Community s Accomplishments Outlined at
Annual. Federation Meeting': Success Seen
for Drive Requiring $6,200,000 Minimum

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Construction began last year
on the new Jewish Center at
Curtis and Meyers. It is planned
to complete the building early
in 1959. Adjacent to it will be
the new offices of the Jewish
Family and Children's Service
and Resettlement Service.
The Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion and Council of Pontiac was
merged in 1957 with the Detroit.
Federation.
Plans are under way for the
construction of a $2,500,000 ad-
dition to Sinai Hospital, includ-
ing an Out-Patient Department,
and 106 beds, and expanded
auxiliary services neared Com-
pletion. This program was made
possible by an allocation of
$375,000 from the Metropolitan
Detroit Building Fund, a gift
of $500,000 from the Abraham
Shiffman Foundation and a
grant of $114,500 from the Ford
Foundation.
Construction is scheduled to
begin on a residence for .nurses
and other professional staff on
the Sinai Hospital grounds made
possible by a gift of the Harry
Slatkin Family.
The Kasle High School-Mid-
rasha Building- of the United
Hebrew Schools was completed.
The UHS afternoon school en-
rollment reached 2800 and the
enrollment of its three affiliated
schools reached 400. The He-
brew High School continued its
growth, enrolling 100 advanced
pupils.
The Julius Berman Lodge was
dedicated at Camp Tamarack.
In the first year after the
Hungarian revolt, 158 Hungar-
ian Jews came - to Detroit. All of
them received some form of aid
from the Joint Distribution
Committee (a United Jewish
Appeal beneficiary), from the
United HIAS Service abroad,
and from the local Resettlement
Service. Only 29 of these fami-
lies were receiving financial as-
sistance by the end of the first
year. The .rest were absorbed
in the economic and social life
of the community with the help
of the Jewish Vocational Serv-
ice, the Jewish Community Cen-
ter and the North End Clinic.
A Jewish Education Policy
Committee was appointed to
review the Federation policy
for financing Jewish educa-
tion in Detroit.
In his annual report as presi-
dent of Federation, Judge Levin
pointed to the high level of
giving in the Detroit Jewish
community. He illustrated his
point by indicating that the high
achievement of 1948—when the
Allied Jewish Campaign secured
$5,750,000 in pledges was sur-
passed by the $5,841,000 total of
1957.
Judge Levin reported that in
the last six years less than
$2,500,000 of campaign funds
was-used for capital purposes as
compared with $25,000,000 for
daily operating needs of the
causes sunnorted by this com-
munity. The $2,500,000 came
from friends of local agencies
and an additional $1,600,000 of
capital funds came from com-
munity sources.
Capital funds, Judge Levin
reported, were used for the
construction of the new
United Hebrew Schools' Mi-
drasha and High School
Building, the LeVine Wing of
the Home for Aged and Camp
Tamarack additions.
Referring to the future needs
of the community, especially the
camps, the Jewish Centers and
the Hebrew Schools, Judge Le-
vin said that a third of Detroit's
Jewish population, is comprised
of some 28,000 Jewish boys and
girls under 15. He said that 25,-
-000 people are in the 45 to 64
age group and that 6,500 now
are 65. The 65-and-over group,
he said, "is likely to treble in

the next 10 years .
." giving
new . meaning to the program
for aged-.
Sobeloff's Report
Re-porting as executive vice-
president of Federation, Isidore
Sobeloff pointed to four dates-
1899, 1926, 1939 and 1948—
which, "in the context of this
annual meeting greatly affected
the development of our own lo-
cal Jewish community or that
had great impact on its relation-
ship to the world around us."
The dates are the 60th year
since the founding of the United
Jewish Charities, the 32nd since
the forming of the Federation,
the 20th anniversary of the
United Jewish Appeal and the
10th anniversary of the State
of Israel. Sobeloff developed his
theme, stating:
"In 1899 we were largely an
immigrant group. A handful of
older settlers, most of them
either naturalized citizens them-
selves or, if born here, the im-
mediate offspring of immigrants,
were concerned with .the new
flood of East European 'ews,
who, in the language of that
day, needed to be Americanized.
English classes, American his-
tory classes, public baths, clubs
for social adjustment, medical
aid, relief, coal and ice funds,
free loans, off-the-street recrea-
tion — a great constellation of
services were set up by the rel-
atively well - circumstanced for
the struggling poor in their
midst. This helped the poor, to
be sure, and . it also made the
rich feel more comfortable, in
the knowledge that the strang-
ers would not continue to look
strange to our neighbors around
us. This was philanthropy in an
earlier form.
"By 1926, when the Federa-
tion was being founded, the
communal leadership already
was being shared more equit-
ably. The old Hannah Schloss
service of benefactor helping
beneficiary was giving way to
the YMHA - YWHA movement,
wherein the young people them:
selves were taking a greater
hand in organization and man-
agement and more recently to
the Jewish Community Center
idea, with its still greater shift
to service for all. Contributors
to the central community cam-
paign began rising in numbers
from hundreds to thousands.
"In 1939, when the United
Jewish Appeal, as now consti-
tuted, was formed to include
Zionists and non-Zionists; Ortho-
dox, Conservative and Reform,
old-line German Jews and more
recently - arrived Eastern and
Central European Jews, native
born and foreign born of all
kinds and persuasions, Detroit
had anticipated this national de-
velopment and had on hand a
relatively smooth, well - func-
tioning community organization
with a true partnership of all
elements of our population. And
in the more recent past, when
the State of Israel was founded

in 1948, our community re-
sponded that year and in the
succeeding years with a power
and a generosity that reflected
the years of working together
and that bespoke true kinship
with our fellow-Jews across the
seas. The development was no
longer humanitarianism alone,
it was no longer philanthropy
by the rich for the poor. It was
already the newer concept of
all of us together working for
all of us. It was the emergence
of mutual assistance as a moti-
vating force.
"Today on our Detroit scene
we have a group of affiliated
health, welfare and educational
agencies with a total capital
plant of an estimated structural
value of some $14,000,000. Our
agencies have gross annual oper-
ating budgets totaling some
$10,000,000. Of this sum only a
little over $1,000,000 comes
from our annual Allied Jewish
Campaign, the lion's share of
these funds - being reserved for
our high partnership with the
people of Israel. Some $600,000
more comes to our four United
Community Services - United
Foundation agencies from the
general community's campaign
in which, of course, we partici-
pate along with the rest of the
Detroit population."
SobelOff spoke of the new
Jewish Center on Curtis and
Meyers as being another "splen-
did Jewish resource here, a
Jewish city club for persons of
all ages and from every part of
our population." He said "we
are meeting the needs of this
great middle class community
. . . We are learning to think of
our agencies, as belonging to
everybody, supported by all, and
available to all on the same
communal terms."
Judge H e n r y M. Butzel
made the presentation of the
annual Fred M. Butzel Award
which was accepted for Abe
Kasle by his son, Leonard
Kasle.
The 1957 program of the Fed-
eration's Women's Division was
outlined at the annual meeting
in a brief report by the Divi-
sion's president, Mrs. Sidney J.
Karbel. The treasurer's report
was submitted by Samuel H.
Rubiner. Jack 0. Lefton report-
ed for the nominating commit-
tee and the following were
elected members of the Federa-
tion board of governors for a
three-year term: Sidney J. Al-
len, Dr. Harry Arnkoff, Louis
LaMed, Mrs. Max Frank, Daniel
A. Laven, Milton K. Mahler, Hy-
man Safran, Erwin S. Simon,
James Wineman.
A musical program was pre-
sented at the meeting by the
United Hebrew Schools' Choral
Group, under the direction of
the UHS music director, Hanna
Stiebel, with Shimon Gewertz
as accompanist. Mrs. Maurice
Schiller was chairman of a com-
mittee in charge of the social
hour that follow-ed the meeting.

A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from Dis-
patches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News Gathering Media.

United States

NEW YORK—New York University presented a medal to
Dr. Benjamin 1VIazar, president of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem in appreciation of his cultural contributions . . . Israel
plans to order from Japanese shipyards two new supertankers,
at a cost of $8,000,000 each, to carry oil to the refineries at
Haifa .. . The New York Times reported that few Polish Jews
who migrated to Israel have returned to Poland, only seven
families and a few individuals having made the trip back. Last
year 33,000 Polish Jews, accompanied by 2,000 Christian spouses,
went to Israel from Poland. Another 7,000 Polish Jews are ex-
pected to go to Israel this year and 10,000 to 12,000 are expected
to be repatriated from the Soviet Union to Poland in 1958.
ATLANTIC CITY—Establishment of a four-year college of
religious studies for women was announced at the conference of
the Rabbinical Council of America.
WASHINGTON—The U. S. Census Bureau reported on the
basis of a projection of a sample survey covering 35,000 families
that 96 per cent of the American people list themselves as
belonging to some religious faith and that 3,900,000 Americans
over the age of 14 declare their religion as Jewish.

Israel

JERUSALEM—The British industrialist-financier Isaac Wolf-
son paid the Shell Oil Company $7,000,000 for its installation in
Israel . . . . Nearly 500 Jerusalem school children suffered food
poisoning from a lunch served in their schOol, 20 being hospi-
talized . • . A probe has been started by the Ministry of Educa-
tion. Thirty boys and girls still were in bed by week-end from
after-effects . . . The arbitration hearings on Israel's claim for
$2,000,000 in damages resulting from Soviet unilateral cancella-
tion of a citrus-for-oil agreement has again been postponed.
TEL AVIV—Nearly eight inches of snow blanketed the Hills
of Galilee and Israel was pelted by heavy rains and hailstorms,
causing damage to vegetable fields . . . A liaisson office will be
established by Histadrut in Asia . . . Citrus picking was resumed
in Israel's orchards following a week-long ban on harvesting im-
posed by the national citrus board in the wake of storms which
threatened to pile up rotting fruit on Israel's wharves and
railroad sidings . . . Diamond polishing workshops throughout
Israel have closed down for a 10 day "holiday" while waiting
for business to pick. up. In recent months orders from aboard,
chiefly from the United States, have dropped off drastically.

Europe

LONDON—Folkstimme reports from Warsaw that there are
approximately 20,000 Jews left in Czechoslovakia, that there is
no Jewish life nor Jewish schools in the country and that only
six rabbis and a number of ritual slaughterers and cantors are
functioning . . . A report from Sofia states that the organiza-
tion of a Jewish club to promote artistic and cultural values
marks the revival of Jewish cultural life in Bulgaria . . .
PARIS—The Tangiers Jewish community presented a gift
of a motor car to King Mohammed of Morocco.
VIENNA—An "International Publishing House of Jewish
Literature" was founded here, the company's objective being to
publish the works of Jewish and Hebrew writers and to re-issue
Jewish literature destroyed by the Nazis.
LEGHORN—The eighth national Italian Zionist conference
appealed to the Italian government to use its good offices toward
a peaceful solution of the Middle East problem; expressed the
solidarity of Italian ZioniSts with Israel and acknowledged the
assistance and cooperation of the Jewish Agency.
ROME—Pietro Nigroni, head of a fascist gang which turned
Jews over to Nazis for monetary rewards, was sentenced to five
years' imprisonment in absentia.
BONN—Dr. H: G. van Darn, secretary general of the Central
Council of Jews in Germany, made known here that West Ger-
man Finance Minister Franz Etzel is interested in establishing
"good accord" between his government and organizations of vic-
tims of Nazi persecution . . . West German Chancellor Adenauer
marked the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Hitler's coming to
power in Germany by receiving a delegation of the Central
Council of the Jews in Germany and voicing strong disapproval
of all manifestations of anti-Semitism.
THE HAGUE—One of the town's streets was named the
"Rabbi Jacob Goldsmid Street" by the Town Council of Oss,
which has a majority of Roman Catholics, in memory of the
last rabbi of Oss deported by the Nazis in 1943.
MUNICH The German Unification Party has called, in the
Bavarian Parliament, for abolition of denazification laws and
reinstatement of fernier Nazis to full citizenship rights.
BERLIN—Heinz Galinski, leader of the Berlin Jewish com-
munity, charges in an article in Algemeine Wochenzeitung de
Juden in Deutschland that there are many signs of a revival of
open anti-Semitism in various parts of Germany.
KARLSRUHE—This city's youth council is planning to set
up summer vacation camps in Southern France so that German
youth might be involved in the rehabilitation of graves of Jews
and other victims of Nazis deported from Baden to concentration
Jews" and "Jews are our mis- camps in France where they were subsequently murdered.
fortune."
Canada
Former Nazis, including high
OTTAWA—An agreement for the purchase by Israel of
officials, have been rehabili- 40,000 tons of Canadian wheat, at a cost of $3,000,000, with an
tated. German scientific polls option to buy an additional 60,000 tons, was signed by the
revealed, as late as December, Canadian and Israel governments ... The Ministry of Citizenship
1957, that.- 20 percent of West and Immigration announced that a total of 5,472 immigrants who
Germans thought "Germany declared their religion to be Jewish were admitted to Canada in
would be better off without 1957 among 282,000 newcomers .. . Canadian Secretary for Ex-
Jews." Also, one in ten would ternal Affairs Sidney Smith said in a statement to the Jewish
willingly participate in an anti- Telegraphic Agency that "Canadian Jews have played and are
Jewish pogrom.
playing a unique part in the development of Canda."
The WJC study also shows
MONTREAL—Lavy M. Becker, vice-president of the Cana-
that in Austria groups of Nazis dian Jewish Congress, will visit Polish Jewish communities to
and a number of publications survey the position of Jewish repatriates from Russia to Poland.
exist. In Sweden, Holland, Bel-
Asia
gium, France, Italy and even in
ANKARA—Five Jewish schools will benefit from a bill
Britain and Switzerland, "for-
mer" Nazis continue their passed by the Turkish National Assembly exempting from tax-
propaganda and organizations. ation schools operated by minority communities.

Nazism Still Strong in Germany
Study of World Congress Reveals

NEW YORK (JTA) — Nazi
indoctrination still affects many
Germans, 25 years after Hitler's
accession to power on Jan. 30,
1933, according to a study made
by the Western Hemisphere
Executive of the World Jewish
Congress in New York.
The study establishes that
dozens of neo-Nazi organiza-
tions, including 43 youth groups,
publishing houses and periodi-
cals still follow the Nazi line in
West Germany.
Estimates, based on surveys,
show that 30 to 40 percent of
West Germans are anti-Semitic,
and still believe in such Nazi
slogans as "world conspiracy of

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