Friday, March 9, 1945
Temple Service
In Tribute to
Simon s Memory
THE JEWISH NEWS
Detroit WAG in Italy
Attends Purim Affair
ITALY—The Jewish holiday of
Purim wasn't forgotten by
Jewish WACs attached to Allied
Force Headquarters here. Among.
Eighth Member of Beth El the WACs was Sgt. Ethel
Manason, 2628 Fullerton, De-
to Die in Action to Be
troit.
Honored Tonight
The WACs helped serve re-
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freshments at the social hour
At Temple Beth El, the ser- and received. silver Mezuzahs
vices this Friday evening will be from Chaplain Tavel, which he
dedicated to the memory of had brought from Palestine.
Lewis Arthur - Simon, son of Plans for Passover were dis-
Mr. and Mrs.
closed by Chaplain Tavel. A
Harold Simon of
community seder will be held
1 6 9 1 0 LaSalle
March 28.
Blvd.
He was a 1939
confirmand o f
Temple Beth El
and his parents
and
grandpar-
ents have been
Philip Gray, son of Mr. and
life-long mem-
Mrs. Nathan Gray of 18452
bers of t h e
Woodingham
Temple. T/5 Si-
Drive, has been
mon is the Lewis Simon
transferred to
eighth member of the Temple
the University
Beth El family to have sacrificed
of Notre Dame
his life in the service of his
Naval R.O.T.C.
country.
unit.
A Central High graduate, he
Seaman Gray
entered service in April, 1943 and
was formerly a
had been stationed at Camp
member of the
Gordon, Ga., prior to being sent
V-12 unit at
overseas in April, 1944.
Berea College,
T/5 Simon, who was on re- Seaman
Gray Kentucky.' H e
conaissance duty with the Mech- was
one
of
a select group who
anized Cavalry in Patton's army,
qualified for
this advanced
was kited on Feb. 20, somewhere training.
in Germany.
He is 19, a graduate of North-
western High, and attended
Civilian Chaplains
Wayne University before enlist-
In Factories Planned
ing in August, 1943.
Seaman Gray Now at
Notre Dame ROTC
By Synagogue Council
NEW YORK (JPS) — A pro-
gram of closer co-operation and
co-ordination between the syna-
gogue and labor has been pro-
posed in the interim report of
the Synagogue Council of Amer-
ica's Committee on the Syna-
gogue and • Labor. Immediate
objectives of the committee are
the assignment-of civilian chap-
lains to large factories to hold
religious meetings; annual "La-
bor Sabbaths" to be observed
jointly by labor and synagogues;
social, recreational and cultural
programs provided for the work-
ing man by the synagogue, and
social and educational programs
and discussions on religion con-
ducted by labor organizations.
Draft Boards to Defer
Passover Inductions
The observance of the Pass-
over Holy Days by Jewish reg-
istrants and war workers has
been recognized by Selective
Service Headquarters and vari-
ous war agencies, according to
an announcement by Rabbi
Ahron Opher, assistant to the
president of t h e Synagogue
Council of America.
Plc. F. P. Blazofsky
Gets Purple Heart
Pfc. Frank P. Blazofsky, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Blazof-
sky, 3205 Leslie Ave., has re-
ceived the Purple Heart. , He
was wounded iri
France on Jan.
30, while serv-
ing with the in-
fantry, and is
s t i 11 hospital-
ized.
A Central
High graduate,
he was inducted
on April 23,
1944, and took
his basic train- Pfc. • Blazofsky
ing at Camp Hood, Tex. He has
been in France since Nov. 25.
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Page Nineteen
Pvt. Kritt Killed
After 2 Weeks
Of Combat Duty
Fought at Metz, Died Dec.
in Germany; Wife Runs
His Insurance Agency
Pvt. Joseph E. Kritt, 34, was
killed in Germany after having
been on combat duty two weeks,
according to word received by
his wife.
Pvt. Kritt, a Central high
graduate, had attended Wayne
University as a pre-law • student
for several years. He conducted
the Kritt• Insur-
ance Agency
and was em-
ployed in the of- -=
lice of the In-
ternal Revenue
Dept. a t the
time of his in-
duction on
April 6, 1944. He
had been sche-
duled to head
his section of
Pvt. Kritt
the revenue department when
he was inducted.
Pvt. - Kritt took his basic train-
ing in Texas and left for over-
seas in Septernber. He saw duty
in England, France and fought in
the battle of Metz and died in
Germany on Dec. 1.
His wife, the former Sara Wise
to whom he was married on Nov.
25, 1936, is carrying on the in-
surance business which he estab-
lished. Together ..with their son,
Mitchel Jerome, 3, she resides at
3744 Longfellow.
Pvt. Kritt was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Israel Kritt of Elm-
hurst Ave.
U. S. Hechalutz Movement
Is Dr. Weizmann's Aim
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — D r .
Chaim Weizmann, president of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine,
announced that he intends to go
to the United States to establish
a movement for sending young
pioneers to Palestine.
He made this announcement
during a visit to the Mishmar
Ha'Emek settlement of the Hash-
omer Hatzair. "The most import-
ant thing for us is .another tree,
another dunam of land, and more
people," he declared. "The total
of all these will give us a Jewish
State."
Pfc. Berkowitz Home
On Furlough; Wears
Four Battle Stars
Pfc. Ben Berkowitz, home from
Italy on a 30-day furlough, is
spending his stay with his wife Palestine GI's Newspaper
Calls on Rabbis, Congress
and parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Baranoff, 4057 Burlingame.
To Half Tide
Formerly a printer, he entered
ROME (JPS)—In an appeal to
service in Au-
rabbis, the Jewish Agency for
gust, 1941, and
Palestine and the World Jewish
had been over-
Congress to curb the tide of con-
seas for two and
versions among Italian' Jewry,
one half years.
the official Hebrew newspaper
He is a veteran
of the British Army, Lahayal,
of four major
published by Jewish Palestine's
battles and
units, charges that Catholic clergy
wears four bat-
which has done "much to rescue
tle stars which
Jewish lives . . " is not satis-
symbolize h i s
fied and now seeks -to rescue
participation in
the soul as well.
the North Afri-
can, Sicilian and Pfc. Berkowitz
'our thousand Italian Jews
Italian campaigns. He was with were converted in 1939-40, nearly
the troops of the first invasion one out of 10 Jews in Italy at
of North Africa.
the time. There were also many
The son of Mrs. Fishman of converts among the refugees,, the
1547 Hazelwood, he was married paper said.
to Idalene Baranoff 'on Jan. 2,
"It was to be assumed that with
1940.
their liberation after the days of
Pfc. Berkowitz. has two broth- wrath will have passed, most or
ers who are also serving with the many of the apostates would re-
army, one in England and the turn to their people. The num-
ber of those that have returned
other in New Guinea.
is negligible, hardly adding up to
a few dozen.
"But it is not alone that the
apostates do not recant, but even
now, in liberated Italy, there are
many cases of open conversion
NEW YORK—Three million among children and youth, and
Jews were slaughtered by the of secret conversions among
Nazis in Europe in 1944, on the adults.
basis of International Labor Of-
"And there is no protest from
fice and World Jewish Agency
estimates, and of the 1,000,000 Jewish leadership. - Neither the
that remained outside of Russia, rabbis nor the presidents of the
the majority will need to be Jewish -Community Councils have
moved during the post war shown any concern, nor taken -
any steps to save Jewry's chil-
period.
dren from the dangers of con-
This was announced by Abra- version.
ham Herman, president of the
"There is reason to believe that
Hebrew Sheltering and Immi- the danger of baptism lurks alsb
grant Aid Society (HIAS), be- over the communities of surviv-
fore 2,500 delegates at- the annual ing Jews. The first phase of the
convention.
tragedy of contemporary Jewry
To meet the transportation —the physical destruction of mil-
needs of dislocated Jews in 1945, lions of Jews—is nearing its end,
the convention adopted a budget and already the second phase is
of $1,808,000, the largest in 60 setting in—the phase of destruc-
years of immigration activities tion through baptism."
of HIAS.
Mr. Herman said that the pre-
sent network of HIAS offices
will be enlarged as quickly as
the Nazis are driven from their
European footholds. HIAS of-
fices have been set up in North
Africa, France, Italy and Rom-
ania.
$1,808,000 Budget
Adopted by HIAS
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- Anti-Semitism Seen
As Peril for Future
Peace by H. C. Pell
NEW YORK (JPS) — Anti-
Semitism was described as a
peril to the future peace by Her-
bert C. Pell, former U. S. mem-
ber of the International War
Crimes Commission, in an inter-
view for the Independent Jew-
ish Press Service. Anti-Semitism
he said, has served the Nazis as
a method of recruitment, and
may be used as such by future
aspirants to tyrannical power.
"Anti-Semitism recruits the
gangs and keeps them together.
That's what happened in Ger-
many. That is what can happen
elsewhere," Mr. Pell said.
"It is an easy enough method.
The small political party, unable
to reward its followers, goads
them to attack and plunder Jew-
ish stores. Robbers are keepers.
Thus the followers receive im-
mediate renumeration and are
trained in methods of violence.
These acts develop in them a dis-
respect for law and order, and
intimidate the rest of the popu-
lation. No one wants to get in
the way of gangs."
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