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TJ-IE JEWISH NEWS
:Friday,•December 8 i - I-944
Wednesday evening, Dec. 20, at
8:30 p. m., in the auditorium of
the Center. AdmissiOn is free to
paid-up members; non-members
50 cents. All proceeds will go to
the Chalutzah Fund in Palestine.
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Book Review at tenter
Next Wednesday Evening
The next book chat program
will be held in the •library on
Wednesday at 9:00 p. m. /
Philip Slomokritz editor of The
Jewish News, will review' three
books on Zionism and Palestine,
"Land of. Promise" by Walter C.
Lowdermilk, "The Forgotten
Ally" by Pierre Van raassen
and "Harvest in the Desert" by
Maurice .Samuel.
Book chats are held in con-
junction with the Utley Branch
of the. Detroit Public Library.
The -public is invited.
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Borodkin Offers to Teach
Swimming at the Center
Joshua Borodkin, Center
Swimming director, states:
"The mind is the greatest factor
in controlling human behavior.
Whether we are afraid or exhil-
arated depends on our attitude
concerning the water. There is
no one who cannot readily be-
come acclimated to the water. A
group which is particularly dif- .
ficult to acclimate to the water
are persons who have been seri-
ously handicapped by infantile
paralysis. These people's fear is
doubled because in their mind
they are convinced that . their
physical handicap has made them
different from other people.
From personal experience with
them, I found that they are not
too difficult to• accustom to the
water.
"The average person can learn
to swim in a period of 68 • hours
under competent instruction.
Won't you come down to the
Center and give it a try? I will
be glad to help you."
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Weel-41y Review of the News'of the World
(Compiled From Cables of. Independent Jewish Press Service)
See Also Page
AMERICA
The problem of repatriating and resettling
after the war thousands of deported or es-
caped Jews in Europe will be complicated by
the destruction under the Nazi regime of all
identification papers and legal documents
necessary to establish their citizenship, Vladi-
mir Schah; director of the Paris office of
HIAS-ICA Emigration Association, -reports. -
Mr. Schah recommends a system similar -to
the French "Act of Notoriety," whereby- two
citizens may act as witnesses before a Justice
of Peace or municipal officer for the establish-
ment of the facts in lieu of the document.
A total of $1,615,513 has been spent during
the past two years by the Julius Rosenwald
Fund' for its programs of educational activi-
ties among the Negroes and improved rela-
tions between Negro and white, Professor
Edwin R. Embree, president of the Fund, an-
nounced here.
Rabbi Samuel Rubin, 38, a native of Poland
who came to this country five years ago, has
enlisted in the Merchant Marine. Rabbi. Rubin,
executive director of Beth-Jacob Seminary in
Brooklyn, has had no word from his wife and
five children in Poland since the beginning of
the war and believes that they were killed
by the Nazis. Rejected by .the Army_ and
Navy, he decided to settle his score with. the
Nazis by joining the Merchant Marine.
Nazi party leaders and Gestapo . agents
operate in German prisoner of war camps
throughout the United States "to discipline
any Germans who might profess disloyalty to
their Fuehrer," Brigadier General Blackshear
M. Bryan, Jr., Assistant Provost Marshal Gen-
eral, told reporters at a press conference in
Boston.
Only 28,551 alien immigrants were -admitted
into the United States for peignanent residence
during the 1944 fiscal year, arcording to a pre-
liminary report by Acting Commissioner Jo-
seph Savoretti, Attorney General Francis
Biddle disclosed. The figure includes only 8,694
aliens from European countries and only 1/20
of the total quota, established by law, from all
countries outside the western hemisphere. Ac-
cording to the report, the majority of the aliens
admitted during 1944 were natives of Mexico
and Canada not subject to quota regulations.
An additional 113,641 aliens were admitted into
the United k States during 1944 on a temporary
basis, • mostly government officials, visitors,
agricultural laborers and persons in transit.
A new collection of books on the Zionist
movement and Palestine was presented to the
Jewish Culture Foundation Library of Hebraica
and Judaica at New York University by the
Zionist Organization of America.
Despite an official statement by the Aus-
tratian government rejecting a proposal for a
Jewish Autonomous Territory in Kimberley,
Northwest Australia, Dr. J. N. Steinberg,.
founder of the Freeland League, which has
fathered the proposal, maintains that "this is
not the last word."
George Mainz, a German financial expert,
arrived in Buenos Aires from Germany via
Spain "to act as adviser to Cesar Ameghino,
Argentine Minister of Finance," according to a
report broadcast over the Moscow radio and
picked up by the Federal Communications
Commission in New York.
The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United
States and Canada, meeting in Lakewood, N. J.,
adopted a resolution calling for a "Jewish State
in Palestine," substituting "state" for the word
"commonwealth" strongly opposed by rabbis
affiliated with the Agudath . Israel, ultra-
Orthodox organization opposed to Zionism.
Rabbinical Assembly
Opposes Conscription
NEW YORK (Religious News
Service) — Immediate enact-
ment by Congress of postwar
conscription, was opposed here
by the Rabbinical Assembly of
America, representing the Con-
servative rabbis in the U. S., in
a statement issued through its
Social Justice Committee.
It was urged that open hear-
ings be held at which' represent-
atives of the Church and Syna-
gogue . and other organized bod-
ies woul
d
an opportunity
to present their views.
Harold B. Trobe Joins
JDC Overseas Staff
Harold B. Trobe, newly-ap-
pointed overseas field representa-
tive of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee, has
left this country to join the staff
of the European central office of
the J.D.C. in Lisbon.
Mr. Trobe will join ,other re-
presentatives of the Joint Dis-
tribution Corninittee r major Am=
erican agency for . the relief and
rehabilitation of -Jewish victims
overseas, in administering _ the
rescue, relief and restoration
program now operating in prac-
tically all of the countries in
Europe and North Africa under
the direction of' Dr. Joseph
Schwartz, chairman of JDC's
European Council.:who returned
to Europe recently.
An editorial counseling patience to the 985
refugees, some of whom are fretful over their'
restricted lives at the temporary shelter at
Fort Ontario, Oswego ; N. Y. was publighed in
the Ontario. Chronicle, the refugees' own week-
ly newspaper. -
Arrangements to celebrate the 35th anni-
versary of the Chicago Sentinel, English-Jewish
weekly newspaper, are being made by a corn-
Mittee of leaders of Chicago Jewry, headed by
Barnett Hodes, Corporation Counsel, Judge
Harry M. Fisher and Ty.i-ax Bressler, president -
of the Chicago Division of the American Jew-
ish Congress.
PALESTINE
- Two leading representatives of the Jewish
Agency in London have received permission
and obtained facilities to proceed to France to
distribute Palestine certificates. .
Two minesweepers built in the shipyards of
the Marine Trust here and made of Tel Aviv
material, excluding - the engines which were
imported, were delivered to the • Royal Navy,
whose senior officers praised the quality of the
material and the high standards of the work.
The same yards have already launched two
large fishing vessels.
The Palestine government announced offi-
cially that the High Commissioner, Viscount
Gort, would appoint a 'commission of inquiry
into the educational system of the Vaad Leumi,
Jewish Palestine's National Council. The Corn-
mission in its survey and consequent recom-
mendations will bear in mind "that the funda-
mental principle of the education policy of the
government of Palestine is - equal educational
opportunity for all Palestinians' regardless of
race, religion, wealth or social condition."
High Commissioner Gort paid his first visit
to the Hebrew University, where he was re-
ceived by Dr. J. L. Magnes, president of the
University and Prof. Saul Adler, He also in-
spected the Hadassah hospital where he chatted
with Henrietta Szold who is undergoing med-
ical treatment there. 4"
The Gvil paper factory near Tel Aviv is.
planning to begin production shortly of news-
print once it is able to complete arrangements
for pulping the scrap paper necessary for the
process. A quantity of 12-15 tons of scrap paper
is being allocated to the factory for the purpose,
and the factory will- turn out 10-12 tons of
newspaper monthly at a cost of about $800 per
ton, whi'ch is over twice as much as the price
for imported paper (under government control)
and six times the price of newsprint in the
United Kingdom. Even at this high price, how-
ever, locally-produced newsprint is assured of
a ready sale owing to the shortage.
About 12 witnesses, including the fathers and
other relatives of the accused assassins, appear-
ed` before District Court Judge P. J. Bourke at
a hearing in camera in connection with the
assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo. T h e
testimony will be forwarded to Egypt.
OVERSEAS
The Voroshilovgrad MuniCipal library is in
receipt of a gift of 20,000 books from the private
collection of Dr. Samuel Person, 67, a Moscow
physician, who has already gifted 15,000 books
to Red Army units and partisan detachments
and 10,000 books to military hospitals.
Two members of the former ,Vichy Militia,
found guilty of the assassination last July of
Georges Mandel, prewar French Minister of
Interior, were executed, the Paris radio said.
The Belgian government, acting on an appeal
from the newly formed Association for Jews
Deported to Germany, has requested through
the International Red Cross that the German
government grant the status of prisoners of
war to Jews deported from Belgium by the
Nazis.
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,
,
of bringing together families
separated by the war.
All those interested in locating
relatives in Russia, should apply
to: The Union of Russian Jews,
Beginning with the autumn of 55 West 42nd Street, New York
1941, the Union of Russian e;ews, 18, N. Y.
comprising a group of European
Jewish leaders and Are: Fan
Jews of Russian origin, has been
trying to establish contae,: be-
tween the millions of refugees
and evacuees from Poland. Ro-
mania, Weste-n Russ:a, the Uk-
raine and the Baltic countries,
and their relatives in the U. S.,
Canada, Cent; al and South Am-
erica.
Attempts to effect suct contact
via the Russian Red Cross and
Evacuation Center brought r o re-
sults. It was not uriil the be-
ginning of 1942, when the Union
of Russian Jews contacted Sam-
Buy A Extra
uel Chobrutsky, .president of the
Moscow Jewish Community, that
War Bond
a way was -found. Soon after the
outbreak of the war, the Moscow
for
Jewish • Community organized . a
special bureau for, the purpose
Union of Russian Jews
Locating Relatives
Hanukah
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Third Holiday Hop
To Be. Held Sunday
The Center's Third Holiday
Hop will be a Hanukah Dance,
Sunday, at 9:00 p. m. Carlos Re-
vera and his orchestra 'will be
featured.
Ben Britman and. Estelle Starr
are co-chairmen of the. Holiday
Hop committee and are assisted
by' the following committee
members,: Beatrice Bortman,
Morris . Buckzeiger, Bernice
Friedland, Charlotte Greenberg,
Morris Kamen, Joseph Kwase-
low, Alan Mittleman,Danny
Raskin, Sara Rotman, Ruth Sobel
and Dr. Milton White.
Admission is 75 cents for mem-
bers and $1 for .non;-members:
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Dr. Scott to Address
B & P Group Thursday
Dr. Preston H. Scott, Professor
at Wayne University, will ad-
dress the Business and Profes-
sional DiscUssion. Group on
Thursday, Dec. 14, on "The
United 'States Foreign Policy."
The meeting will be held at
9:00 p. m. in the Adult Lounge,
Everyone is invited.
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Center 'Service Wives'
To Meet Thursday
Center "Service WiVes" will
hold their next meeting Thurs-
day evening, Dec. 14, at 8:00
p. m. Mrs. Henry Meyers, active
in Detroit's' Serve-a-Camp Pro-
ject, will discuss the project.
Mrs. Sadie Saferstein is chair-
man of the group, which now
numbers over 80 women in its
membership. The group will
serve the soldiers at the down-
town USO on Jan.. 1. The group
is also in charge of a War Bond
booth at the Center, under the
chairmanship of Mrs. Marian
Feurst.
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Mothers' Club Program
For the Coming Week
The theme to be discussed by
the various Mothers' Clubs this
week is "The Role of Women
in the World of TomorroW."
The following officers were
recently installed at the Center
Mothers' Club:
President, Mrs. Bella Katz;
vice-president, Mrs. Rose Schu-
raytz; financial secretary, Mrs. C.
Lobowsky; treasurer, Mrs. Ida
Drapkin; sick committee, Mrs.
Bernice Posen and Mrs. Lena
Cohen.
Mothers' Clubs Hanukah Ball
and .Latke Party will be held
.
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