THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, April 10, 1959- 12

People
Make News

Extend Russo-Polish
Repatriation Pact

Israel Treasurer in IL IL

NEW YORK (JTA)
Dov Joseph, treasurer of the
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jewish Agency, arrived in New
by PHINEAS J. BIRON
Soviet-Polish repatriation agree- York from Jerusalem for a
Nobody
made
any
corn-
. . .
Reminiscences on
Adolf L. Hamburger, of Balti- ment, which previously had brief stay to consult on urgent
ments. . . . Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem:
more, national chairman of the been reported as expiring at the financial questions.
While recuperating from a was in good humor. . . . He told
synagogue division of the Israel end of March, has been extend-
rather acute virus attack, we stories, asked questions of the
ed again until the end of June,
Bond drive,
are glad to substitute for our younger pupils but never men-
according to reports received
left for Israel
own stuff this piece which Joe tioned the chase for his red
here this week.
to
confer
with
Brainin sent us. . . . garment. . . . Now and then he
Some 14,000 Jews have re-
"I met Sholem • Aleichem would display his `Gilett' by key leaders of
for
the govern-
turned to Poland under the
many years ago . .. My father, opening the coat of his suit and
Boys and Girls - 5 to 15
ment, and to
agreement,
and
the
continuing
Reuben Brainin, was at the time strutting about with his .hands
survey the
flow is expected to include addi-
A wonderful summer in o
editor of a Canadian Yiddish in his pants pockets. . . . When-
wholesome Jewish otmosphese
program of
tional returning Jews. Accord-
newspaper, Der Keneder. Adler. ever he caught sight of me he economic de-
ing to the reports, there had
8 weeks — $375.00
. . . It was during the First winked in a conspiratorial way
velopment and
been such a rush of applications
4 weeks — $190.00
World War, sometime before as if to say 'why do people
immigrant ab-
before the March 31 expiration
2 weeks — $100.00
1917. . . . Sholem Aleichem had make so much fuss about selling
sorption which
date that it was decided that
come to Montreal for a few days a red vest? . . .
Call Now
is financed by
Poles who had applied before
"In later years I attended in
Saul Sinkoff Emanuel Mark
and stayed at our home in Mon-
Israel Bonds.
the deadline would be consid-
Director
Manager
treal. . . . He was already a the home of R. Z. Goldberg, one On his depar-
ered as covered by the agree-
UN 4-0730
LI 5-2969
rather sick man — some uncom- of Sholem Aleichem's sons-in- t u r e, Ham-
ment.
fortable bladder disease — but law, the Sholem Aleichem Yahr- burger stress-
he never complained. . . . When zeit. . . . In accordance with ed the major
Hamburger
my father introduced us chil- Sholem Aleichem's will the importance of Israel Bond funds
dren to Sholem Aleichem, he families of his sons and daugh- to the fulfillment of Israel's
said that we had the great privi- ters are asked to assemble on plans for industrial and agricul-
lege to meet one of the creators his Yahrzeit and instead of tural growth, and for the pro-
of Yiddish literature whose im- mourning read from his humor- vision of homes and jobs for
mortality would survive the ous tales. . . In the New York tens of thousands of new citi-
Yiddish language. . . . We were home of his daughter who is zens, most of them from East-
naturally impressed. . . . Then married to the distinguished ern Europe. The Israel Bond
one afternoon Sholem Aleichem Yiddish columnist and author, drive must raise a minimum of
told me in a confidential voice 13. Z. Goldberg, the Yahrzeit $75,000,000 during 1959 for
that I could do a great favor was always a gala affair. . . . these purposes.
which he would appreciate. . . . Some of the best actors from
* * *
He explained that his heart was the Yiddish stage would read
DR-. LOUIS FINKELSTEIN,
set on buying a red vest. . . . the best known Sholem Alei-
He called it 'a Roiten Gilett' cheni stories. . . . It was a great Chancellor of the Jewish Theo-
. . . Would I accompany him experience for the humor of the logical Seminary of America,
sailed for a three month trip
and help him find the right immortal storyteller has never
to Europe and Israel.
store where he could find this been equaled in any language,
* * *
garment? ... I was rather baf- I believe . . . But no matter
Councilman Ed Connor on
fled . , . I knew of course that where and when I listen to Sho-
Sholem Aleichem was a great lem Aleichem's stories, I always Tuesday reappointed William
C. Levin, well
"I'd like to *personally thank all my good friends and
humorist and so I speculated remember him in his white suit
known Detroit
clients for their warm good wishes. We have been
that perhaps he was preparing and his red vest, smiling and
attorney, as a
overwhelmed by your response. You may be assured
something funny and that the happy and above all proud that
member of the
we'll continue to give you the individual attention
red vest was going to play an he had achieved his aim of get-
Detroit Board
and service you've been looking for."
important part in a joke he ting the `Roiten Gilett' which.a
of Supervisors.
intended to play on somebody. conventional society tried to
Levin, who re-
SUBURBS:
DETROIT:
. . In any case, I declared keep away from him and which
sides with his
myself ready and willing to es- fitted his personality so well
MI. 6-2170
JO. 6-1490
,: family at
cost him on his safari for a red that nobody ever noticed it. . . .
18273
Santa
other
words,
he
enjoyed
on
In
garment and so we set out
American Express Agency • Credit Cards Honored
Rosa, former-
the great adventure. . demonstrating that conformity
ly
served
as
296
N. Hunter Blvd., Bim. (1 bl. N. of Maple Rd.)
"It proved a difficult mission. is just a myth. • . ."
as Chief Pa-
Levin
. . . We visited dozens of stores
role Officer of Wayne County.
only to be told . that there was
* * *
no such thing as a red vest. .. .
-
FRANK
M.
LOEWENBERG,
Finally we came to an under-
standing Jew who felt deeply
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Jewish Community Center Te,n
honored by the visit of Sholem proposal that honorary post- Mile branch director, spoke at
Aleichem. . . . His store did not humous Netherlands citzenship the April meeting of the Group-
have the precious garment but be conferred on Anne Frank work Section, National Associa-
he suggested that we should try has been sent by the Nether- tion of Social WOrkers, April 8,
a store that specialized in uni- lands Embassy to The Hague at the YWCA.
* * *
forms or attires for butlers .. . for consideration. The recom-
Mrs ROSE BUCHHALTER, a
We did discover such a store. mendation of the Embassy was
• • • Our mission was accom- pursuant to the expressed wish caseworker for the Jewish Fam-
plished. . . . Sholem Aleichem of the teen-age Jewish heroine iy and Children's Service of De-
was beaming with genuine hap- of "The Diary of a Young Girl." troit, will represent the agency
piness. . . I was waiting for
The Embassy acted after it at the regional conference of
the great denoument. . . . Now, came to the attention of diplo- the Child Welfare League of
any moment the mystery would mats that nothing had been America this weekend, in Buf-
be -solved why Sholem Aleichem done to fulfill one of Anne falo, N.Y.
needed 'a Roiten Gilett' . . . Frank's last wishes. She wrote
That first evening nothing hap- in her diary that - "my first wish High Court Reduces
pened. .. .
after the war is that I may be-
"The next day the teachers come Dutch! I love the Dutch, Kafr Kassem Sentences
and pupils of the local Sholem I love the country, I love the
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Is-
Aleichem School had arranged language and want to work rael Court of Appeals closed
a picnic in Sholem Aleichem's here. And even if I have to the Kafr Kassem case by con-
honor on Mount Royal. . . . A write to the Queen myself, I firming the conviction on mur-
delegation of the school had will not give up until I have der charges against three of the
come to our home to call for reached my goal."
members of the Israel border
the guest of honor. . . . He was
J. A. Van Houten. Embassy patrol who killed 47 Arab men,
ready. . . . Dressed in a white counsellor, said the Embassy women and children during a
suit and wearing his red vest. decided to act after receiving curfew in 1956. At the same
... Amazingly enough the red suggestions that came to the time, the Appeals Court re-
vest looked perfectly appropri- attention of the Ambassador. duced the sentences of all the
ate. . . As a matter of fact it The next move is up to the defendants.
fitted his appearance so well Netherlands Government in
The term of Major Shmuel
that nobody - seemed surprised. The Hague.
Malini, commander of the
border police battalion, which
Soviet Jewish Emigration
opened fire on the Israel Arabs
Not Imminent—Goldmann on the eve of the Sinai cam-
Naturally delicious! Made from luscious, choke-of-the-crop bees
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) — paign, was 'reduced from 17
— with no artificial coloring added! See the true-beet color .
Jewish emigration from the years to 14. That of Lt. Gabriel
taste the all-beet flavor. There's no borscht like MANISC.H.E
Soviet Union is not imminent, Dehan, company commander,
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, presi- was cut from 15 to 10 years,
BORSCHT! This Passover, insist on I d You •••• and your family
dent of the World Jewish Con-
will be delighted
ELKIN HOTEL & TRAVEL gress, stated here. World Jewry, and that of Cpl. Shalom Ofer
Enjoy all these quality mANiscinwtot
BUREAU, of 19437 Livernois, -he said, should concentrate from 15 to 10 years.
PASSOVER food products: Matzos, Gefil
Five
other
members
of
the
has enlarged its staff as well greater efforts on obtaining
Fish, Borscht, Cakes, Cookies, Wine
as quarters to better serve the more rights for Jews in the patrol unit, sentenced to seven
over too fine foods, Kosher fo• Passov
years,
were
released
after
the
community.
Soviet, Union.
*
*
Addressing a Jewish leaders Appeals Court changed the
BARNETT PONTIAC, lo- here, in his capacity as WJC charge to "attempted murder"
cated at 5524 Schaefer, be- president, Dr. Goldmann said and sentenced them to three
tween Ford Rd. and Michigan efforts to obtain more rights for years on that charge. The court
Ave. in Dearborn, announces Russian Jews were merited be- said that, since they had al-
the appointment of HARVEY cause Soviet leaders are sensi- ready served two and a half
GELLER as General Sales Man- tive to world opinion and un- years, they were being released
ager. He • may be reached at easy about their Jewish prob- immediately, with six months
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granted for good behavior.
lem.
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