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4.VOLUME 20—No. 25
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Detroit, Michigan, February 29, 1952 .€571;k7
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1952 Cam ai n, Community Relations on Week's Agenda
Detroiters' Gifts of $ 96,00
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Lead Country in UJA
dimities
Crucial Tests Face Fe ration March
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Council-Proposed Amendment,
Contest for 9 Board Places
On Tuesday's Meeting Program
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Editor's Note: The following analysis of the issues that
will be aired at the annual Federation meeting on Tuesday,
as well as the Commentator's Column (page 2), already were
set in type last Friday. On Tuesday, when the paid adver-
-tisements 'and statements of Federation and • Council—ap-
: Dearing in this issue—were released to us for publication,
it clearly became evident that our warning of the existence
. of an unhealthy situation in our community was justified.
We urge our readers to study the published statements, the
following analysis and the Commentator's admonitions, to
attend Tuesday's meeting and to assist in every effort that
will prevent the disruption of our community structure.
One of the most controversial sessions in the history
of the Jewish community of Detroit is predicted for Tues-
day evenhigrMarch 4, when the 26th annual meeting of
the Jewish Welfare Federation, scheduled to convene at
the Brown Memorial Chapel of Temple Beth El, Woodward
and Gladstone, will review its program and will be called
upon to take action on an amendment to the Federation by-
laws submitted in a petition presented by the Jewish Com-
munity Council.
Difference of opinion over the wisdom of the pro-
posed amendment and the election of nine members-at-
large on the board of governors of Federation; out of a
list of 13 candidates, constitute the cause for dispute.
- While the. Federation's constitution provides for • nom
!nations by petitions in order to protect the democratic
rights of individuals and groups to sponsor candidates of
their preference, a number of localleaders have expressed
disappointment that an agency affiliated with Federation
should have undertaken to sponsor its own slate of can-
didates.
-- When the `decisionof the Council's Delegates Assem-
bly, made on Jan. 31, first became known, Samuel IL
Rubiner, president of the Federation, expreSsed "regret"
that "an orderly procedure developed by Federation over
the years for fair consideration in planning for the • es-
sential services at home and abroad" should have been
"disregarded," "particularly by an organization affiliated
with Federation."
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Fear has been voiced at the same time that the adop-
tion of the proposed amendment may tend to disrupt the
entire community, due to its threat to "orderly budgeting."
, The view also has been expressed that the Council;
which secures its funds from Federation, should not have
taken the steps of sponsoring an amendment to give it a
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Excellent Start Given
Detroit Allied Jewish
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Cqmpaign by Initial Group of Contributors
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Gifts totalling $896,000 made here in advance
toward the Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign on Sunday, at the conference of the
United Jewish Appeal, placed Detroit on top of the country's Jewish communities
in activities-in behalf of the UJA, Larger gifts were reported only by representa-
tives from New York City.
Abe. Kasle, chairman for the second successive year of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign and a member of the national cabinet of UJA, brought 10 days of intensive pre-
campaign activity to a grand climax at the Sunday conference by announcing his own in-.
creased contribution of $65,000 for himself and- his associates. Joseph Holtzman, an as-
sociate chairman of the Detroit campaign and another member of the national cabinet,
followed with a contribution of $46,000 for Holtzman and Silverman.
Mr. Kasle explained that in past years Detroit launched its pre-campaign ac-
tivity at a dinner meeting in that city during the last week of March or the first
week of April, with approximately $1,000,000 as the pre-drive target. Two years ago
the national officers of UJA undertook to secure advance commitments, principally
from vacationers. Detroiters responded with three suchgifts totaling $70,000. Last
year $460,000 was secured at Miami, with another $100,000 in early contributions
swelling the total. This year, Kasle and Holtzman, in association with other campaign
officers, decided to use Detroit's participation in the Miami meeting as an alternate
for the early April pre-campaign meeting in Detroit and the results on Sunday place
the Detroit campaign far ahead of comparable efforts in any past year.
One of the first steps in the program was a conference which Mr. Kasle held with
Henry Wineman in Palm Beach, where Mr. and Mrs. Wineman` are staying. After this
session, Mr. and. Mrs. Wineman, Abe Shiffman and Israel Hirnelhoch were among
those who attended a meeting, addressed by Edward M. M. Warburg, William Rosen-
wald, Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, Morris W. Berinstein and other national cabinet officers.
Abe Srere, one of Detroit's pre-campaign counselors, former Federation presi-
dent and campaign chairman, joined Louis Tabashnik, chairman of the furniture sec-
tion, in sparking Detroit's participation in another conference. Each of them announced
increased gifts over last year.
As a result of a series of informal conversation which Kasle and Holtzman had
with Detroiters vacationing m Miami, a good attendance of their fellow-townsmen was
assured for the formal Sunday rally and commitments of contributions were advanced
by many whose early vacation plans prevented their staying on in Florida. Likewise,,
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Board- of Governors Candidates
Nine Members-at-large area to be choSen for the board
of governors of the Jewish - Welfare Federation of Detroit
on Tuesday from the following list. of candidates whose
names appear on the ballot:
Pioposed by the
• Ndniiiiated by Petitions
Nominating Committee
Louis Berry
David J. Cohen
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Morris Garvett
flarvey H. Goldman
Mrs. Harry L. Jackson
Hon. Theodore Levin.
Max Osnos
Hyman Safran
• William Cohen
Lawrence W. Crohn
Morris' Lieberman
Irving W. Schlusset
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Abraham Srere
brael :Minister of Welfare Guest
Here at -Rally on Sunday Evening
= Under auspices of Agudath Israel, Rabbi Itzh.ak Meyer
Lewin, Minister of Welfare• in the Israel Cabinet, will - be a
guest in Detroit and will sijeak Sunday evening at a rally
at Congregation Bnai Zion, Humphrey and Holmtir.
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Detfaled story tin Page • 5
Spnr UJA Campaign: At Miami Beach, on the eve of the national
conferenCe of the United Jewish Appeal, A BE .KASLE and JOSEPH HOLTZMAN! (from
left) conferred with MORRIS W._ BERINSTEIN of Syracuse (right) on current needs and
available manpower. The UJA conference last week-end set into motion nationwide
tivities for the drive to raise a minimum of $151,000,000 in 1952 for Israel. and other,
overseas needs and for the settlement of newcomers in this country. UJA is supported in.
Detroit by the Allied Jewish Campaign. Kasle 'is. chairman of the drive
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