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29th liar of Service to Jewry
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VOL.
ONE
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
46, NO. 50
Yiddish Chanukah
Fete at Jewish
Center, Dec. 17
Moishe Haar to
Direct Production
Close to 40 individuals will
participate in the dramatic Chan-
ukah festival which the Joint
Yiddish Culture Committee of
the Jewish Community Center
and Community Council will pre-
sent Sunday, Dec. 17, at 9 p, m.
in the Center auditorium.
Moishe Haar, who has taught
and directed dramatic productions
for Yiddish schools in Detroit
and elsewhere, has prepared the
script which is to serve as the
basis of the stage presentation.
It is based on the Book of Mac-
cabees and makes use also of
the works of the modern Jewish
poets, Bialik and Lessin.
The Detroit Yiddish Dramatic
Society, directed by Meyer Eisen-
berg, will make its first public
appearance in this program. Mr.
Eisenberg, who has acted with
the Yiddish Art Theater, After,
and other Yiddish theater groups,
will play a leading role in the
dramatic sketch supported by a
cast of 20.
A Center dance group, direct-
ed by Miss Fannie Aronson, will
perform two numbers. The en-
tire show has been written and
directed by Mr. Haar as a unit
presentation, the continuity be-
ing provided by a group of Yid-
dish High School students in
choral readings. The traditional
lighting of Chanukah candles will
be done by a group of boys.
The evening will be concluded
with appropriate readings by
Moishe Dombey.
The committee warns that a
capacity audience for this pro-
gram, the third in this year's
Yiddish Culture Series, is expect-
ed, and that the program will
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Partitioning of Palestine
Spurned by Jewish Assembly
and The Legal Chronicle
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More Than Double
Last Year's Needs
Paul Baerwald, chairman of
the JDC, emphasized the con-
structive relationship existing be-
tween the JDC and governmental
and intergovernmental relief
agencies. He pointed to JDC co-
operation with the War Refugee
Board, UNRRA, the Intergov-
ernmental Committee on Refu-
gees, the United States State and
Treasury Departments, the Inter-
national Red Cross and the var-
ious governments-in-exile as "a
factor in accelerating our relief
and rescue activities.
"The JDC can say that not
only has it cooperated with gov-
ernment, but it has constantly
served as government's consult-
ant on refugee affairs," he de-
clared. Emphasizing that much
of the rescue program would
have been impossible without
War Refugee Board cooperation,
Mr. Baerwald said, "the JDC
has been in constant conference
with the War Refugee Board.
We have polled our information.
We have made our overseas con-
tacts available to the Board rep-
resentatives and the Board has
used our staff in the field with-
out, reservation. An example of
this joint attack upon our com-
mon problems is the Balkan res-
cue operation which brought some
10,000 Jews from Romania and
Hungary to safety in the Holy
Land, and which was a joint
War Refugee Board, JDC, and
Jewish Agency project."
Word of JDC Reviewed
Reviewing the JDC's program
in occupied, neutral, allied and
liberated territory in 1944, Mr.
Hyman stated: "Of the $20,400,-
000 appropriated by the Joint
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Pisgah to Hold
American Jewish Conference
Chanukah Fete
Rejects Expansion Program
PITTSBURGH (WNS) — The Dr. Ignacy Schwartzbart, leading
On Mon., Dec. 18 American
Jewish Conference Jewish figure in prewar Poland
JERUSALEM (WNS) — A for a Jewish State causes split-
ting and disruption. There is to-
unanimous resolution calling for
closed its three-day session here
Chanukah is one of the ancient after voting to retain its present and a member of the Polish Na-
the establishment of a Jewish day
no other plan which could
tional Council in London, de-
a
State in Palestine and rejecting and
does
unite movement."
the vast majority Jewish festivals. It appeals to three-point program of rescue, clared that the destiny of the
of the
Zionist
any and all British proposals for
young and old alike. Chanukah postwar rehabilitation of Jews Jewish people throughout the
Memorandum
and the implementation of Jew- world now rests with "active and
the partitioning of the country The
Following is part of the text lasts eight days and every night, ish rights in Palestine.
was passed here this week at a
responsible leadership" from the
special session of the Assefath of the memorandum calling for with the lighting of the Chanukah
The action was taken when American Jews.
Hanivcharim, the Jewish Nation- the immediate establishment of a candles, the holiday spirit is not the opposition, headed by Henry
"After the 3,000 years of our
al Assembly for Palestine. The Jewish State:
only renewed but seems to in- Monsky, argued that to extend common history," Dr. Schwartz-
"The Jewish Agency appeals
resolution stated that any
crease as the number of tapers the scope of the Conference by bart said, "the time for you in
schemes calling for the partition- to H. M. Government to inaugu•-
making it a permanent body and
ing of Palestine are "contrary ate a new era for Palestine and is increased. Chanukah, too, is extending its activities to the America has come to take into
to the historic, religious and na- the Jewish people by drawing so nationalistic in character, aside Jewish scene in America would your hands the active and re-
tional bonds between the Jewish the logical conclusion from the from its purely religious aspect, jeopardize its existence and would sponsible leadership of our Jew-
people and Palestine." Balfour Declaration as originally that it is celebrated by all groups constitute an encroachment on ish destiny. If you accept this
mission then the Jewish people
At the same time the Assefath conceived. At this juncture they
the functions of other Jewish will be saved; if not, then we
Hanivcharim adopted a resolution regard as imperative a decision of Jewry.
agencies in the United States. are doomed to a miserable exist-
Bnai Brith Lodges, which are The proposal to extend the Con-
appealing to the United Nations designating Palestine as a Jew-
to open Palestine to mass Jewish ish Commonwealth — a country composed of Jews of every shade ference's functions had the unan- ence."
Among the tasks which he
immigration, to assist in the ful- where the Jewish people shall of opinion and religious grouping, imous backing of labor and other
freed
to
work
out
its
salva-
should
particularly
utilize
the
oc-
placed
before the 500 delegates
be
groups.
The
delegates
represent-
fillment of the Zionist program
and to aid in the rescue of the tion by large-scale settlement and casion to celebrate so as to em- ing the American Jewish Con- were those of rebuilding "enor-
mous cultural, religious and na-
surviving Jews in war-riddled by the achievement of full na- phasize the catholicity of the gress went on record, without tional
spiritual treasures" des-
order.
voting, however, as favoring a
Europe, especially the orphaned tionhood."
troyed by the Germans in Poland.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president
Next Monday, Dec. 18, at the permanent organization.
children. Another resolution ex-
Saying that he wished to con-
pressed the desire of the Jews of the Jewish Agency, told a Jewish Community Center, Pis-
The closing session of the Con-
in Palestine to cooperate with delegation of the Jewish Nation- gah Lodge will hold its annual ference also voted to call an- firm the murder of more than
the Arabs on the basis of guar- al Fund that he believes that the Chanukah party. The celebration other meeting of the organiza- 5,000,000 Jews by the Nazis, Dr.
will commence at 8:30 in the tion within a year, giving the Schwartzbart explained that
antees of equal rights without
. •
existing
obstacles and restric- evening.
"remnants of Jewish communities
Rabbi Jacob J. Nathan
domination by either group.
tions with respect to land acqui- of Congregation Bnai Moshe, a Interim Committee the discretion in Poland await a creative unity
when to convoke the third ses-
Jewish State Urged
sition by Jews "will soon be re- member of Marshall Lodge, will sion and empowering it to ap- of all positive Jewish forces in
Simultaneously
it was revealed
that
the Jewish Agency
had sub- moved." He made the statement deliver an address entitled, "The point a commission to investigate the great American democracy."
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, co-
M acc abees M arches On." problems connected with the cul-
the delegation presented Spose
those
T ofw o have h eard Rabbi tural and religious rehabilitation chairman of the American Zion-
ma ted a memorandum to the when with
a
photograph
of
the
Nathan know that his talks are of the Jews in the liberated areas ist Emergency Council, and a
British Government demanding him
member of the Conference's in-
the immediate establishment of Golden Book of the Jewish Na- inspiring and educational. Can- of Europe.
terim committee, dealt with the
Palestine
a Jewish
The tional Fund, the proceeds of for David Katzman, also of Bnai Wise Calls United Front
disclosure as was
made State.
by Moses
situation of the Jews in Europe,
Shertok, head of the Agency's which is to be used for the es- Moshe and a member of Pisgah
Addressing the closing session, and the efforts to secure a Jew-
will light the Chanukah
political department, who told tablishment of a "Weizmann Set- Lodge,
candles and render appropriate Dr. Stephen S. Wise made a fer- ish Commonwealth in Palestine.
___ music. Cantor Katzman is pos- vant appeal for unity in the Jew- "Our enemies are still very active
the Assembly: "We \ demand an tlernent."
immediate decision and declara- __
-s sensed of a very fine tenor voice ish ranks in America. -He ap- and unscrupulous," Dr. Silver
and is particularly effective in i pealed to the Jewish Labor Com- ; said. Jews, he added, must move
tion with regard to the establish-
presenting lithurgical music. mittee to rec onsider its decisiontrapidly on the long road toward
ment of a Jewish State. We de- Attention Reader,:
The short cultural program will to leav e the Con ference over the za Jewish litommonwealth in Pal-
mand mass-immigration controlled
be
followed by a social period at issue of the admission of the !est i,
an acute shortage
Due
to
by the Jewish Agency. The rea-
Commenting on the report of
lization of the Jewish State is of enamel paper, we were which refreshments will be served, Jewish People's Fraternal Order
connected with practical condi- compelled to print the second featuring the traditional Chan- and urged all segments of Jewish the Rescue Commission of the
Dr. Silver said that
tions which definitely are subject section of the Chanukah num- ukah dish, latkes. life in the United States to form Conference, been
unable to rescue
The meeting is open to Pisgah a united front against Hitlerism we have
to negotiation. Because there is ber on ne wsprint.
Next week's issue will be
a plan for a Jewish State, there
members, their families, and instead of fighting it separately-.
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Addressing one of the sessions,
is need for large international printed o n our regular paper.
friends.
rJ
aid. It is not true that the plan