Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1950 — Page 8

THE NATIONAL JEWISH POST

Friday, June 2, 1950

LANDLORD FIGHTS NON-JEWISH TENANT WHO HAS JEWISH FRIENDS AS GUESTS PHII^ADETJMIIA—A non .Jewish landlord charged by a non-.Jewish tenant with refusing to allow her to entertain Jewish friends in her apartment was under a $500 bond this week to hold the peace for one year. The Philadelphia Jewish Community Council, which Intervened in the court action at the specific request of the tenant, called the affair one of the most unusual cases involving anti-

Semitism in its experience.

The tenant, who was represented by a non-Jewish attorney who donated his services because of the issue involved, complained that the landlord continually harassed her for Wing on friendly terms with Jewish neighbors. After a conference with attorneys for both parties, the judge ordered the anti-Semitic landlord to post the bond.

Names In The News

HAROLD J. GOLDENBERG REMAINS TRUE TO JEWISH DUTY IN ISRAEL

K MERICAN Jewish life lost a Jl\. coming top leader when HAROLD J. GOLDENBERG of Minneapolis moved to Israel a year ago to settle in Rehovot and

to start a business in soybeans for plastics manu f a c t u r e. Coworkers in the U.S. who have been wondering how long it would be before Goldenberg

would get him- GO LDENBERG

self into some

kind of communal service in Israel got the answer this week. An interim report was made on the struggle to handle the hard core cases of refugees whom Israel decided to take in. The report came from Malben, formed last December by the Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish Agency and the Israeli Government to handle the aged and in-curably-sick arriving in Israel. Malben learned that its half-year budget of $17,500,000 is about half what it needs for the job. The report was made by the chairman of the board of Malben—Harold J. Goldenberg, according to the

N Y. Times.

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The Priestly Day The leading citizens of Scranton, Pa., got together last week to celebrate a “Cohen Day," according to World Wide News Service. Center of the tribute was A. B. COHEN, popular civic leader and businessman. The Chamber of Commerce presented Cohen with a certificate of merit. Cohen has been chairman of the local labor-management committee for 15 years.

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The Old Refrain The New York chapter of the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism provided a platform again last week for one of its collection of non-Jewish anti-Zion-ists, DR. VIRGINIA C. GILDERSLEEVE, former dean of Barnard

Radio Roundup The Test will present here weekly a summary of nationally-broad-cast radio programs of Interested Jewish listeners No responsibility Is assnmed by The Post for lost minute change by radio networks.

College. The speech was unique for the completeness with which Council cliches were repeated by the educator: U.S. Zionists were seeking to segregate Jews from the current of American culture; the danger of the alleged program to the U.S. "is alarming;” Zionists seek to make U.S. Jews a bloc "concerned primarily with the well-being of a foreign country.”

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The Last Testament Hollywood’s film producer,

LOUIS B. MAYER, and NATHAN GUMMING, a leading fig-

ure in the gro- m

eery field in Chi cago, jointly pre- 11 sented a chapel to the Shaare Zedek cemetery in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. The current Congress Bulletin, Official organ of the Canadian

Jewish Congress, reported that mothers of the two American Jewish leaders rest in the cemetery of the St. John synagogue.

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The Long Fight

Returning to one of his most cherished objectives, novel! s t MEYER LEVIN said again this week there was no certainty whatever that U.S. and Israeli Jews would come to know, understand and appreciate each other by some kind of an automatic process. Said he: “We will never find common bonds as long as we proceed with hero worship on one side and a kind of an amused contempt from the other side; as long as we assign all that is good and progressive to the character of the Israeli Jew, and permit the American Jew to be presented to him as a crude, cigar-smoking fellow stuffed with riches.” Levin made his comments in connection with his latest book, *Tn Search,” an autobiography, which he said was in part an effort to describe the early conditioning experiences of the American Jew, “brought up

SUNDAY, JUNE 4—Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, spiritual leader of Central Synagogue of Nassau County, Long Island, speaking on “How Old Are You?” first of a series of four sermons on the "Message of Israel” program, 10 a.m. EDST, ABC. SUNDAY, JUNE 4—“The Man Who Changed His Mind,” by Peter Lyon, a Memorial Day program, on the “Eternal Light,” 10 a. m. EDST, NBC. in a mistaken conflict between his Jewish ties and his American environment. It is this experience that is least understood by the Jew of Israel today.” • The Expanding Future For Rabbi LEON FEUER of Toledo, a happy gesture has speedily expanded into a fearful prospect. The gesture is a selfinstituted project of visiting the reception of every conflrmand from his Temple. He is recovering slowly from the latest tour. Starting at 2:30 Sunday afternoon and running until 11 that night, the Reform rabbi attended .30 of the receptions of the 39 members of his confirmation class. The late hour and rising exhaustion stopped the journey. Rabbi Feuer confided that he wasn't worried so much about next year, when the class will be smaller, but is concerned about 1952, when 46 members will be confirmed.

The Helpful Assist Some free advice for Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion’s Mapai party—which is largely minus religious observance—came this week from MENDEL FISHER, perennial director of the Jewish National Fund. Speaking at the convention of t he Ohio Valley Zionist region Sunday in Toledo, Fisher described how the second anniversary of Israel was celebrated in a synagogue. Fisher said that Ben-Gurion, dressed in silk hat and cutaway, looked like a rabbi. “I don’t know whether he eats kosher or not,”‘said Fisher, and added, “but I think he should.”

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Italian Community Left $300,000 Bequest ROME— (WNS) —A bequest of $300,000 was left to the Turin Jewish community by Dr. E. Segre, an Italian Jew who died in Germany some weeks ago, it was disclosed here this week. The Jewish community in Turin is said to count about 3,000 people. The deceased was a member of the cormpunity.

Report From Hollywood L.A. CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT MISSED BOAT ON RADIO CHANCE

By SIMON WINCELBERG

TMJfORE than a year ago, Dan Russel, program director for JLXL KFMV (the only all-FM station in Hollywood, and something in the nature of a showcase for the International Ladies Garment

iWorkers Union) visited the Los Angeles office of New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary (Conservative). Purpose of the call was to discuss the matter of getting together on some public service programs, for which the station would provide airtime, studio facilities and technical assistance free of ch^jge, and the JTS, it was hoped would do

| the rest.

The head, or one of the heads, of the Semin[ary happened to be in L. A. at the time, and showed himself extremely interested. All that was needed was an okay from the New York office.

Russel waited.

His vigil was ended late in 1948, when a phone call from Joan Hoffman, secretary of the Hollywood office of the (Reform) Union of American Hebrew Congregations, offered the sort of collaboration Russel had been looking for. Previous to that, Russel had made a faithful study of the Jewish programming offered by other local stations, but found nothing that he particularly wanted to get involved with.

ANYHOW, UAHC FOR WELL OVER a year now has been able consistently arifi satisfacority to supply KFMV’s quota of Jewish public service programs. Each Friday evening, “Hear, O Israel,” presents a condensed Friday night service, followed by a 15-minute period of readings and comments on great Jewish literature by Dr. Maurice Galpert, under the sponsorship of the College of Jewish Studies. Each Sunday morning, the University Synagogue on the Air presents Rabbi Julian Feingold in another condensed service, with transcribed music by the Central Synagogue Choir. (University Synagogue, incidentally, provided the “religious scrolls” for “Jolson Sings Again,” on which, if you will recall, Columbia’s publicity department stubbed its teeth so brilliantly last year.) Sunday noon, again under auspices of the College of Jewish Studies, Dr. Camille Honig delivers talks on great spiritual leaders and modern-day saints.

RUSSEL, WHO HAS RECENTLY taken a whole-hearted plunge into the study of Hebrew, being a new subscriber to HADOAR, and an ex-pupil of L.A.’s University of Judaism, is thinking, at present, of augmenting his broadcasting schedule. The expansion is contemplated along the lines of an intelligent program of Jewish news, and perhaps by a Hebrew cultural program, similar to the one the Histadrut Ivrith is’ reportedly sponsoring over WLIB in Brooklyn. KFMV soon hopes to be able to balance its budget by becoming the flagship of a contemplated Southern California network.' In the meantime it is, to the best of my knowledge, the only medium of public communication with liberal leanings in the L. A. area, and one of the more striking features of the Sunset Boulevard skyline. One of its offices provided Louis Schaffer of the Yiddish Daily FORWARD and myself, with a delightful base of operations for a number of weeks last year, until New York once again began to beckon to Lou.

aymond Chandler’s lovable, blunt-spoken private eye, Philip JlV Marlowe, nearly lapsed into significance in ‘The Little Sister,” the latest fruit of the master’s pen, which once again sees Marlowe getting stuck, slugged, conked and kissed with appalling regularity. In one of the outer sanctums of a big Hollywood agent, Marlowe tersely informs a "plump, white-haired Jew” that “just between you and me, the hell with people named Spink.” " ‘Anti-Semitic, huh?’ Spink said. He waved a generous hand, on which a canary-yellow diamond looked like an amber traffic nghL” Etc., Before anyone gets the wrong idea about Hollywood from tins, let me assure you that at the agency which stands between my stories and production, diamonds are displayed with far greater discretion, and the interests of nearby Temple Israel and a number of other Jewish causes, are accomodated with considerable thoughtfulness.

Social Workers To Meet June 4 ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.- More than 1,000 Jewish social workers, center workers and educators were expected this week for the 51st annual contention of the National Council of Jewish Social Welfare here June 4 through June 9. Meeting concurrently will be the annua) conention of National Council of Jewish Center Workers, and the National Council for Jewish Education.

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