Friday, December 7, 1945 THE JEWISH N.EWS . Page Sixteen 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 . 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.