THE JEWISH NEWS
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•Friday, 34 13, 1945
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
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Synagogues Will Participate
In. Tisha b'Ab JNF Drive
Friday, July 13, 1945
TO. 8-8658
11608 Dexter
Detroit, Michigan
Dorothy Thompson in Palestine
Sabbath Preceding Holiday to Be Dedicated to Appeals
for Jewish National Fund; Daniel Temchin Heads
Committee to Direct Campaign
American Jewish Fraternal
Group Completes $25,000
Project After 11 Years
A call has gone forth from the Jewish National Fund
Council of Detroit to all Detroit congregations calling upon
them to participate in the annual synagogue collections for
the Jewish National Fund on Tisha b'Ab—the anniversafy
of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.
Tisha b'Ab occurs this year on Thursday, July 19, and
the collections will be made in
the synagogues on Wednesday Sabbath preceding Tisha b'Ab-
this Saturday, Sabbath Chazon-
will be dedicated in all synagog-
ues to appeals for the Jewish Na-
tional Fund.
A JNF Report
To Co-Workers
National Director Evaluates
Activities of Palestine
Land-Redemption Work
"What another world this is!" exclaimed D o r o t h y,
Thompson during her visit to Sha'ar Ha'amakim, a Jewish
National Fund colony in Palestine. The famous American
columnist, dressed in a war correspondent's unfform, is . seen
(above) on a field of the Kvutza playing with children.
Mrs. Sam Ressler
Wins JNF Award
Vacationers Urged
To Assist JNF Drive
- Visitors at summer resorts are
To Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ressler being called upon not to forget
this year goes the national the Jewish National Fund.
It has been customary to make
By MENDEL N. FISHER
Totzereth Ha-Aretz Award given
collections for the Palestine
Executive Director, Jewish Na- to the person chosen for it
among those who contribute $5, land-redemption agency among
tional Fund of America
The gross income of the Jewish
National Fund for the year end-
ing Sept. 30, 1944 was $4,688,-
955.26. Of this sum, $1,730,685.80
represented our traditional col-
lections and $2,958,269.46 was the
net U.P.A. allotment mdde to the
J.N.F.
Our total 'expenses for the
period were $186,984.39. The total
sum of $3,920,542.17 was remitted
to the Keren Kayemeth in Jeru-
salem for this period. In addition
the sum of $442,745.00 was also
cabled representing income from
the sale of our $2,500,000, four
percent Note Issue.
Our income from Oct. 1, 1944
to May 31, 1945, covering eight
months of our operations was
$4,282,156.94. Of this sum, the in-
come from our traditional col-
lections was $1,693,346.44. Our
share of the U.P.A. was $2,588,-
810.50.
We have already remitted to
Palestine as of May 31, 1945
$4,237,791.02 of which $220,000.00
represents the sale of our $2,-
500,000 Note Issue.
DANIEL TEMCHIN
evening, July 18, and Thursday
morning, July 19.
Synagogue Committee
The solicitations are being dir-
ected by the synagogue commit-
tee of the Jewish National Fund
of Detroit, consisting of Daniel
Tern.chin, chairman, • Irving W
Schlussel and Rabbi J. S. Sperka..
The committee pointed out this
week that the proceeds:of these
collections will go to the Geu-
lath Sevivath Yerttshalayim fUnd
being raised through Mizrachi and
congregational leaders for land-
redeniption in Palestine, and for
the Yaar Zev—the forest being
planted in Palestine in honor of
Rabbi Wolf Gold, chairman of the
world executive committee of
Mizrachi.
Dedicates This Sabbath
tinnouncement is made by . the
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local committee that in accord-
ance with a national decision the
Miss Morrismi Wins. JNF Praise
For Efforts With Hadassah Group
Directed Raising of a Fund
For Trees in Memory of
Anna G. Seegman
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Miss etty Morrison of 3005
Chicago Blvd., for the past three
years Jewish National Fund
chairman of the Business and
Professional Division of Had-
assah, was praised this week as
one of the leading JNF workers
in Detroit.
Under Miss Morrison's leader-
ship, a remarkable increase in
JNF receipts is reported by the
Hadassah Business and Profes-
sional women.
During the past few months,
Miss Morrison directed the rais-
ing of a fund of money for the
planting of a garden of trees in
Palestine in memory of Anna
Goldman Seegman.
Among her other activities
was the securing • of Golden
Book inscriptions in memory of
Abram C. • Lipsitz, Dora Lipsitz
Klivans and Rebecca Barkman
Lipsitz.
The Hadassah B. & P. Group
is one of the - numerous affiliated
Zionist groups which are striving
to advance the efforts of the
Jewish National Fund for the re-
demption of land in Palestine,
to make possible large-scale Jew-
ish immigration.
Final Payment
On Nachlah Made
By Brith Sholom
or more through their gifts in those spending the summer at
resorts.
Due to curtailed traveling, it
has been urged that those at
resorts should assist the fund by
making the necessary collections
on Tisha b'Ab and on all im-
portant occasions.
Information may be gotten by
calling the office of the Jewish
National Fund Council of De-
troit, 11608 Dexter, TO. 8-8658.
PHILADELPHIA.—A Palestine
land redemption project initiated
11 years ago reached its fulfill-.
ment on June 18, when the Inde-
pendent Order of Brith Sholom,
American Jewish fraternal or-
ganization, celebrated the pay-
ment of the last installment on
its $25,000 commitment to the
Jewish National Fund.
Under the terms of the agree-
ment signed in 1934 by the late
Menahem Ussishkin on behalf of
the Jewish National Fund and
the late Judge William M. Lewis,
then Grandmaster of Br it h
Sholom, a tract of 1,000 dunams
of land in Palestine was to be re-.
deemed by the Keren Kayemeth
and named "Nachlath Brith
Sholom". This was the first
Nachlah program undertaken by
an American fraternal group.
The presentation of the last
$3,000 payment was the central
feature of a celebration. The
gathering was addressed by Lt.
Comdr. Joshua Goldberg, Alex
F. Stanton, Grandmaster of Brith
Sholom, who pledged the organ-
ization's continued interest in the
work of the Keren Kayemeth,
and Frank A. Simons, national
chairman of the Brith Sholom
Zionist Committee. Louis I. Gil-
gor, grand secretary, presented
the check to Mendel N. Fisher,
JNF executive director. The lat-
ter presented the organization
with a Nachlah Album forwarded
from Jerusalem.
Join in 'Song of the Soil'
The JNF is employing the Adamah Meter as one of its media of
:collection in the "Land for Rescue" program. This coin card Pro-
vides an expedient device for children to participate in the cause
of land redemption in Eretz Yisroel, to join in the "Song of the Soil."
On the inside Pages of the fold-
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er are 12 slots in which there is
room for two quarters and ten
dimes. When the Adarnah Meter
is filled, it is to be turned in at
the local JNF headquarters or
. directly to the National Office.
MRS. SAM RESSLER
The money thus raised will help
to purchase more land for new
the JNF Blue and White Boxes.
Jewish colonies in Palestine.
William Hordes, president of
A contest is being run in con 7
the Jewish National Fund Coun-
nection with the Adamah Meter
cil of Detroit, announces that
campaign. The • JNF. will award
Mrs. Ressler, 3826 Lawrence,
one round trip, ticket. to Pales-
winner of the national award,
tine, tourist 'class (transportation
upon being notified that she can
only) to one of the participants.
select $100 worth of Palestine
products, expressed the wish of
All persons who will have
completed 10 Adamah Meters and
securing'. something permanent
will have remitted the amount
for her - hone.. -
Mrs. Ressler stated that while
raised, will be included in the
she would relish the soaps, oils,
list of eligibles for the award
candies and other products, made
which will be made by a com-
in Palestine; she hopes to secure
mittee comprised of representa-
something permanent for the
Jives of all Zionist groupS and
home. Mt. Hordes has assured
youth organizations:
her that some Palestine-made
article valued at $100 will be
secured for her.
GUEST EDITORIAL
A Tisha b'Ab Plea
By WILLIAM HORDES
President, Jewish National Fund Council of Detroit
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• This is the first time since the beginning of the war that we
are observing Tisha b'Ab with the full realization of the extent of
the tragedy of our people. Now after the victory of the Allies, the
curtain has been raised and the terrible truth has been revealed
to us.
For our brethern in Europe victory has come too late. We
have lost ten times the number of servicemen killed in • the armies
of the British Empire and the United States. Five million have
perished. There remains only a remnant of European Jewry. When
we gather Pin our synagogues this Tisha b'Ab, Jews will have the
opportunity to participate in the reconstruction of Eretz Yisroel
and the rehabilitation of the refugees. The traditional collection on
Tisha b'Ab will help in securing more land through the Jewish
National Fund and enabling more of our wandering brethern to
come home to Eretz Yisroel,
This Dage
spot soreq :by frienc14 of the Jewi5h. National Fun.d.