Young Israel Set
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Messages of congratulations and good wishes have been WI. 51 — No. 40
parts of the country to Detroit Young
Israel, which will dedicate its new Youth Center at 12521
Dexter boulevard at 1:30 p.

corning in from all

Sunday.

building. We hope that this will
Samuel W. Platt, president, has be the stronghold of Judaism in
extended an invitation to the en- our community.

VOICE BLESSING
• "We wish our colleague, Rabbi.
Samuel H. Prero, and the officers
of Young Israel the blessing that
Moses gave at the Chanaukas
Ilabayith of the Mishkan, ''Yehi
Rotzon Shetishreh Shechinoh Be-
massei Yedeichein" (May the Di-
vine glory prevail in the work
of your hands).—Rabbi Joseph 11.
Thumin, president; Rabbi Isaac
Stollman Menahel; Rabbi David
Bakst, executive secretary.
The Community Council wrote:
"The Jewish Community Coun-
cil is elated by the fact that after
26 years Young Israel of Detroit
has found its permanent home
in the Young Israel Youth Cen-
ter at 12521 Dexter.
"We know that there is a tre-
mendous need for a more positive
direction in our youth activities,
SAMUEL PLATT
and we are sure that the Young
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tile community to participate in Israel Youth Center will be ful-
the celebration. Messages have filling this need to the extent pos-
been received from the Council sible considering its present facil-
of Orthodox Rabbis of Detroit, ities. We are also Sure that your
Jewish Community Council, Miz- youth center will grow under the
rachi Organization of Detroit, most able guidance of yoursl.lf
Jewish National Fund. and Young (Samuel W. Platt, president), and
Israel branches in St. Louis. Kan- your Rabbi and executive direc-
sas City, ChiCago. Cincinnati, tor, Rabbi Samuel H. Prero.
DEMOCRATIC NOTE
Cleveland and New York.
"Our elation is further en-
The Rabbis' message reads:
hanced by the fact that Young
'The Vaad Harabbonim with Israel of Detroit is a member or-
great joy greets Young Israel, ganization of our Community
which is in the forefront of tra- Council. It is our philosophy
ditional Judaism, on the occasion that the democratic development
of the Chanukas Habayith of its (Continued on Page 7)

The delegates' assembly of the
Jewish Community Council to be
held Tuesday, at the Center will
feature reports to the delegates
of the major activities that the
Council has undertaken in recent
months.

The report of the executive di-
rector, Boris M. Joffe, will sum-
marize these activities for dis-
cussion.

The program of the UN Concil-
iation Commission "is unrelated
to conciliation, peace or friend-
ship," Louis Lipsky, chairman of
the American Zionist Council,
charged in an address at a Zionist
rally Monday commemorating the
centennial of Max Nordau.
"The leading position of the

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Polish Jews '

alled Near

According to the report, the
Polish government considered it
politically unwise to check emi-
gration of Jews to Israel since it
'considered the elements wishing
to leave the country of middle-
glass background and a source
of dissatisfaction and ferment."
The report says that the ortho-
dox and nationistic elements were
exercising a "detrimental influ-
ence" on the Jews desiring to
become assimilated and that their
speedy departure would hasten
the assimilation of the rest of the

Jews In Poland.

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—Photo by Bigelman

JULES DONESON
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Zionist Area
Gets Director

The appointment of Jules
Doneson of Philadelphia as re-
gional director of the Michigan
Zionist region has been an-
nounced by Morris Jacobs. presi-
dent. Doneson succeeds Saul
Gottleib.
Doneson, a native of Philadel-
phia, recently returned from
Israel, where he served for 13
months as a captain in the Israeli
army. His was the only all-

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Says Terror
Grips Jews
in Arab State

TEL AVIV—(1SI)—The gov-
ernment of ' Israel has ap-
pealed to the United Statediv .

and Great Britain to intervene
immediately with the government
of Iraq to stop persecution of the
Jewish community in that coun-
try.

Mrs. Samuel Green, president of the Michigan Council of the
American Jewish Congress, welcomes Rabbi Joachim Prinz, chair-
man of the national administrative committee of the AJC, to
Detroit. Rabbi Prinz, who recently returned from a visit to
Germany, criticized the American military authorities in the
Western Zone for permitting former high ranking Nazis to
return to important governmental positions.

A government spokesman dis-
closed that hundreds of Jews
have been arrested in Iraq and
their property seized in a wave of
pogroms "likely to rekindle the
flames of conflict in the Middle
East at a time of armistice and
at a time when increasing inter-
national efforts are being made
to replace a state of strife by a
stable comprehensive peace."

RACIAL HATRED

The government charged that
the Iraq government's attitude
toward its Jewish citizens since
the establishment of the State of
Israel was a ''brazen example of
racial hatred.
"To the general discrimination
long suffered by the Jews of
Iraq, have now been added new
acts of terror including detention
in concentration camps, confisca-
tion of property and staged
trials," the government- spokes-
man said. ''The full vengeaace of
Iraq authorities had been un-
leashed against those Jews who
had tried to escape to Israel."
At Lake Success, Iraq's dele-
gate to the UN categorically de-
nied the Israeli charges. On the
contrary, he said, the Iraq au-
thorities have maintained martial
law in their country to protect
the Jews from the Arab popula-
tion which is enraged over the
"very aggressive and inhuman
policies of the Zionists in Pales-
tine."

U. S. government in the UN as port, read its press, come and go at
well as its own tradition and poli- will in and out of the city, and in
cies," he said.."impose an obliga-
sense of the word are an
tion to bring an end to Israel's integral part of the Jewish State.
political torture which the UN JEWISH CO-WORKERS
plan with regard to Jerusalem
"They are proud to be co-work-
defintely is.
ers in the building of a new so-
HAS NO SIGNIFICANCE
ciety of Jews. They are an essen-
"The term 'internationalization tial part of the new State, just
of Jerusalem' may have a millien- as Jerusalem itself is the inevit-
nial sound but in terms of reality, able capital of that State.
it is utterly meaningless. Both
"Why then should our own
Jews and Arabs will refuse to government, with its fine record
become wards of an impotent in- on the Palestine question, lend
ternational commission, to become itself to a scheme that will not
men without countries, especially work, that is not in keeping with
when the country to which they its own sense of justice, that will
belong is right across the street. take the ancient city of Jerusalem
"The Jews of Jerusalem vote out of its predestined traditional
in the State of Israel, pay its setting? What interest has Amer-
taxes. serve in its army, receive ica in such •a vulgar offense MAY GO TO ASSEMBLY
Aubrey Eban, Israeli delegate,
its protection and economic sup- against history?"
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20,000 Bow
in Aaronsburg
Amity Pageant

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LONDON—(WNS)—Under the
impact of continuing emigration
of Polish Jews to Israel and the
renunciation by many of their
Jewish identity, Polish Jewry is
rapidly nearing complete assimi-
lation and disappearance, it was
reported here in the London Times
in a dispatch from its Warsaw
correspondent.

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Lipsk Hits Jerusalem Plan

Dr. Shmarya Kleinman, presi-
dent, has announced that special
seating arrangements have been
made for the delegates in order
to make it more convenient for
them to take notes and to partici-
pate in the proceedings. In addi-
tion, simultaneous Yiddish-Eng-
lish translations will he afforded.

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Detroiters at Parley

AARONSBURG, Pa. — (WNS)
—In a small farming commun-
ity nestled in the Alleghenies,
20.000 Americans from all over
the country bowed their heads
in silent reverance to Aaron
Levy, a Jewish immigrant who
deeded his land to the Salem
Evangelical Lutheran Church 150
years ago, thus beginning a tra-
dition of brotherhood and re-
ligious freedom that continues to
this day.
Religious and civic leaders
lauded the Jewish immigrant and
more than 1,000 Centre county
residents dramatized his story in
an open-air pageant overlooking
the valley.
Dr. Ralph J. Bundle, former
UN mediator for Israel, asked his
audience that the heritage begun
by the Jewish immigrant be pro-
tected from "inertia and com-
placency, timidity and reluctance
Detroit communal leaders at the conference of the East Central
to keep abreast of the needs of a

progressive society." ,

Region of the CJFWF included, left to right, Abe Srere,
Krolik and Morris Garvett. (See story on Page 10.)