Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1949-05-06

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0OUUMBU8, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 0, 1049
D«TOt«d    to    AmerlcBn and   Jewish   Ideali
LODGE PLANS WELCOME FOB HAROLD RUSSELLrHERE
and Harold Russell to the state In which Mr. Russell w\li tie In Head of the D.A.V., Senator Al- Columbus, in addition to the bert I. Daniels, at a press lunch-
Zion Lodge of B'nal BritJ>-Tvill welcome"-Harold Russell, the handiess veteran who received an Academy ./Vward for his worlt In the outstanding motion
Eicture "The Best Years of our lives," to Coiumbus Monday. Representatives of the Lodge and the regional office of the Antl-Defamatlon league, worlc- Ing in collaboration with the F & R I^azarus Co., have planned a full day of speeches and pub¬ lic appearances for, Mr. Russell. The outstanding event of the day will tie the 'presentation, by Zion Lodge, of a copy of Mr. Russeirs new book "Victory In My Hands," to each of the Dis¬ abled American Veterans posts In the state of Ohto. The first copy of this book will be pre¬ sented by Mr. Abraham Gertner
eon,
"Victory In My Hands" is the story of Mr. Russell's life from the moment he awakened in an army hospital to find that he had lost his hands, up to the present day.
Mr. Russell has been appear¬ ing on the lecture platform and before school asserhblles under the sponsorship of the Antl-De¬ famatlon League. He speaks bn the subject of American unity, brotherhood, and understanding among the various gi-oups in the community. School children have been particularly impress¬ ed both by his personality and his  message.
During the course of the day
press luncheon, he will jdso con duct a press conference with delegates from all the local school publications.
The public is Invited to an open meeting and autographing party at 7:.30 p. m.. In the Sixth Floor- As.sembly Center of the Lazarus Department Store. At that time Mr. Russell will make an address In which he will talk about some of his most interest¬ ing expertfenccs Jn his career. He will be Introduced to the eve¬ ning audience by Mr. Allan Tar¬ shish.
Mr. Seymour QorchOff and Mr. Seymour Kaplan, of the ADL regional office, are coop¬ erating with the Lazarus Co. in making the arrarfgements.
Arranges Project to Raise $500 in Behalf of UJF Campaign
Norman Summer, 1074 Oak- wood Ave., felt that his per¬ sonal contribution to the ITnlted Jewish Fund campaign this yoar would be inadequate, so he eamfe up ^ith the idea of in¬ vesting the money he planned to pledge'in a venture which would "pay off" many times fold, all of which would go into the-UJF till.
Summer's plan is to raise $500, through the medium of a family affair such as a combi¬ nation weiner-roast and dance. His own personal contribution will be in the form of paying' for expenses and handling.,fiuch manifold details as getting dona tions ot food and soft drinks, tran.sportation, publicity,  ticket
selling and a. unique word-of¬ mouth "Pyramid Club" Idea of getting a big crowd.
Mr. Summer has set the date for Wednesday, May 18, 8-to- midnight, at Southside Y park, five miles south of Columbus. The park has spacious grounds, a large pavilion for conventional and .square-dancing, fire-places for the weiner-roa.st, an<l other practical facilities.
Jim Wagner of tlie YMCA will be on hand to teach square dancing for those who don't know how, which should add to the evening's fun.
Tickets will sell  for   $1    per
rson, ta3( included, obtainable at*Schonthal Center, Hlllei, and Bryd&is Rd. and Broad St. Tem
Jay Jayson on Mother's Day Program Sponsored by B'nai Brith Chapters; Candidates Conduct Heated Campaign
The traditional Mother's Day program will feature the next meeting of Zion. Lodge, B'nai Brith Tuesday, at Broad. St. Ternple. Sponsored 'jointly with the Women's Lodge, the program wiil highlight entertainment by Jay Jason, of the Riviera Night Club. The Hillel Players also will perform with a Mother's Day skit, and refreshments will be served.
Business at the. meeting will consist of second nomination of ¦ officers, including honor guard and seeretary. Meanwhile, nominees for these offices are conducting spirited (Campaigns with all the flourish of any political contest. Bidding for the guardianship, which leads to the eventual presidency of B'nal Brith Zipn Lodge 62, are Richard Grundstein and Seymour Luckoff. Secretarial candidates are Saul Sokol, Gene Hameroff and Robert Horowitz.
Election    night   Is   Tuesday, May 24.
ilTef President
Larry Schaffer, of Columbus, was elected to the office of president of the Hillel Founda¬ tion for the 1949-50 school year. The election results were an¬ nounced during intermission at Hillel Stunt Night- last week.
Other candidates , elected in¬ clude: Jerry Freidman, ¦ vice- president; -Dottle 'Kahn, seere¬ tary: and Mike Teitlebaum, treasurer.
Delta Phi Epsilon sorority re¬ ceived first prize for the second straight year for lis presenta¬ tion of "One Night Stand.". Sec¬ ond prize winner was Alpha Epsilon Pi'fraternity fqr a skit on "Carmen Ohio." 'A Ballot For Americans" won third place for Phi Sigma Sigma sorority.
Stunt Night judges were Prof. Meno Lovensteln, Prof. 'WiUlam Dumble, Miss Marie Mason, and Mr. John Barcroft.
FINAl. MEETING FOR LAZARUS SISTEROOD
The final meeting of the ssa- son for the Rose E. LazaruV Sisterhood is scheduled . for Tuesday afternoon, 2 o'clock, in the vestry room of -Bryden Rd. Temple. Highlight of the pro¬ gram will-be the party and Tea which will (olIo\y a brief busi¬ ness meeting-
Prizes and surprises will fea¬ ture vthe final "meeting.
ATTENDS INTERNAT'L COUNCIL  O*"  WOMEN  MEET
NEW YORK—Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, president of the National Council of Jewish Women, is enroute to Paris aboard the S. S. Queen Elizabeth to represent her organization at the Interna¬ tional Council of Jewish Wo¬ men, which will open its four- day meeting May 29, in the French capitol.
As acting Chairman, Mrs. Welt wiil preside over the meeting of the International Council of .Jewish Women, which will in .elude representatives from Aus tralla, South Africa, Greece Switzerland, Great Brltlan and Canada.
Delegates to the International body, which wili be non-politi cal, wiil draft a prograrji de signed to unite the efforts of Jewish women In all nations in behalf of the needs of their own countries and world Jewry.
pics. Total gross receipts will be forwarded tn tlie United .lewish Fund.
For further (letails, .'VIr. Snm¬ mer can he contacted at FA. 417,3.
WISE KHTATE IM.I.IIOO
NEW YORK—Rabbi Stephen S. Wise left an estate valued at about $45,000, it wa.s reveaie<l here when his will was filed. While most-of the estate is be- (jueathedjto the late Jewi-sh lea¬ der's two children — Ju.stlne Wi.se Poller and .lames Water¬ man Wise — several bequests were also made to the American Jewish Congress, World Jewish Congre.ss, Palestine Endowment Funds, Inc., American Friends of the Hebrew Unlver.slty and other institutions.
'£. O. A. ELECTIONS w
NBW YORK—More than 700 districts of the Zionist Organi¬ zation of America have begun to elect delegates to the organi¬ sation's 52nd annual cbnventlon, to be held here May 27-,30. Elec¬ tion of delegates to the conven¬ tion  will conclude May 15.
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Noted Author-Commentator To Address Important UJF Division-Meeting Thursday
"I have full confidence that this wiil be a year to remember .... that the prornlse of emptying the DP camps in 1949 . . . of giving Israel the ability to receive ail the homeless who want to come there . . . of meeting every local and national need '. . . I know these things which we all want will be accomplished this year."
Thirf statement was made by Leo Yassenoff, 1949 Campaign Chairman of the United Jewish Fund, as the Drive entered its third week of Divisional pace-setting meetings.
"There were some who ap¬ proached this year with pe.sslmi- ism,'' Ya.ssenoff .said. "Rut, .the splendid response we have ex¬ perienced in our advance gifts meetings justifies a very de¬ finite optimism. Based on In¬ creases already received, we' should accomplish in 1949 every¬ thing we have set out to do," concluded Mr. Ya.ssenoff.   *
Scheduled for next week is the important dinner meeting of the Service Trades, Real E.s- state, ln.surance and Otherwise Unclassified Division. It will,be held Thur.sday evening, 6:30, at. the Maramor, with Mi.ss Elea- nore Leverison. rioted lecturer, author and radio tommentator, as the speaker. The chairmen for this Division arc Ahe Yen¬ kin and Jack Schiff. The co- chairmen include' Hen Yenkin, A. 13,- Weinfeld, and S.nm Shin- bach. ,
The committee and workers Include  the  following:
Gus Ba.sch. I. C. Benis, Her¬ bert Ryer, David Che.ses, M. Mike Cohen, Leo Elferman, E. M. Englander, J. C. Felbel, M; D. Felnknopf, M. W. Flshklng, M. D. Frank. Harry Friedman. Leon Friedman, Max Glassman, A. M. Harris, i^rank Kauffman, Harold Kayne, Leo Kessel, Irv¬ ing Lackrltz, Cye I^andy. Her¬ man Lieverman, Herbert Lin¬ ick. Ira Monroe, Victor, Her¬ man  and   Barney   Ringer,  Fred
Sl'RVEV OF ISRAEL
NEW YOftK==Samuel Hau.s- man. a general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal of Great¬ er New York, left this week for Israel lo survey and report on conditions there. Hau-sman wili also study, certain matters im¬ portant to the Slew York cam¬ paign of the U. J. A.
Mental Health Week
WILL KAIHE SI,IW2,0<)0 FOR THICOLOCU'AL SE.MLVARY
PHILADELPHIA (JTAI—A campidgii to raise $1,972,000 for needs of the Jewish'Theological Seminary and affiliated insti¬ tutions .during the 1949-50 year was voted here this Week at the third annual conference of the Seminary's National Planning Campalgp Committee. This fig¬ uri is a quarter of a million dol¬ lars moi;e than has ever been sought before.
Maxwell Abhell, who was re¬ elected chairman of the body, declared, in his annual report, that there are signs Indicating that American Jewry is "grop¬ ing" toward an epochal religious and cultural re-awakening. It was also emphasized at the par¬ ley that American Jewry 'oan "attain spiritual maturity", only by aj)plylng the same sacrificial zeal in supporting its own reli¬ gious and educationsi' institu¬ tions which it is now applying to meet the needs of Jbws of Is-' rael and Europe. '
Roland,  Louis Rosenthal.
Charles Ross, Richard Grund¬ stein, Harry Roth, Sam Schlon¬ sky, Max Schottensteln, Sam¬ uel Shlnbach, Abe Shustick, Gil¬ bert Slegel, S. J.. Slaven, Si Sokol, A. Esterkin , Milton Staub, Joe Swartz, Cyrus.Tanen¬ baum, Allan Tarshish, Robert \Yeiler, A. B. Weinfeld, Herbert Wl.sfe, A. A..Wolman, Jack Wol¬ steln, Leo and Milton Yassenoff, I''red, Ben and Abe Yenkin.
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Miss Levenson
U.MTKD   .JEWISH   A^TEAL   M.ARKg. FIRST   ANNIVERSARY OF  IHRAEL WITH "TWELVE  DAYS OP COUKVIEMOBATION"
NEW YORK, (JTA)-^The United Jewish Appeal Is sponsoring "Twelve Days rif Commemoration" in observance of the first anniversary of Israel'.s independence, U.J.A general chairman Henry Mftrgenthau, Jr., announced this week. The observaiice w'ill be launched here wirh a dinner in honor of Dr. Chalm Weiz- man. President of Israel, at the Wa.ldorf-Astorla Hotel this week.
May 4, the first day of the 12-day period, Is the day on which the people of Israel began to celebrate the first anniversary of the Jewish state, according 'to the Jewish calendar.' The period will end May 15, the anniversary date according to theiGregorian calendar. The anniversary dinner will also be in the nature of a farewell to PreiSident Weizmann who, with Mrs. Weizmann, is returning to Israel on Thursday.
ECONOMIC CORPORATION
NEW YORK—A quarterly dividend of $1 per share of com¬ mon stock jvas announced- this week by the Palestine Econo¬ mic Corporation, an American development company partlci- pating in various enterprises in Israel. This is the 2(>th $1 divi¬ dend  paid  by  the Corporation.
Gene Hameroff l.s shown a hove with Gov. F^ank Lausche. as the proclamation of Mental Health Week was signed last week in the governor's office. Hameroff, an executive with Byer & Bowman Advertising Agency, is a member of the Jun¬ ior Chamber of Commerce, put>- lie health compilttee.
fJRADUATE OP ISRAEL VKSHIVAH SEEKS AID POR BUILDING FUND
Rabhl Aaron Bergsteln, . a graduate of.the H.ehron Yeshi¬ vah in Israel, is in Coiumbus enlisting support for this world famous  thebiogical  seminary.
ills major appeal Is for the special bulldihg fund to be u.sed to reconstruct doi;mltorie.s that wcie (lesiroyed by Arabs.
Hebnm Yeshivah was trans,- ferred from Europe to Palestine 25 years ago. After tlie horrible pogrom hy Arabs In 1920, when 50 .students were murdered, the Yeshivah was transferred to Jerusalem. Many of the students participated in the recent battles for the defense of the Holy City by Jews, but the Yeshivah-was demolished. .
"My mission here is to secure help for our emergency building fund to resto're this famous Torah center tn Us former glory,"  Rabbi  Bergstgin  said.,
NAT'L HOSPITAL DAY
The Benjamin Franklin Hos¬ pital is extending to the citizens o.f Columbua .and Franklin County an invitation to visit be¬ hind th? scenes of a modern hospital, on National Hospital Dayj next Thursday.
XEWISH AGENCY OPENS CAMPAIGN  TO  ELIMINATE "UNAUTHORIZED" DRIVES
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The Jewish Agency this week an¬ nounced formation of a com¬ mittee to eliminate "unauthoriz¬ ed and illegitimate" fund-raising drives oa behalf of Israel and in other ways to a.ssure the priori¬ ty of the United Jewish Appeal us the central fund-raising agency in this country for the Jewish state. At the same time,' the Agency pointed out that the Government of. Israel has pro¬ hibited its members and offi¬ cials from endorsing any cam¬ paign other than the UJA. ex¬ cel)! .with governmenr authori¬ zation.
Willie taking note of the Im¬ portant contribution of certain well-established individiiai cam¬ paigns In the field, the'Agency declared: "The Jewish Agency for Palestine, charged by the Govejnment of Israel with pri¬ mary responsibility for the ad¬ ministration of philanthropic funds spent on the Israeli im¬ migration and absorption . pro^ gram, considers that the confus¬ ion created by multiple cam¬ paigns endangers the success of the United Jewish Ajppeai.'
"With a view to eliminating this confusion, the Jewish Agency has decided to set up a committee on multiple cam¬ paigns to consist of representa¬ tives of tiie Jewish Agency, the- U-nited Palestine Appeal tod tjie - United Jewish Apteqi, "which wiii. be efrtipowered to act "with the full authority.of the.Jewish Agency."
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