Friday, March 28, 1947
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Six
Mobilization of campaign workers in various divisions of
the Allied Jewish Campaign 'is nearing completion, and
it is expected more than 2,500 volunteer workers wiN con-
duct the solicitations - in Detroit for the 1947 goal of
$5,335;000. Men's, women's and youth divisions Arcady are
functioning,-and the various trade and professional groups
soon wiN begin actual solicitations.
At a tea at the home of MRS. SIDNEY J. ALLEN, leaders in the Women's
Division were inspired to greater action i n behalf of the Allied Jewish Campaign
by addresses by DR. JOSEPH J. SCHW ARTZ, chairman of the European Executive
Council of the . Joint Distribution Committee, and MRS. LEON FALK of Pittsburgh.
Left to right: MRS. ROBERT J. NEWMAN, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Falk and Dr. Schwartz.
MRS. JIENRY SOSS (left) was
hostess at a tea on March 19 for
a group of workers in the
Women's Division. (L-R): Mrs:
Abraham Srere, Mrs. Barbara
Lawrence of New York, guest
speaker; Mrs. N. S. Shapero and
Mrs. E. J. Arnfield.
JDC's Greatest Program Will Bring
Passover to Thousands in Europe
By flickering candlelight in the displaced persons camps ..
in the clean, white dining halls of hospitals and sanatoria . . in
orphanages and in homes for the aged, 4. . . on cooperative 'farms
and in rude dwellings throughout Europe, Jews will celebrate the
feast of Passover again this year.
As the sun goes down Friday evening, April 4, men, womeh and
children will sit down together to observe the deliverance of their
ancestors from Egypt more than 3.200 years ago, and to celebrate
their own deliverance from Nazism.
To assure Europe's Jewish survivors the traditional matzoth
which Moses and his flock ate on their wanderings through the
,desert. to provide the wine and the macaroons and the matzoh
meal which are part of the holiday, the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, major American agency aiding distressed Jews abroad, has
launched a special Holy Day program which will send more than
6.000.000 pounds of Passover matzoth, meal. macaroons, wine and
other foods to Jews in 13 European countries.
The Passover program is the greatest in the JDC's 32 years of
hi inging relief, reconstruction and migration aid to distressed Jews
abroad—Tile JDC, which last year spent more than_ $58.500,000 in its
overseas assistance ppograms, receives its funds from contributions
to the $170,000,000 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal.
More than 3,400,000 pounds of matzoth have been purchased'in
the t7nit,•(1 States and shipped abroad for distribution by members
of the JDC's staff of more than 250 overseas representatives. In
addition. the Committee has sent 1,000,000 pounds of matzoh meal
abroad as well as 100,000 pounds of Passover macaroons.
The JDC in Romania has swung into action on the greatest
Passover campaign ever conducted there. The crop failure has cut
Rumanian wheat supplies to such an extent the JDC must supply
matzoth to every one of the estimated 430,000 Jews in the country,
without any assistance from the government.
The JDC now has on hand sufficient stocks to furnish each Jew
with approximately four pounds of matzoth for the eight-day holi-
day.
Passover supplies will only be sold to those able to pay and
the funds thus derived will be devoted to local communal needs.
The publishers' and printers' section of the AJC mobilized in the 1947 drive at a dinner meeting
at the Standard Club on March 19. Left to right, seated: Herman L. Lewis Jr., Hyman- Safran
and Ben F. Wigder, co-chairmen of the printers' and publishers' section; standing: Nat Rosenfeld,
Martin Aronsson, Jerry Brasch.; William Gelb, Harvey Willens, Jack Denison and Albert Shaftel, sec-
retary of the division. Samuel S. Aaron, another co-chairman of this division, was not present.
Leaders of the Mechanical . Trades Division, gathered at
the Standard Club on Monday evening. March I7, to plan
the Special Gifts Meeting for . tile Division.
Seated (left to right): HYMAN R. NATHAN, Scrap Met.al:
MAURICE A. SCHLAFER, Scrap Iron; HARRY NEWMAN,
Auto Sales; HARRY JACOBS, Tire Dealers: HARRY B.
ARONOW, Metals-, HAROLD LACHMAN, 'Garages and
Pasting Lots: MORRIS L. FRUMAN, Auto Parts and Acces-
sories. Standing (left to right): NATHAN V. MILLER, Garages
and Parking Lots: ABE KASLE, Steel; BEN KRAMER! Scrap
Iron; BEN L. SILBERSTEIN, Machinery; MILTON K. MAHLER,
Scrap Iron; three of the Division Chairmen: NATHAN R.
EPSTEIN, Gas and Oil; JACK LEVITT, Auto Parts and Acces-
sories:" AL KRASS, Waste Materials; CHARLES WOLOK,
Scrap Iron, and SAMUEL B. SOLOMON, Steel.
Almost every trade represented in the Division is well under way in organiz-
-•ing its actfvities to raise. its share of the $5,335,000 quota for the 1947 Allied ,=—
Jewish Campaign.
Officials Circle Speakers' -Table
At Annual Federation Conference
Speakers' table at annual dinner meeting of Jewish Welfare
Federation of Detroit, at Hotel Statler, March 18. Left to right: Mrs.
Phil ip Marcut.e, Mrs. I. Irving Birtker, Isidore Sobeloff, executive director
of the Jewish. Welfare Federation- Dr. William Haber, Julian H. Krolik,
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, Mrs. Leon Falk of Pittsburgh, Prof. Lawrence
Seltzer. (Photo on right.)
—Photos by Paul Kirsch, Jewish News Photographer