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Detroit

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SECTION ONE

and The Legal Chronicle
JANUARY 24, 1941

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY,

VOL. 43, NO. 4

Conclave Sets
$4,342,150 Goal •
For Refugees

This Paper Printed in Two Sections

Plai;:tor)itU4.nH.eCiion

29 Jews Cited DrZeigornsTur:ciay Three Kitchens
Contributed as
For Bravery
Aid to Britain
British Report
Committee Is Formed

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Scotland U. Medical
School for Poles
Bars Discrimination

Independent Campaign
Is Launched by Na-
tional Service

Here to Provide Aid
for Civilians

Responding to the call for par-
ticipation in the aid-to-Britain
efforts, inaugurated at the na-
CLEVELAND (WNS)—Calling
tional conference held in New
upon American Jews "to solve
York Dec. 29, a Detroit branch
in an American way our Ameri-
of the Jewish Section of the In-
can problem," the board of direc-
ter-Faith Committee for Aid to
tors of the National Refugee
Britain was formed Saturday eve-
Service launched its first inde-
ning, at a meeting held at the
pendent fund-raising campaign
home of Mr. and Mrs. William R.
after establishing a preliminary
Roth on Canterbury Drive. The
needs budget for 1941 at $4,342,-
movement aims to secure a fleet
150. The NRS was one of the
of mobile kitchens, at $2,000
three constituent agencies of the
e.
each, to aid Britain's civilian
now dissolved United Jewish Ap-
population.
peal.
Approximately 100 members of
Four new members were elect-
Bar Discrimination in Polish Med-
MELVILLE S. WELT
the executive committees of the
ical Faculty in Scotland U.
ed to the board. They are David
Detroit Chapters of the Ameri-
What promises to be not only
Dubinsky, president of the Inter-
The University of Edinburgh
DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN
can Jewish Congress and its Wo-
national Ladies Garment Workers the largest, but by far the most
gathering of the Union in Scotland will open a medical
men's Division, and presidents of
Union; Monroe Goldwater, New important
Dr.
Chaim
Weizmann,
presi-
of American Hebrew Congrega- school for Polish students in co-
local organizations attended this
York attorney; Jerome Udell, New
will be held in Detroit April operation with the Polish Gov- dent of the Jewish Agency for meeting which was addressed by
York clothing manufacturer, and tions
27 to April 30. Plans for this ernment-in-Exile, providing there Palestine, will speak over the Co- Dr. L. M. Perlzweig, chairman of
Albert D. Lasker, Chicago adver- meeting, which will be the 37th will be no anti-Jewish discrimina- lumbia network Saturday, Jan.
the British Section of the World
tising executive.
biennial council of the union, are tion in the selection of instrued 25, 10:15 to 10:30 p. m.
Jewish Congress, member of the
Prof. William Haber, execu-
well under way. tors or students, it was learn
His address, under auspices of executive of the Jewish Agency
now
well
tive director of the NRS, told
the United Palestine Appeal, will for Palestine and a representative
Melville S. Welt, chairman of here.
Fearing a lack of trained doc-
the board that "we must main- the committee of arrangements
of the British Relief Committee.
tors in Poland after the war, the
tain America as a country of
See WEIZMANN—Page 8
Polish Government-in-exile ap-
refuge." He emphasized that the
As Detroit's initial gift to
U.
H.
U.
C.—Page
8
See
proached University of Edinburgh
this relief project, the gather-
National Refugee Service is not
ing at the Roth residence
officials recently with the idea of
solely a relief organization. "Our
establishing a separate medical
work is not declining. We have
pledged itself for a sum suffi-
school for Polish students exclus-
cient to secure three mobile
every reason to expect full quotas
ively. The faculty would be all
in 1941. We expect 1,000 a month
kitchens. Isaac Shetzer, presi-
from Germany alone," he said.
dent of Congregation Shaarey
Polish.
The exiled Polish government
Prof. Haber reported that the
Zedek, was the first to pledge
NRS ended the year with a cash
to has given adequate assurances to
a complete kitchen, and mem-
the University of Edinburgh that
bers of his synagogue expressed
deficit of $300,000.
there will be no anti-Jewish dis- -
the hope that this kitchen will
Other speakers included Harry
crimination in the administration
soon be on the way to Eng-
'Greenstein, executive director of
of the school, which is expected
the Associated Jewish Charities of
WASHINGTON, D. C. — What land bearing the name of
to open shortly.
Baltimore; William J. Shroder,
role
Palestine will occupy in al- Shaarey Zedek. Mr. Roth and
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president Mme. Jabotinsky and Son Enroute
to raise
chairman of the board of the
leviating
the plight of hundreds Abe Kasle undertook
to the United States
a sum for a nother kitchen.
Council of Jewish Federations of the Jewish National Fund of
Anna Jabotinsky, widow of the of thousands of Jews refugees in
and Welfare Funds, and Dr. America and vice-president of the Revisionist Zionist leader, Vladi- the post-war period will be one
See BRITISH AID—Page 8
Frank Kingdom, former president Zionist Organization of America, mir Jabotinsky, and her son, Uri, of the major problems to be con-
of Newark University and chair- chairman of the Conciliation are en route to the United States, sidered at the National Confer-
man of the Emergency Rescue Court of New York, one of the it was learned. They should ar- ence for Palestine which will be-
ablest Jewish speakers in the
Committee.
country, will be guest speaker at rive in America the early part gin its sessions Saturday eve-
a dinner meeting of the Zionist of February. ning at the Hotel Willard, it was
announced by Dr. Abba Hillel
Organization of JaD etro it on Thurs-
Silver, national chairman of the
at
6:30
30,
n.
Bombs
Dropped
on
Southern
Pal-
day evening,
United Palestine Appeal, nd
uer
No
Damage
Reported
estine•,
JERUSALEM (Palcor Agency) whose auspices more than 1,5 00
—For the first time since last Jewish leaders from scores of

LONDON (WNS) — Twenty-
nine Jewish officers and soldiers,
assigned to various British fight-
ing forces, were cited for brav-
ery in military dispatches. Sev-
eral of them were decorated.
A number of the Jewish men
cited were aboard the warships,
which successfully convoyed mer-
chant ships to Greece. The war-
ships were attacked by Nazi war-
planes and during the battle 12
Nazi planes were shot down and
two British vessels damaged.

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Extended Despite
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Zion Conclave
This Week-End
To Consider Role of
Palestine After
the War

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See WAR—Page 13

See PALESTINE—Page 12

Rescue Effort
Supported Here
Drive for $30,000 to
Save Rabbis Who
Have Visas

The threatened exile facing the
learned rabbis and great Talmu-
dic scholars of the Yeshivoth in
Lithuania has aroused Detroit
NEW YORK. — Social condi-
Jews to the urgency of immed-
tions in Europe have fallen to
iate action in their behalf. At a
the lowest depths since the Dark
meeting last Monday night at the
Ages, Morris C. Troper, chairman
Bnai Moshe, the eagerness to ac-
of the European Executive Coun-
participate in the work of
cil of the Joint Distribution Com-
A Criticism That Strikes at the Heart of an Important tively
rescue was demonstrated by the
mittee, reported last week on his
Principle in Jewish Life
readiness with which the quotas
return to New York from Lisbon
were accepted by delegates from
aboard the SS Excalibur after a
LOUIS
LIPSKY
By
three-month stay on the conti-
with all the qualities and implica- various synagogues, and a to
nent. The J. D. C. is the chief
To the credit of the Arnercian tions of nationhood. It is not nec- of 25 transportation tickets at
American agency for aid to dis-
Jewish Congress it must be said essary here to say that the issue $300 each were underwritten by
that it was the first to initiate of a Jewish nationality has been 20 synagogues and fraternal or-
tressed Jewry overseas.
the propaganda among American the bone of contention in Jewish ganizations.
"An inventory of misery at the
The meeting was addressed by
Jews for organized aid to England life since the beginning of the
commencement of the New Year,"
in its war efforts. It urged that period of Emancipation. Contro- Rabbi B. L. Levinthal of Philadel-
Mr. Troper said, "shows more
Jews should not hide themselves versy on this issue led to the phia, dean of the orthodox nab-
suffering in Europe that the
away among other American breach in Jewish solidarity caused bis of America; Rabbi I. M. Gor-
world has even known before."
groups, but that they should stand by German and American "re- don, head of the Lomser Yeshiva;
He added that the machinery of
DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN
out as Jews, and act in their own form" Judaism. It was the heart Dr. C. E. Hillel Kauvar of Den-
government aid to war victims
has broken down, leaving the o'clock, to be held in the social name. It is our way—just as it of the Zionist renaissance. It is ver, Rabbi Joseph Rabinowiz,
problem of relief and reconstruc- hall Of Congregation Shaarey is the war of all democracies-
.
that which brings up the ever- Samuel M. Schmidt of Cincin-
of all peoples seeking their flee-
. J. V hl 1-
tion on the shoulders of private Zedek.
.
dom.
In
that
war,
direct
partici-
lasting
American Jewish ques- nati and Rabbi
Rabbi Morris Adler, president
agencies and their supporters.
nation
is
the
effective
registry
of
tion
of
"double
loyalties"
and
ernter.
of the organization, announce('
Rabbi .Levinthal emphasized
Jews' Plight Doubly Hard
. a women's co- national interest; anonymity is patriotisms". In a word, nation- that rescuing these great rabbis
Amid the universal suffering,
this week
that
iS operating
committee
is arranging not only a device of cowardice, ality is the conception that has
that Mrs. Daniel but it is also political stupidity. given force to the revolutionary and Talmudic scholars is like -
the plight of European Jewry
. a h
life, that has rescuing the Torah itself. Be
arge of reserva- For when peace comes, those in- movement in Jewish
doubly hard, Mr. Troper pointed the (limier
the Jewish Uational cause of his advanced age Rabbi
forests
are
likely
to
be
recognized
created
out, since it is aggravated by per- Siegel is in c
Cocierating members on the that will be able to show that Home in Palestine, and trans-
secution, discrimination and anti- tions.
than New rarely
York ventures
and his presence
committee are: Mrs. Max Frank, they have had a substantial part formed the Jews in the Diaspora Levinthal
further
Semitic legislation.
here, necessitating an over-night
"Without exception, the Jews president of Detroit liadassah:
in
the
war,
in
every
field
that
into
a
people
claiming
equality
•
of treatment, as a people, na- journey, dramatically illustrated
was open to them.
Ralph D 'd son.
of Europe have been pushed pl
t
I% rs .Davidson.
and internaionally.
the importance and urgency of
It
was
assumed,
as
a
matter
tionally
• • •
down to the lowest rungs of the
The Membership Drive
,-
the cause for which he pleaded.
James I. Ellmann, chairman of of course, that the Jewish people
To the surprise of all the
social and economic ladder," Mr.
ommittee,
re-
were
referred
to
in
the
same
sense
Detroit's Quota $30,000
Troper declared.
m embership c
C. is ports
Detroit Jews are asked to par-
To reduce Jewish need D. abroad
the that the drive for new mem- as, for example, the Poles, the friends of the American Jewish
supplying
the necessities
of life hers is gaining momentum, and Czechs or the English. It was not Congress, and also to some who ticipate in this Pidyon Shovuyim
to a minimum,
the J.
ea l cause by supplying a minimum of
toa million men, women and that many Detroit Jews hitherto the Catholics or the Protestants have been leaders in that organi-
Air. Troper revealed. Its unaffiliated with the movement of England. It was not the Catho- zation, this principle and id
100 tickets, to cost $30,000, in
operations, he stressed, cover have already enrolled in the or- lies or the Protestants of Czecho- was deliberately obfuscated and rescuing 2,100 of these Yeshivoth
children, M slovakia It was all that
whichs i
.
people who are in possession of
See INTER-FAITH—Page 12
Reports of workers in the mem_ usually included in the term "peo-
visas and lack only the price of
more than 50 countries of Europe, ganization.
Asia and Central and South bership drive will be submitted at ple." It is in this sense that Jews
See
Page
4
for
editorial
com-
are meant by Zionists and Jewish
See RESCUE FUND—Page 9
ment on Mr. Lipsky's article.
America.
nationalists.
They
are
a
people
See ZIONISTS—Page 8

See J. D. C.—Page 9

The American Jewish Congress
And the Inter-Faith Movement