial Harry Fixler, Ty. 7-1487, and
Friday night services in the liv- Morris Solomon are in charge of
ing room of the Y. home. His memorials and Darlings. Mrs.
ability, personality and hard work Max Rosenbaum and Mrs. Daniel
soon won for him an active and Rachmiel, TY. 6-5582, are in
devoted congregation. Rabbi C. charge of the reservations and
soon became such an influential are assisted by Mrs. Max Schubi-
and revitalizing force in the com- nen Mrs. David Werbe is chair-
munity that the congregation de- man of the entertainment and
cided to purchase. a place for a Mrs. Isaac Rosenthal is in charge
real synagogue and Jewish Cen- of Organizations.
tel.. A beautiful house was pur-
One of the recent additions to
chased — $1,200 was raised in the 1941 paid up reservations of
cash in one evening and a $3,000 the Annual Luncheon is that this
mortgage was assumed by half reservation includes a paid up
a dozen individuals—It was a membership for the calendar year
most gratifying experience to be of 1941.
present at the dedicatory serv-
ices. The place was filled to ca- Youth Education Leagu&sto
uacity with as many gentiles as
Meet on Sept. 24 A'
Jews, and people from communi-
ties as distant as 100 miles away
At the first fall meeting of
came. The mayor, the former the Youth Education League,
president of the local college, and held at the home of Mrs. Rose
a Presbyterian minister address- Stocker of Broadstreet, plans for
ed the gathering . . .
the membership drive were com-
Of course, not every refugee
pleted.
is like Rabbi C. The National
The opening meeting will be
Refugee Service has also record- held at the home of Miss Jeanne
ed failures in resettlement. Our Cohen, 3748 Monterey Ave., on
refugees are sometimes malad- Sept. 24, at 8 p. m. After the
justed, unduly irritable, perhaps business meeting, movies depict-
on the verge of a breakdown. ing charitable endeavors will be
Yet I would challenge any group shown. Mah Jongg and bridge
of Americans to undergo what will be played, and refreshments
the refugees have been through,
served.
to live in the shadow of Bushen-
wald and Dachau for years and
to emerge with as few
. person- But in the foreground of their
consciousness is the overwhelm-
ality problems.
It is a hard school these folks ing sense of the greater values
have been to, this school con- of freedom of soul and consci-
ducted by Hitler and his brown ence, of the dignity of man.
shirted monitors. It breaks some, These are things that the con-
but most of those who live sciousness of America too must
through its rigors come out with absorb if we are to survive
a new perspective, a sense of through the critical years to
values that our democracy needs. come. While we are teaching the
The problems of ajob, of a com- refugees it might be well to
ortable living are important to learn a few things from them,
them—to whom are they not? as well.

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

YEMENITES

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Jews are prohibited to
"(3)
tide astride an animal (horses,
mules, etc.). There are no auto-
mobiles or railroads in Yemen.
Jews are strictly for-
"(4)
bidden to leave Yemen for Pal-
e s tin( e5.
"(5)
Every .Jewish orphan,
male or female, below 13 years
of age, whose father died, must
embrace the Moslem religion nd
recognize it as the only fait
"(6) The government will con •
fiscate the property of the Jews
leaving any Yemen city.
"The main problem confront-
ing us is: how to save the Yem-
enite Jews from their oppressors.
During the last 15 years the
Federation of Yemenite Jews,
with the aid of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, was instrumental
in settling more than 10,000
Yemenite Jews in Palestine. The
pen is weak indeed to describe
the condition of the refugees who
are preyed upon for months by
bloodthirsty desert marauders,
until they finally reach Palestine.
"During the last four years
the situation has been greatly
aggravated. The ruler of Yemen
permitted his people to kill the
Jews who leave for Palestine. In
many instances, not being able
to pay large sums of money
as ransom, they were brought
back into Yemen and executed.
Is there anyone who really knows
the extent of the suffering of the
Yemenite Jews? And if the Fed-
eration of Yemenite Jews did
proclaim in the Palestine press or
at Zionist Congresses all the
above-mentioned facts — did we
receive anything more than a po-
lite shake of the head, when we
spoke of the sufferings of the
Jews in cruel Yemen?"
Mr. Gluska has asked a num-
ber of Detroiters to act on a
committee to secure a fund to
enable to bring persecuted Yem-
enites to Palestine. He has made
public the following appeal which
he has received from Josef ben
Daveed, of the Palestine office
in Yemen, describing the plight
of the Yemenites:
"I lime been informed by the Center

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of the Yemenite Organization of Pules-
tine that y on have been sent on a
mission to the United Slates to secure
assistance for the Yemenite JeuN, t•mpe-
cially for the Jewish refugees in Aden.
"'As the representative in Aden of
the Jewish Agency of Palestine, It Is
my duty here to assist the needy Jew-
ish refugees. But I can do little with-
out outside aid to relieve their misery.
A complete book would not be suffici-
ent to describe the hardships of Yem-
enite Jett 14 everywhere and particularly
among t hose crowded in Aden with in-
adequate shelter, awaiting the day when
t hey will be tnuosferred to Eretz Yis-
ruel.
"You, Mr. Olusk•, as President of
the Yemenite Organization In Palestine
are known as t heir leader in the efforts
t hat have been made to Improve the
conditions of the Yemenite Jews in
Palestine us well as to bring relief to
those outside of Palestine. I feel as-
sured t hat you IvIll find in America
many good Jews who will respond to
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Jews are known for their kind hearts
and trill offer the assistance and sup-
port urgently needed to save thousamls
of souls, especially now amidst this
war, being fought over our very heads.
"Where can these refugees go? To
tt I can they appeal for aid? They
dare not return to the yoke of the
oppressor in Yemen. They- have but
one alternat e, they must wait here,
hoping for relief front abroad, pntying
that Jewish hearts will have pity on
them in their suffering. The Yemenites
continue their daily struggle,
here
buoyed up by the hope of an early de-
parture for the Holy Land; where they
will be satisfied with a scant living us
long as they can be among t heir own
people and free from persecution.
"Aden is t he only center or gather-
ing place for refugees fleeing front
Yemen in their effort's to emigrate to
Palestine. It is therefore necessary to
establish here an institution or shel-
tering home, w here refugees may secure
food and lodging and w here they may
also he prepared for t he new life
awaiting them upon their arrival in
l'alestine. The arrangement for the
transfer of t he refugees to Palestine
requires considerable time, therefore
proper prat ision must be made at Aden
for their welfare particularly for the
rare of the widows and orphans. An
institution is needed that will be both
a sheltering home and a t ruining cen-
ter. It sort of Ilachmhara, which w ill
state t hem from t heir present distress
OM w ell as prepare theta for the future.
The establishment of such a Ilachslut-
nt w ill spare the refugees front exist-
log hardships and can be accomplished
with a modest expenditure.
"The Yemenite Community Is the
t000rest of the poor and are In urgent
need of help from their brethren
abroad. I beseech you, Mr. Gluska, to
xplain t his appalling situation here to
American Jew ry, to. alb Jewish organi-
zations and institutions of the United
st 'ties, appeal to them for help to Nave
the hundreds of orphans and widows,
as well as for t he families lacking food
and shelter. The suffering of our breth-
ren that I witness daily on the streets
of Aden Is bey ond description and be-
yond our means to relieve."

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