Page Five

THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, April 23, 1943

Forum of Jewish Affairs
Proves Success, Extended

Jaffe Elected Srere Named Convenor
Head of JSSB For Assembly Delegates

Participants Named for Symposium on 'The American Jews New Board of Directors Pick President of Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation To Call
Representatives to Conference on Election
and the Post-War World' at Center; Ruth Bryan
Mrs. Lakoff Vice-President,
of Delegates to Parley
Owen To Speak May 12
Grosner Treasurer
Abraham Srere, president of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
The Forum of Jewish Affairs instituted by the Jewish
Benjamin E. Jaffe was elected
Welfare Federation, in cooperation with their affiliated agen- president of the Jewish Social eration of Detroit, has been named Convenor for the Na-

cies, has received such an enthusiastic response from the Service Bureau, at a meeting of
community at large that the series is being extended.
Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, announced this week that an additional lecture
will be given on Wednesday eve-

ning, May 12, by Ruth Bryan
Owen, distinguished American
diplomat, former U. S. Minister
to Denmark. Her subject will be
"The Place of Minorities in the
World of Tomorrow." All lec-
tures take place at the Center.
Symposium on May 2
Interest is being displayed in
the next program in the series—
the symposium on the subject
"The American Jews and the
Post-War World"—to be held
Sunday evening, May 2, at the
Center. Participants will be:
Dr. Max Gottschalk, research
director of the Institute on Peace
of the American Jewish Commit-
tee; Dr. Jacob Robinson, director
of the Institute of Jewish Affairs
of the American Jewish Congress,
and Charles B. Sherman, field
director of the Jewish Labor
Committee.
Fred M. Butzel, chairman of
the executive committee of the
Jewish Welfare Federation of
Detroit, will be the chairman.

Dr. Gottschalk's Career

Dr. Gottschalk has held impor-
tant positions in universities in
Europe and has an interesting
background for service to Jew-
ish communities. He was re-
search professor of Institute de
Sociologie Solvay, the Brussels
University, and was professor in
the Institut des Hautes Etudes,
Brussels, and the New School for
Social Research in New York.
He was Belgian correspondent
of the International Labor Of-
fice in Geneva, president of the
National Office for Unemploy-
ment and Placement in Belgium,
and was associated with the fol-
lowing: HIAS-ICA Emigration
Association (HICEM), Associa-
tion for Social Progress in Bel-
gium, the Refugee Committee in
Brussels, vice-president of Su-
preme Council for Labor and
Social Security. He is -a member
of the boards of Jewish Coloni-
zation Association, EMICA, Alli-
ance Israelite Universelle and
Palestine Jewish Colonization
Association.

Dr. Robinson's Career

Dr. Robinson, born in Seirijai,
Lithuania, is a soldier and a
scholar, having fought with the
Russians against the Germans in
1914 immediately after his grad-
uation from Warsaw University
Law School. He was maxima cum
laude, L.L.D.
The end of the war saw him
return to Lithuania to begin
organization of Jewish communi-
ties in 1913. After serving sev-
eral years as principal of the high
school and junior college in Vor-
balls, Lithuania, he was admitted
to the bar in 1922.
From 1923 • to 1927 he was a
member of Parliament; leader of
the minorities bloc; chairman of

the Jewish faction, and until 1940

he continued his law practice, and
published numerous works on
legal, political and minorities
questions.

Legal Advisor

He served as Lithuanian coun-
sel in Geneva (1931), official le-
gal advisor to the Lithuanian
Foreign Office (1931-33), chair-
man of the Jewish Political
Emergency Committee and the
Coordination Committee for Pol-
ish Refugees (1939-40).
He arrived in New York in
December of 1940 and three
months later assumed the post of
director of the institute of Jewish
Affairs. In August, 1942, he was
BENJAMIN E. JAFFE
appointed associate in Inter-
national Administration, Colum- the new board of directors held
bia University.
last week.
Mr. Sherman's Career
Mrs. Charles Lakoff was elect-
Mr. Sherman, noted lecturer
and author, is director of civic- ed vice-president; Sylvan S.
protective and field activities of Grosner, treasurer, and Harold
Silver, secretary.
the Jewish Labor Committee.

A member of the General Jew-
ish Council and the Labor Lea-
gue. for Human Rights of the
American Federation of Labor,
Mr. Sherman is a well-known
authority on Jewish and labor
problems.
Familiar with the underground
struggle being waged by the pro-
democratic underground forces in
Nazi-occupied Europe, he has
been active in the fight against
anti-Semitism in the United
States.

Other members of the board
include the following:
Rabbi Morris Adler, Mrs. Theo-
dore Bergman, Louis Rhin/berg,
Clarence H. Enggass, Mrs. H. J.
L. Frank, Mrs. Max Frank, Mrs.
Isaac Gilbert, Dr. B. Benedict
Glazer, Jacob Keidan, Mrs, Sam-
uel J. Lewis, Dr. H. S. Mellen,
Mrs. Samuel Mendelsohn, Nathan
L. Milstein (now in U. S. serv-
ice), Harry M. Raden, Dr. David
J. Sandweiss, Dr. Lawrence Selt-
zer, Mrs. Ralph Shroder, Isidore

tional Jewish Conference in Detroit.
David Wertheim, national secretary of the Poale-Zion
Party, a member of -the executive committee of the National
Jewish Assembly, whb was a guest in Detroit last Saturday

to confer with the labor Zionist

groups in the interest of the Mieblin, was selected to mobilize

forthcoming Assembly, scheduled action among the 17 groups rep-
to convene on <Tilly 1, explained resented at the rally.
that the following procedure will
* *
be followed in arranging for the
Committee
Joins
Movement
election of delegates:
NEW YORK. — The executive
Local Representatives
committee of the National Jew-
A Convenor, named in each ish Assembly voted to change the
community, will call together the
name of the Assembly to Amer-
local representatives of the 32
ican Jewish Conference, without
organizations which participated
affecting in any way the char-
in the original meeting in Pitts-
acter, purpose and objectives of
burgh where the foundation was
the movement.
laid for the Assembly.
Announcement is made that the
These representatives will in-
vite other local organizations to Amerie.wn Jewish Committee has
participate in a conference at joined the Conference, making a
which arrangements will be made total of 43 organizations affiliated
for the election of Detroit's dele- with the movement.
gates.
Louis Lipsky was named na-
tional chairman of the board of
The Detroit Delegation
It is believed that Detroit election, other members of the
Jewry will be entitled to 9 or 10 board being Miss Lillie Schultz,
Miss Juliet N. Benjamin, Miss
delegates.
At the conference of represen- Jane Evans, Charles P. Kramer,
tatives of 17 labor Zionist groups David Wertheim, Rabbi Max
in Detroit, Mr. Wertheim urged Kirshblum and Alex Stanton.
that everything possible be done
to enlighten Detroit Jews on the
MICHIGAN'S LAMEST
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importance of the National Jew-
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ish Assembly.
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A steering committee of labor
ZiondSts, composed of Morris
SchaVer, Benjamin M. Laikin,
2231-35 Woodward Next to Fox Theatre
William Hordes, Movsas Gold-
Open Evenings
ofta.s, Meyer Sesling and Mrs. M.

SIBL

Sc ■ beloff and. Abraham Srere.

38 Odessa Society's
Sons in I.T. S. Service

Service Committee Sends
Each of Them a Special
Gift Package

A special service committee
has been set up by the Odessa
Progressive Aid • Society and
packages have been sent to each
of the 33 sons of members who
are in the -armed forces of our
country. Sam Brusk is chairman
of the service committee.
The list of names of members
in the service was made public
this week by Alex Belkin, presi-
dent, and Mrs. Julius Ring,
secretary. They •are:
First Lt. Charles E. Binkow,
First Lt. Leon - Rottenberg, Lt.

Meyer Maskin, Lt. Ben Reder,
Lt. Charles Kalish, Staff Sgt.
William Kadashaw, Sgt. Solo-
mon Moskowitch, PFC. Saul H.
Sinkoff, • Cpl. George S. Maskin,
Cpl. Norman Moskowitch,
Jack Rand, and . the following
Privates:
Milton Schwartz, Erwin Wit-
colt Earl Resler, Art Becker,
Paul Shei. izen, Nat Share, Louis
Share, Leslie Share, Eugene
Rossinsky, Aaron -Sinkoft. Mur-
ray Hirst, Charles Hirst, Albert
B. Apple, Charles Brusk, Jack
E. Belkin, Jack W. Belkin, Ir-
win Gold, H. Marks, Milton
Mony, Harold Norris, Irving
Oshin, Hyman Simon, Milton E.
Shore, Sid Weiss, Robert Wein-
trob, Harry Spiro and L. Cohen.
Many of these men are -now
serving overseas.

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