UHS to Create . Teachers' Training School

New Salary Scale Designed
To Attract Best Personnel

salary scale. Mrs. Louis Gelfand,
president of the schools' Wo-
man's Auxiliary, reported that a
dinner is planned for Dec. 7 at
the Shaarey Zedek, and Mrs.
Burt Smokier reported on plans
for a series of parlor metings to
precede the dinner. Nathan Yaf-
fa • reported for the house com-
mittee. Allan Weston, president
of the Alumni Association, told
of the activation of the graduates
into the schools' program. Mat-
ters involving the educational
system were clarified by Bern- •
and Isaacs and Albert Elazar.
The following resolution in
tribute to the 'memory of Fred M.
Birtzel was adopted by the Unit-
ed Hebrew Schools:

Revitalized Program to Put Hebrew Schools on Highest
Professional Plane; Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich -- -
Heads Education Month Observance

Establishment of a Midrashaa School for Advanced
Jewish Stildies—and the adoption of a code of practice for
teachers are included in a new program of activities which
mark radical steps for the advancement of the educational
standards of the United Hebrew Schools.

The new program was adopted
at the July 21 meeting of the
newly-elected board of the schools
at the Book Cadillac Hotel, under
the chairmanship of the re-elected
president, Abe Kasle.
The revitalized program of the
schools, calls for the creation of
the school to be known as Mid-
rasha for the training of teachers.
Provisions are being made for
awards of 10 fellowships, of $500
each, to enable graduates of the
schools, and others who desire to
become Hebrew teachers,' to pur-
sue their studies in the School for
Advanced Jewish Studies.
Dr. Alexander Sanders was
chairman of the special com-
mittee which developed the
new program and the code for
teachers. Advanced studies - in
Bible, Hebrew, Talmud and
Midrashic literature, religious
customs and liturgy, Jewish
music and drama are to be in-
cluded in the Midrasha's curric-
ulum.
The new plan calls • for . the
adoption of salary scales- that
would • attract suitable young
men and women to the Hebrew
teaching field and to profession-
alize Jewish education. Teachers
henceforth are to be charged
with co-curricular tasks of adult
education and youth dub work,
in additIon to their regular teach-
ing jobs. Certification of teachers
is to be in accordance with high-
est standards pursued in schools
throughout the country and
teachers' qualifications include
graduation from recognized He-
brew colleges.
It was pointed out that the
schools look with disfavor upon
private teaching, except where it
is absolutely inevitable. In the
exceptional cases, private in-
struction is to be approved only
under supervision of the schools.
Kasle announced the selec-
tion of Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich
as chairman of the 1948 Educa-
tion Month observance and the
appointment of a school activi-
ties committee whose object-
tives are to be to develop a
school reference library, to

MRS. JOSEPH H. EHRLICH
supply the classes with audio-
visual material and to plan
recreational activities. Walter
Field is chairman of this new
_ ittee, and his co-chair-
comm
men are Charles Robinson and
Daniel Cullen.
Other committee chairmen
chosen by Kasle are:
Education, Maurice H. Zack-
helm, Maurice Landau and Philip
J. Gilbert: finance and budget,
Louis Robinson and Maurice
Landau; membership, Jack To-
bin, Sam Schwartz and Charles
Robinson; real estate, Louis Stoll
and Julius Berman; house, Na-
than Yaffa, Morris Fishman
and Isaac Rosenthal: scholarship,
Harry Cohen, Jack Kellman and
Morris Karbal; bequests and gifts.
Judge William Friedman, $aul
Levin and Ira G. Kaufman; pub-
lic relations, Lawrence W. Crohn,
Leon Kay, Morris M. Jacobs,.Mrs.
Joseph H. Ehrlich and Philip
Slomovitz.
Announcement was made -that
the school facilities now being
completed by the Northwest He-
brew Congregation v ill be avail-
able for- use by the United He-
brew Schools in October.
Louis Robinson reported on the

"The memory of•Fred M. Butzel will
be cherished by all who knew him.
He had been the leader of the Detroit
Jewish Community, by virtue of his
intense interest in the varied activ-
ities of our city. His personal bene-
factions were legion, and he spent his
life in bettering the opportunities and
the welfare of otheis. The secret of
his great influence lay in the com-
bination of high intelligence, toler-
ance for other views, a ready wit, and
the confidence he elicited from all
types of people.
"In a true sense, Fred Butzel was
self-educated. Although possessed of
a sound formal education, his wide
culture and understanding came from
his daily contacts with people and
their problems. He became an expert
in the problems of philanthropy. From
private charity, his thinking advanced,
by stages, into the greater tasks of
social adjustment. life, like many
others, came to realize that bread
alone would not bring salvation to
large masses of people. And as he
became acquainted with the Jewish
question, he came to view it as a
problem of survival with dignity and
with honor. He did not, as did so
many of his generation, attempt to
escape and to negate his Jewish back-
ground.
'Fred Butzel was impatient with
theory and he adjusted his views to
the changing conditions of our hectic
times. Thus, he learned from life it-
self, not always willingly, because he
was by nature conservative, but his
intellectual integrity impelled him to
accept the verdict of sound accom-
plishments. So he was wont to ap-
plaud the growth of Eretz Israel and
the pioneer spirit which made it pos-
sible. The emergence of a Jewish cul-
ture in America, which at first he
doubted. made him later 'a partisan
of Jewish education. Judaism and
Americanism were for him comple-
mentary aspects of the Jewish spirit
in America. His Jewish feelings be-
came intensified as he encountered the
growing generation. A lover of edu-
cation in general, he had a high regard
for the aims and the ideals of Jewish
learning. He was a loyal friend and
a board member of the United Hebrew
Schools for many years. His help was
sought in periods of difficulty and he
always responded with sympathetic
understanding. The United Hebrew
Schools, along with the whole com-
munity, has indeed suffered a great
loss and the members of the Board
of the United Hebrew Schools express
their deep sorrow in the death of
Fred M. Butzel.
"Whereas Fred Butzel was a loyal
Jew and a friend of Jewish Education,
be it resolved that a copy of this
resolution be spread upon the records
of the United Hebrew Schools and
that a copy of same be sent to the
family of the late Fred M. Butzel."

The United Hebrew Schools
will close Aug. 1 for - a month's
vacation. Sessions will be re-
sumed immediately after Labor
Day, when registration will take
place in all branches.
During July, informal courses
were introduced in • all the
schools. Sessions began at 9:30
with morning services, after
which the pupils studied Hebrew
literature, customs aid ceremon-_
ies and Jewish history.
After this session, the children
remained for recreational activi-
ties, including arts and crafts,
organized games, Chazanim
classes orHebrew speaking clubs.
Friday was "outing day."

Heard in the Lobbies

- By ARNOLD LEVIN

(Copyright, 1948, Independent Jewish Press Service, Inc.)

Global Anti-Semitism
The Arab Higher Committee has released a 16-page "memoran-
dum" studded with fictitious accounts of alleged Jewish atrocities
against Arabs. Needless to say, the memorandum is a mosaic of lies,
the sadism depicted in the "document" reflecting the authors' own
bridled impulses. But the purpose of the Arab Higher Committee is
to give the memorandum world-wide circulation. The Committee
claims that it will circulate 15,000 copies to all governments. It is
reported that lunatic fringe groups in the U.S., and anti-Semitic or-
ganizations around the world, have asked and will ask for permission
to reprint these lies which, in most instances, can be traced back to
anti-Semitic literature of Hitler's day and even pre-dating Hitlerisrn.

Portrait of—
Let us call it portrait of an unhappy man. Benjamin Friedman.
Pal and admirer of the Mufti. Still haunting the corridors of Lake
Success, whenever the Security Council is called into session, and
spending UN money by sitting down at the phone in the delegates'
lounge to make his "political" and private phone calls. Newsmen
rarely use these phones. They use the pay station booths. But not
Mr. Friedman who contends that he has spent a fortune of his own
money on pro-Arab propaganda. The UN has to pay for his phone
calls. The free phones are meant for UN personnel and delegates, to
the best of our knowledge. -
Mr. Friedman's German-AmeriCan wife looks German in the real
German sense of the word. She is always there at his side. Between
the two of them, they keep the UN telephone operators mightybusy.

Abe Drasin Elected
To Bellefaire Board

Abe Drasin of Grand Rapids,
Mich., was elected on July 18
to the board of trustees of Belle-
faire, regional Jewish children's
home loCated at Cleveland. Mr.
Drasin is well known throughout
Michigan for his work in Bnai
Brith. He has been the president
of the Michigan Bnai . Brith
CounciL
Bellefaire offers ' a regional
-child care service complete with
institutional facilities, foster home
care, and consultation service
according to the needs of the
communities in the area it serves.
This is a 25 state region in the
Middle West and South. During
the past year Bellefaire's regional
child care program has been of
help to over 300 children in 87
different communities. In 1947,
11 Michigan children were served
at Bellefaire.

Yiddish Press Note
They who publish the Jewish Morning Journal can dish it out but
can't take it. Ever since his column about the Jewish Morning Jour-
nal's remarkable treatment of some aspects of Israel dispatches ap-
peared in the 'English Jewish press, your columnist and his bosses
have been traduced and slandered by the JMJ publishers who orally
and in writing approached innumerable persons with some influence
on JPS and sought to pressure them into action against your humble
servant. JMJ publishers, firm believers in press freedom, hoped that
they could do to Levin what they have done to one of their own
writers. When the JMJ rejected his, article against Irgun, the writer
submitted it to a Yiddish weekly which carried the explanatory note
that the article has failed to appear in the JMJ through no fault of
the author. • Pronto—sanctions against the writer. These same pub-
lishers have no qualms about using the • columns of their own sheet .
to attack people and institutions they don't like. But they choke
when others- feed them a similar menu. •

The Jewish. News-2
July 30, 1948

Friday,

,INF Plans Annual Traditional
Tisha b'Ab Collections; Call
Synagogue Meeting Monday

Detroit rabbis, congregational
presidents and leaders and work-_
ers in the cause of Israel have
been invited to a special meet-
ing, to be held this Monday
evening, Aug. 2, at the office of
the Jewish National Fund Coun-
cil, 11816 Dexter, to make plans
for the annual collections for
the JNF during - the week of
Tisha b'Ab and at Tisha b'Ab
synagogue services.
Irving W. Schlussel, president
of the JNF Council, will preside
at
. Tuesday's meeting which syn-

agogue leaders and JNF workers
are urged to attend.
Arthur Shutkin, executive di-
rector of the JNF, pointed out
that Tisha b'Ab this year will be
observed on Sunday, Aug. 15,
making it impossible to conduct
traditional collections on the eve
of the fast day, on Saturday
night, and that the proposal this
year is to have Detroit Jews
make their contributions during
services on the Sabbaths pre-
ceding and following Tisha b'Ab.
Decisions on proposals will . be
made Monday.

Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOYITZ

The Libel That 'Israel Has No God'
At the recent conference of. the American Christian Palestine
Committee, held in French Lick, Ind., the delegates unanimously
adopted the following statement which was sent to the Christian
Century, Chicago, Ill., Dr. Paul Hutchinson, • editor: .
By a unanimous vote of the 125 Christian clergymen and other
civic leaders of '71 communities in 26 states, gathered at French
Lick, Ind., in the national seminar of the American Christian
Palestine Committee we have been instructed to protest the
unjust and inaccurate description of the declaration of independ-
ence of the State of Israel in your recent editorial entitled "Israel
Has No God." We believe that the declaration of independence
of Israel is rooted in the deep religious passion for justice and
spiritual values taught by the Hebrew Prophets and nurtured in
the Judaic-Christian tradition. We respectfully bring to your
attention the fact that the last paragraph in Israel's Declaration
of Independence reads as follows: "With trust in Almighty God,
we set our hands to this declaration at this session of the
Provisional State Council in the city of Tel Aviv this Sabbath
Eve, the fifth day of Iyar, 5'708, the fourteenth day of May, 1948."
It is unfortunate that it became necessary for Christian leaders
to call to task a magazine whose anti-Zionist—now anti-Israel-
policy has, in the main, followed the ideology of the Council for
Judaism and Rabbi Morris Lazaron, whose views have been repu-
diated by at least 98 per cent of the Jews of America. With the
State of Israel recognized as an existing fact by 15 governments,
including our own, and the -United Nations, it is hard to believe
that die-hards would insist on pursuing a policy of antagonism to
the Jewish people.
American Jews are grateful to the resolutions committee of
the Christian conference on Palestine for its firm stand which was
adopted unanimously by the French Lick delegation. Detroiters
will be interested to know that Dr. Edgar deWitt Jones, one of
the most revered Christian leaders of our community, headed the
•
resolutions committee which acted on the above statement.
*
*

Regarding 'Desecration of Holy Places in Palestine'
When the Israeli troops took over Nazareth, they made certain
that the Christian holy places were fully protected, as reported
authoritatively by all correspondents from the war fronts in Pal-
estine.
Last week, we quoted from an interview in London by Bernard
Minns for the New York Star with the Rt. Rev. Western Henry
Stewart, Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, who stated:
" ... So far as I have seen, the holy places in the Old City have
suffered little damage, with the exception of the two ancient
synagogues, which were destroyed by the Arabs. One of them
had been occupied by Haganah forces, and was shelled after the
Arabs had sent them a 24-hour ultimatum to quit. The other
was filled with unarmed people taking shelter from the fighting."
The New York Times recently published a cable from its Jeru-
salem correspondent, Julian Louis Meltzer, who reported in part:
"Msgr. Gustave Testa, Roman 'Catholic Apostolic Delegate,
entered the Tomb of David on Mount Zion last week. He was
the first Christian dignitary to go inside this Moslem-guarded
chamber in 500 years.
"The Tomb of David was closed to non-Moslems by a decree
of Caliph Ed-Daher but pilgrimages to the Room of the Last
Supper on an upper floor were permitted. King David is
regarded by Moslems as a saint.
"Msgr. Testa is papal administrator of the Latin Patriarchate
pending the appointment of a new patriarch. He came to inspect
the damage to religious edifices. If he had entered the tomb
early in the Twentieth Century under the Ottoman regime in
Palestine Moslem zealots might have attacked the Christian
community, charging desecration of the tomb.
" Haganah troops retained possession of this area after
being ejected from the Old City by the Transjordan Arab Legion
May 20. Churches, monasteries and convents were respected by
the Haganah, which posted guards to keep intruders away.
"The first Christians to enter the tomb in 500 years were Ben-
edictine and Franciscan priests, who went in last month. They
found damage from shelling. Part of the tomb's covering was
broken off.
"Msgr. Testa was accompanied by the Jewish- Agency's
Liaison Officer to Churches, Dr. A. J. Braver, an authority on
ancient churches. Differing religicius rituals were observed.
The, Chirstians went bareheaded into the building, while their
Jewish companions donned headgear in deference to the holy
spot."
All of the 28 synagogues in the Old City of Jerusalem were
destroyed by the Arabs and no mercy was shown to Christian or
Jewish -dignitaries by Israel's enemies, but evidence is mounting
that Jews not only respected and continue to respect the holy places
but, for the first time in 500 years, have made it possible for Chris-
tians to enter holy places from which they had been barred by
Moslems. The testimony comes from Christian sources and should
be respected. Unfortunately, too Many enemies of Israel are libelling
our people on this score.
Last week, Rabbi Judah L. Fishman, Israeli Minister for Relig-
ious Affairs, visited Nazareth and pledged religious freedom to
all sects in the courses of his conferences with the Greek Orthodox,
Maronite and Franciscan representatives and the town's Moslem
Mufti. As an added assurance Of Israel's good faith, Chief Rabbi
Isaac Herzog accompanied him on his tour to supervise military
arrangements for the protection of Christian and Moslem Shrines.
Rabbi Fishman stated emphatically that there will be religious
freedom for all in Israel and that Christian and Moslem departments
in his ministry will care for the special requirements of all religious
faiths. Thus, libels against Israel's intentions are being smashed. by
Jewish leaders. . .
History will clear the good name of Israel. on this issue, but
Christian leaders should not permit even a day of libelling to pass
without challenge. - Truth must triumph, as it already has 'among
those - who respect honeSt reporting.

