Friday, November 23, 1956 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-1;1

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Rishon LeZion's New Mayor and
Mayoralty Aspirations in U.S.

By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1956, JTA, inc.)
The political analysts give
many reasons for the amazing
size of the Eisenhower victory.
For myself, I found the clue
in a little item- tucked away in
a Yiddish newspaper. A story
about Israel. It had nothing to
do with the election. In two
simple sentences it told of the
election of Hannah Levin as
Mayor of Rishon, Israel.
Rishon means first and Rishon
was the first of the modern
Jewish settlements planted in
Palestine by the hardy pre-
Herzl pioneers. And now Rishon
has a woman mayor!
As I read the story, things
began to fall in line. I re-
called that as I stood in the
voting booth, there were more
women voting than men. I re-:
called all the stories I had heard
of the charm "Ike" had for the
women voters. Plenty of men
voted for Eisenhower, but the
women were his staunchest
supporters.
The e m i nent Democratic
leader, Chester Bowles, has sug-
gested Anna Rosenberg as a
candidate for Mayor of New
York. She should make a for-
midable candidate. She has been
Assistant Secretary of War or
Defense and, according to the
papers, made herself very pop-
ular with the Korean GIs.
Although it has the largest
Jewish population of. any city
in the world, New York City
has never had a Jewish
mayor. Fiorella La Guardia
was half Jewish. Jimmy
Walker once said at a New
York banquet: "The differ-
ence between me and my
Jewish friends is that they
eat kosher at home and
"trefa" outside, while I eat
"trefa" at home and kosher
outside." Jimmy ate a lot of

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As part of the celebration of
Hanukah, youngsters of all ages
are competing in a national
photo contest through the re-
ligious schools of 536 Reform
temples of the Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations.
Through the medium of photo-
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Harry Belafonte, Ben Wicker-
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magazine; Oscar M. Lazrus,
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Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath,
UAHC president.
Winners will compete for a
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The contest can be entered
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Jewish food, but was not a
Jew. Several times Jews have
been nominated for Mayor of
New York, but they never
seem to hay commanded the
Jewish vote. Jews like other
groups have their special in-
terests, but they won't vote
for a Jew just because he is
a Jew.
Outside of New York City,
however, the Jews have fared
better in the matter of mayors.
I asked Bernard Postal, editor
of the Jewish Digest and prob-
ably the best posted man on the
subject of Jews in American
politics, how many Jewish
mayors had been elected in the
United States. He reeled off a
long list: John Rosenblatt
Omaha; Meyer Ellenstein, New-
ark; Julius .Fleischer, Cincin-
nati; Ochs, Chattanooga; Bron-
stein, Shreveport; Marcus, Salt
Lake City; Aronovitz, Miami;
Schneider, Gastonia; Rosenfield,
Rock Island; Steinman, Sacra-
mento; Faber, Montgomery.
"There are too many to list,"
Postal said.
Everywhere it seems, but in
New York. A Jew who aspires
to run for mayor should select
a city where there is no great
Jewish population. The explan-
ation for this is really very sim-
ple. Where there is a large Jew-
ish population, the Jewish can-
didate will be regarded as the
representative of the Jewish Disagree with Critic;
group. Where there is no Jew-
ish group, he cannot be so Rate Play as 'Tops'
labelled. Either he should go
Editor, The Jewish News:
where there are few or no Jews,
This past weekend, we at-
or he should go to Israel. The
tended a performance of "The
Israelis are broad minded in
World of Sholem Aleichem" at
this respect.
Stage Centre on Woodward
near Davison. My friends and I
Wayne U. Publishes
attended in spite of the deroga-
tory review of Oct. 25 by your
Detroit Art History
Joy Hakanson Colby, art edi- critic.
tor of the Detroit News, has
We found it to be a wonder-
written an interesting history ful show, an excellent produc-
of the Detroit Society of Arts tion of Sholem Aleichem's
and Crafts, under the title "Mt stories combining delightful
and a City." It has just been comedy, and moving drama. We
published by Wayne State Uni- were very disturbed over the
versity Press.
fact that your paper had given
Detroit's artistic life is ably it such a poor review. I know
outlined in this well written that it must have influenced
book.
many of your readers.
Mrs. Colby's Detroit News
Perhaps the reason for the re-
rotogravure series of articles, view as you printed it was due
in 1952 and 1953, on 19th century to the fact that there were un-
Detroit building s, inspired avoidable technical difficulties
Lawrence A. Fleischman, treas- on opening night, which have
urer of the Detroit Society of been entirely ironed out.
Arts and Crafts, to commission
We would like to see more
Mrs. Colby to write this history.
shows of this calibre, and feel
that this type of presentation
should be encouraged by the
Jewish population of Detroit.
We urge the readers of The
Jewish News to see the show.
It closes very shortly.
Mrs. Emily Lerman and
Friends,
18308 Sorrento.

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A statue in granite of Moses,
executed by William Zorach,
one of this country's most noted
sculptors, has been presented to
Columbia University, it was an-
nounced by Dr. John A. Krout,
vice president and provost of
Columbia, who declared the
sculpture to be the gift of an
alumnus who prefers to remain
anonymous.

Called simply "Moses," the
statue, which portrays the head
of the Old Testament leader,
has been installed in Earl Hall,
religious center of the Univer-
sity. It occupies a position of

JWB Symbol Enshrined in
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prominence in the building's
lobby.
The significance of this re-
cent (1953) figure by the Lithu-
anian-born Zorach, who now
lives and works in Brooklyn,
has been stated by one critic as
follows:
"Zorach has symbolically ex-
pressed the spirit of Revelation.
His work aptly expresses the
three elements of Judaic reli-
gion: consciousness, a knowl-
edge and love of God, and moral
purpose."

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John P. Meagher, chief of the
public services division of the
State Department, replying to
Mrs. Malka S. Gage, of 600 Pin-
gree who had written to Secre-
tary of State Dulles in protest
against the treatment accorded
the State of Israel, outlined the
State Department policy as fol-
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"The United States Govern-
ment views with grave con-
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threats to Israel by all the Arab
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