Our. Letter Box May Discusses Israel on Air ALFRED MAY ( seated, left ), executive com- mittee member of the Jewish Community Council, checks over his script before a recent Detroit Round Table broadcast with JUDGE JOSEPH A. MOYNIHAN, of the Circuit Court. Standing a r e Announcer BOB LESLIE and the REV. JOSEPH Q., MAYNE, execu- tive secretary of the Round Ta- ble. May recent- ly returned an exten- I from . sive tour in Is- Yeshivah President Describes Children's Love of Tradition .Editor, The Jewish News: Detroit children love to learn Torah and Jewish traditions. You may see this fact estab- lished statistically in the record of growth of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah. The 120 enrollment with which we opened our class- room building on Dexter seven years ago is now over 600. The seven children who started our day-school five years ago have grown to 255. Our populafity, in fact, is now embarrassing. Some 80 or 90 children are waiting to study in the Yeshivah—but we lack 'funds to set up classes for them. Or you may see most vividly the child's delight in forming a link with a 3000-year past when rael you visit one of our classes. Sup- pose you should walk into one of our Kindergarten classes on a Friday afternoon. The chil- dren are preparing a Sabbath Seudah, the traditional Friday night festive board. Probable purchase of 1,000 If you should come just be- corrugated steel Quonset but fore Passover, you may find the children engaged in the traditi- houses by the Israel government, onal search for Chometz. At Pu- as quarters for 16,000 immigrants, rim you will find the children in was announced last week in an 5 separate assemblies, according to age and grade, listening in- article by Kenneth Bilby in the tently to the reading of Megil- New York Herald Tribune. Bilby quoted Israeli govern- lath Esther. All are in full mas- querade costume, in accordance ment sources in predicting that with a centuries old tradition. the order of Quonset huts would On Tisha b'ab, although the be given to the Great Lakes Yeshiva was not in session, 75 Steel Corporation of Detroit. youths assembled'ln Ohel Sarah, Great Lakes, however, did not the high. school students' house confirm the report. of study and prayer. They sat I The Tribune correspondent on low stools and wore felt slip- reported that the government pers to commemorate the fall of was introduced to the Quonset the. Temple, and the still not but as a means of improving the desperate immigrant hous- repaired loss of Jerusalem. Between classes, you might ing situation by two Americans, find the children in their work- John W. Schenker, American shop executing a Hanukah Me- wartime d i r e c t o r. of foreign norah in wood, or a Passover shelter and former member of dish compartmented for Haro- the Israeli housing mission, and seth bitter herbs, etc. Guiding J. Fred Johnson, export man- their effort is one of our Rabbis ager of Great Lakes steel. The steel structures would be or instructors who is devoting his own time, after teach assign- partitioned into four two-and- ments, to this project. In fact, our teachers never have their Italian Ship Inaugurates own time, after teaching assign- home are at the disposal of the Buenbs Aires-Haifa Run children. On any Sabbath you BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—The will find from two to two dozen children gathered at some of the Italian-owned 10,800-ton freight- Rabbis' homes, singing songs, er, S.S. Coralia, sailed for Haifa carrying on discussions and in what was described as the games. On Passover, those chil- first direct Buenos Aires-Haifa dren who have no Seder in their run. The vessel also has ac- own home come to the Rabbi's commodations for approximately 50 passengs. home for the Seder. Ernesto Cleve, Peronist deputy I think much of the pleasure children find at the Yeshiva in the Argentine Parliament who comes from this warm relation- on May 14; 1949, introduced a ship with their teachers. Because motion calling on the Argentine the children know these young Government to pay tribute to men thoroughly enjoy their the new state of Israel, left for faith and their work of teaching the Jewish state to study the it, the children thoroughly en- economic and political situation joy their own learning experi- there. ence, and its subject, the Torah. RABBI M. J. WOHLGELERNTER, President, Yeshivath Beth Yehudah Pioneer_ Women Seeking Physician's Relative The Pioneer Women's Council recently received a letter from Dr. Max Friedland - of Copen- hagen, Denmark. Dr. Friedland had seen in a copy of the 1948 issue of the Pioneer Women's Donor Bulletin in Copenhagen, the name of Mrs..B. Friedland. He is anxious to know if she can be a member of 'his family, as he had no known living relatives. Dr. Friedland is 65, and a physician. He is originally from Germany. He has spent the past , S aLs NEW YORK, (JTA) — Several hundred Jewish displaced per- sons arrived for permanent set- tlement in the United States under the Displaced Persons Act of 1948. The DPs included the first contingent of Jewish refu- gees to- reach this country from Italy. Upholstering and Slip Cover Studio 9031 Twelfth St. TY. 7-9603 i lli° ° THE JEWISH NEWS - 19 Friday, September 23, 1949 1 9 4 9-5 7I 9 A ; t. ' 11 1 I t ilqi it ( f a-half room apartments, each with a private bathroom. They can be constructed by a six-man crew in, two and a half days. Solel Boneh, the Histadrut con- struction cooperative, would take over the erection job, Bilby's re-- port stated. (The Jewish News of Aug. 26 pictured exterior and interior views of U. S.-made Quonset houses which Bnai Brith sent to two Israel colonies as experi- ments in emergency housing.) TT I I I I I ( ltat,i(Low II WW1 1 III Ih II Made b e , t e&r. mne4ts lama Waco fat, a 1 044,ey .200- vats • Histadrut Seeks Meeting With Soviet Trade Unions We wish all our friends and patrons and all the Jewish people — a year of health, happiness and prosperity TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The execu- tive of the Histadrut, Israel's federation of labor, sent cables to the executives of trade union federations in the Soviet Union, Romania and Hungary suggest- ing that a meeting of 1;1istadrut representatives and delegations of the trade unions from these three countries should take place for the purpose of discuss- ing matters relating to Jewish emigration from the USSR, Ro- mania and Hungary to Israel. OX 9,,teleetelamita c 7 . For a The Agriopus, or horsefish, a. curious. South African species, is known to shed its skin like a snake. TREAT Established 1760 instead of a TREATMENT smoke OLD GOLDS "May You Be Inscribed For A Good Year" This ancient salutation remains ever new in our day as we welcome the year 5710 with rejoicing over - the tri- umphs of democracy and with gratitude for the restora- tion of just rights to the oppressed, and the end of home- lessness for the dispossessed. Greetings First" Groupof Jewish DPs Reaches Here from Italy There is no material difference between the dice found in the tombs of ancient Egypt and those in use today. A .HAPPY NEWIFAR 'Israel May Purchase Quonset Huts For Immigrants from Detroit Firm I 15 years in Denmark with his wife. 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