is rut—a-Fens Drive W tth fiZ5(1,000 Goal
Following the success of its
opening City Conference last
Sunday, officials and workers
in the Detroit Israel Histadrut
Campaign -prepared this week
to swing into action for inten-
sive two-month drive to raise
funds for Israel institutions.
The conference, which mark-
ed the drive's official opening,
significantly adopted a budget
of $250,000 plus $1, indicating
a positive approach to the
realism of the goal.
Other business of the cam-
paigners was the election of
the 1956-57 drive officers and
announcement of proposed ac-
tivities geared to raise the
funds as quickly as possible.
Morris Lieberman was re-
elected to head the local
drive, and Morris Schaver and
Harry Schumer were again
named as honorary drive
chairman.
Other officers are Irving I.
Pokempner and Harold Berke,
executive board co-chairmen;
Philip D. Goldstein, first vice-
chairman; Louis Bassin, Israel
Burstein, Berl Hearshen, Jack
Malamud, Louis Nathanson,
Jack B. Ormond, Max Schulz-
inger, William Selman and
Abraham Weintraub, vice-chair-
men; Norman Cottler, treasurer;
Ben Harold, financial secretary;
and David Sislin, secretary.
Division chairmen named by
the nominating committee, on
which served Harry Schumer,
chairman, I. I. Pokempner, D.
Sislin, H. Berke and Nathan
Rose, were the following:
Richard Kr am er, Farband;
Laible Hoffmitz, LZOA; Nathan
Rose, Jacob Brody and Mischa
Malin, organizations; Pearl Lie-
berman and Sylvia Adler, Pio-
neer Women; Nathan H. Shec-
ter, furniture; Morris W. Stein,
Sanford Goldberg and Dr. Sol
C. Stein, professional; Samuel
Schwartzberg, scrap industries;
Harold Silver and Walter Klein,
communal worker s; Isidore
Cohen, footwear; Isaac Litwak,
Barney Hopkins, David Chaney
and Leonard Levin, trade
unions.
The Histadrut Campaign Cab-
inet will be composed of Mau-
rice Baker, Max Brose, Morris
Chasnick, Morris Ginsburg,
Jacob Glazer Harry Gonte,
Samuel J. Greenberg, Harry
Grossman, Joseph Kahn, Sol
Kanat, Morris Kane, Samuel
Kane, Benjamin Laikin, Ber-
nard Linderman, Hyman Lip-
sitz, Adele Mondry, Harry Mon-
dry and Larry Nichamin.
Others are Evelyn Noveck,
Herbert Pincus, Simon Richard-
son, Helen Ring, Morris Ross,
Max Rosenthal, Sam H. Rubin,
William Schumer, Moritz Schu-
biner, Sidney Shevitz, Max
Schmukler, I. L. Shrodeck,
Faigel Silver, Julius Singer,
Nettie Turner, Chaim Weiner
and Alter - Wineman.
Selected by the conference as
delegates to the annual Hista-
drut Convention in New York,
Nov. 22 to 25 were Maurice
Baker and Jacob Glaser, Far-
Book of the Brunch
Club to Feature
Mrs. Morris Adler.
Mrs. Baer Keidan, president
of the Sisterhood of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek, announces that
Mrs. Morris Adler again will
lead the organ-
ization's Book
of the Brunch
Club program,
a series of book
reviews of cur-
:rent interest.
The series
begin at
10 a•m.,Wednes-
day, in the syn-
agogue social
Mrs. Croll hall. Mrs. Ad-
ler will review Adele Weisman's
"The Sacrifice," which has re-
ceived much acclaim by literary
critics.
Subsequent programs -h a v e
been planned for Dec. 5, Jan. 2
and Feb. 6. Mrs. Samuel Cron,
chairman, urges members and
friends to contact Mrs. David
Benson, TO. 8-1090, for tickets.
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Cities" and "Salvation."
The concert will be followed
by a series of organizational
breakfasts and programs, and
plans are now being made for
the annual Histadrut dinner,
scheduled for Dec. 11, which
will be a tribute to the 60th
.birthday of Harry Schumer.
LEA KOVEN
ZVI SCOOLER
band division; Laible Hoffmitz
and Herbert Pincus, LZOA di-
vision; Jacob Brody and Mrs.
Oscar Warren, organizations;
Mrs. Ethel Wasser, Pioneer Wo-
men; and David Chaney and
Isaac Litwak, trade union di-
vision.
At the beginning of the con-
ference, delegates paused- in
their deliberations to pay silent
tribute to the memories of
Philip Shkolnick and William
Gayman, both of whom, prior
to the death, were active in the
Histadrut drive.
The campaign was off to a
fast start with a n unan-
nounced contribution by the
furniture division and a Check
for $.500 from the Women's
Golden Rule Society. Dele-
gates picked up campaign kits
as they left to begiri working
immediately.
T h e campaigners h a d ex
pected to meet the drive's new
Detroit director, Hy Fogelman,
who was delayed in arriving
from Edmonton; Canada where
he was the Northwest director
of the Canadian Welfare Fund
drive. Fogelman is now in the
city to guide the campaign.
The first public function of
the drive for $250,000 will be
the annual Histadrut Concert,
to be held at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 11,
in the auditorium of Mumford
High School.
Berl Locker, former co-chair-
man of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, will be the principal
speaker.
Also participating in the pro-
gram, to which the community
is invited, are Zvi Scooler, one
of the outstanding performers
with the Yiddish Art Theater
and of the Broadway stage; Lea
Koven, local soprano who is
an interpretor of Jewish folk
songs; and the Ha'Machol Dance
Group.
The latter entertainers, di-
rected by choreographer Har-
riet Berg, is composed of local
people and Israeli students
at Wayne State University.
They will make their first
public performance a t the
concert.
Scooler, during his 15 years
on the Yiddish stage performed
in "The Dybuk," "Yos he Kalb,"
"Brothers Ashkenazi," "The
opva,n.
Deputy Under Secretary of
State Robert D. Murphy will be
a featured speaker at the an-
nual dinner of the Joint Distri-
bution Committee, Edward M.
M. Warburg, JDC Chairman,
announced. The dinner will be
held at the Waldorf-Astoria Ho-
tel, New York, Nov. 29.
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