Cantor Frankel Writes in April Judaica Post WA Allocations Plan and Its Supervising Board (Continued from Page 1) budget the board of directors of the • Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., will each select the particular activities and programs of immigration, absorption, resettlement, education and other philanthropic activities it wishes to support. In this way all funds allocated by the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., will be 'clearly designated for specific philanthropic activities carried out by the Jewish Agency for Israel, Jerusalem. The board of directors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., will appoint an American to represent them in Israel. He will keep in close contact with all projects approved in the budget and will be responsible to the directors to ascertain that all funds are spent in accordance with the agreement between the Jewish Agency for Israel in Jerusalem. In anticipation of the new agreement, the Jewish Agency for Israel has transferred Zionist education and cultural acti- vities in the United States to the American Zionist Council, the coordinating agency of all Zionist groups in the United States. Allocations to the American Zionist Council will be terminated as of March 31, 1961. Also, within the framework of the new agreement, it has been decided to terminate allocations to the constructive enterprises funds operated by Zionist parties in Israel as of December 31, 1960. These are indications that, with the cessation of these allocations, the American Zionist Council and the Zionist parties affected by this decision will either engage in independent fund-raising campaigns or apply for allocations to the local Jewish federations and welfare funds in the United States. Dr. Stone indicated that allocations made by the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., would be determined by a process of line-by-line budgeting similar to that used in Jewish com- munities for local programs. Commenting on the announce- ment that allocations to the Constructive Philanthropic Funds of the Zionist parties in Israel will be discontinued as of Decem- ber 31, 1960, he said that "those who have criticized these allocations fail to understand conditions in Israel as they have developed over the past four decades." "The Zionist parties which have received allocations from the Jewish Agency for constructive work in Israel are more than political parties in the American sense of the word," Dr. Stone explained. "They represent a philosophy, a way of life. By establishing housing projects and settlements into which new immigrants can be integrated, these constructive enter- prises help the newcomers to be . resettled among neighbors who share the same values and bring up their children in the same traditions. "There can be no doubt that the activities of these funds have been of a purely philanthropic nature and at no time conflicted with the tax exempt status of the United Jewish Appeal. As late as February of this year, the UJA received affirmation from the U.S. Treasury Internal Revenue Service that contributions to the United Jewish Appeal continue to be tax deductible as they have been without interruption since 1946. "Let it be understood that the present action—discontinu- ing these allocations—has not been taken because of any pressure or criticism from any special group or individuals outside of the United Jewish Appeal," Dr. Stone stressed. "When over a year ago the decision was taken to broaden the participation of American Jewish leadership in the disposition of United Jewish Appeal' funds spent in Israel, it was agreed by top United Jewish Appeal leaders and. Zionist leaders that these alloCations and other expenditures for Zionist cultural activities would no longer come out of United Jewish Appeal funds." Center Theater Slates 'Festival of Comedy' Detroiters Fisher and Stollman "Festival of Comedy" will be and beatnik poets of the 17th presented by the Jewish -Cen- century will be presented with Earn Distinction of Serving on ter Theater, featuring a Corn- period costumes and music of 21-Member Fund Allocating Group. media dell' Arte night, an ex- the period. Two Detroiters—Max M. Fisher and Phillip Stoll- man—have 'attained national distinction by having been selected to serve on the new 21-member board of direc- tors for the handling of Jewish Agency philanthropic funds raised by the United Jewish Appeal. hibit, and a presentation of Moliere's "The Learned La- dies.55 Opening event of the festival will be a Commedia dell' Arte night, at 8:15 p.m., April 27,. in the Aaron DeRoy Theater, 18100 Meyers. The same night an exhibit will open, aimed at showing the influence of this brilliant and colorful theater movement on painting and other arts. The exhibit will run through performances of Moliere's "The Learned Ladies," May 12, 14, and 15. a climax to the "Festi- val of Comedy." This satire on culturines, celebrity chasers Phillip Stollman, well known local builder, and land develop- er, who is associated with his brother, Max, in the Biltmore Building Co., holds one of the leading positions in behalf of Israel's educational activities, as national chairman of the American Board of Trustees for Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Born in Poland, May 15, 1906, he came to the United States in 1921. He is a former Detroit Israel Bond Committee chair- man and is a member of the national board of governors of the Israel Bond . Organization. He has recently been named chairman of the Israel Bonds Midwest Region synagogue cam- paign and he heads the High Holy Day Israel Bond drives here. Stollman is a member of the board of governors of the Jew- ish Welfare Federation and of the executive committees of the Allied Jewish Campaign and the Jewish Community Council. He is a Founder of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a Fellow of Bar-Ilan Uni- versity. He is associated here actively with the Jewish Nation- al Fund, is president of Detroit Mizrachi, has affiliations with local congregatiOns, yeshivoth and Young Israel and is a mem- ber of the boards of Sinai Hos- pital and the United Hebrew Schools. He is a member of Pis- gah Lodge of Bnai Brith and Town and Country Club. He is active in private investment un- dertakings in Israel. Phillip and Max Stollman "An Artist's - Artist" SIGNED BY FRIENDS O JAN VAN ECH-H FRANK LLOYD RIGHT STOP VAN GOGH SAM BEETHOVEN "LEFTY" RENOIR 0 Iff OTHERS ADVERTISING ■ 4 ti ON THE LEADER FOR 1960 — THE "WIDE TRACK" PONTIAC. See HARVEY GELLER General Sales Manager BARNETT Sales 5524 SCHAEFER PONTIAC Service TI 6-1122 Between Ford Rd. & Mich. Ave., Dearborn Max M. Fisher, whi. has been active nationally in tbe affairs of the United Jewish Appeal, is president of the Jewish Wel- fare Federation of Detroit. A former Allied Jewish Campaign chairman, he has been active in numerous local community undertakings, Jew- ish- and civic. One of the country's leading industrialists, the man who was the major factor in the develop- ment of the Aurora Oil Co.'s progreis and in Speedway '79's expansions, Fisher has taken a deep interest in Israel, has made a number of trips to Is- rael and has been invited by the Israel government on num- erous occasions to serve in ad- visory economic capacities. He was honored last month by being elected a member of the board of governors of Heb- rew Union College-Jewish Insti- tute of Religion. The new 21-member board which will handle UJA funds is headed by Dewey D. Stone, of Brockton, Mass.; and Fisher will be co-treasurer with Abra- ham Goodman, of New York. have for many years worked to- gether on many projects in be- half of Israel as well as local religious and other undertak- ings, and Phillip says of his brother Max that "without his help and encouragement I could not have rendered the services to which I have dedicated my life in the Jewish community." MURRY KOBLIN FOR THE BEST DEAL MAX M. FISHER PHILLIP STOLLMAN An article on "Musical In- struments of the Bible," written by. Cantor Reuven Frankel, of Detroit's Cong. Shearey Zedek, appears in this current issue of Judaica Post, a magazine de- voted to philatelic Judaica. Inspiration for the story is drawn by Cantor Frankel from an Israeli stamp, showing the blowing of the Shofar, which has a tab inscription: "Blow the horn at the new moon, at the full moon for our feast day." Other items of note in the monthly publication are stories on David Brandon of Panama, an Economic Vkw of Topical Collecting and a list of indi- viduals, often taken for Jews when they appear on postage stamps although they are not Jewish, prepar e d by John Henry Richter, of AnL Arbor. Charge.. Accounts Invited I MPORTEI-ZS • CLOTHIERS