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ZOD Presents Dr. Goldstein
At Public Rally on Thursday
Detroit Jewry may hear a report on Israel's civic and
military preparedness in the event of resumption of hos-
tilities, when Dr. Israel Goldstein speaks at a public rally
Thursday evening, Feb. 23, at Shaarey Zedek Synagogue.
Dr. Goldstein, president of the World Conference of
General Zionists, has just returned from Israel. In a long=
distance telephone conversation°
With leaders of the Zionist Or-
ganization of Detroit, sponsor of
the meeting, Dr. Goldstein said
that the continued shipment of
DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN
arms to the Arab states is a
Young Judaea Alumni
Endow Scholarship
On Feb. 19, at Hotel Commo-
dore, New York, hundreds of
Young Judaea alumni, led by
outstanding members of the
American Jewish community,
will gather to celebrate the 40th
anniversary of the f&unding of
Young Judaea.
The program in the form of
a reunion-brunch will set into
motion a national scholarship
fund for summer camp and
Israel scholarships. This fund
will enable deserving Young
Judaea members to spend the
summer months in Israel and
Young Judaea camps, preparing
them for future leadership.
Senator Herbert H. Lehman
serves as Honorary Chairman of
this signicant occasion.• Dr.
Emanuel Neumann, former
president of the Zionist Organ-
izations of America will be
chairman and Dr. David de Sola
Pool will deliver the major ad-
dress.
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 17, 1950
Install Rabbi Prero
As YI Director
Sunday evening, Feb. 26, at 6
p.m. at the Young Israel Youth
Center, a public installation
dinner will be tendered Rabbi
Samuel H. Prero, on the occa-
sion of his election as rabbi and
director of Young Israel of De-
troit.
Reservations must be in by
Monday, Feb. 20, at the Young
Israel office,
12521 Dexter,
TE. 4-4145.
The Friday
evening forum
series of Young
Israel will con-
tinue on Feb.
17. Attorneys
David I. Berris,
Jerome W. Kel-
man and Meyer
Weisenfeld will
discuss a timely
Rabbi Prero s u b j e c t. The
forum will start at 8:45 p.m.,
and will be followed by an Oneg
Shabbat.
The third annual Purim car-
nival of Young Israel, which is
sponsored jointly by the Young
adults and the Women's League,
will be held in the Youth Cen-
ter, Saturday, March 11. Thkets
are available at• the office.
The Purim carnival commit-
tee includes Mesdames Bertha
Spilman, Solomon. N. Cohen,
Irving W. Schlussel, Seymour
Ribiat, and Hillel L. Abrams and
Joseph Weinman.
critical issue facing all Ameri-
eans.
A past president of the Zion-
ist Organization of America and
the Jewish National Fund of
America, Dr. Goldstein also was
a founder of Brandeis Univer-
sity.
Leon Kay, president of the
Detroit Zionist district urged all
TEL AVIV—(JTA)—Springlike nana crop has been lost, while
Detroit Jews to hear Dr. Gold-
stein discuss the critical issues sunshine and American bull- thousands of chickens froze to
facing Israel at the rally Feb. dozers broke the "snow siege" of death in their coops when heat-
Jerusalem, clearing main roads ing devices failed as a result of
23:
in and around the city. How- electric power cut-offs.
ever, the lowest temperatures in
the memory of the oldest inhab- Shekel Drive Extended;
itants hampered all work in Up-
per Galilee and the Haifa area Confirm December Date
where interurban traffic was For Zionist Congress
paralyzed early in the week.
President Harry S. Truman, Communications were resumed
NEW YORK—The current na-
Prime Minister David Ben Guri- following a rise in temperature. tionwide Shekel registration
on of Israel, Dr. Joseph J.
High seas prevented 25 vessels campaign was extended to June
Schwartz, chairman of the Eu- from entering the Haifa harbor. 1 by all major U. S. Zionist or-
ropean Executive Council Of
In Jerusalem, the walls of a ganiiations at a meeting of the
the Joint Distribution Commit- synagogue in the Old City col- U.
S. Central Shekel and Elec-
tee, and Prof. Harry Austryn lapsed under the weight of the
Board at national head-
Wolfson of Harvard University snow, killing several Arab refu- tion
have been chosen as recipients gees housed there. Four Jews quarters, 342 Madison Ave., it
Of the first annual Stephen S. were killed and many injured was announced by Charles Ress,
Wise awards established by the when a wall of a mess hall at chairman.
The stop was taken after of-
American Jewish Congress, it the Ein. Shemer i m m ig x ant
was announced by Rabbi Irving camp for Yemenites collapsed ficial word was received from
the executive of the World Zi-
Miller, AJC president, at the under the weight of snow.
ionist Organization that the
meeting of the AJC administra-
Estimates placed the damage 23rd World Zionist Congress, or-
tiVe committee in New York.
caused by the snow storm to the iginally scheduled for this sum-
The awards, each bearing a ripening citrus crop in the mil- mer, has been postponed until
cash value of $1,500, were estab- lions of dollars. However, the Dec. 20.
lished last year to mark Dr. Ministry of Agriculture said that
Wise's 75th birthday, for pre- the citrus groves did not suffer
sentation in 1950 and annually considerably, but that vegetable 'Vote British, Not Jewish'
thereafter for outstanding con- and banana crops are 'badly en- Political Hate Slogan
tributions in four . major fields dangered."
of activity - to which Dr. Wise
Schoolchildren were called on
BIRMINGHAM (WJA) —"Vote
dedicated his life: the extension to help save remnants of the British, not Jewish," painted in
of civil rights in the United banana crop in the Jordan Val- letters three feet high, was a
States, growth and development ley where more than a thousand slogan which had to be erased
of Israel, welfare of Jews in tons of bananas have been de- twice from the walls of a Bir-
other lands and the enrichment stroyed.
mingham. cemetery. According
of. Jewish learning and. scholar-
to the "Birmingham Gazette,"
While
the
total
extent
of
the
ship. Dr. Wise, Who died shortly
officials of all parties strongly
;
it
is
damage
is
not
yet
known
after his 75th birthday last year,
condemned the occurrence.
was founder and president of understood that the entire ba-
the AmeriCan Jewish Congress.
A budget of $1,950,000 for the
Work of the American Jewish
Congress this year both in • this
DR. H ER-
country and overseas through BERT L, SEA-
the World Jewish Congress was
adopted at the closing session MANS (left)
director of the
of the two-day meeting.
Resolutions adopted at the Commission on
meeting, which was attended by Educational
250 AJC leaders from all sec- Organizations
tions of the United States, .ex- for the Nation-
pressed support for the Barden al Conference
bill for Federal aid to education, of Christians
denounced the bill for the ad-
rn,ission of displaced persons to and Jews., re-
the United States reported out lated h i s ex-
of the Senate Judiciary Com- periences as
mittee as "ominous and bigot- educational ad-
ed," and called for the intensi- visor to Gener-
fication of efforts for the enact- al MacArthur's
ment of the civil rights program. military gov-
ernment in Ja-
Warsaw Ghetto Film in London pan duringa
Snow and Freezing Temperatures
Endangering Israel Refugees, Crops
Truman, Ben Gurion
Win Wise Awards
Congressman Celler to Speak
At Histadrut Public Meeting
Labor Zionist leaders of Detroit's $300,000 Israel Hista-
drut Campaign were told at a special meeting of campaign
leaders that, if the un-covered cards in their groups are
solicited, the Detroit campaign, to be formally closed the
second week in March, will again lead Histadrut campaigns
throughout the country.
Congressman Emanuel Celler
of New York, chairman of the Music Month Affair
judiciary committee of the Success; Culture Group
House of Representatives, will
address a public meeting at 8:30 Plans Purim Program
p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, at the
Over 500 persons attended the
Northwest Synagogue.
Congressman Celler recently Jewish Music Month program
returned from, Israel. In recent sponsored by the Joint Yiddish
months, he has led the fight Cultural Committee of the Corn-
against the internationalization munity Council and Community
of Jerusalem. Center Feb. 12.
It was the third in this year's
Campaign leaders welcomed
the news that Bernard Milinsky, series of programs sponsored by
key Histadrut worker of Branch the committee for Yiddish
speaking persons in the com-
munity.
Cantor Saul Kirschenbaum of
Cleveland was the featured solo-
ist. The Jewish Community Cen-
ter Symphony Orchestra was
conducted by Julius Chajes. Sev-
eral dance numbers by the Cen-
ter Dance Group, under Fannie
Aaronson, and selections by Je-
rom.e Stasson, violinist, accom-
panied by Betty Kowalsky, com-
pleted the program.
Tickets will go out to all lands-
manschaften and societies for
the Purim program, the final
presentation in this series.
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EMANUEL CELLER
LONDON—(WJA) — The Pol-
ish film "That Others May
Live," which deals with the up-
rising of the Jews of the War-
saw Ghetto in 1943, is being
shown at a London cinema.
*Brotherhood Concert
At Rackham 'Building
79, Farband, and Branch 3,
Labcir Zionist Organization, is
back on the job following a
long seige of illness. B. M. Lai-
kin, one of the original found-
ers of Branch 3, •reported good
results for the -week. Sam Kane
and Max Abrams, leaders of
Branch 114, Farband, pushed
the branch solicitations above
the $3,500 mark, with a $5,500
goal.
Alex Schreier, chairman of
Branch 4, LZOA, who leaves for
a trip to Israel with Mrs. Schrei-
er in a week, reported that the
branch is close to the $9,000
mark, with all personal solicita-
tions already covered.
Mrs. C. Greenberg, representa-
tive of Club 1, Pioneer Women,
was acclaimed for her work,
which pushed the group's total
above the $900 mark to lead all
other clubs.
Workmen's Circle Branch 156,
through delegates Percherer,
Kaller, Sehumaker and Shmuck-
ler, announced that more than
$500 of its $1,000 goal `has been
reached.
The trade union committee
for the campaign announced
that a special breakfast of Jew-
ish trade union representatives
is scheduled for • Sunday morn-
ing, Feb. 26, at the Labor Zion-
ist Institute. - .
William Selman, of the Mink-
oviitz Pidoler Verein, announced
a $500 advance from his group.
Round Table On The Air
recent Detroit
Round Table broadcast. MRS. ALFRED MAY, a member of
the women's committee of the Round Table, and REV. JO-
SEPH Q. MAYNE, (center) executive secretary of the Round
Table, posed the questions on the advance of democracy in
Japan.
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Emily Adams, violinist, will be
the soloist of the Brotherhood
concert to be held in the main
auditorium of the Rackham
Building next Thursday at
8 p.m. -
This concert, an annual event,
sponsored by the Detroit Round
Table and the University of
Michigan Extension Service,
brings together a variety of
choral and instrumental groups
of different religious, racial and
cultural backgrounds.
Detroit Oratorio Society, De-
troit Cantors' Associatio n,
Wayne University Symphony
Orchestra, St. James Methodist
Children's Choir and the Blessed
Martin dePorres Choral Ensem-
ble are the groups scheduled to
appear.
Mrs. Nellie Huger Ebersole,
voice teacher and choral direc-
tor, will be the commentator.
Mrs. Ebersole is Protestant ea-
chairman for the Round Table's
Music Committee and executive
secretary of the Guild of
Church Musicians.
Jewish Childs' Day
Set On February 19
Pioneer Women, the 'Women's
Labor Zionist Organization of
America, has been given per-
mission by the city government
to canvas Detroit in honor of
World Jewish Child's Day` Feb.
19.
Residents of Detroit will have
an 'opportunity to support a
child for an hour, a day, or part
of a day in the DP camps of
Europe or the immigrant host-
els of Israel by their contribu-
tions during this special city-
wide . campaign in observance of
World Jewish Child's Day. The
drive will extend, from Feb.
19-26.
At the last council meeting,
members of the regular Council
honored several members who
are leaving within the next
week for Israel: Mrs. Sophie
Sislin, Club One; Mrs. Janet
Serling, Club Two; Mrs. Bern-
ard Burg, Mrs. Joseph Burg,
Mrs. Solomon Burg and Mrs.
Fishbein, Chana Czenes, and
Mrs. Shoshana Hoffmitz and
Mrs. Fanny Schreier, Hanita.
Civic Leaders, Groups
HonorRabbi Goldman
A group of Detroit organiza-
tions and individuals will honor
Rabbi Leo Goldma,n at a testi-
monial banquet at 6 p.m. Sun-
day, Feb., 19 at Bnai Moshe
Snyagogue.
Rabbi Goldman, formerly was
a leader in the
Mizrach youth
movement in
Poland and
Scandana-
via. He was
chief rabbi Of
Olso, Norway.
In Detroit he
serves Congre-
gations Shaarey
Zion and Adas
yeshurun.
These groups
with Cong. Anshay. Bereznitz,
the Rovner, Lachovitzer and
Bereznitzer Vereins, and other
individuals, are sponsoring the
affair. Philip Gorzak is chair-
man of the arrangements com-
mittee with Mrs. B. Feigelmatt
chairman of the souvenir book,
Harry Kaminer will be toast-
master, and Cantor Henry
Blank, accompanied by Louis
Blank, will provide a musical
program.
Guest speakers will include
Rabbi Pinchos Katz of Cong.
Beth. Aaron; Judge Patrick H.
O'Brien; Prosecutor Gerald K.
O'Brien, and Arthur L. Robbins,
Wayne County Corporation
Counsel.
Rabbi Goldman