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April 15, 1949 - Image 21

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1949-04-15

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The Young Adult Community

Harvey Weisberg Heads Michigan's
Region of National Student Assn.

President of the Michigan Re-
gion of the National Student As-
sociation is Harvey Weisberg,
University of Michigan law stu-
dent.
„Under his direction fall a host
of Michigan colleges including
the University of Detroit, Wayne,
University of Michigan, Mercy,
Marygrove, Highland Park Junior
College, Sienna Heights, Detroit
Tech, Detroit College, of Law,
Aquinas of Grand Rapids, Cen-
tral Michigan, Western Michigan
and Michigan Tech at Houghton.
Elected last fall at the second
NSA national convention at Madi-
son, Wis., Weisberg is responsible
for carrying out the NSA pro-
grams in the fields of student life,
educational problems and inter-
national affairs in the Michigan
area. -
Started in 1947 as the expres-
sion of various U. S. student
groups for one National Union of
Students to concern itself with
the problems of American col-

Beth El Youths
Schedule Election

Members of Temple ,Beth El
Young People's Club are urged
to be present rat the Temple at
2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 24, when
election of officers will be held.
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer will ad-
dress the election meeting on the
subject "Pathways to Maturity."
The election committee pointed
out that identification by mem-
bership cards will be necessary
for voting. The following slate
has been named by the nominat-
ing committee: President, Albert
Coleman; vice president, 4rry
Stenbuck; secretaries, Eva Bach,
Madeleine Levenberg; treasurer,
Dorothy Stiglitz, Eleanor Heil-
bronner; members-at-large, Hen-
ry Schiffer, Mary Lou Kleinman.
Additional nominations will be
accepted from the floor.
An afternoon dance and re-
freshments will follow the meet-
ing.

Labor Zionist Branch
Holds Pesach Program

Branch Daniel Yosef (11) of the
Labor Zionist Organization, will
hold a Pesach program Friday,
April 15, featuiing Jewish leg-
ends about the festival and two
current events films on Israel.
On April 16, the branch will
participate as a unit in the
Habonim third Seder.
A sports program - and camp-
fire are planned for Sunday, at
Camp Farband and Kvutza Kin-
neret. Members planning to at-
tend will meet at 11 a.m. at Elm-
hurst and 14th. Anyone wishing
to participate may call Esther
Zeitak, TO. 6-2184.

Read Special Haggadah
At Fifth Habonim Seder

,
A special Haggadah prepared
on the pattern of the Israeli. kib-
butz Haggadah will be read at
the fifth annual Habonim Third
Seder Saturday evening at the
Jewish Center.
An original play and a pre-
sentation of Israeli songs and
dances will be featured. Rabbi
Moses Lehrman of Cong. Bnai
Moshe will be guest speaker.
Traditional • Passover refresh-
ments will be served.

Transjordan Pact Hails
Reopening of Hospital

NEW YORK, (JTA) — T h e
Israeli-Transjordan a r mist ice
agreement "heralds the reopen-
ing of the Hadassah Hospital
located on the hill outside Jeru-
salem," a statement issued by
Mrs. Samuel W. Halprin, presi-
dent of Hadassah, said. Physic-
ians, nurses and patients had
been denied access to the Mt.
Scopus hospital for more than
a year, the statement added.

Book Review Highlights
Junior Hadassah Fete

lege students, NSA now boasts a
membership of 286 universities
representing 900,000 American
students.
The NSA is non-religious and
non-sectarian, dedicated to "main-
tain academic freedom and stu-
dent rights, to stimulate and im-
prove democratic student govern-
ments, to develop better educa-
tional standards, facilities and
teaching methods, to promote in-
ternational understanding and
fellowship, to guarantee to all
people because of their inherent
dignity as individual, equal rights
and possibilities for education re-
gardless of sex, race, religion,
political belief or economic cir-
cumstance."
In keeping with its principles,
NSA has as its president • Ted
Harris, a Negro Catholic from
Pennsylvania, and as one of its
vice presidents Eugene Schwartz
of New York.
The United Nations has also
given an NSA representative a
seat on the executive board of its
UNESCO committee and the Na-
tional Educators Association has
asked NSA to participate in its
activities.
NSA acts as a bulwark against
Communism on many American
campuses' by training young stu-
dents how to become leaders and
assume responsibility.
The next major function of
NSA in the Michigan region will
be a human relations clinic at
Wayne University, April 30-31
and May 1 for students and edu-
cators from the midwestern area
of the U. S.

.

Jean Quidd will review Robert
St. John's "Shalom Means Peace,"
at the "just-us-girls" meeting of
Junior Hadassah at 12:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 17, at the home of
Bette Shanbrom, 3316 Glynn Ct.
Israeli songs and dances, a
"coffee turn-in" toward the Mey-
er Shefeyah fund-raising project,
and refreshments will complete
the program.
Girls interested in membership
may call Shirley Schubiner, pres-
ident, TO. 6-7687, or membership
chairman Helen Karabenick, TO.
8-4966.

Jewish Youths Urged
To Study in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (MNB) --Young
people between 17 and 20 years
of age must be encouraged to
come and study in Jerusalem
even though they ultimately in-
tend to return to their -homes in
the diaspora, Rabbi Meir Bar-
Ilan, World Mizrachi president,
recently told a delegation of U. S.
Jewish leaders.
Funds should be collected, he
added, for the building of edi-
fices for synagogues, yeshivot,
schools and for the equipment
of student hostels.

Northwest Youths Hold
Cabaret Party Auditions

Auditions have been completed
for the Club Me-Ting to be spon-
sored by the Northwest Youth
Group June 4.
Young people aged 14 to 20. who
did not have an opportunity to
audition may still contact Louise
Young Israel Group
Helfott, UN. 1-3532, or Beverly
Holds Cultural .Event
Goldfine, TO. 9-1178.
The youth grosup will meet
Sunday' evening, ' April 17, at Thursday, April 21.
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Platt, the young adults of Young
Art Displays Scheduled
Israel will hold a cultural meet-
At Wayne University
ing.
Plans are being organized by
A one-man show of paintings
Rabbi Boruch Helfgott, Leon
Burg and Ray Rabinowitch. The and drawings by Selma Neiman,
gathering will be utilized to wel- Wayne University Jr., - is being
come home former members re- held on the second floor of the
siding in other cities, who have Wayne' art education building,
returned to Detroit for the holi- 5015 Cass.
From April 18 to 31, crayon
days.
Upon the departure of Mrs. drawings from the Highland Park
Paul Wrotslaysky, treasurer, with High School, done under super-
her husband, to establish resi- vision of art instructors Lillian
dence in Mexico City,,Hinda Pen- Taylor and Cyril Aronson, will
be on display at the art building.
fil was appointed to the post.

Survey Reveals Spurt
In Zionist Study Classes

NEW YORK, (Palcor)—Al-
most 250 regularly sustained
classes and courses for adults
sponsored by Zionist districts in
all parts of the country attest
to a recent spurt in Zionist edu-
cational activity, according to
a survey of the Zionist Organ-
ization of America in New York.

Rayos Girls Election

At a business meeting March
31, at Beth Shmuel Synagogue,
the Rayos Girls elected new of-
ficers, as follows: Helen Levine,
president; Noah Mandlebaum,
vice president; Helen Apple-
baum, secretary, -and Mary Moer-
man, treasurer. The club is at
present planning a games party
to raise funds for Young Israel.

THE JEWISH NEWS - 2r.

nnai Brith Youth
Will Hear Russel

Friday, April 15, 1949

Harold Russel, Academy Award
winner and famed U.S. Army
veteran, will be principal speaker
at the 25th anniversary celebra-
tion of the Bnai Brith Youth Or-
ganization at 8 p.m. Sunday, May
1, at the Jewish Center.
An exponent of better human
relations, Russel's message will
be on this subject, which has be-
come the theme of the BB YO
silver jubilee. The organization,
and its component groups—Aleph
Zadick Aleph, Bnai Brith Girls,
Bnai Brith Young Men and Bnai
Brith Young Women—will be re-
dedicated to the promotion of bet-
ter human relations during the
anniversary celebration.
A committee of young people
under the chairmanship of Irving
Berg, president of the Detroit-
Windsor BEY() Council, is assist-
ing an adult Bnai Brith commit-
tee in planning the event.

*"Youth and Judaism" will be
the theme of a seminar to be pre-
sented by the Junior Congrega-
tion of Shaarey Zedek, at 8 p. m.
Thursday, April 21, in the social
hall of the synagogue.
The program will include talks
by Rabbi Morris Adler and three
youth speakers. The panel will
discuss "How Judaism Can Be Al-
lied More with Everyday Life."
A question period will follow.
Community singing and dancing
will round out the evening. The
seminar is open to all youth of
Detroit.

Passover Greetings

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cabinet decided to take far-
reaching measures, including sub-
stantial loans, for the rehabilita-
tion of Israel's citrus industry.
The industry suffered greatly as
a result of the war and the man-
power shortage.

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