Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1950-03-24

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Vol. £8. No. 12
OOLUMBUS, OHIO, ^RIDAY, MARCH 24, 1050
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B'nai B'rith-ADL Meeting Tuesday
• To Show Special Film: "Pre:|udice"
The startling fuU-Iength film, "Preludlce," will he featured at B'nai B'rith's Antl-Defamatlon League meetlrig next "Tuesday. The open meeting, held Jointly with the women's chapter, will begin, at 8:15, at Broad St. Tem¬ ple.
Seymour Gorchoff, regional director of the Antl-Defamatlon League, will report on anti-aeml- tlsm and discrimination (region¬ ally and nationally) at the meet¬ ing. His talk will be followed by a question and discussion period.
"The Hollywood production "Prejudice" Is a Joint project of the ADL and the Protestant Film Commission. It Is being previewed by various groups throughout the country before •being released to theaters.
LlKe "Crossfire," the film deals with Intolerance subjectively, showing what It does to the per¬ son who practices it.
" 'Prejudice' hits harder than 'Gentleman's Agreement' and crossfire'", Walter Winchell says, and he Is backed ui> by Variety Magazine, whlch-reports "Photography is excellent .... musical score Is of major status."
The National Board of Review reports that "Prejudice" is "the most mature and convincing study of the subject yet filmed. This ADL meeting will be one of the most outstanding of the year;
BABBI STBINBKBG DIBS    .
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Rabbi Milton Steinberg, one ot the outstanding spiritual leaders of American Jewry, died suddenly this week at his home here at the age ot 46. Funeral services were held at the Park Avenue Synagogue, where he served as rabbl since 1933.
Announce Co-Chairmen of 1950 UIF Women's Division
Mrs. Gordon
UJA BROADCAST
Next Tuesday evening over WHKC—9:00 to 0:30, the United Jewish Appeal will hold an im¬ portant Passover broadcast. Rab¬ bl S. W. Rubenstein wlil speak.
TWIG 47
Twig 47 of Children's Hospital will meet at the home ot Mrs. Jaqk Mellman, 26158 Sherwood Rd", Wednesday, at 8 pm.
Mm. WnsserHlrom
Mesdames Simon Lazarus, Jack Resler, E. J. Gordon, William Wasserstrom, William Schlff and Samuel Schlonsky, outstanding civic leaders,, have been named co-chairmen of the Women's Divl sion for the 1950 United Jewish Fund carripalgn, Mr. Richard J Abel, campaign chairman announced this week.
Their efforts In past philan¬ thropic activities have displayed for them every quality of strong effective  leadersnlp.
In announcing the acceptances of the Women^ Division co- chalrmanshlp, Mrs. Simon Laz¬ arus, speaking tor the group, sald:-'Tnls year we have a her¬ culean task before us; < 1949 saw a record immigration of 250,000 to Israel &nd the largest post¬ war wave of Jewish Immigrants to the U. S. The DP camps of Europe are virtually emptied hut an untorseeable situation has developed because of the large immigration to Israel.
"Approximately 85,000 immi¬ grants to Israel are living In tents and temporary barracks, awaiting permanent housing In Israel, The cost ot maintaining
these people. In even such a crude fashion, is approximately $2,000,000 per month. Although the people ot Israel are making every conceivable sacrifice . . food rationing, wage stabillza tion and price control . . .they cannot alone provide housing training, medical care and other necessities for those already In Israel and the 150,000 expected to enter during 1950."
"There is a special re.sponslbi llty for American women," Mrs Lazarus continued. "Mors than 80,000 Jewish children in Europe and Moslem areas are complete ly dependent upon JDC aid "Thousands ot these children are orphans In Institutions. It is my hope that every Jewish woman
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Mrs. Sohlff
MrH. Schlonsky
UPA FILM ON ZIONIST DISTRICT AGENDA SUNDAY
A regular meeting ot the Co¬ lumbus Zionist District will be held Sunday at 8 pm., in the new addition of the Ahavath Shalom synagogue.
The latest UPA film, "Song ot the Negev," also known as 'TSIn Brelra," will be shown. The film
portrays one small but crucial front during the recent war in Israel. A young settlen\pnt in the Negev, surrounded and out¬ numbered, cuts Its first teeth on machine gun slug.s.,~and an Im¬ migrant boy restles.sly gropes tor   an   answer to the gripping
To Repeat 'Psalm of David' Service Sunday
Columbus' leading inter-racial and Inter-faith activity, Fellow¬ ship Church, celebrates ltftf4th birthday this Sunday, wltfjUthe unique and beautiful Psalms of David service Inaugurated by Rabbl Folkman since his arrival in Columbus.
Every Fall since he first of¬ fered this service, Rabbl Folk- man has been requested to re¬
peat It for the congregalion of Temple Israel. Now a /'repeat" request has come from'the pro¬ gram committee of Fellowship Church.
This unusual and exceptlonjil- ly-beautltul service consists ot the reading of the Psalms by the rabbl to the harp accompani¬ ment of Mrs. Allen Gunder- ishelm, Jr.
Because of the popularity of this service and because of Its well-earned fame here In the city, a large crowd Is expected to attend the Fellowship Church service at Broad St. Methodist Church, Broad and Washington St., at 4 p. hi. Sunday. The ser¬ vice Is free as always and Is open to all.
For the convenience of parents wishing to attend, a nursery for small children Is conducted dur¬ ing -the service. Children are carefully supervised In one of the school rooms of the church. Following the service, those at¬ tending are Invited to remain for the Fellowship Tea served by members of the Fellowship Church committee. President, of Fellowship Church this yeur Is Rev. Lloyd Faust. Mrs. Jack Resler is secretary ahd Mr. Kenneth Love, treasurer. Members of the Board include Mr. Fred Yenkln, Mrs. Arthur Jay, Mrs. M. Papurt, Rabbl Folk- man, Mr. MUton Staub and many other community active Individ¬ uals.
Fellowship Church Is proud to announce that besides the musi¬ cal accomplishments of the love¬ ly Muriel Gundersheimer, the Fellowship Church choir will be heard. Also on Sunday, the girl scouts win celebrate their birth¬ day by assisting with ushering at the Fellowship Church ser¬ vice.
question^ of Jewish homeles.s- ness and rebirth in Israel.
It la a most informative and gripping film. No one should ml.ss it.,The film will be shown promptly at 8.
The other halt of the meeling will be a memorial for the late president of the Zionist Organi¬ zation of America, Mr. Daniel Frisch.
The speakers will be Rabbl Nathan Zelizer and Dr. B. W. Abramson. Cantor Leo Halpern will chant the El Mole Rachem- Im.
L. J. Stern Named U.A.H.C. Chairman
Mr. Leonard J. Stern, presi¬ dent of Bryden Rd. Temple, was elected chairman of the Ohio Valley Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congrega¬ tions at the meeting held In Day¬ ton last Sunday. More than a hundred congrega¬ tional leaders from Ohio, Indiana and W. Va. attended the confer¬ ence for the purpose of streng¬ thening Liberal J U d a 1 s m through the participation of lay leaders In religious affairs.
Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of the Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, and Rabbl James G. Heller of the Isaac M. Wise Temple, Cincin¬ nati, were the principal spealcers at the meeting. Rabol Jacob D, Schwartz, director of the Coih' mission on Synagogue Activities of the UAHC, conducted a work¬ shop on congregational prob¬ lems.
Rabbl and Mrs. Jerome D. Folkman and Mrs. Leonard Stern represented Bryden Rd. Temple as delegates at the con¬ vention. .
Mrs. Fred Lazarus Addresses Council
Mi's. Fred Lazarus, Jr.
One ot the highlights ot the club season will De the meeting next Tuesday, 1 p. m., at Bryden Rd. Temple, when Mrs. Fred Lazarus Jr., formerly of this city and now of Cincinnati, ad¬ dresses the Council of Jewish Women on the subject of "Eur¬ ope—1949."
To meet Mrs. Lazarus' busy schedule, the regular meeting date has been advanced a week and win replace the April meet¬ ing. Her talk will be taken from notes In her diary," kept during her' European travels last fall, when, together with Mr. Lazai^ us, she toured England, France, Holland, Italy ana Germany, (continued on i>age 4)