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THE JEWISH NE - WS

Friday, March 28, 1947

Morris - Weiss Wins
Magazine, Story Award

Morris Weiss, 3245 Chicago, is
one of 11 winners in the Good
Housekeeping 'Short Story Con-
test. Weiss' story "The Arlogy,"
Morris- Jacobs, president of the -that justice shaulti•be done to the Was selected. for an award to-
Zionist Organization of Detroit; Jews.".
gather with such distinguished
Mowrer charged that it is
American authors as Mary Ellen
announced Tuesday that Bartley
`.!cheap diagnosis". - to.ttate that a
Chase, Allan Seager, and Mark
Crum, opel of the Americari mem-
Van Doren.
bers of the Anglo-American Com-
The contest was restricted to
mittee of Inquiry on Palestine,
faculty members of colleges and
author of the expose of the Pal-
universities in the United States;
estine situation, "Behind the Sil-
Weiss is in the speech depart-
ment at Wayne University in
ken Curtain," which is due off
addition to a full-time assign-
the press shortly, will address a
ment on the teaching staff of
publiC Zionist meeting in the
Pershing High School.
main auditorium of Shaarey Ze-
dek Monday evening, April 13.
Rabbi Wohlgelernter Pleads
At the meeting held at Shaarey
Zedek Monday evening, to mark
For Unity Among Orth . odox
the closing of the current mem-
Overseas Relief Agencies
bership drive, Jacobs announced
NEW YORK—Rabbi Solomon
that 1,000 new members were se-
P. Wohlgelernter deplored the
cured during the past two weeks,
recent political rift in orthodox
increasing the membership of the
Jewry's Overseas Relief Agency
Zionist Organization of Detroit to
in a report of his overseas activi-
nearly 4,000.
ties given before Aguda and
Monday's meeting was address-
Mizrachi lay and rabbinic lead-
ed by Edgar Ansell Mowrer, emi-
ers at the Broadway Central
nent foreign correspondent, who
Hotel, 673 Broadway.
stated that at last the Zionists - of
• BARTLEY CRUM
Rabbi Wohlgelernter, a brother
America—Jews and non-Jews-
have a positive program for a&. Jewish • National Home would of Detroit's Rabbi Max Wohlge-
tion. As a result of President Tru- weaken the democracies. "Fortun- lernter, has just returned after 19
man's demands for U. S. action in ately," he said, "it is not true, for months as liaison officer _for
Greece, Mowrer pointed out, by nothing would the democratic Vaad - Hatzala at UNRRA head-
there is justification for demands cause be strengthened more than quarters in Germany.
Rabbi Wohlgelernter, himself
for similar action by our govern- by the establishment of the pro-
ment to speed fulfillment of gressive, modern Jewish Home- a member of Mizarchi, the seced-
ing orthodox group, made a plea
pledges for the establishment of land."
The British government's be- for unity if overseas aid is to be
the Jewish National Home.
"The United States," he de- trayals of trust to the Jews, the effective. "Orthodox Jewry
clared, "should be willing to take actions of Foreign Secretary Be- abroad will be the sufferers un-
responsibility in giving the Jews vin and the former Mufti were less our efforts are united," he
a state, in most or all of Pales- severely condemned in Mowrer's declared.
tine. The time has come to insist address.

Miss Glazer, Grossbard
In Recital at Masonic

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Hebrew U. Governors
Open Conference in N. Y.

NEW YORK, (JTA)—T h e
Board of Governors of the He-
brew University opened a three-
day meeting here to discuss
plans for expansion of the insti-
tution's facilities..
The meeting, under the chair-
manship of Prof. Selig Brodetsky,
president of the Board of Depu-
ties of British .'revs, is the first
to be, held in the U. S. since
the university was established
23 years ago_
Sir Leon Simon, chairman of
the executive council, reported
there are 1,000 students enrolled
at the university, of whom 100
are Ameribans, largely veterans
studying under the GI Bill of
Rights. Dr. David Senator, ad-
I ministrator, said that the uni-
versity budget for 1946-1947 will
total approximately S1.600,000.
I Dr. Michael Fekete, rector, an-
HERTZ GROSSBARD
: flounced the university will spon-
Hertz Grossbard, who started sor this summer a world con-
his artistic career in his birth , ference of educators and workers
land, Poland, recently- arrived in in the field of Hebrew education.
the U. S. from a triumphant tour
of South America and will ap-
pear in a recital Sunday evening,
March 30, at Masonic Temple,
together with the nationally
known soprano, Estelle Glazer of
New York.
Mr. Grossbard has won unani- I
mous acclaim of all Yiddish crit- I
ics as the most unique interpreter
of Yiddish literary art. Chaim
Lieberman of the Ford S. Niger,
and William Edlin, of The Day,'
Ae Nisenson of the Morning Jour-
nal showered him with praise
after his first appearance in
New York.
Miss Glazer interprets Yiddish
folk songs as well as classical
Music.

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Hadassah Players
Offer Original Play
At April 8 Meeting

"Our Earth is but a Small
Star," an original three-act play
by Mrs. Zelda Landsman, will be
presented by the Hadassah play-
ers at the Detroit Hadassah
meeting at 1 p. m. Tuesday, April
8, at the Jewish Center.
Mrs. Perry Burnstine, head of
the American Affairs Committee,
is chairman of the meeting. She

will be assisted by the group
chairmen, Mesdames Harry
Becker, Louis Slatkin, J. J.
Marks, Albert Silber, Samuel
Schaflander and Miss Gertrlde
Glasier.
The play is under the direction
o Mrs. Harold Koenigsberg and
the cast includes Mesdames
Louis Grossman, Joseph Jackier,
Harold Koenigsberg, Zelda
Landsman, • Harry Paysner, Al-
bert Silber, Arthur Snyder and
Louis Slatkin.
Mrs. Louis Glasier, chapter
president, urges all members to
attend.

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