American ffewisk Periodical Center oll rage 12 CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 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. • • • 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. • 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 • • • 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 • • 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.