Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1944 Page: 3 of 6
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November 9, 1944
THE JEWISH HERALD-VOICE
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HOUSTON
U.S.O.-J.W.B.
Activities
Houston’s B’nai B’rith Lodges
and its auxiliary, in cooperation
with USO-JWB, entertained near-
ly 225 servicewomen, servicemen,
and other visitors, at a Supper
Dance and Party, Saturday night,
October 28th, at the Abe M. Levy
Memorial Hall of Congregation
Beth Israel. Music was furnished
by Bud Cheek’s Ellington Field
Orchestra.
Mrs. Stanley Blum of the La-
dies Auxiliary, and Saul Horo-
witz, Chairman of the B*nai
B’rith Council of Houston, were
in charge of the Social. Assisting
at the buffet supper table were
Mesdames Sam Cohen; Sol Davis;
Louis Getz; Dave Kreisler; Al-
fred Mitz; Hyman Reader and L
Robinson.
feature of the evening was
a special registration desk, pre-
sided over by Mesdames Mark
Arenstein, Sam S. Daum and
Hyman Hart, President of the
Auxiliary, who listed the names
of servicemen, to whose nearest
relatives and friends, letters are
to be written stating they were
guests of Bnai B’rith and USO-
JWB.
Maurice KrInsky, USO-JWB
Director, introduced the follow-
ing to members of the armed
forces: George Perl, President,
Herzl Lodge; Dave Rose, Presi-
dent, Houston Lodge; Mrs. Hy-
man Hart, President, Ladies Aux-
iliary, and Mrs. Blum, Chairman
for the evening’s serving com-
mittee.
Registering Southern Belles,
Junior Hostess organization, were
Mesdames Ben Levin, Seymour
Lieberman, Leo Mazow and Louis
J. Spivak.
A number of specially invited
members of the community en-
joyed the affair as guests of
B’nai B’rith.
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The Beth Jacob Sisterhood,
represented by Mesdames Mau-
rice Kaplan, Morris Nelkin and
Sol Turboff, acted as Senior
Hostess group in charge of pro-
viding refreshments to visiting
servicemen and Southern Belles,
on Sunday afternoon, October
29th, at the Jewish Community
Center. Bingo, dancing and fun
were enjoyed by all present
Winnners in the Bingo games,
presided over by Misses Dorothy
Piller and Delphine Weinberg,
included Sergeant and Mrs. Jake
Ratner, San Antonio, Texas, of
Ellington Field; Judah Stone, Sea-
man 1/c, Boston, Mass., and Ker-
mit Easton, Seaman 2/c, Bronx,
New York, both of the Univer-
sity of Houston Naval Training
School; Private Dave Ferrin,
New York City, N. Y., of Elling-
ton Field, plus Misses Louise
Spivak and Delphine Weinberg,
members of the Southern Belles.
Fatured prizes were the free
long distance telephone call home
won by Private Ferrin, whose
fiancee was present and die free
dinner for a serviceman and his
hostess guest, offered b y
Schwartz berg’s Kosher Delicates-
sen and Restaurant which was
won by Seaman 1/c Stone.
In keeping with its local policy
to entertain servicemen and wo-
men informally, USO-JWB spon-
HADASSAH PRESENTS
FIRST OF BOOK REVIEWS .
BETH JACOB CONG.
JUDGE GERMANY BY
IMAIDANEK, SAYS
SATURDAY EVENING P08T
New York (JPS) — Nazi
death factories such as the one
at Maidanek, Poland, described
by Edgar Snow in a Saturday
Evening Post article, are the
reason “why there must be no
soft peace” with Germany, the
editors of the Saturday Eve-
ning Post declare.
“It behooves us to examine
and weigh the evidence of
what kind of nation Germany
is,” the editorial says, “history
has had its pages of horror but
history itself must have stood
aghast at Lublin ... it (Snow’s
article) is a report to convince
men of good will that there
are times when sanely admin-
istered punishment, of a na-
tion as of a man, is the only
effective quarantine to save a
world in danger from a nation
befouling itself and all that it
can reach.”
J.N.W.A. FELICITATES
DR. WEIZMANN
New York (JPS)—Birthday
greetings to Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann, president of the World
Zionist Organization, on the oc-
casion of his seventieth birth-
day, were cabled by the Jew-
ish National Workers’ Alliance
here.
sored another of its Saturday ev-
ening dances and parties on No-
vember 4th at the Abe M. Levy
Memorial Hall from 8:15 to
11:15 p. m.
Guests danced to the music of
Jack Wolfe’s Orchestra. A Paul
Jones formation and grand march
were special features, carried out
by CeCe Tartakov, Membership
Chairman.
Southern Belles who served as
hostesses included Marjorie Aron,
Emilie Bendix, Belle Blum, Fan
Bornstein, Freeda Rosenfeld, Dor-
othy Shturner, Louise and Ruth
Spivak and Ada Zeitz. Mrs. Louis
Spivak and Mrs. Sydney Frank
registered Junior Hostesses.
The first of a series of Book
Review Forums under the aus-
pices of Houston Chapter of Ha-
dassah will be held on November
15th at 8:15 p. m., according to
Mrs. Nathan Colish, Forum pro-
gram chairman. Mr. Harry Free-
man, well known. lawyer, will
analyze "The Super-Powers; Un-
ited States, Great Britain, and
Soviet Russia—Their Responsibil-
ity for Peace,” by Dr. Wm. T. R.
Fox, Research Associate of the
Yale Institute of International
Studies. This book has recently
been published and already has
been received with tremendous
acclaim.
Mrs. Harry L. Shapiro, Hadas-
sah’s Hospitality Chairman, has
arranged for this gathering at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron
L. Finger, 3346 Parkwood.
A similar review of an out-
outstanding book by leaders of
thought in the various fields
each month, through April, will
be held under Hadassah auspices.
Further details of future Forums
will be announced in due time.
Mrs. Nettie Weems, president
of Houston Chapter of Hadassah,
extends an invitation to all per-
sons interested in a significant
cultural session of this sort, to
attend, and participate in the
open forum following the pre-
sentation of the review of the
book. There is no admission
charge. Come and bring your in-
terested friends and neighbors.
The pupils of the Beth Jacob
Talmud Torah and Sunday Re-
ligious School recently elected
the following student officers:
Stun Robinson, president; Albert
Shaffer, vice-president; Claire
Ann Kapner, secretary; Roselle
Jacobson, treasurer; and Isadore
Shapiro, editor of the “Beth Ja-
cob Speaks.” Student meetings
are held regularly, supervised by
the educational director, Cantor
P. Gorodetzer.
The school has undertaken two
projects which will benefit the
Jewish War Veterans who are
recuperating at McCloakey Gen-
eral Hospital. One is to supply
the veterans with comic books.
On a recent visit to the Hospital
by Miss Helene d’Acosta, daugh-
ter of Mrs. A. d’Acosta, presi-
dent of Beth Jacob Sisterhood,
the men requested comic books.
During the month of October, the
pupils donated approximately 200
books.
The second project the pupils
are undertaking is the writing of
Chanukah letters and greeting
cards to be sent to the Jewish
men at the Hospital. 9
• • •
The Beth Jacob Congregation
has officially affiliated itself
with the Union of Orthodox Jew-
ish Congregations of America,
whose headquarters are in New
York City. This organization is
the central body for the Orthodox
Congregations of the United
States and Canada. Dr. Samuel
Nirenstein is National President
and Leo S. Hilsenrad, Executive
Director of U. O. J. C.
HOME FOB AGED
WOMEN’S DIVISION
MEN'S CLUBS MAP REHABILITATION
PROGRAM FOR RETURNING SOLDIERS
of the
New York: The reabsorption of returning servicemen
Jewish faith into synagogue life and into the Jewish
in general was the subject of an organizational meeting of the New
York City Metropolitan Branch of the National Federation of Jew-
ish Men’s Clubs, held on Sunday, October 29th, at the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of America. The national organization has pledged
itself to concentrate its efforts upon the rehabilitation of Jewish
veterans and the conference charted a course towards ths end baaed
on two guiding principles (1)
The Women’s Division of the
Home for the Aged Sons &
Daughters of Israel held their
first regular meeting at the
Home, 203Branard, on November
3. Included in the new undertak-
ings added to the program as-
sumed by the Women’s Division
are the house committee, headed
by Mrs. Mike Goldstein, to su-
pervise a daily visiting commit-
tee to look after the personal
needs of the guests, such as let-
ter writing, shopping, etc; an
Oneg Shabot, the first of which
was held Saturday, November 4,
at 3 o’clock, with guests of the
Home participating in the pro-
gram. Mrs. Max Kline gave •
Yiddish reading; Dr. Berg, one
of the guests, told how Oneg
Shabot was originated; Mrs. Sam
Finger gave a vocal solo; and re-
freshments were served by the
matron.
Mrs. L Palis was named head
of the Annual Linen Shower
which will be held at the Home
on December 7, in the nature of
a Games Party. A linen contribu-
tion will be the admission.
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
St Louis (JPS)—Dr. Joseph
Erlanger, professor of physi-
ology at Washington Univer-
sity, was awarded one of four
Nobel prizes covering work in
physiology and medicine, ac-
cording to a cabled announce-
ment fronr the Nobel Founds- •
tion at Stockholm.
Dr. Erlinger, born in San
Francisco in 1874, has been
professor at Washington Uni-
versity since 1910. He has de-
veloped methods of measuring
blood pressure, and has stud-
ied the influence of pulse pres-
sure on kidney secretions.
that the returning soldier is a
different man in many respects
from the one he was when he
first donned the uniform; (2)
that the American-Jewish lay
organizations will play a determ-
ining role in the future develop-
ment of the Jewish community.
Chaplain Aaron Blumenthal,
rabbi of Temple Beth El, Hous-
ton, Texas, stationed at Halloran
Hospital on Staten Island, who
has been ministering to many
thousands of returning soldiers,
including men who were incar-
cerated in Nazi prison camps,
said that Jewish veterans, be-
cause of their cloee contact with
Jewish chaplains, were more con-
scious of Jewish religious, as well
as social and economic problems
than they were as civilians.
The questions with which they
confront the civilians are primar-
ily of a religious nature. Chap-
lain Blumenthal declared. The
questions frequently indicate a
dissatisfaction with the flimsy ed-
ucation they received in child-
hood. The veterans complain of
a lack of understanding of the
very rudiments of their faith.
Chaplain Blumenthal predicted
the returning soldiers will insist
that this situation be changed,
and that Jewish children hence-
forth be equipped with an in-
telligent understanding of the
greatness of the heritage of Is-
rael before they are sent out to
meet the challenge that is fre-
quently hurled at them by the
non-Jewish world.
Chaplain Blumenthal went on
to stress the importance of the
role that the Men’s Clubs can,
and should, play in the reabaorp-
tion of the returning soldiers in-
to the synagogue. But he em-
phasized that before this can be
accomplished, the Men’s Clubs
will have to show quite clearly
that they are willing to cooper-
ate with the veterans in effect-
ing certain badly needed changes
in our educational life.
Carrying this point further, Dr.
Louis Finkelstein, President of
the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America, dwelt on the need
for preparing the homeground
for the return of our soldiers by
combatting the various hostile
distortions of fact regarding the
Jew. This, he said, would require
a fundamental change in the
mental image which many peo-
ple have of the Jew as a special
type.
“We must change the very cul-
ture of the world in its concep-
tion of the Jew,” Dr. Finkelstein
asserted. “Hie opinion of Ameri-
ca about the Jews will soon be-
come the world conception of
what the Jew is really like. Jew
and Christian, aa well as people
from all countries of the world,
must learn to understand each
other.”
BACK THE ATTACK .
WITH WAR BONDS
PERSECUTORS UN-
PUNISHED. FRENCH
JEWEY CHARGES
Paris (JPS)—The French
Jewish communities have sub-
mitted a joint memorandum to
the French Provisional Gov-
ernment charging that thou-
sands of members of the Vichy
militia who participated in the
torture, deportation and ring
ter of Jeers in France have
gone unpunished, and have net
even been detained or interro-
ited. Having contributed their
share to the fight for lib-
eration and ha viz* suffered
more than any other section af
the population, the Jews of
France are profoundly dis-
turbed by the failure of the
authorities to act agaimt the
quislings who had iprriaIliad
in hounding Jews, the memor-
andum states
Enclosed with the petition
for action, submitted to the
Mimstery of Justice, to a Itot
containing the "«m of two
thousand members of the Vichy
militia who are charged with
crimes ranging from
with the Gestapo In i
tation of Jews to the
tion of Jewish
diverted for their
A large proportion of
listed had been
yan Commissioners,”
by the Germans to
property confiscated
Jews. The list also
persons charged with 1
deported a total of ten
sand Jews. Only throe
of those listed have 1
rested to date, the
urn points out
BRITISH CHIEF RABBI
PROTESTS PALESTINE
GOVERNMENTS ATTACK
ON JEWS POE TERROR
London (JPS-Pskov)
protest against an attic
ment issued in Palestii
the recent terrorism to I
ments of the
charging responsible
en with not having
stop the terror, wa
by Dr. J. H. Hertz. Chief 1
of the British Empire, to a
to the London Times. The
Rabbi recalled that.
Mufti of Jerusalem. Haj
Hnsaslni, is a
of the Arabs to
terrorist activity and his auto
quant treasonous daaUBgs wj
the enemy, have not bean htam
on the Arabs.
Dr. Hertz stated: Tto word!
of the warning issued by J. ▼.
Shaw, Officer
Palestine
Bernard PadgeL
Chief of the British
Middle East, was m
ate. No
where endors
crimes of the _____
Palestine authorities seem to I
as the highest, to and out of
Moreover, they assert that C
crimes bring dishonor imon,
Jewish people as a whole. ’
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