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LABOR OF LOVE
By JULIAN L. MELTZER
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Bellefaire, First National Philanthropic Institution
Founded by Bnai Brith, Marks Its 75th Anniversary
July
16, 1943
In the Armed Services
JERUSALEM. (PaIcor)—Some
time ago, I was in the coopera-
tive Keren Hayesod village of
Ain Hashophet, inspired and b uilt
by young American Jewish pio-
neers, for a brief visit. Sitt ing
in the dining hall, large and s pa-
cious, with the sunlight and the
breeze drifting through the c ur-
tained windows, was a verita ble
experience: for at the long ta-
bles ranged across its brea dth
were types of people who rep re-
rented a cosmos in themselv es.
Tall, browny and weather-beate n;
golden-haired and brunette; eag er
and sensitive faces: these toile rs
on the land seemed to share, in
spite of their differing fac ial
characteristics, a common love of
the soil on which they patient ly
worked and to which they h ad
dedicated their years of servi ce
to the community.
ARTHUR ROSENBERG
One face stood out. It was a
pleasant countenance, but it w as
Arthur Rosenberg, son of Mr.
not Jewish. An aureole of gra y
end Mrs. Ben Rosenberg of 19590
haid framed its rubicund col n-
Stratford Rd., is a graduate of
plexion. The woman was dresse d
Western Military Academy and
simply — a workstained blous
Wentworth Military Academy, and
turned up at the elbows, a pa it
has reported for duty at Officers
of old slacks, sandals. I turne d
Training School. At present he
to my neighbor at lunch, th e
is stationed at Fort Riley. Kan.
mukhtar (headman) of the vi I-
lage, Abraham Fein, and aske d
him who she was. What was sh e
doing at Ain Hashophet? I asked
Annual Excursion and
Who was she?
"A gentile nurse from Naza
Outing at Bob-Lo July
reth," he remarked casually.
18, by JWV Auxiliary
A gentile nurse from Nazareth •
How odd that sounded in thi 3
A day of fun and enjoyment
In the background is a view of the campus of Bellefaire, Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home, the
purely Jewish environment. Fo r
that was what she really was. A 75th anniversary of whose founding by Bnai Brith, in 1868, is being observed this week. In the is promised to the public by the
Scotswoman who had lived for insets are: Top row, 1. to r., Fred Lazarus, Jr., president of the Bellefaire Board of Trustees; Department of Michigan, Ladies'
many years in Palestine, she had Samuel Wolfenstein, first superintendent of Bellefaire, who served from 1878 to 1913, and Herman Auxiliary to the Jewish War Vet-
become attracted to the hard- Bercu, president of the Bellefaire Alumni Association. Bottom row: Leon H. Richman, executive erans of the United States. Ar-
director of Bellefaire and the Jewish Children's Bureau of Cleveland, and Daniel Lichtenberg, super- rangements have been completed
working rural Jewish community intendent
of Bellefaire.
for a splendid "get-together'
in the neighborhood of the Naza-
with games and prizes for young
reth hills. When she heard some
and elders on the island sur-
years ago that there was gener-
rounding Diamond No. 3. Tho
Council of Jewish
ally a shortage of hands at har-
offering will serve relaxations
vest time, she volunteered to help
Women Man War Bond
away from the city heat on that
out during her brief spells of
Booth at Book-Cadillac
beautiful island park of Bob-Lo.
leave: and here she was, among
By CHARLES BENSON
Your pleasures can be shared
the Jewish farmers in a Keren
The
Detroit
Section
of
the
Washington.
The figures compiled by the National Council of Jewish Wom- with a service man of the armed
Hayesod village, giving them a
It may be that the OPA price War Food Administration are the en is manning a War Stamp and forces as a guest, by contacting
hand.
It is by no means a rare occur- ceiling on kosher meat is more indictment. These are based on Wa r Bond booth in the Book the local USO downtown club
house or the Jewish Community
rence in Palestine today. Many than a wartime service. The ef..
d
Blg.
Center. In fact, invite your neigh-
British, Australian and South Af- fort to find an equitable ceiling, the meat inspected by the fed-
The Council is not only look-
eral government, which is about ing to its members for support, borhood and pack a lunch.
rican soldiers whom the for-
Boat leaves, Sunday, July 18.
tunes of war have brought to this officials here say, has brought 70 per cent of the nation's meat :out from friends in other organi-
10 a. m., from the foot of Wood-
part of the world spend their to light the fact that Kosher supply.
zations of the League of Jewish ward
Ave. Tickets should be pur-
brief furloughs working in Keren butchers have consistently charged
Informed sources lay the hold- Women.
chased at the dock from JWV
Hayesod villages, on Jewish far more than the additional back to dissatisfaction with the
Mrs. Edward Stein of Afton members wearing oversee caps.
farms. Many of them were farm-
price ceilings and the ample graz- Rd. and Mrs. I. R. Myers of Long-
ers in their own lands. They costs of special slaughtering war- ing facilities available to a pro- fellow Rd. head a committee of
rant.
Based
on
actual
costs,
the
were catapulted into the war.
ducer waiting for the price set- 22 women. Mesdames David Hu-
Nostalgic memories of their civi- ceilings have eliminated these un- up to collapse.
bar, Melvin Baer, Sol Wolf, Mark McGregor Library
lian life grew bitter-sweet when justifiable differences between the
For the first three weeks o f Rafelson and Joseph Roseman
they came to see the flourishing prices of kosher and non-kosher June, for instance, when the sul ). serve in the capacity of day Accepts Painting in
Jewish national settlements. They meat to the consumer—for the sidy plan was being instituted chairmen, each being responsible Honor of David Werbe
begged to be allowed to "help present. The future depends on the number of cows led t o for the booth a certain day.
out," to put their shoulders to what an enlightened consumer slaughter was far smaller tha •
This committee not only works
The McGregor Public Library
the plow, as it were. And these does about being imposed upon. the number butchered in the sam e from the booth, but a phone call of Highland Park acknowledges
During
the
period
that
the
period in 1942. The supply o f to their homes will assure your the receipt of a pointing in mem-
volunteers can be found in their
scores and hundreds in the mesha- President's subsidy plan has been meat on June 5 was only 65 pe r prompt service at your door for ory of the late David M. Werbe.
in jeopardy,
kim (farms).
. . housewives have been cent of the supply for June 5 , any price bond.
The gift was made by Mrs.
g of
e exorbitant 1942. The week of June 12 it
Going round these pleasant c p
Werbe.
prices
they
have
been
paying
for
was
72
per
cent
of
what
it
hat
places in pastoral Eretz Israel
In a letter to Mrs. Werbe,
meat.
Kosher
butchers
as
well
been
the
year
before
and
b
one finds that they are not, as
Georgia
Skinner, the librarian,
✓
as
trafeh
have
been
charging
"Rhythm
on
the
Islands"
in
June 19, when the subsidy pro
the news at times may suggest,
among other thiligs said:
isolated from their surroundings. on their expectations, for the new gram was about to become of Third Week at Club 666
"The Library Commission and
At Kfar Menachem, in Southern rollback has been in effect since fective for the retailer, only 5 8
staff want me to extend to you
Palestine, another Keren Hayesod June 21. All meats including per cent was released.
Bettie Taylor's unusual He- their appreciation of your recent
Hogs, on the other hand, mak e waiian sepia revue, "Rhythm on
village which American Jewish kosher meats have been reduced
gift to the library. The "Land-
chalutzim and chalutzoth have about 10 per cent. But since Con- a considerable profit for th , the Islands," featuring tropical scape" by Quintan is of a type
helped to build, the Arab villagers gress has challenged the whole farmer. There has been a mot• e native dances, is in its third and and period not hitherto repre-
of the district come in for medi- program, there has been a little than adequate supply of hogs.
final week at Club Three 666.
Of course, among the chic f Bettie is preparing an entirely sented in our collection, so it
cal attention by the 'resident Jew- hedging. The failure of Congress
will be greatly valued for itself
o
override
President
Roosevelt's
sufferers
in
the
cattle
holdback
ish physician. It is a service
new, all-star sepia production to as
well as for the sake of its
which they profoundly appreciate. veto will undoubtedly make for are the kosher meat eaters since open next Monday. Ella Mae givers.
The picture will bear a
the plentiful pork supply doesn' Waters, glamorous interpretative
It is a practical application of 1 ess daring.
This meat rationing problem is solve their problems. The ra _ dancer, Cuban and South Ameri- card identifying its painter and
neighborliness and racial friend-
its donors."
ship. There is fascination in vis- onsidered the most complicated t ioning division, however, has can favorite, tops the current
The painting will hang in the
iting these villages; and few can he government ever handled. t aken into consideration this hart _ cast with the support of Burn- Main
Library.
'Sugar
and
coffee
and
processed
dicap.
The
point
values
are
com-
ham
and
Blair,
comedy
song
and
resist the lack of artificiality in f
oods
are
child's
play
in
corn-
puted
by
considerations
of
de
- dance team; LeRoy and Watts,
their communal make-up, the
earnest air about them, the work- fi p arison," one OPA official con- mand, supply, perishability, com- novelty dancers; Bobbe Caston,
SALE—APARTMENT PROPERTY
ded.
The
meat
comes
from
p
osition (lean, fat, bone), rela- popular torchantress; Sam "You'll
aday character which garbs them.
Nor are British and Dominion housands of producers in the t ive supply of one meat compared Love It" Fouche, funster and
troops the only ones who find United States, and the situation with another and relative demand emsee, and the eight charming
them so attractive. American s infinitely more involved than f or one meat compared with an- Taylorettes, precision (lancers.
forces are now in the Middle a n England where a very small o ther, average weight of animals, The radium-presented ensemble
East and, on their furloughs, they a mount is produced domestically d istribution, number of men going number, "Hawaiian War Chant,"
nto the army, births, deaths, and is an alluring spectacle. Teddy
are finding their way to these nd the rest is imported."
Buckner a n d his bombshell
villages, especially the Jews w Ration values of beef cuts e ven weather.
Because only a limited number rhyhthms set the pace for danc-
among them. What possible ad- 0 hich make up the greater part
vertisement does Eretz Israel w f the kosher supply of meat o f meats can be bought by ing and the show, which is pre-
need when it has these tangible ere increased one point a pound k osher meat eaters, an effort has sented at 11:45 and 1 a. m.
evidences of its unremitting ef- ti his month. The official explana- b een made to keep these from nightly. Joa-Anna's vocals and
Ituye:s should buy now on rising
fort at revival to commend it? on is that the available supply r ising in point cost. Beef has George Saunders' organ melodies
nutrket while desirable properties
for civilians has not kept pace been in great demand and the keep things humming (luring the Ere
available. Sellers should sell
now while cash buyers Are
with consumer demand. The de- OPA has raised its point value. dance interlude.
available.
Get
all
t he Facts & Figures from
mand for beef is great but that is However, while the point value
Starting Monday, Bettie Taylor Mr.
Then there's Walter Winchell, who only part of the story.
of the hindquarters and other will present her snappy new sum-
65 A rrs.-2
reveals that the five Sullivan
For the first time, 20 per cent parts not considered kosher has mer revue, "It's Murder," fea- lobby,
to 3 rooms. la rge.
elevator, new stoves,
brothers—George, Frank, Joseph, 0 f the beef will be set aside for risen 2.6 points, kosher meat turing
new re-
an all-star cast.
frig. Bent $32,000. Fortner mortgage
Madison and Albert—who went he armed forces. Before this parts such as crosscut chuck have
$270,000. Foreclosed entire price only
down with the U. S. Cruiser Ju- he army bought beef, of course, risen only 2 points.
2115, 0 0 a May consider som• trade.
neau had a mixture of strains in b ut with no need of a "set-aside
With the subsidy program in completely disposed of with the
20 BEA L TI L APTS.
them—Irish, Scotch and Jewish p olicy". They just couldn't get a little less precarious position,
All 1
guarantee of subsidies. But it rooms. Built In 1929 cost 110.000.
. . . To our Jewish honor roll nough beef. Why?
the hold-backers may be expected might help make eating less pain-
Rent $12,000. Poor hea It h forces
you should also add the two
Not because there wasn't
become a little less reluctant ful for the 125 million Ameri- sac, Mc,. $65,006 terms 613,000.
Greenhut brothers from Brook- e nough livestock. The charge in to
to
part with their cattle. The cans who eat meat. There are
63,600 1/01VN.—Estate must sell
lyn, Flying Lieutenant Sidney D. C ongress recently that meat was recent
10 apts. of 1 rms.
cut in the appropriation 5,000,000 vegetarians in the U. S.
1 stores, tine
and Major Fred W. . . . Both of ro tting because of lack of re- for the OPA
cond.
Business center facing Grand
$155,000,000 may who don't care too much.
whom are with our troops abroad, fr igeration facilities refers only yet put some to fight
River, 125,006 takes all. Imagine•
in them. Ad-
sold one.. $60,000.
and performed well in North to a small part of the problem. ministrator Prentiss
M. Brown
Africa . . . .
T ransportation difficulties — yes. has warned that the enforecement
Science and learning will bring
B ut the hold-back policy of the program of OPA will break down peace to the world.
HOMER WARREN t CO.
ca ttle-raisers must take a good on that budget.
59 Years' Dependable
Service
of the responsibility for the
No one in Washington thinks
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Dime, Bldg.
at shortages.
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