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 28—Detroit Jewish News 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.