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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1944

VOL. 46, NO. 52

3,000 Jewish Refugees Enter
Palestine `in Last Six Weeks

Course on Judaism
To Be Given for
Church Teachers

Jews from Romania, Hungary, Poland,
Greece and Spain Reach Homeland

Plan Suggested by
Dr. Leo M. Franklin

NEW YORK—Approximately 3,000 Jewish refu-
At the request of the Detroit
gees from Romania, Hungary, Poland, Greece and Spain Council of Churches, a course of
were brought into Palestine in the six-week period be- 10 lectures on Judaism and con-
tween Nov. 1 and Dec. 15, it was announced here by temporary Jewish life has been
Dr. James G. Heller, national chairman of the United
Palestine Appeal, through the United Jewish Appeal
for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine. The U.P.A.,

4 .4

Split in Zionist Ranks
O ve 'Palestine Resolution

Abba Hillel Silver and Dr. S. S. Wise
Resign from Zionist Emergency Council

NEW YORK (WNS)—Sharpened by the shelving of
the Palestine resolution by the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, the internal crisis in the Zionist movement in
America reached a dramatic climax this week when Drs.
Abba Hillel Silver and Stephen S. Wise resigned as co-
chairmen of the Zionist Emergency Council.
Although no official statement has been issued by

the Zionist Emergency Council
your reporter is reliably inform-
central fund-raising instrument
ed that the resignations were
of American Jewry for the up-
'the culmination of serious differ-
"Israel"
Symphony
of
building of the Jewish National
ences
fisted of opinion which have ex-
Home in Palestine, is represent- Bloch on Philharmonic
among Zionist leaders in
America not only on the question
ed together writ; , the Joint Dis-
tribution Committhe and the Na- On WJR, Sun., Dec. 31
of the Palestine resolution but
tional Refugee Service in the
on other matters as well.
Nathan Milstein will be the
combined nationwide rescue and
The basic question at the meet-
reconstruction campaign of the soloist
ing was whether to proceed with
loist with the New York Phil-
Rabbi Kirshblum to
United Jewish Appeal. The Joint
a vigorous and forthright course
d in harmonic Symphony under Artur
of action in forcing the Palestine
Distribution Committee a ide
Be Guest Speaker
providing transportation for these Rodzinski, playing the Bruch G
resolution to a vote or to yield
minor
Violin
Concerto,
Sunday,
refugees to Palestine.
Detroit Mizrachi will celebrate to State Department pressure. In
Among the recent arrivals, Dr. Ike. 31, at 3 p. m. over WJR.
its 33rd anniversary with a ban- a 2--hour address Dr. Silver con-
The program includes Mendel-
Helier stated, were 958 immi-
quet to be held Sunday, Jan. 14, tended that he was proceeding in
grants who arrived by special ssohn's "Ruy Bias" Overture and
1945, 6 p. in., in the social hall line with the Council's policy, set
train at Athlith—a record-break- Bioch's "Israel" Symphony.
down at an early meeting, when
Barbara Stevenson, soprano,
number for it single day's
he sought to secure President
ing
entrance. This group included Marcella Uhl, contralto, Neville
Roosev:it's approval for action
420 Hungarian Jewish refugees, Landor. baritone, and a choral
on the resolution. He argued that
DR.
LEO
M.
FRANKLIN
380 orphaned children from ensemble of women's Wives from
he, Dr. Wise and Herman Shul-
Transristria, and a small num- the Temple Emanu-El choir di- arranged as part of the currie' , -
man had definitely been mandat-
her of Romanian Jewish Muni- rected by Lazare Saminsky, are lum for the sprint . term of th - . •
ed by the Council to secure from
grants. They had traveled by the assisting artists in the per- Detroit School of Religion.
the President a green-light sign
of the Bloch work.
The original suggestion was
for the resolution.
boat to the Romanian port of formance
Writing recently of the "Is- made to Dr. Leo M. Franklin,
Galata en route to Palestine.
However, some of the others
Another group comprised 537 mei" Symphony, Bloch pointed rabbi emeritus of Temple Beth Fl.
at the meeting felt that Dr. .Sil-
Romanian, Hungarian and Polish nit he intended to title the work Dr. Franklin invited Isoac Franck.
ver had exceeded his authority
Jews who came to Palestine via "Fetes Juives," or "Jewish Fes- executive director of the Jewish
attemp.ing to force action on
Turkey and Lebanon. Many of Ovals." but changed the name Community Council, and Judge
the resolution and that he had
them had worked in slave-labor !o "Israel" at the suggestion Of Charles Rubiner to give some of
never been mandated to do so.
camps in the Balkans until they French novelist, Romain Rol- the lectures in the course. The
Following a long debate on •
were rescued by Tito partisans. l an d.
is issue, Dr. James G. Heller
course
is
scheduled
to
begin
on
ti
The first movement, inspired
A transport of 404 German,
made . a motion to censure Dr.
Jan, 9.
Silver for exceeding his author-
Dutch Belgian, Greek and Span- by Yom Kippur, Hebrew Day of
, series has been ar-
As
tin
ish Jews included members and Atonement. is in the nature of ranged, 1)r. Franklin will give
ity. This motion was defeated by
leaders of the Ziofiist Combat- a lamentation. It expresses man's the first three lectures, on the
a vote of 12 to 10. Supporting
ants who fought under the Zion- need to atone for his follies. The subjects: "Jewish Ceremonies of
the motion were the representa-
,
ist flag with the French Maquis. secondsection is more contem the Home," "Jewish Ceremonies
tives of the Zionist Organization
A number of them enlisted with
of America and of the Hadassah.
of the Synagogue" and "Jewish
12
SYMPHONY—Page
Sec
The Mizrachi representatives and
the Jewish Brigade immediately
----- Festivals". Mr. Franck will con-
the Zionist labor elements voted
upon their arrival. The Maquis
tinue with lectures on "The Old
brought with them remarkable
against the vote of censure.
Testament as Literature," "Soc;a1
accounts of the exploits of the
Idealisms of Prohpets," "Jewish
Silver Resigns
NOTICE
DANIEL TEMCHIN
Fighting Zionist Organization 01
Books Through the Ages" and
Thereupon a motion was made
France, the group responsible for
by Ilerman Shulman calling for
"Jewish
Migrations".
All copy must be in not
the rescue of many of the 80
Judge Rubiner will speak on of Congregation Shaarey Zedek. the resignations of Drs. Silver
orphaned Jewish children who
"The American Jewish Scene" and Rabbi Max Kirshblum of New and Wise so that a reorganiza-
later than Wednesday, 3 the "Palestinian Question". Dr. York, well known religious Zion- tion of the Council may follow.
came with this transport.
Three hundred and sixty Greek
Franklin will conclude the series ist leader, will be the guest When a motion by Louis Segal,
p. m. It must be written on
Jews reached the Yishuv via
March 20 with an address en- speaker.
A feature of this event will be general secretary of the Jewish
Casablanca during this period.
titled "A Jew Looks at Jesus".
Worker's Alliance and represen-
the
induction of the entire mem- tative of the labor elements, to
on
one
side
of
paper
only
They had been saved from Nazi
The Detroit. School of Religion
Plans for deportation when the
is operated by the Council of Re- berships of the following syna- table Dr. Shulman's motion was
Spanish Government issued nat- and where possible should ligious Education of the Detroit gogues into the Mizrachi mov-:!- defeated by a vote of 12 to 10,
Council of Churches. The students ment: Beth Abraham, Mogan
uralization papers to them as
be typewritten.
See SPLIT—Page 12
See MIZRACHI—Page 5
descendants of Jews exiled from
— 12
See JUDAISM—Page

33rd A miversary
To Be Observed by

Detroit Mizrachi

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REFUGEES—Page 12

The De Facto Commonwealth

By DR. NAHUM GOLDMANN

Member Jewish Agency Executive
by patients' fees. The Jewish
Welfare Federation is prepared EDITOR'S NOTE—Dr. Goldmann recently returned to this country
to include the modest mainten-
from a visit to Palestine. In this article he presents a first-hand
ance deficit costs in its annual
report on current developments in the Jewish National Home.
the
mainten-
budget. All in all,
to Palestine. There he find,
ance problem should not be bur-
There is no greater spiritual to go
densome. While exact figures will
Jew today, after a community which has not only
for
a
experience
escaped,, perhaps miraculously,
depend on conditions in the fu-
uin and destruction through the
) Lure, the trend of net cost is
war, but which during the war
steadily downward and financing
years has grown in an unprece-
of hospital operation will not be a
dented way. Industries have been
major obligation—and certainly
developed--despite handicaps of
not difficult for a community like
wartime restrictions and the se•
Detroit to provide.
curing of ray.' materials—which,
A Sense of Balance
even to a layr.tan are impressive
In this connection, the ques-
in the volume and \ et y of pro-
tion may be raised as to whether
duction. During the war .Pales-
'lying to a hospital under Jew-
tine has been the main produc-
ish auspices might not interfere
tion center for the Army in the
• with proper participation in gen-
Near East, and now that the
eral communal ventures in medi-
Armies have withdrawn, indus-
cal or related fields. Obviously,
try is still in full production.
we shall always take our part in
The agricultural settlements
civic affairs; nor shall we ever
have grown both in numbers and
offer our special interest in in-
of the settle-
in maturity. Most
stitutions under our auspices as
ments are today more solidly en-
an excuse for Withholding sup-
trenched economically than they
port of those activities that claim
were five or ten years ago, and
.he total community's attenion.
present a much different picture
cry
from
the
extrem-
This is a far
as far as living conditions are
ism that would argue for our par-
concerned and in their exter-
ticipation in all communal caus-
nal experience than before the
ts, except our own. Divorce from
war. De:- pity the artificial •e-
general community projects, on
strictions of the White Paper,
the one hand; and standing apart
the area of land settlement huh
from our own sponsored causes,
NAHUM GOLDM A NS
DR. years
of uninterrupted news also been greatly increased. Jew-
on the other, each represents a
distortion of a balanced under- five
See COMMONWEALTH—Page 12
of massacre and destruction, than

See HOSPITAL—Page 12