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Women's Division Workers Mrs. M. A. Venger, Women's Division Chairman of the Jewish Philanthropies Campaign has announced the plans for meetings of campaign workers on March 22 and March 23. Guest speaker at the meetings will he Mrs. Paula Borensteiu of the Joint Distribution Committee office in Paris, F r a n c e , Mrs. Borenstein will appear at all four meetings scheduled for captains and workers. LOCAL NKKDS EXPLAINED In addition to Mrs. Borenstein, a distinguished local leader will speak at each of the meetings explaining needs and problems on the local scene. Workers will have the o p p o rtu n i t y to ask questions about the roles of the campaign. JTtOIIEKT BERNSTEIN HOMK The first of the four meetings will lie held on Monday, March 22 with a 9:30 a.m. coffee at the h o m e of Mrs. RobertDerastein, 6-152 Cum ing Street. Mr. J o e M Rice, Past president of the Jewish F e d e ration and Past Philanthropies C h a i r man will discuss the l o c a l and . national n e e d s with Mrs. Alfred Rice FiedLr, co-chairman, and her captains and workers.
Professional Section Women's Division Jewish Philanthropies COCKTAIL SUPPER Tuesday, March 'l'.\ Jewish Community Center Cocktails: 5:30 p.m. Supper: 0:15 p.m. Guest Speaker MRS. PAULA HOKKNSTEIN of Paris, France Phone Reservations 3I2-13CC Mrs. M. F. Leveiison Professional Sect. Chairman Mrs. M. A. Venger Women's Division Chairman
of Mrs. Henry L. Grecnberg, 6G29 Burt Street for a. 1 p.m. coffee on Monday, March 22. 1, M. LIBEKMAN HOME Mrs. I. M. Liberman, co-chairman, will meet with her captains ,,--,---and workers at / - *\ her home, GG25jj' \ Burt Street for* i a 9:30 a.m. cof-(* 6 - i fee on Tuesday,,, ' ; Arab Syndicate March 23. '/-,*• / Mr. Harry Sid-' ' ~ ~ * { Buys Florida Land man, Philanthro-' '.jf pies Initial Gifts[,• l'\ ^ f Miami, F l o r i d a (JTA)—A C h a i r m a n and j j r\ Dadc county investment farmer Federation Vice-f 1| } ' has disclosed t h a t a Middle President, w i l l ^ " East syndicate of sheiks and discuss the local Sidmati Arab bankers has purchased and national needs. some 15,000 acres of farmland ROBERT II. KOOPER HOME in South Dado country for about Mmes Stewart Tully and Har- $22,000,000. The transaction, one of the old Weinhoff, co-chairmen of tho Y o u n g Women's Division will largest in South Florida history, is expected to be completed by meet with their April 15, William Sottile. the c a p t a i n s and owner of the property, reported. \ workers for cofHe said the s y n d i c a t e was fee on Tuesday, headed by Jamil K. Boullos, March 23 at 1 chairman of the board of the p.m. at the home Investment Bank of Lebanon. of Mrs. Robert The syndicate is made up of It II. Hooper, 9212 wealthy Arabs who reportedly Capitol Avenue. were concerned about the exMr. Leo'Eisenplosive situation in the Middle statt, 1MS5 ( East. The purchase was meant oral Chairman ofi to stabilize their multi-millionthe P h i lanthro- EisensUilt dollar holdings. The other ten pies C a m paign will discuss the local and na- members are investors from Lebanon, Kuwait and S a u d i HENRY L.GKEENHKKG tional needs. IIO.MI: Arabia. M r , A r t h u r.-~-1 -~ —• IMPORTANCE OF MEETINGS Mrs. Venger urged all capGoldstein, P a s t tains and workers to - a 11 c n d President of the. their assigned m e e t i n g. "The Jewish Federa-f success of our campaign detion and former' pends upon the workers knowgeneral c li a i r-j ing and understanding the many man of Philanpoints which will be discussed t h r o p i e s , will Montreal (JTA)—An investigaat these meetings. In addition," meet with Mrs is under way by the MonMrs. Venger added, "the oppor- tion Ernest J. Hoch treal Catholic School Commistunity of meeting and hearing sion ster, co-c h a i r of tho p r a c t i c e s by a Paula Borenstein is one of those seventh-grade mnn and her cup teacher in a Cathrare treats in our community olic school who tains and workhas compared that should not be missed." ers at the homo Goldstein Hitler to Christ as "a great leader," decorated his blackboard with a photo of Hitler and the swastika symbol, and organized his class of 11-year-old boys into Young Women's Division, Jewish Philanthropies Nazi-type military cadres, inDessert Luncheon, Wednesday, March 31, 12:30 p.m., cluding "SS-nien." Temple Israel, The t e a c h e r is 22-year-old Women's Division, Jewish Philanthropies Brother Rene Lahaie, who is in City Wide Dessert Luncheon, Wednesday, April 7, 12:30 his first year on the faculty of p.m.i'Beth Israel Synagogue. tlk; elementary school, La Mannais Catholique. In addition to comparing-Hitler to Christ and displaying the swastika, he had
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Paula Borenstein was still a schoolgirl in her native city of V i 1 n a, Lithuania, at the outbreak of World War II. Becau.se under the terms of the HitlerStalin Pact of 193!), Lithuania fell under Russian occupation, the Jewish community lived in comparative security until 1941 when the German armies began their sweep across Russian-held territories. In September of that year, a ghetto was set up in Vilna, and all the Jews of the city were confined there. During this period, every member of Mrs. Borenstein's family— her father, mother, sister and brother—was murdered by the Germans. Concenlration Camp In 1943, she was transported Paula Borenstein to a concentration camp in Germany where she did f o r c e d she learned that they were prolabor in an ammunition factory until the liberation of the camp vided by the Joint Distribution in April 1915. As the Allied Committee. L a t e r she joined Armies approached the camp, the staff of a Yiddish newsthe German garrison removed paper in Paris and came to tho all of the girls to a nearby field staff of the JDC Paris office in and shot most of them. Mrs. Borenstein was one of the few the fall of J<)4fl as a Yiddish writer and interpreter. who managed to escape. After w o r k i n g as a farm . Mrs. Borenstein is married to laborer, Mrs. Borenstein was n Frenchman of Poli3h-Jewi:;h repatriated to Paris in May, parentage who is also an alum1945. There she was directed nus of a concentration camp. to a place where she received her first decent meal and her .They have one child. first new clothing since the outOmaha Appearances' break of the war, and then sent A dynamic knowlto a special home for recupera- edgable about speaker, devoted to tion. It was not until later that the work of theand Joint Distribut i o n Committee, Mrs. Borenstein will speak in Omaha to the four meetings of .Women's Division Workers on March 22 and March 23, as well as being the guest speaker at the ProWomen's Cocktail supalso taught his children to say fessional per on March 23. each day; "Ileil Christ." J e a n - M a r i e Mathieue, the commission's director of teaching said that the teacher's "intentions were good, but the procedure itself is certainly extraPhiladelphia (JTA) — The ordinary and open to criticism." Philadelphia c h a p t e r of the Brother Asselin, director of the American Jewish Committee has school, expressed "surprise at reported that there is still "a the s u d d e n interest" of tho notable absence of Jews from positions of important responsiteacher's methods. bility in major industrial corporations, business and financial institutions" in the Delaware Valley area of Philadelphia. A Panel of Professional artJerome J. Shestack and Robists will judge the works sub- ert Cushman, co-chairmen of mitted for the third annual Art the chapter's community relaContest sponsored by the Jew- tions committee, who issued tho ish. Community Center. Jewish report, said that an examination students in grade school, junior of the 1G largest industrial corhigh and high s c h o o l are p o r ations in the Philadelphia eligible to enter the competi- area showed that, less than 1 tion. Contest entries will be ac- percent of the 353 officers and cepted through April 19. A spe- high level executives were Jewwhile less than 4 percent of cial showing of the entries will ish, members of the boards of be held at the Center on April the directors of the firms were Jew25. ish. About 10 percent of the, There is no entry fee for tho area's population is Jewish. Art Contest and trophies will With one exception, the report be awarded to winners in the declared, same 1 ow level of grade school, junior high and J e w i s h the involvement prevails high school divisions. Special "for the 11 major life insurance gold leaf certificates will be and fire and c a s u a l t y compresented to all entrants, and panies, railroads and food chains r i b b o n s Will bo awarded to which are tho largest in their other placo winners. field in tho Philadelphia area." E n t r i e s in any nrt form Tho report noted, however, that created by students ore ac- Jews hold jobs generally in ceptable and s h o u l d be sub- "technical areas" such aa en> mitted to tho Center's Activities gineering, research and devel« office before the contest dead- opment and actuarial departments. , line.
Montreal Teacher Lauds Nazis Compares Hitler to Christ
fiennan Ties Wed By Israeli Cabinet Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's Cabinet v o t e d nt its regular weekly meeting _ to. accept tho proposal mado by West Gertnany's Chancellor •Ludwig Erhard for tho establishment of full diplomatic relations between the Bonn Government and 13rael. AH of the members of the Cabinet except the two Ministers r e p r e s e n t i n g Ahdut Avoda, which is a member of the Government coalition, voted in. favor of accepting Dr. Erhard's offer. Mr. Eslilcol told the Cabinet ho had grounds to assume that agreement will bo reached between Israel and West Germany on all tho controversial questions still ct issue.
Jewish AuthorsWin FJaf'1 Book Awards
New York (JTA)—Threo Jewish authors were among those who received the National Book Awards this week, given the authors of "the m ost distinguished books written by Americans and Ottawa (JTA)—An order banpublished in the United States in ning the use of the Canadian 106-1. mails to the National S t a t e s They are: Saul Bellow for his Rights Party- of Alabama, bonovel, "Herzog," who won tho cause of tlie group's activities in award in the field of fiction; distributing anti-Semitic and Louis Fischer for his "The Lifo anti-Negro materials, was mado of Lenin," in tho field of history permanent after a three-m a n and biography; and the late Dr. board of review ruled that tho Norbert Wiener, who was given original temporary ban issued the award posthumously in tho last September, was a "public field of science, philosophy and necessity." religion for his book, "God and The ruling, which was issued Golem, Inc." after an appeal by party repreDr. Wiener died in August in sentatives in Canada, found that 19G3. This was tho second Na- tho materials circulated by tho tional Book Award for Mr, Bel- . group was "grossly offensive" low,'who also won it in 1054 for and "abusive to both the Negro his novel, "The Adventures of and Jewish people in our population." Argue March."
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