Ben-Gurion's

Flashback Series,
Sept. 2, 1825:

THE JEWISH NE

Wise Move:

Practicality

of Forcing

A Weekly Review

New Elections

Mordecai M. Noah
Establishes
Jewish State on
Grand Island

of Jewish Events

Editorial, Page 4

Story on Page 12

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VOLUME 18—No. 24

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Allied Jewish Campaign Off to Good Start

18 Detroiters,Donate $538,000
At Initial Florida UJA Meeting

Americans in Israel: Christian's Evaluation

See Hope, Feel at Home
Where There Is Growth

By GEORGE MARCIA

Editor's Note: The author of this article, whose reports
from Israel have been featured in the columns of The Jewish
News, is a Christian Detroiter now living in Jerusalem with his
wife and their child recently born in Israel. In the following
interesting story he delves into the motives of Americans who
joined forces in Israel's War of Independence and enlisted in
MACHAL (Meguyasey Hutz LaAretz—the foreign recruits).

The bright-colored sign beside the road was lettered
in Hebrew and English. "Rassco Quarter," it announced ;
Lotte Cohen, Architect." My wife and I were glad to see
it; the bus trip from downtown Tel Aviv had been longish
and jolting. There was some justice, we'd decided, in the
whimsical complaint of Petach Tikvah and other towns that
Tel Aviv was expanding so fast and so far that the city
could be charged with imperialism.

On our left a solid block of an apartment building, done
in the modern Israeli style, loomed up at the edge of an area
of extensive building activity. The new "Quarter," as befits a
development at some distance from the center of things, had
had its own shops and cafes built neatly into the natural focal
points of each neighborhood.

Our business here was both personal and otherwise. The
R's, old friends of Dvora's and new ones of mine, were due for a
visit from us; and I hoped to ask them some profitable questions
about new archaeological finds in the immediate vicinity.

(Scratch the ground in Israel, and you find that the foundation
of your building is, literally, the culture of the past!)

But I digress; this story really begins with the walk that the
four of us took that afternoon, along the richly-wooded bank
of the Yarkon River. My wife and Mrs. R., after the manner of
women from Bayonne to Bangkok, ran the gamut from clothes to
old acquaintances and back to the clothes of old acquaintances.
Mr. R. and I were no less conventional; we had soldier-talk.
After some chaff about my stint in the Marines, our talk
turned. to R's experiences with the civil defense forces during
Israel's War of Independence. Most of the better soldiers, I've
found, are of his soft-spoken and unassuming kind; and I knew
of this man's achievements in militant Zionism in Europe. I was

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Special to The Jewish News
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign and the nationwide 1951
United Jewish Appeal had an excellent beginning here last week-end when 18 Detroit-
ers—all of them making substantial increases over their previous gifts—contributed
the sum of $538,000 and the participants from the entire country started the over-all -
fund with gifts totalling $10,250,000.
Israel and Louis Davidson emerged as Detroit's largest contributors at the Miami
Beach meeting with a joint gift of $75,000. Abe Kasle, chairman of Detroit's Allied
Jewish Campaign, gave $60,000, an increase of $10,000 over last year. Joseph Holtz-
man, dynamic Detroit campaigner, gave $46,000. Nathan Epstein announced a mini-
mum gift of $65,000 for the Keystone, Aurora and Speedway interests. The Osnos
Family gave $35,000. Samuel and Louis Hamburger contributed $56,000.
The amount announced b, the Detroiters at the Miami Beach meeting is by far
the largest sum ever reported by Detroiters at a similar meeting. Detroit was promi-
nently represented at last week-end's meetings, with Abe Kasle, Louis Berry and Jo-
seph Holtzman on the dais representing official leadership.
At a good fellowship cocktail party at the Martinque on Friday, the Detroit dele-
gates and their wives honored Mr. Kasle on his elevation to the campaign chairman-
ship of his city.
National leaders congratulated the Detroit workers for helping spark the sensa-
tional over-all results.
The new philanthropic record for launching a UJA drive exceeded by nearly
$4,000,000 the sum contributed a year ago at a similar campaign opening conference
when a like number of Jewish leaders gave $6,400,000.
The action here came in response to a plea 1)77
Edward IVt- M. Warburg, general chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal, who, in addressing the con-
ference, urged that American Jews advance before
May 31 the major part of the UJA's 1951 requirement
Israel
for $203,684,000.
Israel's Ambassador to the United States Abba
Election End
S. Eban, who joined with 500 nationally prominent
Jewish leaders from 40 States in launching the UJA's
Confusions?
1951 campaign, said that Israel can succeed in the
race to become self-sufficient only if large-scale out-
side help is made available through the United Jew-
Read Analysis of
ish Appeal and other sources.
Existing Troubles by
Mr. Eban expressed gratification at the unprece-
dented
support given the UJA at the outset of its 1951
Special Jewish News
campaign, asserting that this and other actions could
help achieve a "high standard of development" in
Correspondent on
Israel which in turn would be of "utmost importance
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in the cause of defending world democracy."
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Israel's Bond Campaign Moves Into
Action Under Max Osnos' Leadership

Israel's move to solve her trying economic problems by floating a
$500,000,000 bond issue received strong encouragement from a group of
Detroit leaders who, at a meeting at the Book Cadillac Hotel on Feb. 15,
undertook to organize an interim committee to set up the bond organiza-
tion here and in other Michigan communities.
Under the chairmanship of Max Osnos, whose
hearty endorsement of the bond drive was instru-
mental in setting a high note of optimism at the
initial organizational meeting, the planning com-
mittee will consist of Morris Schaver, Mrs. Ralph
Davidson, Harry Schumer, Louis Berry, Joseph
Holtzman, Israel Davidson, Philip Slomovitz, Mrs.
Theodore Bargman, Morris Lieberman, Morris Jac-
obs, Leon Kay, L. Crohn, Abe Kasle, Oscar Kauf-
man, Dr. Shmarya Kleinman, B. M. Laikin, Judge
Theodore Levin, Samuel Rubiner, Irving W. Schlus-
sel, Sidney Shevitz and Harry Yudkoff.
An outline of the bond drive plans by Henry
Montor, executive vice-president of the American
Financial and Development Corporation for Israel,
which is floating the bond issue, and a review of
conditions in Israel by James G. McDonald, first
, Ad: .
Max Osnos
U. S. Ambassador to Israel, inspired the gathering.
The warmth that was injected into the gathering by Dr. McDonald
served to set a new high standard for action in behalf of Israel. The emi-
nent Christian leader told how industries are being developed in Israel out
of the unskilled masses who pour into the land from all corners of the
earth. He paid tribute to the Histadrut and disproved some of the libels
leveled against the Israel Federation of Labor. He praised Hadassah and
urged, in the best interests of the United States in the Middle East, that
Israel's hands should be strengthened and her economy fortified.
Dr. McDonald stated emphatically that Israel will never be a theocracy
and that she never will be a Communist state. He emphasized that the

Jewish state is a democracy in every sense of the word and spoke with
deep affection about B-G (David Ben-Gurion) and his wife Paula.
Mr. Montor dwelt on the practical aspects of the bond drive. He out-
lined the details of the plan and pointed out that it is the greatest fin-
ancial undertaking of its kind—exclusive only of the U. S. defense bond
campaigns—in the entire world.
(See Editorial, Page 4, on Bond Issue Terms)
Reviewing all details of the proposed drive, Mr. Montor declared that
the bond issue in no way interferes with the UJA; that the program of
efforts in behalf of Israel calls for increased giving to philanthropic funds
but that the bond issue is offered to American Jewry by the Jewish state
as a means of solving definitely the economic problems created by the set=
tlement of thousands of Jews in the reborn state.
Mr. Montor pointed out that the bonds will be placed on sale, simultan-
eously, in all communities throughout the land, on May 1. He explained
that it would be impossible to delay the sale and told in detail the reasons
for its promulgation as the one means of ending philanthropic drives for
Israel.
In every instance, throughout the meeting, emphasis was placed on
the need of mobilizing full support for the UJA. While this initial bond
drive gathering actually put into motion the approaching campaign for the
sale of Israel bonds among Detroiters, it served the added purpose of giving
impetus to the Allied Jewish Campaign. The expressed views at the meet-
ing were that the Jewish Welfare Federation should play an active role in
conducting the bond drive.
Thus, the Feb. 15 meeting proved to be a moving demonstration in
support of Israel. The plans are to mobilize all organizations, congregations
and Zionist groups, and to set up an army of thousands of volunteers to
enlist every Detroit Jew—man, woman and child—in the great aim to end
Israel's economic difficulties by means of sound investments rather than
philanthropy.
At a meeting to be called soon by Mr. Osnos, a bond drive chairman
and other officers will be elected and detailed plans will be formulated for
the floating of the bonds in Detroit on May 1.

