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THE JEWISH NEWS
European, Palestine Leaders
Will Report at WA Conclave
Eliezer Kaplan of Jerusalem,
treasurer of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, and Dr. Joseph J.
Schwartz, European chairman of
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, will fly to the United States
to report on the needs of Jews
overseas to American Jewish
leaders at the national confer-
ence of the United Jewish Ap-
peal which will be held at Chel-
sea Hotel, Atlantic City, N. J.,
Dec. 12 to 15, it was announced
by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., gen-
eral chairman of the UJA.
Hundreds of Jewish community
leaders from every section of the
United States, including Michi-
gan communities, will attend the
confefence to draw up a 1948
program of overseas relief and
reconstruction, refugee settlement
and upbuilding in Palestine and
assistance to Jewish refugees
reaching the United States.
Dr. Schwartz and Mr. Kaplan
will report to the American Jew-
ish• leaders on the needs which
will have to be met by American
Jewry in the contemplated trans-
fer of 150,000 homeless European
Jews to Palestine both in prepar-
ing displaced Jews of Europe for
emigration and in receiving and
caring for them upon their arri-
val in Palestine.
High on the agerida of the At-
lantic City- conference will be the
problem of inadequate intergov-
ernmental assistance for the
homeless and displaced persons
of Europe, and the resulting bur-
- dens on private agencies in the
wake of the inability of the IRO
(International Refugee Organi-
zation to provide the personnel
and funds required to ,care ade-
quately for refugees in Europe.
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To Study in Zion
MRS, . SYLVIA CUTLER ET-
TENBERG, administrative secre-
tary of the Teachers. Institute of
the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America, sailed on the -Queen
Elizabeth for a year's study at the
Hebrew University in Palestine,
and to gather material on exten-
sion activities in youth work.
Council Reveals Prompt Solution Americans
In Problem of Employment Bias For Partition
From the files of the Jewish
Community - Council . comes this
story of a case recently handled
by the Discrimination Commit-
tee.
A young woman came to the
Community Council office a n d
complained that she had been re-
fused employment because she
was Jewish. She had applied for
a position as stenographer in a
large market, one- of a chain oper-
ated in this territory. The man-
ager of the market had inter-
viewed her and seemed well
pleased With her qualifications
and references.
After a preliminary conversa-
tion, the manager called in one
of the other girls to show the ap-
plicant the office and explain the
job -to her. The girl was very
pleasant to her and assured her
that she would like the work.
However, when she returned to
the office of the manager, he
asked if she was Spanish or
French. She then reali2ed what he
wanted to know and said, "I'm
Jewish." Immediately his manner
became very vague. He mention-
ed other applicants, etc. She did
not get the job.
When she complained to the
Community Council, ap member
of the Discrimination Committee
approached the owners of the
'chain, who investigated immedi-
ately and found that the com-
plaint was a valid one. They
thereupon dismissed the manager
who was responsible for this dis-
criminatory policy _and instructed
the new manager to see to it that
a more democratic policy be fol-
lowed in the future.
This case is interesting because
it shows the kind of situation
which occurs in many commerc-
ial establishments. More often
than is generally realized a sub-
ordinate official makes policy of
a discriminatdry nature without
consulting his superiors. When it
is brought to their attention, the
situation is immediately cor-
rected.
As in the above case, the Jew-
ish Community Council can often
be instrumental in bringing about
a satisfactory solution.
Purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
A Lesson in Patience—A Note From the UN
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.—On the eve of the momentous deci-
sion, our people are learning the value of patience and perseverence.
This note is being written a few minutes after the release of the
report of Sub-Committee. Two (the Arab group) of the Ad Hoc
Committee on the Palestinian Question. If it had even the remotest
chance of receiving favorable consideration, this 66-page statement
would have caused heart failure and would be an ulcer-creator.
But it stands very little chance of getting more than a hearing.
The Arabs would make second class citizens of Palestinian Jews.
They would establish an immediate independent state in Palestine and
the Jews would be relegated to the status of a permanent minority.
This can never be—at least in those portions which have been selected
for a Jewish state. Therefore the Arabs, having had their hearing,
are overwhelmingly outvoted. They have, of course, an eighth
state—the territory set aside for them in Palestine.
By being patient and persevering, we are witnessing the realiza-
tion of \an historic dream.
Your Commentator's favorite story merits repeating at this time.
It is about two gentlemen who met on a train. One was sour, de-
pressed, pessimistic, in ill humor. The other was philosophic, patient,
hopeful.
"You sound impatient, depressed," said the latter to the cheer-
less one. "You must have faith. By being patient and persevering,
you can win almost any point."
"I don't believe it! It can not be! You can't prove it," was the
reply.
"But it is so," persisted the hopeful one.
"It. is not applicable to everything," the first gentleman insisted.
"Patience does not work at all times. Can you prove to me, for
instance, that water can be carried in a sieve?"
"Why, of course," the optimist responded, "Of course, you
tan! If you have enough patience for the water to freeze."
This story is applicable to the faithful in Israel. We have waited,
and waited, and waited! And, • apparently, we have not waited in
vain.
It is with patience and faith that we have conquered the Emek,
that we are recapturing the Negev, that we have gained a'•Jewish
state.
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The UN's Debating Spirit
* * *
The first impression one gets from UN Meetings is that the
international body is a debating society on a large scale. Just before
the presentation of the reports of the working committees of the Ad
Hoc Palestine Committee, on Nov. 19, the larger committee was
pressing for action. The chairman, Herbert V. Evatt of Australia,
insisted on a final report that night. Whereupon one of the delegates
arose and asked:
"Should we meet tonight to discuss when we should discuss
the report?"
There was more than irony in this statement: it was -a severe
rebuke.
This, however, is the way the great UN works—like a debating
society: first it argues, giVes all elements a chance to express them-
selves. But When the time comes for action, UN is capable of exercis-
ing speed.
Friday, November 28, 1947
Aid En Route And in Palestine
Is Longtime Tradition of JDC
Just a little more than 33 years ago, August, 1914, Henry
Morgenthau, Sr., United States Ambassador to Turkey, despatched
an urgent cable to leading American Jews. In Palestine (then under
Turkish jurisdiction), he wired, there were 60,000 Jews who, cut
off by the warring armies, faced starvation unless American Jewry
came to their immediate assistance.
The answer was prompt. Fifty'
thousand dollars was immediately
vided transportation and care for
raised and supplies were rushed
to Palestine. Out of this historic many of the thousands of children
event, there emerged the Ameri- and young people brought to
can Joint Distribution Committee, Palestine by the Youth Aliyah. In
which now conducts its relief, re- 1943 and 1944,. for example, 13,130
settlement a n d reconstruction
activities in some 50 countries Jews left for Palestine with JDC
throughout the world with funds assistance.
provided by the nationwide cam-
Should large-scale immigration
paign of the United Jewish Ap- to Palestine be made possible, by
peal.
decision of the United Nations,
Although the focus of JDC work the JDC will, of course, continue
in post-World War II days has and expand its 33-year-old pro-
been Europe, the organization's gram of assistance to all those
work in Palestine has never who wish to reach Eretz Israel.
ceased since the winter of 1914-
1915. From 1914 through 1946, in
fact, JDC expenditures in Pales-
tine and Palestine-related fields
reached almost $22,000,000.
This investment spread through
CHAMPAIGN, Ill.—After wit-
the years, has yielded a spiritual
return which, according to Dr. nessing the work of the Bnai
Joseph C. Hyman, vice-chairman Brith Hillel Foundations, the late
of the JDC who has just returned Joseph Rubin, of Effingham, ,Ill.,
from Palestine, is evident through-
has left $55,000—the bulk of his
out the Holy Land.
In recent years, the main JDC estate—to the Hillel Foundation
activities in the Holy Land have at the University of Illinois.
been in the field of aid to cultural-
Mr. Rubin was 70 years old at
religious institutions and support the time of his death last month.
of refugee rabbis, scholars and
In acknowledgment of the gift,
teachers who came to Palestine
the
Hillel trustees at Illinois will
after the European , debacle
Through the JDC Cultural Com- establish a Joseph Rubin Memor-
mittee in New York, in coopera- ial in connection with the $200,-
tion with the JDC office in Jeru-
salem, headed by Dr. Judah Mag- 000 Hillel building soon to be
nes, some 58 Yeshivoth, seminar- erected at Champaign.
Illinois U. Hillel Gets
Bequest of $55,000
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The ma-
jority of American voters back
the proposed partition of Pales-
tine, according to a Gallup Poll.
Of those_ questioned, 65 percent
favored the partition plan, only
10 percent were opposed and the
others had no opinion.
However, virtually all of those
polled opposed sending U. S.
troops to keep peace in Palestine:
65 percent thought the U. N.
should send a force to maintain
law and order in event of viol-
ence between Arabs and Jews;
only three percent favored send- ies and schools, with more than
ing American forces; 18 percent 10,000 students and rabbis, receive
thought neither U.N. nor U S. financial support from the JDC.
troops should be used, while the
For most Jews in Palestine,
remainder had no opinion.
however, the "Joint" is indelibly
associated with help provided en
PHILADELPHIA — Publication
route to the Holy Land. Jewish of 30 volumes within the next
emigration to Palestine continued 10 years comprising a new trans-
throughout World War II, • al- lation and commentary on the
though limited by difficulties of non-Biblical Scriptural writings
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Presi- transportation and by the stipula- known as the Apocrypha and
dent Truman received Dr. Chaim tions of the British White Paper Pseudepographa by the Dropsie
of 1939. Working in close coopera- College for Hebrew and Cognate
Weizmann •on Nov. 19.
It was rumored that they dis- tion, the Jewish Agency, the War Learning, was announced by Dr.
cussed the Negev, the point in the Refugee Board and the JDC or- Abraham A. Neuman, ' president
UNSCOP boundary proposals on ganized the emigration of various of the college.
The project, which will cost
which the American delegation at Jewish groups to Palestine, at a
time when the greatest ingenuity $100,000, will attempt to restore
the UN made reservations.
was required to elude the Nazis to their original Hebrew mean-
Dr. Weizmann, accompanied
and move helpless Jews to havens ing the scriptural writings of the
by Eliahu Epstein, of the Jewish
of safety. This work was financed period immediately preceding and
Agency's Washington office, drove
following the beginnings of the
to the White House in a car sent by the JDC.
During World War II JDC pro- Christian Era.
for him by the President. They
were admitted by the private en-
trance to the President's resident-
ial quarters in order to avoid
newspapermen.
By ARNOLD LEVIN
White House cress secretary
(Copyright, 1947, Independent Jewish Press Service, Inc.)
Charles Ross described the visit
as a courtesy call. Dr. Weizmann Lake Success: Last Dispatch
was accompanied by Stanley
Having spent weeks pacing the corridors behind- the 'doors in
Wcsodward, State Department which Sub-Committee One held its closed meetings, and scribbling
chief of protocol.
away at top speed in the rooms in which the committee held its open
sessions, I feel that the men who helped shape the final report for
the partition of Palestine should be per,--portraited.
250 Wounded Veterans
Chairman Ksawery Pruszynsky, tall; slim, with slightly flushed
cheeks, high cheekbones and narrow-slitted eyes, is a handsome,
Enroll in Shekel Drive
amiable chap. A former newspaperman himself, Mr. Pruszynsky
was very informal in conducting the proceedings. His wit is keen,
NEW YORK—Col. Julius Klein, his knowledge of Palestine considerable. He is author of some of
national commander of Jewish the best travel reporting in the Polish language, including a volume
War Veterans, presented to the on Palestine, describing his visit with the men and women of the
national headquarters of the kibutzim.
Venezuelan Pedro Zuloaga, slim, slightly above average in height,
Zionist Organization of America
a check in behalf of 250 hospital- exceptionally' amiable, patient, soft-voiced, is a keen but almost shy
ized Jewish war veterans in New parliamentarian, decidedly friendly to the Jewish cause.
Prof. Enrique Fabregat of Uruguay, short, professional, with
York who have enrolled as shekel
dark solemn glasses and respectable bald-headedness, is an exquisite
holders of the organization in speaker, his voice low but expressive, his hands flying up in short,
keeping with their desire to par- rhythmic gestures. Prof. Fabregat and Dr. Garcia Granados of
ticipate in the election of Ameri- Guatemala were members of UNSCOP, each, in his own fashion, an
can delegates to the World Zion- eloquent defender of the Jewish case.
ist Congress which will be held
Czech delegate Dr. Karel Lisicky, also a member of UNSCOP,
was an embarrassing surprise to all concerned, especially the Czechs.
in 1948.
He is a very tall, spindle-legged, pedantic professorial type. Not the
humanistic Fabregat professorial type. But the other rigid kind who
would rather flunk a pupil than pass him. This quality of captious-
Jewish Book Month.
ness was manifest in his objections, interjections, amendments. And
the less forgiving kind of persons rumored that he was flirting with
Broadcast to World
the U. K. and the more dubious (as regards partition) members of
the State Department.
NEW YORK—A series of three
Sernyen Tsarapkin, U.S.S.R. delegate, young, tall, with a hand-
radio programs in English, Yid- some but somewhat grim face and a slow smile, helped keep—
dish, Spanish and French beamed strange as it may seem—the State Department boys in line. When-
to DP camps, France, England ever Tsarapkin supported some Jewish Agency demand for terri-
and 15 Latin American countries torial modification or amendment of the economic union clauses, the
will climax the month-long cel- American delegation rapidly withdrew its objection and either sup-
ebration of Jewish Book Month, ported outright the Jewish Agency demands or reserved opinion.
-now being observed under the Thus Tsarapkin helped keep in line Ambassador Johnson of the
aegis of the National - Jewish Wel- American delegation. •
Canada contributed two brilliant, sensitive men to Sub-Com-
fare Board-sponsored Jewish mittee One — Lester Pearson and Justice Rand, soft-voiced, polite,
Book Council. Jewish Book fair-minded and, in the case of Pearson at least, possessing a good
Month began on Nov. 7 and ends sense of humor. They helped unravel many a knot, and Pearson is
on Dec. 7,
credited with having prevented several deadlocks.
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Dropsie to Publish
Scriptural Writings
Weizmann Received
By President Truman
Heard in the Lobbies