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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF
\ THE °^ DEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATIQN IN THIS TFPRrrnpv
pl 6 No. 12
I Week In Review
■ By MILTON SHOWN. J.TA.
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fund-raising drives
I With approach of February, na
fHj ona i Jewish relief campaigns
beginning to get under way,
■adjusting themselves to the new
Conditions created by the dissolu-
Knn of the United Jewish Appeal.
■ The National Refugee Service,
has the job of absorption
.Hnd adjustment of refugees set-
in the United States, has
Hunched its first independent
Campaign after a conference in
Cleveland. The NRS has an
nounced a preliminary minimum
Heeds budget of $4,342,150. Presi-
Hlenf William Rosenwald of NRS,
Hn a message to community lead-
Hrs, declared that the program of
Hud and guidance to refugees con-
Hinues to be a primary responsi-
H The United Palestine Appeal’s
H 12,000,000 drive was launched
Hast weekend at the National
for Palestine, held in
■Washington with some 1,500 dele-
C&tes attending. The meeting
Heard Paul V. McNutt, Federal
Hecurity Administrator, House
Majority Leader John W. McCor-
Cnack and Jewish Agency Legal
Hdviser Bernard Joseph stress
Che need for continued and inten
sified aid to Palestine Jewish up-
Huilding.
I The whole question of fund-
Caising will be reviewed this
Ceekend when the Council of Jew-
Ch Federations and Welfare
Bunds hold its general assembly
Cn Atlanta. Sidney Hollander,
■resident of the Council, is seek-
Bg establishment of a budgeting
Cervice to advise local funds on
■locations. This year’s assembly,
Cccording to William J. Shroder,
Chairman of the board of the coun-
CU, faces the dual task of prevent-
Bg any harmful developments
Chieh may result from abandon
ment of the United Jewish Appeal
Cnd “Constructive planning” for
He adjustment of community pro
grams to meet current local, na-
H°nal and overseas Jewish needs.
FOREIGN NEWS
9 While the American Jewish
Community wrestles with the prob-
Cm of coping with the situation
Coated by events abroad, these
Hvents gain in proportion.
I Palestine has had two more air
Hids, both of them entirely un-
Cuccessful. Meanwhile, it is re
galed in London that negotia
tions are under way for an ex-
Hange of Palestine children de-
C lln ed in Germany for German
Comen and children held in Pales-
H>e. The United States Embassy
B assisting in the negotiations.
l ln Poland, nearly 100 syna
gogues have been razed and the
Brap sent to the Reich to be
Curned into war materials. Jewish
Cemeteries are being plowed up
Bd used to grow grain. Half of
Be 1,700,000 Jews in Nazi-occu
ied Poland require relief of one
ort or another, according to lat
at reports.
In Bulgaria, the anti-Jewish law
ecently passed by Parliament has
ot been promulgated by King
toris. who is reported holding it
P until details of administration
an be worked out to minimize the
arm * u l effects on the Jews. It is
*«ar that Bulgaria is unsympa
hetic with anti-Semitism and this
aw represents Sofia’s form of
appeasement” to Germany.
In France, the Vichy Govern
ment continues to oust Jewish of
icials, the latest being 122 in the
Communications Ministry.
Roosevelt Urges
More Tolerance
NEW YORK (JTA) —A call to
Americans of all faiths to hold
meetings during Brotherhood
Week, Feb. 22 to 28, “‘to purge our
hearts of all tolerance and to
bind all our citizens in a common
loyalty,” was sounded by President
Roosevelt in a message made pub
lic by Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, pres
ident of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews. Brother
hood Week will be observed in
more than 2,000 communities with
the theme, “National Unity,” and
the slogan “one nation, indivisi
ble, with liberty and justice for
all.”
President Roosevelt’s message
follows: “With reverent depen
dence upon God and faith in our
destiny as a people, let us meet
in church and school, in cathedral
and synagogue, in public hall and
home during Brotherhood Week,
the week of Washington’s Birth
day, to purge our hearts of all in
tolerance and to bind all our citi
zens in a common loyalty. The de
fense of America be gifts in the
hearts of our countrymen. In this
hour of emergency, let us set
aside time to build our unity from
within, to renew our faith in bro
therhood, to quicken our national
life, and to reinvigorate our pa
triotism with a renewal of that
vision of democracy without
which we perish as a people.”
Miami Synagogue
To Be Dedicated
on February 16th
A new synagogue will be dedi
cated in Miami on Sunday, Feb.
16 at 2 P. M. when the new struc
ture of the Miami Orthodox Syn
agogue will be formally estab
lished.
The occasion will be marked
with a gala program including ad
dresses by prominent speakers
and musical selections by visiting
artists. The synagogue represents
the orthodox wing of Jewry in
Miami.
Jewish Men’s Club
Elects ’4l Officers
An election of officers for the
ensuing year featured the meet
ing held by the! Jewish Men’s club
in the Jewish Center Tuesday
night. Leon Shapiro was elected
president; Itz Greenberg, vice
president; Aaron Shapiro, secre
tary; and Nathan Newman, treas
urer.
Board of directors of the organ
ization elected are Max Atlas,
Morris B. Wilson, Maurice Bart
ley, Sam Bryan, and Isadore’Mos
covitz.
A rising vote of thanks was giv
en the retiring officers for their
services rendered the organiza
tion during the past year. Those
serving last year were Harry Broi
da, president; Itz Greenberg, vice
president; Maurey W. Goldstein,
secretary; and Philip Blitstem,
treasurer; and the folowing board
members: Abe Diamond, A. and L.
Shapiro, Nat Shorstein, and I.
Moscovitz.
The organization plans a full
season of activities for the coming
year and is planning a calendar
of events along social, cultural,
charitable and athletic lines.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY JANUARY 31, 1941
Voted B’nai B’rith
i Award
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Norman H. Davis, chairman of
the American Red Cross, who has
been voted the 97th Anniversary
B’nai B’rith Award in recognition
of his humanitarian service. He
will receive the award at a Cov
enant Breakfast at New York’s
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Sunday,
February 16th.
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B’nai B’rith Buys
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purchase of SIO,OOO worth of non
interest-bearing and non-negotia
ble Canadian War Loan Certifi
cates by B’nai B’rith “as a fur
ther manifestation of the pro-
LATEST FACTS ABOUT
PALESTINE
Since the outbreak of the war in September 1939, 34,000
Jewish refugees immigrated into Palestine.
Since 1933 more than 280,000 refugees from Germany,
Poland and other countries in Eastern Europe have settled
in Palestine. ...
More than 6,000 Palestinian Jews are enlisted with Brit
ish forces in defense of Palestine and neighboring countries.
Several Jewish companies have already been organized.
Over 140,000, or more than a quarter of the Jewish popu
lation are engaged in farming in Palestine.
Eleven new colonies were established in the 15 months
period ended December 31, 1940, bringing to a total of 260 the
number of colonies in the country.
At this moment there are some 8,100 Jewish refugees with
Palestine immigration certificates in various European ports
awaiting transportation to Palestine.
Despite the impact of the war situation, the expansion
of industry and agriculture in Palestine is beng maintained,
thanks to the extraordinary measures taken by the Jewish
Agency for Palestine in cooperation with national Jewish in
stitutions in that country.
In furtherance of its program to make Palestine self-sus
taining and reduce its dependency upon foreign imports, new
industries have been developed producing goods as varied as
food preserves, refined oils and gasoline, reinforced concrete
pipe, chemicals, all types of minerals, pharmaceutical, and all
types of finished products. Likewise Jewish farmers have ex
panded the type of field-crops raised on their farms.
The Jewish Agency for Palestine together with the Vaad
Leumi, Jewish National Council, share in providing the budget
for the maintenance of 407 schools, with 4,137 teachers and
58,000 students.
Over 200,000 individuals benefit from sick funds aided by
Jewish Agency. During the fiscal year ended October 1, 1940,
approximately $8,000,700 were expended by the Keron Hayesod
and the Jewish National Fund in colonization, immigration and
in other important development spheres in Palestine.
Fob 1941, the emergency budget for the Jewish Agency,
to meet the growing requirements of colonization and immigra
tion amounts to approximately $13,640,000.
Hundreds of Jews Slain
In Rumanian Uprising
BUDAPEST (JTA) With Rumania’s 175,000 Jews
caught helplessly in the middle of a violent battle between
the Government and dissident Iron Guardists, hundreds of
Jews were among the estimated 6,000 persons slain in the
week-long revolt, which was accompanied by the wrecking of
Bucharest’s Jewish quarter, wholesale massacres and wide
spread pillaging.
A JTA correspondent who earned
here from Bucharest just before
the revolt broke out reported that
German army officers were in
citing anti-Jewish disorders.
By Monday, with some degree
of order restored, hundreds of
Jews were buried in mass funer
als. In the Jewish section of Bu
charest, tanks and trucks loaded
with soldiers rolled past smashed
store fronts, looted shops and
wrecked homes.
(Soviet press dispatches said
“the Jewish districts are a horri
ble sight” and added that in addi
tion to the hundreds of Jews slain
many others were wounded or
kidnapped.)
Jewish survivors of the revolt
found desire on the part of the
membership of B’nai B’rith and
its affiliate organizations to sup
port the cause of Great Britain to
the utmost” was announced today.
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Aleph Zadik Aleph, B’nai B’rith’s
youth organization, from funds
provided by lodges and chapters
in Canada.
crept out of hiding places Monday
in a desperate attempts to secure
food, while others formed weeping
queues asking for shelter because
their homes had been destroyed
by fire. Many Jews tried to reach
the mortuary in the hope of iden
tifying relatives. Naked and muti
lated bodies were still lying in the
Moldavian forest.
Indications were that the mass
murders were carried out by Iron
Guard rebels. Attacks were parti
cularly severe in Brasov, Brila,
Ploesti and Galatz. The number of
casualties was not immediately
ascertained, but long lists of
wounded were posted in hospitals.
Mozes Tells of His
Plight in Poland
NEW YORK (JTA) Mendel
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way of Soviet Russia and Japan.
Mozes who witnessed the flight
of tens of thousands of Jews ftom
Poland, emphasized that starva
tion prevailed among the Jews un
der the occupation. Mere bread is
a luxury to at least half of the
two million Polish Jews who fell
under Nazi administration, he de
clared.
A a to the Jews under Soviet oc
cupation, Mozes confirmed the re
ports that thousands of them were’
being transported to the most dis
tant parts of Siberia. “Wives are
being mercilessly separated from
their husbands and children from
their parents, and this punish
ment is being meted out to them
only for their ‘crime’ of seeking
safety from Nazism by escaping
into Soviet-held territory,” Mozes
declared.
The only hope for European
Jewry today is the aid that car
come for them from America, Mo
zes said. Though suffering phy
sically, Polish Jewry is not moral
ly broken, he added.
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Chamisha Asar —Feb. 12
Rosh Chodesh Adar. Feb. 28
Fast of Esther —March 12
Purim..." March 13
Rosh Chodesh Nisan....Mar. 29
First Day Passover. April 12
Rosh Chodesh Iyar. April 28
Lag B’Omer. May 15
Rosh Chodesh Sivan.....May 27
First Day Shavuoth. June 1
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz..June 1
Fast of Tammuz. .July 13
Rosh Chodesh Ab. .July 25
Fast of Ab Aug. 3
Rosh Chodesh Elul Aug. 24
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