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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
New Hope Offered Disease Victims
Youth League
Joins Fight on
Cerebral Palsy
By HAROLD S. COHEN
A S THE culmination of 10
AS
of intensive effort, the
Youth Education League has
achieved the first major mile-
stone in its program to bring aid
to victims of cerebral palsy in
Detroit.
With the presentation of a
check for $4,000 to the Detroit
Cerebral Palsy Society the way
has been cleared for the estab-
lishment of a Detroit Cerebral
Palsy Center for the treatment
and rehabilitation of victims of
this dread nerve disease.
For 15 years the Youth Educa-
tion League without fanfare or
glory has worked to provide
medical and educational facilities
for the underprivileged young
children of the city. In the course
of their daily labors the League's
ease workers came upon many
families in which one of the
members suffered from cerebral
palsy.
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Mrs. Eli Gross, president of the Youth Education League, presents
a check for $4,000 to Rudolph Leitman, president of the Detroit
Cerebral Palsy Society. The money will help establish the first
Detroit Cerebral Palsy Center, which will be opened on Feb. 1.
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tional therapist, a speech director
and a teacher to coordinate ac-
tivities.
In addition the 200 members of
the Youth Education League will
continue to back the work both
as case workers and ." as volun-
teers. within the center. All Jew-
ish cases will be financed by the
THESE VICTIMS, generally League if the families are unable
small children, were an intoler-
able burden and source of suffer-
ing to their families. The cost of
institutionalizing the children
was far beyond the financial abil-
ities of even middle class fami-
lies.
JERUSALEM — ,(WNS) —
It was not uncommon to see
Recognition
by the government
children, whose mental facilities
were perfectly normal, unable to of Israel as a religious com-
walk, talk, read or even hold a munity within the Jewish nation
was demanded in a resolution at
spoon.
The nature of the disease is the first "Hebrew-Christian Con-
such that the victim cannot con- gress," held here in camera for a
trol the motor nerves which di- full week.
Attended by Anglican Church
rect body movement.
Science has not discovered how representatives, the Congress
- to control or cure the malady, opened with a solemn mass con-
but it has found that, by train- ducted in Hebrew, English and
ing, patients with normal intel- Yiddish.
ligence can be taught to control
Among the other resolutions
the spasmatic action of their was one calling on all foreign
muscles and often can take their missionaries to leave the country
normal place in society.
and to let the Hebrew-Christian
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Church alone to operate in
TOUCHED AND alarmed by Israel.
The gathering also voted es-
the number of cerebral palsy
cases, the Youth Education tablishment of a committee to
League in cooperation with the speed the election of Rabbi Ben-
C.P. Society, headed by Rudolph zion, former Bulgarian chief
Leitman, began work on estab- rabbi who recently has been
lishing the clinic.
preaching inclusion of Christian
The C.P. Center is expected to doctrine in Jewish ritual, as
open its doors on Feb. 1. It will bishop of the Hebrew-Christian
handle 20 in-patients and 30 out- Church.
patients on a five day a week
Benzion's name came to fore
basis. A panel of doctors will some weeks ago, when it was
examine every patient admitted reported the Israeli rabbinate
and decide on the best course of pronounced him insane and de-
treatment.
prived him of rabbinic authority
Professional workers, headed after it was learned he publicly
by Tom Coleman, Jr., well know preached Christian doctrines.
expert on teaching the handi-
The 70-year-old former rabbi
capped, will staff the center. survived the Nazi occupation of
Among them will be an occupa- Bulgaria. Later he settled in
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to pay.
Headed by Mrs. Eli Gross,
president, and Mrs. Robert Lewis-
ton, the League is determined
that these afflicted will not be
deserted and that eventually the
new Cerebral Palsy Center will
grow until it embraces the needs
of the entire population of De-
troit.
Hebrew-Christian Congress
Ask Recognition by Israel
Israel, where he began practic-
ing his rabbinic profession.
One day he suddenly stunned
his congregation with a plea for
the inclusion of Jesus in Juda-
ism. The matter was brought to
the attention of the Israel rab-
binate after Benzion continued
preaching Christianity.
An investigation and hearing
conducted by the rabbinate led
to a pronouncement that Benzion
was not of sound mind and to a
decision revoking his rabbinic
rights and prerogatives.
Friday, December 29, 1950
Interfaith Gold Medal Award
Presented to Herbert Swope
NEW YORK — (WNS) —Her-
bert Bayard Swope, noted jour-
nalist and former executive edi-
tor of The World, received the
1950 gold medal award of Inter-
faith in Action at a dinner ten-
dered here in his honor.
The function was attended by
1,500 notables of all faiths. The
presentation of the award, given
Swope for his "notable achieve-
ments in fostering interfaith and
interracial understanding," was
made by Bernard M. Baruch.
Swope's long list of accomp-
lishments include activities as a
Pulitzer Prize journalist: consult-
ant to the Secretary of War in
Warld War II; former associate
representative on the United
Nations Atomic Energy Corn-
mission; assistant to Baruch as
chairman of the War Industries
Board in World War I; and ad-
viser to the late Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Alfred E. Smith.
The basic theme of all speak-
ers was the need for real and
expanding interfaith and inter-
racial understanding at a time
when the cataclysm of a third
world war is threatening man-
kind.
Bernard M. Baruch, on making
the presentation, declared that
America was facing perhaps its
most serious crisis in history but
he was convinced. he said, that
American production and skill
will turn the tide in our favor
even as it has done it befoie.
A similar note was struck by
former Secretary of War Robert
P. Patterson, who asserted the
chances were even for Russia
to attack us this year. He called
upon the American people to
set aside all differences and join
ranks in facing the peril, adding
that "if there ever was a time
when the unity of all people who
believe in freedom was of vital
importance, that time is now."
Responding to the tributes,
Swope emphasized that "never
before did this country, or did
the world, need to fight against !
MODERN DANCING .
Registrations are now being ac-
cepted at the Northwest Exten-
sion of the Jewish Center, 18677
Livernois, for the new term of
modern dance instruction for
JERUSALEM— (WNS) —The
children 6-12. For information, hills of Zion reverberated with
call Mrs. Leona Sarasohn, DI. painful memories, as thousands
1-2130.
of Israelis bowed in mournful
prayer to honor their 6,000,000
CHAIN OF WELLS FOR NEGEV brethren who were slaughtered
JERUSALEM — (ISI)—Search at the hands of the Nazis.
for water in the Negev, Israel's
Services, arranged by the min-
southern territory, has yielded istry of religion, were held on
considerable results and a chain the Fast of the Tenth Day of
of wells from Elath to Ein Hus- Tebet, commemorating the first
sub will be completed at the seige of Jerusalem.
end of the winter, the Negev
On Mt. Zion, where Chief
Commission revealed.
Rabbi Herzog and leaders of the
immigrant c a nip s assembled,
The deadline of the Jewish hundreds of objects fashioned by
Chronicle is noon on Tuesdays. the Nazis from the scrolls of the
intolerance as now" and that
"never was there such a need to
arm against bigotry as now."
Continuing he said: "Now our
American institutions are under
attack by those who would beat
down the very spirit of our be-
liefs. They use intolerance and
bigotry as weapons. We must
fight again for the rights that
have made us great. And the
threat within our borders is
timed to help the depredations of
those without. They fire upon our
sense of justice, and seek to
create enmity between ourselves
and between creeds."
Proceeds of the dinner, it was
announced by Arthur II. Konvitz,
executive director of Interfaith in
Action, will go to the committee's
campaign for a $1,000,000 fund
for an4nterfaith community cen-
ter atFthe northwest corner of
Seventh Avenue and 40th Street,
the sit of which has already been
purchased for $500,000 of the
fund's money.
Omaha Federation
to Publish Paper
OMAHA — (WNS) — David
Blacker, publisher of The Jewish
Press, Anglo-Jewish weekly, an-
nounced here that rising costs of
operation and difficulties in se-
curing advertisements have com-
pelled him to abandon his 23-
year old enterprise.
In a statement, Blacker assert-
ed that it was impossible for him
to continue publishing the paper
without sustaining more losses
than he can afford.
At the same time he disclosed
that the Welfare Federation, out
of recognition of the importance
of The Jewish Press and the role
it played in the Jewish commun-
ity, had undertaken to take over
and continue the publication.
A welcome gift for any occa-
sion Is a subscription to the Jew-
ish Chronicle. Call WO. 1-1040.
Israelis Bow Heads in Prayer
for 6,000,000 Victims of Nazis
law, were brought out. Rabbi
Herzog and his retinue covered
themselves with the ashes of the
dead, ashes taken from a furnace
which symbolized the destruction
of the 6,000,000.
Hymns composed in the ghet-
tos of Europe at death's door
were chanted by the chief rabbi
and his followers. Entering a
"Cellar of Anguish," the partici-
pants lit a specially-constructed
31-branch Menorah, each branch
representing a Nazi extermina-
tion camp. By nightfall, 70 ser-
vices had been held throughout
the Holy Land.
linai Moshe Dedicates 100 Children to Learning
"Dedication to Jewish Learning" is the ceremony participated in by the above
100 students, ages 4 to 6, on Friday, Dec. 22 at the Bnai Moshe Religious School.
The youngsters presented a program on "Beauty in Jewish Life" with emphasis
in the Sabbath. Soloists among the youngsters in the program were Leah Glass-
man and Paul Levi. The school glee club under the direction of Harry Siegal ren-
dered the musical background. Shown with the children are, back row from left
to right, Basha Schwartz, Walter Farber, director, Rabbi Moses Lehrman, Rosal-
ind Ribiat and Shirley Shoenig.