New Leaders of Women's Bnai Brith

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A digest of current worldwide news reported by the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency,

United States
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The U. S. Navy's highest. honor for
civilian—the Distinguished Civilian Service Award—was presentec
to Dr. Emanuel R. Piore, Deputy and Chief Scientist of the °Mc(
of Naval Research. Dr. Piore, a Jewish physicist, was cited foi
"dynamic and inspiring leadership" . . . The view that the refuge(
program should be handled by a special administrator as a social
welfare function, not asa police function under the State Depart-
ment Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, has been expresses
by a number of witnesses before the Senate Immigration Com-
mittee.
NEW YORK—Dr. Mark Wischnitzer of YeshiVa University left
for Israel to take part in planning and editing a history of thc'
Jews in Russia 111) to 1917 . . . The Hashomer Hatzair Zionis
Youth, Americans for Progressive Israel, and Progressive Zionist
League-Hashomer Hatzair set up a Joint Aliya Committee at f.
conference in which the head of the Jewish Agency's Aliyz
Department participated . . . Life magazine featured a 21-page
illustrated article on Judaism, part of a series on the maja.
religious faiths of the world . . . Sen. Richard L. Neuberge
described the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act as the produe
of "men . who think . . . that there is some magical super-race
Handler Chapter; FRED WEINSTEIN, Israel I ordained to rule .mankind and to occupy superior status on di(
Chapter; SEYMOUR WEISS, Tikvah Chapter; face of the globe." He was addressing a rally for a fair immigra
MAX YORKE, Harry Keidan Chapter; LEON= tion law, called by 30 Catholic, Protestant and Jewish organiza
ARD R. LEVIN, Louis Marshall Chapter; tions.
WATERBURY, CONN.—Preparations for an intensive self
SAUL SCHWARTZ, Downtown C h a p t e r;
LEONARD MILLER, George Gershwin Chap- I survey of the Jewish Federation's program in organized groul'
activities for all age levels were under. way, as the second yea,
ter; LOUIS MAGEDMAN, Brandeis Chapter;
I of a three-year "test-tube" program came to a close.
BERNARD JNDENBAUM, Ivan S. Bloch
LOS ANGELES—A division of the Naval Reserve here vta
Chapter WILLIAM FOGELMAN, Louis Stone named the Robert Louis Kroll Division in honor of Lt. (j.g.) Kroll
Chapter; ALBERT COOPER, East Side Chap- who gave his life during World War II in attempting to say
ter; and ALLAN LABAN, Pisgah Chapter. Not ! crew members of the U.S.S. Warrington, which foundered in
shown are Miss Sarah Steinberg, Business and I hurricane.
CLEVELAND, 0.—A $5,000,000 development program will ack
Professional Chapter, and Mrs. Sidney Pianin,
185 adult beds and 63 bassinets to the capacity of Mount Sinai
Rex Chapter.
Hospital here.
MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL—The management of two resorts
Grandview Lodge and Breezy Point Lodge, pledged a policy a
•: non-discrimination and the elimination of all discriminatorj
references in advertising material, following conferences wit's
, Anti-Defamation League representatives.

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Pictured here are the new presidents
of chapters affiliated with the Greater Detroit

Bnai Brith Women's Council, who surround
Mrs. HENRY P. ONRICH, front row, center,

newly-installed Council president. Left to
right, bottom row, are Mesdames ALLAN
HAGENJOS, Detroit Chapter; WILLIAM
LITT, Oak-Woods Chapter; HENRY SCHORE,
Rabbi Mandel Zager Chapter; Mrs. Onrich;
FRED R,APOPORT, Morgenthau Chapter; AR . -
THUR FRAMER, Don a I d Fox Chapter;
GOLDYE ROTH, Theodor Herzl Chapter; top
row, Mesdames CHARLES JONES, Philip

Israel Radio Has
any Bosses, Says
Visiting Producer

• NEW YORK, (JTA)—Israel's
radio broadcasting system is
government-controlled, but un-
like similar set-upS elsewhere
the Voice of Israel is not the
charge of any one goVernment
agency.
It reports, instead, to the
Foreign Office, the Post Office,
the Ministry of Information and
the military.
The organizatiOn. of the sys-
te.m was explained here in an
interview, with "Variety," show
business trade newspaper, by
Itzhak Shimony, VOI. program
producer now in the United
States to study radio and tele-
vision techniques.
The interview notes that the
'atmosphere being like war-
time," there is a greate• neces-
sity than usual for strict se-
curity regulations. This is espe-
cially true tin the case of Arab-
language broadcasts to which
Arabs outside Israel also listen.
There is also the matter of
Foreign Office concern with
anything which might tend to
exacerbate the border situation
unnecessarily.
Commenting on the fact- that
the organiaztion of the service
is. still largely a legacy of the
British M a n d a t e, "Variety"
quotes sources other than Mr.
Shimony to the effect that this
sometimes leads -to disSension
and confusion,
The newspaper notes that the
engineers come under the Post
Office's jurisdiction while the
announcers are employees of the
Information Ministry, leading to
a wage inequity. This, inequity
results in higher wages for be-
ginning announcers than for all
save the very ton level techni-
cians.
The Israel program producer
described to the trade paper the
linguistic set-up, under which
VOI broadcasts in Hebrew, Ara-
bic, French and . English—not to
mention a slowed-down Hebrew
broadcast for beginners,
Nor does that breakdown take
into account the overseas serv-
ice, operated by, the Jewish
Agency, which broadcasts In He-
brew, Yiddish, English and
French. -
Shimony said that he special-
izes in "entertainment" shows,
including a telephone quiz show,
a music show and an unusual
program which features three
\ novelists and three poets at each
session, who ad lib stories around
three items provided by Shi-
mony.
As for television, Israel doesn't
have it yet. The reason, accord-
ing to Shimony, is 'very simple-,
much too expensive:.

Maintain JD Work at High Level;
Increase 195 Budget to $29 403 000

Despite the fact that "1954 was
in some ways a year of stability
for the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee and its overseas assist-
ance programs," tens of thou-
sands of men, women and chil-
dren in Moslem countries, Eu-
rope and Israel will "continue
to need JDC assistance for long
periods to come," the agency's
1954 annual report reveals.
During 1954, when JDC cele-
brated its 40th anniversary, the
overseas welfare organization
spent $25,686,255 to aid the 164,-
000 Jews in 25 countries. For
1955 the agency has adopted a
budget of $29,403,000 to aid an
estimated 160,000 persons.
In the annual report, entitled
"Forty Years of JDC Aid," Moses
A. Leavitt, JDC executive vice-

To Start Manufacturing
Salk Vaccine in Israel

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Israel government medical lab-
oratories will proceed immedi-
ately with manufacture of Salk
anti-polio vaccine, the Cabinet
decided. The vaccine is expected
to be ready for distribution' by
next spring.
Meanwhile, the Cabinet has
also allocated funds in the event
that it becomes possible to pur-
chase vaccine stocks from the
United States. Dr. M. Btesh, di-
rector general of the Israel
Health Ministry, who just re-
turned from a visit to the United
States, where he attempted to
negotiate the purchase of the
Salk vaccine, reported that the
U.S. is not prepared to export
vaccine at this time. He pointed
out that Israel's laboratories are
able to produce the vaccine.

chairman, points out that no
area of the world was able to re-
flect any marked decrease in the
number of men, women and
children who require JDC aid.
Although there was "substantial
progress," he declared, the world
still "presents a picture of con-
tinuing large-scale need which
cannot be expected to disappear
overnight and which continues
to be JDC's responsibility."
The financial mainstay of
JDC's overseas relief, rehabilita-
tion and reconstruction pro-
grams, he nbted. continues to be
funds provided through the na-
tionwide campaigns of the
United Jewish Appeal.
In his report, Leavitt, chair-
man of the American Council of
Voluntary Agencies for Foreign
Service, points out that "when
starvation and malnutrition
threatened at the end of World
War II, JDC provided food,
clothing and medicine for 750,000
men, women and children," ship ,
ping overseas some 225,000,000
pounds of relief supplies.
From 1946 to .1950, he adds,
"JDC ran a vast transportation
service for more than 600,000 im-
migrants to Israel . and the
Western Hemisphere." Since
1914, JDC has spent nearly $535.-
000,000 for aid to some 3,500,000
needy Jews overseas.
The report also contains ac-
counts of JDC's work by Edward
M. M. Warburg. JDC chairman
and president of the United
JewiSh Appeal; Dr. Joseph J.
Schwartz, JDC director-general I
(on leave) and vice-president of
the Development Corporation
for Israel; and Paul Baerwald
former chairman and now hon-
orary chairman of JDC.

Israel

JERUSALEM—The possibility of an Israel-American pact
provided peace prevails in the Middle East, was held out by Dr
Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive, it
a statement here . . . An $18,000,000 shipping contract for the
delivery of eight ships to be built under the German reparation!
agreements was signed between the Israel Government and th(
Zim Navigation Company . . . The Israel' Ministerial Economit
Committee decided to speed action to cut the-prices of consume!
goods, especially food.
TEL AVIV—On July 19 the Negev will receive- its first wate
from the Yarkon River, following completion of a 66-mile pipelinE
in which almost 22,000 lengths of pipe from the Yuval Gad pip!
factory were used . . . An appeal to the Israel Government
relax controls and other trade restrictions was voiced here at ar
international conference of bi-national Israel chambers of coin!
merce. Nathan Strauss III, of N.Y., was elected head of the
international group . . . Two new settlements were opened in th(
Lachish development area southwest of Jerusalem' by member!
of the Nachal, semi-military youth organization. The settlement!
are located opposite Jordan-held Hebron.
Europe
BONN—Leonhard Schlueter, neo-Nazi publisher and recentil
appointed Minister of Education and Culture of Lower Saxony
resigned in the face of continued protests of education authoritieS
students, newspapers and the public. To protest Schlueter's apI
pointment the rector and faculty senate of world-famous Goet
tingen University had resigned, and the students had gone of
strike.
PARIS—In observance of "National Day Against Racism, Anti
Semitism and for Peace," -leading French political and literar3'
figures, including former President Herriot, issued a declaration
.attacking anti-Semitism . . . The Federation of Jewish Societe;
here, in a statement on the position of Jews in the Soviet Union
'asked: "How can one explain that in the USSR, where the consti•
tution protects minorities and anti-Semitism is punishable by law
all newspapers and books in Yiddish and Hebrew have ceased ti
appear . . . that Russian JeWs do not have the right to go an
settle in Israel?"
Canada
MEDICINE HAT, ALBERTA—Twelve Alberta breeding sheet
will be sent to the Hebrew University by .Medicine Hat's 14layoi'
Harry Veiner, who believes they will be a good breed for Israel
since they need less grazing space than other types.
South AmeriCa
. RIO DE JANEIRO—Anti-Semitic pamphlets were distributed
here and in Sao Paulo by a group hitherto unknown in the area.
the Allianca Libertadora Nacionalista. Police are investigating
to discover the printing plant and authors of the illegal pamphlets'

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DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

History of American Zionism

Friday, June 17, 1955

5. Prophecy Fu f illed

Copyright, 1955, by American Jewish Press

By DR, JAKOB ROSENTHAL and MAURICE del BOURGd

THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA IS NOW ENGAGED
INTENSIFIED EFFORTS TO MOBILIZE PUBLIC OPINION FOR ISRAEL AND
TO SPUR ITS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

IN MAY 1947 DR. SILVER
PRESENTED THE CASE FOR
JEWISH STATEHOOD TO
THE UNITED NATIONS
Al FLUSHING MEADOW
PARK IN N. Y. IN MAY
1948, THE STATE WAS
PROCLAIMED.

AT THE FIRST POST-WAR ZIONIST CONGRESS
IN BASLE, (DEC. '45) DAVID BEN-GURION WAS
MADE CHAIRMAN OF THE JEWISH AGENCY
IN JERUSALEM, AND DR. ABBA HILLEL SILVER
HEADED ITS AMERICAN SECTION. DR. SILVER
HAD BEEN HEADING THE AMERICAN ZIONIST
EMERGENCY COUNCIL.

AS THE YISHUY WAGED ITS VALIANT DAVIO.ANO.
GOLIATH STRUGGLE AGAINST BRITAIN, THE RANKS
OF THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
SWELLED. UNDER DR, EMANUEL NEUMANN ITS MW-
BERSHIP ROSE TO 250,000.

SKETCH OF ZOA HOUSE IN TEL AVIV DEDICATED TO MEMORY OF LATE ZOA
PRESIDEN'T DANIEL FRISCH.

