Detroit's 17th Annual talfour Ball,
Scheduled Nov. 5, at Hotel Statler
Friday, October 7, 1949
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S. Ehrlich
A Gift for
2—THE JEWISH NEWS
In tribute to
the first wo ► n-
an of Detroit
Jewish worn-
anhood, mem-
bers of t h e
Women's Di,
vision of t h e
Jewish W e
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Detroit Service
Group Strives for
MC Collections
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Planning the Balfour Ball, left to right: MORRIS M. JA-
COBS, president, Michigan Zionist Region; HARRY COHENq
chairman, Balfour Ball; LEON KAY, president; Detroit Zionist
District.
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The 17th annual Balfour Ball Zionist District, deliver a mes-
which this year will be staged sage from Israel which gave in-
at the Hotel Statler Saturday, spiration and impetus for Bal-
Nov. 5, is receiving wide "en- four Ball activity. The ball is
„the fund-raising project for the
dorsement and support.
Meeting at the home of Mr. Detroit Zionist District.
Kay asked for the cooperation
and Mrs. David, Zellman, the
'committee for the Ball, headed of the Detroit Jewish community
_ e-
by Harry Cohen, heard Leon to support this effort of the D
Kay, president - of the Detroit troit Zionist District.
nai Britb Nation-Wide Membership
Drive Starts on Eve of 107th Year
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As part of the first nation-•
wide membership :campaign in
the history of Bnai Brith, the
Greater Detroit Council will
open the local drive with 150
house parties and a radio pro-
gram Thursday evening, Oct.
13. -
Council President Dr. Law-
rence I. Yaffa, and Council
membership chairman Maxwell
M. Lowe, chairman of the cam-
paign, stated that the 18 lodges
in • Detroit hope to gain 2000
additional members within the
next 50 days.
The opening of the Detroit
campaign coincides with the
106th anniversary celebration of
Bnai Brith, which is being
marked nation-wide with events
in leading cities of the nation.
The organization, founded by 12
men in New York in 1843, today
has more than 330,000 'members
in 1,600 lodges and chapters in
the United States and Canada.
In Detroit, 150 hosts will en-
tertain at least five non-member
friends at house parties that
evening.
From 10:30 to 11 pm., a spe-
cial radio broadcast over WJBK
will reach the assembled guests.
The radio progra,m will consist
of a 15 minute transcription of
a dramatic playlet, entitled "The
Need", and a talk by Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Jr., Congressman
from New York, who will deal
with the contribution of Bnai
Brith to American democracy.
Samuel W. Leib, district presi-
dent; Y a f f a, and Lowe will
round out the radio program
with brief remarks.
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Collection committees in all
trade and professional . divisions
of the Detroit • Service Group
are at work in an effort to keep
Cash payments for the Allied
Jewish Campaign at the high
standard set by record August
and September collection
months, Irving W. Blumberg,
president of the Detroit Service
Group, announced.
Eddie Cantor's visit in August
and the appeal sent by Henry
Winernan in September inspired
unprecedented community re-
sponse, Blumberg said.
Louis Robinson is serving as
chairman of collections in the
Mercantile Division, with the
Jewelers' Section, whose mem-
lers are conducting a special
collection, having Samuel Ger-
son and Emil Rose as chairmen.
The Division will hold a gen-
eral collection commi ttee
bruncheon. meeting at 11 a.m.
Sunday, Oct 23, at the Jewish
Center, while t h e Furniture
Section will hold a special meet-
ing at 12:30 p.m., Wednesday,
Oct. 12, at the Furniture Club.
Collection committee members
in the Mechanical Trades Di-
vision have set their meeting for
12 noon Tuesday; Ottober 11, at
the Jewish Welfare Federation
offices, according to Abe Kasle,
Division collection chairman.
Chairmen now at work in
other divisions include Louis C.
Blumberg,. Services; Tom Bor-
man a n d Morris Mendelson,
Food:, and Lew Wisper, Arts and
Crafts. •
Northivest Presents
Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt, son of
the late President /Franklin De-
lano Rooseirelt, and recently el-
ected to Congress from New
York, will be guest speaker at a
meeting at the Northwest Syna-
gogue Oct. 20.
The event wil be sponsored by
the. Men's .Club and the Sister-
hood of the Northwest Congre-
gation. Tickets may be obtained
through the office of the Syna-
gogue or from Mrs. Mae Brooks
or Zangwell Garber," chairman
of the event.
Congressman Roosevelt's topic
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
will be "Impressions of Israel as
a Nation," He recently returned
Our Pilgrimage to Israel
from Israel after a number of
IDLEWILD AIRFIELD, Queens, N. Y.—Tuesday,'Oct. 4—This is months there.
an historic day for your Commentator and his wife. Before many
more hours will have passed, we will take off for Paris on an Air
France Constellation plane. We are now taking the final glance,
until some time in November, at Lady Liberty on Bedloe Island.
By the time this issue goes
into the mails, we will be
viewing the Eiffel Tower in
A public testimonial and re-
Paris. When you receive this
ception in -- honor of Aaron
issue, we hope to be through
Droock, who recently completed
with customs inspection at
four years as president of the
the Lydda Airport in Israel.
Jewish Community Council, is
Thus, we are beginning the
planned by a committee ap-
race against time and space
pointed by Dr. Shmarya Klein-
—traveling in the opposite
man, president of the Council.
direction of the sun, pre-
The affair, to which the pub-
pared to lose seven hours on
lic will be invited, will be held
the calendar on the way to
in the social hall of Temple
the East, but with the knowl-
Beth El, Oct. 27. Dr. B. Bene-
1.1110
edge that we shall regain it
dict Glazer will be chairman.
Liberty Statue on our return flight.
Eiffel Tower
The .following committee is in.
We are not unaware of the miracle that is about to be enacted charge: Harry Yudkoff, chair-
man, Mrs. Samuel Green, Dr. B.
for . us. Think of it: Yom Kippur in the Shaarey Zedek in Benedict Glazer, Rabbi Leon
Detroit, Mich., in the glorious U. S. A., and Sukkot hi the' State Fram, Julian Krolik, Irving
of. Israel, on Holy Soil where our faith developed, where the Katz,, Dr, Lawrence I. Yaffa,
prophets taught highest principles of justice that were handed Ralph Mayer, James'I. Ellmann,
down to all mankind for all time to come, where a new civiliza- Sidney Shevitz .„.and Samuel J.
tion is rising to teach • basic humanitarian ideals to the entire Rhodes.
Middle East.',
Our readerS will surely forgive us these personal comments will Head Richards
and the luxury of bidding farewell to thoUsands of loyal friends
whom we could reach in no other way. How else could we pos- Awaits. FCC Hearing
sibly say good-by to so many with whom we had worked for
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
many years in Jewish' causes? Many years of labor are finding
Federal Communications Com-
fulfillment for, us, too, in this pilgrimage to Israel.
Our departure would have been More difficult without the help mission moved to schedule a
of a very loyal and able staff. Dena Goldsmith not only manages hearing, at a date to be set
the office well: she possesses a strong love. for • her newspaper later,. for the renewal of .radio
whose major aim is to serve Israel. Roma Blitzstein is her station licenses for G. A. Rich-
able assistant. Amiable Sid Shmarak carries on well as adver- ards, who has been accused of
tising Manager. And the editorial department—Ruth Cassel, Vic promoting anti-Semitic broad-
Packman, Julia Klein, Avrum Schulzinger and Danny Raskin— casts.
The stations involved include
is second to none in ability and judgment.
WJR, Detroit; KMPC, Los An-
This pilgrimage becomes more thrilling in the thought of so geles; and WGAR, Cleveland.
many friendly wishes and in the hope of being able to bring Riehards is operating on a
back reports of good tidings in Zion.
temporary basis • pending the
,hearing.
Lebitraot—until we meet again—and Shalom:.
Purely Commentary
Community to Fete
Ex-Council President
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fa re Federation
presented this
portrait of the
late Henrietta
Sz o I d, first
Woman of the
ZioniSt move-
ment,. Mrs.
Josep H. Ehr-.
lich, at the Di-
vision's annual
meeting Sept.
28.
Sidney Shevitz Heads. Labor Zionist
Federated Drive, Now in Progress
Sidney Shevitz, chairman of
the Detroit Zionist Council, was
appointed chairman of the De-
troit Labor Zionist Federated
Campaign. Now in its third year,
the Federated Campaign is the
only yearly campaign of the
Labor Zionist movement. It
covers the manifold activities of
the movement such as the Labor
Zionist school, Habonim youth
movement, overseas relief, pith-
New York Court
Bans JCRS Drive
lications and other local and
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national activities.
Shevitz will be assisted by
vice chairmen, Wm. Hordes, L
Pokempner, B. M. Laikin, A.
Kaminker, Mrs. M. Michlin, and
H. Mondry; treasurer, B. MUM-
sky, financial secretary, M.
Schub in er; and committee
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NEW YORK,. (JTA) — Ruling
that the 'Jewish Consumptives
Relief Society, located in Denver,
was not legally authorized to
solicit funds in New York State,
Supreme Court Justice Bernard
Botein granted a motion by At-
torney General Nathaniel L.
Goldstein to restrain the Society
Iron raising- funds in, New York.
The court noted, that almost
half of the total annual income
of the Society has been collected
in New York State. The injunc-
tion' was sought on the grounds
that patients were not getting
proper care, but Justice Botein
said it was granted solely on
legal grounds and that "the
Court will neither discuss nor
consider the oither charge con-
tained in the moving papers."
Mitchell -S. Fisher, counsel for.
the Society, declared that he. is
satisfied with the fact that Jus-
tice Botein granted the injunc-
ion solely on the ground that
the Society was riot properly au-
thorized to solicit funds in New
York State. "We have already
had an amended cerAficate re-
moving this technical violation,
approved by another justice
of the court," he said.
SIDNEY SHEVITZ
chairmen, H. Schumer, Harry
Mondry and M. Liebetrna.n. Mor-
ris L. &haver will be the honor-
ary chairman.
On Sept. 15, the Federated
Campaign was officially opened.
Ben Zion Elan, well known Is-
raeli official, addressed the rally,
emphasizing the need for a
strong Labor Zionist Movement
in the United States. Morris
Lieberman, chairman of the De-
troit Central Committee, pointed
to th'e two-year experience of
the Federated Campaign, the
only campaign of its kind in the
country.
Between You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1949, Jewish. Telegraphic Agency, Vt.)
Washington Moods
Government circles in Washington still strongly favor the
internationalization of Jerusalem despite the opposition of Israel
to severing the city from the Jewish state . . . The American
Zionist Council was making arrangements for a rabbinical dele-
gation to appear before President Truman and seek his support
for Jewish claims on Jerusalem . . HoweVer, the arrangements
were dropped after it was indicated from Washington that Tru-.
man is not inclined to receive any such delegation . . Persons
close to the White House advise , Zionist leaders to abstain from •
raising the Jerusalem issue with :Truman until after the November
election of a New York State member to the U. S. Senate .
Herbert H. Lehman and john Foster Dillies are seeking the Senate
seat, and President Truman is in favor of LehMan .. . In the
meantime, members of the U. S. Embassy in Tel Aviv are "ad-
vising" the.Israel
Government "not to be stubborn" on the Jeru-
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salem issue.
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CoMmunal Affairs
Ttle ties between AMerican Jewish communities and Israel
have now become closer than 'ever • before . • . The Council of
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Jewish "Federations and Welfare Funds 'sent a staff member,
Harold Glasser, for a full year's. stay in the Jewish state to act as
liaison between the American Jewish communities and Israel .
Street collections conducted in New York and other cities on . be-
half of the "Veterans of Hebrew Resistance" and other little-
known groups are now being checked . . . The Jewish Agency has -
denounced the use of street collections, as a means of raising
funds for Israel • . . The United. Synagogue of America states
that family membership in Conservative congregations is closer
to 150,000 than the estimated 75,000 reported, in the study pu4-
lished by the Zionist Youth Commission ... The American Asso-
ciation for Jewish Education estimates that the total enrollment
in all Jewish schools in the United States in 1949 was .255,865 .
Of this number, Sunday schools had • about 129,000, week-day
afternoon schools . about 122 i 006 while the remainder attended
Yiddish and all-day schools.