THE JEWISH NEWS

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Czech Jewish Purge
Goes on; Communists
Assume Ail• Positions

Women's Division Luncheons
Expected to be Victory Fete

Friday, April 9, 1948

Mrs. Lotte Fuld to Address
Young Adult Leaders' Dinner

PRAGUE, (JTA)—Continuing

Pledge Increases of 198 Per Cent Reported; Robert St. its purge of Jewish communal
Mrs. Lotte Fuld, noted psychoanalyst and recent visitor
John, Harold Katz, Mrs. Epstein to Speak
bodies in Czechoslovakia, the from Palestine, will speak at the dinner for presidents of
Jewish Actions Committee an- young adult organizations to be given by the Junior Division
At April 14, 15, 19 Events
nounced that it has "reorganized", of the 1948 Allied Jewish Campaign, next Wednesday, April
At its first report meeting, could no longer stand to sit back the praesidium and administra- 14, at 6:30 p.m., in the Ginsburg Lounge of the Jewish Com-
the general solicitation section of and Watch the increasingly tragic tive committee .)f the Council of munity Center.
the Women's Division .of the 1948 plight of the homeless Jews of Jewish Communities of Bohem-
Mrs. Fuld will bring a vivid picture of the tremendous
ia-Moravia.

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Allied Jewish Campaign reported
a 198 per cent increase in pledges
over last year. Compiled with the
returns from Pre-Campaign and
Special Gifts, these figures indi-
cate that the Freedom Luncheons
to be held on April 14, 15 and 19
will really be Victory Luncheons,
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich and Mrs.
Henry Wineman, chairmen of this
year's campaign, announced this
week.
The three luncheons, which
mark Detroit's observance of
April as the nationally celebrated
-Freedom Month, are for women
contributors to the Allied Jewish
Campaign of at least a dollar a
day ($365 minimum pledge), 30
cents a day ($100 minimum) and
10 cents a day ($36.50 minimum).
The dollar a day affair, next Wed-
nesday, will be held at 12:30 p. m.
at the Book Cadillac Hotel. The
30 cents a day luncheon is set
for next Thursday, at 12:30, at
the Book Cadillac Hotel, and the
10-cents-a-day luncheon will take
place at the Latin Quarter Mon-
day, April 19, at 12:30 p. m. '
Featured Speakers
Featured speakers at the lunch-
eons will be Robert St. John,
noted foreign correspondent and
news commentator; Harold Katz,
a veteran of the Haganah -block-
ade runner Hatikvah, and Mrs.
Judith G. Epstein, former national
president of Hadassah.
Never an "armchair commen-
tator," St. John, who will speak
at all three affairs, has always
had the respect and admiration
of his colleagues because of his
persistent way of digging far be-
low the surface for his news, and
has welcomed dangers and risks
to bring inside information to his
listeners. For the major part of
1947, St. John went on a European
odyssey that took him back to a
great many of the countries he
covered so brilliantly during his
career as a war correspondent.
By avoiding the big cities and
concentrating on the small vil-
lages, he learned to know how
the people of each of the eight
countries he visited felt about
the state of the world today. He
spent many months in Yugoslavia
and in Hungary, countries behind
the so-called Iron Curtain. He
lived in Greek villages, crossed
the Channel from England, and
went to Sweden, France, Switzer-
land and Italy.
With Immigrant Ship
Katz, the second speaker at
the April 14 and 15 luncheons, is
a veteran of more than three
years of naval warfare in the Pa-
cific. He volunteered for service
aboard the Hatikvah because he

Europe. He was with the immi-
grant ship from the time it was
Dr. Emil Ungar, Under-Secre-
fitted out until its capture by the tary in the Ministry of Health,
is the new chairman of the
Council. Frantisek Fuchs re-
mains vice-chairman but Dr.
Edmund Schwarz, an official in
the Ministry of Interior, has been
appointed co - vice - chairman.
There are no Zionists now on
the executive board of the Coun-
cil, while the only Orthodox rep-
resentative still serving is an
Agudah member, Alois Gips.
Ernest Frischer, former • chair-
man of the Council, has now been
dismissed from the board. The
announcement that 'Dr. Adolf
Bebes, secretary-general of the
Prague Joint Distribution Com-
mittee and chairman of the Zion-
ist Organization in Bohemia-
Moravia, has been discharged
from the board, caused a sensa-
tion in Jewish circles.
Former members who still re-
main on the AdminiStratiVe Com-
HAROLD KATZ
mittee
Which is a larger body
British, off the shores of Pales- than the board — include Dr.
tine. After he was released from Lev Tanzer and two Zionists, Dr.
prison, he spent some time in Edward Lansky and Alexander
Palestine and Europe where he Simon. The majority of new mem-
visited the bleak camps where bers are Communists.
the DPs are .confined.
Mrs. Epstein, who will complete
the program at the April 19
luncheon, is one of the leading
women Zionists in America. For-
mer Hadassah national president,
The League of Jewish Women's
at present she is head of Hadas- Organizations will hold a break-
sah's political committee.
fast meeting for all presidents
Reservations for the luncheons and community relations chair-
are being taken, along with men of affiliated organizations at
pledges of $365, $100, and $36.50 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 13, at the
by workers in the division.
Jewish Community Center. The
Youth Education League is pro-
viding the breakfast, under the
Council Asks Reports
direction of Mrs. Louis Fried,
Of Sectarian Practices
vice president and Mrs. Morton
Snyder.
In City Public Schools
Speakers for this occasion will
be Mrs. Harry Lombard, presi-
The recent decision of the U. dent of the Detroit Cancer Drive;
S. Supreme Court in the Vashti Oscar Cohen, executive director
McCollum case will have the of the Jewish Community Coun-
effect of eliminating local efforts cil, and Dr. Katherine ChamberL
to introduce religious education lain of Wayne University.
Mrs. Charles Aller, past presi-
into the public schools, accord-
dent of Neugarten Medical Aid
ing to Harry_ Yudkoff, chairman Society, and Mrs. Samuel B.
of the community relations com- Danto, League president, are rep-
mittee of the Jewish Communi- resenting the League in the Can-
ty Council. The committee has cer Drive Tag Days, on April 22
and 23.
been in close touch with the situ-
Mrs. Danto reminds all presi-
ation developing in Detroit with dents that names of girls and
respect to suggested programs for boys, aged 17 to 21, qualified for
released time, or dismissed time the Mildred Simons Rosenberg
for purposes of religious educa- memorial award should be sub-
tion; in the Detroit system.
mitted by April 13. The award
The Council asks that any par- will be given at the last general
ents or others with infOrmation meeting of the season, May 15.
of sectarian practices in the pub-
The League announces that the
lic schools report the circum- Detroit Women's Division of the
stances at once to the Council American Jewish Congress • has
office.. •
affiliated with the League.

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Women's Leaders
Meet at .reakfast

I importance of l
this year's cam-
paign of destiny,
Natalie Gaines,
chairman of or-
ganizations, said.
Because of her
personal c-Ixperi-.
ences, Mrs. Fuld .a
is qualified to
speak to others. Miss Gaines
Her husband perished in a
German concentration camp and
her daughter, Bracha, was killed
on the shores of Palestine as she
aided visaless European refugees
in an attempted beach landing.
As early as 1930 Mrs. Fuld be-
came interested in the Jewish
homeland in Palestine. Prompted
by a personal desire to under-
stand the phenomenon of Pales-
tine, she made a brief visit there
in 1935.
When Germany became unbear-
able, she and her 'daughter Bra-
cha fled to Palestine. There she

learned through daily living
about the work of the Yishuv and
the meaning of a free and inde-
pendent Jewish State. Impelled
by what they saw, both Mrs. Fuld
and her daughter joined Haganah.
On the fateful Wingate Day in
1946, named for the ship that
brought hundreds of refugees to
the Yishuv, Mrs. Fuld saw her
daughter shot down by the British
while trying to help land the
refugees who had successfully
run the British blockade.
Her one aim is to do all she can
to help in the establishing of Pal-
estine as a truly free and inde-
pendent Jewish state.
Most of the 54 presidents invited
to the organization's dinner are
members of the Detroit Jewish
Young Adult Council and repre-
sent all Detroit affiliated young
people between 18 and 30. There
will be no solicitation of funds at
the dinner.

Federation, Five Agencies
To Hold Election Meetings

Five of the 'member agencies of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration will join with the Federation in holding their annual
meetings at 8 p. m. Sunday, April 11 in the grand ballroom
of the Hotel Book Cadillac. Max Lerner, editorial director
of the newspaper PM will be featured speaker.
Well known as an educator and writer, Lerner is now a

lecturer at the New School of q.
Social Research and an editorial cumbents Benjamin Glassberg,
writer for PM. , He has also A. C. Lappin, Dr. David Seligson
gained attention as an editor- and Dr. Lawrence Seltzer for
writer on the Nation, New Re- second three year term. The fol- a
public and American Scholar.
lowing are new nominees for
Federation members attending terms of three years each: Rabbi
the meeting will have an oppor- Morris Adler, Harold Ehrlich, Dr.
tunity to elect nine members at Louis E. Heideman, Mrs. Ralph
large to the Board of Governors Mayer and Mrs. Henry WineMan.
of the Federation, while the five Julius W. Gilbert is nominated
agencies — including Fresh Air for a term of two years.
Society, Jewish 'Social Service
The nominating committee of
Bureau, Jewish Vocational Serv- the North End Clinic, consisting
ice, North End Clinic and Reset- of Hoke Levin, chairman, Mrs.
tlement Service—also will hold Abraham Cooper and • Sylvia
elections. •
Grosner, have nominated Charles
The Federation nominating Hamburger, Mrs. Joseph Hart-
committee has suggested that in- man, Edith Heavenrich, Sadie
cumbents Sidney Alexander, Jo-: Hirschman, Julian H. Krolik,
seph Bernstein, Rabbi Leon Frain Mrs. Henry Moses, Milton Saffir
and Mrs. Maurice A. Landau be and David Wilkus for a three
re-elected. Additional nominees year term and Louis A.. Baum
include Irwin I. Cohn, Henry for a two year term.
Meyers, Morris Schaver, Ben L.
Silberstein and Leonard N. Sim-
ons. David J. Cohen has been
nominated. by petition-.
Mrs. Theodore Bargman, chair-
man, Martin L. Butzel, Dr. S.
Kleinman, Mrs. Ralph Shroder,
and Mrs. Ben Shwayder, mem-
bers of the nominating commit-
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Jewish
tee of the Jewish Social 'Service marriage laws were discussed
Bureau, have re-nominated in- here at a conference on Jewish
law attended by 100 rabbis under
or.t..4 17 NORMAN and SOL NODEL
byn by RHODA B. SIMON
the sponsorship of the Rabbinical
LIVES OF OUR TIMES,
FANNIE HURST
Assembly of America. Meeting at
the Jewish Theological Seminary,
TO GAIN EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
BORN IN OHIO IN_I389, FANNIE
the parley rev
iewed the hardships
ABOUT THE CHARACTERS WHO WOULD
WAS AN IMAGINATIVE CHILD
IN 1939, AT THE WORLD'S FAIR, A
now -being experienced by many
APPEAR IN BOOKS, MISS HURST
W110, AT THE AGE OF 14, WROTE
POPULAR AMERICAN NOVELIST TOOK
Jewish women as a result of the
WORKED AS A WAITRESS, NURSEMAID
POETRY IN BLANK VERSE/
UP THE CUDGELS IN DEFENSE OF
Jewish law which prohibits re-
AND SALESGIRL . Opg
EUROPEAN REFUGEES WHO WERE BEING
40
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marriage where their husbands
REFUSED ADMISSION TO THE U.S.
BECAUSE OF 'LABOR PROBLEMS!'
have been reported missing, but
STILL ARTICULATE IN THAT CAUSE IS
where absolute proof of death is
not available.
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The rabbis made it clear that
HER WELL-TO-DO PARENTS ci4COUnna
HER LITERARY LEANINGS, AND SHE
no change in the existing law can
ENTERED WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN
be made without authority of a
SAINT LOUIS IN 190S, FOUR YEARS
supreme judicial body, but urged
SHE CROSSED THE •TtANTIC IN THE
LATER, SHE WENT TO NEW YORK TO
that relief adjustments be made
STEERAGE, AND TOOK A ROOM FOR
DO GRADUATE WORK AT COLUMBIA,
for these women.
SEVERAL WEEKS ON THE WATERFRONT
WRITING STORIES ALL THE TIME.
Rabbi Louis Epstein, a leading
authority on Jewish law, voiced
REFERRED TO AS AN EARTHY WRITER,AHD COMPARED
IN 1926, SHE WON A $50,000 PRIZE
the hope that a new supreme
TO 0. HENRY IN HER GIFT FOR STORY- TEU.ING, SHE
FOR`MANWEquIN"AND WAS PRAISED
judicial body may come into ex-
STILL SPINS HER FASCINATING TALES WHICH THE
HIGHLY FOR' EWE AND TEN" 0920,
istence with the establishment
PUBLIC DEVOUR AS QUICKLY AS THEY'RE PRINTED-
IMITATION OF LIFE"(1933) AND"BACK
of the Jewish state in Palestine.
STREET "(19ST).
He hoped that this 20th-century
"Sanhedrin" will dedicate itself
to the task of making the Jew-
e f t
ish law operative normally "in
the life of a normal people."
IM
Addressing the conference on
the "Principles of Change in
AFTER A LONG STRUGGLE, HER •FIRST • BOOK,
1.
Jewish Law," Rabbi Jacob Agus
CI
ACTIVE IN JEWISH CAUSEs,MisS HURST
'JUST AROUND THE CORNER" WAS PUBLISHED
BROADCAST IN 1940 FOR THE UNITED JEWISH
proposed the establishment of a
IN 1914.. WITHNUMORESQUE"(1918) A
APPEAL, AND ALSO WROTE IN IT'S BEHALF A
COLLECTION OF STORIES OF JEWISH LIFE IN
Jewish Academy made up of
PAMP1ILET,"THEIR FACES AT THE WINDOW'
NEW YORK, SHE REACHED NATIONAL PROMINENCE.
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men who would review all phases
of Jewish doctrine and practice.

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Rabbis View Jewish
Marriage Laws; See
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