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Stories for

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An American Jewish Press Feature

Hello Boys and Girls:
And a Happy New Year to
you! What! you exclaim. An-
other New Year! Yes, of course,
the New Year of Trees. Tomor-
row. Saturday, is Hamisha Asar
b'Shevat, the 15th day of the
Hebrew month of Shevat, a na-
ture holiday which celebrates
the beginning of spring in Pal-
estine.
Perhaps you have heard this
festival spoken of as Tu b'Shev-
at, or Rosh Hashanah l'Ilanot.
Well, you Hebrew students, if
you will think for a moment
you'll know what those names
means. "Tu" stands for the
Hebrew letters "tes" and "vav,"
which have a numerical value of
fifteen. And the other—Rosh
Hashanah, that's easy—New
Year; l'Ilanot—of the trees, or
the day when trees are judged.
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"Mother, Mother!" Danny
called as he ran into the house
late one afternoon, "I'm going to
plant a tree. Our Hebrew teach-
er said Tu b'Shevat is coming."
Judy looked out the window.
She saw the icy streets and the
thick snow on the lawn. "That's
silly," she said. "How can you
plant a tree in the middle of
winter?"
"Not here in our yard," Danny
explained. "I'm going to plant a
tree in Israel, to help build up
the land."
That's when mother came in-
to the room. "What a wonderful
idea," she said. But Judy started
to cry. "Don't go away, Danny.
Don't go to Israel without me."
Danny laughed. "I'm not going
all the way to Israel," he said.
"Don't you remember about the
Jewish National Fund? I'mgo-
ing to raise some money and
take it to Hebrew school. So
are all the other children in
the class. Then our teacher will
give the money to the Jewish
National Fund, which will send
it to Israel and boys and girls
who live there will actually
plant the trees."
Judy felt better. But mother
asked, "How are you going to
raise the money, Danny."
"You could sell lemonade,"
Judy suggested. But in winter-
time, who would buy cold
lemonade?
"I could take it out of my
savings bank," Danny offered.
"That was money given to you,
you did not earn it yourself,"
mother said.
So Danny thought a while.
Then he said "How about giving
a show, a • show for Hamisha
Asar b'Shevat, and sell tickets?"
"A very good idea," mother
agreed. "We will all help you."
When the day of the show
came, daddy arranged chairs in
rows in the basement. Mother
hung up a blue bedspread at
one end, to serve as a curtain.
Danny sat at the foot of the
stairs and sold tickets. All the
neighbors came. All the aunts
and uncles and cousins came.
It was time for the show. First
Alan gave a poem by Chaim
Nachman Bialik, the famous
Hebrew poet. Next, Judy and
Danny sang an Israel song.
David and Debby and Dinah
danced the Horah. Everyone
applauded.
Then came a surprise. Danny
and Judy's grandfather stood up
in the audience. "I would like
to have a part in this show,"
he said. And he went up to the
stage. "Would you like to hear
how we celebrated Hamisha
Asar b'Shevat when I was a
boy?" he asked.
"Yes, yes," everyone called opt.
This is what he told: "When I
was a youngster in Europe, I
spent every day in heeler. Each
day was much like all the rest,
but when mid-winter came, and
the 15th of Shebat, we had a
great celebration. All the boys
(for only boys went to our
school) brought a handful of
Palestinian fruits—figs, dates,
raisins, almonds, oranges (when
we could get them) and bokser,
the hard, dry St. John's bread.
"Together, we recited the ben-

RCA to Organize
Midwest Region.

Cleveland Cantor to Launch Center's
Observance of Annual. Music Month

Rabbi Louii Engelberg, vice-
president - of the Rabbinical
Council of America (RCA) from
Cleveland Heights, 0., will be
chairman of the Midwestern
regional conference of RCA, to
be held in Detroit on Feb. 18, it
was announced by the Detroit
committee on arrangements this
week.
Day-long sessions will be held
at Holiday Manor, beginning
with a meeting at 9:30 a.m. of
the national advisory commit-
tee. The formal organization of
a Midwest region will proceed
with discussions at 11 a.m.
Rabbi Theodore Adams. na-
tional RCA president from Jer-
sey City, will be guest of honor
at the luncheon meeting. After-
noon sessions will resume at
2:30 p.m.
Rabbi Wolf Gold, member of
the Jewish Agency, will be guest
at the dinner, which concludes
activities.
Area RCA members on the ar-
rangements committee include
Rabbis Israel I. Halpern, M. J.
Wohlgelernter, S. - Pr e r o, M.
Kapustin, of Detroit; S. Stoll-
man, of Windsor; C. Kaufman,
of Mt. Clemens; and N. Katz, of
Toledo, 0.
Local members and their wives
will meet at 8:30 p.m., Feb. '7,
at the -home of Rabbi and Mrs.
S. Stollman in Windsor.

Saul Meisels, cantor of the significance of Jewish Music
Temple of the Heights, Cleve- Month, being celebrated from
land, will be featured soloist in Feb. 1 to March 1.
Other events scheduled to fol-
low will be a symposium on
"Music in I Israel" to be con-
ducted by Mrs. Sidney Allen, on
Feb. 9; a celebration of the 70th
birthday of Lazar Saminsky on
Feb. 17; a demonstration re-
hearsal of the Center Sym-
phony Orchestra on Feb. 22
and a program of orchestral
music by Jewish composers on
Feb. 24.
All events will be held at the
Davison Branch.

edictions. While we • ate our
fruit, our teacher would tell us
stories about Palestine and read
passages from the Bible and the
Talmud about trees and their
importance to human life.
"Hamisha Asar also was the
the day when the first school
term ended and the second be-
gan. Sometimes, when a class -
was ready to complete study of
one book of the Bible or Talmud,
and start another one, the for-
mal ceremonies would be ar-
ranged for this day. The parents
came to school, to share the joy
of passing to the study of a
more advanced work. They
brought fruit, ginger cake and
bokser for the children and the
teacher."
Grandfather's little talk con-
cluded the program. Mother
passed a tray of fruits. She had
a dish of Israeli candies, too.
Just before everyone left, Danny
counted up the proceeds from
his tickets.
"Hooray! Hooray!" he shouted.
"Fifteen people came to our show
and each one paid ten cents
for a ticket. That makes a dol-
lar and a half, just enough to
plant a tree."
All the relatives and friends
were happy. They were happy to
have had a pleasant celebration,
and they were happy that Dan-
ny would be able to plant a tree
-Air
in Israel on the New Year of the
Trees.
This Week's Radio and Tele-
Your friend, MIRIAM.
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CANTOR SAUL MEISELS

a program of Jewish folk music
at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, at the
Davison Jewish Center. The re-
cital will open the 1953 observ-
ance of Jewish Music Month.
Co-sponsors of the program
are the Jewish Community Cen-
ter and the Sholem Aleichem
Institute, which together will
pre?ent a series of five events.
The Center Choral Society,
with Joan Erman and Wyn Gar-
den, sopranos, as solists, will
present several Yiddish and He-
brew songs. The group is direc-
ted by Julius Chajes. Vivi Lesser
will be accompanist.
Cantor Meisels is well known
through personal appearances
at concert halls and on radio
broadcasts throughout the
United States. He is a popular
artist of Jewish recordings made
by RCA Victor. His wife, 'Ida
Ruth Meisels, will accompany
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MESSAGE OF ISREAL
Jacob L. Keidan, program
Time: 8 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 1. chairman, will preside at the
Station: WXYZ.
meeting and will explain the
Feature: Dr. Louis Binstock,
rabbi of Temple Sholom, Chi-
cago, will present the first of a
four - program series, speaking
on "What Is Faith?"

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'Morning Journal'
Merges with 'Day'

NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Jew-
ish Morning Journal, daily Yid-
dish newspaper which has been
in existence for 52 years, merged
with The Day. Beginning Mon-
day, the Morning Journal dis-
continued publication and a new
paper, known as The Day-Morn-
ing Journal, appeared under the
editorial direction of Solomon
Dingol, editor of The Day. The
newspaper will be published
from The Day plant.
Morris Weinberg, publisher of
the merged newspaper empha-
sized that out of respect for
Orthodox readers, the paper will
not appear on Saturday. On that
day The Day alone- will be pub-
lished. It is understood that Mr.
Weinberg paid $150,000 for the
Morning Journal and that the
merger has been -approved by
Judge Sidney Sugarman of the
Southern District Federal Court
who directed the affairs of the
bankrupt Morning Journal.
of the money will go for sev-
erance pay to members of the
Morning Journal staff who will
lose their jobs. About 15 of the
30 members of the editorial
staff of the Morning Journal
will be employed on the merged
paper.
The Morning Journal had
halted publication in April,
1951, when it went into receiver-
ship. Efforts by prominent mem-
bers of the community and the
staff resulted in the re-opening
of the paper in August, 1951,
but the necessary funds to sat-
isfy mortgages on the plant and
provide sufficient working capi-
tal were not forthcoming.
The Morning Journal was the
exponent of the Orthodox tradi-
tion in American Jewish life.

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