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Monsky Greets Rnai Brith
New Members Wednesday

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U. M. Hillel Annual
Banquet on Sunday

JWF Women's Division Plans
Gatherings to Spur Campaign

Prof. William Haber of the
University of Michigan economic
Greater Detroit Campaign to Be Culminated at Event in department will be the principal
speaker at the Ann Arbor Bnai
Statler; Will Discuss Current World Problems
Brith banquet at the Allenel Ho-
An invitation to the community at large to hear the tel on Sunday evening.
Guests will include Mr. and
address on current problems by Henry 'Monsky next
Wednesday, at 9 p. m., at Hotel Statler, has been extended Mrs. Osias Zwerdling who have
served the Ann Arbor . Jewish
by the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Council, of which David community for 40 years and
I. Rosin is president.
Rabbi and Mrs. .Jehudah M.
. In the course of his activity as president of the Supreme Cohen. Rabbi Cohen is director
Lodge of Bnai Brith, Mr. Monsky •
of the U. M. Bnai Hillel Founda-
has led his organization through
tion. Also among the guests will
the most -successful phases of its ,
be 12 Ann Arbor World War II
history and has become known
veterans and Bnai Brith members
throughout the country as a pro- I
from Jackson and Detroit.
gressive leader in humanitarian
Hillel Players will entertain
activities.
with a program of musical selec-
The local council is presenting
tions and a radio skit, "The Bar
Mr. Monsky at the culmination i
Mitzvah of Pvt. Cohen." Stu-
of its membership campaign dur
dents taking part include Eugene
ing which more than two thou-
Malitz, Jack Weiss, Fae Kauf-
sand members have added to the .f
man, Morris Stulberg, Sheldon
men's organization and two new
Selesnick and Harold 'Petinkin.
lodges, one a Yiddish speaking
The program will be directed by
group, have been formed. Under
Edythe Levin, student director.
the di r:ction of Isidore Starr, the
The committee in charge of
two gcoups will receive their
banquet arrangements- include
charters from Mr. Monsky the •
Mssrs. Herbert Schlager, presi-
night of the meeting. Prior to
dent of the . lodge, Abe Much-
the public meeting, Mr. Monsky
nick, secretary, Jack Fagin and
HENRY MONSKY
will present merit awards to
Samuel Bothman.
Sam Hersch and Meyer Le-
those who have been most active
in developing membership in the bovitz -have been in charge of Detroit-Windsor Girls
city. the membership campaign.

Tremendous Scope Cited
At Organizational Rally

Sobeloff Views 'Colossal Calamity' Faced by World's Jewry
Before. Delegates of Organizations and Congregations
on Behalf of Corning $2,000,000 Campaign

Representing more than 50 organizations and congrega-
tions; 115 delegates met last Sunday in the Workmen's Circle
Educational Hall officially to launch the organizational activ-
ities in behalf of the forthcoming $2,000,000 Allied Jewish
Campaign. .
David J. Cohen, Detroit attorney and president of Con-
gregation Bnai David, was elect-f

ed chairman of the praeSidium rcity rally to be held on Sunday
afternoon, March 24. He urged
all delegates to enlist the sup-
port of their organizations for
this great rally and for other cam-
paign activities to follow.
Plan Rally March 24
An advisory council was elect-,
ed to work Out the plan for the
March 24 rally" and to coordin-
ate the organizational life of the
community wtih the campaign.
The iziembers of this Council are,
in addition to the officers: Jack
Bletz, Sam Charmer, Max Char-
ness, Hyman Friedman, Ben Gel-
man, Harris T. Glickman, Movsas
Goldoftas, Morris Goldsmith,
Harry Gonte, David Hertz, Wil-
liam Hoffman, Fred Lipofsky,
Rabbi Leizer Levin, Louis Lev-
ine, Samuel J. Lieberman, H. M.
Margolis, Morris Mohr, Jacob
Paskin, Jack Pecherer, Jay Ros-
enshine, David Sirota, Joseph
Snitrnan, Max Weiner and Arn-
old A. Weitzman.
'A. C. Lappin, chairman of the
speakers bureau for the Detroit
Service Group, and A. J. Lach-
over, former secretary of the
organizations division, also ad-
dressed the meeting.

which includes Joseph Bernstein,
Charles Driker, Meyer Schneider
and Isidore Sosnick. Harry Kam-
iner was elected secretary.
Cites Tremendous Scope -
The meeting,. which was pre-
sided over by Joseph Bernstein,
temporary chairman, heard an
address by Isidore Sobeloff, ex-
ecutive director of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit,
who emphasiied the tremendous
scope of the campaign.
- "Never has there been such a
colossal campaign in the history
of the Jewish people," said Mr.
Sobeloff, "but never has there
been such a colossal calamity.
Ordinary giving and ordinary
participation are not enough; this
is the greatest of all campaigns
—it will require the greatest ef-
forts of all Jews and all Jew-
ish organizations."
Mr. Sobeloff announced that
Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, national-
ly known rabbi, and Louis Sobel,
assistant director of ' the Joint
Distribution Committee, will be
the principal speakers at the all-

The Board of Directors and the Campaign Planning Com-
mittee of the Women's Division of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration met in the Jewish Center on Feb. 21 and 22, respective-
ly, to plan "participation in the Emergency Allied Jewish
Campaign for $2,000,000. Plans were laid to invite every
Jewish woman in Detroit to a home gathering where she can
discuss the objectives of this campaign and determine her
own responsibility toward it. Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich is
president of the Division.
At the first of these intimate meetings, Mrs. Henry Soss,
of Balmoral Drive, invited the members of the board and the
campaign planning committee to tea at her home on March 5.

Of Bnai Brith Planning
Fund-Raising Program

Miss Alvira Rothschild, presi-
dent of the Detroit-Windsor Bnai
Brith Girls' Council, announces
its major fund raising affair of
the year to be in the form of a
Mardi Gras on April. 6 at - the
Starlight Room of the Jericho
Temple.
The folloWing have been se-
lecte.d as committee heads.

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Maertz, 2 Others
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NEW YORK (JTA)--Homer
Maertz, Chicago anti-Semite, was
sentenced to one year in jail to-
day for his part in the first
Christian Front street meeting to
be held in New York following
the end of the war.
Ernest Elmhurst, one of the de-
fendants in the seditiOn trial,
and Kurt Mertaig, who was as
sociated with the German Bund,
both of whom were arrested at
the same time, were sentenced to
six months each.
Among the evidence was a
pamphlet entitled "Jewish Ritual
Murder," which had been dis-
tributed at the meeting. Judge
Henry Curran; who presided,
characterized the pamphlet as
one -of the "most vicious, veno
mous and hate-inciting I've ever
e'en." The complainant was
Isadore Ginsberg, NeW York
State commander of the Jewish

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