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The remnant of Greek Jewry that survived the recent war in Europe is iiow finding expression for many aspects of its conmiunal life through the facilities afforded by the Athens Home for unattached Jewish women, which has been maintained for the past two years by the National Council of Jewish Women.
The only institution of its kind in Greece, the Athens Home was established for the purpose of providing food, shelter and clothing, as well as personal and vocational guidance, for the young Jewish women who were left at war's end without family, home, or means of earning a livelihood.
The story of the development of the institution from a refuge for young Jewish women to a cultural centre for the Jewish community in Greece was related this week by the home's director. Miss Celia Bloom, upon her arrival in New York on a six-week home leave.
Miss Bloom, who formerly was Adult Education Director of the Young Men's and Women's Association of Rochester, N. Y., cited specific examples to illustrate how successfully the home has become an integral part of Jewish communal life in Greece.
For the High Holy Days, the local Jewry uses the home as a synagogue. Miss Bloom disclosed; and on major festivals, open house is held for the entire Jewish community. The Keren Keyemeth (the Jewish National Fund) of Athens uses the home's facilities for its official meetings and special celebrations, and the Maccabiad. Youth Club centers its recreational activities in the home.
The Jewish Children's Camp of Gfreece, Miss Bloom said, holds its reunions and councillors'-meetings in the home; and during the winter the camp uses the home as a neighborhood club center, with the residents of the home serving as club leaders. During the summer, the residents act as assistants to the councillors.
For its residents, the home has been equally successful; and Miss Bloom reported that, since its establishment, the home has provided for more than 50 homeless young women who were drawn from all parts of Greece, Many of them have already become self-sustaining members of the community.
All of the girls have been restored in mind and body through the family-like atmosphere and the special services afforded. All have been taught vocations—dressmaking, typing, weaving, beauty culture—and have been assisted in obtaining employment in the community.
Miss Bloom is particularly proud of the fact that, through the home, nine of the young women met their present husbands. Because of the home, too^ five women are now in the United States and three are in Canada —on scholarships or with distant members of their families who were located through efforts initiated by the home.
Aside from its other services, the home also offers its residents a full educational and cultural
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program. Regularly scheduled | lectures—on such subjects as social work, health, and Jewish life in other communities—are given by many of the guests who attend the home's Friday Night Services.
Such guests have included faculty members of the Orlando Pierce College (American Girls' College) in Athens, members of the American Consulate and the American Mission to Greece, officials of the various branches of the Greek Government, and representatives of the American Jewish Committee and CRT.
While the Board of Directors of the home comprises prominent men and women of the Jewish community, Athenian* of other faiths have also taken an iiitere^t in the activities of the home; and recently a number of Christian women have joined a sewing group that meets in the home. The articles they are making will be sold to gain additional funds for the home.
Miss Bloom will bring a firsthand report on the progress of the Athens Home to a number of the National Council of Jev/-ish Women's 200 Senior Sections which are located in the North Atlantic and Middle West areas. The organization also maintains a similar home for unattached Jewish women in Paris, France.
Jewish Religion Flourishes In Berlin, Reports Chief Rabbi Upon Return
Three years after V-E Day and the downfall of Hitler, religious life flourishes among the 8,000 Jewish residents of Berlin, declared Dr. Michael L. Munk, who for the last ten months served as Chief Rabbi of the German capital, upon his arrival in New York last week.
"Nothing more markedly points up Hitler's failure than the Jewish people's worship of God in the former heart of Nazism," Dr. Munk remarked. The German-born, 48-year-old
religious leader and scholar, who escaped from the Nazis in 1938 and later became an American citizen, returned temporarily to Berlin last May at the request of the Jewish community and through arrangements made by the Joint Distribution Committee. Dr. Munk's primary responsibility was the sponsoring of religious life among the Jews who had suffered long years of persecution and war.
Six synagogues, he reported, have been re-established in the city. One of them, in the British sector of Berlin, was used by Hitler as the "last" deportation center for Jews. "It was a thrilling experience to address 200 delegates of 48 Jewish communities in that very synagogue," Dr. Munk recalled.
He said the Jewish commxi-nity has received the co-operation of the city's Allied Com-mandatura in the procurement of a Jewish slaughter-house and priority of materials and supplies essential for Jewish religious observances. Dr. Munk also reported that "without the aid of J.D.C., the Jews in Berlin could not have made real pro-
gress towards recovery." J.D.C. funds are derived from the $250,000,000 United Jewish Appeal campaign.
Berlin's Jewish youth, Dr. Munk observed, scrupulously observe Jewish practices. "Their robust pride, as Jews, rings out as the spiritual triumph of all free peoples over Hitler barbarism."
Dr. Munk's position in Berlin continued a family tradition. His father, Rabbi Ezra Munk, served as Chief Rabbi of the orthodox Jewish community, Adas Yisrool, in Berlin until 1933. He himself was a rabbi in Berlin, serving as assistant to hi? father. Dr. Munk's granduncle. Rabbi Esriel Hildoshoimor, was founder of Berlin's most famous rabbinical seminary, and a world-renowned member of the rabbinate.
From 1928 until his enforced departure and emigration to U. S., Dr. Munk fought before the German state parliaments to maintain religious freedom, especially the right of German Je'Wry to continue shohitah (kosher slaughter) in accordance with established Jewish religious law.
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