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DWIROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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MAN OF THE WEEK

'MEETING ALEX BELKIN, one would never know that this calm
and soft-spoken builder could rise to heights of great fervor on
behalf of his convictions or espouse a course of militancy in their
defense or acceleration.
Belkin is very much down to earth for there is nothing preten-
tious about him. After only a few minutes of conversation, one recog-
nizes that here is a sincere and wholesome individual who is ready
to battle for what he believes and who will not countenance bigotry,
fraud and pettiness where they
will injure others.
He has a deep contempt, for ex-
ample, for the "Sha-Sha" method
of fighting anti-Semitism. "The
dignity and self-respect of the
Jews," Belkin insists, demand that
he assert his rights without apol-
ogy. A vigorous onslaught on the
bigot, without toadying, will be
much more effective in the long
run."
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ULTIMATELY, BELKIN be-
lieves, anti-Semitism can only be
eliminated in a socialistic society,
where differences cannot exist.
He admits that this may be a
long time in coming and, for the
interim, strongly advocates the ad-
vancement of the Palestine Home-
land.
The idea of the restoration of
the ancient Homeland is Belkin's
one
departure from the socialist-
ALEX BELKIN
territorialist beliefs which he
learned from an uncle In Chicago where he stayed for 10 months
after fleeing Russian persecution in 1913. Only Palestine, he says.
can serve Israel as a Homeland in the light of the role it has played
in Jewish history.
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BELKIN WAS BORN in Russian Poland in 1893 in the small
city of Daved-Horodok near Pinsk. Upon his arrival in Detroit in
1914, he became active in the Landsmanshaft movement during his
free hours as a carpenter. He joined the Jewish Junior Club of the
Jewish People's Relief Organization and soon became its president.
It was there that he met Norma Minkin whom he married on
March 2, 1919. They have ihree children, Bertha, wife of Max Choin-
sky; Shirley, wife of Ed Glohlick; and Jack, formerly of the Air
Corps who is now in the building business which his father estab-
lished in 1919.
Bertha has been responsible for one of Belkin's greatest and
proudest joys, for eight months ago she gave birth to a son, Belkin's
first grandchild.
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BELKIN IS ACTIVE in the Odessa Society and represents-the
Landsmanshaften on the board of governors of the Jewish Welfare
Federation. He is a member of the executive board of the Jewish
Community Council and has been devoting his time to Polish relief
after having served as treasurer of Jewish Russian war relief here.
Belkin is vice-president of the Landsmanshaften city committee.
a united group that he fathered.

the division has raised close to

$450,000 out of a quota of $500,000.
Women's Division More
than 10,500 women have al-
ready contributed.
Refuses to Quit
With Goal in. Sight Lawyers' Survey
Although the women's division
has closed up shop as an Allied Rips Callahan Bill

Jewish Campaign division for the
year, a special committee will con-
tinue to follow up prospects until
every Jewish woman in Detroit
has been solicited, according to
Airs. H. C. Broder, campaign chair-
man.

Heading the committee will be
Mrs. Max Frank, chairman, who
will have as her captains Mrs.
Herman August, Mrs. Harry Bec-
ker, Mrs. Joseph Falk, Mrs. Sey-
mour J. Frank Mrs. William B.
Isenberg, Mrs. Benjamin Jaffe, Mrs.
Philip R. Marcuse, Mrs. David
Markel, Mrs. Emil Rothman, Mrs.
Alexander W. Sanders, Mrs. Na-
than Schermer and Mrs. Carl
Weiss.
Each member will enlist a corps
of workers to help cover the 10
percent remaining slips. To date,

Since 1929

Beth Ola ►► Cemetery: Before amt After

Campaign for Center
Has Goal of $150,000

Eight pledges totaling $31,000
have been made to the $150,000
Community Center campaign in
Windsor.
Under the leadership of Harry
Vexler and Robert Slutzky, the
fund-raising committee has been
organized to cover the entire
community.
Vern Halle, Windsor Jewish
Youth Council president, was
elected president of the Ontario
Jewish Youth Council at its con-
ference in Toronto recently.
Adding to Windsor's honors,
Betty Lampkovitz, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Lampko-
vitz, was chosen queen of the
conference.
The Windsor Jewish Folks'
Choir will entertain at the annual
meeting of the Community Coun-
cil at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday in Shaer
Hashomayim.
Philip Stuchen, who returned
recently from Europe where he
served as a member of the over-
seas staff of the Canadian Jew-
ish Congress, will be guest speak-
er.

American Jews Donate
Medical Tools to USSR

NEW YORK — The purchase of
$25,000 worth of medical apparatus
and machinery by the Bessarabian
Federation of American Jews to be
sent to the Fourth City Hospital
in Kishinev has been announced
by Louis Levine, national president
of the American Jewish Council to
Aid Russian Rehabilitation.
Arrangements have been made to
ship an $11,000 X-Ray unit and
fluoroscopic, gastroscopic, physio-
therapy and electrocardiograph
machines, Levine said.
This purchase is part of a quar-
ter of a million dollar hospital
project which the Bessarabian
Federation, of which Sol Serwitzis
president, adopted at its annual
conference recently in Philadelphia.

Meister Studio Plans
Annual Recital June 4

The Meister Studio of Dramatic
Art will present its annual costume
recital at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday,
June 4, in the Institute of Arts.
Betty Kowalskv pianist, will be
guest soloist. Alice Blumberg
Phyllis Pullberg and Jean Meister
will also perform.
A feature will be the presenta-
In a 16-page preliminary analysis tion by advanced pupils of a radio
of the Callahan Bill, the so-called musical playlet, "Take a Bow,"
"anti-Communist" measure which written and directed by Eve Meis-
seeks to regulate groups allegedly ter, dramatic teacher.
under the influence of foreign gov-
■
ernments, the Detroit Chapter of
the National Lawyers Guild de-
nounced the bill as being so broad
We ('.an Supply ...
it could include the Catholic
church, the Knights of Columbus,
the Needs for Your
the International Red Cross, the
CIO, the AF of L, the Episcopal
• Party
church, lice-.Americans Jewish Con-
• Confirmation
gress and the Boy Scouts of Am-
erica.
• Social Affair
The bill could conceivably in-
clude any organization with any in-
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ternational affiliation, on the ground
that a foreign government either
Dinributors
inspired such an organization, or
supports it in principle, the-Guild
declares.

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The alone pictures show the Beth °bun Cemetery before and afte
a public-spirited committee set about restoring the original beauty
to this 70-year-old plot, Distressed by the run-down condition of the
grounds, members of the 4haarey Zedek Cemetery association
spurred efforts for the renovation. 1Vith funds contributed by
survivors whose dead are interred at Beth Olam. tombstones were
straightened, weeds and rubbish removed and the grounds land-
scaped. Full-time caretakers are now employed. About 3,000 dead
have been laid to rest there, but none in the past 25 years. The
cemetery committee is depending upon voluntary contributions to
finance upkeep. Morris 11. Blumberg, committee chairman, has
asked relatives of the dead to visit the cemetery from 10 a. tn. to
2 p. m. Decoration Day to help identify graves.

The annual Solomon Golub eve-
ning of the "Nisht Gedayget"
group was held Sunday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wex-
Sid Cohn has been elected com- ler, 2922 Leslie avenue, to cele-
ander of the Franklin D. Roose- brate the 60th birthday of the
velt Post No. 493, American Le- Jewish composer.
gion, a group made up entirely of
War II veterans.
Other new officers are Harry A.
Velick, senior vice - commander;
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Nathan Felsenfeld, junior vice-
commander; Gerald Trubow, ad-
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