Revival of
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Commentary
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Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

VOLUME XXXIV—No. 16 10E<V•tr-IcIlioriinS1.%13

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.Hammarskjoid Held Responsible
for Syria Border Solution; Israel _
Blames Lodge for Indifference

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

Allied Jewish Campaign
Budget Meeting Sunday

National, local and overseas needs, to be pro-
vided for with funds to be raised in the 1959 Allied
Jewish Campaign, will be outlined at the tenth
annual pre-campaign budget conference of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation, to be held this Sunday, at
the Jewish Center at 15110 W. 10-Mile Rd.
The mornina session, starting at 10:30, at which
Judge Theodore b Levin, Federation president, will be
chairman, will .be addressed by Samuel H. Rubiner,
Erwin S. Simon, Louis LaMed, Jacob A. Citrin and
Louis Tabashnik, chairmen, respectively, of the
overseas and Israel, health and welfare, education,
community relations and capital needs divisions.
Recommendation to the Federation on budgetary
decisions for the 1959 campaign will be made at the
afternoon session to start at 1:30 p.m. Brunch will
be served after the morning session's presentations.

JERUSALEM—By his offer to the United Nations Security Council Monday
to study at first hand the circumstances of the Syrian attack on Israeli villages two
weeks ago, Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold has taken upon himself personal
responsibilities for the situation, and Israel expects him to take steps to prevent the
recurrence of such attacks, top governmental circles indicated here Tuesday.
These same circles did not hide their dissatisfaction with the failure of Henry
Cabot Lodge, American delegate, to denounce unequivocally the Syrian aggression.
Lodge's attitude, the Israelis feel, forced the British and French—though they were
firmer than Lodge—to tone down their statements so as not to appear too much out
of step with Washingt6n.
There is a feeling here that Lodge's failure to make the obvious point is linked
with Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree's current trip to the Middle East
to woo the Arab leadership, particularly President Nasser,.
It was noted that when Israel appealed to the Security Council, aware of the
possibility of a Soviet veto, it had no illusions about the likelihood of drastic anti-
Nassar action by that body. However, faced with the choice of sitting quietly and
taking a beating, without action, retaliating immediately, or appealing to the Council,
the only practical choice was the one taken. The Council meeting had the virtue of
giving Israel a world forum to explain its case and publicly to warn the United

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WA Asks $100,000,000 Special Fund for 1959

Two Detroiters Named to Top National Leadership Posts

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The three - day annual national conference of the United Jewish Appeal concluded here Sunday with the
adoption of a decision to raise a $100,000,000 special -fund for the UJA—"over and above" the regular 1959 nationwide UJA campaign—
to care for thousands of newcomers pouring into Israel from Eastern Europe and to start re-housing 100,000 earlier immigrants still living
in makeshift shanty towns.
More than 1,200 Jewish community leaders from all parts of the nation attended the conference. The delegates re-elected Morris
W. Berinstein to his second consecutive term as UJA general chairman to lead its 21st yearly campaign.
Joseph Holtzman and Max. M. Fisher, of Detroit, were elected to top leadership posts for the nationwide 1959 United Jewish Appeal
Campaign. Holtzman, who has served as a national chairman since 1955 was chosen an honorary chairman. Fisher was elected as chairman
of the 1959 UJA special fund campaign. At the final session Holtzman was presented with an antique silver-mounted Holy Bible containing
a specially-worded personal inscription by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion of Israel.

lioltzman ilonored:Joseph

Holtzman, of
Detroit (right), and Adolph Kiesler, of Denver (left), na-
tional UJA chairmen, were recipients of antique silver-
mounted Bibles, specially inscribed by Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion of Israel. They are shown here with Morris W.
Berinstein, of Syracuse, N.Y., UJA general chairman. The
presentation was made at the closing session of the 21st
annual national UJA conference in New York.

Besides voting to conduct the special fund drive. the delegates charted plans
to raise the maximum possible amount through the regular UJA to meet the needs of
UJA beneficiary humanitarian agencies requiring more than $105,000,000. Through both
the special fund and the proceeds of the regular campaign, the UJA seeks to proVide
urgently needed migration, resettlement, rehabilitation and welfare aid to more than
630,000 persons in Israel, 24 other countries abroad and the United States during 1959.
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, UJA executive vice-chairman, announced that the
campaign now closing had benefited more than 540,000 Jews in need- throughout the
world in 1958. He said the 630,000 who look to the UJA for help in 1959 come under
these major programs:
1. Jewish immigrants coming to Israel from Eastern Europe.
2. Speeding housing to move 110,000 immigrants out of makeshift huts.
3. Help provide farm machinery, irrigation, livestock and power needed to advance
130,000 immigrant farmers in Israel — including scores of thousands not yet fully
absorbed, and the orphaned, aged and handicapped.
4. Help for 220,000 Jews in need in countries other than Israel — including
some 15,000 Jewish repatriates to Poland from the Soviet Union; more than 100,000
Jews in Moslem lands, the majority of them children, and thousands of Jewish refugees
from North Africa, Egypt and Hungary still waiting in European reception points foi
permanent havens.
Dr. Dov Joseph, treasurer of the Jewish Agency which carries out the absorption
of Israel's immigrants, reported to the delegates on the upsurge of immigration to
Israel from East European countries. "For the past few months Jews have been arriving
in very large numbers in Israel from an East European country which for some years
has kept its doors virtually closed to such emigration," he declared.
Dr. Joseph pointed out that "outstanding progress has been made by Israel in
receiving and absorbing the tidal wave of immigrants who have arrived since its estab-
lishment in 1948" but stressed that some 250,000 of the nearly 1,000,000 immigrants
Who have come into the country still require major assistance before they can be
considered completely absorbed.
Sen. Herbert Lehman took up Dr. Joseph's plea and . urged support of the special
fund to finance needs over and above the regular budgetary requirements of the UJA's
three constituent agencies. "We cannot ask the people of Israel to do more than they
are doing to receive and absorb the steady stream of our fellow Jews coming into Israel,"
Sen. Lehman declared. "They more than have their hands full with many staggering
burdens, including that of defense imposed upon them by implacable neighbors."

