A mcricam Arish PerlaSeal erect Michigan's Only Jewish Newspaper Printed in English CLIFTON ATINUI • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 7:114ETROIT Evcry Available News Service Is Given Our Readers •••••••.••• •••••••••••••swsew"."...." MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION Per Year, 93.00; Copy, 10 Cents DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY OCTOBER 29, 1920. VOL VIII. NO. 23. DR. KRASS SLATED AS FIRST SPEAKER I IN FUND CAMPAIGN' BEAUTIFUL NEW EDIFICE TO HOUSE TEMPLE BETH EL ANNUAL MEETING OF TEMPLE BETH EL CONGREGATION APPROVES DESIGN FOR MAGNIFICENT NEW HOUSE OF WORSHIP To Open Union of American Hebrew Congregations Drive, Nov. 5, Will Break Ground Shortly on Gladstone and Woodward Avenue Site for Structure Planned as Social, Educational and Spiritual Center. FLYING SQUADRON WILL CARRY PLAN TO JEWRY RE-ELECT ISAAC GOLDBERG PRESIDENT; DR. FRANKLIN RECOMMENDS ASSISTANT Dr. Nathan Krass of New York will be the speaker at a special Sal, bath Eve service to be held at Tem- ple Beth El, Friday evening, No. 5. Dr. Krass will speak on the subject "Back to the Synagogue." Dr. Krass, who is Rabbi of the Central Synagogue of New York City, ranks as one of the foremost of the American rabbinite, has appeared in Detroit on several occasions. Last year he spoke at the Temple under the auspices of Pisgah Lodge, No. 34, 1. 0. B. It., on European condi- tions, and a year previously occupied the pulpit of Temple Beth El at a Sunday service. Dr. Krass will :dim be remembered in Detroit for his ac- tivities in the local drive for J war-sufferers in 1917. The meeting is part of a national laymen's movement sponsored by the Union of American Hebrew Congre- gation to reawaken an interest in the religious life of the Jew. Nlr. Manny Strauss, chairman of the Advisory Committee of the campaign, will also Ise present. In connection with the drive a "flying squadron" of one hundred prominent Jews, business men, bank- ers, educators, and philantropists, headed by Julius Rosenwald, Morti- mer I.. Schiff, Congressman Julius Kahn, and others of international Establish Thirty-mwond Chapter in note, will start November 4 on a 40- Detroit for Purposes of day tour of the principal cities of the Jewish Study. country to bring the message of re- ruvenated Judaism to the Jews of Having for their object the rime- America. The "flying squadron" is the first kcal advancement of Zionism and the FORM BRANCH OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ZIONIST SOCIETY study of Jewish life and problems to that end, a number of Jewish college men and women of this city met Wednesday evening at the house of bliss Zelda Nledverlov, 175 Garfield avenue, and laid the foundation for a chapter of the Intercollegiate Zionist .NS,OCIAn011 Of America. The I. Z. A. now has 32 chapters in as many colleges and universities throughout the United States, and Will Visit 200 Cities. constitetes the academic branch .of Two hundred cities are included in the Zionist Organization of America. the itinerary of the "flying squadron," , Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, 1:0- and every state of the union will covered. Meetings of a purely edit- lumina, Cornell and Slielligan cational nature will be held in every versifies are anoug those that have city at which the foremost Jewish strong chapters of the I. Z. A. oc a. The work of the I. Z. A. is s d men of the country will set forth the lwrituai seeds of Israel in A mer ica . norml and practical. The University tit of Nlichigan chapter, for instance, has gun in a $3,500,000 campaign which is being launched by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations for the suport of the Hebrew Union Col- lege at Cincinnati, for the extension of synagogue activity and Jewish edu- cation throughout the corer)', for the protection of the Jew s civil rights throughout the land. Reports Review 70 Years of Growth As a fitting monument to 70 years of heroic struggle in behalf of pro- gressive Judaism, Congregation Beth El will break ground within a short time for one of the most spacious and beautiful houses of worship in the assistant to Dr. Lers M. Franklin, and country. The building was designed the furtherance of religious educa- by Albert Kahn, noted architect and member of the Board of Directors of tion among Detroit's Jewry. An audience that taxed the capacity Temple Beth of the meeting rooms attested to The site for the new building is the whole-hearted interest of mem- situated on the northwest corner of bers of Temple Beth El in the mani- Woodward and Gladstone, having a fold activities of their congregation, frontage of 159 feet on Woodward which, with a membership approxi- avenue and running 200 feet deep on At the Seventieth Annual meeting of Congregation Beth El, held in the assembly rooms, Wednesday evening, Oct. 27, complete approbation was ac- corded to plans for the erection of a new Temple, the engagement of an mating 900, ranks among the three Gladstone. The Temple will set back largest congregations in the country. about 30 feet out both streets, afford- HAILS SAMUEL AS SECOND NEHEMIAH Director of Zionist Publications Pleased With Jews' Progress in Palestine. LIFE OF RVICE ENDS AF ER TWO WEEK ILLNESS Mi. Jennie F. Gordon, Beloved in Detroit for Social and Charitable Work,'Dies. l'articular appeal will be made to STUTSMAN, HOUSE OF CORRECTION HEAD,TO ADDRESS B'NAI BRITH DEPUTY IS EXCLUDED. Ganapol. trial created quite a Chronicle Correspondent Lays Anti-Semitism Blame at Door of New-Rich. By Leopold Spero. in Palestine is the High Commis- sioner, Sir Herbert Samuel," Mr. Mar- New Temple Shown. Colored slides of the exterior and interior of the new Temple to be erected at the northwest corner of Gladstone and Woodward, indicate a dignified, classic structure. The structure, which has had the careful thought and personal attention of one of the ablest architects in the coun- try, has been designed not only for the spiritual, but also for the physi- cal, social and intellectual welfare of the congregation. la the absence from this country of Mr. Albert Kahn, Mr. Louis Kahn, his associate, explained the drawings flashed on the screen. Mr. Kahn stated that the plans and specifica- tions are nearing final completion and will lie ready within a short time to be offered for contracting bids. By unanimous vote the Board of Trustees was empowered to prepare the site of the new Temple by raz- ing the building at present upon it, to receive and let out contracts, and to formulate plans for the financing for the new structure: To Coat $500,000. In a splendid and comprehensive report:covering every phase of con- gregational activity, President Isaac Goldberg suggested the advisability of financing the building of the new. Temple by spreading payments on subscriptions over a period of fire years, thus lessening the burden ap- ing suitable ground space for the planting of trees and shrubbery. Provides for Social Activities. 'rite final set of plans as presented and approved mark the culmination of three years of effort on the part of Mr. Kahn and hi, associates. Many drawings were made to induce dis- cussion and criticism in order that the specific needs of the congregation might he disclosed, considered and provided for. The final selection and adoption of the various plans and ideas presented a wealth of material that had to be combined in one or- ganic whole, and its soh-divisions had to he so separated one from.the other that coincident activities would not clash. The, divisional feature was made to apply not only to the cod- gregational requirements, but to club and social activities as well. The most outstanding. feature of the structure is the modern and splendid facilities for Sunday schoil teaching. Twenty-one individual class-rooms are planned, patterned after modern public school_ require- ments. Committee rooms for the different organizations of the_ Temple, three commodious assembly rooms citiaty- hug capacities, equipped ,with slage.s, kitchen. ind tuink,roorpa, recreatidn halls and stu'r • rnoansitil inclUded In flie 'specifications,:'. • j ; ts: I Bathurst is an preciably: , Mr. Goldberg expressed Classic StrwOre. aristocratic person of moderately an- confidence' that the suns of $500,000, the new build- The Temple will be a simple a cient lineage who owns the London the approximate cost.of ing. would be raised without dill- structure, construct dignifiedeluvic Morning I'ost, the organ of the . Brit- ish aristocracy and their household tufty. Assisting materially in the pro- of Indiana- TiTheitone with little orn - ject is the sum of $250,000 which will %urination.. the , effect i,ofl simplicity servants. With the assistance of Mr. be realized from the sale of the pres- and quiet elegance being sought. s ff. A. Gwynne, her scholarly but ent Temple. columns, some portico of eight Ionic somewhat unscrupulous editor. for- Present Edifice Outgrown. 30 4,14 in height, Whit!' fronts the merly foreign director of Reuter's, "I am confident," Mr. Goldberg de- building, adds to' its massiveness and she has been able to conduct a genuinely efficient campaign of anus clared, that the members of this con- dignity. A wide flight of steps the gregation realize the importance and full length of the colonnade leads up semitism in Great Britain during the year. The stand-by of the Morning the vital necessity of a new religious to the front entrance of the buildinf. home. Our present quarters are en- I'ost campaign, the notorious Pro- Spacious Main Auditorium. tocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, tirely inadequate. Hundreds of our 'rile whole main floor of the build- which Mr. Lucien Woolf has public- members were turned away from our ly branded as a forgery, has never- doors on the !high }holy Days, unable ing is given over to the main audi- theless succeeded in convincing a to worship with us, and were it not torium at the front, the smaller audi- large number of otherwise sane peo- for our Auxiliary Services, the nilln• torium or assembly room at the rear, retiring room, parlors, ple of the middle and upper classes ,lwr would have run into she than- minister's check rooms, etc that there is really a world-conspiracyisands. alone School needs main auditorium, including a The organized by Jews to overthrow the i "Our Sabbath British Empire. In France kindred i would be sufficient to warrent us in balcony, is designed to seat approxi- our 1,:w Temple. You will influences are using the Protocols to huffiling 1 mately 2,000 people. ' Above, the convict Jews of conspiracy to over- hear tonight of one thousand chit- walls will be plastered. The archi- Cron being enrolled for religious in- and no throw the Third Republic; tectural scheme for the ceiling con- doubt a similar agency is at work in Istruction In this Temple. .\II of us sists of four arches, one on each side, JENNSIE F. GORDON the L'nited States. There is no re- know how pitifully inadequate our with a low, flat donne surmounting gogue and proceeded to Clover Hill sponse to this anti-semitic agitation present quarters are. Could there be these. The ceiling will be of orna- Park Cemetery where internment took front the mass of the British people.ia better reason for building? Our mental plaster, decorated in color. place. Rabbis Hershman, I.evin, Nevertheless, anti-semitism bas taken , children's welfare was and is the The excellent wood work in the pres- its place since the war as a factor of i paramount reason for this wonderful ent pulpit and choir loft will be used Timmins and Aishiskin officiated as- actual or possible social prejudice in project. in the new building and extended to sisted by Cantor Minkowsky. 'Building a Fortress." this country. fit the new dimensions. The front Life Devoted to Service. "The plan given out last year in pews will also be used as far as pos- Causes of Anti-Semitism. Jennie Gordon's life Way dedicated What are the causes of it? Men of relation to establishing branch Tem- The to the service of her people. all shades of opinion in the Jewish ples and Sabbath Schools has by no each side of the main auditorium daughter of parents of strong Ortho- community are agreed that anti- means been forgotten or abandoned. sil Aht% there will be five large windows into dox traditions, she early manifested semitism before the war was exotic. The unsettled condition of affairs of which will be worked some of the a devotion and loyalty to Judaism that It now has its roots of native growth. our country has been the cause of beautiful stained glass of the windows found expression in the energetic Something must have happened to the temporary postponement. Nor g. bu ldrii un . ee present uditio espousal of every benevolent and produce the change; and something can 1 definitely promise you tonight in Tt h occupies the charitable cause in the Jewish com- has in fact happened. For part at when a beginning will be made: butt from the of the building front half munity. least of the anti-semitism in Great in due time, with God's help, Beth ground to the roof. Under this are Among the many organizations in Britain the new rich type of Jew and El branch synagogs and Sabbath, boiler rooms, ventila- storage rooms, which she took active part are the his fatuity are directly, though per- schools will dot our city, and every Iladassah of which she was founder haps not consciously, responsible. Jew in Detroit will be able to attend tion equipment, etc. Smaller Auditorium. and first vice-president, the Bien, The foreign-born Jew will not recog- services and every child shall receive Cholem. Juniors, of which she was a nine that he is prone to make hint- religious instruction without being The smaller auditorium at the rear. which has a seating capacity of about charter member, the Jewish Women's self conspicuous wherever he does not compelled to go undue distances. Club where she served on the Board carefully set himself to remain in- "We are building a fortress. Our 700, is separated from the main audi- front all quarters of Directors for many- years, the Wo- conspicuous. Among certain racial enemies besiege us torium by the ample entrance corri- • and in all lands. Where, then, can dor leading from Gladstone avenue. man's League of the United Spin.- characteristics he has one quality and courage for for strength we then is meritorious; he which also serves as the entrance to gogue of America whose national con- which in itself vention she attended as delegate from likes the good things of life, and he the fight? Only in the congregation the class rooms and offices above and On Page 2.) (Continued to the dining room in the basement. (Continued on Pare Mx.) (Continued On Page 6.1 gulies Said. "It was my rare privi- lege to spend an hour with him at the Government House. Thus far he had been able to accomplish something which was considered till now, an absolute impossibility—that of rally- ing to his support and gaining the confidence and respect of every cle- ment in the country—Christian, Mos- serest in the communal responsibility Fund. The organization of a Detroit chap- lem and Jew. on the part of the Jewish youth," Sir, o ne "I cannot make public all he said, Strauss said recently in announcing ter, which is to he similar to the since the audience, was understood the plans of the "flying squadron." in existence at Ann Arbor, has been io- to be strictly confidential. But with- issioned minm Mr. Ph ilip Slones out any breach of confidence, I can "The youth of today is fast falling tin com vita,mwho is aber of the Nli d,s the line left vacant by Ili, parer say that if the Jews of America Will taking their places not only in busi• Committee of the national Intercol- Nlid- understand their duty at the present iation. The Assoc management of legette Zionk IleSS, but also in the Wein C011111i ntet also i ncludes Prof. I. time, before lung Palestine will again Young men are communal affairs. he a land 'flowing with milk and more active than ever before in poll- Leo Sharfloan, of Ann Arbor, and S. honey.' And it is very essential that tics, and philanthropy and it is to the Emanuel Goldberg. of Detroit. onducted American Jewry know e wadi) hose c A campaign is now being youth of America that we look To to among Detroit college students, much Sir Herbert depends upon its make our program a success. Normal Col- support and co-operation. Junior College, of l it Will Strengthen Banks. them our appeal for a ee eival t raditionapirit of Israel is made." lege, and the Law and NI ethical "I know: that lie considers the ing the purpose of the schools, for members of the Detroit In the strengthening of the Zionist banks, Explainl s iate Zionist Center. Orion campaign to raise $3,500,000 Colleg program near future a general meeting will be the Jewish Colonial Trust and the for a ten year's expansion held which will be thrown open to Anglo-Palestine Bank, particularly PreSident Freiberg, and sid: the ppblic to the mass of Jewish the latter, an essential to the success- sa e. J. Walter ful development of Palestine. He is "NVe desire toprevent the lapse of Crdlege stmlenttor membership in the also vitally interested in the Hydro- project xylien I was to al. public sentiment or legislation into a /1 pplications Detrod chapter may be sent to . electric state of unfriendliness to the Jew. on "`"" e • cstine it was common knowledge that Came r r '"' l ' 2 6" Skm"''''''. The Jewish problem in America, as or may be submitted through ihe Dc- British Officials, including the High elsewhere, is a problem of preserv- troll Jewish Chronicle. Commissioner, had approved of Pin- ing the Jewish contribution to the cus Ruttenberg's design for the Ily- 'vorld's thought and feeling through afro-F.lectric Plant to be erected along the survival of the Jew. The Jew- the Jordan River and which, when ish problem i.s therefore a threefold completed, will generate sucient problem embracing education, protec- electricity to supply light, heat and tion and organization. power for the entire country. — "The Jess and non-Jew must be : "It is also no secret that Sir Her- contribu- Will Talk at Regular Mating of Lodge educated to appreciate this bert Samuel is very anxious that at d Methods 'in organited ism on "Ad jrWS nerd (0 be the earliest possible motnent, a long Prison Reform." mmunion-. W,e arc still a religious. co term Loan and Mortgage Bank be — .0or pro- established. NVith the opening of the .egantzed . as a fraternity. wish spirit J 0 Stutzman, Superintendent 1-and Registers, providing an oppor- a soda is to awaken Je it for the selling and purchasing o f the Detroit House of Correction, in gterest America. to revive ro ugh t, so that will address a regular meeting of Pis- tunny of land, this bank becomes a matter Hebrew religion and particularly the young gah Lodge, No. 3-1, I. 0. B. II., NI on- of prime necessity. peg people, y understand and love the day, Nov. 1, on "Advanced Methods ''In addition to these very im por- people, ma faith of Israel, and America may ap- in Prison Reform." ent erprises, there is that of the her who came here from tans Dr. Stitt Palestn Government Loan about preciate Israel's enrichment of Kansas City a year ago to take charge which the newspapers have already life and ideals." ce at the Temple will be- of the Detroit House of Correction, published an official announcement. The servi gin at 7:30. The public is cordially with the co-operation of Dr. I. Z. Mr. Samuel is directly responsible for . NO funds will be solicited. Taub, has been instrumental in insti- the. Loan. Up until his assuming ofti- invited tuting a new disciplinary system at coal duties no one believed an exclu- --_--_—_-_ the prison that is b eing w atched w ith sive Palestinian Government Loan as interest and approval by penologists possible. "The High Commissioner has great all over the country. Recently both Dr. Stutsmati and faith in American energy, enterprise rented with silver Dr. Taub were pre and enthusiasts, and is most desirous loving cups by the inmates of the pri- to enlist all of these in the upbuild- son in appreciation of the new method ing of the future Jewish Homeland. of discipline obtaining at the institu7 Ilis sincerity and great ability—an Mmw Lovrov to Toll Members of Club tion. ability approaching genius, is evident a Womon's Educational and r Ret uns. e ti dots. Every act of To Get Elcon Political Status. d by the in everything he Plans have bee n comple te Witai Brith Club for a smoker for its his thus far has stamped him as the i ir Ne‘hterrifflailiarogfooet, won- members to be given on election made the chasers a- Mine. Marie Lovrov (Mrs . d h classes of peo ple soul ling), a native of Russia, will speak night. Tuesday, Nov. .. served and the returns lion that two Ant alest before the Jewish Woman's Club at lunch Will be of election will be ceived by a be urged to go to Pine— their next regular meeting on Mon- ker installed in the re lodge-rooms Semites and the weak-hearted among day, Nov. I, at Temple Beth El. She tic the club- the Jews. The first would see there has chosen as her subject. ' Reloca- for the benefit of lodge and refuted in the flesh most of the ac- cusations made against the Jewish tion and Political Influence of Wom- members. people. The latter would witness Russia. " i n sights slice to put heart into them. Mtne. Lovrov's thorough study of country. The New Jew Is Born. WARSAW.—Tried on the charge conditions id her native "In Palestine one conies in con- coupled with her extensic travels and , studies in other countries, have es- of having stolen a letter addressed tact with a new kind of a Jew—a Jew by Deputy Diamond to his Ns, e d nurtured in the soil of his ancestors pecially fitted her to her self-impose connection with Diamonds negotia- and who is prepared to cling to it task of making Russia better under- Morgenthau while lec- tions with Henry with all his might and main; a Jew stood to Americans through her he was investigating the Polish pog- capable of doing the most difficult behalf of the United States, tures out its life and literature. roms in physical labor; a Jew: that lives un- Russian musical program A unique a special court in the Polish Scirn der the open free sky and enjoys it," will be given by Mr. Boris Ganapol, found Deputy Dmovsky guilty and baritone, of the Ganapol School of sentenced him to be excluded from says Mr. Margulies. "I met one young fellow, who, hav- Music, who will entertain with a the Seim for one month. The orig- for a great many years group of Russian folk-songs. He will inal revelations which occasioned the ing worked (Continued on Page 6.) be accompanied on the piano by Mrs. sensation there. WOULD AID DETROIT JEWISH WOMEN TO UNDERSTAND RUSSIA BRITISH IRE ROUSED BY JEWISH DISPLAY A lifetime rich is service and self- sacrifice was brought to an untimely Believing its readers entitled to the close Saturday, Oct. 23, in the death NEW YORK.—"The Nehemiah of best and most authoritative sources of our time" is how Mr. Nlorris Mar- of Miss Jennie F. Gordon, social and in accord with its program of worker, teacher and organizer, follow- nixes, gulies, director of Zionist publica- ;ti nes , She was isesarernia The Detroit Jewish Chronicle tion, describes Sir Ilerbert L. Sam- i ng a two weeks' has added to its two 'ICU's services a uel, British High Commissioner, with 28 years od. Several hundred ,numbers of the number of foreign correspondents who whom Mr. Nlargulies had a long inter- will write exelusively for its columns. View during his recent visit to Pales- Detroit Jewish community, including Arrangements have been made with tine. Sir. Margulies expected to find a special delegation, of the Hadassah. Leopold Spero, It. A., LAB., head of the in Government House, Jerusalem, a of which she was She founder, lined Special News Co., 14 Stratford I face, Briton who happened to be a Jess; the streets for several blocks about London, Eng., for a series of weekly instead, the chief executive of the the residence at 293 Frederick street letters and special articles, the first of land impressed him as being a Jew, Monday afternoon to pat their last which is printed herewith. Connections with a heart filled with love for his tribute to the deceased. The proves- will be established shortly, it is planned, people and the land of his people; skin wound its way past the open with the leading Jewish journalirtr of and a mind simply devoted to the doors of the Shaarey Zedek syna- Paris, Roue, ninth!, Berlin and Petro- , great task of establishing a Jewish grad. Palestine. "Possibly the greatest hope I found young people of the Jewish faith to study groups in Hebrew, Jewish his- , torn, Palestine and Zionism. 'flu , so- revive and restore Judaism and to . a realization rarity arranges publicforums a mi I se help Jew and Gentile to nes fur its own oicnibers and quite of Jfidaism's contribution lo A nleri- of ten for the general public. In ad- of life and thought dituni. the Michigan chapter has done Interest Among Youth. a noble, work by making a lariue con- "There has been an awakened in- tribution to the Palestine Restoration '.5 5 Building Has Massive Proportions LONDON—Lady GORGEOUS INTERIOR OF TEMPLE PLANNED , Into this corridor open the stairs and elevator. Notwithstanding the ap- parent isolation of each auditorium, they are closely related through con- venient corridors of generous width affording easy communication from olt scal other. one to tslni auditorium is equipped an ample stage, a small balcony. with Provision is made for a separate or- gan in this room. The windows in this room have also been designed so as to incorporate part of the orna- mental glass of the windows in the eaoru p erF present Temple. The Ten S in Rest. p art of the structure, of the same height as the main audi- torium, is designed to contain four stories in addition to the basement. The first floor of the four stories is devoted to the small auditorium. On the second floor are eight class rooms for Sunday school work, kindergarten, library and sewing loom, in additien to a choir roost adjoining the choir loft and •a kitchenette in - maaectioa with Th the isredwifl nlroi ngs g i ven over to It class-rooms. Three of these rooms that they may be are designed so thrown together into a large meeting that making the third assembly room, room. The class-rooms in the build- ing will be similar to the rooms in the modern public schools of the city„ (Continued On Page 2.). tl