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September 23, 1955 - Image 11

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1955-09-23

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General Gjelsteen Honored for Setting Paray to Conduct
Up Kosher Kitchen at U.S. Army Fort Symphony Series

Mass Arrests Of Jews in Moscow Are
Reported; Visitor Says Homes Raided

LONDON (JTA)—The attack
on Jewish culture in -the Soliet
Union and mass arrests 'of Jews
for possessing Jewish books have
not ceased • despite the "Geneva
spirit" show by leaders of the
Soviet government: in other re-
spects, it was reported in the
Manchester Guardian by a visitor
who just returned froth Moscow.

Brigadier General Einar B. Gjelsteen center) was honored by
the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America for assist-
ing in the establishment of the first Kosher mess hall in the U.S.
Army, which is maintained at Fort Devens, Mass. Food, prepared
in accordance with Jewish dietary laws, is donated to observant
soldiers through the cooperation of local Jewish communities.
Shown above, left to right, are Moses I. Feuerstein of Brookline,
Mass., President of the UOICA, who presented a Certificate of
Achievement to Gen. Gjelsteen; Chaplain Hersh Livazer; Gen.
Gjelsteen; Chaplain Maurice Gross; and Edward S. Gerber, presi-
dent of the New England region of the UOICA.

Open JWB Center
For GIs in Germany

KAISERSLAUTERN (JTA) —
The only Servicemen's Center in
Germany sponsored by the Na-
tional Jewish Welfare Board
opened in this city, which is the
hub of the greatest concentration
of American military strength
in Germany.
General Miles Reber, coin=
manding general of the Western
Area Command, - cut the tape
across the doorway of the build-
ing, a villa where the late Gen-
-eral Patton lived for a tine dur-
ing the war.
Its facilities- include a lounge
and dining room, music room;
voice-recording . roam, game morn
and daik room; as well as a .
writing room and a libtary. Out-
doors, a large garden' and a lux-
urious patio overlooking the city
beckon to . visitors.
Army and Aire Force wives,
who are organized into a "Jew-
ish Women's Group," served as
hostesses duririg the housewarm-
- ing reception. The number of
Jewish GI's and officers assigned
in this area is estimated to run
to 1,500: • .-

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Justine Poher
Reappointed

The visitor reveals that hun-
dreds of Jewish homes in Mos- -
cow were raided' last. month
by police units Who searched the
bookshelves . -for .signs of Jewish
publications. :A number of Jews
and their familieS were - arrested
after _the searches, and no word

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Justice Justine Wise Polier was
reappOinted to a 10-year - term in
the Domestic
Relations Court
of New York
City, at a yearly
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-1 1
salary of $19,500,
Friday, September 23, 1955
by Mayor Robert
Wagner. Justice
P olier, daughter
of the late Dr.
Stephen S. Wise,
is president of
the Nat ional
Women's Divi-
sion of the
Justice Polka'. American J e w -
jsh Congress and is one of Amer-
ican Jewryls outstanding leaders.

be sure and visit Robinson's

and Better Homes & Gardens'

Honey of a Greeting
Sent for New Year's

PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — A
novel New Year's greeting—in
the form of 2,000 jars of honey—
went out from the West Oak
Lane Jewish Community Center
here to every one of the Center's
1,500 members; as well as to 500
rabbis, synagogues- and Jewish
organization leaders in this city
and other parts of the country.
. The honey Was sent on behalf
of Rabbi and Mrs. Alex J. Gold-
man, congregational president
Stanley M. Greenberg and other
officers and lociad Members of
the Center.
Each of the jars was accom-
panied by a specially printed
:folder; entitled "HOney. for Your
Dinner Table on - ROsh Hashanah
Evening: r :*:
,
The folder described the tradi-
tion of dipping bread or apples
in honey; for a "sweet and good
year.". The idea of sending out
the honey was designed to re-
introduce the tradition into more
Jewish homes.

Night Club, Star and Troupe —
To Entertain Home Residents

Eric Rosenow, European night
club entertainer, and his troupe
of performers, will stage a special
performance at 2 p.m., Thursday,
at the Jewish Home for Aged.
The. occasion, according to Dr.
Benjamin D. Welling, chairman
of the Home's recreation and oc-
cupational therapy committee, is
the monthly birthday celebration
for Home residents whose birth-
days fall in September.

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Lipkin
Paul Paray, returning for his
fourth season as conductor of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra,
will be On the podium to open the
orchestra's concert series on Oct.
13, in Masonic Temple.
During the summer months,
Paray was conductor of the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra, which
recently completed its first Euro-
pean concert tour.
The 24-week series, including
18 subscription programs, will in-.
elude several prominent Jewish
soloists, among them _Detroit's
Seymour Lipkin, who will appear
Nov. 17, and Karl Haas, on Dec.
22. Both are pianists.
Other soloists will be Rudolf
Serkin, pianist, Oct. 27; Mischa
Mischkoff, violinist and concert-
master of the Detroit, Symphony,
Dec. 14; Jascha Heifetz, violin-
,ist, Jan. 19, and Yehudi Menuin,
violinist, Feb. 2.3
Both the opening and closing
programs will be orchestral, with
the March 22 finale an 'all-request
program. •

has been received from them
since.
tonsiderable anxiety e xis t s
among Jews in Moscow as a ,re---
suit of these arrests, the Man-
chester Guardian says. The paper
stresses the fact that these - are
the first-Jewish mass arrests since
the ."DoctorS' Plot" in 1953 when
the anti4eWish carripaign in the
Soviet Union 'reached its peak.
"And -thiS occurs at a time when
hopes were. high that with the
new poliCy of the Soviet gov-
ernment Jews too -would be per-
mitted freedom to . Jive . a full
Jewish life,"- the Manchester
Guardian comments.

—Anonymous

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