Michigan Communities Welcome Jerusalem Mayor

S. Z. Shragai to be Guest of

Hapoel HaMizrachi,- Religious

Labor at Center Public Meeting

. will serve as Detroit Jewry's
first mass meeting for the 1952
Allied Jewish Campaign. Mes-
sages will be brought to the
gathering by campaign leaders.
Upon his arrival in New
York last week, Mayor
Shragai pointed out that Jeru-
salem now -is the political, eco-
nomic and spiritual center of
Israel. He said that the 154.000
Jews in the city get along well
with the Arabs and that there
is ---no friction between. the Old
and New Cities of Jerusalem.
Mayor Shlomo Zalman Shra-
ga.i, a leader in Hapoel HaMiz-
rachi, was born in 1899 in Grush-
kuwitz, Poland. He comes from
a pious Chassidic family. In ad-
dition to the Cheder and Beth

Detroit and many Michigan, at the City Hall for an official
reception by Mayor Albert E.
communities will be linked to
Cobo.
Jerusalem's 3.000th year as the
Approximately 300 invited
religious-national Jewish center
guests, including members of
when the Holy City's Mayor, S.
Hapoel HaMizrachi and the
Z. Shragai, will be welcomed on
League for Religious Labor,
his first visit here next Wednes-
officers and official delegates
day, March 19. Having come
here on March 6 with Mrs.
of congregations and lands-
Shragai, he plans to return to
manschaften, as well as the
welcoming and arrangements
Israel in time for Passover.
committees, will gather at Bel-
At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the
sponsoring committee, which
Aire to honor Mayor Shragai
includes representative Jewish
at dinner.
leaders in Michigan as well as
Reservations for Wednesday's
Mayors of 10 ci 4 iP , , will meet
dinner, at $5.50 a plate, which
will start promptly at 6:30, still
may be made by calling TY. 4-
2867 or TO. 8-8776. There will be
no other solicitations.
The general public will have
an opportunity to hear Mayor
Shragai at 8:30 p.m. Wednes-
day at the Woodward Jewish
Center. A program of Israeli
songs and dances. presented by
Bnai Akiva groups of Hapoel
HaMizrachi. will precede the
guest's address. This meeting

Hamidrash education, he came
under the influence of the fam-
ous Radumske Rebbe.

Young Shlomo Zalman inher-
ited the characteristic's of his
family for learning. He became
a volunteer worker for Keren
Kayemeth Lelsrael and a leader
Hapoel HaMizrachi. He
in
founded the first Hachsharah
groupQf the latter in Chensto-
chov leid was a founder of 'the
religious labor Chalutz move-
ment in ''oland.
He emigrated to Eretz Israel
in 1928, became a member of the
executive of Vaad Leumi and
later head of the department of
press and information. He rep-
resented the Jewish Agency Ex-
ecutive. in London for two years.
He was elected Mayor of Jeru-
DR. A. M. HERSHMAN
.salem on a coalition ticket in
Honorary Chairman, League
1951.
for Raidgious Labor: -
An able interpfeter of the phi-
"The future of Israel .will be
losophy of the Torah v'Avodah shaped by religious labor as rep-
idea in the religious Zionist resented by Hapoel HaMizrachi."
movement, Mayor Shragai has
written important articles for
Jewish newspapers throughout ke?K` --
the world.
In an editorial entitled "Across 4
the Centuries." the Herald Tri-
bune last week welcomed Mayor
Shragai to New York by stating
that his visit has meaning for
millions."

Detroit Reception Committee for
S. Z. Shragai, Mayor of Jerusalem

Mayor ALBERT E. COBO, Honorary Chairman

RABBI M. J. WOHLGELERNTER
President, Hapoel HaMizrachi:

Mrs. SAM AARON

WALTER

Rabbi BENJ. H. 'GORRELICK,
Cong. Beth Aaron

RABBI JOSHUA S. SPERHA

President. League_ for,
Rabbi MORRIS ADLER. Cong.
"Hapoel HaMizrachi has a vital
LOUIS ROSE
Religious Labor:
Rabbi ERNgST E. GREEN-
message for Jewish youth in Shaarey Zedek
Rabbi
CHARLES
H.
ROSENZ-
Tefilo
Eman-
FIELD.
Cong.
Beth
America—the eternal truth of
"Religion and Labor are the
WILLIAM V. BAILEY, Mayor,
WEIG:Director. League for Re-
uel
two essential basei of a creative
Jewish religious tradition— Battle Creek, Mich.
Rabbi ISRAEL HALPERN, ligiouS Labor and Hapoel HaMiz- and equitable social order."
building a society founded on
Rabbi DAVID S. BAKST. Sec- Cong. Beth Abraham
rachi
faith and
retary, Council of Orthodox Rab-
SAMUEL H. RUBINER. Presi-
-HERSHMAN, Cong.

RABBI
CHARLES H. ROSENZWEIG

Executive Director. League
for Religious Labor
and Hapoel HaMizrachi:
S. Z. Shragai personifies the
lofty ideals and accomplish-
ments of Hapoel HaMizrachi,
the religious labor movement in
Israel. ,

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DAVID I. BERRIS
LOUIS BERRY
ELPORD A. CEDERBERG.
Mayor. Bay City. Mich.
HARRY CITRIN. President,
Hebrew Benevolent Society
DAVID J. COHEN. President.
Merkaz (Central Committee for
Religioils Observance
DETROIT LANDSMANSCHAF-
TEN COUNCIL, Isadore Sosnick.
Vice-president. Morris Mallin,
Vice-president
ISADORE R. COHEN. Presi-
dent Yeshivath Beth Yehudah.
LAWRENCE CROHN, Presi-
dent. Zionist Council of Detroit
Rabbi EPHRAIM F. EINHORN,
'
Cong. Ahavas. Achim
JAMES L. EISELE, Mayor,
Centerline. Mich.
WALTER FIELD
Rabbi MOSES FISCHER
Rabbi LEON FRAM. Temple
Israel'
Hon_ WILLIAM FRADMAN
MORRIS GARVETT
Dr. B. BENEDICT GLAZER.
Temple Beth El
Rabbi ABRAHAM GARDIN,
Ezras Achim
PAUL G. GOEBEL, Mayor of
Grand Rapids. Mich.
Rabbi LEO GOLDMAN, Cong.
Shaarey Zion

Dr. A. M.
Shaarey Zed
JOHN St?''''FIEWITT, Mayor,,
,
Hastings. Mich.
MORRIS JACOBS
Dr. M. KAPUSTIN, Director.
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation
ABE KASLE. Chairman. Allied
Jewish Campaign
IRA KAUFMAN
_ LEON KAY
JEROME D. XELM A N , Pres-
ident. Young Israel
HAROLD F. KING. ' fayor.
Ludington. Mich.
JAMES LAKER, President
Bnai Brith Council
PHILIP LANGWALD
Rabbi MOSES LEHRMAN
Rabbi LEIZER LEVIN. Cong.
-
Beth Tikvah
Hon. THEODORE LEVIN
ALFRED MAY
Mrs. BERNARD MAY. Presi-
dent. Infant Service Group
-
A.13E NUSBAUM
MAX OSNOS, Chairman, Israel
Bond Drive
RAYMOND J. PATRON', May-
or. Melvindale, Mich.
CLAUD E. PORTER. Mayor.
Adrian. Mich.
Rabbi SAMUEL - H. PRERO.
Young Israel
LEON D. RATCLIFFE, Mayor.
Grosse Pointe Woods. Mich.

dent. Jewish Welfare-Federation
HYMAN SA,FRAN
IRVING W. SCHLUSSE L,
President. MiZrachi Organization
of Detroit and Jewish National
Fund Council
HARRY SCHUMER
Mrs. JACK SEDER. President;
Jewish Women's European Wel-
fare Organization.
Rabbi JACOB E. SEGAL, Cong.
Adas Shalom
MORRIS SCHAVER
S. S. SKRZYCKI, M.D.. Mayor,
Hamtramck. Mich.
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ. Editor,
Jewish News
RABBI MAX HAPUSTIN
Mrs. JOSHUA S. SPERKA
Vice-President, Hapoel
President, Women • s Sabbath
HaMizrachi and,Director of
League
Wayne University
Rabbi JOSHUA S. SPERKA.
Hillel Foundation: -
Cong_ Bnai David
Rabbi ISAAC STOLLMAN. '`Pioneer, thinker, traditional
scholar and statesman-4Shlom3
Cong. Mishkan Israel
Z a l in a n Shragai represents
. PHILLIP STOLLMAN
ROBERT C. STRAYER. Mayor. ideally the spirit of Israel re-
born. His visit to Detroit means
Buchanan. Mich.
an event of rare importance to
DANIEL TEMCHIN
every thinking :Jew in the com-
MAX W. TEMCHIN
munity."
JOSEPH WARNER
Rabbi M. J. WOHLGELERN-
THE JEWISH NEWS-5
TER, Cong. Mogen Abraham
Friday, March 14, 1952
CHARLIE WOLOK

We join in greeting heartily the distinguished Mayor of Jerusalem who honors Detroit with his visit

to him our heartiest good wishes to 3,000-year-old Jerusalem and to all Israelis

Mr. and Mrs. Abe Kasle

Mr. and Mrs. Mendel Shifman

Mr. and Mrs. Max Osnos

Young Israel of Detroit

Jerome W. Kelman, Detroit

Mizrachi Organization of Detroit

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Berry

Irving W. Schlussel, President

Mr. and Mrs. Morris Schaver

Mr. and Mrs. Max W. Temchin

Council of Orthodox Rabbis