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VOL. 45. NO. 19
Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1943
Isidore Sobeloff, Jewish Welfare Director,
Goes to New York City on Year's Leave
Will Help Organize a National War Fund There; Herman Pekarsky,
General Administrative Assistant, Has Been Named Acting Director
Isidore Sobeloff, for the past six years executive director of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation of Detroit, has been granted a year's leave of absence, effective
June 1, to help organize a National War Fund in New York City, it was announced
by Abraham Srere, president of the Federation.
The New York Committee of the National War Fund will conduct a united
drive for USO, United Nations
war relief appeals and other war-
'elated causes, in line with Presi•
(lent Roosevelt's recommendation
Pisgah Elects Mrs. W. Sharpe
Delegates To Guest Speaker
District Meet of Hadassah
Convention To Be
Held in Milwaukee
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At a recent meeting of the
general committee of Pisgah
Lodge No. 34, Bnai Brith, the
following were elected delegates
to the convention of District
Grand Lodge No. 6, Bnai Brith,
to be held in Milwaukee, Wis.,
from July 18 to 20:
Henry M. Abramovitz, Leonard
Belove, Aaron Droock, Herbert
Eskin, Max Goldhoff, Ben F.
Goldman, Jack Lawson, Samuel
) W. Leib, Sam Maza, Rudolph
Meyersohn, Herman Osnos, A. .1.
Piel, Aaron Rosenberg, Leonard
Radner, Louis Rosenzweig, Louis
H. Schostak, Harry Schwartz,
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
Morris Shatzen, Joseph L. Staub,
Isadore Starr, Lewis L. Stein-
that all such campaigns be con- Isadore
and
Weinstein
Milton
solidated. Mr. Sobeloff will be Harry Yudkoff.
associated , with Percival Dodge,
On Monday night, May 3, many
former director of the Detroit
new members were voted into
membership in Pisgah Lodge in
honor of Bnai Brith's centennial.
Isadore Starr, chairman of the
membership committee, announced
that the membership drive to
honor Bnai Brith's 100th year
will culminate in a public initi-
ation on Sunday night, May 30.
Mr. Starr further stated that
according to reports from work-
ers in this drive that Pisgah
Lodge will exceed its quota of 850
new members, 10 for each year
of its existence as set by Dis-
trict Grand Lodge No. 6, Bnai
Brith. Any reader not approached
during this drive who desires to
join Bnai Brith is requested to
call Cherry 3372 and a repre-
sentative will call.
Rudolph Meyersohn, president
of the lodge, announces that the
meeting of the lodge scheduled
for Monday, May 17, has been
cancelled and that Pisgah Lodge.
in cooperation with the other
lodges and auxiliaries which con-
HERMAN M. PEKARSKY
stitute the Greater Detroit Bnai
War Chest, who has been ap- Brith Council will participate in
pointed executive director of Ow the cultural program sponsored
New York Committee. jointly by the Detroit Round Ta-
Hernmn M. Pekarsky, general ble of Catholic, Jews and Prot-
administrative assistant, has been estants and the Greater Detroit
See SOBELOFF—Page 12
See PISGAH—Page 10
The Abgrogation Of
The Cremieux Decree
By HENRY TORRES
Reprinted from the May issue, Free World, by special permission.
What would be the reaction of The comparison is neither exag-
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Americn public opinion if it were gerated nor illusory, out forced
to discover that American citiz- by the abrogation of the Cre-
ens of two or three generations' mieux decree on the minds of
standing, with a record of hav- those who are concerned to the
ing heroically carried their coun- point of anguish with the grave
try's flag on the battlefields of problems of French national de-
Artois and Argonne and con- velopments and the course of in-
tributed at least their share to the ternational affairs, with the mo-
civilization of their motherland ral as well as the political state
through their accomplishments in of the world.
The abrogation of the decree
art and science, had been sudden-
ly stripped of their American was announced by General Henri
citizenship? Would it accept as Giraud in his momentous address
valid the excuse offered by the of March 14, 1943. To justify his
perpetrator of this arbitrary de- attitude, so palpably contradictory
cision that such a step, directed to the anti-racist declarations and
against a single category of citiz- the unrelenting condemnation of
ens, had been taken to appease Vichy which made up the essen-
Indians and Negroes, and to re- tial fabric of his speech, Gen-
solve political problems which eral Giraud claimed that the Cre-
concerned them?
See DECREE Page 9
Refugee Authority
To Be Heard May 11
Mrs. J. E. Gould, president,
will preside at Hadassah's clos-
ing dessert luncheon meeting at
the Shaarey Zedek at 12:30 on
MRS. HENRY WINEMAN
Tuesday, May 11. New officers
will be elected and the annual
president's and committee re-
ports will be presented. The guest
speaker will be Mrs. Waitstill
Hastings Sharpe, who is an out-
standing authority on present-day
refugee problems.
A social worker by profession,
Mrs. Sharpe has an M. A. degree
from Radcliffe and since 1939
has been recognized by the Red
See HADASSAH—Page 12
Organizations
Elect Community
Council Delegates
At the end of April, the Jew-
ish Community Council of De-
troit issued a call to its 195 con-
stituent organizations to elect new
delegates who will represent them
in their democratically organized
Community Council.
According to the Council's con-
stitution, May is Council election
month. The delegates represent-
ing organizations are to be elect-
ed by each of their respective
groups in the same democratic
manner as other elective offices.
Community Council delegates rep-
resent their organizations for a
period of two years.
Organization elections of dele-
gates during this month arc a
practical demonstration of the
democratic structure of the Jew-
ish Community Council. The pre-
rogative of each member organi-
zation to elect representatives
and thus participate in the com-
munity's policy-making activities
is translated into actuality by
these elections. The newly-elected
delegates will convene on June
22 to elect new officers of the
Community Council and the ex-
ecutive committee which deter-
mines policy between the dele-
gates' conferences. The officers
See DELEGATES—Page 12
10e Single Copy; $3.00 Per Yee
UPA Meet Urges U. S. to Make
Britain Annul White Paper
Weizmann Says Jews Will Not Accept White
Paper as Last Word in British Statesmanship
PHILADELPHIA. (WNS) —
resolution calling upon the United
States Government "to make rep-
resentations to Great Britain to
annul the White Paper of 1939
and to ask assurances that Jew-
ish immigration into Palestine
shall not bo abridged nor shall
the purchase of land by Jews be
restricted," was adopted by more
than 1,000 delegates attending
the National Conference for Pal-
estine sponsored by the United
Palestine Appeal last week-end.
The conference went on record
also as condemning the White
Paper as an illegal document
which would "liquidate the Pal-
estine mandate and terminate
the growth of the Jewish Na-
tional Home."
Another resolution adopted by
the Zionist conclave called 'upon
the United States and Great
Britain to take immediate mea-
sures to implement rescue plans
for the saving of the Jews of Eu-
rope and expressed disappoint-
ment at the failure of the re-
cent Anglo-American refugee con-
ference in Bermuda "to give
adequate consideration to the
desperate plight of the Jews un-
der the heels of Hitlerism and
to include within its recommenda-
tions the immediate possibilitieS
of large-scale mass immigration
into Palestine."
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, presi-
dent of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, told the huge meeting
that "Jews will never accept the
White Paper as the last word
in British statesmanship," and
that "we shall not permit our
last hopes to be smothered, nor
shall we be intimidated by threats
of revolt."
"It is a tragic paradox to call
refugee conferences and to ignore
Palestine, a country—the only
country—ready and eager to re-
ceive the greatest number of
refugees." Dr. Weizmann de-
clared. The Jewish Agency presi-
dent was unable to appear be-
cause of illness but his prepared
address was read by Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver of Cleveland.
"Whenever the refugee situa-
tion is discussed and the possi-
bilities of Palestine considered,"
Dr. Weizmann added, "someone
always introduces a treacheroim
'but' to keep the doors closed
to our last hope—our only hope.
We are too weary, our suffering
is too great to be satisfied with
mere palliatives. We want instead
a generous understanding and a
will to action."
• Dr. Silver, who was re-elected
national chairman of the United
Palestine Appeal for the fifth
time, declared in his opening ad-
dress that the question of a Jew-
ish homeland in Palestine "has
suddenly become taboo" in Wash-
ington. He pointed out that "the
President of the United States
sent an official greeting to the
United Jewish Appeal this year
which. quite pointedly, and not
by accident, omits any mention
See U. P. A.—Page 10
Rabbi Berlin
To Address
Meet May 11
Local Rabbis on
ReCeption Committee
Rabbi Meyer Berlin, world re-
nowned leader of orthodox Jewry,
who recently flew to the United
States by bomber from Palestine,
RABBI MEYER BERLIN
will address a public meeting at
the Jewish Community Center,
Woodward at Holbrook, Tuesday,
May 11, at 8:15 p. m.
Rabbi Berlin, president of the
World Mizrachi Organization,
came to the United States to en-
list the aid of our government
to turn Palestine over to the
Jews, and, among other things, to
obtain private aid for refugee
children.
All local Zionist groups will be
represented at the Jewish Com-
munity Center to join in honor-
ing this eminent world Zionist
leader. Rabbi Berlin has been
closely affiliated with the Zionist
movement for the past 40 years
and is intimately acquainted with
the political situation in Pal-
estine. As newspaper publisher,
author and lecturer, he has tray-
See BERLIN—Page 10
Escape To Build New Europe
By E. M. BRADLEY
Editor's Note: E. M. Bradley's special article from London de-
scribes Britain's hospitality to refugees from Nazi-occupied
Europe and the concrete manner in which England's new-
comers are repaying that hospitality.
Civilized people cannot imagine
the mediaeval horrors which chil-
dren, invalids and elderly (even
more than men and women with
labour-value) are undergoing in
the ghettoes of German-occupied
Europe. Nazis ni, it had been
thought, reached its depths with
the Nuremberg Decree, for a na-
tion can be measured by the well-
being of its most defenceless in-
habitant. But the policy voiced by
Dr. Ley — "to wipe the Jews
from the face of the earth" shows
a nation desperate to insanity.
While licensed brutality eats
into the morale of the German
race, however, elsewhere faith in
a rational and humane world is
developing. Just across the chan-
nel from Nazi persecution refu-
gees have found not hospitality
alone, but a chance to start new
lives for themselves and to join
as equals in fighting for a saner
world.
Britain has a centuries-old
tradition of welcoming men and
women unable to live in their
own countries. But she has sur-
passed in the last ten years both
the numbers of previous refugees
taken in and the degree of help
offered them. Their circumstances
— material and moral — have
varied, but one thing they have
had in common: they have all es-
caped to oppose as civilians or
fighting men the tyranny at large
in Europe.
Carry on Own
Culture and Tradition
Only a refugee knows precisely
what his or her position involves;
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