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Friday, January 24, 1947
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Twenty-two
Benton Harbor Area Organizes
Chapter of Haifa Technionr Society
Reform Synagogues'
Album of Records
Real Art Treasure
Honoring the 70th anniversary
of Hebrew Union College, the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations 'issued an album of
Jewish records under the title
"Israel Sings," and it thereby
marked another constructive con-
tribution to Jewish culture by
the parent organization of Re-
form Judaism.
Containing selections from the
Birnbaum collection of Jewish
liturgical music which have been
on the shelves of Hebrew Union
College Library since 1920, the
group of songs in "Israel Sings"
is one of the most inspiring ever
incorporated in a single musical
Organization of an Indiana-
Michigan Chapter of the Society
foi the Advancement of the Haifa
Technical Institute (T•chnion)
w as announced this week by
David J. Ross, president of the
Benton Harbor Jewish Commun-
ity Council.
Plans for the organization were
laid at a meeting in South Bend
following the visit of Dr. Shlomo
Kaplansky, Technion president,
in Benton Harbor, where he was
guest speaker at a dinner at-
tended by 250 Jewish residents
of southwestern Michigan. He
spoke on behalf of the Technion's
current drive for construction
funds, for which he spoke in
Detroit recently.
The new Technion chapter is
aiming at 300 to 500 members,
and is also laying the ground-
work for a $50,000 building pro-
gram during a three-year period.
Interested residents of a 100-
mile area around Benton Harbor
are invited to contact Ross at the
Progressive Industries Co., Ross
Park, Benton Harbor, for infor-
mation about the new group.
Ask Allied Rule
Over Germany
For a Generation
Dr. J. H. Greenstone
Volume Published
Census Bureau Starts
U. S. Religion Survey
Balaban Heads Movie
Division of UJA Drive
'ISRAEL SINGS'
WASHINGTON, (JTA)--Ques-
Barney , Balaban, president of
Paramont Pictures, Inc., has been tionnaires are being mailed to
named national chairman of the all churches and synagogues in
Motion Picture Division in the
nationwide $170,000,000 campaign
of the 1947 United Jewish Appeal
-for Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine, it was announced by
Henry Morgenthau Jr., UJA gen-
chairman.
Nazi Group Publishing
Anti-Semitic Papers
LONDON (JTA) — Four well-
organized Nazi underground
me vements are conducting anti-:-
Jewish agitation in Germany, ac-
cording to a report reaching here
from Frankfurt, in the American
zone. Several anti-Semetic news-
papers are being published, chief
among them being Neue Stuer-
mer, Erwachnung, and Rache.
collection.
The underground organizations
The idea for the recordings was are the Werewolfs, the Edelweiss,
conceived and executed by Dr. the Rache Partei and Deutsch-
Eric Werner, Hebrew Union Col- land Erwache.
lege music instructor.
Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath,
president of the Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations, 'does
a magnificent job as narrator
who explains the entire series in
the first record and each song
individually.
Cantor- Emil Rosen's interpre-
tation of the Hassidic version of
"En Kelohenu" is one of the most
thrilling in the entire series. It
is impossible, however, to divorce
any one song from the complete
and continuous text which, in its
entirety, forms a veritable Jewish
art treasure.
Prominent cantors and Metro-
Dr. Julius H. Greenstone is one politan Opera singers are among
of the eminent American Jewish the soloists singing the selec-
TO. 8-1000
the U. S. for the fifth decennial
census of religious bodies, the
Bureau of the Census announced.
The census of religious bodies
has been taken every 10 years
since 1906. It provides the only
official government figures with
respect to membership in the
various religious denominations
or organizations.
The last census, taken in 1938,
revealed there were 3,728 local
Jewish congregations with a
membership of 4,641,184. There
were 2,851 synagogue buildings
reported valued at approximate-
ly $126,000,000.
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Detroit Jews are invited to hear the following lectures by
tions in "Israel Sings." The al-
bum of six records containing 11
musical selections, is available
for $15 from the Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations, Cin-
cinnati. It is worthy of a place
in every Jewish home.
DR. RAPHAEL MAHLER
scholars whose literary contribu-
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
tions have been among the out-
Eminent Historian and Lecturer
Wei ld Jewish Congress an-
standing during the past 40
nounced it will ask the Council
At
the
Jewish
Cultural Center. 2705 Joy Rood
years.
of Foreign Ministers, which will
On the occasion of his 70th
Under Auspices of IKUF
meet in Moscow in March to draft
birthday, which he observed in
a peace treaty with Germany, to April, 1943, a group of friends
Will Jews Act as- a Nation"
"How
Sunday,
Jan
26:
Restored Cemetery
retain some form of Allied con- undertook to honor him by pub- Invaded at Hamburg
(in Yiddish).
Monday, Jan. 27: "Maimonides, Pioneer of Modern Rational-
trol over the country for at least lishing a collection of his works.
HAMBURG, (JTA)—A Jewish
ism" (in English).
The result is the publication Of cemetery here was invaded by
a gene' ation.
Wednesday, Jan. 29: "From the Maccabaeans to the Heroes of
Pointing out it may take sever- "Jewish Feasts and Fasts," by vandals who smashed and over-
the Warsaw Ghetto" (in Yiddish).
turned tombstones. Municipal
al yeals before all displaced Jews Bloch Publishing Co.
Thursday, Jan. 30: "Baruch Spinoza, Creator of the Modern
This is not an ordinary resume authorities suspect neighborhood
are transferred from Germany— of Jewish festivals. It is a study children who, they say, attempted
Philosophy" (ih English).
even if they are admitted to Pal of the history of the feats and to pilfer coal from a railroad sid-
Monday. Feb. 3: "The Kabbala and Its Outlook Upon Jews
estinc and other countries of re- fasts, their 'historical background.
and the World" (in Yiddish).
ing nearby, but this seems un-
se it! ■ •incaii, —Con g Fess spokCSIllan
Tuesday. Feb. 4: "Destruction and Redemption in Jewish His-
- surrounding them.
likely in view of the size and
ed
consideration
must
be
the
legends
war n
tory" (in Yiddish).
An example of the manner in weight of the tombstiines which
give n h) What will happen to
the s< DPs when the domestic which the various titles are coy- were overturned.
ered is the following coverage of
jut Lsdiction or a German govern- ered Kippur. Dr. Greenstone be
nu at is restored. They stressed in gins with a description of the
a joint statement that "Germany
,intoSenntic country. Kapparot ceremony, proceeds to
is i,ll an
describe the Kol Nicire prayer
and the confession of sins and
Argentina to Accept
describes the Temple Service on
Atonement Day.
1,000 Jewish Children
He touches upon Gabirol's
LI•ENOS AIRES. QM.' i —Ad- Royal Crown" in the Yom Kip
motance of 1.000 orphaned Jewish pur service, the "Azazel" scape-
children from E , irope has been goat tradition. the kneeling dur-
apploved by the Argentine gov- mg sprvices. He also deals with
ernmk•nt, and arrangements for the Neilah and memorial serv-
th,ir entry will be announced, ices. the Book of Jonah, the Yuri
soon. Foreign Minister Juan Bra-'. Kippur melodies and the trach-
rina.,lia has informed the DAIA,I tion of match making during
center body of Argentine Jewry. Temple days.
Dr Moist Goldmann, president ' s Similar complete coverage
of the I)AIA, called on Home marks Dr. Greenstone's handling
European Scene
Secietary Angel Borl•ngln to t ofall festivals and fasts. The
various anti-Semitic man- completeness of his approaches
• The Palestine Crisis
rfi stations. including distribution; distinguish this volume and mak-
of anti-Jewish propaganda in ing it stand out as the most un-
pohla• place s. discrimination kind.
• American Jewry
against Jewish internes and phy-I
sicians on the staff of municipal, Coffin Shortage Hampers
hospitals and the forced transfer,
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of Jewish teachers in the prov- Mass Grave Exhumation
nation-wide reader interest, provi ding not only complete-
ince of Santa Fe.
BUDAPEST, (JTA)—A short-
ly the activities of Detroit and Michigan Jewry, but also
age of coffins has been responsi-
Organizations Pay Honor
news of NATIONAL and WORLD-WIDE importance.
ble for the failure to exhume the
bodies of all Hungarian Jewish
To Mrs. Littman's Memory
The Jewish News is the only Anglo-Jewish publication
victims of the Nazis from mass
devoting more space to news than any other publication
Representatives of many local graves. Government support in
of its kind.
organizations joined in paying obtaining coffins and money for
trihote to the memory of Mrs. the operations has been prom-
Abraham Littman on Jan. 15, at ised.
It has been estimated by Dem-
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to her interest in the Chesed shel than 20,000 Jewish corpses in
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