Friday, January 26, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Twenty-Two
S-Sgt. Berkowitz
Praised for Work
With Hospital Unit
Says Jews Would
Win in Showdown
On Arab Question
In a letter of appreciation sent'
by the commanding' officer of
the 11th Field Hospital to the
36th General Hospital, S/Sgt.•
Meyer Berkowitz, 28, was praised
for the service
he rendered on
D-Day when he
and several oth-
er men in his
unit served the
field hospital':
during the in-
vasion period.
Son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. Berko-q i,
witz of 1 6 7 6
Gladstone, h e
Berkowitz
entered the
army upon his graduation • from
the Ohio College of Chiropody in
July, 1942. First stationed at
Camp Carson, Colorado Springs,
he was shipped to North Africa,
from there to Italy and then to
France.
He is with the 36th General
Hospital, the Wayne Unit,. some-
where in France and is serving
as an operating te#hnician.
His wife, the former Eve Tenn-
enhouse, resides on Richton Ave.
NEW YORK (JPS)—Asserting
that "fear of trouble underlies
the surface calm" in Palestine,
Anne O'Hare McCormick, -New
York Times columnist, reports
from Jerusalem, that "when ask-
ed what would happen if a settle-
ment were made which stirred
the Arabs to a real uprising, one
of the most moderate leaders, a
man who has gone around the
country preaching against vio-
lence in any form, replied 'we
don't fear the Arabs,' and in such
a showdown, provided no out-
side power intervened, the Jews
would be able to hold their own."
Miss McCormick reports "it is
significant that . . . in the pre-
war period of disturbances (in
Palestine), the attack came from
the Arab side and Jews display,
ed extraordinary restraint and
discipline in face of terrible pro-
vocation."
Weekly Review of the News of he World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
(See Also Page 3)
AMERICA
Warning that there will be an increase of
anti-Semitic, anti-foreign and anti-Negro ten-
sions '"in the angry- time here in the United -
States after the war when men fight for jobs,"
Dr. Robert S. Lynd, professor of sociology at' •
Columbia University, told delegates at a Youth
Conference sponsored by • the Civilian Defense •
Volunteer Office and the Welfare Council of
New York City, that "this great city of mul-
tiple cultures and backgrounds needs a posi-
tive program of identifying and giving in-
tegrity and honor to constructive national
traits of its national minorities."
"Regardless of its ultimate outcome, the
Jewish people have already, lost this, war,"
Dr. Salo W. Baron, professor of Jewish History
at 'Columbia University, declared in an address
he delivered as guest lecturer in the Centenary
series of lectures to celebrate the -100th anni-
versary of Congregation Emanuel-El, New
York.
Canadian Jewry is unanimous in its demands.
that Palestine be reconstituted as a Jewish-
Commonwealth and that Jewish rights be
guaranteed by international charter; • Samuel
Bronfman, president of the Canadian JeWish
Congress, declared at the sixth plenary session
of the Congress. Canadian Jewry endorses de-
mands for the apprehension and punishment,
of all war criminals, and the inclusion of
crimes of the Axis powers against their own
nationals, for religious and racial reasons,
among the punishable war crimes, he said in
his address in Toronto.
• Arab members of a union affiliated with the
Histadruth, Jewish Palestine's Federation of
Labor, are picketing a United States mission
house -demanding higher- wages, shorter hours,
a six day work week and vacations, the United
Press reports from Jerusalem. The workers
numbering 33, including 12 women, have been
striking for a month, carrying banners quoting
the New. Testament. Arab unions are providing
workers•to replace the strikers.
In its 1944 Race Relations Honor Roll, listing
those who have contributed most toward racial
harMony, The Chicago •Defender,. one of the
oldest Negro dailies, includes Sidney Hillman,
chairman of the CIO Political Action Commit-
tee; Howard Fast, novelist, and Harry Cohn,
president of Columbia Pictures.
For the first time in the half century-old
history of the Jacksonville, Fla., Jewish Com-
munity, a sizeable sum of money has been
bequeathed to a Jewish cause; when it was re-
vealed that the Jacksonville Jewish Commun-
ity Council will be one of seven beneficiaries
to share equally in the Levy Memorial Fund,
established under provisions in the will of the
late Mrs. B. S. Levy, who passed away last
month. The fund, established by the Protes-
tant widow of a pioneer Jewish merchant, con-
. - sists, of the income, in perpetuity, from the
rentals of one of the most valuable real estate
parcels in the city, on which Levy's ready-td-
wear store is located.
A check for $100,000 was forwarded by the
. Jewish National Fund of Los Angeles to the
New York. national office this week. This con-
tribution was the result of the 10th annual
Hanukah banquet held in honor of the 70th
birthday of Dr. Chaim Weizmann.
Copies of a "humorous" speech to be de-
livered by Adolf Hitler in 1950 in which he
announces the annexation of the United States
as a colony of the "Greater Reich" and ap-
points Nazi propaganda Minister Goebbels
"Chief Rabbi of the whole of Palestine," have
been found on. German war prisoners, the As-
sociated Press reports from 7th Army Head-
quarters in France.
•A nationwide call to Mizrachi Women's Chap-
telt to participate in the Mizrachi Women's
Organization of America campaign to collect
clothing for children and youths in Palestine
Was issued by Mrs. Eli Resnikoff, chairman of
the clothing campaign, who pointed out the
general shortage of clothing in Palestine since
the war.
Nearly 2,000 bed and emergency cases from
48 states and Mexico, were treated in 1944' at
the. Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital of Hot
Springs. National Park. Arkansas, a free non-
- Rep. Rabin Asks
U. S. Jewry's Aid
In Rescue Work
Must Act Quickly to Assist
JDC Program in 1945,
He Tells Conference
REP. BENJAMIN J. RABIN
NEW YORK—American Jews
must act quickly to ensure the
survival of hundreds of thous-
sectarian institution for the arthritic poor,
founded in 1914 by Bnai Brith. According to a
report from Miss Regina H. Kaplan, adminis-
trator, the hospital treated an additional 6,973
clinic patients from all states during the past
year.
Through an unprecedented series of confer-
ences and meetings in Cincinnati and St. Louis
Jan. 9-11, Christian Americans went on record
for a Jewish Commonwealth and for the im-
mediate opening of the doors of Palestine
to Jewish immigration, and called upon Presi-:
dent Roosevelt to implement official commit-
ments on Palestine.
PALESTINE
Soviet Russia will take no stand in reference
to the Palestine question, the Egyptian radio
reports. The radio claims that the official
Soviet press offices in Cairo, London, Teheran
and Ankara, have "indicated" that Russia is
neither prepared to support nor combat, ef-
forts to solve the Jewish problem.
There was one divorce to every four mar-
riages in the Jewish community, according to
statistics issued officially in Jerusalem. During
the first quarter of 1944, there were 1,144 mar-
riages in the Yishuv and 270 cases of divorce. •
In the last quarter of 1943, there had been 1,194
marriages and 337 divorces.
With the increase of Palestine's population,
the density of inhabitants has increased from
30 per sq. kilometer in 1922 to 40.7 in 1931 and
50 per sq. kilometer in 1942, according to the
Survey of Palestine's War-Time Nutrition; re-
cently undertaken by Dr. W. J. Vickers of the
Government Department of Health.
As a result of negotiations between repre-
sentatives of the Jewish Agency and officials
of the British government in London, Cairo
and Jerusalem, the government has agreed,. to
increase war service grants to the families of
Palestinian Jewish servicemen, Moshe Shertok,
chief of the Political Department of the Jewish
Agency, reported. The maximum increase is
from two to three pounds a week; while one
time grants, given under special circumstances,
will be increased to 10 pounds. The Jewish
Agency was notified of these increases by the
War Office.
The Palestine government is being urged to
release available materials to enable the
launching of a building program to provide
housing for refugees arriving in Palestine. The
housing shortage, due to the wartime curb on
building, has led in recent days to what has
b.f-come known as "the invasion," . namely—
the entry of newcomers into temporarily un-
occupied buildings, houses and shanties. Groups
of immigrants have occupied houses that way
in Tel Aviv, Bnai Brak, Nathanya and Rishon
Le'Zion. The housing shortage is especially
severe in large towns and their vicinities.
The first collective settlement of the ultra-
# Orthodox Agudath Israel organization has been
set up on land provided by the Keren Kaye-
meth, Jewish National Fund, near Gedera. The
buildings of the settlement, called Hofetz
Hayim, for the late famous rabbi of Poland,
are being erected under the supervision of the
Agricultural Department of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine and are financed by the Keren
Hayesod, Palestine Foundation Fund.
In recognition of the support and assistance
he has rendered the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine and other Jewish organizations in their
efforts to rescue Europe's Jews, the name of
Lawrence Steinhardt, U. S. Ambassador to
Turkey, was inscribed by the Jewish Agency
in the Golden Book of the Keren Kayemeth,
Jewish National Fund. The certificate of in-
scription was officially presented to him by
a representative of The Jewish Agency. In a
written reply, expressing his appreciation, Mr.
Steinhardt informed the Agency that he would
visit Palestine en route to Washington to ac-
cept a new appointment..
The production of super-phosphate now
amounts to 20,000 tons in Palestine, of which
part is sent to neighboring countries, exclud-
ing Egypt, according to I. Zilinsky writing in
"Taasia," industrial publication.
New potash drying-pans at the southern end
of the Dead Sea, where Palestine Potash Ltd.
has its Sodom works, are shortly' to come into
operation, according to the Tel Aviv "Haaretz."
ands of Jews in Europe, Rep.
Benjamin J. Rabin of N. Y. warn-
ed listeners at the Southern Re-
gional Meeting of the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee held Sunday in Atlanta,
Ga.
"All JDC activities in allied,
neutral, liberated and occupied
territories must continue and be
expanded if European Jews are
to have any kind of hope for the
future," Rep. Rabin stated. He
emphasized that "the $46,570,000
being asked of the JDC by Euro-
pean communities for rescue, re-
lief and rehabilitation in 1945, is
an unprecedented sum in the 30
years of JDC activity and is the
result of unprecedented needs."
Mr. Rabin, a member of the
JDC board of directors and new-
ly elected U. S. Representative
from the 24th N. Y. Congression-
al District, presented to the gen-
eral session an extensive pro-
gram of JDC activities in 1945,
as based upon estimated needs
overseas and upon the experi-
ences of the past year. William
P. Engel of Birmingham, a mem-
ber of the JDC board of direct-
ors, presided.
Representatives of several
southeastern states also heard
Max S. Perlman, JDC represent-
ative in Italy, who recently re-
turned after 15 months spent in
administering the JDC's relief
and rehabilitation programs
abroad. He detailed his experi-
ences in establishing workshops
and training programs for Jew-
ish refugees.
•
.
Jos. Zwerdling Gets
Second Lieutenancy
At JAG School
Graduation from the Judge
Advocate General's School in
Ann Arbor marked the return 9f
Lt. Joseph Zwerdling to the
practice of the legal profession
lafter a recess of two years which
he spent as an enlisted man at
Ft. Rosecrans, San Diego, Cal.
At • the commencement exercises
held Saturday morning, Jan. 13,
he received his commission as a
Second Lieutenant from Major
Myron C. Cramer, the Judge
Advocate General of the Army.
Lt. Zwerdling, a graduate of
the University of Michigan Law
School, was formerly assistant
attorney general at Lansing. He
had been senior enforcement at-
torney of the regional OPA
office in Cleveland prior to his
induction. During 1940 and 1.941
he practiced law in Detroit and
was active in Jewish welfare
work, having served in both the
Jewish Community . Center and
the Welfare Federation.
His wife, Alice, and year-old
son, David, stayed with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Osias Zwerd-
ling of Ann Arbor, during the
four months which he spent at
the JAG School. --
Lt. Zwerdling'S father is one
of the outstanding leaders in the
Michigan Jewish community.
Claim\ 100,000 Jews
Belong to Christian
American Churches
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (Re-
ligious News. Service) — About
100,000 Jews are members of
Christian churches in the United
States and Canada, it was report-
ed to the annual meeting here of
the Home Missions Council of
North America by the Committee
on the Christian Approach to the
Jews.
Histadruth Ivrith
Launches Campaign
NEW YORK—Announcing the
launching of a series of nation-
wide educational projects for the
furtherance of Hebrew culture
and language, -the Hebraists of
America organized through the
Histadruth Ivrith, national or-
ganization for Hebrew culture,
have begun a campaign to bring
the message of Hebrew into
every Jewish community.
In a call addressed to thousands
of Hebraists and all those in-
terested in the Hebrew langu-
age, Samuel J. Borowsky, chair-
man of the Executive Committee
of the Histadruth. Ivrith of Am-
erica, stressed the "significance
of promoting Hebraic culture in
America, particularly iii the pre-
sent critical period facing. the
Jewish people. everywhere.'
The Hebraists of America,
headed by Dr. Israel Efros, presi-
dent, with headquarters in NeW
York City, also announced t.he
forthcoming publication of a
series of books in Hebrew by out-
standing writers of this country,
Palestine and abroad.
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