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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE_

Men of Many Origins Guide
Israel Affairs in Washington

Friday, July 6, 1951

Board of Education
Would Raise Standards

By ALLEN A. WARSEN
•
By MURRAY FRANK
Director, Adas Shalom Religious School
ISRAEL'S DIPLOMATIC staff in Washington today is a seasoned and confident lot. Gone is the in-
Since the pLblication of my last article in the Detroit Jewish
experience and clumsiness which characterized its activities during those first hectic months of Chronicle of June 22, I have received letters and telephone calls
from teachers and laymen urging me to continue enlightening the
Israel's statehood, which was inevitable under those trying circumstances.
Jewish public on the need of a central educational agency in
A few weeks after Israel had"
Detroit. .
rounded out three years of inde-
years old and a native of Ger-
This article will list some of the goals and functions of a Bureau
pendent statehood, Ambassador
many. He was an instructor at of Jewish Education. Fundamentally, the objectives of such an
Abba Eban completed his first
Ben Shemen until 1935. He was agency are:
year as chief of Israel's diplo-
later with the Jewish Agency
1. To dial with the over-all communal aspect of Jewish educa-
matic mission in the United
helping to plan agricultural set- tion.
States capital. He was appointed
tlements, then joined the Re-
2. To serve as the representative of the community's Jewish
to the post in June 1950, while
search Station at Rehobot where schools.
retaining also his function as
he was engaged in farm man-
3. To give dignity and distinction to Judaistic studies and the
head of Israel's delegation to the
agement research.
Jewish
teaching profession.
United Nations.
Between 1942 and 1950 he was
Specifically, a Bureau of Jewish Education would perform the
agricultural adviser to the Ang- following practical functions:
During the first two years, th e
lo-Palestine Bank, and since the
Israel embassy was confronte d
1. It would create a friendly climate for Jewish education.
establishment of Israel h a s
with the problem of organiza
2. It would endeavor to develop a sense of need of acquiring
served with the government's
tion, acquisition of staff an d
education among all the people of the community.
coordinating center and as a di- a Jewish
sufficient quarter s, establish
3. It would aid the schools pedagogically and administratively.
rector
of
the
Agricultural
Bank.
merit of relationships with th e
4. It would set up standards and codes of practices.
• • •
diplomatic, economic, cultura 1
5. It would organize teacher training-media on a community-
THE ONLY WOMAN member
and other agencies of the U. S
wide basis.
of
Israel's
diplomatic
mission
in
ABBA
EBAN
government, and with the for
6. It would maintain a pedagogical and an audio-visual library.
Washington is Miss Esther Her-
• • •
eign diplomatic corps in Wash
(No
school can afford having a complete individual library of
ington. This was ably accom ant information was obtained litz, first secretary. Born in Ger- pedagogical books, films, film strips and slides.)
many,
she
came
to
Palestine
as
pliahed under Eban's predeces- for Allied intelligence. •
7. It would concern itselt with the welfare of the Jewish
a child, and was graduated from
sor, Eliahu Elath.
• • •
teacher.
the Hebrew Teachers College in
8. It would encourage creativity in literature, drama, and the
DR. MOSHE KEREN, coun- Jerusalem. In 1942, she joined
The third year was a year of
growth in depth. Contacts were selor of the embassy for the the British Army (A. T. S.), arts.
9. It would establish an educational press.
firmly established with govern- past year and a half, was born served in Palestine and Egypt,
10..It would provide educational facilities to localities where
ment agencies relating to agri- in Berlin 50 years ago. In 1934 and was discharged in 1946 as a
they are needed.
c u I t u r e, industry, commerce, he came to Palestine. He served lieutenant.
In conclusion, may I say in answer to this query of a friend of
public health, labor, and ex- with the British Army from
She was employed by the Pal-
change of cultural information 1941 until 1945 and was dis- estine Government as a resettle- mine, "When do you think a Bureau of Jewish Education will be
charged with the rank of Cap- ment officer for veterans, and established in Detroit?": It will be established_only .when public
an i diplomacy.
tain.
in 1947 became secretary for the opinion demands it and community consciousness realizes its values.
The embassy's staff has under-
After the establishment of Is- Arab Affairs Division in the
gone considerable change in the
past year. A few who had been rael, Dr. Keren was with the Jewish Agency.
With the establishment of Is-
with the embassy before are Foreign Ministry's information
now working in the Foreign department and later headed the rael, she joined its defense forces
Office in Jerusalem, some are Information Bureau. He assists and was second in command of
representing Israel in diplo- the ambassador in political and a Woman's Battalion (Chen) in
Jerusalem.
matic missions abroad, while diplomatic matters.
Reversing a trend in its phil- Jewry in addition is heeding the
• • •
• • •
others have taken their place in
anthropy
by pledging more to the United Jewish Appeal need for
SEMAII
CECIL
. HYMAN, the
!HEIR SI1ALIT, first secretary,
Washington.
economic
counselor,
is
52
years
is
a
native
of
Kovno,
Lithuania,
1951
Allied
Jewish Campaign cash by paying its pledges at a
Eleven major officials of the
old.
He
was
born
and
educated
-
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on
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11)
than to the 1950 drive, Detroit rate of six per cent ahead of last
embassy are on the accredited
year, Henry Willman, treasurer
diplomatic list of the Depart- in London, and served with the
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
ment of State. Upon them falls Jewish Legion in Palestine dur-
tion, reported.
the responsibility for all policy ing the first World War.
During World War II he was
matters and official representa-
Since 1948, the peak year in
a member of the Government's
tion.
Allied Jewish c.mpaign history,
• • •
Panel of Arbitrators for trade
campaign totals have dropped,
disputes, and in 1948 he became
but 1951 marks the first year of
ABBA EBAN was born in
manager of the Jerusalem
an upward turn.
Capctown, South Africa, in 1915, branch of Barclays Bank.
Sharing the concern of the pelled from CIO or who form the
To date the collection figures
of Lithuanian Jewish parents.
• • •
community in regard to the cur- internal opposition to CIO and show that 28.7 per cent of the
The family subsequently came
YEHUDA HARRY LEVIN, the rent petition-referendum cam-
to England, where his mother
who are apparently callous as money pledged to the 1951 cam-
press and public relations coun-
paign has been converted into
worked in the Zionist Office in selor, joined the embassy in paign for a municipal FEPC or- to the fate of this issue.
cash, of which a million and a
London at the time of the Bal- August, 1950. He was born in dinance for Detroit, religious and
Following
Mrs.
Beasley's
pres-
civic leaders recently invited
four Declaration in 1917. He was South Africa in 1907.
entation, Roy Reuther, UAW- ' quarter free dollars have been
community organizations to a
educated in England, specialized
CIO; John Mazer,' Detroit and forwarded to the United Jewish
During World War
he was meeting.
in oriental language at Cam- war correspondent II,
Wayne County Federation of La- Appeal to meet immigration
in North
One hundred representatives
deadlines.
bridge University from which
Africa, Burma and other areas. of civic, labor, religious, trade, bor; Joseph Craigen, Detroit
On the total amount of $4,-
he was graduated in 1938.
Chapter,
National
Association
for
He was long associated with the political, fraternal and veterans
the Advancement of Colored 550,000 pledged a year ago, 86
In 1940, he came to Jerusalem Jewish National Fund in Jeru- organizations attended.
People; Dr. Shmarya Kleinman, per cent has been paid, and only
as liaison officer for Allied salem and became director of its
Edward Swan presided. Mrs.
Headquarters to obtain Jewish public relations department in Olive R. Beasley, executive direc- president, Jewish Community eight per cent is still outstanding
on the $5,300,000 pledged in 1949.
volunteers for special military 1946.
tor of the Michigan Committee on Council; Ernest Richards, presi-
For the operating year 1950-51,
missions in the Near East and
During the fighting and siege Civil Rights, related the develop- dent, Wolverine Bar Association
$4,158,000 was made available for
Europe. He later served as in- of Jerusalem in 1948, as part of
and
Mrs.
Jeanette
Cleary,
Wo-
ments of the past few weeks and
allocation. Thus far $3,800,000
structor at the Middle East Arab his duties with the Haganah, he
outlined the basis for opposition men's International League for of it has been put to work lo-
Center in Jerusalem and trav- conducted the English section of
to the petition-referendum cam- Peace and Freedom, pledged their catty, nationally and for the
eled widely throughout the Near its underground broadcasting paign.
organizations' opposition to the
East.
United Jewish Appeal and other
petition campaign.
service. He subsequently wrote
The campaign is sponsored by
In 1946, Eban joined the Jew- a book of his experiences and an organization sometimes call-
The assembly voted unani- overseas causes.
ish Agency staff and the follow- observations, published in Lon- ing itself the Greater Detroit La- mously to call on their con-
ing year was named liaison offi- don under the title, "Jerusalem bor Council and sometimes the sistuencies to refuse to sign pe-
cer with the United Nations .Embattled." It appeared in New Detroit Negro Labor Council. It titions being circulated by the
Special Committee on Palestine. York last year under the title, is composed of unions expelled
Greater Detroit Labor Council
and to set up a citizens com-
His next assignment was as a "I Saw the Battle of Jerusa- from the CIO for Communist acti-
mittee to request immediate en-
staff member of the Jewish lem."
vities and ideologies.
actment of an effective FEPC
He entered Israel's diplomatic
Agency delegation to the his-
Experiences in California,
ordinance by the Detroit Com-
torical UN General Assembly service in' 1949 as consul-general Arizona and Oregon have dem-
mon Council.
which approved, on Nov. 29, to Australia and New Zealand. onstrated that when civil rights
Beth Aaron Synagogue will
1947, the creation of a Jewish and a year later was transferred issues are submitted to refer-
The assembly requested that launch a membership drive to
state. On May 18, 1948—three to Washington.
the
signers
of
the
letter
of
invita-
endum the merits of the issue
begin July 10 and to continue
• • •
days after Israel came into be-
gets smothered by irrelevant tion to the meeting constitute the through
the summer, it was an-
COL.
CHAIM
IIERZOG,
the controversies between extreme steering committee for the pro-
ing—he became its representa-
nounced by Harry Green, presi-
tive to the United Nations, military attache and elder son conservative opponents of civil posed Citizens Committee. The dent.
where he exerted full effort to ; of Israel's Chief Rabbi Dr. I. H. rights and spokesmen for Com- signers were:
The goal of the drive is to en-
obtain intervention to halt the Herzog, was born in 1918 in Ire- munist and Communist front
Rabbi Morris Adler, Rev. list 250 new members in order to
Arab attack on Israel and se- land.
groups. Racial tensions and ani-
A. A. Banks, Rev, Fred Porter, bring the roster of the congrega-
In 1935 he was sent to Pales- mosities are heightened and the
cure an armistice.
Edward Cushman, John C. tion before the holidays to 600.
tine to complete his Hebrew peace of the community is plac-
• • •
Dancy, Father John F. Finne-
The drive will officially start
studies, and three years later ed in jeopardy.
gan, Shmarya Kleinman, Frank at a breakfast meeting at 10 a.m.,
NEXT IN RANK is Theodore came to England to study law
Community
leaders
and
or-
X.
Martel,
Dr.
Paul
Morrison,
Kollek, appointed last October at the Universities of London
Sunday in the synagogue. The
as minister. 'Born in Austria in and Cambridge. Early in World ganizations devoted to the Amer- Mike Novak, Rev. Raymond campaign will be under the di-
ican
democratic
principles
of
Pollatz, Rev. Sheldon Rahn, rection of Albert Stern and Hy-
1911, the son of a director of the War II he joined the British
Rothschild banking firm, he was Army as a private, served with equality of opportunity have Roy L. Reuther, Canon John man Green.
Shufeit, Rev. William B. Sper-
educated there and in Czecho- various units throughout West- consistently maintained that en-
The following are members of
ry, Edward Turner and Mrs. the membership committee:
slovakia. He later came to Eng- ern Europe, and was discharged actment of FEPC is the responsi-
bility
of
legislators
either
muni-
Olive R. Beasley.
land where he founded a Zion- in 1946 as major.
Sol Adler, Dr. Lewis Cohen,
cipal, state or federal and that
Other organizations which sent
* ist pioneer farm, proceeded to
He practiced lava for several legislators should not duck this representatives to the meeting Marshall Gootson, Jay Irving
Palestine in 1934 to join a pio- years, then joined the Jewish
Grant, Norman Jaffe, Julian
neer group at Kinneret, and defense forces serving in the issue and pass the buck to voters were the Council of Churches; Klein, Sam Lankin, William Li..
at general elections.
Anti-Defamation League Bnai
three years later helped to siege of Jerusalem and other
Heretofore, the referendum has Brith; Catholic Interracial Coun- berson, Jack Rose, Avery Shapiro,
establish the settlement of Ein sectors as a brigade chief of
been espoused only by extreme cil; Michigan Federated Demo- Jack Shenkman, Arthur Faber,
Gev.
staff, and was subsequently at- conservative opposition to FEPC cratic Clubs; Jewish War Veter- Albert Fischer, Irving Meyers,
In 1942, Kollek became the tached to the general staff as in the state legislature. Labor,
Max Teitel, Dr. Jack Lawson,
Jewish Agency's liaison officer director of military intelligence. religious, and racial minority ans; East Side Merchants Associa- Barney Lewinson, Sidney Wein-
tion;
Detroit
Urban
League;
with the British forces in the In 1950 he was promoted to groups have always vigorously
berg, Leo Weingarden, Abe Bud-
Middle East, and served with colonel, and several months opposed the referendum as a de- YWCA;' Michigan CIO Council; man, David L. Davis and Robert
Prince Hall Masonic Lodge; De- Wohlman.
Allied intelligence in Turkey. later he came to Washington.
vice to defeat the issue.
troit Federation of Teachers;
• • •
There he established contact
Now, in Detroit, we have the Kappa Alpha Psi F:aternity and
Thinking of a gift? A Chronicle
with the Jewish underground in
T H E AGRICULTURAL at- referendum device embraced by
Europe through which import- tache, Dr. Yehuda Lowe, is 46 organizations who have been ex- Amalgamated Clothing Workers subscription will always be a
of America.
welcome present.

Cawpaigi Pledge Payments
Ahead of Last Year by 6 Pet.

Civic Groups Oppose
FEPC Referendum Plan

Beth Aaron
.
to Start Drive
for Members