COLUMBUS JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Nationally According to a recent report in the New York Times, the Stalinist faction in the Polish Communist Party, in its struggle against the more liberal elements, has used anti-Semitic appeals to such an extent and so successfully, that the Polish government is willing to let the bars down on Jewish emigration from Poland. It is expected that 25,000 or more Jewish professional and workingmen will emigrate from Poland as soon as they can. There are also 11,000 Jewish refugees from Egypt and an estimated 50,000 Jews left in Egypt who will probably have to emigrate before the year is over. Considerable numbers will probably have to leave North Africa as well. A great many Jews as individuals have made financial and other contributions to the Crusade for Freedom effort and the Emergency Rescue Fund through local United Jewish Funds.

In celebration of Passover, the American Broadcasting Company will present a National Television Tribute to Passover, a special network telecast emanating from the House of Living Judaism in New York City, the home of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, parent body of 540 Reform temples in the United States and Canada, Sunday, 5:30-6 p.m. EST. Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, President of the UAHC, along with personalities Eli Wallach and Bess Myerson will conduct the seder. Others on the show include Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lyons and their four sons, Meyer Levin, author of Compulsion, a Hungarian refugee family, and the choir of the HUC-JIR School of Sacred Music.

Locally The Young Matrons Division of the UJF will present an intriguing musical skit called ‘Help Parade’ at the Wednesday evening affair of April 10, at Ilonkas Provincial House. The Program committee of the event is Mrs. David Roth, Mrs. Isadore Gurevitz and Mrs. Sanford Stern who also cooperated in the writing of the clever songs with Mrs. Norman Meizlish, Mrs. Sam Lubin, and Mrs. Mayer Rosenfeld. Participating in the skit are Mesdames Bernard Byrnes, Bernard Zell, Frank Nutis, Mendy Snyder, Thomas Kaplin, Ben Smilack, Allen Gundersheimer Jr., Miss Ruth Tarcov and Stephen Blumberg. Mrs. Sam Franklin is the accompanist. Send in reservation or phone to Mrs. Bernard Frank, BE. 1-6482.

A $100 Minimum Dinner is on schedule for Thursday, April 11 at the home of Mrs. Henry Gurevitz, 185 S. Columbia Rd., at 5:30 p.m. The committee has planned a dinner, catered by Beulah, as well as a colorful evening. Mrs. Katherine Falk, co-chairman of the National Women’s Division Emergency Rescue Fund and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Women’s Division of the UJA, will be the guest speaker. In the United States the goal for the Emergency Fund in dollars is $100,000,000, in Columbus it is $260,000. That’s over and above the Regular Fund.

Columbus Hebrew School pupils will conduct a model seder Thursday, the last day of school prior to the Passover vacation, beginning at 4 p.m. in the Jewish Center auditorium. This program will include recitation of the Haggadah and chanting of Passover songs.

Twig No. 19 of Children’s Hospital, which also serves as Link No. 1 of the Columbus Jewish Home of the Aged, will hold its monthly meeting the evening of Wednesday, April 17 at the home of Mrs. William Barash, 1045 Geers Ave.

Niki Zola Schwartz, Journalism major at Ohio University accumulated a 3.94-point hour ratio and was awarded the Gamertsfelder Hall Scholarship. A graduate of Bexley High School, Niki will be inducted into Phi Eta Sigma, National Freshman Men’s Honorary at a banquet April 25.

The climax of the 1957 Special Gifts Division phase of the United Jewish Fund campaign will be reached Tuesday evening, April 30, in the new Winding Hollow Country Club. All contributors of $150 and over are invited as guests. With the new facilities made available to the UJF the overflow crowd may be accommodated, but Aaron Zacks, Campaign Chairman, and Herbert H. Schiff, Chairman of Special Gifts urges that early reservations be made to assure being taken care of. A highlight of the affair will be the musical presentation of the Young Matrons Division, which has met with such tremendous success at other functions. Richard J. Abel is in charge of arrangements.

The Lone Ranger is appearing at the Ohio State Fairgrounds Coliseum on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 23-24, 4-8 p.m. On the bill with him will be the famed dog, Lassie. Millions throughout the world know Lassie as the star of films and a weekly television show, Lassie. The Lone Ranger is a composite of all men who stand for law and order. He is not a swashbuckling cowboy, but rather one of six Texas Rangers sent west to apprehend a notorious gang of outlaws. Tickets for the all-star show are on sale at Heaton’s Music Store.

Strains of Hawaiian music will set the mood for a "Club 25" party Saturday, April 27, 9 p.m. Highlight of the program will be a dance demonstration by Mrs. Julia Holden, professional instructor of native and ballroom Hawaiian dancing. The party will be held in the recreation room of Pauline Davis, 776 Grandon Ave. announced newly elected Club president, Howard Broner. Charge for the party, open to all single Jewish men and women in the age range of 25 to 40, is $1.50 per person.

Hillel Foundation Dancers and the Columbus Folk Dancers announce an afternoon and evening of Israeli folk dancing, under the direction of Aryeh Cooper of New York City, Sunday, April 28 at Hillel Foundation. Mr. Cooper is National Dance Director of the American Zionist Youth Commission, director of dancing at several Jewish centers in the New York City area, and is dance consultant of the National Federation of Temple Youth. Sessions will be held from 1:30 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. at a cost of $2.50 for both sessions (50c discount each for group reservations of five or more) or $1.50 for one session. Arrangements will be made to eat the evening meal at the Ohio Union on the campus of OSU (not included in the dancing cost).