F e d era t io n Five Agencies to Elect Directors

Dr. Haber to Address Annual
Meeting Sunday at Beth El

Elections will be held for board members of the Jewish
Welfare Federation and five of its member agencies at the
Federation's 23rd annual meeting Sunday afternoon and
evening, March 13. The business meeting and elections will
begin at 8 p.m. in the Brown Memorial Chapel of Temple
Beth El.

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lows: Terms to expire in 1950:
Mrs. Eugene J. Arnfeld, Nathan
Fishman, Mrs. Jason L. Honig-
man, Joseph Frenkel, Albert
Fruman, Benjamin Klein, John
E. Lurie, Herman Radner, Sid-

Noted Educators, Local Leaders
Join in Tribute to Bernard Isaacs

National leaders in the field of Jewish education joined
ney Savage, Louis Russman and
Max Shaye. Terms to expire in with Many leaders who represented a cross-section of the
1951: Mrs. Samuel. S. Aaron, Mrs. entire Jewish community of Detroit in honoring Bernard
Harry Becker, Louis C. Blum- Isaacs, superintendent of the United Hebrew Schools, on the
berg, Mrs. Jacob - Borin, David J. occasion of the publication of his widely-acclaimed book,
Cohen, Mrs. Charles Grosberg, "Bein Shnei Olomot" ("Between Two Worlds").
The agencies holding their an- Benjamin H. Shwayder. Martin Dr. H. S. Mellen, Harry Nathan,
More than 150 people were
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Sidney M. present at the testimonial din-
nual meetings on the same eve- L. Butzel has been suggested for Sigmund Rohlik,
served the cause of Jewish Ed-
ning are: Fresh Air Society, a two-year term and Rabbi Max Shevitz, Samuel B. Solonion, S. ner in Isaacs' honor last Satur- ucation for many, many years
Jewish Social Service Bureau, J. Wohlgelernter for a one-year Joseph Wallach. Terms to ex- day night at Lachar's on Dexter. with loyalty and devotion. His
North End Clinic, ReSettlement term. Chairman of the Bureau's pire in 1952: Louis Berry, Walter Officers and members of the

Service and the Jewish. Voca- nominating committee was A. C.
tional Service. Lappin.
JSSB Nominations
The four nominees for the
Nominated for a three-year North End Clinic's board are:
term for the board of the Fresh Mrs. Abraham Cooper, Mrs.
Air Society are: Harry Becker, Julius Gilbert, Sylvan S. Gros-
Lewis B. Daniels, Harry C. ner, Hoke Levin. They were
Davidson, John C. Hopp, - Irving proposed by the nominating coin-
C. Mahler, Max G. Salasnek, and mittee, headed by Louis A. Baum.
New Resettlement Setup
Nathan Silverman. Milton M.
The Board of Resettlement
Maddin was chairman of the
nominating committee for the Service was reorganized last fall
and at present includes 36 per,
Society.
Nominated to serve for three- sons. Because this Board has
years on the Jewish Social Serv- served only a few months, the
ice Bureau board are: Mrs. Theo- nominating committee, under the
(-lore Bargman, Mrs. Lewis B. chairmanship of Mrs. John C.
Daniels, Wilfred B. Doner, Leo I. Hopp, is recommending that all
Franklin, Mrs. Joseph Geschelin, of -them continue. To make for
Leonard Kasle, Daniel Mendel- continuity, the terms of the mem-
sohn, Dr. Irving Posner, and Mrs. bers have been staggered as fol-

Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Another Mazel Toy
Israel's admission to the UN, approved by the Security Council,
represents another landmark in the restoration of justice. Only the
cementing of friendly relations with the Arab states is left as -a step
for the completion of the cycle of Israel's rebirth as a nation. Now
begins the era of industrial development. It will require large public
funds and unlimited investments. Having said "Mazel Tov," we must
commence the grim task of providing the means necessary for state-
building. Our generation has the privilege of being the first in 2,000
years to • be able to rejoice unreservedly over the end of tragedy.
The least we can do out of gratitude is to be realistic and to provide
the sinews of peace-4n nrotecting Israel—in greater measure than
we gave for defense. The Mazel Tov is accompanied by a challenge
to make good on our responsibilities in the greatest era in Jewish
history.
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Cure Precedes the Plague
There is an old Yiddish saying that "Gott shikt die refueh • far
die makeh", that "the Almighty sends the cure before the infection."
The wisdom of this maxim has been in evidence throughout the
ages. When the Spanish were persecuting Jews, avenues of escape
were opened for Jews in Poland, Turkey, Holland. During the
worst days of Czarist pogroms in Russia, the United States was an
avenue of escape for Jews. Then came Israel with its cure for the
Nazi-created problem.
Israel, however, may be proving the cure also for American
Jewry. We have become so large in numbers, so self-satisfied in
our security, so abundant in our materialism, that we have begun
to stagnate. We have given vast sums of money for relief but we
retrogressed culturally. We lost the power that was innate in the
People of the Book. There is much more intermarriage than most
people realize, and without a leavening influence the inheritors of
a great culture stood in danger of rapid decline.
We are not completely saved from danger, but we have a much
better chance to throu0- 6 the cr . sis unscathed today than we
would have without Israel. With Israel, more heads are raised, more
Jews stand erect. There is a better chance for the advancement
-- ;/, the intorests
of Hebrew studies. The cure caire just in t
of the Jewish people and therefore for the benefit of this country
which needs the spirit of Israel of old.

L. Field, Mrs. Max Frank, Walter
Herz, Mrs. John C. Hopp, Mrs.
Julian H. Krolik, Judge Theodore
Levin, Nathan L. Milstein, David
I. Rosin, Milton Saffir, Mrs.
Henry Wineman, Rabbi Max J.
Wohlgelernter.
The nine nominees for mem:
bers-at-large of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation Board of Gov-
ernors are: Louis Berry, Mrs.
Hyman C. Broder, David J.
Cohen, Harvey H. Goldman, Mrs.
Benjamin E. Jaffe, Julian H.
Krolik, Theodore Levin, Max
Osnos and Abraham Srere.
Three-Part Program
The annual meeting will con-
sist of a three-part program. Four
forum sessions at 3:30 p.m. at the
Jewish Community Center; re-
ception and dinner for Dr. and
Mrs. William Haber from 6 to 8
p.m. in the auditorium of the
Center, and the business meet-
ing, which will feature Dr. Haber
as guest speaker, Dr. Haber will
discuss "What I Saw in Europe
and Israel—And What it Means
to Us in Detroit," a report on his
work ,as adviser on Jewish affairs
to the United States Army in
Europe.
The four forum sessions will
be devoted to: Health and Wel-
fare Services, Educational and
Cultural Services, Community
Relations Services and Overseas
Services.
All members of the Jewish
community are invited to attend
the annual meeting sessions.

Building Drive
Post Accepted
By Arthur Klein

Morris Karbal, chairman of the
community steering committee of
the Young Israel Youth Center
Building Campaign, announces
thdt Arthur Klein, president of
Claudette Chocolates, Inc., has ac-
cepted an appointment to head
the group of Dexter business men
who will actively support the

Fighting a Difficult Foe
There is an old story that is worth repeating. It is about Henry
Ward Beecher who was in England during the Civil War to plead
the cause of the Northern States. A heckler shouted to him: "Why
did you not whip your South in six months as you said you would?"
And Beecher replied: "Because we were fighting Americans and not
Englishmen."
We are applying it to the internal Jewish situation. It took
nearly as long to fight through the battle that existed in internal
Jewish ranks in America, during the UPA-UJA struggle as it did
for Israel to defeat the six Arab nations and the intransigent British
who supported them. It always will be more difficult to fight the
internal Jewish foe than the outside antagonists. It is harder to
fight Jews than Englishmen.
The moral? If we wish to avoid trouble, we must avoid inter-
necine fights.

A Word to Our Organizations and to Advertisers
If we are to have or :ler in Jewish life, we must avoid duplica-
tion of effort and the ove_,riapping of activities which involve our
communities in unnecessary expenses. Recently, Jewish editors
and publishers issued an appeal to national organizations' to curb
their publicity in the interest of economy. This appeal can be direc-
ted also to local groups which have made it a practice to publish
house organs in which they repeat the identical news which appears
in our community newspapers. It is a practige that should be aban-
doned. We already have pointed out that every "council," every
"league," every group in the community seeks to satisfy vanities
by publishing periodicals or bulletins. It is an unnecessary effort
which also is money-wasting, in view of the struggle of the Jewish
press to fulfill an important task for its communities.
The offenders might be curbed if advertisers would stop being
indiscriminate and would support their newspapers rather than
minute bulletins and programs. A local rabbi has even seen fit
to contact Members of Congress for special articles to be published
in special monthly bulletins offering European and Israeli inform-
ation-as if the existing newspaper does fill this need! Fortunately,
some Congressmen undertook to check on the validity of such re-
quests before offering their services to them. •
Organizations must avoid community disservice by abandoning
the urge of becoming "publishers" and by sticking to the purposes
for which they were created. Advertisers can be helpful by refusing
to encourage unnecessary bulletins. The community will benefit by
giving strength to its newspapers; it will suffer from overlapping
• and competitive schemes.

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ARTHUR KLEIN
building drive. Klein stated that
the first project will be to ac-
quaint the businessmen on Dex-
ter Boulevard with the nature of
Young Israel youth activities and
the manner in which the new
youth center will provide cultur-
al, recreational and social facili-
ties for Jewish youth of the com-
munity.
Committee teams are being set
up for the solicitation of build-
ing fund pledges by the Dexter
merchants, and a plaque will be
erected in the lobby of the Youth
Center bearing the names of
those business establishments
which aided Young Israel in its
construction effort.

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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 11, 1949

attainments in the field of
faculty of the United -Hebrew Jewish education have won for
Schools and heads of numerous himself and his colleagues an
organizations took occasion to enviable national reputation.*
honor Isaacs for his educational
"Of late, Isaacs has appeared
and literary works and on the in a new role—as a writer. In
occasion of the TOth anniversary the 12 stories and sketches con-
of his services to the Jewish com- tained in his book, "Between
munity.
Two Worlds," he unites our
Max Gordon, lifelong friend
two worlds—the old and the
and associate of Isaacs, in an
new in their two manifestations
evaluation of the new Hebrew
—the real and the fictional.
book, related important experi-
His art of writing is lyric in
ences in their lives upon which
its nature. He possesses a sen-
Isaacs drew for the delineation
sitive soul which reacts to all
of his characters. Isaacs, in his
aspects of life. He reveals a
response to the toasts, enlarged
deep knowledge and under-
upon the background of his
standing of the men and women
efforts.
he describes. He lives with
Abe Kasle; president of the his heroes in their little East
schools, greeted Isaacs on behalf European towns; accompanies
of the officers. Jean Rabotnick them on their tortuous road to
spoke for the student body. Mem- the metropolitan cities of
bers of the faculty who spoke at
America; depicts them in all
the dinner included Sol Kasdan their vicissitudes and stays with
and Norman Ruttenberg, presi-
them until he succeeds in plac-
dent and secretary of the Hebrew ing them in their proper set-
Teachers Association; Morris
ting in the new world.
Lachover, secretary of the
"I greet him most heartily. I
schools; A. J. Lachover, financial
.director of the schools, and am sure the book will be re-
Michael Michlin, who read a se- ceived most favorably by the
Hebrew readers and I hope and
lection from Isaacs' book.
Albert Elazar, associate super- pray that he will continue his
successful and fruitful iterary
intendent of the schools, ex-
pressed his appreciation for work."
Isaacs' contribution to Jewish ed- Among the guests at the din-
ucational efforts in this country ner were the members of Isaacs'
and declared that for many years family, his brother, Isidore, of
before coming to Detroit he and Jacksonville, Fla., and . Mrs.
educators throughout the land Isaacs' nephew, Edward Apple.
recognized Isaacs among the baum of New York.
leaders in their field.
There was a special message
Mrs. Julius Ring, speaking to the gathering from Jacob Pal-
for the Ladies' Auxiliary of man, who provided a fund for
Kvutzah Ivrith, presented Isa- partial publication of Isaacs'
acs with a check for 5300 for book.
the purchase of 100 copies of his
Special note was made by the
book to be sent to libraries toastmaster of the presence at
and to leaders and colonies in the dinner of Joseph Haggai,
'pioneer in Detroit's educational
Israel.
Joseph Katz spoke for Kvutzah services, who recently recovered
Ivrith. Mrs. Rose Gelfand greeted from illness, and Mrs. Haggai.
Isaacs in behalf of the Women's M. Goldoftas represented the
Auxiliary of the schools and Farband Folk Schools and there
Allen L. Weston spoke for the were messages from other schools
Alumni Association. Shirley in Detroit.
Sklash led in community singing
and Drora Selesny sang new Teachers Ask 'Oliver Twist'
Israeli songs. Philip Slomovitz
Removal. from Reading List
was toastmaster.
Scores of Detroiters and many
PERTH AMBOY, N. J., (JTA).
of Isaacs' friends from numerous
—A demand for the removal of
cities sent messages of greetings.
Dickens' "Oliver Twist" from the
Among the telegrams read at the
required reading - list of Perth
dinner were Hebrew greetings
Amboy High School was mode
from Prof. Hillel Bavli of New here to the Board of Education
York and Dr. Samuel Blumen- by the local Teachers Union. The
feld of Chicago.
union requested that the book be
A highlight of the dinner was replaced by a more suitable work
the reading of a message from -by Dickens because Fagin is pre-
Menahem Ribalow, editor of the sented in "Oliver Twist" as "the
Hebrew weekly Hadoar of New incarnation of everything evil"
York, which reads in part:
and is referred to "hundreds of
"Our friend, Isaacs, has times" as "the Jew."

Between You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

The Talk of New York
The talk of New York now is the original reception given by
the Israeli consulate . . . The affair will remain the talk of Gotham-
ites for quite a time .. . About 1,500 invitations were sent out to
everybody who is a somebody in Jewish life . . . But more than
3,500 people crowded the three floors of the Consulate building during
the five hours of the reception . . . One had to stand in line outside
the building for quite a time before reaching the entrance . . . There
was never anything like it before at any consulate . . . One could
meet in the line many Jewish dignitaries who were waiting their
turn to be admitted into the building . . . In fact, the -line looked like
a living and moving "Who's Who in American Jewry" ... They,
included Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, Judge
Simon H. Rifkind, the first advisor on Jewish affairs to the American
military government in Europe . . . Inside the consulate Zionists and
non-Zionists rubbed shoulders and shook hands with the Israeli.
Consul-General Arthur Lourie and Aubrey S. Eban, head of the
Israeli delegation at the United Nations ... The drinks and the hot
and cold delicacies were served for five hours continuously ... And
the air was full of expressions of greeting and good cheer . . . Sonle
of the Zionist leaders, usually not sentimental folk, were moved to
tears . . . They never expected to live to see in New York a consulate.
of •a Jewish state ... The entire affair was highly dignified and mai

an elevated plane.

