Mobile School Promotes Education on West Coast Hias Director The Great Miracle -of the Immigrant Pleads for East Driven froin Eastern Europe by complishments, millions of people Europe Migrants will live healthier, happier lives. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 14—Friday, August 19, 1966 social upheavals, persecution, and a changing economy, over 2,000,• 000 Jews arrived in American ports between the 1870s and 1924. They came here with their families to start a new life. This year, the American Jewish Archives has issued three new posters — "Jew- ish Immigrants Arrive in New York Harbor," "A Busy Street on the Old East Side," and "The Sweatshop" — to commemorate the East European Jewish immi- grant experience in turn-of-the- century America. Today there are few profes- sional or commercial undertak- ings in which the descendants of these 2,000,000 immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe are not rep- resented. Their descendants form the bulk of the 6,000,000 American Jews of our generation. 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WASHINGTON (JTA)—A rec- There were courageous, imagin- ative, generous people like Samuel ommendation that potential im- Goldwyn, David Sarnoff, Ben migrants to the United States Shahn, Jascha Heifetz, Helena from Eastern European countries Rubenstein, Stephen S. Wise, and be given an opportunity "to pur- Isaac B. Singer. The record of sue their immigration without the achievement by their children and need to seek a job in advance in grandchildren is no 'less illustri- the U.S. and without the need of ous, as one can see in reviewing a complicated labor certificate," the careers of men like Arthur was made at a Senate subcom- Goldberg and Abraham Ribicoff. mittee hearing. Many of the immigrants who The recommendation was voiced came here from Lithuania and by Gaynor I. Jacobson, executive Poland, Galicia and Romania, Rus- director of the United Hias Serv- sia and Hu n g a r y, were poor, ice, who testified before the Sen- skilled in no craft. Because they ate Subcommittee on Refugees had been petty traders at home, and Escapees. "These persons de- many of them carried on the same sire to come here to join rela- type of business here on the streets of New York's lower East tives or to live in a free and Side. They sold clothes, notions, democratic society. Certainly they are not coming to the U.S. to food, hardware, textiles — any- thing to make a few pennies in compete with American labor nor order to survive and to help edu- to lower American working stan- cate their children. It was a heart- dards," he said. braking way to keep body and soul Jacobson commended the U.S. together, but they persisted until Department of Labor for "amend- they - and their families had inte- ing its regulations and procedures grated themselves into the Ameri- to alleviate many of the hard- can economy. ships," caused by labor certifica- tion provisions in the new law. Many East European immi- "However, the fact remains that grants had to endure unfair and Unsanitary conditions in the gar- one section of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as presently ment shops. With no strong written, does prevent many per- unions to protect them, men, sons who are now in Eastern Euro- women and children literally "sweated" to survive. By 1910 pean countries from obtaining they had begun building the visas," he said. great unions that would ulti- The United Hias director rec- mately guarantee them decent ommended to the subcommittee, living conditions and a satis- headed by Senator Edward M. factory wage. Kennedy (D. Mass.) that the sec- Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, eminent tion of the immigration law deal- Jewish historian and Director of ing with labor certification be the American Jewish Archives, restored to its original version has said, "Today, as a result, the which "gave the Secretary of Labor American is the best dressed per- sufficient authority to protect son in the world." American standards of labor." The American labor movement He also recommended that: 1. The profited greatly from the leader- United States should finally be- ship of men like Samuel Gompers come a signatory to the United David Dubinsky and Sidney Hill- Nations Convention on Refugees; man. 2. The 1966 United Nations Day The history of these immigrant dedication to the cause of refu- Americans is a miraculous success gees be endorsed and proclaimed story, well documented in the files by our government; and 3. The of the American Jewish Archives experience and know-how of all on the Cincinnati campus of the voluntary and public agencies be Hebrew Union College-Jewish - In- better. utilized in carrying out stitute of Religion. refugee ,programs. Jacobson commended the sub- Yeshiva U. Becomes Part committee "for its deep 'interest of Communications and sympathetic understanding of Network It Helped Start the plight of migrants and refu- NEW YORK — The Information gees who look to the U.S. and Retrieval Center on the Disad- other countries of the free world vantaged of Yeshiva University for an opportunity to begin new has become a member of- 4 newly lives as free men." He spoke formed national communications warmly of the cooperation and network that collects and dis- support given United Hias by the seminates information about re- Intergovernmental Committee for search-related materials in the European M i g r a t i o n, United States Escapee Program and the area of education. The network, established by the United Nations High Commis- U.S. Office of Education and cen- sioner for Refugees. He urged to restore the re- tered in Washington, is organized the government duction in U.S. Government alloca- along lines the university helped to tions to these agencies. pioneer when it formed an Inform- ation Retrieval Center on the Dis- Sir George Albu, a nineteenth advantaged in 1964 at its Ferkauf Graduate School of Humanities and century Jewish mining industrial- ist in South Africa, was a pioneer Social Sciences. in the technical development of gold mining. (JTA) USO is there, only if you care... LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Jewish communities throughout California are now being visited by a mobile classroom for Jewish education in- troduced by the Lubavitcher Hasi- dic movement in Los Angeles, to promote religious teaching among Jewish school children outside of their public schools but within a reasonable distance from these schools. The children receive their in- struction in a large trailer which has a seating capacity of 35 pupils. The trailer has been rebuilt into a classroom with seats, black- boards and even a small library. During a school day the mobile classroom makes it possible to accommodate 200 children daily. The program has been in operation in the city of Los Angeles for about a year, and its success has stimu- lated the visiting of the "class- FOR SALE: 1/‘ 200 High Holy Day Prayer Books, compiled by Rabbi Mor- ris Silverman. •• 1 Ark, light oak, , with plaque mandments Ten Com- flanked by gold lions of Judo. V 1 Eternal Light. V 1 white velvet Ark Cover. Inquire Temple B'nai Israel 1424 S. Washington Ave. PL. 3-5230 Saginaw, Mich. 1-4:30 p.m. Mon. thru Thursdays The Ultimate in Nursery Schools! BETH ABRAHAM NURSERY * TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED * REASONABLE RATES Call 272-1567 8100 W. 7 Mile Road CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL 15400 WEST 10 MILE RD. Invites the Community to HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES Rabbi Israel Flani Will Officiate For Reservations and Information Call: LI 8-7032 or LI 8-3554 THE BETH AARON SYNAGOGUE RELIGIOUS SCHOOL Cordially Invites Registration for the Fall Term Southfield Branch in Adlai E. Stevenson School 27777 Lahser Rd.—between 11 & 12 Mile Rds. Kindergarten (Age 4) through Grade 4 (Age 9) Confirmaiion Department (Grades 9 and 10) at Synagogue 18000 Wyoming Avenue Classes begin Sunday, Sept. - 11 DO NOT WAIT—REGISTER NOW!! at the School Office at 18000 Wyoming For Further Information Call: UN 1-5222 REGISTER YOUR CHILD AT THE ADAS SHALOM SYNAGOGUE BRANCHES of the UNITED HEBREW SCHOOLS USO, helping hand, voice from home, traveling shows for 3 million displaced, lonely Americans in uniform, around the world. USO depends on your contribution throug United Fund or Community Chest. Let your gift say you care Give more for our bigger job this year! CLASSES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT ... 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