Social, Inc. Aids Israel's Blind

JULES DONESAN,
(r i g h t), Michigan
agent of Service for
Israel, accepts check
for $525 from HAR-
RY H. SEARS, treas-
urer of Social, Inc.,
as HERSHEL LEWIS
(center), chairman,
looks on. Social,
Inc., which was or-
ganized in 1945 to
provide a social pro-
gram for Jewish
young adults in De-
troit and to donate
to worthy causes,
assigned the sum of
$525 for individual
Hanukah food packages for 50 'families at the Institute for the
Blind at Gedera, Israel.

Jewish Agency Reports Decrease
In Shekolini Sales of U.S England

6—THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, November 17, 1950

ewry

on the Air

This Week's Radio and Tele-

vision Programs of
Jewish Interest

THE ETERNAL LIGHT

Time: 8 a.M., Sunday, Nov. 19.
Station: WWJ.
Feature: Honoring the 125th
anniversary of Cong. Bnai
Jeshurum, of New York City,
"The Way of Willingness" will
be presented. The story, written
by Irve Tunick, tells - of the three
Hebrew words for a synagogue:
a place of ingathering, a place
of study and a place of worship,
and how one congregation made
them come true.
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MESSAGE OF ISRAEL

Landsmanshaften to Convene Sunday
For Review of Communal Problems

Presidents and representatives
of landsmanschaften organiza-
tions will meet at 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, at the Davison Jewish
Center to complete conference
arrangements for a discussion
of communual problems.
Leon Kay and Alex Belkin, co-
chairmen of the planning com-
mittee, announced that it was
decided at an earlier meeting
to hold the conference from
1:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17,
at the Woodward Jewish Center.
The conference will provide
landsmanschaften members with
an opportunity to discuss with
representatives of the Jewish
Welfare Federation the pro-
grams, causes and servi c es sup-
ported by the Allied Jewish
Campaign.

A major topic will be the over-
all activities of Federation that
include fund-raising, distribu-
tion of funds, social planning
and coordination of local serv-
ices. Other areas of local com-
munal concern to be discussed
will be the construction of the
Jewish Hospital, care of the aged
and Jewish education.
Part of the conference will be
devoted to organized Jewish
community support of Israel
and its needs for philanthropic
funds, investments and loans.
The meeting on Sunday will
select committees on promotion,
refreshments and program for
the conference and will discuss
the possibility of setting up a
y ea r-r o u n d landsmanschaft
body to plan programs of inter-
est for its organizations.

Israel Police Smash Smuggling Ring;
Consular Employe Removal Demanded

NEW YORK — (JTA) — The ties have voluntarily agreed on . Time: 10 a.m., Sunday, Nov.
number of persons eligible for the allocation of delegates, lists 19.
representation at the World of delegates must be turned in
Station: WXYZ.
Zionist Congress will be about by Dec. 1.
Feature: Rabbis from all over
100,000 less than at the last
Dobkin gave the following the country will join Dr. Maurice
JERUSALEM (JTA)—I s r a e 1
Congress held in Basle in 1946, breakdown on the distribution N. Eisendrath at the ceremony police smashed a smuggling ring a consular employee who abused
it was reported at the plenary of shekel holders: United States honoring the laying of the cor- which is credited with having his diplomatic immunity.
In, a raid which culminated
session of the Jewish Agency 774,000; Israel 670,000; Europe nerstone for the Union of Amer- illegally removed $400,000 in
executive.
140,000; Latin America 110,000; i c a n Hebrew Congregations' American dollars and British an investigation rivalling a mo-
picture scenario, the Israel
E 1 i a h u Dobkin, executive Middle East 75,000; South Africa new House of Living,Judaism in gold coinage from the Jewish tion
police rounded up one consular
member in charge of the organ- 40,000; other countries 91,000.
New York.
state, and the Israel Foreign employee, a blond described as
ization department, who sub-
The meeting discussed partic-
Ministry—for the first time in beautiful, a number of Arab
mitted the report, said that as ipation in a national conclave
its two-and-a-half-year history women and several pious, beard-
BICENTENNIAL OF TEMPLE
a result of the shekel campaigns of Zionist leaders to be held in
—has asked for the removal of ed Jews. The smuggling ring,
Rabbi Alan Tarshish of the
of the last two years approxi- Hotel Commodore, Nov. 19, un-
for which the blond and the
mately 1,900,000 shekel holders der auspices of the Zionist Congregation Beth Elohim of
Arab women are believed to have
Charleston, S.C., speaks on the
are eligible for representation Council.
acted as go-betweens, operated
second half of WJR - CBS'
at the Congress to be held in
Debate indicated that the "Church of the Air" Sunday
out of Bet Safafa, a village just
Jerusalem early this summer.
great majority of the executive
outside of Israel which is con-
He explained that the shekel agreed that the agenda of the 10:30-11 a.m.. via WCSC, Charl-
trolled in equal parts by Israel
eston,
as
a
highlight
of
the
bi-
campaigns would have shown an conclave should be limited to
A special Thanksgiving con- and Jordan. The ring smuggled
overall increase, but approxi- items directly affecting the centennial celebration of Tem- vocation to emphasize the re- a variety of goods, as well as
ple
Beth
Elohim,
second
oldest
mately a half-million potential Zionist movement in the light
ligious values underlying Ameri- currency, from Israel to Jordan
buyers in Eastern Europe were of current developments, par- synagogue in the United States. can democracy' has been called and vice versa.
excluded by domestic conditions ticularly the question of the Mayor William McG. Morrison by the Jewish Theological Semi-
The consular employee whose
of Charleston also will speak. nary of America, 3080 Broadway,
pr ohibiting . campaigns.
role of American Zionism in im- He
will be presented by Thomas for Tuesday evening, .Nov. 21, at removal has been demanded is
Part of the loss, Dobkin said, ' plementing the four-point aid- Tobias, persident of the congre-
reported to be attached to the
was made up by a heavy in- Israel program approved two gation and seventh-generation 8 o'clock, according to an an- Greek consulate. It is reported
ouncement
by
Dr.
Louis
Finkel-
crease in shekel buying in Israel, months ago in Jerusalem and
of the Temple's first stein, president of the Seminary. that a second consular employee
Latin America and the Middle endorsed again at the National descendent
—said to be employed in the
president.
The Beth Elohim
Three distinguished American, Italian consulate here—is also
East. Aside from Eastern Eu- Planning Conference in Wash- Choir will sing.
leaders who will receive the involved.
rope, two countries to show a ington.
honorary degree of Doctor of
decrease in the campaigns since
Levi Eshkol, Agency treasurer,
Laws at the ceremonies for their
1948 were the United States and reported on various aspects of Half of Argentine Jewish
notable contributions to the
England.
the financial situation. Domi- Population Is Native-Born
advancement of democratic
nating
the
discussion
was
the
The speaker declared that
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)—Slight- principles are:
except for Israel, all countries problem of financing the Agency
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. former Co-
holding elections for the Con- e m i g r at ion and colonization ly over 50 percent of the Jews ordinator of Inter - American Affairs,
of the International Association
gress will complete their ballot- programs which consume the of Argentina are native-born, president
for Economic and Social Development, and
ting by December. In Israel, the bulk of the Agency's annual in- but only 57 percent of the entire of the International Basic Economy Cor-
poration; James Howard McGrath, Attor-
Jewish community are citizens, ney
holding of municipal elections come.
General of the United States._ former
Dobkin . reported that the world Yedidio Efron, noted. Zionist ed- Governor
in November prompted a deci-
of Rhode Island and United
States Senator from that state: and Roger
sion to postpone Congress elec- Zionist movement maintains 330 ucator, reported.
Williams Straus, co-chairman of the Na-
tions until March.
Shlichim — Zionist emissaries—
Conference of Christians and Jews,
Writing in the Yiddishe Zei- tional
honorary president of the National Fed-
In those countries where no who earn the "absolute minimum tung, Mr. Efron, who has con- eration
of Temple Brotherhoods, indus-
elections are slated because par- allowances." Shlichim in Latin ducted a population study among trialist and author of "Religious Liberty
• GUARANTEED
and
Democracy."
America earn the equivalent of Argentine Jews for a number of
• TROUBLE FREE
$80 a month, in England less years, declared that of 350,000 Most of the , Mayflower pio-
• FIRST GRADE, TYPE 2
Honor General Wingate than $90 a month and in the Jews in the country, 178,000 are neers came to this country be-
Phone
TAshmoo
5-4500
United States about $240 month- native-born. Of those who are cause they had been persecuted
With Military Burial
ly. These sums cover all ex-
SERVING THOUSANDS OF
. .migrants only 24,500 have for their expression of beliefs
In Arlington Cemetery
penses, including traveling costs. been naturalized.
SATISFIED CUSTOMERS
in England.
WASHINGTON, D. C. (ISI)—
The remains of Brig. Gen.
Charles Orde Wingate, British
officer who helped to train Ha-
ganah, were buried in Arlington
National Cemetery. Col. Chaim
Herzog, Israel Military Attache
in Washington, and Wing Com-
mander Yehuda Giladi, repre-
sented Israel at the ceremony
and laid a wreath on Gen. Win-
gate's grave.
Wingate was killed in an air-
plane crash in Burma in 1944
with a number of U. S. Army
Air Force personnel and all were
Hail the Unique Achievements of
buried together since their re-
Histadrut
in the reconstruction of the Jewish State
mains were unrecognizable.
He was one of the few British
Participate in the
Army officers who identified
YESTERDAY
himself with the cause of Zion-
ism. He first went to Palestine
—only three decades ago, a brave
in 1936 as a captain and imme-
bond of young Jews met in Haifa
under the leodership of David Ben-
diately became interested in
and
Gurion, to organize a cadre of
Zionism and learned Hebrew.
pioneers who would lay the foun-
During the Arab riots of 1936-
dation of the Jewish State through
39, Wingate urged the British
hard self-sacrificing labor in the
authorities to take strong action
swamp volleys and barren hilltops
against the Arab gangs. After
of Palestine. Yesterday, Histo-
a great deal of pressure, he se-
drut blazed the trail for millions of
,
Thursday,
November
30th
-
8
P.M.
cured permission to organize
Jews to come and build the land
and defend it against all odds.
special night squads of Jewish
and British soldiers. Base of
operation for these squads were
TODAY
kibbutzim in Emek Israel. Jew-
GUESTS
ish members of the squads were
as masses of Jews swarm into
DR. ZALMAN GRINBERG, Director of Histadrut's Be i/inson Hospital, Adviser to Israeli Health Ministry.
Israel, they cope with overwhelm-
drawn from Haganah.
ing economic problems. Top pri-
His widow, Lorna Wingate, has
DR. JOACHIM PRINZ, Rabbi of Temple Bnai Abraham, Newark, Vice-President of World Jewish Congress.
ority must be given to converting
visited Israel frequently and
CANTOR BENJAMIN SIEGEL, Outstanding interpreter of Jewish folk and liturgical music.
the immigrants into productive
carries on her husband's friend-
workers so that they may stand
ship toward the people of Israel.
on their own feet in the shortest
Select Five Delegates Immediately — Send Names to

ITSA to Award
3 Law Doctorates

28 YEARS

30th ANNIVERSARY of HISTADRUT in ISRAEL

The Glorious Pioneering Movement

AN URGENT CALL TO ACTION
SOCIETIES LANDSMANSCHAFTEN ORGANIZATIONS

30th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF HISTADRUT

Formal Opening of 1951 Detroit Histadrut Campaign

Northwest Hebrew Congregation - Curtis and Santa Clara

Benjamin Franklin, printer
and editor, has been termed by
one historian as "the one man
of vision" in the colonial resist-
ance 'of oppression.

DETROIT ISRAEL HISTADRUT CAMPAIGN

13722 LINWOOD

TO. 9-8660

possible time. Today, Histadrut
is the prime creator of productive
citizens in Israel through its ever-
growing agricultural and industrial
enterprises and vocational training
centers.