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DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 23, 1953

Joint Allocates $1 000 000 a Month
To Aid Ilard Core' Cases in Israel

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Parliamentarians Reject
Arab Invitation, Fearing
Bias Against Jews, Israel

PARIS, (J T A) — The Joint,
Distribution Committe e is
spending more than $1,000,000 a
month to make possible the re-
covery and rehabilitation of
thousands of sick, aged and
handicapped Jewish refugees
and their families who have re-

settled in Israel in the past five
years, it was reported at the
opening session of the five-day
conference of JDC field directors
from 18 countries.
The report was presented by
Charles Passman, director of
Malben, JDC health and reha-
bilitation agency in Israel.
Joint appropriated $18,270,000
for work on three continents
during the first 10 months of
this year, Moses Beckelman, JDC
Director General, reported. • He
said this s u m was $1,400,000
higher than the amount allo-
cated by JDC during the same
period of 1952.
The conference, with 31 Amer-
ican Jewish philanthropic lead-
ers attending as guests, is re-
viewing present and future Jew-
ish relief, rescue and rehabili-
tation needs overseas.
Passman reported that since
Malben's establishment four
years ago by JDC, more than
35,000 aged, handicapped and
sick newcomers to Israel
have benefited directly from its
extensive network of hospitals,
sanatoria, old-age homes and
workshops.
Including dependents, Malben
has aided in the integration of
more than 100,000 persons in the
life of the Jewish State.
The conference is also consid-
ering expansion of health care,
education, relief and economic
aid programs in behalf of nearly
600,000 Jews in North Africa and
Iran; aid for the development
of the growing ability of Jewish
communities in Western Europe
to meet their own welfare needs;
plans for finding permanent so-
lutions to the problems of nearly
30,000 Jewish survivors in Cen-
tral and Western Europe.

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
Inter-Parliamentary Union Con-
ference, taking place here, re-
jected an invitation from Leb-
anon to hold its next meeting
in Beirut because it was felt
that Lebanon would discrimi-
By Uncle David
nate against Israel and Jewish Publication Society
delegates by barring . them from Plans '54 Projects
Which rung my blessed fath- the country. .
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Dear Boys and Girls:
er's
spirit
then—
Lebanon's invitation was turn-
Have your teachers, or your
B•ut now I read it, ever so se- ed down after Israel delegate
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Various
parents, ever told you the story
rene,
ed: that great rabbi and leader. - And close the Bible gently, Chaim Ariav pointed out that literary projects which will serve
there was no assurance that all as a basis for the publication
Rabbi Akiba, who was an ignor-
when I've done,
ant shepherd until he was 40 And kiss its covers, too, when nations would be - free to at- schedule of the Jewish Publica-
tend. T'he council of the Union tion Society next year were dis-
years old, but began to study at
I'm alone.
considered the question raised cussed at a conference in New
that age and became one of the
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by Israel and voted to reject the York of Jewish scholars and
greatest men in Jewish history? .
Have you been told the story of A WISE THOUGHT FROM THE offer by Lebanon. The next prominent laymen actively iden-
TALMUD
meeting will take place in Vi- tified with the word of the So-
this rabbi's struggle, together
ciety.
enna
instead.
He
who
derives
his
livelihood
with the hero, Bar Kochba, for
Judge Louis E. Levinthal,
the freedom- of the Jews in Pal- from the labor of his hands is as
president of the Society, ad-
Six Colleges Dedicate
estine? Some day I am going to great as he who fears God.
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dressing the gathering • spoke
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tell you the complete story of
New Hillel Foundations
optimistically of the JPS' func-
Rabbi Akiba, or perhaps one. of • WISE SAYINGS FROM THE
tion. An extensive report on
RABBIS OF OLD
you knows the story well enough
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Jewish
to tell it to all the cousins who There are four characteristics students at six scolleges were the publication of Jewish exper-
read this column? But today I among those who attend t h e presented with new centers for ience in the United States and
Jewish contributions to Ameri-
am going to tell you the story
religious, educational and cul- can democracy was given at the
that. is told about Rabbi Akiba's house
of study.
He secures
who goes
does not
practice
the and
re- tural activities when the Bnai conference by Edwin Wolf, 2nd
daughter. Here it is:
ward for going, he who practices Brith Hillel Foundation dedi- vice-president of the society.
A fortune-teller once told but does not go secures the re- cated a new Hillel House at the
Rabbi Akiba's daughter that on ward for practicing; he who goes University of Florida in Gaines-
her wedding day she would be and practices is a saint; he who ville and launched the new Hil- President of Ashkenazi Jewish
bitten by a serpent, and would neither goes nor practices is a lel Counselorship for Clark Uni- Community in Turkey Dies
die. She was naturally very dis- wicked man.
ISTANBUL, Oct. 14. (JTA)-
versity and four other colleges
Isidore Schnitter, president of
tressed about it, and hoped that
These are four qualities among in Worcester, Mass.
she would be spared.
In dedicating the $66,000 the Ashkenazi community of
those that sit before the wise:
On her wedding day when the They are like a sponge, a fun- building of modern design at Turkey, died here after a lengthy
whole household was busy with nel, a strainer, or a sieve. A the University of Florida, Rabbi illness. He was 74. For many
preparations, a beggar came to sponge, which sucks up every- Arthur J. Lelyveld, national di- years Mr. Schnitter was a mem-
the door. No one paid any atten- thing; a funnel which lets in at rector of Hillel Foundations, ber of the Lay Council of the
ton to the poor man, but the one end and out at, the other; a cautioned against diminishing Turkish Grand Rabbinate and
bride noticed him. She brought strainer which lets the wine pass the religious influence in uni- served as vice-president of the
him into the house, and shared out and retains the dregs; a versity life to a "vague inter- coordinating commission for ten
Jewish welfare institutions.
with him her own meal. sieve which lets out the bran denomi nationalism."
The bride was happily married. and retains the fine flour.
All her friends came to give her
their good wishes, and the beg-
gar too sent his blessing.
In the evening, before Akiba's
daughter went to bed. she took
the wreath from her head and
fastened it with a nail on the
Wa_11. An ugly serpent had crept
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Anti-
onto the wall, and luckily the
nail went into the eye of the Semitism "which Stalin had
serpent, and killed it. "On the stirred up" in the USSR is still
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f ol I own g morning, when she noticeable among the popula-
I Ilfilf111
took down the wreath the ser- tion, according to Perle Mesta,
to
former
United
States
Minister
pent fell to the floor.
Luxemburg, who has just re-
She told her wise father of her turned from a visit to the Soviet
good luck.
Handsome and trim (most
Union.
"What good act have you done,
Reporting her impressions,
are table-high) an electric
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Akiba. She told him of the beg- in the New York Herald-Tribune
working appliance you can own.
gar who had visited their house that during her visit to Kiev, in
. on her wedding day, and how the Ukraine, she learned that
Here are some of the ways it
glad she had been to help him.
Lavrenti Beria, the number two
saves you work
The rabbi was pleased with his man in the Soviet government,
:daughter, and repeated the old had been arrested by Malenkov
proverb: "But charity delivereth as a spy. She attempted to in-
from death."
terview some people on the
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street as to what they thought
A, VERY FINE POEM
of the development.
One of the very best poems I
Most were too frightened to
have read in a long time is the say anything. Mrs. Mesta writes
one I am going to share with that this was "far too danger-
you now It is called "My ous a subject to discuss, "espe-
Father's Bible," and it was writ- cially with someone they did
ten by George Alexander Kohut, not know. But one woman volun-
the son of a very noted rabbi teered this defense of Malen-
and scholar, and himself an able kov's action in arresting the
poet, writer and learned man. number two man of the Krem-
His mother, too, was a great lin:
woman, and was one of the lead-
"My husband says Beria was
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headsets of heavy, wet clothes.
Rebecca Kohut. She, too, had could keep him in line, but after
written much interesting mater- Stalin died they could not keep
ial and at least one good book. him in line and they had to do
The poem by George Alexander that. They did the right thing."
-Kohut pays a tribute to his
Mrs. Mesta adds that as far
great father as well as to his as any responsible people knew,
father's idealism and beliefs Beria was not a Jew. "But it
which he has inherited. Here is seems that anti-Semitism which
the poem:
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Stalin had stirred up just before
There is one book, far dearer he died was now helping to
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than the rest,
justify the liquidation of Beria,"
Upon my treasured shelves: she concluded.
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She also was told in Kharkov,
In costly skin or vellum, yet another large city in the Uk-
profound
raine, that about one-third of
Is the esteem and rev'rence in the city's 1,000,000 residents are
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wonted place,
To bless it first, and read it
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though time was when
Fierce anguish smote my
soul, as, all unseen,
The crumbled leaves I turn-
ed, and saw between
The crystal drops of sorrow
once, again

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UIA Conference Nov. 14-15 1
NEW YORK, (JTA) The I
United Israel Appeal 'announced
that it will hold a national two-
day conference in Chicago to
evaluate American-Israel rela-
tions under the present admin-
istration. About 2,000 delegates
are expected to attend the con-
ference which will open on No-
vember 14,

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