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Friday, December 27, 1946

l'HE JEWISH N'EW'S

Page Sixteen

Initiate Post-Card Drive
Urging DP Entry Here

Stating that, "very little has
been done or is being done by the
United States to meet its respons-
ibilities" to Jewish displaced per-
sons in Europe, the American
Committee for Protection of For-
eign Born, 23 W. 26th St., New
York 10, N. Y., made public a
of ZOA, Dec. 29, at Northville campaign for signatures to a spec-
Stables is what you'd call getting ial post-card addressed to Presi-
a lot for your money . . . On dent Harry S. Truman urging
the agenda is the ride, supper, "the immediate entry of 100,000
dancing and holiday fun features. Jewish displaced persons into the
Meeting place will be at Beverly United States."
Milling's 3320 Clairmount resi-
Tfie post-card also protests the
dence at 4:30 p. m. To be stag policy of the Justice Department
and coupled, with Selma Jakont, in denying entry on technical
chairman.
grounds to Jewish refugees who
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have managed to reach this
EXACTLY ONE YEAR from country.
the day, Jan. 17, that the terrible
fire razed the structure of Econ-
omy Automotive and threatened
complete wipe-out, they'll move
into new quarters, built with hor-
rible memories of a great disas-
The Brith Miloh Problem

Danny Raskin's

Listening

JUDGING pictures in the col-
umn's second annual Beauty Per-
sonality Contest will be held next
week . . . after which the girls
selected for the finals will be
notified by mail ... Prizes will be
awarded at the Julius Rosenwald
Post Infantile Paralysis Ball, Jan.
26, at Ft. Wayne Hotel.
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WIIAT AN Army colonel re-
cently expressed as "Nothing hap-
pened that night" at a U. S. air
base at Palava, Russia, actually
almost resulted in Moe Sternberg
receiving the Medal of Honor!
. . . Now owner of a gas station
on Linwood, Moe was an air force
mechanic when German planes
came over dropping flare after
flare, lighting up the target for
following bombers . . . Strafers
flew over making neat rows of
bullet-made trenches on both
sales of his dugout slit, but luck-
ily missing him ... As the bomb-
ers came, Moe ran out smothering
the flares and a nearby bomb
burst threw him 20 feet away ...
He went for one of the few car-
bine machine guns but for some
unknown reason was stopped
from shooting by the Russian ....
Had ' no , shot been fired, accord-
ing to his commanding officer
who recommended him for the
award. Moe would no he a dis-
tinguished wearer of the coveted

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JIMMY KANE, popular young
barrister, was among the four
qualifiers out of 40 to represent
the state in the attorney general's
office Sheruth League. a new
organization founded with the
purpose of aiding orphans and
,
families in Europe, will hold a
Cabaret Ball Jan. 12 at Hotel
Detroiter. Shirley Subar heads
the "something new" choral
ei (Rip of Junior Service Group.
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JEWELRY DEPT. . . . Cecille
Teper and Saari' Pitt are engaged
and no doubt will wed upon his
graduation from Detroit College
of Law in June ... Lora Feldstein
and Alan Cohen will "I Do" it,
March 19 . . . Marcel Sabel of
Montgomery. Ala., will become
the bride of Tommy Moers of the
printing family, February 3 . . .
They met while he was in serv-
ice . . . and a casual correspond-
ence developed into a couple of
visits and their engagement.
Jack Varkel the scrap metalist
and Beati ice Goldman Sillman
have engaged for a future mar-
riage.
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DEAD ORCHIDS . . . to the
few individuals who were "gen-
erous" enough to attend the SOS
Vitamin Dance, last week, and
waited until door collection of the
needed pellet was ended before
entering.
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DR. PAUL FRAIBERG is presi-
dent of the recently organized
Haifa Chapter of Zionist Organ-
ization of America . .. composed
of 25 members, mainly physicians
. . . with membership scheduled
for young women, married and
single, and professional men. . . .
The group was started by Dr. Ber-
nard Weston to further Zionism.
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Lt. Sobel Is First
Jewish Navy Chaplain

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American League for a Free
Palestine Publishes 'Black

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Our Letter Box

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ter . . . "You can't keep a good Editor, The Jewish News:
man down" goes the saying and
I would like to call the atten-
in this case, it's three of them tion of the Jewish community to
... Ben Rimer, Jack Hyman and a serious problem with regard
Joe Aron .. . not to mention the to the practice of the Rite of Cir-
trio of able assistants deluxe, cumcision. (Brith Miloh).
Harry Hyman, Julius Glazer and
The history of our people has
Don Aron ... City-wide praise is shown that in times of persecu-
all-out to these grand and cour- tion, the principal weapon used
ageous fellows . for their new against us by the Romans and
three-story structure has been other people was to forbid cir-
built on the same spot where the cumcision, or to attempt to make
fire took place!
it impossible to perform it prop-
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erly. Under these circumstances,
THERE'LL BE a program start- our people always resisted with
ed soon with the letters WPTY their lives any' attempt to inter-
for guess what? . . . WO] trend fere with this basic religious
toward Jewish youth being told rite.
For thousands of years, our
about achievements in Palestine
. . . The belief is that many if this rite upon millions of Jews
not most know little about the on the eighth day after the birth
impressive story .. . particularly of a male child. So important
the work of young people like is the mitzvoh in Jewish life that
themselves who are pioneering there should be no need to em-
there . . . Rabbi Morris Adler phasize the fact that its perform-
will chairman a special advisory ance on the eighth day was never
delayed. even for the Sabbath or
board for the forum.
the Day of Atonement, except
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where the health of the child for-
DR. JULES GOLDSMITH, who
bade it.
left his local dental practice to
Mohel Better Qualified
try for the Hollywood spotlight,
who have
Honest physicians,
says "Hello" from the land of
no personal axe to grind will
sugar . Has been out there six
admit that an experienced Mohel
weeks and already bought his performing the rite in the tradi-
second home in Beverly Hills,
tional manner is, in most in-
where the population of 30.000 is stances, •better qualified than the

made up of over 6,000 Jews . . .
most of them in the movie indus-
try . . . His given a couple of
shows at socials and is on call
from MGM ... Night club offers
are "no dice" as far as Jules is
concerned . . . He'll appear in a
Package Show in Veteran's hos-
pitals in surrounding circuit and
leaves with Gary Cooper, Herbert
Marshall, and Walter Pidgeon
... "I'll tell ten stories," he says,
"while they sign autographs,"
. . . His actual duty, though, will
be to serve with each actor in
three separate comical skits.
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DON'T MISS the Junior Service
Group Jamboree ... Jan. 4 at the
Masonic Temple. with favorite
rhythms by Ray Gorrell.

average physician. Certainly, our
experience during the many cen-
turies prior to modern surgical
technique Auld indicate that no
one is better qualified to per-

Book' Assailing Britain

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A "Black
Book" on the British treatment
of Jews in Palestine was pub-
lished by the American League
for a Free Palestine. Charging
the British administration with
anti-Semitism the volume con-
tains reports and photos aimed at
showing the treatment of the
Jews in Palestine "involves de-
First rabbi ever assigned to
nial of- civil liberties, tortures,
the U. S. Navy as a chaplain,
imprisonment in concentration
camps without trial and the burn-
LT. (J. G.) SAMUEL SOBEL,
ing of Hebrew books."
now stationed at Pearl Harbor,
In London, it was announced
has been in the naval reserve
in Commons that Prof. Jonah
since July, 1945, and served
Smertenko, vice-president of the
for almost a year at Camp El-
American League for a Free Pal-
liott in San Diego. A native of
estine, will not be permitted to
Greensboro, S. C., Chaplain So-
enter England again because of
bel has academic degrees from
his recent statements concerning
Yeshiva College and Columbia
the misconduct of British troops
University, and was ordained
in Palestine.
Re-
by the Jewish Institute of
The League also made public
ligion. His last pulpit before en-
the text of a letter sent by its
Cum-
tering the service was in
president, former Senator Guy
berland, Md., at the Ber Chay-
Gillette, to Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
im Congregation.
president of the Jewish Agency,
suggesting a program. under
which the Jewish Agency would
Ben Aharon, Palestine
be dissolved, and the World Zion-
War Hero, to Visit U. S.
ist Organization would be con-
verted into a non-sectarian move-
On Behalf of UJA Drive
ment enlisting members of all
Isaac' Ben Aharon, one of the faiths and creeds. The letter also
fabled war heroes of Palestine, urges the immediate proclama-
is on his way to the United States tion by the World Zionist Con-
at the invitation of the United gress of a provisional government
for a "Hebrew Republic of Pales-
Jewish Appeal.
Founder of one of Palestine's tine."
best-known settlements, Givat
PRAGUE, (JTA)—The Czech-
Hayim, one of the first Jews of
Palestine to enlist with the oslovak Government, will allow
British Forces, a prisoner of war 10,000 Jewish refugees from
Ben Poland to remain here at least
in the Greek campaign,
Aharon later distinguished him- until July, 1947, Premier Klement
self in successful exploits in Gottwald told Bertrand Jacobson
espionage on behalf of the British of the JDC.
Army in the Balkans.
During his stay here, Ben
Aharon will acquaint American
Jews with the constructive work
in Palestine and with the needs
of the Jews of Europe, both of
whicle• are being financed by the
UJA which will conduct a drive
to raise ;170,000,000 in 1947.

"Playing Detrek's Mos. Soccossfol Porffes"

form the circumcision than a
qualified Mohel.
Currently, a number of Detroit
hospitals do not permit a Mohel
to operate, and even in those in-
stances where the Mohel is per-
mitted, many uninformed young
Jewish mothers permit them-
selves to be misled by unscrup-
ulous physicians, Jewish as well
as non-Jewish, to-the belief that
the life of the child might be en-
dangered unless the physician
perform the Miloh. Furthermore,
the current practice in .most hos-
pitals to send the mother and
child home from the hospital on
the fifth day under normal cir-
Special Broadcasts Set
cumstances has persuaded unin-
For Histadrut Campaign formed young mothers that it is
perfectly proper to have the cir-
Louis Levine, chairman of the cumcision done on the fifth day
Histadrut Campaign Committee, because it is "safer" in the hos-
announces a series of weekly ra- pital. Nothing is further from the

dio broadcasts on behalf of the
drive, including talks by promi-
nent business and professional
men and dramatic portrayals of
life in Palestine by Zionist youth
groups.
Special newscasts of events in
Palestine will be presented on
Weinberg's Jewish Hour at 10:30
a. m. each Sunday morning on
station WJBK. The regular His-
tadrut program will be broadcast
for the duration of the campaign
on Altman's Jewish Hour at 9:30
p. m. Saturday and 12:30 - p. m.
Sunday on station WJLB.

COURAGE IS the will to do
and the will always produces a
lwaY ... Two days before the mar-
,riage of Natalie Gorman to Mil-
ton Drapkin. the hi ide's grand-
mother, Mrs. Molly Gorman of
Toronto, met tvith an unfortunate
accident and lent the one sorrow
lull note to plans for a gala
occasion. It had been her wish
that above everything else, she Center Dance Group
wanted to attend the marriage Plans Saturday Event
. . . and she did . . . When the
Sylvia Weiss, chairman of the
procession began, there was
grandma, as game as they come, Jewish Community Center's Sat-
watching from a stretcher, which urday Night Dance Committee,
had been wheeled in by two hos- announces the last dance of the

truth.
The Jewish community should
be informed that the Rite of
Circumcision performed on the
eighth day after birth is
basic to Jewish life and tradition,
that circumcision done by a
physician is highly improper, and
that the child who has been cir-
cumcized by a physican has not
entered the covenant of Abraham,
and cane 1t be considered a mem-
ber of the Jewish fold. Any other

policy leads to assimilation.
The Abrahamic Covenant, the
characteristic symbol of Judaism,
must be performed on the eighth
day of. the child's life, in the
manner prescribed by religious
ritual.. It is much more than a
surgical. operation for purposes
of health and hygiene.
Apparently - the Jewish Com-
munity itself requires more edu-
cation on this subject than the
current year, with music by Pete hospitals and physicians.
pital attendants.
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Cordially,
Viera's orchestra, to be held in
RABBI E. A. LEVI.
THE HAY-SLEIGH ride and Butzel Hall this Saturday. Danc-
.4.Cong. Bnai Moshe)
Hanukah party of Chapter One ing will be from 9:30 to 12:30.

Smertenko, ALFP
Leader, Barred
For British Slur

JULES KLEIN

HIS FAMOUS
ORCHESTRAS and ENTERTAINMENT

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FROM THE PAGES
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OSENBERG'S

Social Book

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On these pages are inscribed the
weekly social events for which
Rosenberg's Kosher Catering was
prOud to serve. As "Creators of Perfect
Catering. - Resenberg's takes pride in
Its ability to offer the absolute finest in
preparation and service for complete
and thorough en3oyment of the oc-
casion.
THURSDAY, DEC. 15
MONDAY, Di' C. 16
Shower for Selda Price of
Shower for Frances Raskin.
Windsor. Given by Mrs. Bes-
Given by Mrs. Teaser. nn_
sie Friedman. Mrs. Beckie
TUESDAY, DEC. 17
Friedman and Mrs. Esther
Shower for Toby Engel. Given
Pinsky.
by Mrs. H. Antman and Mrs.
SATURDAY, DEC. 21
J. Berkowitz.
Evening: Marriage of Lorraine
WEDNESDAY, DEC. IS
Sarko to Lawrence Gillman.
Noon: Young Israel Sisterhood
SUNDAY. DEC. 22
donor luncheon at Cong.
Noon: Marriage of Ethel Char-
Shaarey Zedek.
fas to Sol Kroopnick.
Evening: Shower for Sarah
Evening: Marriage of Marion
Deitch. Given by Mrs. Ann
Gerson to Leonard Zale.
Weiner, Mfs. Rose Deitch. Mrs.
Northwest Hebrew Cong. Men's
Edith Deitch and Mrs. Mar-
Club ,Hanukah' Dinner.
garet Deitch.

Congratulations and best wishes to the honored
above. it was our privilege to serve you and may
we continue to do so at all your future social
functions. Whether it be a wedding, Bar Mitz-
vah, shower or banquet, we are always ready to
provide the finest 'in catering beyond the most
desired satisfaction.

Sincerely yours, your host

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