Federation Calls on Jewish Parents
To Insure Education for Children
A call to Jewish parents to
consider the Jewish education of
their children is being issued by
the Jewish Welfare Federation
of Detroit in behalf of the He-
brew and Yiddish schools.
With the opening of the new
school year, parents are urged
to consider the education of
their children—in terms of their
personal happiness, in terms of
the historic events now in pro-
gress, in terms of an under-
standing of their heritage, in
terms of synthesizing their lives
as Jews and as citizens in demo-
cratic America.
`-`The Jewish child cannot
achieve personal happiness with-
out an understanding of his life
as a Jew," the Federation state-
ment emphasizes. "He will gain
such understanding only
through Jewish education. With-
out it, that which should be a
source of security to him may
become a source of insecurity,
unbalance, inferiority and es,
capism. Without it, the spirit-
ual "bond between parent and
child, between his past and his
present are severed.
"Without Jewish education,
our children will have no under-
standing that American democ-
racy derives its faith in the con-
cept of the dignity and equality
of man from the Hebraic tra-
dition," the statement continues.
"Without Jewish education,
our children can have no under-
standing of the stirring histori-
cal fact of the establishment of
the State of Israel based on the
precepts of liberty, justice and
peace taught- by the Hebrew pro-
phets," the Federation statement
adds.
"Without Jewish education,
our children will not understand
that when the Hebraic tradition
is rejected, the mechanics and
the social setting of democracy
can be and have been perverted
for the uses of tyranny,". the
statement concludes. "Teach
them to understand and to be
proud that 'Hebraic mortar ce-
mented the foundations of
American democracy'."
"If your child already attends
a Jewish religious school, make
sure that this education is con-
tinued. If he is not yet enrolled
enroll him now.
"To have happy, adjusted in-
formed, inspired American Jew-
ish children and youth there
must be cooperation between
parents and schools; community
and schools; schools for general
education and schools for Jewish
education."
The statement is based on ma-
terial prepared by the American
Association for Jewish Educa-
tion, a national beneficiary of
the Allied Jewish Campaign.
Jewish schools where Detroit
boys and girls may be enrolled
include: United Hebrew Schools,
13226 Lawton, TO. 8-0063; United
Jewish High School, 11529 Lin-
wood, TO. 6-9619; Workmen's
Circle Schools, 11529 Linwood,
TO. 60619; Yeshivath Beth Ye-
hudah, 12301 Dexter, TE. 4-8100;
Farband Folk School, 13722 Lin-
wood, TO. 8-9280.
AJC Administrators
Up/told Ouster of
Metropolitan Chapter
At a meeting of the national
administrative committee of the
American Jewish Congress held
in New York City Sept 8, the
national administrative body, by
a 3 to 1 vote, upheld the earlier
decision of the national execu
tive committee to dissolve the
Metropolitan Chapter of Detroit,
on the grounds of "wilful breach-
es of organizational discipline"
and deliberate and repeated de-
fiance of the properly-constituted
policy-making bodies of the
Congress.
The suspension followed the
deport of an Investigating Corn-
rhittee appointed last January
by Dr. Wise. The decision of the
Executive Committee, upheld by
the Administrative Committee ;
on appeal directed the revoca-
tion of the chapter's charter
and the transfer of its member-
ship to other chapters in the
city of Detroit. Officers of the
dissolved group are prohibited
from holding office in the AJ
Congress for a two-year period.
Detroiters on the administra-
tive committee include Mrs.
Samuel Green, Mrs. Harry
Frank, Mrs. I. B. Dworman, Zel-
don Cohen and Albert Silber.
Officers of the expelled Met-
ropolitan of Congress
Chapter "of Detroit had an-
nounced in advance that in the
event the national administra-
tive committee failed to recon-
sider earlier action of the exec-
utive committee it would take
the case to the national con-
vention.
The biennial convention of
Twenty-two year old Brooklyn- the American Jewish Congress,
ite Sidney Schwartz, unaware of will be held Nov. 9 to 13, in New
his status as • a one-man inter- York City, it was announced fol-
lowing the meeting of the Na-
tional Administrative Committee..
The convention of the Women's
Division will follow on Nov. 14.
One of the major problems be-
fore the convention will be the
election of a president, the of-
fice having remained vacant fol- •
lowing the death last April of
Dr. Stephen S. Wise.
Brooklynite Pedals
Self Into One-Man
International Crisis
THE JEWISH NEWS— 5
Friday, September 16, 1949
English Anti-Jewish
Feeling Is Declining
NEW YORK (JTA) — Anti-
J e wish feelings. in England,
which ran high during the
struggle between t h e British
and the Jews in
Palestine, have-.
greatly subsided:::
since the estab---
iishment of the
Jewish state
William F r a n-:
kel, London
r e p r e sentative::::
of the Ameri-
can
Committee, told Win. Frankel
a press conference.
Frankel emphasized that
"there never was and there is
not now discrimination against
Jews in hotels, clubs and resorts
in England, and very little so-
cially and in the profession's."
Only a major collapse in the
British economic situation will
drive large numbers of citizens
into anti-democratic parties, he
stated.
SIDNEY SCHWARTZ
national situation, breezed into
Vienna just as American offi-
cials were preparing to open ne-
gotiations with the Russians for
his "release."
Schwartz blithely explained
how he'd spent three days ped-
aling his American flag be-deck-
ed bicycle through the Russian
„zone of Austria, taking color
photographs of towns and vil-
lages, and conversing in fluent
Russian with Red army officers
he met on the way.
A former U. S. Army sergeant
and a graduate of New York
University, Schwartz explained
that he returned to Vienna to
reenlist in the army, and that
he'd tmilken his tour armed with
a four-power pass obtained in
Switzerland, and entitling the
bearer to travel anywhere in
the Soviet Zone.
Earlier Deadline
For New Year Issue
.
Forms for the New Year
Issue, to be published next
week, will close earlier than
usual. Deadline for copy
for our issue of Sept, 23
will, therefore, be at 10 a.m.,
on Monday.
The who, what, when, where,
and how of scholarship assist-
ance in the Jewish community
of Detroit are outlined in a new
brochure released by the Com-
mittee on Jewish Scholarship
Service.
The committee, whose mem-
bers include representatives of
13 major Jewish scholarship
funds, stresses that 'it will con-
sider the application of any stu-
dent who has reached the upper
classes of high school or whodois
at least 16 years of age.
Applications for scholarship
assistance are to be made at the
Jewish Vocational Service, 320
W. Lafayette.
Applications are considered on
the bases of suitability of the
applicant for his chosen field,
Infants' Service Group will
hold its first meeting of the
year in the form of a luncheon
Tuesday, Sept. 20, at Knollwood
Country Club. Mrs. Saul Golden
and Mrs. Boyd Carnick are
chairmen of the affair, with
Mrs. Leo Bigelman as co-chair-
man.
Monday, Sept. 19, a board
meeting will be held. Hostesses
are Mrs. Albert Cutler and Mrs.
Edward Wolfson.
Plan.s for the annual January
dinner dance and show are now
being put into progress. Mrs.
Samuel B. Merson is president.
We have been advised by many of our cus-
tomers that they did not receive the keys we sent,
One of which would open the chest holding $100
worth of merchandise.
Keys were sent out to our complete list of
customers — however — due to the difficulty in
mailing this 'type of letter—many were lost or
destroyed in the process of stamping.
(Signed)
The London Shop
Dexter
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financial needs, prospect for em-
ployment in the field and efforts
made by the student to earn the
funds required.
Participating f u n d s a r e:
Aesculapian Ladies' Auxiliary,
Clara Ehrlich Memorial Fund,
Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
Detroit Section, National Council
of Jewish Women, H. J. L. Frank
Memorial Fund, Hebrew Free
Loan Association, Jewish Social
Service Bureau, Jewish Welfare
Federation, Lee and Ella Wein-
berg Memorial Fund, Music
Study Club, Temple Beth El, Wo-
men's Auxiliary, Accountants'
Guild, Women's Auxiliary, Mai-
monides Medical Society.
Mrs. Benjamin E. Jaffe serves
as chairman and Albert Cohen is
executive secretary.
AN APOLOGY
Infants' Service Group
Holds Opening Meeting
en-Ari Celebrates His
25th Year With Habimah
Raikin Ben-Ari, eminent Hab-
imah artist, who appeared in
two concerts in Windsor Satur-
day and Sunday evenings, was
the guest in Detroit of Mr. and
Mrs. Avrohn. Schnaider • of 3257
Tuxedo.
At an informal gathering of
educators Ben-Ari read several
recitations.
Recently Ben-Ari celebrated
the 25th anniversary of his ap-
pearance with the Habimah in
Russia, together with his wife.
He is the author of a history of
Habimah in Yiddish. It will ap-
pear shortly in an English trans-
lation.
'Jewish Community's Scholarship
Assistance Plan Told in Brochure
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