24—THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, October 28, 1919 Former Detroiter Named Aide to UAHC President Rabbi Jay Kaufman of Phil- adelphia, formerly of Detroit, has been named assistant to the president of the Union of Am- erican Hebrew Congregations, serving as aide to Rabbi Maur- ice N. Eisendrath. He will direct the regional activities of the Union on the national scene. Rabbi Kaufman organized and directed the Philadelphia Fed- eration of the Union of Ameri- can Hebrew Congregations and RABBI . JAY KAUFMAN was spiritual leader of the Old York Jewish Community Center, S. new congregation whose quar- ters were completely decorated and equipped through the vol- untary labor of its members. . A graduate of the Hebrew Union College in 1946, Rabbi Kaufman won the- Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Travelling Fellow- ship which took him to the He- brew University in Jerusalem where he did graduate work in Jewish sociology for two years. At the seminary, Rabbi Kauf- man won the coveted Younger- man Memorial Prize for the year's best sermon; the Jacobs Prize in Sociology and the Mon- tefiore Prize in Theology. He was co-author of the prize win- ning Fleischer Memorial Essay on Congregational advancement and editor of the Hebrew Union College Bulletin. Rabbi Kaufman served as stu- dent rabbi in LareclO, Texas; Sandusky, Lima and Alliance. He was chaplain replacement in Niagara Falls : and summer rab- bi of Temple 'Beth El in De- troit. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram KaUfman of Monica Ave. Flint Opens WA Drive November 9 Under the chairmanship of Louis Kasle; the Flint Jewish community will launch its United Jewish appeal campaign for 1949 at an advance gifts , dinner meeting Nov. 9. At a preliminary meeting Oct. 1:2, pledges were announced with increases to as high as 40 per cent over last year's gifts. • Kasle, who is building chair- man for Cong. Beth Israel, and Martin Gordon, building chair- man for Temple Beth El, stressed that the building funds now being raised in Flint must, not interfere with collections for• national and international Jew- ish needs. Nes Tzionah: Heymans See Fruit of 60 Years' Toil Former Detroit. Couple and 4 Small Children Conquer Wilderness to Help Create Community By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ (By Special Air Express From Israel) Egyptian army. The noise, the When the Heymans first came:, to Eretz Israel 60 years ago, this tractive synagogue—and a place was a wilderness. Their parents for the Olim—the new settlers. Near Battle Area arrived with four small children From Ness Tzionah one can erev Pesach, with a total capi- tal of two Russian roubles—then see neighboring territories where in the value of an American dol- severe fighting took place last year. Here we had the rough lar. The father, who was murder- ride, over unpaved kvishim ed by an Arab, was an expert (roads) to the pardeissim, and cabinet maker. He loved the the women were returned to one land with a religious zeal and of the Heyman residences for a traveled the length and breadth sumptuous meal in an army of it on foot, as a pilgrim who jeep. There is a story behind this retraced the steps of the Bibli- jeep which had to be started by cal heroes. rolling it down a hill. Its starter Heyman Street The Heymans' home is on a is broken, the motor heats up narrow street, and unofficially quickly, and the rough time it it is Rechov Heyman—Heythan had is reflected in its actions. •This jeep was requisitioned by Street. Leo, Abe and Charles are all well known in Detroit. Anoth- the army together with all other er brother, Boruch (Ben) came to commercial and similar vehicles, Israel from Concord, Mass., in and has just been returned to 1907, to re-establish connections the original owner. The Israel with the land after a brief res- army assigned it to the fam- pite caused by the death of the ous Shoalei Shimshon. — t h e Foxes of Sampson. father. Give Biblical Story Mr. and Mrs. Leo Heymans' The name was taken from the elder son, Dr. Israel Heyman, is on the staff of Tel Aviv's Had- famous Biblical story of Samson assah Hospital. Another son, who tied foxes' tails together Moshe, is in Detroit. Mrs. Leo and drove them with burning Heyman (Fanny) once was ac- torches into the camp of the tive in the Pioneer Women's Or- enemy. Israel always fought at night—so that the enemy should ganization in Detroit. The Leo Heymans reside in not learn that handfulls fought Rishon LeZion. The others are against legions — 20 or less against hundreds, sometimes in this smaller community. Ness Tzionah has grown. In thousands. The Shoalei Shimshon were the past 20 years, its population increased from sevaral hundred used in this fashion: twenty to the present 4,000. There is a jeeps, with bright lights, sud- movie, an assembly hall, an at- denly began a march on the Thus, history repeated itself in mechanize fashion. Tiyulim (tours and hikes) which are so popular among Israeli youth, actually were the means of ac- quainting the young people with the land. Catch On Too Late The British caught on too late, and after a time declared certain territories as "out of bounds." But the young people learned every nook and corner of Moledet (the homeland). The Egyptians did not know the land as well, and their flight often was in the wrong direc- tion, enabling the Israel army to capture entire battalions and their weapons. This, briefly, is a partial des- cription of a small miracle. This country is full of them. -You see the miracles in the hills and the valleys, in the .government, and in those who criticize it, in the people and its children. We made the shehecheyanu when we ate the first orange from the grove of the fifth Hey- man — Samuel Noah, the emin- ent engineer, and devoted - De- troit Zionist who passed away five months ago and in whose memory another'Heyman h a s been given the name Shmuel. There are many shehecheyanus to be made. All history does not possess another miracle like that of the Fourth Jewish Commonwealth known as Israel. suddenness of their in lights, the gave the impression of this small community of 4,000 people. A former Detroit fam- action, vast army. advancing, and the it the Heymans—have developed a series of Pardeissim a large Egyptian army, with heavy (orange groves) which rank among the best in the land. tanks, fled. NES TZIONAH—There is local (Detroit) interest Arthur C. Danto Gets Scholarship To Study In Paris Arthur Coleman Danto, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Danto of Chicago Blvd., has been awarded a Fullbright Scholar- ship for a year's advanced study in Paris. A graduate of Wayne Univer- sity, Danto has' been working on his doctorate in philosophy at Columbia University in New York, where he lives with his wife, the former Shirley Rovetch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Rovetch of Oakman Ct. The Dantos left last week for Paris. Danto is a veteran of four years service overseas o with the Fifth army. He already has es- tablished a reputation for his woodcuts, which have been ex- hibited in the Brooklyn Museum Print Show, Detroit Institute of Art, the Printmakers' Show in Seattle, Cyril's Gallery in Detroit and the Philadelphia Museum. Polio Fund Set Up To Honor Memory Of Susan Kimelman Friends - of Susan Kesler Kim- elman, 24, who died of polio Aug. 8, have established a special polio memorial fund bearing her name. The Susan Kesler Kimelman Memorial Fund was established to pay tribute to the young woman who devoted so much of her time and energy to many community projects for the serv- ice of others. The group suggests any occa- sions of - joy or sorrow as fitting times to honor Mrs. Kimelman's memory with a gift to the fund. Receipts will be turned over to the Wayne County Chapter of the National Foundation for In- fantile Paralysis. Contributions may be sent to the Fund in care of the Wayne County Chapter, 153 E. Eliza- beth, Detroit 1. Denazification Critic Welcomed UHS Seeks Enrollment Of 500 New Members United Hebrew Schools of De- troit are conducting their an- nual membership 'enrollment. A special committee, appointed by Ira. G. Kaufman and , Charles Charlip, associate membership committee chairmen, is working to reach the goal of 500 new members, set by the membership planning committee. The committee will meet at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 1, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Charlip, 17514 Cherry- lawn. Members of the committee and their wives are invited. An education program is prepared and a social hour will follow the busines meeting. MRS. SAMUEL GREEN, president of the Michigan Coun- cil of the American Jewish Congress, welcomes RABBI JOAC- HIM PRINZ, chairman of the national administrative com- mittee of the AJC, who spoke in Detroit last week. Rabbi Prinz, who recently returned from Germany, criticized the American military authorities for permitting fomer Nazis to return to high governmental positions. Parents, Teachers To Meet for UHS Education Months. While the Education Month observance of the United Hebrew Schools officially terminated with the end of the Tishri, sev- eral projects will be continued through November. On Sunday, Nov. 6, the UHS Hebrew Teachers Organization will sponsor a lunch at 1,1 a.m., in the auditorium of the Rose Cohen building. Guest speaker, will be Rabbi A. M. Hershman. Greetings will be extended by Albert Elabar, associate 'super- intendent, Rabbi Moses Lehrman of Bnai• Moshe; Abe Kasle, presi-. dent of the United Hebrew Schools; Solomon Kasdan, presi- dent of the Parent-Teachers Council. Bernard Isaacs, super- intendent, will be chairman. Hostesses are Mesdames L. Wolok, Joan Carney, Jess John- son, Joseph Gordon and Harty- Thay. The planning committee for - the teachers consists of S. Kas- dan, M. Nobel and A. Roberg. Representing the Patent-Teach-. ers-Organization are Mesdames Jack - Kaplan, Julius Ring, Gus. Jacobs. and Max Grossberg. For reservations, TO. 8-0063. Rep.. Klein Asks Law To Guard Kosher. Label WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Legis- lation designed to protect "the public from falsely-branded kosher meat and food products in the District of Columbia" was introduced by Rep. Arthur Klein of New York, it was revealed. Rep. Klein said he introduced the le&:slation oecause of re- ports he received about the pub- lic being defrauded in purchases of kosher-labeled meats. Krolik Tells CJFWF Leaders Long Range Planning Needed Urging Jewish communities to make national problems part of their local responsibilities, 150 delegates to the annual con- ference of the East Central Re- gion of the Council of Jewish Federations, and Welfare Funds, held here Oct. 22-23, took ac- tion to meet their total 1950 philant hropic responsibilities with maximum effectiveness. The delegates passed a series of resolutions on. major Jewish problems, including national- local relationships, unified and stable national fund raising, in- dependent appeals, the urgent need of the UJA for cash, local budgeting prerogatives, inde- pendent appealS, and coopera- tive planning for 1950. Julian Freeman, Indianapolis, regional president and chair- man of the CJFWF Committee on Unified and Stable Fund Raising, - and Judge Maurice Bernon, Cleveland, addressed the delegates on the problem of unified and stable fund raising; Detroit Speaker Julian Krolik of Detroit was among the leading speakers. Krolik, as discussion leader in a session of fina_cing and planning community services, said careful planning and max- imum giving will. be necessary in 1950 if American Jewry is to meet its total responsibilities, both overseas and at home. He told the delegates they must be- gin to think in terms of long range planning. Calling for a "genuine working partnership" between national agencies and Jewish communi- ties in meeting AmeriCan Jew- ry's total repsonsibilities, Free- man said the magnitude of Jewry's welfare task had dem- onstrated that "communal re- sponsibility has superseded group or individual philan- thropy." Cite Critical Need Citing the "critical need for cash" of the UJA, the delegates adopted a resolution urging each community "to make the maximum amount of cash available to the UJA. The Con- ference also reaffirmed the "basic principle" that the local community has "the right and responsibility to determine its goals and the allocation of all monies it raises." The delegates welcomed the active role being played by the CJFWF in 1950 UJA contract JULIAN KROLIK negotiations. A resolution urged the JDC and UPA to "utilize. fully" the resources and in- formation available through the CJFWF and its Institute on Overseas Studies and consult closely with them on all ques- tions of program, policy and financing. Rankin Would Jail Members Qf '‘.. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (JTA) —A bill which would make it a penitentiary offense to belong to the Anti - Defamation League was introduced during -the last ten minutes of recently-con- cluded session of the 81st Con- gress, which ended Oct. 19, it was learned. The measure was introduced by Rep. John Ran- kin, of Mississippi, and was re- ferred to the House Un-Ameri- can Activities Committee.