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Beth El's New Rabbi on April 13

Executive Secretary, Temple Beth Mt

Israel and dean of the Reform
Percy Kaplan, executive direc-
rabbis in Michigan, will give the
invocation, and Rabbi Minard tor of the Jewish National Fund
Klein, assistant rabbi of Temple of Detroit, announced this week
Beth El, will conduct the service. that work is continuing on the
The board of directors of the
Men's Club will serve as ushers,
and the boards of the Sisterhood
and Young Married Group will
act as hosts and hostesses at a
reception for Dr. and Mrs. Hertz
in the Frsnklin Memorial Hall,
following the service.

Avern Cohn Chosen to Head
Allied Drive Junior Division

Avern Cohn will lead the Jun-
ior Division in the -1953 Allied
Jewish Campaign, Irving W.
umberg and Harvey H. Gold-
man, campaign chairmen, an-
nounced. Cohn, who last year
took a trip to Israel to obtain
a first-hand view of the condi-

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AVERN COHN

tions in that country, headed
the Juniors' special gifts board
and served as chairman of the
division's campaign planning
committee in 1952.
Cohn announced that Norman
tz has been named vice-chair-
man of worker. -recruitment and
organizations and will be respon-
sible for the speakers' bureau.
Arthur James Rubiner is in
charge of special gifts. His as-
sociate chairmen are Herbert
Aronsson and Max Lapides. Ber-
nice Alper, Marjorie Cowan and
Michael- Stavey are area chair-
men. Other leaders in the divi-
sion are Mildred Fox, social
chairman; Vernon Leopold,
chairman of publicity . and his
assistant, Mrs. Bernard Cantor;
Evelyn S t o 11 m a n, religious
Schools chairman.
Section chairmen are Sherman
Becher, Myrle Farber, Lorraine
Gardner, Rhoda M. Goldschlag,

Build 54 Settlements
Costing $26,600,000

• NEW YORK—Israel's agricul-
tural growth is advancing at an
accelerated pace with the aid of
financial support from American
Jews which is helping to launch
"Town-to-Country" operation
bringing urban dwellers to the
farms and to establish 54 new
settlements at a cost of $26,600,-
000 by July of this year, Rudolf
G. Sonneborn. national chair-
man, United Israel Appeal, an-
noupced in a quarterly report to
the Appeal's board of directors.
The U I A chairman warned
that a severe drought in the Ne-
gev had resulted in at least a
$10,000,000 loss in crops and dis-
closed that only 8 percent of the
grain sewn in Israel's southern
area is expected to produce. a
yield this year.
, A total of 24 new settlements
are to be founded- by the end of
April, while 30 more will be es-
tablished through May and
June, involving an over-all ex-
penditure of $26,600,000, includ-
ing $22,400,000 for housing 'and
farm equipment and $4,200,000
for local litigation facilities.
Settlements will be erected by
the Jewish Agency, constituent
1, "dy of the United Israel Appeal,
ch derives the largest single
portion of its funds through the
nationwide United Jewish Appeal
campaign,

Rayetta Harris, Penny Isaacs,
Vernon Leopold, Ann Magid,
Harriett Ruth Migdol, Jody Orn-
stein, Louise Sthostak, Earl
Sherman, Goldie Tukel, Eleanor
Yarrows and Eve Zaretsky.
For the first time, a team has
been organized to cover pros-
pects in the suburbs. David Bu-
egeleisen will lead the activities
of this group, assisted by Bernie
Cantor.
Rapidly taking shape to fulfill
its phase in the Junior campaign
is the Teen Age Section. The
Teen Age Councils of the Davi-
son Jewish Center and the
Northwest Teens have indicated
their participation, as has also
the Bnai Brith Youth Organiza-
tion.
In 1952, the Juniors solicited
$39,397 out of an overall cam-
paign total of $4,400,000.

One-Fifth of East German
Jews Flock to West - Zone

(1) The first Jewish Mason in
Michigan was Isaac Moses. He
was a member of Detroit's Zion
Lodge in 1798.
(21 The first Jewish resident
in Ypsilanti was Charles E. Bres-
ler. He arrived in the early 1840's
and perhaps in the 1830's.
(3) The first private religious
services . in Michigan were held
in Ann Arbor in 1845..
(4) The first Jewish artist in
Michigan was Frederick E. Co-
hen. He is listed in the Detroit
City Directory of 1846 as a "por-
trait painter."
(5) The first Jewish burial
ground was acquired in Ann
Arbor in 1848 or 1849.
(6) Temple Beth El of Detroit,

Blue and White Box placement
and clearance.
Mr. Kaplan stated that mem-
bers of all Zionist groups are
taking assignments to place the
traditional Blue and White Box
in Jewish homes here. It is hoped
that eventually 10,000 homes will
have JNF boxes.
Those desiring boxes are asked
to call the JNF office, at the
Zionist House, 11345 Linwood,
TO. 8-7384.
With every JNF Box the box-
holder receives the new JNF Ac-
count Book. Upon reaching the
$100 sum in gifts, the boxhold-
er's name will be inscribed in
the Golden Book in Jerusalem.

Clifton Fadiman: "Anybody
could get rich if he could guess
BONN, (JTA)—After spending the exact moment at which a
five days studying the situation piece of junk becomes an an-
of Jewish refugees in Berlin and, tique."
conferring with the new Ameri-
can High Commissioner for Ger-
many, Dr. James Conant, Dr.
1953 BUICK , SPECIAL
Israel Goldstein, president of
$2301.30
the American Jewish Congress
Delivered Complete. This price hr
and of the Jewish Restitution clues
directional signals, State sales
Successor Organization, left for tax and license . . . all for $2301.30
Jerusalem to attend a meeting
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See or Call
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of the Jewish Agency executive.
Dr. Goldstein discussed with
Jack
Dr. Conant the problems in-
Markowitz
volved in the West German re-
payment of reparations to Is-
Today
rael.
For Further
The Jewish Congress leader
Details
told JTA that some 20 percent
at
of the postwar Jewish popula-
tion of East Germany had left
BUICK 'RETAIL
and were now in the west.
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Dr. Goldstein had high praise
for the Berlin Jewish commun-.
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ity and the :American Joint Dis-
Near G.M. Bldg.
tribution Committee for the job
TR. 5-9700
they had done in caring for
Res. TU. 3-3960
refugees.

For Passover . . .

Firsts in: Michigan Jewish Ihstory

By IRVING I. KATZ

JNF Carries on
Dr. Richard C. Hertz will • be ary organizations will partici- Box Placement,
= tailed as senior rabbi of Tem- pate in the processional.
Rabbi Leon Fram, of Temple Clearance Work
ple Beth El at Friday evening

services at 8:15 p.m., April 3.
The installation rites will. be
performed by Dr. Maurice N.
Eisendrath, president of the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations, Dr. Nelson Glueck,
president of the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Re-
ligion, and Dr. Louis L. Mann,
rabbi of Chicago's Sinai Cong.
Reform rabbis in Michigan,
officers and trustees of the
temple and presidents of auxili-

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Friday, March 27, 1953

founded in 1850, is Michigan's
first Jewish congregation.
(7) The first private religious
services in Detroit were con-
ducted by Marcus Cohen in the
early part of 1850.
(8) The first Jewish spiritual
leader in Michigan was Rabbi
Samuel Marcus. He was Rabbi
of Detroit's Temple Beth El
from 1850 to 1854.
(9) The first synagogue in
Michigan was the Rivard Street .
Synagogue of Detroit's Temple
Beth El. It served as a house of
worship from 1861 to .1867.
(10) The first Jewish woman's
group in Michigan was the La-
dies' Society for the Support of
Hebrew Widows and Orphans in
the State of Michigan. It was
founded in Detroit in 1863.

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