Reform Jews Vote to Move
Headquarters to New York
BOSTON (JTA)—Delegates to the 75th anniversary con-
vention of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations
voted to move the organiation's national headquarters from
Cincinnati to New York City following a prolonged debate
on the subject. In so doing, the 1,200 delegates upheld the
recommendation of its committee on union headquarters and
the action of its executive board.
The argument in favor of New
York, voiced by most speakers,
was that it was the capital of
American Jewry, and the home
of the large masses of American
Jews. Advocates Of Cincinnati
claimed that that city better rep-
resented the "grass roots" of
America.
Anti-Zionist Arginent Is Over
Addressing the convention, Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver declared that
Israel presents no problems of
"dual loyalty" to American Jews.
"The Jews of Israel," he said,
"will be Israeli citizens, and the
Jews of the United States. will
be citizens of the Unted States,
and similarly with Jews in other
lands. Jews throughout the world
will owe undivided allegiance to
their respective countries and
they will discharge loyally their
full duties as citizens, as Jews
have always done. But they will
retain a special attachment to
the land of Israel which will in
no way interfere with their du-
ties and obligations as citizens of
their respective countres."
The Zionist-anti-Zionist argu-
ment is over, Dr. Silver pointed
out. "The state of Israel is here,"
he said. He also emphasized that
Israel will not become "a theo-
cratic state." The more orthodox,
he said, may seek to establish
again a central religious author-
ity in Israel as in the days of
old, with the Chief Rabbinate of
Israel at its head, in the same
manner as the international
Catholic community has its re-
ligious center in Rome. If such
a center is ever re-established,
it will, of course, have authority
only over those who will volun-
tarily recognize its authority
either in Israel or outside.
Unity with Conservatives Urged
A "progressive rapprochement
with the Conservative wing of
Judaism" was urged by • Dr.
James G. Heller, of Cincinnati,
in the pFincipal address delivered
at the 75th anniversary banquet
of the Union.
Dr. Heller expressed the opin-
ion that many of the leaders of
Conservative Judaism, which he
described as betng "poised at
some point midway between
Orthodoxy and Reform, were
sympathetic to greater coopera-
tion with Reform." In urging
early exploration of "rapproche-
ment," Rabbi Heller said that "in
many ways Reform Judaism has
moved back towards the Jewish
people, andItowards a warmer
interpretatiorl of its own life,
we have drawn near the major-
ity of Conservative rabbis and
thoughtful laymen. And as Con-
servatives have thought through
their own position, they have
thought themselves in large part
into the theoretical standpoint of
Reform Judaism."
The second major task before
the Union, said Dr. Heller, is to
"attack the problem of the un-
affiliated Jewish masses on a
Much broader front. We have
made the barest beginning until
now. No one familiar with the
American Jewish scene will deny
that this problem has grown to
alarming proportions."
President Truman was asked
in a resolution to insist through
the U.S. representatives at the
United Nations that the action
of the acting mediator in order-
ing. Israeli troops to evacuate
the Negev be withdrawn.
The resolution said that the
1,500 delegates to the convention
of the largest and oldest Jewish
religious organization in the
United States view "with deep
distress the action of the United
Nations mediator in ordering the
establishment of a vast no-man's
land in the Negev and in order-
ing the evacuation of the Israeli
troops from that area."
Another resolution called up-
on the new Congress to modify
the Displaced Persons Act of
1948. It declared that it "not
only failed to meet the chal-
- lenge of emergency, but in its
patpntly discriminatory pro-
visions shocked the moral sense
of most Americans."
Dr. Leo Baeck, who has just
returned to this country to serve
as a visiting profesSor at the
Hebrew Union College—Jewish
Institute of Religion, was the
principal speaker at the conclud-
ing luncheon in honor of the 75th
anniversary of the National Fed-
eration of Temple Sisterhoods.
Dr. Maurice Eisendrath was
elected president of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
at a meeting of the organization's
executive board.
THE JEWISH NEWS
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Windsor ' s Jewish Welfare
Fund Drive Gains Speed
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Friday, November 26, 1948
Prof. Knox Will Address
AJC Meeting Nov. 30
The American Jewish Commit-
tee, Detroit Chapter, will hold its
first meeting of the 1948-49 season ,
at Temple Beth El, third floor
chapel, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 8:15 p.m.
Prof. Israel__
Knox of the
Ohio University
philosophy de-
partment w ill
speak on the
subject: "Prob--i
lems of Jewish,.
Life in America."
New officers.
elected to head
the Detroit Chap-
ter of the Amer-
ican Jewish Com-
mittee include: Prof. Knox
Isadore Levin, chairman; Leonard
T. Lewis, vice-chairman; Philip
R. Marcuse, secretary; Eugene
Arnfeld, treasurer.
Men's Clubs
CHARLES AND AARON KO-
GAN POST, Jewish War Vet-
erans, will hold installation of
..officers at 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec.
12, at Jericho Temple. Harold F.
Moran, department commander,
will act as installing officer.
Max H. Littky, program chair-
man of TIKVAH LODGE, Bnai
Brith announces the lodge's first
annual athletic night, to be held
at Beth Aaron Synagogue,
Thatcher at Wyoming, at 8:30
p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2. Fred Wolf
of the E. & B. bowling team Will
M. C. Games and refreshments
will conclude the evening. Louis
E. Barden, president, invites all
members, their wives and friends
to attend.
Italy Agrees to Admit
10,000 Jewish DPs
ROME (JTA) — The Italian
Government has unofficially
agreed to permit approximately
10,000 displaced Jews to enter
Italy where they will be housed
in. International Refugee Organ-
ization reception centers which
are now empty.
Stimulated by all-out giving by
early pace-setters, the welfare
fund campaign now under way in
the Windsor Jewish community,
whose goal this year is $156,000,
has passed the half-way mark
with every indication that the
level of giving is being main-
tained, and that as a result the
campaign goal will be exceeded
by a considerable margin. The
campaign, for all local, overseas
and national agencies, is spon-
sored by the Jewish Community
Council of Windsor.
Because of the tremendous pace-
setting gifts and the need to ac-
cept an unexpectedly large num-
ber of immigrant families in the
community, the campaign goal
has been increased to $186,000 and
there is little doubt that even that
goal will be exceeded, according
to Reuben Madoff, Community
Council president. Last year
Windsor raised $116,000.
Paced 'by the first $10,000 con-
tribution in the community's his-
tory, the gift of Nathan Roten-
berg, the special names division
has thus far maintained an aver-
age increase of nearly 60%.
A new division of Young Busi-
ness Men is shooting for twice
what the men who comprise it
gave last year.
Other groups, notably the food
and the retail merchants' divi-
sions, are showing equally big in-
creases.
Windsor's Youth Division held
a successful fund-raising affair
Dishell Donates Nov. 30
Proceeds to Aid Israel
In honor of their fifth 'year in
business on Dexter Blvd., Mr.
and Mrs. Abe Dishell invite the
Jewish community to help them
celebrate by eating to aid Israel.
The entire gross proceeds from
the regular breakfast hours, 5
a.m, to 11 a.m., at Dishell's Res-
taurant, 11820 Dexter, Tuesday,
Nov. 30, will be , donated to the
new Jewish State.
Under supervision of responsi-
ble persons, a locked box will be
used for diners to drop payment
of their bills. No deductions will
be taken out for employees, sales
tax or cost of food—all operat-
ing expenses will be paid by
Dishell Restaurant.
Nov. 20, at which more money
was raised than the entire divi-
sion raised last year.
One of the most remarkable
showings in the campaign thus
far was produced at a meeting
of the Leamington Jewish com-
munity, which participates in
Windsor's campaign. Although
two of the community's seven
families were unable to attend,
nearly four times as much was
raised as the entire community
pledged last year. Meeting with
the Leamington community
were Mr. Madoff, A. D. Cher-
niak, campaign co-chairman,
and Louis Lieblich, Community,
Council executive director. Mr.--
and Mrs. Sam Feldman were
hosts.
At a meeting of the Profes-
sional Division held at the home
of Ben Yuffy, the group doubled
their previous year's gifts. Chair-
man of this division is Milton
Meretsky.
Saul Bottler is chairman; Wil-
liam Brandes, B. D. Madoff and'
David Mechanic, co-chairmen," of
the Young Business Men's divi-
sion.
Women's Division Breaks Records
At two series of sii-nultan .N)us
luncheons, the Women's Division
of the Windsor welfare fund cam-
paign raised nearly two-and-a-
half times as much as was pledged
last year by thbse attending, it
was announced by Mrs. Norman
Ramm, Women's Division chair-
man. At the first series Of lunch-
eons, the entire amount raised by
the division last year 'was exceed-
ed. The women's goal this year is
$15,000.
Further meetings planned for
this group' are an evening meet-
ing at the home of Mrs. Simon
Meretsky for those unable to at-
tend luncheon meetings, and a
meeting for a younger women's
group.
Mizrachi Women Adopt
Budget of $1,350,000
ATLANTIC CITY (JTA)—The
convention of the Mizrachi Wo-
men's Organization of America
adopted a budget of $1,350,000 for
the coming year to meet child
care, social welfare and Jewish
Natinal Fund needs in Israel.
Labor Zionist Canvass Day
Program Set This Sunday
Sunday, Nov. 28, will be cele-
brated as Labor Zionist Day by
the Labor Zionist Organization
of Detroit, according to an an-
nouncement by Morris Lieber-
man, chairman of the central
committee.
A full day of activity is
planned, beginning with a break-
fast for the canvass teams at 10
Attorney to Talk on UN
For Hadassah B and P
A talk on the United Nations
by Phillip Nusholtz, Detroit at-
torney, \will highlight the pro-
gram of the discussion group of
the Business and Professional
Division of Hadassah at 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 30, at the home of
Florence Dann, 13233 LaSalle
Blvd.
Helen Kass and Ethel Rosen-
thal, co-chairmen of the educa-
tion committee of the division,
urge all business and professional
women to attend.
Assisting the hostess will be
Gertrude Bernstein, Ethel Birn-
baum, Roslyn A. Corn, Miriam
Goldstein, Sarah Kraft, Lilly
Meyers, Kate Pitkowsky and
Belle Teal.
a.m. at the Labor Zionist Insti-
tute, 13722 Linwood. The teams
will then begin their enrollment
drive with a goal of 500 new
members for the day.
A gala evening celebration and
organizational rally, to which the
public is invited, will be held
at the Institute and will feature
Leo Low, noted Jewish composer
whose 70th birthday is being
celebrated throughout the Jew-
ish world. The Halevy Singing
Society, Branch Nine of the La-
bor Zionist Organization, will
participate in the program. The
speaker will be Philip Slomovitz.
The canvass day arrangements
committee consists of David Sis-
lin, William Thompson, Osher
Goldberg, Louis Redstone, Har-
old Milinsky, Rebecca Sanders,
Ruth Stein, Dr. Leon Herschufus,
Dr. William Klein, William Schu-
mer and Shlomo Drochler.
Zedakah Club's Luncheon
Tuesday at Book Cadillac
•Zedakah's 17th annual donor
luncheon will take place this
Tuesday at the Book Cadillac
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Entertainment following the
luncheon will include a fashion
show by Annis Furs and piano
noon on Mondays.
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