Dr. Wei zmann and "The 25 Who 'Rule the World" Read Commentator's Column on Page 2 NEWS HE A Weekly Review ~~~ fiii of Jewish Events VOLUME 15—No. 12 2114 Penobscot Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1 1 55 Detroit 26, Michigan, June 3, 1949 Detroit's 1949 Confirmands, Consecrants and Graduates On Page 28 ogey1.7 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c Drive Reaches $5 Million Mark; Extended to Secure Full Quota A determined group of Allied Jewish Campaign work- ers, meeting at the Jewish Center on Tuesday evening at a gathering that originally was intended to serve as the con- cluding session of the 1949 drive, resolved to continue with solicitations until the entire $6,395,000 is reached. While the total announced at Tuesday's meeting was $4,- 844,810-76 per cent of the goal and 70 per cent of the pros- pects—campaign leaders stated that a number of reported pledges were certain to boost the total on hand now to well over the $5,000,000 mark raised thus far. Nearly 16,000 prospective contributors remain to be solicited, and the drop in the amount secured so far, compared with last year's $5,800,000 total, has been attributed to the failure of some workers to fulfill their responsibilities to see their prospects. Isadore Sobeloff, executive director of the campaign, stated at Tuesday's meeting that $1,000,000 in last year's giving has not yet been reported on, and it depends on the workers whether the drive is to succeed or fail." He added that from all indications the drive will succeed; because of the determinedgroup of star workers in the drive. itAz.0));m4s ,alktigt:014,60, . Mr. Sobeloff announced that the drive was extended home of the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at Ann Arbor, until next Thursday evening when Golda Myerson, Min- Architect's drawing of proposed new ister of Labar in the Israel Government, will be guest to be built at a cost of $350,000. speaker at a dinner meeting of campaign workers at the Ben Paul Brasley, prominent Pittsburgh receipt of additional gifts from alumni, Tuller Hotel. The hope has been expressed that sufficient attorney and communal leader, has donated community leaders, and parents of stu- funds will be secured by next Thursday to achieve success $50,000 to the building fund of the Bnai dents attending the University of Michigan. in this year's drive. Some workers, however, stated that . The campaign, will continue into the fall Brith. Hillel Foundation at the University they would carry on for weeks, if necessary, until the goal at which time plans will be underway for . of MiChigan in Ann Arbor. is reached. An alumnus of the University of Michi- the breaking of ground for the new struc- Louis Berry, general chairman of the 1949 campaign, ture, Irwin I. Cohn, Detroit attorney and gan, Law Class of 1906, Mr. Brasley speci- declared that this has been, a good drive and that the 1948 Chairman of the Building Fund Drive, an- fied that his donation be used as the be- giving can be increased if the workers refuse to tire in their "ginning of a - special building fund of nounced. last efforts. Participating in the drive are also the $350,000 for the erection of a new Hillel. Rabbi Morris Adler, guest speaker at Tuesday's meeting, Foundation on the campus of the uni- following members of the bbard of the paid tribute to the efforts of Mr. Berry and said that "it has versity, Hillel • Foundation; Osias Zwerdling, Ann been a good campaign because it had good leadership." • He The new building, designed by T. Rog- Arbor, president; Louis H. Schostak, secre- sounded a strong appeal for the State of Israel and declared voy, Detroit architect, will include a chapel that her burdens are the responsibility of all Jew's who must tary, and Herman S. Osnos, treasurer, De- seating 200, a student lounge, a music see to it that-those who have been tortured are permitted to room and library, a recreation room, class- troit ; Louis Berry, Aaron Droock, Sidney go to the only place that is ready to welcome them. rooms, as welt as complete facilities for J. Karbel, Abe Kasle, Henry Wineman, and "Rabbi Adler declared that "the responsibility is ours the religious; social, cultural and coun- Harry Yudkoff, Detroit ; Abe Draisin, because we are the larger, the wealthier community; because selling program that Hillel sponsors on Grand Rapids; Louis Glick, Jackson; John we have not known at a distance the tortures that the sur- 195 campuses all over the country. vivors had endured. What we are asked to do is more than Rabbi Herschel Lymon, director of the Merdler; Saginaw ; William Present, Lan- a responsibility; it is a privilege. We shall not rest. We are Michigan Hillel Foundation, has announced sing; and Herbert 0. Schlager, Ann Arbor. going to meet the need. There is no higher charity than to make charity unnecessary— and that is our aim in this drive—to help the survivors become self-supporting and become masters of their own destiny." "We have survived the Treblinkas and stand at the graves of our tormentors, but The Jewish News dedi we must prove that we can survive the trials and tests of cates this issue to the lib er atio n," Rabbi Adler Confirrnands, Cons e- warned. The total reported raised at crants a n d Graduates Tuesday's meeting included the sum of $4,165,468 report- of congregational and ed by Irving Blumberg for community school s. the trade and professional division; $584,656 reported by May the - new era of Mrs. Henry Wineman for the Women's Division; $59,000 freedom for Israel in- reported by Lawrence Fleischman for the Junior Di- spire them to uninter vision and $5,686 announced by Joseph Bernstein for the rupted consecration to organizations. the cause. of Jewish Abraham Srere, speaking briefly at the Tuesday rally, Learning, to give moved a standing vote ' of strength and new mean- Clanks to Mr. Berry. The workers also acclaimed Jo- ing to the prophetic seph Holtzman for his untir- ing efforts. words: "Out of. Zion Among those who reported shall go forth the Law, at Tuesday's rally were Sam- uel H. Rubiner, John Isaacs, and the word of the Joseph Gendelman, George Seyburn, Paul Zuckerman, Lord from Jerusalem." "The Lord recompense thy work, and a full re- Judge William Friedman, ward be given thee of the Lord God . (RUTH . ." I: IQ Paul Broder„ Pittsburgh Attorney Gives $50,000 Toward New U.M.Hillel Building . - SIIEVUOTH 5709-1949 -