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THE JEWISH
Prominent Layman Views
Jewish Vocational Service
Br
HARVEY H. GOLDMAN
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NEWS
Mrs. VanAuken Butzel Heads Detroit Committee
Delegate to Zion
To Honor Dr. Chaim Weizmann
Parley in Chicago Next Monday, Dr. Chaim Weiz- science, literature and govern-
.
President Detroit Jewish Vocational Service
Non - Jewish Leaders Join in
Formulating Program to
Aid Palestine
—Photo, Jewish Vocational Bulletin
The Jewish Vocational Service helps to guide individuals into
jobs "for which they are best fitted." Learning about occupations,
as this youth group is doing, is one of the steps in career guidance.
The few years which have passed since the Jewish Voca-
tional Service of Detroit was organized have seen much prog-
ress and have- brought a much wider horizon to the viewpoint
and scope of the activities of the Jewish Vocational Service
and to its responsibilities in the community.
It started, like most such agencies, as simply a job-
placement bureau. Whether we<,
like it or not, we have to face fications can be exercised.
Let's face something else. We
the fact that Jewish communi-
ties need placement bureaus. are "on the spot." The envy dir-
Most of our people can find use- ected at Jewish business men is
ful employment through the ordi- partially due to the fact that we
nary channels; but some of them, are concentrated in just a few
whether the fault is actual dis- lines of industry, that in these
crimination or a psychology in- lines we are proportionately
more numerous than our repre-
herent in them-
sentation in the population at
selves, need
large. Vocational counseling can,
help. And so ‘
from the standpoint of sound
during the mid-E
public relations, give considera-
die and later If
tion to recommending those lines
'30s, the Jewish
of endeavor where we are not
Vocational Ser-
already so predominant, at the
vice developed
same time widening the occupa-
an enviable rec-
tional horizons of the people who
ord in increas-
are being served.
ing from year to
Agency is Effective .,.
year its service
The Jewish Vocational Service
in finding jobs. H. H. Goldman
of Detroit has, within the limits
Services to Refugees
When the refugee problem was of its manpower, done a reason-
at its height, and when each ble job of acquainting the Jew-
metropolitan community faced ish community at large with its
the problem of absorbing these services. The agency has been
refugees so that they would not unusually effective, through the
become a charge upon the public spoken and the written word, in
at large, Detroit was fortunate in getting its message across to
having a . well-organized place- various groups—youth organiza-
ment service which was already tions, parent organizations, men's
well accepted among employers. clubs, and women's clubs. Still
Some of these refugees were more is to be done in the way of
education, in the way of over-
readily placeable; some of them,
coming prejudices in favor of or
however, had no skills, and train-
ing courses had to be establish- against various types of occupa-
tions, in the way of youth guid-
ed to provide them with skills
ance programs, in the way of
in trades where jobs were avail-
more aggressive programs for
able.
the parents of these youths.
War-Time Problems
Mere job placement is just a
The war has brought on new start. But a program of fitting
conditions. Practically every one the right peg into the right hole,
who wants to work can find a of placing our people in jobs in
job, but we have already enter- which they will be happy, in
ed the period—as some of our which they will have an op-
veterans are already returning portunity to grow and to earn
from service and as some of the the comforts and some of the
plants engaged in war manufact- luxuries of life—fitting them into
uring are even now curtailing places of endeavor where they
their production—when more can fill a sound place in our
and more people will need to community, avoiding jealousies
seek jobs. The situation which — that is a program that is
we are about to face brings the worthy of every earnest effort
realization that the mere place- of the Jewish Vocational
ment of people of our faith in Service, of the employment and
jobs is by no means the sole vocational services in each com-
responsibility or even the princi- munity, of every forum, and of
pal responsibility of an employ- every organization that concerns
ment or vocational - service.
itself with this vital problem.
The principal responsibility of
Editor's Note: The new offices
such an organization is to guide of the Jewish Vocational Service
individuals into jobs which will are located at 320 W. Lafayette,
give them opportunities for serv- telephone CA. 8570.
ing themselves and the rest of
the community. It is the function
of the agency to direct people Farband Folk Schools
into the kind of work for which Celebrate New Term -
they are best fitted, in which At Supper Sunday
they will be most happy. and in
Farband Folk School of De-
which they will have possibilities troit will celebrate the opening
of self-development and of at- of the new school year with a
taining a de4rable future.
concert-supper Sunday evening
Facing Facts
at the Lee Plaza Hotel, 2240 W.
Discovering t h e occupations Grand Blvd.
each individual is best fitted for
Efraim Auerbach poet and
ties in with the problem within journalist, will be the guest
each local community. Every speaker. Canter. Carl Urstein
man's aptitude has to be con- of Chicago will present a pro-
sidered in the light of the op- gram of Hebrew and Yiddish
portunities for exercising these songs.
aptitudes within his community.
The affair is conducted in be-
Proper vocational counseling in- half of the annual campaign of
volves, therefore, not merely an the Farband Folk Schools for
analysis of each man's qualifica- $7,500 towards their annual
tions, but an analysis of the oc- budget.
cupational possibilities in the
The program will start at 8
community where these quali- p. m.
Friday, November 24, • 1944
mann, renowned scientist, presi-
dent of the World Zionist Organ-
ization and of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, will attain his 70th
birthday.
.Cor the observance of the event
in the United States, a national
committee, headed by the Hon-
orable Felix Frankfurter, As-
sociate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, has
been formed.
The Committee, of which Ed-
mund I. Kaufmann of Washing-
ton, D. C., former president of
ton, Zionist Organization of Am-
erica, and Samuel Zemurray, of
New Orleans, La., president of
the United Fruit Company, are
president and chairman of the
board respectively, is comprised
of Jewish and non-Jewish leaders
in all parts of the nation.
The following Detroiters have
been invited to serve on the lo-
cal committee, under the honor-
ary chairmanship of Fred M.
Butzel:
Dr. Leo M. Franklin, Dr. B.
Benedict Glazer, Dr. A. M.
Hershman, Rabbi Leon Fram,
Charles Rubiner, Nate S. Shap-
ero, Judge - Charles C. Simons,
David LeVine, Henry Soss, Sid-
ney J. Allen, William Hordes,
Mrs. J. H. Ehrlich, Prof. William
Haber, Henry Meyers, Leo But-
zel, Justice Henry Butzel, Philip
Slomovitz, Mrs. Joseph M. Welt,
Abraham Srere, Henry Wine-
man, Isidore Sobeloff, Andrew
Wineman, Meyer Prentis, Fred
Ginsburg, Max Osnos, Harry
Frank, Israel Davidson, Irwin I.
Cohn, Morris L. Schaver, Mrs.
Albert Kahn, Harry Grant, Dr.
Hugo Freund, Israel Himelhoch,
Abe Kasle and Leon Kay.
Publication of "Dr. Chaim
Weizmann: Statesman and Sci-
entist,' a great book containing
evaluations of Dr. Weizmann's
work by the world's outstanding
men and women in the field of
Mrs. Howell VanAuken, De-
mocratic National Committee-
man for Michigan, represented
Detroit a the Regional Confer-
ence on Palestine held at the
Stevens Hotel, Chicago, on Tues-
day, under the direction of Di.
Howard M. LoSourd.
Non-Jewish leaders of public
opinion discussed the Palestine
question and formulated a pro-.
gram to aid the development -of
the Jewish National Home.
The conference was sponsored
by the Christian Council on
Palestine and the American
Palestine Committee, in cooper-
ation with the American Federa-
tion of Labor, the Congress. of
Industrial Organizations, the Free
World AsSociation, the Unitarian
Fellowship for Social Justice and
the United Christian Council for
Democracy.
Speakers at the Conference
included Dr. Carl J. Friedrich,
Harvard University; Rabbi Sol-
omon Goldman, Congregation
Anshe Emet, Chicago; Dr. Le-
Sourd; Dr. A. William Loos,
Chicago Church Federation; Dr.
Francis E. McMahon, University
of Chicago; Dr. Reinhold Nie-
buhr, Union Theological Semin-
ary; Col. Albert A. Sprague,
Chicago business and civic lead-
er; Dr. Carl Hermann Voss,
executive secretary, Christian
Council on Palestine, and William
B. Ziff, author and publisher.
The American Palestine Com-
mittee, headed by Senator Wag-
ner of New York, is the vehicle
for the expression of the sympa-
thy and good will of Christian
America for the movement to re-
establish the Jewish National
Home in Palestine.
Judge Frank A. Picard is
chairman of the Michigan Com-
Portraits
mittee.
Weddings
The Christian Council on Pal-
estine is headed by Dr. Henry
Children
A. Atkinson, and represents
A Specialty
2,000 Christian ministers and re-
ligious educators.
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Ask Diamond Workers
To Return to Belgium
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Promis-
ing good working conditions, the
Belgian and Dutch consuls have
invited Jewish diamond workers
and merchants of their respective
countries, who fled here after the
German invasion, to return home
to continue their work.
ment, was announced this week
by The Dial Press, 461 Fourth
Ave., New York. The book is
edited by Meyer W. Weisgal. It
will be ready for circulation on
Monday.
Bnai Brith Creates
Four-Part National
Youth Commission
WASHINGTON — A four-part
national Bnai Brith Youth Or-
ganization for Jewish boys and
girls of high school age, for Jew-
ish young men over high school
age and under:',21, and for Jewish
young women over high school
age and under 25 was launched
at the first meeting of the newly-
organized Bnai Brith Youth Corn-
mission.
The, four groups within the
framework of the Bnai Brith
Youth Organization a r e the
Aleph Zadik Aleph, for Jewish
boys in high school or of high
school age; Bnai Brith Girls for
Jewish girls in high school or of
high school age; the Bnai Brith
Young Men • for Jewish boys
above high school age and under
21; and the Bnai Brith Young
Women for women above high
school age and under 25.
The Youth Commission was
created by Bnai Brith to govern
the activities of the entire youth
movement.
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