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Hundreds Join
In Rebuilding
Ruined Village
Palestine Jews
Defy British
Armored Troops
JERUSALEM. — Hundreds of
Jews from nearby villages defied
British troop and police guards
and poured into the tiny settle
ment of Birya, in Upper Galilee,
to rebuild tents, huts and a
stockade demolished by British
tanks after the forcible removal
of 250 persons who tried to re
establish the abandoned village.
A field kitchen has been erected
to fG^pthe volunteers.
Meanwhile, tension still pre
vails throughout Jewish Pales- I
tine as a result of the British ;
action. A brief general strike
was called in Haifa and else
where in protest against the vir- j
tual storming of the settlement j
by British armored troops, March i
14. after about 3,000 men and j
women, including service men,
started to rebuild the village.!
Birya was abandoned March 1 1
after the arrest of 25 Jewish set- |
tiers, its entire populace, on!
charges of having participated!
in an attach against a neighbor
ing Arab Legion camp.
According to latest reports, |
most British troops have with
drawn from the area. Earlier
they had forced 250 settlers into
trucks and moved them to near
by Tiberias where they were
released. A cordon of British
troops and police remained
around the area for several
hours.
The Jerusalem radio stated at
tempts to rebuild Birya had no
relation with the dispute over
nearby land which had been
awarded to Arabs in a suit
against the PICA (Palestine
Jewish Colonization Association).
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New Youth Director Named
For Southeastern Region
Ralph McGill Will
Joint B'nai B'rith
Address
Meeting
Mamie K. Taylor,
Woman Of The Year,
To Be Honored
Dothan Rabbi Named
To New Position
On West Coast
Megilos Sent
To DP's Overseas
NEW YORK — (Special i —
Jewish D. P camps throughout
Germany, Austria and Italy have
been supplied with ritual Megilos
for-the Purim festival by the
Refugee-Immigration Division of
the Agudath Israel Youth Coun
cil of America.
DOTHAN, Ala.—Rabbi Alfred
Wolf of Congregation Emanu-El
here has been appointed region
al director for the new West
coast office of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
and plans to leave his present
position about July 1.
The Rabbi's new position with
the Union will Include supervi
sion over California, Oregon and
Washington. He will maintain
an office in Los Angeles.
In addition to being thd’ re
ligious leader of the congrega
tion in Dothan, Rabbi Wolf also
was director of the Union in the
Southeastern region. On the
West coast he will devote full
time to Union affairs.
The Rabbi announced the Un
ion will continue the regional
office in Dothan with the Rabbi
of the Congregation Emanu-El
serving as director. A new Rabbi
will be appointed jointly by the
Union and the Congregation.
Ralph McGill, executive editor
of the Atlanta Constitution, will
address a joint meeting of Gate
City lodge, B'nai B'rith, and the I
B’nai B’rith Women of Atlanta, I
1 Monday evening, April 1, at the !
Progressive club.
Mr. McGill recently returned
from a six weeks tour of Ger
many, Egypt, Palestine, Italy,
and Greece, and will speak on
“My Observations Of The Near
| East.” The trip was undertaken
| for the specific purpose of
| studying problems of displaced
persons in relation to Palestine.
It was Mr. McGill’s second trip
to Europe in a year. He spent
four months during the early
part of 1945 touring the friendly
capitals of the world for the
American Society of Newspatpcr
Editors.
Mrs. Mamie K. Taylor, super
visor of the home service depart
ment of the Georgia Power co.,
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Aid From Exiles
NEW YORK (JPS)—The Span
ish Government in Exile, in a
manifesto issued here, promised
that if restored as a recognized
Government of Spain, it will sup
port the claim of the Jews to a
homeland in Palestine,
Fellowships
Offered In
Vocational Work
Quotas Alloted In UJA Drive
During Five-State Conference
Ralph McGill Decries
Political Issue
In Palestine
Power politics between England
and Russia was called the crucial
problem in Arab-Jewish relations
in Palestine rather than any
differences of opinion between
the two semetic peoples, Ralph
McGill, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, told a five-state
gathering here earlier this week.
The meeting had been called
to spur the Untied Jewish Appeal
for $100,000,000 for refugees,
overseas needs and Palestine.
More than 200 delegates from
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee,
Louisiana and Mississippi at
tended.
quota was set at $400,000; Savan
nah, $200,000 Augusta, $75,000;
Columbus, $50,000; Macon, $35,-
000; Rome, $15,000 and Bruns
wick, $12,500.
McGill said Arab agitators
were responsible for disturbances
McGill took the place of Sena
tor Alben Barkley who wa3
scheduled as the featured speak
er. The senator could not attend
because of the illness of his wife.
Samuel Rothberg of Atlanta
pledged the undivided support of
the southeast to the campaign.
Quotas were assigned to the
cities and states. Atlanta’s
Gifts
WASHINGTON—One of the
most heartwarming moments
at the recent national Initial
Gifts meeting here occurred
when Maurice Feder, 13-year-
old son of Joseph Feder, of
Passaic, N. J., rose to his feet
following Mrs. David M. Levy’s
moving report of the plight of
the Jewish child survivors in
Europe, .
“Maurice is my name, and
on behalf of my brother and
sister and in behalf of all the
children Mrs. Levy spoke
about, I would like to give
§2,500.”
in Palestine, hut that these
agitators rarerly belonged to the
community in which they were
found. The editor had visited
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WASHINGTON, D. C.-The
B’nai B’rith Vocational Service
bureau will again offer two fel
lowships of $500 each for gradu
ate work in vocational guidance,
Leon J. Obermayer, shairman of
the B’nai B’rith Vocational Serv
ice commission announced. The
fellowships will be given to col
lege seniors or graduates inter
ested in and fualified for ulti
mate service in Jewish economic
adjustment agencies.
Preference will be given to ap
plicants who have undertaken
undergraduate study in sociol
ogy, economics, psychology or
education.
Consideration will be given to
scholastic achievement, extra
classroom and other avocational
activities (particularly group ac
tivities), industrial or other work
experience, maturity, character,
personality, and interest in vo
cational guidance as a career.
Applications must be submit
ted on or before May 31, to the
B’nai B’rith Vocational Service
bureau, 1746 M street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Nathan Named
To High Court
ALBANY, N. Y. — Edgar J.
Nathan Jr., former Borough
President of Manhattan, has
been appointed by Governor
Dewey to an interim term in the
State Supreme Court to fill a
vacancy caused by* the resigna
tion of Justice William T. Collins.
Mr. Nathan is a cousin of the
late United States Supreme
Court Justice Benjamin N. Car-
dozo.
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B'nai B'rith Calls
Rabbi Tzvi Porath,
Former Chaplain
Rabbi Tzvi Porath, of Cleve
land, has been appointed direc
tor of B’nai B’rith youth activi
ties for Georgia, Florida, North
and South Carolina, Virginia,
Maryland, and the District of
Columbia.
Just released from the army
after three-and-a-half years of
service as chaplain, Rabbi
Porath served overseas on a
special tour of duty, ministering
to all religious faiths, and was
stationed for two years at the
A. A. F. redistribution center in
Atlantic City.
Born in Jerusalem, Rabbi
Porath came to this country
when he was eight years old.
He received his bachelor’s de
gree at Western Reserve Univer
sity in Cleveland and his
master’s in social administration
at the University of Pittsburgh.
A graduate of the Jewish Theo-
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Dr. Wise Acts
MRS. TAYLOR
To Cut Tax Aid
Savannah Women
Sponsor Rubinoff
...And His Violin
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Rubinoff
and his violin will be the fea
tured attraction during a con
cert of popular and light classi
cal music here when the wom
en’s club of the the Alliance will
sponsor two performances Wed
nesday in the municipal audi
torium.
The first performances will be
held for children at 3:30 p. m.
The adult program is scheduled
for 8:30 p. m.
Rubinoff, who rose to fame
and fortune as a violinist and
butt of Commedlan Eddie Can
ton’s radio jokes, also will play
at the Savannah High school
and at several junior high
schools on the preceding day.
Plans are being considered for
an appearance at the Marine
hospital.
From University
NEW YORK.—An application
to cancel the tax exemption of
Columbia University as a non-
sectarian educational institution
was filed with the New York City
Tax Commission by Dr. Stephen
S. Wise, President of the Amer-
ican-Jewish Congress, on ground
that the university, which claims
to be non-sectarian, selects stu
dents “for the avowed pur
pose of serving racial and reli
gious prejudice.”
That Columbia University
practices discrimination has
been proven by a thorough sta
tistical study of its admission
practices over a 20-year period
made by the American-Jewish
Congress, Dr. Wise stated.
Meanwhile, two bills calling
for an end ofj^x exemption for
non -sec ta rian .colleges* practicing
discrimination were shelved by
the State Senate after a motion
for action on- one of the bills
was voted doym 28 to 17.
Shelved bills'were submitted by
Senator Friedman (D., Bklyn.)
and Senator Mahoney (R., Buf
falo),
Commission Makes Progress
In Restoration Of Treasures
NEW YORK—The world-wide
movement to restore treasures
looted from the Jewish people
by the Nazis has reached its
first important objective.
More than three and one-
tyalf million books and 5,000
rare manuscripts and old prints
looted by the Nazis from 430
libraries, art collections and ar
chives have been listed in a
“tentative list of Jewish cul
tural treasures In Axis-occu
pied countries,” it was revealed
this week by Dr. Salo W. Baron,
professor of Jewish history and
literature at Columbia univer
sity.
The catalog, covering 20 Eu
ropean countries, was compiled
as the result of 10 months’ work
by a staff unde the auspices
pf the commission on European
Jewish cultural reconstruction
of which Dr. Baron is chair
man.
more important collections of
Jewish books and art pieces in
non-Jewish institutions, some
of which were robbed of their
collections to enrich the “re
search Institutes” which the
Nazis established all over Eu
rope to “document” their theo
ries of racial supremacy.
Armed with the catalog, the
next step toward eventual res
toration will be to locate the
cultural treasures listed and
Identify their rightful owners.
Dr. Baron announced. The
owners, however, are difficult
to identify, and in many cases
private owners are no longer
alive, whole communities hav
ing been annihilated, he added.