Volunteers Assist Israel's
Defense, Aided by UlA Funds
Dawn is just breaking through the eastern Jerusalem sky
when the near empty streets of the city begin to echo with the
glatter Of footsteps and the sounds of a crowd gathering. Outside
one of the government buildings, in downtown Jerusalem, hun-
dreds of men and women are beginning to congregate. These
are Jerusalem's volunteers who have left offices, shops, factories,
laboratories, who have come from all walks of life, to spend a
week helping and working in the new border settlements.
The ever-growing threat of war and invasion from hostile
neighbors has created severe crises, particularly in the border
settlements where manpower is short and the demanding routine
involves working-by-day and guarding-by-night. Of the 420
Settlements founded since the state was established, with the aid
of United Israel Appeal funds, about every other one is located
in border areas to limit the possibility of infiltration.
Vicki Ginio, a clerk in Jerusalem, and David Hirschfeld,
•an accountap.t, stand guard duty on top of the Naha1-Oz tower.
Every one of the volunteers had to serve a five-hour watch at
least once during their seven days' stay.
Allied Jewish Campaign Assured S5,100,000;
Judge Levin, U.S. Solicitor General Sobeloff,
Call Support of Israel 'Flowering of Freedom'
Detroit's 1956 Allied Jewish
Campaign is assured of an in-
come approximating $5,200,000,
Isidore Sobeloff, executive vice-
president of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, announced Tuesday
evening, at the campaign victory
dinner, at Hotel Statler.
Mr. Sobeloff announced that
the final tabulation that night
showed pledges amounting to
$4,938,000, and that assured gifts
in transit amount to another
$184,000 — accounting for a total
of $5,122,000.
"We set out to raise $5,380,-
000," he stated, "and there are
enough outstanding slips to
go beyond that figure, if all
prospects on • our rolls are
reached."
The United Jewish Appeal's
emergency fund for Israel is
assured of a Detroit gift of at
least $1,000,000 "as a result of
this good campaign," Mr. Sobe-
loff reported.
John E. Lurie, campaign
chairman, presided at the meet-
ing, and his co-chairman, Max
M. Fischer, called for reports
from division heads.
The principal speaker at the
dinner meeting, which was at-
tended by more than 400 key
Workers, was ' Simon E. Sobe-
loff, U. S. Solicitor general, for-
mei. chief justice of the Mary-
land Court of Appeals.
Introducing Judge Sobeloff
as one of American Jewry's
most distinguished leaders
who is following the path
-of liberalism of the Brandeis-
Cardozo - Frankfurter group,
Judge Theonore Levin, presi-
dent of the Jewish Welfare
Federation of Detroit, quoted
from a letter sent to the con-
vention of the American Jew-
ish Congress, last week-, by
Supreme Court Justice Felix -
Frankfurter,' in tribute to the
memory of Justice Brandeis,
in which charges of "dual
allegiance" were repudiated
and in which Justice Frank-
furter pointed to the true
American ideas pursued by
Justice Brandeis in support-
Television Proves
Sound Investment
To 10-Yr.-Old Boy
United Israel Appeal Photos
Crowds of volunteers gather in the early morning in.
downtown Jerusalem prior to leaving for a week of work in
the border settlement of .Nahal-Oz.
The Great Shadchen
Grace and Margaret Marriages Recall
President Grant's Gift to Jerusalemite
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
It's the season for getting mar-
ried. Grace Kelly has gotten
married and Margaret Truman
went under the "chuppah."
As we look at all the fuss
about the wedding of Miss Kelly,
It would seem as though the
press has gone haywire.
And yet the rabbi of the Tal-
mud forsook all his studies —
about even more serious prob-
lems — just to join in a wed-
ding procession, and the entire
tradition of Judaism supports
him! What does God do in the
skies? asked the rabbis of the
Midrash. They answered that
He sits up there and makes
matches. He is the great shad-
Simon Wolfe in his autobi-
ography tells how President
grant joined in such a "mitz-
vah." Wolfe, who was one of the
prominent American Jews of
his day, received a letter from
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Friday, April 27, 1956
a Jew in Jerusalem asking him
to see "the King of America"
to ask him -to contribute fo a
dowry to marry . off his daugh-
ter. Wolfe thought. this letter
so amusing that he showed it
to President Grant.
"Is he serious?" asked Grant.
"None more so," replied
Wolfe, explaining to Grant that
Jews regarded it as a great
"mitzvah" — something for
which God would surely reward
the donor — to help -a poor girl
get married.
Grant wrote a check for $25
which Wolfe sent to the Jew in
Jerusalem. In return Grant re-
ceived a portrait of himself in
Hebrew letters done by the
Jerusalem Jew who apparently
was something of an artist. But
the matter did not rest there.
After his term of office was
ended, Grant made a tour of
the world and visited the Wail-
ing Wall in Jerusalem. There
a man flung himself prostrate
before him in expression of
thanks —. it was this Jew of
Jerusalem.
NEW YORK -- The prospect
of having only $33,000 left out
of his $100,000 winnings on
television's "The Big Surprise"
didn't seem to dim the smile
from the face of 10-year-old
Leonard. Ross, who became the
fourth to win TV's biggest
prize.
Leonard, the son of William
Ross, an accountant, and Pauline
Ross, a court stenographer, won
by answering a five-part ques-
tion on the New York Stock
Exchange.
In •addition to his big win-
nings, the Tujunga, Calif. lad
was given $2,500 to invest any
way he. wishes in the stock
market by the -president of the
Exchange and a free subse-io-
ton to the Wall Street Journal,
stock trade paper.
Lennie says that he plans
to give a substantial part of
the winnings to charity, especi-
ally to the Cancer' Fund and for
CARE packages.
JDC Presents Set of ,Talmud
To Jewish Community of Iran
The first complete set of the
Babylonian Talmud to be made
available in modern Iran was
presented in Tehran by Charles
H. Jordan, acting director-
general of the Joint Distribution
Committee..
Accepting the Talmud in the
name of the Jewish communi-
ties of ancient Persia was Grand
R a b b i Haham Yedidya, who
called the gift "an apt symbol of
the revival of Jewish learning
in Iran." Also present was Abe
Loskove, JDC director for Iran.
ests we are better Americans.
ing the Zionist cause.
Judge Sobeloff fo llo wed They are the flowering of our
through on this theme with a freedom, for, freedom is real
Strong endorsement of the right when people are free to be
and the duty of Americans to themselves. That makes for
live up to cultural heritages and the strength of America."
by supporting just causes.
The victory dinner was a
"The interest we have in personal triumph for Isidore
Israel is something we can't Sobeloff, who witnessed the suc-
drop," he stated'. "We can't cess of a great fund-raising
desert Israel now. "Israel is an drive and had the privilege of
undeniable fact. However Israel his distinguished brother's pres-
is regarded, however we view ence at the impressive commt4n-
it, Israel holds heartening word ity event.
abdut availability of arms for
Judge Levin presented
Israel. •But I can't report on awards, in behalf of the com-
that, as I am not a member of munity, to the campaign co-
the State Department."
chairmen, Messrs. Lurie and
He added: "I know that' what Fisher, in recognition of their
they do in Israel depends in efforts in making the drive a
large measure upon what we do. success.
The Jews in Israel are not pan-
The two co-chairmen, in their
icked. They bear their share of addresses to the gathering, ex-
the burden bravely. But none of pressed gratitude to "this gen-
us should be deluded by actual. erous community" for the
demands upon us. The Jews of wholehearted support given the
North Africa are not Israel's 'great humanitarian efforts rep-
responsibility alone. It is our resented by the Allied Jewish
duty to rescue these people and Campaign.
to settle them there."
Among the division chairmen
Judge Sobeloff declared that who reported for their groups
"what we do is not inconsist- were Nathan Balaban, Hyman
ent with our American pa- Safran, Stanley Winkelman,
triotism. It is important for Harry Schumer, Jack Lefton,
Jews and all others to under- Merwin Grosberg, Aba Satov-
stand 'what American loyalties sky, Avern Cohn, Mrs. Julius
expect of us. What we do fore Ring and Mrs. Harry L. Jones,
Israel is an obligation that chairman of the Women's Di-'
we meet as a matter of course. vision.
We are not like 'the totali-
The invocation was given by
tarians. It is not in the sphere Dr. Richard C. Hertz. The na-.
of free nations to stifle di- tional anthems were sung by
versity in religion and culture.' Mrs. Morris Schaver, who was
These loyalties ennoble a accompanied by Rebecca Froh-
man. Because of these inter- man.
Windsor Welfare Fund Has Good
Beginning; 'Special Gifts Campaign
Spurred to Action by Bronfman
Samuel Bronfman, Canada's
leading Jewish citizen, president
of the American Jewish Con-
gress and a world Zionist lead-
er, inspired a large gathering
of Windsor Jewish leaders, at a
dinner meeting of the special
gifts division in the current
welfare fund drive, at the Prince
EdWard Hotel, Monday.
Eli Golden, who presided at
the dinner, called the results
"most encouraging," and an-
nounced' that' the $94,600 raised
during the first week in the
drive represented a 50 per cent
increase over last year's con-
tributions.
Mr. Golden, who made a strong
appeal for a speedy effort to
raise the 1956 kuotas, announced
that the campaign aims to se-
cure a renewal of the amount
raised last year—$112,000—for
local, national and overseas
causes, and an additional emer-
gency fund of $50,000 for Israel
—for a total of $162,000.
The campaign is being con-
ducted by the Jewish Com-
munity Council of Windsor,
under the direction of Haym
Paltiel, the Council's execu-
tive director.
Morris Tabachnick, president
of the Council, introduced Mr.
Bronfrnan.
The distinguished guest speak-
er, president of Seagram's, was
the chairman of the dinner giv-
en in February, in New York,
in honor of Senator Herbert H.
Lehman, by the United Jewish
Appeal. At that dinner, Mr.
Bronfman, whose family con-
tributed $380,000 to the regular
UJA funds, announced an addi-
tional. $250,000 gift to the Israel
emergency fund.
Declaring that Jewish com-
munities have three obliga-
tions — to provide for local
Jewish needs, to make avail-
able their services and their
gifts as citizens and to finance
overseas causes — Mr..Bronf-
man told of the urgency of
the present appeal in behalf
of Israel. Having just returned
,
from visits in Israel and in
the Arab countries, where he
was able to make tours on
separate passports, Mr. Bronf-
man described the contrasts
in the two areas and told of
the vital need for speedy ac-
tion to enable Israel to rescue
many Jews who now are
threatened in Morocco.
He quoted facts and figures
to show how Israel has pro-
gressed. He asked, "what would
we have done with the 900,000
Jewish refugees who were
settled in - Israel if there were
no Jewish state?" and expressed
the wish that Arab countries
had displayed- as sincere an in-
terest in their refugees.
"After visiting the Arab
states, I am convinced that it is
Arab leadership and not the
common people that is opposing
Israel," Mr. Bronfman said. He
•said the oil interests are anx-
ious to get all the income they
can and seek to perpetrate the
poverty of the masses. Nasser,
he said, "wants hegemony over
all the Arab peoples; he has a
vision of grandeur and a lust
for power."
Reporting on his meetings
with Israeli leaders, he said
that Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion does not want to get
into a fight, that he views the
situation realistically and knows
that any victory would be tem-
porary and would only be fol-
lowed by another conflict. This
he hopes to avoid, Mr. Bronf-
man reported, and he hopes that
there will be sufficient concern
among the world's powers to
prevent a war.
Arms for Israel will help
avoid a war, Mr. Bronfman
said, because Egypt, will •hesi-
tate to attack if she knows that
Israel has as many planes as
she has — since Nasser is aware
that Cairo is as far from Tel
Aviv as Tel Aviv from Cairo.
The Windsor Jewish com-
munity's thanks to Mr. Bronf-
man for his assistance in the
current drive were expressed
in an address by Rabbi Sam-
uel Strollman. Mr. Golden sec-
onded his sentiments.