Start of Bnai Brith Traced
to 11 Men and Henry Jones

Mrs. Meir Congratulates Bnai Brith

Nazi 'Expert on Jews'
Gets Light Sentence

WIESBADEN, (JTA)—Walde-

mar Eissfeld, 48, who in his posi-
tion as "specialist on Jewish tri
questions" at Erfrut Gestapo t.11
headquarters supervised the war-
*3
time deportation to the Nazi
death camps of almost the entire
Jewish population of the German
province of Thuringia, -was sen-
tenced here to two and a half
years at hard labor for causing
"aggravated deprivation of lib-
erty."
His former subordinate, 44-
year-old SS lieutenant and Gesta-
po commissar Heinrich Lorenz,
was acquitted.
Eissfeld, however, will have to
serve four months at the most.
The presiding judge ruled that
not only the time spent in pre-
trial custody back in 1952 should
be deducted from the sentence,
but even the period at the end of
the war during which the Gestapo
"Jewish specialist" was held in
an Allied interment camp for
•o
leading Nazis. These two terms
amount to 26 months.

Fourteen years before Bnai
Brith was founded in Michigan,
the American Jewish commun-
ity consisted of only 25,000 per-
sons, many of them recent im-
migrants.
The little organized commun-
al life that there was centered
around 34 synagogues in scat-
tered cities throughout the coun-
try. With the exception of a few

society based on the teachings o
Judaism, yet free from dogm a
and doctrine to enable all Jew
to unite in a common cause.
In the preamble to the firs t
Bnai Brith constitution, th e
founders wrote:
"Bnai Brith has taken upo n
itself the mission of uniting Is
raelites in the work of promot
ing their highest interests an d
those of humanity; of develop
ing and elevating the mental an d
moral character of the peopl e
of our faith; of inculcating th e
purest principles of philanthro
py, honor and patriotism; o f
supporting science and art; alle
viating the wants of the poo r
Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's foreign minister (center), con-
and needy; visiting and attend
gratulated leaders of Bnai Brith's Israel Bond Campaign when
ing the sick; coming to the res-
they reported at a conference in New York that Bnai Brith had
cue of victims of persecution;
set a $5,000,000 goal in bond sales during the 1957-58 drive. A
providing for, protecting and as-
$3,000,000 quota was- oversubscribed in the last campaign. With
sisting the widow and orphan on Mrs. Meir are Milton Seidenman of Baltimore, national Israel Bond
the broadest principles of hu- chairman for Bnai Brith, and Mrs. Jacob Yanoff of Philadelphia,
manity."
national Israel Bond chairman for Bnai Brith Women.
Bnai Brith will have faithfully
followed this pattern of service
for 114 years, come this Sunday.
DRIVING LESSONS
The original aims, while never
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changed, were adapted to neces-
HENRY JONES
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sities of changing times, chang-
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burial societies, there were no ing needs and problems.
Israel has 115 Arab elementary
Professional Instructors
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Within four months after the
philanthropic or education-
Day or Evening
JERUSALEM — The govern- schools in operation, 85 more
formation
of
the
first
lodge,
an-
al agencies detached from the
Appointments
ment of Israel has moved to than existed when the state was
other
opened
in
New
York.
synagogue.
accelerate development and other established, Divon revealed. The
Safeway
Driver Training
Lodges
followed
in
Cincinnati,
There also were no provisions
projects designed to raise the first Arab Teachers College will
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to aid immigrants to adjust Baltimore and Philadelphia. In standard of living and quicken be opened next year.
themselves to th e American 1850, there were seven lodges. the integration into the coun-
scene or to care for social and Four years later there were 21. try's economic and social life
In May of 1857, members of
welfare needs.
of the 200,000 Israeli Arabs, Dr.
The existing synagogues, sep- Temple Beth El gathered to dis- Zalman Divon, Advisor on Arab
JACK GOLDSTEIN, D. S. C.
arated into Portuguese, Dutch, cuss the need for an organiza- affairs to Premier David Ben-
English, • Polish, Bohemian and tion that would aid members • of Gurion announced Tuesday.
CHIROPODIST - FOOT SURGEON
German rivalries, each of which the community, the newcomer
Dr. Divon told a press confer-
and
the
stranger.
And
so
Bnai
had a tightly - knit community
ence that the current drive is
ANNOUNCES A CHANGE OF HIS OFFICE ADDRESS
and its own ritual, presented no Brith came to Detroit.
A charter was granted to Pis- part of an overall increasingly
unified American-Jewish corn-
TO
gah Lodge on Nov. 4, 1857. It successful campaign to gain ac-
munity.
ceptance
and
cooperation
among
306 METROPOLITAN BUILDING
This fact dismayed Henry was the same group of men who the rural conservative Arab
Jones, who, with 11 of his seven years earlier had founded
population
and
modern
improve-
DETROIT 26, MICHIGAN
friends, gathered on Oct. 13, Temple Beth El.
In selecting a name for the ments in health, education and
1843 to establish Bnai Brith.
BY APPOINTMENT
agriculture.
WOodward 1-1673
Jones proposed to found a lodge, the founders chose Pis-
The basic effort, he added, is
gah, the name of the mountain
Moses climbed to view the in the field of education where
Promised Land, as recorded in the government is trying to ob-
tain 100 percent compliance with
the Book of Deuteronomy.
the compulsory education law,
particularly for Moslem girls. Is-
Talmud Torah Opened
rael already has achieved the
highest Arab school attendance
by Czech Government
rate in the Middle East.
LONDON (JTA)—The Czecho-
Protect Your
slovakian government has allowed
Delicate, melt-in-your mouth
Investment
the opening of a Talmud Torah Israel Official Leaves
cookies
light
in Prague for the first time in
Professional Cleaning •s Quality
many years, it was reported here for Survey in Russia
and
delicious
at a meeting of the Agudas Is-
Cleaning. Remember . Cheap
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Arieh
rael executive.
Cleaning Is More Expensive In
Eshel, head of the East Euro-
The situation of religious Jews pean Department of the Israel
the Long Run.
in Slovakia has also improved,
Foreign Ministry, has left for
H. A. Goodman, chairman of the
the Soviet Union for a visit to
executive, reported. He said that
Leader beauty-cleans your car-
Moscow which, the Ministry said,
Chief Rabbi E. Katz of Slovakia
peting with Karpet Kare—your
was not connected with the
also
has requested religious articles
carpets stay cleaner longer, last
for which there is a growing Eliahu Chazan affair. Ministry
. available
sources
said
Mr.
Eshel's
trip
need.
longer too!
In bags
was arranged weeks before
Jews who in the past had no Chazan was kidnapped.
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association with Jewish com-
The chief purpose of Eshel's
munal life in Czechoslovakia are visit, according to Ministry
rejoining communities, he re- sources, is to make an on-the-
ported. He revealed that ar- spot survey of the situation at
rangements were being made the Israel Embassy in Moscow.
with Chief Rabbi Moshe Rosen He may visit other East Euro-
of Bucharest to send two Ortho- pean embassies on his trip home.
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dox rabbis to Hungary.
No appointment has been
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made for him with any Soviet
officials and he will be in the-
Russian capital at a time when
neither the Israel Ambassador
nor top Soviet Foreign Ministry
officials are there.
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Return Egyptian Judge
to International Court

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA)—Abdel Hamid Badawi, of
Egypt, one of the judges of the

International Court of Justice
at The Hague since it was formed
in 1946, was re-elected to mem-
bership on the court for a third
term.
Justice Badawi had the open
support for re-election of the
United States delegation, al-
though the voting was by secret
ballot. His present term expires

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