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January 10, 1947 - Image 11

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1947-01-10

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Friday, Jame

10, 1947

Page Dave.

DETROIT flWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Revisionists Elect `Flag Is Born' Coming to Detroit Poet to Address
Merzon President With Ben-Ami and Celia Adler Kvutzah Function

Prof. Hillel Bavli to
Speak here Tuesday

Anniversary Affair

Hears Palestinian

M. Manuel Merzon was elected
president and Dr. Noah E. Aron-
stem, honorary president of the
New Zionist Organization at the
anniversary meeting recently.
The following were also chosen:
Jacob Mohr, vice president; Joseph
Grossman, secretary; Sol B. Edel-
man, treasurer; and Bela B. May-
or, Louis Panush, Baruch Rosen-
berg and Aaron Teitelbaum, mem-
bers of the executive committee.
The affair was featured by an
address in Hebrew by Mrs. Eliezer,
Shostak, wife of a prominent Re-
visionist from Palestine who was
a delegate to the Zionist Con-
gress. She declared that the mir-
acle wrought at the time of the
Maccabees is a direction to Jews
of today not to remain silent, but
to raise the same banner of rebel-
lion against the British oppressors.
Merzon revealed that thus far
$865 had been raised through syna-
gogues for the Asirai Zion Fund.
which helps the families of im-
prisoned Jewish fighters in Pal-
estine. He acknowledged the help
given in that connection by David
J. Cohen, former president of
Bnai David Synagogue.
He read the following excerpts
from a letter by an American lad
in Palestine:
"The feeling of home is in-
escapable. A feeling of permanen-
cy, despite the political storm that
seem to be raging about us. Be it
in the Hebrew signs in front of
all the stores in the city, the con-
stant bable of children in the
native Hebrew, or the fact that
you turn the knob of your radio
and find a lively Hebrew melody
sung instead of hearing a soap
ad thrown at you. One instinctively
knows that this place is Jewish
like no other place in the world."

Eye-Witness

Prof. Hillel Bavli of the Theo-
logical Seminary of New York
will be guest lecturer at a gather-
ing of Kvutzah Ivrith and the Heb-
rew Teachers Organization at 8:30
p.m. Tuesday in the auditorium
of the David W. Simons School.
Bavli, student of Hebrew litera-
ture, will speak on the poet, David
Shimonowitz, whose 60th anniver-
sary is now being celebrated. On
Wednesday at 8:30 p. m., Bavli
will lecture in English at Congre-
gation Shaarey Zedek.
One of the contemporary poets
who has introduced the American
theme into modern Hebrew poetry,
Bavli has won acclaim for his He-
brew translation of Charles Dick-
en's Oliver Twist.
Plans have been completed by
the Ladies Auxiliary of Kvutzah
Ivrith for its annual donor lunch-
eon Feb. 4 at Congregation Sea-
rcy Zedek.
For reservations call Mrs. Julius
Ring, TO. 8-7583, or Mrs. Abra-
ham De Rovcn, TO. 5-1150.

This Week's
Recipe

MATZO MEAL DUMPLINGS
1 cup Manishewitz's Matzo Meal
1 ,1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
3 tablespoons fat
cold water
Measure meal and salt in bowl.
Add melted fat, eggs (well beaten),
and mix well. Add water gradually
(about ) cup) to make loose bat-
ter. Shape into balls and drop
into boiling salted water. Let boll
10 to 15 minutes. Drain and drop
Into soup a few minutes before
serving.

for those...to
whom quality
Is paramount

Weitzel to MC
Junior Program

19500 !Nemo(' 1 block ab•ve outer lave

Columnist to Pick
JSG Contestants

CELIA ADLER AND JACOB BEN-AMI

FLAG IS BORN," the mag-
,,A nificent
pageant of Jewish

history by Ben Hecht, which has
been acclaimed in New York and
Chicago, will come to Detroit for
a six day stay beginning Monday,
Jan. 20. The drama will appear at
the Lafayette Theater and will
star Jacob Ben-Ami and feature
Celia Adler.
Proceeds are used to facilitate
immigration to Palestine.
"It would be most gratifying,"
a British correspondent remarked
recentry, "if Ben Hecht could be
made to shut up." Evidently the
bullet found Its target. More than
one foreign office would consider
it a happy day if the pungent pen
of this master dramatist, publicist
and champion of the underdog,
would suddenly go dry.
Every great issue in history has
produced literary figures equal to
the cause. Emerging from the
American Revolution were Tom

Payne and Jefferson, France had
its Zola and the Irish their 0'-
Casey. Ben Hecht is in this tradi-
tion, matching the sharpness of
wit against the barbed wire, bru-
tality, and indifference of diplo-
mats and officialdom.
The theater as a fighting force
received major transfusions from
Hecht. All-told, he has written 10
pageants and his present play, "A
Flag Is Born," with the recurring
theme of the common man's fight
for freedom.
He wrote "It's Fun To Be Free,"
"Underground America," "Miracle
In A Pullman". The United Na-
tions Conference in San Francisco
opened with a Hecht pageant.
"A Flag Is Born" sees Hecht re-
turning to straight dramatic ef-
fort as a music-drama. What will
happen on the stage of the Lafa-
yette Theater is both explanation
and prophesy . .. drawn from the
world of reality.

Interfaith Meeting Scheduled
by Women's League for Feb. 10

An interfaith meeting will be
sponsored by the League of Jewish
Women's Organizations at its sec-
ond assembly of the season. The
event will be held Monday after-
noon Feb. 10 at Temple Beth El
and will be undertaken with the
cooperation of the Detroit Round
Table of Catholics, Jews and
STANLEY WAREN
Protestants.
"Our war efforts board," declared
Mrs. Samuel B. Danto, president
of the league, "has been converted
into a peace efforts group, head-
- A by Mrs. Carl Schiller, one of
whose functions is the promotion
of goodwill and teamwork among
racial and religious bodies.
"The invitations to this inter-
Waren to Speak on
faith meeting which have been
extended to our non-Jewish friends
Palestine Events
have been accepted with an en-
thusiastic response. It has been
Emma Schaver, famed lyric so- gratifying to note the sincere in-
prano, will present a program of terest shown by all groups and
Yiddish and Palestinian songs at their readiness to foster goodwill."
the 16th annual donor luncheon
Mrs. Harry Becker, 1•7ogram
of the Pioneer Women's Organiza-
working with
tion at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at chairman, has been Mayne,
director
the Masonic Temple. Stanley War- the Rev. Joseph Q.
en, brother of the writer Helen of the Detroit Round Table, to
) Waren, will describe present-day make this an outstanding event.
She reports that three national
- Palestine in an address.
speakers have been invite to
Mrs. Schaver has recently re- participate in a panel discussion
turned from a tour of displaced and that a dessert luncheon will
persons camps in Germany where be served under the direction of
she spent six months in enter- Mrs. Theodore Birnkrant and Mrs.
taining the Jewish inmates.
Harry Singer.
All eight Detroit clubs of the
Mrs. Dante has asked all con-
Pioneer Women are participating
in the donor event, proceeds of stituent organizations of t h e
which will assist women and or- league to cooperate with the
phans to reach Palestine's shores. "March of Dimes Fashion Fan-
The organization has pledged $70,- tasy" to be presented Jan. 25 and
000 towards the drive.
Waren, who was a captain in 26 at Music Hall. The production
the AAF, accompanied his sister is sponsored by the Fashion Group
on her tour of DP camps and of Detroit in cooperation with the
Palestine settlements. His message New York Dress Institute for the
le based on his eyewitness expert-
benefit of the National Founda-
encoe.

• • •

Emma Schaver
at PWO Luncheon

Tony Weitzel, Detroit News col-
umnist, will ask the questions at
the "Truth and Consequences"
meeting of the Junior Service
Group at 2:30 p. m. Sunday, Jan.
19 at the Jewish Community Cen-
ter.
Weitzel, who has become one of

TONY WEITZEL
Detroit's most popular MC's be-
cause of his ready wit, will select
the contestants from the audience
by drawing membership-card num-
bers out of a hat at the beginning
of the program.
This meeting will be restricted
to members, but any young Jew-
ish adult from 16 to 30 may join
the Junior Service Group by cal-
ling Harry A. Heller, executive
secretary, at TE. 1-1600. Member-
ships may also be obtained at the
door. Dues are $1 a year.
Dancing will follow the program
of the meeting.

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