Allied Campaign Opens Wednesday
Lerner and Dafm to Speak;
Israeli Soprano on Program
Dr. Max Lerner, journalist
and poly _calscientist, and Shos-
•hana Shoshan, Israeli soprano,
will join Reuven Dafni, Consul
of Israel in New York, on Tem-
ple Israeli's podium for the
formal opening of the 1956 Al-
lied Jewish Campaign, at 8 p.m.,
next Wednesday.
A dinner conference for • all
campaign sectio.n and diviSion
chairmen iv ill precede the
formal opening. The meeting
will give all chairmen an op-
portunity to make final pre-
campaign reports and will
facilitate announcing an up-
to the-minute pre-campaign
total at the campaign's formal
opening.
Lerner, dean of graduate
studies at Brandeis University
and a columnist for the New
York Post, is nationally famous
for his ability to interpret
world affairs. He is one • of the
nation's keenest analysts of the
political and economic scenes
at home and abroad. In his
columns in the Post he has ex-
posed the methods used, by
American anti-Zionists • in
spreading hate against all Jews.
Miss Shoshan, a "Sabra"
native born Israeli—excels at
interpreting modern Israeli mu-
sic. She is a member of the
Israeli Folk Opera and has been
an overwhelming success in
leading hotels and on radio in
the United States. •
Israel COnsul Dafni, a
World War paratrooper
with the British army, served
on the Mixed Israel-Arab
.Armistice Commission. He has
been consul of Israel in New
York and director of the
DR. MAX LERNER
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48 Women. Aid in Real Estate Council Registers
Sorting of 13,000 74% Increase to Allied Campaign
Pledges in Drive
The Allied Jewish Campaign
Women's Division office at the
Fred M. Butzel Memorial Build-
ing, 163 Madison, was a beehive
of activity last week as 48 de-
voted division members joined
the staff in the gigantic task of
sorting and assigning 13,000
pledge cards.
"Without the help of these
wonderful volunteers it would
be all but impossible to assign
pledge slips," said Woman's Di-
vision campaign chairman, Mrs.
Harry L. Jones. "With their aid
the job went smoothly, quickly
and efficiently and our solicit-
ing will be done with maximum
effectiveness." Mrs. Jones listed
the following as having aided
enormously in the work to be
done:
Mesdames Jerry Abramson, Nor-
man Adilman, Samuel Babcock, Dan-
iel Birnbaum, Dorothy Bloom, Aaron
Budman, Irving Burke, Moe Caplan,
Madeline Eiges, Milton Fishman, Her-
bert Frank, Jerry Frank, Charles Ga-
lin•, Samuel Gerber,• Leo Gold, David
Goldman, James Goodfriend, Hugh
Greenberg, Louis Heideman, John
Hopp, Jr. John Bernard Horwitz,
Miles Jaffe, Harry Kifferstein, Mel-
vin Kolbert, Jack Kroker, J. H. Le-
Vine, Morton Lewis, Adolph Lowe,
M. Lulkin, Lippman Lumberg; Mor-
ris Mellen, Sol Passel, Maurice Perl-
man. Ralph Pierce, Sylvan Rapaport,
Harry Robinson, Jack Rom, A.
Rothschild, Saul J. Rubin, Chas. Ru-
biner, Rudolph Scherock, Max M.
Schubiner, Samuel S. Silver, Arthur
Soltar,. Thai, Paul Tilds, Irving
Wartel and William Zack.
Israel Office of Information
since 1953.
All campaign divisions have Campaigners Hear
been conducting fund raising
events in an effort to have col- Analysis of Murro-w
lections well underway before Mid-East Broadcast
campaign opening. Following
After according Samuel N.
the formal opening, 3,336 work-
ers will solicit 30,000 Detroit Katzin, Chicago builder and co-
developer of Detroit's Gratiot-
Jews.
Orleans Redevelopment Project,
an ovation when he addressed
their dinner meeting at the
Sheraton - Cadillac Hot e 1, 135
members of the real estate and
building council backed up their
applause with an outpouring of
cash for the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign.
After reviewing local needs,
Katzin discused the overseas
picture from the point of view
of Edward R. Murrow's "See It
Now" show /devoted to Israel
and Egypt.
Seeing Murrow's map of the
Near East, and the little sliver
Checking campaign °figures at the arts and crafts division of land that is Israel surrounded
dinner of the Allied Jewish -Campaign are (left to right) Dr. by huge Arab countries, made
Frank Rosenthal, Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, guest speaker
it ludicrous to even discuss the
at the dinner, David Safran who showed his color slides of possibility of Israeli aggression
Israel, Nathan Balaban, division chairman, and Leonard N.
against the Arab nations, Kat-
Simons, general pre-campaign chairman.
zin said. •
Speaking of Marrow's inter-
view with the guard at a
kibbuti on Israel's border, Kat-
zin said, here are Jews living
in peril that we cannot en:•.
vision.
Katzin stressed that Israel has
, been making tremendous sac-
rifices in financing the immi-
gration of North African Jews
and emphasized that she cannot
continue to do so because of the
Communist arms threat. The
Jews we bring from North
Africa to Israel may be lives
saved, said Katzin. When we
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help Israel we are acting in the
Arts and crafts division leaders at the dinner: - (standing best of faith as American citi-
left to right) Leon S. Wayburn, Jack K. Lewis, Herbert H.
zens, he added.
Klein, Herbert A. Aaronsson and Joseph S. Bing hand in work-
ers kits as Louis N. Henderstein (seated right) checks contents
28—Detroit Jewish News
with Stanley R. Akers.
Friday, March 30, 1956
Arts and Crafts Division Leaders
"That is the kind of pledging I like to see," guest speaker
Samuel N. Katzin, Chicago builder and co-developer- of De-
troit's Gratiot-Orleans Redevelopment Project (second from
left) tells Abe Green, real estate and building division chair-
man, who shows his pledges made to the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign at the real estate and building council dinner, March 21,
at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hptel. Flanking Katzin and Green are
division associate chairmen Milton Howard (left) and Irving
Rose.
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Registering. former real estate and building council chair-
men at the Council's dinner are (seated,. left to right) Joseph
Holtzman and Louis Berry. Registering are (left to right) David
Wilkus, Ben Wilk, Mandell L. Berman, Charles Agree, David
Pollick and Daniel A.Laven. When results were tallied, $360,000,
representing a '74 per cent increase over last year's slips, had
been pledged to the Allied Jewish Campaign at the dinner.
Insurance Men Active in Drive
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Pre-campaign chairman Louis C. Blumberg (standing, left)
checks with insurance men (seated, left to right) Adolph E.
Baron, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sidney J. Berton and (standing,
left to right) Henry Channer, Saul W. Mason, and Samuel J.
Greenberg, regarding pre-campaign efforts for the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign.
Come to the Formal Openiititg of -14e
1956 Allied Jewish Campaign
Wednesday, April 4, 8 p. m., at Temple Israel ... Amission Free
Your Presence will give evidence of your concern in our great current humanitarian efforts.
When you are asked to give . . . to meet the Israel ethergency .. .
Be ready to give MUCH MORE than ever before