Friday, January 31, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Eight

Local, National Leaders Stress Plight of DPs,
Needs to Aid Resettlement of Homeless in Zion

Cohen to Conduct
Federation Forum
'Tuesday at Center

Srere, Butzel, Krolik
Urge Success of Campaign

JWF Women to Inaugurate
Program at the Center
at I p. m. Tuesday

(Continued from Page Six)

tended for 200 travelers, with a to a worthy goal and will be
cargo of 2.760 Jews. He told of opposed to compromises on goals
the determination of Jews to go , that are less than the absolute
to Eretz Israel and declared that needs. We should face the situa-
it is a moral obligation for tion frankly and it is only decent
American Jews to help save the
European survivors from frus-
tration.
Mr. Butzel pointed out at the
dinner meeting the fact Mr. Mor-
genthau is in the campaign is an
indication the $170.000,000 goal is
nut fantastic and is an honest
arrival at a needed sum. He com-
pared Detroit's last drive — in
wh , ch one individual gave $25,000
arrl four family units gawe sums
of S2:r000 and over—with that of
1:10,1(m. where 35 persons gave
sunies of $25.000 and over, and
expressed the hope there will be
a vast improvement in this year's

Praise Fur Shapero
Asserting Detroit is the best
organized community, he paid
honor to the efforts in last year's
drive of Nate S. Shapero, the
campaign chairman. Paying
tribute to Mr. Shapero's leader-
ship. Mr. Butzel said that he is a
free agent but that he hopes Mr.
Shapero again will be-"way up on
top" in the 1947 drive. (Mr. Shh-
pero was congratulated by many
at Saturday's dinner on his re-
cent- election as a director of the
National Bank of Detroit.)
Thl motion in favor of adopt-
ing the $5.335.500 quota was made
at the dinner meeting by Abra-
ham Srere, former pretiodent of
the Je , vish Welfare Federation.
Ben Silverstein seconded the mg :
tion. Declaring that he does no
mmunize the magnitude of any
goal. Mr. Srere pointed out that
last y. ar . when Detroit sought to
raise $2.000,000, every one

NATE S. SHAPERO

Initiating the series of Fed-
eration Forums, under the spon-
sorship of the Women's Division
of the Jewish Welfare Federation,
Oscar Cohen, executive director
Left to right: LEON KAY, ARTH UR FLEISCHMAN, GUS D. NEW- of the Jewish Community Coun-
MAN, HARRY L. JACKSON an d DR. ALEXANDER W. SANDERS. cil, will conduct a session on
Community Relations, at 1 p.m.
that we should be prepared to
part with a substantial portion
Tuesday, at the Jewish Center.
of our gains to relieve the hor-
Cohen, who joined, the Council
rors of the war."
in November, was formerly ex-
Referring to experiences after
ecutive director of the Central
Division of the Canadian Jewish
World War I, Mr. Krolik re-
Congress, which, like Detroit's
minded the gathering that at that
Fred M. Butzel, Mrs. Joseph Council, is made up of renrese,nt-
time people who gave large sums
M. Welt and Henry Wineman atives from organizaticins in every
for' relief did not think in terms
of the phase of Jewish life. A native of
were
re-elected members
of tax reductions but gave out of
Canada and a graduate of the
capital, and urged similar haman- board of directors of the Joint University of Toronto and Co-
itarian action this year.
- , Distribution Committee, at the lumbit University in New York,
Move For Adoption
.32nd annual meeting held in New he served five years as editor of
Mr. Butzel moved for the adop- York. the Canadian Jewish Standard.
tion of the $5,335.000 quota at
He rose to the rank of Lieutenant
Other Detroiters, chosen as Colonel in the Canadian Army.
the evening meeting, and the
resolution was seconded by Sid- members of the National JDC
He will discuss the nature of
ney L. Alexander who declared Council, are:
anti-Semitism: the present situa-
Re-elected: Eugene J. Arnfeld, tion of national agencies ih com-
bating anti-Semitism; use of tech-
Irving W. Blumberg, Israel Da-
niques such as mass media. inter-
! vidson, Samuel Frank, Israel cultural work, and the legal ap-
Himelhoch. Judge Theodore Le- proach; and a summery of con-
; vin. Max Osnos, IsidOre Sobeloff, ditions likely to be encountered
Melville S. Welt, Frank A. Wets- and techniques to be employed
man; new members: Mrs. Douglas in the promotion of healthy com-
I. Brown, David Wilkus, Maurice munity relations.
Aronsson, Harry Becker, Irwin I.
The Federation Forums, which
Cohn, Abe Kasle, Ben B. Fenton. will be held every Tuesday in
• Mrs. Harry C. Singer, Abe L.. February at the Center. have
Sudran and John E. Lurie.
been arranged by the Education
Committee of the Women's Di-
Boris Joffe is Appointed
vision to provide women vo?un-
AV

JDC Names Butzel,
Wineman, Mrs. Welt
To Board of Directors

Administrative Assist a nt
teens in the Allied Jewish Cam-
Boris NI. Joffe, former r xecu- paign with an up-to-date picture
tive director of the National Wage ; of Jewish life and the role social
Stabilization Board, has joined agencies play in the Jewish corn-
that it behooves every Jew
the executive staff of the Joint munity. , Succ ding forums will
participate in this campaign-phy -
Distribution Committee as ad- deal with: "Plealth and Corn-
sically and financially."
Feb. 11; "Jew-
ministrative assistant to the ex- munity Strength,"
„
Commenting on the resolution. rcutive vice-chairman, Moses A. , ish Education, Feb. 18; The
I Jewish Family." Feb. 25.
Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter, who Leavitt.
recently returned from Palestine,
told of a decision reached by a
small group of 44 settlers in Sdeh
to take in 100 newcomers
and to care for them and help
them become integrated into the
NEW YORK—The Jewish com- program of mass settlement anti
country's economy.
munity of Palestine is not only upbuilding of the 3ew..sh home-
`'On the basis of this experi- anxious to receive Europe's land to enable hundreds of thou-
ence," Rabbi Wohlgelernter said, homeless Jewish survivors but sands of Europe's displaced Jews
"Detroit Jews will do much less needs them to maintain its pres- to rebuild their lives there.
even on the basis of our large ent rate of agricultural and in-
He pictured the current situa-
Left to rigth: HERMAN OSNOS, SAMUEL FRANK, DR. B. BENEDICT quota than any citizen in Eretz dustrial expansion, Itshaq Ben-
tion in Europe as the "Dunkirk"
GLAZER and SAMUEL H. RUBINER.
Israel."
Aharon. Palestine's most famous of the Jewish people, pointing
war hero and a member of the out that widespread homeless-
homeless-
trembled. but the result was a
political department of the Jew- ness. starvation and misery were
subscription of S2.800.000.
ish
Agency
for
Palestine,
report-
decimating the already skeleton-
"The year is over, but I doubt
ed at national headquarters of :zed ranks of survivors.
whether any one was hurt or
the
$170,000,000
campaign*
of
the
denied
himself anything," he
Prior to his trip to Switzer-
United Jewish Appeal.
declared.
land, Mr. Ben-Aharon spent
Mr. Ben-Aharon. a former
"Do Our Level Best"
three months in Europe on a
British army officer who fought
Speaking for the motion. Mr.
mission for the JeWish Agency.
in Africa and Greece with a
said• "I beli, ve It IS never
When war broke out in 1939,
Palestinian
Jewish
unit,
said
shameful to be defeated. but it is
Mr. Ben-Aharon, married and a
Palestine's
growing
agriculture
glorious to seek to do our level
father, resigned as secretary of
and industry were lid hit by an
best. We have a good communityll.
the Labor Federation of Tel Aviv
acute
labor
shortage
and
that
the
and We should have back of it
and enlisted with the British
Jewish
community
could
"easily"
the subs.:intial humanity
of
Army. He was commissioned and
absorb
10,000
European
Jewish
people ready to do their best.
assigned to a Palestinian Jewish
refugees
each
month.
When the Arne' wan community
unit which shortly afterwards
Arriving
in
this
country
a
few
wants Detroit (I) hilVe a share of
was shipped to Africa and thrown
days
ago
from
Baslo,
Switzer-
$4 000.000 in the S170.000,000
land, where he attended the into the battle of the Western
dr.ve. it is not unreasonable."
World Zionist Congress, he called Desert. His unit wag later trans-
Julian H. Krolik, in supple-
upon the Jews of America for ferred to Greece.
mentary remarks. declared: - W.
When the British front in
increased assistance through the
stupendous
goal,
are asked for a
1 $170,000,00.0 UJA campaign of Greece collapsed early in 1941,
but it is not as terrifying as last I
M.
L.
FRUMAN,
BEN
KRAMER,
the Palestine Jewish community 's Ben-Aharon, then a lieutenant,
year. I believe that Detroit will Left to right: MAX SCHUSTER,
was the only officer in the divi-
live up to its responsibilities and CLARENCE ENGGASS and BEN W ILKUS .
sion who elected to remain with
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his men. Lt. Ben-Aharon was in
command when the Nazis' cap-
ALL PHOTOGRAPHS at the Allied Jewish Cam-
tured the unit with its 1,400 Pal- •
estinian Jews and 400 Arabs.
paign meetings here last Saturday night were taken
The story of 40-year-old Ben-
by Paul Kirsch, Jewish News Staff Photographer. Pho-
Aharon's experiences, including
Pales-
his years as a pio,neer
tos of persons not mentioned in the story are of
tine and his military service, will
1 leaders who participated in the decision establish-
be publshed in England next
month under the title, "Listen,
ing the 1947 Allied Jewish Campaign goal at $5,335,-
Gentile." He was accompanied to
Left to right: BEN FENTON, BEN SILBERSTEIN, WILLIAM GERSH- the U. S. by his Wife, Mirian, and
000 for local, U. S. and overseas needs. •
12-year-old son, Yarev.
ENSON BARNEY SMITH and JOE HOLTZMAN.

Left to right: TOM BORMAN, BEN KLEIN, MAX LOWENSTEIN and
IRVING W. BLUMBERG.

Palestine Needs Europe's Homeless,
Ben -Aharon Reports on Mission Here

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