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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

VOL. III. NO. 21.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1918.

L ord Reading
To Speak Fo r
Patriotic Fund, ,ili„,

BLAUSTEIN OF THE IRISH,
tr y John O'K ed•

You talk about your
citing Pot,
1
The crucible of man,
'Where Celt and Saxon, Slav and Scot
Arc made American.
oh 'tis war makes strangers turn
To face a foe defi'm,
Like Sergeant Abey Blaustein,
The scrappy, happy Itholstein, in
The Irish Sixty-nine!

Tentative Arrangements Are
Made for His Appearance
Su re, foolish prejudice some took
on May 23.
At first, in racial pride,

I

LAG BA-OMER
THE JEWISH MAY FESTIVAL

Per Year, $1.50; Copy, 5 Cenb,

E. W. Lewin-Epstein, Prominent
Zionist Leader, Visits Daughter

in Detroit Before Departure
for Palestine,

LOCAL JEWS LEAVE TO
FIGHT IN PALESTINE

Written for The Jewish Chronicle, by DR. GOTTHARD DEUTSCH.

,

DE first principle required tor which occurred about this time,

the understanding of history helped to establish the practice. I

First Detroit Contingent of
Judaean Battalion Received
Big Send off Last Sunday.

-
is the appreciation of the fact this were true, it would remain
that old authors like Yarli
that human nature is the same s strange
h ou ld not h ay , ment i one d i
t, and in
in all ages and zones.
The
The local Jewish young men who
beauty addition these butcheries continue/
\\lien Danny's pug and Sally's hook of nature, awakening from its winter into th ii:n mouth
ol:nittie of tha
have enlisted in the Judaean Battal-
i is tlu
Sitvanizalot)i
Julius
tttlil
ru,
e.
wli
rang ed s ide by side;
sleep with its flower clad meadows fi o
t;
probable
ion
of the British army for active
a
,, ri
of Arnisudt (1819.1890)
hat's a nose when, 'mid the din,
service on the Palestine front were
and its blooming trees,
Its owner is reli'nt,
given a most enthusiastic and inspir-
always was right, when he suggested that
aroused joy in the human heart and the practice not to solemnize mar-
, Like Sergeant Abey Blaustein,
ing send-off at a monster mass meet.
The Earl of Reading, British Am- The scootite, shoothe Blausten',
inade urn chime in with the sung of riages diming the Sefirah has its
ing and recruiting rally at the Han-
bassador and Iligh War Commission- The mighty, fight, Blaustein,
;
the birds. \Vhatever the Bible critic. origin in the Roman custom to Mb-
in
nah Schloss Memorial building on
er to the United States, has tentative- The Irish Sixty-nine?
see egot ilhil.se,
may say - and even prove, King Solo-
High street last Sunday afternook
,
t,o n\eio
ly accepted an invitation to speak in
Venus,
i
Twenty-eight
young men had signed
Detroit on May
(i beauty sue t was s
mon surd)" might have sun g :"Rise
23, in furtherance of O'Connell, here's a slain the, lad!
up
to light for the liberation of Pal-
jealous
that
she
would
uot
tol
the great Patriotic Fund Drive for
up
my
fair
one,
and
come
away,
for
any
other
lovemaking.
\Ve
see
to
any
And Donovan, here's two!
any
estine from the Turks and they were
day
$7.500,000 which is scheduled to begin I wish an ocean tube 1 had
lo the winter is passed • a • the that June is the favorite month for
given the seats of honor at the meet-
the week of May 20.
Unless un-
To share the drink with you.
flowers appear on the earth, the time celebrating marriages, which is due
mg, but before the rally was over
looked-for international matters in- And next I lift a Yiddish bowl,
eight more young men inspired by
of the singing of birds is come?, to the fact that people abstained from
tervene, the Detroit Jewish Commun.
Far bigger than ti pint,
the
stirring speeches and the enthus-
marrying in May. In such matters
ity will have the opportunity of hear- To Sergeant Abey Blaustein,
In the ghetto the love of nature people are very superstitious, as we
iasm of the crowd enlisted at the
ing one of the greatest Jewish figures Untirin', tirin' Blaustein,
wars partly lost. Morris Rosenfeld can sec from a remark made by Rabbi
meeting and amidst rousing cheers
in history, a man who as Rufus To Abey Blaustein, one in soul
E. \V. 1,Ek11N-EPSTEIN,
expresses this regret in his line poem; Jacob Reischer of Metz (died 1733)
took their places with the others. The
Isaacs, a poor clerk at the age of 26,
With all the Sixty-nine!
"Der Yiddisher May," and long be- who says that in one case, when a
streets in the vicinity of the Hannah
declared himself a failure in life, but
31r. E. IV. Lewin-Epstein, of New
fore him Berthold Auerbach in his couple married during the Setirali
Schloss building were packed and
who subsequently became the Lord
(Sgt. .1braham Thanstein is a member
York, treasurer of the Provisional
novel, "Richter unit Kaufmann," ex. against his warning their marriage
hundreds were turned away from the
Chief Justice of England and one of of the old fighting 69Th Regiment, and
Zionist Committee of America, was
overcrowded hall.
pressed the saute thought. He pre- turned out unhappily. 'Ile aged rabbi
the commanding personalities of the has received the Croix de Guerre for
scuts to us the young poet, m uses of Vercelli, Isaac Jacob Cingoli, a a visitor in Detroit last week•1 The speakers
at the rally were Rah.
world's greatest struggle,
special bravery exhibited in the face of E p
hraim Koh, driving through the representative of the old orthodox Ile came to see his daughter, NIrs. In Judah I.. Levin, Fred M. Butte!
Arrangements for the appearance a terrific German bombardment on the
country oil a M.1'104111 spring morn _ and cabbalistic school, quoted this A. Al. Hershman, wife of Rabbi
Rabbi
A.
11I,
Hershman,
Joel Antin
of Lord Reading were made by for- Fremh front a few weeks ago. Ile re-
Hershman of the Sliaarey Zedek Con-
ing with his uncle, the rich hanker, statement in a
nter Judge William F. Connolly. ceived two medals when he belonged to
similar ease Solite gregation, before leaving this country of New York, a prominent Zionist
Veitel Heine Ephraim Kull, is hub- years ago, and provoked his flock by
chairman of the speakers' bureau of the Brooklyn Mt; infantry—one for
for Palestine, where Mr. Lewin-Epstein of the metropolis; Captain E. IL Bag-
thing over with enthusiasm at the his fanaticism.
the Patriotic Fund, while in Wash- marksmanship and the other for service
will co-operate with the American Aled- ter of the local British-Canadian re•
sight of the spring landscape, but his
The liberal school of rabbi ignores 'cal and Civil Commission and the Brit- cruiting station, and Rabbi Ashiskin.
ington last week. Judge Cm/molls- on the Mexican border. Ile ir less titan
prosaic uncle cannot see why one this prohibition, and the "Synod"
may also procure other notable Jew- 23
ish Zionist Commission now in the field. The speakers emphasized the neces-
shotild
feel
joy
at
real
estate
which
held
in Augsburg in 1871, declared it
ish men to aid the local drive which
Before going to Palestine, he will Main- sity of the Jew taking a leading and
he does not Own,
tain
abrogated, but the conservatives still
temporary headquarters in London active part in the war In Palestine
will become one of the finest tight- RABBI H. J. WOLF TO SPEAK
In city dwellings, where there was respect it. The late Lord Pribright,
cores in developing a congenial spirit
for the purpose of establishing a better because then he could show by deeds
AT TEMPLE BETH EL SUNDAY 110 space in front of the houses to formerly. Baron Henry de \Vorms
of co-operation among men and wo-
system of inter-communication between his actual desire to re-establish him-
plain a geranium, and among people (1840-1')0,3), a prominent English
self in the Holy Land.
men of all creeds and circumstances.
the Zionists of all codittries, so that there
On Sunday morning of this week who. wandering through the coon- politician, married a Baroness 'codes- may be a unity of effort in furthering
A reception for the 36 recruits was
Jewish War Funds Included.
Rabbi Horace J. Wolf, one of the try, had to think of the danger of be- cu of Vienna in 1864. The marriage the plans of rehabilitation of the Holy held immediately after the meeting
ing
stoned
or
of
the
humiliation
of
was
set
for
the
Setiralt,
and
Isaac
N.
Lands.
All funds for Jewish war purposes foremost lalolos „f the country, who, being
at the Shaarcy Zedek synagogue un-
abused, love of nature could Nlannheinter, the preacher of Vienna,
will be raised in the Patriotic Fund. because of his special fitness for the
Ale Lewin-Epstein is one of the most der' the auspices of the Hadassah So-
This includes the Jewish war relief work, has been selected as one of the indeed not become a powerful senti- (1793-1865) was to perform the cere- active and prominent Zionist leaders in ciety, Mrs. I.. M. Halbstein acting
and the welfare work among Jewish Field Secretaries of the Jewish \Vel• anent. But it never was completely many. He refused to do it, unless a the world. He was elected to the office as chairman of the committee on ar-
soldiers and sailors. The other war fare Board in the U. S. Arm y lost. Human nature is human nature, recognized orthodox authority, Rabbi of treasurer of the American Zionist rangements.
and
purposes include the Red Cross, Y. Navy, will speak at the Temple next and so the Jewish youth had its Abraham Placzek, Land-rabbiner of organization three years ago and is prob-
The little hand of volunteers left
spring holydav on the eighteenth of
orning,
Aril
p
28, at II 1).,,
Moravia 1179o-1884) would give his ably the greatest factor in placing the Detroit on their long journey across
M. C. A., Y. \V. C. A., K. of C., Sal- Sunday morning.
m
comonly
called
the
thi
rty
. consent. The latter refused to do American moorcinent on a thoroughly the seas on Monday morning. They
vation Army war funds, and civilian o'clock.
16hhi NV" If's subject w il l third d
ay of the Oilier, which means . this,
111,1 the families finally Yielded. efficient bask. The giant strides taken marched from the recruiting station
recreation work near war camps. Be- be "Impressions of Camp Life." ,
In the interests of the IVeltare the thirty-third of the forty-nine day s postponin g the date. The respect for
sides. the eliatiuctly war funds, all the
during his incumbency in office are elo- at 378 Woodward avenue, escorted by
between Passover and Pentecost 4Ilie the opinion
of Jacob leischer did not qu•nt testimonials of Ids ability and officers and men of the British and
money for the organizations of the work he has made a tour of the
Fiftieth) which is the Greek name for prove felicitous for the young couple, leadership.
Detroit Community Union will be
Canadian armies. The flags of the
, our Nhalmot festival.
and least of all front the Jewish point
raised. The Community Union in-
On April 15111, MT. Lewin-Epstein was United States and Great Britain
4)1
vices.
The
loan
me
ss
died young, tendered a farewell banquet by 100 of waved proudly at the head of the col-
Interrupts the "Sefirah."
cludes the local civilian charities, the
and her Nil daughters married out the most prominent Zionist leaders of umn on either side of the Zionist
Jewish members of which are the
'Ellis holiday interrupts a period of
of
the
faith.
Lord
Pribright,
angered the country at the Hotel Marseilles in flag, the emblem of the Judaean Bat-
United Jewish Charities and the Jew-
morning, called the Sefirah, or the at the censure \\ditch
this fact brought New Turk. Ile will sail for England in talions. The first Detroit contingent
ish Fresh Air Society. The other
time of counting the forty-nine days upon him, caused genuine grief to
affiliated organizations represent
a few days, preceding the Zionist Med- will train in Canada and be shipped .
• beginning with the second
the of those who gratefully remembered the
practically every charitable enterprise
ical Unit which sails on or about May to England, where they will receive
Passtiver and ending with the eve of services
\\inch
he had previously ren- .ird. \\Init. in Detroit Ile brought a further military instruction before
in the city. The purpose of the Com-
Shaloitot. This omitting is dime midi -
tiered
to
message
to the local Hadassah chapter sailing for Palestine.
the Jewish community. when
munity Union idea is to prevent du-
lily every evening. On the reason after his death it became known that from Sz55151, the national
plication of campaigns to raise money
The recruits are all unmarried men
for this practice we shall not speak 11. ,
had ordered in his svill that he he on behalf of the medical unit. As a re- who are not subject to the draft in
and to conserve the energy and time
•rots-
, for our n'on'can is with the rotes- buried in a Christian cemetery.
necessary to carry on separate drives
sult
the
local
chapter
decided
to
present
the
United States. Some are above
lion, suliv• this period, called the Sell-
an auto truck to the unit.
for funds. In the coming campaign
the draft age and others are aliens.
, rah, Is observed as a ti me of mourn-
Various Reasons for Festival.
A recruiting station has been estab-
all organizations present their yearly
ing, and the thirty-third day of it as
Th e only exception to the rule of
lished at 39.1 Hastings street and els
budgets which are added together as
:a holiday.
An Appeal to Patriotic
mourning
is
made,
as
has
bee
n al-
forts are being made to recruit an-
one sum and one big campaign will
Rabbinical
law
hooks
tell
is
that
ready
stated,
for
the
eighteenth
of
Jewish
Women
of
Detroit
other
contingent.
be 'nails. for the year. This will re-
the mourning was introduced in meat- Iyar, or the thirty-third day of
lieve the entire community from the
alt,
ory of the
nitincrous disciples of (Mier. The reason for exception
BY MRS. ADOLPH SLOMAN,
many appeals which are made upon
Rabbi
Akiloa who died during that is still more obscure than the reastet Chairman of Committee for Patriotic
it from time to time and result in the
, time.
Service for the Jewish Woman'.
The
Talmud
indeed
contains
for
the
prohibition
51f
marriages
51nr-
concentration of our efforts to win-
the notice that I abloi .\kilia had 12,- ing the rest of the
Club.
period.
ning the war.
lust as a
000 disciples.
of Nvliont died lie-
of the fanciful attempts at
\\
onlen
,
sour
Abner Larned to Head Drive.
country needs von,
cause they did not treat each other an explanation, the following are
tbs. time to show your real patriotism
with respect. a bail habit which has spurted.•
Abner E. Larned has been chosen
ont' author suggests that has come. I hope you will not he
DR. 110R.10E \VOLE
mot entirely died out
our
s. not the preparations for a liolyilay
to head the Patriotic Fund organiza-
begin found seaming. Show your willing-
even tinning the reformers who other-
according it, Talmudic ride two weeks ness to
tion. His ability as chairman of the larger camps in the countr y and h as
serve by
' wise have become emancipated iron bef5 , re. and the
registering nemt
eighteenth of liar is ,,,,,k y ou
Second Liberty Loan drive is well many i n t eres ti ng e xper i ences t o
tell. Talmudic traditions. .A later ;11111101- joist t .ift een day s befo
should regard it as a
re shalm o t, and
remembered and the country may
message will be of timely inter- adds the remark that these deaths is
'irk
ilege
to
do
a
little
to offset the
therefore a holiday. . \ mother att-
well be prepared to hear that Detroit
est. Rabbi \Volt's Congregation has took place between Pass., r ati5I t;55.r git es a still more artificial rear great sacrifices made by our men.
has again given eloquent evidence of granted him a six months . l eave
Shall we do less than our sisters
its patriotic spirit by an oversubscrip- absence for the pursuit of the pa Pentecost. tirttetz believes that these son. Ile figures nut 111;51 if we Inuit
oi er-...is. who are doing everything
th. 12,000 disciples olt•all the follott ers tilt the mere'
Sabbaths
tion to this great fund as it has al- olio work itt which he is engaged. It • of liar leochlia, the heroic leader
the period Jul shouldering a g
u n?
of and the Its,. nessimion days, there are
ready done in the Third Liberty is hoped that he will he heard by a the last attempt of the Jews
1), not 11•il.tte because you can (10
lilier- only thirty-three days left. and there- nobs
Loan. Mr. Larned is tired with en- large congregation.
a
little,
for
taken
in the aggre•
ate their home country by the force fore the thirty-third day is
a 1,1) . 4). vale that
thusiasm and determination after his
mean, much.
1)r. \Yoh' addressed a large gathering of arms, and .\ kilta, as the spiritual Rabbi Nloses Soler (1762-18.toi
There is a
g
i
n
,.,.
exciting visit to the front and his se-
task for eveiy woman so be ready
at a luncheon e hld at the Plmenix Club' leader in this scar of independence, another
reason which is no bett e r.
lection has met with universal ap- on Thtirsday ma
w licit the eat] for ser, it c 1, s111CS.
Re•
ny Ile outlined in de- was considered the teacher of the According to his calculation. the first
proval. lie will be ably assisted by tail the remarkable work of the Je w i s
member. that A11101101 this registra-
h soldiers. I have tits. doubt.: • 15 5t t \I• • -
nt
Fdward T. Fitzgerald, secretary to
• I a). a l)littt lest , inon is \ ohnitary, failure to comply.
\ elfare organization all iiVer the coon.' this, for Talmudic literature abounds which is n551 burnt out by Talmudic with the requ
Mayor Alarx, who accompanied Mr. try and stirred all present with the real- with similar
e st lays y,,,t op en to
exaggerations , and the testimon •
Lamed abroad. Mr. Fitzgerald will 'la wn that the splendid organization he ' Talm u d
u-pu ion ,,f the gmernment
and sub•
ow stays that the rabbis smoke
May
I,
ther
e
for
e
, not of e r a ..,„i u . - , 'menu hi, e•tigation, while simple
direct the work of organizing the represents should be given emery• Incas- often i n
hyperbolic language.
monster parade scheduled for May 18 u re of support and
It k tion of my own?The Jewish youth , • -•-!. , Iration
carries with it no obliga-
co-operation. (On certain. however, that neither Talmud lik e oth
er childr e n lov e d th e
as one of the opening features of the account of going to press Thursday a
spring, tem whi5•15 would in any way inter-
1155r any 1.,1515inical author before the1 5
ano hic teachers gave th e m a holiday inn with villIr
drive. Every organization participat- full report of Dr. \Volf's address will twelfth century records the law- ,or;
i
normal life.
w.t.1 an outing
ing in the Patriotic Fund will be rep- he given in our next iss ue .)
Par the date ■ if the
No woman will be taken from her
the practice that in memory'of this mid i n ey
SEIIUT. JULIUS RUBINER
resented in this pageant.
of Isar, corn...minding his present occupation.
'event no marriages shall lie cele- \i,,y, seas se l ec t e d .
Th e e i g ht een th
No
%%moan
will
be
taken
out
of
her
Bolshevik Tribunal Traats Anti-S•m- . lirate51 and Jews shall observe the ,,j ih s. month
Julius Ruhlner wax one of the most
offered th e ask„nt„ ge home at the expense of her children.
. mourning custom of not
popular and well known young men In
ANTI-SEMITIC CLAUSE IN
ites •s "Nervous" People.
trimming that it would never fall on a Sabbath
(nay such service as her home Detroit. Before his enlistment In the
__
their hair and beard. — it first all -
DRAFT REGULATIONS
and so suggested itself as the most duties permit need she offer.
one. door to mention thi s cus t om i s
U. S. Army, he was chief of the Dix•
Petrograd—The
use
of
ihe appropriate date. It became the "Yid-
NOT YET SETTLED.
Remember, if when your call count Department of the First State
rabbi, .Virallant Ila-Varlii of dklice m
ay .' an d even the sup ers
Gorshkov, appeared be fore the new French
ti.
conies,
you
are
unable
to
fulfill
the
fear \\ Inch
Bank, where he, made many friends
court which the
olsh evikis have es-' Lunel, though later authorities claim lions
„
prohibited marriage: lolcdge made at the time of registra-
ichthey call "The th at the practice originated
• t . I '
In the business world. Ile Is the son
Washington—It was learned in tablis heil. and which
i during
i
this period, yielded to the call non, no harm will come to you; the
of A. J. !Whiner, of 169 Alfred St. lie
Congressional circles that the case Tribunal of the R evolution." Gorsh- Geonim, nit later than the eleventh , of King Solomon: 'Rise lull, my fair
government will fill your place and Is
century.
a graduate of the Detroit Central
of the Anti-Semitic page in the draft kov was charged with the spreading
one, and come away, for lo the win- will accept such service as you feel
High
School, and was an active mem-
regulation, which received publicity of proclamations against the Bolshe-
her is past, the flowers appear on the able to offer as a substitute.
The Marriage Prohibition.
ber
of the K. of I'. and Y. M. II. A.
some time ago, has not yet been set- vikis. In these proclamations Gorski-
earth, the time of the singing of the
Remember that the purpose of this
Sergeant Itubiner is with the 502nd
tied. This, in spite of the fact that kov insinuated that all the Bolslie- Samson Raphael Hirsch, the leader
'birds is come, and the voice of the registration is to assist the govern-
the War Department has ordered the vikis are Jews, who have adopted a (if modern German orthodoxy (1808- turtle"--the symbol of love and do-melt in ascertaining the woman pow- Aero Squadron stationed at Dorr Field.
Arcadia, Florida. Ills rapid promo-
books, in which these statements are strange Christian name, and all are 18881 suggests as reason that the per- , inestic fclicity—"is heard in the land. It -
in our country and to what ektent
recorded, to be destroyed and that working in Germany's service. One secutions of the crusade of 1096,i Rise up my fair one and come away." it will be willing to help in this great Don from a private is not startling in
view
of his native ability and pleas-
the Anti-Semitic clauses he omitted of the people appeared at the Tribunal
mor1,1 crisis.
ng 'personality.
in future editions.
and pressed charges against Gorsh•
1.ct us show that the Jewish women
\\Idle as yet no one has been pun- kov's insinuations. Then a journalist.
will not falter in their duty.
U. S. Intercedes for Jewish Prisoners.
jetted for these statements, several Staritz by name, was given the floor,
From April 27 to May 4 all women
Congressmen, who are interested in and he took pains to defend Gorsh-
Washington—As the result of the
of
sixteen
years
and
upwards
should
intercession
of the United States two
the case, are seeking to obtain suit- kov on the ground that he is probably
register. The places of registration American Jews, Messrs. Yigd
able punishment for those responsible out of his mind.
olies
will be designated. Hours of regis- and Alter Levine, who were impris•
in this connection. Otte congressman
The Tribunal decided to place
tration are from a. m. to 9 p. m,
oned
in particular is greatly wrought up Gorshkov in the custody of a nerve
to be freed within a few days.
against the physicians, who after all specialist who was to examine his
FOR A GOOD KOSHER MEAL
the scandal, escaped unpunished.
Mr. Levine had been charged with
psychological state.
you should try LIEBERMAN'S
Important developments may be
sending money out of Turkey
The audience received this decision
KOSHER
The
RESTAURANT, (Home
expected.
with great applause.
Cooking) 36 Monroe Ave., Second c large in the case of Mr. Yigdolies
was that on the approach of the Ger.
,Floor.—Adv.
imans, he blew up a bridge.

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