Friday, March 14, 1947 ,
'THE JEWISH NEWS •
Page Six
Michigan Communities Pledge Unity in UJA Drive
State Jewry's Solidarity
With DPs, Yishuv Viewed
so their tragedies should not hap-
pen here."
Krolik Greets Parley
Julian H. Krolik, president of
the Jewish Welfare Federation of
Detroit, greeted the conference
Representatives of 15 Michigan Jewish communities last arrd expressed the pleasure of this
Sunday climaxed the state-wide United Jewish Appeal con- community the conference was
ference, at the Detroit Leland Hotel, with a pledge to back held in Detroit.
up the national $170,000,000 UJA drive.
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"The campaign,': he said, "can
Name Junior Service Group Leaders
For the Allied Jewish Campaign
The resolution•which was presented by Max Gealer of succeed if those who accepted
Flint; outlined the objectives of the three UJA agencies— leadership will fulfill their obli-
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Joint Distribution Committee,
.
gations of leadership and will
United Palestine Appeal and Hyman J. Bylan, president of the themselves set the standards for
United Service for New Ameri-; Jewish Welfare Federation of giving in advance."
ca ns - and expressed Michigan Grand Rapids, outlined the,! Mrs. H.! C. Broder, co-chairman
Jewry's solidarity with the Pales- progress made by Jews in Pales- of the Women's Division of the
tine Yishuv in the present crisis. title and told of ttm strdng spirit Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign,
of the Jewish community which, brought a message to the confer-
Commended by :Butzel
Fred M. Butzel, state chairman is continuing to create great set-- ence from Mrs. David (Adele
I Rosenwald) Levy, national chair-
UJA, presided at the sessions. tlements despite all handicaps.
Referring to the cooperation ! "Immigration to Palestine is man of the UJA Women's Di-
which Michigan communities have self-willed and self-imposed, is a vision.
given not only to the UJA but task of Jews. by Jews for Jews
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also in taktr4 VIOL.
And ever' liak been ependent uboni
She pointed out the women last
refugees when they were being scraps of paper," he stated.
I year raised $11,000,000 for the
distributed during the past de-
"After 25 years we have credtecti UJA, that Detroit women raised
cade, Mr. Butzel praised the that reality in Palestine which! $300,000 and are out to raise $500,-
loyalty of the state's Jewish lead-
enables our people to stand up 000 this year. "We feel," she said,
ers. He also commended them for and fight. The Jewish National ! "that the Women's Division will
their efforts in behalf of the Jew- Fund buys the land, the Keren be a unifying force in every corn-
ish Welfare Board during the war. Hayesod provides colonization munity, rallying all forces under
l'rging the Michigan communi-
possibilities. In 25 years, our peo- the UJA banner."
ti•s to Join in creating a greater
pie invested $500.000.000 in Pales-,
s, ?Ise of unity and not to say "let tine, $200,000,000 having been
he trait do it," Mr. Butzel said
from contributions. But the land
"i iIr piiiblem is one, just as our
alone that we have redeemed is
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worth more than this amount."
Camps Overcrowded
Yishuv Contributes
Dr. Barnett R. Brickner of
The 650,000 Jewas in Palestine.'
Left to right: MANDEL& BERIvIAN. executive vice-chairman;
NORMAN NAIMARK, campaign chairman, and SOL J. SCHWARTZ.
co-chairman of fhe Junior Service Group.
Announcement Of leaders for the Junior Service Group's par-
ticipation in the Allied} Jewish Campagn was made this week by
Norman Naimark, campaign chairman, and Sol J. Schwartz, co-
The invocation and benediction chairman.
at the conference were given by
Serving as personnel chairman will be Sylvia Collins. while
Rabbi Nathan Kaber of Jackson Leonard Grabow and Corinne Perlis are co-chairmen for Organiza-
tions;
Dr. Samuel Krohn. Program and Training chairman; and
and Rabbi Herschel Lyrnon of
Ann Arbor. The Star Spangled! Goldie Levinstein, Statistical chairman.
Chairman for the important Special So icitations wor k will be
Banner and Hatikvah v‘'ere sung!
D. Lieberman: Mitchell R. Mandeberg has charge of Pub-
under the leadership of Mrs., Morton and
Dia'na Rosenblatt will serve as adminiStrative secretary. -
licity:
Abraham Cooper, with Mrs. S. Q.
CI, vekind. .cho has just returned
-Mandell L. Berman was selected vice-chairman for the JSG
Ben-Aharon said. pay $107,000.000 : Kesler at the piano.
,, In it
nine-we•k tour of DP
Campaign.
a year in taxes and contributions
tamps in Europe and the Jew ish to relief funds: they contribute
colonies in Palestine. described
expel iences abroad, ‘varning
that the camps are overcrowded
iiiat that unless immediate steps
taken to increase immigration
to Palestine the "explosive situ-
tion• will become increasingly
Condemning the "lunatic fringe
cif terror" 'in Palestine, Dr. Brick-
$8.000.000 annually for the relief
of survivors in Europe. "The
"Yishuv," he said, "could make a
comfortable and very decent liv-
ing without fear of the future.
Jews have created higher stand-i
ards of living for Arabs and the
Palestine Arabs are the happiest!
Arabs in the world. Britain's!
pledge-breaking hasn't helped the
Arabs and hasn't improved better
relationships. Britain directly is,
responsible for arousing the Arabs ,
against us."
"In the main," he added, "it is
our work and not that of the
Balfour Declaration or any other
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ner declared the terroristic acts.
are being carried on by a very
"negligible and irresponsible
group." He said Palestine Jewry
is not interested in a conflict with
Great Britain but is concerned!
pr manly with the expansion of,
the country's agriculture and in-!
dustry to make possible an in- paper that has created the mira-:
t-leased rate of immigration from Iles in Palestine. Our obsession is
for work and for.creativeness. We!
DP camps.
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have gone so far as to create `O-I
Urges Congress Action •
religion of work.' We have not
Urging the U. S. open its doors exhausted our constructive possi-
'wider to the' homeless and op-. bilities. Jews in Palestine stand,
pressed of Europe, Dr. Brickner! upright with plows and with guns.
called upon Congress for favor-1
Greatest Receivers
able action on President Truman's!
repeated appeals to permit great-!
cr numbers of war refugees and
DPs to enter this country under
our "unused immigration quotas."
Jewish DPs in Europe, he re-
po•ted. are li_ving on an "animal
level - despite the very humane ,
attitude of the U. S. Army. The
morale of the survivors. he as-
serted. is at its lowest point and
their only hope is emigration. He
added that Jewish DPs are will,
mg to "stick it out" for a longer
period if they could see evidence
of an honest effort to find the,
solution to their homelessness and
misery."
Praising the activities of the
Joint Distribution Committee, Dr.
Brickner described his visit in
Cyprus and the manner in which
UJA funds are used to help Jews!
IR•ho have been deported there'
upon their arrival on "illegal"
boats in Palestine.
Need Aid of U. S. Jewry
Dr. Brickner expressed the be-
lief Jews would remain in all of
Europe except Germany although
in greatly reduced numbers. He
warned,
however. none of the
existing war - shattered Jewish
communities on the Continent
could rebuild their communal. re-
ligious and social structures with-
out financial assistance from the
Jews of Ar»c rica through the
United Jewish Appeal.
Describing his visit to the home-
less Jews of Greece. who are fear-,
ful of the future because of the
dissolution of UNRIZA. Dr. Brick-;
ner said "such suffering and need!
and yet such will to live as I have
witnessed is unbelievable." He
toured Greece just before his visit
to Palestine.
Outlines Progress
Itshaq Ben-Aharon, Palestine
war hero, who was introduced by
"American Jews can help create
new respect for our position and
for themselves. The greatest re-
ceivers of your gifts are American
Jews themselves. What we do
strengthens you and raises your
position in the eyes of the world."
Sidney Flatow, former director
of the Zeilsheim DP Camp in
Germany, describing the life of
the DPs, told of the horrors ex-
perienced by the survivors. He
described how men, women and
children are crowded into small
quarters, are deprived of all
privacy, and are forced to under- •
go privations.
Reviewing the events that fol-
lowed the war, Mr. Flatow
that the relief agents representing ,
the Joint Distributiod Committee!
and the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine came as angels of mercy,
bringing clothing, food, medicants. 1
Describes Demonstration
Referring to the visit at Zeil- 1
sheim of two members of the
Anglo-American Inquiry Com-.
mittee—Bartley Crum and Sir •
Frederick Leggett — Flatow de-
scribed the demonstration of the
DPs and their demand that Pales-
tine's doors be opened for large
numbers of settlers.
Pointing out that "vre are our
brothers' keepers," Mr. Flatow
warned there is nobody else to
help them, that there are no other
Jews other than American Jews
who possess the security we have.,
"The salavation of our kinsmen is'
our war for survival," he added.
"We dare not show the world I
we are so calloused that we are
deaf to the cries for help. The
United Jewish Appeal is the
greatest unifying force in Ameri-
can Jewry today. You have startec
to give the tools to the survivors
and you will not desert them-1
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