4THE JEWISH NEWS

Professor Haber to Address
Annual Federation Meeting

Dr. William Haber, who re-
cently completed a tour of duty
as advisor on Jewish affairs to
General Lucius Clay in the U. S.
Zone of Occupation, will be the
chief speaker at the annual
meeting of the Jewish Welfare .
Federation Sunday, March 13. 1
The meeting will begin at the
Jewish Community Center at
3:30 p. m. with four simultane-
ous forums conducted by the
budget and planning divisions of
the Federation. They are: Health
and welfare, community rela-
tions, educational and cultural
and overseas needs. This will
afford an opportunity for the
community to learn what the
agencies in these fields have ac-
complished during the past year,
and to hear their plans and
needs for 1949..
The forums will be followed
by a buffet dinner reception for
Prof. Haber at 6 p. m.
Annual meetings of five mem-
ber agencies of the JWF which
have the same constituency also
will be held that day. They
' are the Fresh Air . Society, Jew-

ish Social Service Bureau, Re-
settlement Service, Jewish Voca-
tional Service and North End
Clinic. -
Following the reception, the
business meeting of the agencies,
the election of officers and board
members, reading of annual re-
ports, and other business will
take place at Temple Beth El,
concluding with Dr. Haber's ad-
dress.

Plans for the forum sessions
will be made at a bruncheon at
11:30 • a. in: Sunday, Feb. 13.
Heads of the budget and plan-
ning divisions will . meet with
representatives of the women's
division, the junior division, the
Federation agencies and the
trades and professional divisions.

Maurice A. Enggass is chair-,
man and Milton K. Mahler, co-
chairman of the health and wel-
fare division; Henry C. Meyers is
chairman and Louis Robinson co-
chairman of the educational and
cultural division, and Morris Gar-
vett heads the community rela-
tions division.

Bernstein Honored by Histadrut

On Wednesday, Feb. 16, Arla-.
zaroff Branch 137 of Jewish Na-
tional Workers Alliance will
honor Harry Mondry on his 50th
r=rr-visq!birthday at the
L abor Zionist
Institute, 13722
Linwood.
M r . Mondry,
one of Arlazar-
off's most active
:workers, for
years was its
financial secre-
tary. He parti-
cipates in all
H. Mondry
T-N W A activi-
ties, is active in LZOA, Histadrut,
JNF and Farband schools. At
present he is chairman of the
-,JNWA City Committee and is a
member of LZOA Branch 2.
—Photo by Paul Kirsch, Jewish News Photographer
An interesting. program is be-
JOSEPH
BERNSTEIN
(left), editor of the Detroit edition of the
ing arranged for Wednesday's
meeting. Refreshments will be Jewish Daily Forward, is receiving a copy of the Israel Declaration
of Independence from HARRY SCHUMER, chairman of the Detroit
served.

Birdseye View of Detroit's
Jewish. Community Life in '99

By IRVING I. KATZ

'

U. S. Loan Does Not End
Need for Private Giving
To Israel, Glasser Says

NEW YORK—The $35,000,000.
Export-Import Bank loan to Is-
rael for the purchase of agricult-
ural equipment and machinery
may require additional capital in
the ratio of three to one t to open
up new farm areas and will not
lessen
e need or maximum
private contributions for the _care
and absorption of immigrants, ac-
cording to Harold Glasser, di-
rector of the Institu. te on Over-
seas Studies of the Council of
Jewish. Federations and Welfare
Funds..

Order Sons of Benjamin; Nathan
Lodge No 125 of Order Kosher
Shel -Barzel; Detroit Lodge No.
55 of Knights of Pythias.
The work of Jewish charities
was carried on by the following
societies: Beth El Hebrew Relief
Society, Jewish Relief Society,
Hebrew Ladies Sewing Society,
Self Help Circle, Ladies' Society
Glasser hailed the loan as an
for Support of _Hebrew Widows
and Orphans, Gerniluth Chasodim "opportunity for Israel to build
Association (Hebrew Free Loan), up, in a short period of time, a
Hebrew Benevolent Society, As- sound economic 'basis" for a self-
sembly of David, House of Shel- supporting economy, even though
ithe population may increase by
ter.
There was one mutual society 30 to 40 per cent during the next
two years. -
by the name of Hebrew Pro-
tective Association.
There were the following lit-
erary and social clubs: Jewish
Women's Club, Philomathic De-
bating Club, Fellowship Club,
Montefiore Club, Phoenix Club,
Standard Club.
Jewish education for children
was conducted by the Talmud
Torah Institute (which had a
daily afternoon school, a Sunday
school, and a Ladies' Auxiliary
by .the name of "Daughters of
Zion"), and by several synagogue
schools.
The Jewish neighborhood was
centered in the downtown area.

Israel Histadrut drive for $375,000, at' the breakfast meeting last
Sunday morning at the Labor Zionist Institute, arranged in honor of
Mr. Bernstein's efforts in behalf of Histadrut. Mr. Bernstein, who will
leave during the coming few days for a trip to Israel, told the gather-
ing that the secure, democratic base of Israel is the result of 28 years
of Histadrut's toil and sacrifice.

,

JWF Group Studies
Community Relations

First meeting of the commun-
ity rela,lons division of the
Jewish Welfare Federation took
place Jan. 31, with Morris Gar-
vett, chairman, presiding.
One of three budget and plan-
ning divisions of the Federation,.
the community relations divi-
sion will devote itself to a year-
round study and review of the
activities of national and local
agencies in the community rela-
tions 'field, in an effort to deter-
mine Detroit's fair share of fin-
ancial responsibility in meeting
the needs of these programs.
Members of the committee are

Ralph A. Mayer of the Ameri-
can JeWish Committee; Albert J.
Silber, American Jewish Con-
gress; David Rosen, Bnai Brith;
Harry Yudkoff, Jewish Com-
munity Council; Alex Levitt,
Jewish, Labor Cornmittee; Isa-,
dore Rosenberg, Jewish War Vet-
erans; Oscar Cohen, Jewish Com-
munity Council, and the follow-
, ing members at-large: Joseph
" Bernstein, Irving W. Blumberg,
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, Israel
Himelhoch, Judge Theodore Le-
1 i yin, Harry H. Platt, Ben L. Sil-
berstein, Abraham Srere and
Henry Wineman.

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Hamisha Asar JNF Competition

Community Jewish Schools Vie
For Israel Tree-Planting Honors

Competition for high honors in
tree-planting is reaching its
climax in all Detroit Jewish
schools this week-end.
Pursuing a tradition of plant-
ing trees on the occasion of
Hamisha Asar b'Shevat—Israel's
Arbor Day—which this year will
occur on Monday, Feb. 14—pupils
in all Jewish schools are con-
tributing towards the tree-plant-
ing fund.
Refdrm, Orthodox and Con-
servative congregational schools
have joined with 'the United
Hebrew Schools, the Yiddish
Schools and Yeshivoth in spon-
soring this project..
Special programs have been
conducted in all schools during

S

Arlazaroff Will Honor
Mondry's 50th Birthday

Detroit 50 Years Ago

Detroit had a Jewish popula--. ;
tion of less than 5,000. out of a -1
total general population of about
300,000.
There were six synagogues: one
Reform (Beth El) and five Ortho-
dox (Shaarey Zedek, Bnai Israel,
Beth Jacob, Beth Abraham and
Beth David).
Dr. Leo M. Franklin had just
assumed his ministry at Beth El,
Succeeding Dr. Louis Grossmann.
Rabbi Judah L. Levin was the
spiritual leader of Congregations
.Shaarey Zedek, Bnai Israel and
Beth Jacob.
- Temple Beth El had a mem-
bership of 136 and was located
on Washington Avenue - (now
Boulevard) and Clifford; Shaarey
Zedek was located on Congress
and St. Antoine; Bnai Israel at
55-59 Mullet; Beth Jacob at Hast-
ings and Mcntcalm.
The following Jewish fraternal
lodges were in existence: Pisgah
Lodge No. 34 of Independent
Order Bnai Brith; Montefiore
Lodge No, 12 of Order Free Sons
-of Israel; Michigan Lodge No.
111 of Order Brith Abraham;
'Detroit Lodge No. 386 of Inde-
pendent Order Brith Abraham;
Aaron Lodge No. 132 and Detroit
L€Hige No. • 97 of Independent

—

Friday, February 11, 1949

the past two weeks, in explana-
tion of the Hamisha Asar festival
and the Jewish National Fund
objectives.
Educational material has been
issued by the JNF to assist in
the schools' activities.

Additional information a n d
material can be secured by call-
ing Arthur Shutkin, executive
director, Jewish National Fund
Council, 11816 Dexter, TO. 8-7384.

Rothenberg Re-Elected

National Fund President

NEW YORK, . (JTA) — Judge
Morris Rothenberg was re-elect-
ed president of the JeWish Na-
tional 'Fund of America for his
fifth consecutive term at a con-
Sobeloff Appointed
ference of representatives of all
To Board of USNA
Zionist groups in the United
States held at the Waldorf-As-
Isidore Sobeloff, executive di- toria.
rector of the Jewish Welfare
Judge Rothenberg reported that
Federation, has been elected to during his administration Amer-
the board of directors of the ican Jewry made available for
„United Service for New Ameri- the land-reclamation program of
• cans..
the JNF the sum of $85,064,439.07.
USNA is one of the chief bene- Of this • total, $13,034,024.44 was
ficiaries of the Allied Jewish raised throu,,gh traditional JNF
Campaign in Detroit. Sobeloff's collections while $72,030,413.63
appointment was announced by represented the fund's share in
Edwin Rosenberg, president. I the United Jewish- Appeal.

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