:-^,c". • / 49 HE JEWISH EWS A Weekly Review-of Jewish Events VOL. 4—NO. 1 2114 Penobscot Bldg. RA. 7956 Detroit, Michigan, September 24, 1943 34 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, Inc Detroit Jewry Mobilized to Aid Metrop•litan War Chest Drive —Pages 5, 12 - Local Groups Respond to Challenge to Meet Obligations in 15 Billion. War Bond Campaign —Page 16 Synagogues to Hold Auxiliary, Children's Holy Day Services Rabbis of Reform, Conservative and Orthodox congregations announce topics of their sermons . . Supplementary. services to be held at Temple . Beth El and Shaarey Zeciek .. . Servicemen invited by Temple Beth El and Shaarey,Zedek ... Temple Israel. to have Holy Day broadcasts. Pages 14, 16 Palestine - to Seek $1 , 00., 000 TO Rescue Jews from .Europe WAR LOAN BACK THE ATTACK WITH WAR BONDS t************* **********************************, GUEST EDITORIAL. Jewish Participation in War Chest e ttia- sliOra:Mohth: proclaimed by special 'session of Jewish representative assembly in Palestine to determine practical measures for salvation of victims of Nazi tyranny . . . Manifesto declares it is 'sacred duty' of Yishuv to aid victims ... Million dollar quota to be raised by Yom Kippur. Page 7 ea der of Jewish Relief Group Arrested by Gestapo in Italy a. Thousands Italian and refugee Jews seized by Germans ... Fear many to be deported to Poland . . . Enemy dive-bombers frustrate attempts by Jewish refugees to flee by sea to Allied ports . . . Deportation or com- pulsory labor faces alien Jews in part of France formerly occupied by Italian troops. —Page 3 By FRED M. BUTZEL - Vice-Chairman, 1944 War Chest Campaign With the approach of Fall our War Chest campaign is taking form. The 1944 needs of the USO, the various war relief appeals, the Community Fund and the' Allied Jewish Campaign will require well over eight million dollars. The Allied Jewish Campaign workers and contributors will again have the satis- faction of participating with all other groups in the raising of funds for purposes which are dear to all liberty-loving Americans. We are expected to play a . Fred M. Butzel leading role in view of our long history of fund-raising, acquaintance with philanthropic needs and a deep interest in the welfare of our community, our armed forces and our allies. Last year the record set by our landsmanshaften and trade groups was little short of sensational. Our Jewish group Won and received recognition for its work and its giving. Contacts made in the War CheSt campaign are inval uable for much needed understanding by and-of the Jewish community in this great growing industrial city: Through the War Chest our people are contributing directly to the relief of our allied nations, and the Jewish needs occu- pied countries and in Palestine are receiving support a larger base. I am convinced that in the forthcoming campaign we will show even greater enthusiasm than last year and that the Jewish contribution both in. money and in manpower will be a credit to the Jews of Detroit_ Chaplains-4n Africa . and Sicily - Confer on Services for Holy Days Six of the eight Jewish Chaplains in North Africa and Sicily meeting in .. Algiers on Aug. 25 to confer on arrangements for services during the coming High Holy Days were welcomed by Chaplain Roy H. Parker, Senior Chaplain of the North. Africa theater of war. Left to right: SAMUEL TEITELBAUM (from Sicily) ; MEYER BERMAN of the British Army (from Algiers) ; JACOB J. HONIG (fromBigerte); Chaplain ROY PARKER; EMANUEL HONIG (from Oran) ; -- EARL ST0' . Sicily) ; and SAMUEL KAUFMAN (from Casablanca). Chaplain Louis Werfel, the "Flying Chaplain," attached to t Force, also - attended the conference. He will conduct services j• "Chaplains Henry. Tavel and Irving Tepper are' to hold servi- Sicily, respectively.