Friday, March 24, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Twelve

Roosevelt and Weizmann
Felicitate Stephen S. Wise

Eminent Jewish Leader Honored on 70th Birthday; Series
of Dinners Climax Entire Week of Celebrations;
Jewish Leaders' Attend 'Fetes
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Messages from President Roose-
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velt, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the jeWish Agency
for Palestine, the ArChbishop of Canterbury and Miss Hen-
rietta Szold, founder and. head of the Youth Aliyah (immi-
gration) movement, climaxed aseries of dinners and a week
of celebration of the 70th birthday of Dr. Stephen. S. Wise.

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"Your seventieth birthday is an
event which, in normal times,
would have been celebrated with
gr e a t e s t rejoicing throughout
scattered Jewry, but in this dis-
traught world remnants of our
agonized people are finding com-
fort only in the faith of Zion's
complete restoration," Dr. Weiz-
man wrote in a message read at
a dinner in Dr. Wise's honor
tendered by the American Jewish
Congress and the Zionist Organ-
ization of America.
Earlier in the week Dr. Wise
was the -guest of - honor at a
dinner given him by the Free
Synagogue of which he is rabbi,
and at another given by the Jew-
ish Institute of Religion of which
he is the founder.
President Roosevelt congratu-
lated Dr. Wise on "more than
two-score years of your public
life, as rabbi, author, • editor,
leader of liberal thought and as
president of the American Jew-
ish Congress."
Speakers at the dinner includ-
ed Mrs. Moses Epstein, president
of Hadassah; Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, chairman of the adminis-
trative committee of the World
Jewish Congress; Louis Lipsky,
author and Zionist leader; Judge
Morris Rothenberg, president of
the Jewish National Fund; Dr.
Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of
Applied Christianity at the Union
Theological Seminary, and Dr.
James G. Heller.

Seek Golden •Itook Donors
. Detroit's committee selected to
honor DrWise, under the chair-
manship of Rabbi Leon Frain,
acting in behalf of the Zionist
Organization and American Jew-
- ish Congress, has issued a call
to Detroit Jews to inscribe Dr.
Wise's name in the Golden Book
of the Jewish National Fund.
The money will be used in ag-
gregate to establish a colony in
Palestine in the name of Dr.
Wise.
Golden Book inscriptions are
$100 each. They can be \ ordered
by calling Rabbi Fram, TR.
1-5;10.

Dr.- Wise Named Honorary
Citizen of Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor)—Dr.
Stephen S. Wise of New York
City was elected an honorary
citizen of Tel Aviv on the oc-
casion of his seventieth birth-
day, at a meeting of the mu-
nicipality.

Hebrew Press Hails
.Dr. Wise on Birthday
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor)—
The entire „Hebrew press joined
in paying tribute -to Dr. Stephen
S. Wise on his seventieth birth-
day, stressing his great record
of achievements for Zionism and
for American Jewry.

Hadassah to Present
Palestine Symposium
At Center on April I I

"Towards a Jewish Common-
wealth" is the topic of a sym-
posium planned by Detroit Chap-
ter of Hadassah to be presented
at Jewish Community Center,
Tuesday, April 11, at 2 p. m.
The introduction and nature of
the" problemwill be presented by
Mrs. Herman Jacobs. Mrs. Max
'Miller of the Huntington Woods
group will give an analysis of
the British Policy in Palestine.
Mrs. Louis .Zlatkin will speak on
"Why a Jewish Commonwealth."
"The Absorbtive Capacity of
Palestine" will be discussed by
Mrs. Harry Jones. "Arabs in Pal-
estine" will be the topic of Mrs.
Max Engleman. Mrs. Joseph H.
Ehrlich will summarize and in-
terpret the various phases of the
problem. Mrs. Harry L. JackSon
yrill preside. ... .

Group in Northwest
Plans Congregation

Meeting to Consider Build;
ing Project to Be Held at
Bagley School April 4

Lehman in Algiers,
En Route to Cairo

Miss Freud Takes Labor Zionist Youth
Position at U.M. Hold 2-Day Tag Sale

ALGIERS (JPS)—Herbert H.
Lehman, director of the United Miss Goldstein Succeeds
Nations Relief and Rehabilita-
Her as Executive Head
tion Administration, has arrived
of Children's Bureau
here for consultations on a pro-
Clarice Freud, former execu-
tive director of the Jewish Chil-
dren's Bureau, this week takes
over the position as assistant
professor in the Social Work Cur-
riculum Institute of Public and
Social Administration, Univer-
sity of Michigan.
Succeeding Miss Freud as ex-
ecutive director of the Jewish
Children's Bureau is Goldie
Goldstein, formerly supervisor
at another Community Fund
agency, the Jewish Social Serv-
ice Bureau.
Miss Goldstein as a graduate
of the Graduate School for Jew-
ish Social Work in New York
City.

At a meeting to be held at the
Bagley School, Curtis and Rose-
lawn, at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday
evening, April 4, plans will be
HERBERT - H. LEHMAN
made for the formation' of a
gram for relief in Europe in
congregation in the northwest
areas to be liberaIed. From here,
section of the city.
he is to proceed to Cairo for
Sponsors of this movement an- talks with representatives of
nounce that arrangements will the Greek and Yugoslav Gov-
be made at this meeting for ernments-in-Exile on relief for
weekly services.
the Balkans.
Proposals will be discussed re-
In Algiers, Lehman was • greet-
garding the erection of a syna-
ed by his daughter, Wac Pvt.
gogue in the northwest section Hilda J. de Vadetski. This meet-
after the war.
ing took place shortly before
All Jewish residents of the Lehman had slipped and injured
northwest section are invited to his kneecap while getting into
attend this meeting.
an automobile.,

Jewish Immigration
Opposed In Canada

Labor Zionist Youth of De-
troit will participate in a tag day
this Saturday night- and Sunday
to mark • the end of the Hista-
.druth campaign.
The money raised in this cam-
paign • is used for agricultural
production in Palestine, for the
rescue of Jews from Europe and
helping establish the worker in
the economy of Palestine.
A pre-tag day rally took place
Thursday at the Farband Folk
Schule, 1912 Taylor. Anyone
wishing to participate in this tag
•day or to secure any further in-
formation, call Rachel . Nelson,
TO. 5-6705, or Anne Baschin,
HO.- 0240.

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HEAR

Wm. A. Lydgate

Editor of the Gallup Poll
Speak on the Subject

"Minorities in the
Post-War World"

MONTREAL (JPS)—A peti-
tion demanding that Canada be
Apt Annual Meeting of
barred to Jewish refugees and
bearing 100,000 signatures has
Jewish Welfare
been submitted to Canada's
Federation
Parliament by Wilfred LaCroix,
representing a French popula-
tion district in the province of
Quebec. It has not been ascer-
At
tained whether this is a new
petition, or whether Mr. La-
Jewish Community
Croix is merely resubmitting an
Center
old petition he had first intro-
duced 10 years ago.
VOCIMICIMICSOMICIOLVICIOC%

Sun. Eve., Mar. 26

Detroit Jewry Upholds -the Hands of the Builders of Zion!

Successful Gewerkshaften Campaign
Marks Triumph for Labor Palestine

Closing Event of Great 1944 Campaign for $75,000

Sunday Evening, March 26

8 O'CLOCK

At Scottish Rite Auditorium of Masonic Temple

Guest Speaker:

LOUIS LIPSKY

Member, , World Zionist Executive; Former
President, Zionist Organization of America

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Guest Artist:

SIDOR

BELARSKY

To the Jewish
Community
of Detroit:

I wish to take this means
of thanking all friends of
Labor Palestine for their
generous support of our
1944 Gewerkshaften cam-
paign. Detroit Jewry's
wholehearted interest in
the great effort to redeem
Palestine along lines of
justice places this com-
munity in a leading posi-
tion among the builders of
Eretz Israel. On behalf. of
our entire committee, I ex-
press to all our friends,
volunteer workers, cooper-
ating organizations a n d
contributors o u r gratitude
for assisting us in accomp-:
lishing a great task for
Jewish national redemp-
tion.

Morris L. Schaver,

Chairman

W
op oe rI r d a

R an e d now
Ra ny il o BF aasm
soe of Concert,

LOUIS LIPSKY

Halevy Singing Society will present Oratorio "DIE TZWEI BRIEDER,"
'under direction of

DANIEL FROHMAN featuring EMMA SHEVER, soprano
.CANTOR SAMUEL MOGILL, Baritone

SIDOR BELARSKY

DANIEL FROHMAN

An Event of

Outstanding

MORRIS L. SCHAVER
Chairman

Importance To The Entire Community

HARRY SCHUMER
Treasurer

A. H. KUSHINSKY
Campaign Director

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