Investors Pledge $3 Million at ZOA
Economic Conference on Israel

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Pledges
totaling approximately $3,000,000
in shares of the Israel Corpora-
tion of America, recently organ-
ized by Zionist leaders to foster
the economic upbuilding of Is-
rael, were subscribed at the first
national ZOA Economic Confer-
ence on -Israel of the Zionist Or-
convened here in an all-day ses-
sion Sunday. As its first business
project, the ICA has entered into
• a partnership-afreement with the
Jewish Agency for the first large-
scale housing projects to be built
in the Jewish state.
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, presi-
dent of the ZOA, told the con-
ference that the Zionist move-
ment is now witnessing the clos-
ing of its political phase. The
economic upbuilding of the
country which will follow this
growth will open a rich field for
American investment, he said.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, Jewish
Agency treasurer, told the con-
ference that 30,000 housing units
are required to provide adequate-
ly for newcomers to Israel. This,
he said, would entail an expendi-
ture of $64,00Q000.
Oscar Gass, economic adviser to
Israel, said that the Jewish state
will require a minimum of a biI
lion dollars in private investment
in the next four years in order to
integrate the immigrants in the
nation's economy. He urged that

American Jews, in making in-
vestments, divest themselves of a
philanthropic approach.
A propoSal to establish a $1,
000,000 fund at the Haifa Techni-
cal InstitUte was discussed at the
two-day second annual confer-:
ence of the American Technion
Society attended by 800 delegates.
The fund would be established as
a . memorial to 66 graduates and
students of the Institute who were
killed in the current war. Gifts
to the Institute totaling $75,000
were announced at the parley.
Arthur Lourie, Israeli Consul-
General 4tin New York,. analyzed
the strategic value of the *egev
to the British, Arabs and Israelis.

Rabbi Max Arzt's Talk •
Will Conclude Institute
At the Shaarey Zedek

.

The Men's Club of Shaarey
Zedek will conclude its third an-
nual Layman's Institute with a
dinner meeting at 7 p. m. Sunday,

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Michigan Zionist
Region Will Meet
Sunday in Lansing

Isaac Ben Zvi Arrives Here to Aid
Histadrut's Current U. S. Fund Drive

Delegates from 15 Michigan
communities will attend the re-
gional board meeting of the Mich-
igan Zionist Region at Hotel Por-
ter, Lansing, this Sunday, Nov.
21, starting at 12:30 p.m., and will
hear an address by a representa-
tive of the Supply Mission to the
United States of the Israeli Gov-
ernment.
Guests will' include Manuel
Posy, national director of ZOA's
American Zionist Fund, and J. R.
Jarchow, acting national direc-
tor of Material for Israel, Inc.
Morris M. Jacobs is regional
president.
Approximately 40 delegates
will attend the sAssion, according
to Saul Gottlieb, regional direc-
tor.
On the agenda is the planning
of ZOA's Food for Israel Cam-
paign in the Michigan area. Each
community will be asked to ac-
cept a quota of food as its contri-
bution in the drive. A regional
chairman for the campaign also
will be appointed.

NEW YORK (JTA)—Isaac Ben
Zvi, president of the Jewish Na-
tional Council in. Israel, arrived
here by air from the Jewish state
to aid the $10,000,000 campaign
currently being conducted in be-
half of the Histadruth by the Na-
tional Committee for Labor Pale-
stine.
United Nations intervention is
hampering the establishment of

ISAAC BEN ZVI
permanent peace in Palestine,
Ben Zvi declared upon his arrival
Asserting that "it is one thing
to order the demilitarization of
the Negev and another thing to

enforce it," Ben Zvi stated that
"if we could be sure that real
control would be maintained in
the demilitarization of the Negev
by the United Nations, we would
take this demilitarization proposal
more seriously."
British Jews have no confidence
in Foreign Secretary Ernest Bev-
in, Dr. Selig Brodetsky, president
of the Board of Deputies of Brit-
ish Jews and member of the
Jewish Agency executive, de-.
dared in an interview.,_
"Britain had done a great harm
to its position in the Middle East
by its Palestine policy," he sad.
"Brtain has considerable inter-
ests in the Middle East, but there
is only one important power there
now—Israel. British policy has
been based on weakening the new
state. The government will
eventually see that that policy
has to be changed."
Commenting on the subject of
anti-Semitism in Great Britain,
Dr. Brodetsky asserted that the
Board of Deputies was continu-
ally engaged in a struggle against
manifestations of it, which he im-
plied could be traced in part to
the Palestine policy of the for-
eign office. "The general feeling
is that most anti-Semitism in
Britain will disappear after the
Palestne problem has been li-
quidated," he stated.

AN INVITATION

Dr. Max Kapustint
Heads Hillel Here

Dr: Max Kapustin has assumed
his duties of new director of the
Wayne University Hillel
da tion.
A native of Germany, Rabbi
Kapustin studied at the Univer-
sities of Berlin and Heidelberg
and at Yeshiva Univerity in
New York. He was ordained as
rabbi at the Hildeshiemer Rab-
banical Seminary in Berlin.
In 1938, Rabbi Kapustin came
to this country and became rabbi
of the Aetz Chayim Synagogue
in Danville, Va., a post he held
until coming to Wayne. While in

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Friday, November 9

To the Entire Jewish Community to Attend
the Sessions of the

ANNUAL MICHIGAN CONFERENCE OF THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21st

RABBI MAX ARZT

Nov. 21. Rabbi Max Arzt will
deliver the main address on
"Airplane View of American
Jews."
Rabbi Arzt, a graduate of the
Jewish Theological Seminary,
served 15 years at Temple Israel
in Scranton, Pa. In 1939, he was
president of the Rabbinical As-
sembly of America. He is chair-
man of the Joint Prayer Book
Commission of the United Syna-
gogue and Rabbinical Assembly
and associate professor in practi-
cal theology at the Seminary.

11 A.M. to

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1 P.M.

2

to 5 P.M.

AT THE DETROIT LELAND HOTEL

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" Hear Three Noted Guest Speakers at the Afternoon Session

Council Sponsors
Book Month Event
For Young Adults

DR. MAX KAPUSTIN
Danville, he was an officer of
the local and regional Zionist
organizations, - president of the
Danville Bnai Brith Lodge and
a member of the Hillel Com-
mission of the Virginia State
Assn. of Bnai Brith Lodges. He
is a member of the Rabbinical
Councl of America.
Dr. Kapustin is married and
has two sons.

-Albert Elazar to Lead
Junior Service Group
Discussion Meeting

At the first of its series of dis-
cussion meetings at 8:30 p. m.
Monday, Nov. 22, at the Jewish
Center, the Junior Service Group
will present Dr. Albert Elazar, as-
sociate superintendent of the
United Hebrew Schools.
He will discuss , Hebrew and
Jewish eBucation with special
reference to factors of interest
to young adults.
Corinne Perlis, chairman of the
,discussion group committee, an-
nounced, "The actual mechanics
of this year's discussion series
will follow the pattern informali-
ty and audience participation,
combined with timely topics and
tap-notch speakers.
Moderator for this meeting will
be Jerome W. Kelman, graduate
of the United Hebrew Schools,
elass of 1934. The meeting will
be open to all young adults.

Maurice Samuel, one of Ameri-
can Jewry's most distinguished
literary figures, will keynote De-
troit Jewish youth's observance
of Jewish Book Month at the
Young Adult Council rally at
8:30 p. m. Wednesday, Dec. 1. He
will speak on "Jewish Literature
and Culture."
Samuel is widely known as
the author of "Harvest in the
Desert," "The World of Shalom
Aleichem,'.' "Web of Lucifer," and -
his recently released "Prince of
the Ghetto," as well as for his
translations of the works of
Chaim Nachman Bialik, Shalom
Asch, I. J. Singer, Shmarya Levin
and others.
All young people of the com-
munity are invited to hear Sam-
uel, and to participate in the
series of book review .evenings
which will follow it. Under YAC
sponsorship, four member organi-
zations will conduct book review
meetings Monday, •Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, Dec.
6, 7, 8 and 9. Sigma Theta Delta,
Sorority, Helen Penfil Chapter of
Bnai Brith Young Women, Chap-
ter One of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of Detroit, and the Young
People's Club of Temple Beth El
will conduct the meetings, at
each of which a current book of
Jewish interest will be discussed.
An exhibit of all Jewish books
published last year in Yiddish,
Hebrew and English is being ar-
ranged by the. Council. In addi-
tion, plans are being -made for
purchase of Jewish books at a
reduced rate through the Young
Adult Council.

HON. JOHN D. DINGELL

HON. G. M. WILLIAMS

COMM. J. L. GOLDBERG

Member of Congress from
Michigan; Pioneer Supporter of
the Jewish' State in . Israel

Newly-Elected Governor of
the State of Michigan

Noted Orator, Highest Ranking
Naval Chaplain who was Honored
by the U. S. Government

Local Participants at Morning and Afternoon Sessions:

Irving W. Schlussel

Oscar Cohen

Rabbi Jacob Segal

President, Jewish National Fund

Executive Director, Detroit
Jewish Community Council

N. W. Congregation

Council of Detroit

William Hordes

Chairman of the Board of the

Detroit JNF Council

Rabbi J. S. Sperka

Cong. Bnai David

The latest Israel movie

Mrs.

jack Rosenthal

President, Ladies' Auxiliary
of Jewish National Fund

Sidney Shevitz

President, Zionist Council
of Detroit

Arthur Shutkin

Executive. Director, JNF Council

of Detroit

Yechiel II. Hordes

Former Student at Haifa Tech-
nical Institute who just
returned from Israel

will be shown at the conclusion of the morning session.

An Urgent Call. To Organizations

More than

I00 Jewish organizations in Detroit and other Michigan
communities already have submitted the names of their delegates to

the Jewish National Fund Council. Those who are able to submit the

delegates' names on Friday are urged to call JNF office, I 1816 Dexter,
TO. 8-7384. Delegates also will be registered on Sunday morning at

the Detroit-Leland Hotel, prior to the opening of the conference.

