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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, December 24, I -943

Jewish Federations Urge
United Community Action

Meyers Re-Elected

President of USO

Britain's Palestine Pledges
Told by Judges Kross, Picard

Local Welfare and Community Councils Warned Not to
Permit Conflicts to Destroy United Action in
Fund-Raising Activities

Woman Jurist Says Jewish Problem is Question Democracy
Must Face to Avoid Blunders of Last War, at Meeting
of American Palestine Committee in Michigan

NEW YORK, (JTA)--Jewish federations, welfare funds
and community councils were urged by the Council of Jew-
ish Federations and Welfare Funds not to permit conflicts
in some areas to destroy united Jewish action in the field of
fund raising and community organization, in a letter to this
effect circulated to member agencies.

Pledges made by Great Britain to the Jewish people for
the establishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine
were presented to the Michigan Chapter of the American
Palestine Committee as a case of justice and moral law by
Judge Anna Moskowitz Kross of New York, at a luncheon
meeting on Tuesday at the Book Cadillac Hotel.

Honor Louis Dann
On 75th Birthday

Detroit Mizrachi Arranges
Special Services Saturday
at Mogen Abraham

Mizrachi Organization of De-
troit will honor Louis Dann, pio-
neer worker in the movement
here, on his '75th birthday, this
Saturday morning, at Congrega-
tion Mogen Abraham.
An active leader in all local
religious projects, Mr. Dann is a
former treasurer of the Keren
Hayesod and a leader in congre-
gational and Hebrew School af-
fairs.
Daniel Temchin, president of
Detroit Mizrachi, has issued a call
for contributions for the Geulath
Jerusalem Project of the Jewish
Nati mal Fund, in Mr. Dann's
honor.

of American Jews have always
been generously and willingly
discharged through cooperative
effort by all groups.
Urges Cooperation
"We should remember also that
community chests are based on
cooperation among Protestants,
Catholics and Jews," Mr. Hollan-
der continues. "If different re-
ligious groups can work together
without giving up their own re-
ligious principles, cooperation
among Jewish groups should not
be difficult.
"Today the pressure of world
events has strained and compli-
cated much of what we do and
think. But that must not divert
us from the necessity of main-
taining and protecting what we
have so successfully achieved.
"Whether a central community
body can or cannot represent all
of our different theories and be-
liefs, we know that we can all
participate in its concrete activi-
ties. It is a healthy educational
process for debates to continue."

Friends Invited
By Young Israel
To Attend Fete

2 I st Anniversary Celebration

To Be Held At Institute
Of Arts Sunday

Charles T. Gellman, president,
and David I. Berris, chairman
of the 21st anniversary commit-
tee of Detroit Young Israel, have
issued an invitation to friends
of the movement to attend the
anniversary celebration at the
Hanukah event at the Detroit
Institute of Arts, this Sunday,
at 8:15 p. m. Admission is re-
served for patrons and Young
Israel members.
Irving M. Bunim of New York,
one of the founders of the Na-
tional Council of Young Israel,
will be the speaker.
Sidor Belarsky, bass-baritone,
noted operatic singer, accompan-
ied by Rebecca Frohman, will be
featured on the program, which
will open with the lighting of the
Hanukah candles and the pre-
sentation of Colors by Young Is-
rael Boy Scout Troop 210.
Including its synagogue wor-
shipers, the local Young Israel
movement numbers 500. Despite
depletion of the ranks by the
enlistment of more than 60
members in the armed forces,
the local movement continues to
carry on its religious-educational
work without interruption.
Last-minute reservations will
be taken Saturday evening and
Sunday morning by Mr. Gell-
man, TO. 5-0547, or TR. 1-2934.

Meeting under the chairman-4'
ship of Judge Frank Picard,
chairman of the Michigan Com-
mittee of the Christian friends of
a Jewish Palestine, the luncheon
gathering heard the history of the
Palestine redemption movement
as traced back to the issuance of
the Balfour Declaration.

HENRY MEYERS

Henry Meyers was re-elected
president of the USO of Metro-
politan Detroit, at a meeting of
the board of directors on Mon-
day. Mr. Meyers is a former
president of the Jewish Commu-
nity Center. He is one of the
vice-presidents of the Jewish
Welfare Federation.

Fred M. Butzel and Mrs. Henry
Wineman were re-elected vice-
presidents and Samuel H. Rubi-
ner was elected a member of the
board of directors of Detroit USO.

Paul Rankin was re-elected
chairman of the executive com-
mittee and Herman M. Pekarsky,
acting executive director of the
Jewish Welfare Federation, was
re-elected a member of the ex-
ecutive committee.

Gewerkshaften
Plan Campaign

Challenge to Humanity
Judge Kross described the ef-
fort to rebuild Palestine as a
world problem and as a challenge
to humanity. Declaring that the
Jewish problem is symptomatic
of what ails the world at large,
she declared that it is a question
that democracy must face to avoid
the repetition of blunders of the
last war.
"The problem of minorities
must be solved if the peace is to
be a lasting one," Judge Kross
stated. Outlining the progress
made by Jews in Palestine in the
past 26 years, she declared that
the country has now become the
arsenal for the democracies in the
Middle East.
"Palestine's redemption as the
Jewish National Home is sympto-
matic of what we consider the
kind of peace for which we are
now fighting," she declared.
Reads Balfour Text
Judge Picard, in his opening
remarks, read the text of the Bal-
four Declaration and pointed to

the justice of the Jewish cause.
In his concluding remarks he as-
sured Judge Kross that the court
of justice upholds her argument
and that the opposition is left
without an argument.
The background of the Ameri-
can Palestine Committee, under
the national chairmanship of U. S.
Senators Wagner and McNary,
was briefly outlined by Philip
Slomovitz, president of the Zion-
ist Council of Detroit.
Among the distinguished guests
who were present at the luncheon
meeting were the following, in
addition to . a select group of
Jewish leaders:
Judge Lila Neuenfeld of the
Wayne Circuit Court, Frank X.
Martel and Patrick McNamara,
president and vice-president of
Wayne and Detroit Federations of
Labor; Dr. David Henry, vice-
president of Wayne University;
Mrs. Clara Van Auken, promi.
nent civic leader; Mrs. J. S. Means,
attorney; Father Clancy; Lee
Johnston, of USO; George F. Pier-
rot, executive director of Wayne
Medical Center; George F. Carroll,
industrial leader; Mark Haas, of
WJR; Fred Nagle, real estate bro-
ker; Mrs. P. C. Munnecke, of
Womens International Educatidn
Committee; Rev. John Q. Mayne,
of Detroit Round Table; Allan
Crow, director of Economic Club.

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Rally on Jan. 9 to Be Utilized
to Organize Fight on
White Paper

ONCE-A-YEAR EVENT

beginning Monday, Dec. 27

The opening of the annual
Gewerkshaften campaign in De-
troit, at a conference of local
organizations at the Shaarey Ze-
dek, on Sunday afternoon, Jan.
9, will be converted into a mass
demonstration against the White
Paper, according to Morris L.
Schaver, chairman of the drive.
Prominent speakers will ad-
dress this conference, at which
the demands of the American
Jewish Conference for the_ es-
tablishment of a Jewish Com-
monwealth in Palestine will be
discussed.

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A. H. Kushinsky, director of
the drive, stated this week that
there will be a musical program
to supplement the addresses of
the afternoon.

All local organizations arc
called upon to send their rep-
resentatives to this rally and to
prepare to organize their mem-
berships for the annual cam-
paign.

Rabbi Auerbach Conducts
Traverse City Services

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The letter, signed by Sidney
Hollander, president of the Coun-
cil, and William J. Shroder,
chairman of its board, resulted
from a decision taken by the
board of directors of the Coun-
eil at a meeting held last month
in Pittsburgh. The text reads:
"For many years our Jewish
communities ha v e organized
themselves to meet their com-
munal needs and community ob-
ligations with complete recogni-
tion and acceptance of two basic
principles:
Common Desire
"1.—That united community
action can be achieved in all
fields where there is a common
desire to act together for the
benefit of Jewry generally and
the community in particular; 2.
—That all individuals and groups
in our communities can work to-
gether effectively with full rec-
ognition that there are differences
of opinion and belief in many
areas.
"These principles are inherent
in the organization of federa-
tions, welfare funds and com-
munity councils. They have
proven themselves through many
years of experience.
"We urge upon all communities
the necessity of not permitting
conflicts in some areas to destroy
what has been achieved by co-
opertive action, and to continue,
and to expand their community
organizations for the betterment
of our people here and through-
; out the world, and for making
• their contribution to American
life."
Must Honor Contracts
Supplementing this letter, a
statement by Mr. Hollander em-
phasized that "differences of
ideology do exist and will con-
tinue to exist, but we have con-
tracted together to maintain com-
munal solidarity for the support
of those causes for which we have
a common responsibility or group
interest. This contract has al-
ways been honored. We can con-
tinue to honor it.
"The American Jewish Confer-
ence, initiated in the hope of fur-
thering unity, regrettably left an
aftermath of secession and coun-
ter-secession," Mr. Hollander de-
clared. "I cton't believe that
American Jews, any more than
other Americans, can subscribe
to a single ideology. The Con-
ference simply proved once
again that all of us hold convic-
tions from which we will not
easily be swayed.
"I am certain that not every
contributor to our federations and
welfare funds admires all the
beneficiary agencies alike, nor
does joint fund-raising require
this. Conceivably he is less than
enthusiastic or even opposed to
some, but despite such question-
ings, the self-imposed obligations

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Rabbi S. S. Auerbach, Circuit
Rabbi for Michigan, conducted
Hanukah services in Traverse
City on Wednesday.

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us in the present battle for freedom for
all mankind, for the liberation of Israel and for a
redeemed Jewish National Home in Palestine,.

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