Friday, March 9, t945

THE JEWISH NEWS

U. S. Hebrew Kindergartens
Advocated by Dr. Touroff

Eminent Educator Calls for Intensified Jewish Education
With Hebrew as Background; Addresses
Three Meetings in Detroit

Leaders • in the United Hebrew
Schools and an additional group
of invited guests on Tuesday
heard an important message
from Dr. Nisson Touroff of the
Jewish Institute of Religion, for-
mer professor at the Hebrew
University in Palestine and one
of the world's outstanding He-
brew educators, who called for
increased responsibilities by the
American Jewish communities in
efforts to advance Hebrew edu-
cation and Hebrew culture.
Emphasizing the significance
of the Hebrew language in the
life of the Jewish people, Dr.
Touroff, who spoke at a lunch-
eon of the leaders at the Book
Cadillac Hotel, urged the estab-
lishment of Hebrew kindergar-
tens which would not interfere
with the daily public school
studies of children and which
would lead to intensive intro-
duction of the youth ;to Hebrew.
Hebrew as the 'Basis
Dr. Touroff, in answer to a
question placed to him after his
brief address, did n o t oppose
parochial schools which, he
stated, fill a need for a small
group of Jews, but he expressed
doubt whether Jews can take
over the responsibilities of gov-
ernment in sponsoring daily He-
brew schools.
Criticizing the minimum edu-
cational attempts of Sunday and
other schools, Dr. Touroff stated
that since Judaism is not a re-
ligion alone but also a culture

and a history, Hebrew must be
the basis of all education for
Jews. He urged that educators
should not place emphasis on
"pride" but rather on the joy
of possessing the culture of the
Jew.
Deplores Ignorance
Declaring that "language is
the goal of a people," Dr. Touroff
blamed the ignorance of parents
for the let-down in Jewish edu-
cation, and he deplored the lack
of understanding by Jews of the
meaning of the beautiful Hebrew
prayers. He warned that the
time is coming when we will
not be able to go on with the
present programs and when it
will be necessary to intensify the
efforts to make Hebrew learn-
ing real.
At the luncheon, Dr. Touroff,
was introduced by Louis LaMed,
founder of the foundation which
sponsors the publication of He-
brew and Yiddish books: Dr.
Touroff won a prize from the
LaMed Foundation for his book
in Hebrew "Psychologie b'Yo-
menu."
On Tuesday evening, Dr. Tour-
off delivered an address in He-
brew, under the auspices of the
Hebrew Teachers' Association
and Kvutzah Ivrith. Bernard
Isaacs presided. On Wednesday
evening, Rabbi Leon Frain pre-
sided at a lecture Dr. Touroff
delivered in English before the
Zionist Organization. Both meet-
ings were held at the Rose Sittig
Cohen Bldg.

Sheed to Address
Round Table Here

Bnai Brith Makes
Gershwin Award

The Detroit Round Table of
Catholics, Jews and Protestants
invites members and friends to a
lecture by Frank J. Sheed, out-
standing C a t h o l i c, publisher,
author and lecturer, next Tues-
day, at 12:10 p. m., in the Jade
Room of the Leland Hotel.
His subject will be "The Sword
of the Spirit." He is the founder
of the Catholic publishing firm,
Sheed and: Ward; is author of a
number of books and has lec-
tured widely in Canada, Aus-
tralia, England and the U. S.

Relatives Sought Here
Russian Jews

By Many

The Union of Russian Jews is
In regular cable communication
- with the president of the Moscow
Jewish Community, for the pur-
pose. of ,tracing people in Soviet
Russia and establishing contact
between relatives in Russia and
in the USA.
The following residents of
Michigan have received cabled
messages through the office of
the Union of Russian Jews, which
could not be-transmitted to them,
due to insufficient addresses
given in the cables:

PRONMAN. Ruven (Idel's son) —
Message from sisters Dvoire & Svetle
Iadoshliver of Ukraine.
TARAKHOVSKY. Shlema. Moishe,
Sarah, Khana — brother Shloma Ra-
rakhovska.
GRANT, Leo, originally of Odessa
—message Sima, Gitel & Raisa Pros-
kurovsky (father's name Josef).
POKHOLKIN, Rose (father's name
lloshko-Lipal—message •from her sis-
ter, Maria Pishtdhlker.
LVUV, Max, originally of Ukraine—
message from mother Perlia Lvuv.
RUBIN, LEIZER, originally of Mo-
gilev Obl.—message Sofia Rubin, nee
Shivulzhinskaya.
PUSTYLNIK, Mich a e 1, originally
from Pilawa—message from Fania
Gelman or Hellman.
SHADCHEN. Leib and Sussla, orig-
inally came of Kiev Obl. — message
from Livsha Shapiro.
SCHNIZER, Feiga — message from
Bronia Solotkin.
LATT—message from mother Tuba
Marderer.
KURLAND, R o s a, originally of
Ratna—message from Shloime Golit-
sky.
LEVIN. Malka—message from Itta
Roi tburd.

All the above names are sub-
ject to change in their spelling,
as they were taken from the
Russian. Therefore the above
spelling, Or any variation thereof
is possible.
For further details, get in
touch with Union of Russian
Jews, 55 West 42nd St., New
York 18, N. Y.

NEW YORK—"Symphonic Al-
legro", a nine-minute orchestral
selection, composed by Peter
Mennini, 21-year old Eastman
School of Music graduate from
Erie, Pa., was voted the winner
in the first , annual nationwide
George Gershwin Memorial Con-
test, sponsored by. Victory Bnai
Brith Lodge in an effort to
stimulate contemporary young
American musicians and to help
discover new musical talent.
The prize-winning composition
will be performed for the first
time by the Philharmonic Or-
chestra, under the baton of
Leonard Bernstein, at a George
Gershwin Memorial Concert
program at the Metropolitan
Opera House on March 27. Mr.
Mennini, the composer, will be
the guest of honor, and will re-
ceive the $1,000 cash award
given by Victory Bnai Brith
Lodge.

JDC to Conduct
Clothing Drive for
Needy in Europe

NEW YORK—Paul Baerwald,
chairman of the American Jew-
ish Joint Distribution Corn-
mittee, was present Feb. 27 at
a meeting in the White House of
the National Committee of the
United National Clothing Col-
lection.
The -drive to collect 15,000,000
pounds of clothing, shoes and
bedding for the destitute of
Europe will last through April
and will be conducted by the
national committee to secure
clothing for UNRRA and more
than 50 voluntary war relief
agencies, announced Henry J.
Kaiser, national chairman.
JDC, major Jewish agency for
relief overseas, will be claimant
for clothing in behalf of Jews
abroad whose needs are not met
by UNRRA. Under the auspices
of ,the JDC, 22 national Jewish
organizations are participating
in the drive..
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Herbert Lehman, director gen-
eral of UNRRA, and Dan A.
West, executive director of the
clothing collection, also spoke.

Judge Watts Names
Wise Court Referee

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John M. Wise, Detroit attor-
ney, has been appointed as ref-
eree of the Traffic and Ordi-
nance Division of Recorder's
Court by Judge
John D, Watts,
whoon March
1 assumed his
new duties as
a traffic judge.
For years a
member of the
Commot Pleas
Court bench,
Judge Watts
was named to
J. M. Wise his n e w post
late in February by Gov. Kelly.
Wise, 37, was born in Peeks-
kill, N. Y., and has lived in De-
troit since 1920. He is a graduate
of Eastern High and the Law
School of Wayne University and
has practiced law here for 15
years.

Married and the father of two
daughters, Wise lives at 20259
Warrington Dr. He is a member
of the Michigan Bar Association,
Detroit Chapter, National Law-
yers Guild and Detroit Lodge of
Bnai Brith.

Central 'Student'
Staffs Announced

Appointments to both the
White and Blue Staffs of the
Central "Student". have been
announced. Marcus Rosenzweig,
who won first prize for news-
writing in the Annual High
School Press Conference last
semester, has been selected edi-
tor-in-chief for the Blue Staff.
He is being assisted by Stanley
Brown, news editor; Shirley Wol-
stein, feature editor; Harvey Gel-
ler, sports editor; and Jack
Sharf and Edythe Kaminsky as
copy editors.

The White Staff is composed
of the following: Reva Hertz,
news editor; Hyram Zeldis, fea-
ture editor; Dulcie Krasnick and
Evelyn Stollman, co-club editors;
and sports editors, Carl, Teicher
and Melvin Platt. Copy editors
are Jeannette Katz, Judith
Laikin, Annette Sklar and Elaine
Levin.

Sanford Rossen and Morton
Stockier will serve as the ad-
vertising managers and Spencer
S. Fishbaine continues as faculty
sponsor.

Washington Lawyers
Oppose Jew As Judge

NEW YORK (WS) — Wash-
ington lawyers, members of the
District of Columbia Bar Asso-
ciation, have voted by secret
ballot, 804 to 200, against Presi-
dent Roosevelt's appointment of
Judge Nathan Margold, former
solicitor of the Department of
Interior, as Municipal Court
Judge, the only Jew on the 12-
man bench, according to Drew
Pearson.
Senator Chandler of Kentucky
is conducting a one-man cam-
paign for Judge Margold in the
Senate Judiciary Committee
urging them to stamp out the
practice of "letting lawyers elect
judges," Mr. Pearson reports.

Page Seventeen

Jewish Agency and National Fund
Set Their Budgets for 1945

TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor)—The budget of the Jewish Agency
for the current year, just approved by the budgetary commission
of the Smaller Actions Committee. totals $16,000,000, as compared.
with $8,460,000 yast year, Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish
Agency Executive, announced. This does not include the Jewish
National Fund land purchasing budget of $18,000,000.
The three major items of expenditures, he said, involving over
$4,000,000, are firstly—agricultural settlement, preparations for new
land development and the settlement of ex-servicemen, the latter
involving $800,000; secondly—bringing in refugees and providing
them with housing—involving an expenditure of $3,200,000, and
thirdly—the establishment of various companies to further economic
activities and the expansion of existing companies, $2,800,000.
The Jewish Agency hopes that from 60% to 70% of its budget
will come from the United States.

World Rabbinical
Congress Is Planned
In N. Y. in August

Behold the Jews

By LITA DIAMOND

NEW YORK — (By Religious
News Service)—A World Rab-
binical Congress has been ten-
tatively scheduled here during
the first two weeks in August,
to establish a coordinated pro-
gram for restoring Jewish re-
ligious life in Europe, it was
announced by the Union of
Orthodox Rabbis of the U. S.
and Canada at its headquarters
here. The congress will last
eight days.
Among those invited are Chief
Rabbi Dr. Isaac Herzog and
Chief Rabbi Ben Zion Hai Uziel,
both of Palestine; former Grand
Rabbi Isaac Alter of Gur, Pol-
and; and Chief Rabbi. J. H.
Hertz of Britain. All liberated
countries in Europe, as well as
South African and South Ameri-
can countries, will be asked to
send representatives.
Simultaneously, the Union
launched a campaign for $2,500,-
000 to provide immediate relief
for Jewish refugees who have
returned to their home com-
munities in Europe.

Girl Scouts to Hold .
Special Services
At Shaarey Zedek

Shaarey Zedek Girl Scout
Troop 47 will mark Girl. Scout
Week with services on -the Sab-
bath of March 17.
Dr. A. M. Hershman will con-
d u c t responsive readings de-
signed for Scouts and will preach
on the benefits and virtues of
Scouting.
Boy Scout Troops 104 and 164
and Cub Pack 104, sponsored by
Shaarey Zedek, will participate.
Mrs. Harry D. Baum, Shaarey
Zedek Girl Scout leader, has
invited Girl Scout Troop 152,
sponsored by the Calvary Pres-
byterian Church, to attend.

(15-Year-Old Central Student)
The soil is red with the blood of those
Who are fighting in this war.
But the soil is even redder
And it means, Oh so much more than
just a war.
It means that beneath that soil
Lie the massed piles of bones
Of men, women, and children
Who were driven from their homes,
Because the madman Hitler hated
them.
Behold . . , 'here lies the Jew.

A little girl. her dress of rags,
Holds a doll in a warm embrace.
It's the only thing that she has left.
And there is a look of terror in her
face.
A little girl—she has suffered much
Oh yes! She's hungry too!
Her mother and father? Both dead
like the rest!
Behold . . . she too is a Jew.

A boy who had dreams for the future
Is now a lad without a past.
For he can't remember anything
Ever since that terrible blast
From the Nazi guns.
He was studying to be a Rabbi
Along with all the rest
Of those young Jewish boys
Who loved the Torah best.
They were studying in a synagogue
In a little Polish town.
The German planes came over that
day,
And one of them swooped down and
machine-gunned them.
For Behold • they too were Jews.

Some were put in prison camps;
They tried again and again to escape.
Most of them were shot to death,
For this was their terrible 'fate
Of _being a Jew.

But I live HERE . . . in America.
Far from the horrors of war.
Maybe we don't get as much
As we often did before;
But we get enough
And w're well and happy too!
That's why I can lift my head and
proudly say
,Behold . . I am a Jew.

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