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VQLUME 16—No. 10 708-10 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit 26, Michigan, Nov. 18, 1949
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Disaster, Panic Migrations of Jews to Israel
Create Task Unparalleled in History of. Relief
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
PARIS, France,—Disaster and panic mi-
grations of Jews to Israel have created such
serious problems, which must be solved imme-
diately, that American Jewry will be faced with
duties unparalleled in the history of recon-
struction activities in which our people have
excelled in the past 30 years.
The Paris office of the American Jewish
•Joint Distribution Committee, now the center
- of all overseas operations of the great relief
organization which, since World War I, has
been the major ray of hope for suffering Jew-
ries, is the pivotal point from which large-
scale settlement of Jews in Israel is being
conducted.
During November, it is expected that 20,-
000 more Jews will be sent to Israel throughr
this office—at 119 Rue St. Dominigeu in Paris.
Similar numbers • of settlers have been
sent through this office in September, and Oc-
tober,
Meanwhile, one great operation goes on—
the liquidation of the community of Yemenite
Jews and their settlement in Israel. By the end
of this year, it is expected 40,000 Jews will be
taken out of Yemen.
Up to this time, 29,000 already have mi-
grated to Israel in one of the most fantastic
movements—on foot across deserts—to Aden,
where they have been placed on planes by the
JDC and transported to Israel. I saw many of
them upon their arrival at the Lydda Airport
in Israel. They are sickly, disease-ridden, un-
dernourished, clothed in rags. Many of • them
wear garments which still have tags on them
that read: "A gift from the Joint (JDC)."
They are the element which is engaged in
It's Senator Lehman Now
Following his election as Senator from New York,
former GOV. HERBERT H. LEHMAN, with his wife and
campaign manager, EDWARD McGU1RE (right) check on
how various districts voted. Lehman was victor over John
Foster Dulles. Lehman became the seventh Jew to serve in
-the United States Senate. American Jews who prieceded
Lehman in the Senate (as noted in The Jewish News,
Purely Commentary, Aug. 5, 1949) were: Simon Guggen-
- heim, Colorado, 1907-1913; David Levy Yulee, ,Florida,
1845-1851, 1855-1861 ; Judah Philip Benjamin, Louisiana,
• 1853 1861, Benjamin Franklin Jonas, Louisiana, 1870-
.1885 ; Joseph Simon, Oregon, 1897-1903 ; Isador Rayner,
Maryland, 1905-1912.
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Resolutiori urging the
United States to prevent
infringement upon
Israel's rights in Jerusa-
lem to be proposed at
rally Monday evening at
Central High School.
Story on Page . 5
Truman Approves Bill to Permit
Schavers to Keep Orphan Here
One of the most romantic .
•episodes in the history of
•this country's extension of
the right to asylum to the
oppressed of Europe was en-
acted during the final hours
of the last session of the
-Uriited States Congress.
Itzhak Schaver• about-to-
'be-adopted six-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Morris L.
- Schaver, prominent com-
munal and Zionist leaders, is
the hero of this story.
Itzhak, orphaned by the
war,. was brought to Canada
by the Schavers from Paris
early this year.
His parentage being un-
known, it was impossible to
bring him into the United
States unless he Was declared
a native of a country whose
quota would " permit his im-
mediate settlement in the
U. S.
Since he was in an orphan
home in Paris where most of
the children were believed to
have been of Polish origin,
he would have had to wait
several years to core here
under a Polish quota.
Senator Arthur H. Vanden-
berg introduced a bill in the
U. S. Senate, which declared:
•"Be it enacted, That for
the ptirposes of • subsection
MR. AND MRS. SCHAVER AND ITZHAK
(a), section 12, of the Immi-
gration Act of 1924, as
amended, Itzhak Schaver, of
unknown origin, recently
domiciled in an orphanage in
France, shall he deemed to
have been born in France."
Rep. John D. Dingell intro-
duced a similar bill in the
House of Representatives.
On Aug. 24, the House of
Representatives unanimously
adopted this bill. Several
weeks of anxiety • intervened
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, director of the
European JDC Bureau, one of Jewry's most
brilliant leaders, told me the "disaster immi-
gration" cannot be stopped, that it cannot be
limited or restricted or delayed.
"The Yemenite Jews cannot go to Israel
by sea because they cannot go through the
Suez Canal. We must bring them to their desti-
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Important Israel Reports
Slated for JNF City-Wide
Conference This Sunday
Detroit - Jewry
To Raise Voice;
on Jerusalem !
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a disaster migration in order to find permanent
homes in the Jewish state. When the Jewish
community of Yemen finally, is liquidated—as
Bulgarian Jewry previously' has been trans-
ported to Israel—it will marls the end of a
chapter of suffering and the beginning of a
new era of deceny for this people, whose prede-
cessors are among the most wholesome settlers
in 'Israel.
for Itzhak and the Schavers.
But an hour before its ad-
journment, the Senate adopt-
ed Senator Vandenberg's bill.
Last week, President Tru-
man signed the measure and
it became law. The bill also
was signed by Vice-President
Barkley and Speaker of the
House Rayburn.
Thus another great act of
mercy is chalked up to the
credit of our great democ-
racy. •
Israel's triumphs and needs, the achievements of the
Jewish National Fund and the new challenges facing Ameri-
can Jewry in relation to the Jewish state will be outlined
at the annual city-wide conference of the Jewish NatiOnal
Fund, at the two sessions to
be held Sunday at the Fort
Wayne Hotel.
Irving W. Schlussel, presi-
dent of the JNF Council of
Detroit, and Arthur Shutkin,
the Council's executive direct-
or, announce that more than
10 0 organizations already
have submitted ,names of
their delegates to the con-
Slomovitz ference. Extending an invi- Rothenberg
tation to the entire communi-
ty to participate in the conference, the JNF leaders state
that there is still time for organizations to select their dele-
gates and to submit their names either to the JNF Council
office, 11816 Dexter, TO 8-7384, on Friday, or prior to the
opening of the conference on Sunday morning.
In addition to annual reports to be submitted by JNF
Council officers and to greetings from national and local
organizations, • the conference program will
be featured by three addresses :
Philip Slomovitz, editor and publisher
of The Jewish News, will give his first public
report on his impressions of Israel at the
closing of the morning session, at noon. The
session is scheduled to open at 10:30 a.m.
The afternoon session, which will com-
mence at 2 :30 p.m., will be addressed by
Judge Morris Rothenberg, president of the'
Jewish National Fund of America, co-chair-
man of the United Jewish Appeal, former
president of the Zionist Organization of.
America and one of the outstanding leaders in the major
American Jewish movements ; and Rabbi Max Kirshblum,
executive secretary of the Mizrachi Organization of Ameri-
ca, secretary of the AmeriCan Zionist Council and chairman
of the religious groups' contact department of the Jewish
National Fund.
The Zionist Organization, Hadassah, Histadrut, Bnai
Brith, landsmanschaften, congregational and other spokes-
men will greet the delegates and will participate in the
discussions and in making plans for future JNF activities
in Detroit.
"It is urgent that all Detroit Jews should attend these
sessions to hear latest reports from Israel," Shutkin stated.
"We have secured a large hall to accomodate all delegates
and guests and we call upon all Detroit Jews to come early
on Sunday and to participate in the annual discussions of
JNF and Israel's needs. Admission is free to both sessions
and there will be no solicitation of funds."