Cash on AJC Campaign Pledges
Needed to Hold Israel's Doors Open
Allied Jewish Campaign col-
lections for 1950 are keeping
pace with those of 1949, but Is-
rael's need for cash to main-
tain immigration is so urgent
that just keeping pace is not
good enough, Samuel H. Rub-
iner, president of the Jewish
Welf a r e Federation, reported
this week.
Of the $1,608,000 collected to
date on 1950 pledges, nearly
. all already has been sent to
the United Jewish Appeal,
major beneficiary of the Al-
lied Jewish Campaign. Rub-
iner pointed out that the only
way Detroit can help the UJA
prevent bankruptcy of Israel's
immigration is if every one
speeds payment on his pledge
— either all or part of it—now,
Cash on campaign pledges
also is needed to meet commit-
ments to the network of 55
other Federation services. Ap-
proximately $575,000 will be pro-
vided for 18 local agencies in
addition to $300,000 required for
the resettlement of new Ameri-
cans in Detroit.
Allocations to local and na-
t i o n a l campaign beneficiaries
are made on the recommenda-
tions of the three budgeting and
planning divisions of the Fed-
eration — health and welfare,
educational and cultural, and
community relations. The Fed-.
eration's executive committee
determines the specific alloca-
tion of campaign funds to over-
seas beneficiaries on the basis
of the formula set up at the
pre -.campaign budgeting con-
ference. All allocations must be
approved by the board of gover-
nors.
Budgeting sessions will re-
sume in the fall.
Eddie Cantor, national UJA
campaign chairman, wired
Samuel H. Rubiner, president
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, that money to finance
Israel's immigration will be
totally exhausted in the next
few weeks, if American Jews
fail to provide funds at once.
"I know what hardships and
burdens every Jew there ac-
cepts with the immigration of
every additional Jew," the mes-
sage states. "But they feel that
the whole conception of the
Jewish State is a mockery if a
Jew who needs its safety is to
be barred now. In July Israel
took in over 18,000 Jews. In
August there will be the same
number. But no matter how
many sacrifices Israel makes,
it cannot produce dollars to pay
for that kind of immigration.
If we American Jews should be
guilty of shutting the doors of
Israel, we would never be ' able
to face the world as proud peo-
ple again."
Hadassah Members Hear of Plight
Of Agency's Youth Rescue Program
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Hadas-
sah raised $9,000,000 during the
past 10-and-a-half months for
its projects in Israel and the
United States, and gained 10,-
000 members during the same
period, it was reported at the
Hadassah convention here.
The 2,000 delegates heard a
report by Moshe Kol, chairman
of the Youth Immigration De-
partment of the Jewish Agency
in Jerusalem, on the problems
which the Agency now faces.
"At this very moment Youth
Aliyah is racing against time,"
Kol said, "to deliver 35,000 Jew-
ish children from the Iron Cur-
tain countries to Israel. There
are 20,000 in Poland and Rom-
ania whose doors are currently
open to Jewish emigration. An
all-out effort must be made to
rescue these children, because if
international tension should in-
crease or war break out, fate
would be black for Jewish youth
in these nations where they are
considered 'undesirable ele-
ments.' "
Iron Curtain Problems
Terming the situation grim,
Kol emphasized that in the past
ten months only 1,200 boys and
girls from the Iron Curtain
countries had succeeded in get-
ting to Israel. A problem of
equally critical importance for
Youth Aliyah, said Kol, "is to
bring to Israel the young Jew-
ish- generation from the Arab
countries."
Consul-General Arthur Lourie
of Israel warned the Arab states
that their refusal to sign final
peace treaties with the Jewish
state would militate against
their best interests. His warn-
ing was sounded at the initial
session of the convention.
He noted that "a year ago
Israel was ready to accept the
return of 100,000 Arab refugees
as part of a comprehensive set-
tlement. That offer was not
even deemed worthy of an
answer and lapsed through Arab
refusal to discuss it when it was
feasible. Today the proposal of
the Israel Government is being
overtaken by events. The land
of Israel is filling up and terms
which it was possible to offer a
year ago are not now applicable
to changed conditions."
Israel in the Middle
First Home Is Sold to Korea GI
•
Eban Reports Israelis'
Interest in Korean War
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Aubrey
E. Eban, Israel's Ambassador to
the United States who returned
from - Tel- Aviv with his family,
said that public opinion in Is-
rael is interested in the Korean
situation and that "the Israel
government's concern has been
expressed in two messages in
support of the efforts of the
Security Council to restore in-
ternational peace and security."
Israel's attitude, Eban added,
is "governed solely by its obli-
gations as a member of the UN
and is influenced by Israel's own
experiences in the past, when
Israel was attacked."
Declaring that a "major demo-....
cratic adventure of our time is
going on. in Israel now — the
building of a nation at break-
neck speed," Eban noted that
"many difficulties of an eco-
nomic character cause grave
concern, but these are pains of
rapid growth and not of illness."
Eban is expected to present his
credentials to President Tru-
man this week.
AL LENIN of Edelman Realty Company; MRS. ROGER
S. WALDEN, wife of First Lt. Roger S. Walden; and BENJA-
MIN LEVINSON, president of Michigan Mortgage Corpora-
tion, completing details for a GI mortgage on a home located
at 2269 Hazelwood. This is the first V.A. loan that has been -
made to a former Cl who has reinlisted and is now fighting
in Korea.
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Food, Dollar Deficits
Spur Israel Rationing
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Rabbi Max Kirschblum, acting
president of Mizrachi Organiza-
tion of America, who recently
returned from Israel, in an ex-
tended report on the food crisis
in Israel, stated that the new
rations imposed by the Israeli
government stem only from the
dire food shortage in that coun-
try and is not motivated by any
bureaucratic desire for regimen-
tation.
He emphatically denied that
the Israel government uses food
and clothing rationing as a
means of furthering its sociali-
zation program.
He pointed to the constant
food deficit in Israel which is a
direct result of inadequate farm
machinery, shortage of farm la-
bor, and the need for dollar
credits in hard currency coun-
tries in order to import food
articles.
THE JEWISH NEWS
708 David Stott Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich.
and American Jewry, whose as-
sistance helped Israel to state-
hood and is still needed. At the
same time, he said, Israel owed
a debt of gratitude to Eastern
Europe for its support of parti-
tion and cannot do anything
that would hamper the chances
of Eastern European Jewry to
go to Israel.
Frankly examining the much-
discussed issue of world Jewry's
relationship to Israel, Mrs. Sam-
uel Halprin, Hadassah president,
said the Jewish community is
divided into the "galuth" — that
part which lives in lands where
Jews are in danger—and the
diaspora, that part which en-
joys freedom and equality in
Phone WO. 5-1155 before 11
democratic countries. It is in
the diaspora that Jews of the a.m. on Wednesdays to place a
United States belong, she em- classified ad that will bring re-
phasized. When Israel declares suits.
that the exiles will be gathered
in three years, it is to the Jews
of the galuth that Israel refers,
Mrs. Halprin said:
Ben Gurion Rejects
Plan for Separate
Orthodox Army Units
PETACH TIKVAH, Israel,
(JTA) — The suggestion that
Ortrodox Jews be formed into
seperate units within the Israel
Army to enable them to main-
tain strict religious observance
was rejected by Premier David
Ben-Gurion.
Addressing the fifth national
conference of Poale Agudas Is-
rael, a religious labor group, the
Premier said that 'his first care
was the country's security. He
emphasized that in no other
army in the world can soldiers
maintain ritual observance as
freely as in the Israel Army.
Wearing a traditional skull-
cap,. Premier Ben-Gurion pledg-
ed his support for the eradica-
tion in Israel of certain tenden-
cies deprecating the values of
religious teachings. He praised
the Agudah labor movement
for its cooperation with the
government and welcomed the
proposed merger between the
Agudah laborite group and Ha-
poal Mamizrachi, Or thodox
Zionist labor group.
He predicted consolidation
would lead to the incorporation
of the united religious labor
groups in the Histadrut, Is-
rael's Federation of Labor, as a
separate orthodox division. The
convention concluded with a
resolution adopted by about 90
percent of the delegates approv-
ing the merger and instructing
the new executive of the organi-
zation to start negotiations with
Turning to Israel's support of
the United Nations in Korea,
Lourie declared his --country's
stand must be viewed against
the background of "Israel's posi-
tion in relation to the conflict
between the two world blocs,"
which he said "has from the
very beginning been exception-
al." Israel, he said, was modeled
after the Western . democracies
with which it had the strongest Hapoel Hamizrachi for the pur-
cultural and economic ties, par- pose of carrying the merger
ticularly with the United States
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