The Detroit Jewish National Fund Council rejected a proposal to cancel its fund-raising efforts on account of the bank holiday and is determined to carry on in defiance to the crisis.
Leon Kay, president of the local council, stated today that the concert scheduled for March 19 will take place as planned, and that all other collection plans will continue.
“The work in Palestine, so successfully carried on at present, and holding forth so much hope for the Jews throughout the world, must not be slowed up.” Mr. Kay stated.
“Our effort must be carried on, and if possible speeded up. Especially the national effort, which makes it possible to settle thousands of pioneers on land of the Jewish National Fund, must not be halted. We in Detroit are determined that nothing shall be permitted to interfere with the Palestinian program. The Jewish National Fund stands in the very center of the work. It is the heart of the Zionist program. This heart must continue to throb. The work in Palestine must go on.”
The showing of Palestinian talking pictures for the first time in Detroit will feature the concert here. In addition a sketch of Chalutz life will be given by Hashomer Hatzoir, and Dr. Mark Gunzsburg, eminent pianist, and Emma Lazaroff Schaver, able soloist, will perform.
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