Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1945-12-14

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COLUMBUS,  OHIO,   FRIDAY,  DECEMBER   14,   1945
Davotad   to   Am*rlc«n and Jawlih   Idaalt
Strictly Confidential
TIdbltB   Prom   Everywhere By Phtneas J. Biron
A TRUE  STORY	
teA couple columns ago we told you about a Rabbi in Long Island who's being terrorized by anti-Semitic hoodlums.. .In answer to the many inquiries; The Rabbi Is Nathan Leiter of Maepath, Long Island. .Quoting from his own affidavit the Rab¬ bi tells of a campaign of perse¬ cution tliat began on Succoth 1941..On last Kol Nidre, the eve of the Day of Atonement, tlie Rabbi's house was s u r- rounded b y hooligans who shouted threats and thus terri¬ fied   his   vrife   and   child   who
were alone in the house On
Halloween night, anti-Semitic insults were challced on the sidewallc in front of the Rabbi's
home Incidentally the Rabbi
is the only Jew living on that street..The police his now tali- en energetic measures and a patrolman has been stationed in front of the house day and night..We are giving these'de- talls because some of the let¬ ters 'live received expressed sicepticism and implied that the story of the nameless Rabbi was concocted.... ON THE CHICAGO FRONT... ^Handbills against Jewish Ri¬ tual slaughtering are being distributed on the streets of the Windy City....They are being circulated by the Pioneer News Service P. 0. Box 435, Chicago 90, Illinois...The same outfit is also publishing an an¬ ti-Semitic sheet called the Dis¬ patch. .The Gentile News pul)- lished every month at 30 No. LaSalle Street, claims a tremen¬ dous increase in circulation.... The Gentile News is also tjie American Agent of the Britain Publiahing Society of London, England, which puts out the Protocols of the Elders of Zion ..in other words all that boast¬ ing or having stopped the Gen¬ tile Cooperative Association	
is  a   lot  of  bunk They   are
stronger than ever and the Chicago District Attorney who supposedly withdrew their charter hasn't achieved any¬ thing....
CANADIAN . BLLB0I8M.... feOtlawa has its Senator Bilbo in the person of Norman Ja- ques, memlwr of Parliament.. In a recent letter to Leslie Rob¬ erts, Chairman of the Jdontreal Inter.iacial Committee for Dem¬ ocratic Action Mr: J a q u e s writes about "smear-bumi agen¬ cies of Shyioclc and Marx".... We are told that Jaques is one of the most articulate race hate- mongers of Canada and that his letters of Insults to mem¬ bers of the Jewish race equal In qu. ntity and "quality" those of the Senator from Mississip¬ pi....
MISCEHiliANY.... IftThe Ami-Defamation League ¦ advises Anglo-Jewish  papers to
publish   Ford   Advertising	
Doesn't the League Itnow that Ford has refused to interfere with the distribution , of the Protocols of Zion that goes on in Latin America under his im¬ print?.. Major Melvyn Douglas, now Mr. Douglas, has given up acting.. I}e will devote his tal¬ ents to producing musical com¬ edies., tlie first one will be a political musical composed by ex-Corporal , HaroW Rome.. Dr. . Alexander gachs who convince^ : President Roosevelt that the U. S. •Govenunent should Invest (Continued on Page 8)
\Over 800 Attend 17th Annual Donor Dinner Event
More than 800. the largest assembly in the history of the Donor Dinner of the Columbus Chapter of Hadassah, were in attendance at the severlteenth annual affair, held last Sunday evening at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel.
Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyvejd. di¬ rector of the Committee o n Vnity for Palestine ot the Zion¬ ist Organization of America, as guest s^jeaker. was received with overwhelming enthusiasm by those present.
His subject, "We Shall Have Palestine" was one of hope... based upon the strong feeling of unity among Ameri<;an Jew¬ ry favoring a" Jewish National Homeland, .upon the necessity of Palestine as a Jewsh com¬ monwealth and     upon     the
psychic healing" of Zionism, so that tJie people of Israel may continue to live creatively.
Quoting figures, he' stated that eight out of ten American Jews definitely favor a Jewish Commonwealth, .one unceTta;ln ..and one opposed. Considering that a majority of 65% ordinar¬ ily constitutes unity..and that many major decisions are made on a 51% majority, .this 80- plus percent that favors Zioii- ism means overwhelming uni¬ ty.. ^
Rabbf Lelyveld further stated that it is impossible to separate the idea of Palestine as a haven for homeless Jews from Pales¬ tine as a Commonwealth. Were we to compromise in this mat-, ter, we would merely commit (Continued  on  Page  Four)
PUNS FOR U. J. A. PARLEY
TO ADDRESS BROAD ST. TBMPIyB YOUTH GROUP
Dr.   E.   G.   Beckwith
Mr. Ernest G. Beckwith, Dean of Boys at the Boys'• Industrial School, Lancaster, 0.,-Avlil speak to the Youth Group of Temple Tifereth Israel at Its luncheon meeting this Sunday, Dec 16th., at 12-30. His subject will be "Up The Alley" and will deal with interesting aspects of juvenile delinquency.
Mr. Beckwith has tyeen Voca¬ tional Coordinator of the School the past year and was appoint¬ ed Dean of Boys the first of June. These positions have brought him face to face with (he problems which confront the boys arid with the environ¬ ments and home conditions which are major factors In causing child delinquency. Mr. Beckwdth ¦ is quite conversant with youth problems.
This will represent the sec- orxd in the series of Sunday luncheons planned for the new-
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Edmund L Kaufmann of Waihington, D. C.,t noted American iewiah leader, hak asBumed the chairmaiiship of the committee in charge of the plans for the extraordinary National Conference of the United Jewiah Appeal for Refu¬ gees, Overseas Needs and Palestine, which will be held in Atlantic City during three days, beginning Saturday evening, December. 15lh. The first con¬ ference ever to be held in the history of the United Jewish Appeal, the na¬ tional meelinf^ will be called upon to study the 1946 needs of the Jews of Europe and Palestine and to Jevise fl* course of action to edable American Jews to meet their responsibilities in the coming year. Leading represenla: lives of the surviving Jews in European Unds and delegates''from the Jewish homeland in Palestine have l>een sum¬ moned to Adaritic City to give first hand reports on the critical Jewish position and help A|nericAn Jews reach decisions of far-reaching import for the future of the Jewish people.    .
To  Address  Conference
Joseph Rosensaft, chairman of the Central Jewish Commit tee of all displaced Jewish in the Uritish Zone in Germany, al.so is flying to the ijnited States to address the historic Conference at Atlantic City be¬ ginning Saturday evening. Dec. 15th. Revered by former in¬ mates of concentration camps as "the Jewish ijlncoin" Rosen, saft is most energetic and fear¬ less defender of the rights of stateless and displaced Jews He survived the battle of the Warsaw Ghetto and internment at the notorious death center of Auschwitz.
Rosensaft was deported to Belsen for extermination ten days befoi'e the British Army liberated that concentration camp. His wife, two children and his mother and father were liquidated by the Nazis. Rosensaft will be the first of¬ ficial spokesman of dietplaced Jews to present a full report to American Jewry.
Masada Group To Be Formed Here This Sunday
In these times when the question of Palestine looms so pronu'nently on . the horizon of Jewish life, no Jewish boy can fail to identify himself with the vital cause of a National home¬ land for his people. With this (Continued on page 4)
ly organized Youth Group of Tifereth Israel. Other projects for the month of December in¬ clude a membership dance on Saturday evening, Dec. 22nd, and a tour of the Ohio State University during the vacation period.'
Frances Cowall ,of 166} E. Whittier St., is president of the group; Mrs. Robert Raphael, adviser and Mrs. Abe Levlson, co-adviser
J. D. G. ADOPTS $58,350,000 BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 1846
Dr. Schwartz Heports Plight of Surviving Jews  in
<£urope is Desperate;  Anti-Semitism in Poland
Driving Jews to U. S. Zone
NEW YORK CWNS) —A budget of $58,350,000 for 1946, almost double that of 1945, was adopted hefe this week by the Joint.Distribution Committee at its 31st an¬ nual meeting.
Prior to adoption of the budget by the JDC National Committee and the 2,000 delegates from all over the coun- ti^, the gathering heard heart-rending reports on the con¬ dition of European Jewry by Dr. Joseph Schwartz, chair¬ man of the European Council of the J.D. C, by Rabbi Judah Nadich, chief Jewish chaplaiin in the European theatre of operation and former special adviser to Gen¬ eral Eisenhower, and by Edward M. M. Warburg, newly elected chairman of the J.D/C.
1946 A Crucial Year for Jews  in Europe
Dr. Schwartz, who arrived here by plane on the eve of the conference after a study of Jewish problems in Europe, said the plight of the Jewish survivors in Europe was a desperate one, particularly in Poland where, he stressed, "the Jewish population is sitting on valises, waiting to leave a situation that has become hateful to them."
Denouncing the situation in Poland, he said that the Jews "don't want to be rehabilitated in Poland, and the overwhelming majority want to go to Palestine." He said "the attitude expressed in Poland about the Jew is, 'What, is he still alive'?" and that "the Polish- people, as distinguished from the Polish Government, is disappoint¬ ed that there are still .80,000 Jews left in Poland."
Calling Poland "the grave-yard of Europe," Dr. Schwartz bluntly accused the Polish people of being dis¬ appointed that the .Germans did not settle the "Jewish problem" for them. He said there was a wave of terror¬ ism now going on to drive the .lews out of Poland com¬ pletely, that many of the Jews in Poland are -keeping their assumed Aryan names in order to find jobs, Ihift "Jews are receiving threatening letters warning them to get out," that the Jews are victims of banditi-y and looting designed to make the country hot for them. "Every once in a while a Jew is murdered," he said, "and nobody seems-, to know the reason," adding that "every time it happens,, hundreds more Jews start walking." At the same time he reported that in almost every Poli.sh city and town, even those that escaped devestation at the hands of the Germ¬ ans, the Jewish quarter was the only part burned down.. Cracow, he added, was the only Polish city where a pre¬ war Jewish- synagogue I'emained.
Dr. Schwartz stressed that the Polish Government itself was not anti-Semitic and that it was doing all it could to help the Jews, but that thfe Government was afraid to take a strong stand for fear that such action would be resented by the Po.l^s in general.
Pointing out that, after years of persecution and sys- I Continued on Page 4)
Ivreeyoh Society Dinner To Be Held Sunday Evening
Ivreeyoh Society Annual Din¬ ner will be held this Sunday, Dec. 16th, 6 P. M., at the Agud¬ ath Achim Social Hail, Wash¬ ington   and   Donaldson   sts.
Mrs. Robert Raphael, ticket chairman of this outstanding event, predicts a record break¬ ing crowd for this 23rd annual affair of the organization.
Mra Jack Freedman, chair¬ man of dinner arrangements and her co-chairmen, Mrs. Abe Mendel and Mrs. Dave Jacco, are making every effort to makS Sunday's event one of the most successful in Ivreeyoh history. Roast chicken, "Kishki" and all the trimmings will go to make up the seven course menu prepared by the capable hands  of  Mrs.  Yetta  Margulls.
The opening prayer will be given by Mrs. H. Silberstein, past president of Ivreeyoh. Hon¬ ored guests Invited to sit at (Continued on Page fotir)
Unique Program To Feature Joint B'nai B'rith Meeting
Men and women of B'nai B'rith will meet together at the Broad St. Temple ^at 8 p. m.,   next   Monday   evening.
The program will feature Budfl Sweeney, popular quiz program director of radio sta¬ tion WHKC, with his eight glamorous women in a "HQ;^se- wiyes  I. Q."
The program is being arrang¬ ed .by the B'nai B'rith women. Refreshments will be served by the Hospitality Committee under the direction of Mrs. J. Mlnkln and Mrs. A. M. Pollack.
Both men and women will condijct brief business sessions. This will be the occasion for the final nominations for Zion Lodge, No. 62 election. Two candidates have been nominat¬ ed for Guardian, Bert Levitt and Herbert Wise. Additional nominations for delegates and trustee are to be made Mon¬ day.
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