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Thursday, May 5. 1949
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Citywide Rally to Hail Birthday of Israel
.Zionist Region Hails
Frisch, Elects Jacobs
Stage Salutes Frisch IIao- anah.
Warrior
to Speak
Michigan Zionists at their second annual regional conclave
Sunday acclaimed Daniel Frisch, leading candidate for the
ZOA presidency, reelected Morris Jacobs of Detroit as
president and heard a new pro-.
An American veteran of Haga-
gram of action proposed by Law- from outstate: Samuel AdinofT,
nah
and the Jewish Brigade, Ben
rence Crohn, veteran Detroit
Port Huron; Benjamin Baum,
Zion Ilan, will be the principal
leader.
speaker at Detroit Jewry's giant
Representatives from state dis- Grand Rapids; David Cohodes,
demonstration in observance of
tricts attended the all-day con- Grand Rapids; Dr. H. L. Dia-
the first anniversary of the inde-
ference in Grand Rapids. Large mond, Saginaw; Joseph Fine,
pendence of the State of Israel.
delegations came from Detroit.
Marquette; Louis Harrison, Bay
Ilan has been deSignated by am-
Frisch, who has been indorsed
City; Herman Kaplan, Flint.
bassador Elath as the official rep-
by the ZOA national leadership
resentative of the Israeli embassy.
Julian Levine, Pontiac; Rabbi
and districts throughout the
country, spoke at the banquet Milton Rosenbaum, Pontiac; Dav-
The mass rally will start at 2:15
which concluded the conclave. id J. Ross, Benton Harbor; Jos-
p.m. Sunday, May 15 in the coli-
He was given rising ovations
suem on the State Fair grounds.
eph Olsher, South Haven; Leslie
twice during the evening.
—Photo by Jack Bigelman
Seline,
Iron
River;
Osias
Zwerd-
SHEVITZ IS HEAD
•LINK TO ISRAEL
Daniel Frisch, center, administration candidate for the presidency
Plans for the community-wide
The ZOA must go on, he told ling, Ann Arbor; Oscar I. Sha- of the ZOA, was the chief speaker at the conference of the
the overflow audience, as the piro, St. Joseph; Ben Gotlib, Michigan Zionist Region Sunday in Grand Rapids. With him are observance were announced by
Flint;
Rabbi
Nathan
Levinson,
Sidney Shevitz, president of the
link between Israel and its
Morris M. Jacobs of Detroit, left, and H. B. Shaine of Grand
friends in America and as the Kalamazoo; Ben Wepman, Grand Rapids, right, who were reelected president and first vice- Detroit Zionist Council and chair-
man of the committee in charge.
exponents of the survivalist mo- Rapids; and Tobias Kroll, South
president, respectively, of the region.
Haven.
tif in Jewish existence.
The touncil is sponsoring the
"The test of our wisdom," he
meeting jointly with the Jewish
said, urging renewed support for Herzog Mobbed at Airport
Community Council.
the United Jewish Appeal, "is
An American Chalutz, Ilan par-
now being measured by our abil-
ticipated in the North African and
ity to reconsecrate ourselves to
Italian campaigns and was in Eu-
the ideal of Jewish survival so
rope with the liberating forces of
that we shall be here to the end
the Jewish Brigade. Ilan subse-
American
Jewry
understand
fully
of time living as a free and
Dr. Isaac Halevi Herzog, Chief
quently represented the Jews of
the determination of Israel to
happy people."
Rabbi of Israel, will be guest of
Palestine at the Pan-Asiatic labor
absorb all those who are stream- conference.
Presenting a plan of reorgani- honor at a dinner meeting in be-
ing into the new State, adding
zation of the ZOA, Crohn, at an half of the 1949 Allied Jewish
earlier session, cited the confu- Campaign at 6:30 p.m. Wednes-
that he was confident American PLAN MUSIC PROGRAM
sion in American Jewry that re- day, May 11 at the Center.
Jewry will "measure up, as it has
The Letter Carrier's Band, one
sulted from the establishment of
in the past, to its obligations on of Detroit's outstanding musical
Sponsors of the dinner are the
The State and urged a fusion of all Council of Orthodox Rabbis,
behalf of the tens of thousands organizations, will occupy a place
Zionist groups into a single non- Rabbi Joseph Thumim, chairman;
of homeless and oppressed who on the program. Other musical
party body to end the factional- the Mizrachi Organization of De-
are streaming into Israel."
events will include selections by
sin and rivalries weakening Am- troit, Irving Schlussel, president;
the Cantor's Association and by
MUST STAR OPEN
rican Zionism.
"Shutting our gates," he aid, the combined Jewish choral
and the orthodox committee on
'DEPLORES FACTIONALISM
"even if only for a short time, groups of Detroit. The children
campaign cooperation of 'the cam-
"The future of Israel depends paign, headed by Rabbi Joshua
would drain the spirit and vitality of the Jewish schools of Detroit
n its economic development," he
of Israel and create despair will present a program in honor of
Sperka.
minted out.
CHIEF RABBI HERZOG
Israel and Rabbi Morris Adler
among Jews the world over."
FEARS ISRAELI CRISIS
* • •
"That will fail if divisions
Rabbi Herzog is 60 and has been will speak on behalf of Detroit's
The Chief Rabbi, who came to
among its supporter's continue."
the United States at the invita- Israel of more than a thousand Chief Rabbi for 13 years. He is Jewish community.
Deploring the fact that "re-
tion of Henry Morgenthau, de- immigrants "created grave prob- in charge of all Rabbinic courts
The colorful program of the
:igion is a political football in
clared upon his arrival in New lems for the State, which is still in the new republic which deal massing of the flags and posting
Israel," ,Crohn insisted that Juda-
on a war footing."
with problems of marriage and of the colors will be presented by
ism must be strengthened with York by airliner, that the hous-
He said he hoped to make the family.
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the establishment of the State. ing situation in the new State is
The spiritual and cultural links, grave and that the 60,000 home-
he said, will help bind Jewry of less immigrants in Israel threaten
Israel and America into closer to pose a grave crisis for Israel
unless immediate large-scale fi-
ties.
And It shall come to pass in the end of days,
Others who spoke during the nancial aid is forthcoming from
That the mountains of the Lord's house shall be
lay were Dr. Morton J. Robbins the Jewish communities in the
if Nashua, N. H., member of the United States.
Established as the top of the mountains,
Dr. Herzog and his wife were
ZOA national executive; Rabbi
And
shall be exalted above the hills;
Uerman Kieval of Grand Rapids, met by 200 orthodox Rabbis and
hundreds
of
people
from
all
walks
And
all nations shall flow unto it.
rho eulogized Rabbi Stephen
Wise; David J. Ross of Benton of life as they left the plane. The
And many nations shall go and say:
Harbor, regional membership Chief Rabbi was almost trampled
"Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
Thairman; and Arthur Shutkin as many in the crowd fought to
To the house of the God of Jacob:
embrace him or touch his gar-
:f Detroit, JNF, director here.
ments.
And He will leach us of His ways.
JFFICERS LISTED
Jacobs was reelected without COUNTS ON AMERICA
And we will walk in His paths."
Speaking
in
faultless
'English,.
•pposition. Named to vice-presi-
For out of Zion shall go forth the law.
•encies of the region were with a slight suggestiOn of the
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
f. B. Shaine of Grand Rapids, Irish brogue he acquired while
serving as Chief Rabbi of the
be Riskin of Flint and Ross.
— Isaiah II: 2, 3
Thomas Horwitz of Pontiac was Irish Free State, Dr. Herzog de-
clared
that
the
daily
influx'
into
lected secretary and Crohn was
We rejoice on the first anniversary of the founding of Israel.
Rosen treasurer.
Elected to the board were the
:flowing Detroiters: Rabbi Mor-
A 2000-year old dream has become a vibrant reality.
s Adler, Louis Berry, Sidney
rand, Max Chomsky, James Ell-
an, Waller Field, Rabbi Leon
;am, Leon Kay, Dr. Louis Kaz-
dan, Rabbi Moses Lehrman. Jack
(Special to the Chronicle)
Nevel, Dr. Moe Perlis, Rabbi
TEL AVIV—From the north-
Jacob Segal, William Shanfield, ernlip of Galilee to Urn Reshresh
Philip Slomovitz, Dr. Bernard on the Gulf of Aqaba, the people
Weston and George Weiswasser. of Israel jubilantly greeted the
' The following were chosen first birthday of the new State
Wednesday, offering thanks to
J
God and giving vent to their joy
unrestrained.
from the
Included in the celebration
'
Were street dancing, bonfires, all-
N EW YORK-(Special)—Drew night parties, concerts and me-
Pearson in 'his Supday troadcas morial services. No one slept
90 Service Stations Dealers
reported that the Ford Motor Co that day in Israel, Kenneth Bilby
Was planning to build a plant in of the N. Y. Herald Tribune re-
ported. • •
Throughout the City
Israel.
The Shofar was blown as a
A spokesman for Ford Interna-
Michigan's Oldest and Largest Wholesale Distributor of Stant and Oil Products
tional, told the Detroit Jewish symbol of redemption as Syna-
Chronicle by telephone that he gogues and halls were, crowded
could not confirm or deny the with worshippers. The Knesset
report at this time but intimated met in special session to salute,
that his organization, which is Independence Day.
in charge of the Ford program, is In a radio message over Kol
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studying Israel as a potential fac- Israel, Premier Ben Gurion
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tory site.
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Israel Swept
by liejoiciilg
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ON THE FIRST BIRTHDAY OF
THE STATE OV ISRAEL
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