Dr. Syngalowski, World ORT Chairman,
To Address Detroit Meeting on Sunday
Dr. Aron Syngalowski, chair- many to study and received his
man of the World ORT Union, doctorate in law and philosophy.
In 1920, he, together with
will speak in Yiddish at a meet-
ing here on Sunday, at 8 p.m., the late Drs. Bramson and
in Turover Temple, 12129 Dexter Lvovitch, re-established ORT
in Berlin. The American ORT
near Monterey.
Federation is a constituent
Dr. S. Kleinman
body of the World ORT Union.
will be the
Prof. William Haber of the
chairman. This
University of Michigan, na-
_is one of a series
tional president of American
of Yiddish pro-
ORT, will greet Dr. Syngalow-;
grams arranged
ski at the Jan. 2 meeting here.
by the Yiddish
The darkening clouds of Hitler
culture commit-
Europe brought Dr. Syngalowski
tee of the Jew-
to the forefront of those helping
i s h Community
to rescue what was salvageable.
Council. The
Despite. difficult and dangerous
community is
conditions under the Nazi occu-
invited.
pation, he remained in France
Admission will Syngalowski
be free, it was announced by until 1943, when he escaped to
Louis LaMed, chairman of the Geneva. From there he helped
culture commission of the Coun- organize underground work in
cil, Samuel Sigal, chairman of France and other occupied coun-
the Council's Yiddish culture tries.
committee, and Isidor Sosnick,
president of the Landsmanschaf- Brotherhood Week 20-27
ten Council, which is co-spon-
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Brother-
hood Week whose theme this
soring this event.
Dr. Syngalowski was a candi- year will be "One Nation Under
date for election to the czarist God," will be celebrated Feb. 20
to 27.
Russian
on Lithuania,
the Jewish
Duffy of will
serve as general
ticket. In Duma
Kovno,
he Ben
chairman
Brotherhood
Week,
published a magazine, "Ha-
while Dr. Arthur H. Compton,
Zioni."
He was As
jailed
by he
the was
chairman
of the World will
Brother-
czarist police.
a Jew
hood organization,
lead
barred from admission to a Ru-
manian university, went to Ger- overseas observances.
Purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Among the 'Greats' Listed for Publication
The National Historical Publications Commission has laid
before President Eisenhower a plan for the publication of docu-
ments on our nation's history portraying the life and thought of
distinguished leaders and the manner in which their works influ-
enced American thought.
Included among the names proposed for this project are:
George Gershwin, composer; Samuel Gompers, labor leader;
Adolph Ochs and Jos :ph Pulitzer, publishers; Rabbi Isaac Mayer
Wise, religion.
This is not a sufficiently impressive' Jewish representation.
Those named thus far surely deserve a place among the most
important creative leauers in American history. There are, how-
ever, others: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin M. Cardozo, Commodore
Uriah P. Levy.
Many others have worked strictly in the Jewish fields—like
Rabbi Isaac Leeser, Judah Touro, Moses Aaron Dropsie, Rebecca
Gratz, Prof. Solomon Schecter and scores of others.
There are, however, names that can not be ignored in speaking
of the great men and women whose thoughts and works influenced
American history. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise's name cannot be
overlooked, nor is it possible to ignore that of Lillian Wald.
But the list is not complete and the project is not yet reality-.
Somehow, the great must find their way into the hearts of their
fellow-men, and those who benefit from their contributions should
help give them everlasting glory.
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Wanted: A Program for Our Young Adults
Every project undertaken by the Detroit Tercententary Com-
mittee has met with marked success. Only one event has been
cancelled: the proposed Young Adult Tercententary affair that
was scheduled for Jan. 2.
This does not, in any sense, invite criticism of our young
people. They found it difficult "to meet at everyone's conven-
ience" and it is evident that the cancellation was caused not by
lack of interest but rather by circumstances which make it diffi-
cult to evolve a program of action for our young people. The
urgent need for developing such a program justifies reference to
the only cancellation in the Tercentenary plans.
Special attention is hereby given to this problem not because
a celebration has been abandoned by this group, but more espe-
cially because of the problem itself. The dynamic president of
the United Hebrew Schools, Mr. Abe Kasle, raised the issue a few
days ago at a meeting of educators, rabbis and lay leaders who
are active in local community affairs. Mr. Kasle specifically
asked the question why there is a gap in our community's educa-
tional efforts among teen-agers and young adults; why so many
of our youth terminate their studies after Bar Mitzvah; why the
Hillel Foundations do not attract more of the college youth to
their programs.
Few of our community problems are as pressing as this one.
There is no doubt that our community schools have made and
continue to make progress. The school enrollments have grown
and continue to grow. The established schools are filled to capacity
yet, the gap exists. In-between the ages of 13 to 30, our youth
do not respond as readily as we would have them enter into the
fields of Jewish activities. At 30, many of those who had been
inactive commence to show an interest in Zionist ranks, in Bnai
Brith and in the Allied Jewish Campaign. But the college youth
are the hardest to reach, and many teen-agers, during their high
school careers, do not show the interest we would have them
display in Jewish affairs.
There is a marked exception to the rule in our Jewish Centers,
whose facilities are used to the maximum by teen-agers. Perhaps
a solution to the gap is to be found by ascertaining the power
that draws these young people to the Centers, whereas others of
their age can not be attracted to schools and to Hillel Foundations,
as well as to young adult activities in related spheres.
One thing is certain: a program for action is needed to arrive
at the solution we are seeking. If there is no better way of
acquiring the facts, of learning the reasons for our young peoples'
abstentions from Jewish activities, perhaps it would be well to
assemble representatives of the groups we seek to enlist in
educational and Hillel programs and to have them tell us why they
react as they do. To get the desired results, whatever energies we
may expend in that direction, no matter what the cost, will be
fully justified.
Mizrachi Mobilizes for Annual Banquet
on fan. 11; Rabbi Kirshhium to Speak
Irving W. Schlussel, chairman erudition, , he possesses worldly
of the annual Mizrachi banquet, knowledge and is an able spokes-
to be held at Latin Quarter, man for Jewry."
Rabbi Isaac Stollman, national
vice-president of Mizrachi, join-
ing in a call to the entire com-
munity to suport the annual
event, emphasized that Mizrachi
nationally and especially the
Mizrachists in Detroit have been
factors in creating harmonious
Zionist activities and in assuring
cooperation in support of Israel
by all American Jews.
Funds of Mizrachi are used
for the upbuilding of traditional
centers in Israel and of support-
--
ing the work of religious settle-
ments. A major Mizrachi func-
tion is the establishment of the
Bar-Ilan University at Ramat
Gan in Israel. Eight buildings
already have been built and the
university will open officially
next August, when a large dele-
gation of Detroiters, headed by
Phillip Stollman, president of
Detroit Mizrachi, is expected to
participate in the festivities.
Bar-Ilan registration corn-
mences next month.
Reservations for the Jan. 11
banquet are being taken by the
local Mizrachi at TO. 8-3128.
ADL Charges House Committee
With 'Conviction Without Investigation
RABBI MORDECAI KIRSHBLUM
Tuesday evening, Jan. 11, this
week announced that Rabbi
Mordecai Kirshblum will be the
principal speaker and that the
guests artists will be cantors
Hyman Adler and Judah Gold-
ring.
"We consider. it fortunate to
have been able to secure Rabbi
Kirshblum as our guest speaker,"
Mr. Schlussel stated. "A man of
wit and wisdom, Rabbi Kirsh-
blum is one of the most brilliant
speakers, in this. country and one
of the ablest interpreters of Is -
rael's needs. He is a man of
Allied Campaign's
Budget Conference
Is Set for Jan. 23
The pre-campaign b u d g e t
conference which will develop a
formula for the allocation of
funds to be raised in the 1955
Allied Jewish Campaign will be
held at ,10:30 a.m., Sunday, Jan.
23, at the Davison Jewish Center,
Samuel H. Rubiner, president of
the Jewish Welfare Federation,
announced.
The purpose of this sixth an-
nual conference isto develop the
formula through mutual partici-
pation and discussion by repre-
sentatives of the areas under
consideration.
Recommendations will be set
for the following categories:
overseas and Israel, local operat-
ing and capital funds and na-
tional agencies.
The formula will be submitted
to the Federation board of gov-
ernors- for approval.
Participants in the annual
conference include members of
the boards of Federation, Detroit
Service Group, Women's Divi-
sion, Junior Division, Federation
budget' and planning divisions
and .boards of affiliated local
agencies.
Declare Assaults in
Chicago Reflect Crime,
Not Anti-Semitism
CHICAGO, (JTA) — Acts of
hoodlumism in the Lawndale
district of Chicago are not con-
fined to Jewish victims but have
victimized non-Jews as well, ac-
cording to Rabbi Oscar Z. Fas-
man, president Of the Hebrew
Theological College and member
of the board of Greater Lawn-
dale Conservation Commission.
Previously, Rabbi Leonard C.
Mishkin, educational director of
the Associated Talmud Torahs,
had published a list of anti-
Semitic incidents in the district,
and protested the breakdown of
law enforcement in the district.
The Anti-Defamation League
of Bnai Brith also said that re-
cent outbreaks of lawlessness
and assaults in the Lawndale
area of this city reflect a gen-
eral crime situation, not anti-
Semitism.
2—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS'
Friday„ December 31, 1954
The Anti-Defam-ation League
of Bnai Brith charged that the
special House Committee to In-
vestigate Tax Exempt Founda-
tions had "juggled the receipt
of data to tailor its majority re-
port so as to convict, not in-
vestigate," the major educa-
tional foundations.
Henry Edward Schultz, t h e
League's national the irman,
condemned the report of the
Committee headed by Rep. B.
Carroll Reece, Republican of
Tennessee, as the "product of a
kangaroo court."
He urged that the forthcom-
tug 84th Congress give high
priority to revising Congres-
sional investigating procedures
that "would prevent such tactics
in the future."
The League was criticized by
the Committee's majority report
for reasons which Schultz
termed "incredible." A minority
report, signed by Representa-
tives Wayne L. Hays of Ohio
and Gracie Pfost of Idaho, de-
fended the organization.
Schultz said the League was
attacked not because of any ad-
verse evidence by the Commit-
tee staff, which did not even
bother to investigate ADL, but
because the League publicly cri-
ticized the Committee in an ar-
ticle which Schultz himself
wrote and which was published
in the October issue of the ADL
League was first drawn into the
controversy when it was cited
in a preliminary report of the
Committee's staff as an "acces-
cessory organization" along with
the National Education Associa-
tion, the American Historical So-
ciety, the American Council an
Education and similar groups
which, the Committee charged,
were seeking to remold Ameri-
can education. This preliminary
report preceded the public hear-
ings.
2. After testimony from hostile
witnesses, the hearings were
abruptly cut off and the accused
foundations were not allowed to
defend themselves in public
hearings. Instead, they were in-
vited to file statements with the
Committee. After the statements
were filed, however, the Commit-
tee advised the foundations that
they had come too late to be in-
corporated in the Committee's
report.
3. Schultz had forwarded to
the Committee chairman such a
sworn statement outlining the
program and activities of the
League. This statement w a s
The
submitted last Aug.
League asked that it be made
part of the Committee's records.
But the League was advised that
its statement too, had come too
late.
4. Schultz's article criticizing
the investigation appeared in
October two months after his
Bulletin.
sworn statement had been sub-
This, says Mr. Schultz, is how mitted to the Committee. How-
the Committee distorted its ma- ever, the Committee found it
jority report:
was not too late to comment on
1. The Anti-Defamation the article in the report.
Between You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1954, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
The New Year
Whether some officials in Washington like it or not, some
changes in the American policy on the Arab-Israel problem will
have to take place this year . . Otherwise, Britain will take all
political initiative in the Middle East away from the State
Department . . . This has become more and more obvious to
observers in Washington . . A flood of encouragement for Israel
has been pouring out of London in the last months, while Wash-
ington is busy begging the Arab countries to accept American
arms . , . This has not failed to make a deep impression in Israel,
although it does not presage any change in Israel's association
with the United States . . British Prime Minister Sir Winston
Churchill and Foreigr. Minister Anthony Eden seem to be vying
with opposition leaders like Herbert Morrison in orally patting
Israel on the back ... There has also been a veritable host of im-
Members of both Douses of Par-
portant British visitors to Israel
liament, businessmen and officials follow each other in quick suc-
cession, and all try to make a good impression while they are in
Israel . . • More than that: some of them go across to Jordan,
which is ruled by Britain, and try their best to lessen the tension
between Israel and Jordan . This is all a part of recent British
activity to regain - diplomatic initiative in the Middle East, since
Britain does not like to see U. S, influence growing stronger
there . . . In Israel Britain sees better ground than anywhere else
in the Middle East for staging a comeback, in spite of past
differences . . . For Israel is in need of a helping hand in the
present pro-Arab stand taken by the State Department, and she
welcomes any sincere approach . . . Thus, if the United States
does not do something quickly to alter its present stand, it may
lose to Britain not only to Israel, but in the whole Middle East
area, in view of the fact that the left-handed manner of courting
the Arabs is obviously failing to make the desired impression.
* •
Jewish Affairs
Zionist leaders in New York are still looking for a person to
succeed Louis Lipsky as head of the American Zionist Committee
for Public Affairs, which combats anti-Israel propaganda in this
country .. , The most likely candidate mentioned is Rabbi Philip
Bernstein of Rochester, N. Y. . . . Another possible candidate is
Judge Louis Levinthal of Philadephia . . . It seems that Dewey
Stone of Boston will be named national chairman of the United
Israel Appeal , to ,suc.ceed Rudcat ,Sonnebom whose . tern) expires
now and who does not chooSe 'Whin again.'''' "
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