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April 20, 1956 - Image 5

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1956-04-20

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Quentin Reynolds to Speak
At State - 1_,TJA Conference

Communities from all over
Michigan will be represented at
the annual Michigan Regional
Conference of the United Jewish
Appeal, scheduled this Sunday,
in Flint.
The principal speaker will be
world-famous author and for-
eign 7 correspondent Quentin
Reynolds. Also to be featured
will be Itzhak Ben-Aharon,
World War II hero and member
of Israel's K _ nesset.
Reynolds and Ben-Aharon
will substitute for Sen. John
Sparkman • who was originally
to have addressed the confer-
ence.
According to Jack 0. Lefton,
a leader in Detroit's Allied Jew-
ish Campaign and chairman of
the state UJA meeting, the pro-
gram will begin at 10 a.m. with
a work: session. Following a
luncheon at 12:30 p.m., an after-
noon session is Planned.
All meetings will be held at
Flint's Hotel Durant.
Over 300 people through-
out the state are' expected at
the conference, at which the
tense and ominous develop-
ments in the Near East will
be clarified.
Reynolds, who has been a
correspondent for this country's
leading newspapers and maga-
zines, is a world traveler, He
covered the Israel. War for In-
dependence in 1948.
Prior to that period he had
visited in Displaced Persons
camps in Europe and witnessed
the vast wave of immigration
bound for the Jewish state.
Muchof the drama of post-
. World War II days and the
evolvement of Israel is incor-
porated in Reynold's book,
"Leavek It to the People."
He covered the North Afri-
can front during World War
II, and, consequently, is fa-
miliar with the problems of
the peoples in those lands
where r i s'i n g nationalism
threatens the lives of Jewish
citizens who must be brought
to Israel.
Prior - to the war, he was a
correspondent in Germany
where he witnessed the rise of
Hitlerism. He has been associate
editor of Colliers, and has
worked for International . News

Service and se _ veral New York
newspapers. •
. Ben Aharon's military career
included many episodes of hero-

ism and escape from the Nazis
who captured him together with
his company in the early days of
World. War II.
Lefton and his co-chairman,
B. Morris Pelavin, of Flint, em-
, phasized that the morning ses-
sions will emphasize the two
major areas of this year's UJA
drive:
1. The emergency resettle-
ment in Israel this • year, of
45,000 Jews from Morocco and

Flint to Celebrate
Israel's Independence

The Flint Jewish community
will celebrate the eighth anni-
versary of_ Israel's independence
with a city-wide ce13bration at
8 p.m., Thursday, in Cong. Beth
Israel, Hamilton and Oren Ayes.
Gov. G. Mennen Williams will
appear at the program, bringing
greetings from the . State of
Michigan and speaking on his
personal observations of the
Jewish state which he gath:x.red
during his trip there last win-
ter.
The Governor also will shoW
color slides which he took dur-
ing his trip there.
Simcha Pratt, Consul General
of Israel in Chicago, will also
be featured on the program.
Israeli songs will be sung by
Mrs. Ziona Dunitz, a native-
born Israeli, and Cantor Joseph
Cohen.
The program is sponsored by
and is open to people from all
• the Flint Zionist Organization,
communities. A reception will

follow.

National ADL Director in Detroit
For Several Speaking Engagements

Tunisia, for which the special
$25,000,000 fund has been estab-
lished; and
2. Strengthening of agricul-
tural, welfare and rehabilita-
tion services and institutions in
Israel, Europe, Molem lands and
the U. S., for which a goal of
$105,283,435 has. been set.

Benjamin R. Epstein, national
director of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith will be
in Detroit on Monday and Tues-
day for a series of public ap-
pearances and speaking engage-
ments.

He-- will speak under the aus-
pices of Pisgah Lodge and
chapter of Bnai Brith
at 8:30 p.m. Monda y, at
Adas Shalom Synagogue. The
meeting also will serve for the
presentation of a citation to
Judge Nathan J. Kaufman for
"outstanding work in the field
of juvenile delinquency."

Rudolph Meyersohn, Pisgah
program chairman, stated that
entertainments will be provided
by Nancy Hearth, accordianist;
Barbara Herman, tap dancer;
and Linda Balberman, vocalist.
On Tuesday,
following a
series of radio
and television
a pp earances
and press con-
ferences, Ep-
stein will at-
tend a special
luncheon given
by the com-
munity rela-
tions commit-
tee of the Jew-
ish Community
Epstein
Council.
-The luncheon will be held at
12:15 p.m., in the Fred M. But-
zel Bldg., 163 Madison, accord-
ing to William Cohen and Mrs.
Samuel Aaron, chairman and
co-chairman of the committee.

w

QUENTIN REYNOLDS

In the evening, under the
joint sponsorship of Bnai Brith's
Henry Morgenthau, Louis Mar-
shall, Detroit and Tikvah Lodges
and Chapters, Epstein will
speak at a *public rally at .8:30
p.m., at - Beth Aaron Synagogue.

ITZHAK BEN-AHARON

civil rights director and legal
counsel for ADL, is co-author
of the best-selling, non-fiction
report on human relations,
"Cross-Currents."
He was a student in Germany
in 1934, under a fellowship
grant from the Institute of In-
ternational Education. It was
during this period of Hitler's
rise to power that he was shock-
ed to awareness by the early
manifestations of Nazi tyranny.
He joined ADL in . 1939 as
head of its foreign language de-
partment, progressed to New
England regional director, East-
ern region - director and assist-
ant national director. He as-
sumed his present post in 1947.
A graduate of Dickinson al-
lege, he earned his master's de-
gree from the University of
Pennsylvania: He returned from

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Europe, after studying in 1934
and at the University of
Berlin, to be named tic; the U.
-of P. faculty. He was twice--
awarded Jusserand Traveling
Fellowships.
In March, 1954, he visited
Germany at the invitation of
the Federal Republic to study
civil rights. He is co-author with
Jacob Alson and Nathan C.
Belth of "Germany—Nine Years
Later."
Arrangements for his visit
here have been madeby - Robert
Kohler, ADL chairman for the
Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
Council; and Dr. Morton J.
Sobel, ADL Michigan regional
director.

De _ troit Jewish News-5
Friday, April 20, 1956

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