Rabbi Pekarsky, Women's Council
Panel, to View Role of Housewife

Planning their discussion on "Is the Housewife a Myth?"
for the Council of Jewish Women meeting, are, left to right,
sated, MESDAMES H. V. KREGER, WILLIAM B. ISENBERG,
LEONARD WEINER; standing, left to right, MESDAMES DAN
KROUSE, MORRIS H, BROWN, ROBERT I. ALPERN,
CHARLES B. LAKOFF.

"Is the Housewife a Myth?" will be discussed by Rabbi
Maurice B. Pekarsky, nationally known lecturer and teacher, at
the April meeting of the Detroit Section, National Council of
Jewish Women to be held at the Jewish Community Center,
Woodward at Holbrook, at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 4.
Assisting Rabbi Pekarsky will he several Detroit club women,
Mrs. Hersch V. Kreger, former
president of Council; Mrs. Rob- Jewish Welfare Federation.
ert Alpern, also active in the
Dessert luncheon will be serv-
organization; Mrs. Charles La-
ed
at 12:30. Mrs. William B.
koff, chairman of the board of
the Jewish Social Service Bu- Isenberg, program chairman,
reau; and Mrs. Morris Brown, a has been in charge of plans for
the meeting, and Mrs. Dan
young bride.
Chairing the panel will be Krouse, vice president in charge
Mrs. Leonard Weiner, president of programs, has worked with
of the Women's Division of the her.

Purely Commentary

By PH I L tP •SLOMOV I TZ

Israel's Sabra and the Cooperative Community

Two Israelis—Avigdor Ziv and Ada Kleinman—were among
the foreign students who participated in the New York Herald
Tribune's Fifth High School Forum which appraised the paths
to "The World We Want." Both were born in 1931—Ada in Tel Aviv,
Avigdor in Riga, Latvia. Both had some very interesting things
to say to the students from this country and from 16 foreign lands.
Presenting capsule comments on life • in their .communities,
the two visiting students had some interesting things ,to say.
Avigdor remarked:
"Israel means many different things to different people .. .
To us it means our home in an independent state, which we
ourselves helped to build. Israel is called Sabra, that means
_ cactus fruit, hard and piercy on the outside and tender on
the inside. Both Ada and myself come from a new collective
settlement. We started it on a bare hill that served as a camp
position for a hostile army only a few months ago. There are
still trenches, pillboxes and mines around, but among the ruins
new life is beginning."
Ada made an additional comment in which she told about
American cooperation in the building of their collective settlement.
She said:
"There will be a new tractor there soon from Bound Brook,
N. J., and Great Neck, where I stayed and made vary good
friends. Hearing about our life, they decided to take an active
part in it by sending a tractor to our settlement. Watching the
tractor plowing the wide fields of the Jordan Valley will always
remind us of this wonderful trip and of our good friends in far
• America."-
In the course of the panel discussion on "The World We Want,"
Avigdor made important statements which reveal the thinking of
Israel's youth. We quote him in full because of the extreme value
his remarks have on our attitude toward Israel. In the course of
the discussion, which was presided over by Harriet Hirsch of the
United States, Avigdor said:
"We in Israel .want democracy and believe in it. What's
more, we are practicing it in a way that may develop some new
democratic forms that can 4ervehias useful examples to others.
I'll give you an example. Although different systems of social
and economic life are cause of conflict in the .world today, in
Irsael we are beginning to prove that they don't need to be.
In Israel we have many different systems—collectives, coopera-
tives and free private enterprise--all working peacefully, side
by side. The government does not favor one system. more than
another. It encourages investments of private enterprise and
also gives assistance to the collective farms.
"The collective and co-operative settlements, which prac-
tice a kind of economic communalism, were established by peo-
ple who chose this way of living together for themselves, ac- .
cording to their own will and ideals. The government, which
is democratic, does not force any individual to follow a certain
way of life. All the different systems work together in harmony
—for example, private and collective farms sell products to a
co-operative which in turn sells to private customers in towns.
This idea may sound strange to Americans who fear the effect
of socialized medicine on their democracy."
All of these Israeli comments are in themselves mere capsules.
But even in their brevity they reveal, a thorough understanding of
politics and economics, of ideals accompanying state-building
that are rooted in social justice.
The non-Jewish world has much to learn from Israel. But
the Jews in the Diaspora also can acquire a great deal of knowl-
' edge from . the prophecy-intoxicated Israelis. The passion for
justice is reflected in the views of the 19-year-old messengers from
Israel who participated in the New York Herald Tribune forum
The excellent impression they left is part of the dividends Ameri-
. can Jews are collecting for aiding in the upbuilding of the Jewish
state. It is a challenge for uninterrupted activity in behalf of
Israel.

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 24, 1950

Folkman BB
Guest at 9th. Annual
Interfraternal Dinner

Rabbi Jerome D. Folkman of
Temple Israel, Columbus, 0.,
will be the guest of Detroit's
Bnai Brith at the ninth annual
interfraternal dinner April 13,
in the social
hall o f Cong.
Shaarey Zedek.
Rabbi Folk-
man formerly
served congre-
gations in both
Jackson and
Grand Rapids,
Mich. He will be
one of three
sp eake'rs, a
Catholic, a Jew Ra bbi Folkman
and a Protes-
tant, who are featured each year
at the interfraternal dinner. In
addition to Bnai Brith, the din-
ner also is spOnsored by the
Knights of Columbus and the
Masonic Lodges of Detroit, and
is under the auspices of the De-
troit Round Table.
Abraham Satovsky, general
chairman, is a member of Bnai
Brith, host for this year's event.
Chris Schneider is chairman for
the Knights of Columbus and
Hugh McLlellan for the Masons.
Chairman for Bnai Brith is Lou-
is Rosenzweig.
A limited number of tickets
are available through the spon-
soring organizations.

First 'Hard-Core'
DPs Begin Trek
To Jewish State

(By Direct JTA Teletype Wires
to The Jewish News)

Pioneer Women Greet Ada Maimon,
Noted Israel Equal Rights Champion

Residents of Detroit now have an opportunity to meet one of
Israel's most distinguished citizens, Ada Maimon (Fishman),
member of the Israel parliament, who is visiting Pioneer Women
Clubs here, Mrs. Chana Michlin, chairman of the Pioneer Wo-
men's Council, announced. (See editorial, page 4).
Miss Maimon, a leader in the Jewish state for almost 40 years,
is making her first trip to the
United States as a delegate Israel (Mapai).
from the Working Women's Chief among her interests
Council in Israel to Pioneer Wo- throughout the years, however,
men of America.
has been agricultural training
She will speak at an open to prepare teen-age boys and
meeting at 8:30 Monday, March girls for settlement on the land,
27, at the Davison-Holmur Jew- which she considers of prime
ish Community Center. All importance in the upbuilding of
members of Pioneer Women and Israel.
friends of the organization are
Urges Israel Schooling
invited. Other meetings ar- A plea to American Jewish
ranged for Miss Maimon during parents to send their high
her stay here included an even- school-age youngsters to the
ing in cooperation with the
Histadrut held on Thursday at
the Labor Zionist Institute; two
seminars on Pioneer Women
activity, and a reception in her
honor by members of the Coun-
cil and all board members of
the 12 individual chapters.
First Woman Teacher
Miss Maimon was in her teens
when she came to Palestine
from here native Bessarabia in
1912. Reared in the patterns of
traditional Judaism in the home
of her brother, Rabbi Judah
Leib Maimon, now minister of
religion in the Israel cabinet,
she became the first woman
teacher in the first Hebrew
school at Petah Tikvah. Later
ADA MAIMON
she became an agricultural
worker in the newly-established Jewish state for two years study
cooperative settlements. After in Israel schools was voiced by
the first world war, she devoted Miss Maimon at a reception
herself to fighting for equal given in her honor by the Pio-
rights and opportunities for wo- neer Women of New York.
Education of American "chil-
men.
dren at Israel's schools would
Through her Instigation, the have a two-fold benefit, Miss
first constituent assembly of Maimon said. Youngsters re-
Jews in Palestine adopted a turning to their homes in the
resolution granting suffrage to United States after two years .A
every adult in the land. Cur- close association with Israel
rently, her dynamic sponsorship children would have a better
of a bill to establish a minimum understanding of Middle East
marriage age for girls in Israel problems and would strengthen
has succeeded in winning ap- relationships between America
proval for such legislation, over and Israel, she explained. Sec-
the strong opposition of the re- ondly, some of these American
ligious bloc.
youngsters might decide to re-
She was among the founders main in Israel as pioneers m
of the Moatzat Hapoalot (Work- new colonies, thus filling, in
ing Women's Council), and ' a part, Israel's need for trained
leader in Mifieget Poale Eretz settlers.

MUNICH—The first transport
of bed-ridden and chonically ill
Jewish displaced persons—a van-
guard of 4,000 "hard core" DPS
who will be resettled in Israel
—left Munich Tuesday aboard
a special mercy train - bound for
Venice. - From there they will
sail to Israel.- on an Israeli ship.
The transfer -Of the "hard
core" Displaced : JewS •- is being
sponsored by the Joint Distri-
bution Committee, the Jewish
Agency and the --International
Refugee Organization. The first
group of 30 DPs Is expected to
reach Israel in time to observe
Passover. It includes invalids
By BORIS SMOLAR
and incurables, ranging from 24
(Copyright, 19.50, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
to 86, who have lived in hospi-
tal beds since their liberation Inside Information
by the Allied armies in 1945.
Inside information on the fund-raising agreement reached
among the Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute of Science and
the Haifa Technion can now be revealed . • . The agreement pro-
vides for joint fund-raising on a world-wide basis . . . All cam-
paign income throughout the world will be sent to a joint council
in Israel and distributed by that council . . . The Technion is to
get 10 percent of the world-wide total, or 15 percent of the Amer-
Selfhelp of Emigres from Cen- ican total, whichever is higher, but a minimum allocation of $350,-
tral Europe, Detroit Chapter, on 000 is guaranteed . . The balance is to be divided between the
Feb. 12, elected it's board of Hebrew University and the Weizmann Institute . • . The Univer-
directors and officers for 1950. sity is to get 60 percent and the Institute will receive 40 percent
The newly-elected directors of the first $2,000,000:. . Of the next $3,000,000, the University
resolved to intensify their char- will be getting two-thirds and the Institute one-third ... Further
itable and social activities. Self- negotiations will be conducted if the balance is over $5,000.000
help's aim is to give 'aid to its . . The Haifa Technion is only a beneficiary of the joint drive,
needy members and to extend but is not a party to the agreement, which is a contract between
a helping hand to every new- the Hebrew University and the Weizmann Institute . . . The
comer in need.
agreement between the two institutions has no termination date-
The new officers are:
. .. Either party may, after two years, give notice of its desire to
Ruben Manko, president; Fred Schwab,
Kurt Michel, vice-presidents: Karl Lowry. terminate the pact, or to change its provisions.
treasurer; Mrs. Kurt Ehrlich, financial
In the United States the joint fund-raising campaign is al-
secretary; Mrs. Walter Gottlieb, secretary;
ready in effect ... In other countries local decisions will be made on
Mrs. Walter Stark, assistant secretary;
Mrs. Robert Singer assistant see retary;
whether to have combined or separate drives . . . In either case,
Paul Corby. program chairman.
Members of the board are: George the funds will be pooled in Israel and divided there in accordance
Ajacoby, Hermann Doiny. Adolf Ehren- with the above formula . . . The American Friends of the Hebrew
feld, Fred Hopfeld, Mrs. John Leopold,
Mrs. John Saffir. Walter Stark, Alfred University, the American Committee of the Weizmann Institute
Strauss, Alex Wolton. Public relations and the American Technion Society are all to continue in exist-
committee; Walter Gottlieb, Martin Am-
ence as membership organizations ... They can collect separately
berg.
membership dues, limited to $10 per member, and can separately
seek legacies and bequests . . . A new office is being established
Brandeis Lodge Cites
in New York to represent all of them for campaign purposes.

etween You and Me

Detroit Selfhelp
Names Officers

Negro Philanthropist

Domestic Interests

On Tuesday evening, March
-28, Brandeis Lodge of Bnai. Brith
will present its annual award
of merit to John J. White,
Negro. philantropist, respected
not only by his own people but
by all who know his inter-racial
work.
The award will bepresented
by Benjamin Berkley, presi-
dent of the lodge. The program
for the evening will consist of
a Negro choir, an opera singer,
tap dancers and a skit by the
Hillekplayers.
The presentation will take
place at the Rose Sittig Cohen
Hall; Lawton and Tyler.

Time is running out for Jews in the United States who are
entitled to compensation from Germany under the German .in-
demnification program . . . Claims must be filed in Germany, pre-
ferably in the German language, not later than March 31 of this
year . . . Almost any Jew who has emigrated from Germany since
1933 is a potential claimant ... And refugees in this country who
were at any time imprisoned by the Nazis in Germany are eligible
for substantial indemnification . .. An eligible claimant may re-
cover 150 German marks—about $35—for each month of impris-
onment . . . He can recover up to 75,000 German marks for loss of
property . . . He can also claim up to 25,000 German marks for
loss of economic opportunities . . . These funds are now blocked,
but they may be available later, or may be used for welfare pur-
poses in Germany
HIAS and the United Service for New Americans have alerted
Jewish communities throughout the country to the need of imme-
diate action on behalf of those who can still file their claims .. .
So did the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds,
through its Institute on Overseas Studies