Committee's Task Was. Difficult
1Yanich Wins State Zionist
1-Year Israel Fellowship
THE JEWISH NEWS-5
Friday, June 3, 1949
Move Underway
To Bring Frozen
Meat to Detroit
The Internal Relations Com-
mittee of the Jewish Community
Council reviewed the activities
of the sub committee on Kosher
meat. Reports were given by
Robert Nathans, chairman of
the subcommittee and Julius
Weinberg, internal relations di-
rector.
Nathans reported on the ac-
tivities of the anti-trust division
of. the federal government con-
cerning the sale of Kosher meat
in Philadelphia.
Weinberg reported on the re-
cent activities of the Kosher
Meat Women's Action Commit-
tee, and the negotiations for
frozen Kosher meat to be
brought here.
He said : "The women's cam-
paign to refrain from purchas-
ing meat costing over 70c a
pound no doubt will convince
Kosher butchers the consumer
From left to right: Dr. Albert I. Rabin, associate professor
.and directok of Clinic, Department of Psychology, Michigan State is a factor to be considered in
College; Prof. Samuel M. Levin, chairman, Department of Eco-
nomics, Wayne University; Dr. A. M. Hershman (chairman), Rabbi
Emeritus, Cong. Shaarey Zedek; Morris M. Jacobs (Ex Officio),
president, Michigan Zionist Region; and Julius Stulberg, head of
Department of Music, Western Michigan College, Kalamazoo. Not
shown in the picture is Dr. William Haber, Department of Eco-
nomics, University of Michigan.
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Joseph I. Yanich, prominent young Detroit Zionist, was
selected as the winner of the $2,500 fellowship for one
year's study and work in Israel by the Michigan Zionist Re-
gion fellowship committee last week, it was announced by
Dr. A. M. Hershman; chairman of the committee.
Yanich, Detroit director of the
Young Judaea clubs, affiliated
with the Detroit Zionist Youth
Commission, was chosen from
among many applicants.
Dr. Hershman said:
"The committee's task was ex-
tremely difficult due to the ex-
cellent abilities and aptitudes of
the many applicants for the
award."
Prominent Educators
caliber that we would have sent
them all if we could."
Morris M. Jacobs also said
that he was only sorry that the
Michigan Zionist Region was not
able to award more of these fel-
lowships to Michigan students.
Thanks Committee
"We will make every attempt,
however, to obtain at least two
and maybe more fellowships
next year," Mr. Jacobs added.
Dr. Hershman thanked the
members of the committee 'for
their participaCon in the dif-
ficult task of selecting the win-
ner and said:
"Each member of the commit-
tee added a distinctive note to
our work which made the task
more pleasant and kept our de-
liberations on a fine intellectual
level."
The committee consisted of
the following prominent educa-
tors in the state:
Dr. A. M. Hershman, chair-
man, Rabbi Emeritus, Cong.
Shaarey Zedek.
Dr. William Haber, Depart-
ment of Econorhics, University of
Michigan.
Prof. Samuel M. Levin, chair-
man, Department of Economics,
Wayne University.
Dr. Albert I. Rabin, associate
professor and director of Clinic,
Department of Psychology,
Michigan State College. -
Julius Stulberg, head of De-
partment of M u s i c, Western
Michigan. College, Kalamazoo.
Special to The Jewish News
Saul Gottlief, secretary of the
WASHINGTON, D.. C. — Con-
committee, regional d i r e c t o r,
gressman John D. Dingell of De-
Michigan Zionist Region.
Morris M. Jacobs, Ex Officio, troit told the editor of the Jew-
president, Michigan Zionist Re- ish News last Friday that he
and a group of friends of the
gion.
• Yanich will leave for Israel State of Israel hope to secure
with winners from other Zionist additional finMicial support in
this country for the infant state
Regions about June 15.
Yanich, formerly president of to assure for it security in the
the Wayne chapter of the In- resettlement of hundreds of
tercollegiate Zionist Federation thousands of homeless Jews.
"Israel is saving our. country
of America, will devote six
. months of his time in Israel to large sums of money which we
organize trips throughout the would have spent for support of
countr y, classes of intensive DP's if they had not been re-
study in the Hebrew language moved to the JeWish State,"
and literature, history, Palestin- Rep. Dingell said. "We must see
ography, sociology of Israel, and to it that this State of Israel
Jewish life generally. The other is a success in order to end
six months will be spent in par- the tragedy of the• displaced and
ticipation in the daily life and the victims of the Nazis."
work of an agricultural colony.
Golda Myerson to Speak'
At AJC Meeting June 9
Golda Myerson, first woman in Israel, will come to
Detroit for the closing meeting of the 1949 Allied Jewish
Campaign, 6 p.m., Thursday, June 9, in the Arabian Room of
the Hotel Tuller. Workers and contributors of the Campaign
will hold a dinner meeting in honor of Mrs. Myerson whose
official title is Minister of Labor and Reconstruction in the .
Israeli Government. •
Allied Jewish Campaign work-
ers are now concentrating on
the final stage of the all-com-
munity drive, after holding the
last fOrmal report meeting Tues-
day (May 31), when the funds
pledged 'to date passed the $4,-
900,000 mark. Later unaudited
figures show that pledges in all
divisions—T r a d e and Profes-
the sale of Kosher meat."
Negotiations are ur)der way to
bring frozen Kosher meat to the
community. The internal rela-
tions committee was fully in
accord with the activities of the
sub-committee on Kosher meat
and urged further activities
along all lines of action.
Monday, June 6, is M-Day for
the Jewish women of Detroit. No
meat costing more than 70c per
pound will be purshased for a
two-week period.
Telephone squads, mailings,
and other publicity forms will
be used to acquaint Jewish
women with the true facts about
Kosher meat and the campaign.
The flowing organizations
will participate in the campaign:
Bnai Moshe, Bnai David, North-
west, Beth Aaron, Shaarey Zedek
Sisterhoods, _Workmen's Circle,
Women's Divrsion American
Jewish Congress, Council of Bnai
Brith Women, ,Women's Groups
of the Jewish War Veterans,
Mizrachi, Pioneer Women, Coun-
cil of Jewish Women, and others.
JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) — C.
R. Swart, South African Min-
ister of Justice, apologized in
Parliament for having errone-
ously linked members of the
Board of Deputies, and -specifi-
cally S. M. Kuper, chairman of
the Board, with Communists.
GOLDA MYERSON
Filled Key Posts
Long a leader of the Jewish
labor movement in Palestine,
Mrs. Myerson has filled key
diplomatic posts since 1946,
when she was named chief of
the political department of the
Jerusalem section of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine.
Immediately after the estab-
lishment of Israel, she was made
administrator of the Jewish-
held section of Jerusalem and
was elected to the provisional
council of the government, the
only woman to sit in that body.
Her most recent post, before
her present appointment, was
as first Israeli envoy to the
Soviet Union.
Mrs. Myerson was in the U.S.
last Spring and again in the
Fall, when she was instrumental
in spurring community drives to
new heights on behalf of the
United Jewish Apealp.
. Educated in U.S.
Brought to the U.S. as a child,
Mrs. Myerson was educated here
and taught in the public schools
Or-
sional, Women's Juniors,
ganizations, and Auxiliary—are in Milwaukee before immigrat-
still slightly short • of the $5,000,- ing to Palestine in 1921. -
On her arrival in Palestine,
000.
she became an agricultural
Tell U.S. of Needs
worker in the settlement of
Faced by the critical needs of Merhavia. From 1924 to 1926
the immigrants who are stream- she worked with Soler Boneh,
ing into the country at the rate Histadruth's building and con-
of 1,000 each day, the Israeli structive cooperative. In 1930
government has given Mrs. My- she became a director of Aviron,
erson a leave from her Cabinet Ltd., the Histadruth's aviation
post so that she may tell Ameri- firm. Mrs. Myerson later repre-
can Jews the full story of con- sented the Histadruth at num-
ditions in Israel. She is sched- erous world Labor conferences.
uled to arrive in this country
Escaped Death
June 3.
Mrs. Myersoii, who traversed
The dinner meeting will be the length and breadth of Israel
under the chairrea.nship of in the midst of the hostilities,
Louis Berry, campaign chair- narrowly escaped - death last
man, who has called upon every spring when an Arab sniper's
worker to cover his remaining bullet penetrated the car in
prospect slips immediately and which she was traveling, miss-
every Jewish man or woman ing her by incheS.
Despite the pleas of her as-
who has not yet contributed to
"join the primarz drive of the sociates that she avoid such
Jewish community today by risks, she continued to
making your most generous gift carry on her normal activities.
for the greatest homecoming in Her o w n son and daughter
history and for the important served in the Israeli Army
services that make a better throughout the war Against the
Arabs .
community at home."
Dingell Favors
More Financial
Aid for Israel
.
,
Award 100 Fellowships
The Michigan Zionist Region
was awarded one fellowship of
the 100 which the Zionist Or-
ganization of America has made
available to Zionist districts and
regions throughout the country.
These awards are made pos-
sible through t h e American
Zionist Fund, the fund raising
arm of the ZOA. Funds for the
AZF in Detroit are obtained
through the annual Balfour Ball
of the ZOD.
"It is heartening to note that
there are so many young Jew-
ish people today who are in-
terested in spending a year in
the new J e wish state," Dr.
Hershman declared. "It is even
more encouraging to find all of
the applicants were of such high
206 Colleges in U. S.
Now Teaching Hebrew
NEW YORK (JTA)—A total
of 206 institutions of higher
learning in the U. S. are now
offering courses in Hebrew.
Sixty-two of these institutions
are colleges, 60 are universities
and 84 are theological schools.
The survey, conducted by Prof.
Abraham I. Katsch of New York
University's School of Education,
established that Hebrew, both as
a college entrance requirement
and as a college course, is re-
ceiving greater acceptance than
ever before.
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