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WILL ADDRESS MEETING
OF WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF
LOCAL HEBREW SCHOOLS
Men' ■ Temple Club:
On Wednesday evening, Feb. 6,
Edward T. Devine, Dh. D., L. I,. I).,
will address a dinner meeting of the
Men's Temple Club on the subject
"Social Service—Its Place in the
American Democracy of the Twen-
tieth Century." Dr. Devine is one of
the most distinguished personalities
in social service work in America.
As a compliment to him, the Men's
Club is inviting the members of the
board of directors of the Detroit
Community Union. This will be called
Social Service Evening.
Rabbi Berkowitz Will
Preach Sunday:
This Sunday, Jan. 27, Rabbi Berko-
witz will occupy the pulpit and will
deliver a discourse under the title
"My Problem and Your Responsibil-
ity." This subject will be of imme-
diate interest to all the members of
our community. Services begin at
10:45.
Dr. Franklin's Bible Clam:
Unusual and intense interest is be-
ing manifested in Dr. Franklin's
Study Class on Friday evenings. If
you have not already registered with
the class, you should do so at once.
The class is engaged in the study of
Ecclesiasties, an ancient book with
an unusually modern message.
Quiet Hour of Music:
Remember that another Quiet
Hour of Music will be given on Sun-
ORCHESTRA HALL
Another Great Production for
SUNDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27
By the Star Cast Headed by
MISCHA AND LUCY GERMAN
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Knights of Judaea.
The Knights of Judaea, at their
meeting on Tuesday evening, vele-
brute(' Chamisho Osor B'Shvat with a
party fur the members. The follow-
ing participated in a Chamisho °stir
B'Shvat program: Joe Safran, Ben-
jamin Cohen, I. I'itzak, Ilarry Stuffer
and Abe Lang.
was more than an incident in life;
that he had a mission to perform;
'that he had a position not only to
maintain but to exalt in this uiverse
of God and of men."
Dr. Franklin said in conclusion:
RABBI SAUL SILBER
"We have preached the philosophy of
what is called Liberal Judaism, but
Rabbi Silber will he the principal
we never have—anti pray God we
speaker at a mass meeting of the
never shall—make the adjective in
Women's League of the United He-
this phrase dominate the noun. We
brew Schools of Detroit, to be held at
have preached an aggressive, virile,
the Kirby Center on Wednesday eve-
dignified, manly Judaism. We have
ning. This meeting will he the first
preached a Judaism such as befits a
of a series, aimed to create an inter-
free and an untrammeled pulpit. We
est among Detroit women for the He-
have preached a Judaism true to the
brew educational work in this city.
best in our traditions. In preaching
Admission will be free to bath men
thus we believe that we have had
and women.
your full approval. You have shown
it by your loyalty, by your devotion,
by your never-failing helpfulness and
co-operation.
"This quarter of a century, there-
fore, whatever its triumphs or de-
feats, have been years blessed of Al-
mighty God. As I look hack to them
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from the mountain height of mem-
and damnable thing that it became. ory, my heart is surcharged with
And so if, on the one hand, our grow- gratitude to God for all that they
ing knowledge, our successful delv- have meant. But from this mountain
ing into the secrets which the past height, I look forward to yonder
has not discovered, gave us a world peaks whose heads are dimly visible
that was new, that was better, that through the distances beyond. Shall
was more comfortable, it also gave we reach them? Who knows, save
114 a world changed for the worse, God? They loom rugged and high.
almost, as some think, to the point of Together let us try to attain them.
irreparable degradation. It gave us And if so be, that some of us in the
a world hungry, starved, diseased, march onward and upward fall by the
dying and well night lost. And all way, let this be our consolation and
this happened within far less than the our trust—that we have done our
two decades and a half of our sur- best and that even if we fail to reach
vey. What prophet of evil could at these heights, the inspiration that we
the beginning of this century have have put into the hearts of our chil-
dreamed a dream so crude and cruel dren and our children's children will
as the reality of which we know?
urge then: on to do what we could
Moral Universe Affected.
not. So may God grant it!"
"That the changes in the physical
A full report of the special serv-
world could not have taken place ices held Thursday evening in honor
without affecting to the core the of Dr. Franklin's anniversary will be
moral and spiritual world is obvious. given in next week's issue of The
I do not forget that every great war Chronicle.
in history has been followed by a
time of unsettlement known as the
reconstruction period, but I maintain
that the situation in which we find
ourselves today, the breakdown of au-
thority, the disrespect for law, the
bowing of the knee before the gro-
tesque gods of gold and the pursuit
of pleasure are not to be explained
wholly as the reaction of the war, Dr. Wise Announces Names of
Scholars Who Will Lecture
but, on the contrary, I hold that the
war was made possible because be-
in His Seminary.
fore the match had been lighted that
NEW YORK.—Dr. Stephen S.
fanned it into flame, the world had Wise, acting president of the Jewish
become a tinder box of immorality Institute of Religion, announces that
and that it stoody ready for the con- by arrangement with Harvard Uni-
flagration that ensued.
versity, Professor Harry A. Wolfsohn
"It is my definite conviction that will join the institute faculty for the
it was because men and nations had second term of this year. According
been content to read the ideal out of to this arrangement, unique, Br. Wise
their lives; that because men and na- points out, in the history of universi-
tions had lost faith in the supremacy ties and seminaries, Dr. Wolfsohn re-
of righteousness; that because men mains an associate professor of Har-
and nations had disenthroned con- vard, but will divide his time between
science and had lowered themselves it and the Jewish Institute of Relig-
to the level of brutes whose first and ion, conducting in the latter courses
last thought is that of self-preserva- in Bible commentaries, history and
tion; that the war had to come as a philosophic texts.
protest at the hands of Almighty God
Begining September of this year,
against the (lance to death in which Dr. Wolfsohn will become head of the
humanity had engaged itself.
institute's department of the Jewish
"Because I am convinced that the history and philosophy.
holocaust of calamity which has be-
Dr. Wise states that Dr. Wolfsohn
fallen humanity is due to the fact is an important figure at Ilarvard
that God has been read out of men's where he is regarded as one of the
lives, I am also convinced that salva- most distinguished younger scholars
tion can come to a pertrurbed, dis- in the field of Judaism. Ile has been
tracted, morally unsettled world only especially active in the Menorah So-
by bringing God back into our lives." ciety and has made some very valua-
Derived Courage From Faith.
ble contributions to the "Menorah
Sounding a personal note, Dr.
Journal." llis magnum opus on "the
Franklin declared that "if I did not
relation of Crescas to Spinoza will
believe in the saving grace of Al-
be published shortly.
mighty God; if I did not believe that
Another distinguished savant who
faith in His love and in His mercy
has ioined the faculty of the Jewish
and in His justice were the corner-
Institute of Religion is Professor
stone and the capstone of life, I could
Julius Guttman of Berlin, an eminent
never have had the courage during
teacher of Jewish religious philoso-
these 25 years to go on doing my
phy, who has been "hauled" to it by
work, humble as it may have been,
the Berlin ilochschule fur die Wissen-
or preaching my message, futile as
schaft des Judenthums. He arrived
at times it seemed to be."
in this country last week. He will
"But how could I lack that faith,
being what I am — a Jew?" Dr. give courses: "The Fundamental
Franklin continued. "Without God Concepts of Judaism," "Sociological
Aspects of Judaism" and "Philosophic
as its keynote. Judaism's whole mes-
sage and mission is without meaning. Texts.'
l'rofessor Chaim Tschernowitz,
That conviction has dominated me al-
world-wide reputation as a Talmudist,
ways, but never so fully and so abso-
under the name of "Ras Zair," is
lutely as during the latter years of
my ministry among you. For the life spending the present year at the In-
of the Jew, too, has been affected by stitute, giving a number of impor-
the conditions around him. It re- tant Talmud courses, prior to taking
mains a fact that the Jew represents up his post as head of the department
a universal people not only through of Talmud in the newly established
the fact that he has left his mark University of Jerusalem.
Professor Reuben Levy of the
upon all the peoples of the world with
whom he has come in contact, but University of Oxford, a special lec-
also through the fact that he, touched turer on Bible and Jewish history,
by that contact, has been influenced who has just been awarded the Senior
Kennicott Prize for a volume soon to
by them.
"They speak of the Jew as a stub- be published in "The Influence of
born people, as a people without the Deutero-Isniah on Later Jewish Liter-
possibility of assimilation, but his- ature," is another visiting member
tory proves, on the contrary, that he of the institute's faculty.
Dr. Israel Abrahams, dean of An-
is as susceptible as any to the influ-
ence of environment, whether for glo-Jewish scholars, will lecture under
the
auspices of the Jewish Institute
good or for ill. And so in a turbu-
lent, topsy-turvy world like this, the of Religion in March. Professor
Abrahams
will give two courses, one
Jew could not remain as he was. The
Jew—if the judgment of those who on "Ecclesiastes" or "The Glory of
have written about him be even meas- Gad," and the other on "Jewish Nota-
urably correct—is either a demon or bles of the Nineteenth Century," in-
cluding Heine, Herat and Lasalle.
a saint. He is either a genius or
tl dullard. He is either a miser or s
NEW YORK.—(J. T. A.1—Arthur
philanthropist. He is either an epi-
Brisbane in an editorial in the New
curean or well nigh an ascetic.
"I do not entirely endorse this York American states that the young
judgment, but.it does stand out that Count Salm, who got so mei pub-
when the Jew is affected by R licity the past few days because of
changed condition in his environment, his marriage to Miss Millicent Rogers,
he permits himself to be carried by supposed heiress to many millions, is
that change to the farthest limits."
of Jewish origin.
Says Mr. Brisbane in commenting
Preachment of God in Man.
Because out of the Jew's life has on the marriage: "This young Hoogs-
gone out that which made him worthy traeton exerted himself enough to go
to be called a "chosen people," that out and pick a large ripe peach on
all-defying faith in righteousness, the tree of matrimony. He speaks
that unflinching and unwavering various languages, made a good-look-
leaning upon God as his support, Dr. ing sheik, moving picture actor, and
Franklin said he dedicated his pulpit is said to have good Jewish blood.
"to the preachment of the God in That blood at least guarantees the
man," and consecrated his efforts "to antiquity of his line and energy in
somehow make the Jew feel that he his blood.
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CONFERS WITH HUSSEIN
Reception to New Members:
The hospitality committee of the
Temple Sisterhood has arranged for
another of its delightful receptions in
the Men's Temple Club room on the
afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 26, at 3
o'clock. A particular invitation is
extended to the women in the house-
holds of those who have recently
joined our congregation, but all oth-
ers interested are also invited to at-
tend.
Club
Notes
At the last meeting Of the Woos
Rachel, the following officers were
elected: Dora Coopersmith, presi.
dent; Anna Goldberg, vice-president
and club reporter; Sophie Rushev-
sky, secretary; Rose Cohen, treasurer.
An interesting Chamisho Osor
B'Shvat program was presented. The
club meets en Saturday evenings at
the Mogen Abraham synagogue on
Farnsworth street.
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JERUSALEM
Arnaud, French High Commissioner
for Syria, is proceeding to Amman
in order to confer with King Hussein.
The Aral, executive announces that
an Arab congress will be held during
Ilussein's visit, either in Jerusaletn
or in Amman. Delegation., from all
Arab countries will participate. The
statement says further that the An-
glo-Arab treaty will be thoroughly
discussed by the members at the con-
ference before King Hussein will sign
it. Special attention will be devoted
ti the clauses regarding Palestine.
The Arab executive issued a mani-
fest() urging all Arabs in Palestine
t) flock ta Amman to show their sol-
idarity with King Ilussein.
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