Friday, May 26, 1944

Roosevelt Message . Spurs
Jewish Welfare Planning

THE JEWISH NEWS

Friedland's Dovidel'
Issued Posthumously

Page Five

Jewish Social Workers
Elect Sobeloff President

Eminent Educator's Story for
Children Appears at
Returns to Detroit After Year's Leave to Resume Post as
Conference Offers Resources and Skills of 250 Agencies
Educators'
Convention
Executive Director of Jewish Federation;
Toward Reabsorption of Vets; Isaacs One of
Honored at National Convention
Educators' Officers; H. Silver Speaks
At the sessions of the National

Council for Jewish Education,

By Jewish News Correspondent
in Cleveland, the Friedland
CLEVELAND. — Problems affecting American Jewish held
Memorial Committee presented
communities, whose social service agencies are planning to
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prepare to meet the demands that will face them in the post-
war era, were discussed at the annual conventions of the Na-
tional Association of Jewish Center Workers and National

Council for Jewish Education.;::,
held here from May 17 to 21.
Conference "toward the end of
Roosevelt's Message
facilitating the orderly demobil-
In a message to the conference. ization and the reabsorption of
returning servicemen and women
President Roosevelt stated:
"Our armed forces are .making into civilian life."
Addressing* the opening session
heroic sacrifices. Our' men and
women in the factories of the na- of the conference of the three
tion are achieving miracles of national associations, Dr. Abba
warThroduction. It is particular- Hillel Silver warned that "neith-
ly the responsibility of the devot- er America nor American Jews
ed workers in the fields of social can be isolationists todzy in
service, education and youth de- theory or in practice," arid de-
velopment to help in sustaining clared that America "is enmesh-
the spirit of our fighting forces ed in a common destiny with the
and maintaining the health and rest of the world, and American
welfare of the familieS of the na- Jews have also come to share,
tion. I know that these social however reluctantly the common
forces are constantly at work in and inexplicable destiny, of their
our country, and as we approach fellow Jews in the rest of the
the climax of our war effort, it is world." .
more important than ever that
Palestine Our Hope
the communities give these ef-
Speaking of postwar Jewish
forts their maximum encourage- homelessness, he said that only
ment.
Palestine "offers a sound realistic
"America will play its full part prospect for mass-scale immigra-
in the vast program of rehabili- tion, provided political barriers
tation of human life and the re- . . . are removed," he . said.
Assistant Scretary of State
construction of the institutions of
civilized living. The trained and Adolph A. Berle, speaking at the
experienced social workers of our Saturday night session, warned
country will have the opportun- against the creation of racial - is-
ity to perform their important sues in this country and declared
and historic function in the vast that the Nazi way of fighting our
program that lies ahead."
way of life is to diVide the vari-
ous elements in our population.
Response to Message
In response to the President's
The need for definite revision
mesage, the conference adopted of social welfare and educational
a resolution offering the re- progress was indicated in the
sources and skills of the 250 wel- findings of surveys made during
fare agencies and 650 individual the past two years in 21 cities
social workers affiliated with the under the sponsoring of the Na-'
tional Conference of Jewish So
cial Welfare, National Association
of .Jewish Center Workers and'
National Council for JeWish Ed-
ucation.
Undertaken as. a guide to Jew-
ish community planning, the
findings have value for all social
JDC Announces Plan to workers
in America, since in the
Send 300,000 Parcels with main it was found 'that thd Jew-
ish group follows the pattern set
Funds of U.JA
by the general community.
Harold Silver. Speaks
Refugees in Russia and war
Harold Silver, executive direct-
victims in Allied, neutral and
occupied territory will receive or of the Jewish Social Service
more than 300,000 packageS of Bureau of Detroit, in one of the
food, medicine, and clothing from prindpal addresses at the conven-
the American Jewish Joint Dis- tion, reported on health and wel-
tribution Committee this year fare needs and stated:
with funds provided by the
"The greatest problem facing
United Jewish Appeal for Refu- our social welfare agencies is
gees, Overseas Needs and Pales- lack of personnel. The situation
tine.
is particularly grave for the
• The Joint Distribution Com- health agencies, Mt. Sinai Hos-
mittee has allocated more than pital of Cleveland, for instance;
$2,000,000 for this parcel service reporting . that it lost 45 per cent
in 1944 to help sustain refugees of its doctors . and nurses.
"Hospitals, however, have a
in various parts of Europe. '
The report on aid to Jews in certain `Sex appeal' that is not
Europe indicated that during the shared by the less dramatic wel-
period from October, 1943, to fare causes of the community.
May 1, 1944, Jews in Asiatic Rus- Hospitals at least have had a fair
sia received 31,799 packages. The success in attracting volunteers to
current rate of shipment is 7,000 serve on various committees.
Vital to Community
packages per month. The Rus-
sian parcel service, which in-
"We have a crying need for the
cludes bulk shipment of food present to direct volunteer help
and clothing from the United to our child care agencies, and
States on Russian ships, duty OUr old age programs. Despite
free, for distribution by the Rus- their lack of glamor, these ser v;-
sian Red Cross in areas of the ices are vital to. the community
Soviet Union having preponder- and must be aided until a more
antly Jewish populations, will normal labor market brings our
cost $1,750,000 in 1944.
staffs back to what they should
An additional 200,000 packages be."
will be sent to Jews now in Al-
Isidore Sobeloff, executive di-
lied and neutral countries as well rector of the Jewish Welfare.
as behind the enemy lines in Federation of Detroit, who was
occupied territory.
elected president of the National
J. D. C. representatives in Conference of Jewish Social Wel-
Teheran, Istanbul and • Lisbon fare succeeding Louis Kraft of
shopped the Near, Middle and New York, addressed the con-
Far East in order to find the ference and pointed to new
. items that go into these pack- trends in Jewish life. Among the
ages. Shoes and clothing were new trends he listed the efforts
secured from South Africa; tea, being made to advance the Eng-
salt, medical supplies, blankets lish-Jewisli press and cited the
and underwear from India; establishment of The Jewish
shoes, yard goods, sweaters and News of Detroit as a community
medicines from Palestine; sugar, newspaper as a typical example
vegetable fats, dried fruits, tea, of such new trends.
butter and soap from Iran; flour,
Similar Comment
Sugar and coffee from Egypt; • Henry W. Levy of the _Amer-
honey and soap from Australia. ican Jewish Committee made
Foodstuffs are purchased by the similar comment with reference
ton; clothing by the hundreds of to The Jewish News.
dozens.
(Continued on Page 16) .

LATE A. H. FRIEDLAND

the memorial volume published
in tribute to the late A. 1.
Friedland, eminent' educator.
The committee, consisting of
Dr. Emanuel Gamoran of Cin-
cinnati, chairman; Nathan Bril-
liant . of Cleveland, Emanuel M.
Edelstein of New York and Ber-
nard Isaacs. of Detroit, publish-
ed the story for children,
"Dovidel," written by Mr. Fried-
land.
"Dovidel" (Little David) w a s
left in manuscript form by Mr.
Friedland, who was affectionate-
ly known throughout the coun-
try as "Hes Aleph." It was ed-
ited by Dr. Gamoran and Mr.
Isaacs.
This splendid story for chil-
dren is beautifully illustrated by

Isidore Sobeloff, who returns next week to his Detroit
post as executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation,
was elected president of the National Conference of Jewish
Social Welfare, at the annual convention in Cleveland, ses-
sions of which concluded on Sunday.
Mr: Sobeloff was on a:year's leave from Detroit to help

organize a National War Fund
in New York City as the fund's
associate director. His Detroit
post was filled during the year
by Herman M. Pekarsky, who
last month assumed the post of
managing director of the Council
of Social Agencies of Metropoli-
tan Detroit.
Came Here in 1937
Before assuming his post. in
Detroit in 1937, Mr. Sobeloff, a
native of Baltimore, was en-
gaged for 15 years in community
organization and related social
work in New York,. as director
of public relations of the Fed-
eration for the Support of Jew-
ish Philanthropic SocietieS, di-
rector of the New York office of
the National Jewish Hospital at
Denver, director of public in-
formation and education of the
Welfare Council and fund-rais-
ing consultant to the Travelers
Aid Society of New York.
He formerly was managing
editor of the Jewish Social Serv-
ice Quarterly, editor of Better
Times, social work publication,
and chairman of the Social Work
Publicity Council.
NRS Board Member
Mr. Sobeloff was secretary of

the National 1942 Allotment
Committee of the United Jewish
Appeal- for Overseas and Refu-
gee Needs, national chairman of
the committees on fund-raising
policies and War Chest relation-
ships of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds
and a member of the board of
the National Refugee Service.

In Detroit, Mr. Sobeloff was
on the board of the Council of
Social Agencies, the executive
committee of the USO and the
executive committee of the Mich-
igan Welfare League.
He is the brother- of City So-
licitor Simon E. Sobeloff of
BaltimOre.

JWV Protect Churches

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From Gangs in Buffalo

BUFFALO — Churches in the
Niagara and West Delavan sec-
tions of Buffalo were protected
from the wave of vandalism
spreading throughout this city
by a volunteer patrol composed
of members of the two local
posts of the Jewish War Vet-
erans.
Following the desecration by
Tmimah Gzari. The book is gangs of vandals of • four
beautifully bound and excellent- churches, the JWV members of-
ly printed, and the text contain- fered their services to the Buf- -
ing explanatory words in Eng- falo Police Department for a six
lish translation.
hour patrol from 7 p.m. to '1
Copies of the book are ob- a.m. in the districts where the
tainable from Mr. Isaacs.
hoodlumism occurred.

Refugees Get
Food Parcels

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