rage Fourteen

Friday, December 19, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS

William Avrunin, Shaw
Appointed to JWF Posts

Dr.

Israel Wiener:
Past JNF President;
More on Honor Roll

Bergson's 'Smear Letter'
Repudiated by Zionists

Two appointments to the staff of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration were announced this week by Julian H. Krolik, presi-
dent of Federation.
William Avrunin, director of the East Central States Re-
gion of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds,
has been appointed associate director, succeeding Abe L.

The name of Dr. Israel Wiener
inadvertently was omitted from
the honor roll of Detroit Zionist
leaders published in last week's
issue of The Jewish News. Dr.
Wiener is a past president of the
Jewish National Fund' Council of
Detroit.
Past presidents of Mizrachi
Women who have pioneered in
the Zionist movement include:
Mesdames Mitchell Shaw, L.
Rubenstein, Tobie Siegal, Joseph
H. Kunin, Ethel Abrams and
Gerald Levitt. Mrs. Rose Singer
is the present president. The late
Mrs. Abraham Osinsky Was the
organizer of Sisters of Zion
Mizrachi.
Many of the younger Zionists
already can be listed among the
"pioneers." Among them are a
number who are making their
homes in Palestine — including
Meyer Harrison, Yirmiyahu Hag-
gai, Soloveitchik and others.

NEW YORK — A vicious
"smear" attempt by the Berg-
son group to undermine support
for the future Jewish State in
Palestine was effectively an-
swered by the noted author and
Palestine authority, Eliahu Ben-
Horin, adviser on Middle Eastern
affairs to the American Zionist
Emergency Council, in a letter
to the New York Herald-Tribune.
Pointing out that it was the
Bergson strategy "to continue the
cruel joke which they played on
the Jewish people when they es-
tablished themselves as the self-
styled 'liberators' of the Hebrew
nation and ambassadors of Jew-
ish Palestine," Mr. Ben-Horin
charged that the Hebrew Com-
mittee of National Liberation was
continuing its policy "to muddy
the waters and add bewilderment
to the public mind."
With partition now a matter of
United Nations history, Mr. Berg-
son had enunciated the new poli-
cies of his organization in a let-
ter to the Herald Tribune on Dec.
10. In that correspondence, Mr.
Bergson had charged that "the
proposed ghetto -1 i k e 'Jewish
State' will only perpetuate the
abnormality of the Jewish posi-
tion."
In Mr. Ben-Horin's reply, the
noted author pointed out that
"since the (Jewish) state will be
created primarily to solve the
present abnormal position of the
Jewish people in the world, and
since the Jews there will form a
majority, it will be open to every
homeless Jew in the world.
"There is no need to go out of
one's way to insinuate non-exist-
ing complications. Nor are diffi-
culties bound to arise in the re-
lationship between the Jews of
America and the future 'Jewish
State.' It will be the same rela-
tionship as between the American
Irish and Eire, American Greeks
and Greece—namely an attitude
of great interest, sympathy, spi-

Sudran, who left to assume the\ ■ ,
position of executive director of Council of Jewish Federations he
was executive director of the Ft.
Wayne, Ind., Jewish Federation.
Shaw, a native Detroiter, holds
bachelor's and master's degrees
in education from Wayne Univer-
sity and prior to being commis-
sioned in the Navy in 1942, he was
a teacher in the Detroit Public
vensMiNg.:70,7'

IRWIN SHAW

Congress Unit Reviews
Released Time Question

the Jewish Federation and Coun-
cil of Kansas City.
Irwin Shaw, who has been serv-
ing as administrative assistant of
the Federation staff and who also
is executive director of Fresh Air
Camp, has been named assistant
director of Federation.
Both men will serve with Isi-
dore Sobeloff, executive director.
A_ graduate of Ohio State Uni-
versiLy School of Journalism, Av-
runin entered Jewish communal
work as associate editor of the
magazine "Friday," and as a staff
member of the Council Educa-
tional alliance in Cleveland. He
was graduated from Western Re-
serve University School of Ap-
plied Social Sciences in 1937 and
was on the staff of the Jewish
Board of Guardians as case-work
advisor and publicity director. Be-.
fore entering the service of the

Evidence of an organized cam-
paign to introduce religious in-
struction into the Detroit public
school curriculum was brought
to the attention of the Detroit
Section, American Jewish Con-
gress at a recent meeting of its
Commission on Law and Social
Action.
The g r o u p, meeting at the
home of Mrs. Joseph Uleicher,
4310 Glendale, discussed the
practice of "released time"—re-
ligious teaching during school
hours. Mrs. Dudley J. Moore of
the Unitarian Church pointed
out that the plan may soon be
presented to the Detroit Board of
Education. Parents are advised
to educate themselves on this
question so that they may pre-
sent their views before an official
decision is made.

WILLIAM AVRUNIN

Schools. He has served as head of
Fresh Air Camp since 1936, and
joined the Federation staff after
his separation from the Navy in
December, 1945.

JDC Will Increase Aid
to Jewish DPs in Germany
MUNICH, (JTA)—The Joint
Distribution Committee will "in-
crease considerably" its food and
clothing aid to displaced Jews
in Germany starting next week,
it was announced by Charles
Passman, JDC co-director in the
American zone.

ritual affinity and also of co-
operation in many practical
spheres," Mr. Ben-Horin stressed.
The attack by Mr. Ben-Horin
against the Hebrew Committee of
National Liberation—a Bergson
front—is part of the American
Zionist Emergency Council's at-
tempts to expose the groups con-
trolled by Mr. Bergson as speak-
ing without any constituency in
the Yishuv and without a man-
date from its people. The Coun-
cil, which speaks for every offi-
cial Zionist party in the United
States, has issued a pamphlet:
"Palestine Jewry Disclaims the
Bergson Committee" on this sub-
ject.

Contact Lenses Advised

"The wearing of thick lenses
is rarely by choice. With the dis-
covery and improvement of con-
tact lenses, • overly conspicuous
lenses can be discarded," says
Dr. Russ ell G. .
Burton, Detroit
optometrist, who
devotes a major
portion of his
practice to the
fitting of contact
lenses.
Dr. Burton has
worn contact
lenses for sever-
al years and
wears them
from 12 to 18 hours daily and
cites the following advantages
of contact lenses: invisibility
(see picture taken with contact
lenses) ; not made useless by

rain, steam, etc.; unbreakable;
never require changing; last in-

definitely; do not irritate eyes;
nrotection against injury; offers
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Further information may D e
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6-6979. —Adv.

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