Community's Commitment to Youth
Gets Emphasis at Dinner Marking
Bnai Brith Testimonial to Hudson
Strong commitment to youth's
involvement in the community and
the community's obligation to
share the young generation's views
on social and political issues re-
ceived emphasis from responsible
leaders who participated in the
program that marked Bnal Brith's
presentation of the Annual Human-
itarian Award to Joseph L. Hudson
Jr., at a dinner at the Statler Hil-
ton Sunday evening.
Approximately 725 attended the
impressive event at which a De-
,troiter's role in advancing good
relations among faiths and races
was given acclaim.
With Irwin
Cohn, dhnier
chairman, presiding, and Dr.
William A. Wexler, hiteraational
president of Seal Brith, inking
the presentation of the gold med-
al signifying the award, the din-
ner program included addresses
by Michigan's Senators Philip
A. Hart and Robert Griffin, Max
M. Fisher, Alan E. Schwartz
and two Baal Srith youth 'pekes.
men, Laurel Schlesinger and
David Walt.
The response by the honoree had
special merit in its appeal for
"faith in the youth of America".
He declared: "It's not a sign of
weakness to listen with an open
mind. It's not a sign of weakness
to change when conditions demand
a different course of action. Our
young people face a broader range
of challenges and demands than
any before in history, not the least
of which is how to deal with us.
Hopefully, we can be part of the
solution or we will surely become
a part of the problem. This one is
too important for us to sit out.
Today's young people believe in
themselves and their ability to
make their world better."
Hudson questioned the wisdom of
condemning youth for finding fault
with our systenr and-he commend-
ed Bnai Brith for its policies 4/
assisting youth in efforts to
come linked with the adult society.
He stated:
"There are a few ergaalzatlens-
who have hems and are wiMng
and able le' take.:-irside with
these forces el destrnetion and
through a truly dedicated effort
strive to preserve- and perpet-
uate those spiritual and moral
elements of ear society which
have given our lives strength
and meaning in the past. Baal
Brith stands out singularly as a
model of this type of dedicated
and effective organised'''.
"It may be • little trite to say
that our future depends on our
youth, because this has always
been so. To paraphrase the slogan
of our United Foundation — Our
youth are all we've got.
"Se, I tint * -very proper
that we are here height net to
homer ens man, that bed gives
a reason for the gathering, but
more importantly, to blame and
support the Baal With organiza-
tions which have dime and are
doing so mach to give youth a
sense of dined= and dedication
and to preserve the rich tradi-
tions of the Jewish people. This
Is a monumental effort in frus-
trating times. But that they can
listen effectively and give sap-
pert to the desires of young peo-
ple when tee many are turning
a deaf . ear, makes Baal Brith
an inspiration for more of us to
listen with an open mind to the
problem.. of our fellsw men.
"We all must accept the chal-
lenge of the future, but in doing
so we must take account of why
we have the problems that we have
today."
In his presentation of the award
to Hudson, Dr. Wexler, who was
introduced to the gathering by
Morris Direnfeld, member of the
board of the Bnai Brith Supreme
Lodge, deplored the organization's
inability, for lack of funds, to serve
more of the Jewish youth in col-
leges and high schools. He said
the Bnai Brith presently reaches
50,000 youngsters on 287 campuses
and should reach 375,000 in 350
colleges and universities.
"We are losing control of the
family unit and our youngsters,"
he declared. "It will be worse un-
less the youth have an opportunity
to communicate with us. "We must
completely revise our thinking."
As a personal friend and co-
worker in many causes—United
Foundation, New Detroit and
others—with Madsen, Max Fisher
attested to the honoree's accom-
plishments. In his address, Fish-
er, who is a member of the Ns-
tinsel Baal Ida HIM Comes-
den, cenunended the week of
the BMW Founded/as in univer-
sities.
In his introductory remarks,
Cohn recalled his youth, his place
of birth within a mile of what be-
came the vast J. L. Hudson Co.
department store, and he empha-
sized the true brotherhood of -his
community and the humanitarian
spirit of Hudson.
Senator Hart joined with the
other speakers in an appeal that
"we should listen to youth because
there is so much truth in what
they have to say."
Senator Griffin described Hud-
son as a "great son of Michigan"
who "helped rebuild the spirit of a
great city."
Mrs. Jean Hudson altered to
the boson accorded her knalsend,
and the speakers spoke"admir-
ingly of her cooperative rile in
his labors, She was Presented
with flowers by young Walt.
A notable part of the program
was the musical program of Can-
tor Jacob Barkin that delighted
the audience. Cantor Barkin, who
dedicated one of his songs to Mrs.
Hudson, was accompanied on the
piano by his brother, Leo Barkin,
who came from Toronto for the oc-
casion.
Alan Schwartz, as president of
the Jewish Welfare Federation,
applauded Bnai Brith's selection of
J. L. Hudson for the award and
praised the honoree as one who re-
sponds to all challenges that come
from the community.
Common Council President Mel
Ravitz presented Hudson with a
resolution, adopted by the Detroit
Common Council.
The gathering was deeply
moved by the remarks of the
representative of Bnal With
Girls. Laurel Schlesinger, who
expressed gratitude for the op-
portunities provided her genera-
tion to communicate with the el-
ders and thus "help build a bet-
ter world."
The invocation and benediction
were given by Rabbi Irwin Groner
and Dr. Ray H. Kiely.
Bob Talbert of the Free Press
read the names of the notables as
they were seated on the dais.
The $100-a-plate dinner netted
the Bnal Brith Youth Services
$100,000 toward a Michigan goal
of $250,000.
,
.
dhow' withWillinut—Weitler
are the two spokesmen for the
Baal Brith Youth Organization
at Sunday's dinner, Laurel
Schlesinger and David Walt.
Swiss Sentenced
in Sabotage Plot
Modem Jr: are shown with Dr. Wiliam
Mr. aid
Wader, wile premmledi the geld analaillea I. the Detroiter as Sew'
slier MOM A. Kart Odd and Senator Robert Griffin (right) belted
ea. In the lower plane lax N. Fisher is mutinies the geld
lies Is the pressor* of Dr. We:der and Irwin L Cella (right), win
preekbd at the dhmer.
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TIM DETROIT 111/1111 . 1111VS
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Bruno Bre-
jued, a 20-year-old Swiss who came
to Israel on a sabotage mission
for Arab terrorists, was sentenced
to 15 years' imprisonment by a
military tribunal in Lydda last
week for illegal possession of ex
plosives.
The tribunal imposed a second
sentence of seven years for mem-
bership in a terrorist organization.
The two sentences are to run con-
currently.
The young man, whose parents
were in the courtroom, appeared
relieved by the sentence. Under
Israeli law, he could have received
the death penalty.
Brejued was arrested at Haifa
port last June and was found to
be carrying 'explosives. He con-
fessed later that he planned to
blow up the Shalom Tower, a 20-
story office building in Tel Aviv.
He admitted association with the
Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine, but claimed in court
that he had not intended to actual-
ly set off the explosives but mere-
ly to have them discovered in
order to draw attention to the
plight of Arab refugen.,,
Histadrut, UJA Conclude Agreement
on Fund Raising for 6-Month Period
NEW YORK (JTA)—An agree-
ment whereby the Israel Histadrut
Campaign will avoid scheduling
"public, fund-raising dinners and
events in Jewish communities"
from Dec. 15 to June 1, so as not
to conflict with the 1971 United
Jewish Appeal Emergency Fund
Campaign, has been announced by
Jack Weiler and Mrs. Charlotte
Jacobson, co-chairmen of the com-
mittee on control and authoriza-
tion of campaigns of the Jewish
Agency.
The committee on control is
composed of the leading officers
of the United Jewish Appeal, the
Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds and the Jewish
Agency for Israel.
The agreement on the Histadrut
Campaign, announced last Friday,
was approved by the board of di-
rectors of the Histadrut Campaign
(National Committee for Labor
Israel), of which Leon N. Keyser-
ling is president.
It stated that the agreement on
the Histadrut Campaign in the U.S.
is in accord with a previous under-
standing reached in Jerusalem on
Nov. 10 between leading officers
of the UJA, the Jewish Agency,
the Histadrut in Israel, the Na-
tional Committee for Labor Israel
and the Israel government
Ahlsooglt calling for the con-
thmation as heretofore "of the
traditional activities of the Ills-
tednit Campaign, including or-
ganizational and edneatioaal
limekiln," the Ws/admit Cam-
pais& also will recommend to the
Labor Zionist movement that
they join with the Labor Connell
for the VIA, in the organization
-of a "Ilistadrnt-Labor Zionist
division for the UJA Campaign
197E"
The Histadrut Campaign pledged
that it will "place at the disposal
of such a division its facilities
everywhere and to make a con-
certed effort to mobilize maximum
support of the UJA Campaign
among those active in the Hista-
drut movement."
It was further agreed that "all
contributions received from the
special effort of the Histadrut-
Labor Zionist division will be pay-
able to the respective welfare fund
—WA drives" and that in the New
York area "the Histadrut Cam-
paign will cooperate in every way
to determine an early date for the
launching of the drive of the His-
tadrut-Labor Zkinist division to
involve the Labor Zionist leader-
ship in New York."
In those few instances where
public Histadrut fund-raising af-
fairs have already been scheduled,
it was agreed that "the Jewish
Agency and the UJA will confer
with the communities Involved to
obtain necessary clearance for
these dates or to arrange alterna-
tive dates."
The agreement gives the Hista-
drut Campaign the right to hold
"public fund-raising dinners, in
honor of trade union leaders that
involve primarily attendance and
gifts that will not compete with
the UJA."
,
NATO to Beef Up Force
in M.E. to Counter USSR
BRUSSELS (JTA)— The Euro-
pean members of NATO have
agreed to improve their conven-
tional defense forces in Europe
and the Middle East to match the
rise In strength of the Soviet bloc.
The defense planning committee
of the alliance adopted a program
called "Alliance for the '705,"
which stressed a bUild-up of
armored, air and anti-submarine
forces. U.S. sources said that So-
viet ground forces in Eastern
Europe and naval forces in the
Mediterranean had increased
sharply in the last five years.
(In New York, U.S. Defense Sec-
retary Melvin Laird, Interviewed
on David Frost's television show,
said he thought an American-
Soviet military confrontation with-
in the next two decades was
"quite remote." Laird did not men-
tion the Middle East or any other
world trouble spot in that came
lion-)
This Week in Jewish History
(From the Files of the Jewish Telegraphic SgeneY)
-40 Years Ago This Week: 1930
Prof. Albert Einstein, in his first exclusive American interview,
told JTA: "The Jew must _ realize himself u an integral' part of
his group. He must exert himself, and devote a part of his energy to
furthering the determination of that sense of being a Jew. The labor
in itself will be a reward."
The German Communist paper Welt am Abend said the Nazis had
decided to divert attention from internal party dissatisfaction by means
of supposedly spontaneous pogroms. '
A Nazi lieutenant called Hitler "an unscrupulous demagogue who
bases his teachings on anti-Semitism and racial hatred while members
of his own party are radically inferior."
The orchestras of Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Budapest, Vienna and
Paris waived their rules against outside engagements to play with a
13-year-old American Jewish violinist, Yehudi Menuhin.
Dr. Abraham Bragin, speaking for non-Communist Russian Jewry,
complained that in the 13 years since the Revolution the Soviet govern-
ment had never officially considered the question of Jewish self-deter-
mination.
Dr. Boris Kwartin, 31, Russian-born pathologist and son of. Cantor
Zavel Kwartin, was killed in a laboratory explosion at Beth Moses
Hospital, Brooklyn.
Jewish and political leaders in Warsaw hailed Sholom Asch on
his 50th birthday. •
A charge by Hitlerites that 80 per cent of Chicago's judges were
Jewish was refuted by figures showing 13 Jewish judges out of 100.
10 Years Ago This Week: 1964
President Truman, the Israel Bond Organization's "man of the
century," predicted that "50 years after I'm dead" a Jew might be
President.
One of the biggest Nazi trials opened in Vienna against 10 de-
fendants._ Additionally, 16 Auschwitz officials were arrested.,
Rabbi Zvi Pessah Frank, Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Jerusalem, died
there at 76.
Israeli Finance Minister &Ikea presented the cabinet with a budget
of $1,036,000,000, up 884,000,000.
A torchlight parade through Tel Aviv marked the 40th anniversary
of Histadrut. Premier Ben-Gurion boycotted a celebration, ignoring in-
vitations from Secretary General Pinhas Laves, former Defense Min-
ister.
West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss ordered the
names of Jewish soldiers restored to public monuments and honor rolls.
The 100,000th Youth Aliyah immigrant, a 12-year-old Iranian girl,
arrived in Israel
Arthur Goldberg's nomination as secretary at labor, 'Mowing that
of Abraham Ribicaff as secretary of health, education and welfare,
,the
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