Three Detroiters Named to National
United Jewish Appeal Campaign Posts

Three Detroiters were named this week to national
United Jewish Appeal campaign posts for 1954.
Joseph Holtzman was appointed one of the national
campaign chairmen.
Louis Berry and Abe Kasle were named members of
the UJA National Campaign Cabinet.
Announcing the appointments, Edward M. M. Warburg,
general UJA chairman, noted that formation of the UJA's
campaign high command has cleared the way for the formal
opening of the nationwide drive at a three-day national con-
ference in Miami Beach, Fla., Feb. 19-21.
Seventy-five prominent men and women drawn from the
nation's business, professional, cultural and religious fields
have accepted key leadership posts in the 1954 UJA. cam-.
paign and will share top-level responsibility for the planning
and direction of the effort to raise close to $120,000,000 for
the financing of emergency settlement, welfare and rehabili-
tation programs in behalf of 475,000 refugee and distressed
men, women and children in Israel and 20 other countries,
it was anounced by Mr. Warburg.

Leo Pfeifer to Speak on Church-State
Division Here and in Flint This Week

Leo Pfeffer, outstanding auth- Council on the subject of "Sep-
ority on the subject of church, aration of Church and State—
state and religious liberty, will Our Goals and Our Methods."
During his visit here, Pfeffer,
be the guest of the.Jewish Corn-
who is on the staff of the Amer- .
ican Jewish Congress, will speak
at a meeting arranged by the
Michigan Council of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress on Jan. 19,
at 8:30 p.m. at Temple Israel.
Rabbi Leon Fram, president of
the Congress Council, will pre-
side. This function has been ar-
ranged by the Congress' COm-
mission on Law and Social Ac-
tion. The Detroit chairmen are
William Cohen and Mrs. Bert
Ruby. The community is invited
to this meeting.
Pfeffer also will address a
dinner meeting of Mosaic Lodge
F. and A.M. in the Crystal Ball-
room of the Masonic Temple at
6:30 p.m., Wednesday. It will be
open to the community. Reser-
vations may be obtained from.
Henry Rottman, WO. 2-6880.
LEO PFEFFER
The dinner will serve to honor
munity Council at 12 noon, next Samuel S. Topper and Russell
Wednesday, at the Detroit Leland Nida, senior and junior deacons.
The Jewish Community Coun-
Hotel. Pfeffer will speak under
the auspices of the executive, cil of Flint will be host to Pfeffer
community relations and inter- at two meetings scheduled for
nal relations committees of the Jan. 21.

JSSB. Resettlement Service Adopt
Three Amendments at Annual Meeting

Election of the proposed slate
of officers and board members
and adoption of three amend-
ments to the by-laws of the
Jewish Social Service Bureau
highlighted the joint annual
d meeting of JSSB and Resettle-
ment Service last Sunday, at the
Davison Jewish. Center.
Although there was no con-
test for JSSB officers, all 10
board members whose names
were suggested to fill board va-
cancies were elected.
Resettlement Service voted
into office David Rosin, presi-
dent; Nathan Milstein, vice-
president; and Walter Herz,
treasurer. Here, too, the 10
proposed board members were
elected.
All board members were listed
in last week's edition of The
Jewish News.
The amendment', approved by
the large turnout were to (1)
provide for election of two vice-
presidents; (2) provide for elec-
tion of three members at large
to the executive committee; (3)
provide for the outgoing presi-
dent to serve on the executive
committee.
A novel feature of the meeting
was the presentation of a skit
called "The Window," which re-
viewed the problems of the child,
the adult and the aged, the three
major phases of service JSSB
embraces in its work. Directed
by Mrs. Edward Levine, the skit
was enacted by the Woods The-
ater Workshop.
It was reported at the meeting
that JSSB handled 1,579 cases
involving 11,333 interviews by
staff members during 1953. Also
noted was the fact that 98 re-
settlement cases were adminis-
tered, but that only 11 new fam-
ilies had arrived in Detroit.
JSSB officials said that the
immigrants arrived here under

quota systems, and reported
that the McCarran-Walter Im-
migration Law drastically re-
duced the number of immi-
grants usually reaching this
city.
During 1953, 231 families were
serviced by JSSB; 83 children
were cared for by the agency,
with a majority placed in foster
homes and 13 placed in institu-
tions outside the city; and 97
elderly couples or individuals
were given guidance on personal
problems and family relation-
ships.
JSSB is a member of the
United. Community Services, sup-
ported by the Torch Drive. Re-
settlement Service receives its
income from the Jewish Welfare
Federation, which derives its
funds from the Allied Jewish
Campaign.

Israel Buys Big
Public. Utilities Co.

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Is-
rael Cabinet gave its final ap-
proval to a plan under which it
will purchase approximately 51
percent interest in the Palestine
Electric Corporation, one of Is-
rael's largest public utilities.
This means nationalization of
the corporation, but the govern-
ment is not particularly anxious
to own stock in the company
and has offered to sell its shares
at the same rate it is purchasing
them.
The government has already
loaned the company some 2+0,-
000,000 pounds which it obtained
partly from the Export-Import
Bank loan and partly from Ger-
man reparations payments.

8—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, January 15, 1954

13 411,t61 ,

The Presidents of all

Local Jewish Organizations

and Their Delegated Representatives

are invited to attend a

Conference

for the purpose of

discussing a plan

Commemorating the 3000th Anniversary

of Jerusalem

( Scheduled for Masonic Auditorium, February 14)

which will take place

Sunday Morning, January 17

10:00 A.M.

at the

Jewish Community Center

8904 Woodward

Keynote Address By Rabbi Jacob E. Segal

•

Phillip Stofiman

Chairman, Celebration Committee

David Saf ran

Mrs. Theodore Bargman

Chairman, Steering Committee
State of Israel Bonds

Chairman, W omen's Division
State of _Israel Bonds

Breakfast $1.00—Dietary Laws Observed

There will be no solicitations at this conference

For Information Phone

WO 2-5091

