INF Conducts. Traditional Appeal .
On Tisha b'Ab and Sabbath Chazon

THE JEWISH NEWS - 5

Friday, July 21, 1950

Vocational Test

This Saturday — Sabbath
Chazon — will be utilized in
local synagogues for an appeal,
during the reading of the Torah,
in behalf of the Jewish National
Fund.
With the expected curtailment
of income luring the traditional
collection on Tisha b'Ab—occur-
ring on Sunday—because no
cash gifts can be forthcoming
on Saturday night, the JNF
Council has set aside Sabbath
Chazon for an appeal for pledges
to the fund.
Irving W. Schlussel, as chair-
man of the JNF synagogue
committee, is arranging for
speakers to appear in syna-
gogues to make the appeal. Ar-
rangements also have been
made for contributions to be
made by those who will be
called to the reading of the
Torah.

Volunteers Needed

Benjamin Laikin, president of
the Detroit JNF, pointed out
this week that the building of
the Jewish state calls for larger
gifts to the JNF and that the
anniversary of the destruction
of -the Temple should bring
forth larger gifts for the re-
construction of the state.
Volunteers are needed to
carry on the Tisha b'Ab and
Sabbath Chazon appeals and
all who are in position to help
are asked to offer their services
by calling the JNF executive
director, Arthur Shutkin, TO.
8-7384.
Those who will be unable to
attend synagogue services ei-
ther on Oabbath Chazon or on
Tisha b'Ab are asked to send
their contributions to the JNF
office, 11816 Dexter:
Appeal to Synagogues
A joint appeal issued to of-
ficers and rabbis of Detroit's
congregations, signed by Messrs.
Laikin and Schlussel, declares:
" 'COMFORT YE, COMFORT
YE MY PEOPIyE!!' The vast
number of our uprooted breth-
ren, who are streaming into Is-
rael is a source of great com-
fort to our people. It also im-
poses upon us a great and sac-
red obligation.
"For the proper defense and
sound economic development of
Israel and for effective absorp-
tion of the hundreds of thous-
ands, who have come and who
will continue to come to Is-
rael, millions of dunams of land
must be redeemed as quickly as
possible
"On Tisha b'Ab, which falls
this yea`t. on Saturday evening,
July 22. and Sunday, July 23,

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we must bring this message of
-Israel, of its people, of its strug-
gles and its triumphs as well as
of the many and difficult. tasks
that lie before us.
"We call upon you to bring
this message and appeal for
funds in your synagogue, and
help make available the maxi-
mum support for the Jewish
National Fund."

National JNF Call

More than 7,500 synagogues
throughout the country were
urged to make appeals for the
Jewish National Fund during
the traditional Tisha b'Ab exer-
cises, commemorating the fall
of the Temple in Jerusalem,
1,880 years ago, with a view to
raising additional funds that
are essential to the settlement
of the hundreds of thousands of
newcomers to Israel. Many rab-
bis will make JNF appeals in
the course of their sermons on
Shabbat Chazon.
In his communication to the
rabbis and presidents of con-
gregations, urging them to join
the great action in behalf of
JNF on the occasion • of Tisha
b'Ab, Mendel N. Fisher, JNF ex-
ecutive director, emphasized the
pressing need existing for the
immediate redemption of land.
Appeals have also gone out
for JNF collections in Jewish
hotels and summer resorts, at
meetings and conferences and
wherever Jews congregate. A
special communication to or-
thodox congregations and rab-
bis of synagogues was issued by
Nathan Levine, chairman of the
JNF religious department.

DR. ERVI N ARNSTE I N,
head of the vocational guid-
ance bureau operated in Israel
by Hadassah, administers a
vocational aptitude test to a
graduate of an elementary
school in Jerusalem.

Romania Releases Israeli

TEL AVIV (JTA) —Alf r ed

Kirsh, Israeli delegate of the
Agudas Israel labor organiza-
tion, who was arrested in Bu-
charest last year, returned to
Israel. He was suddenly released
in Romania and permitted to
leave the country.

Philadelphia Organizes Council of Synagogues

PHILADELPHIA (JTA1—A
Synagogue Council of Philadel-
phia, representing lay and rab-
binical leadership, is being or-
ganized here for the first time
under the direction of the Phil-
adelphia Board of Rabbis, it was
revealed by Rabbi Jeremiah
Cohen, president of the board,
which includes the Orthodox,
Conservative and Reform rab-
binate.

The Synagogue Council will
include rabbis, presidents of
their congregations and organi-
zation leaders in the community
who have shown or expressed
interest in the religious life of
the local Jewish community.
The Council, Rabbi Cohen ex-
plained, will confine itself to
matters solely of a religious or
synagogal nature.

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Cantor Says Lives of Many
Thousands Depend on JJA

The lives of many thousands
of Jews who are seeking to en-
ter Israel depend on the action
of American Jews, Eddie Can-
tor, national campaign chair-
man of the United Jewish Ap-
peal,- declared on his return
from the Jewish State.
Mr. Cantor, who together with
Mrs. Cantor, went to Israel last
month at the invitation of
Prime Minister David Ben-Guri-
on, said that American aid in
the form of increased gifts to
the United Jewish Appeal must
provide for the reception of a
minimum of 200,000 new immi-
grants in Israel before the end
of 1950. He emphasized that any
slackening of support for the
UJA would have very grave
consequences involving the life
and death of tens of thousands
who must be rescued from lands
of persecution and distress.

On the Record

By NATHAN Z I PR I N

(Copyright, 1950, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Clippings From Israel

The Rationing Ministry in Israel has its hands full these
days what with keeping tab on old -regulations and making new
rulings. Recently the question came up how to classify esrogim,
the citrus fruit used for religious ceremonial purposes during
the Succoth week.• Heads were bending under the question "Is
an esrog a luxury or a necessity?" There were enough argu-
ments pro and con but in the end the religiously-minded won
out when the rationers ruled an esrog was no luxury and there-
fore tax free on the retail market. Incidentally Israel will ex-
port about $150,000,090 worth of esrogim this year.
You would think being the Prime Minister of a country has
its advantages. But this doesn't evidently seem to be the case
in Israel. Recently Ben Gurion wrote a letter to the Tel Aviv
taxation department complaining that an excessive tax had been
placed on his property. The reply he received convinced him
that the Tel Aviv fathers have little concern for a Premier when
it comes to extracting taxes. When it comes to taxes in Israel all
are alike, a Tei Aviv councilman said laughingly when he learn-
ed of the Premier's quandary.
Sixty-five young ladies in Israel are facing perjury charges
as a result of swearing they were Sabbath observers. Their
crime was not that they were not in fact observers but that
they said they were in order to avoid military service. Under
the Knesset military act both men and women must register for
military service. But the law provides exemption for religious
women. The young ladies thought they would beat the unpalat-
able task of army duty. What they didn't know was that the
government had an army of spotters trailing them. The army
ditchers were seen alighting buses and cars on the Sabbath and
when their registration cards showed they had been exempted
from service because of religious considerations they w e r e
rounded up. The exemption certificates are secured through ap-
plication to any judge. All the feminine applicant has to do is
swear that she is a religious _observer. Since the military act
calls for the registration of women between the ages of 20 and
25, the desertion spotters often run into grave troubles, for only
a courageous young lady will admit she is over that age. In such
cases the officers take the name and address of the person
questioned and check on her verity through other sources.

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