Final Z-Day Membership Roll Call
Plans; Workers to Hear Rabbi Feuer

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, December 30, 1949

Council Honors
Presidents of All
Women's Clubs

A group of Detroit rabbis met with BENJAMIN WEISS,
chairman of the Zionist membership campaign, to formulate
a statement urging response to the Zionist roll call. Left to
right: RABBI MORRIS ADLER, Cong. Shaarey Zedek; RABBI
LEON FRAM, Temple Israel; RABBI JACOB SEGAL, North-
west Hebrew Cong. ; Weiss: RABBI MOSES LEHRMAN, Cong.
Bnai Moshe. The rabbis urged Detroiters to join the Zionist
Organization; renew old memberships; enlist as workers in
the membership campaign, and attend Zionist meetings.

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Ben Weiss, chairman of "Op- of Toledo will address Z-Day
eration Z-Day," Detroit's mem- workers.
Leon Kay, president of the De-
bership mobilization campaign
for the Zionist Organization, troit Zionist Organization, an-
has called a meeting of team nounced that a city-wide meet-
captains for Thursday evening. ing will be held Thursday, Jan.
Jan. 5, at the home of Rabbi 19, culminating the membership
campaign.
and Mrs. Moses Lehrman,
Kay also announced that two
This will be the last briefing cash prizes will be awarded to
before the captains lead their persons who bring in the most
teams in a city-wide drive on paid-up members on "Z-Day."
Z-Day, Sunday, Jan. 8. These prizes have been do-
A brunch will be tendered all nated by a Detroit Zionist to
Z-Day workers at the Mayfair, give added incentive to the Z-
13305 Dexter Blvd., at 10 a.m. Day workers. The awards will be
that Sunday. Rabbi Leon Feuer made at the Jan. 19 meeting.

Jewish Agency Confronted
With Deficit of 30 Million

NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Jewish Agency will close its
books at the end,. of 1949 with a deficit of $30,000,000 Dr.
Nahum Goldmanri, chairman of the American section of the
Agency, revealed at a press conference. He said the problem
of covering this deficit will be one of the major questions to
be discussed at the forthcoming session of the Jewish Agency
executive which opens in Jerusalem on Jan. 12.

Dr. Goldman, who will attend
the meeting, said the money
raised by the United Jewish Ap-
peal in 1949 was only 10 percent
below the total raised during
the preceding year. He attribut-
ed this decrease to the fact that
the Silver-Morgenthau dispute
resulted in a three-months de-
lay in the launching of the UJA
drive.
Deduct Local Needs
As far as Israel is concerned,
the UJA campaign of 1949 had
a less happy side as a result of
the increased allocations which
local Jewish federations and
welfare funds deducted for their
local needs, Dr. Goldman stated.
He claimed some federations
and welfare funds allocated for
local purposes as much as 50
percent of the amounts raised
by their ,campaigns.
Dr. Goldman estimated that
between 130,000 and 150,000 Jew-
ish immigrants will enter Israel
in 1950. He added that little
further immigration is expected
from the DP camps in Europe.
The Jews remaining there, he
Stated, would likely emigrate to
Other countries. The Jewish
Agency is closing its offices in
these camps, he revealed.
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Detroit Given Place
On Board of UPA
NEW YORK Reconstitution
the United Palestine Appeal
board of directors, to include
representatives from 24 major
Communities and eight regions,
was announced by Judge Mor-
ris Rothenberg, UPA acting na-
tional chairman, at an execu-
tive committee meeting.
The UPA, as the major agen-
cy in this country for financing
immigration and development
in Israel with funds provided by
the United Jewish Appeal, will
be directed by a board of 43
Jewish community representa-
tives and 72 delegates of its con-
stituent bodies -- the Palestine

of

Foundation Fund and the Jew-
ish National Fund—totaling 120.
Judge Rothenberg reported
that cities with a Jewish popu-
lation of 20,000 or more have
selected one representative each,
except for Chicago, Philadel-
phia and Los Angeles, to be rep-
resented by two members each.
New York City has 10 repre-
sentatives on the board. Detroit
will have one member on the
board, which will meet Jan. 21.
Judge Rothenberg s t r e s s e d
that Israel has guaranteed "to
protect the Holy sites of all
faiths" and that the Jewish
State is in a "far better posi-
tion than the UN for providing
the adequate protection." 'He
said:
"There is no moral or po-
litical basis for the internation-
alization of Jerusalem a n d
Israel is wholly justified in de-
clining to relinquish Jewish Je-
rusalem with its 100 percent of
Jewish inhabitants to a body
which has neither the physical
power nor the moral authority
to implement its decision."

No Hostility to UN
Apparent in Israel

JERUSALEM— (ISI) —"There's
no sign of hostility against the
United Nations" in Israel, Ham-
ilton Fisher,. United Nations
Press < Officer in Jerusalem, said
over the United Nations radio
in a world-wide broadcast.
Fisher stated that while the
Jerusalem problem is being dis-
cussed, the Israelis are busy
with hammers and paint brush-
es preparing offices for the
Israel government. .
"Our cars and white jeeps
with the blue United Nations
:flag are passing in the streets un-
molested as always and indeed
are often greeted by a friendly
hello or shalom," he declared.

Presidents of all organizations
affiliated with the Detroit Fed-
eration of Women's Clubs and
the League of Jewish Women's
organizations will be guests at
the annual presidents'.day meet-
ing of the Detroit Section, Na-
tional Council of Jewish Wo-
men, at 12:30 p.m., Friday, Jan.
6, at the Jewish Center.
A traditional affair, this meet-
ing will be devoted to the Coun-
cil mental hygiene program, and
will present Dr. David Slight,
nationally known psychiatrist.
`Mental Hygiene Problems of
the Maturing Personality" will
be discussed by Dr. Slight.
Mrs. Lewis B. Daniels, presi-
dent of the Section, will greet
the presidents, and Mrs. Louis
Zlatkin, chairman of the men-
tal hygiene committee, will in-
troduce the speaker.
Luncheon will be served pre-
ceding the meeting. Assisting as
hostesses will be members of the
board of directors, and of the
program, mental hygiene and
hospitality committees.

Council Names Ma rouse
Arbitration Co-Chairman

Dr. Shin ar y a Kleinman,
President of, the Jewish Com-
munity Council, announces the
appointment of Philip R. Mar-
cuse, of the Stockwell & Mar-
cuse advertising agency as co-
chairman of the arbitration and
conciliation committee of the
Council.
A. C. Lappin has headed this
committee for several years and,
under his leadership, this com-
mittee has been instrumental in
amicably settling a number of
disputes between Jewish individ-
uals and organizations, remov-
ing the need for court litigation.
The services of the committee
are available to members of the
Jewish community and the com-
mittee is interested in offering
its services in disputes, which
would, if publicized, render
harm to the JeWish community.
A panel of leading citizens acts
in a voluntary capacity as ar-
bitrators and conciliators of
cases presented to. the commit-.
tee. For information call the
Jewish Community Council, WO.
3-1657.

Histadrut Helps Train Immigrants
At Cooperative Foundries in Haifa

Histadrut faces tremendous problems in transforming
thousands of new immigrants into productive citizens of the
State of Israel. To meet these needs, Histadrut has made avail-
able to the immigrants its great cooperatives as training cen-
ters. Shown above is an Orthodox Jew (right) who is being
taught how to make and mold cores for casting heavy metal
parts at Histadrut's Vulcan Foundries at Haifa. To enable this
work to continue, the National Committee for Labor Israel
seeks to raise $10,000,000 in behalf of Histadrut.

Jewish Writer Will Address
Rally for Histadrut Campaign

Ephraim Auerbach, author,
poet and member of the editor-
ial staff of the Jewish Morning
Journal, will be guest speaker of
the weekly rally for the Detroit

EPHRAIM AUERBACH

Ex-Mufti Wants German
Church Back in Palestine Histadrut campaign, Thursday

TEL AVIV— (WJA)—The Ex-
Mufti has asked the United
States authorities, now in
charge of German Church prop-
erty in Palestine, to take all
possible steps to facilitate the.
return of Protestant mission-
aries to Palestine.
No church was more welcome
in the Moslem world than the
German • Protestant Church, the
Mufti is reported to have de-
clared. He expressed regret that
65 per cent of the German
Church property in Palestine,
amounting to thirty million dol-
lars, was now in Jewish hands.

evening, Jan. 5, in the Labor
Zionist Institute.
Auerbach, who has just re-
turned from an extended visit
to Israel, emigrated to Palestine
with the Second Aliyah f Tom
Bessarabia,and became a halutz.
He later came to the United
States. President of the Yiddish
Pen, organized of poets, essayists
and novelists, he is active in the
Jewish education movement and
a contributor to numerious Yid-
dish literary journals,
Harry S c h u m e r, executive
board chairman of Detroit's
$300,000 campaign told board
members that the first 500 con-

On the Record

By NATHAN ZIPR-IN

(Copyright, 19 , 19, Seven • .Arts Feature' Syndicate, Inc.)

One of the most prominent orthodox rabbis told this writer
orthodox Jewry has been so shunted from the American Jewish
scene by certain elements controlling community life that unless
there is an immediate change "we will have to go on the offensive
no matter whom we hurt" , . . Jewish life in America, he went
on, is being frozen to death "by frigid minds and souls who use
mathematical measures and statistical yardsticks for Jewish
activities and who can best ptoduce when dangling negative
stresses such as anti-Semitism" . .. In short, the purpose of the
talks now going on is to establish an apparatus for the develop-
ment of positive values in American Jewish life, to wrest control
from the elements "who have been watering down • the content
of Jewish life by fancy projects and eye-catching slogans which
only serve as a means of diverting attention from the core and
heart of the problem" and to start "a grassroot reawakening
campaign" throughout all communities . . . Concern for the stilti
fica,tion of basic Jewish values and the neglect of education and
cultural activities was voiced by ZOA president Daniel Frisch.
At a dinner attended by outstanding Jewish journalists, Mr.
Frisch openly declared that the neglect of cultural values was
undermining Jewish life in America to the danger point . . . It
was his opinion that the educational plans he recently projected
for the ZOA could well be carried out if necessary through col-
laboration with all bodies having similar .objectives.

tributions shows that workers are
doing an outstanding job.
He told them that the Israel
Histadrut will spend $30,000,000
in 1950, the greatest share ear-
marked for constructive efforts
to help the newcomers in their
integration to Israel.
Sol Kanat, I. Katz, Nathan
Rose, I. Sweet and Morris Ross.
representatives of the Bereznit-
zer Aid highlighted reports of
the week with the news. of a
$2,000 treasury gift. Phillip
Shkolnick of David Horodoker,
reported excellent progress. f
Louis Levine, chairman of or-
ganizations, announced that a
special film will be made of
campaign rallies and special
Histadrut nights sponsored by
larger organizations. Arrange-
ments have been made for the
film to be sent to Israel at the
end of the campaign. Organiza-
tional representatives are asked
to contact Levine; TO. 9-8660,
with dates- of their evenings.
Max Shmuckler, veteran cam-
paign worker, was acclaimed for
covering more than 40 slips dur-
ing the week. Branch 2, LZOA.,
under the leadership of Phil
Goldstein, reports more than
$2,000 turned in, and sets a re-
cord with 17 members, out of a
membership of 25, covering cam-
paign cards.
Edward Miller and Irving
Pokemp•ner, report good results
in covering furriers.
The latest film, "Design
for Israel," a 20 -minute, last
minute story of how Israel is be-
ing built, will be available for
Detroit groups after January 1.

Detroit Lodge, Chapter
To Hear ADL Speaker

Detroit Lodge and Chapter of
Bnai Brith will meet together
Tuesday evening, Jan. 10, at the
Northwest Synagogue, to hear a
talk by Nissen N. Gross, midwest
director of the civil rights divis-
ion of the Anti-Defamation Lea-
gue.
Gross, an Illinois lawyer, has
been activitelly engaged in Bnai
Brith work for 10 years. He will
be introduced by Haskell Lazare,
regional director of the Anti-De-
famation Lague.
Wives and husbands of mem-
bers are invited. The meeting
will be concluded with lox and
bagel.

`Hadassah Week' ix New York
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Hailing
the work of Hadassah in Israel,
Acting Mayor Vincent R. Im-
pellitteri issued a-proclamation
officially designating the week
of Jan. 8-15 as Hadassah Week.

