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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
`Buy a Brick' —JWV's Battleery
for Completition of It's New Home
By EUNICE MINTZ
lc BUY A BRICK."
That will be the slogan Detroit
Jewry will hear Sunday, March
26, when the Jewish War Vet-
erans stage a door-to-door cam-
paign in the Jewish community
to solicit funds to finish paying
for and furnishing their new
building on Petosky and Davi-
son.
The new JWV home, which is
combined with the Dexter Cen-
tel., is the first Jewish memorial
home of its type ever 'erected
in the United States.
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IN OTHER CITIES JWV has
converted homes and buildings,
but Detroit is the first city to
have a JWV building erected
, solely for that purpose.
The home will have a separate
memorial room to honor Michi-
gan's Jewish boys who were kill-
ed in action during World War
11. The room will have their pic-
tures, and plaques and scrolls on
the wall will tell their histories.
Some 300 Michigan Jewish boys
were killed in the last war.
The local JWV posts and aux-
iliaries are named in honor of
Detroit soldiers who were killed
in action. The Lt. Raymond Zuss-
man Post is named for a De-
troiter who was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
•
JWV, WHICH HAS a national
membership of 100,000, is the
oldest veteran organization in
the United States still in exist-
ence. Referred to as the "patriotic
voice of Jewry," the organiza-
tion is the only Jewish group
with an accredited lobbyist in
WaShington. JWV lobbies for leg-
islation beneficial not only to
veterans, but to Jews as a whole,
such as FEPC and civil rights.
The local JWV posts and aux-
iliaries do various types of work,
including aid for Israel. Once
when Israel needed small arms,
Detroit JWV members collected
so many that Israel sent them a
request to stop—they were send-
ing more than enough.
The auxiliaries do a great deal
of hospital work. They visit vet-
eran hospitals, donate gifts to
the patients, and, at Christmas
time, aid the Gentile veteran
groups in making Christmas more
pleasant for the hospitalized Gen-
tile veterans.
• • •
THE WOMEN'S auxiliaries na-
'tional projects include a $150,000
hospital wing in an Israeli hos-
pital and two scholarships at
Brandeis University.
The scholarships are non-sec-
Crum Fears
Renewal of
Hostilities
WASHINGTON— (WNS) —A
warning that "renewal of hos-
tilpities in Israel is imminent"
was sounded here by Bartley
Crum, former member of the An-
glo-American Committee of In-
quiry on Palestine.
Addressing the annual conven-
'ion of Bnai Brith Women's Su-
preme Council, Crum, who just
returned from Israel. asserted
that "ominous things" were brew-
ing and that it was no mere ac-
cident that our Ambassador to
Israel, James G. McDonald, had
been invited to the conference of
U. S. diplomats in the Near East.
" At the same time Crum lashed
out against Secretary of State
Dean Acheson's policy with re-
_ gard to shipment of arm.s to the
Arab states. He told the gather-
ing that he had heard rumors of
the arrival in Egypt of former
Nazi pilots who are to train Egyp-
tian flyers in the use and opera-
tion of British-supplied jet planes
for use against Israel in the
event of renewal of warfare.
Thursday, March 16, 1950
Jews in Red-Held Lands
Faced With Annihilation
ASBURY PARK—(WNS)—Over 2,500,000 Jews in Russia
and in the countries within the Soviet orbit are facing phys-
ical and spiritual annihiliation, it was reported here at the
conference of the national executive committee of the Jew-
ish Labor Committee.
Jacob Pat, executive secretary civilized world must be given
of the labor group, said the re- the opportunity to examine the
port was based on smuggled docu- plight of the Jews in the Soviet-
ments and first-hand accounts as dominated countries. We protest
well as on dispatches in Soviet with all the power at our com-
mand against the brutal inqui:t-
and satellite papers,
The survey disclosed that the tion which has been visited on the
estimated 2,500,000 Jews in Rus- surviving population of 2,500,000
sia, Poland, Rumania, Hungary Jews behind the Iron Curtain."
and Czechoslovakia were being
(The Yiddish newspapers ilk ))i
subjected to a "ruthless cam- New York City carried a reporT
paign aimed at eradicating "their that it had been learned from an
culture, language, literature, reli- "absolutely trustworthy source"
gion and national consciousness." that the Soviet government had
The report stated that "while closed down the last two Yiddish
for most of the people living un- schools for children in the Soviet
der the Soviet regime that reign Union.
means impoverishment, slavery
One of the schools was located
and moral degradation, for the in Vilna, with a registration of
Jews and the Jewish groups it 100 children and the other was
spells thorough spiritual annihila- at Kovno, with 90 children. Both
tion as well." adding that "the schools closed at the end of the
national liquidation of the Jew- school term in 1949 and they
ish populations in Communist- never reopened, thus bringing to
dominated countries is now pro- an end the chapter of Yiddish
ceeding with an iron hand." schools in the Soviet Union.)
WRITER LIQUIDATED
The report further disclosed
that "during 1949,. almost all Yid-
• •
dish literary figures, even though
they were members of the Com-
munist party, vanished," that re-
ligious activity was being "sys-
tematically destroyed" and that
NEW YORK—(WNS)---Reuben
emigration, to Israel or elsewhere,
Schreibman, vice-mayor of Jeru-
has been choked off.
Charging that of the liquidated salem on an Histadrut mission in
"cosmopolitans" last year about the United States, is now a citi-
—Photo by Etholman
two-thirds were Jews, the report zen of the Borough of Brooklyn.
Edward Robert MandelL six, the son of the late Pfc. Irving says that "the Communist line
famed throughout the world for
Myron Mandell, who was killed in action in Strasbourg, Ger-
was that Jews are landless, state-
less and are not an integral part its thriving Jewish community
many, is shown buying a brick from Norman L. Berkley, chairman
of the brick selling memorial board, Jewish War Veterans, The
of Russia and her people, and and for its inimitable baseball
proceeds go for the completion of the new JWV Memorial Home. that they are devoted to abstract team, the Dodgers.
•
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Jewish nationalism, which is bas-
The honor was conferred on the
tarian. in keeping with the tra- take part in many athletic ac- ically Jewish chauvinism."
Israeli dignitary at a ceremony
dition of the school, and the only tivities.
As the campaign against Jew at City Hall by Borough Presi-
The posts play an active role ish cosmopolitanism gained mo- dent Cashmore in the presence
non-scholastic stipulation is that
the recipient must be the daugh- in patriotic demonstrations, and mentum, the survey disclosed of high city officials and repre-
also work on fund raising drives signs of anti-Semitism were de- sentatives of various Jewish or-
ter of a veteran.
The auxiliaries also sponsor a and veteran hospital aid.
veloping, ganizations including leaders of
JWV members also take part
SPIRITUAL ANNIHILATION
DP camp milk fund. Last year
the Brooklyn section of the nista-
in
veteran
rehabilitation.
They
Concluding, the survey said drat.
they supplied milk for 50,000 DP
help needy veterans secure em- that "there is not a shred of
children in Africa.
A week before the ceremony,
One of the most important of ployment, and provide medical Jewish cultural life remaining re the borough president escorted
care
for
veterans
who
cannot
se-
maining"
in
Russia
today,
that
the auxiliaries projects is to
Shreibman to various government
"adopt" hospitals that have been cure it through other means. "all Jewish institutions and or-
ganizations, including the Yiddish buildings so as to familiarize the
When
a
veteran's
family
is
in
"forgotten" by other groups.
need of help, JWV steps in to and Jewish publishing houses, guest with the operations of the
• • •
have been liquidated," that "the Brooklyn municipality.
take care of them.
$
THESE VETERAN hospitals,
Schreibman said he gained
Russification of the Jewish popu-
usually isolated in location, re-
THIS TIME, Sunday, March 26, lation has been carried out with much from the tour and that he
ceive radios, recording machines, the tables will be turned--JWV an iron hand" and that "the 2,- would make practical application
movie projectors and other such members will be asking Detroit 000,000 in present-day Russia are of some of the things that had
expensive equipment all as gifts Jews to help them.
on the precipice of spiritual an- come to his attention.
Cashmore regretted that the
from the auxiliaries.
The JWV Memorial Home will nihilation."
In Poland, the report stated, visitor had been unable to see
Socially, the big JWV event be formally opened in the spring
each year is the military ball. —if Detroit's Jewry responds to the fate of the remaining tens of the Dodgers, one of Brooklyn's
The posts also sponsor movies the call and remembers to "Buy thousands of Jews is "insecurity. proudest institutions.
and
homelessness
and important speakers, and they a Brick."
loneliness,
forced assimilation."
The survey referred to Roman-
•• •
ian Jewish communal life as be-
ing "on the brink of physical and " C
•
material extinction" and in Hun- JERUSALEM — (Special) —
gary, it said. "we witness the Hundreds of passengers from all
complete national cultural de - parts of Israel arrived here on
NEW YORK— (WNS) —Saul Scholarship in the ninth annual struction as well as the physical March 3 on the first passenger
Herbert Sternberg. a 16-year-old science talent search among the impoverishment of Hungarian train from Tel Aviv since the end.
Jewish youth, was crowned last country's high school students.
of the Israeli-Arab war.
Picked over 2,245 entrants from
week as the nation's "top teen-
Freight trains between Jer-
Czechoslovakia, it concluded,
je I w nrt
age scientist" when he won the every state in the nation, young "the remaining Jewish population usalem and other parts of Israel
Westinghouse Grand Science Sternberg received a Westing- is in agony as their hopes for have been running for the past
house scholarship of $2,800.
survival in the country of origin six months.
He plans to attend Swarthmore have been shattered."
The station was gaily decorat-
College, where he will major in
ed. and Jerusalem's mayor,
LABOR PROTESTS
theoretical physics. At present he
The report was the basis for Daniel Astor, was on hand to
is a senior at the High School adoption of the following reso- greet the train.
of Music and Art, where he maj- lution by the Jewish Labor Com-
Rabbi Leon Frani will be in ors in music.
mittee executive:
A welcome gift for any occasion
Cincinnati during the week of
His father, William Sternberg.
"This horror -ridden situation is a subscription to the Jewish
March 18 to 23 attending the In- is a public school princnpal.
can no longer be tolerated. The ,Chronicle. Call WO. 1 1041.
stitute on Jewish Theology con-
Of the 25 other prize-winners,
voked at the Hebrew Union Col- 12 were Jews, among them Ger-
lege by the Central Conference
ald Feinberg, son of the noted
of American Rabbis.
Yiddish poet and journalist Leon
Rabbi Fram has written one Feinberg.
of the preliminary papers on the
' fundamental beliefs of modern
Jews which will be the basis of Israel Speeds Up Plans
HONG KONG— (WNS) —The mittee to conduct the drive has
discussion by the rabbis and lay- to Irrigate Negev
Jews of Hong Kong, for the first already been organized.
men who will represent Jewish
The Hong Kong Jewish Wo-
JERUSALEM— (ISI) —Pipe-
congregations from all parts of lines under construction in the time in 50 years, will conduct a men's Association, which sup-
fund-raising campaign for Israel's ports the Youth Aliyah here, re-
the United States and Canada.
south will bring 15 million cubic
The Institute on Theology is meters of water to the Negev institutions, at the suggestion of cently celebrated its rust anni-
versary in this 50-year old Jewish
one of several events scheduled this summer, Prime Minister the Keren Hayesod.
Despite the luke-warm recep- community.
for the celebration of the 75th David Ben Gurion told a delega-
Several members of the city
anniversary of the founding of tion from southern settlements. tion to aid the Jewish State,
Twenty-five of the 150 settle- prompted by the fact that many are considering investment possi-
the Hebrew' Union College, first
Jewish theological school to be ments to be established in 1950 British Jews refuse to have any- bilities in Israel and some young
thing to do with Israel, a com- people recently left for Israel.
will be built in the Negev.
established in America.
Jerusale m
of Brooklyn
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Jewish Boy from N. Y. W ins
Westinghouse Science Prize
Jerusalem Trains
Bac k
Tram to Attend
Theology Parley
-
Hong Kong Jews to Conduct
Campaign for Israeli Funds