C / ecte s rest en t o Albert Schiff, industrialist and life-long Zionist leader, was elected president of the Jewish National Fund of Am- erica at the annual meeting of the JNF board of directors last week. He succeeds Dr. • Harris J. Levine who held the office of president for ten years. Maurice Levin, industrialist, and former president of Hearn's Department Store, was named national treasurer, and Mendel N. Fisher, executive director and secretary. Dr. Levine. and Dr. Israel Goldstein were elect- ed honorary presidents. Schiff, who was born in Lithuania in 1893, is a vice president and director of the Shoe Corporation of America and a director of A. S. Beck Shoes and the Adler Shoe Stores. He is also a member of the board of directors of the ALBERT SCHIFF Palestine Economic Corpora-4> tion of New York and of the board of governors of the Israel Bond Organization. Elected as vice-presidents are Dr. Miriam Freund, president of Hadassah; Clara Leff, presi- dent of Pioneer Women; Nathan Jerome . Weidman, co-author A. Levine, national vice presi- dent of the Religious Zionists with George Abbott of the of America, and Judge Albert musical "Fiorello," based on D. Schanzer, national vice presi- the life of the late Mayor Fior- dent of the Zionist Organization ello LaGuardia of New York, is in the limelight: "Fiorello" of America. Miss Julliet N. Benjamin was has been named to receive the named honorary secretary; Mrs. Pulitzer Prize as the best 1960 Maurice Plesser and Louis play. A. M. (Abe) Rosenthal re- Segal, associate treasurers; Isi- dore Epstein, assistant execu- ceived the Pulitzer award . for international reporting. tive director. Miriam Ottenberg, of the Among the honorary, chair- men of the JNF elected at the Washington Evening Star, re- meeting is Rabbi Isaac Stollman ceived the award for local reporting. of Detroit. "Fiorello" has been pub- lished in book form by Ran- Drop Chaucer Ballad dom House. " The complete text of the as Anti-Semitic Slur musical, as issued by Random, LONDON, (JTA) — London contains the comment by a University will exclude from heckler, in the crowd that its examination syllabus, begin- gathered in one of the scenes ning next year, the Chaucer to hear LaGuardia's political "Ballad of Little Hugh of Lin- speech: "I hear you're half coln," because it has outright Jewish. How come you never anti-Semitic connotations, it was brag about your Jewish back- announced by Mrs. Elsie Jan- ground?" ner, chairman of the education Fiorello replies: "I figure if committee of the Board of a man is only half Jewish it Deputies of British Jews. isn't enough to brag about." According to Mrs. Janner, Then there is the Yiddish the committee has sought the version of a song that follows deletion of the Chaucer ballad - Fiorello's remarks to the gath- from the syllabus because the ering: ",Ich bin LaGuardia." poem deScribes the alleged Fiorello declames: murder of a Christian child "Doss is Lamed A-leph Gim- presumably killed by Jews for mel A-leph Raysh "ritual blood" purposes. • The .Doll-ed- yaod eyen ,dee far- ' university has now assured the guess doss nischt committee, she said, that the Ich zug tsu eye-ich, Tammany poem will no longer be in- is nisht kosher cluded in the syllabus. Hahb doss in zinnen Mrs. Janner announced also Un heatzich foon zay!" that her committee will launch It will be noted that the a campaign to explain Judaism lyrics are spelled phonetically to non-Jewish youth in this —and that the Polish-Yiddish country. The purpose, she said, version of pronunciation is is to help : eliminate possible used. anti-Jewish prejudices among When Fiorello completes his non-Jewish youth in Britain. appeal "heatzich foon zay"— be on guard against Tammany, PEC Stockholders Elect the Chorus sings: A-leph New Members to Board "La-med A-leph Raysh Doll-ed Six prominent business and Yood • eyen meer vein doss civic leaders from New York, far-guessen." Ohio, California and LoUisiana It is at this point that the are newly elected to the 51-men crowd erupts into a wildly en- board of directors of Palestine thusiastic street dance, which Economic Corporation, N e w includes the sherrele—one of York, chosen at the annual the most exciting scenes in stockholders' meeting. "Fiorello."' The new directors are Morris The Random published ver- W. Berinstein of New York and sion of "Fiorello," in view of Albany, general chairman of the honors accorded the mus- the United Jewish Appeal; Jo- ical, should be in great demand, seph E. Cole, Cleveland busi- the musical being assured a nessman; Julius Fligelman, Los very long run. Angeles furniture manufactur- er; Paul Capelow, New Orleans Dr. Elder's 'Prophets, Jewish communal leader; Ben- jamin H. Swig, San Francisco Idols and Diggers' Is realtor; and Jack E. Weiler, a Bobbs-Merrill Volume New York realtor and a nation The review of "Prophets, al chairman of the UJA. Idols and Diggers,'' by Dr. John Elder, which appeared in The Film Banned by Jordan Detroit Jewish News on April A report from Amman states 15, inadvertently failed to give that the American film "The the name of the book's pub- World, the Devil and the Flesh" lisher. has been banned, the charge The volume was published by being that it contains Zionist Bobbs, Merrill Co., Indianapolis, propaganda. Ind. Yiddish Lyrics in Pulitzer Prize Winner Fiorello' ` to• ite Dr. Posner at Annual Meeting ay 5"-Ket as Box Day by Sunday, May 15, will be JNF Blue-White Box Day in this area, according to a decision of the Jewish National Fund Blue- White Box Committee. Mrs. Morris Kutinsky is chairman of the committee. Blue-White Box Day has been designated as the culminating date of the Spring 1960 Box clearance, which has been going on in Detroit and the area since April 15. It is the hope of the JNF that all box holders whose homes have not yet been visited by volunteer workers, will be cleared on this day. Aleph Zadik Aleph, Bnai Brith Youth Organization, has volunteered the services of 50 to '75 young men who will take all Blue-White box cards uncov- ered or unassigned, and will visit those homes and clear the boxes. Mrs. Kutinsky expressed gratitude in behalf of JNF to the leadership of AZA and to BBYO for their interest in, and devotion to, the cause of the State of Israel, to which the money from the Blue-White box is dedicated. The following are the organi- zations participating regularly in the clearance, and their JNF Blue-White Box Chairmen: Dr. Irving Posner, local pedi- atrician, will be cited for 20 years of volunteer service as medical director of the Jewish Family and Children's Service child placement department at the JFCS annual meeting. The meeting, to be held joint- ly with the Resettlement Serv- ice, will be held on May 15, in the main Jewish Center, 18100 Meyers. Another highlight of the pro- gram, according to Milford R. Pregerson, JFCS president, will be a panel discussion by four community leaders on family counseling as viewed in the panelists' respective professions. Participants include Prof. Clarice Freud, University of Michigan school of social work; Rabbi Max Kapustin, director, Wayne State University Hillel Glasser Co-Chairma Foundation; Edwin Sinon, law; and Dr. Raymond A. Soko- of UJA Cash Appeal lov, medicine. Mrs. Charles Lak- Joshua B. Glasser, of Chicago, off will serve as moderator. has been chosen to serve as Annual reports for both JFCS UJA regional and Resettlement Service will cash co-chair- be presented by the presidents man for the of the two agencies, Pregerson Central States and Nathan Milstein. A new in the nation- board for JFCS will be elected, wide drive to and new officers will be voted raise at least upon by Resettlement Service. $35,000,000 in Mrs. Robert Drews is chair- cash by June man of arrangements for the 18, it has been annual meeting. She is assisted announced by by Mesdames Samuel Green, Melvin Dubin- Archiel Harwith and Louis Hin- sky, national derstein. cash chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. Weizmann Institute Glasser will coordinate ef- Honors Two Editors forts of the Two eminent British friends area's repre- of Zionism, the late C. P. Scott sentatives on and the late Herbert Side- Glasser a national 50- botham, are to be commemor- man cash committee, which is ated at the Weizmann Institute working intensively to spur of Science, it is announced by cash collection efforts in thou- Meyer W. Weisgal, chairman of sands communities through- the Institute's executive coun- out the of nation. cil. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sacher, of London, made annual grants for two research associates in their memory. The Sacher gift amounts to $280,000. C. P. Scott was for many years the editor of the Man- chester Guardian and it was through him that Dr. Chaim Weizmann met Balfour and other great British statesmen and notables. Herbert Sidebotham, who wrote under the pseudonym "Scrutator," was one of Britain's foremost political journalists. During 1917-21, he edited the periodical Palestine, which was a powerful pleader of the Zion- ist cause. Like Scott, he re- mained a devoted friend of Zionism until his death. Sacher was at one time on the staff of the Manchester Guard- ian and a close associate of both men. A bust of C. P. Scott by Jacob Epstein has been presented by Harold Lever, M.P., of Man- chester, to the Weizmann Ar- chives at Rehovoth where it is on view. Hadassah Chapter of Detroit, Mrs. Aaron Friedman; Hadassah of East Oak Park, Mrs. William Edelson; Hadassah of West Oak Park, Mrs. H. Warheit; Hadassah, Huntington Woods, Mrs. Robert White; Hadas- sah, Birmingham - Farmington, Mrs. I. Grumet; Hadassah of Livonia, Mrs. Ivan Edelstein; Ha d a s s a h, Southfield, Mrs. Herbert Michelman; Ladies Auxiliary of JNF, Mrs. Ku- tinsky; Mesdames Hyman Gold and Sol Lifsitz, co-chairmen; Mizrachi- Fannie Gluck, Mrs. S. 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