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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Thursday. June I. 1950

Prominent Speakers Spark Allied Jewish Campaign

Veep Sees Israel as Symbol
of Freedom, Born of Tragedy

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llonnred at Dinner

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"The flickering life of the new where to get away. Some wanted
Jewish state must be fanned into to come to the U.S. but a great
a emote:. flame," Vice-President majority wanted to go to Pale:s.
Alben W. Barkley told diners at tine. It was their theme song,
Franklin Hills Country Club, their homeland, Palestine."
Pledges announced by diners
Wednesday evening, play 31.
Israel is a symbol of the free who responded to Vice-President
world, born out of the ashes of Barkley's message brouglit the
tragedy and the suffering of 2,000 total raised to date in Detroit's
years, the Vice-President told Allied Jewish Campaign close to
members of the Detroit commun- $4,000,000.
The campaign benefits the Jew-
ity's country and city clubs who
honored him for his services to ish community's 45 major local
the United Jewish Appeal, major and national services, as well as
beneficiary of Detroit's Allied the United Jewish Appeal which
supports the emigration and ab-
Jewish Campaign.
Expressing his elation that the sorption of refugees in Israel
United States and the other ma- and the United States.
jor Western powers have at last
consented to sell arms for Israel's
ALBEN W. BARKLEY, vice-
defense, Barkley continued, It
president of the United States,
should be our proud boast that
who told the community's city
we have so dependable a friend
and country clubs of the mir-
as Ism el in this area—a friend
acle of Israel. The following
we can depend upon to carry on Masada members will hear the
clubs co-operated to sponsor
the noblest ideals of democracy pros and cons of the suggested the
Vice-President's
visit:
and human self-respect." merger of the group with the
Knollwood
Country
Club,
Terming Israel, "A miracle of Zionist Organization of Detroit
James I. Ellmann, president;
modern history for the rehabilita- at the election meeting to be held
Franklin Hills Country Club,
thin of .3( ws in Europe and other at &30 p.m., Thursday, June 8
Robert J. Newman, president;
distressed areas," the Vice-Presi- at Shaarey Zedek.
Standard Club, Milton M. Mad-
Following
the
disbandment
of
dent reminded his listeners that
din, president; Great Lakes
the new state needs help, eco- the national organization in No-
Club, Leo I. Franklim," presi-
nomie, voluntary help, because it vember, the Detroit group en- dent, and Downtowh Club,
cannot yet provide all its own tered into negotiations with the
Louis Alper, president.
needs—greater cultivation of the ZOD and affiliation has been ,
proposed.
The
issue
will
be
'
land. more housing, schools and
voted upon at the meeting.
A welcome gift for any occasion
hospitals.
Also on the agenda will be the is a subscription to the Jewish
A visit to Europe a year and a
Chronicle, Call WO. 1-1041.
half ago, Barkley related, made election of the Masada board.
The nominating committee has
him realize the significance of the
tragedy of those who were in- drawn up a slate, but any mem-
carcerated in Hitler's hell on ber wishing to run should pre-
earth. lie saw Buchenwald and sent a petition bearing 25 names
Dachau, the gas chambers, the of members to Bill Fitzerman,
infernov...and the incinerators. He chairman of the nominating
saw men, women and children committee, TY. 5-4754, on or be-
moving along the highways of fore June 6.
Nomination will also be accept-
Europe.
"They were pushing carts; they ed from the floor. The group's
were on their way somewhere installation affair will be held
but not knowing where—just any- I June 25 at the Jewish Center.

Masada to Vote
on ZOD Tie-Up

Allied Campaign
Women
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to Cap Activities with Picnic

As the Allied Jewish Campaign came in to help process the
draws to a close for the women pledges.
• • •
of Deli oit, the Women's Division
Women's Division Campaigners
of the Jewish Welfare Federation will cap their past two month's
has raised over $500,000 and cov- activities for the Allied Jewish
Campaign with an old-fashioned
ered 17,000 prospects.
picnic party on-Wednesday, June
Typical of the job well done in 14, at Franklin Hills Country
the 1950 Campaign is the work Club, Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner,
of two women, Mrs. Alex Olen president of the Women's Divi-
and Mrs. Herman Rafelson, who sion of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
headed the east side division call- eration announced.
ed upon to cover slips in a 64-
Mrs. Harry L. Jones, a vice-
square mile area.
president of the Women's Divi-
Not only did their team of sion, and Mrs. Herschel V. Kreger
workers do an excellent job of will handle all program arrange-
coverage, but they brought in ments for the day. Mrs. Tobias
Garon is in charge of the buffet
large amounts of new money.
The same can be said of Mrs. luncheon.
Maxwell Jospey's division which
was assigned the suburban areas
north of Detroit—Ferndale and
Huntington Woods, etc.
The division credited with the ,,,,,Rabbi Israel Halpern of Con-
best all-round coverage in the greg6tion Beth Abraham; Rabbi
Women's Division was headed by Max Kapustin, director of the
a newcomer to campaign leader- Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at
ship, Mrs. Morris Marks.
Wayne University; Rabbi Samuel
Her division, embracing actual- H. Prero of Young Israel of De-
ly two divisions, had the largest troit, and Rabbi Max J. Wohl-
number of slips assigned to it and gelernter of Congregation Mogen
did a tremendous job of follow-up Abraham, will participate in the
on the countless numbers of pros- annual convention of the Rabbin-
pects who had moved to other ical Council of America to be held
parts of the city.
in Chicago starting June 12.
The primary purpose of the
Aiding Mrs. Marks in this job,
were her two secretaries, Mrs. meeting will be to devise means
Harry Metzger and Mrs. David of preserving traditional Judaism
in this country and to strength-
Zack.
Two women volunteers who en the religious adherences of
have worked practically a 40- Jews to orthodoxy.
hour week since the campaign
began two months ago, are Mrs.
Nathan H. Schermer and Mrs.
Carl Wois, who were responsible
Last week's issue misspelled
for the assignment of 17,500 slips.
the name of Mrs. Marian Yam-
Not only did they work full
shon, 15835 Ward Ave., in an ad
time getting each of these slips
fOr piano instruction. We re-
into the right. worker's kit, but
get this error.
after completing this job they

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"It is 1933 again for the Jews
in the Middle East," Dr. Ruth
Gruber warned workers and con-
tributors of the Allied Jewish
Campaign at a rededication rally
at Northwest Hebrew Congrega-
tion, May 23.
"Today the Jews of Iraq, of
Yemen, of all the Arab countries
in the Middle East are running
for their lives to Israel," the noted
foreign correspondent declared,
"We must save these refugees
from Arab terror."
Praising Detroit's record for
meeting its community respon-
sibilities, Miss Gruber declared,
"The Jews of America who, by
their work or by their money,
have taken part in the job of
saving lives have been briAlied
by greatness. For a few months
or a few years, they have be-
come men And women of des-
tiny."
"You do not hear about the
pogroms, the killings, the house-
burnings that -take place in Iraq,
because of the strict censorship,"
she told her overflow audience.
"Even in America I cannot write
about them, because more house-
burnings would result."
Miss Gruber described her visit
to prifnitive Yemen where Jews
had lived under conditions of in-
credible degradation for 2,000
years.
"It was like going back into
the pages of Genesis or Exodus.

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I met Jews who might have been
Abraham's brothers. They were
fleeing at night over the moun-
tains and the deserts to the Brit.
ish protectorate at Aden where
we had a camp and an airfield.
"They were emaciated and sick,
without milk for the babies, with
hardly any wafee "iir food. At
every Arab sheikdom they passed
through, they had to pay head
tax, not only on every person and
babe in arms but -on every one
of their treasured Bible scrolls,
"In the airplane flying up the
Red Sea to Israel, I sat next to
an old man. I asked him, "Have
you ever seen a plane before?"
'No.' Aren't you frightened?'
"'Frightened,' he answered,
'Why should I be? This is all fore-
told in the Bible.' Isaiah wrote,
But they that wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength; they
shall mount up with wings as
eagles.'
"Then the old man turned and
smiled at me, But he didn't say
they would be American eagles'."

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Dr. Alwyn Vernon Freeman of
Chicago boulevard, has arrived in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dr. Free-
man is the U. S. representative to
t h e Inter - American Juridical
Committee, Council of Jurists Or-
ganization. Its members, repro-
senting 21 countries, are meting
in Rio de Janeiro.

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