THE JEWISH- NEWS

Page Fourteen

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

(See Also Page 3)
Ten American ambulances for service on
Palestine's home front were presented by the
American Red Mogen David for Palestine at a
dedication dinner here . . , Harry Pine, presi-
dent of the organization in America, said that
the Red Mogen David operates through a net-
work of 28 first aid stations and a corps of
450 doctors and nurses, 5,000 trained first aiders
and several hundred volunteer blood donors.
"The problem of Palestine is a key issue to
American people because we are committed to
the cause of freedom," Carl J. Friedrich, pro-
fessor of government at Harvard university,
declared before the Ford Hall Forum in l3oston.
Severely attacking the Palestine White Paper,
which is to go into effect March 31, Prof.
Friedrich said that "now is the time for the
United States to decide upon a definite policy
toward the Jewish national home in Palestine."
He pointed out that "the pledge of the Balfour
Declaration, this pledge of a home of refuge,
was not made to the Jews in Palestine, but to
the Jews • outside Palestine, to that vast un-
happy mass of scattered, persecuted, wandering
Jews whose intense, unchanging, unconquer-
able desire has been for a national home." He
added that is was also made to the more than
4,000,000 Jews in America who have sunk vast
treasure into the upbuilding of the national
home—"one of the exciting wonders of our
time."
A poll conducted in 15 towns of Lebanon,
Syria and Palestine reveals that radio reaches
about five per cent of the Arab public, -"some
250,000 people, mostly of the urban upper
class," Time magazine reports. "A separate poll
of Jewish listeners in Palestine disclosed
that 46 per cent/of them tune in regularly to
the three daily newscasts of the Palestine
Broadcasting Service."
PALESTINE
The Portuguese liner Nyassa, the first neu-
tral ship to reach this port since 1940, arrived
here from Lisbon bringing 745 European Jew-
ish refugees, the largest group of Jewish refu-
gees to reach Palestine directly from Europe
in war-time.
Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog, representing the
Vaad Leumi, National Council of Jewish Pal-
estine, and Mordecai Eliash, attorney, repre-
senting the Jewish Agency for Palestine, have

MtIgnes Asks Place
For 500,000 in Zion'

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A plea
for the admission of an addi-
tional 500,000 Jews in order to
achieve Arab-Jewish parity in
Palestine, with equality of politi-
cal rights and duties in a bi-
national state, was issued here
by Dr. J. L. Magnes, leading
Jewish advocate of a Palestine
Arab-Jewish state within a Le-
vant Federation.
The inclusion of Palestine in
a federation which has a popu-
lation of five million Arabs
would invalidate t h e Palestine
Arabs' fear of being swamped
by Jews, and might . induce other
countries of the Federation to
admit JeWish immigrants, Dr.
Magnes stated.

left for Turkey on a joint mission in connection
with the rescue of the survivors of European
Jewry. Jewish Palestine has for long been
pressing for action in behalf of Europe's Jews,
petitioning the United Nations and utilizing all
avenues of escape for Hitler's victims.
Three Arabs were fined from five to seven
pounds for the illegal possession of revolvers
and bullets. The fine was imposed by
magistrate. . . Eliahu Sacharoff, a contractor
of the Solel Boneh, construction contracting
agency of the Histadruth, General Jewish Fed-
eration of Labor, was tried byz a military
tribunal last October for the posssion of..two
bullets and sentenced to seven years imprison-.
ment.
The Jews of Europe do not debate for - or
against Palestine, they are only interested in
the possibilities of getting t h e r e, David
Schweitzer, representative of the HICEM
(HIAS-ICA Emigration Association), arriving
aboard the Portuguese liner Nyassa, told the
Independent Jewish Press Service.
Several thousand Jews from Yemen, where
their economic and political plight has always
been difficult, are expected to arrive in Pales-
tine in the course of the next few months, and
the national institutions are already arranging
for them to be: absorbed into the economic life
of the country.
OVERSEAS
A plot by Arabs in contact with Nazis and
fascists abroad to instigate pogroms throughout
North Africa has been uncovered in Algiers
in the course of an investigation into recent
riots and lootings of Jewish homes, it is re-
ported from generally reliable sources.
Dr. Sema Schlugleit was reported here as
having discovered a sensational new cure for
war eye wounds. Her cure proved successful
in the case of a Red Army soldier to whom she
restored sight after all doctors had despaired
to help him.
Dr. Max Mushkat, a Yiddish bibliographist
who has resided in Warsaw and Vilna, has
been cited for heroism with the Polish Legion
of the Red Army.
• When the Nazi armies first swept forward
into Soviet territory in the days of the blitz,
the Minsker Zeitung, published in occupied
territory, reported that "special treatment
would be meted out to the Jews of the city
of Lubavich."

Mrs. Lindheim Next Congress Parley
Gewerkshaften Rally Delegates Chosen
Speaker on Thursday
A successful conference of or-

Mrs. Irma Lindheim, • former
national president of . Hadassah,
one of America's outstanding
Jewish leaders, will be the guest
speaker at the next rally of the

Leon Kay, president of the De-
troit chapter of American Jewish
Congress; Rabbi Leon Fram, Sam
Wise, Mrs. M. Mendelson, Nathan
Linden, Morris Schaver, Mrs. D.
Sheraga, Sam Lieberman, Mrs. S.
Lichtenstein, Harry Kaminer,
Abe Kasle, Sam Singer, Eugene
Franzblau, Louis Phillips, Lou
Levitt.
Nationally prominent Christian
and Jewish leaders are scheduled
to address the Conference on
Anti-Semitism.

Council's Action
Wins Promotions
For 2 Postal Aides

Aaron Droock, chairman of the
Jewish Community Council, an-
nounced that negotiations be-
tween the Community Council
and the Postmaster of Detroit
have resulted in the promotion of
two postal employes of the Jew-
ish faith to supervisory positions.
Negotiations with Postmaster
Roscoe B. Huston were initiated
-on the basis of information that
of approximately' 240 Jewish
employes; many of whom have
a long record of seniority, none
had been placed permanently in
supervisory jobs.
In discussions with the. Post-
master, the Community Council
urged that promotions be made
on the basis of • merit and seni-
ority alone, without reference to
faith, color or nationality. It was
the position of the Community
Council that' the absence of Jews-
in supervisory positions, after
many years of faithful service,
appeared strange if the policy
it advocates were in effect.
The Postmaster's , insistence
that the policy advocated by the
Community Council is in effect
in the post __office was coupled
with his recognition that the ab-
sence of Jews from supervisory
positions appeared abnormal.
On the basis of discussions
with Postmaster Huston, the
Community Council is confident
that additional promotions to su-
pervisory positions from among
postal employes of the Jewish
faith can be expected in the near
future.

.
ganizational delegates, held Sun-
day at the Jewish Center, select-
ed the following to act as dele-
gates to the Conference on Anti-
Semitism of the American Jew-
ish Congress, to be held in New
York this week-end:

JNWA, Poale Zion
To Honor Schaver

'MRS. IRMA LINDHEIM

Gewerkshaften campaign at
Lachar's on 12th St., next Tues-
day evening.
Mrs. Lindheim h _ as just return-
ed from Palestine and a' visit in
Middle Eastern centers, and she
brings important messages re-
garding the -status of the Jewish
National Home.

Buy War Bonds!

Announcement was made this
week that the City Committee of
Jewish National Workers' Alli-
ance branches in Detroit, togeth-
er with the Poale Zion groups,
will honor Morris Schaver on his
50th birthday at a specially ar-
ranged event to be held on Sun-
day, March 5, at Hotel Statler.
The purpose of thfs affair; ' it is
announced, will be to redeem 400
dunams of land in Palestine
through the Jewish National
Fund.
Nationally prominent leaders
will ,come here for this event.

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Friday, February -1 t944

Our

CHILDREN'S
CORNER

Dear Boys and Girls:
You are a part of the largest
Jewish community in the world.
The Jews of America are also
the freest and happiest Jews in
the world.
Do you 'know all that a grow-
ing boy and girl should know
about his people?
One of the purposes of this
column is to encourage you to
read the best available literature
on our history.
In today's column I am dis-
cussing two of the latest books
which each one of you should
read and which shoulq also in-
terest your parents. '
I hope you and your parents
are buying more War Bonds, to
help win the war.
A pleasant Sabbath to you all.
UNCLE DANIEL.
* * *

"The Stream of Jewish Life"
The Union of American He-
brew Congregations in Cincin-
nati has set up a CoMmission on
Jewish . Education which is doing
a splendid job in publishing im-
portant books for children and
adults,
By publishing. Dorothy `Alof-
sin's "The Stream of Jewish
Life," this commission is render-
ing a- real service.
What do you know about the
history of the Jews in America
and about our institutions and
national organizations?
In "The Stream of Jewish
Life" the young reader is intro-
duced to this subject in story
form. It is like a travelogue,
with characters who emerge very
real, which takes us from one
agency and movement to an-
other and tells a vivid story of
Jewish life in America and the
cause in which we are all in-
volved.
Reform, Conservative and Or-
thodox Jewish customs are ex-
plained, and women's and men's
movements and their objectives
are outlined. Zionist organiza-
tions,, the Council of Jewish
Women, ORT, HIAS and J. D. C.,
the Congress and Committee,
the Bnai Brith and Federations,
youth movements and synagogue
auxiliaries, all have places of
honor in this book.
Descriptive letters are used
to outline the subjects dealt
with in this book. Jewish aspira-
tions in alestine are described,
Jewish customs and ceremonies
are reviewed.
It is a book of great fascina-
tion and should be read by as
many of our people as possible.
* * *
"Modern Jewish Problems"
" Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn's
"Modern Jewish Problems"
(published by Union of Ameri-
man Hebrew Congregations, Cin-
nati), is "A Textbook for High
School Classes and Jewish Youth
Groups." This description, how-
ever, does not do the volume
justice. It is in many respects a
veritable encyclopedia of Jew-
ish information.
This volume can serve easily
as a source book for a series of
gatherings—of parents and• chil-

dren as well as discussion. groups
—for the purpose of reviewing
Jewish cultural life and the is-
sues which confront our people.
As proof of the great value of
this book, examine the titles of
some of the chapters: Why Re-
main Jews? Should We Inter-
marry? Why Jewish Education?
What Is Zionism? Zionists and
Zionists. What Can Be Done
About Anti-Semitism? Etc., etc.
Now, let us take a glance at
one of these chapters. In What
Can Be Done About Anti-Semit-
ism? the author presents a test
of friendships in a school to6m,
tells of the reactions of Jews and
Christians to Coughlin and other
Jew , baiters, examines responsi-
bility and reviews what Jews
and Christians can do to fight
the menace. Then he has a mass
of source material on the sub-
ject—quoting selections from the
writings of Zona Gale, Hugo Val-
entin, L. M. Birkhead, A. L. Sa-
char, Israel Cohen and Salo
Baron.
The same procedure is followed
in the other chapters. In the
Zionist discussions, for instance,
Jewish progress is reviewed, the
Arab issue is discussed, there is
an explanation of the differences
of various parties, a n d the
source material contains quota-
tions from Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
A. L. Sachar, Abraham Revusky,
and others.
This book inspires thinking—
and that is a great asset. It earns
a large reading public.

Assembly

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Isidore Sobeloff was an active
participant in the discussions on
postwar planning. Herman Pe-
karsky provided factual material
during the fund-raising. Benja-
mM Jaffe participated in the
postwar planning program.
Bernard Isaacs, Herman Jacobs
.and Mr. Pekarsky addressed the
sessions on Jewish education on
Thursday and Mr. Isaacs was an
active participant in the educa-
tional discussions on Monday.
Detroiters were active also in
the sessions of the Jewish Occu-
pational Counci 1. Harvey H.
Goldman and M. William Wein-
berg joined in the discussions of
this group.
Aaron Droock, Mr. Ellmarin,
Rabbi Fram a n d Mr. Franck
were active in the community
planning discussions.
Others in the Detroit delega-
tion were: Samuel H. Rubiner,
Mrs. Jaffe, Mrs. Ellmann, Harold
Silver, Henry Wineman, Clar-
ence H. Enggass, Gerson Cher-
toff, Clarice Freud, Esther
Prussian, Mrs. Joseph - M. Welt
and P. Slomovitz.

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