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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Negro Girl Scouts Adopt'
Jew in Goodwill Gesture
Friday, September 12, 1947
Honored by Jewish Institute
$500 from farmer Homer L. Ber-
finger, 48-year old war veteran
from Bloomsburg, Pa., was per-
haps the most self-sacrificial.
After saving for eight years to
buy a used car, Berninger, who
served with the Seabees in the
Pacific, voluntarily turned over
his life savings to the UJA.
Incidents Cited to Prove Americans
Practice Preachings on Tolerance
By BERNARD POSTAL
Director of Public Information
of the National Jewish
Welfare Board
UST AS THE beginning of the
interfaith goodwill movement
in the early 1920's helped stem
postwar intolerance, so it is evi-
dent today, two years after World
War II, that the impressive gains
in interfaith unity, resulting from
the mobilization of the nation
for all-out war is helping to ease
postwar racial and religious ten-
sions.
While there is no scientific
measure for assaying the extent
of interfaith understanding, a
good barometer is the rising
curve of specific inter-religious
and inter-racial deeds that add
up to what the late President
Roosevelt called "the practice of
brotherhood."
For the past 15 years this
writer has compiled an annual
record of incidents which give
meaning to interfaith speeches,
resolutions and meetings and in
sum constiute a chronicle of good-
will in action.
The basic soundness of the na-
tion's social health, despite the
sporadic rashes of racial and re-
ligious antipathies that h a v e
scarred the national scene in the
last 12 months, is underscored by
the dramatic chat acter and fre-
quency of goodwill in action inci-
dents in the past year.
the YMCA to help raise its por-
tion of the YMCA reconstruction
f u n d. Previously, the Easton
YMCA had put on a program of
Jewish music and dramatics pre-
sented by members of Congrega-
tion Bnai Abraham.
The building fund campaign
for the new Arlington, Va., Jew-
ish Center, received unsolicited
contributions from Catholics. An
annual interfaith youth musicale
was staged by the youth groups
of six church and Synagogue
groups in Fitchburg, Mass.
What the United Nations is
having difficulty achieving at
Lake Success, a miniature UN,
called the Inter-Nation Club, was
successfully implemented at the
Philadelphia YM-YWHA, another
JWB affiliate. The club is com-
posed of young people from more
than 20 different countries.
The public schools, too, con-
tinued to make encouraging prog-
ress In teaching goodwill in ac-
tion. Five schools in Yonkers,
N. Y., combined a Hanukah Feast
skit with a Christmas pageant.
In Omaha's Washington grade
school Jewish children from the
sixth to eighth grades put on a
Hanukah play at the annual
Christmas assembly.
Hanukah candles shone beside
Honored by Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, N.Y.
recipients of honorary degree are shown with Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, president, and Dr. Henry Slonimsky, dean of the faculty.
(Left to right) Rabbi Solomqn Goldman, of the Anshe Emet
Synagogue, Chicago; Dr. Chaim Tchernowitz, professor of Tal-
mud; James G. McDonald, member of the Anglo-American
Committee of Inquiry on Palestine; Dr. Wise; Dr. Channing
7lobias, religious and social leader; Dr. Julian Morgenstern,
president of the Hebrew Union College; Dr. Nelson Glueck,
president-elect of the Ilebrew Union College, and Dr. Slonim-
sky.
CATHOLICS HELP
IN EASTON, PA., the YMHA
lent its auditorium to an inter-
national night benefit given by
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
From
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try. Paced by the newly-created
National Christian Committee for
the UJA, Christians such as the
Rockefellers, Gardner Cowles of
the Des Moines Register and
Tribune, Cardinal Spellman, J. P.
Stevens, Doris Duke Cromwell
and Jesse Jones made substantial
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gifts to the UJA.
While not comparing in size
MAKE CASH GIFTS
MOST REMARKABLE expres- with many non-Jewish gifts, the
sion of goodwill in action last
year was the frequency with
which Christians voluntarily con-
tributed to Jewish causes and
the $170,000,000 United Jewish
Appeal campaign evoked a rec-
ord-breaking response a m o n g
non-Jews throughout the coun-
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THE CAMPAIGN to erect a
Synagogue in New York's Gar-
ment Center Is being headed by
an Irishman, Chick Meehan, while
his co-chairman is a Presbyterian,
George Spargo.
The Men's Bible Class of the
First Baptist Church made the
first contribution to the drive for
the new building of Congrega-
tion Sons of Abraham in Bev-
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$10,000 was made by the Con-
gregational Churches of America
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AN IRISHMAN HELPS
Christmas lights in two Balti-
more schools as youngsters pre-
sented an original operetta called
"One World" during a joint Ha-
nukah-Christmas observance.
Christmas and Hanukah were al-
so observed together in the Wight-
man school in Pittsburgh.
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MEMORIAL TO JEWS
MOST SIGNIFICANT of the
goodwill in action incidents of the
year were those involving young
people. In St. Louis, Girl Scout
Troop No. 196, made up of Negro
girls, adopted a seven-year old
Jewish war orphan.
Through the American Chris-
tian Palestine Committee, the
Christian children of America
planted 1,000 trees in the Chil-
dren's Memorial Forest in Pales-
tine in memory of the 1,000,000
Jewish children who died in Eu-
rope during the war.
A nationwide inter-faith and
inter-racial Youth United for a
Better Home Town project was
launched by the youth division
of the National Social Welfare
Assembly.
Members of the Unitarian Youth
Group in Lawrence, Mass., put on
a special show to help the youth
council of the Lawrence YMHA,
a member of the National Jewish
Welfare Board, raise funds for
the new YMHA building.
Carrying over wartime unity
into peacetime, the Brockton,
Mass., YMHA, donated the pro-
ceeds of a basketball game to the
YMCA to enable the latter's team
to compete in a national tourney.
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In the closing days of the 1946
UJA campaign, the Christian com-
munity of Kinston, N. C., accept-
ed half of that town's UJA quota
of $20,000. In Richmond, Va., all
of the Protestant churches gave
their Sunday collections one week
in May to the UJA and the chil-
dren in the Sunday schools did
the same.
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