Hanukah Celebrations Scheduled
In All Hebrew School Branches

Preparations for the observ-
ance of Hanukah are in evi=
Bence in all classrooms of the
United Hebrew Schools. Cele-
brations will be held in various
branches as follows:
Central, Wednesday, Dec. 6, in
the Rose Sittig Cohen Building;
David W. Simons, Tuesday, Dec.
5, in cooperation with the Par-
ent -Teachers Organization;
Parkside, Wednesday, Dec. 6;
Linwood, TueSda y, Dec. 5;
Northwest, Wednesday, Dec. 6;
Rose Sittig Cohen Branch, Sun-
day, Dec. 3. The Parent-Teach-
ers Organization of the Rose
Sittig Cohen School will hold a
Hanukah social Thursday eve-
ning, Dec. 7.
In addition to the school as-
semblies, parties will be held in
various classrooms. An ex-
change of gifts will take place
and Hanukah games will be
played.
At Northwest Branch of the
United Hebrew Schools, a Hanu-
kah Workshop will be held for
mothers of the students attend-
ing the Northwest and Parkside
Schools. They will be taught the
Hanukah blessings, songs and
how to make decorations for
their homes with the assistance
tnd participation of the chil-

dren. This Workshop will be
held Monday, Nov. 27, 12:45
p. m., in the Northwest School.
Parents and friends are invited.
The committee of parents in
charge includes Mesdames Jos-
eph Deutch, chairman, JaCk
Axelrod, Albert Elazar, Alfred'
Brooks, E. Gould, Max Gold-
smith, -Louis Gelfand, Morris
Nosanchuk, Ben Davidson, Jesse
Johnson and Lewis Hyams.

AMEIC Gets Orders
For Israel Housing

2—THE J EWISH NEWS

Friday, November 24, 1950

Body of Dr. Chajes
Is Sent to Israel

VIENNA, (WJA) — T h e
remnants of Hirsch Perez
Chajes, former Chief Rabbi
of Vienna and president of
the Actions Committee of the
World Zionist Organization
from 1921-1925, we r e flown
from here to Israel last week.
The World Jewish Congress
was represented at the cere-
mony by Dr. F. R. Bienenfeld,
member of the Gongress
World Executive.
Dr. Chaj es co-operated
closely with Dr. Stephen S.
Wise and Leo Motzkin in the
preparatory work which led
to t h e foundation of the
World Jewish Congress.
(Dr. Chajes was the uncle
of Julius Chajes, noted De-
troit musician).

Ameic-American Eretz Israel
Corporation has been notified
by its subsidiarY, the Mivtach
Oz Housing Corporation in Is-
rael, that the Israel government
has commissioned the corpora-
tion to include a low cost hous-
ing project in its building plans.
The project will be built in the
Kfar Una sector near Tel Aviv
on land granted by the Jewish
National Fund. The houses will
be sold exclusively to new im-
migrants who are presently shel-
Mrs. Ida Drapkin, dean of the
tered in immigration camps.
Mothers'
Clubs Council, and Mrs.
Philip Stollman and Louis
Martha
Bornstein,'
secretary,
Rose of Detroit are members of
the board of directors of Ameic. announce that "Hanukah in a
Changing World" will .be the
central theme for the meetings
Of the nine Center-sponsored
Mothers' Clubs during the week
Of Hanukah.
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Mothers' Clubs committees to
help plan the annual Hanukah
What is Meant by a "Central Israeli Fund and Budget?"
Ball and latke party of • the
Another internal. controversy faces American Jewry as a re- Mothers' Clubs Council Dec. 13
sult of the proposal to the annual general assembly of the Council at the Dexter branch of the
of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds for the creation of a Jewish Center, have • been ap-
"Central Israeli Fund and Budget . . . to assure long range sta- pointed by Mrs. B. Garfinkel,
bility in American Jewish fund raising."
chairman.
In principle, this proposal sounds good. After all, the United
Appointments include: Co chairmen:
Jewish Appeal embodies such a • movement in the sense that it Mesdames Mildred Lefkowitz. Lena Lutzky
and
Leah Rubel. Program committee :
includes—in addition to the Joint Distribution Committee and the Mesdames
Pearl Miller, Mildred Litwak,
United Service for NeW Americans—the .major pro-Israel funds: Charlotte Freedman. Admissions: Mes-
dames
Charlotte
Freedman, Tess Komi-
Fund
and
Mizrachi.
But
in
the
Keren Hayesod, Jewish - National
nars, Stella Goldman, Fanny \Val dfogel.
. formation of a "Central Fund - and Budget" there may be implied Decorations: Mrs. .Lena Lazar. Latkes:
Sadie Bolokofsky, Mrs. Fannie Tan-
the abandonment of such traditional efforts as the JNF Boxes and Mrs.
nenhaus.
Tree-Planting, the labor -Histadrut drive and the Hadassah health
The vice presidents of the nine
funds. If it should • develop that the Federations are aiming at Mothers'
will serve as
the compThte elimination of 'Specific and unique activities by Zion- hostesses . at Clubs
the buffet food ta-
ist groups, it would in turn mean that the fulfillment of their bles. Tables will
display the tra-
program would lead , to the. disintegration of Zionist bodies.
ditional -• Hanukah delicacies:
It is safe, however, to predict that Hadassah; JNF and: Histadrut taiglaph;
strudel„' m a n d 1 e n,
will refuse to commit suicide.
knishes, etc.
The issue isn't as simple as all that. At the National Planning
Hanukah songs arranged by
ConferenCe for Israel in Washington, Oct. 27-29, spokesmen for Julius Chajes, Center music di-
Federations emerged in rather combative roles. ._Some of them rector, and appropriate , holiday
opposed the floating of the proposed bond issue, many of them refreshments will supplement
warned in advance that they would not share responsibility for Club programs.
such a project, and there were some rather veiled references to
the Zionist organizations which were interpreted as smacking of
Tze-ena Composer Here
an anti-Israel sentiment.

Purely Commentary

Center Mothers
Plan for Hanukah

Dr. Grinberg, Rabbi Prinz
Open Histadrut Drive Here -

Dr. Zalman Grinberg, adviser
to the Israel Health Ministry
and director of Beilinson Hospi-
tal, will deliver the keynote ad-
ia g r4

Israel, who arrived from Israel ,
last month, will depict the role
Histadrut played for the past. 30
years as vanguard of the reborn
Jewish nation.
....... _
Sharing the progr am with Dr. •
Grinberg will lbe .Dr'.....Joa chine]. _
Prinz, rabbi ' of Temple Bnai
Abraham, Newark, N. J., and
vice-president of the World
Jewish Congress.
A musical program featuring
Yiddish, Chassidic and Israeli
songs will be presented by Can-

tor Benjamin Siegel, an out-
standing interpreter of Jewish

DR. ZALMAN GRINBERG

dress at the city-wide conference
and demonstration which will
formally open the 1951 Histadrut
campaign, next Thursday eve-
ning, Nov. 30, at Northwest He-
brew Congregation.
More than 1,500 Histadrut
workers and friends are expect-
ed to attend the demonstration
which also will mark the 30th
anniversary of Histadrut in Is-
rael. -
Dr. Grinberg, an .outstanding
authority on public health in

and Hebrew folk music.
Morris Lieberman, chairman
of the Detroit Histadrut Cam-
paign, urging wholehearted sup-
port of the drive, appealed to
the Jewish community to par-
ticipate in the 30th anniversary
celebration of Histadrut. Mr.
Lieberman declared:
"Histadrut today must fulfill
tremendous obligations vital to
the integration of the mass of
newcomers and making them
healthy and productive citizens
of Israel. The Histadrut Cam-
paign, the financial arm of His-
tadrut in Israel, is our expres-
sion of renewed solidarity and
material and moral support of
the enormous tasks facing His-
tadrute during these challenging
clays."

Between You

and We

By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyrig ht, 1950, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

Zionist Issues:

Leaders of the General Zionists in the United States are elat-
ed over the gains which the General Zionists in Israel enjoyed in
the municipal elections there . . . Some of them claim -that the
strengthening of the General Zionists in Israel is to no small def.
gree due to the position taken by General Zionists in America
The pro-Silverites now intend to follow up the strengthening of - -
the General Zionists in other countries, especially in Latin Amen- -
ca . . . Dr. Emanuel Neumann visited Mexico last .week for this
purpose . . . It is indicated that he may also soon visit Argentina
and other countries on the American continent.
Don't be surprised if by the time you read these lines,
LoUis•• Lipsky has resigned as president of the American. ,..:.
ZiOnist Council . . . Actually, he tendered his resignation prior to
the convocation in New York of several hundred American Zion-
ist leaders which took place on -Nov. 19 . . . His resignation was
due primarily to the fact that he does not agree with the Amen-
can .section of the Jewish Agency on certain issues ... He claims .
that the American Zionist Council is being suppressed- to -a cer-
tain extent in its activities by the Jewish Agency ... and he wants
American Zionists to have a more independent say in matters.
concerning Zionist action on the American scene . . Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver did not attend the one-day meeting of the Zionist
Some of these antagonists made a serious blunder: they picked To Press U.S. Rights
leaders held in New York on Nov. 19, although he was invited...,
not on the weakest group of fund-raisers--the JNF—(weak-
The meeting was held in camera, since very, delicate subjects were: : :
NEW YORK (ISI)—Ex-Serv- discussed . . . One of these subjects was the American Zionist
est because it gets a substantial sum from UJA)—but on Hadas-
sah, one of the strongest elements in Zionism, which is not in- iceman Yehoshua Miron-Mich- Council itself . . . Another was the relationship between the Zion-
cluded in UJA. Hadassah women, themselves important partici- rovsky, composer of "Tze-ena" ist movement and Federations and Wellaroe Funds.
as a private in the 2nd Company
pants in fund-raising in this country, happen to be well provided Buffs
(Palestinians) in the aut-
with brilliant leadership. They refuse to go out of business umn of 1941, arrived in the U. S. Attention! Attention!
The call issued by the United Jewish Appeal for raising $50,-
after having rendered great service to Israel and, incidentally, to press royalty claims.
in cash within the next five weeks is no idle "wolf cry" ..
000,000
to American Jewry whom they have helped educate Israel-wise.
The song, for which Yehiel The situation is really critical ... Not only are the treasuries of
This applies also to Histadrut which has been able to muster Hagiz wrote the lyrics, became the agencies which depend on the UJA empty, but these agencies
loyal supporters and whose specific interest in labor Israel an overnight smash hit in the —the Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency—have
provides it with a goal and an ideal that is difficult to crack. U. S. when Pete Seeger and his exhausted heavy loans which they secured against funds which-
"Weavers" introduced it in N. Y. they will receive from the UJA . . Even worse is the fact that
JNF, too, is fortified with affections that are indestructible.
By now it has been recorded by
Since, however, the Federations advance the argument that a 12 companies and produced as very few Jews in the United States are aware that the Polish and
centralized drive may secure larger funds and will eliminate ex- a short in Radio City Music other governments have set Dec. 31 as a deadline on the emigra-
be
pense and duplication of effort, we must examine this point. Hail. Several agencies in the tion of Jews from their countries .. . All Jews who will not
Frankly, your Commentator doubts whether the funds that are U. S. claim sole rights to the taken out from these countries by that date will remain there
now subscribed to separate party campaignS would go to UJA. He song, but the Federal Courts forever . . . This affects at least 35,000 Jews . . .• American Jews
believes that UJA should and must secure larger subscriptions than have handed down no decision who have not as yet paid their pledges to the UJA will be greatly
responsible should this happen . • . They will not be able to square
-ever before—but these must come from the contributors' list al- as yet.
it with their conscience later . . . The next five weeks are, there-
ready on record on a basis of increases. Yet, he believes that funds
Miron is now deputy-director fore, considered decisive weeks in the crucial work of the United
allocated for tree-planting, for the establishment of hospitals, for
of
the Music Department of the Jewish Appeal . . • Only the raising of $50,000,000—in cash—can
the defense of labor ideal8 in Israel, are given out of specific love
for specific causes nurtured by the donors—and these mean extra Ministry of Education. He was prevent the interruption of the rescue and rehabilitation work
graduated from the Warsaw which is financed by American Jewry through the UJA.
dollars for Israel.
Academy of Music before going
Is there too much panic in pro-Israel ranks over the Federa- to Palestine, late in 1939.
Communal Interests:
tion's proposal or is it really threatening the identity of existing
Who says that Jewish education does not pay in the United
Zionist groups? Surely, the leaders in the Council of Federa-
States? . . . The accounts of 37 central agencies for Jewish edu-
tions ought to understand that Hadassah is not folding up, Histadrut on Radio
cation now reveal that they completed the year 1948 with a
that Histadrut feels it has a goal to pursue, that the JNF and On Saturday Nights
surplus . . Their combined income for that year was $3,203,412
other Israel fund-gatherers have traditions from which they can
as against their combined budget of $3,199,179 • . . Of this sum
not, and will not part.
Detroit Israel Histadrut Cam- they received about $2,500,000 from Jewish Federations and Wel-
The Co -ancil of Federations is accused of aiming to -displace paign Committee has 'inaugu- fare Funds . . . The remainder came from tuition and other
UJA through the program to be acted upon at the Dec. 1-3 as- rated a 15-minute, weekly radio sources.
sembly. If the intention is thus to introduce a new policy-making
.; program e v e ry
A half-century of communal service will be celebrated by the
body in the American-Jewish fabric to displace the UJA machin-
Saturday f r o
of Jewish Charities of Philadelphia starting January,
10:15 •• to 10:30 Federation
ery with an extended Federations' instrument, then we -are due
1951
.
..
A
special
anniversary program' is now being
p.m. over •Sta- planned under the year-round
for a struggle that may split asunder our communities and our
direction
of
Dr. Kurt Peiser of the University
ton WJLB. The
centralized national organizations. The plan to be acted upon in
program, in of Pennsylvania, former executive vice-president of the Philadel-.
Washington next week sounds harmful to the spirit of unified ef-
Yiddish and phia Federation.
forts with which we have been blessed through UJA, to the needs
American organizations which arrange campaign functions
English, u lh d er
of suffering Jews who must be rescued and to Israel. Those who
the directorship are being urged to utilize Israel wines at their fund-raising ban-
are concerned that our major overseas causes should not be
of Louis Levine, quets . This is considered one of the methods of helping to-
harmed must be prepared to prevent the enforcement of a pro-
will feature im- strengthen Israel economically ... It is expected that Israel's
Louis
Levine
posal which sounds incredible but nevertheless would be ruinous. .
portant
news
and
conaments. on wine export to the United States will be sharply increased, with .
It should be defeated before it menaces UJA.
Israel and the Histadrut. The 30,000 cases scheduled to be .shipped soon from the Rishon wine
(Postscript: If the Federations aspire to unify campaigns, do they propose to in-
cellars . . . Incidentally, in case you are interested, private in-
vade ALL fields? Bnai Brith is in :the Allied Jewish Campaign, yet the women efforts of Detroit's organizations
in Detroit. campaigned for and raised $100,000. The Detroit Yeshivah is • in the drive, on behalf of Israel will be high-
vestment is currently flowing .. from America to Israel at the
yet it constantly asks for funds. The same is true of OUT and other agencies. There-
s a..year.
oi:26to 35
lighted.
.•.. .•.„
•
• .• d011ars
sore, where do we begin and where do we end?).