2,000 Hear FDR Jr. Describe
Experiences on Trip to Israel
8—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 28, 1949
AJC Leader Warns
Against Myopia in
Combatting Prejudice
Among the honored women at Northwest Synagogue last
week when Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., spoke, were: left to
right, MRS. DAVID AARON; MISS GERTRUDE ENGLE;
Mayor Van Antwerp's secretary: MRS. PRENTIS BROWN;
MRS. JOSEPH MARKEL, Northwest Sisterhood president; MRS.
ROOSEVELT; MRS. G. MENNEN WILLIAMS; MRS. JACOB
SEGAL, and MRS. IRA G. KAUFMAN, program chairman.
(See Picture on Page One)
Before 2,000 persons in the
auditorium of the Northwest
Synagogue on Thursday, Oct. 21,
Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
(D.) of New York, presented his
"Impressions of Israel."
Brought to Detroit by the Sis-
terhood and Men's Club commit-
tees headed by Mrs. Ira G. Kauf-
man and David B. Aaron, Roos-
evelt described his talk as the
objective picture of Israel re-
ceived by a most interested out-
sider.
"You have heard in the_press
and through speeches of Jewish
leaders who have visited Israel,
of the accomplishments and
dynamic character of the Jew-
ish State. As a non-Jewish Zion-
ist I could look at Israel without
your personal emotion; but I
could not detract from the ac-
complishmeni,s of Israel, or its
impact on the observer."
All Out for. Israel
Roosevelt was moist enthusias-
tic over the aggressive capability
of the leaders of Israel; Ben
Gurion, Sharret, Kaplan and the
Jerusalem Army commander,
Moishe Dayan.
"I expected," he said, "to meet
physical giant s, white-haired
and shagy. Instead I met men
. of short physical stature, and
immense intellectual inspiration
and ability. Men who could
never surrender Israel!"
Terming -Israel Democracy's
outpost in the Middle E a s t,
Roosevelt state, "All the Ameri-
can people should go all-out to
aid Israel."
Williams, Brown Speak
Also on the program were
Gov. G. Mennen Williams and
JNF Worker
Addressing the Men's Club of
Tempre Israel at the Hotel Stat-
ler Oct. 18; Dr. S. Andhil Fine-
berg, national community serv-
ice director of ,the American
Jewish Commitee, warned
against myopia in combatting
prejudice.
"Everyone," said Dr. Fineberg,
"is inclined to brand as bigotry
all adverse statements against
his own racial and religious
group. But many gladly believe
damaging assertions against
other groups. Unless we are as
skeptical toward the malicious
charges against other groups as
we are critical of statements
which malign our own group, we
cannot contribute much to the
elimination of racial a n d reli-
gious bigotry." -
In explaining the psychological
hazards which prejudice creates,
Dr. Fineberg quoted from his re-
cently published 000k "Punish-
ment_ Without Crime." "Our
thinking about wious groups 'I's
crude and slot y. We regard
them with an affection or with
a dislike which bears no rela-
tionship to real merit or de-
merit." Urging that training for
fair-mindedness be started as
soon as a child can distinguish
the meanings of "he" and "they,"
the speaker asserted that there
can be no successful substitute
for education.
Prentis M. Brown, former sena-
tor from Michigan and head of
Detroit Edison. The Mrs. Wil-
liams and Brown were intro-
duced to the audience by Mrs.
Kaufman.
Gov. Williams extended the of-
ficial greeting of the State to
Rep Roosevelt following an in-
vocation rendered by Rabbi
Jacob Segal and Mr. Brown of-
IRVING SCHLUSSEL, secre-
ficially Introduced Roosevelt to tary
of the Jewish Community
the gathering.
Council and president Of the
Detroit Jewish National Fund
and Mizrachi, will speak before
the Baptist Church of Our
Father, Sunday, Oct. 30. Schlus-
sel will speak on "Israel and the
United Nations."
Christian Lead.ers
Back Israel Rule
Over Jerusalem
NEW YORK (JTA—Declaring
that "citizenship in the state of
Israel is the inherent right of
the Jews of Jerusalem," 90
Christian leader s, including
prominent members of the
Christian clergy in the United
States, appealed to President
Truman to support a policy
within the United Nations which
would place the administration
of Jerusalem in the hands of
the government of Israel.
Commenting on the proposal
of the UN Palestine Conciliation
Commission to internatiohalize
the city, the Christian leaders,
in their message to the Presi-
dent, was this plan was "neither
desirable nor practicable."
Voicing deep concern for the
safeguarding of Jerusalem's Holy
Places and the desirability of
United Nations' control over
such places, the Christian lead-
ers asserted they were "con-
vinced that the state and people
of Israel would, in administer-
ing Jerusalem, abide by the
principle of freedom of religion."
Lipsky Terms UN Jerusalem
Plan 'Vulgar Insult to History'
The proposed internationali-
zation of Jerusalem was termed
a "most vulgar insult to history"
by Louis .Lipsky, chairman, of
the American Zionist Council, at
a meeting with the press on
Monday.
Lipsky was in Detroit to ad=
dress the Max Nordau centen-
nial meeting of the Zionist Or-
ganization of Detroit at the
Jewish Center that evening.
Jerusalem cannot maintain
economic independence unless it
is a part of Israel, Lipsky de-
clared, since its principal inter-
ests ore Jewish institutions and
officials of the Jewish ag'ency
and Zionist organizations.
He pointed out that Jerusalem
has served for centuries as the
Culture Program
For Book Month
On Nov. 13, the Joint Yiddish
Culture Committee of the Jew-
ish Coinmunity Council and the
Jewish Coinmunity Center will
ptesent a culture program ded-
icated to Jewish Book Month.
The noted essayist, poet and
dramatist, Leivick, will appear
at the Jewish Center at 8:30
p.m. Tickets will be distributed
to all organizations.
Further details may be obtain-
ed as the Council, WO. 3-1657,
or the Center, TR. 5-8400.
DON'T MISS
MAX
LERNER
symbol of the drama of Jewry's
return to its homeland. Deriding
the possibilities of a successful
international regime in Jerusa-
lem, Lipsky stated that the
United Nations charter does not
proyide for such instances, and
has no reference to "UN citi-
zens."
The necessity for strengthen-
ing the Zionist movement in this
country, particularly to assure
a steady flow of immigration to
Israel, was emphasized by the
AZ spokesman. "All estimates of
financial needs have been
broken down by the rapidity of
immigration," he" said.. This ob-
ligation of American Jewry is
not permanent, he declared, but
must be maintained at a high
peak for three to five . years to
"cross the hill." •
He cited the recurring in-
stances of pogroms in the Arab
states which, at the same time,
are pleading for sympathy for
the Arab refugees. "The whole
UN is concerned with the Arab •
refugees who left Palestine vol-
untarily,' Lipsky said, "but the
Arab states are making life
miserable for the old, establish-
ed Jewish residents."
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Jewish Organizations:
Elect Your Delegates AT ONCE to
Represent You at the Annual City-Wide
Conference of the Jewish National Fund
If your 'organization or Landsmanschaft does
not meet this week, presidents are called upon
to APPOINT five delegates to act for the
organization at this important conference to
be held ALL DAY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,
starting at 10:30 a.m., at the Fort Wayne Hotel.
New Branch of LZO
Plans Inaugural Dance
The inaugural dance of the
new branch of the Labor Zion-
ist Organization will be held Sat-
urday night, Nov. 5, at the La-
bor Zionist Institute, 13722 Lin-
wood.
The new branch will be named
at the ball from suggestions sub-
mitted by the attending couples.
The man or woman providing
the wining name will reign as
King or Queen of the dance.
One of the outstanding
workers for Land Redemption
in Israel, through • the Jewish
National Fund, is EMIL
KAHAN, president of Cong.
Beth Moses. At every suitable
-occasion, Kahan heads efforts
to raise substantial sums for
the Jewish National Fund. His
appeals in his congregation
during the High Holy Days
brought encouraging results.
He recently was elected treas-
urer of the Jewish National
Fund in Detroit.
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A number of very important problems con-
fr. ontin.g . the Jewish state will be discussed.
Very- important persons are coming especially
to address the conference. It - is imperative
that every organization and congregation in
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