Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1945-09-21

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Vol. 23, No. 38
Entered as Second-Clau Matter. PottofQce   Columbui,, Ohio.
COIiUMBtrs, OHIO, PBIDAY. SEIPTBMBBR 21, 1945
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Strictly Confidential
Tidbits   Pront   BveiTwhere By Pblneaa J. Biron
Minneapolis Woman New Exec. Director Of Council Women
NEW HEAD OP .nSlVISH COMMUNITY  COUNCIL
ANTI-^SEMrnSM A LA NBWBUBGH
f^Wer'e still reporting on the antl—Semitic front, so excuse us if we can't be cheerful.... J&ybe next week we'll resume our regular gossip-.. Newburgh did not have a quiet Rosh Has¬ honah this year The Talmud Torah was vandalized The dam¬ age amounts to several thous¬ ands-of dollars The police and the local press did not start moving until Rabbl Morris Bloom took matters in his ener¬ getic hands...Great credit is due to him...He alerted the Mayor and the Christian Ministers of the town-..He succeeded in arous¬ ing public opinlon...Rabbi Bloom believes that only the full glare of publicity will stop the inci¬ pient Slreichers of Amerlca...But the big press of New York State kept mum about the Newburgh incldent...There are still some Jewish leaders who believe that silence is the best remedy a- gainst anti-Semitism...
YOU 8H0UU) KNOW.	
feDon't miss the current March ot Time's movie-..It deals with achievements  in  Palestine  and presents Harold J. Laski, Chair¬ man of Britain's   Labor   Party Executive  Commlttee,..Laski  in his movie statment says this... "The New British Labor Gov¬ ernment must face and solve the Palestine problem,  one  of the most pressing ifesues in the post¬ war World"...Zionist leadership should be Interested in t h is ... Harvard University hag received the  entire collection  of  docu¬ ments referring to Arab politi¬ cal activities In the Near East. TBUB STOBY... feTwo Jewish young men were taking an evening stroll   One, H. a medical student the other S.,  active  In his  father's  busl ness   A gang of a dozen or more Gentile youths stopped them... The gang leader conered H. and asked   him   sneeringly   "What nationality  are  you?"...H.   ans¬ wered, "American of. course"... The gang let out a howl of de- rlslon..."'Wrong,   you   God   d— Jew   Your'e  a Jew bastard" Without further notice H. was subjected   to  a  brutal  beating knocking out his teeth and In¬ juring   his   head...He  managed somehow to escape   For weeks he had to undergo medical treat- ment...His   friend   S.   got   off easier...Just blows.,.The incident was reported to the police but no action was taken by the pro¬ tectors of the law...No this did not   happen   in    Hitler's   G e r- many...It happened in New York a few weeks ago,..But there are Jewish  organizations who still call that kind of thing "delin¬ quency"...
"NO EVIDENCB... ^The District Attorney's office , of Brooklyn held a hearing on the Brighton Beach anti-Semitic riot...For days it questioned witnesses, Jewish and non-Jew- lBh...The assistant District Attor¬ ney in charge of the examina¬ tion was Mr. Rosenberg, son of an orthodox rabbi...When the hearing was well over, Rosen¬ berg solemnly announced (not publicly as yet) that the exam¬ ination did not uncover any evidence of anti-Semitism or any organized direction...So what happened...At almost the very same minute that Rosenberg made his amaalng statement, four OentUe youngsters broke Into the Brighton Beach syna- (Contlnued on-Page 8)   '
. NEW YORK (WNS)—The ap¬ pointment of Mrs. Louis Sch¬ wartz of Minneapolis as the hew executive director of the Nat¬ ional Council of Jewish Women was announced by Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, nationa! president. Mrs. Schwartz will assume her new duties as executive director of the fifty-two year old organi¬ zation, composed of 65,000 mem¬ bers in 300 Senior and Junior Sections throughout the coun¬ try, on October 1st.
Mrs. Schwartz has long been active, both professionally and as a volunteer. In positions of c 0 m tn u n a 1 responsibility. A graduate of the Teacher's Insti¬ tute of the Jewish Theological Seminary and of the College ot Education of the University of Minnesota, Mrs. Schwartz has served in various teaching ca¬ pacities as well as In the field of social service.
During the past year she taught In the College of Educa¬ tion at the University of Min¬ nesota. She was prhicipal of the Sunday school of the Adath Yeshurun Synagogue of Minne¬ apolis and a teacher in the high school department of Temple Aaron in St. Paul. For several years she led the contemporary Jewish affairs tdass of the Min¬ neapolis Section of Council and conducted Hadassah study groups. From 1933 to 1938, she was a case worker and director of the Vocational Guidance de¬ partment of the Jewish Family Welfare Service of Minneapolis.
As a layman, Mrs. Schwartz is presently a national vice- president of the Women's Lea¬ gue of the United Synagogue and a former president of the midwest region of that organi¬ zation. She has worked with the Citizens' Conunlttee of Minneap¬ olis In Its efforts to develop a more progressive public school system in that community.
Mrs. Schwartz Is the mother of three children, one of whom is now in the armed services of the United States. Her hus¬ band is an attorney.
SAYS AMERia HAS OBUGATION TO SET UP JEWISH COMMONWEALTH IN PALESTINE
SBBVE-A-CHAPLAIN MEETING  WEDNESDAY
There Is to be a meeting of the Serve-a-ChapIain committee at the Schonthal Center on next Wednesday, Sept. 26th, at 8 P. M. As important matters are to be discussed, ail members are urged to attend.
Albert Schiff
Albert Schiff was elected Pres¬ ident of the .fewl.sh Community Council at the quarterly meet¬ ing held at the Schonthal Cen¬ ter on Thursday, Sept. 13th. Other elected officerK were:
Justin Sillman. Sig Weisskerz and Arthur Goldberg, Vice-pres¬ idents: Allan Tar.shi.sth, Secretary; and  Robert Weiier, Treasurer.
The complete list of members of the Executive Committee will he published in next week's issue of the Chronicle. ¦ Albert Schiff, the n^wly elect¬ ed President, has been recog¬ nized for a number of years as one of the leading pers6nalltles in the affairs of the community. He was the selected delegate to American Jewish Conference, was President of the Trl-State Zionist Organization, is Vice- President of the Bryden Road Temple and a member of the National Executive Committee of the Zionist Organization of America.
The Jewish Community Coun¬ cil is now entering its eth year of existence and Is recognized as the authoritative body for all matters which conce^rn the welfare of the Jewish communi¬ ty. At the present time, definite plans are being made for the completion of the survey for a new Jewish Community Center and also for definite organization of a fund-raising campaign for its establishment.
Meetings of the Jewish Com¬ munity Council are held four times a year, and every Jewish organization in the community has representative delegates, based upon metnbership enroll¬ ment.
WASHINGTON (WNS)—Es¬ tablishment without further delay of the Jewish Common¬ wealth In Palestine, as pledged in the Balfour declaration of the British Government, was asked by Senator Robert F. Wagner in a radio address over the Col¬ umbia  Broadcasting System.
The Senator stressed the In¬ juries upon the Jews of Europe out of all proportion to their numbers, the record of the Jew¬ ish people in the war, and in the upbuilding of the homeland In Palestine, and called for ful¬ fillment of the Balfour pledge in justice to the surviving vic¬ tims of Nazi oppression.
"More than a quarter of a century ago the British Govern¬ ment made the promise, to the Je\Vs and to the world, of 'the homeland in Palestine for which Jews have worked and sacrificed ever since," he continued. ''I say, and the world knows, that the British Government has been faithless to the promise." Anri against such continued "breach of faith," Senator Wag¬ ner urged adoption by Congress of "another resolution, stronger and more positive than the first declaring the sense of the Ameri¬ can people with respect to Pales¬ tine."
"I believe that we should make every feasible representa¬ tion to the British Government In that direction," he said. "Even if Congress has not already gone on record the sense and feeling of the American people could be exerted tn only one direction, the direction of doing what Is right.
"This obligation is not only a British obligation, It is also an American obligation."
"We in America have just as great a stake as Britain In what is done in Palestine. We have that stake because the Jews whose faces are turned toward Palestine   as   their   only   hope
are the brethren of the Jews of America.
"We have an obligation toward Palestine which must be met in full, and it must be met now."
Senator Wagner asserted that In view of (he disasters which the Jews had siiffered, in view of what this means to all the free people of the world, the free people of the world "owe themselves an oliltgation to seek the maximum of Justice for the Jews,"
"The Jewish people are not strong enough, and will never be strong enough, to bring re¬ tribution upon Britain if her faith toward Palestine is not restored,'' he went on. "But as surely as there is a -tide in world affairs Britain wlli suffer if her present policies toward Palestine continue, because these present policies do not commend themselves In the century of the common man."
In'his appeal "to the British people" the Senator said they were not only "a Just and hon¬ orable people but also a far-sight¬ ed and practical people."
Asserting that "at the coi"e of the whole question of Justice toward the Jews Is the land of Palestine," Mr. Wagner added; "I say this to the British people If Britain is to retain her high place in world affairs In the years ahead, it will not be through the traditional devices of navies, or diplomacy, or fin¬ ancial pre-eminence, or colonial possessions. The only possible way that Britain can retain her place of world Importance wlil be through shining as an examp¬ le ot freedom, of democracy and of   fair-dealing.
"And to the American people I say that America has a high responsibility to play Its part in Justicp throughout the world, for without Justice throughout the world there can be no per. manent Justice In America."
OVER 500 ATTEN0 B'NAI BRITH RECEPTION FOR RETURNED JEWISH SERVICEMEN
—Bny Victory Bonds—
TO SPONSOR BENEFIT DESSERT LUNCHEON NEXT  WEDNESDAY
MURDER OP JEWS AMONG COUNTS WmOH POUND QUISLING GUILTY
A special commlttAO of local women composed of Mesdames Jos. Shaplra, Moi^ rls Holzberg and Harry Frel¬ denberg, are sponsoring » dessert luncheon on Wednes¬ day, Sept. 20, at tbe East Broad St. Temple, 1 P. M. The admission to the lunch¬ eon will be a can ot to'od (no fruits) which ore to be ship¬ ped (or the needy Jews ol Vienna,
Following the luncheon those attending may partlol- pate In their favorite games. The women are asked to bring along their own games.
OSLO, NORWAY (JPS)-»-The twenty-four counts on which Vidkun Quisling was found guilty and sentenced to death by a court here, include his order for the deportation of 700 Jews to death eamps in Poland.
ALLIES TollBQUEST NEUTRALS TO TURN NAZIS OUT
BERLIN (JPS)—The Allied Control Council at its fifth meeting decided to ask all neu¬ tral countries harbdrtng "obnox¬ ious" Germans to return them to Germany. The list of those wanted by the Council is being compiled from documents found on German government officials at the time of surrender, Ger¬ man agents and all others whose presence aboard "constitutes a danger In view of a possible future generai, German war effort."
Among returned sorrleemen honored Tuesday night by B'nai B'rith (Left to Bight) Martin Gitlin, Stanley May- brack, Harold Krantz and Mitchell Cohen.
More than 500 attended the B'nai B'rith sponsored commun¬ ity-wide reception for returned servicemen last Tuesday at the Broad St. Temple.
Almost 100 of the young Col¬ umbus Jewish veterans, out of the total of 040 Jewish service¬ men from this city, wer6 per¬ sonally congratulated and wel¬ comed home.
Mtemorial services for those killed in action were conducted by Rabbis Samuel Oup, Mordecai Hirschsprung, Hyman Cl)anover and Jacob L. Baker. The colors
were presented by Capitol Post No. 122, Jewish War Veterans color guard.
During the meeting a report was made by a special com¬ mittee selected to investigate participation In a proposed Co¬ lumbus Jewish Community Center building. The report out¬ lined many uses that Zion Lodge, No. 62, B'nai B'rith would continually need if the facilities were made available.
It was reported approved by the executive committee ot the (Continued on Page Five)