Lamest Attendance at 25th
Balfour Anniversary Concert
Reconciliation at Kafr Kassem
Ends Enmity of Arabs, Israelis
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
By FRANK SIMONS
the program stirred the audi- for the "inadvertant omission
Over 40 years ago, Arthur ence, the response to the sec- from the list of past presidents
James Balfour made the state- ond half of his program was of the ZOD the name of James
ment that "His Majesty's gov- overwhelming.
I. Ellmann, and from the list
ernment views with favor the
His post-intermission per- of 25-year members the name of
establishment in Palestine of a formance included solely M. Ben Lewis."
national home for the Jewish Jewish works: Psalm, 13
Both men, the statement con-
people."
Yerushalayim, Tanchum and - tinned, are still most active in
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a Plea to God, and the au- the activities of the ZOD, and
The rest is history. For those
40 years, Lord Balfour's state-
dience loved every moment Lewis presently serves as the
organization's treasurer and a
ment has been a source of en- of it.
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couragement to Jews every-
of the membership
In addition to the beauty of member
where that some day there his voice, the tenor added _ a committee.
would be a Jewish state. And touch of warmth and charm by
now, of course, we have Israel. briefly explaining the signi- Irwin I. Cohn Named
For the last 25 years, De- ficance of the latter two num-
Member of Board of
troiters have celebrated the bers.
utterance of that famed pro-
For encores he did an aria House of Correction
nouncement—first with the Bal- from
Tosca and a sparkling • Mayor Louis C. Miriani on
four Ball and now with the rendition
of the old favorite "A Monday named Irwin I. Cohn,
Balfour Concert.
Cantor for the Sabbath.'
Detroit Jewish leader, as a
Few people can recollect a
Dr. - Leon Fram, a past member of the House of Correc-
more successful program than
of the Zionist Organ- tion Commission.
this year's silver anniversary president
ization of Detroit, sponsors of
Cohn succeeds Harry W.
Balfour Concert held last Sat- the
program, was guest speaker- Weinbaum, publisher of neigh-
urday night, in the Ford Audi- at intermission.
borhood newspapers, whose re-
torium.
In the only speech of the eve- signation resulted from Mayor
Every main floor seat was ning, the rabbi called attention Miriani's reference to him as
taken, and nearly the entire to the fact that next year will being "controversial."
balcony was filed, boosting be observed as Israel's 10th an-
attendance to 2,700 people, niversary celebration.
the largest gathering in the
He said that he hoped he
history of the Balfour cele- would
see as many Detroiters
brations.
in Israel when he is there in
The attraction mainly was April as *he did that night.
Jan Peerce, the Metropolitan
The spiritual leader of Tem-
Opera tenor, but by the end of ple Israel also pointed out the
the thrilling evening's perform- tremendous influence which is
ance, the audience was en- manifested yet today through
thusiastically taken also with the Zionist Organization.
Miss Herva Nelli, a "soprano
He cited the recent Sinia
who previously was known to
Campaign, and said that with-
only a few Detroiters.
out a Zionist Organization to
Both Peerce and Miss Nelli set in motion a public rela-
were given tremendous ovations
tions selling job, the task of
for solo performances and for
justifying Israel's position
two duets they sang, one just would have suffered immeas-
before intermission and the urably.
other which closed the curtain
A surprise guest at the con-
on an evening that will have cert
was Michigan's Governor,
the community bubbling for a G.
Mennen Williams, who was
long time.
introduced by Peerce.
While Peerce's renderings
In a statement following the
from "La Traviata" and "La program, the Zionist Organiza-
Juive" during the first half of tion of Detroit expressed regret
KAFR
KASSEM, Israel. —
Four hundred Jews and Arabs,
meeting in a huge army tent in
the village where 48 arabs were
killed by Israel police a year
ago, joined in a feast of recon-
cilation Wednesday.
Families of the killed and
wounded Arabs solemnly agreed
with mayors and other leaders
of surrounding Jewish com-
munities to make a new start
toward peaceful relations at the
"sulha."
A military trial continued
meanwhile of 11 members of
the border police then under
command of the Israel army
who have been accused in the
killings which occurred on the
Sinai campaign. Police Minister
Behor Shitreet was one of the
Israel government officials who
attended the reconcilation.
Warren G. Harding is the
only man who went directly
from the Senate to the Presi-
dency.
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