American Jewish Periodical Center
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Vol. 53—No. 1
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Friday, January 5, 1951
JNF, Marking
50th Birthday,
Pleads for Aid
10c a Copy — $3 Per Year
To Aid Defense
Davis, a career diplomat, began ceivably help us more by liking
bassador to Panama. Nothing is
A number of problems have to
known about his approach to
be faced by the new ambassador:
Near East affairs.
MacDonald had won the hearts the rehabilitation of the Arab
of all Israelis through his warm refugees in neighboring countries
interest in the Jewish state. Bnt and Israel's inability to stand
the fact that he was not a career more openly on the side of the
man seems to have hurt his mis- west against Russia.
sion rather than helped it. This It is well known that in re-
sentiment was expressed in an cent years, despite Mapain' s pro-
editorial in the Jerusalem Post Soviet policy, Israel has swung to
last summer: the west, although this had to
"It may be," the Post said, be done under the cover of neu-
"that Mr. MacDonald fought our trality. Israel would like to see
fight too well and another may the State Department appreciate
come in his place who may con- this position.
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Corporation
Set Up to Float
Israeli Bonds
NEW YORK—(Special)—For-
!nation was announced of the
American Financial and Devel-
opment Corporation for. Israel
which will handle the floating
of the Israeli bond issue in the
United States as well as sale of
the bonds.
Henry Montor has been named
executive officer of the new cor-
poration with headquarters at 2
Park avenue, New York City.
Montor stated that the bond
drive will get under way not
later than May 1, and that the
corporation would establish of-
fices in every major American
city. The amount of the issue
will be decided upon by the Am-
erican Jewish leaders at the Na-
tional Planning Conference in
ALBERT SHAPIRO, senior de-
tective inspector of the Police
Department, has been appoint-
ed by President Victor Bloom-
field to head the newly formed
civilian defense committee of
the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
Council. Through this commit-
tee, lodges will be contracted
for the purpose of registering
Bnai Brith members and their
friends for training as emerg-
ency police in case of war
only. The Police Department is
setting up traihing courses
whcili will be arranged to meet
the convenience of the volun-
October in WashinYton. They
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50 years' span will be the re-
deeming hand to win back the
soil for the tillers. The Jewish
people will share in this under-
taking, for the Fund is, and re-
mains, their instrument."
Syrian Attack
Stirs Israel
JERUSALEM—(WNS) — The
Israel cabinet considered last
week Premier David Ben Gur-
. ion's report on the security situa-
tion in Israel as Syrian troops
created a new incident by forc-
ing Israeli fisherman to abandon
their nets in Israel territorial
waters of Lake Tiberias. An
Israel protest went to the Israel-
Syrian Mixed Armistice Corn-
mission.
Meanwhile, according to Lon-
don reports, Egypt is extending
its maritime blockade of Israel to
include the Gulf of Akaba. The
London Daily Telegraph reported
that the Egyptians have mounted
a battery near the tip of the Sinai
Peninsula and are checking ships
entering the gulf.
Efforts of the Israel-Jordan
mixed survey commission to
settle ownership of the disputed
Eilath road, scene of a recent
Israel-Jordan clash, were blocked
when they learned that a small
area formerly in Jordan's pos-
session, actually belonged to
Israel.
At Amman, Jordan capital,
criticism of the Jordan-Israel
Armistice agreement signed at
Rhodes under United Nations
auspices, was voiced in the par-
liament. One deputy demanded
revocation of the armstice. Ac-
cording to the Arab newspaper
Adiffa, the parliament decided to
summon for questioning the Jor-
dan delegates who signed the
agreement.
IIETHLEHEM ROAD OPENED
JERUSALEM—(ISI)—The road
to Bethlehem was opened to pil-
grims on Christmas Eve for the
first time since the war.
bond issue, the United Jewish
Appeal and private investment.
JUDGES' SALARIES FIXED
JERUSALEM— (ISI) —Israel's
Supreme Court judges will re-
ceive the same salary as cabinet
ministers, according to a ruling
of the Knesset finance commit-
tee. The president of the Su-
preme Court will receive the
same stipend as the prime min-
ister.
TEL AVIV—(Special)--The new U. S. ambassador to
Israel will be Monnett B. Davis, whose appointment was
agreed to by the Israeli government last Wednesday. Davis
succeeds James G. MacDonald who has returned to this
country.
his service in 1917. He is now am- us less."
JERUSALEM—(WNS)—The Jewish National Fund cele-
brated its 50th anniversary with a manifesto calling on the
Jews of the world for continued and increased aid.
The jubilee occasion w
mark‘ed at the Knesset with an
address by Speaker Joseph Sprin-
zak, who lauded the accomplish-
ments of JNF.
The Manifesto reads in part:
"We remember in veneration
and respect the men who a half-
century ago had the wisdom and
foresight to give form to this
ideal. We remember those who
developed the Jewish National
Fund into a strong instrument of
Zionism. In its work, the Fund
brought, step by step, the ancient
soil again into Jewish hands and
thus, a new life. On JNF land, a
generation grew up that would
not abandon their estate, when
the great test came, and with it
the freedom of Israel.
"Today we recall the anxieties
of the past and the struggle
which lies behind us; we are
grateful for what has been
achieved and proud of those who
achieved it—yet only the work
which lies ahead will complete
our historic mission. •
"There is no task more
. _ noble
U. S. Appoints
Monnett Davis
Envoy to Israel
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Israel to Use U. S. Loan
for Farm Development
JERUSALEM—(WNS) — The
new $35,000,000 loan granted to
Israel by the Export-Import
Bank last week will be used
mainly for expansion of Israel's
agriculture and development of
natural resources.
Finance Minister Eliezer Kap-
lan told the Knesset that the gov-
ernment has earmarked $5,000,-
Anti-Bias Groups
Plan Own Drive
NEW YORK—(Special)--T h e
sum of $6,000,000 will be sought
b
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PORT EXPANSION SLATED
JERUSALEM — (ISI) —Antici-
pated increase in the volume of
cargo to and from Israel will
necessitate construction of a
deepwater port in the south as
well as maximum expansion of
existing harbor facilities at
Haifa and Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Dov
Joseph, minister of communica-
tions, stated.
n
Ttrith 4n rnrrif
on their work for 1951.
A drive for these funds will
begin Feb. 1. One half of the
amount will be raised in New
York City.
For the last four years the
groups have been largely sup-
ported by the United Jewish Ap-
peal of Greater New York but
this year the reduction of aid
from the UJA has necessitated
the separate campaign.
Woman, Once Abandoned As Baby
Rejoins Her Mother After 50 Years
LONDON—(WNS)—The adage that truth is stranger than
when a copy of the "Jewish Echo," published in Glasgow, arrived
story goes back to the
beginning of this century, when a
At the age of 15, her custo-
Jewish family of a small village dians arranged her engagement
in Poland migrated to England to a young man, as was the cus-
leaving behind, because of ill- tom in those days. At the age
ness, a baby girl of nine months of 16 she married a man 17 years
who in the course of years be- her senior. The couple settled
came the mother of six children. in Warsaw, where they led a
The years passed and the quiet happy family life and where
that the family enjoyed in the three sons and three daughters
village was pierced by the were added to the family.
marching feet of the Ifitlerites.
When Hitler marched on Po-
War came and pestilence and land in 1939, the Reichman fam-
death for Jews.
ily tried to escape to Russia. On
Like many of her tribe in the way to Russia her husband
Poland, the woman ran for safety and one of her sons died. Widow-
in Russia. In 1946 she was re- ed and heartbroken, Mrs. Reich-
patriated to Poland, escaped to man watched her brood in Russia
Germany and later reached Is- for three years.
rael on the famed "Exodus" ship.
When she and her children
She settled in Haifa and finally were repatriated to Poland in
went to a visit to England. where 1946, Mrs. Reichman decided
she found her mother, whom she there was no other shelter for
had not seen for close to five Jews than what was then Pales-
decades.
tine.
And she and her children be-
FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS
The woman, T. Reichman, told gan a trek that carried them
the "Jewish Echo" reporter that through the borders of Poland,
when her parents left for Eng- Czechoslovakia, Austria and Po-
land in 1900 they placed her in land until they reached the happy
in the custody of her grandmother moment when they embarked on
"for a couple of weeks," when, the "Exodus" for the promised
they hoped, she would recover land.
Time passed and three of her
and be brought to England.
But her condition worsened children were married off and
and, in the meantime, her grand- the little girl who was abandon-
mother died. Kind relatives of ed at the age of nine months
her father took her under cus- became a grandmother. One of
tody and raised her as if she her sons, the youngest, joined
the Israeli army, as did one of
were their own child.
Rokach Again
Tel Aviv
the American Jewish Cern- TEL .AVIV—(WNS)— A„
t3
jor in the Marine Corps.
000 for development of mineral
resources in the Negev. A new
company to exploit the Negev's
resources is now being establish-
ed.
The loan will also be used to
establish fertilizer plants.
Another use of the loan will
be to finance 2,500 new farms in
older settlements throughout the
country.
fiction was again demonstrated
here this week.
the daughters.
YEARNING FOR MOTHER
And then she was seized by an
irresistible yearning to see her
mother, who lived in Glasgow.
On the trip to see her mother,
Mrs. Reichman turned over in
her mind the chastisement she
would deliver to her mother for
abandoning her. At times, she
was so possessed by anger that
she feared the moment of meet-
ing.
But then she calmed down. She
realized that "the several weeks"
that she was to remain in Poland
had passed into a half century
of torment and horror for the
world , and her people.
She realized, too, that the
young mother who left Poland at
the age of thirty, healthy and
beautiful and hopeful, was now
a broken and old woman of 80.
And her anger subsided.
When she finally fell into her
mother's arms at Glasgow all
was forgotten. What thoughts
and emotions the mother of 80
and the mother of 50 shared in
the privacy of their home must be
left to the imagination.
Neighbors say they saw the two
sitting for hours over a table,
the old woman bent in contem-
plation like a Rembrandt figure
and the younger woman sitting
erect like a statue in anticipa-
tion.
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wing and religious parties last
week re-elected Israel Rokach as
mayor of Tel Aviv. Ile received
an absolute majority of the votes
cast by the new municipal coun-
cil.
The orthodox bloc and the Herut
were each assigned one deputy
mayor in the new administration.
Election of new administrations
in Jerusalem and Petach Tikvah
was delayed by deadlocks in the
inter-party coalition negotiations
made necessary by the failure of
any one party to achieve a ma-
jority in the recent municipal
elections.
S. Z. Women
Plan Affair for
Membership
The Sisterhood Shaarey Zedek
will hold a dessert luncheon at
1 p.m., Monday in the social hall,
honoring the culmination of its
membership drive, under the
chairmanship of Mesdames Kul-
man Sachse and Nathan Shur.
Mrs. Irving Lyons and Mrs.
Morris Klaus are in chargb of
luncheon arrangements.
A "Convention in Miniature,"
presenting a panoramic view of
the 1950 convention of the Na-
tional Women's League of the
United Synagogue of America,
recently held in Minneapolis, will
be presented by the delegates
with Mrs. Morris Adler, national
board member, acting as moder-
ator.
Those participating are Mes-
dames Harry Cohen, Aaron Fried-
man, Abe Katzman, Charles Rob-
inson, Morse Saulson, Leonard
Sidlow, Nathan Spevakow and
Louis Tatken.
Mrs. Louis Tatken, president,
announces that dues may be paid
at the door.
CAREER GUIDE TO ISRAEL
JERUSALEM— (ISI)—"Choos-
log a Career for Israel," a guide
to professions in Israel, has been
issued by the Office for Pro-
fessional Workers of the Zionist
Organization.