, DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE rage 24 Yemen Jews May Enrich Life in Israel By MEYER F. STEINGLASS *THE TRANSFER OF SOME 40,000 Yemenites from Aden Ito Israel represents one of the reatest operations in the rescue f any Jewish community. A itregular shuttle service of planes ooperates day and night bringing 'In an average of 500 people daily. Persecution and pOverty has been their lot for a long time and the establishment of Israel represents to these oppressed people the realization of a Messi- anic hope. To reach Israel, many of them endure the greatest suffering and hardships. Some walk for many miles through the desert without food or drink and a number have died on the way. Those who sur- vive reach Aden in weakened condition, suffering from diseases contracted on the way. Because they have lived in an- other world and another century there are many difficult prob- lems involved in adjusting these ( people to a more modern form of existence. For example, a spe- cial effort must be made to teach them to use a bed. It was found on their arrival that the Yemen- ites did not know what a bed was for. 4, THEY HAD BEEN BROUGHT into a tent with eight or more cots, and in the morning the au- thorities found that the cots had been pushed aside and that the Yemenites had gone to sleep on the bare floor. The 'Yemenites are industrious and good pioneer material. They have a good deal of self-discipline ' which very often amounts to an excessive civility, submissiveness and apathy. Unlike other immigrants, they never complain. The difficulty with them is that they offer no resistance whatever to any move- ment and the camp directors have to find - ways to develop a certain freedom of action and thought as individuals. Inured through long suffering, they en- dure pain and other discomforts in silence. Most of the Yemenites have a good religious background and spend considerable time reading the Bible. • A SPECIAL CAMP has been set up for Yemenite children to give them indoctrination in hy- giene and physical fitness. There is every reason to antici- pate that the Yemenite immi- grants will in time make a major contribution to the growth and development of the State of Israel. • • Temple Israel Plans Family Festival Rites Temple Israel will hold a Chanukah Family Sabbath Eve service at 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Institute of Arts. A children's choir, conducted by Henrietta Reznick, will sing traditional Chanukah songs. The Temple choir, led by Karl Haas, will also be heard. Cantor Rob- ert Tulman will chant the bene- dictions over the Chanukah candles. Rabbi Leon Fram will speak on 'The Chanukah Spirit." Following the services, the Sis- terhood will sponsor a social hour. Saturday and Sunday mornings three dramatic groups of the Temple religious school will pre- sent Chanukah plays. The school children will hold victory assemblies on those morn- ings to celebrate the raising of a cornerstone fund to help com- plete the new Temple Israel building. The Sisterhood will conduct a Whose Turn Next? Larry Story Rouses Most, Scares Some By ALFRED SEGAL GO AROUND our town, I have been meeting some stufly people, like Mr. Zilch, lately. They say: the idea of that! Was that a thing for a great institution of Jewish learn- ing to bother it- self with?" These, in fact, k were exactly the words of the citi- zen whom I shall charitably call Mr. Zilch. M r Zilch was burn-iv•: , ing up. Ile didn't e like at all the 4,• reception that Segal was given Mrs. Goldstein at our Hebrew Union College. Ile wasn't there—had absented himself de- liberately—but he didn't like it, anyway. Do you recall Mrs. Goldstein? Mrs. Sylvia Goldstein, that is, of Lynn, Mass. In case you need to be reminded she is the Mrs. Goldstein who wrote that letter to the editor of the Lynn news- paper. Her boy, Larry, age 11, had been set upon and beaten by a gang of kids when he was on the way home from a Boy Scout meeting. They shouted "Jew" at him. ("Paste the little Jew.") Instead of going to the police about it, Mrs. Goldstein went straight to the public conscience with her letter. As I Absorbed in the traditional Chanukah game of Dredel are Esther Zwick, Jerome Cohen, Judith Berris, Harry Rochelle, Abigail Bressler, first graders in Beth Yehudah Schools. Beth Yehudah holds open house Chanukah week. Centennial Dedication Rites Planned by Temple Beth El Hapoel Slates Kapustin Talk Temple Beth El will hold its lit by the oldest and youngest centennial past confirmands re- confirmands of the Temple. Following the service there will be a reunion of classes and a social hour, which will be in charge of a committee of past confirmands. There will also be an extensive exhibit of confirmation pictures, confirmation programs and con- firmation textbooks, covering a period of 65 years. The first confirmation in Tem- ple Beth El was held in 1862,-at the Rivard street Synagogue, dur- ing the ministry of Rabbi Abra- ham Laser. Over 5,000 children were confirmed at the Temple since that year. An additional feature of the service will be the singing of Chanukah songs by the Religious School Choir. Hapoel Hamizrachi Council of Detroit will sponsor a Chanukah celebration on Wednesday eve- ning. Dec. 21, at the Halevy Music Center Linwood avenue corner Fleet street. Rabbi Max Kapustin, chairman of the program committee, an- nounces that a timely "Parade of Talent" will be featured. Ernest Greenfield president of the Bar Ilan Chapter, will offi- ciate at the candle lighting cere- mony. Drora Selesny Kleinplatz and Rhoda Goldschlag will render vocal and piano selections, and a member of the Morasha Chapter will give selected Chanukah readings. DR. B. BENEDICT GLAZER • • • dedication service at 8:15 p.m., Friday. Past presidents of the Congre- gation, who were confirmed at the Temple, will participate in the service, a portion of which has been especially written for this occasion by B. Benedict Glazer. The Chanukah lights will be Center to Fete Donor on 10th Year of Gift The Jewish Community Center, celebrating the 10th anniversary of its main building, will sponsor a testimonial dinner at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday in honor of Mrs. Aaron De Roy whose gift in memory of her husband made possible the construction of the major wing of the building at Woodward and Holbrook avenues. The dinner will be followed by a public meeting at 8:30 p.m. During the week of Jan. 15, dedication ceremonies will be held for the opening of the Dex- ter neighborhood branch of the Center, now under construction on Davison and Holmur avenues. The program is being arranged by Samuel H. Rubiner, chair- man, Mrs. Sidney J. Allen, Mrs. Arthur Bloom, Mrs. Hyman C. Broder, Mrs. Samuel R. Glogow- er, Jacob L. Keidan, Mrs. Royal Maas, Saul Saulson and Rabbi Joshua Sperka. At the dinner in honor of Mrs. De Roy the principal speakers will be Henry Meyers, past presi- dent of the Center, and Morris Garvett, president. Lewis B. Daniels will be toastmaster. _ LIBRARY DONATED NEW YORK CITY—(WNS)—A fund for the establishment of an extensve library of books and materials on American business administration has been donated gift exhibit and sale at Hampton' to the Hebrew University by • School Sunday morning. Thursday, December 15, 1949 Meyer Gold of Coral Gables, Fla. James I. Ellman Is Elected President of Knollwood Club James I. Ellman, attorney and leader in numerous Jewish and civic causes, was elected presi- dent of Knollwood Country Club at a recent meeting of the board of directors. Ellman served the club as president in 1937-38. He is a former associate jus- tice of Highland Park and a for- mer attorney general of Michi- gan. He is past president of t h e Jewish Community Council and has served on the board of the Detroit Round Table of Catholics, Jews and Protestants, the Detroit Service Group and the commis- sion on community interrelations of the American Jewish Congress. He also served on the War Labor Board and acted as arbi- trator in industrial disputes. Other officers elected by the club are Harold H. Gilbert, vice- president; John Isaacs, secretary; Nathan Fishman, treasurer; Jo- seph Gendelman, assistant secre- tary, and Adolph H. Lichter, as- sistant treasurer. In addition to the officers, the following members were elected to the board of directors: Henry S. Alper, Dr. Raphael Altman, JAMES I. ELLMAN • • • Louis Berry, Irving W. Blum- berg, Irwin I. Cohn, Harry N. Grossman, Arthur Robinson, Da- vid Tann and Ben' Tolmich. Technion Unit `Anna Lucasta' to Hear Urey Due in Yiddish Dr. Harold C. Urey, disting- uished service professor of chem- istry at the institute for nuclear studies of the University of Chi- cago, will address the Annual Dinner of the Detroit Chapter of the American Technion Society on January 14 at Huyler's. Dr. Urey will speak on the social implications of modern science, with special reference to Israel. The discoverer of heavy water. which is used in certain types of chain reacting piles for the re- lease of atomic energy, -Dr. Urey received the Nobel prize in chem- istry is 1934. On the evenings of Jan. 1 and 2 Gerald Taines will present the Yiddish-English version of the Broadway hit Anna Lucasta at Music Hall. Two stars of the New York Yiddish stage, Miriam Kressyn and Seymour Rechtzeit, head the cast. "Anna Lucasta" will determine whether Detroit Jewry, both young and old, are ready for this new kind of theater, which com- bines the best plays of Broadway with the native Jewish idiom," Taines said. For ticket information, call TA. 3-9899. • • • A HUMAN DOCUMENT OUR HEBREW UNION College thought Mrs. Goldstein's letter was as eloquently Jewish, finely human as any book or manu- script in its great library. Dr. Nelson Glueck, president, invited Mrs. Goldstein and her son to be the guests of the college on a weekend. In the college chapel there was a reception for her and the boy the other Sunday. The Mayor's Friendly Relations Committee was in on it; the Conference of Christians and Jews; the Fellow- ship House. Larry was presented with a baseball that was batted over our National League baseball field the past season. But here was Mr. Zilch pro- testing: Was this nice? How does it look for a great institution of Jewish learning to worry about an incident on a street between a bunch of kids. Mr. Zilch said an institution of learning—a rab- binical college at that—should concern itself . Mr. Zilch hesitated while he reached for an idea as to just what should bother a rabbinical college most. • • • NATION'S COURSE TRUE ENOUGH, INCIDENTS like the one in which Larry Goldstein was involved occur every day. The practice has been to brush them off until Mrs. Goldstein came along Look, Mr. Zilch, her few words challenged the millions. It was like asking everybody; How are you bringing up your children? Is it for the good of America that the kids go on carrying this evil inheritance of prejudice and hate? Maybe it would be finely fit- ting for the Hebrew Union Col- lege to include Mrs. Goldstein's letter among the treasures of its library; together with some au- thoritative response to her ques- tion: For what did her husband die? Something like this: It is good that you ask, Mrs. Goldstein. The reply must come from the consciences of the whole world—from the big people and the little ones; from statesmen who stumble toward new wars, from the neighbors whose mouths chew ancient hates which they feed also to their children; from all who at the moment forget what Maurice and all the others died for.