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Vital Issues Face Delegates
At U. S. Jewish Conference
Sessions Open in New York Sunday Afternoon;
Michigan to Be Represented By 13 Delegates
Leading Figures at Conference
Joseph Bernstein Is Selected
By Jewish Labor Committee
Confronted with the serious problems of planning for the post-war issues
of Jewish rehabilitation, for the protection of Jewish rights everywhere and
for securing guarantees of adherence to pledges made to the Jewish people
for the redemption of Palestine as the Jewish National Home, the delegates to
the democratically-elected American Jewish Conference will gather at sessions
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, beginning with Sunday afternoon
through Thursday.
The first session will be opened officially by Henry Monsky, president of
Bnai Brith, who was responsible for the official call to national organizations to
meet in Pittsburgh last Jan. 24, when the foundation was laid for unity in
American Jewry through the American Jewish Conference. The first session's --
concluding address will be delivered by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the
American Jewish Congress.
Other Prominent Leaders Participating
JUDGE JOS. M. PROSKAUER DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
Other prominent leaders who will participate in the sessions- will
Louis Lipsky, chairman of the Conference's national elections committee, and
Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the . American Jewish Committee.
The most prominent leaders in American Jewry will be among the 500 de-
legates to the Conference.
Michigan will be represented by 13 men and women at the Conference.
Rabbi Jerome D. Folkman of Grand Rapids was elected to represent the
State of Michigan outside Detroit.
The 12 Delegates from Detroit
Joseph Bernstein was selected as one of the 16 national delegates to
represent the Jewish Labor Committee.
Mrs. Joseph M. Welt was chosen one of the three delegates to represent •
the National Council of Jewish Women.
The 10 delegates who were elected to represent Detroit by the elections'
conference of spokesmen for 147 Jewish organizations and congregations, at the .
democratic election held June 15 at Temple Beth El, are: •
Rabbi Morris Adler, Fred M. Butzel, Aaron Droock, Mrs. Joseph H. Ehr-
lich, Rabbi Leon Fram, Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, Aaron Rosenberg, Morris
Schaver, Daniel Temchin and Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter.
LOUIS LIPSKY
HENRY MONSKY
Blame for 'Frame-Up' Traced
To Palestinian Government
Palcor dispatch charges officials with "tipping-off" foreign
correspondents that "interesting things would be happen-
mg" . . . Senator Johnson skeptical about fate of Jewish
Homeland . . . Congressman Celler Asks Roosevelt to Curb
Zionist foes in State Department.
A distinct honor has been accorded Emma Lazaroff Schaver, promi-
nent Detroit soprano, who was invited by the Conference program com-
mittee to open the sessions with the singing of the "Star Spangled Ban-
ner" and "Hatikvah".
In addition to electing a praesidium of 14 and other officers of the Con-
ference, the first session will consist of a prayer by Rabbi B. L. Levinthal of
Philadelphia, dean of the Orthodox rabbinate, and the addresses by' Mr. Mon-.
sky and Dr. Wise.
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Scene at Historic Pittsburgh Conference
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Parents Asked to Help
In Compiling War Record
Important statements issued by Samuel H. Rubiner, chair
man of Detroit Army and Navy Committee, and Frank I..
Weil, president of National Jewish- Welfare Board . . .
Forms to be filed by parents and relatives published in this
issue of The Jewish News.
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Pages 5, 6
Refugees Stranded in Spain
To Be Settled in Palestine
Plans completed by Dr. Joseph Schwartz, European chair-
man of Joint Distribution Committee, in collaboration with
Jewish Agency for Palestine . . . Colonization program also
provides for settlement of Yemenite Jews in Zion.
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This is a view of the opening session of the Pittsburgh Conference of Jan.
24, convened by Henry Monsky, president of Bnai Brith, at which the founda-
was laid for the American Jewish Conference.