Thursday, January 5, 1950
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Page 3
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Shekel Drive Aims at Domination of Israel
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THE SHEKEL CAMPAIGN for the forthcoming
World Zionist is in full swing: The various Zionist
parties are competing with each other in a supreme
effort to obtain a majority of dele-
gates when the representatives of the
World Zionist movement will meet
this summer, probably in Jerusalem.
Although the goal of Zionism has
been achieved the Zionist parties are
fighting to obtain a majority at the
Zionist Congress.
This great ado about party
strength at the Congress does not
make sense. Israeli party politics is
supposedly restricted to Israel.
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We, on the outside of the Jewish
State, are not supposed to run or even try to Influence
Israeli domestic politics...
And yet that is exactly what the Shekel campaign
is attempting to do.
The danger of building up political strength in the
Zionist movement instead of in Israel cannot be mini-
mized. The Shekel campaign should have been en-
tirely dissociated from the political party life in Israel.
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• •
The Jewish community of De-
troit has been treated to some-
thing different in the way of
Yiddish drama with the presenta-
tion of "Anna Lucasta," Jan. 1
and 2 at Mitsice Hall.
Performed by an excellent cast,
under the expert direction of
Oscar Ostroff, the play stuck
close to the English version, both
in plot and spirit.
The sensitive performances of
Miriam Kressyn as "Anna" and
of "Frank" by Abe Lax were
outstanding.
OVERACTED CLIMAXES
If there was any flaw it was
certainly the attempt of the cast
to wring every ounce of dramatic
value from each scene. At times
this led to overacted climaxes.
•The anomaly of translating
English works into Yiddish is
that American speaking audi-
ences can see the same work in
English, while the Yiddish speak-
ing group may view with alarm a
work that has neither bearded
hero nor a Friday Eve candle
lighting scene.
Nevertheless, the audience at
"Anita Lucasta" was liberally
sprinkled with young people.
Law Fraternity
Honors Silver
Delegates' Parley
Called by Council
Zionists Set Final
Z-Day Briefings
A final Z-Day briefing for the
captains and workers will be held
Thursday evening, Jan. 5, at the
home of Rabbi and Mrs. Moses
Lehrman. it was announced by
Ben Weiss, chairman.
The Z-Day breakfast will be
held at 10 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 8, at
the Mayfair Hotel. Principal
speaker will be Rabbi Leon I.
Feuer of Toledo.
Z-Day, Jan. 8, will be the start
of the membership mobilization
drive of the Zionist Organization
of Detroit.
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. JEWISH LIFE IN THE next fifty years will un-
`Anna Lucasta' Gives Detroit
New Type of Yiddish Drama
•NEW YORK — (WNS) —The
Cardozo Award, given annually
by ale Tau Epsilon Rho national
law fraternity to an individual
who has made an outstanding
contribution to the American
way of life, was presented here
this week to Rabbi Abba H.
Silver.
The award was delivered to
Dr. Silver at a dinner marking
the 13th annual convention of
the fraternity. Rabbi Silver
spoke of the role of American
Jewery In bringing about the
realization of Israel.
He said that without the assist-
ance of America the state of
Israel would not have been es-
tablished.
At the same time he stressed
that there was still much that
American Jews must do to help
the new state.
Speaking of the significance of
rael, Dr. Silver said the exist-
.nce of the state of Israel will
"tend to normalize Jewish life
everywhere" and will lead to the
gradual disappearance from Jew-
ish consciousness the exile
concept.
•
WE MET JEANNE JABOTINSKY, wife of Vladi-
mir, a number of times after her husband's death. She
lived very simply and until the very last phase of the
illness which finally struck her down two weeks ago,
she was a beautiful woman and a grand lady. She
dressed simply but she had the distinction of a genuine
aristocrat.
Jeanne Jabotinsky passed on quietly, happy that
her son Erie would carry on his father's work.
We did not agree with Jabotinsky's political views
but we respected him and his family for their sincer-
ity and devotion. The Jabotinskys believed in the
philosophy of simple living and high thinking.
A Great Artist
Community Council delegates
and officers of affiliated organ-
izations were notified that the
next Council Delegates' Assem-
bly will be held at 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 26, at the Jewish
Center.
While the complete agenda has
not been announced, there will
be reports and discussions of sev-
eral activities in which the Coun-
cil and its standing committees
have been involved.
B. B. Chapter Sets
Talk on Prejudice
The anti-defamation league of
the discussion group of the Henry
Morgenthau Chapter of Bnai
Brith will meet at 8:30 p.m.,
Thursday. Jan. 12, at the home of
Mrs. Anne Talon, 3358 Lawrence
avenue.
The guest speaker will be Mrs.
Vivian Puhek, instructor and su-
pervisor in elementary education
at Wayne University.
She will lead a discussion on
"Is Prejudice Poisoning 0 u r
Children?"
GOLDMANN OFF TO ISRAEL
NEW YORK — Special) — Dr.
Nahum Goldmann, :hairmari of
the American ection of the Jew-
ish Agency, sailed for Israel to
attend the session of the Jewish
Agency executive.
SHOE FACTORY FOR ISRAEL
TEL AVIV—(ISI) —C laude
Sweeney, American shoe manu-
facturer. is on his way to Israel
to open a modern shoe factory
which will produce 2,000 pairs
daily. The plant will cost $1,-
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All Arabs Get
Is 'Lip Service'
LONDON — (SPECIAL) —
Musa El Alami. former member
of the Palestine Arab Higher
Committee, disclosed here that
he had not been able to obtain
foreign currency to buy machin-
ery for the construction of mod-
ern villages for refugees in Arab
Palestine.
He complained that the sym-
pathy expressed for the Arab
refugees was only "lip service."
El Alami is president of the
Society of the Arab Development
Scheme in. Jericho.
ORIGINAL WORKS NEEDED
Curiosity may have prompted
the majority of them to attend.
The greatest hope for a Yid-
dish theater is the presentation
of original Yiddish works which
are not available in translation.
If Gerald Taines brings that
type of work to Detroit, presented
as skillfully as was "Anna Lu-
casta," there is still hope for a
vital Yiddish theater.
H.C.
doubtedly undergo many changes. The first half of the
20th century witnessed almost fantastic transforma-
tions in the Jewish panorma.
Not only did Herzl's prophecy of a Jewish home-
land become a reality. The very centers of Jewish life
in Europe were destroyed.
America emerged as the largest Jewish commun-
ity in the world.
What type of nationalism will emerge in Israel?
Will Judaism as a specific form of life survive in the
diaspora?
We all know that our future as Jews is inextric-
ably interrelated with the developments that may
shake the rest of the world.
There is a firm conviction among the Jews of the
world that Israel will not only survive but will emerge
as one of the most advanced states.
Jews hope that we will not repeat the evils of
chauvinistic nationalism but that Israel will create a
new type of nationalism.
JERUSALEM BUDGET
MAURICE SCHWARTZ
• • •
Yiddish Troupe
to Play `Yosele'
JERUSALEM — (ISI) —Jeru-
salem has asked the ministry of
the interior for a budget of
3,303,841 pounds.
Maurice Schwartz' Yiddish Art
Theater will present two per-
formances' of Sholem Aleichem's
"Yosele, the Nightingale" on
Sunday, Jan. 15, at the Shubert-
Lafayette Theater.
Schwartz will play the role of
the choir master. The cast in-
cludes such actors as Berta Ger-
stin, Ola Shlifko, Gustave Ber-
ger. Lucy Gehrinan, Charlotte
Goldstein, Anatole Winogradoff
and the French-Yiddish actor
Moshe Zamar who 'will portray
the title •role.
The music for "Yosele" was
written by Sholem Secunda, and
the choreography was done by
Belle Didjah.
The play has as its background
the Ukraine at the end of the
19th century. It tells the story
of a young singer torn between
his love of his childhood sweet-
heart and a siren, while his car-
eer suffers.
Into this triangle conies the
affable choir master who does
his best to play cupid and shape
the lives of the youth and his
loves.
BEST
A Briton Looks
at Dr. Weizman,'
LONDON—(Special) —Critic,
the famous columnist of the
London New Statesman and
Nation, recently told in one of
his columns about his perpara-
tions for the Wcizmann dinner.
Since formal dress was re-
quired, he had to see his tailor.
He got to talk with him.
"A wonderful man, Weis-
mann," I said.
"Yes," he said dubiously and
then brightening up, "he cer-
tainly seems to have kept the
Jews quiet lately."
"This surely is a remark of a
classical perfection," C. r it lc
adds. "destined I feel sure, as a
political commentary, to outlast
'Niggers begin at Calais'."
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