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VOLUME 22—No. 24
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Detroiters Gifts of $1,100,00
Lead S. I UJA's 1953 Efforts
$1,000,0 :
0 Detroit Loan to Speed Relief Activities
Israel, Jewry Pawns in 'Cold War'
As World Rests on a Powder Keg
(From JTA Dispatches and Reports from Jewish News Correspondents)
Soviet Russiais,animosity toward Israel and the entire USSR bloc's anti-
Semitic campaign have placed Israel and the Jews of the world as pawns on a
chessboard that is being watched by all humanity.
As fears are multiplying that the "cold war" may erupt into a world struggle,
and with mounting anxieties over the global dangers created by the powder keg upon
which the world rests today, Jewry, as the target of the Communists, has become the
barometer of possible world war threats in the Middle East.
The breaking of Israel-Soviet relations, the purge of Jews, the attacks upon Zion- ,
istn have brought forth world-wide protests. Governments, U. S. State Legislatures,
church organizations and labor movements have joined with Jewish communities in reg-
istering their protests against the Communist anti-Semitic tirades.
In Israel itself feelings run high among leading government officials that the
break from Moscow will be emulated by Soviet satellites in order to make it impossible
for Jews in these countries to maintain contact with Jewry abroad.
Soviet Minister Pavel Yershov telephoned the Israel Foreign office asking wheth-
er the note severing relations had been received. He also requested diplomatic protec-
tion until he and his staff are ready to leave the country. The Soviet legation, Russian
churches and other Soviet property was put under heavy guard.
It is assumed that Bulgaria will maintain displomatic ties with Israel in the be-
lief that Moscow will want one of its satellites to act as custodian of the huge property
interests (mostly of the Russian Orthodox Church) that remain in the Jewish state.
Meanwhile, in the satellites themselves, in an effort to divert attention from their
anti-Jewish policies, the Communist press is devoting considerable space to a _ rticles on
anti-Semitism in the United States.
Repercussions to the bombing of the Soviet legation are still being felt in many
Uraeli cities. In Tel Aviv, 15 persons were given first aid following several clashes be-
tween members of the Israel-Soviet Friendship League and various groups of citizens
who turned out to heckle the Communists and fellow-travelers who were holding a dem-
onstration expressing sympathy with the Soviet Union over the legation bombing.
Israel police, investigating the bombing, arrested several suspects including I.
Nadler, a newspaperman who was the only Israeli who succeeded in gaining entry to
the legation. Others arrested included several Arabs and members of anti-Communist
groups, principally the Anti-Communist League.
(More details reported on inside pages)
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Deeply moved by the most re-
cent world events which point to a rapidly rising trend and
increased dangers to Israel's security, Detroiters vacation-
ing here took time out during the past two weeks to Inc),
bilize strength for the 1953 Allied Jewish Campaign by
pledging, in advance gifts, a sum exceeding $1,100,000. This
sum not only is larger than last year's advance gifts made
at a. similar national United Jewish Appeal inaugural cam-
paign conference, but it represents a 15 per cent increase
by the Detroit contributors over their 1952 gifts.
The most heartening signal to the country at large
was given by the Detroit delegation's announcement at
the UJA conference Sunday noon, at the Saxony Hotel,
of an advance gift of $1,000,000, secured as a loan against
pledges to be made in the current campaign. The Detroit
loan was reported to the Miami delegatirm by Samuel
Rubiner and Judge Theodore Levin, presidents of the
Jewish Welfare Federation and the United Jewish Chari-
ties, and the $1,000,000 check was put to immediate use
to spur relief of refugees from East Berlin and the re-
habilitation of new settlers in Israel.
Stirred to action by the events in Russia and the Soviet
satellite countries and by the encirclement of Israel by hostile
Arab nations, the Detroiters displayed their generosity by more
liberal giving and by devotion to the leading philanthropic cause
sponsored by American Jewry, a number of them having given .
the entire period originally intended by them for vacations to
fulfill their responsibilities to the relief and rehabilitation move-
ments.
Three former Allied Jewish Campaign chairmen, Abe Kasle,
Joseph Holtzman and Louis Berry, helped prepare the ground.
for the Detroit drive by enlisting advance contributions which
helped swell the pre-campaign income to $1,100,000. The present
campaign chairmen, Harvey H. Goldman and Irving Blumberg,
divided their responsibilities among those whom they are able
to reach in Detroit and those who can best be contacted during
their Florida stay.
Blumberg worked here for the drive for a two-week period
and on Tuesday preceding the national UJA conference returned
to Detroit to carry on on the home front. Goldman arrived here
to take over the duties at Miami Beach, and their joint efforts
produced the result which is expected to boost Detroit's 1953 in-
come above the $5,000,000 mark.
Developments in Russia, the threat of Israel's safety and
the increasing needs for the upkeep of Detroit Jewry's major
agencies make it necessary to secure at least $500,000 more
than was raised last year, in order that the UJA should receive
a larger allocation. Detroit's representatives here have there-
fore declared their determination to labor for increases in in-
come, starting with the advance gifts attained here, and the
early results have heartened them in their efforts.
Maurice Aronsson, a former Allied Jewish Campaign chair-
man, played a leading role in the Florida campaign. Other De-
troiters who have been active in raising the large •initial sum
included Nathan Epstein, Nathan Fishman, Herman Radher, -
Morris W. Zack, Max Fisher, Harry Becker, Paul Zuckerman,
George Seyburn, Philip Lipson, Daniel Laven, Morris M. Robin-
son, Morris Fruman, Selig D. Sidney, Charles Grosberg, Louis
Hamburger, Nathan Kolb.
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National Gifts Total $14 , 150 , 0 0
The stirring appeals made at the conference brought
vast increases in the 1953 gifts.
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The various communities represented reported advance
gifts totalling $14,150,000. This sum exceeded by $3,000,000
the sum raised at the UJA conference in Miami Beach in
1952.
The appeals of Edward M. M. Warburg, Dr. Joseph
Schwartz, Jack Weiler, Morris Bernstein, George Jesse' and
Joseph Holtzman brought prompt responses and heartened
the campaign leaders in their emergency rescue work.
.Abe Kasle was first to respond in the Detroit roll call,
with a large increase. Another Detroiter increased his 1952
Not a Ilow7, gift of $16,500 to $50,000.
Israeli Police Probe Le *lion 1 0J 111
It was a great demonstration, pointing to American
ed to enter. the Soviet Legation in Tel Aviv, Israel, which was bombed last week by extremist Jewry's
determination that those who are trapped in lands
(elements protesting the Red purge behind the Iron. Curtain, these Israeli policemen conducted-
of
oppression
will not be abandoned.
the•r investigation on the legation grounds, outside. The bombing caused Russia to sever dip-
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lomatic ties with 1 rael 6 .tfespite, official apologies from high Israeli Government, Leaders,,