Women's Unit Members Serve
On Federation Institute Panels

24 — THE JEWISH NEWS

Bnai Brith Organizes Campaign
Civil Rights Rally For Red Cross Blood Donations

Friday, January 27, 1950

In D.C. Success;

More than 100 members of the Women's Division of
the Jewish Welfare Federation will serve on panels at the Detroiters Attend
seminar sessions leading off the Division's fourth annual
institute, "Projection 1950," to be held Tuesday, Jan. 31,
Detroit Jewish organizations
at the Northwest Synagogue, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
were active in the nationwide
Mrs. S. A. Brailove, chairman of the National Women's mobilization for civil rights in

Division of the United Jewish<t>
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Appeal, will be guest speaker at Samuel Zeldes, and David Zell-
the luncheon session, while the man.
afternoon will conclude with
`Camping Unlimited'
"Montage at 2:06," a dramatic
At the session on "Camping
presentation written by Mrs. Jo- Unlimited," panel members are
seph G. Fenton and directed by Mesdames Philip Bloomgarden,
Mrs. Seymour Simons.
Charles Briskman, Roy Fisher,
At the seminar session on Jr., John N. Grekin, Sander Hill-
`Living in the Later Year s," man, Benjamin Jones, Harry L.
panel members include Mes- Jones, Herschel V. Kreger, Stan-
dames Stanley Fleischaker, Wil- ley J. Michaels, recorder, Samuel
liam Frank, Aimee Gaines, Jo- Neuschatz, Oscar S c h w a r t z,
seph Geschelin, S a in u e 1 J. Gerald Spero, Ben Wigder, and
Greenberg, Samuel Linden, A. Mrs. Louis Zlatkin and Miss
Joseph Seltzer and Isidore Sobe- Dena Zemel.
loff.
Promotion and publicity for
"Projection 1950" was handled
More Panel Members
Division members on the pan- under the chairmanship of Mrs.
el of "The Child is Father to Sidney R. Marwil, who was as-
the Man" include Mesdames Ga- sisted by Mesdames Paul P.
briel Alexander, Fred M. Braun, Broder, Robert Colten, Robert
Mark Dale, Simon S. Farbinan, Drews, Joseph Gilbert,' Bernard
Jerome B. Grossman, David Goodman, Lester Gruber, Manes
Handleman, Alexander Hirsch- Hecht, Herbert Levin, Leonard
feld, Harold Kaplan, Coleman T. Lewis, Milton Marx; Bernard
Mopper, Harry H. Platt, Milford May,. Michael Michlih, Edward
Pregerson, recorder, J. Arthur Quint, Sidney Rose n, Emil
Sarason, Samuel Schwartz and Stern, Julius Stross and Miss
Setta Robinson.
Louis Tendler.
Mesdames E. Bryce Alpern,
Robert Alpern, Theodore Birn-
krant, Montgomery Ferar, Ar-
thur Bloom, Irving B. Gerson,
Leonard Kasle, Theodore Kelter,
and Harry Perlis are serving on
the panel devoted to "Are You
a Good Neighbor?"
At the seminar on "The New
State Builds," panel members
are Mesdames Ralph Davidson,
Philip Fealk, Max Frank, Mosas
Goldoftas, Samuel Grandon, re-
corder, Lewis Grossman, Joseph
tackier, T. Ben Kasle, Maurice
A. Landau and Mayer Sulz-
berger.
Jewish Education Talk
Viewpoints on Jewish educa-
tion will be discussed at the
seminar "The Jewish Heritage
Becomes the Future," with pan-
el members including Mesdames
Albert Elazar, Lewis Grossman,
Bernard Handelman, John Hor-
witz, Harry Katz, Louis Kazdan,
Maurice A. Klein, Maurice A.
Landau, Joseph M. Markel, Har-
ABRAHAM SRERE
ry Mondry, David Pollack, Mor-
Abraham Srere, chairman of
ris Posner, Bertram Smokier, the executive committee of the
recorder, and Joshua S. Sperka. Jewish Welfare Federation, will
Division members serving -on observe his 60th birthday on
the panel devoted to "Jewish Wednesday, Feb. 1.
Horizons Overseas" are Mes-
The Jewish News joins his
dames Julius Chajes, Daniel E. many friends in extending
Cohn, recorder, Clarence A. heartiest greetings to Mr. Srere.
Enggass, William Glazer, Arthur
A pioneer Zionist, Mr. Srere
Robbins, Emil D. Rothman, is a former president of the
Benjamin Shwayder, Albert Sil- Zionist Organization of Detroit
ber, Philip Slomovitz, M. George and was one of the first chair-
Wayburn, and Samuel Yura.
men of the independent Keren
"Spending for the Future" will Hayesod drives here. He is a
the
subject
under
discussion
be
former president of the Jewish
by division members Mesdames Welfare Federation and has
Theodore Bargman, Gerson Ber- earned national recognition in
ris, I. Irving Bittker, Samuel the Jewish social service field
Blacher, Arthur Bloom,' Hyman for his numerous activities in
C. Broder, David J. Cohen, Sam- behalf of important Jewish
uel Green, Lewis Manning, Philip causes.
R. Marcuse, Alex Moss, Leo
Orecklin, William Philips, I. Irv-
ing Posner, Louis Redstone,
Charles Robinson, Harold Schak-
ne, Nathan H. Schermer, Carl
Making fin-
S. Schiller, Nathan Spevakoe,

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Happy Birthday

Washington Jan. 15 to 17.
Meyer Silverman, president of
the East Side Merchants Asso-
ciation; B. M. Joffe, executive
director of the Jewish Commun-
ity Council, and M. Leavitt, a
delegate to the Council from the
Workmen's Circle, joined hun-
dreds of other delegates from
Jewish organizations throughout
the country at the mobilization.
Congressmen a n d Senators
from 33 states were visited by
delegations from their respective
districts, who were at the civil
rights rallies. The majority of
the legislators went on record
either in favor of the President's
civil rights program or of bring-
ing the pending bills to the floor
of the House and the Senate.
Irving Kane, chairman of the
National Community relations
Advisory Council, chaired the
largest meeting in the Govern-
mental Auditorium, at which
Senator Scott Lucas, Democrat
from Illinois, and Republican
Senator Irving M. Ives of New
York were the chief speakers.
Congressional observers ex-
pressed their opinion that the
Civil Rights Mobilization was the
most impressive and most order-
ly mass visitation ever witness-
ed in Washington.

Hebrew Groups Hold
Cultural Program
Moscow Acts to Curb Soviet Jews'
Wednesday Evening Interest in Israel, Monitor Reports

A Hebrew cultural program
will be held Wednesday evening,
Feb. 1, in the auditorium of the
Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg., 13226
Lawton, arranged by the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Kvutzah Ivrith,
the Kvutzah, Chug Ivri, and
Hebrew Teachers Organization. i
The Chug Ivri will stage a hu-
morous playlet depicting the
change in the position of the
Arab Woman in Modern Israel.
The cast, directed by Yona Yosh-
pe, assisted by Miriam Fish-
beine, includes Clara Kimel, Hul-
da Saperstein, Nina Plotnick and
Abraham Miller.
Guest speaker of the evening
will be Rabbi Benjamin H. Gor-
relick, educational director of
Cong. Shaarey Zedek. Israel El-
pern will read the poem "Mes-
siah" by David Freisham. Mrs.
Al Roberg will sing Bialik's
songs. Community singing will
be under the direction of Moe
Kesner, music director of the
United Hebrew Schools.

Students of Kabbalah (mysti-
cism) maintain that the eating
of fruit expiates for the sin of
Eve in eating the forbidden fruit
of the Tree of Knowledge.

Northwest Women Plan Donor

;WV Executive Plans
March Detroit Meeting

Philip Cantor, commander of
the Department of Michigan of
the Jewish War Veterans, an-
nounces that the National Exe-
cutive Committee of JWV will
Meet in Detroit March 3, 4 and

Arrangements for the meeting

are being made by Harry Madi-

ison, former Department Com-
mb,nder, and member of the
JWV executive.
A luncheon meeting, at which
Coinmunal leaders will honor
Jackson J. Holz, JWV National
Commander, and Ben Kaufman,
National Executive Director, will
precede formal sessions of the
committee.

The invention of table tennis
is credited to James Gibbs of
England, who brought out the
game between 1880 and 1890
under the original name of in-
door tennis.

LEO POLK (far right) newly-appointed blood bank chair-
man for the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Council, explains to a
group of lqdge and chapter chairmen the importance of vol-
unteer blood donations to the Red Cross.
Left to right: JACK GLAZER, George Gershwin Lodge;
BEN COLUMBUS, Philip Handler Lodge; MORRIS BURN-
STEIN, Pisgah Lodge; GOLDIE BANK, Louis Marshall Chap-
ter, and Polk. Dave Tapper is co-chairman for the Council.
A mobile unit of the ARC will be stationed at the Rose
Sittig Cohen Bldg., from 7 to 12 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, when
Bnai Brith members, both men and women, are urged to give
blood.
Bnai Brith donors already have replaced 27 pints of rare
0-Negative blood needed suddenly for Joseph Liepcigar, a
visitor from Toronto.

al arrange-
ments for the
donor lunch-
eon to be giv-
en by the Sis-
terhood of the
Northwest He-
brew Congre-
gation W e d-
nesday a ft e r-
noon, Feb. 8,
at the syna-
gogue s o Cl a I
hall, are, left
to right: Mrs.
Manny Lax,
chairman of
the younger
set, Mrs. Jo-
seph Fisher,
memoriams
chairman; standing, Mrs. Charles Charlip, co-chairman, young-
er set, Mrs. Malcolm Rivkin, ticket chairman,
Selma Burnett Snyder, actress, lecturer and creative story
teller, will be featured on the program. The title of-her presen-
tation will be "Memoirs of My People."
Tickets for the luncheon may be obtained from Mrs. Riv-
kin, UN. 3-3444.

BOSTON, (JTA) — The reac-
tion of the Soviet Government
toward the flood of Jewish en-
thusiasm for Israel throughout
the USSR is described in another
of a series of articles by Edmund
Stevens, former Christian Sci-
ence Monitor correspondent in
Moscow, who is-now sending un-
censored reports on Russia from
Rome.
Reporting that the Kremlin
was "thoroughly alarmed" when
Jewish enthusiasm for Israel
mounted- in the Soviet Union in
the • winter of 1948-49, Stevens
said that "almost overnight the
Israel legation in Moscow was
effectively isolated from further
contact with the Jewish popula-
tion." Police agents turned away
Soviet visitors at the Israel le-
gation and 'a few "judicious ar-
rests" curbed further demon-
strations, he says.
Charge Jewish Nationalism
Presumably under a new direc-
tive, all Jewish organizations in
Moscow, including the Jewish
Anti-Fascist Committee, were
considered' potential centers of
Jewish nationalism and Zionism
and therefore suspect, the car-,
respondent reports.
A drastic and systematic cam-
paign, to eliminate Jews from
posts of responsibility, and
especially from positions involv-
ing contact with the outside
world_ was launched.
Kaganovich in Politbureau
Today, Jews are not even ad-
mitted to the special school that
trains personnel for the Soviet
foreign service, Stevens points
out. "The same restrictions ap-
ply to the Ministry of Foreign
Trade. Elsewhere in the govern-
ment and party apparatus a
similar process of elimination
has occurred. One will search
in vain, for example, for recent
Jewish recruits to the central
party echelons. The one Jew
on the Politbureau is Lazar Ka-

Dr. Pool Will Address
Young Judaea Reunion

Dr. David de Sola Pool, Rabbi
of the Spanish Portuguese Sy-
nagogue in New York City, will
deliver the major address at the
alumni reunion brunch celebrat-
ing the 4t0h Anniversary of
Young Judeau, Sunday, Feb. 19,
at Hotel Commodore, New York.
Dr. Pool was national president
of Young Judaea during its
formative years, 1915 to 1919,
and served another term be-
tween 1924 and 1926.

ganovich,,a long-standing mem-

ber with strong personal connec-
tions whose loyalty is above sus-
picion."
Describing the purge of Jew-
ish intellectuals in the Soviet
Union, the American c o r r e-
spondent says that the only im-
portant Jewish writers to survive
this purge were Ilya Ehrenburg
and David Zaslaysky.

Communities Hear
Morgenthau Jan. 31

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., gen-
eral chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal, who is now in
Israel, will give a "Report to the
Nation" on Tuesday, Jan. 31,
when he will speak simultan-
eously to 100 communities over
a nationwide telephone hook-up.
Morgenthau is scheduled to re-
turn to the United States on
January 30. He is in Israel at
the invitation of Premier David
Ben-Gurion, for a discussion of
Israel's financial and economic
problems, and role of the 1950
UJA in meeting the needs of
hundreds of thousands of new-
comers to that country.
The UJA Chief reports from Tel
Aviv that visits to reception
camps for Israel's newcomers,
revealed conditions "bad be-
yond description. He declared he
was "shocked by the' sight of
grown-ups and children huddled
in makeshift tents and huts with
no source of heat. The hardships
confronting the immigrants to
Israel are traceable, he said, di-
rectly to inadequate support of
the United Jewish Appeal in the
United States.

First Negev Bank

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Kupat
Milve Bank in Beersheba—the
first banking office in the Negev
— has already • extended 24,000
pounds in loans to settlers in the
southern desert. Sixty percent
of the loans were granted to
former veterans settled in the
Negev, while 4,000 pounds was
loaned to Bedouins for the pur-
chase of seed.

Arabs call the eucalyPtus tree
the "Jewish tree" for Jews in-
troduced it into Palestine to dry
the swamps. As the almond tree
is the fruit tree to bloom in Is-
rael it is called "Shaked," mean-

ing diligent.