41.
Mr., Mrs. Mondry Deeply Impressed
With Jewish Life in Argentine
111. -
Mc. and Mrs. Harry Mondry,
leaders in the Farband and
Pioneer Women's circles in De-
troit, who returned a few days
ago from a prolonged visit in
Buenos Aires, Argentine, spoke
with enthusiasm about. the cul-
tural activities of Jews in the
Argentinian capital.
Mrs. Adele Mondry addressed
a number of meetings of Pioneer
Women and the Jewish National
Fund while in Buenos Aires. Her
husband spoke at several men's
affairs.
In Buenos Aires for a re-
union with members of their
family whom they had not
seen in 28 years, the Mondrys
were feted at several gather-
ings and were honored at a
farewell community banquet
at which they were presented
with a JNF tree certificate.
Mrs. Mondry described life in
Argentine as primitive and
stated that the Jewish commun-
ity is affected exactly like the
non-Jews—merchants occupying
businesses and homes in the
same buildings. There are few
bathtubs, 75 per cent of the
people cook on coal stoves,
clothes are washed in cold
water, and standards of some
people are even lower.
Leather Business
Most of the Buenos Aires
Jews are engaged in the leather
goods business, manufacturing
jackets, pocketbooks and belts.
Mrs. Mondry reported that
the status of the children is
deplorable, that many of them
frequent cabarets and theaters
very late at night; and that the
women's standards are very low.
The women voted in Argentine
far the first time this year. She
added that the Shadchonim
business flourishes, that girls
of 20 are considered old maids.
"Few Jews are citizens,"
Mrs. Mondry said, "due to the
fact that they considered the
country a corridor for _settle-
ment elsewhere. This situa-
tion is beginning to change."
She said that she found Ar-
gentinian Jews most hospitable,
that they are interested in Jew-
ish affairs, lend support to cul-
tural projects and have built
impressive institutions. There
are nearly 400,000 Jews in Ar-
gentine, and 35,000 are enrolled
as members of the Kehillah
Chevra Kadisha in Buenos Aires.
The Kehillah has three ceme-
teries and to insure burial all
Jews must belong to the com-
munity. Income from the ceme-
teries provides a large percent-
age of income for cultural and
other community affairs.
Community Building
The community headquarters
are housed in a five-story build-
ing, one floor of which has been
given to YIVO for its library and
museum. Open forums are con-
ducted on Sundays. There are
two other organizations—DAIA,
which conducts political negoti-
ations with the government, and
the newly-formed AYO. While
the use of Yiddish is restricted,
it is permitted on an equal di-
vision of time with Spanish at
celebrations. There are police
guards at all affairs, including
religious services, as a check-up
on community matters.
Mrs. Mondry reports that
there are 12 rabbis in Buenos
Aires and a number of syna-
gogues, only one of which is
Reform, with services con-
ducted partly in Spanish. The
chief interest is in the schools
which she listed as follows:
Zwisho Sholem Al e is h e m
School, sponsored by Left Poale
Zion, with a school population
of 1,800, directed by 50 teachers;
Bialik School, sponsored by Miz-
rachi, General Zionists and
Poale Zion, for 380 pupils, taught
by 15 teachers, with a curric-
ulum mostly of Hebrew, and
with classes in Yiddish; • Peretz
Shule, conducted by the Bund,
has .600 pupils and 20 teachers;
Zhitlovsky Shule, conducted by
leftists for 600 children, and
several Yeshivoth. Children are
brought to these school's" in their
own buses..
16—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 17, 1949
Try and Stop Me
Neugarten Aid Gives
Advance Donor Data
—By BENNETT CERF
Mrs. Norman K. Noble, presi-
dent of the Neugarten Medical
Aid, announces that Oct. 26, has
been selected as the date for the
annual luncheon, to take place
at the Book Cadillac Hotel. •
Mrs. Milton Goldsmith, lunch-
eon chairman, has slated as
members of her committee: Co-
chairman, Mrs. Benjamin -Krell,
Jr.; treasurer, Mrs. A. M. Web-
ber; year book, Mrs. David Saks;
IN THE southern corner of the new state of Israel there is a
flourishing seaside resort named Nahariya. It was settled
originally by refugees from Hitler, and every aspect of the
town. every characteristic of
the inhabitants is so emphat-
ically German that when a
United Nations commission
was wondering whether to
allot the town to the Jews, or
the Arabs, the mayor himself
expressed little or no in-
terest.
"What's the difference?" he
explained. "Whatever they de-
cide, Nahariya will stay Ger-
man."
* * *
Mrs. Consolino was trans-
porting her brood from Forest
Hills to the Adirondacks. Some-
where north of Albany her oldest daughter asked,
was the name of the station we stopped at last
me," • said the distraught Mrs. Consolino. "What
make?" "Not very much." conceded the little
Brother got out there." .
Fa
"Hey, mom, what
?" "Don't bother
difference does it
girl. "only Baby
D ERNARD BARUCH tells the story about the family up in
Rochester that had the same cook for. 20 years (those were
the days!). While she was off on a holiday, her employers
decided to give her a pleas-
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ant surprise. They had her
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room completely refurnished
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and redecorated. The cook
was surprised, all right. It
developed that her life sav-
ings —$12,000 in cash —had
been hidden in her old mat-.
..
MRS. NORMAN R. NOBLE
co-chairman, Mrs. Irving Levy;
book compiling, Mrs. Morton
Behrend; tickets, Mrs. David B.
Keywell; co-chair man, Mrs.
Arthur Caplan; program, Mrs.
Manny Abrahams ; arrange-
ments, Mrs. Myron Colet; host-
ess, Mrs. Louis Beck; memor-
iams, Mrs. Samuel Rothstein
and Mrs. Lester S. Smith; lads
and lassies, Mrs. Frank Berman,
assisted by Mrs. Benjamin Bag-
dade and Mrs. Stuart Graff;
bank, Mrs. George Silver; co-
chairman, Mrs. Paul Fogelman.
The secretarial committee
consists of Mesdames Harvey
Frank, Albert Weiss and Sidney
Robbins; records, Mrs. Irving
Pomerantz and Mrs. Joseph
Busker; publicity, Mrs. Ch_arles
Rothstein.
Proceeds from this luncheon
will be used to finance the
work of the organization which
furnishes medical aid, surgical
appliances, glasses, . cancer
dressings, mental rehabilitation
and physical therapy for the
needy.
Zionist Group Active
Mrs. Mondry spoke with en-
thusiasm of the work of He-
braica, an organization that
approximates our Jewish Cen-
ter, having a Zionist ideology. It
has a membership of 10,000 and
several hundred boys and girls
are members of its choir.
Women's organizations in-
clude WIZO (Women's Interna-
tional Zionist Organization), Pi-
oneer Women which now have
six clubs and a council with a
membership of 600.
There are, in Buenos Aires,
three Yiddish daily newspapers,
a Spanish - Jewish periodical,
four Yiddish theaters—one left-
ist, one art theater and two on
a lower level. There are no fra-
ternal orders, like Bnai Britt'
and others, because all Jews be-
long to the Kehillah. There is
JNF Honors Pioneer Women
one large Jewish hospital.
A beautiful testimonial volume
Mrs. Mondry . will describe her
impressions of Argentine at bound in olive wood was pre-
sented to Mrs. Israel Goldstein,
talks before local groups.
national president of Pioneer
Women, by Dr. Abraham Gra-
nowsky, world president of the
Jewish National Fund, in com-
memoration of the redemption
of the second tract of land by
the organization, through the
contribution of $280,000.
Detroiters Meet Ben Gurion
tress
By great good fortune, the
mattress was recovered, and
her nest egg found intact. Her
employers upbraided her for her
medieval habits. and persuaded
her with the greatest difficulty
to deposit her $12,000 in a local
bank. Then, bingo! The market
collapsed, the bank closed. and the family was left without a penny:
"What can I say?" the white-faced husband told the cook. "This is
all our fault, awl if it's the last thing I do, I'm going to make good
on that $12,000 I lost for you."
"Don't give. it another thought," said the cook. "I just deposited
that money in the bank to make you happy. I drew it out again
15 minutes later."
Copyright. 1949.. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
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