Jewish ews to Feature Tercentenary's Illustrated Strip
Del Bourgo, Elazar Combine Program for Moving. African Jewry
To Relate Fascinating Story To Israel Viewed at Hadassah Parley
MAURICE DEL BOURGO
DANIEL ELAZAR
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A com-
married in New York's Shear-
ith Israel Synagogue by the prehensive program for the
transfer to Israel of the 450,000
Rev. David de Sola Poole. We Jews living under the threat of
have two boys, Peter, 16, Rich- renewed anti - Jewish outbreaks
ard, 13, a dog, Corky, and a by Arab extremists in North Af-
parakeet who is nameless after rica was outlined to the 40th an-
two years of trying to find an inual convention of Hadassah by
appropriate title.
Moshe Kol, world chairman of
"After high school and City the Youth Aliyah movement.
College here, I studied drawing,
Kol, who arrived in the United
painting and composition at the States from Israel` a few days
Art Students League, played ago, told the delegates that the
clarinet and saxophone for four Jews in Morocco, Tunisia and
years to keep eating, and finally Tangier "are living in a tinder
turned to commercial art for the box that may explode at any mo-
same reason.
ment." He called upon Hadassah
"I do advertising illustrations, to make available additional
and today have an interest in funds to enable Youth Aliyah to
Kwik--Aid Art Service in New undertake immediately the re-
York, which services a good moval to Israel of one child from
many national accounts. My each Jewish family in North Af-
daily diet feature, "Kalorie rica. He estimated that the first
Kate," is syridicated nationally, phase of the exodus of Jews from
and for four seasons I have been North Africa to Israel would in-
doing "In Legendland" in World volve 75,000 Jewish children be-
Over Magazine, together with tween the ages of 12 and 17, and
Morris Epstein.
would require five years to com-
"I've had many exciting as- plete.
signments in my professional ca-
The convention unanimously
reer, but none can match the adopted a statement of pricinples
challenge of the Tercentenary expressing "unequivocal belief
strips. Here is the chance to pic- that security with freedom is an
ture a whole slice of Jewish- imperative and an achievable
American history in a popular goal for America." Presented by
medium I know and understand. Mrs. Moses. P. Epstein, American
"It is also a privilege to pic- Affairs chairman of Hadassah,
ture our people doing a great job the statement warned that "to
for 300 years, always with an eye bar the concept of free enter-
to civilization and peace, the cry- prise from the realm of ideas is
ing need of our time. No one to betray our past and to en-
could ask for a greater theme." . danger our future."
The statement of principles
Daniel Elazar, a youth just
turned 20, was born Aug. 25, 1934 reaffirmed Hadassah's "faith
in Minneapolis, Minn. He is a in the vigor and vitality of the
gradUate of Central High School American way of life, and in
and presently a student at those freedoms which are em-
. bodied in the Constitution of
Wayne University.
Last year, he received a schol- the United States" and added:
arship to the University of Chi- "Without minimizing the dan-
cago, but was unable to make gers currently threaten-
use of it because he was attack- ing these freedoms, or under-
ed by polio while on a trip to Is- estimating the dangers inher-
ent in the awful destructive
rael.
capacity of atomic warfare,
In spite of his setback, Dan-
Hadassah records its deep con-
iel has fought back in kind. He
cern at the growing tendency
has continued to do research
to meet these dangers in a cli-
on the history of American
mate of fear and hysteria.
Jewry which he has prepared
"To equate noncomformity
for the text of the Tercenten-
with
disloyalty; to whittle
ary illustrated strips.
away the inalienable rights
Young Elazar serves as librari- guaranteed to all An.ericans by
an of the United Hebrew Schools their Constitution in the name
land was recently named history of defending that instrument;
consultant for the Detroit Com-
bar the concept of free en-
I mittee of 300 for the American to
terprise from the realm of
Jewish Tercentenary celebration ideas is to betray our past and
' in connection with planned ex-
hibits at the Detroit Historical
Museum.
A great deal of research by
'both Del Bourgo and Elazar has
gone into this history of the Jews
in America. Beginning next week
in these columns, and continuing
for 30 weeks thereafter, The
Jewish News is proud to bring its
readers the fascinating story of
the AMERICAN-JEWISH TER-
CENTENARY.
To relate the story of the Ter-
centenary of Jewish settlement
in the United States, The Jewish
News is pleased to announce that
beginning with next week's issue
our columns will include a car-
toon strip covering the high
points of Jewish colonization,
survival and progress over its
300-year history.
Bringing you this story will be
two very qualified people—world
famous cartoonist Maurice Del
Bourgo and Detrokiter Daniel
Elazar, son of Albert Elazar,
associate superintendent of
United Hebrew Schools, and Mrs.
Elazar.
Del Bourgo, now a New Yorker,
has led an interesting life. Hav-
ing been born in 1903 of Sephar-
dic-Jewish parentage, he is the
son of an importer-exporter, a
wandering Jew out of Cairo,
Egypt.
During his first eight years of
life, Del Bourgo attended British
missionary schools in Kobe, Ja-
pan and then came boarding
schools in Belgium, France, Eng-
land and, finally, the United
States, in 1915.
In his own words, Del Bourgo 20-DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 3, 1954
says, "I was Bar Mitzvah and
to endanger our future. Free-
dom to pursue the truth, to
exchange ideas and to disagree
with accepted opinion are the
freedoms which have made
America great and represent
its proudest possession."
The statement concluded:
"The American tradition of free-
dom is also the Jewish tradition.
In these days of understandable
anxiety, we, as Americans and
as Jews, must reforge the links
which bind us to the great ideals
of freedom bequeathed to us by
our forebearers. Civil liberties are
the foundation of this freedom
and constitute the most powerful
weapon against totalitarianism
and tyranny."
There will be no lasting peace
in the Middle East so long as
the Western Powers, including
the United States, fail to insist
on an Arab-Israel peace as the
cornerstone "for any program of
policy" in that part of the wortd,
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin of
Maryland declared.
Urging the delegates "not to
become discouraged by talk of a
so-called new policy of 'impa - -
tiality' in our State Depart-
ment," Gov. M cK e l d i n said :
"There may be some who have
been urging this policy as a
cloak for an unfriendly attitude
towards Israel and out of sinis-
ter and evil motives. I have
every confidence, however, that
our Secretary of State has the
' highest motives and the inter-
est of what he conceives to be
the security of our country.
Granting that, however, does
not deprive anyone of the right
or the duty, as Americans, to
differ with that policy and to
state his position honestly,
clearly and effectively."
In a message to the conven-
tion, President Dwight D. Eisen-
hower said: "I am happy again
to extend my warm greetings to
Hadassah and to its delegates
. from all our states, Puerto Rico,
and Alaska who have assembled
for its 40th annual convention.
"Your organization is indeed
making an energetic and devot -
ed contribution to the good of
humanity through its civic, med-
ical and social welfare pro-
grams. I congratulate you on
your remarkable spirit and your
genuine accomplishments. May
you have increasing success as
you continue your work to help
men know a better life.,"
A $9,000,000 budget was adop-
ted for 1954-55, including $2,3040,-
000 for Youth Aliyah; $3,000,000
for the Hadassah Medical Or-
ganization; $1,000,000 for the
Hadassah - Hebrew University
Medical Center, in Israel; $709 -
000 for the Jewish National
Fund; and $600,000 for voca-
tional education work in Israel.
Mrs. H e r .m a n Shulman, of
Stamford, Conn., was re-elected
for a second term as national
president of the organization.
Mrs. Siegfried Kramarsky, of
New York, was re-elected trea-
surer; Mrs. Mortimer Jacobson,
of New York, was chosen nation-
al secretary; Mrs. Joseph Rasch
was elected national recording
secretary, and Mrs. Raphaef
Tourover was chosen for an-
other term as Washington rep-
resentative for Hadassah.
The convention adopted p.
resolution introduced by Mrs
Samuel W. Halprin calling or
the U. S. State Department ''t(
undertake a new and dynamic •
effort" to end the Arab-Israe
conflict.. The resolution alsf
urged the State Department • t:
consider and suspend" its con-
templated program of militao
supplies to the Arab States.
"We are convinced," the reso-
lution said, "that the distribu-
tion of arms to the Arab Stateti
without unqualified guarantee;
that they will make peace with
Israel will weaken rather than
strengthen the Middle East
against the menace of Commun-'
ism, because it will heighten
tension in the area, obstruct re-
gional defense and thereby play
into the hands of aggressive
Communism."
Seek Change in U. S.
Policy Toward Israel
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Sever_
American labor leaders, repre-
senting large segments of both
! the AFL and the .CIO, left for
home after a 10-day visit here
determined "to fight for 2,
change in the United States
Government's attitude • toward
Israel, because the American la-
bor movement is interested in
Israel's security."
The American trade unionists
who came under the auspices of
the American Christian Corn-
; mittee for Palestine and the Na-
tional Committee for Labor Is
rael were guests of Histadrut.
Bnai Brith Presidents Plan Year's Activities
Bnai Brith Leaders Buy Bonds
Planning this year's events for Detroit's Bnai Brith Chapters are the following officers: Left to
right: Bottom row, Mesdames LEONARD WEINBERG, GERRY MICHALSON, GILBERT BOREN-
STEIN, ALFRED LAKIN, Council president, MAX MADORSKY, SAM ELKOWITZ; rear row, Mes-
dames SANFORD ROSENTHAL, JACK SAYLES, PHILIP FOX, LOUIS FRIEDLAND, HENRY KLE-
GON, HAROLD STERNFELD, ERNST CURTIS, ELI FREIDMAN.
Under the guidance of Mrs.
Alfred Lakin, president of the
Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
Women's Council, the 19 con-
stituent chapters are now plan-
nings activities for the new club
Having responded to the call for enrollment as "Guardians year. Officers are:
Ivan S. Bloch: president, Mrs. Ernest
of Israel," leaders of Bnai Brith Pisgah Lodge are shown above
S. Curtis; vice presidents are Mesdames-
receiving their officiail pins,. in recognition of their individual Bernard
Indenbaum, Julius
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i
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president,
z' jac
Brandeis:
$1,000 Israel Bond purchases, from Rabbi REUBEN SLONIM of
Mrs. Jack Sayles; vice-presidents are
Cong. Beth Zedek, Toronto (right). They are (left to right)
Mesdames Nat Marblestone, B. Steward,
BERYLE WALTERS, Lodge president; MILTON M. WEINSTEIN, S. Kraft.
Detroit: president, Mrs. Louis Fried-
general committeeman, District No. 6; ALEX STERN, ASHER N. land;
vice-presidents are Mesdames Sam
TILCHIN and RUBIN KAPLAN. The ceremony took place during Hamxnerstein, Allen Weiss, Alan Hagen-
jos, Martin Weston. East Side: president,
a meeting at the home of Alec S. Walters, in preparation for the Mrs.
Sam Elkowitz: vice-presidents are
Mesdames Harry Guttentag, Joseph La.
Pisgah Lodge and Chapter Bond-launching affair on Sept. 15.
Rose, Albert Cooper.
Donald Fox: president, Mrs. M. Fox;
vice-presidents are Mesdames R. Opo-
towsky, Edith Freedman, E. Spitz. George
Gershwin: president, Mrs. Harry Michal-
son; vice-presidents are Mesdames Lou
Levine, Leonard Miller, I. Stein.
Philip Handler: president, Mrs. Eli
Friedman; vice-presidents are Mesdames
Joseph Plotnick, Murry Bidlofsky, Al
Lookman. Louis Marshall: president, Mrs.
Sanford Rosenthal; vice-presidents are
Mesdames Leonard Levin, Herman Kyff,
David Freedman.
Pisgah: president, Mrs. Max Madorsky;
vice-presidents are Mesdames Allan La-
ban, Murray Shapiro, Murray Shapiro.
Theodor Herzl: president, Goldie Roth:
vice-presidents are Mesdames Freida Mo-
roff, Ethel Braunfield. Mary Tischler.
Israel: president, Mrs. Harold Stern-
feld: vice-presidents are Mesdames Fred
Weinstein, Morris Sadoff, Harry Caesar.
Rex: president„ Mrs, Henry Klegon;
vice-presidents, Mesdames Goldie Takei
Sidney Pianin, Miss Geraldine Finegold,
Tikvah: president, Mrs. Leonard Wein- -
berg; vice-presidents, Mesdames Seymour.
Weiss, Bert Ablitz, Abraham Waronoff,.
B. & P.: president, Alice Weil; vice
presidents. Molly Feingold., Sylvia Cohen.
Ruth Blumenthal. Downtown: president,
Janet Weinberg: vice-presidents are Mes
dames Harry Glassman, Edw. Rosenfeld.
Thelma Rosenfeld.
Keidan: president, Mrs. Gilbert Boren.
stein; vice-presidents are Mesdames Je•
rome Bader, Irvin Steinberg, Oscar Beck
erman.
Morgenthau: president, Dorothy Sonne..
vice-presidents are Mesdames Fred Rapa
port, Stanley Ackner, Sidney Schwartz.
Oak Woods: president, Mrs. Ben Marks
vice-presidents are Mesdames M e y
Kline, Nathan Schecter, William Litt
Zager: president, Mrs. Martin Rothen
berg; vice-presidents are Mesdames Henry,
Sehore, Norton Taylor, Martin Felcitnan"i•