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The ball oom of the Bancroft Ito
tel wag artistically decorated with
pumpkins, corn stalks and festoons in
the Halloween colors for the dance
given Thursday e voting, Oct. 30, by ,
the Jewish Y oung People's Society.
A small room if the ballroom NV S
fixed as a fortune-telling booth and
a gypsy prognosticator entertained
the guests during the evening. Dur-
ing the intermission ghost stories
were told and an electrical stunt chair
used. The committee in charge of
the party was headed by Lionel Gins-
burg, assisted by Jay Lenick, Lionel
Hirschberg, the 'Misses Irene Philippe,
Stella Thal, Gertrude ( linkofstein
and Helen Goldstein. Frank Jones'
Orchestra furnished the music and
guests were present from Flint, De-
troit, Pigeon, Midland, Lima, Ohio,
and Bay City.
Two hundred and fifty members of
Temple !need Israel celebrated the
burning of the mortgage of the syna-
gogue at a dinner and dance last Sun-
day evening. Alex S. Levinsohn act-
ed as toastmaster at the flintier and
s peeches were delivered by Rabbi
Lazarus Lehrer of Temple it'neii Is-
rael, Charles Goldstein, president of
the congregation; Mrs. Ii. I. Rosen-
berg, president of the ladies auxili-
ary; A. D. Philippe., president of Con-
gregation Beth El; Isaac Fink, presi-
dent of the Jewish Cemetery Asso•ia-
tion; A. II. Dreyer, treasurer of the
congregation; Mrs. Max Hirschberg,
treasurer of the ladies auxiliary; Miss
Lillian Lenholf, president of the La-
110, Aid Society, nil Masters Eliot
lineman and Gordon Shapiro. In
recognition of their services to the
congregation Mr. Goldstein, who has
been its president for the past 12
years, and Mrs. Rosenberg were pre-
sented with a platinum watch and a
silver plate, respectively. Mr. Fink
received as set of gold cuff links and
loving cup from
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M r. Dreyer a other
the congregation.
Miss l'epi Ileavenrich has returned
from a visit of several weeks in Chi
cago.
Mrs. Louis Levinsohn entertained
the Tuesday club at her home, 039
South Park avenue, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Marienthal, Mrs.
Charles Marienthal and Mrs. A. Gold-
smith of Detroit were week-end
guests in the city last week.
(Lillabren's Tomer
HOW COLUMBUS DISCOV
ERED AMERICA
By Rabbi J. Max Weis.
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Better Hats
for
the "Bettor"
Pay with
an Order From
the kingdom of Spain and had Brea
wealth.
Years passed and still Columbu
was not given the fleet for which he
had asked in order to sail for the land
of Zipangu Ile had just decided to go
tee the king of France with his plan,
when a =rano Jew, Luis de Santan-
gel, offered to help him.
Luis de Santangel event to the king'
and queen. "Think of what wealth
we shall have, when he finds the lands
of Zipangu and Cathay!" he exclaim- I
"The land of Zipangu is a land of
Edward Seitner returned last Sun-
day t e Ann Arbor after spending gold!"
All men were. talking about this
several days with his parents, Mr. and
mysterious country in Asia, where
I Mrs. Adolph Seitner.
gold could be found in great plenty.
The land of Zipangu was none other
Milton Greenbaum and Arthur than the islands Of Japan, of whose
Kirchnur, who etre students at the tower of gold Marco Polo, the great
University of Michigan, spent last traveler, had written so much in his
The king and queen were just as
week-end with the former's parents, !meek. One ship after another left the
stubborn as ever. "We, shall not squan-
Mr. and Mrs. A. Greenbaum.
shores of Portugal and Spain, to dis- der our money on such a worthless
t oee r the shortest route to that land trip," was the reply.
of wealth.
Santangel finally obtained the roy-
Many Jews, such as Abraham Za- al consent to provide the men and the
Icuto and Joseph Vecinho, knew a great boats and Santangel himself promised
Ideal about astronomy and the makings to give Columbus the five million mar-' ,
of maps. They made many charts
that he needed.
which the sailors needed to guide their evedis
The Jews of Spain, who were then I
' boats in the right path. It was very suffering so much, were very interest-
dangerous travel, for men did not
eal in the plan of Columbus. They
know much about the seas in those
lunged to find a new land where they
days. Many of the boats that left
, in peace.
Spain and Portugal were wrecked, could gee and, perhaps, live
On August 3, 1192, on the very day'
and many returned before their voy- after the Jews had been ordered to
age had been completed.
have Spain, the king and queen issued
Just at the time that the Jews were
a royal decree, giving their permission
' having such a hitter time of it in
to Columbus to set sail front Spain
Spain, a man appeared in Portugal.
with his fleet. When he left the har-
His name was Christopher Columbus.
bor of Palos, Luis de Santangel was
Some Say he was an Italian, and there to bid him farewell. With Col-
others claim that he was a Jew.
umbus, were several Jews who were
Christopher Columhus was eager to
glad to leave the land of Spain, their
find the shortest way to the land of land of misery. Even some Jewish
Zipangu, also to the land of Cathay,
among this number.
which we know as China; and to the physicians were
On October 12, when Columbus
. islands of the Irides, where so many sighted land, the first man who set ,
I wonderful spices were tee he found. foot on this new continent was Luis
The first one whose help he asked was de Torres, a Jew. One of the first men
the king of Portugal. But the king to whom Columbus wrote a letter, tell-
of Portugal would not listen.
ing all about his discovery, was the
Columbus then went to the king and
queen of Spain. They too, would not man Luis de Santangel.
Columbus, to his best day, was con-
listen, for they were busy with their
vinced that he had found the Indies
wars against the Mohammedans and and the Intel of Zipangu. He did not
, with their persecution of the Jews.
tee realize , that he had discovered
All that he could get from them was seem
a new land, the: land which we now
I a position as admiral in the Spanish
America.
In that great discovery,
fleet. While he was admiral, he made Ball
the man who had been his truest
three good friends, Abraham Senior, friend, was that generous Jew of
Isaac Abarbanel and Gabriel Sanchez,
who held very prominent positions in Spain, Luis de Santangel.
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The Jewish women of Port Huron
met last Monday at the home of Mrs.
II. Fisher and organized a ladies aux-
iliary to Mt. Sinai Synagogue. The
following- officers were. elected: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Bennett Cohen; vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. Leon Cohen; secretary,
Mrs. Reuben Levine; treasurer, Mrs.
Adolph Rubenstein. Plans are being
made fur a bazaar to be held next
month. Mrs. C. E. Mulford donated
a piano to the Sunday school and sev-
eral women offered to assist in fur-
nishing the synagogue , . The club will
meet again Nov. 12.
Morris D. Waldman, managing di-
rector of the United Jewish Charities,
I stressed the need for a co-operative
spirit in all philanthropic work at a
luncheon given by the Ladies Auxili-
ary of the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue
last Wednesday afternoon: Mr. Wald-
man explained some of the difficulties
I experienced by a Jewish social work-
ler on account of Pie different back-
I grounds of the eastern and western
European Jews in their native coun-
tries and their diverse reactions to
American life. He explained in some
• detail these differences by comparing CHAUTAUQUA ASSEMBLY
the political and social life of the
WILL MEET IN DALLAS
Jews in Germany, as an example of
, the western European Jewry, with the
The first southwestern assembly of
Polish. Russian and other eastern Eu-
' ropean Jews. In American politcial the Jewish Chautauqua Society will
thirty-third annual as-
life, Mr. Waldman said, Jews vote as celebrate the society
and will be bele!
members of political parties, not as sembly of the ,
in
Dallas,
Texas,
Nov. 28 to 30. This
, members of a race, as they do in east-
ern Europe. This is one of the far- assembly includes the district of
Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Missis-
I tors which enable the Jew's in this
country to become members of one sippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and Mis-
souri.
A large delegation of men and
community, regardless of where they
women from that territory will be in
or their parents were born.
attendance and many from other
Women Part of Synagogue.
The pro
Rabbi A. M. Hershman spoke on points beyond the district, women
of
the relationship between the auxili- gram w ill include men and
religious
and
educational
prominence
ary and the synagogue, explaining
that the ladies' organization was not and indications point to a large at-
I an auxiliary, in the usual meaning of tendance.
Miss Jeannette Miriam Goldberg,
I the word, but a part of the synee-
gogue. Ile spoke of the nemd for the secretary of the society, will he
mothers sending their children to the in attendance , at the meeting and as-
Talmud Torahs and Sabbath schools sume charge of it
The eastern assembly, upon invita- 4
re trularly and for the women them-
/(
elves to attend religious services lion from the Pennsylvania State
each week. Rabbi Hershman stressed Federation of Religious School Teach-
the importance of members of the ors, will hold a meetings with it in
Shaarey Zedek congregation showing Philadelphia, Dec. 26 to 30.
Plans are being formulated and
their Jewish spirit by co-operating
with the synagogue not only for the outlined for the work in the summer
good of the. members themselves but schools of the universities for the 1
fur all Conservative Jewry in Detroit summer of 1925.
and elsewhere. The Shaarey Zedek
Synagogue is one of the largest Con-
servative congregations in the United FenkeH Mother. Club:
States.
A meeting of the, Fenkell Mothers
Mrs. Joseph A. Zechenan, president
of the auxiliary, who presided at the. Club will be held at the Custer School,
corner
of Linwood and Midland are-
luncheon and introduced the speak-
nues, Saturday afternoon, Nov. 8, at
ers, u rged 11 regular attendance at 2:30 o'clock. Miss Anita Boleetin of
weekly services on the part of women
and at the Sabbath School in the part the. United Jewish Charities will give 41
"Child Care—the Home
of toe children. Miss Sadie. Jacobson a talk 011
Versus the Institution." Dancing of
played several violin selections and
Russian
folk
dances and the , Virginia $
Miss Flora Prussian, accompanied by
her sister, Miss Esther Krussian, sang Peel will follow.
a number of solos. 'fhe Misses Pros-
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will give Detroit's first autumn flower
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Woodward and Garfield avenues, 1
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Leaves 3100 Donation.
Ill, inclusive., a particularly wide-
spread appeal, officials in charge of
At a nuessmeeting held last Tues- the show believe. The educational
day evening at the Farnsworth Syna- note is to be emphasized throughout.
gogue, Farnsworth avenue near Bea- Experts will be in attendance at the $
bien street, by the Jewish Women's various displays to answer questions If
European Welfare Organization Da- on what, where and how to plant.
vid W. Simons, after hearing a re- Lectures dealing with the beautifying ;
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the, thus for Michigan, attendee! the auspices of the Detroit Allied Florists' 1
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funds which the }Das is raising for and the Grosse Pointe and Eastern I
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refugees stranded in European ports numbers in its membership many
and in Cuba. Mr. Simons, after hear- residents of Grosse Pointe and Bloom-
ing of the Jewish Women's European field Hills. All three associations will
Organization's work in behalf of Eu- lee represented by displays that will 1
ropean war orphans, was so impressed occpy the entire hall, as the exhibi-.;
with its importance that he subscribed tion will consist of three flower shows
in one. The three organizations,
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Heller for aid for the Bias will be individual exhibitions in favor of one
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