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Bnai Brith Salutes Mrs. Solovich
Midwest Conference Launches UJA Drive
Detroiters Sam Jacob and man,. Edward M. M. Warburg
Awards; Shapiro for 27-Yr. Career with Organization Richard
Sloan were active as and other national and local
members of the United Jewish
Balfour _Planner Mrs. Charles D. Solovich, stated. "They want to learn Appeal
m i d w es t leadership leaders.
On Tuesday evening, the Zion- prominent Detroit attorney and about possible reasons for the
ist Organization of Detroit held national president of Bnai Brith wave of anti-Semitic incidents."
its fourth . annual Balfour vic- Women, praised the courage of
Mrs. Gerald Gorman was
tory dinner at the Mayfair 137,000 membdrs in the organi- chairman of the luncheon also
Room.
zation Monday in response to featuring special presentations
Judge Ira G. Kaufman, presi- high personal tributes paid her by Mrs. Phillip Kramer, presi-
dent, and Sherman Shapiro, at a testimonial luncheon in the dent of Pisgah Chapter, which
Balfour Concert chairman, pre- Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel.
Mrs. Solovich joined in 1933,
sented alAr rds and citations to
The president voiced her and Mrs. Philip Edelheit, presi-
workers who helped make the "enormous pride in the courage dent of the Metropolitan De-
annual Balfour concert success- of Bnai Brith Women as our troit BBW Council.
ful. Receiving awards were Al members embark on a commu-
Elaine G r e e n, president,
Borman, Harry Cohen, Mrs. I. nity-action program throughout Frances Solovich Bnai Brith
Walter Silver,_Dr. and Mrs. San- the United States to help curb Girls Chapter; Harry Weinber-
ford Bennett, Philip Slomovitz an epidemic of anti-Semitic in- ger, 'president, Metropolitan De-
and Ruben H. Isaacs.
cidents which has swept the na- troit Bnai Brith Council; Mrs.
Harry Cohen was presented tion in recent months."
Morris Tack, vice president of
with a purse for his trip to
BBW District 6; and Harry Yud-
More
than
400
persons
attend-
Israel, on March 28, by Al
koff, representing Bnai Brith
ed
the
luncheon
given
by
the
Borman, who headed a com-
Metropolitan Detroit Bnai Brith District 6, also participated in
mittee which also included Women's
the program.
Council.
Abe Kasle, to assure the
* * *
Among
civic
and
organiza-
recognition of Cohen's com- tional leaders saluting Mrs. So-
Katz Reports Pope's
munal services.
lovich were Mary V. Beck, pres-
Citations were presented to ident of the Detroit Common
Leon Kay, M. Ben Lewis, Abe Council, who gave her the key Statement on Bigotry
Pope John XXIII strongly de-
Kasle, Dr. Bernard WeSton, Dr. to
the city, and several indivi- nounced the recent rash of anti-
I. Walter Silver, Dr. Harold duals
who have worked with Semitic outbreaks as violations
Maxmdn, Irving Sniderman, Sal
Lifsitz, Morris Sukenic, Milton BBW's First Lady during her of "the natural rights of man,"
membership in the and called anti-Semitism "a sin
Marwil, Dr. I. Z. Silvarman and 27-year
organization.
Dr. Alex Friedlaender.
against God and man," Label A.
Label A. Katz of New Or- Katz, national president of Bnai
Additional presentations were
made to Morris Mendelson, Jo- leans, president of Bnai .Brith, Brith, reported.
seph Frenkel, Ruben Gold, highlighted h e r "distinctive
Katz, who, with a Bnai Brith
Harold Nelson, George Spoon, leadership" in BBW affairs, delegation, h a d 'an audience
while
others
pointed
out
the
Harold Berry, Harry Bradlin,
with Pope John at the Vatican
Samuel Kohlenberg, Si d n e y value of her contributions to last month, disclosed the Pon-
Brand, Harry Davidoff, Robert the American - Jewish commu- tiff's statement for the first
Marwil and Dr. Charles Gitlin. nity on national, state, and local time when he addressed a con-
Plans are now being formu- levels. -
vocation of Toronto Bnai Brith
Katz and Mrs. Solovich re- lodges Sunday.
lated for the 1960 Balfour con-
cently
headed
a
delegation
re-
cert. She 1.an Shapiro has
The synagogue vandalism and
again accepted the chairman- ceived by The Netherlands' swastika daubings around the
Queen Juliana and Prince Bern- world were seen by Pope John,
ship for the coming year.
hard at the royal palace in Am- Katz
said, as "violating not only
sterdam. Both were in the the natural
Manifestations Blamed
rights of man but
Dutch
capital
to
attend
an
exec-
on Apathy in Germany
as destroying the spirit of love
utive
session
of
the
Bnai
Brith
and understanding that should
CHICAGO, (JTA) — The
blame for the anti-Jewish mani- International Council which exist among all brothers for the
to encourage closer liai-
of peace and free-
festations in Germany,_ which seeks
son among the Jewish commu- preservation
dom among all mankind."
began with the desecration of nities of the world.
"The Pope," continued Katz,
the. Cologne synagogue on
nation has been shocked "also
placed emphasis on what
Christmas Eve, was laid by Dr. by "Our
the rash of swastika symbols he
called the 'imperishable con-
Joachim Prinz, president of the painted on synagogues and Jew-
American Jewish Congress, to ish homes," Mrs. Solovich de- tinuity' between the Old and
"the apathy and indifference of clared, "but we believe the pain- New Testaments. He told us it
large sections of the German ful jolt can result in good if it is his private prayer that the
of both testaments will
people."
-has taught us an unforgettable people
continue to grow closer in good
Dr. Prinz was one of the lesson.
relationships."
speakers at a Town Hall meet-
"The BBW program is alert-
From his own viewpoint, the
ing at which the cause and cure ing communities to the need for
of the world-wide anti-Semitic educating youth to the horrors Bnai Brith leader said, the anti-
manifestations were discussed. of Nazi dictatorship. Let us hope Semitic outbreaks were attribut-
Jack I. Fishbein, editor and we have at last learned not to able to "imitative dementia,"
publisher of The Sentinel, an- gloss over the facts of a hideous involving young persons in par-
other speaker, told- the audi- truth to protect our children ticular. "The bitter historical
ence that "American Jews bear from the knowledge, for this is lessons of the Hitler era," he
no grudge against Germany or to view life through rose-col- warned, "are slipping by a
Chancellor Adenauer." He ored glasses and to leave the younger generation at a time
stressed that "We have every next generation a worthless when their own survival as a
free civilization will rest heav-
reason to hate the nation that legacy," she said.
on their genuine awareness
murdered 6,000,000 of our kins-
"Youth are eager to coordi- ily
men, but despite this, we bear nate their activities with the of what democracy really is."
Katz, who visited West Ger-
no blind grudge."
all-out community effort," she
many, declared that the "sin-
cere determination" of the Ade-
nauer government to democrat-
ize the country is handicapped
BY HENRY LEONARD
by the large number of Nazi-
oriented schoolteachers and gov-
WESTVALE JEwil
ernment workers. who still hold
posts in the school system and
in the civil service.
Katz said there is "no real
evidence" that the anti-Semitic
outbreaks were linked to an
anti-Semitic plot or neo-Nazi
conspiracy.
-
institute committee, which ar-
ranged the conference, in High-
land Park, Ill., last week-end,
for the launching of the UJA
drives in midwest communities.
Speakers at the conference-
included I s r a el Ambassador
Avraham Harman, Philip Klutz-
nick, Rabbi Herbert A. Fried-
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