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Friday, November
THE JEWISH NEWS
30, 1945
UJA to Continue as Fund Raising
Agency for JDC, UPA Next Year
Special Wire to Jewish News
NEW YORK (JTA)—The United Jewish Appeal will con-
tinue to serve as the fund-raising instrument for the Joint
Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal and Na-
tional Refugee Service in 1946, it was announced on Tues-
day.
Terms of the 1945 UJA contract, providing for 57 per
cent to JDC and 43 per . cent to UPA after an initial allot-
ment to the NRS, will be continued.
The Jewish National Fund will retain its traditional col-
lections up to $1,500,000 and the JDC will accept Landsman-
schaften contributions up to $800,000.
Antique Menorah
•
Eleanor Levenson
To Talk at Dinner
Of Labor Palestine
Page Nine
Speakers' Group Elects
Small, president; Miriam Small,
vice-president; Mrs. Ida Tubbin,
New Officers at Center
secretary. The next meeting will
be held Saturday evening in the
The Speakers' Group of the Library of the Center. For infor-
Jewish Community Center elect- mation call Joseph Shapiro, TO.'
The need for American Jewish ed the following officers: Louis 8-2808.
participation in the present crisis
in Palestine will be stressed by
Miss Eleanor T._venson, author
IF IT HAS THE HARPUR LABEL IT'S CORRECT
Gewerkshaften
Sets $3,000,000
National Budget
Detroit Drive Starts Jan. 6;
Local Delegation Attends
Conference in N. Y.
A Sixteenth Century silver Ha-
nukah Lamp from the collection
in the Museum of Jewish Cere-
monial Objects in The Jewish
Theological Seminary of Amer-
ica, New York City.
Habonim's Delegates
Convene Here Dec. 17
Convention to Draw Repre-
sentatives from U. S.,
S. A. and Canada
On Dec. 23 over 200 delegates
of Habonim Labor Zionist groups
will assemble in Detroit from all
over the United States, • South
America and Canada to partici-
pate in the national Habonim
convention.
With the "Mobilization of
Youth for a Jewish Rebirth" as
the theme of the convention, ses-
sions will be held all week based
on a program for re-capturing
Jewish youth to the Jewish fold.
Chaim Greenberg, prominent
labor Zionist leader and editor
of the Jewish Frontier, will be
the keynote speaker at the open-
ing session, Sunday, Dec. 23, at
Central High school. Also speak-
ing will be Engee Caller, a dele-
gate from the Histadruth who ar-
rived in New York from Pales-
tine last week. Formerly of New
York, she now resides in Naame,
the first Habonim Kibbutz found-
ed in Palestine.
A special evening program will
be presented by representatives
of Cleveland Habonim.
Hapoel Hamizrachi's
Hanukah Fete Dec. 4
Gifts for Jewish children in
Europe and Palestine will be the
price of admission to the Hanu-
kah party of Detroit Hapoel
Hamizrachi, at 8:30 D. m. Tues-
day, Dec. 4, at the home of Miss
Drora Selesny, 3265. Buena Vista.
The Detroit branch is joining
with other groups of Hapoel
Hamizrachi in a drive from now
until Purim to collect games,
small articles of necessity and
clothing to be shipped by the
national office to Europe and
Palestine.
NEW YORK—The National
Labor Committee for Palestine,
(Gewerkshaften), at its annual
conference here at Carnegie Hall
last week-end, adopted a national
quota of $3,000,000 for the .com-
ing year for the Histadruth, the
Palestine Federation of Labor.
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
of Michigan was among those_
who sent messages to the confer-
ence strongly endorsing the Zion-
ist cause.
In their messages, William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, and Gov-
ernor Thomas E. Dewey of New
York severely condemned the
British policy of delay in acting
to rescue Jewish survivors and
assailed the plan for the forma-
tion of the Anglo-American in-
quiry commission.
A message from MTS. Eleanor
Roosevelt declared that "all de-
cent people in the world are
grateful for any attempt to al-
leviate their (the displaced Jews')
suffering."
Maj. James Coldwell of Ottawa,
member of the Canadian Parlia.
ment, warned that a delay in
opening Palestine "may cause the
unnecessary loss of more Jewish
lives."
More than 3,000 delegates, in-
cluding a Detroit delegation, at-
tended the conference.
(The Detroit Gewerkshaften
drive will open with a city-
wide conference at the Shaarey
Zedek on Jan. 6, with Helen
Waren as guest speaker),
MISS ELEANOR LEVENSON
and newspaper woman, when she
addressed the League for Labor
Palestine annual dinner at the
Lee Plaza Sunday, Dec. 9, at 6:30.
Miss Levenson, who has visited
Palestine, has written a number
of books and newspaper articles
on Zionism. She is national exec-
utive director of the League for
Labor Palestine.
The dinner culminates a mem-
bership drive in an effort to re-
inforce American backing of the
Zionist movement.
Tickets may be obtained from
Leah Chafetz, TO. 8-4951. An en-
tertainment program will follow
the dinner.
I. Katz in Cincinnati
For H. U. C. Anniversary
Irving I. Katz, executive sec-
retary of Temple Beth El, will
be in Cincinnati the week of
Dec. 2 to attend the 70th Anni-
versary Celebration of the He-
brew Union College and a meet-
ing of the Commission on Syna-
gogue Activities of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
of which he is a member.
He will confer with officials of
the National Association of Tem-
ple Secretaries and the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
of the National Association of
Temple Secretaries to be held in
March in Cincinnati.
Mr. Katz is president of the
National Association of Temple
Secretaries.
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The Hanukah party will fea-
ture a review by Max Chomsky
of Martin Buber's "For the Sake
of Heaven."
There will be singing and re-
freshments. Miss Selesny will
entertain with Palestinian songs.
Lublin's Surviving Jews
Listed for 'First Time
A list of the 3,000 surviving
Jews in Lublin, the oldest Jew-
ish community in Poland, has
been published by the World
Jewish Congress based on infor-
mation furnished by the Central
Jewish Committee in Poland. The
information includes their year
of birth, address in 1939, names
of parents and present address.
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