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H E JEW - 1SH NEWS
Weekly Review of the News of the World
Friday, january.18, 1946
A Russian Doctor and Her Patient
(Compiled from Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
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AMERICA
The newly-formed Arab Higher Commit-
tee of Palestine, in reply to a reported re-
quest by the Palestine Government that they
consent to the interim immigration of 1,500
Jews per month during the hearings of the
Anglo-American Committee on Palestine, has
demanded abolition of the Palestine Mandate,
establishment of an independent Arab Pales-
tine, and the. return from exile of Haj Amin el
Hussieni, Mufti of Jerusalem,- now under in-
dictment as an Axis war criminal, Gene Cur-
rivan, New York Times correspondent, reports
from Jerusalem.
The Washington Times-Herald, published
by Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, warned Jewish
merchants not to fight anti-Semitism in the
press by boycott, because Jews live in a "Gen-
tile world" and "this • type of -fighting could
not possibly win."
A drive to raise $4,000,000 as a fund to com-
bat racial and religious prejudice in America
Was launched with the sponsorship of Presi-
dent Truman, who will act as honorary chair-
man, and former governor of Minnesota, Harold
E. Stassen, general chairman.
PALESTINE
British police and troops, accompanied by
squads of Royal Engineers carrying special de-
tecting apparatus, searched buildings in the
northern districts of Tel Aviv, apparently
seeking the transmitter of "Kol Yisroel" (Voice
of Israel), secret radio station of the Jewish
Resistance Movement.
OVERSEAS
Fascist vandals are ranging through White-
chapel, sprawling Jewish section in the East
End of London, defacing walls and sidewalks
Women's. Clubs
. MAZ-'AL CLUB held its
seventh annual banquet Jan. 7
at the Bowery. Reports were
made of gifts to charity, to the
Ladies' Auxiliary of Jewish War
Veterans, to the March of Dimes
and the Sister Kenny Fund.
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. BETH AARON .SISTERHOOD
met Jan. 7 at the home of the
president, Mrs. M. Bensman of
Hartwell Ave., and made plans
for a membership tea, 'social and
Valentine party in honor of new
members, on Feb. 11, at the home
of Mrs. Jack Kanners, 19193 Le-
sure. The next meeitng will be
held on Jan. 21 at the• home of
Mrs. Marion Levine, 18611 Hart-
well.
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. VICTORY WORKERS w i 11
celebrate their third anniversary
at the Bowery on Jan. 21. The
girls have been working on
scrapbooks and afghans. Mrs. R.
Cherner is the sponsor.
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DETROIT BNAI BRITH
YOUNG WOMEN will hold their
annual fund raising affair in forth
of a victory dance on Sunday,
February 17, at Moose Temple,
featuring George Kavanagh and
his orchestra. Proceeds will go to
Bnai Brith philanthropies..
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NEUGARTEN MEDICAL AID'S
executive, board will meet Jan. 21
at the home of Mrs. Norman
Noble. Mrs. Benj. Krell Jr: will
be co-hostess. Installation of of-
ficers will be held at the .Wardell-
Sheraton Hotel Jan. 28, at a
luncheon at 12:30. Mrs. Lester
Smith, UN. 3-1141, is accepting
reservations.
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UNIVERSITY AREA WOM-
EN'S . CLUB will meet at 8:30
p.m. on Jan. 23 at the home of
Mrs. Norman German, 18011
Washburn. A demonstration. on
crafts will be given by Mit.
Norman Soffen. Plans will be
made for the annual dance to be
held March 3 at the Jewish Cen-
ter. Prospective members are in-
vited to meetings.
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NATIONAL COUNCIL
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JEWISH JUNIORS danCe - will be
held this Saturday night at the
Belcrest. Mickey Woolf will pro-
vide the music. This will be a
couple affair. Servicemen will be
guests of the organization. Shir-
ley Small, chairnian of the dance,
is assisted by Peggy. Mann, Bluina
Nagler, Clara Waldbott, Pearl
Shanbom and Frances Marko-
with fascistic and anti-Semitic slogans. The
walls of the Yiddish Theater were smeared
recently with the slogan and lightning flash
symbol of Sir Oswald Mosley's Union of
British Fascists.
Rudolph Kramp, deputy Gestapo com-
mander who" took part. in the extermination
of 200,000 Jews in the ghetto of Lodz, has
been sentenced to death by a Polish court in
Warsaw.
An invitation to exiled and deported Jewish
academicians to return to their former German
homes was extended by Professor Boehm,
Education Minister of the new state of Greater
Hesse. Professor Boehm said he desires to co-
operate with restored Jewish communities.
The Bavarian Finance Ministry is refunding
to Jews fines paid for violations of the anti-
Semitic Nuremberg Laws, and is offering 500,-
000 mark long term loans to all Jews who
lived in Bavaria before March, 1933, and who
want to resettle there.
The New Zionist Organization, official
Revisionist group in Britain, at a London con-
ference, voted 65 to 22 to join the Zionist
Organization of Britain and to participate in
its forthcoming Congress.
Secretary of War Lawson, replying to
George Porter, Labor MP, denied reports that
Arab leaders in Tripoli have refused to guar-
antee that anti-Jewish pogroms would not be
repeated, unless Jewish members are removed
from the Tripoli police force, the Jewish Boy
Scout Association is disbanded and the Pal-
estine company attached to British troops is
withdrawn. The War Secretary said no . de-
mands of this nature had been made by local
Arab leaders in Tripoli nor had they refused
to guarantee law and order.
Chaplain to Speak
At
Conference
Berger is chairman; Mrs. Grace
Diamond, co-chairman; Mrs. Abe
Miller, ticket chairman. Dona-
YIVO
tions were made to the Gewerk-
shaften, Jewish National Fund
and Detroit Round Table. The
The legal basis of the Nurem-
next meeting will be held at 1 berg trial and its implications
p.m. Jan. 23 at the Bnai Moshe. will be discussed by Murray C.
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PISGAH AUXILIARY 122 of
Bnai Brith will have a luncheon-
ette for new members at the Bel-
crest at 12:30 p.m. next Wednes-
day. Prospective members are in-
vited. Mrs. Charles Solovich, past
president of District 6, will be
guest speaker. The musical pro-
gram will feature Kay Friedman,
violinist, and Rosina Betman La-
Kritz, soloist, accompanied by
Betty Blinstraub. Mrs. William
Fogel and Mrs. Samuel F. Mil-
ler are chairmen of membership.
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MIZRACHI JUNIORS, at a
membership tea at the home of
Miss Miriam Dishell, 2279 Cal-
vert, on Jan. 13, heard Mrs. L.
Friedman, sponsor, discuss the
aims and goal of the newly-
formed organization. Mrs. Fried-
man stressed the importance of
the future development of chil-
dren's homes and nurseries in
Palestine for refugee children.
Girls interested in the advance-
ment of this work are requested
to contact Miss Fl or en c e
Schwartz (TO. 7-8624) or Miss
Miriam Dishell (TO. 8-2417) for
arrangements to be guests at the
next meeting at the home of
Miss Helen Freedman, 3200 Glen-
dale, Jan. 20 at 2 p.m.
Don Cossack Chorus
At Masonic Jan. 26
The General Platoff Don Cos-
sack Chorus, one of the most
famous body of singers in the
world, will appear Saturday,
Jan'. 26, at Masonic Temple.
The reputation of this band of
27 Russians, who are sometimes
picturesquely known as the "27
singing horsemen of the Steppes",
has preceded them wherever
they, have traveled.
The chorus is really Ake one
great organ, and the conductor,
M. Nicholas Kostrukoff, is the
organist.
World Zionist Pioneer,
Dr. M. Piekarski, Dies
NEW
Maxmilian
Piekarski, secretary of the first
World Zionist Congress in 1897
in Switzerland, died Jan. 8.
Dr. Piekarski, 'who lived at
312 W. 82. Stt , dropped dead in
an elevator of the West Side
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Hospital where he was being en-
HEBREW LADIES' AID.• SO= tered as a patient. He was a
CIETY, at a board meeting at prominent member of the Aus-
the home of Mrs. Philip' Shapiro, trian Advisory Committee of the
Made plans for the annual din- World Jewish Congress. He is
ner dance to be held March 10 survived by his widow, Helen,
at the Bnai Moshe. Mrs. Charles and two children.
witz.
CHAPLAIN ISAAC KLEIN
Bernays, formerly a colonel on
the General Staff Corps of the
U. S. Army, at the 20th anniver-
sary conferenCe of the Yiddish
Scientific Institute (YIVO) open-
ing in New York at Hunter Col
lege Assembly Hall, Jan. 19.
Chaplain Isaac Klein, recently
returned from service in France,
Belgium and Germany, will
speak at the open session of the
conference Sunday Jan. 20.
The two concluding sessions of
the conference, Tuesday and
Wednesday, will deal with the
accomplishments of Jewish re-
search for the last 20 years.
Beth El Men's Club
To Hold Dance Jan. 26
Men's Club of Temple Beth El
will hold a postwar dance on
Saturday evening, Jan. 26, in the
Social Hall of the Temple.
This is the first dance the club
has sponsored in more than five
years.
The committee, headed by co-
chairmen Gilbert Michel and
Theodore Birnkrant, is planning
many features for this event:
Dancing will be to the music of
Al Cox and his Londonaires, with .
Gloria Dawn as vocalist. In ad-
dition. there will be a floor show,'
refreshments and prizes.
All members of Temple Beth
El are. invited to attend and to
bring their friends, Tickets can
be obtained at :the Temple Beth
El office, or at the door.
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DR. ZOYA FILIPCHENKO, director of the Orel Tuberculosis
Dispensary, examines a patient in the hospital she helped rebuild,
repaint and replaster after the Germans had left it a shambles.
The patients contributed the chairs, beds and tables, but all
blankets, surgeons' gowns, instruments, linen, bedding, cocoa and
other supplies came from America through Russian Relief.
Weidman Dancers to Give Food, Clothes Parcels
Modern Program Monday For DPs Packed Here
Charles Weidman, recognized
as one of the outstanding artists
in American concert dance to-
day, will appear
with his com-
pany of 12 in a
modern danc e
recital at 8:30 p
m. Monday, Jan.
21, at the De-
t r o it Institute
of Arts Auditor-
iurn.
Dancing orig-
inally with the
Denishawn con- Chas. Weidman
cert group, Weidman and Doris
Humphrey opened their own
school _ in New York and formed
their own concert group.
Prominent members of the
Weidman group include. Peter
Hamilton and Nadine Gae.
Spring, Just 'Round
Corner,
Milton Sprinkler Warns
The icy blasts of winter may
howl, but the lawns of green
wait patiently for their blanket
of ice and snow to disappear —
the Milton Sprinkler System,
Inc., 2006 Penobscot Bldg:, has
already begun to make folks feel
warmer.
Their announcement of under-
lawn sprinklers to assure instal-
lation for spring jumps the gun
in that field. With the return
of manpower they now have ex-
perts to service, convert and re-
pair all types of sprinklers.
Milt Lichterman, former pro-
duction , engineer for Western
Electric and a research and de-
velopment advisor for the Ad-
miral Radio Corp., is affiliated
with C. E. McGowan, one of the
outstanding designerS in the lawn
sprinkling field.
By Women's Committee
The women's emergency food
committee organized to send
parcels of food and clothing to
displaced and destitute Jews is
packing parcels at headquarters,
12219 Dexter, every Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, 2 to 5
and 7:30 to 10 p. m.
These parcels are sent to desti-
tute families and chaplains who
distribute them to displaced Jews
in camps.
Last week 100 parcels were
mailed-25 pound parcels to
chaplains and 11 pound parcels
to families.
An appeal is made to the com-
munity for contributions of food
and clothing which can be left
at 12219 Dexter. Money contribu-
tions can be sent to Mrs. J.
Sperka, treasurer, 1938 Tuxedo.
For information call Mrs. Max
Wohlgelernter, president, TY.
6-7464: Mrs. James Brindze, TO.
6-6800, is in charge of packing.
Mrs. A. Weisberg, TO. 8-4421, is
in charge of mailing.
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