Kick-Off Breakfast to Start
Z-Day Solicitation June 24

Annual "Z-Day" of the Zion-
B e n M. Lewis and Samuel
ist Organization of Detroit, on Feldstein, ZOD membership co-
which Detroit Jews will be ask- chairmen, will return from At-
lantic City, from the ZOA's 54th
annual convention, in time to
embark upon the most concen-
trated and extensive member-
ship campaign ever conducted
in Detroit.
Recent developments on the
international, Israel and Ameri-
can scenes make it more imper-
ative than ever before t h a t
Zionist membership be utilized
to its maximum, ZOD leaders
stated. It is the opinion of many
that the setback Israel suffered
on the Huleh dispute with Syria
was the result of utilization of
the masses.
A. C. Lappin, ZOD president,
urges Zionist members to re-
port for duty, June 24, 'at the
se Sittig Cohn auditorium,
13226 Lawton, for the mobiliza-
BEN M. LEWIS
tion breakfast, as guests. From
ed to enroll as members of the there they will set out in a
ZOA, will begin with a kick-off house - to-house -membership
breakfast at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, campaign. Each member will re-
June 24, at the Rose Sittig Cohen ceive carefully screened mem-
Bldg.
bership proSpects.

THE JEWISH NEWS-5

Friday, June 15, 1951

Unemployment Cut
By Histadrut in-Israel

NEW YORK — The Histadrut,
Israel's labor federation, is
largely responsible for reducing
unemployment to an almost
negligible amount in the Jewish
State, Mordecai Surkes, director
of Histadrut's Department of
Immigration, asserted.

Surkes arrived in this country
on a special mission and plans
to return to Israel in four weeks.
The former head of the Jew-
i s h underground immigration
movement told reporters. at His-
tadrut headquarters that 80 per-
cent of all newcomers join the
Histadrut as soon as they arrive
in the Jewish state and are im-
mediately enrolled for courses
in, Hebrew and in vocational
training. -
At- present, immigrants arrive
at- the =rateof 1,000 a day; he
said, mostly from Iraq. Surkes
disclosed that the rate of im-
migration from Romania has
reached 7,000 per month, but
added, that no professionals are
permitted to leave that country.

MacIver Report Exposed by Lesser
As 'Superficial' an as 'Failure'

Advante information on the Allen Lesser that the Maclver
eageraly awaited but still secret report contains a number of
"Report on the Jewish Corn-
munity Relations Agencies," points which are objectionable
prepared after a 10-month sur- especially to the orthodox
vey by Prof. Robert M. Mc- groups; We learn that Dr. Mac-
Iver, is given by Editor Allen Iver "offers a n apology for
Lesser of "Cross-Section U.S.A." Goyim" and "without appreciat-
Lesser condemns the report, ing the missionary implications
which was discussed Tuesday he wants Jewish schools to
and Wednesday by the special teach Christian observances."
NCRAC committee on evaluative
studies, in New York, as "a re-
Mary Maas Honored
grettable failure." Its approach
is branded as "superficial, "its* Mary Maas (in private life
recommendations naive for the
Royal S. Maas) has been
most part, and its attitude of- Mrs.
asked by the Tuesday Musicale
fensively assimilationist."
of Detroit to
criticizes Jewish life need-
portray the first
lessly and ignorantly," Lesser
c o ncert pianist
writes. He points out that Mac-
at the 250th an-
Iver attacks orthodoxy as sep-
niversary cele-
aratist and alien to American
bration next
life, that "it scores Jewish edu-
Thursday e v e-
tation for failing to portray
ning at the Ma-
Christianity favor a b 1 y" and
sonic Temple.
-adds that Dr. Maclver "has
Mrs. Maas, for
had neither the background nor
Mary Maas the past few
the experience to cope with the years chairman of ,the Jewish
maze of national and local in- Community Center's music corn-
terrelations and intra-relations mittee, will play Chopin's "Bal-
of defense agencies."
lade in G Minor" in a costume
- It is clear from the expose by from the period of 1880.

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