THE .12W1 H NEWS

Friday, September 27, 1946

Page Five

2 Service Group Divisions on Year-Round Basis

Sobeloff Views Necessity
Of Group's Reorganization

of

Brunch Oct. 6;
Building Trades Unit to Elect Officers
Food Service CoUncil to Hold Victory Celebration
Oct 23; Plan for Community Chest Drive

Leading all other trade groups in the drive to form
permanent sections of the Detroit Service Group, the organ-
izing committees of the Food and Building Trades Divisions
have drafted by-laws to be presented to their membership
at meetings planned for next month.
The Building Trades group, tentatively. called the Real
Estate and Building Council, will meet at a brunch on Sun-
day, Oct. 6, for election of officers and ratification of by-laws.

This decision was made at the Sept. 12 meeting, held under

the chairmanship of Barney Smith.

A nominating committee will • •
present a slate of candidates for formed the financial backbone of
consideration by all volunteer • the Federation agencies. Now they
workers and contributors. The
interim chairmen who will ap- will not only receive the recogni-
paint the committee include Louis Lion they deserve. but will help
Berry, Joseph Holtzman, Mr- further to strengthcn the com-
Smith and David Wilkus.
munity.
Victory Celebration
Other divisions which have al-
The organizing committee of ready held meetings (-4 their or-
the Food Division net on Sept. ganizing committees include Pro-
11, under the chairmanship of fessional, with Isadore. Levin act-
Max Schayowitz. Plans were for- ing as chairman and Mechanical.
mulated at that meeting for a unde- the interim chairmanship of
Victory Ceiebration Dinner on Oct. r - Aton K. Mahler. The Mechan-
23. Officers will be elected and ical Division will hold its second
the Division's record will be dis-
eeting. for all is members, on
cussed. The pros used name 'for Sept. 30 at the Jewish Center.
this division is the Food Service
Council.
Guest speaker at the 'hod
Division meeting was Isidore Sobel-
off. executive director of the .iew-
ish Welfare Federation. who
explained the necessity for re-
A renewed appeal was issued
organization of the Detroit Ser -ice
Group in order to renew its this week by the Zionist Organi-
participation with the general zation of Detroit for liberal con-
community in the annual fall cam- tributions to the Zionist Expan-
paign of the Community Chest sion. fund, which is part of the
and to recreate its organization to over-all city-wide 560.000 emer-
conduct the Allied Jewish Cam- gency Zionist campaign.
paign in tae spring of each r..ar • The appeal points out that the
for those agenci e s and causes de- funds now being raised are needed
pending on the Allied Jewish to relate effectively to the Amer-
Campaign for support.
ican people the truth about the
Jewish position in Palestine.
Year-Round Organization
The plan to develop year-nound
Checks should be mailed to the
trade organizations was an out- Zionist• office. 1044 Penobscot
growth of the desire of business Bldg.
and professional men to take a
In addition to the Zionist Ex-
grater part in th' functions of pansion Fund. the other causes
the Service Group. The feeling in the drive are the Zionist
of kinship and solidarity developed Council of Detroit and the Labor
during the 1946 campaign among Zionist Aufbau Fund.
the volunteers fror.- every walk of
Harry Schumer is chairman of
life and so many different sec-
the over-all drive. Abe Kasle
tions of the city led naturally
the recognition that greater 1• ne- heads the Zionist Organization of
fit could be realized by the com- Detroit campaign committee.

Rabbi Wohlgelernter
To Go to Palestine

Woman's Auxiliary of the
Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter, United Hebrew Schools will
spiritual leader of Congregation
launch its 1946-47 membership
Beth Tefilo Emanuel, who is ac-
drive at a tea rally at the home
of the membership committee
chairman, Mrs. Louis Tatken, 3750
Sturtevant, on Monday. Oct. 7.
at 1:30 p.m.
Auxiliary members who wish
to work on the membership cam-
paign are invited.
The committee includes Mes-
dames Max Green, A. Kaplan. I.
Brower, M. E. Charlip, B. Smok-
ier, H. Davis, L. Gelfand, J. Weiss.
tA. Katzman, A. Bleier, R. Cott.
W. Nadler, M. Dushkin. J. Berko-
witz, L. Modell, C. Robinson. M.
Rosenzweig, C. Smith, S. Tyner.
J. Yolles and G. Zieger.

Zionists Ask Aid
For $60,000 Fund

munity if the workers were to
- the. • experience and en-
thusiasm to panning and studying
the programs of the avencies
supported by the Allied Jewish
Campaign.
Professional and business men
cF a assist. for example. in the
work of the Jewish Vozational
Service by advising young people
who are interested in particular
fields. As education - ! and other
facilities ire to be expanded, the
contributing public. which sup-
ports and use these facilities,
should express itsel: on what they
should offer and where they should
be located.
Special Committees
Through special division com-
mittees. set up to the Fe
eration agencies, the volunteers
can learn !low they can take
advantage of the wide program
of Federation, and to which agency
theft friends and relatives should
go in time of difficulty.
As part of this new organiza-
tional process, Federation agencieL,
will be asked to invite key men
fmn. each trade and professional
group to serve as co-operating
committees. so the agency can
make known its - ork to the mem,
bers of the Detroit Service Group,
and the members of the Service
Croup, in turn, can intk -wet com-
munity needs and community at-
titudes to the agency.
Social Planning
In additismr; the plan calls for
the formal and direct recognition
of the Service Group on the

1,000 Delegates Due

UHS Auxiliary to Plan
Membership Campaign

BB President in Egypt

To Attend Important
ZOA Parley Oct. 25-29

NEW YORK—Latest develop-
ments affecting Palestine 1-yeo. e
heightened interest in the th-
coming Annual Convention of
the Zionist Organization .4
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America, which will meet
four-day session in Atlantic City.
Oct. 25 to 29, is reported to
be assured 100 per cent re p-
resentation, according to repo.ls
received from Zionist Districts
and Regions in every part of the
country. More than 1.000 do le-
gates, representing 600 Zionist
units in 48 states and U. S. pus-
sessions
sessions including
tAlaska, will attend the sessions.

AT GRINNELL'S

RABBI M. J. WOHLGELERNTER

tive in all orthodox relief and
cultural movements, expects to
leave for Palestine the day after
Yom Kippur, by Clipper. He
hopes to be in Palestine for Suk-
koth.
Rabbi Wohlgelernter will go to
Palestine at the invitation of
Hapoel Hamizrachi of Palestine
and the Rabbinical Council of
America. He plans also to attend
the World Zionist Congress in
Zurich, Switzer land, prior to his
return to Detroit.

Zionists to Elect
Delegates Sept. 30

Detroit ionists who desire to
be delegates to the national con-
vention of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America, in Atlantic City,
Oct. 25-29. are asked to notify the
Z.onist office. 1044 Penobscot, CH.
6559.
Morris M. Jacobs. president of
the Zionist Organization of De-
troit, announces Detroit delegates
will be elected at a meeting at
Shaarey Zedek on Monday eve-
ning, Sept. 30. Plans for the
coming year v.111 be outlined by
Mr. Jacobs.

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National Fund is completing ar-
Locates Father in U. S.
rangements for the annual mem-
WASHINGTON, D. C.—J. S. bership drive. Oct. 22 has been
Knopp. president of the Bnai set as the date for the annual
Brith lodge in Port Said, Egypt, paid-up membership meeting.
is in this country with his farn-
Plans for the membership drive
ily on a happy visit—to see his I and the forthcoming fund-raising
father, whom he last saw 40 years campaign will be formulated at a
ago in Odessa, Russia. A tiny board meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 1,
advertisement in National Jewish at 12:30 p. m.. at the home of Mrs.
Monthly, published by Bnai R. B. Newman, 1935 Oakman
Brith, brought them together.
Blvd. A dessert luncheon will be
Mr. Knopp's father left Odessa served.
in 1906 to come to this country,
where he settled in Mason City,
Ia. He had changed his name to
Kaufman to escape service in the
The Modem
Czar's army when he fled. He
left his seven-year-old son with
the boy's grandfather, in Odessa,
intending to bring him to Amer-
ica later.
But the grandfather took the
child to Egypt. Later he died
in Egypt, became prominent
there, and the boy lost all con-
tact with his father. He grew up
Port Said, where he represents
the Socony Vacuum Oil Co.
In October. 1939, he inserted a
notice in National" Jewish Month-
ly, and it was immediately seen
by tine of his half-sisters, living
in Buffalo, N. Y. She• put him in
touch with his father.

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