THE JEWISH CHRONICLE.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
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today.
Offices 307-308 Peter Smith Bldg., Detroit, Mich.
Telephone Cherry 3381 .
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who have called our attention to the matter and who have asked
that it be corrected, feel that an injustice has involuntarily been
done to the Y. NI. C. A. of Ann Arbor and its efficient Secretary,
.
Mr. Fetters, who hots alArilys most courteously and generously placed
Jewish Work in Universities
Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit,
Mich., under the Act of March 1, 1879.
It is only they who do not
Lane Hall, the main auditorium of the Y. NI. C. A., at the disposal
W110 are accustomed to say of the Jewish Student Congregation and of any other Jewish organi-
that the Jewish student in our colleges iond universities will have zations that might wish to use it. It is in justice to Mr. Fetters and
nothing to do with the faith of his fathers. and that whenever it is to his splendid organization that this correction is made.
possible for him to do so, he will deny his religious origin.
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach
this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
tbsolutely clerical. Surely no object could be served by willful mis-
representation in such a matter. however, the Ann Arbor students
Detroit may take its place among the honored cities of the land.
That this may be the case, you who read this editorial 'mist do your
President
Secretary-Treasurer
Subscription, in advance
The error in itself is of no importance as we are sure it was
coming v#eek, and when results of the 'campaign will be announced,
The truth is that the very reverse of this is the case. Thos.
who hate studied the situation at close range are deeply impressed
with the enthusiastic response that comes to the Jewish appeal that
Editorial Contributor is intelligently placed before the young Jew at college. No better
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to evidence of this fact could he brought forward than is furnished at
the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the our own University - of Michigan, where the enthusiastic and loyal
views expressed by the writers.
support that is given to the Jewish Student Congregation grow s
TEMPLE BETH EL NOTES.
from year to year.
Central Conference of American Rabbis
One cannot read the program of the forthcoming Thirtieth Con-
Established about six years ago, this Congregation has steadily
grown from season to season in numbers and in influence. And it is
it fact which may be corroborated by hundreds of students who have
passed out of the University to take up their life work in the various
Ise held it the City of Cincinnati for one week beginning April `Ind,
communities in this country, that no influence that has come to them
Nvithottt—being impressed with the constructive character of the
during their student years has been more telling in shaping their
papers that are to be presented and with the fact that those who
thought and their ideals than that of the Jewish Student Congrega-
have had the making of the program in hand have grasped very
tion. Nor has the influence of this organization been only union the
clearly the vital importance of many of the problems that now press
Jewish students. .1ny one who was privileged to attend the mag-
upon American Israel for solution.
nificent service that was pelt' in the great Hill Auditorium on the
•
It is entirely fitting that the Conference called to honor the evening of Nlarch 16th and at which thou s ands of persons were
Centenary of its great founder—Dr. Isaac NI. Wise—should be con- present, must have been impressed with the fact that the Jewish
structive in character. Ile was essentially a builder. Ile was gifted Student Congregation of the University of Nlichigan is not only in-
vention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, which is to
with a genius for organization such as few men possess. In his day stilling in the young Jew who attends that great school a deeper
and generation, he grasped the fact that Israel seas di vided into sec- love for his ancestral faith and a greater willingness to serve for it
tions more or less antagonistic to each other and he felt that if the than,was his before, but it is also carrying the message of the Jew
Jew was to accomplish his real mission in .-lnierica, the various por- into the hearts of many hundreds of non-Jewish men and women
tions of Israel must not be content to antagonize each other. but if
and giving them a new and a more just conception than they ever
they could not build together, then each in its own way must create
toad before of what the Jest and Judaism stand fur.
and carry forward a program of constructive work.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the Student Congregation
Today, the Jews of America. it must be . confesia,l, are by no idea has been taken up in a number of the large universities of the
means a unit, even upon many of those questions which in them- country as for instance. at Cornell and at the University of Missouri,
selves offer no great reason for division of opinion. It is perhaps and that in all of these places, it is meeting with an enthusiastic
natural that in a time when men's emotions are deeply stirred, and
when there are sharp lines of division upon problems that involve
response at the hands of the young own and young women.
In case of emergency the members
are requested to notify the president
of the congregation, Mr. Iternard
Ginsburg, Nlain 1910.
Sabbath Services.
Services ire held every Saturday Uniongrams.
at 10:30. The sermon this week will
Now IS the 11111e to begin using
be delivered by Rabbi Franklin.
1116011gram. instead of the ■ I
Sunday Services.
typed telegram. It is the hope the
Services are held every Sunday
1.'itiongrant Committee that before•
morning at 11:00. The public is in- the season shall base passed that ev-
vited to both the Saturday and Sun-
ery member of the Auxiliary will be-
day services. The subject of Rabbi come an habitual user of uniongrams.
Franklin's sermon this week is: —?-
They cost only twenty-tive cents
Confirmation Class.
apiece or four in at book for a dollar.
The Confirmation Class meets ev- they can easily be procured by
ery Saturday morning at 9:30 under
commitnicating with Mrs. Mayerberg
the direction of Rabbi Franklin.
or the Temple. Individual union-
Hebrew Class.
grams will be sent on request or it
The Hebrew Class • meets every
book of four will be mailed to you.
Saturday morning at 9:30 under the
Be thoughtful and buy uniongrams
direction of Rabbi Mayerberg.
next time. It is better to buy them
Adult Bible Class.
now SO that y011 Will have them on
The Bible Class will not meet
hand when you need them.
Thursday. April 3ril, due to Rabbi
Franklin's absence front the city. The
class will be resumed, however, on
the Thursday following, at 1:45 as
before.
Red Cross.
Mrs. Lena Cohn.
The Temple branch of the Red
Mrs. Lena Cohn, 'Pt years old, of 742
Cross meets every Tuesday and the
members of the Auxiliary are re- West Grand Boulevard, died at her
home last Thursday night of pneu-
quested to come every Tuesday with-
out fail. 'There still remains a great monia. NIrs. Cohn is survived by her
husband. !tarry Cohn, a furniture
deal of work to be done, and each
dealer of 1450 'Michigan avenue; four
member is expected to do her share
in this necessary and patriotic work. daughters, Mrs. Yetta Gittleman,
Helen, Ruth and Frieda, and two
Thursday Sewing.
sons, Ben, 110W '4:11k/fled in the sub-
The sewing on 'Thursday for local
charities has been discontinued, the urbs of Jerusalem :is a member of
the Jewish Legion, and Herbert.
unit having tilled its quota for the
sea son.
Obituary.
Young People's Society.
The Young People's Society held
an enjoyable social evening last Sun-
basic principles, each side to the controversy should yield to the
day night. The executive hoard is
temptation of berating the other instead of consistently and cour-
planning to hold a "Student and W'el-
zation is helm way in antagonism to the Congregation, thought it come to Returned Soldiers' Day" at
ageously setting to work to establish the validity of its own position.
approaches the problem of the Jew from another angle. The Con- the Temple during the month of
This is exactly what has taken place among the Jews in America to
April. It is expected at that time that
gregation emphasizes the religious side of Jewish life; the Nlenorah, many students will visit the city to
an altogether unjustifiable degree during the past several years.
its cultural-side. Indeed, the two are the logical complements, one be the guests of the young people and
Orthodoxy and Reform, Zionism and Anti-Zionism have all been
that the students in local institutions
of the other, and it is therefore only natural that they should work will become better acquainted. Many
offenders in this matter and to no good end.
in closest harmony. It is nut saying too notch, we believe, to assert of the 107 members who served the
country while in uniform have return-
In building up the program for the forthcoming Conference, this that the organization of Jewish work along the lines indicated in all ed to the city and the Society wishes
fact seems to have been tvcll considered and although it may be of our universities would assure for the future a much more intelli- to officially welcome them back. The
Wednesday night classes will con-
safely stated that the Conference Will deal aggressively, forcefully gent and interested leadership in American Israel in the coming tinue to meet through the month of
and fearlessly with its own problems, it will do so in an eminently years than is the case today,. Surely it is a consummation devoutly April and all members are urged to
attend them until that time.
constructive way and without reference to the attitude of those who
rartior Young People's Society.
to be wished.
The Junior Young People's Society
never weary of berating and vilifying liberal Judaism and liberal
held its first evening entertainment
Jews.
last Saturday evening. Many of the
young people were present and a
The keynote to the Convention will no doubt be sounded in
thoroughly enjoyable time was had
Nlichigan
diocese
by all. The dance was chaperoned
The Rev. Bishop Thomas S. Dendcrsou of the
Prof. Morgenstern's paper on the subject "Were Isaac NI. Wise
turn of Open Mind and by Mrs. Scher. Mrs. Cohen and Rabbi
of
the
Nlethodist
Church
advocates
Ahat
Alive i'oday—a Program for Judaism in America." Dr. Morgen-
'Nlayerberg. The next regular meet-
ing of the Society will be held on the
stern is an ideal man to present a paper upon this subject. Ile is a unprejudiced judgment must construe as a retrogressive step.
second Sunday afternoon in April.
Nor nmst the influence of the Nlenorith Society upon the !Mink
of our young Jews and Jewesses be underestimated. This organi-
A Backward Step
clear thinker who has his subject matter well in hand and whose an address delivered in this city recently, he advocates that the Y.
organization
professional training has been such as to permit him to deal with his ?l. C. A. het:0111e tIVIT'ellly a WI absolutely it Protestant
and that it emphasize its purpose to proselyte for Protestant Chris-
theme objectively; without passion and With011t. partisanship.
tianity.
There can be no question but that a clear-cut, definite, con-
In effect, the Y. II. C. A. has beetka Protestant organization at
structive program is needed for the further development , of liberal
Judaism in this country. It may be that such a program marked least to the extent that non-Protestants have not been permitted
out by liberal Jews will nut at all meet with the approval of our co- voice or vote in its administrative affairs, although we are creditably'
at any time been refused from Cath-
religionists of conservative tendencies. lint they, too, must mark informed that monies have Ind
gifts from Jews are concerned. we know that this
out their program and tvork it out consistently if they can do so ill olics and so far as
case. ..1t the present moment, Bishop I lenderson's
an American environment. lint that is their affair rather than-ours. has been On,
suggestion is, however, not only ill - timed — but may we say it with-
Incident to the meeting of the Conference will be the graduation out giving undue offence—ill Wretchedly poor taste? The Y. NI.
of a class of rabbis from the IlArew Union College on Saturday, C. not only during war times hats been the recipient of the most
April Mh. All in all, the program as published elsewhere in this generous support at the hands of Catholics, Protestants, Jews and
issue promises to he one not only of interest to the rabbis but of those utuiffiliated with any church but even in normal tittles before
far-reaching importance to every liberal Jew in America. The de- the war, it was dependent in no small measure upon the voluntary
liberations of the Convention will therefore no doubt be closely fol- contributions of those who were excluded front participating ill the
lowed by Jews in every part of the country.
shaping of its policies.
lint even a lack of consideration of these facts might be forgiven
Shall Detroit Lag Behind?
a Protestant Bishop under ordinary circumstances. Today, how-
ever, we are not living in ordinary times. Today, there is a move-
ment current in the world to bring men together and not to separate
maintenance of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and them; to emphasize the things we hold in common and not the petty
the Hebrew Union , College are receiving enthusiastic reports front things that put us apart. By his advocacy of the emphasis upon the
Those in charge of the gathering of a fund of $300,000 for the
Boy Scouts.
The Boy Scouts of Troop 76, under
the leadership of their efficient Scout-
master, Milton Aronheim, will hold
a splendid "Parents' Night" exhibi-
tion, in the Gymnasium of the "Temple,
on Thursday evening, April 10th, at
8 o'clock. The program will consist
of signaling. first aid. different Scout
contests and other things pertaining
to Scout work. The troop will also
participate in the Scout rally to be
held at the Arcadia on the evening of
April 3rd. All members of the troop
are requested to be present.
Junior Scouts.
The Junior Scouts had a very fine
rally at the Temple last Tuesday af-
ternoon. The new leader, Id r. Cecil
Sillman, has awakened a renewed in-
terest in the young troop and new
members are constantly increasing.
It is proposed that the Junior Scouts
and the Scouts themselves shall have
it contest in Scout Law and Wood-
craft. Next year many of the boys
who are now in the Junior troop will
he eligible to membership in the
Senior troop. Members of both
troops are now looking forward to the
taking of long hikes as soon as the
warmer weather permits.
Girls' Patriotic League.
The Girls' Patriotic League meets
at the Temple every Tuesday at 4
under the leadership of Miss Ella
Stillman. Attention of the girls in
the congregation above the age of
13 is called to . this I.eague because
they are eligible. The Temple has
organizations for the young people of
all ages and they are expected to
affiliate themselves with the ones to
which they are eligible.
BRITH ABRAHAM ELECTS
CONVENTION DELEGATES
Nlichigan Lodge, III, Order !frith
Abraham, last Sunday elected the fol-
lowing delegates to represent the lo-
cal lodge at the national convention
of the Order Brith Abraham, which
will be held in Atlantic City May
11 to 16: Herman Battling, delegate-
at-large; Max Millner and Sidney
Frank, alternates. Reconstruction and
other problems of vital importance
will he discussed at this convention.
A special significance will be added
the convention in that the order will
at the time celebrate its sixtieth an-
niversary.
The local lodge meets every other
Sunday at Ehrlich's hall, Adams and
Hastings, at 2:30 p. in. l'he officers
of the lodge are: I. Schorr, Presi-
dent; S. Lightstone, Secretary; Max
Mintier, Treasurer. The :Michigan
lodge is 33 years old.
B'NAI BRITH RESUMES
FORUM LUNCHEONS
The resumption of the popular
forum luncheons of the Pisgah Lodge,
I. O. B. It., last Tuesday noon was
celebrated with the largest gathering
that has attended these weekly
events. The speaker of the day was
NI r. Massey Mendelsohn, who deliv-
ered a most instructive and interest-
ing address on "The League of Na-
tions' in an eloquent and forceful
manner. \I r. Mendelsohn is deserv-
ing of 11111f h credit for appearing, in-
asmuch as he was taken ill l'uesday
morning and had just reason for not
delivering his splendid talk.
The luncheon was served in the
new, spacious and beautiful dining
roont on the second floor of the
11'nai Britt building at 25 Broadway,
conducted as Weis 's restaurant. The
oflicers of the lodge were loud in their
praise of the efficient service ren-
dered.
The speaker for the next forum
luncheon was announced as Mr. Sey-
mour Frank, a local attorney, who
will discuss the "League of Nations"
from the opposition standpoint. In-
asmuch as this subject is one of the
most vital problems before the peo-
ples of the world, a still larger at-
tendance is expected next Tuesday.
DENVER RABBI ELECTED
FOR LIFE BY SYNAGOG
every portion of the country. Cities and towns, great and small, Protestant character of the Y. M. C. A. at this stage of proceedings,
arc sending in reports indicating the enthusiastic response that is Bishop Henderson has laid himself open to the charge of being at
being made to the appeal to put these great instittitions of Rehirm retrogressionist—of being one who walks with his head backward.
Judaism upon a permanent and self-supporting basis. In fact, the
Perhaps he spoke as he did ;ithout fully sensing all the impli-
great majority of Jewish communities in America have already gone
cations of the change that he was advocating. Let us hope that this
over the top in this campaign.
Rabbis Attend the Conference,
is true and that upon mature consideration he will change his view-
Rabbis Franklin and Mayerberg
Because the quota of Detroit was so comparatively small, it was point and show that he is a man in touch with the spirit of the will spend the week in Cincinnati,
not deemed necessary to institute a very aggressive campaign here, new day.
for it was felt that the few thousand dollars required to meet our
quota would very soon be sttbseribed and in characte'ristic Detroit
style, we would go over the top within a day or two after our appeal
had reached our people. In this, however, the community leaders
Denver.—In Congregation
Beth
Iiledrosh liagodal, Dr. C. E. Kauvar
was elected for life at a salary of
$5,000, an increase of $2,000 over his
present salary. Dr. Kauvar has been
the spiritual leader of his congrega-
tion for seventeen years. It has
grown greatly under his leadership.
The congregation has entirely out-
grown its present home. Ground for
attending the Central Conference of the new one will be broken about
American Rabbis. Rabbi Franklin April 20. The congregation is plan-
leaves Sunday evening and Rabbi ning an institutiopal synagog to house
Mayerberg will leave Tuesday night. its many activities.
A Correction
Our attention has been called by a number of the students of
have been disappointed and although many of the people have re-
the University of Michigan to 11. 1 error that inadvertently crept into
sponded generously, our quota has not yet been attained and it will
the news columns of the last is tie of the Jewish Chronicle. In the
not be until all of those who should subscribe to this fund have announcement that Rabbi Hershman was to speak before the
done so.
Menorah Society at Ann Arbor, it was stated that the address "will
Surely, it cannot be possible that the Detroit Jewish community
will fail at this crucial time. A community that has been phenom-
enally generous in meeting every need that the war has brought
forward; a community that has gone over the top in every patriotic
campaign; a community that has set an example to the entire country
in generous giving, will not fail now. It is eminently desirable that
all who expect to contribute to this fund should do so within the
next day or two so that during the sessions of the Central Confer-
ence of American Rabbis,•hich will be held in Cincinnati during the
be the first on a Jewish topic to be delivered from the rostrum of
the Y. NI. C. A. Hall." The statement is an error for the reason that
practically since the erection of the magnificent Y. M. C. A. Building
at Ann Arbor, its rostrum has been at the disposal of the Jewish
Student Congregation whose services are held there, week after
week, and on which occasions Jewish sermons are preached by
eminent rabbis. In fact, immediately preceding the talk before the
Menorah Society last Sunday, such a service was held by the Jewish
Student Congregation.
THE B'NAI B'RITH
By Miriam G. (Mrs. S. K.) Slobin
A tribute to our order of faith and charity,
Of brethren thus collected 'neath bond of unity,
A symbol of the worship of our fathers and their kith,
So shines this noble order, our own B'nai B'rith .
Not for gain to its supporters, or laurels does it stand
But just to show its duty to the followers of our land.
To feed the cold and hungry, to clothe the ones unclad,
To give with fatherly bounty unto the orphan lad.
It aims to wield protection over the Jewish name
And help uplift the gifted to win back Israel's fame.
May Heaven lend its blessing while we shall here uphold
B'nai B'rith for er, increased a thousand fold.