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CONFERENCE
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Michigan Synagogue Conference
as the co-ordinating agency of
all religious activity.
Mrs. J. S. Sperka, president of
the Women's League for Sabbath
Observance, delivered a lengthy
report on the success of that or-
ganization, which from a modest
beginning two years ago has now
reached a membership of 1250
in its two branches, and through
whose untiring efforts, utilizing
every available means of pub-
licity and education through
press, radio, pulpit and personal
contact, has brought about the
Sabbath closing of some 43 stores
in Jewish neighborhoods, includ-
ing the Jewish theater, as well
as a constantly growing com-
munity consciousness of the tra-
ditional sanctity of the Sabbath
and its profound importance in
Jewish life.
Field Rabbi Reports
A highly encouraging report of
the activities of the Circuit Rab-
binate was rendered by Dr. S. S.
Auerbach, field rabbi. Great
strides have been made in the
religious re-awakening and edu-
cational progress of the Jewish
communities scattered throughout
the state, who have hitherto been
totally neglected. It was pointed
out, however, that Michigan Jew-
ry has not at all fulfilled its
obligations to match the great
spiritual salvage program car-
ried on by the Circuit Rabbinate.
Michigan Synagogue Conference
is still allowed to struggle with
the sole burden of maintenance
of this great project, which
should be the deep concern and
responsibility of every Jew re-
siding in this state.
The convention was climaxed
with a spirited address on "Re-
ligion in Post-War America" by
Rabbi Morris Max of New York,
in which the speaker called upon
American Jewry to match the up-
surge of religious sentiments in
the army camps and battlefields
by properly preparing the ground
for religious life and religious
educational opportunities for the
time when the boys come back
home. He warned against two
grave dangers which must be
averted, namely (1) that our
homecoming sons and daughters
do not mistake the improvised
substitute army religion for true
practical Judaism; (2) that their
religious sentiments gained under
fire of battle be not profaned by
dismal disappointment in finding
a low esteem of and utter in-
difference to religious values at
home. An extensive program to
meet this serious situation must
be embarked upon now, warned
the speaker, before it is too late.
A resolution was adopted to
participate to the fullest extent
in the post-war program outlined
by the Union of Orthodox Jew-
ish Congregations of America in
cooperation with the Rabbinical
Council of America.
BNAI BRITH
min I. Morris of Chicago, and
dealt with the development of
the farm volunteer project,
"Camp Avodah," which was spon-
sored by A. Z. A. (Bnai Brith
Youth Organization), in cooper-
ation with the Board of Jewish
Education of Chicago and sup-
ported by the State of Illinois
and United States Government.
Eighty Jewish boys participated
last year in this patriotic effort
in helping the farmers in the
Des Plaines area. This year these
farmers petitioned the govern-
ment to provide for the operation
of this camp. Over 100 Jewish
boys are already participating
in this project and are working
every day on the farms in the
area surrounding the camp.
Harry A. Yudkoff Reports
Harry A. Yudkoff, district
membership director and second
vice president, reported that
7,883 new members had been
procured during the past year
by 124 out of 130 lodges in the
district. The large gain in mem-
bership coupled with the fine
record of conservation activities
resulted in a net increase of
5,873 members for the year end-
ing June 30, 1944.
The War Emergency Meeting
assumed a quota of $30,000 for
the third national Bnai Brith
War Fund Campaign; provided
for a committee to investigate
the feasibility of creating a Jew-
ish University; approved an in-
tensive membership campaign ;
allocated $17,500 to the Anti-
Defamation League, $15,400 for
Hillel activities in this district;
$13,500 for the A. Z. A. pro-
program in District No. 6; $7,500
for the Cleveland Orphan Home;
$2,500 for the National Jewish
Hospital at Denver; $2,500 to
the Leo N. Levi Hospital at Hot
Springs; $21,000 to Bnai Brith
Wider Scope with an additional
contingent allocation of $4,000;
and $2,650 to the Bureau on
Jewish Employment problems;
created a fund to be used for
postwar special problems affect-
ing returning service men who
are members of Bnai Brith.
Those who attended were ad-
dressed by Maurice Bisgyer, sec-
retary of the Supreme Lodge;
Dr. A. L. Sachar, national di-
rector of the Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation, and Max N. Kroloff,
assistant national director of the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith. Their talks dealt with Bnai
Brith in the present and postwar
world. Robert Lurie, national BB
war service director, counselled
the war service committee in the
consideration of its program.
Officers Elected
The following officers were
elected for the 1944-45 fiscal
year: President, Isaac Wagner,
Chicago, Ill.; first vice president,
Harry Yudkoff, Detroit; second
vice president, Louis Pickus,
Waukegan, Ill.; treasurer, Gott-
fried D. Bernstein, Chicago.
ARMY
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duty in Libya, but is eager to
serve on the battlefront. He pro-
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posed that the regiment be, per-
which normally consumes three haps, expanded into a division.
Quotes Facts
days.
In replying to both proposals,
The District War Service Com-
mittee, of which Charles H. the Undersecretary quoted facts
Louer of Chicago is chairman, and figures which, he claimed,
reported that $28,790.50 had bore out his contention that a
been contributed by 128 lodges Jewish army is "impractical" at
in the 1943-44 National Bnai this time. He said that the same
Brith War Fund Campaign; that objections, and reasons for them,
over $9,000.00 in war bonds apply to Lord Melchett's request
were sold just preceding the that the Palestine regiment be
Fourth War Loan; that 10,000 expanded into a Jewish division
pints of blood were donated to for active operations against the
the Red Cross blood banks of enemy. It would take months to
Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. effect the proposal and would in-
Paul and Minneapolis; and four terfere with other operations, he
outstanding hospital projects had said, adding: "Whether the or-
been undertaken, Schick General ganization of a smaller, specific-
Hospital by lodges in Iowa Coun- ally Jewish formation, brigade
cil, Gardiner Hospital by South or brigade group, would be prac-
Side Lodge, Chicago, McIntyre ticable, I cannot say today, but
Hospital by North Shore and the possibility is being given the
Austin Lodges in Chicago, and most careful consideration." Lord
Vaughn General Hospital by Strabolgi, in withdrawing his mo-
Adolf Kraus Lodge in Chicago— tion for the present, minimized
the total amount raised being one of Lord Croft's objections
which was that the Jews, re-
approximately $150,000.
cruited from many lands, would
President Reports
Harry A. Frankel in his presi- not have a common language for
dent's message pointed out that military commands. Most Jews
this district had initiated the understand Yiddish, Lord Stra-
home-owning program of the bolgi said.
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations
when the first one was purchased
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at the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor. There are now 14
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such Hillel homes already in op-
eration or funds available for us 2,500,000 lire. Their chief act
building immediately after the of looting was to seize all the
victory. He also reported that precious manuscript and book:
the membership of the district in the library of the Italian Rab-
had reached the all-time high of binical College. They visited my
36,715 of whom 4313 are in mili- house seeking valuable silver and
tary service.
brocades from the synagogue, but
One of the most interesting I had hidden them too well.
reports was presented by Benja-
"Foa accuses me of having de-
serted my community, but let me
tell you what happened elsewhere
in Italy. The rabbis of Modena
and Florence stayed with their
flocks and were deported. The
rabbi of Genoa did the same,
and one day the German Elite
Guard came to his office. They
beat him until he was covered
with blood. Then they dragged
him to a telephone and made him
call the leaders of the commu-
nity, asking them to come to the
temple immediately with all their
families. They came in good
faith, three generations of them.
When all had entered the temple
the Germans surrounded it, herd-
ed the people into trucks and
deported all of them, including
the rabbi.
"I am an old, sick man. I
could die for my community, but
suppose they had taken me and
beaten me and burned the soles
of my feet? How do I know what
I would have done?
"Foa will be taken care of by
your Colonel Poletti, who is a
grand man with an extraordinary
intelligence and sense of realism.
I have told him that our commu-
nity is destroyed completely and
must be reconstructed from the
bottom up. Colonel Poletti under-
stood."
July 14, 1944
stop it is to contact the Council
office. The incident is investigated,
proper action is taken and a re-
port is given as soon as possible.
ZIONISTS
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cil discussed major problems af-
fecting the Zionist movement and
the postwar status of Palestine
while the afternoon session,
which was open to the public,
commemorated the 40th anniver-
sary of the death of Dr. Theodor
Herzl, founder of modern Zion-
ism.
The council adopted a resolu-
tion calling for the passage of the
New Palestine Resolution now
pending in Congress.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann of the
World Zionist Executive declared
that immigration into Palestine
after the war could not be con-
sidered in terms of a long drawn
out process, but rather in terms
of a transfer of hundreds of
thousands within a period of one
to three years.
"Only by this method," he
said, "can we meet the problem
of postwar European Jewry and
the rapid establishment of a
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Jewish majority in Palestine
which is the requisite for the
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creation of the Jewish common-
Hungary which, until its occupa- wealth."
tion by the Nazis, housed the
largest Jewish population in Eu-
rope with the exception of Rus-
siao. On D-Day the Brussels ra-
dio announced that if the Allies
advanced the Germans would
wipe out every Jew. As a cover
for their crimes, German official
spokesmen have announced that
Jews are regarded as "belliger-
ents".
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ANKARA (WNS).—The Hun-
garian Minister of the Interior
last week issued an order to tha
police that all Jews marked for
expulsion must be deported to
Poland within 2 days, according
to reports reaching here from
Budapest.
In his instructions to the po-
lice, the Hungarian Minister of
the Interior ridiculed the recent
warning by the United States
and Great Britain that all Hun-
garians participating in crimes
against Jews would be duly pun-
ished as criminals when the war
is over. He called the warning
"typical Anglo-American bluff".
In a report disclosing that 120
Jews were killed and 350 in-
jured during last week's Allied
air-raid on Budapest, the Hun-
garian Telegraphic Agency boast-
ed that the "Allied bombing of
Jewish homes disproves the wide-
spread belief that Anglo-Ameri-
can raids on Budapest are made
in retribution for the anti-Jewish
measures in Hungary." The agen-
cy also reported that the Buda-
pest police had intensified its
drive to round up all Jews who
evaded being placed in the ghetto.
Many Christians are reported to
have been arrested in Budapest
for furnishing Jews with spuri-
ous "Aryan" documents which en-
abled them to remain in the city
after June 24 deadline, when all
Jews were to have been removed
to the ghetto. In Transylvania
close to 1,000 Hungarians will
soon go on trial for "accepting"
Jewish property with intent to
defeat the anti-Jewish laws.
The special correspondent of
the London Manchester Guard-
ian here last week cabled to his
newspaper that "the Hungarians
are surpassing their German mas-
ters in cruelty in annihilating
the Jews." The correspondent
quoted "reliable sources" to the
effect that more than 400,000
Hungarian Jews have already
been "liquidated" and that the
remainder are either being sent
to labor camps or to death camps
in Poland, to which they are be-
ing transported in sealed trucks.
Tunisian Court Voids
Sales of Property
Made Under Vichy L aws
ALGIERS (WNS).
A j ew
who was compelled to sell
hi,
property because of anti-Jewi
laws solely has a legal right
have the transfer declared vot
en the ground that it was nud
e
under compulsion and duress,
it
was ruled here
e this
week by the
Court of Appeals in Tunisia.
The decision is expected
is
have ta ting
a
far-reaching
ret NINC,ohrikn g of effect in
facilitating
the Judi.
cial Committee in Algiers, which
has been preoccupying itself with
the problem of restoring to the
Jews the property they sold under
compulsion when thy Vichy anti.
Jewish laws were in effect here.
Under this ruling lower courts
would have the right to set aside
all sales that were made under
compulsion. Under the ruling,
however, each case would have
to be passed upon individually
by a court of law instead of by
the Judicial Committee. It is ex.
pected, however, that the ruling
will lead to a minimum of litiga.
tion, since the courts of law
will be bound to take judicial
notice of the fact that transfers
of Jewish property under the
Vichy regime were made under
legal and moral compulsion.
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COMMUNITY
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policy henceforth will be un-
equivocal in its rejection of any
advertisements which carry dis-
criminatory language in them.
We know that in instituting a
policy of this sort, you will be
making an important contribution
to better inter-group relations in
Detroit."
The Community Council has on
previous occasions dealt with
similar instances of discrimination
with gratifying success. When
anyone experiences such situa-
tions, the proper and effective
thing to do to uncover the source
of the practice and get action to
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