Furniture Section Goes Over Top
In Allied Campaign Solicitations

THE JEWISH NEWS-7
Friday, May 21, 1948

Earlier Deadline
For June 4 Issue

On account of the observance
of Decoration Day on Monday,
May 31, all copy for The Jewish
News issue of June 4—including
photographs— will have to be in
the hands of the editor not later
than 3 p.m. on Friday, May 28.
Timely copy arriving in The
Jewish News office after that
hour will be retained for publi-
cation in the following week's
issue.

Tickets Still Available
For Jan Peerce Rally
For Palestine June 15

"It's not enough to achieve the money quota, it'd important to
give every Jewish person an opportunity to contribute to the Allied
Jewish Campaign."
That is the spirit behind the outstanding job of the Furniture
SeAtion, first group in the Mercantile Division to go over the top
in the 1948 Allied Jewish Campaign. With well over 100 per cent of
their quota in, furniture workers, headed by chairman Louis Tabash-
nik, have pledged to go on working until every one of the nearly
1,000 slips in the section have been covered.
Report meetings are still being held by section members. Shown
at a recent report session in the photo above are (front row, 1. to r.):
TABASHNIK, HERMAN MATHIAS, and ALEX SKLAR; (bask row,
1. to r.) EDWART T. LICHTIG, CHARLES ABRAMSON, and SAM-
UEL KOHLENBERG.
Solicitation was launched in the section at a dinner meeting on
April 14, when members attending pledged an increase of 80 per cent
over the 1947 cotributions. Some of the typical increases wer $50 in
1947 to 81,000 this year; $150 to $750; $150 to $500 and nothing in 1947
to $300 in 1948.
Those who have worked with Tabashnik in putting the furniture
section over the top include Vice-Chairmen, Herman Mathias, Morton
3. New Lander and Alex Sklar; captains, Charles Abramson, Charles I.
Bassey, Emil. Edelson, Lawrence L. Kaplan, Samuel Kohlenberg,
Edward T. - Lichtig, Jack Malamud, Ray Radlich, Louis Robinson,
Irving Ruby, James L. Stein, Harry Weingarden and Larry Wein-
garden.

Women's Campaign Chairmen Issue
Special Appeal to Non-Contributors

Detroit Jewish women who
have not yet contributed to the
Allied Jewish Campaign received
a special appeal this week, is-
sued by Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich
and Mrs. Henry Winenian, cam-
paign chairmen for the, women's
division of the campaign.
Declaring that "The Jewish
women of Detroit are engaged
in a great humanitarian enter-
prise,". the statement emphasized
that "we have a personal re-
sponsibility to aid the women-
and children of Europe who are
still, four years after liberation,
on the verge of starvation, both
physically, and spiritually."- The
statement continued "We, too, as
do the girls and women in Pal-
estine, want to stand BESIDE
our men folk, in support of free-
dom and dignity for all Jewry.
We too want to be the builders
of that better future to which
our people are entitled.
this land we enjoy the
greatest privileges, and we - have
accepted the responsibilities of

privilege—we .give our attention
to all sorts of civic, social, ed-
ucational and charitable causes.
"Through the Allied Jewish
campaign, and our contribution
to it, which gives us member-
ship in the women's division of
the Jewish Welfare Federation,
we unite, as women, to do those
things - which Jewish women tra-
ditionally have felt as a personal
responsibility: to succor the dis-
tressed, to care for the orphan,
to -teach the young, to honor the
aged."
Mrs. Ehrlich and Mrs. Wine-
man urged that every woman
make a, contribution to the drive
so that she might know herself
"as one of a united and s t r o n g
community of women—fulfilling
their immemorial role as Jewish
women."
In the campaign thus far, 11,-
500 Jewish women of Detroit
have already made individual
contributions, totalling $580,000
in 'behalf of local, national and
overseas causes.

Yale Simons, chairman of the
committee for the Palestine rally
to be held at Masonic Auditorium
June 15, announces that choice
seats are still available for the
program which will feature Met-
ropolitan Opera star, Jan Peerce.
A symphony orchestra wiP ac-
company Peerce and will also
play a number of orchestral se-
lections chosen especially for this
program, which has been labelled
"A Salute to a Jewish State in
Palestine."
Featured speakers of the eve-
ning will be Barney Ross, Jewish
boxer and war hero, and Dr.
Frank Kingdon, leading Ameri-
can liberal .
Tickets may be reserved at 601
Barium Tower, WO. 5-4506.

Shylock and His Daughter' Expected
To Draw Capacity Audience; Schwartz
And His Entire Cast in Play Monday

"Shylock and His Daughter,"
the new version of the Shakes-
perean "Merchant of Venice,"
written for the Hebrew and Yid-
dish stage by AH Ibn-Zahav of
Palestine, comes to Detroit next
Monday evening, in the main
auditorium of the Masonic Tem-
ple, under the management of
Abraham Littman.
Heralded by Christians and
Jews from all parts of the land
who went to see this great Yid-
dish spectacle, as it was perform-
ed in New York during the en-
tire past year by Maurice
Schwartz and the entire Yiddish
Art Theater cast, as the greatest
play of our time, the Detroit aud-
ience will see Mr. Schwartz and
his entire cast, together with the
original orchestra that has play-
ed in New York. Joseph Rum-
shinsky will direct the orchestra.
The basic Shakesperean theme
is retained in the play, but the

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variation is that Shakespeare
could have twisted his thesis to
make it a strong appeal for jus-
tice to the Jewish people. Ibn-
Zahav does it effectively.
The Sephardic pronunciation
given to the recitation of Psalms
by the Jewish characters in the
play will enchant the theater-.
goers who undoubtedly will turn.
out in large numbers to . see_ •
"Shylock and His Daughter."
Mr. Littman anticipates that
the entire house will be sold out
for this play. He stated this week
that the large cast and orchestra
entail such tremendous costs of
bringing the play to Detroit that
only a complete sell-out of seats
will justify its coming here_
Tickets are available from Metro
Music House on Dexter, Zion and
Bornstein Book Stores on 12th
St., Hebrew Book Store on Dex-
ter and from Mr. Littman, 2086
Blaine, TY. 6-5405.

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Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SL8MOVITZ
'in Defense of a Strong Purpose Toward a New Future'
These are days of rejoicing—and of thanksgiving. We rejoice
that Jewry has won through self-liberation. We are thankful that
the support we had from great Christians has made the day of
freedom and independence possible.
The American Christian tradition of support for Jewish aspira-
tions in Zion dates back a long time. It goes back to the days of Pres-
ident John Adams who, in 1818, stated to Mordecai Manuel Noah: "I
really wish the Jews again in Judea, an independent nation." It goes
back to 1891, when the Rev. William E. Blackstone of Chicago secured
several hundred signatures to a petition .to President Benjamin Har-
rison-in. favor of a Jewish State in Palestine. Chief Justice Fuller of
the U. S. Supreme Court and ilep. William McKinley of Ohio—later
President—were among those who signed the petition. It dates back
to December, 1924, when Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard
University, stated in a public address:
. "You doubtless have heard a great deal of talk in this coun-
try during the last five or six years about the assimilation of
races in the United States. The fact is, and it is perfectly plain,
there has been no assimilation in the United States; and more
than that, it isn't deserving that there. should be assimilation
or amalgamation of races in the United States. That isn't what
we need, that isn't for our best advantage in this country. What
we want is numerous races with various histories, with various
gifts, with various abilities, living side by side in concord, but
in concord, each contributing its own peculiar quality to the
mixed population.
"I have reviewed with strong interest the promotion. of
Zionism, of giving to the Jewish people a place, as Judge
Brandeis said, where they can put their backs against a wall,
not beat their heads against it but Put their backs against, a wall,
in defense of a- strong purpose toward a new future.
"I have stated in an article in an American journal that this
is a fundamental movement for the improvement, the uplifting,
the exalting of the Jewish race out of their -oppression, out of
the congested conditions through which they have parssed for
hundreds of years, into healthy, strong, labor-stabilizing occu-
pations in the modern world."
These precedents established the tradition. of American support
for the Jewish State. They served as bockground for recognition of
the State of Israel by President Truman.

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