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Zionist

THE JEWISH NEWS

Leader's 50th Birthday

Benjamin M. Laikin Holds
Highest Zi r mist Post Here

Benjamin M. Latkin's 50th birthday, on January 1, will • be
occasion for Zionists of all political opinions to pay tribute to him
as the recognized leader of the Zionist community of Detroit.
A life-long Zionist, Mr. Laikin
during the past year received sively throughout the United
the highest recognition that can States, made a trip to 16 coun-
tries in Europe, to Hawaii and
Japan. He settled in Detroit in
1929.
In 1922 Mr. Laikin was mar-
ried to the former Anna Lois
Golomb. They have four daugh-
ters, Pnina, Beth-Sheva, Judith
and Shulamith.
Their oldest daughter, Pnina,
is married to Stanley Wilkins of
Mount Airy, Md. They have one
child and reside in Detroit, Mr.
Wilkins being engaged in busi-
ness here with Mr. Laikin in the
Consumers Paper Co.
Beth-Sheva and Judith Laikin
are students at the University of
Michigan and are active hi Ann
Arbor in Avukah student Zion-
ist affairs and in Hillel. Shula-
mith is studying in the public
schools and the United Hebrew
Schools.

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BENJAMIN M. LIMN

-be given a local Zionist by being
: elected president of the Zionist
- Council of Detroit.
Previously, he was accorded
high recognition by being chosen
to. serve ..on_ the national central
• executive committee of the Poole
ZiOn,
He was one of the organizers of
the Poale. Zion Branch 3 here,
has served as vice-president of
the Jewish National Fund Coun-
cil of Detroit and has addressed
nurnerou_; rallies for Zionism.
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MR. LAIKIN was one of the
organizers of the Jewish Com-
munity Council of Detroit and
-has served on its executive com-
mittee, since its foundation, hav-
ing been chosen in popular elec-
tions of delegates. He is a di-
rector of YIVO, the Yiddish
Scientific Institute of New York,
and is a member of Congrega-
tion Shaarey Zedek,
- Born in the small White Rus-
sian town of Bobolov in the.pro-
vince of Minsk, he attended He-
;der there until his Bar Mitzvah.
He then studied in the Yeshivah
of Bobrouisk.
Coming to this country in.
March, 1914, he landed in Balti-
more, Md., then went to Phila-
delphia and from there to Mass-
achusetts where he resided for
four and a half years, returning
to Baltimore for another 10 years.
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- WHILE WORKING for a firm
in Baltimore he traveled exten-

Philip Adler to Be 55;
Other January Birthdays

Philip Adler, eminent foreign
correspondent of the Detroit
News, whose series of articles on
Poland,, in th..q.Detrgit N. acts,. have
twomr.

Center Arranges Programa
At D: W. Simons School
The Jewish Center . in conjunc-
tion with the United Hebrew
Schools is now carrying on a
program of Center activities at
the D. W. Simons Hebrew School
at Tuxedo and Holmur. The
Building is opened for Center
activities on Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, from 7:00 to 10:30 p. m.
Provision is being made for the
use of the class rooms as club
meeting rooms. Ping pong and
other table games are available.
The program is under the direc-
tion of Melvin Weisz, a gradu-
ate of the University of Michigan
and teacher at Denby High.
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27th Holiday Dance
At Center on Dec. 23
The music of Stan Howard and
his orchestra will be featured at
the 27th Holiday Hop whiCh will
be held at the Center Sunday
evening, Dec. 23. Miss Estelle
Star r, co-chairman of the
Holiday Hop Committee, an-
nounces that the dance will be
called a Victory Reunion in honor
of servicemen and women who
recently have returned to the
city, many of whom have joined
the Center.

Life's Article Mrs. Sharp Tells Hadassah Tea
On Palestine Of Children's Dream of Zion
Is Protested

Jewish Leaders Here Brand
Story as Untrue, Injurious
to Our Aspirations

Life Magazine's article on Pal-
estine last week was branded by
Detroit Jewish leaders as one of
the most outrageous misrepre-
sentations of the issue that has
ever appeared in print.•
Benjamin M. Laikin, president
of the Zionist Council of Detroit,
has called upon all who have
seen the article to express their
resentment in view of the un-
truths contained in the article
and because it is so harmful to
a just cause.
It is pointed out that the arti-
cle, contrary to fact, maintains
that American and British Jews
have advertised in their respec-
tive countries for settlers in Pal-
estine because there are not
enough Jews in Europe who wish
to go to Palestine. Recent sur-
veys have indicated that any-
where from 70 per cent to 95 per
cent of the Jews in Europe in-
sist on settling in Palestine.
So-called historic facts in Life's
article are disputed. Life main-
tains -that Jews have become
nationalistic, and the fact is
pointed -to that -the.aSpiration for
a . ..le-wish State- dates back 27
years, the idea having had the
endorsement of the U. S. and
British governments who spoke
in terms of a Jewish Common-
wealth back in 1917.

Hundreds of women filled the
Book Cadilac ballroom on the
occasion of Detroit Hadassah's
Youth Aliyah tea which was ad-
dressed by Mrs. Waitstill Sharp
who related her experience as a
relief worker in Europe.
Mrs. Sharp told of visiting a
school room of 40 Jewish child-
ren in one of the Allied occupa-
tion areas and discovered that
each child was branded on the
arm with a concentration camp
number by the Germans. One
boy stated that they did not wish
to remain in Europe. The child-
ren all dream of going to
Palestine, she said.
Placed on Farms
After a period of hospitaliza-
tion and health building in Pal-
estine, the children are placed
on collective farms, where the
mornings are spent in work, such
as the care of animals, bee keep-
ing and other agricultural pur-
suits, and the afternoons in
study, with various recreational
features to help normalize the
children and make them forget
their past ordeals.
The Joint Distribution Corn-
rnittee, said Mrs. Sharp, wife of
a Christian minister, has been
doing a magnificent job in gath-
ering up children from various

European countries and provid-
ing their transportation to Pales-
tine. From that point on, Had-.
assah must raise at least $240 for
a year's upkeep of each child:
Visas are available for all chil-
dren whose expenses can be met,
so their problem is a financial
one.
Join Minyan Groups
Many persons and business
firms have undertaken, through
Hadassah, the care of one- or
more children. Many others
have joined Minyan groups,
through which each person con-
tributes $24 per year, or $2 per
month, for this work. Mrs. Sam-
uel Frankel and Mrs. Merwin
Grosberg jointly head the Min-
yan Committee of the Detroit
Chapter of Hadassah.

The work is carried on in the
four local groups by the follow-
ing chairmen: Central Group,
Mrs. Herman August, TO. 8-8817;
Huntington Woods, Mrs. Benj.
Coleman, LI. 2-1826; Russell
Woods, Mrs. Nathan Goldman,
TO. 6-5935; University Group,
Mrs. Louis Zlatkin, UN. 3-8998.

"It is impossible to govern the
world without t h e Bible."—
George Washington.

Temple Israel Men's Club
To Serve at USO Dec. 23

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Jewish Center
Activities

Friday, December 21, 1945

PHILIP ADLER

caused a sensation, will observe
his 55th birthday on Jan. 27.
Others whose birthdays occur
in January are:
Leon Kay, Jan. 28; Milton M.
Maddin, Jan. 10; Julian L. Ze-
mon, Jan. 5; Julius Rothschild,
Jan. 14; Mettie Baron Golub, Jan.
31; Danny Raskin:Jan. 23; Harry
'Golden, Jan. 12; A. J. Levin,
Jan. 10; H. H. Prenzlauer, Jan.
8; Dr. Robert Rosen, Jan. 21; Si-
mon Shetzer, Jan. 16; Ben Sid-
low, Jan. 5; Louis S. Cohane, Jan.
18; Julius Berman, Jan. 14; Rabbi
Moses Fischer, Jan. 26.

The Center is making available
to all returning. veterans a free
six months membership.
The dance will be held from
9:00 p. m. to midnight. Admis-
sion for Center members is 75
cents and for non-members $1.
Tickets are available at the door
and from members of the com-
mittee.
* * *
B & P Group to Talk
On 'International Cartels'
Business and Professional Dis-
cussion Group will hold the last
program in its current series on
economic problems on Wednes-
day, Dec. 26. Irvine Kerrison, dis-
cussion leader, will discuss "In-
ternational Cartels". The pro-
gram will be held in the Gins-
burg Lounge and will .begin at
9:00 p. All . are invited.
* * *
Mothers' Clubs Program
Parents and Children's Parties
will be featured during the cum .-
ing week by the Mothers' Clubs:

MOTHERS' CLUBS PROGRAM
DEXTER MOTHERS' CLUB: Tues-
day, Dec. 25, at 1:00 p. m. at Bnai
Moshe Synagogue, Dexter at Law-
rence.
WOODWARD STUDY CLUB: Wed-
nesday, Dec. 26, at 1:30 p. m., at the
Center.
TWELFTH STREET MOTHERS'
CLUB: Thursday, Dec. 27, at 8:30
p. m., at Lachar's Hall, 8939 Twelfth,
Annual Card Party.

CARD OF THANKS
The family of the late Private
Benjamin Mendelsohn wishes to
thank relatives and friends for
the kindnesses shown them in
_their recent bereavement.

Board of directors of the Men's
Club of Temple Israel have made
arrangements to be host at the
Downtown USO on Sunday, Dec.
23, from 8:30 a. m. to Midnight.
A staff of 100 members will take
over, serving food for the men
and women in the Armed Forces.
Chairman of the committee is
S. J. Benyas.

Relatives Sought

Anyone knowing information
as to the whereabouts of the fol-
lowing is asked to contact Mrs.
Sue A:• Huffman of the Jewish So-
cial Service Bureau, 5737 Second
Ave., TR. 2-4080, Monday through
Friday.

Michael Friedman, Who came to De-
troit from Rusia in 1923, sought by
Jerahmiel Friedman.
Anna Pineblatt and Mischa Finkel,
sough by Manya and Genla Pineblatt.
Josel Drecksler, uncle (born in 1890
in Czestochowa) and Yetka and Chan-
ka Drecksler, cousins, sought by Adele
Paremba Fiszbein, daughter. of Wrysee
and Golda Wildenberg.
Mosek Lieberman, who came to De-
troit from Poland about 1925, former-
ly owned a fruit store, being sought by
his niece Bela Goldwasser.
Berl and Libe Wolkovisz or Wolko-
witz who came to Detroit from Poland
at time of World War I, being sought
by nephew Fela Widawska,
Esther Kleiner sought by David Soif-
er from Rovnoa, sort of Osher and
Gitel.
Wolf, Abram, Mendel, Chawa, and
Chana Goldfarb, sought by Leon Gold-
farb, son of Mendel.

The Jewish Social Service Bu-
reau has received a list of Jews
originating from Nagyvarad,
Hungary, who have been liberat-
ed in various concentration
camps.
The Bureau also received a
printed list of Jews now residing
in Lublin, Poland, compiled by
the World Jewish Congress.

Hear, Oh Jews!

Welcome Words:

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By DORA TRACHT

Shma Yisroel, the chant of the ages.
The breaking of hearts, the making of
sages.
• •
The heritage of learning—the desire
for life.
Was their only weapon in storm and
strife.
With unison and intelligence they con-
quered the foe.
The moment is at hand, when again we
can do so.
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The Talmud, the Torah have paved a
way.
A new monument, the Yeshivah is here
to stay—
Jewry of Amerida, scholars at hand
Take heed, Jewish education must ex-
pand.
Hospitals you've fostered, synogagues
have grown—
Our duty • is to youth—let that be
known.
The blossom of Judaism depends on
his course— -
His roots, in the making.. is for you to
en-force:

"How about
a bottle of

