Tercentenary Sabbath Calls
Detroit Jews to Worship
The Tercentenary
Sabbath: A Call
to Renewed Faith
Arab Obstructions
To Israel Peace
Editorials, Page 4
VOLUME 26—No. 12
The Detroit Rabbinical Committee, through its Orthodox, Conservative and
Reform leaders, has issued a call to prayer this weekend on the occasion
of Tercentenary Sabbath. Special prayers, readings and sermons by rabbis
will recount the manifold blessings granted to American Jewry during its
300 years of settlement on these shores.
Detailed Story on Page 24
'THE JEWISH NEWS
Weekly Review
A
of Jewish Events
*
Baruch's Tribute
To McCarran
Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE. 8-9364—Detroit 35, November 26, 1954
Challenge to
'Get-Together'
Inter-Faith Work:
Douglas vs. Cullen
Commentary, Page 2
$4.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 15c
Suez Stripped of Air Devices by
British; UN Group 'Rules Against
Egypt; Order 'Bat Gahm' Released
Nate Shaperos Make $500,000 Gift to
Sinai Hospital for School of Nursing
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
LONDON — The British government is , removing all
radar and other warning systems designed to give advance.
notice of approaching planes from the Suez Canal military
complex when British forces are withdrawn, it was stated
this week-end by spokesmen for several government minis-
tries here.
A war office spokesman declared that "we are taking
out all equipment and every British soldier." He added
that "if • the Egyptians discover that they need radar
equipment and if they apply to us for it, that will be con-
sidered."
At the air ministry, a spokesman stated that the air
bases too would be stripped of such devices. He said the
secret early warning system would not be left to be op-
erated by the Egyptians.
Arabs Defy U. S. Warning on Refugees
A Pottioaa2Lid:_:.Proposed Shapero School of Nursing, Designed by Albert Kahn Associates
A gift of approximately $500,000 to Sinai Hospital, Detroit, by the Cunningham Drug
Company Foundation and the Nate S. and Ruth B. Shapero Foundation to be used for the
establishment of a new school of nursing was announced Tuesday.
The gift will enable the Hospital to graduate 48 trained practical nurses each year and
in addition furnish facilities for research and experimentation in the field of general nursing
problems, according to Mr. Shapero who heads both philanthropic groups.
Offer of the fund came as a surprise to the board of trustees, of Sinai Hospital. Under
terms of the offer, the two Foundations will underwrite construction of the nursing school
= in its -entirety and finance its anticipated operating deficits on a diminishing sliding scale
over a period of five years.
The decision to finance the establishment of a new nursing home was made as a result
of a 1954 survey of nursing needs in Michigan made under the joint auspices of the Cunningham
Drug Company Foundation and the U. S. Public Health Service. This published study "For
Better Nursing in Michigan" disclosed the existence of a shortage of over 5,000 nursing personnel.
The Shapero School of Nursing will be devoted to training of practical nurses. In the
future, depending on results of research and the changing needs of the community, the school
may turn to training of other types of nursing personnel as needed.
The 212-bed Sinai Hospital, constructed in 1952 as one of the new hospitals created with
funds from the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund, is located at 6767 W. Outer Drive. The nursing
school will be located west of the hospital and adjoining it. Max Osnos, president of the board
of trustees of Sinai Hospital, expressed the board's thanks to the Shaperos.
Dr. Julian Priver is director of the hospital. When Sinai Hospital was constructed, Mr.
Shapero was chairman of the hospital's building committee.
-
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — Completely ignoring a
warning by James J. Wadsworth, American delegate to
the United Nations, that the United States would only con-
tinue to support the UN relief program for Arab refugees
if Arab states themselves did something constructively to
help the refugees, Ahmed Shukairi, head of the Syrian
delegation to the UN, launched a bitter attack on Israel
Monday for refusing to readmit the Palestine Arabs.
Speaking in the General Assembly's special political
committee during debate on next year's budget for the
UN Relief and Works Agency for Arab Refugees, Mr. Shu-
kairi, assistant secretary of the bitterly anti-Israel Arab
League and himself a former resident of Acre, Israel, re-
jected all solutions of Arab refugee problems other than re-
patriation. He declared "repatriation is the crux of the
item we are discussing. It is the problem in its very es-
sence. The idea of relief is an emergency measure pend-
ing repatriation. Relief is extended not to extend expatria-
tion, but to keep body and soul together until repatria..
tion."
Mr. Wadsworth's warning came last Friday, just after
debate on the budget began. He told the committee that
the United States would favor extension of the UN pro-
gram for the refugees, for a further five years, only if the
Arab "host" governments show a willingness to help the
refugees achieve a permanent solution to their problem.
Continued on Page 24
AJC Leaders in Africa:
These photographs depict the conditions
under which many of the 500,000 North African Jews live, it is reported by a special
American Jewish Committee delegation which just returned from a two-week, 4,000-mile
survey of the civil, religious and economic status of North African Jewry, the first of its
kind ever undertaken by any American organization. V Members of the delegation included
Irving M. Engel, AJC president; Jacob Blaustein, AJC honorary president, and Dr. John
Slawson, executive vice-president. Zachariah Shuster, AJC's European director, accom-
panied the group. In Photo 1, Mr. Engel (right) and Mr. Blaustein (left) are watching
the leader of the tiny Jewish village of Ourika, French Morocco, baking bread in a stone
oven, a method little different from that used by Jews in Biblical times. In Photo No. 2,
Mr. Blaustein is with a group of Jewish adults and children in the same village, located
in the foothills of the Atlas mountains, south of Marrakesh. The AJC group found that
Jewish villagers here live much as they did in the same area nearly 2,000 years ago. In
Photo No. 3, Mr. Engel is watching a Jewish boy being taught in the village "chedar."
Oldest in Malben:
Menashe Yankelovitz,
90, is the oldest of the 2,000 aged men and women now
being cared for in Israel by Malben, the Joint Distribution
Committee welfare program for newcomers to the Jewish
state. A program for continued assistance to Malben, as well
as the tens of thousands of needy Jews in Europe, Moslem
countries and other areas, will be adopted by delegates to
the 40th JDC annual meeting, Dec. 9, at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel, New York. Funds for JDC's overseas programs are
provided by the United Jewish Appeal, supported in Detroit
by the Allied Jewish Campaign.