500 at JWB Cincinnati Convention. Hear

Report on 1949; Truman Lauds Weil

CINCINNATI (JTA ) — Jewish
community planning for leisure
time and informal education
projects reached a new level of
activity and achievement

chaplains"served eight branches
of the. federal government, pre-
senting programs of a religious,
welfare, and morale nature at
military installations and hos-
pitals. Overseas, Rabbi Freehof
stated, the division continued to
provide chaplaincy coverage
with special emphasis on Pass-
over and the High Holy Days.

Edison Elected

IRVING EDISON

throughout the country in 1949,
with 325 Jewish Community
Centers in more than 200 corn-
munities serving that enter-
prise. The year also witnessed
an unprecedented measure of
expansion in Center-conducted
Jewish cultural projects and
recreational services and pro-
grams for all age groups.
These developments were re-
ported at the biennial conven-
tion of the National Jewish Wel-
fare Board at the Hotel Nether-
land Plaza here. The opening
session, presided over by Frank
L. Weil, retiring president of the
organization, was devoted to a
presentation of the annual re-
port. A panel, composed of the
chairmen of five JWB divisions,
participated with Weil in the re-
port presentation.

President Truman in a mes-
sage to the thiee 7.day conven-
tion lauded the role which
president Weil has played in
Jewish communal life during
the last ten • years.

"You have richly earned the
thanks not only of your co-re-
ligionists but of your country
generally for a decade of con-
structive leadership and accom-
plishment," Truman's message
read.
The 500 delegates attending
the convention discussed plans
for expanding and intensifying
relationships among Jewish
community centers, synagogues
and Jewish schools. The conven-
tion also formulated a public
affairs program to guide Jewish
centers in their work.

483,000 Members

Membership in the 325 Cen-
ters affiliated with JWB reached
a- record of 483,000 in 1949, ac-
cording to Mrs. Walter E. Heller,
of Chicago, chairman of JWB's
Center Division. More than 11,-
500,000 persons attended Center
activities in the course of the
year, the mass attendance figure
a 27 percent increase since 1947.
The Centers employ close to
1,000 professionally trained
workers and, in 1949, had an ag-
gregate budget of almost $11,-
500,000.
Signs . of progress in "the de-
velopment of a living, every-day
kind of Judaism for American
Jews" were noted by S. D. Ger-
shovitz, JWB executive director.
He noted "the enlarging inter-
est in Jewish culture and adult
education, in no small measure a
reflection of the expanding Jew-
ish substance of Jewish Commu•-
nity Center programs and of the
work of JWB-sponsored cultural
co_uncils."
The armed forces program
in 1949 operated in the United
States through. 146 local com-
mittees made up of thousands of
volunteers r e p or t e d Milton
Weill, of New York, division
chairman. Activities for GIs and
hospitalized veterans, provided
by those committees,. attracted
271,494.
This program, he said, was in
addition to "a world network of
JWB service to armed forces
personnel that reached into 225
installations—Army, Navy and
Air Force—here and abroad, and
was extended to 110 VA hos-
pitals."
• Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof, of
Pittsburgh, chairman of JWB's
Division of Religious Activities,
`-1 reported than in 1949 twenty-
eight full-time Jewish chap -
lains "and a good-sized auxili-
ary corps-163 part-time Jewish

Irving Edison of St. Louis was
elected president of the JWB
at the closing session of the
convention. He becomes the
fifth preSident of the Jewish
Welfare Board, the first mid-
westerner to hold that office.
Mrs. Samuel R. Glogower, of
Detroit was named an honorary
vice president.
At a tribute dinner to retiring
president Weil, noting his de-
cade of service to JWB, an-
nouncement was made of a sys-
tem of annual awards to be
given in his name in three ma-
jor fields of JWB's spheres of
service.
The convention adopted a
resolution strongly recommend-
ing to constituent Jewish Com-
munity Centers that they do
everything possible "to foster a
workable partnership with syn-
agogues and Jewish schools in
the respective communities."
Another resolution set forth the
objectives of cooperative activity
between the synagogues and the
Jewish Centers as "enriching
the quality of individual and
Jewish group life in America."
It observed that this recognition
of common goals "is materializ-
ing in concrete expressions of
agreement in ever-growing areas
of relationships."

Kesner to Produce
Festival Records

Moe Kesner, already popular
both as soloist and choir di-
rector, has entered a new field—
the recording of Jewish music.
Having shown marked ability
as a radio announcer, Mr. Kes,
ner has applied the radio nar-
rative idea to his -recordings. In
his first venture, for instance
the recording of the Passover
story—he has compiled an in-
teresting narrative in song and
in explanatory notes, both of
which echo very well on his re-
cords. Bella Goldberg, mezzo-
soprano, is his assistant.
The major Passover songs are
included in the four-sided re-
cordings which were produced
by the Sheera Recording Co.,
2900 Taylor, Detroit. The com-
plete story. of the exodus, the
Seder, the traditional hymns are
a part of the entire album.
Mr. Kesner's next move is to
prepare recordings of Purim and
Hanukah songs and stories, to-
gether with Jason Tickton who
will assist him on the organ. His
efforts are receiving deserved
acclaim from an appreciative
audience which follows him from
public meetings, at which he
provides popular music, to the
recording box through which he
can be heard in his able com-
pilation of holiday song stories.
His first set of recordings ap-
peared under . the title "A Con-
cert of Passover Music With Nar-
ration: Zman Cheyruseynu, the
Holiday of Freedom."

AJC Aired on WJLB
Saturday and Sunday

Allied Jewish Campaign will
brought home to Detroit's
radio listeners on station WJLB
this week by Mrs. Jack Sauls,
speaker on Mrs. Hyman Alt-
man's Hour, 9:30 p.m., Satur-
day, May 13; Mrs. Sidney J.
Allen, on Harry and Betty Wein-
berg's hour, 1:30 p.m., Sunday,
May 14.
WJLB has also made time
available to the campaign at
1:45 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednes-
d a y s and Thursdays. -Mrs.
Charles M. Lakoff, Rabbi M. J.
Wohlgelernter, Law r e n c e W.
Crohn, and Roger Nathan will
be the speakers.

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Honor Mother's Day
At Mayfair Caterers

"Take mother out for a strict-
ly Kosher dinner on Mother's
Day, Sunday, May 14," is the slo-
gan of the Mayfair Caterers,
Dexter at Waverly, this week.
Opening their dining room to
the public for this occasion only,
the Mayfair owners plan to
serve dinners by reservation
only.
The ,Mayfair Room is under
the supervision of the Council of
Orthodox Rabbis of Detroit. •
To reserve a table, call TE. 4-
5875.

D&C Announces
Six Summer Cruises

D 8i C Navigation Co. has an-
nounced this summer's itiner-
ary for its yearly series of Great
Lakes "inland ocean" cruises.
The schedule includes six
varied vacation cruises at the
lowest rates in years. Heading
the list is the 2,000 mile, 7-day
cruise including visits to Mack-
inac Island, Soo Locks, Buffalo
and Chicago.

Where living is

Omena Inn Offers New
Attractions This Year

A good example of resorts
that are making Michigan a
national playground is Omena
Inn, the hay fever and sinus
sufferers haven on Grand Tra-
verse Bay, Omena, Michigan,
run by Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Lan-
dis.
This season, Omena is adding
several new attractions, includ-
ing a playground for children;
and new and better equipment
in its noted dining room. Highly
publicized is addition of the
Broadway star Arnold Spector
to its staff as social director.
With Spector is a large enter-
tainment staff, assembled in
preparation for this summer's
succession of musical comedies
to be featured at the Omena
Inn Playhouse.

THE JEWISH NEWS-15

Friday, May 12, 1950

Electric cooking is faster
cleaner . . . cooler. Your
appliance dealer has models
for any size family,any size
budget.

Laikin Urges Tree-Planting in Israel
To Honor This Mother's Day

Benjamin M. Laikin, newly-
elected chairman of the Jewish
National Fund Council of De-
troit, has issued an appeal to
the entire community to join in
the .tree-plantaig campaign in
Israel on the occasion of Moth-
er's Day which will be obserVed
this coming Sunday.
"Israel has launched a gigan-
tic tree-plan ding program, and
it is . . urgent that every Jew
should feel his responsibility
and should assist in fulfilling
the 1950 goal of at least 400,-
000 new trees to be planted in
the Jewish state," Mr. Laikin

Belcrest Has Apartments,
Suites, Rooms Available

Attractive suites, apartments
and rooms are now available at
The Belcrest, Detroit's only re-
sidential hotel with a garden.
Located at Cass and Kirby,
in the cultural center of the
city, the Belcrest offers com-
plete hotel service, dining room
and catering facilities,

said. This is one of the ways
in which we can assist - in the
upbuilding of the state, in the
establishment Of n e w settle-
ments, in the expansion of the
forests."
Arthur Shutkin, executive di-
rector of the JNF Council, stat-
ed that the JNF office, 11816
Dexter, TO. 8-7384, will. be open
all day Sunday to take orders
for trees. Beautiful certificates
will be issu,d, Mr. Shutkin said.

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