,•41.0r. fr `Caravan of Hope' Begins Tour To Mobilize U. S. Jewry for UJA 6—THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 8, 1949 AJC Mobilizes in Protest to Senate Women Prepare for 'The Day'; Plan Reaching 14,000 Prospects Under the leadership • of Mrs. in Israel for one month for some William B. Isgnberg, chairman of child. who has never known se- general solicitation, Women's Di- curity. It also means two weeks vision workers will be "ringing of nourishing food for a young Mobilization of all local forces doorbells" on The Day, Sunday, refugee family of four who are among the 2,000 "lucky" ones to was undertaken this week by the reach the United States monthly." Detroit Division of the American Jewish Congress, headed by Al- Mrs. Harry L. Jones is in bert Silber, and the Women's Di- charge of auxiliary planning and vision, Mrs. Samuel Green, presi- organization for The Day. dent, to have the United States Workers and contidbutors in Senate conduct a public investi- the Women's. Division are invited gation of the policies and prac- to attend the closing meeting of tices of the military government the women's campaign and the in the United States Zone of Ger- opening of the trade and pro- many. fessional clrive at 8 p.m. Sunday, Among those who have prom- April 24, at the Book Cadillac. ised to co-operate with the Con- Featured speaker will be Moshe gress are the Council of Ortho- Shertok,_ foreign minister of dox Rabbis in Detroit as well as Israel. " leading Conservative and Reform religious leaders who will devote Passover sermons to this topic. . The Congress expresSed alarm at the virtual halt of the denazi- fication hearings and war crime trials and the commutation of sentences for such notorious war criminals as Ilse Koch and ac- quitals for such figures • as Fritz Kuhn and Franz on Papen. • Petitions are available to all groups and organizations and may be secured by writing to Sam Brown, executive director, at the Congress office, 9124 Lin- wood. * * * Thousands of New 'Yorkers filled Pennsylvania station Sun- day to bid farewell to the United Jewish Appeal's "Caravan of Hope" train carrying Israeli war heroes and American communal leaders on a special tour to mobi- lize nationwide support for the UJA's $250,000,000 campaign. The "Caravan of Hope" pulled out of Pennsylvania Station at three o'clock with Mischa Elman, the noted violinist; Jacob Sincoff, national co-treasurer of the United Jewish Appeal, and Lt. Col. Mati Dagan, member of the Israeli Army General Staff and Lt. Hertzela Chalfon, officer of a woman's army unit in Israel, as its principal passengers. The purpose of the "Caravan of Hope" trains which departed simultaneously from New York, San Francisco, Boston and four other major cities is to dramatize the program- of transferring hun- dreds of thousands of homeless Jews to Israel from the DP camps and other parts of Europe and providing for rehabilitation over- seas and for refugee aid in the United States this year. Special exhibits on the trains will depict the work of agencies of the United Jewish Appeal in carrying on this worldwide humanitarian Rabbis Appeal for Passover Observance By Jewish Bakeries The Council of Orthodox Rab- bis, as part of its program of supervising kashrut, has issued a call urging the ofllowing: 1. Bakeries should . close not later than 9:30 a.m. next Wednes- day for the Passover and should remain closed until 8 p.m. Thurs- day, April 13, when they are to begin preparations for next day's baking. Baking with yeast is not to begin-before 8 p.m. on April 21, otherwise the- bread and pas- tries will be considered non- kosher. 2. Bakeries are to refrain froM preparing in advance large qaun- tities of macaroons which cus- tomers unknowingly purchased for Passover. 3. Chometz is to be sold not later than at 9 a.m. on April 13. Pioneer Women Present Gift to David Ben Gurion . As an anniversary gift to Is- rael on May 4, its first birthday as a Jewish State, Pioneer Wom- en, the Women's Labor Zionist Organization of America, will present to David Ben Gurion, Israeli Prime Minister, an Album of $100 Certificates inscribing his name in the Golden Book of the Keren Kayemeth (Jewish Nation- al Fund). z. • .; • effort. The trains will visit a total of about 150 cities and towns dur- ing the next three weeks. One of the trains will visit Detroit on April 17. At special dedication ceremon- ies held in the Pennsylvania sta- tion an hour before the depar- ture of the Caravan, Council President Vincent Impellitteri de- clared that New York feels a close bond of . kinship with the people of Israel because for some 300 years "this city, like the State of Israel of today, has been and continues to be a haven for the homeless and oppressed:" Detroiters Receive National JWV Posts ' Meyer Dorfman, national com- mander of the Jewish War Vet- erans of the United States, rec- ently appointed the following local members of JWV t_o nation- al posts: Deputy chief of staff, Leon Ginsburg; deputy service officer, Ben Desenberg; deputy patriotic instructor, Maurice Bordelove; deputy surgeon, Dr. John M. Horwitz; deputy finance commit- tee member, Hyman Safran; deputy encampment committee member, Phil. Cantor; deputy in- spector, Heeny. Littman; deputy athletic chairman, Sol Hoberman; deputy recruiting officer, Mars- ton Busch (Lansing); deputy hos- pitalization committee member, Evelyn Pollack; deputy rehabili- tation committee member, Jerome Baseman; deputy Americanism committee members, Walter Klein and Joseph Jones; deputy aid, Harry Paskovitz; deputy judge advocate, .Arthur Lang; deputy Boy Scout chairman, Sanford Rothman; deputy aid, Herman Cohen; chairman of membership committee, Harold F. Moran; deputy associate haplain, Rabbi Morris Adler. Holiday Deadline Since The Jewish News of- fice will be closed April 14 and 15 and April 20 and 21 for the Passover holiday, contributors are asked to note the following special deadlines: For the inssue of Friday, April 15, deadline for photo- graphs, 10 a.m. Monday, April 11; for copy, 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 11; for classified ads, 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 12. For the issue of Friday, April 22, deadline for photographs, 10 a.m. Monday, April 18; for copy, 1:30 p.m. Monday, April 18; for classified ads, 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 19. FREE.. . MRS. WILLIAM B. ISENBERG April 24, in the drive to cover 14,000 prospects in one great day of giving. Two thousand women are ex- pected to participate in the calls upon more than 14,000 general solicitation prospects. "The aim of every solicitor will be to secure pledges of at least 10c a day," Mrs. Isenberg said, "because even 10c a day will provide clothing for a DP boy and girl on his way to Israel. Ten cents a day also will buy good food in an agricultural settlement . Mildred Grosberg Bellin's JEWISH COOK BOOK By Securing Two NEW Subscribers to The Jewish News. 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