Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1959-03-27

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COLUMBUS EDITION
VoL 37, No. 13
FRIDAY, MARCH 27,  1959
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0*vot«d to American and  Jawlih   Idaali
UJF Opens 1959 Campaign With Record $501,320
Mr. Yenldn
Tuesday evening at the Wind¬ ing Hollow (Country (Club the United Jewish Fund opened Ita 1969 campaign with an outpour¬ ing of generosity heretofore un¬ matched for an opening dinner affair.
This Is the largest amount ever to be achieved In opening a cam¬ paign of the United Jewish Fund ot  (Columbus.
Abe I. Yenkin, general cam¬ paign chairman, and Herman Katz, advance gift chairmon, an¬ nounced o totol of $501,320.
The Individual responses t o the needs oa explolned by the locol leadership and the two gueat apeakera, Albert Levin and Henry Levy, wer^ In many Instances dramatic and ta general full rec¬ ognition' that (Columbua waa fully aware of Ita responsibility for the adequote support of Its locol
.services and its fair ahare of aup¬ port for the nationol and overaeaa ccauaea.
MR. LEVIN, a national United Jewiah Appeal choirmon, brought to the attention of the group the aerloua plight of the overaeaa agenciea which thia year face what may beccome the greateat migration movement ainoe thfe doys of the diapiaced peraon (DP) compa. Swelled by the increasing influx of newcomers for Eoatern Europe the tide of immlgrotlon may reach and poaaibly exceed the 100,000 mark.
The United Jewiah Appeol, Mr. Levin pointed out, muat spend a minimum of $1600 for tranaporta¬ tion and initial absorption of every newcomer during hla first year in larael.
SINCE 1948 the United Jewlah Appeal   (UJA)   haa   helped   more
PEOPLE OF ISRAEL FACE ENORMOUS PROBLEMS
BY   ABE   I.   YENKIN
UJF Campaign Chainnan
In 1959, the people of larael are faced with o new problem of enor- moua dimenalona before they will be able to clear up a great back¬ log of unmet needs In absorbing nearly o million earlier imml- gronts. The emergency created by the current heavy exodua of Jews from Eoatern Europe aa "a de¬ velopment wiil tax the young de¬ mocracy to the utmoat," but one which ia, at the aame time, "o great human opportunity." ¦—'Wiiere--but in Israei would an emergency   of   auch    proportions
be   regarded   aa   an   opportunity? , At  least   100,000 persona  are   ex- j pected to arrive ta  larael  durtag ! 1969.   The    largeat   Jewiah    com- | munity in Eaatern Europe outalde the  Soviet  Union   ia  that  of  Ru¬ mania,   numbering   250,000   Jews. Poland  haa about  40,000  remain¬ ing Jews.
We are conducting a vigorous drive in behalf of the UJA's twin campaign for its regular budget¬ ary needs and a $100 million UJA Speciol Fund to be used to help Jews comtag out of Eastern Eu¬ ropean  countries and  Into  Israel.
i appeal for a speedy  response
to the 1959 drive to help them clear up their backlog of unmet immigrant absorption needa. The moat acute problem in this con¬ nection ia the need to provide modest, but decent houaing (or immigranta of several years' standing, atill living in mokeahlft huts, and beyond that, aid for immigront agricultural settle¬ ments, schools. Job-training pro¬ jecta, medical services, centera for aged immigranta and care for the orphaned.
The vital; needa of Jewiah men, women  and   ehildren   in  26  coun- fTiirii  to  I'age 4, Cnl. H>
WOMEN'S DIVISION CO-CHAIRMEN LAUD WORKERS' EFFORTS
Mrs. Abramson
"I have the greateat reaped and awe for the remarkabe way In which the women of Columbus have accepted reaponaibility in the United Jewish Fund Women's Diviaion. It ia a privilege to be choirman when we have people who work like thla." Thia atate¬ ment from Mra. B. W. Abramson, chairman of the Women's Divi¬ aion of the United Jewish l-'imd, waa made after her ann<iuiH;e- ment of the progress of the cam¬ paign.
Both Mrs. Abramson and Mra. Aaron Zacka, co-chairman, hove atated that it would be Impoaaible to Hat the names of those who have participated in this cam¬ paign, aa it would run into the hundreda and hundreda, but they are extending through thia col¬ umn  their great  admiration   and
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Mrs. 7Au:hs
The steertag committee of the Young Matrons Division of the United Jewish Fund ineludea: seated foreground, left to right, Mesdames B. Yenkin, M. Robbins, O. SohUfman, R. Aaronson; seated on couch, left to right. Mesdames B. Neu¬ stadt,  R.  Kaynes, D. Levy,  L,  Wasserstrom,  J.
than 130,000 newcomers settle in Israel'a young farmtag communi¬ tlea. But due to the shortage of funds these new aettlera are, as yet, only port-time formers.
There are stUI many immigrants ta larael living In tent and tin hut communitlea virtually ahanty towna. This la an economic drain. Today, maaa emigration threatena to ralae to a new high the number of peraona living in auch de- preaaed  areoa.
HE ANSWERED the queatlon of why each year such large suma are being aought for over¬ seas relief. In the first place, he explained, the needs of the Special Funds for the past four years has been real and valid. American communities and other sources hove not been oble to provide the funds to toke core of or resolve these problems.
To a large extent the problems hove been carried forth ond odded to additional criaea ond needa, he noted. There is iv> queatlon upon the port of oil re¬ liable observers and Impartlol Study Missions thot these heeds ejclat and they require urgent ottention, he aold. He recounted the Poliah criaea, the Hungarian crlais, the problems aaaociated with the Suez crlais and now the Rumanian  crisis.
All these crises and problems are on top of the normal relief, rescue and rehabilitation pro¬ grama of the Jewlah Agency and the Joint Diatribution Committee. He urged every responsible Jew and Jewish communal leader to put forth their energies to help make a dent tato the needs of their fellow Jews.
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Mr. Katz
WaUlch, J. Friedman, H. Schoenbaum, D. Roth; standing rear, left to right, Mesdames G. O'Koon, A. WoAserstrom, S. Gordon, N. Arndt, D. Mudlson, M. Adler, J. Schottenstein und R Goldberg. Not pictured, Mesdames B. Friedman, J. Garel and G. Ellman. (Photo by Topy.)
Mr.  Levy
'FEDERATED' GIVING MAKES YOU VIP
BY HERBERT S. LEVY President, UJT, Columtius
Each year we in Columbus have the opportunity to demonstrate our kinahip with all Jewa every¬ where through the United Jewiah Fund. By participating in the forthcoming 1959 campaign, we bring the atory and meaaage of the many local, regional, national, overseas and Israel causes for which we raise large sums of money.
By our generoua contributions we make it possible to continue the vital programs and aervices .so that Jewa in America and overaeaa may have the opportun¬ ity for a better way of life. Ours is a noble taak—a binding force for our people everywhere, and in helping our people we find we help ouraelvea.
The United Jewiah Fund is the Columbua Jewiah community'a in¬ atrument of "federated" philan¬ thropic giving. Thia mokea it poaalble for one maximum gift to go so for in behalf of ao many for a world of aervicea. You ore, indeed, a "nP (very important per.son) for a VIP (very impor¬ tant   project).
Be proud of youraelf in your work and your giving.
YOUNG MATRON CO-CHAIRMAN GIVES ANSWERS TO SEPARATE FUND DRIVES
By Mrs. Howard Schoenbaum Co-Chatnnan, Young Matrons
As one of the co-chairmen of the Young Matrona diviaion of the United Jewiah Fund of Co¬ lumbus, 1 would like to expreaa our thanka to the many women of the community who attended an area party and learned our re¬ aponaibility in the United Jewiah Fund.
The Young Motrons division, we feel, la ^n educational diviaion of the Fund to teach ua to assume our individual place in giving. One of the many questions asked at our party areaa ia the queatlon, "If my husband givea, why ahould I?" The answer to thla ia almple. Although our huabonda give, we Americon women hove been mak¬ ing plua contrlbutlona out of our own reaourcea which have added more than $181 milUon to com¬ munity campaigna during the paat 13 yeara.
The Uvea aaved, the immigrants settled, the aick healed, and the young and old nurtured with theae plua dollara are priceleaa human beinga whoae plua contribution to the world we have made possible.
Another question, "Why ahould
Mrs.   Schoenliaum
I make a aeparate gift when I feel that my husband gives for both of ua" con also be anawered by aaying that when you make your own gift in addition to your huaband'a gift, you ahow him and your children that this work ia (Turn to  Page l.  Col.  1)
The committee phuining the $60 minimum affair for the Women's Division of the United Jeudsh Fund includes, left to right, Mesdames Samuel Luper, Jerome Fisher, Plilllp Laliin, Sidney Wasserstrom, Paul Calllff, Ben Mandelkorn and Richard Grundstein. Not shown are Mesdames Eli Levison, Bernard Menster, Harry Kaplan, Harold Edelsteta and Ira Monroe.
(Photo by Topy.)
UNITED JEWISH ACTIVITIES FUND CALENDAR
DATE
Sunday, March 29 Monday,  March  30 Tuesday, March 31 Tuesday, March 31 Wedneaday, AprU 1 Wednesday, April 1 Wednesday, April 1 Wednesday, April 1 Thuraday, April 2 Sunday, April 6 Monday, April 6 Tuesday, April  7 Thursday, April 8
DIVLSION TIME
Juniors         2 p.m.
Builders & Real Eatate  ... 8 p.m.
Womena     Noon
MercantUe         6 p.m.
Phyalclana     8 p.m.
O.S.U  4 p.m.
Accountants & Attorneya  . 4 p.m.
Young' Matrona     8:30 p.m.
Scrap & Steel     8 p.m.
Juniors   2 p.m.
Food     8 p.m.
Women'a    7:30 p.m.
Community Workers   8 p.m.
PLACE SPEAKER
J.  Schottenatein
Excelsior   u Lanla
Winding Hollow     L. Lanla
Deaert Inn    L, Lanla
Dr. Myron Weltz Hlllel
Maramor  l. Lanla
Ilonkaa l. Lanla
Excelalor  L. Lanla
Bexley Art Theatre .. Mra. Aaron Zacics Excelsior
Jewish (Center  Jehuda Priher
M.  Harris