Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1950-12-01

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Joint Distribution Committee's Annual
Meeting Scheduled in New York Jan. 6
NEW YORK — The ,innual meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee will take plate In New" York City Jan. 6, 1951, It was announced this week by Edward M. M. Warburg, chairman of the overseas welfare agency which has already established a record of 38 years uninterrupted service on behalf of needy Jews abroad.
The session, scheduled for Saturday evening, Jan. 6, at the Hotel*Commodore, will bring together members of the JDC Board of Directors and National Council. In    contrast    wilh    previous '-
years, this year's conference will be a one-session affair, with the customary Sunday session omitt¬ ed. However, .lewish community leaders and delgates from all parts of the country are expected to attend the conference, which will be devoted lo reports on the present situation of distressed Jews in Europe and Moslem areas, aa well as Ihe a.sslslance currently being provided by JDC.
Leaders of the JDC will de¬ scribe the emigration and wel¬ fare emergencies of in.'^O. which completely exhausted J DCs 1950 emigration budget long before Ihe end of the year. The speak¬ ers will al.so analyze the welfare agency's 1951 program and bud¬ getary requirements. Funds for JDC's overseas relief, rehabilita¬ tion and resettlement operations are provided by the United Jew¬ ish Appeal.
Sf\^/ Serving Coliimbua and Central Ohio Jewish Community \\7AR
Vol. 28, No. 48
COLrMBUH,   OHIO,   FRIDAV,   DfiJCE^JBER   I,   1950
Devoted     to     AmericBo and   Jewlih    Id«aU
Hadassah Donor Dinner Nears!
Open   your  heart,  open   your band;
Give  to  HadnsNnh.
Cantor Katz Booked Here by B'nai B'rith
Cantor Katz
By popular acclaim. Cantor Sholom Katz, who last year thrilled a capacity audience In one of the biggest musical at¬ tractions of the sea.son, will again present an unusual concert under the sponsorship of Zlon Lodge, B'nai B'rith, Tuesday eve¬ ning, Dec. 12, In the auditorium of the Jewish Center. There will be no admission charge and the public is invited.
Cantor Katz will sing opera numbers, as well as cantoral selections and Yiddish folk songs. Mrs. Augusta Frank will be at the piano. Saul Sokol Is Program chairman.
Council Women Members and Guest Will Portray "Disenchanted" Next Tuesday
Members of the Council of Jewl.sh Women will be enchanted hy the "Disenchanted" when the book by Hudd Schulberg comes lo life during Tuesday's open meeting at Bryden Rd. Temple, at 1:30. Tea will follow the meeting, which will be opened by a prayer by Mrs. Woolf Solomon.
Scooping .several movie producers who arc bidding for the rights to the book, Mrs. Fred Venkin. program chairman, has pro¬ cured Mr, Murray Lockert, announcer for station WBNS-TV, who wilh  two  Council  members,   Mrs.  Jack  Radow  and  Mrs.  Aaron
Zacks, will do the book in an unusual and enjoyable way. Not a book review, not a dramati¬ zation, but a bit of both. Is Mrs. Yenkin's description. Mrs. E. L. Goodman, who did such an out¬ standing Job in writing and pro¬ ducing "Dames wilh Alms," is again a.ssistlng in putting on this program.
Mr. Lockert, a 1947 graduate of Ohio State University, where he was a member of the Players Club, has been chief announcer foi station WOSU, and there con¬ ducted the Airlines Library. Prior to that time he had a poe¬ try and organ program over WCLT, Newark, O.
The "Disenchanted" ¦ Is the mosl .sought-after volume in the library today. Its use was sug¬ gested by Mrs. Daphne McVlcker, book reviewer of the Columbus Citizen, who says this book is one reason for her to celebrate Thanksgiving. Il deals with the period |with which .so many are familiar, the 1920's. Budd Schul¬ berg, the author, Is well remem¬ bered for his popular novel What Makes Sammy Run." An additional attraction, and spirit, is a gift to be given to each member attending the meet¬ ing. An enjoyable program—a surprise gift—a pleasant tea party!
You WILL be enchanted liy the "Disenchanted."
Almost il cla.sslc amimg bene¬ fits In Columbus is the traflillonal Hadassah DOnor Dinner. An event fol; a great humanitarian effort—to make life easier for the sick. Ihe helpless and the homeless.
With but one short vycck unlil Ihe dinner. Sunday, Dec. 10, fi o'clock at the Nell House, lasl- minute details are being laken care of by the committee.
Pledges may still be made by calling Mrs. Jerome Fisher. FA. 4'I21 or Mrs. Samuel Luper, DO. 81.59; seating arrangements can be taken care of by Mrs. Aai'on SIvllz, Donor treasurer. Mfi . N, Roosevelt. DO. 408S.
Listen to Hadassah with Bill Hinrnian, next WiMlnes- day, at af.'j p. ni., on WCOL.
A recent report sent lo Colum¬ bus by Mrs. -Golda Myorsoii. Minister of Labor of the .Slate of Israel, tells the story of ftreat nee.d. "Unless Israel keep.s giving' a maximum In riiedical services lo the lens of Ihousands who arc pouring in. especially from Arab lands. Israel will pay heavily. Unless every newcomer Is medi¬ cally .screened and given the hos¬ pital C'are he needs, unless every child is helped off the sick list . . . the next.generation will be unable to shoulder the back- breaking job of consolidating the gains which this generation of fighlers has won for the Stale of Israel."
BETH JACOB DINNER TO BE REJJCHEDULED
Due to weather conditions, the annual Beth Jacob Congrega¬ tion installation banquet has been postponed. New date will be announced In a future edition of the Chronicle.
The Beth Jacob Sisterhood's annual Chanukah dinner, .sche¬ duled for this Sunday, also has been poslpftned until a later day.
Hei'c lire the gnlding lights for the 1050 Hadassah Donor Din¬ ner. Left to j-lf^lit—^Mrs. Aai*on Slvltz, treas., IVIrs. .lack Wolman, Program  chairman, and  Mi;s. Harry  Kollus,  Hadassah president.
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL'S DRIVE FOR $50,000,000 IN CASH BACKED BY 10 NATIONAL JEWISH WOMEN'S CHAPTERS
NEW YORK (Speciall—A call to American Jewish Women "lo participate actively" In the emer¬ gency campaign lo make $.50,000,- 000 in cash available lo the United ,I(-wish Appeal before the end of if/50 was i.ssued Ihis week by repre.sentalives of 10 leading national Jewish women's organi¬ zations at a special meeting at National UJA headquarters, 165 West lOth St., New York (."ily.
The national Jewish women's organizations which agreed, lo make their memberships avail¬ able to the emergency campaign —the first ever held In the 12- year history of the United Jew¬ ish Appeal — were Hadassah, Mlzrachl Women's Organizallon, National Council of Jewish Wo¬ men,/ National Federation of Tefnple Sisterhoods, National Women's League of United Syna¬ gogues, Pioneer Women's Labor
Zionist Organization, Women's, B'rith Division, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, Women's Amer. O.R.T., Women's Branch, American Jewish Congre.ss, and Women's   Grand    Lodge,    B'nai
PHYSICAL  EDUt^ATION DEPARTMENT PROGRAM RE-DATED FOR THURSDAY
Same time, same place, same program—that's the word from the Jewish Center's Physical Education Dept., which planned an Interesting "open house" presentation of the department's functions this week at the Cen¬ ter, until the early-week snow storms rendered the parking lot useless.
So, next Thursday {Dec. 7), the
Mrs. S. A. Brailove, chairman of the National Women's Divi¬ sion of the UJA, who presided at the luncheon meeting, said, "Our immediate problem is to help raise $50,000,000 In cash through the UJA before Dec. 31. This sum Israel desperately needs to tide them over a juncture made criti¬ cal in great ^ measure by the monies spent' on the rehabili¬ tation, clothing and shelter of the 500,000 newcomers to the Jewish Slate since May,  1948."
Mrs. llrailove stres.sed that "American Jewish women who have met every difficult situa¬ tion with understanding hearts, who have been the dynamic in¬ spirations of every United Jewish
Robert Szold to Speak Here
Robert Szold, chairman of the Hoard of the Palestine EconOrtilc Corporation, will speak at a special dinner In his honor at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel Tues¬ day evening.
The Palestine Economic Corp. oration is the oldest and largest American development corpora¬ tion operating In Israel. The dinner will honor PEC's achieve¬ ments In encouraging private enterprise In Israel, and promot¬ ing better economic relatlo«i3 be¬ tween the U.S. and Israel.
Szold was a founder of P.E.C. In 1B26 with the late Felix M. Warburg, Senator Herbert H. Lehman,-the late Justice Loula D. Brandels, Louis D. Marshall,
and Julius Simon, now the presi dent of the Corporation.
The primary purpose of P.E.C Is to serv^ as .the channel for private American investment capital In Israel. Through its many investments, the P.E.C. has developed many new in¬ dustries and vital comtnercial (coDtinucd oa n.ge 4)
indoor athletic activities of the Appeal, must bring these virtues Center will be unfolded to the | wilh them in this emergency general public. $50,000,000 cash collection drive."
GOV. LAUSCHE ENDORSES JEWISH WAR VETS CARNIVAL
CHANUKAH   PARTY   IS RESCHEDULED  DEC.   10
Due to the adverse weather, the Columbus Hebrew School Chanukah program scheduled this Sunday, Dec. 3, will take place Dec. 10, 2:30 p.m., at the Jewish Center auditorium.
Gov. Erunk J. Lausche has endorsed the fund- raising carnival being sponsored by the Jcvvlsh War Veterans, Capitol Post 123, of the V. S. The in-ojcct will be held at Memorial Hall tonioiTow (Sunday), with proceeds designated for veterans' rchnbllltutlon.  Admission Is tree.
Gala entei'talnment w'H be qffered. Including two continuous vaudeville acts; hourly awards and un opportunity to win one of the 50 natlonal-
ly-kno«rn prizes valued at more thap $2,000, The luttrr niU be held at 10 p. m,
Doora win open at 1 p. m. llio food and soda bur will be open from 1 p. ni. until midnight, UN will several other booths and concessions.
In the above photo, taken by the Topy Studios, are: Sam Zelvln, Mitch ^ohen, Post Commander Arthur Block, Mel Fniinan, Gov. liansche. Dr. Ben Gettneri Iz Gurevitz, Manny Englander.