Weizmann, Herzl

and Oscar Straus:
Background of
U. S. Palestine
Relations

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VOLUME 15—No. 19

HE JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

of Jewish Events

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Detroit Expands Community Services

Federation Provides for Settlement of 200
Families, Expansion of Educational System

Expanded local services in the field of rehabilitation, education and recreation mark
the inauguration of another year for Detroit's Jewish social services with the allocation
of funds raised by the Allied Jewish Campaign.
Although the major portion of the nearly $5,300,000 secured in the 1949 drive
will go to the United Jewish Appeal for the settlement in Israel of hundreds of thou-
sands of displaced persons and refugees from Arabic countries, plans of the Jewish
Welfare Federation for local services point to unprecedented action on many fronts.

The United Jewish Appeal agencies—United Palestine Appeal, Joint Distribution Commit-
tee and United Service for New Americans—will receive $3,600,000 from the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign funds. While the Israel-building agencies will receive most of this allocation, the USNA
will continue to receive support for the care of those DPs who will be settled in this country.

In this field, however, Detroit henceforth will play a new role. By decision of the board
of governors of the Jewish Welfare Federation, 200 DP family units are to be welcomed here
during the current year, and the Resettlement Service—the agency charged with this duty
—has been allocated an increased appropriation.
In the educational field, locally, the Federation supports the United Hebrew Schools,
the largest of the school systems. The establishment last year, and its continuation this
year, of the Midrasha—the Feathers Training College—has received acclaim nationally as
well as Ideally. The program of the Midrasha has received wide acceptance, with the result
that the local Yiddish schools are participating in it. Midrasha's plan is to train young
• men and women, through higher studies, for community leadership and for the teaching
profession, and the trainees are expected to be utilized as teachers for Yiddish and Sunday
schools as well as for the United Hebrew Schools.

Other school systems supported by the Federation are: Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, Far-

band Jewish Folk School, Sholem Aleichem Jewish People's School, Arbeiter Ring Workmen's

Circle School and United Jewish High School.
in the educational field, supported with Detroit -Mrinirlit3r-fiffid8;
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Agencies- "=ralso
are, nationally: American Association for Jewish Education, American Academy for Jewish
Research, Conference on Jewish Relations, Council of Social Agencies Scholarship Fund, Drop-
sie College, Histadruth Ivrith, Yiddish Scientific Institute.

Major advances currently are being made by the Jewish Community Center whose ex-
pansion program is financed by the Federation. The erection of the new Center building
on Davison near Petoskey—in conjunction with the Jewish War Veterans Memorial project
—is expected to fill an urgent community need. In the near future it also is planned to
build branches of the Jewish Center in the northwest section of the city. Camp Chelsea,
ft beneficiary of the Allied Jewish Campaign, functions under the supervision of the Center.

North End Clinic's, role is assuming greater importance as a health agency urgently needed

in the settlement of DPs in Detroit, It is expected to be a contributing factor in the planning

for the Jewish Hospital, construction of which may begin this year.
Jewish Vocational Service carries on its activities as a placement as well as guidance bureau.
In the same field, the Federation supports the National Jewish Occupational Council.
Detroit's Jewish Home for Aged is supported by the Federation. The House of Shelter is
another beneficiary. Montefiore Home for Aged of Cleveland and Bellefaire Regional Child
, Care Service are supported with Detroit funds.

Top on the list of civic-protective agencies financed by the Federation is the Jewish Com-
munity Council of Detroit. In this field also, among those receiving Detroit allocations, are:
American Jewish Congress, Jewish Labor Committee, Joint Defense Appeal (American Jew-
ish Committee and Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation League) and National Community Rela-
tions Advisory Council.

Other campaign beneficiaries Include: American Fund for Palestinian Institutions, Council
of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, Jew-
ish Braille Institute, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jewish War Veterans, National Desertion
Bureau, National Farm School, National Jewish Welfare Board and numerous other causes.
While the Allied Jewish Campaign this year has raised less money than last year, Detroit's
drive is hailed nationally as the outstanding triumph in the country. Only the Cleveland Jewish
community has raised more than last year, but its total for 1949 remains far below the sum
raised in Detroit. Proportionately, Detroit this year is the top city in fund-raising, the entire
country having suffered a severe drop in amounts secured for Jewish causes. The success of
Detroit's drive is attributed to the leadership of the campaign, to the efforts of the general
chairman, Louis Berry, and his associates and to the guidance and direction of Isidore Sobeloff,
executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation and the Allied Jewish Campaign.
Julian H. Krolik, president of the Federation, and Abraham Srere, who recently was re-
elected chairman of the Federation's executive committee, have echoed the acclaim given Mr.
Sobeloff nationally and assert that his dynamic direction has kept Detroit's Jewish community
on top of American Jewry's organized communities.

JULIAN H. KROLIK

ISIDORE SOBELOFF

ABRAHAM SRERE

BUCHAREST—A new appeal to members of the gov-
ernment-supported Jewish Democratic Committee of Ro-
mania to "continue the fight against Zionist nationalism
with increasing vigor" has been published in the current
issue of Unirea, organ of the committee.
The periodical says that important successes have been
achieved in "liberating the Jewish working population from
the ideological influence of Zionist nationalism, their dead-
ly enemy." Unirea also listed various activities of the com-
mittee in behalf of getting employment for economically
displaced Jews, and declared that this program was an
important factor in the fight against Zionism. Special at-
tention must be given in the anti-Zionist campaign to
"misled" youth who have joined the kibutzim, Unirea's
article states.
Israeli N ote
ote 3ent to Romania
TEL AVIV—The Israeli government sent a note to
the. Romanian government on the subject of the freedom
of Romanian Jews to leave that -country for Israel, For-
eign Minister Moshe Sharett revealed in a written state-
ment to Knesset on Tuesday.
The Foreign Minister's statement, which was made in
reply to a deputy's question, also disclosed that the Ro-
manian government has not yet replied to the note. Mr.
Sharett said that Reuben Reuveni, Israeli Minister to Bu-
charest, was instructed to open negotiations on the same _
subject. Sharett also declared that the desires of Romanian
Jews to proceed -to Israel do not conflict with the interests
of the Romanian republic.

The Israeli-Syrian armistice agreement was
initialed on Monday by representatives of both
governments and was prepared for formal sig-
nature on Wednesday.

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis converged on Tel
Aviv July 17 to celebrate Army Day and pay tribute to
the young state's victorious troops. A perfectly-timed mil-
itary procession paraded through the heart of the city to
a Tel Aviv suburb where a crowd estimated at 50,000 wit-
nessed President Chaim Weizmann bestow medals of valor
and distinction on eight Army heroes. Four awards were
also made posthumously to the families of slain heroes.
All roofs, windows, balconies and public buildings were
beflagged for the occasion. Formations of Flying Fortress-
es and Israeli fighters flew overhead. At 4 .p.m. Tel Aviv
time, the entire populace paused to honor the memory of
those who made the final sacrifice in the liberation of the
young state. Cannons were fired and sirens sounded during
this period.
Premier David Ben Gurion, addressing the celebrants
from the reviewing stand where he was surrounded by top
government officials as well as members of the diplomatic
corps and other notables, declared : "Herzl's spirit per-
vades the newly-rebuilt state of Israel. The bravery and
acts of our Army will stand out in world history and are
comparable to valorous chapters in the Bible. Our aspira-
tions for peace and friendship with the Arab states carry
a determination for the welfare and development of all
Middle Eastern countries, but we must not discount the
factors that persist in embittering relations between Israel

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Israel's Severe Problems

Agency's Immigration Chief
WarnsAgainstNegevVacuum

LONDON, (JTA)—The existence of Israel depends on
the immigration of Jews from the United States, Western
Europe, South America and South Africa, Eliahu Dob-
kin, immigration chief of the Jewish Agency, told a press
conference here. He added that the present rate of immi-
gration of 20,000-25,000 monthly cannot be maintained in
view of the difficulties of absorption and the closing of
the frontiers of Eastern Europe.
The European Zionist Conference, which is scheduled
to open Sept. 14 in Paris, will deal with these problems,
Mr. Dobkin said. Hundreds of Israeli representatives will
be sent to Jewish communities throughout the world to
train prospective pioneers for settlement in the Jewish
state, Mr. Dobkin revealed.
The Agency official also disclosed that the bulk of
new immigrants in Israel are either unable or unwilling to
settle in border settlements or in the Negev. Of 8,000
settlers who established themselves in such strategic areas,
he pointed out, 6,000 were native-born Israelis. Both the
Negev and most of Western Gallilee are practically empty,
he declared, warning that "there cannot be a vacuum re-
maining unfilled for long. If we will not fill it quickly,
others will," he added.

