Friday,' December` 8, -F944
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The Lights Go
Ili
Again!
All Palestine Turns Out
To Greet Dr. Weizmann
Holiday Spirit Prevails in Tel Aviv at Reception Honoring
Birthday of Zionist Leader; First Public Festivity
Since War Began in 1939
TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor) — Dr. Chaim Weizmann, presi-
dent of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, 'expressed con-
fidence that a Jewish Commonwealth will eventuate in
addresses he delivered at an all-
day celebration on the
here has had to increase its staff,
of his 70th birthday. The
e cele- which has been swamped under a
Th
b ration, tendered by the city of deluge of messages from all over
Tel Aviv, began with a review of the world • felicitating Dr. Chaim
the recruits for the Jewish Bri- Weizmann on his birthday.
gade and culminated in a. torch- Cabled greetings have been re-
light parade through the city's ceived from leading United Na-
streets.
tions statesmen, led by Vice
Speaking at a small receptiOn President Wallace and Field Mar-
.at the municipality, folloWing shal Jan Smuts.
the torchlight parade, the Zionist
The headquarters of the Keren
-leader referred to his recent in-
terview in the American press, Kayemeth in Jerusalem reported
urging an annual Jewish immi- a general enthusiastic response to
gra tion of • about 100,000 a year its call for a Golden Book of
-for an interim period of between tributes to Dr. Weizmann.
JNF Golden Book albums con-
five to 10 years pending the es-
tablishment of a Jewish Com- taining the names of donors in
each country will be presented -0
monwealth. •
Dr. Weizmann. :From the U. S.
Consulates Fly Flags
came the announcement that a
The holiday spirit was marked
Universal Weizmann Golden
from the early morning, the first Book would be launched there;
public festivity since the lights 1,000 inscriptions are sought in
went out in Europe in 1939.: The Britain; Australia has set a quota
city was beflagged and decorated of 100 inscriptions; South Africa
with bunting and flowers. Flags is canvassing for 500 inscriptions,
fle\AT over government officeS, Canada has nearly achieved its
consulates and most . private quota of 700 inscriptions.
buildings. Tens of thousands of
Ask Weizmann Stamp
persons thronged the streets,
Great demand is reported for a
waiting for Dr. Weizmann's ar- Weizmann portrait and stamp
rival.
published by the Jewish Naiional
Representatives of institutions Fund.
and organizations assembled in
The staff of the Sieff Research
Gan Meir, the public park named Institute at Rehovoth presented
for the late Meir Disengoff, to Dr. Weizmann at an informal
Mayor of Tel Aviv.
reception a stone plaque with
Among those on the platform carvings of the emblems of the
were the aged Dr. Schalit, secre- 12 Tribes by sculptor Moshe Zif-
tary to Dr. Herzl, founder of po- fer of Tel Aviv. Meyer Weisgal,
litical Zionism, and Abraham Dr. Weizmann's representative in
Schapiro, of the first of Jewish the U. S., presented to him a
Palestine's Shomrim (guards) in volume of tributes, under Weis-
the days of early settlement, and gars editorship, issued by the
the municipal councillors, and Dial Press in the U. S. on the
presidents of local councils.
occasion of Dr. Weizmann's birth-
Volunteers Line Up
day.
The first party of volunteers
The Jewish Agency's Bialik
for the Jewish Brigade lined up Foundation, named for the late
in ranks facing the platform. This Chaim Nachman Bialik, Pales-
group included members of labor tine's poet laureate, presented
settlements and Jewish Maquis Weizmann with a parchment
who enlisted with the Jewish volume containing his speech be-
Brigade immediately on their ar- fore the Peel Royal Commission
rival in Palestine. Units of the in 1937. This Is the first volume
Jewish security forces and Jew- completely produced in Palestine,
ish ex-servicemen of this war including the paper.
were in the line of review. Two
Jewish bands, • a military . and • a
_ firemen's band, played marches:
to
Shouts of welcome began rip-
pling down the streets, increasing On CBS
in volume as Dr. Weizmann and
his wife entered the city. They
The Talmud will be the subject
were accompanied by Moshe of CBS's "Invitation to Learn-
Shertok, Chief of the Political ing" program on Sunday, climax-
Department of the Jewish ing the nation-wide observance
Agency.
of Jewish Book Month. Partici-
Tel Aviv's Mayor RokaCh wel- pants will be Eugene O'Neill. Jr.,
eomed the visitors as they mount- author and associate professor of
ed the platform. Dr. Weizmann Greek at Yale University; Dr.
reviewed the parade, chatted William F. Albright, professor of
with the Jewish Brigade volun- semitic languages at Johns Hop-
teers and, in a short speech, con- kins' University; and Rabbi Jo-
veyed to them the greetings of seph H. Lookstein, associate pro-
the World Zionist Organization. fessor of Practical Rabbinics at
The proceedings were filmed Yeshivah College and vice-chair-
by the Carmel Hebrew Newsreel man of the Committee of Army
Co. and recorded by the Jeru- and Navy Religious Activities of
salem radio station.
the National Jewish Welfare
Board.
Weizmann Golden Book
This program will be heard on
Campaign Gains. Momentum
WABC, from 11:30 to 12 noon,
REHOVOTH, (JPS-Palcor) — and will be carried by the entire
The usually quiet little post office CBS network.
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Talmud
Be Topic
Sunday
THE "JEWIS1-1 NEWS
Page- Ihirfeed
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Ethel Isenberg Hirschmann Hails
Palestine Efforts
Gets Lead Role
WRB Representative Asks
Immediate Elimination
In 'Junior Miss
of Terrorists
no other door open to them in
the whole world."
.
According to Joseph Schloss-
berg, .national chairman, and I.
Hamlin, national secretary of
the Labor Committee, $1,250,000
was raised this year for the res-
cue and reconstruction activities
of the Histadruth, Jewish Pales-
NEW YORK (JPS)—Imme-d- tine's Federation of Labor. The
iate elimination • of the terrorists 1945 quota was set at $2,000,000,
. •
in Palestine was called for by
Ira Hirschmann, special WRB
representative who has just re-
turned from the Near East and
the Balkans.
AddresSing the 21st. annual
HAIFA (JPS-Palcor) — Solo-
convention of the National La- mon Wolf, German Jewish refu-
bor Committee for Palestine, •Mr. gee who died here last week at
Hirschmann praised Jewish 71, left his entire fortune of
Palestine's "vigor, idealism and $400,000 to the Jewish National
achievements" and declared that Fund (Keren Kayemeth). The
"such people can't be stopped," bequest includes a unique stamp
but warned that the "small group collection.
of terrorists" was imperiling the
entire effort.
MICHIGAN'S LARGEST
Speaking of Palestine as the
FLORSHEIM. DEALER
It
"only country that was ready to
receive Europe's homeless Jews,"
he . said: "You can take great
MISS ETHEL ISENBERG
heart in the manner in which
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Miss Ethel Isenberg, daughter Palestine received refugees from
Evenings
Open
of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Isen- all over Europe .when there was
berg of Edison Ave., now a soph-
more at the University of Michi-
gan, has been selected for the
title role in the play "Junior
Miss" to be given by the. Play
Production Class, Dec. 13, 14, 15
and 16, at the Lydia Mendelson
Theater at Ann Arbor.-
Refugee Leaves
$400,000 to JNF
I E
Odessa Bond Drive
Will Honor Memory
Of Sidney Esserow
At a rally held on Tuesday eve-
ning, Odessa Progressive Aid So-
ciety inaugurated a drive for the
Gth War Loan in tribute to Sid-
ney Esserow, a son of one of the
society's members, who died in
service. Herman Kanter is
chairman of the drive.
The society's 33rd annual ban-
quet will be held Sunday eve-
ning, Dec. 17, at the Arbeiter
Ring Center, Linwood and Bur-
lingame. A. Bigelman is chair-
man. The cooperation of the
community is solicited in mak:
ing this event a success.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of the late Zlate
Davidson wish to thank their
friends and relatives for the
many kindnesses shown them in
their recent bereavement.
Hanukah
Greetings--
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