Scheduled for This Sunday in Philadelphia
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Isidore Sobeloff is shown receiving mementos from national and local leaders on
the occasion of his 20th anniversary as executive director of the Jewish Welfare - Federa-
tion of Detroit. - On the left, Sobeloff receives the ancient Maccabean lamp, unearthed in
Israel, from Rabbi Herbert Friedman, executive vice-chairman of the United Jewish Ap-
peal. On the right, Sobeloff is shown receiving a silver cigar humidor, as a gift from the
Federation's executive committee, from Judge Theodore Levin, Federation president, as
Max M. Fisher, 1957 Allied Jewish Campaign chairman, applauds the honor.
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Rapid Allied Campaign Triumph Marked by
Pledge to Go on Striving for $6
Goal; Sobeloff Honored on .20th Year Here
, Scholars from all sections of
the country will assemble, in
Philadelphia Sunday, for the
69th annual meeting of the
Jewish • Publication Society of
America, - according to an an-
nouncement by Edwin Wolf,
2nd, JPS president.
- The meeting, at the Warwick
Hotel, will include morning and
afternoon sessions held for the
purpose of reviewing the past
y e a r' s accomplishments and
planning the 'program foi the
coming year. Sessions held in
the morning and early after-
noon will be devoted to deliber-
, ations by members of the pub-
lication - committee, who will
study manuscripts and projects
being considered for publica-
tion. Judge Louis E. Levinthal
is chairman of the committee,
and Dr. Solomon Grayzel is
editor.
In mid-afternoon, the board
of trustees will meet to review
the -recommendations made by
the publication committee. At
3:30 p.m., the 69th annual mem-
bership meeting will commence.
Reports will be made by the
officers, and elections will be
held. After the business session,
a cultural program will feature
a discussion of the subject
"New Light on the Eternal
Book" by Prof. E. A. Speiser
of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, a member of the editorial
advisory 'committee which is
currently engaged in preparing
a revised translation of the JPS
Bible. '
Founded in 1888, for the pur-
pose of preserving the Jewish
tradition of culture through the
publication and dissemination
of good books on religion, his-
tory and literature, JPS .distri-
butes its books through a un-
ique membership plan and also
by direct distribution to book-
stores, schools and libraries.
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Awards For Best 1956 Works
To Be Made By Book Council
Citations and cash prizes to-
talling $700 will be awarded to
the authors of 1956'8 best works
, of Jewish-interest in the fiction,
poetry and juvenile fields at
the annual meeting of the Jew-
ish Book Council of America, a
project of the National Jewish
Welfare Board, it was announ-
ced by Rabbi Ely E. Pilchik,
Newark, Council president. The
meeting will be held at 8:15
p.m., Wednesday at the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion, 40 W. 68th St., New
York.
The COuncil is the sponsor of
the annual nationwide obser-
vance of Jewish Book Month,
to be held Nov. 15 to Dec. 15.
Yewish
Weekly in Turkish
Language Starts in Istanbul
ISTANBUL (JTA) — A new
Jewish _weekly, in the Turkish
language, made its appearance
here. The newspaper, ,"Haftanin
Sesi" (The Voice of the Week)
is aimed at Turkish Jewish
youth who do not read Ladino,
the language- of the other twa
Turkish Jewish weeklies.
TANY WATCH.
REPAIRED
Rabbi Friedman described the
The story of Detroit's highly the community, for which we
With Genuine
many events that happened
successful 1957 Allied Jewish shall - ever be thankful."
Factory Parts
Judge Levin continued: "It is since he was here 90 days ago
Campaign was told graphically
by
gratifying
to
note
that
the
pre-
to
launch
the
pre-campaign
a
few
silent
but
very
salient
in
campaign budget conference drive. He predicted a large in-
figures.
Certified Master
When the enthusiastic group plan, which was inspired by him flux of immigrants into Israel
Watchmaker & Jeweler
of leaders and workers gathered, and has become known as the from Communist countries, the
Only a certified master
at the Sheraton Cadillac Hotel, Detroit Plan, is used as a model beginning having been made
Watchmaker can offer you
On April 25, for a victory dinner, in many cities throughout the with the exits of Polish Jews.
completely guaranteed sat-
there were displayed the figures - country. He has won the respect "We may finally crack the Iron
isfaction on all watch re-
$4,790,133 in back of the speak- and confidence not only of lay Curtain," he said, analyzing the
pairs at modest prices. Aft
ers' dais. This was the sum re- leaders of the community but new developments.
work done on premises.
ported exactly a week previous of the professional staffs Of our
"We are desperately eager to
various
agencies,
themselves
Crystals Replaced
to the formal closing meeting.
see that this does not stop," he
At the opening of the final professionals and no doubt his said. "We shall not leave a sin-
While You Wait!
report, program, it was an- most analytical critics. Dedicat- gle person behind. We/have been
nounced that the sum of $5,- ed as he is himself to the at- challenged and have responded,
290,000 had been registerd, but tainment of the highest stand- and the response now is greater
that additional reports were be- ards in fund raising and com- than the challenge."
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munity services, he has inspired
ing tabulated.
The efforts of Max Fisher,
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Then - Isidore Sobeloff, ex- all of us to do our utmost to campaign chairman, were
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ecutive vice-president of the achieve the lofty goals he has praised by Leonard N. Simons,
who called for division reports,
Jewish Welfare Federation, set for us."
Rabbi Friedman, speaking Sobeloff and Rabbi Friedman.
reported that a total of $5,-
in behalf of the national UJA Fisher presided at the dinner.
841,000 had been reached and
officers, presented Sobeloff
Participants in the new pro-
that there is an excellent
with a small lamp made out of gram and reporters for their di-
chance of reaching the $6,-
clay, dug up in Modin, near visions included Milton Mahler,
000,000 Mark.
the Lydda Airport in Israel,
Thinking of Cadillac
Thus, Detroit's 1957 campaign dating back to the days of the Stanley Winkelman, Sid Burton,
has reached the highest point in Maccabees. Rabbi Friedman Robert Trepeck, Dan Lave-n,
Mervin
Grosberg,
Abraham
Sa-
Think of Me ._..
fund-raising for the United Jew- said that while
the gift honors
ish Appeal and fOr the 50 other Sobeloff it is, symbolically, tovsky, Paul Broder, Mrs. Har-
JOHN LEBOW
causes, overseas, local • and na- an appreciation from UJA to ry L. Jones, Mrs. Louis Red-
stone and William. Wetsman.
tional, included in the Allied the entire Jewish
community Rabbi Frank Rosenbaum gave
Representing
Jewish Campaign, beating even of Detroit. • -
the invocation "and Emma Scha-
the high mark of the 1948 drive
"It is
lamp of freedom; ver led in singing the national
when $5,750,000 was raised. - fragile, yet a indestructible,
EAST JEFFERSON - BRANCH
as in-
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The campaigners were urged destructible as the Jewish peo- anthems.
Messages
of
greetings
were
not to stop soliciting, to proceed ple," Rabbi
CADILLAC MOTOR COMPANY
Friedman said. "It received- by wire from Dr.. A. M.
with their efforts, until every
is a mark of faith, in Sobeloff's Hershman and Mrs. Joseph H.
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proSpect has been reached. indestructibility.7
Ehrlich.
Thousands are yet to be con-
tacted and there is confidence
that the large sums needed for w .AMBASSADOR CLOTHES
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a - $6,000,000 total cane be at-
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Appeals to the workers to
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rededicate their effortS to-
te,
wards attaining the $6,000,000
goal were made by Sobeloff
and the guest speaker, Rabbi
Herbert A. Friedman, UJAS
executive vice-president.
- The evening was utilized by
local and national leaders to
honor Sobeloff on his 20th an-
niversary as executive director
of the Detroit Jewish Welfare
Federation.
In behalf of the Federation ex-
ecutive committee, Judge Theo-•
dore LeVin, Federation presi-
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STARTS WEDNESDAY', MAY 1st.
dent, presented Sobeloff • with a
An
enormous
large
stock
of
better
quality
suits, top - coots' sport coats, furnishings,
silver cigar humidor as a token
shoes of discount prices. Right in the heart of. our Spring season we wish to hand over
Of appreciation fOr his activities
savings to you. Reductions in every- department.
here. Declaring that Sobeloff's
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"arrival here marked the be-
ginning
ginning of a new era in the
progress of Our community," .
Judge Levin said, in praising
the Federation's director:
$115.00 Silk Suits
Discounts on Shirts,
now $96.75
"The professional leadership
$ 95.00 and $89.50 Suits
now $78.75
Sport Shirts, TieS,
he has prOvided as our direc-
$ 79.50 and $75.00 Suits
now $62.75
Robes, Pajamas
tor and executive Vice-presi-
$ 75.00 and $69.50 Top Coats ....now $44.75
dent in this score of years has
Socks. Buy now for
$ 49.50 and $45.00 Sport Coats ..now $36.75
not been surpassed anywhere
Spring - and Summer.
$ 22.50 Slacks now $18.75
in America: His devotion to
the tasks before him, his en-
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and creative thinking haVe
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