Friday, Decernlier 15, 1944

THE JEWISH 'NEWS

Palestine Assembly. Pleads
For Three-Power Support

Bnai Brith Plan
Statewide Drive
For Blood Donors

Page Seven

Dr. Finkelstein to Address

Shaarey Zedek Celebration

President of the Jewish Theological Seminary to Speak of
Assephath Hanivcharim Calls Upon Britain, U. S., Russia
Annual Brotherhood Dinner
Mortgage Burning Ceremony on Sunday Evening;
to Establish Jewish Commonwealth -, for Rescue
Message From Chaplain Adler
of Surviving Jews — Especially Orphans
Also Being Planned

For February
JERUSALEM (Palcor)—In a direct appeal to the three
major powers—Great Britain, United States and Russia—
the Assephath Hanivcharim, Jewish Palestine's parliament,
Having just completed the
called for the immediate rescue of Europe's Jewry and re- liquidation of the mortgage on
quested that they agree that Palestine be opened to Jewish the Hillel Foundation at the Uni-
mass immigration and be established as a Jewish Common- versity of Michigan in Ann Arbor
wealth.

and the raising of $5,000 for the
The Assephath Hanivcharim as-
With regard to a proposed Arab Leo N. Levi Memorial hospital in
serted its determination to "se- Federation, he stated: "This is no
cure an agreement between the concern of Zionism, but if such Hot Springs, Ark., Bnai Brith in
Jewish and the Arab peoples on unification would lead to positive Detroit now is planning a state-
the basis of the recognition of policies of development and re- wide Bnai • Brith Blood Donor
their respective rights and of the construction, the Jews would be
extension of mutual aid to each ready to make their contribution Day and the annual brotherhood
other."
to it on the basis of mutual in- dinner in February, according to
David I. Rosin, president of the
The assembled, rising in defer- terest and recognition.
ence to the memory of the Jews
Speaking of immediate plans Greater Detroit council.
who have perished in Europe, for receiving newcomers, Mr.
The drive for funds for the Leo
adopted a resolution calling upon Shertok said: "Immigration al-
the United Nations to "effect the ready is practicable iron most N. Levi hospital culminated Tues-
urgent rescue of the Jews sur- European countries. The Nazis day, at a dinner sponsored by
viving within Europe and enable have taken an appalling toll of the Council and attended by more
their immigration into Palestine," Jewish life. French Jewry has
and asserting that "Jewish Pales- been reduced to half its former than 300.
tine regards it as its obligation to size, Romanian Jewry to a third,
Robert Lurie, national director
rescue primarily the orphans Belgian to a fifth, and Greek of war service for Bnai Brith,
from- Europe and bring them to Jewry to a sixth, with practically spoke of the work of the organi-
Palestine."
the entire community of Salonika zation in the war effort. On the
wiped out. Only in 'Bulgaria program also were Aaron Droock
Other Resolutions
and Miss Sonia S. Masur, regional
Other resolutions adopted de- have the majority been saved.
director of the hospital:
Zionist Delegates
manded the revocation of the
He said that Zionist delegates
White Paper and the cancellation
Work in the raising of the
of all restrictive legislation, ex- may be sent to various liberated funds was directed by King C.
tended greetings to the Jewish countries, including Italy and Shwayder of Detroit Lodge and
Brigade, protested the sentences France. He also stressed the sig- Mrs. Samuel S. Aaron of Pisgah
imposed on David Solomon 24, nificance of the emergence of a Women, co-chairmen of the cam-
and David Epstein, 23, for carry- Chalutzim movement in the paign, with Mr. Droock, Mr.
- ing arms for defense, and extend- Anglo-Saxon countries to train Rosin and Harry Yudkoff as
ed greetings to internees on people for eventual settlement in honorary chairmen.
Palestine, with special emphasis
Mauritius Island. •
Funds for the Percy Jones
The Assephath Hanivcharim on persons with high technical
General Hospital Day Room
also adopted a resolution demand- skills.
The three major problems be- project, which includes the fur-
ing that the government base its
nishing and equipping of three
educational grants not on the ag- fore Palestine now, he said were rooms, are being raised by all
gregate number of children of enlistments for the Jewish Bri- state Bnai Brith lodges. Of a
school age in the Arab and Jew- gade, eradication of terror and
cost of approximately
ish communities, but on the ac- preparation for absorption of a total
large-scale immigration. The re- $5,000, Detroit is raising more
tual number attending schools.
Moshe Shertok, chief of the po- cent terrorist activity, he said, than $3,000. Bnai Brith is con-
litical department of the Jewish was "high treason" because it ducting a war bond campaign.
Agency, addressing the assembly, tended to create tension between
said that the establishment of a the Jewish people and Great the Balkans, attached to the
Jewish State was an immediate Britain.
UNRRA Balkan Mission.
In tribute to Dr. Chaim Weiz-
project and that the agency mem-
The Council will invite Leon
orandum submitted to the Brit- mann, president of the JeWish Herman, Keren Hayesod (Pales-
ish government marshalled the Agency, Shertok said that "while tine Foundation Fund) director,
Dr. Weizmann always has insist- to represent the Vaad Leumi.
Jewish case against partition.
Pointing out that "ever wider ed on the importance of the work
Enroute Several Years
circles" are becoming „convinced in Palestine, he nevertheless had
Jewish Palestine welcomed 369
',that the White Paper policy of been the prime mover in the at-
1939 was untenable, he warned, tainment of the Balfour declara- new arrivals recently, including
however, that "efforts are being tion which represented a political 230_ refugees from Bokhara who
made to urge halfway or patch- short-cut toward the achievement several years ago left their homes
for Palestine and in the interim
work solutions which would leave of Zionist aims."
were forced to sojourn in Persia
things as they were."
Jewry's Death Toll
The death toll among Europe's while waiting for immigration
Attitude Toward Arabs
With regard to the Arab prob- Jews during the period of Ger- certificates. The new arrivals in-
lem, Shertok said &at the Arab man occupation has exceeded the clude 26 Bulgarian Jews.
Two hundred Greek Jews,
world is groping toward unity, "most pessimistic estimates,"
but with agreement on positive Isaac Greenbaum, chairman of hitherto interned - in Greek refu-
issues difficult the Arab politi- the Joint Rescue Committee, af- gee camps in Palestine, under the.
cians were uniting first on a neg- filiated with the Jewish Agency, auspices of the military, have
been permitted by the Palestine
ative platform — opposition to declared.
Greenbaum declared that his government to remain perma-
Zionism. "The Jews have a clear
conscience on the Arab problem; statement was based on reports nently in the country, following
the Zionists had not come to Pal- from Palestine's emissaries en- intervention by the Jewish
estine with the view of uprooting gaged in rescue work in neutral Agency.
or driving out its present in- countries. In the, liberated .areas,
The Palestine government spent
habitants," he said. "Jewish the majority of Jews subsist on $992,000 last year on the educa-
public
relief,
this
especially
being
achievements in the past 60 years
tion of 96,000 Arab school chil-
have benefitted Palestine's Arabs the case in Bulgaria and Romania. dren and only $300,000 for thd
Tens of thousands of Jewish or- educational needs of 86,000 Jew-
in "an immeasurable degree."
"The Jews are most anxious, for phans are dispersed throughout ish school children, it was charg-
peace and co-operation with the Europe.
ed by Dr. Max Soloveitchik, di-
Gets Seat on UNRRA
Arabs and the neighboring coun-
rector of the school system of the
The
Vaad
Leumi,
Jewish
Pal-
tries," he said, "Wherever the
Vaad Leumi.
Jews in Palestine controlled or estine's National Council, was
shared the control of municipal- granted official representation on
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for the needs of the non-Jewish of the Cairo Council of Volun- Paint That Washes—Guaranteed Jobs
inhabitants.
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"Whenever Arab workers asked
assistance of their Jewish col-
leagues, this was given readily
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and freely. Arabic is taught in
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all Jewish secondary and num
erous elementary schools; adults ...mmosimmommg ■
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are also being provided with the
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facilities for learning the Arab
language, history and institutions.
Many bodies have been set up
Our "60" minute visits will
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locally for promoting friendly,
remove
those fat pads from .
neighborly relations."
Limited to Palestine
Hips and Thighs and give
Replying to allegations in the
you a tall, slim figure.
Syrian and Lebanese press that
the Zionists intend to penetrate
into the neighboring Arab coun-
tries, Shertok said: "It is well
known that the Jewish political
aspirations are strictly limited to That Stumpy
Palestine, and that Zionism in
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fact has strongly opposed the dis-
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persion of Jewish settlers outside
—
Open Evenings
Palestine."

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Dr. Louis Finkelstein, president
of the Jewish Theological Semi-
nary. of America, will be the
guest speaker Sunday evening at
the Shaarey Zedek, at the pro-

DR. LOUIS FINKELSTEIN

gram arranged to mark the burn
ing of the synagogue mortgage.
Harry M. Shulman, vice-presi-
dent of the congregation, general
chairman of the committee in.
charge of the celebration, an-
nounces that in addition to a
brief address by Dr. A. M. Hersh-
man there will be a message from
Chaplain Morris Adler who is on.
leave from the congregation.
Chaplain Adler, who until this
month was stationed in Utica,
N. Y., has been assigned to duty
in the Pacific.
Others on the program will in-.
elude Harry Cohen, Shaarey
Zedek's president, Mr. Shulman,
Cantor Jacob H. Sonenklar, who
will kindle the Hanukah lights,
and Isaac Shetzer.
This event marks the belated
celebration of the synagogue's
80th anniversary which was post-
poned two years ago due - 4.3 the
war.

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