THE DETRO IT JEWISH NEW S—Friday, August 26, 196 0- 10 German Advisory Body to Advance Anti-Nazi Studies Left to right, at a special gifts committee rally: Mesdames Leon Kay, Philip Slomovitz, Milton Maddin, Samuel Cohl, Mil- ton Sorock, Bert Coleman, Sam Shekter, Frank Wetsman, Max Zivian and Herman August. Detroit Hadassah Gets Into Action for New Year's Honor Roll Campaign On Aug. 16, at a meeting in the home of Mrs. Leon Kay, 19221 Strathcona, the special gifts committee of Detroit Chap- ter of Hadassah commenced its activities for the annual Honor Roll solicitations. Inspirational messages were delivered by Mrs. I. Jerome Hauser, president: Mrs. Milton Sorock, Honor Roll vice presi- dent; and Mrs. Sam Shekter, special gifts chairman. A report on the recent tour of Israel by a Detroit delegation that attended the dedication of the Hadassah-Hebrew Univer- sity Medical Center, which took place Aug. 3, was given by Mrs. Shekter, who was one of the De- troit guests at the dedication. The opening meeting of the 1960-61 Honor Roll drive will be held Tuesday, Sept. 27, at Temple Israel, Mrs. Hauser announced. Mrs. Hauser said that in ad- dition to the job ahead—of com- pleting, furnishing and equip- ping the Medical Center and the Henrietta Szold School of Nurs- ing--"Hadassah must continue its high standard of other serv- ices, including its medical acti- vities, Youth Aliyah child res- cue and rehabilitation, vocation- al education, community health services, land reclamation through the Jewish National Fund and its American affairs program." Mrs. Shekter, in her report of the Israel pilgrimage by the Ha- dassah delegation, described im- pressive dedication ceremonies and told of the progress that isn't it about time your LOOSE RUGS had a ............ professional cleaning? e er: CARPET CLEANING CO. 5-3400 has been made by Hadassah in developing medical services in Israel. She referred to the Ha- dassah-Hebrew University Medi- cal Center as "one of the most powerful weapons of defense— not against man. but against the destructive forces of disease." Ignore Arab Prying into Jewish Trade, Hamburg Firms Told HAMBURG, (JTA) — The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce has instructed all of its mem- bers to refuse to fill out ques- itionnaires submitted by the Arab League boycott office requesting written evidence that certain German export firms were not Jewish owned. In a circular letter to its 'membership, the Chamber I pointed out that, while consid- erable importance was to be at- tached to the development of Arab-West German trade, the requests for information were contrary to accepted interna- tional trade practices. The action by the Chamber of Commerce here. represented a departure from the previous German attitude, according to which, in the past, German trade associations simply trans- mitted the Arab demands to their members without com- ment. This, together with the fact that the Bonn Government never intervened against such practices, gave the impression that West Germany tacitly con- doned the boycott. Belzer Hassidim Name Youth as Their Rebbe JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Twelve-year-old Issacher D o v "B e r el e" Rokeach will be named the new Belzer Rebbe when he reaches the age of 18, it was decided here at a meet- ing of 2,000 Belzer Hassidim, including 100 delegates from overseas. The meeting was convened to coincide with the third anni- versary of the death of Rabbi Aaron Rokeach, the late Belzer Rebbe. The Belzer dynasty dates back four centuries and was named for Belz, the town in Poland where the rabbinic family lived. The hassidim also decided to raise $250,000 to enlarge the Belzer Yeshiva in Jerusalem and to construct a new syna- gogue building here to honor the late Rebbe. The speakers, all of whom stressed the need for strengthening the Belzer influence throughout world Jewry, included Rabbi Moses Shapiro, head of the American Belzer Hassidhn. , BONN, (JTA) — A 12-man commission of scholars and educators was established by the West German Government to advise the states in the Fed- eral Republic about increasing and improving civic education, so that the pupils in the Ger- man schools may know more about the anti-democratic and anti-Semitic policies and prac- tees of the Nazi regime. The commission was set up in accordance with plans pro- posed in Parliament by Dr. Ger- hard Schroeder, Federal Min- ister of Education, as a result of the outbreak of swastika- s m e a r i n g s and anti-Semitic sloganeering that spread throughout the country last winter. Prof. Max Horkheimer, prominent Jewish - German social scientist, is• a member of the commission. The plan is for the commis sion to advise the states on methods of teaching pupils in civics and history courses in such a way that they would understand the unsocial nature of Nazism. The Federal Gov- ernment itself does not control the educational systems in the states, jurisdiction in that re- spect being reserved, constitu- tionally, to the state govern- ments. Germany's Entertainment Mobilized Against Nazism NEW YORK, (JTA) — The West German entertainment industry has been mobilized to carry to the German people the truth about the Third Reich, the newspaper Variety reported. It said show business was "playing a major role via television, films, traveling ex- hibits and shows in intensify- ing the examination of the Third Reich." The paper reported that at the recent Mannheim document- ary film fest, "thousands of students saw films dealing with the Nazi era." It said the West German Government had bought prints of the French documentary, "Night and Fog," dealing with the Nazi regime, and was showing the film to students and organized groups. In Frankfurt, "10,000 shocked Germans" attended the first week of an exhibit, "Night De- scended Over Germany," de- picting the crimes of the Hitler regime, the paper stated. In Dortmund, an exhibit of news- paper clippings and documents on National Socialism was Court Orders Return of Jewish Property Bought Under Nazis BONN, (JTA)—A test case which may ultimately involve about • 250,000 Germans with claims totaling 1,500,000,000 Deutschemarks (nearly $400,000,. 000) was decided against a claimant who sought government repayment for losses incurred be- cause he bought a Jew's property "in good faith" during the Nazi regime. The case, which will be ap- pealed to Superior Court, was a test on behalf of a farmer at Frankenthal. In 1938, the farmer had bought the property of a Jewish neighbor. After the war, he was ordered to return to the original owner not only the property but an additional 25,- 500 Deutschemarks (about $6,- 500). The Union of Loyal Persons Injured by Restitution, which is advancing the cause of "loyal purchasers," contends that Ger- mans who bought Jewish property under the Nazi regime had ac- tually "saved Jewish lives, free- ing persons from concentration camps by enabling them to emi- grate." Dr. A. Seger, president of the Union, says there are 350,000 "loyal purchasers" in the country, with claims totaling approximate- ly a billion and a half Deutsche- marks. - opened for schools by the Westphalian-Lower Rhenish In- stitute for Newspaper Research, it reported. The West German television network recently carried a pro- gram dealing with the Jews who survived the concentration camps and now live in Ger- many. Another TV program dealt with the torture of the Jews under the Hitler regime. This fall, the paper reported, the West German network will carry a series of programs spon- sored by the Cologne station and the South German network called "the road into the Abyss, 1933 to 1945." On the stage, the paper said, Berthold Brecht's play, "Sch- weik in the Second World War," has been a sensation. The story is of a Czech soldier who defies the Nazis in an attempt to protect his Jewish friends. The paper noted that "the film industry in Germany has yet to meet the problems of the Nazi era head-on with a true examina- tion of Hitler and his hench- men." It criticized a number of recently produced films on the Nazi era which, it said, made the Nazis "the traditional tad men' and the non-Nazi Germans the `good brave soldiers' playing out their roles in a •war not of their making." ATTENTION DETROIT JEWS I collect old, torn sacred books and old religious articles, and bring them to their eternal rest. PLEASE CALL UN 4-5687 CONG. BETH MOSES located at: 13925 LINWOOD, cor. Oakman Ct. announces that tickets for seats for the High Holidays are now available at the synagogue. Hours for purchase of tickets: Mon.„ Tues., Wed., Thurs., and Sun. 8 a.m. - 12 noon - 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. Also Saturday Night after Mariv. Come worship in the largest synagogue in the Dexter area. Rabbi Gerson Frankel officiating For Further Information Call TO 6-9324 or TO 8-3230 CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM 14601 W. Lincoln Cordially grivites you to call Mr. Edmund Kahn, LI 5-5743 for membership information in Oak Park's outstanding Conservative Synagogue Mordecai S. Halpern Rabbi Ruben Erlbaum Cantor Synagogue office L 1 7-7970 CONGREGATION B'NAI DAVID 24350 Southfield Rd. at 91/2 Mile Announces that Seating For 1960 - High Holy Day Services - 5121 will be for members, members' children and members' parents only. Rabbi Hayim Donin officiating Cantor Hyman J. 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