Community Mobilized to Celebrate
Israel's First Anniversary ay 15
Cantors, Consuls, Ben-Ilan,
Rabbi Adler, JWV on Program
The entire Jewish community is being mobilized for the
demonstration to be held on Sunday, May 15, at 2:15 p.m.,
to honor the first anniversary of the establishment of the
State of Israel.
It is expected that 10,000 people will attend this event
at the State Fair Coliseum; Woodward and Eight-Mile Road.
Organized under the joint. --
auspices of the Zionist Council
and the Jewish Community
Council, all Jewish organizations
are lending their support to this
event, on a scale comparable
with the celebration that was
held at Central High Field on
May 16, 1948.
Sidney Shevitz, president of
the Zionist Council; will pre-
side at the program. T h e
principal speakers will be
Rabbi Morris Adler and Ben-
Zion Ilan, former Haganah
leader who lived in a Jewish
kibbutz for a number of years.
Dan has been designated. by
Israel's Ambassador to the, U.S.
Eliahu Elath as his personal
representative at the Detroit
celebration.
Veteran of the Haganah and
of the Jewish Brigade and an
American chalutz, Ilan partici-
pated in the North African and
Italian Campaigns and was in
Europe with the liberating forces
of the Brigade. He subsequently
represented the Jewish Palestine
as one of its delegates at the
Pan Asiatic Conference of La-
bor organizations.
There will be greetings by
labor leaders, George Edwards,
president of the Detroit Com-
mon Council, and spokesmen for
the State of Michigan.
Massing of the Colors by the
Jewish War Veterans and pre-
sentation of the Israel Flag by
Israeli veterans will be among
the afternoon's colorful features.
M. Goldoftas is in charge of
a portion of the program to
be conducted by the youth.
All youth groups and 16 Jew-
ish schools are assisting in
planning this program. The
United Hebrew Schools, Yid-
dish Folk Schools, Farband
Schools, Sholem Aleichem
Schools, the Yeshivah, Shaa-
rey Zedek, Temple Beth El and
Temple Israel schools, Young
Israel, Habonim and Hashomer
Hatzair are cooperating with
Mr. Goldoftas in these ar-
rangements.
BEN - ZION ILAN
Branch 114, JNWA,
Celebrates Israel Day
At Banquet Sunday .
Branch 114 of Jewish National
Workers Alliance will hold its
annual banquet at 6:30 p.
Sunday, at the Labor Zionist
Institute.
In observance of the first an-
niversary of the establishment
of the Jewish State, a special
program is planned. Irving
Rosengard will sing a group of
songs in Hebrew and Yiddish,
with Vivian Kozenn as piano
accompanist.
Sam Hochman will read selec-
tions from Peretz and Sholem
Aleichem. Louis Levine will lead
in community singing. M. Gold-
oftas will preside and the Israeli
Declaration of Independence
will be read.
Members of the branch _ , their
families and friends are invited.
For information call .the secre-.
taries, Mrs. T. Krashin, TY. 7-
2233, or B. Naimark, TO. 6-7148.
Workmen's Circle
Honors 3 Citizens
A musical program will be
presented by the 18 members of
the Detroit Cantors' Association,
with Dan Frohman as director
and Rebekah Fr ohm an as
pianist.
Three .prominent citizens will
be given awards of plaques by
Workmen's Circle Branch, 463E,
at a banquet Sunday evening,
May 15, at 11529 Linwood.
The members of the Detroit
The three are Council Presi-
Consular Corps will be guests dent George Edwards; former
of honor at this celebration.
director of the Jewish Commun-
The Letter Carriers' Band will ) ity Council Oscar Cohen, and
be on the prograin.
assistant corporation counsel
Emma Schaver, popular De- James Lee.
troit soprano, is expected to lead
The award is an annual affair,
in the singing of the , national designed to honor persons who
anthems.
have made outstanding contri-
Admission to this celebration butions to the community. This
will be free and parents are is the third year of its presenta-
asked to bring their children to tion. Previous winners were
participate in.this historic event. Walter Reuther, Arthur Elder,
The committee on arrange- Frances V. Smith, Al Renner,
ments urges all Detroit Jews to Agnes Inglis • and Emil Mazey.
display the American and Israel
Cohen, who recently left De-
flags on this day.
troit to continue work in the
Irving Schlussel, chairman of human relations field in New
the program committee, urges York, was director of the Coun-
that all organizations in Detroit cil for two years. He was chos-
mark this date and plan for a en because of his work in the
mass turn-out. "By a large scale Twelfth street area.
tribute to the achievements of
Edwards was selected because
Israel, Deroit's Jews can express of his • idealism in city politics.
their own joy and at the same In making the award, it was
time reaffirm their dedication pointed out that he has brought
to democracy in all lands," "a new concept" to municipal
Schlussel stated.
government.
Lee was given the award be-
cause of a quarter-century-long
battle for the consumers against
rate increase efforts of public
utilities.
Between You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright 1949, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Political Notes
The request voiced by the Pope that Jerusalem be interna-
tionalized is not favored by the American delegation at the United
Nations . . . Nor does the British delegation at the UN intend
to stand by its previous demand for the internationalization of
the city . . . Britain is being pressured by King Abdullah of Trans-
jordan to agree to the division of Jerusalem between Israel and
Transjordan . . . And the Israeli delegation: at the Arab-Jewish
conference which is now taking place at Lausanne under the aus-
pices of the UN Conciliation Commission has a definite plan re-
garding division of the city . . . The plan provides that the new
section of Jerusalem, as well as the Jewish quarter in the Old
City, should become a part of Israel . . . The remainder, consisting
of the Moslem and Christian quarters of the Old City, should be
ceded to Transjordan . .. However, the Holy Places should be en-
trusted to a special mixed committee composed of representatives
of Israel and Transjordan, under the supervision of the United
Nations . . . This is in line with the "Weizmann formula" on Jeru-
salem which the Israeli President enunciated in New York.
Domestic Issues
Trees For. Israel
Chapter I Presents
JNF Benefit Sunday
Chapter I, ZOD, will present
an evening of entertainment at
8:30 p.m., Mother's Day, Sunday,
May 8, for persons who that eve-
ning purchase one or more trees
to be planted in Israel. The pro-
grani will be presented at the
Jewish Community Center audi-
torium.
Mistress of ceremonies for the
evening will be Leah Duchin,
Jewish National Fund chairman
for Chapter I. Star of the eve-
ning will be Moe Kessner, "Am-
bassador of Jewish Song".
The dramatic group's offering
for the evening, directed by
Elaine Mevis, director of dra-
matics at Northeastern High
School, will be "And the Villian
Still Pursued Her." The cast in-
cludes Sol Kroll; Willie Shan-
field, Morris Cutler, Betty Tan-
nis, Dora Mandelbaum and Joe
Wilner.
Other features of the evening
will include a specially created
dance number and other musi-
cal entertainment. Social danc-
ing follow.
No less than 15 national committees are now working on the
implementation of the decisions adopted at the General Assembly
of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds . . . They
are composed of 250 lay and professional leaders from all parts
of the country . . . The major problems facing Jewish communi-
ties will receive priority attention from these committees -. . . One
of these committees is now exploring methods of attaining more
unified national fund-raising . . . The same committee is working
toward the objective of achieving closer partnership between na-
tional over-seas agencies and local communities .. . Also toward
eliminating duplication and over-lapping of functions . . . An-
other committee is working in the direction of checking the multi-
plicity of independent campaigns which is widely recognized as
harming the United Jewish Appeal . . . The possibility of estab 7-
lishing a "National Jewish Welfare Fund" is also being seriously
studied .. . One of the CJFWF committees is busy tackling the
plan calling for more analytical and independent studies of bene-
ficiary agency programs and costs . . . Another committee is 2—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 6, 1949
studying salaries and personnel practices,
AJC Heads compare Notes
LOUIS BERRY, general Allied Jewish Campaign chairman,
compares campaigning notes with CHARLES FRUCHTMAN of
Toledo, while JOHN ISSACS, Services Division chairman, looks
on, preceding the opening meeting of the 1949 Allied Jewish
Campaign Sunday, April 23,
Purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Divided Loyalties and Multiple Loyalties
"Taken in" by Arab and Jewish anti-Zionist propagandists, a
number of well known Christian Americans have joined a cam-
paign of calling the American Jew a "hyphenate" and a "partially
Americanized American, with the' result that Rabbi Edward E.
Klein of the Free Synagogue of New York found it necessary to
defend Jewish loyalties and to make this statement in a recent
sermon:
Politically American Jews have one loiyalty—loyalty to the
United States of America and its constitution. Politically, the
Israelis have one loyalty—loyalty to Medinat Israel and its new
constitution. Culturally, religiously, American Jews and our
Israeli brothers are related—related by a bond of kinship born
of love and common history. Between the two there must be
what Louis Adamic calls a "two-way passage."
We live in an age in which multiple loyalties are necessary.
Loyalty to City, State and Nation are not mutually exclusive,
. loyalty to family does not preclude loyalty to one's country.
And, in a larger sense, loyalties and devotions which cut across
continents and seas may yet form the network of brotherhood
which will build the Parliament of Man.
It is, of course, highly regrettable that it' should become
necessary, at this time, when the improverished Jewish com-
munity in Israel—the only one in the world that welcomes the
survivors from Nazism—is struggling for existence, to fight
against the shocking and outrageously destructive activities of
a Jewish anti 2-Zionist group.
The question of loyalties, however, can—as it should—be
discussed dispassionately and reasonably. There are certain
principles involved which must not be overlooked. For instance,
this great country for many years boasted of the fact that it
had multiple cultures, that the numerous natility groups which
make up our great population have contributed a great deal to-
wards the genius of America.
Americans, who can rise above pettiness, are not alone in.
feeling this way. Here is a good example of rational thinking
by a non-Jew. Dr. T. Osborne, South African M. P. and a prom.-
inent spokesman for the- South African Labor Party, believes
that loyalties should be divided. in the cultural sense. Writing
under the heading "Loyalties Should be Divided" for the South
African Magazine Jewish Affairs, Dr. Osborne makes this interest-
ing statement:
This racial diversity, which so alarms us while we live in
scarcity and one race competes with the others for its survival,
this same racial diversity will be one of our main assets. When
we come to take the material background to living for granted,
when every family in the country, black and white, Jew and
Gentile, Boer and Briton, has three good meals a day and en-
ough clothes and a reasonable house and as many gadgets as
they need to keep them amused and comfortable, then, and
only then will the things- of the spirit come into their own.
Then, in our music and art and literature,,-,', and humor and
scholarship, it will add greatly to our colorfulness and vigor, that
the people of this country have a variety of national origins,
that some have Jewish folklore behind them, and others have
Bantu, and others English and Scots and Afrikaner. This
variety of approach, of tradition, of treatment will give to our
national life a richness which the simpler, more homogeneous,
nations will find it hard to match. In addition, it will guaran:-
tee us against that personal and cultural standardization which
threatens to make the modern World a bleak world.
In fact what is now our greatest headache will become our
greatest advantage when the different sections of our com-
munity no longer elbow each other out of the way and. no
longer quarrel round a small dish which contains too' little to go
round.
In both Dr. Osborne's and Rabbi Klein's statements there' is
truth and wisdom. The genius of America, as we have indicated,
is due to just such a mixture of cultures as Dr. Osborne has des-
cribed in his splendid article. Israel may become very great be-
cause the Jewish State draws upon so many cultural backgrounds.
Unfortunately, bigots are making themselves heard in this
country and instead of prosperity for 'Multiple cultures we have
fear of the immigrant—a: fear which does not belong in the
rational mind but which, nonetheless, has gained root in a few
stupid heads as well as among men whom we believed to be liberals
and sane thinkers (VanDeusen, Coffin, Norman Thomas among
them) but who instead turned out to be as unreasonable as the
average anti-Semite. Our faith in libertarian ideals and in
America leads us to believe, however, that better judgments will