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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Center Camps Finish
Outstanding Season

The summer camping season re-
cently completed has proved to be
one of the most successful In the
history of the Jewish Community
Center, it was announced by Sam-
uel H. Rubiner, president. Camp
Habonim, the Center Day Camp,
12th Street Council Center Day
Rabbi Leon Fram, of Temple
Camp and Camp Chelsea, mothers' Israel, has been invited by the
and childrens' camp at Grass Hebrew Institute of Pittsburgh to
Lake, Mich., have all enjoyed a deliver the principal address at
fine community response to their the dedication ceremonies of the
expanded and improved camping new building of the Institute to
activities. These activities form a be held Sunday afternoon, Sept. 8.
part of the Jewish Welfare Fed- The Institute is the central agen-
eration's program of summer re- cy for Jewish education in Pitts-
creational and character-building burgh.
activities, which also include the
Mr. Israel Abrams, director of
Fresh Air Society's camping pro- the Hebrew Institute, was Rabbi
gram near Brighton, Mich., for Fram's first teacher in Hebrew
literature, and the pupil now re-
over 600 children.
A record registration of over turns to honor his teacher.
150 children in each session for
On the evening of the same day,
four two-week sessions was re- Rabbi Fram will travel to New
corded by Camp Habonlm. Over Castle, Pa., where he will address
350 different children took part the Burning of the Mortgage Din-
in the Day Camp program at the ner of the Temple Israel of that
city. Rabbi Fram will be intro-
Center.
duced by Rabbi Iwan J. Gruen,
Full-Time Staff
A large full-time staff of coun- formerly of Danzig, 'whom Rabbi
selors and specialists assisted by Fram met when he traveled
tine volunteers working under the through the dangerous areas of
supervision of Mrs. Aviva Kauf- Europe in 1937.
man, director of Camp Habonim,
made possible a program of wide Hate Press Has Its
variety. This specially selected
staff received additional training Outlet in Detroit
at a Leadership Institute previous
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to the camp season conducted by
the Center for the staff of all of teners are asked to write in.
its camping programs. Continuous When they do so, they are favored
consultations and staff meetings with copies of his weekly hate
were held to insure meeting the shCet, 'Close-Ups,' published in
needs of children in the best pos- Detroit. The listener's name is also
sible way.
added to the Mervin K. Hart
The variety of activities offered mailing list and he then beclames
by Camp Habonim included pray- the recipient of a double-barreled
ground games, swimming, special load of hate."
project activities, dramatics, pho-
In his report on the German-
tography, cooking, woodcraft, chess American press, Forster says: "In
and checkers, doll-making, sing-
ing, music, dancing, newspaper, the pre-war period the German-
trips and special holiday pro- American press was largely con-
trolled by the Nazi regime in
grams.
A full opportunity was provided Germany and native pro-Nazi
for children to use their own cre- groups. Thus it echoed the fascist
ativity through use of the project ideology and supported the Nazi
method. The children were divided movement in this country. But
into small groups of 10 to 12 to Pearl Harbor smothered the vi-
provide adequate opportunity for ciously pro-Nazi and anti-Semi-
individualized attention.
tic line of these papers. After V-E
Palestinian Project
Day, however, the German-Ameri-
Examples of some of the proj- can press resumed its attacks
ects undertaken by some of the against the international and do-
children are as follows: A Pales- mestic policies of the United
tinian project which included malt- States, and now, scarcely a year
ing a relief map of Palestine, after the defeat of Nazi Germany,
songs, dances, movies and discus- Hitler's satellite press in America
sion of the current situation. A is linking anti-Semitism with at-
Noah's Ark project—atfer listen- tacks on international coopera-
ing to the Bible story, a group
of 6 and 7 year old children vis- tion."
ited the Zoo, built a replica of
Noah's Ark, made clay animals,
Strictly Confidential
masks, learned songs and dances
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about animals. Puppet project —
another group made puppets, a of England, France, and other
stage, wrote the play and present- self-governing lands, original proj-
ed a full puppet show.
ects for conferences and other
The children went on trips sev- gatherings were turned into con-
eral times a week, to such places gresses and large assemblies."
as the Zoo, Eastwood Park, Briggs
Today there is little left of
Stadium, Palmer Park, the Air- Polish, Rumanian, Austrian Jewry,
port, Art Institute and Cranbrooke. of the leaders who carried with
A meaningful interest in Jewish them the association and tradi-
life, folk lore and problems was tions of long established communi-
achieved through daily activities ties steeped in Jewish culture, tra-
and special programs. The camp ditions and ideals. Outside of Eng-
observed a daily ceremonial of land and France Jewish commit-
thanksgiving at meals, and the tees are in a state of chaos. There
children prepared weekly Sabbath is little chance that they will be
assembly programs. Some of the able to unite with American, Brit-
outstanding highlights of the spe- ish and French Jewry to plead a
cial programs included those com- united cause. British Jews them-
memorating Theodore Herzl, selves are in an awkward position
Chaim Nachman Bialik and Tisha due to Britain's present stand on
Bay, and a whole week of 'activity Palestine. They cannot approach
devoted to a children's SOS drive their government leaders for back-
for needy children overseas. Other ing as they did in 1919, nor can
celebrations were held on the American Jewry ask for assistance
Fourth of July and VJ day.
from their "non-commital" gov-
In addition to the special camp ernment.
festivities, there were daily as-
"There were divisions of opinion
sembly programs including talent as to Jewish aspirations and the
shows, Information Please Hour, forms which our demands to the
dramatic presentations, puppet non-Jewish world should take, in
shows and movies.
1919" Mr. Richards stated. Even
Storytelling Popular
in Russia and Poland, which at
Storytelling and music appre- the time held the largest con-
ciation were popular with the glomerations of active and organ-
children during quiet periods.
ized Jewries, there were differ-
The Day Camp at 12th Street ences between the nationalists and
Council Center carried on similar assimilators. In the United States,
programs with a registration of where the anti-nationalist Jews
50 children in each of the four had gained the ascendency the
two-week sessions. An additional struggle between the two factions
program was provided from 9 to became most acute. But the Jew.
12 daily for nursery children, ages Ish community finally agreed on a
3 to 5. This Day Camp was di- post-war program of minority
rected by Harold Weiss, assisted rights for Jews in Europe.
by a staff of four counselors.
"So," Mr. Richards complained,
Camp Chelsea, located at Grass "though Jews in America in 1919
Lake, Mich., also presented a were represented by one unified
greatly expanded program of ac- delegation, now there are tfiree
tivities, serving a total of 225 or more delegations In Paris pre-
mothers and children, ages 3 to 7. senting different points of view,
The enlarged staff made possible different ideas and petitioning dif-
a fuller program than ever before. ferent causes. Is there any wonder
Camp Chelsea was under the di. that hopelessness reigns su-
rection of Samuel Neuschatz.
preme?"

Rabbi Tram to
Dedicate Penn.
Hebrew Institute

there as stating that they do not
believe that the conference in
London will be successful. They
emphasized that the Arab dele-
aates at the conference will op-
pose any division of Palestine and
will insist on the halting of Jew-
ish immigration and the pro-
claiming of Palestine as an inde-
pendent state. Should the British
Government not accede to these
demands, the Arabs will bring the
Palestine case before the United
Nations General Assembly, which
is scheduled to take place in Sep-
tember in New York, the Arab
spokesmen declared.

Factions in Palestine
Await Conference

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Alan Cunningham, High Commis-
sioner, by Jamal Husseini, vice-
chairman of the committee. A
memorandum, submitted by Jamal
Husseini to Cunningham, also em-
phasized that Palestine Arab par-
ticipation in the talks is contin-
gent upon the discussions being
unfettered and that the talks be-
gin with recognition of the Pales-
tine Arabs' rejection of all forms
of partition.
Arabs Name Delegates
A report from Cairo, mean-
while, said that Arab League
headquarters received word that
the London Conference will meet
on September 9. An official
announcement by the League list-
ed the names of the delegates of
Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq,
Transjordan and Saudi Arabia
who will participate in the con-
ference. Palestine Arabs will be
represented at the conference ly
two delegates, the announcement
added.
The London press this week
published reports from Jerusalem
and Cairo quoting Arab lealTers

Friday, ' August 30, 1945

ments "for the necessary a ,
proaches to the United Nations*
with regard to the Palestine II.
sue. It stressed the fact that al.
though Dr. Chaim Welzmann was
prevented because of ill health
from attending the meetings of
the executive, constant contact
was maintained with him through,
out the meetings.

CONGRESS TO APPEAL
BOSTON, (JTA)—The America!!
Jewish Congress will appeal to the
United States Circuit Court of A
peals the case of two Jewish
youths from Rumania who entered
this country as stowaways and
have been ordered deported by the
immigration authorities.
The petition to secure the re.
lease of Jehuda Rubenfeld and
Ghidu Davidescu was denied last
week by a lower Federal court,
Pointing out that the youths' pres-
ent Imprisonment follows upon the
heels of four years in Nazi con.
centration camps, the Congreu
announced that it will attempt to
secure their release on bail pend-
ing the appeal.

Agency Issues Statement
Meanwhile the Agency executive
in Paris issued a statement de-
claring that it will continue to
seek a settlement of the Palestine
problem satisfactory to all con-
cerned, but emphasizing that 'no
solution can be considered unless
it provides for the restoration of
Jewish statehood."
The statement, which summar.
ized the results of its four-week
meeting here, revealed that the
executive, in addition to intensi-
fying its political activities in the
Palestine reports that 718 new
United States, England and Pal- companies were organized there
estine, has also made arrange- last year.

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