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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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12th Street Council Center Celebrates Third Anniversary
Shown is an exterior view of the 12th Street Council Center at Blaine avenue and 12th street.
Founded through the efforts of Jewish Center mothers' club and the National Council of
Jewish' Women, the Center recently marked its third anniversary.
Tel Guiborirn Guest
DR. M. J. STEINER, author
and educator who will be
guest speaker at an open
meeting of the Women's
League of Tel Guiborim Jan.
21 at the Northwest Hebrew
Congregation. Former editor
of "Die Welt" in Warsaw and
"Ilayarden" in Tel Aviv,
Steiner is author of "Inside
Pan-Arabia."
Americans Prepare for Life in Eretz
A group of young American Jews on Plugat Aliyah farm at
Wappinger Falls, N. Y., vary their farm chores with intensive
study of Hebrew preparatory to going to Palestine. They use
the new book, "Hebrew Self-Taught)' published by the Zionist
Organization of America, which has been acclaimed by educa-
tors as one of the finest Ilebrew texts available in this country.
Symbol of Freedom
During the recent Detroit SOS drive, children of the 12th
Street Council Center turned out in force to do their bit for
overseas survivors. Some who helped are shown with Ilarold
Weiss, director. Left to right, Marshall Sugar, Terry Markman,
Marshall Kallen, Weiss, David Kallen, David Wisenberf •
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Arnold Berlin and Iloward Somberg.
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The 12th Street Council Center serves both young and old
alike. Shown are officers of the Friendship Club, which uses
the branch recreational facilities. Left to right, Leon Borocoff,
vice-president; Sam Staler, treasurer; Roy Konop, secretary;
and Mrs. Sara Rubin, president.
Revisionists Open Camp in Italy
New Life in OW Age
Having survived the tragic
war years in Europe, this el
derly Jewish man can now
look for a more comfortable
future in the United States.
In Detroit, the Resettlement
Service monthly helps 42 fam-
ilies—men, women, and chil-
dren—in a well-rounded pro-
gram for refugees, supported
by the Allied Jewish
Campaign.
Ten-year-old Seymour Schuster, who fled a Lithuanian
ghetto with his family one day before the Nazis wiped it out,
lights the candles at a Chanukah celebration in the New York
City reception' shelter of United Service for New Americans.
Shown with him is Rabbi Benjamin Plotofsky, also a new-
. comer, who said the Chanukah prayer.
This photographer catches the opening ceremonies at the Betar,
Revisionist youth camp at Villa Ferragiano in northern Italy.
The uniformed group are displaced Jews who have joined
Betar. The Joint Distribution Committee contributes to the
upkeep of the camp,
Set $250,000,000 UJA Goal
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Responding to the opportunity for rebuilding the Jewish Homeland presented by the UN deci-
sion on Palestine, 1,300 American Jewish leaders at the national conference of the United
Jewish Appeal called on all American Jewry to raise a minimum of $250,000,000 in 1948.
At the left, Henry Morgenthau Jr., reelected national UJA chairman, addresses the assem-
blage. At the right, former Gov. Herbert II. Lehman, left, discusses goal with Eliezer Kaplan,
treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
REP. WILLIAM C. STRAT-
TON of Illinois, author of bill
to increase DP immigration to
U. S. who will speak at the
annual meeting of the United
Service for New Americans
Jan. 11 in New York.