Friday, September 22, 1944
• THE JEWISH NEWS
Civic-Protective Groups
Unite on 5-Point Program
National Community Relations Advisory Council Adopts
Plans to Fight Anti-Semitism in the Country
at 3-Day Parley; David Sher Chairman
Anglo-Jewish
Publishers List
Qualifications
Page Seventeen
AZA to Hold 18th
Annual Dance on
Yom Kippur Night
Jewish Center
Activities
The 18th annual Yom Kippur
night dance of Detroit Chapter
63 of A.Z.A., Junior Bnai Brith
organization, will be held in the
Crystal Ballroom of the Masonic
cussion Group of the Jewish Temple next Wednesday night.
and coordination on Jewish civic protective work in the
United. States was adopted here at the close of a three-day . MILWAUKEE (JPS) — T h e Center will meet next Thursday Johnny Allan's Orchestra and
conference of the National Community Relations Advisory . newly formed American Asso- at 8:45 p. m. in ' the Adult Gerry Melvin, vocalist, will be
ciation of Englis h-Jewish News- Lounge of the Center.
featured.
Council. The conference, attended by representatives of six papers,
with
offices
The guest speaker will the
national and 18 local community civic protective agencies, here, has publis national
Tickets for the dance are now
hed its by-laws Rev. Claude Williams who will available froin' Ralph. Sosin, vice-
elected David Sher of New York
and
rules
of
con
duct
which
in-
speak on "Our Democratic Heri- president, 2677 Collingwood, TO.
as chairman of the Council. The
,kr:w1Mik
elude the following points with tage and the Coming Election." 5-3373.
program provides:
regard to a ne wspaper's quali-
These meetings are open to
1—To study, analyze and eval-
Co-chairmen of the dance com-
fications for me mbership:
the public free of charge. --
mittee are Jacob Driker, presi-
uate the policies and activities of
1—Member ne wspapers must
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the national. and local agencies.
dent, and Ted Sachs, club treas-
be printed and p ublished in the Mothers' Clubs Arrange
urer. Sachs and Leon Rechtman
2—To ascertain . the problem
communities in which they cir- Annual Succoth Festival
are co-chairmen of the publicity
areas from time to time.
culate.
- The annual. Succoth harvest committee.
3—To ascertain the areas of ac-
2—In instances where publica- festival will be celebrated by the
Other officers are: Jack Al-
tivities of these organizations and
tions circulate o utside the cfty Mothers' Clubs, Wednesday, Oct.
to conduct a continuous inventory
of publication th e approval f or 4, at 8:15 p. m., at the Jewish spactor, secretary; Leon •echt-
man, chaplain; Bob Jacobs and
of their projects.
such membership shall' be sub- Community Center.
Mel Wine r,- sergeants-at-arms;
ject to the consen t of the exec u-
Eliminate Duplication
Julius Chajes, director of Howard Schwartz, ticket chair-
tive committee.
4—To serve as a coordinating
music at the Jewish - Center, is man; Morton Stockler, reporter;
Serve Com munities
and clearance agency for projects
in charge of the musical pro- Bob Jacobs, dance arrangements;
and policies, to eliminate dupli-
3—Member publications shall gram for that evening. Members Mel Winer, advertising.
solicit subscripti ons and local of the Young Women's Study
cation and conflict of activities,
advertising only i n the commu- Club are decorating the Succah
and to recommend further proj-
MEIER -SZTERN SOUGHT
ects to member agencies.
nities where they are printed and they will also act as the
Anyone
knowing the where-
and the territory they serve.
hostesses of the affair. Mrs. Sid- abouts of Meier and Szeindel
5—To seek agreement on and
formUlate policies. Such policies
4—Member publications shall ney J. Allen of the Mothers' Sztern for whom there is a mes-
at all times be re quired to con- Clubs Advisory Board will be sage from Nettel Pinchasowicz
once formulated and adopted, it
lrm to journalistic standards the chairman of the occasion.
is expected that the affiliated or-
Szpringer, a refugee in the
DAVID SHER
* * *
ganizations will adhere to such
set by the executive committee .
USSR, please communicate with
policies and will not engage in American Jewish Congress, and
5—Only applications shall b e `Talkers' Group' to Resume
Henry Feinberg, Jewish Social
any activities in contravention of Bernard Kopkind, president of. considered of publications th at Activities on Sept. 30
Service Bureau, 5737 Second
such policies.
Jewish Community Council of have 'been in existence for on e
Among the several activities Ave., TR. 2-4080.
In his report as executive di- New Haven.
year and have published consecu- that are reopening at the Jewish
rector, Isaiah Minkoff reviewed
tively for 52 issues.
Community Center is the "Talk-
the activities of the NCRAC since UAHC Is. Elected
6—Membership shall be lim- er's Group."
its inception last March, and ex- To NCRAC Membership
ited in any case to publications
For the third season, Ed Em-
pressed his belief that "the in-
CINCINNATI — The Union of otherwise qualifying that are rich, the group leader, states
dividual agencies should continue American
Hebrew Congregations, published exclusively in the Eng- that a few more new members
the functioning end of the job, activities of which include the lish language.
can be accommodated. Any adult
and the NCRAC should concern planning and execution of the
Association's Purpose
who wishes to improve his or
itself with the task of evaluating, widely-
The purpose of the association her ability in the art of carrying
successful UAHC Inter-
analyzing and questioning."
faith Institutes on Judaism, has is: "To promote the welfare of on an _intelligent and interesting
Discuss Five Papers
You can earn good
just been elected to membership the English-Jewish newspapers conversation, should register at
Discussion among the delegates in the National Community Re- in the U. S.; to cement coopera- once at the Center office.
supple
mentary in-
to the sessions - centered about lations Advisory Conference, it tive efforts among the member-
The first meeting will be on
five papers presented by repre- was announced by Rabbi Maurice ship of the organization; to fos- Saturday, Sept. 30.
comes by becoming
sentatives of the national N. Eisendrath, UAHC director.
ter a better understanding be-
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. agencies. Louis Novins, assistant
n.
solicitors for the Cir-
Rabbi Eisendrath attended the tween newspaper members of Speakers' Club to Begin
national director of the anti-• plenary session of the NCRAC at the Association and the respec- Fourth Season Sept.
30
culation Department
Defamation League of Bnai Brith, the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, tive communities • which they
Speakers' Club will begin its
discussed the problems of polit- Sept. 9-11, as delegate from the serve; to increase the usefulness
of The Jewish News.
ical anti-Semitism; Rabbi J. X. UAHC to the NCRAC.
of the newspaper membership of fourth season on Saturday, Sept.
Cohen, chairman of the Commis-
this association in keeping with 30, in the Library Room of the
In addition to the importance 'the best traditions of an Ameri- Center, Woodward at Holbrook,
sion on Economic Discrimination
For Information Calf
of the American Jewish Congress, of the Interfaith Institutes on can free press; and to do all under the supervision of Edward
and Charles Sherman, director of Judaism conducted by the UAHC, acts . and things relating thereto Emerick, who has supervised the
Miss Geulah Ganda!
public relations of the Jewish the following programs were cited which. may be necessary to the group since it was organized
three years ago.
Labor Committee, presented pa- by Rabbi Eisendrath as outstand- welfare of the Association."
RAndolph 7956
pers on the problems of post-war ing activities of the. UAHC in the
The club has over 25 members
The Association's officers are:
economic dislocation and its im- community relations field.
Dr. Joseph Brin; Boston Jewish and meets twice monthly.
pact upon the position of the
The work of the Commission Advocate, president; Philip Slom-
Jews; and Dr. John Slawson, ex- on Information About Judaism: ovitz, The Jewish NewS, Detroit,
ecutive vice-president of the 32 studies of Jewish thought, first vice president; Jack Fish-
American Jewish Committee, and philosophy, religion, social jus- bein, Jewish Sentinel, Chicago, Detroit A.Z.A. Chapter 63
William Wolpert, of the Jewish tice. 'The Bible and American second vice president; Irving G.
• Labor Committee, reported on re- Jewish History are distributed to RhodeS, Wisconsin Jewish Chron-
cent studies on anti-Semitism and a mailing list of 40,000 Christian icle, secretary; Leo H. Frisch,
the work being done in the field ministers and to .other communal treasurer, Jewish World, St. Paul,
leaders.
Masonic Temple Crystal Ballroom
of scientific research.
•
Minn.
,
Mr. Novins reported that al-
More than 1,500,000 "Voice of
Wed. Sept. 27, 1944. Yom Kippur Night
though political anti-Semitism Religion" pamphlets, written es- German-Jewish Refugee
has cropped up in many areas pecially for the men and women
Featuring Johnny Allan and His Orchestra
throughout the country, it is in the armed services, have been Developed 'Death Gas'
Dancing 9. to 1
Gerry Melvin, Vocalist
nevertheless a fact that as yet distributed by the UAHC.
political anti-Semitism has been
LONDON, (JTA) — "Cyclone
The Jewish Chautauqua So-
a failure wherever it - was in- ciety, a UAHC agency organized gas," which was used to asphyx-
troduced. Dr. Cohen and Mr. by the National Federation of iate Jews in the Majdanek ex-
Sherman both reported the pos- Temple Brotherhood, reached au- termination camp in Poland, or-
sible dangers confronting Jews diences totaling 160,000 in 296 iginally was designed as an in-
through postwar economic dis- colleges and four universities in secticide, according to Dr. Mar-
location.
tin Schauf, German-Jewish
1943.
"Grave" Situation
The Commission on Jewish. Ed- chemist who was associated with
Dr. Slawson reported a groW- ucation, a UAHC - supported the German company producing
ing anti-Semitism that he de- agency, creates and publishes a the gas.
Dr. Schauf, who heads the re-
scribed as "grave" and presented number of books of valued serv-
— from —
to the delegates a picture of the ice to the community relations search department of the Atom-
ized..Food Products Co. here, said
work being done by a group of program.
that his brother and many friends
social scientists working on new
The UAHC has cooperated with
techniques to combat anti-Sem- the CCAR in publishing consider- had been killed at Majdanek with
itism. Dr. Wolpert described an able material with regard to so- the gas on which he had experi-
investigation being made among cial legislation, working closely mented for many years. The
labor groups. Two national agen- in that field with other church chemist left Frankfurt in 1933 af-
ter his dismissal because he was
cies—the Jewish War Veterans groups.
a Jew.
of the U. S. and the Union of
Gerald K. O'Brien
American Hebrew Congregations
Democratic.
Candidate
.
for
—and, four community agencies—
Kansas City, Newark, . New
Haven and Bridgeport — were
added as members of the NCRAC.
2705 JOY ROAD
Mr. Sher made a brief state-
ment expressing his confidence in
the ability of the NCRAC to
It Is an Extreme. Pleasure and Privilege to
prove itself. a coordinating and
desires to extend heartfelt good
clearance agency of great value
Extend Felicitations on the Occasion
wishes to all its members and friends
to the American Jewish Commun-
ity. Other officers elected be-
of the New Year to the Jewirla
for a Happy and Victoriou's New
sides Mr. Sher, who is a mem-
Community of Detroit. May
Year.
ber of the executive committee of
the American Jewish Commit-
the New: Year 5705 Have
tee, are: Henry Epstein of the
New Formed Association's Rev. Williams to Address
By-Laws and Rules Are
Center B. & P. Group
Announced
NEW YORK (JTA)--A five-point program of clearance .
Business and Professional Dis-
Men!
Women!
Boys and Girls!
,
,
18th Annual Dance
Rosh Hashanah
Greetings!
,
GERALD K.
013111E
Jericho Lodge 490, 100F
LEONARD SMITH,
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