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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1945
National Leaders
To Attend Dinner
Of Young Israel
United Nations 10-Point Jewish Program
Asked to Pass
Submitted toWorld Parley
Irving M. Bunim of New York Bill of Rights
SAN FRANCISCO ( WNS) —The American Jewish
will be the toastmaster at Young
Only 2,000 Jewish boys Israel's 22nd anniversary dinner
and girls are attending to be held at Shaarey Zedek
week-day Hebrew or Yid-
dish afternoon or day
classes, and only 3,000 chil-
dren are getting ivstruction
in Jewish Sunday schools.
This was revealed by the
Citizens Committee which
met last Sunday afternoon
at the Jewish Center to
study the recommendations
of the Detroit Self-Study.
The survey of Detroit's Jew-
ish educational, recreational and
cultural activities was conducted
by Elias Picheny and Israel B.
Rappaport. Detroit has a Jew-
ish population of about 85,000
with at least 25,000 Jewish chil-
dren of school age.
The survey recommended and
the Citizens Committee accepted
the following program, which
will take in every type of Jew-
ish school—Hebrew and Yiddish
—and will be submitted to the
Federation for financial support :
A Bureau of Jewish education
to install uniform_ administrative
procedure.
PUBLICITY PROGRAM
A community-wide public rela-
tions and publicity program to
reach all Jewish parents which
will interpret to the parents the
need for providing their children
with a Jewish education and
will acquaint them with the var-
ious Jewish schools in the city.
An Inter-School and mass pro-
gram for pupils in all the Heb-
rew and Yiddish schools to bring
together all the children in joint
undertakings for Chanukah, Pur-
im, an annual initiation program
for beginners, a miniature Jun-
ior UJA.
In Its 30th Year
and The Legal Chronicle
The establishment by the Unit- Conference and the World Jewish Congress, in a joint
ed Nations Conference on In- statement urging that a hearing be accorded to the
ternational Organization of it Jewish people by the United Nations Conference, offered
permanent commission to draw
up an international bill of rights the following 10-point security program for the Jews in
0,he postwar world :
was urged by Joseph M. Pros-
An
international
bill of
kauer, American Jewish Commit-
rights.
tee representative.
I m m e di ate restoration to
The American ,Jewish Commit-
Jews in Europe of all rights
Iee
recommended organiza-
formerly guaranteed by nation-
tion of a commission on state-
al legislation and international
lessness to deal with the prob-
policy.
lem of displaced men and women
Outlawing of anti-Semitism.
Rabbi Leo Jung, noted scholar
in Europe. It suggested a third
Punishment for crimes Conl-
commission to deal with migra- and author, will speak at Sham'-
tions in Europe resulting from ey Zedek Social Hall at 8:30 mitted against Jewish people,
economic and social upheaval.
p. in. Wednesday, May 9, under wherever committed.
United Nations' aid in Jew-
Judge Proskauer said that im-
ish relief and rehabilitation.
plicit in the suggestion for tin
Eliminaton of statelessness.
international bill of rights is
Indemnification to Jews for
"the patent truth that every hu-
losses and damages caused by
man being is entitled to live un-
the Axis.
der his own vine and fig tree
Assistance from government-
;n his own country.
IRVING M. BUNIM
Social Hall Sunday, May 13. Mr.
Bunim is a national religious and
communal leader.
The main speaker will be Ed-
ward S. Silver, president of the
National Council of Young Is-
rael. Members of Young Israel
Youth groups will be heard in
brief talks.
The dinner will launch the
drive for Young Israel's Ortho-
dox Jewish Center to be built on
Dexter near Fullerton.
Detroit Jewry 1
World Parley
Rally May 15
A rally to draw the Detroit
Jewish community's attention
to the importance of the San
Francisco Conference to the
future of world Jewry will be
held at 8 p. m., May 15, in
the Shaarey Zedek Social Hall.
STOCKHOLM (WNS) — Of The rally is being sponsored
Hungary's 900,000 Jews, 600,000 by the Detroit Jewish Com-
were killed by the Germans dur- m unity Council, the Detroit
ing their occupation of that coun- Zionist Council and the dele-
try, according to a report to the gates to the American Jewish
Stockholm press by an attache of Conference.
Speakers at this rally will
the Swedish legation in Buda-
pest.
include Rabbi Leon Feuer of
The report states that not all Toledo ; Dr. David D. Henry,
Jews were sent to Germany to executive vice president of
die and that it was a common Wayne University, and R. J.
sight to see Jews being thrown Thomas, president of the
into the Danube river, while UAW-CIO. Resolutions to the
German soldiers were looking on United Nations Conference
with glee until the victims will be presented at the rally.
drowned.
600,000 Jews
Killed in Hungary
Dr. Leo Jung
Ttl Lecture at
Sh aarey Zedek
"We emphasize our pro-
found belief," he said, "that
while the peace conference
will ultimately give attention
to the wrongs which have
been especially inflicted on the
stricken Jews of Europe by
the holocaust of war and the
bestiality of Hitler, the ulti-
mate safety of the Jewish
populations of Europe will rest
upon the international enforce-
ment of justice and equality
of treatment to all men of
every race and creed.
"We have recommended to
the Am7rican delegation a
number of other proposals re-
lating to the problems of state-
lessness, migration, war crimes,
repatriation and indemnifica-
tion."
The commission of stateless-
ness. he suggested, should "pro-
tect the rights and be concerned
with the welfare of all the state-
less and to provide the necessary
machinery for documents of
See RIGHTS—Page 5
Beth Yehudah
Annual Meeting
Set for May 21
al and intergovernmental agen-
cies in the resettlement of dis-
placed Jews.
Opening Palestin e for unre-
stricted Jewish immigration.
United Nations' recognition
of the Jewish claims for rep-
resentation on agencies that
will be set up by the United
Nations to deal with relief,
rehabilitation, resettlement and
other aspects of postwar re-
construction.
DEMAND JUSTICE
The joint statement said that
RABBI LEO JUNG
the auspices of the Shaarey Ze-
dek Men's Club. His topic will
be "War and Peace."
Dr. Jung is the rabbi of the
Jewish Center in New York City
and professor of ethics at Yesh-
ivah College in New York. lie
attended the Yehivoths in Hun-
gary and Germany and received
degrees from the Universities of
Vienna, Berlin, London and
Cambridge. He is a member of
the Council of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine. He is the editor
of "The Jewish Library" series.
Members of Congregation Bnai
Moshe and the Detroit Zionist
Chapter will be guests of the
Men's Club at this lecture. Dr.
Jung's address will end the
Shaarey Zedek Men's Club's lec-
ture series for the season. Four-
teen events were included in the
series.
it was "elementary justice" that
the voice of the Jewish people,
first victims of Nazi aggression,
should be heard at the world
conference.
The statement declared :
"The leaders of the United Na-
tions should .consider the tragic
plight of the Jewish people in the
last 12 years which have brought
death to (3,000,000 of their num-
ber."
PALESTINE PROBLEM
Although there are many
friends of the Zionist cause
among the delegations to the
conference, it seems at this time
that the conference will definite-
ly avoid the Palestine question
even in the committee which is
to deal with establishment of
the machinery for international
trusteeships.
So far neither the Zionists
nor the Arab delegations have
made any move to force the
issue. However, representatives
of the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine are expected to submit a
memorandum to the conference
with special reference to the in-
BUENOS AIRES (WNS)
ternational trusteeship for man-
I'he 35,000 German Jews living dated territories.
in Argentina have been exempt-
Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Dr.
ed from rn- restrictions govern-
See CONFERENCE—Page 5
ing Axis nationals.
The final session ok the board
of directors of Yesfilvath Beth
Yehudah for the current fiscal
year ending May 31, will be held
at 9 p. m. Monday, May 7, in
the Yeshivah Bldg.
On Monday, May 21, there will
be a general membership meet-
ing of the Yeshivah to elect
directors for the coming year.
Eighteen new members of the
board will be chosen.
Chaim Lieberman, New York,
noted Yiddish journalist, will ad-
dress this annual meeting. His
topic will be "Jews and Judaism
in a Gentile World."
Major items of business at next
Monday's meeting will be the
By DAVID WEISSMAN
current drive for deficit financ-
ing of the Yeshivah's program. EDITOR'S NOTE:—Mr. Weissman, a leading West Coast Anglo-
has been sustained by any other
Jew ish journalist, is the special representative of the Detroit
See YEHUDAH—Page 8
people in modern times."
Jewish Chronicle and the Bnai Brith Messenger of Los Angeles
Breaking down Jewish declina-
at the United Nations Conference in San Francisco.
tion country by country, Gott-
schalk and Duker say :
SAN FRANCISCO—I have just returned from a
Chronicle Reporter at World Parley;
Jewish Delegates Gloomy at Results
Jewish World Population Depleted
By 4 Million Because of Atrocities
NEW YORK — Pointing out
that "almost two-thirds of the
entire Jewish population of the
world are in the lowest depths
"Polish Jewry has been re-
of the direst catastrophe that
has befallen them in history," duced by nine-tenths, Belgian
Dr. Max Gottschalk and Abra- Jewry by three-quarters, Greek
ham G. Duker estimate in their Jewry by five-sixths. Accord-
new hook published recently, ing to the moat hopeful of rea-
"Jews in the Postwar World" sonable predictions, there will
( Dryden Press) that "sonic 4,- be some 2,000,000 Jews in
0 00,000 Jews have been exter-
Europe (outside the Soviet
minated in the course of the Union) instead of the 6,000,-
000 previously there. Aside
Present war."
Dr. Gottschalk, director of the from some 3,000,000 Jews in
Research Institute on P eace and Russia, 2,000,000 more will be
Postwar Problems of the Amer- distributed among Palestine,
ican Jewish Committee, and Sgt. Latin America, Africa, Asia
Duker, formerly a member of and Australia."
"The largest proportion of
the Institute, state that the Jew-
ish population of the world "has Jews, more than 6,000,000."
been reduced by nearly one- the authors point out, "will
quarter, from 16,717,000 in 1938 reside in countries where Eng-
to a little more than 12,000,000 lish is spoken: 4,700,000 in the
today. This constitutes a far
See POPULATION—Page 2
greater percentage of loss than
Youth Aliyah
C ets$2,500From
Couzens Fund
plenary session of the United Nations Conference more
convinced than ever that Palestine, or any reference to
the Jewish people, will not be made publicly unless
American Jewry makes a determined, united assault
The Children's Fund of Michi- on the wall of apathy, prejudice and politics which sur-
gan, chief philanthropy of the rounds the conference with re-.
late Senator James Couzens, dur-
ing the past year, gave $2,500
to the Youth Aliyah, which sends
refugee Jewish orphans to Pal-
estine, educates them and trains
them to become self-supporting.
William J. Norton. executive
vice president of the fund, de-
clared: "Christian America can
join with and encourage the free
Jewish people throughout the
earth whose magnificent gener-
osity is attempting to resettle
their European kin."
spect to that question.
. commission for trusteeships of
Not only must this step be mandatory lands—their insistence
taken immediately, but Zionist that they be represented, plus
leadership throughout the world the fact that the chairman of
must have as much imagination that commission will probably be
in grasping opportunities as the one of the Palestine Colonial
Arabs have. That there i s some office, makes it imperative that
dismay in Zionist circles today some counter-steps be taken.
is no wonder.
It is rumored in reliable cit.-
Rapid developments in Arab cies that the commission will
aggressiveness towards acquisi-
tion of important seats on the
See WEISSMAN—Page 11