Krolik Retains Presidency
In JWF Board Election
Officers and members of the executive committee of the
Jewish Welfare Federation were elected by the Federation
Board of Governors at the Board meeting, Monday, April 19.
Julian H. Krolik was re-elected president, while other
officers chosen are Judge Theodore Levin, Leonard N. Sim-
ons and David Wilkus, vice-presidents, and Henry Wineman,
treasurer. Isidore Sobeloff, exe-(%
cutive director of the Federation, mented that the plan to broaden
the membership of the Board so
serves as secretary.
Members of the executive that it might be more represen-
committee include Louis Berry;. tative has worked well.
Irving W. Blumberg, president
The present membership of
of the Detroit Service Group; the Board of Governors is as
Fred M. Butzel, vice-president- of follows:
the United Jewish Charities; Mrs.
Members-at-large, with terms ex-
Max R Frank, president of the piring in 1949 are:
Maurice Aronsson. Mrs. Hyman C.
Federation's Women's Division; Broder,
Fred M. Butzel, William
Abe Kasle; Max Osnos, and Ben Friedman, Dr. B. Benedict Glazer,
Julian H. Krolik, Theodore Levin,
L. Silberstein.
Mrs. Melville S. Welt, Harry Yudkoff.
Board Approves Budget
Terms expiring in 1950: Rabbi Mor-
ris Adler, Sidney J. Allen, Mrs. Aaron
The Board also approved a DeRoy,
Harry Frank, Morris Garvett,
budgetary formula of $6,200,000 Mrs. Samuel R. Glogower, Joseph M.
and assured grants based on ac- Welt, Mrs. Henry Wineman, Rabbi
Wohlgelernter.
tual amounts received. The bud- Max
Terms expiring in 1951: Sidney L.
Alexander,
Joseph Bernstein, Irwin I.
get formula within which budget
Cohn, Rabbi Leon Fram Mrs. Maur-
sub-committees will conduct de- ice
A. Landau, Henry Meyers, Morris
-
Leon
tailed budgeting provides $4,500,- L. Schaver, Ben L. Silberstein,
N. Simons.
000 for the United Jewish Ap- ard
Agency representatives are: Barney
peal; $821,150 for local needs; Smith, Fresh Air Society; Morris K.
$215,630 for non-local needs ex- Blumberg, Hebrew Free Loan Assoc-
Milton M. Maddin, House of
clusive of United Jewish Ap- iation;
Shelter; • Samuel H. Rubiner, Jewish
peal; $43,220 for contingency Community Center; Aaron Droock,
Community Council; Myron A.
needs of the Resettlement Ser- Jewish
Keys, Jewish Home for Aged,- Max
vice; $310,000 for emergency fund Osnos, Jewish Hospital Association;
Charles Lakoff, Jewish Social
and campaign expenses; and Mrs.
Service Bureau; Samuel S. Green-
$310,000 for shrinkage.
berg, Jewish Vocational Service;
David Wilkus, North End Clinic;
Appointed to head budget sub- Abraham
Srere, Resettlement Service;
committees are Mrs. Max R. Abe Kasle, United Hebrew Schools;
Frank, overseas agencies; Mrs. Henry Wineman, United Jewish Char-
•
Benjamin Jaffe, national and lo- ities.
Organization representatives are:
cal health, welfare and service Alex Belkin United Yiddish Folk Or-
Dr. Schmarya Kleinman,
organizations; Henry Meyers, ganizations;
Jewish Labor Committee and Work-
civic protective agencies, and men's Circle Schools; Lawrence W.
Crohn, Zionist Council of Detroit;
Milton M. Maddin, educational Samuel
W. Leib, Greater Detroit
Bnai Brith; Harry T. Madison, Jew-
and cultural organizations.
ish
War
Veterans.
•
`Capable New Leaders'
Detroit Service Group representa-
Reporting to the Board on .Fed- tives are Irving W. Blumberg, De-
Service Group; Dr. Samuel
eration activities during his first troit
Krohn, Junior Service Group; Mrs.
term of service, Krolik said that Joseph . H. Ehrlich and Mrs. Max R.
Women's Division; Maurice A.
he, along with the rest of the Frank,
Enggass, Samuel Gerson, and Louis
Detroit Jewish community, feels Robinson, Mercantile Division; Ben
especially proud of the absence Kramer and Milton K. Mahler, Mech-
Trades Division; Louis Berry
'of any vested rights in any one anical
and Charles N. Agree, Real Estate and
group to run the community. Building Council; Morris Mendelson
Max Schayowitz, Food Service
Each year, and especially this and
Council; Isadore Levin and Dr. Law-
year, has produced a group of rence H. Seltzer, Professional Divi-
Fred A. Ginsburg, Services
devoted, capable new leaders who sion;
Division; Paul P. Broder, Arts and
pick up responsibilities where the Crafts Division; Nate S. Shapero,
at large:
older of have left off and car- member
Nominating committee members
ry them on to greater heights." who presented the slate of officers to
Board include Samuel S. Green-
Welcoming the new members the
berg. chairman; Rabbi Morris Adler,
elected to the Board at the annual Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, Ben Kramer
meeting on April 11, Krolik corn- and Barney Smith. .
Five Leaders Describe European
Jews' Survival in New JDC Film
and
For 1,500,000 men, won
children, "The Future Can Be
Theirs."
This is the title and the theme
of a documentary 16 mm. film,
Portraying the progress to new
life of Europe's Jewish survivors,
which will be released May 3 by
the Joint Distribution Committee.
The dramatic story of their
three-year uphill fight to revival
is told by five outstanding Amer-
ican Jewish leaders, a group of
men who helped to write this
story:
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., United
Jewish Appeal general chairman;
Herbert H. Lehman, former gov-
ernor of New York and JDC vice-
chairman; Edward M. M. War-
burL, JDC chairman; Harold F.
Linder, JDC vice-chairman and
Moses A. Leavitt, JDC executive
vice-chairman.
They narrate, simply and di-
rectly, the story of the hopes and
fears of the continent's Jewish
survivors, of their problems and
struggles, of their sustained hero-
ism in the construction of a new
day. A high point of the film is
Gov. Lehman's eloquent descrip-
tion of the need for reconstruc-
tion activities, -and emigration
services for those striving to set
up new homes and careers in
lands of their choosing.
Victims of the blackest decade-
and-one-half of Hitlerite barbar-
ism and wartime devastation, the
1,500,000 were barely hanging on
to life at the war's end.
Only the American Jewish
community's wholehearted assist-
ance through the JDC has brought
them. to the turning point on the
road to revival. Funds for JDC,
major American agency aiding
distressed Jews abroad, are de-
rived. from the $250,000,000 mini-
mum campaign of the United
Jewish Appeal.
The documentary, a sequel to
JDC's 1947 film, "Report on the
Living," was suggested by Al
Paul Lefton, of Philadelphia,
chairman of JDC's public rela-
tions committee. "The Future Can
Be Theirs" was written by Marc
Siegel and directed and produced
by Paul Falkenberg under the
supervision of Raphael Levy.
The film, running for 19 min-
utes, may be secured free by
Jewish welfare funds, federations,
community councils and other
groups by addressing requests to
JDC's publicity department, 270
Madison Ave., New York 16, N. Y.
T E JEWISH NEWS
A. Weekly Review
34
VOLUME XIII—NO. 7
of Jeqvish Events
22 Friday, April 30, 1948
Page 24
Orthodox Jews Increase Gifts 81 Per Cent
—Photo by Paul Kirsch, Jewish News Photographer.
Rabbi Ephraim Epstein of Chicago was the
guest speaker at the traditional dinner held in
behalf of the 1948 Allied Jewish Campaign at
the Bel-Aire Monday evening, April 19, by the
Orthodox Jewish people of Detroit. The group
increased their pledges 81 per cent over their
1947 gifts.
Shown at the speakers' table are (left to right)
Council Check Shows
Passover Prices Kept
To Reasonable Level
RABBI JOSHUA SPERKA, RABBI JOSEPH
THUMIN, ISIDORE SOBELOFF, executive direc-
tor of the Jewish Welfare Federation, RABBI EP-
STEIN, RABBI LAIZER LEVINE, RABBI ISAAC
STOLLMAN, RABBI JOSEPH RABINOWITZ,
RABBI MAX J. WOHLGELERNTER and DAVID
J, COHEN, chairman o'f the dinner.
Pharmacists Doing Excellent Job
In Campaign; 85% Already Pledged
The Jewish Community Coun-
cil claims that a survey of prices
of Passover foods . shows only
normal increases this year as con-
trasted with raises of 50 per cent
to 75 per cent in 1947. Seasonal
increases in 1948, the Council
maintains, were held to a mini-
mum according to information
furnished by volunteer investi-
gators.
Prices for whitefish and pick-
erel were 79c and 65c respective-
ly in a non-Jewish market on
April 20. On the same day white-
fish was 85c per pound in a Jew-
ish market. On the following day
whitefish in another Jewish mar-
ket was 80c a pound and pickerel
in two Jewish markets were 70c
and 75c respectively. The week
before the pre-Passover shopping
both whitefish and pickerel. sold
for 49c in a non-Jewish market.
It was the same market which
later raised the prices to 79c and
65c respectively. -
"The Community Council com-
mends Jewish food merchants for
holding their Passover prices
within reasonable bounds this
year and hopes that the pattern
set in 1948 may be followed in
subsequent years," said Morris
Lieberman, co-chairman of the
internal relations committee of
the Council.
With 50 per cent of their slips covered and 85 per cent of their
quota already achieved, the pharmacy section of the Professional
Division is doing one of the outstanding jobs of the Allied Jewish!
Campaign. This group meets weekly in order to insure that all sec-
tions have up-to-the-minute awareness of the campaign meetings and
of their section's progress.
JNF, Haganah Join
To Safeguard Negev
NEW YORK (JTA) — Effec-
tive measures designed to safe-
guard existing Jewish settle-
ments in the Negev area of Pal-
estine against Arab attack have
been taken as a result of an
agreement worked out between
Haganah and the Jewish National
Fund, it was announced by Judge
Morris Rothenberg, president of
the JNF in the United States.
A total of $9,200,000 was allo-
cated by JNF headquarters in
Jerusalem for the defense pro-
gram, which includes the setting
up of additional colonies in the
Negev to serve as links between
established settlements and the
extension of water pipelines to
strategic points in the desert. The
JNF has been assigned total fin-
ancial responsibility for all Negev
undertakings in the near future,
which includes the construction
of a city.
Charges that the U. S. State
Department is using its resources
"behind closed doors" to achieve
support for its anti-partition
position were voiced at a mass
meeting called by Hadassah at
the Manhattan Center. The meet-
ing also featured a memorial to
Dr. Haim Yassky, late director
of the Hadassah Medical Organ-
ization in Palestine, who was
killed by Arabs last week.
—Photos by Paul Kirsch.
DAVID HANDELMAN (left, above) is shown discussing with
JOSEPH LOWEN and LOUIS HICHTMAN the fine work 8f the sec-
tion. Surveying the reports already in (left to right in lower photo)
SAM BEZ, AL BOESKY, MOREY SUSSMAN and HARRY BERLIN find
the pharmacists' response most gratifying. Bez and Sussman are
vice-chairmen of the Professional Division, while Boesky and Berlin
are chairmen of the pharmacy section.
At three group solicitation meetings, this section has reached
increases over 1947 gifts of 93 per cent, 119 per cent and 147 per;
cent.
Mutual to Broadcast Special UJA Drama
The heroic story of the rescue
and rehabilitation of the 170,000
Jewish child survivors of Europe
following the end of World War
II will be dramatized in a radio
play, entitled "And in the Mean-
time," which will be presented
over the Mutual network at 1:30
p.m. Sunday, May 2, in conjunc-
tion with the $250,000,000 nation-
wide campaign of the United
Jewish' Appeal.
Based on actual incidents gath-
ered from the files of the United
Jewish Appeal, "And in the
Meantime" will trace the 'lives
of several orphaned Jewish
youngsters from April, 1945,
when they were liberated by
American GI's in Dachau, to
their present resettlement in
Palestine. The script was written
by Allan E. Sloane, prominent
radio • writer.