Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

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AMERICA

Four hundred Jewish refugees domiciled in
Switzerland will leave for Palestine at the end
of May on a chartered Spanish ship, according
to a cable report received by the Hebrew Shelt-
ering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in
New York, from Dr. James Bernstein, its Euro-
pean representative. Negotiations are under
way to transport emigrants from Palestine on
the return journey, it was also announced.
A letter urging that we do not follow the
Hebraic law of an eye for an eye, but rather
the Christian teaching of turning the other
cheek, in dealing with post-war Germany, sent
to Missouri newspapers by Representative
Schwabe (R. Mo.), was branded a bid to stir
race -bias by Congressmen, the New York Post
reports in a special dispatch from Washington.
Leon Blum, former French Premier, along
with Kurt Schuschnigg, former Austrian
Chancellor and the Rev. Martin Niemoller,
German pastor imprisoned under the Nazi
regime, were freed by the Allies near the
Brenner Pass on the Italo-Austrian frontier,
the British radio reported in a broadcast re-
corded in N. Y. by the National Broadcast-
ing Co.

PALESTINE

After spending a few days in the Hadassah
Hospital, during which she received a visit
from Moshe Shertok, political chief of the Jew-
ish Agency, Dorothy Thompson, American
columnist and author, toured various Keren
Hayesod (Palestine Fundation Fund) settle-
ments accompanied by Dr. Leo Kohn, political
secretary of the Jewish Agency.
Five hundred Palestinian-Jewish naval cadets
paraded in uniform and 35 training craft sailed
the Yarkon River on Sunday afternoon, at the
Maritime Day Festival sponsored by the Pal-
estine Maritime League marking the ninth an-
niversary, according to the Jewish calendar,
of the opening of the Tel Aviv port.
A demand that Jewish Palestine be given a
number of German freight steamships as a
small compensation for what Germany has
done to the Jewish people, was voiced by
Moshe Pomrock, chairman of the Palestine
Maritime League, speaking at the Maritime
Day festival in Haifa.
Only three Jewish immigrants arrived in
Palestine with certificates throughout the
month of April, Davar, leading Hebrew labor
daily, reports. "This happened when hun-
dreds of thousands of Jews of various lands
are craving to immigrate to Palestine, other-
wise they are threatened with material and
moral extinction.
A group of 248 new settlers from Morocco,
Turkey and central Europe, arrived in Haifa
aboard a . British ship. The group includes
German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian Jew-

Local Brevities

Max E. Hecker, chairman of
the educational committee of the
CARDOZA CLUB, announces
that an educational program has
been arranged for the regular
meeting to be held on Sunday,
May 20, at the Workmen's Circle,
at 11 a. m. Abraham Cohen will
speak on "Internal Jewish Dis-
cipline." For further details call
Ray Lieberman, president, 14949
Evanston or Charlie Makie, UN.
3-3705.
* * *
MARJORIE ANN SILBER-
BLATT of Detroit, has_ been se-
lected by the Music Department
of Michigan State College to sing
the soprano role in Mendelsohn's
Ortorio "Elijah" which will be
presented at the People's Church
of East Lansing, Michigan, this
Sunday. Miss Silberblatt is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron
A. Silberblatt of 3311 Chicago.
* * *
STOLARSKY FAMILY CLUB
met at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Stellar of Pingree Ave.
Contributions were made to en-
able the support of a child in
Palestine. The next meeting will
be held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. Edelstein, 3269 Sturte-
vant, on June 3.
* * *
On Sunday, May 20, Eastwood
Gardens will be the scene of the
sixth annual AZA SPRING
DANCE of the Detroit Windsor
Council. Bobby Baker will fur
nish the music. Tickets can be
obtained from members of the
group or may be bought at the
door.
* * •
YOUNG ISRAEL is planning
an orthodox youth center to be
erected on Dexter near Fuller-
ton. The sketch has been drawn
lap by an architect and includes
meeting rooms, recreational and
social facilities, a gymnasium
with a shower and locker room,
a large hall, a library and
synagogue.

* *

The JUNIOR SOCIETY of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek will
hold its final affair of the season
on May 19, at 9 p. in. in the

loam of a dance, "Spring Fling."

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THE „JEWISH NEWS

Friday, May 18, t945

ish refugees who have been trying to get to
Palestine for the past six years. The group
from Tangier, Spanish Morocco, comprised 178
adults, 52 youths and 18 infants. One family
came from Brazil and another from Rhodes.
Viscount Gort, High Commissioner of Pal-
estine, officially marked V-E Day by revoking
the balance of the sentences of a number of
prisoners, both Arabs and Jews, serving terms
for political offenses. Addressing a personal
message to each, Lord Gort urged that they
remember always the occasion on which they
regained their liberty.

OVERSEAS

Synagogues throughout France were asked to
hold special thanksgiving services on the oc-
casion of Hitler's death, by the Paris Chief
Rabbi, Julius Weil. Similar services were held
in synagogues in Brussels, Bucharest and Sofia.
A scene of utter devastation and disorder,
as a result of German vandalism, was discov-
ered by a small group of Trieste's few surviv-
ing Jews, when they re-entered Trieste's larg-
est synagogue, the finest in Italy, in Piazza
San Francesco D' Apostrophe Assisi. The syna-
gogue has been locked and barred since Yom
Kippur, 1943, when the last services were held.
The question of restitution of Jewish prop-
erty in Trieste still is not clear as the Allied
Military Government is not operating here.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jew-
ish Agency for Palestine, recovering from an
eye operation, left a London nursing home for
a short holiday in the country.
Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem,
with two secretaries, made a second attempt to
find refuge in Switzerland when they landed
illegally near Berne in a German military
plane.
One hundred and fifty Jewish women. from
Rovesbrueck, chiefly Polish, Dutch and French,
have arrived in Sweden. Another 50 Jews,
liberated from concentration camps in Norway,
also arrived.
A resolution to send a delegation to the
Colonial Secretary requesting Palestine cer-
tificates for Jewish children liberated from
concentration camps outside of the regular im-
migration schedule, proposed by Mrs. Seiff,
president of the Women's Zionist Federation of
Britain, was unanimously adopted. It was re-
ported that membership in the organization
numbers 8,000, a , four-fold increase since the
war.
U. S. Army Lieutenant, Henry Delfiner, of
Scarsdale, New York, a Viennese born Jew
who came to the U. S. as a refugee in 1938,
accompanied Col. Franklin P. Miller, com-
mander of the 351st Regiment of the 88th Di-
vision, U. S. Fifth army, at Borgo, Italy, as in-
terpreter when the colonel went to accept the
surrender of the First German Paratroop Di-
vision in the mountains south of Brenner Pass,
commanded by Maj.-Gen. Schultz.

Mike Falk and his orchestra will
furnish the music and a floor
show has been arranged.
* * *
The 'Wayne University Choral
Union, composed of the A Cap-
pella Choir, the University
Chorus, the University Sym-
phony Orchestra, and the Wo-
men's Vocal Ensemble, will pre-
sent its annual SPRING FESTI-
VAL CONCERT at Cass Techni-
cal High this Sunday, May 20.
More than 300 students will par-
ticipate in the program which
will begin at 3:15 p. m.
The public is invited.
* * *
Ensign Robert Schrecengost,
USMS, Detroit Recruiting Offi-
cer announced that many thous-
ands of additional seamen are
needed in the U. S. MARITIME
SERVICE, to mAn the Merchant
ships for the Pacific area of war.
Volunteers are needed for train-
ing the deck, engine, stewards,
radio and, hospital corps and
purser departments. Interested
applicants should contact the U.
S. Maritime Service Enrolling
Office, room 111, Federal Bldg.
* * *
BETTE SHANBROM, pupil of
Mrs. Rose Rubenstein, will be
presented in a piano recital Tues-
day evening, May 22, in the Lec-
ture Hall, Detroit Institute of
Arts. The program will consist
of compositions by Bach, Haydn,
Mozart, Mendelssohn, Debussy,
Rachmaninoff, a group of Chopin

Center Mothers Camp
Registrations Monday;
Season to Open July 1

24th Holiday Hop
At Center Sunday

Camp Chelsea, country camp
for mothers and young children
ages 3 to 7, will open for the
1945 season on Sunday, July 1.
The camp is conducted by the
Jewish Center, for members of
Mothers Clubs, as well as for
friends.
Camp Chelsea, located at Chel-
sea, Mich., 55 miles from Detroit,
affords a healthy and pleasant
vacation at modest rates. For
Mothers Clubs members the
rates will be the same as last
year, $20 a week. The fee for
non-members will be $27.50.
Weekly rates for children of
members will be $15 and for
other children $18.
The camp season lasts eight
weeks. Campers may register
for periods of 2, 4, 6 or 8 weeks:
Registration officially starts on
Monday, May 21, in the Confer-
ence Room of the Jewish Center.
The Registrar is Miss Esther
Cohen. Appointments for regis-
tration may be made by calling
MA. 8400.
The Center announces the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Elizabeth
Kurtz as camp director.

Gene Fenby and his "Singing
Swing" orchestra will furnish the
music for the 24th Holiday Hop
presented by the Jewish Center
in the Main Auditorium, Sunday
evening, May 20, at 9 o'clock.
Sally Romine, vocalist, will be
featured.
A Shevuoth Dance, this affair
will be the last of th
e series of
Holiday Hops for this season. In
keeping with the spirit of the
holiday, the auditorium will be
decorated with designs originated
by Shirley Hersh and executed
by the Holiday Hop Committee.
Estelle Starr is chairman of
the Holiday Hop Committee. She
is assisted by Beatrice Bortrnan,
Celia Braun, Morris Buckzeiger,
Eve Kaner, Bernice Friedland,
Charlotte Greenberg, Morris
Kamen, Allan Mittleman, Danny
Raskin, Frances Rotman, Sara
Rotman, Ruth Sobel and Dr. Mil-
ton White.
Admission is 75 cents to Center
members and $1 to others.

95th Annual Meeting
At Beth El, May 27

Bnai David Sisterhood
To Hold Annual Party

On Monday evening, May 31,
the Bnai David Sisterhood will
hold its annual paid-up party at
the Social Hail. Mrs. Henry
Schore is chairman.
Election of officers will take
place on Monday, May 28.
Installation of new officers
has been set for Monday, June
11, at the Synagogue. Mrs. Her-
man Hoffenberger, chairman, is
working on the program.

The Ninety-fifth annual meet-
ing of Temple Beth El will be
held on Sunday, May 27, at 8
p. m., in the Brown Memorial
Chapel.
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer and
Leonard T. Lewis, president of
the congregation, will present
their annual reports and the
election of officers' will take
'Eternal Light' Program
place.

Orthodox Rabbis Open
Vaad Hoezrah Drive

Gives Life of Rabbi Meir

This Sunday, May 20, the
"Eternal Light" program com-
pletes its series of Talmudic
Rabbi broadcasts with a radio
dramatization of the life of Rabbi
Meir as told in Rabbi Milton
Steinberg's novel "As A Driven
Leaf'.

The Council of Orthodox Rab-
bis urges the support of all
congregations in the coming
Vaad Hoezrah drive, which of-
ficially will be opened on
Shevuoth. All funds are to be
sent overseas for the rehabilita-
tion of Jewish refugees.
and selections from the "Suite
Jacob Soberman is treasurer WANTED:
Espagnole" by Lecuona. The of the campaign for $25,000, and
public is invited.
contributions may be sent di-
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rect-fy to him at 8675 Twelfth.
Rabbi Karpen, spiritual leader
of the Tiffereth Israel Con-
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gregation of Brooklyn, is visiting
FRIENDLY UNIT held an open-
Detroit to acquaint the commun- meeting on Sunday, May 13, at
State Experience
ity with the objectives of the the Jewish Center. Mr. and Mrs.
TORAH UMESORAH movement, Mike Gimble were accepted as
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religious schools and • teachers Einhorn were hosts. Refresh-
training seminaries throughout ments, music and dancing fol-
Bldg., Detroit 26, Michigan.
the country. Rabbi Aaron Kutler lowed the meeting.
is the national leader of the or-
ganization which is being sup-
ported by the Rabbinical Coun-
cil of Detroit.
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CIES of Metropolitan Detroit,
will be held again this year. The
Sixth annual Detroit celebration
will be held Sunday in the De-
troit Institute of Art at 7:30 p.m.

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FREDSON'S

NEW YORK (JPS) — Eight
hundred students and rabbinical
instructors of the Mesivta Talm-
udical Seminary in Brooklyn,
marched to safety as a fire of
"suspicious" origin swept through
the five-story seminary building.
Fifteen Holy Scrolls were remov-
ed undamaged.

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