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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1946
OL. 48, NO. 9
story of the Community Council
History, Scope and Structure of the
Detroit Jewish Community Council
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What Kind of Community Do You Want?
Who Is the Jewish Community ?
Who Ought to Make Community Decisions?
By AARON DROOCK, President
To begin working out some of the answers to these challenging questions, the
Jewish Community Council oNpetroit was organized, The Council is now in its ninth
year. Today it represents 222 organizations of every description in Detroit's Jewish
life. When Council veterans get together and talk about the prehistory and early days
of the Council, any number of them claim the rights of
fatherhood. And most of them are right, for many per-
sons and groups have had a share in the birth and nur-
ture of the Community Council,
Fathers Look With Pride
Some of the "fathers" look with pride on their
offspring. It has developed firmly, sunk roots deep in
the life of the community, is doing its work compe-
tently, and has a promising future ahead of it. Some
shake their heads sadly. The Council has not turned
out as they had dreamed; it is not doing all the
things it should be doing. A disappointment, per-
"haps it should be abandoned and a new start made.
Still others..almost shudder when they think of the
part they played. The Council has not turned out at
all as they had planned; it has gone astray, lured
into false paths which can only lead to disaster, and
unless it changes its dangerous behavior, will soon
be beyond redemption.
With such disagreement on the part of the parents,
the child must be interesting, to say the least. Let's look
at the record.
Huge Gifts Mark Opening of United
Jewish Appeal For $100,000,000
By BEATRICE IIEIMAN
(JTA Correspondent)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
United Jewish Appeal this week
launched its $100,000,000 nation-
wide drive, the largest single Jew-
ish drive in history,' at a national
meeting here of over 350 Jewish
leaders, with the announcement
of initial gifts of $1,000,000 by the
family of the late Julius Rosen-
wald, of $500,000 by the family
of the late Felix Warburg, and of
$250,000 by Edmund I. Kaufmann
of Washington.
Speeches by Bernard Baruch,
former Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and Di-
rector General Herbert H. Leh-
man of UNRRA etraphasized the
obligation of American Jews to
contribute generously to relieve
the suffering of the surviving
Jews of Europe and expand the
possibilities for their resettlement
in Palestine.
Declaring that there can be no
peace and happiness in the world
until a place has been found for
all displaced people of every reli-
gion and race, Mr. Baruch • told
the assembled Jewish leaders:
"Relieve the physical suffering of
these tens of thousands of Jews
and you will relieve the world of
one of its most pressing problems,
and humanity of a bitter self-
reproach.
of the world, the worst off is the
pitiful remnant left of the Jews of
Europe. They were chosen by the
Nazis for extermination — not
merely by death but by torments
hitherto unthought of. Added to
their physical suffering is their
mental anguish, for they have be-
come the unwanted — driven from
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DP Jews Must
Go to Palestine,
Ryland Demands
Obligation and Privilege
"That is your obligation and
privilege," he declared, "and equal-
ly important is your obligation to
help all other 'war-injured peoples
who need assistance. Of all the
unhappy and unfortunate peoples
AARON DROOCK
Result of Dissatisfaction
By ROBERT GARY
(JTA Correspondent)
FRANKFURT (JTA) — The im-
mediate issuance of an interim
report and the recommendation
that the Jewish DP's be evacuated
from camps in Germany and Aus-
tria directly to Palestine was urg-
ed upon) the Anglo-American in-
quiry e0inmittee by Judge Simon
H. Rifkind, adviser on Jewish af-
fairs to the U. S. Forces in Eu-
rope, he revealed following his re-
turn from Vienna, where he testi-
fied before the committee.
He expressed the belief that the
large majority of displaced Jews
would choose Palestine as their
first choice of immigration be-
cause "they want to reach a place
which they can call home--where
•they will be welcomed, not toler-
ated, by the native population,
and where they can live full, nor-
mal lives." His trip to Palestine'
had convinced him, he said, that
that country offered the only pos-
sible solution for the Jewish DP's,,,
Zionists Re-elect Judge Rothenberg
President of Jewish National Fund
'
The Community Council was created because many groups and segments in De-
troit's Jewish community were not satisfied wth the manner in which the commun-
ity was organized. There were many problems which required handling by some
responsible central body which would enjoy the confidence of the entire community
because it truly represented
the community. I n s t e a d, Demonstrate in Vienna Before
, these problems were being
r ignored or treated spasmod- Inquiry Committee; Shout "Palest ine!"
ically by individuals ,or single
groups who were acc untable to
no one but themselves! Many Jews
felt the need for a central body
which could react to' the many
attacks to which Jevi were ex-
posed here and abroad. Many Jews
resented the fact that, Mile their
contributions to support commun-
al services were solicited and wel-
comed, they were denied any ef-
fective participation in the man-
agement of the agencies which
administered the services. The
cry was "taxation without repro-
ientation."
By GEROLD FRANK
(JTA Correspondent)
VIENNA (JTA) — Three hun-
dred Jews, including native-born
Viennese and displaced persons,
marched through the streets of
the city this week demanding the
opening of Palestine to Jewish
immigration. Clashes with Ameri-
can, British and Russian military
police were narrowly averted.
The demonstrators, who formed
the procession after conclusion of
a Zionist rally, first massed before
the Hotels Bristol and Sather,
'First Official Meeting
where the members of the Anglo-
The first official meeting , of
American Committee of Inquiry on
the Comm u nity Council took Palestine are quartered, and then
place on September 29, 1937. began a mile-long march through
Preceding this event, however, the streets chanting "Palestine,
Palestine, Palestine," and carry-
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ing banners reading: "We want
To Go to Palestine," "Justice for
the Jewish People," "Open the
Gates," "In the Name of the Mur-
dered. Remember the Living." The
crowd paused before a British
officers' club and sang Hatikvah,
and then proceeded to the office
'iRUSALEM (JTA) — Six hun- of the Jewish Community Council.
i Jewish' workers employed on
First Demonstration
1-42,. military construction pro-
This was the first demonstration
1 &:7-71 In southern Palestine have
already been laid off from their in Vienna since its liberation, and
jobs to make way for German the international military police
prisoners of war whom the Brit- force were bewildered in view of
ish authorities are importing for the local ordinance barring dem-
labor service here, it was learned onstrations.
this week.
At the Bristol, a delegation en-
Hebrew papers throughout Pal- tered, but was told that the mem-
estine said that the British deci- bers of the inquiry committee
sion to use German prisoners as were not present, having been in-
forced labor might lead to grave vited to lunch with Gen. Mark
tension. The presence of these Clark at the latter's villa at Doe-
men would encourage continued bling, five miles outside Vienna.
racial hatred and be a provoca- They then went to the Sacher,
tive step directed against the Jew- where they were told the same
thing.
community, the papers said.
Imported Nazis •
Cause Firing of
Jewish Workers
Half-way to the officers club, the
procession was halted by a Rus-
sian military policeman. A DP
leader, carrying a blue-and-white
flag, spoke to him in Russian for
about five minutes, but before they
could come to any agreement, the
crowd surged forward, brushing
aside the MP and a companion
stationed a few yards away.
American military police called
for reinforcements, and five cars
containing 20 soldiers rushed to
the scene. By the time they arriv-
ed, however, the crowd was in
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World Council of
Churches Fights
Anti-Semitism
By VICTOR FRIEDMAN
(JTA Correspondent)
GENEVA (JTA) — A call to
Christians throughout the world
to combat the evils of anti-Semi-
tism was issued here this week
by the provisional committee of
the World Council of Churches.
Christians were urged to fight
anti-Semitism in the following
ways:
1. By testifying against the prin-
ciples and practices of anti-Sem-
itism as a denial of the spirit
and teaching of Christianity.
2. By ministering wherever pos-
sible to the needs of those who
still suffer the consequences of
anti-Semitism, discrimination or
persecution.
3. By giving their support to the
efforts to find acceptable homes
for Jews who have been displaced
or who can no longer remain
where they are.
NEW YORK — The movement
to bring about the abolition of
the Palestinovernment's Land
Edit which eks to restrict and
prohibit Jewis a land purchase in
the major, part of the mandated
territory gained new impetus and
measures to mobilize financial re-
sources to reclaim new land tracts
for the settlement of refugees in
the Jewish National Home were
formulatd by leaders and sup-
porters of the Jewish National
Fund at a meeting held in New
York, at which Judge Morris Ro-
thenberg, prominent jurist and Zi-
onist leader, was re-elected presi-
dent of the Jewish National Fund
of America for his third term.
The election of Judge Rothen-
berg to. head the administration
of the Fund which made available
during the past year the sum of
$5,000,000 for the purchase of new
land areas in Palestine, was hailed
by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, presi-
dent of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, in a cable he sent from
London to the meeting. Messages
greeting the election of Judge
Rothenberg and expressing sup-
port for the land acquisition pro-
gram were received from Dr. Ab-
raham Granovsky, President of
the World Jewish National Fund
of Jerusalem, who is now in Mex-
ico, Dr. Abba Billet Silver, presi-
dent of . the Zionist Organization
of America, and Dr. Stephen S.
Wise.
A new administration of the
Fund which enjoys the support
of hundreds of thousands of con-
tributors in all parts of the nation,
was constituted for _the year 1946
by the simultaneous election of a
Board of Directors of GO mem-
bers and an adniinistration
mittee of 16.
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Truman Declares Needs of 1,500,000
Jewish. Survivors/lust be Satisfied
WASHINGTON — Meeting with
a delegation of more than twenty-
five American Jewish leaders, in-
cluding Herbert H. Lehman, Di-
rector General of UNRRA, and
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., former
Secretary of the Treasury, Prest-
dent Truman declared at the
White House that the dictates of
Justice require not only the pun-
ishment- of those responsible for
the destruction of 5,700,000 Jews
in Europe, but the rehabilitation
of the 1,500,000 Jewish survivors
"whom the ordeal has left home-
less, hungry, sick and without as-
sistance."
In endorsing the rains of the
$100,000,000 nationwide United Jew-
ish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas
Needs and Palestine, the Presi-
dent emphasized that the Jews of
Europe who escaped extermina-
tion were also "victims of the
crime for which retribution will
be visited upon the guilty."