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Yiddish Cultural
Program to Have
Hanukah Theme
Center - Council Committee
Pians , Annual Festival o
Be Held Dec. 117
The third event in the Yiddish
cultural series, sponsored by the
joint Yiddish culture committee
of the Jewish Center and Jewish
Community Council, will be the
anneal Hanukah festival on Sun-
day evening, Dec. 17, in the Cen-,
ter auditorium. .
Moishe Haar has prepared an
elaborate dramatic presentation
for the Hanukah observance. He
has enlisted several groups and
individuals who will contribute
their talents. He has written the
text of the program based on
material from the Book of Mac-
cabees, including portions of the
poetic works of the modern poets
Bialik and Lessin.
The program will open with
the lighting of the Hanukah
candles by a group of boys
and will be followed by a
choral reading, solo and commun-
ity singing, a one-act dramatic
sketch, interpretive dance and
declamation. Talented students of
the United Yiddish High School
will participate as narrators. A
Center dance group directed by
Miss Fannie Aronson will be
featured.
The dramatic sketch prepared
by- Mr. Haar w ill be presented
by the newly organized Detroit
Yiddish Dramatic Society under
the direction of Meyer Eisenberg,
who will take a leading role in
the play in addition to directing
the cast of 20 members:
Community singing will he led
by Louis Levine.
The evening will conclude with
appropriate interpretive readings
by Moishe Dombey.
Tickets have been distributed
through the Council office to
member organizations interested
in Yiddish cultural activities.
Tickets will be available. at the
Center on the evening of the pro-
gram.
%Villkie Interfalth
Fellowship Created
At His Alma Mater
WASHINGTON—The name of
the late Wendell Winkle was
added to the galaxy of outstand-
ing personalities who have been
permanently memorialized by
university interfaith student fel-
lowships established 'in their
name by Bnai Brith whose presi-
dent, Henry Monsky, announced
that Bnai Brith's National Hillel
Commission has created the
Wendell Willkie Interfaith Fel-
lowship at Indiana University,
Mr. Willkie's alma mater.
AFL Convention
Asks Federal Ban
On Anti-Semitism
Also Urge Congress Action
on Resolution Favoring
Jewish Commonwealth
NEW ORLEANS .(JPS)—Two
resolutions have been submitted
to the convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor here.
, The resolutions, similar to those
Passed by the CIO convention
last 'week, endorse bills before
Congress for a Federal law
against anti-Semitism, and urge
passage of the Jewish Common-
wealth resolution, approved this
week by the House foreign af-
fairs committee.
The resolution calls "for the
enactment of Federal legislation
as a wartime measure and as a
postwar measure, which will
make organized discrimination,
such as anti-Semitism, a crim-
inal offense, punishable by law;
we believe that such a law- is
essential 4for the preservation of
our great democratic principles
and for the protection of our
Americans, regardless of race,
color, religion or national origin,
and for the ultimate protection
• f the trade union movement,"
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Pisgah Women Give
Checks as Donations
To Various Causes
At a meeting of Pisgah Women,
held Nov. 27, Mrs. Nathan Wolf,
president, presented checks to
Mrs. Louis Perlman, president of
District Women's Lodge . No. 6,
for the following:
$1,250 for war service, $550 for
Hillel scholarships, $400 for De-
troit War Chest and $450 to help
furnish three rooms in Percy
Jones hospital.
The Ida Hibbard fund again
will receive financial aid.
A Hanukah party for members
will be given Monday evening
at Bnai Moshe. Mrs. Albert Fen-
kel, hostess committee chairman,
officers and board members will
serve as hostesses. • There will be
games and refreshments.
Habonim Leader
Describes Hopes
Of Holland Jews
Former National Director
Now Radio Operator
With Army Unit
Kieve Skidell of New York,
one of the foremost figures on
the American Zionist youth
scene, at present is assigned as
a radio operator to an armored
reconnaissance company some-
where in Germany.
Before his entry into the arm-
ed forces, Pvt. Skidell was na-
tional Mazkir (executive direct-
or) of Habonim, labor Zionist
youth organization, and was the
editor of Furrows, its official
publication. He is well known
to members of the labor Zionist
movement here.
In a letter to Abraham Cohen
of the Detroit Jewish Commun-
ity Council, one of his most in-
timate friends and closest as-
sociates in the creation and
development of Habonim, he
tells of an unusual experience.
In describing an encounter he
had with a Jewish family in Hol-
land he writes: "I learned that
of the three Jewish families in
that town one was deported by
Hitler to Poland, but two, includ-
ing the one I visited, went un-
derground, hid out with some
neighbors and got food rations
on false passports.
"They estimate that of the
150,000 or so Jews in Holland
some 30,000 succeeded in evad-
ing the Nazis. With the family
were several more from other
parts of Holland still in German
hands. They, too, had come into
the open with the arrival of the
Americans.
"Then came the pay off, there
were about six or seven people
in the room, including two boys,
16-17. Suddenly I realized that
I had barged in—of all things—
on a Hebrew lesson. Tor Pales-
tine', one of the boys explained.
When I evinced interest I got
to talk to the teacher, a young
though grey haired woman.
"I learned that she, they and
many others are anxiously
awaiting the time when they
can leave for Palestine. She
was worried: would there be
certificates? I tried to be as
reassuring as I could."
Skidell in commenting on the
ruin and desertion of the Ger-
man towns says, "the sight is
quite a tonic".
Jones Post Auxiliary
Holds Membership Tea
For Eligible Prospects
To interest eligibles for mem-
bership in the Lawrence H.
Jones Ladies' Auxiliary No. 190
of Jewish War Veterans of the
U. S., the chairman, Mrs. Sylvia
Schaeffer, has arranged a mem-
bership tea at her home, 3296
Webb, next Tuesday at 8 p. m.
Mrs. Harry Oberstein will re-
view "Earth and High Heaven."
Prospects qualified for mem-
bership are wives, mothers, sis-
ters and daughters of Jews in
the armed forces, or who served
in any of the wars of the U. S.
For information call TO. 8-
4081.
President of the auxiliary is
Mrs. Madeline Rollins.
Council to Hear
Delegates Report
On Conference
Representatives of Affiliated
Groups, Public Urged
to Attend, Monday
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James I. Ellmann, president of
the Jewish Community Council,
announces that Detroit's dele-
gates to the American Jewish
Conference will report on deci-
sions reached at the Pittsburgh
session at the meeting of Council
delegates. Monday evening, at the
Jewish Center.
Decisions adopted at these
delegates' conferences become the
established policies of the or-
ganized Jewish community and
are put into effect by the execu-
tive committee and the functional
committees of the Council, pro-
viding the Jewish community
with a platform for the expres-
sion of interests and wishes in
democratic fashion.
In addition to the reports on
the American Jewish Conference,
a report will be submitted at
Monday's meeting on the work
of the Yiddish culture committee
and further reports on latest de-
velopments in the national and
local fight against anti-Semitism.
Because of the special interest
in the report on the conference,
the general community has been
invited to this meeting, but dele-
gates will be expected to present
their credentials so that their at-
tendance can be checked.
4 Detroit Students
Awarded Bnai Brith
Scholarships at U. M.
Members of the Bnai Brith
Hillel Foundation at the Univer-
sity of Michigan who have won
Bnai Brith , Auxiliary scholarships
for the school year 1944-45 have
been announced by the scholar-
ships committee of Women's Dis-
trict Grand Lodge 6.
The Detroit Pisgah Student Di-
rector Scholarship of $250 has
been awarded to Milton Budyk
of Detroit, and the Detroit Pisgah
Work Scholarship of $150 to
Maurice Dubin of Boston. The
Detroit Pisgah Hostess Scholar-
ship of $150 has been won by
Judith Jacobs of Detroit, and the
Detroit Louis Marshall Work
Scholarship of $75 has been won
by Jack Rash of Detroit.
The Chicago Logan Square
Work Scholarship of $50 was
awarded to Jack Rash of Detroit.
The,.Jackson Temple Sisterhood
Work Scholarship of $25 was
won by Joan Schwartz of Chi-
cago.
Jr. Hadassah to Hear
Convention Report at
Shaarey Zedek Sunday
Junior Hadassah will meet this
Sunday, at 2:30 p. m., at t h e
Shaarey Zedek,
Leah Davidson, former presi-
dent of Little Women of Hadas-
sah, will give a report of the 21st
annual convention of Junior Ha-
dassah held in Atlantic City.
The speaker will be Miss Zelda
Rosenthal.
All Jewish girls, 18 to 25, are
welcome to come to meetings and
to join Jr. Hadassah's program.
For information call Gertrude
Goldman, TY. 5 4985, or Corinne
Perlis, TO. 8-3399.
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Hanukah
Greetings
Friday, December 8, 1944
Weisgal Reports
On U. S. Chalutizni,
In Palestine Visit
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor)—
Prospects for the emergence of
a large Chalutzim movement in
the U. S. to train pioneers for
Palestine were described as ex-
cellent by Meyer Weisgal, jour-
nalist and personal representa-
tive of Dr. Chaim Weizmann in
the States. He stressed the
"strong position • of Zionism in
American Jewry" at a reception
tendered him by the Association
of Palestine Journalists.
Weisgal and Gershon Agron-
sky, editor of the Palestine Post,
English-language daily, paid spe-
cial tribute to Louis Lipsky for
his "consistent contribution to
the clarification and moulding of
Zionist thought in America," and
described him as "a loyal disci=
pie of Dr. Weizmann over many
years."
Mrs. Ehrlich to Report
On Hadassah Convention
HACK
SHOE CO.
For technical reasons, occa-
sioned by Christmas, the dead-
line for the Dec. 22 issue of The
Jewish News will be at noon on
Monday, Dec. 18,
Contributors to The Jewish.
News are urged to mail their
copy much earlier than usual in
order to reach us on time before
the deadline and to cooperate,
at the same time, with the • Post
Office which' is especially bur-
dened now by the holiday rush
of mail.
The regular deadline of The
Jewish News is at 3 p. m. on
Tuesday.
Dr. Glazer to Conclude
Book Reviews Tuesday
The fifth and concluding lec-
ture in the series of book reviews
will be given by Dr. B. Benedict
Glazer at Temple Beth El on
Tuesday morning.
His fifth address, will be based
on Elizabeth Goudge's "Green
Dolphin Street."
Dr. Glazer's series of book re-
views was arranged by the Sis-
terhood of Temple Beth El.
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich will re-
port on the recent national con-
vention of Hadassah at the meet-
ing of the Central Group of Ha-
dassah next Tuesday at the
Shaarey Zedek. Mrs. Adolph
Ehrlich will preside.
Arrangements for the meeting, Plan Hanukah Event
which will be preceded by a des-
sert luncheon, have been made At Parochial School
by Mrs. Charles Smith and Mrs.
A Hanukah event will be spon-
M. S. Perlis.
The musical program will fea- sored at 2 p. m. Sunday by the
ture Leah Crohn, vocalist, ac- Detroit Hebrew Parochial School
companied by Rosa Bassin Stein, at Yeshivath Chachmey Lublin,
Linwood and Elmhurst. All are
invited.
U. S. Clothing Reaches
Orphans in Lithuania
The school also will have a
Hanukah affair Wednesday eve-
Lithuanian orphans and gueril- ning. Pupils will participate in a
la fighters were among the recipi- debate, "Why; Remain a Jew."
ents of American shipments of Refreshments will be served by
clothing and shoes sent by the the Sisterhood. Tickets may be
Committee to Aid Lithuania and secured by calling TO. 8-5055 or
various Jewish organizations, TO. 7-5438.
through Russian War Relief, it
was announced by Elias Fife,
president.
Information of Russian War
Relief distribution was contained
Painting, Paperhanging and
in a cablegram received by the
Decorating — Free Estimates
agency from Leo Gruliow, Rus-
TR. 2-5264
sian War Relief's representative
in the Soviet Union.
MORRIS BRODY
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