CIRO:NIUE. **now Notre 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 • 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. - 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. HENRY "THE" HATTER (Detroit's Exclusive Hatter) TWO STORES • 145 Michigan Ave. 205 Gratiot Ave SHOWING You KNOW I N ADVANCE JOHN B. STETSON BORSALINO DISNEY Dodge Brothers Dealers realize that a car's good performance is no longer the sole basis of an owner's good will. BEAVERS and VELOURS Including Austrian Importations TAKE OUT THE DENTS Bring In your hat for renovating, retrimming, etc. Es port batten conduct our repair department. Either Store. It is equally essential that dealers give good service. 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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." 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