THE JEWISH NEWS
A
VOL. 8, NO. 21
Weekly Review
of Jewish Events
34 o‘rbv 22 Detroit 26, Mich. February 8, 1946
10c; $3 Per Year
Welfare Funds Open
Conclave in Detroit
600 Leaders Commence Sessions Today;
Public Rally at Beth El Saturday Night
J.D.C.'s "S.O.S."
collection
of supplies for overseas survivors
opened with MAYOR WILLIAM
O'DWYER of New York making
his contribution of canned food
to MRS. ISAAC GILMAN, presi-
dent of the Federation of Jewish
Women's Organizations in N. Y.
Imprisoned
when the Jap
anese captured Shanghai, MAN-
UEL SIEGEL, shown above with
three American Jewish chaplains
and an orphaned Jewish girl, was
able to continue direction of the
$100,000 monthly Joint Distribu-
tion Committee relief program
for 12,000 European Jewish ref-
ugees even after the Japs herded
them into a ghetto. The Jewish
woman. on the left is darning her
coat in the Hongkew ghetto. The
$2,000,000 Detroit Allied Jewish
Campaign, local fund raising
agency of the United Jewish Ap-
peal, will continue to provide re-
lief for the needy in Shanghai,
and wherever there are destitute
Jews throughout the world.
.
More than 600 nationally prominent leaders representing
hundreds of communities from all states in the Union are meet-
ing in Detroit this week-end, commencing with .sessions this
Friday morning, at the 1946 General Assembly of the Caoacil.
of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.
All sessions of this conference, which will continue through
Monday afternoon, are to be held at Hotel Statler, with the ex-
ception of the Jewish Community Rally which will be held at
8:15 p. m. Saturday in the auditorium of Temple Beth El.
All sessions are open to the public, voting being limited
to accredited delegates, and a special invitation is extended to
the entire community to attend the public meeting Saturday
night at Temple Beth El.
Rally to Aid Local Campaign
The Jewish Community Rally, sponsored jointly by the
Council of Federations and Welfare Funds and the United Jew-
ish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine, with the
cooperation of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, is ex-
pected materially to aid the approaching $2,000,000 drive of the
Detroit Allied Jewigh Campaign.
The theme of the Jewish Community Rally will be: "Jewish
Community Planning to Meet Our Overseas Responsibilities."
Principal speakers and their topics will be:
Prof. William Haber of the department of economics of the
University of Michigan, "The American Task."
Dr. James G. Heller, of Cincinnati, one of the outstanding
Zionist leaders in the world, until last week . national chairman
of the United Palestine Appeal, "The Role of Palestine."
Prof. William Haber
Mrs. David M. Levy
Despair, statelessness and un-
certainty are ending for the ref-
ugees at Camp Oswego. New
homes are being found for them
by the National Refugee Service
with f u n d s provided by the
- • ,:ited Jewish Appeal. Photo-
graphs show the Svecinski family
(shown in front of the flag of
freedom) receiving visas at Nia-
gara Falls; WALTER LOEWET
embracing his wife and her moth-
er after seven years' separation;
DR. HUGO GRANER being re-
united with his family after sev-
en years of wandering. (On the
right.) The last of the war ref-
ugees at Oswego are expected to
leave the camp in a few weeks.
Dr. James G. Heller
.
"Needs. in Europe"
Mrs. David M. Levy (Adele Rosen-
wald), national chairman of the Women's
Division of the United Jewish Appeal,
"Needs and Programs in Europe."
Judge William Friedman, president of
the Jewish Welfare FederatiOn of De-
troit, will greet the rally. Stanley C.
Myers of Miami, Fla., will preside. The
invocation will be given by Dr. B. Bene-
dict Glazer, rabbi of Temple Beth El.
The Federations' convention will open
this Friday morning with a general ses-
sion on two related subjects: "Community
Planning for the Care of the Aged," the
discussion to be led by Joseph Folkoff,
superintendent of the Levindale Home
for Aged, Baltimore; and "Community
Planning for the Care of Persons With
Long Time Illnesses," discussion= leader
to be Dr. E. M. Bluestone, superintendent
of Montefiore Hospital, New York.
Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of
the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit,
will be chairman of the afternoon pro-
gram, from 2:30 to.5 p. m., which will in-
clude
Charles Brown, Los Angeles;
Samuel Daroff, Philadelphia; Herman
Gilman, Waltham; Stanley C. Myers,
Miami; Harris Perlstein, Chicago; Ben
Sadowski, Toronto; Joseph Willen, New
York.
Jewish Education Session
A Jewish education session at 4 p. m.
Saturday, in the Bagley Room of Hotel
Statler, will take the form of an Oneg
Shabbat. The theme for discussion will
be: "Progress iil_community Responsibili-
ty for Jewish Education."
Abe Kasle, president of the United
Hebrew Schools of Detroit, will greet the
assembly and Rabbi Leon Fram of Tem-
ple Israel will offer the prayer. Morris
Kesner will lead in the singing of Sab-
bath songs.
Judge Louis E. Levinthal of Philadel-
phia will be the discussion leader at the
Oneg Shabbat and the speakers will in-
clude: Louis Reiman, Miami; Theodore
Strimling, Los Angeles; Frank G. Mar-
shall, Chicago; Samuel S. Schneierson,
New York; Saul G. Chason, Maine; Her-
man Morton, Southern Illinois.
National Budgeting
The question of national budgeting,
which has attracted nationwide discus-
sion and in opposition to which a na-
tional committee was formed under the
chairmanship of Ezra Shapiro, will be
discussed on Sunday morning, from 9:30
to 12. William J. Shroder of Cincin-
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