Friday, December 7, 1945
THE JEWISH N.EWS .
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JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
ISRAEL LIVES
HIGHLIGH
11608 Dexter
Detroit, Michigan
TO. 8-7384 or TO. 8-7385
S
ISRAEL LIVES
Friday, December 7, 1945
Settle-a-Family,
Palestine Cultural Program
Dunam Donations
Secured by JNF Conducted by Women of JNF
Fello4v-Inmates at Belsen Camp
Pledge Zion Grove in Girl's Memory
A Jewish girl died in Bergen Belsen, a very pleasant child,
well liked by all. Her fellow-inmates in the concentration camp
undertook to honor her . . memory. They decided to plant a grove
of trees in her name in Eretz Israel, in the woods of the Jewish
National Fund. They made their pledge on the list shown
above, each participant signing his name on the list shown
Five hundred and nine contributed, 4,940 trees were pledged.
-The girl whose memory they honored, Eva Breszlauer, came
from Hungary.
National JNF Conference
In Pittsburgh Jan. 4 to 6
Dr. Granovsky, Senator Barkley and Drr.-Silver to be the
Principal Speakers; Call to Conference Issued by
Judge. Rothenberg; Detroit to be Represented
NEW YORK.—A national conference on Palestine,
dedicated to resisting the illegal British edicts restricting
Jewish land purchase in the Jewish National Home, has
been summoned for the first week of January, 1946.
The sessions will be held in the" William Penn Hotel,
Pittsburgh from Jan. 4 to Jan 6.
The call to the Conference wasT
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issued by Judge Morris Rothen. , the acquisition of 500,000 dunams
berg, president of the Jewish Na.. of land in the near future and
tional Fund of America, in be- the redemption of 2,000,000 dun-
half of the Fund's board of di- ams over a period of years will
rectors on which be submitted for action by the
r' e presentatives delegates.
of all Zionist Land Purchase Integral
parties and Part of Struggle
groups are rep-
That the Palestine land acquis-
resented. Dele- ition program is "an integral
gates of • JNF part of the decisive struggle"
Councils in more and "indispensable to the sur-
than a thousand vival of hundreds of thousands
communities in. of Jews now in EurOpe" was
all parts of the stressed by Judge ROthenberg in
nation, including the call to the national confer-
Judge
Detroit, are ex- ence. Judge Rothenberg stated:
Rothenberg
pected to parti-
"Our fight, which has the sup-
cipate in the sessions.
port of enlightened public opin-
Dr. Abraham Granovsky, lead- ion everywhere, is proceeding
ing authority on the Palestine along two fronts: (a) On Pales-
land problem and head of the tine's seacoast through which the
World Jewish National Fund, immigration of the survivors con-
who is now on a visit to this tinues despite the British in-
country; Senator Alben W. Bark- human edicts and acts that would
ley, Majority Leader in the Sen- shut the doors in their faces, and
ate of the United States; Dr. (b) On the land front where
Abba Hillel Silver, who will the Jewish National Fund is
have returned from his flying carrying on its heroic effort , to
visit to Palestine, and other reclaim the soil and make pos-
prominent leaders will take part sible the establishment of new
in the deliberations. A plan for settlements and the creation of
the implementation of the "Gran- new homes for the homeless and
ovsky Program" which envisages suffering of our people.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Jewish National Fund, on the oc-
casion, of its annual donor event,
which will conclude on Jan. 22,
is enrolling support from Detroit-
ers for dunam land redemption
and for Settle-a-Family projects.
Among those who have already
paid for dunam donations and for
Settle-a-Family funds are the
following:
REDEEM FOUR DUNAMS
OR MORE LAND:
Lion Seel Co.
Mrs. Kacob Kabaker
George Seyburn
M. Perell
Samuel G. Keywell Co.
Midwest Iron Metal Co.
Paramount Nut Products
I. E. Goodman
Benjamin Rich
John Hayman
Thomas First
Louis Brody
Jacob Aichenbaum
Sydney Forman
Nathan Fishman
Norman Shulewitz
SETTLE-A-FAMILY DONOR
- CONTRIBUTORS:
David Horodoker, Jrs.
Ladies' Auxiliary of Congrega-
tion Mishkan Israel
Anna Goldberg
Levin-Shevin & Co.
An additional list of paid con-
tributors for dunam land redemp-
tion and for Settle-a-Family
funds will be published in Janu-
ary.
Detroiter Honors
Kin in Golden Book
In gratitude for the liberation
of his brother from Nazi oppres-
sion, a Detroiter this week in-
scribed his name in the • Golden
Book ofd the Jewish National
Fund in Jerusalem.
Abe Nusbaum of 3773 Glen-
dale, grateful for the escape of
his brother, Shloimo Nusbaum,
from Poland to Palestine, last
year, contributed $100 to the JNF
for the Golden Book inscription.
Shloimo Nusbaum resides at
337 Jaffa ROad, Jerusalem.
$3,000,000 Housing
Projects Planned
By the JNF in Zion
JERUSALEM (JPS-PALCOR).
Plans for $3,200,000 housing proj-
ectS to reduce the housing short-
age in Palestine and provide
dwellings for Palestine's Jewish
ex-servicemen and for incoming
refugees, were revealed to the
Palcor correspondent by Leopold
Schen, chief of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund (Keren Kayemeth)
in Britain.
In revealing that considerable
sums for the implementation of
the projects have already been
raised in Britain, and stressing
the imminent role of English-
Jewish capital in the undertak-
ing, Mr. Schen said that prepara-
tions are already under way for
the launching of the construction
of the first of these projects in
the Haifa area.
This page sponsored by Detroit
friends of the Jewish National Fund.
Ladies' Auxiliary of Jewish National Fund Completes Plans
for Annual Donor Event on Jan. 22; Bring Latest
Palestine Film for Showing in Detroit
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Jewish National Fund is
conducting an intensive educational campaign in connection
with its current fund-raising effort for land-redemption in
Palestine, according to Mrs. Irving Shevin, president.
Hundreds of women are being informed on the events
occurring in Palestine and are brought the message of Pales-
0 tine's reconstruction at cultural
meetings of the organization.
This is
On Thursday evening, at a ral-
PEARL HARBOR DAY
ly at the Jewish Community Cen-
On this day, we renew
our appeals to the nations
of the world to make the
Peace we have attained
a real triumph for Justice
by adhering to pledges
to make Palestine the
Jewish National Home.
On this day also, we call
upon all Jews not to lose
faith
in the great libertarian
cause
for Palestine's redemption.
Our cause is just and must
triumph.
To assure triumph for our
cause,
our efforts for land-redemp-
tion
through the Jewish Nation-
al Fund
must go unabated. We call
upon
Detroit Jews to support all
our
projects, to plant trees in
Palestine,
to inscribe their dear -ones
in the
Golden Book, to 'honor their
children
in the Sefer HaYeled and
Sefek Bar
- Mitzvah, never to forget
the Blue
and White Boxes.
WORK FOR AND GIVE
LIBERALLY TO THE
JEWISH NATIONAL
FUND
* * *
All friends of the Jewish
National Fund are called
upon to be present at the
demonstration for Justice
to be held next Thursday
Evening at the Jewish
Community Center under
auspices of
the Zionist Council • of
Detroit.
ter, the JNF Auxiliary sponsored
showing of the latest Pales-
tinian film "A Pass to Tomor-
how."
Mrs. Jack Rosenthal is chair-
man of the annual donor event
and Mrs. Philip Cutler is her co-
chairman.
Confidence was expressed by
the women that last year's donor
contributions of $46,000 will be-
surpassed this year, • because of
the increased needs for Pales-
tine's redemption and the enroll-
ment of a larger number of don-
ors.
The annual donor event will
take place on Wednesday eve-
ning, Jan. 22, at the Masonic
Temple. In addition to a na-
tionally prominent speaker, the
latest JNF technicolor film, which
has just arrived from Palestine
and has not been shown in Mich-
igan, will be on the program.
Plans for the annual donor
event will be completed at a
meeting of the JNF Auxiliary's
board of directors at 12:30 p. m.
on Monday, Dec. 10, at the home
of Mrs. Benjamin M. Laikin, 8360
LaSalle. A dessert luncheon will
be served.
U,S. Jewry Backs
Homeland Fight,
Dr, Silver Says
HAIFA, (JPS-Palcor)—Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver, president of
the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, addressing the 25th anniver-
sary session here Dec. 2 of the
Histadruth (Jewish Palestine's
labor federation) Council, prom-
ised that 5,000,000 American Jews
will continue to stand behind
Jewish Palestine until the gates
of the homeland are opened.
Dr. Silver declared that the
restoration of Zion has always
been associated the world over
with the dream of social reform.
The session was addressed by
Loins Lipsky, Prof. Selig Brodet-
sky, Berl Locker and Dr. Mahum
Goldman; members of the Jew-
ish Agency Executive Board, and
David ben Gurion, its chairman.
JNF Thanks Zionist Youth
For Efforts on Flag Day
The Jewish National Fund Council of Detroit- desires to
express heartfelt thanks to the Zionist youth of our com-
munity for their devoted efforts which have resulted in a
successful activity on the occasion of annual Flag Day on
Nov. 18.
We are especially grateful to Habonim, Hashomer Hat-
zair, Senior Judaens, Young Judaens, pupils of the United
Hebrew Schools, Migdal, Junior Hadassah and Avukah.
Our sincere thanks to go to the members of the com-
mittee on arrangements—Jean Basch in, Herbert Hordes,
Thelma Jaffin, Esther Mossman, Evelyn Oshman, Yaakov
Woodrow, Ethel Levine, Phyllis Zieve, Leo Sklar and Sey-
mour Subar.
The sincerity and loyalty of the Zionist youth have been
helpful in increasing Detroit Jewry's contributions for land-
redemption work in Palestine.
May their hands be strengthened for future work for
Israel's redemption and may they and we soon see the reali-
zation of our hopes for a speedily rebuilt Jewish National
Home . in Palestine.
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND COUNCIL OF DETROIT.