Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1959-02-20

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Vol. 37, No. 8
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20,  1959
Davottd fo Amtrican and Jawtih  ld««li .
400 Jewish Leaders Urge Aid For Great Emigration
Completing arrangements for the Annual Agudas Aohlm Sisterhood Donor Dinner are, seated, left to right, Mesdames William NuUman, treasurer; David Paine, chaimuui; Martin Godof¬
sky, Sisterhood president; I. M. Harris, ticket chairman; standing, Harold Oovel, major; Albert Shkolnik, major; Hiurry Schwartz, program chair¬ man; and Morrey Oohen, major.
Noted Entertainer Joel Gray Agudas Achim Donor Star
Joel Grey, who headllnea Agudas Achlm'a Donor Dinner March 8, needs little Introduction to Colum¬ busltes. He Is a young man who is rapidly rising to a top position among the nation's comedians. A very veraatile gentleman, Joel has delighted audiences, young and old, with hig appearancea on teie¬ vlalon. In night cluba acroaa the notion and on the atage.
Do you recoil "Jock" ta the teievlalon presentation of "Jack and the Beanstalk?" Joel waa "Jack." Dinah Shore, Ed SuUlvan, Steve Allen, the Colgate Comedy Hour and the Kraft Theatre are but a few of the TV shows which have been brightened by Joel Grey'a talenta.
ACROSS   THE   COUNTRY   he
haa entertained at the Fontaine- bleaiu In Miami Beach, the Chez Paree of Chicago, the Bl Rancho in Laa Vegas and In New York at the Latin Quarter and the Copa¬ cabana. On the International atage he has appeared at the London Palladium. The Phoenix Theatre of New York City had the fortune to preaent the long running "Lit- tleat Revue" In which Joel was a big star. A few yeara ago he ap¬ peared with hia father, Mickey Katz in Ck>lumbua.
Such a varied bockground of accomplishment,  such  an  inhert-
NEW YORK (JTA) -Four hun-1 dred Jewish leaders, representing 19 major notional Jewish organl¬ zatlona. Joined Sunday in on ur¬ gent call to the American Jewlah community to rise to the "historic opportunlify" afforded by the "great emigration of Jewa from Eaatern Europe" and make It "one of the momentous develop¬ ments In contemporary Jewlah history."
The delegates adopted a declar¬ ation coUlng upon the constituen¬ cies and memberships of their organizations to give "moxiraum support" to the 1969 campaign of the United Jewiah Appeal which la aeeklng to ralae a speclal $100 million emergency fuiid, over and above Ita regular campaign of more than $100 million, to finance
the transport and resettlemont of an expected 100,000 East Euro¬ pean Immigrants ta Israel this year.
THE  DELEGATES  aet   up  an
added committee conaiating of the prealdenta of the participat¬ ing organizations to aerve with the UJA in connection with thla drive. Authoritiea, throughout the day-long seaaion, had presented detailed reports on all aspects of the situation, the reactiona to it, ita Impact on larael and Its aig¬ niflcance to the American Jewlah community.
Rabbl Herbert A. Friedman, executive vice-chairman bf the United Jewlah Appeal, warned the conference that, while 100,000 Jewa were expected to arrive  In
WORLD TOUR DAY' SET MARCH 4 BY EDUCATION DIVISION OF UJF
Joel Gray
tance of talent, ond auch wide ocknowledgement of thla young gentleman's tolents confirms the Agudaa Achlm Siaterhood'a pride in being able to preaent Joel Grey aa the "star" of the evening of March 8. THE AGUDAS ACHIM congre¬
gation Is oglow with anticipation while awaiting the eventag. The Sisterhood haa planned an eve¬ ning filled with enjoyment from dinner on. The goal of the Agudas Achim Sisterhood Donor Dinner ia to ralae the funda neceaaary to maintata the enlarged and still growing Sunday School.
The evening la for all thoae who have pledged or already made a contribution to the Agudas Achlm Sunday School. Dinner, catered by Agudaa Achlm'a own Mra. Morria Gold of Gold's Caterers, will be served at 6 p.m. The dtaner charge is $3 per person, and dinner reaer¬ vationa are open only to those who have made a donation to the Sunday Sohooi.
DINNER FACILITIES ore lim¬ ited, therefore, if you hove not received your Invltotlon or mode your reaervotlon for the evening of March 8, contact Mra. William NuUman, BE. 5-6568 or Mra. I. M. Harria, BE. 1-9100. AU thoae who have pledged to the Sunday School will receive ticketa to the evening show.
Joel Grey will open the evening ahow ta the Agudos Achlm Social Hall at 8 p.m. Don't procrastinate! Make your pledge and dinner reservation NOW for the special, special evening at the Agudas Achim Sisterhood Donor Dinner.
Big Fight Faces Citrus Board
BY BUAHU SAU>BTBB
(Oopyright 19S9, JTA, Inc.)
JERUSALEM — Ex ports of cltrua fruit are among Israel's moat important foreign currency earners, and thus it is not aur¬ prlsing that the semi-official Cltrua Marketing Board la one of Israel's atrongest economic prea¬ aure groups. Among the many fighta conducted by the Cltrua Board none la more fierce and reckleaa than that against the use of cardboard cartons for the ship¬ ment of oranges, lemons and grapefruits.
It seems, however, tbat thla time the Cltrua Board, for all its power and Influence, went a little too far and will have more of a fight on Its hand than it asked for.
FOB MANY decades Israel citrus reached the local and the foreign markets In wooden orates, the material for which had to be Imported from abroad. Several years ago, an energetic American Investor, Sam Dublner, estabUshed a carton factory in Israel and one of its main products was' cartons for cltrua. Out of conservatism and of other considerations which were never gulte clear to anybody except the big-wigs of the Citrus Board,  they were opposed (rom
the very flrat moment to the Idea of switching from the wooden crates to the cartona.
Mr. Dublner countered hy try¬ ing to split the cltrua growera and eatabllahing a diaaldent or¬ ganization of growers. Pretty soon the Cltrua Board's fight against the carton boxes became an all- out peraonal atruggle agataat Mr. Dublner.
THE ECONOMIC ministries of the larael government became an Intereated party in the dispute, alnce the wood for the old-atyle cratea haa to be Imported with a conalderable outlay of foreign currency which adda very Uttle value to the local manufacturera while the cartona require very little Imported raw materlala.
Early ta 1967, the Government appointed a committee of Inquiry to atudy the citrus packing prob¬ lem. The committee unanimously
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Editorials        2
Report From U-N      4
Society       7
Sports   11
Synagogues       12
Travel "Talk    8
recommended that for a trial period of two yeara 10 per cent of oil citrus exporta should be mode in corton boxea ond appointed on internationally known Dutch firm of experts to atudy the comparo- tive merlta of the two ayatema.
THE CITRUS Board flrat ogreed to accept the recommendo- tiona, but ahortly ofterworda storied backtracking. Ultimately an agreement was reached be¬ tween the Mtalster of Trade and Induatry, Mr. Pinhaa Saphir and the Board to ahip one million car¬ ton boxea of cltrua (about five percent. Instead of ten) each year. However, even after thla agree¬ ment, the Board suddenly changed Ita mind and again decided to make the experiment for only one aingle year. Finally they reneged even on thla arid decided not to make any exporta In cartona.
Thla waa juat a bit too much for Mr. Saphir. He called a presa conference and charged the (Cit¬ rus Board with "breach of con¬ tract and deception of the public and the government." He warned the Board that unleaa they carried out tile agreement faat, "the Board wlU have no cooperation from m6" and even hinted that the Ministry might bring auit In (evntlnoed on pssa 4)
Mrs. Albert Blank, chairman of the Education Committee of the Womens' Division of the United Jewish Fund, and her co-chalr- mon, Mrs. Martin Godofsky, hove designated Wedneaday, Morch 4, from 10:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. aa "World Tour Day." The "tour" wlU be held at Agudaa Achlm Synogogue, atortlng with o brunch at $1 per peraorr. All Jewlah wo¬ men in the community are In¬ vited.
The program for the doy prom¬ ises to be full of Interesting altua- tlona aa a look ia taken o6 Jewiah people in many landa. Asalstlng Mra. Blank and Mrs. Godofsky as advisors are Mrs. Harry Schwartz and Mrs. William Wasserstrom.
THE PROGRAM co - chairmen are Mrs. Fred Fischer, Mrs. Nor¬ bert Kruger and Mrs. Mayer Rosenfeld. Mrs. Rosenfeld will conduct the "tour" to visit with Mrs. Joseph Summer, for Eastern Europe; Mra. Morton Bloomfield, ta Weatern Europe and behtad the Iron Curtain; Mra. Marvin Fox, in Cyprua and other DP areaa; Mra. Sanford Timen, Moa¬ lem countrlea and China.
One of the hlghllghta of the afternoon will be a picture en¬ titled "Foraake Me Not." The picture, filmed In larael and written by Irving R. Dlckman, Joint Diatribution Committee Pub¬ lic Relatlona Director, hoa as Its keynote   the  MALBEN.
MALBEN, which stonds for "Institutions for the (3are of Hon- dlcapped Immigrants," waa. In Its first montha, a partnership of the larael    government,    the    Jewlah
Agency ond the Joint Diatribu¬ tion (Itommlttee, but aoon, by mu¬ tual agreement of the partners, become on operotlon solely of Joint Distribution Committee which is a constituent ogency of the  United  Jewish  Appeol.
The organization came into ex¬ istence ta 1950 aa a direct reault of the need to care for thousands of oged, tuberculor, blind, sick, mentally ill and handicapped per¬ sona ta Isroel. Tho film embodies the brood ronge of octivities em¬ braced In the Jotat Distribution Commlttee'a MALBEN program for the aged. 111 and hondlcapped newcomers to Israel.
SERVING ON the Invitations committee with the co-chairmen Mrs. Norman Katz and Mrs. Jullua Marguliea are Mrs. Joaeph <3ohen, Mra. Gernerd Cohen ond Mrs. Bernard Yenkin. Visual Aids co-chairmen are Mrs. Louis Kra¬ koff and Mrs. Irving Lackrltz. Hospitality co-chairman is Mrs. Louis Robins, assisted by Mrs. Franz Westrelch, Mrs. Albert Beim, Mrs. J. A. Barnett and Mrs. Theodore Schlonsky. Also servtag on the general committee are Mra. Maurice Bleich and Mrs. Arthur Westerman.
Telephone and Reservation Committee, with Mrs. Meyer Hoff¬ man and Mrs. William Klach aa co-chairmen, conalats of Mrs. Jerome Brief, Mrs. Irving Cohen, Mra. Martin Dovidorf, Mrs. Leon Mork, Mrs. B., Lee Skllken ond Mrs. Sanford Topolosky.
Reservations may be made for the brunch by calling Mrs. Meyer Hoffman, (TL. 8-3658 or Mrs. Wil¬ liam  Kisch,  BE.  5-4773.
Israel this year, this figure could prove to be an "under-eatlmate of the  reality."
"THIS IS NO haphazard emi¬ gration," Rabbl Friedman de-, clared. "It la a departure of peo¬ ple yearning to live among their own. When the opportunity to leave comes to them. It Is as though they :had suddenly been given   a  ticket  to  heaven."
He reminded his bearers, how¬ ever, thot "we connot give these East European Jewa what they need unleaa we provide the neces¬ sary facllltis In Israei. 'What will happen In this land which la atruggltag with the problems of abaorptlon and consolidation of the earlier Immigrants, which is .still desperately short of housing, schools, facliltiea of every kind, If the people of laroel are called on to take In 100,000 or more new- comera-rWlthOut our all-out aid?"
Dr. Nahum Goldinahn, presi¬ dent of the Jewish Agency, who returned this week-end from con¬ sultations ta Europe and larael on the Immigration aituation, told the conference that Jewa through¬ out the world have welcomed the movement of Jewa from Eastern Europe.
"POLAND, under Gomulko, was the first to breach the seal on the galea that barred Jewish emigra¬ tion," Dr. Goidmann declared. "Now the doora are opening In other Eastern European countries loo. I Carmot help discerning a pattern in all this that raises great hopea and createa a great challenge. Thla immigration to Israel, of multitudes long sep¬ arated by force of circumstances from the mainstream of Jewiah life, may. yet become on event equal In Importance to the crea¬ tion of the State of larael Itself."
Dr. Goidmann obaerved that the opening of East Europetm doora obvloualy impoaea a heavy bur¬ den on the people of larael, but added: "It alao impoaea a tremen¬ dous obligation, on the five mil¬ lion Jews of America, on whose financial assistance the new ar¬ rivals rely so heavily. But it la also an unprecedented opportun¬ ity."
laraeli Foreign Mtalster Golda Meir told the conference that the people of larael, deapite the hard preaaurea the new Immigration would exert on them, were "de¬ termined to welcome all Jews who came to our shores." She voiced confidence that larael'a people, with the help of Jewa abroad, "particularly the Jewa of the United States," could auccessfully cope with the challenge poaed by the  new  Immigration.
Left to right: Mrs, Louis Krakoff, Mr^. Fred Fischer, Mrs. Martin Godofsky, co-ohalrman of Eklucation conunittee; Mrs. Norbert liruger, Mrs.
Mayer Rosenfeld, and Mrs. Albert Blank, (ftaUpr ¦nan of Education committee,
(Photo by Topy.)
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