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THE JEWISH NEWS
JDC Allocates $3,906,000
For Relief During February
10 Millions Already Appropriated for Overseas Aid by
Joint Distribution Committee So Far This Year; Jews
in 50 Countries to Receive Help
- NEW YORK—With an appro-
priation of $3,906,000 in its aid
program for Febniary, the Joint
Distribution Committee brings to
nearly $10,000,000 its allocation
this year for the relief and
rehabilitation of distressed Jews
overseas, it was announced at
national offices of the Untied
Jewish Appeal.
The JDC • together with the
United Palestine Appeal and the
National Refugee Service derives
its • funds from the $103,000,000
campaign of the UJA, the largest
drive of its kind in the history
of the U. S.
Appropriations for J a n u a r y
and February represent more
than one-third of the JDC's total
expenditures of $28,675,475 dur-
ing 1945, the UJA said.
Largest • Allocation
Following January's appropria-
tions and one time grants of
$6,059,000, largest monthly alloc-
ation in the 31 year history of
the agency, February's budget
calls for relief and reconstruction
activities in nearly 50 countries,
it was said.
Hungary, where the JDC is
Brisman to Direct
Drama Group Event
At Northern Sunday
$320,000 For POland
Poland's destitute Jews will
receive funds, goods and services
from the JDC during February
amounting to $320,000.
Romania, whose 335,000 Jews
comprise the largest Jewish com-
munity in continental Europe
outside the Soviet Union, has
been allocated $400,000 for
February.
Other appropriations include
$100,000 to bring aid to 11,000
Jewish refugees in Shanghai, and
$200,000 to continue the JDC's
activities in France, where the
Committee has( established 22
feeding stations in Paris and 12
hostels for the homeless. The
JDC provides relief and rehab-
ilitation aid in France for 25,000
adults and 10,500 children.
Continuance of the monthly
$500,000 supplies program, where-
by the JDC purchases supplies
in the U. S. and ships them to
distressed Jews all over the
world, is also announced in the
February budget.
Yiddish Folks Ferein will hold
Detroit Dramatic Society will its 34th anniversary victory ban-
sponsor an evening of outstand- quet at the Beth Tefilo Emanuel,
ing dramatic selections at North- Taylor and Wilson, on Sunday.
ern High School, Woodward and
Abe Nusbaum, president, an-
Clairmount, on Sunday evening,
under - the direction of Chaim nounces that the new officers will
Brisman, formerly of the "Artef be installed. Morris Goldberg is
Players."
chairman of the banquet, and
This season's first performance Harry Rosenthal, master of cere-
of the society will introduce Mr.
monies.
Brisman, who is here to sponsor
During 1945 the society distri-
artistic Jewish undertakings, and
his associate, Emilie Babat, also buted approximately $9,000 for
charitable causes, including Jew-
of Artef.
The program will include A. ish National Fund, Gewerkshaf-.
Goldfaden's "The Witch" ("Kis- ten, American Federation of Pol-
hef-Macherin"), "An Album of ish Jews, Red Cross, Russian War
JeWish Folksongs" and several Relief, War C h e s t, Pioneer
Women's Child Rescue, Jewish
famous dramatic selections.
Mr. Brisman also will present Welfare Federation, Poale Miz-
Peretz's poems and Miss Babat rachi, Yeshivoth, Los Angeles
will a number of recitations. Sanatorium.
Auditions for the Detroit Dra-
matic Society will be held Tues- Zionist Youth Group
days and Thursdays at the Jew-
ish Center, where new members Elects Field, Crohn;
will be welcomed.
Young Judea Expands
Detroit Section of American
Jewish Congress has named Alan
N. Brown as editor of its new
publication, Congress Voice. The
first issue has been released to
members of the Detroit Section,
and will be published monthly.
Mr. Brown's staff includes Mor-
ris Lieberman, co-editor; _Allan
Barahal, Eugene 'Franzblau, Sig
Diamond, Eve Neidelman, Dr.
Morris R.askin, Lillian Hochberg,
technical assistant; Marjory Ras-
kin, staff secretary; Ben Yomen,
staff artist.
To assume the editorship,
Brown resigned from the • Com-
mission on Law and Legislation
of the Detroit Section.
Missommumumm
.
NEW YORK—Charles J. Ros-
enbloom, industrialist and philan-
thropist of Pittsburgh, Pa., has
been elected national chairman of
being asked to meet nearly every
basic need for the majority of
the 200,000 surviving Jews ,there,
Will receive the largest appro-
priation in February, amounting
to $550,000.
Yiddish Ferein Marks
34th Anniversary
Alan Brown Editor
Of Congress Voice
Heads $44,000,000
Palestine Campaign
At a recent election of the
Zionist Youth Commission, Walter
Field and Lawrence Crohn were
elected co-chairmen of the Youth
Commission.
Young Judea Committee is
compoSed of Mrs. Louis Heymen,
Dr. Philip Lachman and Mrs .
Sidney Mossman. Miss Adeline
Subar is in charge of all Young
Judea activities.
A .Young Judea Leadership
Training Institute and Council
has been formed of members
who are now leading Young Ju-
dea groups or will be leading
them in the near future. • Three
new Young Judea clubs have
been organized and more are be-
ing planned.
The Leaders Council is now
planning a Purim affair.
For' information call Adeline
Subar, TY. 6-2632.
CHARLES J. ROSENBLOOM
the United Palestine Appeal,
American Jewry's central agency
for the rebuilding of the Jewish
National Home in Palestine,
wrhich is seeking $43,782,000 this
year through the United Jewish
Appeal, it was announced at
U.P.A. headquarters, 41 E. ,42nd
St., New York.
Rudolf G. Sonneborn, New
York, a leader in the chemical
industry as well as in Jewish
communal activities, was named
associate chairman of the UPA
Mr. Rosenbloom succeeds Rabbi
James G. Heller of Cincinnati,
who served for two years. By
virtue of his election to the lead-
ership of the UPA, he also be-
comes one of the three national
chairmen of the UJA for Refu-
gees, Overseas Needs and Pales-
tine, now engaged in raising
$100,000,000 for the needs of the
UPA.
A member of an American
Jewish,jamily distinguished for
decades for its philanthropy in
many fields, Mr. Rosenbloom is
noted In Pittsburgh as a patron
of the arts and sciences.
Wayne U. to Present
Konikow in Recital
Gershen Konikow, pianist, will
be featured in Wayne Univer-
sity's student recital, Friday, Feb.
15, at 8:30 p. m., at the Rack-
ham Memorial Auditorium. A
student with Bendetson Netzorg,
Konikow's program is presented
in partial fulfillment of the re-
quirements for the degree of
Master of Music.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan
Konikow, of 2920 Collingwood,
he received his first Bachelor of
Music degree from Wayne in
1941. He entered the Air CorpS
in 1942 and piloted the largest of
bombers, the B-25, B-17 and the
Superfortress B-29. He was dis ,
charged from service Oct. 6, 1945,
and returned to Wayne U.
The public is invited to his
recital. The program will in-
clude -Bach-Busoni, Beethoven,
Prokofieff and Chopin.
Friday, February 8, 1946
Women of JWB
To Present Series
On Returned Vets
ish War Veterans and Women's
of American Jewish
Congress.
The committee, with Mrs. Jaf-
fee as chairman, Mrs. Harry L.
Jones, vice chairman, and Mrs.
Samuel Chapin, publicity chair-
man, is preparing a lecture dis-
cussion course of three sessions.
The first session, on Feb. 25,
will deal with social attitudes and
changes and the speaker will be
Rabbi Eliezer A. Levin of Bnai
Moshe.
The second session, March 4,
will show the economic picture
as seen by Edward L. Cushman,
director for Michigan, United
States Employment Service. In
the third session, March 11, the
community and its resources will
be discussed by Abe L. Sudran,
associate director of the Jewish
Welfare Federation and secretary
of the Veterans Service Commit-
tee of the Jewish Welfare Feder-
ation, and Mrs. Caroline L. Bur-
lingame, director of the Com-
munity Information Center.
The series will be given on the
three successive Mondays at 8:15
at the Center. Registration may
be made without charge at the
Center office.
All inquiries may be addressed
to . the committee office, 8904
Woodward, MA. 8400.
Division
Speakers, Dates Announced;
Programs at Center on
Feb. 25, March 4, 11
Rabbi Charles E. Shulman, re-
cently returned from the Pacific
where he served as a U. S. Navy
Chaplain, will speak on "Are You
Ready for His Return?", at 1:30
p. m. Monday in the Brown Mem-
orial Chapel of Temple Beth El.
Scheduled as speaker of the
League of Jewish Women's Or-
ganizations, Rabbi Shulman will
speak, in addition, under auspices
of the local Jewish Welfare Board
Committee on Civilian Education
to whom the League has turned
over its platform for the day,
Mrs. Douglas I. Brown, president
of the League and Mrs. Benjamin
E. Jaffe, chairman of the com-
mittee, announced.
Rabbi Shulman's theme is de•
rived from the booklet published
by the Women's Division of the
National Jewish Welfare Board
as a guide to civilians in better
understanding of the needs of the
returned serviceman.
The local committee consists of
representatives of Hadassah, Jew-
ish Community Center, Sister-
hoods of Temple Beth El and Is-
rael and Congregations of Shaa-
rey Zedek, Bnai Moshe, Bnai Da-
vid; Women's Auxiliaries of Jew-
DRAMATIC
EVENING
Sunday Evening, Feb. 10
8 o'clock
Julie Adler
Northern High School
Woodward & Clairmount
Under direction of
Chaim Brisman
Dance Studio
'DANCE CREATIONS"
TOwnsend 7-9736
Featuring A. Goldfaden's
"WITCH"
and
other outstanding selections
Chaim Brisman and
Emilie Babat of the "Artef"
will participate
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