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The Canadian English-Jewish Weekly
MONTREAL, APRIL 27, 1951
No. 30
^f^Qaathropic agencies in Israel mw! Irroting more than half of funds to the expansion of Itqral production as a means ating the nation's food in the face of continued scale immigration, said Ha-'Glasser, director of the Inati--. on Overseas Studies of the sfl of Jewish Federations and Funds in a report to the executive committee, aiter -week first-hand study of lie conditions in. Israel and >pe. Mr. Glasser informed the ittee that more than $5,000,-4a being spent each month by .Jewish Agency for Palestine the Jewish National Fund on Ltico, agricultural equipment, and land purchase to the Israeli farmer more pro-ive, and to make the country ^-sufficient as soon as possible, includes the Huleh swamp ige project, Israel's biggest Itural effort.
for these purposes, he come mainly from two prin-sources � the United Jewish and the United States -Import Bank Loan. The is the major beneficiary of the welfare fund campaigns now conducted by Jewish commun-tbroughout the U.S. Major iems p the settlements, Mr. said, are lack of water he-irrigation has not kept pace settlement; and the lack of experience and knowledge ew immigrants.
the solution of the water with other favorable now in the making," agricultural
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Says No Theocratic Rule Exists In Israel
Moshe Shapiro, Israeli Minister of Interior, Health and Immigration, eaid in New York that all religious parties were .strongly opposed to any theocratic tendencies in his country. The Israeli official is the leader of the religious bloc in the Israeli Parliament as well as head of the Hapoel Hamiz-rachi, the religious-labor party. He is the first of several Israeli cabinet ministers who are scheduled to arrive in the near future to participate in the United Jewish Appeal campaign and the forthcoming flotation of the Israeli bond issue for $500,000,000.
' Touching on the religious question, Mr. Shapiro asserted that parents had the right to decide whether their children should get a religious or non-religious education. He said that certain parties in Israel insisted on children being enrolled in non-religious schools.
In predicting a large vote for the religious parties at the next general elections in Israel sometime this summer, Mr. Shapiro said that since the last elections, held two and one-half years ago, the country has received about 300,000 newcomers. Of this latter figure, he said, about 60 per cent are religious Jews.
Turning to the subject of immigration, the Israeli official pointed out that his country at present was receiving 20,000 immigrants every month and that this influx has presented economic problems. He appealed for United States Government grants-in-aid, as well as widespread support of the United Jewish Appeal campaign and the Israeli bond issue which will be opened on May 1, under the tfeAouriean Financial
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lramit camps for new arrivals been transformed into work ftges,"he reported, "Immigrants finding jobs for themselves Httle reliance en public works other aids. Moreover, many of them have established a number of �nail workshops. Thus, Jewish Agency's expenditures for relief functions have been cut to 'A then one-third of what they were
nine months ago." This enables the Jewish Agencv to concentrate its funds on productive enterprises. Israel's foreign exchange position is still critical. The country has maintained itself during the past nine months only through $50,000,-000 in loans negotiated with European countries, large gifts of U. S. surplus commodities and increased austerity.
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Passover Is National Holiday In Israel
Leavened foods, such as bread, noodles, macaroni and beer, were cleared from grocery shelves when Israel began the observance of the Jewish feast of the Passover. For the duration of the seven-day festival -foods prohibited during Passover by Mosaic law were obtainable only in Arab neighborhoods and shops catering1 to foreign diplomats and visitors.
Passover, which commemorates the Exodus and has been a religious festival since the times of Moses, the Law Giver, in modern Israel is celebrated to a great extent as a national holiday of liberation.
The devout observed the traditional feast, eating unleavened bread and 'bitter herbs to commemorate the sufferings of Jews in Egypt and reciting the 3,000-year-old Passover �story. But the manner of the observance varied, and the Marxist communal settlements edited and modernized the traditional Passover liturgy.
Preparations for the festival were an ordeal for housewives. They spent hours in queues for meager rations of meat, fish, eggs, potatoes, unleavened bread and vegetables. Thousands of families there received parcels of food from relatives and friends in the United States, and their problems were eased greatly.
Religious women had the task of scouring homes to remove crumbs of the prohibited leavened foods, and replace ordinary dishes and kitohenware with Passover utensils.
Thousands of tourists were in >r .the festival and Feru-
en to eiriet residents from hotels to provide � accommodations for tourists. However, many could not find hotel rooms and were accommodated in private homes.
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Aided Three Generations Of Crippled
Mrs. Rose Baran, of 2345 Broadway, founder of the New York Philanthropic League of the United Order of True Sisters, which aids crippled children, died in French Hospital at the age of 92. Mrs. Baran, widow of Dr. Julius Baran, physician, who died in 1927, was born in Chicago, III.
In 1911 a school teacher, who was a patient of Dr. Baran-, told Mrs. Baran that 102 physically handicapped school children had arrived at P. S. 27, on East Forty-second Street, with only stale rolls for lunch. Mrs. Baran, aided by the United Order of True Sisters, Inc., began preparing hot lunches for the children and did so until the Board of Education took over the work two years later. The League, sponsored by the New York City lodges of the order, grew out of this task.
During fourteen years as League president, Mrs. Baran devoted herself to fund-raising for helping crippled children by staging concerts and recitals. She remained active m the work of the League until her last illness. She had ascribed her longevity to her interest in "trying to help others." She once estimated that she helped three generations of handicapped children. "There Just isn't time to think about one's age," she said.
The League's work progressed from its headquarters at 160 West Eighty-fifth Street, It supported two therapeatically equipped school-rooms at P. S. 90 and James Monroe High School. The League sends many crippled children to iU summer camp at Spring Valley, ^i. Y.
Mrs. Baran would recite for the children her own verse *od other poem*. During the second World War she served with a Red Croas entertainment unit, reciting for soldiers in Miami, Florida. Last y�ar �he received a citation from the Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations for her help to crippled children.
Surviving are a son, Harold P. Baran; two daughters, Mr a. Bertha Ladenborger and Mrs. George Wise, and a brother, Jules Goldstein, of Provider**, R. I.
A.J.C. SEEKS ABOLITION
OF U.S. QUOTA
SYSTEM
The American Jewish Congress is demanding the abolition of the 1924 national origins quota system which allocated immigration visas according to place of birth. The organisation also calls for the immediate enactment of a new immigration law which would permit the distribution of visas on a "first come, first served" basis, without differentiation as to race or place of birth.
Testifying before a joint committee on- immigration of the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives in Washington, Will Maslow, on behalf of the American Jewish Congress, denounced the present immigration system as basically racialist. The national origins formula, Mr. Maslow said, "was no legislative accident, but was deliberately designed to limit the number of immigrants from South and East Europe and is a compound of bigotry and ignorance".
Urging the rejection of general immigration Bills introduced by Senator McCarran, of Nevada, and Congressman Walter, of Pennsylvania, because they continue to use the national origin* formula, the America** Jewish Congress representative asserted that adoption of these Bills "would reveal that we have learned nothing in one quarter of a century, that our prejudices have remained untarnished by the light of knowledge".
Was Active At 100; Gave Firm To Workers
the MSfcel BftUBier* Company, died in New York at the age of 100 in *is home at 320 West End Avenue: Born November 22, 1850, in Carlsbad, Austria, Mr. Levy came to America in his early youth. He founded his company and remained active as its president until he retired on his eightieth birthday in 1930 and turned the business over to his employees, who operate it at 358 Fifth Avenue.
Mr. Levy, in an interview on his last birthday, told reporters that "you have your ups and downs, but if you don't worry about them you have a happy life." He recalled that he had tried many businesses, some doing well and others failing. At the age of 16, Mr. Levy came to the United States without money and began his career driving a horse and wagon.
Until his death he continued to read without glasses, play pinochle with his friends and fish for bass during the summer season near his country home at Stamford, N. Y. When he was 73 he flew from Paris1 to London, and at 87 he flew from St. Petersburg, Florida, to the Keys to engage in his avocation of fishing. At 95, while fishing in a
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U.J. Bnai Brith Women Raised MilHcn Last Year
The Bcai Brith Women's Supreme Council amrual meeting, in Washington, D. C., heard the announcement that $1,000,000 had been raised in the last year by the organization's 600 chapters for philanthropic, educational religious and relief activities. Mrs. Hyman C. Weisraaft, of St Louis, Council president, addressing a dinner in the Shoreham Hotel, said 600 chapters and an "all time high membership" had brought about the success of various fund-raising campaigns conducted by the women's branch of the 107-year-old Jewish service organisations.
Included in the total amount raised, Mrs. Weisman added, was the greater part of a $100,000 quota assumed by the women's* groups to construct Bnai Brith children's home in Israel. The home is to replace a shelter severely damaged by bombing during th� Israel-Arab fighting. Another $400,000 was raised for American youth services, including the Bnai Brith Youth Organisation, a national young people's social and cultural group.
Tos women also raised funds for direct aid to Israel and mad* domestic philanthropic grants to the American Red Cross, cancer
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Congress House Is Dedicated To Father By Daughter
Ceremonies marked by a me81 sage from President Truman paying tribute to the late Stephen S. Wise were held to dedicate the new Stephen S. Wise Congress House as headquarters of the American and World Jewish Congresses, 15 East Eighty-fourth Street, New York.
More than 2,000 persons, including Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri, attended the dedication ceremonies at the Park Avenue Synagogue, 50 East Eighty-seventh Street, and, later, at the new headquarters. Dedication of the house took place just four days before the second anniversary of Dr. Wise's death.
The religious and community leader was one of the founders of the Zionist Organization of America, the American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress. He was president of the latter organizations at the time of his* death.
President Truman said in his message that the new house will serve as an "enduring memorial to one of the great Americans of our generation." Few persons, the President said, have symbolized the highest ideals of America more fully tham Dr. Wise. "It is my earnest prayer that the Stephen Wise Congress House will prove worthy of the distinguished and honored name it bears."
Mayor Impellitteri, who spoke at the ceremony at the Park Avenue Synagogue, said that Dr. Wise's record of public service has been equaled by few Americans. The nation, he said, has more need than ever of "the ideals and examples of Stephen Wise."
Justice Justine Wise Polier, of Domestic Relations Court, daughter of Dr. Wise, dedicated the six-. storey buitotoeto ter father and
grasses which wiU occupy7* a- _ ing memorial" to Dr. Wise's devotion to the Jewish and American ideal of democracy, says the New York Herald Tribune.
Farmer Gives Wheat To Consulate Of India
Nathan George Horwitt, fifty-three, a dairy farmer from Lenox, Mass., drove a pick-up truck to the Indian Consulate, 3 East Sixty-fourth Street, New York, and unloaded twelve 100-pound sacks of wheat into the consulate lobby. Mr. Horwitt said that he hoped this gesture might start a popular movement among farmers to collect grain for shipment to India or, more important, help to induce passage of the resolution before Congress to send 2,000,000 tons of wheat to the famine -stricken provinces there, says the New York Herald Tribune.
R. R. Sakesena, Consul General of India, said the gesture was the first of its kind toward relieving his country's famine, and added, as far as future donations were concerned, "we shall welcome any assistance we can get." The sacks will be forwarded to India, he said, by the first ship of the Scindia Line to leave port.
Mr. Horwitt, who lives on Dean Hill Road in Lenox, said he had bought six sacks of wheat from Donald R. Tench, owner of the Berkshire Feed and Farmera Supply Company, in Pittsfield, Mass., and that Mr. Tench had decided to give an equal amount.
son, president emeritus of the New School for Social Research; Dr. Chawiing Tobias, director of the Phelps-Stokes Fund; Dr. Israel Goldstein, chairman of the Western Hemisphere Executive of the W. J. C., and Dr. Arieh Tarto-kower, chairman of the Israel Executive of W. J. C.
Rabbi Irving Miller, president of the American Jewish Congress, presided at the ceremonies. Dr. Joachim Prin*V rabbi of Temple
Other speakers were the Marchioness of Reading, president of the British section of the World Jewish Congress; Dr. Alvin John-
and � tice^residevt of the American Jewish Congress, gave the invocation. Rabbi Simon Noveck, of the Park Avenue Synagogue, gave the benediction.
The house, which will serve 'as a permanent headquarters of the two organizations, was the former residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Reid.
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