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Purely Commentary: Hadassah's Work in Israel

24—THE JEWISH NEWS

Over 57 Child Welfare Centers Serving
Jewish State; Medical Program Gigantic

Jewish Agency Chief
Tours U. S. for UJA

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

By Air Express from Israel

JERUSALEM—Hadassah's program is gigantic and the
4,500 Detroit members will be interested to know that their
efforts are not in vain and that their gifts serve an import-
ant purpose.
Hadassah's 57 child welfare centers are modeled after
the significant set-up in the Holy City. Since the evacuation
of the main buildings on Mount Scopus upon the outbreak
of the Arab-Jewish war, the Hadassah program is carried on
in four buildings in the New City.
In the Brandeis Buildino. , one of the vocational center's
rooms was equipped with funds provided by Detroit's Youth
Education League. A plaque with the donor's name has been
installed in the room.
Mrs. Sari Berger, who supervises the Hadasssli Club,
was especially anxious that Hadassah's greetings should go
forth from Jerusalem to „Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich and all her
co-workers.

Hadassah, as the mother medical movement in Palestine, has
turned over a number of its buildings to municipalities. The
Tel Aviv Hadassah Hospital, where Dr. Israel Heyman is serving
in the pediatrics department, is now operated by the all-Jewish
city.
_ The Haifa Hadassah hospital also has been turned over to
the municipality and similar plans are being made for the Tibe-
rias Hospital. Hadassah, however, has no intention ever to
turn the Medical School over to anyone bud will continue to
operate it.
Hadassah's several departments specialize in infant welfare,
social hygiene and occupational therapy. Mothers and their
children are taught the principles of nutrition and boys and girls
are taught vocations.
The Brandeis Building has wings dedicated to the memory
of JUdge Julian W. Mack and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. It is lo-
cated on Nathan Straus Street which the British tried without
success to perpetuate as Chaniberlain Street, in the name of the
man who was considered the most vicious anti-Jewish High
Commissioner.
Hadassah women have reason to be proud of all their efforts.

Rishon Brewery World's Second Largest

RISHON LeZION.—Prospective investors will find interesting
material for study in the famous wine cellars of Rishon and
their neighboring brewery.
Practically all beer consumed in Israel—late of it—comes
from the Rishon Brewery which is operated by the French Drey-
fus Brothers. It was the twentieth brewery to be established
by the Dreyfuses. When this industry was first brought here,
the British were antagonistic. Beer from Syria was admitted
without excise tax, while the Palestinian beer of Rishon was
taxed heavily. But this handicap, like all others, was overcome.
Today, the brewery is one of the most up-to-date and most
Sanitary to be found anywhere in the world. Modern machinery
has been installed, and, while, at first, tanks had to be brought
from abroad, now many of them are made in Israel. Totzereth
liaAaretz, Israel-made products, are becoming the rule, rather
than exception. Just as the baby carriages, household utensils
and other articles are made here, so, also, some aluminum tanks
are manufactured here.
• A. Bursztyn, graduate of French universities and a trained
technician, is in charge of the highly complicated system in the
Rishon brewery. Millions of quarts of beer are consumed here
monthly—and it is a delicious product.
Similarly, the wine cellars are examples of progress. Today,
With the decline of the Bordeaux (France) wineries, the Rishon
plant is the largest in the world outside of the United States.

Friday, November 4, 1949

Commentary on the Bible, coined by Leo Heyman, former De-
troiter. Heyman points out that in the days of Pharoah • the -
cry went Out that Israelites must be destroyed pen-yirbu—lest
they multiply.
Throughout the ages, this has been the cry of other nations.
But in Israel it has been changed to ken yirbu, they must multi-
ply. That's the difference between the antagonistic Diaspora and
the State of Israel which beckons to all Israel.

All-Arab Nazareth Under Jewish Rule

NAZARETH, Israel-,--The romance of Israel is enhanced by
the -annotation that Nazareth is in -Israel. It was the first large
center in Israel to send a delegation to the Jewish authorities
with the request that it be included in the new state and that
the city should be spared the trials of war. This all-Arab city
escaped the horrors of fighting and its holy places remained
intact.
There are 20,0.00 Arabs ,here—half Moslems, half Christians.
Our guide, M. Badawi Daher, tried to impress upon us that Naza-
reth's population is happy with the Jewish rulers.
After taking us through the Church of Annunciation and
the Church of St. Joseph, abodes of Mary and Joseph, he de-
scribed enthusiastically the functions of the Israel administration
as it affects the Arabs.
He said his compatriots are happy with the Jews and told us
about the schools that are being established for Arab children
by Israel's government. There are two schools for boys, one for
girls, and all provided with books, pencils, and writing paper.
The children are learning English and Arabic and Jewish
teachers are coming soon to teach them Hebrew "because the
children ' should know the language of the country of their
citizenship."
Israelis hope that there are no Fifth Columnists here. Many-
Arabs' from other parts, Tiberias, Safed and villages, have found
haven in Nazareth. An Arab doctor, class-mate of Dr. Israel
Heyman from whom I brought regards, was frank in hiS analysis
of the situation.
He said that he could not judge conditions as long as a
military government remained in the city and stated emphatic-
ally that Arabs are not concerned with politics but are worried
over their economic conditions; that Arabs were fooled by the
British administration and have suffered from bluffs by their
own politicians.
Therefore, what concerns them, he said, is economics. He
said there are many Nazareth Arabs in Detroit, Highland Park,
Dearborn and Flint, mentioning George Farah as a Nazareth
Arab now in or near Detroit.
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Two Holy Land Hitch-Hikers .

B E R L LOCKER, chairman
of the Jewish Agency Execu-
tive in Jerusalem, who has
just arrived in the U. S. for an
emergency tour on behalf of
the United Jewish Appeal, re-
vealed that funds contributed
by American Jewry through
the UJA had made possible
the entry to Israel of 320',000
immigrants since founding of
the Jewish State 17 months
ago. Locker warned, however,
that greater efforts on the part
of American Jewry are vital
for the absorption of the im-
migrants, more than 90,000
of whom are in camps.

DSG Committees
Seek Rapid Cash

With some 90,000 men, women
and children crowded into the
tents and barracks of Israel -be-
cause there is no adequate hous-
ing, the - grave financial crisis
into which the Jewish Agency
has been plunged is the dom-
inant concern of the trade and
professional group of the De-
troit Service Group.
The DSG collection commit-
tees are putting forth every ef-
fort to maintain the present
-good rate of payments on out-
standing Alied Jewish Campaign
pledges.
Two more divisions have an-
nounced their collection com-
mittee personnel.
Sidney L. Alexander is coun-
selor on collections for the pro-
fessional division.
Harry H. P 1 a t t, collection
chairman for the professional di-
vision, has announced that his
committee members include:

SDEH YAAKOV.—Back to this very religious Poal Hami-
zrachi moshav for additional observations:
One of the local farmers gave the reasons for difficulties in
Israel: Elsewhere, he pointed out, there are three generations to
fall back up-on: the grandparents, the parents and the children.
In Israel, there is only one generation, the parents. -The grand-
parents are untrained, too old, too weak; and the children haven't
grown up. Thus the difficulties.
Such are the trials of a new-born farming economy estab•
lished by people who only knew miskhar—tradingand study of
the Law. Now these people are tilling the soil and making
former sand-dunes fruitful, and are even more piously advancing
the spiritual life of the Jewish people.
There are psychological factors which are seriously affecting
the thinking of these rejuvenated people of Israel. The threat of
constant Arab attacks, the necessity of reclaiming deserts, lack
of food and water and numerous other travails not only have
not frightened these people: they have strengthened them.
At the same time, they are deeply shaken by the mass mur_7
der of their families in Europe. They are trying in numerous
Samuel S. Greenberg, Morton Jacobs,
ways to perpetuate their_memories. Thus, Cousin Chanoch Gan- Jack
Miller and David M. Miro, attor-
dal is changing his name to Chashmenoyi with a purpose: the neys; Drs. Gerson Berris, Joseph E.
Goodstein and Max Winslow, dentists:
letters in his new name—cheth, shin, mem, nun, aleph, yud, rep- Drs. M. •E. Bachman, Hyman Mellen and
Established by Baron Edmond deRothschild, who founded resent the initials in the names of his brothers and sisters who Alexander W. Sanders. physicians: Harry
Rishon LeZion in 1832-- 1-Rishon is the second oldest colony, Petach died as martyrs at the hands of the Nazi beasts. Thus are sacred Berlin, Albert Boesky, Morris Sussman
and Irwin Weingarten. pharmacists; Jos-
Tikvah being the first to have been established in Eretz Israel by memories being blessed.
eph B. Colten and Joseph L. Staub, ac-
Dr. Saul Cole, optometrists:
the Baron 70 years ago, the wineries now are a cooperative ven-
At Sdeh Yaakov, after a taste of a ride in a narrow cart countants;
and Susan Bromberg and Norman D.rach-
ture of those producing the product. They pay a. very nominal drawn by mules, we learned the meaning of hitch-hiking in ler, educational workers.
rental for the structure to the Rothschilds of France, and hun- Israel. Unable to secure a taxi or to get a place on the crowded
Working with real estate and
dreds of families live off the income.
auto-buses, we began to use oily thumbs. This art is called building council collection chair-
Baruch Pupko, a landsman from Lida, is the government ex- trampism in Israel.
man Barney Smith are:
cise officer. He is hospitable and friendly. He would not let us
For five hours in the hot sun, we were trampistim until we
Joseph Holtzman. Milton Ratner and
George D. Seyburn, builders; Ben B.
leave without a taste of the beer and Rishon-made pretzel sticks. got our ride to Tivon, whence transportation to Haifa was much Fenton,
real estate; Kopel Kahn, hotels:,
Mrs. Pupko is a sister of Theodore Schaeffer of Detroit.
easier. But the effort was. worth it, for the value of experience Meyer M. Fishman. building suppliers;
Harry G. Davidson and Daniel A. Laven,
The story of Rishon is incomplete without the Pshat, the before and after the ride with the mules.
heating and plumbing suppliers; Morris

Ken Yirbu—Vibrant Axiom of Israel

Max Lerner to Be Guest Speaker
At National Council's Opening Event

Max Lerner, author, editor
and journalist, will discuss
"America, Israel in the World
Scene" at the first meeting of
4- the Detroit Section of the Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women,
at 12:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 7,
in the auditorium of the Jewish
Center.
Lerner, sometimes called "the
stormy petrel of journalism," has
been an outstanding figure in
the liberal world for many years.
His most recent book, 'Actions
and Passions," has just been
published by Simons and Schus-
ter.
Lerner is on the faculty of the
School of Politics of New York
University, and is a contributing
editor of The •New Republic.
Members of the Detroit Sec-
tion, who are invited to the
meeting, are urged to bring brie-
a-brac for the new gift corner

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AM PAL Spends Millions in U. S.
As Commercial Agent for Israel

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of the Re-Sale Shop. Non-mem- . NEW YORK — A M P A L, the
bers will be charged a -nominal American Palestine Trading
fee which they may apply On Corp., is handling millions - of
membership if desired,
dollars of business as a represe-
sentative of Israel cooperatives,
and as purchasing agent- for the
Jewish Agency and government
departments.
-Diamonds, steel pipe, glass,
housing materials, airlines and
shipping are mong the diverse
projects and commodities of
Israel handled by AMPAL, which
maintains a constant search for
markets for Israel goods.
From their small offices on
Fourth Ave., arrangements have
been made for trade agreements
MAX LERNER
with such U. S. corporations as
Mrs. Lewis B. Daniels, presi- General Motors and Reynolds
dent of the Detroit Section, will Metals. The latest GM deal in-
preside over the meeting, which volved over three and a half
will be in the form of a dessert million dollars for trucks, Pon-
luncheon.
tiacs and parts and service

equipment. •In its four year ex-
istence AMPAL has purchased
over $30,000,000 worth of ma-
terials and equipment for Israel
in this country.
The American Israeli Shipping
Co., with its S. S. Haifa and S.S.
Tel Aviv form the nucleus of a
constantly growing line of home
fleet ships carrying goods to Is-
rael. AMPAL controls 50 .per-
cent of its American-held stbck.
Abraham Dickstein, in his po-
sitions as executive director and
secretary-treasurer of AMPAL,
secretary of the American Israeli
Shipping Co., and secretary of
the AMPAL purchasing service,
is the man responsible - for most
of the organization's planning
and success.
In all, only 40 people are em-
ployed in the AMPAL offices.

H. BluMberg. electricians and suppliers:
Charles N. Agtee and Max C. Handler,
architects and building engineers: Rubin
Kaplan, hardware, and Jacob Scheier,
hotels and restaurants equipment.

Ben -L. Silberstein serves as
counselor for this division.

Nazi Ageiit Hanged
For Liquidating Jews

WARSAW (JTA) — The death
sentence was carried out here
againSt a collaborator of the
Nazis during the German .occu-
pation of Poland. He was -Josef
Dlubak, who was hanged after
his appeal - for mercy had been
refused by the court. Dlubak
was foUnd guilty of having
taken part with the Nazis in the
liquidation of the Czenstochowa
ghetto and having personally
shot many Jews. .
Sentence of death was passed
in Kielce on former S.S. Major
Otto Busying who ordered the
killing of more than 1,000 Jews,
and committed many crimes
against Jews and Poles from
1940 to 1945,