JWV to Pay Tribute to Ben Shiffman,
Veteran of Spanish-American War
Charles - N. Isackson, command-
er of the Department of.Michigan
Jewish War Veterans,. announces
a testimonial dinner in honor of
Ben Shiffman will be given 6:30
p.M. March 1 at the Labor Zion-
-- ist Institute.
Shiffman, a Spanish-American
War Veteran, served under 2nd
Lt, George C. Marshall Jr., who
Tigers game and then take them
to dinner before returning to the
hospital.
Shiffman is a life member of
Detroit Post 135 of Jewish War
Veterans, Knights of Pythias —
Detroit Lodge 55, Perfection Lodge
F & AM, and the United Spanish
War Veterans.
The testimonial dinner in Shiff-
man's honor is being presented
by his friends of the Jewish War
Veterans, • and all are invited. For
tickets, call the• Jewish War Vet-
erans office, 342-8161.
3 New Board Members
Appointed by JTA
BEN SHIFFMAN
later became chief of staff of the
U. S. Army. Shiffman joined the
Hebrew Veterans of the War with
Spain, which later became incor-
porated into the Jewish War Veter-
ans. He has been an active mem-
ber continuously for 40 years and
has been widely acclaimed for his
volunteer service to hospitalized
veterans. He was a Veterans Ad-
ministration Volunteer (VAVS) re-
presentative of the Jewish War
Veterans at the Dearborn Veter-
ans Hospital. For the past 15
years, one of his favorite projects
has been to take a group of hos-
pitalized veterans to see a Detroit
JWV
LETTER BOX
NEW YORK . (JTA) — Eleazar
Lipsky, president of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, announced
that three well-known American
and Canadian Jewish personalities
had accepted invitations to join
the JTA Board of Directors and
the American Jewish- News Foun-
dation in which ownership of the
worldwide news .service is vested.
The • three new members are
Robert H.- Arnow-, . of New York
City; Sol Kanee," of Winnipeg,
Man., and*Jacob . M. Lawry, of
Montreal. Arnow, a builder and
real estate developer, is active in
the United Jewish Appeal and in
Jewish educational fields. Ka-nee,
a business executive and attorney,
is active in the Canadian Jewish
Congress and in the Winnipeg
Jewish community. Lowry is a
prominent figure on the national
scene and is president of the
Allied Jewish Community Services
of Montreal.
`Arabs' Fear and Hate
Won't Bring Peace
Editor, The Jewish News:
What blocks Arab-Israeli peace?
First the Arab. position is that
Palestine was invaded by Jews and
seized the land from the Arabs by
force, where, in fact, the strip of
land . was given to the Jews by
Great Britain and recognized as a
State of Israel by the whole world.
The Arabs should be glad that
Jews are in the Middle-East, be-
cause it is a blessing, not only for
Jews in Israel, but for all of the
Middle East. However, the writer's
opinion is that peace between Jews
and Arabs is very doubtful:
I cannot agree that conflict be-
tween Israel and Arab states is
due to the political and eco-
monic life, between the different
governments. To my . way of
thinking, it is the vast differ-
ences in the way of life of Jews
and Arabs. It is fear and hate
that are in the heart of the Arabs
against- Jews.
One of the major problems is
that it is so offensive • to the Ara-
bian land-owners, Arabian oil
owners, Arabian political leaders
and monarchs, who fear that a
Jewish state will set a bad example
for their own Arabs, who live in
poverty, in ignorance, and under
conditions that never improve for
the Arab masses.
Therefore, I feel that there is
no easy solution to the conflict be-
tween the Arabs and Jews, because
peace must come from the heart
and soul of man, an_d not from fear
and hate.
Nominating Committee
Named by J.C. Council
Dr. Samuel Krohn, president of
the Jewish Community Council,
announced a nominating committee
consisting of Sidney M. Shevitz,
BLOCH" ROSE POST and AUX- chairman, Albert Coleman, Rabbi
ILIARY will hold their paid-up Hayim Donin, Sidney Guyer, James
membership affair, in the form of Laker, Mrs. Joseph Maltzer and
a "Barnyard Frolic" 7:30 p.m. Sun- Mrs. Leon Popowski.
day at the Sholem Aleichem insti-
The committee will report to
tute. Only paid-up members are the next Council delegate as-
eligible to attend. There will be a sembly, March 15. Additional
social and square dancing, with Sy nominations may then be made for
Sims as caller. Refreshments will a 14 day period. Final balloting
be served. For information, call will take place at the Council as-
Fern Seltzer, 548-5675.
sembly in May.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
D
OWN ON THE BOWERY, a nondescript restaurant still
stands where once a penniless lad named Irving Berlin
played the piano and sang for his supper. One evening not
long ago, Berlin, long a
millionaire, decided to
revisit his old haunt. In
a nostalgic glow, he
seated himself at the bat-
tered old piano, and be-
gan to hum "White
Christmas." In the mid-
dle of the rendition, a
guide showed up with a
bus-load of tourists to
point out the spot where
Berlin's career began.
"As a matter of fact," he
added, "that Bowery bum
is playing one of Boilin's
toons right now."
He then walked over and placed a heavy hand on Berlin's
shoulder. "Fella," he announced, "if Oiving Boilin could
hear the way you're moiderin' one of his greatest songs, he'd
toin over in his grave!"
One of the best stories of the recent power failure in the
Northeast is told by Radie Harris. One of her girl friends climbed
25 flights of stairs just to make sure that her mother was O.K.
Once assured of this fact, she flung herself, exhausted, on the
nearest bed. Whereupon her mother screamed, "Get up from
there immediately! You're ruining the spread."
From Penn State:
PATIENT: Doc, I'm snoring so loudly these days that I awake
myself.
DOCTOR: In that case, I recommend that you try sleeping in
another room.
From Cornell:
- She's the sort of girl who has no use at all for a man's cora-
pany—unlesS, of course, he owns it.
1566, by Benxi ett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
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WOLF LEVITAN,
2646 Park.
Ontario Legislature Urges
Canada to Outlaw Hate
Literature, Incitement
TORONTO (JTA) — The Ontario
Legislature Tuesday approved
unanimously proposals urging the
federal government to declare hate-
mongering activities as criminal
and to outlaw hate literature and
incitement to violence against
ethnic, racial and religious groups
in Canada.
The resolutions, offered by Lib-
eral Vernon Singer and Progres-
sive-Conservative Edward Dunlop,
were voted on together as a private
member's bill.
During the debate, Attorney Gen-
eral Arthur Wishart disclosed that
the Province of Ontario urged the
federal government in July 1964 to
amend the Criminal Code. The pro-
posal of the province was for an
amendment similar in language to
one proposed by the Canadian Jew-
ish Congress, he said.
He added that the province's rep-
resentations were made at a time
when his department was con-
stantly receiving requests from
persons and groups for action
against hate-mongers.
Premier Roberts said he had
allowed the vote on the private
member's bill to permit the House
to express its opposition to hate-
mongering for the record. Alan
Grossman, minister of reform in-
stitutions, told the legislators that
he had received hate literature
which he called "the vilest type of
stuff that could be conceived by
the human mind." He proposed
mental examinations for persons
advocating genocide.
Orientation Seminars
"Jewish Content in the Camp
Program" is the subject of a spe-
cial new seminar that has been
added to the schedule of Jewish
Orientation and Training Seminars
sponsored by the Jewish Educa-
tion Committee of New York in
cooperation with the New York
Metropolitan Section of the Na-
tional Jewish Walfare Board. The
eight-session course now under
Way is being attended in New York
by directors of resident camps
and their assistants.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
287 Fricloy, February 11, 1966
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Washington. Letter
to Jews Recalled
in ist,Day, •Cover
Bnai Brith will release a first-
day cover with the new five-cent
George Washington stamp to be
issued in commemoration of his
birthday Feb. 22.
The envelope includes an en-
graving of the Gilbert Stuart por-
trait of Washington and the quota-
tion from Washington's famous let-
ter to the Hebrew congregation of
Newport. R.I. in which he affirmed
that "happily the government of
the United States, which gives to
bigotry no sanction, to persecution
no assistance, requires only that
they who live under its protection
should demean themselves as good
citizens . . ."
Stamp collector Eric Lind point-
ed out that the Washington letter,
now in permanent display in the
Klutznick Exhibit Hall of the Bnai
Brith Building in Washington, D.C.,
was written in 1790 by Washington
after visiting the famous Touro
Synagogue, today a national his-
toric shrine in Newport. His fam-
ous letter was in response to the
Warm letter of welcome sent to
him by his friends, Moses Seixas,
sexton of the Newport Hebrew
congregation. The letter has been
seen by millions viewing the Free-
dom Train exhibit.
Collectors who wish to purchase
one of the covers should enclose
a self-addressed stamped envelop
with their orders (25 cents each)
to • Klutznick Exhibit Hall, Bnai
Brith, 1640 Rhode Island Ave. NW,
Washington D.C. 20036.
(Lind pointed out, with refer-
ence to last week's Page 1 arti-
cle on the new Albert Einstein
stamp to be issued in March,
that not only Israel and Ghana
have such stamps of Einstein;
Dropsie Offer Fellowships
for Middle East Studies
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) —Fel-
lowships ranging to $1,000 each
were offered by Dropsie College
for Hebrew and Cognate Learning,
which noted that applications for
these grants must be submitted
before March 1.
One group of fellowships is for
Middle East studies by qualified
students who are candidates for
the master's or doctoral degrees
in the area studies of the modern
and contemporary Middle East.
In this area, fellowships in modern
Arabic and Hebrew are also avail-
able under Title VI of the Na-
tional Defense Education Act.
Another group of fellowships
covers graduate study in educa-
tiOn. These programs, offered
through the college's department
of education, are for graduate stu-
dents seeking the degrees of mas-
ter of arts, doctor of education
or doctor of philosophy. •
4,000 Jews In Bolivia
The Jewish Community of Bol-
ivia, which dates back to the early
part of the 19th century, now num-
bers some 4,000 persons, the major-
ity of whom live in the capital city
of La Paz, with a small settlement
in Cochabamba.
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Paraguay issued one in 1965
and Poland in the 1950s.)
Relief In Netherlands
The conference on Jewish mater-
ial claims against Germany last
year allocated a total of $115,871
for relief, medical, cultural and
educational projects in the Nether-
lands.
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