Jacobson, Lowenthal
Launch AJC Drives

Address Jr. Division
Opening Functions

JWF Women Meet
At Beth El March 27

Israel Jacobson, former direc-
tor of the Joint Distribution
Committee in Hungary, and
Marvin Lowenthal, noted author
and lecturer, will speak at the
two opening functions of the
Junior Division of the 1950

Launching the 1950 Allied
Jewish Campaign for members
of the Women's Division of the
Jewish Welfare Federation,
Israel Jacobson, former director
of the Joint Welfare Distribu-
tion Committee in Hungary, will

MARVIN LOWENTHAL

Allied Jewish Campaign, a spe-
cial gifts dinner, at 6:30 p.m.,
Sunday, March 26, in the Lee
Plaza Hotel, and an advanced
gifts luncheon for all junior
campaigners at 12:30 that after-
noon at the Mayfair Room.
More than 300 members of the
Division, invited to attend the
special gifts event, will have an
opportunity not only to hear
both .Jacobson and Lowenthal,
but to discuss their participation
in the 1950 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign and to assume responsi-
bility as future leaders in De-
troit Jewish communial affairs,
Robert 'Benson, chairman of the
special gifts committee, pointed

out.

Leonard Baruch, who heads
the advanced gifts committee,
announced that the luncheon,
an innovation in this year's cam-
paign, would give all workers an
opportunity to hear the same
speakers featured at the special
gifts dinner.
Jacobson recently attracted
world attention when the news
of his arrest by the Hungarian
government on an unfounded
spy charge reached the United
States.
In addition to his emigration
activities, Jacobson supervised
welfare projects, medical efforts
and reconstruction operations
in behalf of countless Eastern
European Jews.
Lowenthal, • author, lecturer,
traveler and historian, will bring
to Detroit his expriences of 10
years abroad, where he has
studied Jewish life and customs
in most of the countries of Eu-
rope, North Africa, Israel and
the Near East. He is best known
for his book, "The Jews of Ger-
many."

Mapai-Mapam
Negotiations Off

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Direct JTA Teletype Wire
To The Jewish News

TEL AVIV—Negotiations be-
tween Mapai and Mapam on the
latter's joining the Israel cabinet
are ended, it was announced
Tuesday after a meeting of the
Mapai Council.
The announcement said that
the Council sees no further pur-
pose in continuing talks with
Mapam in view of the latter's
negative response to suggestions
made by Mapai. The Council
decided to publish a detailed
version of various stages of the
negotiations between the two
Socialist groups.
Regional countrywide confer-
ences will be held this weekend
by Mapai to discuss the views
and attitude of Mapam in con-
nection with the efforts of
Mapai to enlist the cooperation
of the left-wing group in a
wider coalition cabinet.

ISRAEL JACOBSON
speak at their opening meeting
at 2 p.m. Monday, March 27, in
the Brown Memorial Chapel of
Temple Beth El.
The Women's Division is seek-
ing the services of women who
are willing to work in one of
any number of capacities.
Mrs. Max Dushkin is chair
man of workers' recruiting, and
her vice-chairman is Mrs. David
Pollack.
Anyone interested in volun-
teering their services is urged
to 'call Miss Mindel at WO. 5-
3939.

THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 17, 1950

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Britain Releases Funds
To be Remitted to Israel

LONDON — (JTA) — The Joint
Palestine Appeal welcomed the
British government's action in
raising the remittance quota to
Israel for charitable purposes to
$6,300,000 during the current
year. The Appeal said that to
date the Jewish National Fund
of Britain has transmitted $1,-
201,200 to Israel while the Karen
Hay e s o d transmitted nearly
$840,000.

Avis Shulman to Address Pontiac's
Initial Federation Rally March 24

Mrs. Avis Shulman, one of the
best known Jewish women
speakers in the country, nation-
al chairman of the speakers' di-
vision of the United Jewish Ap-
peal, will address the first meet-
ing of the year of the Pontiac
Jewish Welfare Federation at
9:30 p.m., Friday, March 24, at
the Congregation Bnai Israel
Auditorium, Oneida and Meno-
minee Streets, Pontiac. Detroit-
ers are welcome to hear this ad-
dress. There will be no solicita-
tion of funds.

Mrs. Shulman will outline lat-
est developments in European
camps in Israel where she visited
recently.
This will be the first educa-
tional meeting in Pontiac this
year in behalf of the United
Jewish Appeal.
Mrs. Shulman is the wife of
Rabbi Charles Shulman of New
York. She holds numerous im-
portant national positions.

Hadassim is a IL. 325,000 pro-
ject founded by WIZO of Can-
ada.

THEIR REPORTS ARE
OF VITAL CONCERN
TO YOU

HEAR

Excellent Article
On Jerusalem in
April 'Holiday'

"Jerusalem — the Holy City
Today," a superbly-written and
colorfully illustrated article will
appear in the April edition of
Holiday magazine.
Author Irwin Shaw has writ-
ten a sympathetic, though not
emotional, description of t h e
city, highlighting the contrasts
of the Jewish and Christian
shrines and observances, and of
the war-shattered no-man's land
and modern, landscaped New
York City.
The article is abundantly il-
lustrated with black and white
and color photographs by Rob-
ert Capa, each of which might
serve as a story in itself.
Shaw reviews briefly the re-
ligious history of Jerusalem, out-
lining why it is a "holy city" to
Jews, Christians and Moslems.
He also goes into some detail
on the recent military and poli-
tical events so important to
Jerusalem, but does not discuss
internationalization. The article
was evidently written before Is-
rael moved its capital there.
He is not optimistic about
Jerusalem's future. "Truce in
the Middle East is very vague
around the edges and has a
tendency to erratic fluctuation,"
Shaw writes. "Jerusalem is like
a grave and impressive old
matriarch who, by a bitter trick
of fate, is suddenly swept up in
the languors, excitements and
unpredictable depressions of ad-
olescence."
He foretells "the p r o s a i c
march of progress" which will
"diminish t h e picturesque in
favor of the practical," and
emphasizes the precariousness
of peace in Jerusalem.
"The city balances uneasily
over a flaw of the human spirit,
which like a flaw in the • earth,
sometimes shakes and quakes,
bringing destruction to all who
live above it . . . 'Peace' the
carved stone letters say on the
monuments; `Peace' chant the
worshippers. But if men can
have peace in Jerusalem, men
can have peace anywhere on
this planet," Shaw concludes.
Shaw's smooth flow of words
and Capas pictures make the
April Holiday a' worthwhile lux-
ury.

DR. NAHUM GOLDMANN

EDWARD M. M. WARBURG

Chairman,
American Section, Jewish Agency

Chairman,
Joint Distribution Committee

Dr. Goldmann and Mr. Warburg will bring up-to-the-minute news of progress

made in Israel and in providing for survivors of Nazism still in Europe and

the unhappy Jews in Moslem lands, as well as information on problems ahead

for the United Jewish Appeal.

ALSO

NEWS OF THE FORTHCOMING

ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN

and

Renorts of local commion;tv achievements by Dr. B. Benedict CIAT.ir of

Temple Bth El and Julian H. Krolik, President, Jewish Welfare Federation.

MONDAY, MARCH 20, 8:30 P. M.

TEMPLE BETH EL

Na Solicitation of Funds