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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

SECTION ONE

VOL. 43, NO 3

U.P. A. Rejects
Welfare Fund's
Budget Plans

States Delay in Com-
mitments Would Par-
alyze Campaign

and The Legal Chronicle

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1941

DRIVE FOR 2,250 NEW MEMBERS
OPENED BY DETROIT ZIONISTS

Special Section in This Issue of The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle Devoted to Efforts for Palestine's
Reconstruction

The Zionist Organization of Detroit on Wed-
nesday evening launched its drive for 2,250 new
members.
This quota has been assigned to Detroit as
this city's share in the national campaign for
150,000 new members, by the president of the
Zionist Organization of America, Edmund I. Kauf-
mann.
James I. Ellmann is chairman of the Detroit
drive.
At the initial membershihp campaign meeting,
held at Temple Beth El on Wednesday evening,
Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner of Cleveland was the
speaker.
The drive will conclude with a public meeting,
which will be addressed by a nationally prominent
speaker. Complete details will be announced during
the coming two weeks.
Section Two of this issue is published as a
special supplement of The Detroit Jewish Chron-
icle to describe the achievements of Jewish pio-
neers in Palestine, and to outline the importance
of the current membership drive to the Jewish
people. Important statements by national and local
leaders, as well as special feature articles and im-
portant news items will be found in this special
supplement to which we call the attention of our
readers. Additional copies of this supplement are
available at the headquarters of the Zionist Or-
ganization of Detroit, 1044 Penobscot Bldg., tele-
phone Cherry 6559.

Synagogue Gives
Fund for Yeshiva

Local Theological School Is
Planning Erection of a
New Building

Isaac August, for many years
president of Congregation Mogen
Abraham and one of the promi-
nent leaders of Detroit Ortho-
dox Jewry, last week announced
that negotiations were success-
fully completed for the transfer

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Nazis Deposit
Millions Here
With Jew's Aid

Bundists Facing Prison
Terms for Inciting
Racial Hatred

NEW YORK. (WNS) — A
fantastic story of how a Ru-
manian Jew connived with high
ranking Nazi officials to extort
huge sums from emigrating Ger-
man Jews and then deposited
this money in banks in the United
States and other countries for
the personal use of the Nazis,
was told in Federal Court here.
Details of the plot were heard
in the trial of Isidore Lazarus,
known among German Nazis . as
Lee Lane, who was found guilty
by Judge Vincent L. Leibell of
using fraud in obtaining Ameri-
can passports and sentenced to
two years in prison and fined
$2,500.
Name Nazi Leaders
Testimony brought out at the
trial confirmed reports circulat-
ing here and in London since
1939 that high Nazi officials,
violating Germany's currency
regulations, were smuggling mil-
lions of dollars out of the Reich
ISAAC AUGUST in anticipation of the day when
of cash, land contract, and other the Hitler regime would be over-
thrown.
assets of the now defunct syna-
Among the Nazis named by
g o g ue to a joint trusteeship o Richard J. Burke, assistant
the Hebrew Talmudical Acad- United States Attorney, as par-
emy, Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, ticipating in the plot were Reich
and Congregation Mogen Abra- Marshal Herman Goering, Propa-
ham, for the purpose of erecting ganda Minister Dr. Joseph Goeb-
building for the Yeshivah in bels, Dr. Hjalmer Schacht, Dr.
the Russell Woods neighborhood Robert Ley, head of the Nazi
• of the northwest section of the Labor Front, and many others.
city. The new structure will also Fuehrer Adolf Hitler was the
accommodate the membership of sole prominent Nazi official not
An Analysis of Situation Created by Dissolution Mogen Abraham residing in the named at the trial.
vicinity, for daily and Sabbath
of United Jewish Appeal
Influenced Refugees
services.
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, found-
Mr. Burke told the court that
By LOUIS LIPSKY
Lazarus persuaded Jewish refu-
See YESHIVA—Page 9
gees to transfer their property,
Again this year—since Septem- ment and disagreement; "never
in cash, to him before they left
ber—reports have come of the again" was supposed to be the
Germany. Through arrangements
position
of
certain
obstinate
Rabbi Eisendrath
with Goering., Goebbels and the
discussions carried on between the
others, Lazarus forwarded a small
Joint Distribution Committee and friends of the Joint; "never
To
Occupy
Temple
again" was supposed to be the
part of the value of the refugees'
the United Palestine Appeal for imperative demand of certain
to the refugees when
a renewal of the life of the Zionist circles; but then there
Pulpit This Friday property
they reached other countries.
United Jewish Appeal for 1941. were interludes of reports of
The bulk of the Jewish for-
And again, for weeks and weeks, peace and harmony and united
On Friday evening, Jan. 24,
varying rumors came of agree- front, and the bets were all in the pulpit of Temple Beth El tunes was transferred to the ac•
counts of the Nazi officials after
favor of a 1941 combined cam- will be occupied by Rabbi Mau- Lazarus received a commission
rice
N.
Eisendrath,
Minister
of
paign. To the great surprise of
for his part in the scheme. Lazy
Detroit Story
most of us who knew that the Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto. anus admitted that he had taken
from a practical He will be the
money out of Germany for the
In Encyclopedia differences,
point of view, had been reduced, first of several
Nazi chiefs, but claimed it war
in the course of discussion, to a guest preachers
in small amounts.
to
occupy
the
very
narrow
field,
an
official
an-
History of City Is in
Throughout the trial Lazarus
Temple
pulpit
was given to the
maintained stoutly that he was
Third Volume Just nouncement
between
now
press, signed by Dr. Jonah B.
violently anti-Nazi and engaged
Wise and Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, and the end of
Off Press
declaring the United Jewish Ap- the season.
See NAZIS—Page 3
Eisen-
Rabbi
peal dissolved — the "overseas"
See U.P.A—Page 9
NEW YORK. — Containing an union disbanded.
drath has been
array of original and authorita-
the spiritual
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4,
Fund to Rescue
tive surveys conducive to the dis-
leader of Holy
sipation of misconceptions con-
Srere Endorses
This puts an end to all the Blossom Temple
Rabbis, Laymen
cerning the Jews, the third of rumors and makes possible a in Toronto for
Zion Conclave 10 volumes of the Universal Jew- frank discussion of the whole the past 11
ish Encyclopedia was published situation. It will bring to the sur- years. During
Ask $30,000 Fund to
17, according to an announce- face a struggle which has been that period lie
National Palestine Con- Jan.
Bring Thousands
ment here by Rabbi Isaac Land- going on, under cover, for many has won a placellabbi Eisendrath
ference in Washing- man, edito•-in-chief.
years. The union reflected in the of great promi-
from War Zones
The remaining seven volumes w o r d "united" meant union nence not only in his own com-
ton Jan. 25-26
will appear at approximately 10- merely for the sake of an adjust- munity, but as well throughout
Detroit Jewry will be called
ment of proportions in order that Canada. By many he is spoken
week intervals.
upon
during the next three weeks
Declaring that American Jewry
More than 900 articles—ap-
See EISENDRATH—Page 8
See UNITY—Page 13
feels a deep kinship with the Jews propriately ranging. from Canards
to raise an emergency "Pidyon
of Palestine who are today active- to Education within 640 pages—
Sh'vuyim" fund of $30,000, to
ly assisting the British in the constitute the text of the third
rescue some of the outstanding
State
Conference
of
United
war for democratic survival, Abra- volume. These include in excess
and lay personalities
ham Srere, president of the De- of 400-half-tone and color illustra-
Palestine Appeal on Sunday religious
41.4 Jewish Welfare Federation, tions, maps and charts, compre-
from war-torn countries where
this week issued a statement en- hensive descriptions of scores of
their lives are endangered. The
dorsing the National Conference Jewish communities and hundreds Representatives from Many Communities Expected at
local quota in the national drive
Gathering
in
Lansing
Called
by
Michigan
for Palestine which will assemble of biographies of personalities,
has been set as the equivalent
at Washington, D. C., on Jan. 25 living and dead, in 25 countries.
Branch of Midwest Region
of the cost of 100 steamship and
and 26, under the auspices of
This volume is dedicated to the
deliberations. The sessions will be railroad tickets. For the first
Representatives
from
many
the United Palestine Appeal.
memeory of Louis Marshall,
in the Olds Hotel.
time since the outbreak of the
Mr. Srere pointed out that the
communities in Michigan, includ- held The
principal guest speaker European war, Detroit Jewish
Jewish community of Detroit is "American, learned in the law, ing Detroit, are expected at the
at the conference will be Dr. groups and individuals will be
k . eenly aware of the issues at stake guardian of the rights of man,
in the preservation and extension beloved leader of many noble state conference of the United L. M. Perlzweig, member of challenged with the sacred task
of Palestine as the home of half causes and peerless statesmen in Palestine Appel to be held in the world executive of the of personally contributing to the
Jewish Agency for Palestine,
direct "redemption of the im-
a million Jews and as the future Israel ' . . . seeking the good of Lansing this Sunday.
Simon Shetzer, chairman of the chairman of the British Sec- prisoned" spiritual and communal
haven for hundreds of thousands his people and speaking peace to
Michigan branch of the midwest tion of the World Jewish Con- heads of Jewry overseas and the
more. He said that the National all . . "
flower of our youth concentrated
Among the series of special ar- region, and Jacob Rich, regional gress.
Conference for Palestine will pre-
Other prominent speakers are in the historical centers of learn-
sent the opportunity for Jewish ticles not previously treated en- director, will be among the speak-
ing, among whom are some of
leaders from Detroit and other cyclopedically are Canards (10 ers at the conference, which will expected at the sessions.
A large delegation of Detroiters
parts of the country to take corn- pages), which for the first time begin at 12:30 with a luncheon
See RESCUE FUND—Page 12
will attend these sessions.
16 and will be followed by important
See SRERE—Page 8
See ENCYCLOPEDIA—Page

The United Palestine Appeal
this week made public a resolu-
tion adopted by its administrative
committee expressing disapproval
of the request issued to welfare
fund communities by Sidney Hol-
lander, president of the Council
of Jewish Federations and Wel-
fare Funds, urging them to with-
hold making commitments on
their 1941 campaigns until a
budgeting body, which Mr. Hol-
lander has proposed, is established
to recommend allocations to local
communities.
The United Palestine Appeal
voiced its protest against this ac-
tion on the ground that "it seeks
to arrogate to the Council the
function of decision in matters of
budgeting, and that if its presi-
dent's advice were followed, it
would at once paralyze the 1941
campaign of the United Palestine
Appeal — as well as of other
bodies—until the so-called budget-
ing body would render its report,
which could not be presented be-
fore late in 1941."
Destructive Consequences
In the course of its statement,
t h e United Palestine Appeal
pointed out that it has consist-
ently given its unreserved support
to the policy of established local
selfarq funds._ and,_ has _ extended
its cooperation to the Council in
the belief "that the Council as
a federation of representatives of
the Welfare Funds was intended
to be an impartial, fact-finding
body interested in servicing its
member agencies with dependable
reports."
The proposed transformation of
the Council would bring about
"destructive consequences" and
represent "unwarranted and un-
precedented interference with the
normal progress of local 1941
campaign throughout the coun-
try", the administrative commit-
tee statement declared.
1,500 Jewish Leaders to Partici-
pate in National Conference
for Palestine
More than 1,500 Jewish leaders
from every section of the country
have enthusiastically responded
to the call convening the National
Conference for Palestine at the
Hotel Willard at Washington, D.
C., on Saturday evening, Jan. 25,
to determine how the moral and

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