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March 24, 1944 - Image 6

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1944-03-24

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Page Six

THE JEWISH WEAN'S.

Abrogate White Paper!
INF- Auxiliary Demands

Bnai Brith Fellowship
Honors W. A. White

Copies of Resolution, Adopted by Audience of 2,900
at Donor Event; Sent to President and British
Embassy; Van Paassen Speaks

friClay, Mardi ,24, 1944

Pupils in Jewish Schools
Will Protest White Paper

All Branches of United Hebrew Schools, Congregations
Plan Assemblies This Sunday Morning and Monday
With 5,000 Children Participating

A resolution condemning the British White Paper on
Palestine and demanding its abrogation before the deadline
set for,the closing of Palestine's doors to Jewish immigration
was adopted by the audience of 2,900 men and women who
attended the annual donor event of the Ladies' Auxiliary
of the Jewish National .Fund on Wednesday afternoon; at

the Masonic Temple.
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The resolution, copies of which
are being sent to President Roose-
velt, members of Congress and
the British Embassy, endorses the
proposal for the establishment of
a Jewish Commonwealth in Pal-
-William Allen White; world-
estine.
famous editor of the Emporia
Van Paassen Speaker
Gazette and life-time crusader-
Pierre Van Paassen, author of Address Central Michigan
against bigotry and intolerance,
"The Forgotten Ally," was the
College, Marshall Lodge;
in - whose memory Bnai Brith's
guest speaker at the Wednesday
National Hillel Commission has
Pupils To 'See Film
event.
established an inter-faith stu-
Mr. Van Paassen analyzed the
The film "The World We Wan t dent fellowship . at the Univer-
Jewish position in the world to-
sity of Kansas. Mr. White died
day and pointed to the grave in- to Live In," prepared by the Na
three weeks ago.
tional
Council
of
Christians
an
d
justice that has been . perpetrated
Jews,
parent
organization
of
th
e
against the Jewish builders of
Zion by those who place obstacles Detroit Round Table, will 13..e
in the path of rebuilding Eretz shown at Cleveland Intermediate
,School this Friday.
Israel.
A goodwill team of speakers
Mrs. Philip J. Cutler, president representing the 'Detroit Round
of the Auxiliary, announces that
The hospital gift kits commit-
Table will appear before social
more than $35,000 will have been science classes and student as- tee of the Jewish Welfare Board
raised for Palestine's redemption semblies at Central. Michigan Col- has completed 250 toilet kits to
as a result of the Ladies' Auxil- lege of Education, Mt. Pleasant, be distributed to Jewish service-
iary's donor event.
men and women confined to mil-
Monday..
$100,000 Project
Speakers will be Dr. Alvin D. itary hospitals in Michigan.
Patients at Percy Jones, Sel-
This sum will be used towards Hersch, Jewish attorney and pro-
the new $100,000 project for the fessor of law at the University fridge Field, Fort Brady, and
establishment of a Nachlah—a of Detroit Law School; Dr. Her- Naval Training Station Hospitals
Palestine settlement—in the name bert Beecher Hudnut, pastor at received these kits.
of the Auxiliary.
Woodward Ave.- - Presbyterian
This month, Bnai Brith Pisgah
William Hordes, president of Church; and Judge Joseph A. Auxiliary contributed 200 kits
the Jewish National Fund Coun- Moynihan of the. Circuit Court, and the Suwalker Independent
cil of Detroit, accepted the Ladies' vice-president of the National progressive Association, 50 kits.
Auxiliary's large gift for land Council of Catholic men. They
All Jewish women's organiza-
will speak on the theme "Broth- tions are being asked to partici-
redemption.
Artists who appeared on the erhood in a Democracy" and will pate in this morale-building
musical pr o g r am Wednesday be presented by the Rev. Jqseph work. Each kit includes a letter
Q. Mayne,•executive secretary of
were Julius Chajes, Marguerite
from the donor organization
,Kozenn, • Henry Siegl, Jascha the Detroit Round Table.
wishing the recipient a speedy
The
team
which
visited
Fort
Schwartzman, Harriett Toomey
recovery. Hundreds of letters of
Knox, Ky., as representatives of appreciation have already been
and Margit Kormendy.
the Detroit Round Table, will received from the servicemen.
speak before. the Louis Marshall
Organizations interested
i n
Lodge and Anxiliary of Bnai
Brith at the Workmen's Circle, sending kits to soldiers may
11529 Linwood, on Tuesday at secure 'further information by
9 p. m. Speakers willbe Dr. calling Miss Fineman, MA. 8400 .
or Mrs. Harold H. Smilay, TO..
Hersch, Dr. Edgar DeWitt Jones,
pastor of Central Woodward 8-7543, chairman of the gift kits
$15,000 Campaign Here Christian Church, and Judge committee. Other members of
the committee are Mesdames, M.
Moynihan.
Aimed to Provide Food,
The Detroit Round Table will Cornfield, Samuel Danto, Ben-
Medicines for Refugees
present speakers on the brother- jamin Krell, Harry Millman,
hood theme at a dinner meeting Charles Smith, Harry Singer and
The-- Federation of Lithuanian
of Calvary Presbyterian Church, Emil Waldbott.
Jews of Detroit announces the Grand River at
- Vicksburg, on
inauguration of a drive to pro-
Louis H. Sobel, prominent
vide- food and medicines for Wednesday. The speakers will
be Dr. B. Benedict, Glazer, Rabbi social worker, former director
stranded kinsmen who are now
in Siberia, Tashkant and other of Temple Beth El, the Rev. E. of the Jewish 'Community Cen-
J. O'Connor, S. J., of the Uni- ter of Detroit, was named assis-
portions of Russia.
versity of- Detroit, and the Rev. tant secretary of the Joint Dis-
Former residents of Kovno, Mayne.
tribution Committee, major
Wilna and SUwalk regions are
American agency fOr aids to
to be assisted in this rescue of- Rabbi Cahn Named Hillel
Jews abroad, it was announced
* fort.
Administrative Assistant
by . Joseph C. Hyman, executive
An appeal has gbne forth to
NEW YORK—Rabbi Judah chairman. -
Lithuanian societies in Detroit,
Cahn, director of the Metropoli-
including Eishishker, Kalvarier,
tan Hillel Bureau for the past
ROBIN&ON'S
Wilner and Suwalker, to aid in year, has been appointed na-
this work.
tional administrative assistant to
A quota of $15,000 has been Dr. A. L. Sachar, national direc-
set for Detroit as part of the tor of the 141 Bnai Brith
- Hillel
nationwide $1,000,000 campaign, Foundations and .
Counselorships.
conducted by the Lithuanian
Rabbi Cahn, director of the
Federation of America.
Hillel Bureau. in New York City
It is stated that 5,000 packages since 1942, is also director
of
have already gone forth to the Hillel Foundation at the
Siberia during the past few
'downtown branch of City Col-
months and that 2,000 families
lege. He will continue to serve
must be assisted.
in this capacity, maintaining his
M. Lieberman has been named headquarters at 113 E. 22nd
chairman. of the Detroit cam- St., the home of the downtown
paign. B. Laikin is treasurer and City College Foundation.
Philip Cutler secretary. Prom-
inent Detroiters who came from , MVN,N104100:3000:100:100000:3C
Lithuania are assisting in this
HEAR
work.
For further information call
the secretary of the local Federa-
Editor of the Gallup Poll
tion of Lithuanian Jews, Mrs.
Matz, UN. 1-6233.
Speak on the Subject

W eek' s Prograrn

Announced for

Goodwill Teams

250 Hospital Kits
Sent to Servicemen

Children attending the Jewish schools of Detroit will
register their protests against the British White Paper on
Palestine, at school assemblies this Sunday morning.
Classes conducted in public school buildings and which
do not have sessions on Sundays will express their senti-
ments on the proposed restrictions on Jewish immigration

and land sales on Monday after- 0
noon.
Responding to the call of the Dr. Mandelberg Dies
Zionist Council of Detroit, the In Tel Aviv at 74
schools have made plans for Sun-
day's assemblies under the direc-
TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor)—Dr.
tion of a committee headed by
Avigdor Mandelberg, founder
Bernard Isaacs, superintendent of
and president of the Anti-
the United Hebrew Schools.
Tuberculosis League and a mem-
Participating schools which ber of the presidium of the
have arranged to devote their as-. "V" League for Aid to Russia,
semblies to a discussion of the died here. He was born in
Palestinian emergency issue are: Berditchev, in the Ukraine,- 74
All branches of the United He- years ago and practiced medi-'
brew Schools, Temple Israel, Con- cine in St. Petersburg and in
gregation Shaarey Zedek, Con- Italy. He came to Palestine from
gregation Bnai David, Yeshivath Russia in 1921 and for several
Beth Yehudah, Congregation years was Medical . Direttor of
Bnai Moshe, Carmel V Hebrew the Kupath Cholim, health co-
School and the Shaar Hashoma- operative of the Histadruth,
General Jewish Federation of
yim in Windsor.
Labor.
The• program at these assem-
Dr. Mandelberg was a leader
blies will include the reading of
appropriate Biblical selections, of the Social 'Democratic Party
talks by pupils of the schools and of Russia, both under the Czars
the adoption of resolutions urging and during the Bolshevik re-
gime. For his political activities
abrogation of the White Paper.
It is expected that more than before the revolution ; he was
5,000 children will be present at banished to Siberia. He was a
member of the Second Duma
these assemblies.
and, after the revolution, was
Lebensraum: We hear that the elected a member a the Con-
stituent Assembly of the Far
Nazis have forbidden the use of
Easter, Republic.
billboards for theater ads and
notices—they need the space for
party announcements.

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Berkson Wins Award

New York (JPS)—Dr. Israel
B. Berkson, director of the re-
search department of the Am-
erican Zionist Emergency Coun-
cil, has been awarded the Will-
iam Heard Kilpatrick Award.
He shares the award with Lt.
Kenneth D. Benne, US&R, As-
sociate Professor of Education on
leave from the University of
Illinois: Both men were cited
for `'distinguished contributions
to the ;philosophy of education."

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