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Friday, January

THE JEWISH NEWS

, 1943

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Looking in on Some of the Impressive Sessions
of the Jewish National Fund Conference Held
in Detroit Last Week-End-

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The historic sessions of the conference of the Jewish National Fund of Amer-

ica, held at the Book-Cadillac Hotel Friday through Sunday, Dec. 25-27, were. attend-
ed (by outstanding American Jewish leaders, by representatives of Jewish National
Fund Councils throughout the country and by two United States Senators.

The photographs on this page, taken by Grossman-Knowling, photographers
for The Jewish News, present the highlights of some of the sessions.

The picture above, right, shows the assembled leaders on, the convention
platform as Philip Slomovitz, chairman of the local conference arrangements com-
mittee, addressed the session on Saturday night. He was presented by William
Hordes, president of the J.N.F. Council of Detroit. Speakers appearing in this photo-
graph include. Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation
of Detroit; Dr. Abbe Hillel Silver of Cleveland, national chairman of the United Pal-
estine Appeal; Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the Jewish National Fund of Amer-
ica; Sidney G. Kusworm, national treasurer of Bnai Brith; Mendel N. Fisher, national
J.N.F. executive director; Rabbi Morris Adler, who spoke for all the Zionist groups
in Detroit, and Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka.

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The photograph, upper left, shows U. S. Senator Alben W. Barkley in a jovial
mood at the opening of his great address and prior to his stirring endorsement of
Jewish demands for recognition of our rights in Palestine as well as the Diaspora.
His address was delivered at the convention banquet Sunday night. Appearing on
the Bias with him in this photograph are Judge Morris Rothenberg of New York,
who was toastmaster at the banquet; Dr. Goldstein, Mrs. Goldstein and Dr. Nahum
Goldmann.

The photograph second from the top shows a group of delegates- from Flint.
On the left are-Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lebster and in the Center is Rabbi S. Z._Fineberg,
president of the Flint J.N.F. Council.

The third photograph shows Judge Rothenberg at the microphone. From the
left in the photograph are Mr. Slomoviti, Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, rabbi of Temple •
Beth El and a close friend of Dr. Goldstein; Dr. James G. Heller, president of the
Central Conference of American Rabbis and chairman of the administrative com-
mittee of the Zionist Organization of America; U. S. Senator Homer Ferguson of
Michigan, and or Goldstein.

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The second photograph from the the bottom shows a group of local J.N.F.
leaders, including, from the left, Mrs. Samuel N. Heyman, chairman of the banquet
arrangements committee; Mr. Heyman, Mrs. Slomovitz, and Miss Dena Goldsmith.

The bottom photograph shows the effect that the impressive memorial service
for the victims of Nazi atrocities had upon the conference. The picture was taken
immediately after the lighting of the memorial candles and as Cantor Jacob H.- Son-
enklar was leading the vast assembly in reciting the Kaddish for the dead. In the

photograph appear Jacob Sincoff, national J.N.F. treasurer; Theodore Strimlirig of
Los Angeles, Mrs. Archibald Silverman, who delivered the memorial address, Dr.
Goldstein, Cantor Sonenklar, and Mendel fN. Fisher, executive direCtor of the J.N.F.

Mr. Hordes, who, with Mrs. Slomovifz, lit the memorial candles, appears standing
on the left.

