Friday, Apr211,• 1943
THE JEWISH NEWS
Dr. Heller Will Speak Here Jewish Soldier
Gets 2 Awards
on Palestine in Forum Series Posthumously
Page Five
Plea for Unity in Jewish
Ranks Made by J. C. Hyman
President of Central Conference of American Rabbis To
Executive Vice-President of J. D. C. Paints Graphic Picture
Many Cited for Distinguish-
Deliver Third Lecture on Jewish Affairs at
of Plight of Jews in Europe; Tells of Reconstruction
ed Service;. Detroiter Held
the Center, Thursday, April 22
Tasks Ahead
Prisoner by Japs
. Dr. James G. Heller, Rabbi of the Isaac M. Wise Temple
of Cincinnati, President of the Central. Conference of Amer-
ican Rabbis and chairman of the national administrative
committee of the Zionist Organization of America, will be
the third speaker in the Forum of Jewish Affairs of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation and the Jewish Community Center,
next Thursday evening, April 22,
at 8:30 o'clock, at the Jewish Cen-
ter, Woodward and Holbrook,
where the entire series is being
presented.
May
Others cited for distinguished
service in the weekly Honor Roll
compiled by the bureau were Lt.
Paul Schwartz, 24, of Syracuse,
twice-decorated and twice-woun-
ded, holder of the DSC and the
Silver Star; Capt. Rafael Robert
Gamso, - 31, of Brooklyn, awarded
the Silver Star for "gallantry
under fire," in treating wounded
in New Guinea; Lt. Jacques Con-
rad Saphier, 27, Navy Medical
Corps, of Brooklyn, killed in
Guadalcanal, posthumously awar-
ded the Silver Star.
Among those listed as pris-
oners of war is PFC. Gerald
C. Kasner, 22, of Detroit, held
by the Japs.
Extend Series
The response of the public
to the first two lectures of the
Forum of Jewish Affairs has
been so pronounced that sug-
gestions have been made to
extend the series beyond the
original plan.
Recommendations have been
made to present authoritative
speakers on additional subjects
of pertinent interest and, if
this can be arranged, • an-
nouncement of further pro-
grams will be forthcoming.
The central theme of the
orum is "The American Jew
ooks at the World of Today and
rromorrow." Dr. Heller's subject
?will be "The American Jew Looks
'tat Palestine." The first two speak-
ers in the series were Frank L.
,Weil, president of the National
Jewish Welfare Boar d, and
Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-
president of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee.
The Concluding Program
The fourth program in the
series will take place on Sunday
evening, May 2, and will be in
the nature of a symposium on the
subject "The American Jews and
the Post-War World." The par-
ticipants will be:
Dr. Jacob Robinson, director of
the Institute of Jewish Affairs of
the American Jewish Congress;
Dr. Max Gottschalk, director of
the Research Institute on Peace
of the American Jewish Commit-
tee, and Charles B. Sherman, field
'director of the Jewish Labor
Committee.
Rabbi Heller's Career
-
Rabbi Heller, the next speaker
in the series, is one of the out-
standing personalities of Ameri-
can Jewry whose unique gifts are
reflected in his equal brilliance as
an orator, writer and composer.
He is national co-chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal for Refu-
gees, Overseas Needs and Pales-
tine, which represents the Joint
Distribution Committee, the Uni-
ted Palestine Appeal and the Na-
tional Refugee Service.
Rabbi Heller occupies a domi-
nant position in many of the most
influential national organizations
in American life, civic as well as
Jewish. As president of the Cen-
tral Conference o f American
Rabbis, he plays a particularly
significant role in the formation
of American Jewish public
opinion.
Eminent Citizen
He is regarded as one of the
eminent citizens of Cincinnati,
whose cultural and civic tradi-
tions are among the most famous
in America. He is Rabbi of the
Isaac M. Wise Temple, whose cen-
tennial of service to American
Jewry is being celebrated in 1943.
'
NEW YORK, (JPS)—Lt. Al-
fred Sharff, 27, of Portland, Ore.,
killed in action at Casablanca, is
the posthumous holder of two
awards, the Purple • Heart and
the Distinguished Service Cross,
it was announced here by the
Jewish Welfare Board's Bureau
of War Records.
DR. JAMES G. HELLER
Active in every phase of Cincin-
nati's communal life, Rabbi Hel-
ler has been a member of the
Board of Directors of the local
Y. M. C. A., as well as of every
important Jewish organization.
He regularly writes the program
notes for the Cincinnati Sym-
phony Orchestra for which he has
composed several notable works.
A graduate of Tulane Univers-
ity and the University of Cincin-
nati, as well as of the Hebrew
Union College, from which he
obtained his rabbinical degree,
Dr. Heller has also seen service
in the armed forces, having been
abroad with the United States
army as Chaplain during World
War I.
In addition to being national co-
chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal, Rabbi Heller is a vice-
chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal and chairman of the ad-
ministrative council of the Zionist
Organization of America.
Among those killed were Capt.
Sidney Becker, 25, of Chicago
and Pt. Isadore Freemond, 27, of
Los Angeles, in Guadalcanal; Lt.
Murray J. Ritter, 22, of N. Y.
City, killed in mid-Pacific; Lt.
Warren Salz, 22, of San Francis-
co, Army Air Corps, killed in
Africa; Pvt. Raoul Modiano, 22,
of Cincinnati, who died in Afri-
can fighting, and Tech. Sgt. Har-
old Kaplan, 24, of Worcester,
Mass., an Army . bombardier,
killed in Europe.
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address at the Jewish Community
Center before the Forum of Jew-
ish Affairs.
Mr. Hyman, who delivered the
second lecture in the series spon-
sored by the Jewish Community
Center and the Jewish Welfare
Federation, presented a graphic
picture of the Jewish position in
Europe today, and told of the
great responsibilities that face us
in the problem of the future "to
save all who can be saved."
Irving Blumberg, president of
the Detroit Service Group presid-
ed at the lecture delivered by
Mr. Hyman.
Thought-Provoking Address
The major portion of Mr. Hy-
man's thought-provoking address
follows:
"We have taken an hour in the
midst of the turbulence of war
for quiet stock-taking, for self-
analysis and for summing up. It
is a singular time for us to do
this, for never in our lives has the
stark tragedy of our fellow-Jews
throughout the world been pre-
sented with such dramatic and
horrible detail as has been given
us in recent weeks. The Nazi mad-
men, desperate at last, have
thrown a final insane challenge
to the world in their frenzied
liquidation of the Jewish prob-
lem. They are attempting to
make one vast Lidice of all the
Jewish communities of Europe,
presuming, possibly, in their
madness, that this ultimate hor-
ror will succeed where Lidice
failed to frighten and weaken
the democratic will and drive
toward victory.
Our Stake in the Peace
"The spectre of mass extermin-
ation has bred such terror that
some of us have been numbed
and almost shell-shocked, de-
prived of capacity for adequate
movement; others have been im-
pelled by hysteria to take action
in haste and in confused think-
ing. That of itself is tragic, for
today and tomorrow call for
greatness, for the summoning of
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LONDON (JTA)—Nazi officers
in the city of Gabes, Tunisia, re-.
cently wrested from the Ger-
mans by Gen. Montgomery's
forces, looted three banks there
of 1,200,000 frances belonging to
Jews before fleeing the city, the
London radio reported this week.
The Nazis forced the bank direc-
tors to surrender their books and
prepare a list of all Jewish de-
positors.
An appeal to the Jews of America to "stand together,
work together, fight together for our common destiny, recog-
nizing at the same time the right of each one of us to his
own viewpoint and philosophy," was made here on Monday
evening by Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-president of
the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in his
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