Plan to Attend American Jewish Tercentenary Exhibition at Historical Museum Formal Opening • Of Exhibit: 2 P.M., Sept. 12 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events The Prevailing American Spirit Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle - VOLUME 25—No. 26.ke Fzi. 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE. 8-9364—Detroit 35, September 3, 1954 President Eisenhower and The Truth About The Crusades $4.00 Per Commentaries, Page 2 Year ; Single .Copy, 1 Sc Israel's Security Threatened by Britain's Lifting of Arms Embargo To Egypt; Move Supported by U.S. Formal , Opening. of Tercentenary Set' For Sept. 12; Exhibition at Detroit Historical Museum First Local Event Simultaneous with the launching of the national celebrations of the American Jewish Tercentenary, marking the 300th anniversary of the settleme,nt of the Jews in the United States, the Detroit Jewish community also will formally begin the series of locally planned events on Sunday, Sept. 12. The opening of the exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum, at a brief cere- mony in which Jewish leaders and heads of the City government will participate, will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept: 12. The exhibition will be open to the public from that time on until the end of December and all are urged to see the panoramic views of Jewish history at the Museum, Woodward and Kirby. Charles E. Feinberg. associate chairman of the Detroit Tercentenary Committee, heads the exhibits committee which also is planning displays and exhibitions at the Detroit Public Library and the Art Institute. Henry Brown, director of the Detroit Historical Museum, has cooperated with Mr. Feinberg's committee in setting up the exhibit. His associate, Robert E. Lee, has worked with the committee in the selection and preparation of material. Sept. 20 to Oct. 20 has been proclaimed Jewish Tercentenary Month in De- troit and Michigan by Mayor Cob ► and Governor Williams and Tercentenary Resolu- tions haveAceelt- -fid-opted by the Michigan State Legislature and the Detroit Common Council. The Tercentenary Month will be climaxed by the dinner, Oct. 17, at Hotel/ Stotler, at which Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, American Jewry's most distin- guished orator, will be guest speaker. Reservations for the dinner acre being accepted by the chairman of the dinner committee, Mrs. Hy Burnstein, 1'7380 Monica, UN. 3-4363. A chronological history of Michigan Jewry is being prepared by Irving ,Katz and is expected to be ready for distribution in October. Plans are being completed for scores of community events planned by the local committees — for youth, organizations, the synagogues. Scores of Tercentenary events are being planned by Detroit's organizations and congregations. The Men's Club of Shaarey Zedek has arranged for the opening of its lecture series to be devoted to the Tercentenary, with a program in which three rabbis will discuss "What Is the Future of. Our Past — the Next 100 Years of Jewish Life in America." With Rabbi Morris Adler as moderator, the speakers will be Rabbi Nor- man E. Frimer (Orthodox), Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein (Reform) and Rabbi Henry Fisher (Conservative). Irwin Shaw, executive secretary of the Detroit Tercentenary Committee, reports that sub-committees are being provided with assistance from the staffs of professional organizations. Assigned to such tasks to-date,. according to Mr. Shaw, are: , Abraham Kastenbaum of the Jewish Community Council staff, to assist the exhi- bits committee: Joseph Edelman, of the Jewish Community Council staff, is working with the radio, publicity, public relations, television and religious committtees. Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the American Jewish Congress and chairman of the Western Hemisphere Executive of the World Jewish Congress, left for South and Central America, on a 10-day mission to some of the oldest Jewish settlements in the New World. Dr. Goldstein will convey the greetings of the Jewish Community of the United States to the Jewish communities of Recife, Brazil, Paramaribo, Surinam, and Curacao, the first to be founded in the western hemisphere. The first stop of Dr. Goldstein's mission will be Recife, Brazil, the oldest Jewish community in the New World. Jews began to settle in Brazil in the 16th century, at first as Marranos (secret Jews) under Portuguese rule, and then openly as Jews under Dutch rule. From 1631 to 1654, Jewish life flourished in that nation, and Recife became the largest Jewish center • in the New World. The first Jewish congregation in the western hemisphere was founded in 1642 in that city. When Portugal reconquered Brazil in 1654, the majority of Jewish settlers fled, fearing religious persecution. Ves- sels were placed at their disposal to take them where they chose to go. Many returned to Holland. Some left for Surinam, Curacao, and other Dutch possessions in the Carib- bean. A group of 23 Jews arrived in New Amsterdam, now New York City, in Septem- ber, 1654, and established the first Jewish settlement in the United States. Three hundred years of American Jewry's literary achievements in English, Yiddish and Hebrew are highlighted in a series of surveys and articles in volume 12 of the Jewish Book Annual published by the National Jewish Welfare Board-sponsored Jewish Book Council, Rabbi Ely E. Pilchik, Newark, Council president, announced. A number of important books will be published to mark the Tercentenary cele- bration. The first two, which will come off the press on Sept. 12, are: "Blessed Is the Land" by Louis Zara, a novel dealing with the story of the first 23 Jews who settled in New Amsterdam, to be published by Crown; and "Ad- venture in Freedom: Three Hundred Years of Jewish Life in America," by Oscar Handlin, to be issued by McGraw Hill Book Co. I Ilustrated American Jewish History Starts In The Jewis, \Jews With Next Week's Issue Details on Page 20 Stories Based on Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News Serious threats to Israel's security are seen in the lift- ing by Great Britain of the three-year-old embargo on the shipment of arms to Egypt. Informed by the British Foreign Office of its decision, Israel's authorities expressed their sense of shock and For- eign Minister Moshe Sharett warned the Western Powers that their efforts to consolidate a democratic defense sys- tem based on regional blocs confronted Israel with "an un- precedented act of territorial ostracism." The JTA reported Tuesday, from _Jerusalem, that Pre- mier Sharrett, in a 40-minute review of the situation which opened the debate on foreign policy in the Knesset, bitterly assailed completion of the Suez Canal Zone evacuation agreement "without any vestige of concern for the security of Israel," and denounced the provision bf arms to Egypt. Mr. Sharett divided his survey of Israel's international position into two sections—the situation resulting -from the Anglo-Egyptian agreement on the Suez Canal Zone, and the current trend of United States policy, "the inevitable result of which is the widening of the military gap between Egypt and Israel." He told the Knesset that Israel, first and foremost, must rely on the people of Israel and on the support of "mil- lions of our fellow Jews who will stand by us in our strug- gle and will continue to support us with brotherly hands." The American policy of arming Egypt and thus in- creasing the odds against Israel, Mr. Sharett warned, is making Israel resentful. "Israel itself," he declared, "en- joys American economic assistance which was of tremen- dous value to our development and I take this opportunity to thank the United States, its people and its government; for it. But we denounced and we will continue to denounce the granting of arms to the Arab states as long as there is no peace in the region." In Washington, however, State • Department sources, which were emphatic on the need to arm Arab League states, hailed the British decision to lift the arms embargo to Egypt and indicated that the State Department felt that it was enough to obtain "assurances" from the Arabs that they would not use such arms aggressively. A spokesman for the Egyptian Embassy in Washing- ton predicted that negotiations in Cairo for the granting of American military aid to Egypt would be completed in about a week and that with new American weapons Egypt might expand its army to 500,000 men within a year. In an interview published in the current issue of U.S. News and World Report, Premier Gamal, Abdel Nasser of Egypt demanded that the United States supply Egypt with arms, but insisted that "no pressure will be put on us, espe- cially as regards a prior settlement of the Israel question. We will settle that problem ourselves." State Department officials took issue with Israel com- plaints regarding the Suez blockade. They defended Egypt to a considerable degree, insisting that Egypt does nothing more than exercise its legal right to visit and search foreign shipping in Egyptian territorial waters. It is expected that the first order the Egyptians will place is for the 16 centurian heavy tanks they had on order when the ban went into effect in October 1951. Jet planes, motor vehicles, artillery and ammuntion are also known to be on the Egyptian priority lists. The Defense Ministry spokesman said in London that most of the weapons the Egyptians might want are in stock and that centurian tanks would be available "quite quickly." Commentators in the London press were quick to underline the fact that Egypt has 30,000,000 pounds ster- ling in its current balance in Britain and has more than 100,000,000 pounds in frozen sterling accounts which Bri- tain is releasing in annual installments. Ram/eh Histadrut House Honors Morris Schaver's 60th Birthday A Jewish Telegraphic Aency cable to The Jewish News, Tues- day noon, from Tel Aviv, revealed that the cornerstone was laid ern Ramleh for the Histadrut House, in honor of the 60th birth- day of Morris Schaver, leader in the Labor Zionist movement h Detroit. The Detroit Histadrut Campaign provided the funds for the expense of the building in Mr. Schaver's honor, according to the cable. Mr. and Mrs. Schaver, their son Itzhak, and Mrs. Schaver's parents, Mr. and Mrs. 'Jacob Lazaroff of Los Angeles, formerly of Detroit, are now visiting Israel and were present at the laying oil the cornerstone in Ramleh.