20—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 31, 1948
Hanukah Reflections
Rabbi Hershman Evaluates
Four Miracles of Our Time
Ben Gurion Greets
Israeli Christians on
Christmas Holiday
Dr. Ruth Gruber, Damari and Goland
At JNF Women's Annual Event Jan. 16
The annual event of the Ladies' home of Mrs. Samuel Heyman,
Auxiliary of the Jewish National 4031 Glendale, to receive reports
Fund, which will conclude the on progress in the drive.
fund-raising donor project to be
The following is a list of can-
held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16,
in the main auditorium of the
Masonic Temple, will be address-
ed by Dr. Ruth Gruber, eminent
foreign correspondent of the New
York Herald Tribune, author of
"Destination Palestine," Mrs. I.
Walter Silver, chairman of the
program committee, announced
By DR. A. M. HERSHMAN
TEL AVIV (Palcor)—For the
Hanukah this year takes on al Up to a relatively short time ago first time in history a Jewish
new significance, an epochal one. it was without modern weapons Prime Minister sent Christmas
The burden of its message is not and implements of war, while the greetings to the Christian citizens
only the miracles wrought "for Arabs were amply supplied with of a Jewish State.
In a message broadcast over
our fathers in days of old," but armaments and , munitions by
Great Britain, their ally. Yet the Israeli radio and published
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also the miracles wrought "for this
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Ministei
new army boldly faced over- in all papers, Prime
us in our days." No one can con- this odds and not only beat David Ben Gurion declared:
template contemporaneous events
greet our citizens of the this week.
without echoing the words of the back the invaders but inflicted Christian faith and extend to Mrs. Silver announces that the
upon them crushing defeats and
Psalmist: "This
was
the
Lord's
marvelous in our now occup:es territory larger in them good wishes of the season. Program will feature Shoshana
doing: it is
area than that originally assigned This past year was one of battle Damari and Joseph Goland, Is-
eyes
and hardship forced upon us by rael's prominent musical revue
it .
Miracle Number One: In the
Miracle Number Four: At the all those who spurned interna- stars, in a program entitled "Is-
stunrner of 1942 the fate of Pales- time when the UN declared for tional obligations and chose the rael Fights, Sings and Smiles."
tine was trembling in the bal- the establishment of a sovereign sword as arbiter of this country's Mosheh Wilensky, Israel's prom-
mice, the Jewish population in Jewish State, it was estimated future. PrOvidentially this evil inent composer, will be at the
the Land of Israel was in immi- that Israel would comprise 498 ,- design has been frustrated. I piano.
Reservations for this event are
nent danger of annihilation. Hay- 000 Jews and 407,000 non-Jews pray fervently that the peace and
ing destroyed the armored forces (the figures were no doubt fur- good will longed for by all citi- being taken by all members of
of the British Eighth Army at nished the UN by the British zens may soon be realized and the JNF Auxiliary, Mrs. Jack
the Knightsbridge Ridge and cap- Colonial Office).* that men and women of all creeds Rosenthal, president, Mrs. Peter
tured Tobruk, Rommel, the "Des-
in Israel may soon be able to Chodoroff, fund-raising chairman,
In other . words.
non Jews, dedicate themselves in whole- and at the JNF office, 11816 Dex-
sert Fox," brought the war to the
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gates of Alexandria and Cairo. It the vast majority of om are hearted unity to the constructive ter, TO. 8-7384.
was a foregone conclusion that Arabs', were to be about 43 per tasks of peace. In the name of
The Three Guests
the conquest of Egypt and Pales- cent of the total Israeli popula- all Israel I wish you a joyous
Shoshana Damari, daughter of
tine was only a matter of weeks. tion. The Jews were to form but holiday and prosperity and happi- a Yemenite rabbi, is versed in
There was rejoicing in Berlin a small majority, the Arabs a ness for all."
Talmudic and Biblical lore and
and Rome. There was gloom in large minority—a situation brist-
Kol Israel, the official govern-
England. The British High Corn- ling with peril. Jaffa was an all- I ment radio station, broadcast has given her melodic interpreta-
tions a distinctive quality of iden-
rand thought that the game was I Arab city. A marked change for Midnight Mass services in the
up Winston Churchill cast about the better has since taken place. Church of Annunciation. in Naz- tification with the aspirations and
struggles of the Jewish people.
for means of saving the British The bulk of the Arabs have fled areth.
Armies in the Near East from from Israel. Only 50,000 remain.
Ministries and government de- She has been acclaimed for her
utter destruction. In Palestine the Some of the so-called refugees partments dealing with minorities interpretations of Wilensky's and
effendis were urging the fella- will probably be repatriated. But took special measures to facilitate other composers' popular folk-
tuns to sell their land to the the Arabs will not form a large the observance of the Christmas songs which have been recorded
Jews. "In a month," they said, minority. "This was the Lord's holiday by all Christians in Is- with the Palestine Symphony Or-
"Hitler will be in Jerusalem, and doing; it is marvelous in our raeli territory, in the Israeli chestra.
you will not only have your land eyes."
army, and even in Israeli PW
Joseph Goland, who was born
back but everything the Jews
*The figures are probably in- camps. The Israeli general staff in the Ukraine, achieved success
possess. Leh the knives be sharp- correct. I. F. Stone places the issued orders to all units to give
erred." Had Rommel carried out number of Jews in Israel at 514,- four days Christmas leave to all
his design, our young people 000 and the number of Arabs at Christian volunteers and to fa-
would, no doubt, have fought to 310,000.
cilitate their journey to wherever
the last. But in spite of their
they may wish to spend Christ-
heroism. the bulk of the Jews of
mas. Arrangements also were
P destine would have shared the
.
made for a special Christmas din-
fate of the Jews of Warsaw. For-
. ner for Christian volunteers and
tunately, the planned invasion
S • all facilities were granted for
never took place. "This was the
holding and attending Christmas
Lord's doing; it is marvelous in
services. Special food rations
our eyes."
were allocated to the Christian
communities.
Miracle Number Two: The two
NEW YORK, (Pal•or)—Eliahu
powers who made possible the
establishment of the state of Is- Epstein, special Israeli envoy to Hadassah to Build Yassky Shoshana DamariJoseph Goland
rael are the United States and the U. S. told the 32nd annual
on the stage and is one of the
Soviet Russia—countries whose dinner of the Histadruth Ivrith Hospital in Beersheba
outstanding players with the Pal-
politira••ideologies are at the op- (Hebrew Federation of America)
estine Ohel theatrical group. He
polite poles, who have thus far that "on the ruins of the British .
JERUSALEM (JP$) —A new also has been associated with the
disagreed on any other important administration a democratic self- hospital, to be called the Yassky Palestine Folk Opera and has ap-
issue before the United Nations. government has risen in Israel Memorial Hospital. in memory of peared on the front lines with the
Let it be borne in mind, more- such as the stagnant and co••upt- the late Hadassah Hospital direc- Israeli army troops and before
over, that Russia has banned ed regimes in the Middle East, tor killed in Jerusalem a few DPs in Cyprus.
Zionism as a counter-revolution- including the colonial administra- months ago, will be established
Dr. Gruber has covered every
a•y movement and persecuted its tions, would never aspire to and shortly in Beersheba, Israeli town
adherents. Yet, wonder of won- could never hope to achieve." The in the Negev, it was disclosed aspect of Palestinian activities in
ders! These two powers, the U. dinner marked the launching of a here by Dr. Eli Davies. Hadassah the past two years and was with
the Exodus 1947 travelers in Pal-
S.. the protagonist of the Western $100,000 fund drive of Histadrut director in Israel.
estine, France and the German
Bloc of Nations, and the U. S. S. Ivrith, which is dedicated to the
The women's Zionist organiza- detention camps where they were
R. the 'protagonist of the Eastern dissemination of the Hebrew tion already has ear-marked 100,-
State. Verily. "this was the Lord's language and culture in America. 000 pounds (S400,000) for the new shipped by the British upon their
interception at Haifa. She also
doing: it is marvelous in our
The Israeli envoy stressed that hospital, which will not only was with them when most of
eyes
the Hebrew language is a vital serve the population of southern them returned to Israel in recent
Miracle Number Three: The key to the development of the Israel, but will have a special
months. Her book "Destination
heroism displayed by the Macca- Jewish State of Israel and urged department ,of tropical diseases Palestine" tells the story of the
bees of old has been paralleled an immediate program of He- and a climatological laboratory Exodus traNseiers.
by the heroism evinced by their brew education by Jewish in- which will concern itself with the
To Hear Reports Jan. 4
descendants, stitutiors and organizations out- adaptation of populations to
Oh deem not dead that martial side Israel as a means of streng- semi-tropical and temperate ch-
A board meeting of the JNF
thening the relations between the i mates. both of %•hi•h are found Auxiliary will be held at 12:30
fire,
p. m. Tuesday, Jan. 4, at the
Sav not the mystic flame is spent! Jewish State and world Jewry. 1 in Israel.
With Moses' law and David's lyre
LIVES OF OUR TIMES
RABBI MEIR BERLIN
Your ancient strength remains
unbent.
ME CAME TO THE UNITED STATES SEFORi
The. new Jewish state is but an
LiADEIL OF THE ORTHODOX ZIONIST UOYE -
WORLD WAR I AND BECAME A MEMBER Of
MENT.MIZRACWI.CHAAAPION OF 141[
island surrounded by a surging
THE JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE.SET
RIGHTS OF THE JEWISH Pf0PLE.SOIOLAtt
sea of Arab States. The Israeli
UP TO AID JEWS DISLOCATED 61 THE WAR.
AND AUTHOR
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army is not quite a year old.
`Perhaps 80 per cent of those
who constitute our army"—said
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Ben Gurion in a recent address—
"had never been underground."
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HebrewLanguage 9
Immediate Revival
MRS: I. WALTER SILVER
tributors of $100 and over:
$300,
David Horodoker Jrs.: $250
each, Wayne Steel 8c Supply Corp..
Midwest Iron & Metal Co.. Anna Gold-
berg. Charles Milan; $200, Samuel Hey-
man; $100 each. Abe Nusbaum. Max J.
Kogan. Jewish Relief Fund. A. De-
Roven, Sam Liptzen. Aaron Harris.
Maurice Levy. George Cole. Grand
Rapids Coat & Apron Supply Co.. Paul
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•itcher Verein • Lion Steel C‘ , ., Miller
Lumber Co.
Fred Butzel Home
To House Nurses
The tome of the late Fred M.
Butzel, at 299 Mack, will be re-
opened Jan. 9 as the Parkside
Hospital Nurses Home.
In accordance with Mr. Butzel's
wishes, the home has been deeded
to Parkside Hospital. 3764 Brush,
but it also will be open to nurses
and technicians of all races. col-
ors and creeds, from Harper,.
Grace and Woman's Hospitals.
The home
wiT1 be known
as "Parkside
Hospital Nurses
Home — A Fred
M. Butzel Me-
moria 1." Mr.
Butzel died be-
fore he could
carry out his
own wish and
the home be-
came one of the
assets of his estate. with the
Community chest and Jewish
Welfare Federation as residuary
legatees.
Purchase of the home from the
estate was made with funds
raised by a group of Mr. Butzel's
friends. His brothers, Justice:
Henry M. Butzel of Detroit and
Lawrence M. Butzel of New York s
arranged for the transfer
helped equip the home. It will
house 13 nurses.
Parkside Hospital is a non-pro-i
fit Community Chest agency 10-s
cated at 3764 Brush, two blocks
from the Butzel home.
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Nationalist Soldiers Loot
DP's Homes in Shanghai
SHANGHAI, (JTA)—National-
ist soldiers looted homes of dis-
placed persons in this city.
Troops. who were watched by
military police who made no at-
tempt to halt them, first wrecked
a cafe and then broke into prem-
ises where the refugees live and
stole money, clothing and other
valuables.
The fear that a pogrom will
occur in Shanghai in the interval
following the Chinese National-
ists' withdrawal and the restora-
tion of order by the pursuing
armed forces of the Chinese Com-
munists is growing among Jew-
ish refugees.
;BEAL!"
BORN INTO A RENOWNED RASSINKAL FAMILY IN
RUSSIA IN 1881,HE STUDIED AT THE FAMOUS YESNIVOS
OF VOLOZHIN AND TELL AFTER ATTENDING THE UNI-
VERSITY OF BERLIN,HE WAS ORDAINED IN 1902.
IN 1933,RABBI BERLIN LEFT FOR PALESTINE TO
ESTABLISH PERMANENT RESIDENCE AND TO
DIRECT THE PROGRAMS OF THE WORLD-WIDE
MIZRACHI ORGANIZATION.HE 15 TODAY ONE OF
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AS A MEMBER OF THE STATE COUNCIL AND -
AS A DIRECTOR OF THE JEWISH NATIONAL
FUND, AS WELL AS OTHER IMPORTANT 6001ES, •
HIS COUNSEL IS SOUGHT BY ALL IN ISRAEL.
ISRAEL'S LEADING CITIZENS.
AFTER SERVING- FOR EIGHT TEARS AS
MIZRACHI MEMBER OF THE ZIONIST ACTIONS
COMMITTEE,WE BECAME THAT 600Y1 PRESI-
DENTIN 1926 HE ALSO HEADED THE AMERICAN
MIZRACNI FOR MORE THAN A DECADE.
A FOREST-THE HEIR BERLIN FOREST-WAS
PLANTED IN HIS HONOR IN 1940. WORLD
MIZRACHI LEADER,WHO STRIVES FOR AN
ISRAEL BASED ON THE TENETS Of THE TORAH.
A
NE 15 THE EDITOR OF THE OFFICIAL
MIZRACHI ORGAN iN TEL AVIV."HATZOFE,"
AND ALSO IS ACTIVE IN NUMEROUS EDU -
CATIONAL AND LITERARY ENDEAVORS.
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