Bnai Brith Women's Chapters Merge Efforts
For Overall Fund Raising Program Nov. 21
Chapter chairmen for the forthcoming Bnai
Brith Women's donor program are, first row,
left to right: MESDAMES JACK KETAI.
LEON DREYL1NGER, HARRY FOX, MORRIS
TACK, Council chairman; BEN DORB,
In a special "command per-
formance," members of the
Women's Division will repeat
their presentation of the original
show "Campaigning is a Circus,"
at the annual meeting of the
Detroit Service Group, 8 p.m.,
Thursday; Nov. 17, at the Jew-
ish Community Center. The
show's. production staff includes
Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner, book;
Mrs. Charles Briskman, direc-
tor; Mrs. Seymour Simons as-
sistant director; Ilene Bennett,
secretary, Mrs. Harry H. Platt,
piano accompanist.
The cast includes Mesdames
Samuel Rhodes, Charles Brisk-
man, Samuel S. Greenberg, Har-
old Koenigsberg, Morey Abra-
hams, Misses Ilene and Janis
Bennett, Mesdames Morton
Friedman, Irving Goldman,
Charles B. Solomon, Julian Un-
ger, Sidney J. Winer, Nate
Schlafer, Albert Cohen.
Detroit Service Group men
campaigners who are contribut-
ing their talent to the cast are
Charles Briskman, Irving Gold-
man, Sidney Marwil and Sam-
GEORGE L. WISE, LOUIS SI PKI NS. Back row, uel S. Greenberg.
left to right: MRS. MANN I E CORNFIELD,
MISS SHIRLEY BERNSTE1 N, MESDAMES
JACK RAISIN, SIDNEY KALT, ARTHUR
MUNSON, HARRY SWARTZ, H. BEAN.
A complete two-and-a-half hour variety revue of comedy
dances, songs and novelties will be included in Micky Katz's
"Borscht-capades" Monday, Nov. 21, at Masonic Temple, at
the third annual fund-raising affair of the Greater Detroit
Bnai Brith Women's Council.
Mickey Katz, co-producer and star of "Borscht-capades,"
Is an RCA Victor recording ar-
List. With him will be Pietro
States specializing in the treat-
Gentile, recording and concert
ment of arthritis. It is national
artist; the Tovar dancing fam-
and non-sectarian, as is , the Na-
ily, which interprets Hassidic
tional Jewish Hospital for tuber-
and Palestinian dances; Rickie
culosis. Bnai Brith also main-
Layne, ventriloquist, and his
tains a social service worker at
little pal, "Velvel;" Raasche,
singing recording artist; Joel the Mayo Clinic.
Ideals of Democracy
Kaye, juvenile singing star of
The Anti-Defamation League
'Borsch-capades," and Patsy Ab-
is dedicated to the ideals of
bott singing comedienne.
Mrs. Morris Tack, fund-raising democracy a n d the greatest
chairman of Council, announces practical _expression of Ameri-
that tickets are available. Mrs. can life. In addition, Bnai Brith
Kelman. Bruss, Council ticket aids local and national philan-
chairman, may be contacted at thropic causes such as the Torch
Fund and the Allied Jewish
TO. 8-4511, for reservations.
Campaign, and contributes food,
Aid Philanthropies
Proceeds realized from the sale ambulance s, transportation,
of tickets and the souvenir book clothing a n d medication for
will serve numerous Bnai Brith Israel.
philanthropies. Among these aAll Bnai Brith women's chap-
are the Hillel Foundations, serv- ters are united . in this donor
ing 100,000 college students, and event. Among their activities for
the Bnai Brith Youth Organiza- the program are the following:
Mrs. Leon Dreylinger, Bloch
tions, which is aimed at creating
an. informed generation of young Chapter . fund-raising head, an-
nounces a prograrn for 8:30 p.m.
people.
Bnai Brith serves the soldier Monday, Nov. 14, at the Labor
through t h e Serve-A-Hospital Zionist Institute. Mrs. Albert
program which has furnished Heller, program chairman, has
1,600 pieces of equipment for arranged a showing of old-time
disabled veterans, as - well as movies, to be followed by com-
sponsoring entertainment and munity singing led by Sylvia
parties. The order also is an Weider.
Plan Variety Show
active participant in the Na-
tional Veterans' Emergency On Nov. 14, Brandeis Chapter
Housing program, veterans' hos- will met at the Rose Sittig
pitals and veterans' information Cohen Hall. The dramatic group
centers. will present a'variety show. On
Orphans are cared for at the Nov. 16 there will be a games
Bellefaire home in Cleveland. night and midnight luncheon
The Leo N. Levi Memorial Hos- for new pledges at the home of
pital at Hot Springs, Ark., is the Belle Lowinger, 2974 Coiling-
only free hospital in the United wood.
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DSG to See 'Campaigning
Is a Circus,' Hear Sobeloff
On the Record
By NATHAN Z I PRI N
Orchids
When a man who has been editor of an Anglo-Jewish paper
for 25 years is honored by. his community he must have more
than deserved it . . For strange as it seems our Jewish com-
munities are not giving these publications the support they merit
, It was therefore good to learn that David Weissman, editor of
the Bnai Brith Messenger of Los Angeles had been honored by
the outstanding leaders of the Jewish community of his city for
twenty-five years of devoted and, at times difficult years of serv-
ice with the publication . . David, we would like to tip off his
admirers, was a journalistic boy prodigy . . . He showed early
aptitude for journalism and, at fifteen, he was pronounced New
• Jersey's youngest editor • . . He gained the distinction for a story
he wrote about a newsboys' club
Literary Sidelights
Louis Lipsky is busy writing a book . . . It will consist of
sketches of the great Zionist leaders of his day ... People who
saw the manuscript say his portraits of such figures as Herzl;
Nordau, Brandeis, Weismann and Sokolow are a revelation . .
John Hersey has completed .a book on the Warsaw Ghetto .. .
Before getting down to the task of actual writing the noted
author surrounded, himself with a staff •f choice Jewish re-
searchists . . Humphrey Bogart is a nephew by marriage to
Daniel Persky, current winner of the Louis LaMed Foundation
„annual award for the best works of the year in Hebrew and Yid-
,. Lauren .Bacall, Bogart's wife, is Persky's niece,
All members of the DSG--.
trade and professional contribu-
tors to the 1949 Allied Jewish
Campaign—are invited to attend
the Meeting, which will be pre-
ceded by seven individual di-
vision meetings, at which offi-
cers will be elected for the
coming year.
Also featured on the program
will be a report by Isidore So-
beloff, executive director of the
Jewish Welfare , Federation of
Detroit, who is now on a mis-
sion to Europe and Israel.
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Detroit Service Group mem-
bers also will hold election. of
officers. Irving W. Blumberg is
now president.
Divisions and their chairmen
whose meetings will precede the
DSG general session include
mercantile, Maurice A. Enggass;
services, Fred A. Ginsburg -;- me-
chanical trades, Max D. Schus-
ter; real estate and building,
Louis Berry; food, Nathan- W.
Lurie; professional, William
Friedman, and arts and crafts,
Leon S. Wayburn.
Leivick, Mrs. Shaver, 11,abbi Adler
Appear on Book Month Program
Leivick, noted Yiddish drama- Month program, sponsored by
Detroit Chapter is having a tist and poet; Emma Schaver, the Joint Yiddish Culture Com-
luncheon and fund-raising rally Detroit's world-renowned inter- mittee of the Jewish Community
at the Jewish Center at 12:30 preter of Jewish song, and Rab- Council and Jewish Community
Center.
p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9. The
The program will be held at
dramatic group will present a
8:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, in the
skit, aided by the Young Adult
main auditorium of the Jewish
Guild. Mrs. G. Wise is fund-
Community Center.
raising chairman; with Mes-
dames Ralph Rosenblatt, I. Pav-
Leivick, whose 60th birthday is
itch, J. Levy, J. Gabe, M. Fried-
being celebrated, will discuss lit-
man, as her aides.
erature and read selections from
his works. Mrs. Schaver will
Bnai Brith B and P group
present a program of Leivick's
has planned a cocktail party for
poems which have. been set to
Saturday evening, Nov._ 12, at
music. Rabbi Adler will discuss
the Detroiter Hotel.
the role of Leivick in modern
Social With Men
Jewish literature.
On Nov. 10, at Jericho Tern-
A I 1 Landsmanshaften
and
ple, Downtown Chapter will fol-
Yiddish organizations have been
low its meeting at a social with
provided with tickets. Additional
the men. Mrs. Manny Cornfield
tickets may be obtained from
is fund-raising chairman; Mrs.
Harry Katz at the Center or
Sol Rosenberg ; ads, Mrs. Sydney
Julius Weinberg at the Com-
Cohen, tickets.
m.-unity Council.
East. Side Chapter will meet
Nov. 14 at Beth Itzchock Syna-
gogue. Mrs. P. Sipkin is fund-
EMMA SCHAVER
raising chairman and Mrs. G.
bi Morris Adler, chairman of the
Reifman, ticket chairman.
George Gershwin Chapter's Culture Commission of the Jew'
fund-raising rally will meet Nov. ish Community Countil, will be
9 at the Jewish Frat&n-al Hall, featured on a Jewish Book
Mrs. Herbert Bean announced.
PHILADELPHIA — A national
Roth and Berdun will present a
budget of $1,474,485 to finance
Detroit Leaders Help
show.
the 1950 services of the National
The dramatic group of Philip Windsor UJA Drive
Jewish Welfare Board was en-
Handler Chapter presented "A
dorsed here by the organiza-
Saga of Mt. Clemens" Nov. 3.
With the annual Jewish wel- tion's National Finance Council
The original script and parodies
were written by Mrs. Jack Ehr- fare rund drive now under way and adopted by the JWB execu-
lich and Mrs. Ethel Blackman. in Windsor, Detroit communal tive committee.
The funds will make possible
Mrs. Harry Swartz is fund-rais- leaders have been bringing their
ing chairmen, with Mesdames experience across the border to the services and programs of
tell
the
eeople
of
Windsor
about
JWB in the coining year in the
Ethel Blackman, Bud_ Bronson,
Bernard Abramson, Charles the importance of this year's three areas in which it serves
the American Jewish • com-
Jones, Ruben Atlas, assisting United Jewish Appeal.
Among Detroiters who have munity:
her.
spoken in Windsor are Louis
Hear ADL Official
1—As the national association
Berry, 1949 Allied Jewish Cam-
Keidan Chapter heard Haskell paign chairman; Maxwell Kat- of 321 Jewish Community Cen-
ters and YM and YWHA's.'
Lazar, regional director of the
zen, of the Allied Jewish Cam-
Anti-Defamation League, at its paign Speakers' Bueau; Leon
2—As the organization accred-
Nov. 1 meeting. Mrs. Sidney
Kay, Zionist Organization presi- ited by the government to meet
Kalt heads fund-raising, as-
dent, recently returned froni the religious, morale and wel-
sisted by Mrs. Jean Sucher, Syl-
Israel and Max Osnos, 1949 Al- fare needs of Jewish men in the
via Ralter, Helen Mann, Mrs.
armed forces and 'patients in
George Agree, Mrs. Louis Mod- lied Jewish Campaign pre-cam- veterans' hospitals.
paign
chairman.
ell, Mrs. Henry Fidler, Mrs. Louis
-3—As the sponsor of such cul-
Brant.
On Nov. 2; Dr. Fritz Redl bert Klaiman, David Levenson, tural agencies as the American
of Wayne University addressed Allan La-ban and Philip Kramer. Jewish Historical Society, Na-
tional Jewish Music Council,
Louis Marshall Lodge. Mrs. Ben
Tikvah Birthday
Dorf is fund-raising chairmen,
Tikvah Chapter will celebrate Jewish Book Council of America,
with Mesdames David Gantz, its third birthday at a party at National Jewish Youth Confer-
David Kessler, Charles Aver- 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. •15, at enCe and the Jewish Center Lec-
buch, Halperin, her committee. Beth Aaron Synagogue, Mrs. ture Bureau.
A victory party is scheduled Alper Kaplan, program chair-
at the home of Mrs. I. Cohen, man, announces that Mrs. Ger-
19357 Monica, at 8:30 p.m. Dec. ald Goldberg will be guest U.S. Defense Secretary,
7, for Henry Morgenthau Chap- speaker.
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Wins interfaith Award.
ter. Mrs, Arthur Monson heads - Rabbi Mandel M. Zager Chap-
fund-raising, aided by Mesdames ter announces a fund rally for
NEW YORK (JTA)—Secretary
Frank Schumer, Raymond Shar- Nov. • 9 at the home of Mrs.
key, Sam Katz.
Betty Alter, 1981 Richton. Mrs. of Defense Johnson' w i i 1 be
A night of fun is scheduled for Irving Lipson, , fund-raising awarded a gold medal from In-
the evening of Nov. 14 at Cong. chairman, is assisted by Mes- teTfaith in Action for "his out-
Bnai Moshe synagogue, when dames Sam. .Traison, Sidney standing work in fostering bet-
Pisgah bowlers take over. Mrs. Erhser, Philip Shiovitz, Abe ter racial and religious under-
standing among the 'a r rn e d
Burton Gutman, dramatic chair- Sinclair, Milton Herman..
man, has prepared a skit. Guests
Mrs. Harry Singer will be forces," it was announced by
are invited. Mrs. Jack Ketai, guest speaker for Israel Chapter George A. Seltzman, president of
fund-raising chairman, has as on Nov. 15, Mrs. H. Koenigsberg, the group.
her assistants, Mesdames Albert program chairman, announces.
Ashei Murray Shapiro, David Victor Bloomfield, hypnotist, will •2THE JEWISH - NEWS
Passel, Bernard Goodman, Al- entertain,.
Friday, November 4, 1949
JWB Sets Budget
At $1,474,485 for
Services in 1950