Friday, November 1, 1957—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS- 1S
Israel Immigration Program Periled
by Fund Shortage, Mission Is Told
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Warnings
that lack a' funds imperil Is-
rael's acceptance and absorp-
tion of immigrants were voiced
here by Dr. Nahum Goldmann.
president of the Jewish Agency.
and Israel Finance Minister
Levi Eshkol.
Dr. Goldmann declared just
before his departure for a
series of meetings in various
,parts of Europe during the
next few months that both the
Agency and the Israel govern-
ment have been "living from
hand to mouth" and "living
beyond their means."
Both the Agency and the
government, he asserted, must
find ways out of their difficul-
ties and noted that the Agency
had already curtailed its settle-
ment budget in favor of health
and education expenditures.
He complained that the
Agency-government immigr a-
:on coordination board was
not functioning properly and
indicated the Agency might
I have to appeal to the Knesset
for relief unless the situation
changes.
Eshkol, in an address to the
100-member United Jewish Ap-
peal study mission which is
touring Israel, . said that the
$900 m i 11 i o n which world
Jewry had given or loaned
Israel during the nine years
of the state's existence was "by
far short of the _funds required
to absorb the 900,000 immi-
grants which Israel has received
during these years."
He indiCated that huge sums
are still needed now to pro-
vide adequate housing for the
200,000 Israelis still living in
"tin-hut towns," and for the
absorption of the expected in-
flux of new immigrants which
will number about 50,000 an-
nually.
He warned that the task of
settling newcomers on the land
will, by itself, call for an ex-
penditure of 400,000 Israeli
pounds. Israel expects during
its second Jecade to increase
its population to 3,000,000,
raising the needs for still
greater economic growth.
He called on the members
of the study mission to "spare
no effort to increase UJA's
philanthropic work in Israel."
Thus far, the Finance Minister
said, 150,000 new immigrants
have been settled on the land
and more than 400 new farm
settlements have been estab-
lished.
However, he continued, in
addition to the inadequate
housing for many of the im-
migrants, many other s are
under-employed. About • 40,000
bread-winners, whose families
total about 200,000, must be
given greater economic oppor-
tunities, he said.
Prime Minister • Ben-Gurion
received two volumes of the
memoirs of former President
Harry S. Truman, especially in-
scribed for the Israeli states-
man by Mr. Truman. The pres-
entation was made by Benjamin
Sosland, of Kansas City, who
is here as a member of the
study mission.
Touching on political issues,
Dr. Goldmann deplored recent
Russian threats against Israel's
existence, adding that Russia
was taking a more and more
openly hostile attitude toward
Israel. He said Russia was ` .`not
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
JNF
Annual Conference
On Israel's 10th
Anniversary
SUNDAY'
November 10
AHAVAS ACHIM
SYNAGOGUE
1 9 1 9 0
SCHAEFER HWY.
CONFERENCE OPENS
10:00 A.M. WITH
BRUNCH FOR
DELEGATES
ms r. E. In we No E. Ns um NI Guest Speaker:
RABBI CHARLES E. SHULMAN
Riverdale Temple, New York.
Recently returned from an extended tour in
Israel and the Mid East.
lus in NI Ex as No s Ns am Keynote Speakers:
CHANAN YARDEN
Administrator Foundation for Jewish National Fund
in Israel.
AR1E SHOVAL
Director Youth Department Jewish National Fund.
NI IN so =I No so mix
Nu on Weizman Memorial:
CANTOR REUVEN FRANKEL
of congregation Shaarey Zedek
accompanied by MRS. FRANKEL
PANEL WORKSHOPS
1 :00 P. M.
Youth Program, Landsman=
shaften, Foundation, Reli-
gious groups, Overall JNF
Program.
Among the first- lodges of Bnai Brith in _Detroit to adopt
a resolution calling for the' planting of a grove of 1,000 trees
in the new Philip M. Klutznick Forest of Bnai Brith in the
Martyrs' Forest in Israel was Albert Einstein Lodge. Present-
ing a check for the first payment is HENRY CYMBERG (left),
chairman of the Israel committee, and NORMAN GITLEN who
is handing the check to PERCY KAPLAN, of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund. Watching the presentation is HARRY KATZ,
president of the BB Men's Council. Detroiters will plant 10,000
trees in the 50,000-tree Klutznick Forest, voted in honor of
the national president's 50th birthday earlier this year.
Berlin Govt. to Build
Jewish Center, on Site of
Pre-Hitler Synagogue
JERUSALEM (JTA)' — The
West Berlin City Government
will build a Jewish cultural
center at 38. Fasanen St., site
of one of Germany's most
famous pre-Hitler synagogues,
Joachim Lipschitz, West Berlin
Minister of the Interior, dis-
closed here.
The Berlin official, here on
a visit, addressed a luncheon
in his honor tendered at the
Jerusalem municipality. The
Fasanenstrasse S y n a g o g u e,
which was served by many
noted Reform rabbis, including
the late Dr. Leo Baeck and
Rabbi Joachim Prinz, now a
RE-ELECT . .
Newark rabbi and vice-presi-
dent of the American Jewish
Congress, was one of the syna-
gogues destroyed during the
WILLIAM G. (BILL)
Nov. 9-10, 1938 pogroms. The
shell, which has been standing
2 Detroiters to Preside since that night, will be razed
at CJFWF Workshops to make room for the new
Judge Theodore Levin and center to serve the 7,000 Jews
No. 20 on the Ballot
Mrs. Harry L. Jones will be of WeskAerlin.
participants in two of the 18
workshop sessions on social
ELECT A QUALIFIED MAN • • •
planning, campaigning, budget-
An Experienced MAN ... A Strong Supporter of
ing and related problems to be
Gov. G. Mennen's Programme
highlighted at the 26th annual
general assembly of the CJFWF,
GEORGE H.
Nov. 14 to 17 at the Roosevelt
Hotel in New Orleans, it was
announced by Herbert R.
Abeles, Council president.
Abeles said that every ma-
For Common Council
jor problem faced by Jewish
Endorsed by Religious, Civic,
communities in building strong
Labor, Business Organizations
community organization, raising
and Many Outstanding Citizens.
and spending funds for over-
seas and domestic services and
El 14 — GEORGE H. EDWARDS
planning for vital health and
welfare services will be pre-
sented in the assembly pro-
gram.
More than 100 Jewish corn-
munity leaders from all over
the U.S. and Canada will head
workshops, which will include
extensive discussions.
Social planning, budgeting
personnel recruitment, funds
and women's services will be
themes of numerous workshop
sessions. Judge Levin will
speak at a workshop on large
city budgeting. Mrs. Jones will
chair a women's communal serv-
ices discussion.
Councilman
EDWARDS
AT
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a
ROGELL
FEATURING DISCUSSION
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only backing the Arab position
but has even thrown out hints
of the possibility of Israel's
annihilation."
Morris W. Berenstein, presi-
dent of the UJA, said that in
its 19 years, the UJA has aided
more than 2,500,000 Jews and
saved the lives of 1,300,000
rescued from danger areas.
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedmann,
executive vice-president of the
UJA, told a press conference
that the 1957 UJA campaign
promised to be the most suc-
cessful since 1949 with total
collections of $86,000,000.
The UJA mission visited the
Weizmann Institute at Rehovot,
and laid a wreath on the grave
of Israel's first President.
Before arriving in Israel, the
UJA mission stopped in' Paris
where Rabbi Herbert A. Fried-
man, UJA executive vice-presi-
dent, told the twelfth annual
conference of country directors
of the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee that Jews throughout
the world hailed reactivation of
the JDC program in Poland.
The conference had been told
that the JDC would resume
operations' in Poland this
month with a child feeding
prograrri.
"One great area of the world
which has been closed to us
up to now appears to be open-
ing," Rabbi Friedman said.
"With bated breath and with
many prayers, we waited and
hoped for the time when we
would be able to get behind
the Iron Curtain. The time now
seems to have come."
The 1958 UJA campaign,
Rabbi Friedman noted, would
be the organization's 20th._ He
said that in the 19 years of its
existence, UJA had raised more
than $1,000,000,000 for the wel-
fare and resettlement programs
of the JDC and the Jewish
Agency.
Make First Payment to JNF
for Klutznick Forest in Israel
PLENARY SESSION
2:30 P. M.
Chairman, Ben Harold
Award Presentations
Resolutions—Guest Speakers
General Chairman of Conference—Richard B. Kramer
VOTE Tuesday, Nov. 5
ELECT Attorney William T.
Miss Schlamme to Open
Beth Abraham Serial;
Martha Schlamme, in a pro-
gram of "Folksongs of Many
Lands," will open a cultural
series being presented by Beth
Abraham Synagogue at 8:30
p.m., Tuesday, in the synagogue
social hall.
Miss Schlgnme, a native of
,Vienna, found refuge in Eng-
land during the war, and con-
tinued her musical education
there. She has traveled exten-
sively in Europe and North
America, and has performed in
several languages.
Tuesday's program and the
remaining three in the series
are being presented under the
joint sponsorship of the con-
gregation's Sisterhood and
Men's Club.
PATRICK
to
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COMMON COUNCIL
• Air Force Veteran
• Former Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
• Endorsed by, Outstanding Civic, Business,
Religious and Labor Groups
No.
119 On Your Ballot