Friday, March 30, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
Concluding Gewerkshaf ten
Rally Thursday Evening
Meeting on April 5 at Lachar's; Preparations Completed
for Closing Event of Campaign at Cass High School
on April 8; Brickner, Zuckerman to Speak
sm:F;T:
Temple Beth El's Book Reveals
First Cemetery
U.S. Attitude on
An interesting bit of Jewish
history in Detroit is recalled in
an article in the Bulletin of
Temple, Beth El on "Our First
Cemetery," by Irving • I. Katz,
executive secretary of the Tem-
ple and editor of the Bulletin.
Mr. Katz writes:
"On Jan. 1, 1851, the congre-
gation acquired by purchase
from Thomas Hawley and wife,
one-half acre of land in Ham-
tramck Township, to be used as
a cemetery. The purchase price
was $150.00, of which one-half
was paid in cash and the other
half secured by notes payable
with interest, in six and 12
months respectively, and for
their payment a mortgage was
given on the cemetery. Both the
warranty deed and mortgage
were signed in behalf of the
congregation by Jacob Silber-
man, Solomon Bendit, Sigmund
Springer and Joseph Friedman.
The cemetery, known in those
days, as Champlain Street Ceme-
tery, is still owned and kept up
by the congregation and is re-
ferred to as The Lafayette
Cemetery.' It adjoins the Elm-
wood Cemetery."
`Relevance of Prophets'
Viewed by Prof. Scott
'A&
DR.
BARNETT R. BRICKNER AND GEN. MARK CLARK
(on one of the war fronts, during Dr. Brickner's tour in behalf
of the Jewish Welfare Board).
City-wide cooperation given of cooperating organizations will
leaders in the Histadrut-Gewerk- be given tickets to this affair.
shaften drive for $125,000 points
The speakers at the closing
to a successful conclusion of the campaign rally will be Dr. Bar-
drive when the closing rally is nett R. Brickner, ',Cleveland rabbi
held at Cass High SChool audi- Who has recently returned from
torium on Sunday evening,' a world-wide tour of war fronts
in behalf of the National Jewish
April 8.
At the concluding rally of W e l f a r e Board, and Baruch
Zuckerman, labor Zionist leader
workers next Thursday evening, and famous Yiddish orator.
at Lachar's on 12th St., final
Moishe Oysher, famous as "The
reports will be submitted by Magic Voice" on radio and con-
campaign officers a n d tickets cert stage, will be the featured
will be distributed for the April artist, in addition to other talent.
8 rally. Only contributors of
Reports will be submitted by
$15 and over and representatives Morris Schaver, chairman of the
drive; Benjamin M. Laikin, co-
chairman; Harry Schumer, treas-
urer; Morris Lieberman, chair-
man of the executive committee.
Bulgarian Court
Demands Death
For Ex-Premier
SOFIA, (JTA)—The Bulgar-
ian Peoples Court trying mem-
bers of the former pro-Nazi gov-
•ernments were urged this week
to impose the death sentence on
ex-Premier Bogdan Filov and
members of his cabinet for their
persecution and murder of thou-
sands of Jews.
Demanding the death penally,
Chief Prosecutor Petrov re-
viewed the testimony by many
witnesses concerning the in-
famOus treatment of Jews, and
the confiscation of Jewish prop-
erty and the deportation of Jews
from Macedonia and Thrace and
declared: "It is unfortunate that
I cannot bring into court any
witnesses among the deportees,
because they have all been burnt
alive."
Petrov disclosed that during
the four years of the fascist re-
gime about $12,000,000 in taxes
were squeezed out of Bulgaria's
Jews.
JNF to Start Box
Clearance April 1
Semi-annual clearance of the
Jewish National Fund Blue and
White Boxes will commence on
April 1, Mrs. A.. Twersky,
executive secretary of the JNF
Council, announced this week.
Volunteer workerS from all
local Zionist Organizations will
participate in this effort in spe-
cially designated zones, Mrs.
Twersky stated.
Information regarding
b o x
clearnnce is procurable from the
JNF office, 11608 Dexter, TO.
8-8658.
Page Nineteen
"The Relevance of the Proph-
ets," Prof. R. B. Y. Scott's latest
book, published by the Macmil-
lan Co., is a volume , of great
scholarship.
It describes the message of the
ancient prophets of Israel and
indicates its vitality for human-
ity in the present time.
Dr. Scott, who is professor of
Old Testament Literature at
United Theological Seminary,
Montreal, deals with the prophe-
cies of Isaiah, Amos, Micah, Jere-
miah, - Zephaniah.
Pointing to Christianity's con-
tributions to democratic ideals,
he declares that much of the
idealism came into Christianity
from the Hebrew prophets. He
declares that "this is the first
reason the pr bets are relevant
for modern democracy — that
they belong to its spiritual an-
cestry, through the interming-
ling of the Hebrew-Christian and
classical traditions.
Jewish Palestine
The Significant Statements
in Record of America's
Endorsement of Zionism
Significant historic official re-
lations between the United States
and Palestine are outlined in a
notable book published under the
auspices of the American Zionist
Emergency Council.
A new edition of this volume
with additional material is about
to be issued by the Herald
Square Press, Inc., of which
Jacob Monsky is president.
"America and Palestine: The
Attitude of Official America
and of the American People To-
ward the Rebuilding of Pales-
tine as a Free and Democratic
Jewish Commonwealth," was
prepared and edited by Reuben
Pink, former Washington cor-
respondent and.active communal
worker, who now renders the
same service to the Zionist move-
ment as he did in 1918 with the
book called "The American War
Congress and Zionism," then is-
sued by the Zionist Organization
of America.
In keeping with the character
of the previous publication, the
present volume brings the opin-
ions of 77 members of the Sen-
ate and 318 members of the
House of Representatives, who
voiced their sentiments in favor
of Jewish national restoration in
Palestine. Among. these opin-
ions are those of seven Presi-
dents of the United States, who
have successively e x p r e s s e d
their sympathy with Jewish na-
tional aspirations in Palestine.
This volume of 522 pages pre-
sents a complete history of
America's relations with Pales-
tine for a period of more than
half a century, recording the help
which the United States render-
ed to Jewish refugees and set-
tlers seeking a haven in the Land
of. Promise, as long ago as 1882,
when Gen. Lou Wallace, the au-
thor of "Ben Hur," was Ambas-
sador to Turkey. Included in
the book are all the documents
relating to Zionist political ac-
tivities, since the issuance of the
Balfour Declaration, as well as
an outline of Zionist history in
the United States from the in-.
ception of the movement.
Mr. Fink's introduction states
that the historic outline of the
book was written by Bernard G.
Richards, chairman of the Jew-
ish Information Bureau.
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