• :t * Friday, Aprl 4, 1947 - THE JEWISH NEWS Page Forty Local Brevities OSTROWER RELIEF SOCI- ETY will elect officers at a meet- ing at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Cohen, 2691 Webb ave. Rab- bi Cheska Finesilber, who es- caped from Ostrow during the Nazi occupation and arrived in Detroit three weeks ago, will give an eye-witness account of the conditions in Ostrow. All land- sleit are invited. • • • Sam Schiff, newly-elected pres- ident of HENRY MORGENTHAU Lodge of Bnai Brith, has appoint- ed tbe following committee heads: Membership, Irving Davis, Morris Wasserman; program, Mort Sultan, Gabriel Glantz; BBYO, Lawrence Lerman, Har- old Weiss; Hillel, Stan Wolf, Marvin Canvassar; publicity, Phil Rothschild, Bill Goll; ADL, Al Schaffer, Herbert Sosin; conser vation, Jack Caminker; vocation- al guidance, Dave Faigenbaum; postwar service, Bernard Gorosh, Leonard Farrer; civic-American, Jerry Helfman, Charles Israel; social service, Milton Fishman, Alex Adelberg; Bnai Brith worn- en, Richard Miller; athletics, Sey- mour Gallant;_ social, Mort Sul- tan, Sherman Schwartz; place- ment, Gabriel Glantz, Al Schaffer. • * • Passover in the New World ZOA Issues Pamphlet On Haganah's_Work chapter in the history of the Jewish people." Forthcoming titles in the new pamphlet series include "General NEW YORK.—The first com- Zionist Program," by Dr. Israel plete descriptive material on the Goldstein, "Palestine Today," Leaders," "The Rebirth Haganah movement in Palestine "Zionist of Hebrew" and others. has been made available in pam- phlet forml by the Education De- partment of the Zionist Organi- zation of America. The pam- phlet is the first in a new series BOWLING CENTER on dynamic Zionism being issued Open Bowling by the ZOA, according to Carl VICTORY This youngster was born in Shanghai, a victim of Nazi oppres- sion whose parents had fled the Reich before his birth. Today Isaac is a patient in the Children's Division of the National Jewish Hospital at Denver. recovering from diseast contracted during exile. He is shown asking the Four Questions at the Hospital's Seder service, with Samuel Schaefer, executive director of America's first free national, interfaith hospital for the care of the needy victims of tuberculosis. JDC in Romania Aids Ragged Jews Fleeing Russia A report to the New York Times from Vienna on Sunday stated that 350 Jews who arrived from Russia gave "startling veri- fication of reports of the fate of many Jews who fled from Hit- ler to Russia." The report states: "The 350 were in a shocking condition. Their clothes were rags. They were half starved. Members of the group said they had been on the way from a Rus- sian work camp at Kazakistan in Central -Asia for nearly three months. `'They said they had so little food on their trip that they would have starved if the Joint Distri- bution Committee in Romania had not learned of their plight and provided food. "When they arrived they were in such a weakened condition that other Jewish refugees in the Rothschild Hospital refugee cen- ter gave up their dinner so the newcomers could eat." Abraham Herman, HIAS President, Dies in N. Y. at 69 NEW YORK, (JTA)—Abraham Herman, president of the HIAS for 21 years, r lied at his home :ere. He was 69. Born in Nas- Russia, :Herman emi- grated to this at the 2ountry age of 13. He was educated in New York schools and the Brooklyn C o 1 - A. Herman lege of Pharmacy. He was active in many Jewish philanthropic a n d communal activities, and was associated with the Federation for Jewish Philanthropies, t h e American Jewish Committee and the Amer- ican Jewish Congress. Alpert, director of the Education Department. 9:45 p.m. to Closing Daily In plain-spoken language, the pamphlet hails the Haganah as "a source of pride and affection; its deeds are regarded as constitut- ing a new glorious and dramatic Saturday Sc Sunday AN Cfay RE-ELECT JUDGE LILA M. NEUENFELT CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE 04, HENRY COHEN FAMILY CIR- CLE welcomed Miss Madeline Cohen into their group at an ini- tiation at the home of Jennie Cohen. Guests of the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Schreidell. The net meeting will be held April 6 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Cross. • * * ALLEGRO CHORAL ENSEM- BLE, under the direction of Ir- ving and Sol Ritter, will present a program of semi-classical se- lections at the Dearborn Veterans' Hospital Wednesday, April 9. So- loists for the evening include Jack Bazell, Shirley Burns, Harold Dworkin, Marilyn Gladstone, Anne Siegel and Barbara Traub. • * * MANDEL M. ZAGER LODGE of Bnai Brith will meet at Wayne Hillel Foundation Tuesday for a special social evening at which Jewish Science Institute Passover refreshments will be Organized in Bulgaria served. Isadore Starr will be SOFIA (JTA)—A Jewish Sci- guest speaker. Members and ence Institute has been organ- friends are invited. ized here to collect and catalogue * Jewish historical and cultural BRITH TRUMPELDOR (Betar) material in Bulgaria. announces that it will circulate a petition appealing to the Jews of Passover Greetings Palestine not to permit division in Jewish ranks. Arrangements are being completed for the third Se- der reservations for which are be- ing taken at TY. 5-3194. * • • "THE NEW MOON," high among Sigmund Romberg win- General Real Estate ners, is the Civic Light Opera attraction this week, running into and Property Sunday night next, with a Sat- urday matinee. Management and Insurance * • • "This Year of Sacrifice, The See us about Mortgage Problems of European Jews and Money How They are Being Met," will be the topic of discussion by 300 Lafayette Bldg. Charles Rubiner at the WED- NESDAY EVENING DISCUS- CAdillac 7700 605 Fox Bldg. SION GROUP April 9 at the Jew- R. BLISS WOLFE, Pres. ish Center. • BODZIN FAMILY CLUB will meet Sunday evening, April 6, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. PASSOVER GREETINGS Harry S. Bodzin. Guests will be Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Zucker- baum of New York, parents of the hostess, and Jack Bodzin, on vacation from college at Hough- ton, Mich. * • • Commercial Leases — Improved Property Manager Proceeds of the cabaret night of the MEZERITCHER SOCIAL CLUB, to be held Saturday, April 704-5 Transportation Bldg. 12, at the Park Ave. Penthouse, RAndolph 1515 will be used for charitable pur- poses. * • Violinist SANDRA RITA ED- ELMAN, student of W. G. Ring, LAWRENCE DIAMOND, student of Michael Bistritsky, and GER- ALD ROSEN, student of Berm nard Silverstein, received first division ratings at the annual 408 TEMPLE AT CASS spring festival sponsored by the National School Orchestra As- Where Food At Its Finest Is Serued sociation March 29 at Western High School. 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