THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, January 27, 1961 — 32
Pace-Setters Provide Excellent Start for Allied Jewish Drive
ready for further sacrifices." o—.
General Laskov admonished
the audience about gathering
clouds, told them about "Nasser's
aim to weaken Israel," and de-
clared that "our main problem is
to be strong, to prevent war."
He declared that "we can't do
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the " absorbing of immigrants
to The Jewish News)
alone, and you must do your
LONDON
The Council of
share." He asked for continued Christians and — Jews
here named
aid to complete the absorption a special committee to probe
of immigrants, to make 400 vil- charges that many of England's
lages self-sufficient, to "consoli- leading "public" schools (pri-
date our efforts." He said he was vate institutions) implement an
confident of good results, that: unofficial numerus clausus re-
"as succeed we must, succeed stricting or discouraging entire-
we shall."
ly the enrollment of Jews as
Rabbi Friedman presented a students.
The charges were made pub-
distressing report of overseas
needs. He told of the rising lic Tuesday by the Evening
tide of bigotry in a number of- Standard, which alleges that
countries„ of new waves of St. Paul's School in London
discrimination which are forc- restricts Jewish enrollment to
ing Jews to seek havens of 15 percent. This is done, the
refuge in Israel, and he newspaper declares, in spite of
warned that the cost per life the fact that some very promin-
ent Jews are among the school's
saved is rising.
`alumni. Among these are pub-
"People are desperate when lisher Victor Gollancz, Lord
they try to escape from dangers Nathan and Sir Isaiah Berlin.
in their homelands," he ex-
Two other well known "pub-
plained. "Immigration or emigra- lic" schools, High Gate and Mill
tion are polite terms for 'trying Hill, are accused of setting a
to escape.' There are hundreds quota of 10 percent for Jewish
of thousands for whom we must student enrollment. Other
soon provide refuge. You must schools, says the Evening Stand-
help us be prepared for all ard, "effectively" discourage
eventualities."
Jewish enrollment by making it
Rabbi Friedman said that when clear that all students must
the Jews of America decided to attend chapel services, partici-
raise a minimum of $72,750,000 pate in Christian prayers and
for the United Jewish Appeal, take lessons in Christian scrip-
at the recent national confer- ture.
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ence, it was a serious decision
inaugurating serious business, Women's Keynoter
and he declared that the honor
and dignity of all Jews is reflect- Group Sets Campaign
ed in efforts like Detroit Jewry's Meeting for Feb. 15
in the current Allied Jewish
The Women's Division of the
Campaign.
Jewish Welfare Federation will
Sobeloff, in a concluding ad- hold its fourth meeting of the
dress, in which he announced the 1961 Allied Jewish Campaign at
evening's total of $1,884,822, said noon Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the
it was a new high in the history Jewish Center.
of this community. He said there
The meeting is for women who
was a high percentage of in- contribute $52 and more. The
creased giving.
group will be balled Keynoters.
Mrs. Benjamin Jones, division
vice president in charge of fund
raising, has named Mrs. Morris
J. Brandwine as chairman.
The women will hear Isaac
"Ike" Aronowicz, captain of the
The 35th annual meeting of • Butzel Memorial Building. The "Exodus 1947".
the Jewish Welfare Federation recipient receives a scroll.
Advisor to the Keynoters is
will be held 8:30 p.m. Monday,
Fisher will report on the Fed- Mrs. Arthur I. Gould. Executive,
Feb. 6, at the Jewish Center, eration year and. nine candi- vice chairman is Mrs. Julien
announces Max M. Fisher, Fed- dates will be voted upon for Priver.
eration president.
election to the Federation's
Members • of the Keynoters'
steering committee are Mesdames
Highlight of the meeting will Board of Governors.
be the presentation of the Fred
Nominated for election are: Samuel J. Cohl, Sam M. Croll,
Butzel Memorial Award for Rabbi Morris Adler, Dr. Harry Sidney S. Hertz, John C. Hopp,
outstanding Jewish communal Arnkoff, Dr. Richard C. Hertz, Jr., Miles Jaffe, Seymour R.
leadership.
Judge Nathan Kaufman, Milton Jones, Sherman Kay, Milton Lu-
The award recipient is se- M. Aladdin, Hyman Safran, Phil- cow, Irving Pokempner, Jack
lected by a committee of presi- lip Stollman, Mrs. Henry Wine- Rom, Ernest J. Schwartz and
dents of Federation agencies, man and Max J. Zivian.
Asher N. ,Tilchin.
Detroit Service Group, Women's
A meeting for all Keynoter
Nominating committee mem-
Division and recipients of the bers are Edward I. Fleischman, workers will be held next Wed-
award.
Samuel S. Greenberg, Jack 0. nesday, at the home of Mrs. Harry
The names of award winners Lefton, Sidney M. Shevitz and E. August. Mrs. Alexander W.
are placed on a bronze plaque Morris Garvett, chairman of the Sanders will discuss fund-raising
in the lobby of the Fred M. committee on nominations.
techniques.
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Sucher welcomed the guests in
his own and Mrs. Sucher's behalf
and called the meeting "a kick-
off for humanitarian fund-rais-
ing."
Commencing the campaign ac-
tivities, Zuckerman announced
a $30,000 gift for himself and
Mrs. Zuckerman. It was followed
by pledges of $165,000 from Max
Fisher and C. William Sucher,
$100,000 from Borman Brothers
and $100,000 from Hamburger
Brothers. Nearly all of the other
gifts represented increased giv-
ing over last year.
Zuckerman announced the 1961
campaign leaders: Tom Borman,
Harvey H. Goldman, John E.
Lurie and Abe Shiffman, vice-
chairmen; Abraham B o r m a n,
treasurer; Charles E. Gershen-
son, pre-campaign chairman; Sol
Eisenberg, A. Alfred Taubman
and Jack J. Wainger, pre-cam-
paign co-chairmen, and Jack 0.
Lefton, chairman of trades and
professions. He made special
mention of other leaders—Max
Fisher, Federation president;
Max J. Zivian, 'president of
United Jewish Charities; Joseph
Holtzman, honorary chairman of
United Jewish Appeal; Justice
Henry M. Butzel, and former
Allied Jewish Campaign chair-
men Louis Berry, Irwin I. Cohn,
Harvey Goldman, John Lurie,
Leonard Simons and Abraham
Srere. With only a few excep-
tions, all these leaders were in
attendance at the Sucher meet-
ing.
General Laskov, military
genius, hero of Israel's war of
independence and the Sinai
Campaign, warned that "all
our perils are not over, all
obstacles have not been re-
moved." In a poetic evaluation
of Israel's position, the general
stated that the partnership be-
tween American and Israeli
Jewries is vital, that the en-
couragement fr o m American
Jewry is urgently needed by
Israel and "we must make
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Federation Annual Meeting Feb.. 6;
Butzel Award, Election on Agenda
Aground the World...
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.
United States
NEW YORK — The United Synagogue of America presented
a Solomon Schechter citation for distinguished service in social
action to Miss Ellen Steinberg for her recent offer of a gift loan
of $500,000 to the school board of New Orleans during the inte-
gration crisis there . .. Israel will be happy to share the results
of its efforts for desalting sea water with its Arab neighbors,
according to Dr. Binyamin Eliav, Israel's Consul-General in New
York . . . Richard Nixon might have become President if he had
chosen a Jewish running-mate, Clare Boothe Luce, former U.S.
Ambassador to Italy, stated in McCall's magazine, adding that
"the day will come" when a Jew will be considered for the
Presidency . A budget of $1,510,000 for 1961 was approved by
the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. The 1960 budget was
used to support the Foundation's 40 cultural institutions in Israel,
to contribute art treasures to Israeli museums, and to carry out
cultural exchange activities, scholarships in the arts, and building
projects . . . The National Science Foundation, a US Government-
sponsored body, has agreed to finance the preparation of a
Yiddish language and culture "atlas," it was announced at the
35th annual conference of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
. . . The Israel Discount Bank, second largest in Israel, has
applied to the New York State Banking Department for per-
mission to establish branches in New York City . . . Funds from
the sale of unclaimed Jewish property in Germany will be used
to finance construction of a $2,267,678 state-aided apartment
building project here, primarily for victims of Nazi persecution.
. . . A total of $28,500,000 was raised in the 1960 fund campaign
of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York.
MIAMI — A group of Miami Jewish communal leaders has
formed a committee to raise a fund of $100,000 to construct and
maintain in Tel Aviv a building to house archives on Sholem
Aleichem. •
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Special medals for heroism were
posthumously awarded by the U.S. Congress to four chaplains
who lost their lives during World War II, when they gave their
life belts to other men during the sinking of the U.S.S. Dor-
chester. Two of the chaplains were Protestants, one a Roman
Catholic, and one a Jew—Chaplain Alexander D. Goode of
Marion, Indiana.
Israel
JERUSALEM — Reuven Barkat, former head of the Hista-
drut's political department and currently Ambassador to Norway,
was reported slated to become Israel's new envoy to the Soviet
Union, succeeding Dr. Aryeh Harel . . The remains of the
ancient town of Ein Gedi, uncovered on the western shore of
the Dead Sea by a team of archeologists, confirm the town's
biblical fame as a wine-growing locality and center of the spice
trade . . . President Izhak Ben-Zvi sent a message of con-
gratulations to President Kennedy on his inauguration . . .
The Government has introduced into the Knesset, Israel's parlia-
ment, a measure permitting an increase in taxes on travel
abroad by Israelis . . . In a press conference before leaving for
the United States, Ambassador Ogden Reid, Jr., expressed regret
at the "untimely termination" of his services,.spoke of the friendly
relations between Israel and the United States, and hailed Israel's
aid to the new African nations.
TEL AVIV — A joint Israeli-American company will be set
up as part of Israel's effort to increase trade with Africa. The
Israeli partner will be Dizengoff-West Africa, and the American
partner will be a large American cocoa importer . . . Thousands
of factory workers participated in a half-hour strike against price
increases recently approved by the Government on a variety of
items. The strike was opposed by the Histadrut's trade union
department, which labelled it "unofficial" and claimed it was
inspired by Communists and the leftist Mapam party.
Canada
Sucher Meeting Sparks '61 Allied Campaign
OTTAWA — A Canadian Transport Department spokesman
confirmed that Andre Bellefeuille, who boasted last October of
leading a Canadian Nazi party, has gone quietly back to work as
a draftsman in Quebec. Bellefeuille had apologized for his
original statement and announced that he was dissolving the
group . . . Professor Amos de Shalit, chairman of the nuclear
physics department of the Weizmann Institute of Science at
Rehovot, Israel, conferred with Dr. E. W. R. Steacie, chairman
of the National Research Council of Canada, and other leading
Canadian scientists.
At the traditional "Sucher Meeting," at which Pace-Setters commenced
1961 Allied Jewish Campaign with pledges totalling $1,884,822: from the left:
Harvey H. Goldman, Paul Zuckerman, 1 961 campaign chairman, General Chaim
Laskov, C. William Sucher, Charles E. Gershenson, Max M. Fisher and Rabbi Herbeft
Friedman, executive vice president of the United Jewish Appeal.
LONDON — Arab League Foreign Ministers will meet in
Cairo Jan. 30 to consider a report on "military measures"
against Israel, if the. Israelis divert the waters of the Jordan
River. New military and economic strategy against Israel will
be planned . . . Soviet Premier Khrushchev has accepted an
invitation to visit the United Arab Republic this spring, it was
reported here from Cairo.
VIENNA—Police announced the arrest of Leopold Schumm,
an architect, on charges of Nazi activities during the Hitler
regime . . Informed sources predict that current Austrian-West
Kerman negotiations on compensation of Austrian victims of the
Nazi period will not produce a final solution. Austrian Foreign
Minister Bruno Kreisky and West German Foreign Minister
Heinrich von Brentano are expected to discuss the issues in-
volved, but not before April.
NUREMBERG — Former SS General Reich von dem
Bach-Zelewski went on trial on charges of participating in mass
extermination of Jews near Minsk in 1941-42. He was also
accused of complicity in the murders during the Roehm Putsch
in 1934.
KARLSRUHE — West Germany's highest tribunal, the
Constitutional Court, ruled here that physicians involved in the
Nazi euthanasia program — a policy of killing mental defectives
"for the purity of the race" — cannot claim they were unaware
of wrong-doing or that they had acted under "existing laws."
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