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Vol. 53—No. 4
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Friday, January 26, 1951
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JWF Allocates 72 Pet.
Of Funds to Overseas
Continuing to recognize the emergency situation of the Jews of Europe and Israel,
board of governors of the Jewish Welfare Federation has voted an allocation of 72 per
cent of the 1950 Allied Jewish Campaign fur -
Lis to overseas and Israel agencies, Samuel H.
Rubiner, Federation president, announced, upon completion of budgeting this week. Largest
overseas beneficiary is the United Jewish Appeal.
the
. Second largest allocation, ac-
cording to location of agencies,
went to local Jewish social serv-
ice agencies for operating costs,
while -an addition 2.9 per cent
was granted for capital funds in
Detroit. The national services re-
ceived 3.6 per cent of the $4,158,-
151 total .available for allocations.
Allocations were made in accord-
ance with the 1950 pre-campaign
budgeting conference formulas.
In giving primary consideration
to overseas needs, the board al-
located an additional 7.5 per
cent (included in local services)
to Resettlement Service, which
operates in Detroit to provide
adjustment aids to newcomers
from Europe.
Among local services, educa-
tional and cultural programs —
Jewish schools — showed the
greatest gain, receiving an in-
crease of 12.5 per cent, although
there was actually a decrease of
12 per cent in funds. The Detroit
community this year allocated
$207,351, or 28 per cent of the Dr. 4 Joseph J. Schwartz (left), executive vice-chairman of the
total local operating budget, to United Jewish Appeal, spoke at a special budget hearing here
the United Hebrew Schools, last week. With Dr. Schwartz is Joseph Holtzman (center) and
'Midrasha, United Jewish Folk
Abe Kasle.
School, .United Jewish High
School, Workmen's Circle Schools Allied Jewish Campaign • bene- committee, bpaded by Julian H.
and Yeshivath Beth Yehudah's ficiaries.
Krolik, budg •ted overseas funds.
fte•rnoon'prograrn.
Members of the thtee budget
Milton 'R. Mahler served as
Twenty-two percent of all the and planning divisions considered chairman of he health and wel-
allocations to local and national the budgets of the agencies in- fare division.
agencies, or $157,849, went to cluded in their area of service—
In the educational and cultural
community relations services. The and it was their recommenda- division, Henry Meyers w a s
Jewish Community Council is the tions that were submitted to the chairman.
single local beneficiary in this board of governors for final ap-
Morris Garvett is chairman of
field of service.
proval. The Federation executive the community relations division.
Fifty-six Jewish local, nlitional
and overseas agencies were in-
cluded in the total list of 1950
Jordan Names
Guardian for
Holy Places
JERUSALEM— (WNS) —Anti-
cipating the possible appointment
of a United Nations commissioner
for the holy sites in Jerusalem,
the Jordan government appoint-
ed Ragheb Nashashibi as "Su-
preme Guardian of the Holy
Places" in the hope that the fait
accompli will thwart United Na-
tions efforts toward securing in-
ternational administration of the
sacred areas.
Nashashibi, former mayor of
Jerusalem, is a member without
portfolio in the Amman cabinet.
The sudden move has brought
sharp reaction in Catholic
circles, who consider the action
a violation of the status quo.
Simultaneously Israeli spokesmen
pointed out that the proclamation
appointing a guardian over the
holy sites appeared to include the
Wailing Wall and other Jewish
holy places.
Present at the ceremony, where
the proclamation was issued, were
diplomatic representatives of the
United States, Great Britain, Tur-
key, Greece and the Netherlands.
The diplomatic representatives
of the Catholic countries declined
the invitation while none was
sent to the consuls of Czecho-
slavakia, Poland and Yugoslavia.
TB IN ISRAEL
JERUSALEM— (ISI) — Israel's
ministry of health has tested
350,000 persons during the past
year to determine their suscepti-
bility to tuberculosis. Of these
315,000 were Jews and 35,000
Arabs, and 177,000 persons not
naturally immune were innocu-
hated against the disease.
N. Y. Extends
Welcome to
Rabbi Maimon
NEW YORK — (Special) — Rabbi Judah L. Mainion,
Israeli minister of religion, who arrived in New York Tues-
day, was officially greeted by the city's mayor, Vincent
Impelliteri, in the council chambers of City Hall.
Speaking before an audience of
'250 rabbis and members of Miz- country on a speaking
engage-
rachi, the mayor
ment. He will be in Detroit on
drew attention
Feb. 18.
to the similarity
• •
between the
democratic con-
cepts of America
and Israel.
He noted that
Rabbi Maimon
had been con-
NEW YORK — (WNS) A
demned to death
statement
criticizing Dr. Nelson
in 1913 for his
Glueck, president of the Hebrew
Zionist activities
Malmon
Union College—Jewish Institute
in Palestine, but had been saved of Religion, for refusing to par-
by the intervention of the late ticipate in a Cincinnati function
Henry Morgenthau, Sr., former in honor
of Israel's minister of
ambassador to Turkey.
religion, Judah L. Maimon, was
Replying in Hebrew, the 75- issued by Dr. Pinkos Churgin,
year-old minister stated that the president of the Mizrachi Organ-
"foundations of law which sus- ization of America.
tain both Israel and America are
Dr. Glueck and a number of
constructed on the fundamental
principles of freedom and com- other reform leaders declined
plete equality for all their in- invitations to the function on the
habitants and for all the religious alleged ground of discrimination
faiths which flourish within their by the Ministry of Religion
against the reform movement in
borders."
Israel.
Maimon invited Impelliteri to
Churgin pointed out that,
visit Israel and to see this land as Dr.
a member of the Israel cab-
"which has been desolate for
thousands of years and which is inet, Rabbi Maimon "at the very
least deserves the same de jure
now beginning to bloom at the
hands of an ancient people once recognition which these reform
religious leaders accord to non-
again restored to its youth."
religious or even anti-religious
Rabbi Maimon will tour tie ministers from Israel,
Mizrachi Raps
Mann
'
Slight
U of M to Eliminate Questions
onRace 9 Color, Creed,. Origin
of
The recent decision
versity of Michigan to
the Uni.- crimination 'thou
elimin
from admission forms all que
o campus groups at the U
tions of 'potentially' discrimina-
of M have been working for
tory nature was hailed by Sam
Goldfarb, chairman of the Mich- some time to eliminate questions
igan regional advisory board for from the admissions forms per-
the Anti-Defamation League of taining to race, color, creed, na-
Bnai Brith, as an important step. tional origin and photograph.
A deans committee appointed
In a letter to Dr. Alexander G by Provost Adams studied cer-
Ruthven, president of the uni- tain current practices and pro-
versity, Goldfarb explained that cedures in the admission of stu-
in commending the university dents.
for its new policy, he was not
Most of the recommendations
intimating in any way that it passed at the Educators Con-
had maintained a discriminatory ference concerning admissions
policy, but simply felt that
blanks were adopted by the com-
elimination of potentially dis-
WASHINGTON—(WNS)—A five-year expansion program in criminatory questions did set up mittee. The committee requested
Israel, envisaging an expenditure of $250,000,000 and providing live- a partial safeguard against dis- removal of potentially discrim-
inatory questions "as a contribu-
lihood for 250,000 families, was adopted here at the golden jubilee
tion to the general drive to end
conference of the Jewish National Fund of America.
discrimination."
Adoption of the program fol-G
Modern Methods
lowed presentation of a blue-
One unclear aspect of the com-
print of activities by Dr. Abra- one of the surest avenues to Is-
mittee's report was the special
rael's swift consolidation."
ham Granott, world president of
consideration shown to the U of
Benjamin G. Browdy, president
the organization, who asserted
M medical school, whereby the
of the Zionist Organization of
that the objective was to restore
committee recognized that the
America, urged U. S. grants-in-
medical school had "special"
fertility to Israel's soil and to
TEL AVIV— (ZOA) —The problems.,
enable the young state to become aid to Israel for " its defenses as
well as for its economic devel- number of beehives in Israel
self-sustaining in food produc- opment."
Each unit of the university is
is to be doubled by the acquisi-
tion.
The significance of Zionism and tion from the United States of now left to implement the recom-
The agriculture, water devel- Jewish statehood was the theme
mendations of the deans com-
opment and reclamation projects, of an address by Dr. Naham 30,000 hives, complete with mittee.
he stated, would cost about $250,- Goldmann, chairman of t h e modern equipment. The hives
000,000, adding that most of the American section of the Jewish will be purchased with funds
allocated for the purpose from
money was expected to be raised
in this country. The program Agency. He asserted that Zion- the Export-Import Bank loan
ism "was always meant to be to Israel.
call for the establishmek of
more than another nationalist
Agriculture has not yet re-
50,000 farms and some 500 vil- movement out to create a state"
lagee and irrigation of the Negev and that it was in fact "a great covered from the loss of a large
number of swarms during Is-
NEW YORK — (WNS) — The
and the Jerusalem corridor.
idealistic and ethical movement"
Highlighting t h e conference whose objective was " not only rael's war of independence; Joint Distribution Committee will
but the ministry of agriculture provide up to $950,000 in 1951
was an address by Vice-Presi- to solve Jewish homelessness and has
imported an Italian variety
dent Alben Barkley, who assured create a sovereign state, but to of bee which is being bred sat- for the work of Ort, according
the 1,500 delegates that "any fur- implement through the state the isfactorily in government to an agreement signed by rep-
ther need on the part of Israel basic ideas of Jewish history and beehives at Hetzibah, Zrifin, resentatives of the two agencies.
The current pact provides that
will have sympathetic considera- Jewish civilization."
and Acre, for distribution to
tion by the American govern-
In his annual report, Mendel apiarists, who are also given Ort will not conduct an indep - m- .
ment.
N. Fisher, executive director of instruction in the latest meth- dent fund-raising Campaign in
the United States, but that funds
Abba Eban, Israeli ambassador . the JNF, disclosed that American ods of apiculture.
for its programs in Europe and
to the United States, told the con- Jews contributed more than 75
The 30,000 hives in Israel North Africa will be made avail-
ference that "the imaginative per cent of the total JNF intake
program which the Jewish Na- of $150,000,000 in the last 50 today produced 350 tons of able by JDC from the income
honey last year.
which JDC will receive during
tional Fund has undertaken, is years.
the coming year from the United
Jewish Appeal. Similar agree-
ments between JDC and Ort have
been reached annually since 1947.
The leaders of the two agen-
Tel Aviv—(Special)—The 15th of Shebat, tra- with seedlings in increase the forest belt of Israel. cies pointed out that the signing
of the agreement constitutes con-
ditionally Arbor Day in Israel, was celebrated this
Premier David Ben Gurion planted the first
year last Monday with great enthusiasm in the tree in the little village of Semach Gan. The vil- tinued assurance to the Ameri-
can Jewish community that one
Jewish state.
lige started planting a national forest some years gift to the United Jewish Appeal
Large masses of people from the cities and the ago which was destroyed by Arab marauders.
on the part of the individual
country flocked to parks and hills to plant trees,
Ben Gurion and Yigal Yadin, Israel chief of contributor will benefit every
and it was a special holiday for children who did staff, also planted trees for a forest which will be-
not have to go to school but instead were sent out come a national monument for the Jewish Brigade. vital need of distressed Jews
overseas.
JNF' Adopts Program
of Five-Year Expansion
Israel to Sweeten
Apiarists' Lives
JDC, Ort Sign
Campaign Pact
Joy Pervades Israel on Arbor Day