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Telephone 265.
Jewish Women Of Pontiac Counted
Among Most Active Qroups In State
taking a big dose of ascetic acid.
He had lost a large sum of money
and saw no way out of his financial
difficulties.
Reuben Bialalenski, aged 20, a
trader, committed suicide by taking
iodine
because he had no money for
The Jewish women of Pontiac, school but also of the entire com-
, the holidays. Manya Mirman, 36
A NEWS LETTER
while comparatively few in num- munity center. It also annuaily
' years of age, the wife of a chalTeur,
ber, art among the most active in sponsors Purim, Chanukah and
I committed suicide because of finan-
the state. Despite the handicap other parties for the ehildr•n.
By M. LODZINSKY.
lend worry, especially because there
of small numbers, they have made
Among its charitable activities,
was no money to prepare' for the
up for this lack in energy and en- the sisterhood has, for the past
Not everyone who reads the news- ' h o lid ay,
thusiasm.
two years, been supporting a panels that the fight which the; Erume Koppel came to her hus-
Though without the facilities of widow and her seven saran chil- Polish .Jews are currying on against ' band's workshop to ask him for
the larger cities, there is hardly a dren, in itself a sizable undertak- the cimpulsory Sunday closing taw some money for the holidays. They
fichl of endeavor into which they ing for so small a group.
really understands how much it quarrelled and the woman went
have failed to enter, and in what-
The officers of the sisterhood means to the Jewish shopkeeper or away and look ascetic acid.
ever they have undertaken they are: President, now serving her artislin. Walk through the Jewish Then there is the case of Isaac
have made a most credible show- third consecutive term, Mrs. Ben- streets on a Sunday and see the Banzweig, aged 22, living with his
ing, as is amply proved by the re- jamin Goldstein; vice-president, shops closed, the little groups of ; aged grandmother, a solitary man
spect and admiration with which Mrs. Norman Buckner; secretary, anxious Jews who do not know ' without any close relative-a. His
they are regarded by the larger Mrs. William Present; treasurer, what to do with themselves, and "grandmother and he were dying of
organizations of Detroit.
Mrs. Murray Wolfmnn. Among you will realize that two days of "starvation. Birnzweig had worked
in the week— Saturday and for a carrier. A year ago he had
The Sisterhood of Temple Beth the past-presidents are Mrs. Jo- rest
seph
Burnett, who served for the Sunday—are a calamity to the Po- been dismissed from his job. 1 he
Jacob has hardly an equal for
work and accomplishment, when first two years, and Mrs. Henry lish .lows bringing demoralization two had lived for a time by selling
and ruin to the whole of Jewish the furniture. article by article. In
the number of members is taken Jacobson.
The advisory board of the sister- business life.
the last two weeks they had hardly
into consideration. Organized 10
To keep your shop or your work- touched food. There was nothing
years ago, this organization has hood is composed of Mesdames Jo-
left to sell. The landlord threaten-
seph
Barnett,
Jacob
A.
Meyer,
shop
closed
for
an
additional
day
gone steadily onward, and it is
largely because of this fact that Henry Jacobson, I,. Solomon and in the week means to lost a whole ed to eject them fr o nt the house.
Birnzweig went about in a state
Emanuel
Lewis.
tiny
s
triedr.
It
means
having
more
the Jewish population of Pontiac
Under the direction of Mrs. Da- outgoing than incoming, it means of melancholy. Ni one knew what
is today a well-organized, highly
Was
the matter. He was habitually
done
vid
Levy,
Mrs.
J.
A.
Ehrlich
and
paying
for
work
that
is
not
respected element of the city. The
sisterhood meets the first Tuesday Mrs. Joseph Welt of Detroit, a and it means very often that your a quiet, retiring ',croon, and told
nobody
of his affairs. A few days
Child
Study
Club
customer
goes
to
the
Christian
was recently or-
in every month at the community
shop. after, he was found in the banks
center, which comprises the upper ganized.
The
alternative
of
opening
on
the
of
the
Vistula
with his throat cut.
Although Pontiac has chapters
floor of Teple Beth Jacob. There
of neither Hadassah nor the Coun• Saturday is one which the Jews do • • •
are, at present, 38 members.
Mosel
Blatt,
n well-to-do dealer
Seven or eight years ago, cil of Jewish Womea, most of the not want to take, not at any rate
through the deep interest and co- ladies belong to the Detroit chap- the Jewish Jews in the Jewish Ilia- in crockery lived on the third floor
operation of Dr. Leo M. Franklin ters of both the..e organizations, trict, where Saturday is the holy of a big house with his family. His
and the work and enthusiasm of and are very active in •,upeocting day and where the Jews neither two daughters, Zise, 18 years of age
can nor wish to do their business and beige, 16 years of age, were
Jacob A. Meyer, who has rmce di- all of their activities.
Throughout the winter 'smiths, on that day.. So if they can, they quarrelling. When Passover came,
rected the undertaking, a Sabbath
til at arrange to get their customer into the father bought the elder daugh-
School was founded. At the pres- Friday night servi:es were
Largely the shop on Sunday by the side ter a new dress and did not buy
ent time, this Sabbath School is Temple Beth Jacob.
considered one of the finest in the through the efforts of the sister- door, and they carry on business in anything fur the younger girl.
state without a resident rabbi, and hood, a large number of line the street or in the park, but such Fogy went to the wardrobe and
things get on one's nerve's. It isn't wanted to put on the dress otught
has a regular attendance of more speakers were brought from othe r the proper way of doing business for the elder sister. Zise ran up
cities for these services. Among
than 60 children.
and they get "fed up." And then, and there was a tussle. beige
those
who
occupied
the
pulpit
The sisterhood supports the Sab-
of course, there are penalties for threatened to commit suicide. When
bath School and provides for all during the past winter were Rab- breaking the law, trouble with the she was left alone, she got up on
bis
Franklin
and
Frani,
the furnishings, not only of 111.)
Alexander and A. C. Lappin, all police, and so forth. And there are the window to throw herself down.
informers who spy and tell tales Her dress caught on the framework
and she hung suspended front the
and the result is demoralization.
of Ann Arbor.
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window. Hanging there, she re-
In 1926 there was a large
Greetings
The Jewish Deputies are trying pented her hasty action and began
enough group of children of con-
to twist about trying to catch hold
hard
to
save
the
situation
and
re-
firmation age to justify the estab•
lishment of a regular class and in fuse to yield. They give the goy- of the It dge and save herself. And
she cried far help. Fur several min-
,
ernment
no
rest.
They
demand
the
June of that year Rabbi Franklin
confirmed the first class at Temple ' right to work and trade on Sunday utes she hung there like that. A
crowd
of people collected below and
at
least
for
a
couple
of
hours.
They
Beth Jacob. In this class were
gazed up to the third floor where
Ada Ruth Meyer, Sylvia Solomon, :quote the case of other Christian
the
poor
girl was fighting with
are
free
JOSS
Mildred Goldstein, Esther Kovin- countries where the
death. It did nut occur to anyone
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sky, Thelma Marion Meyer, Jay to open On Sunday.
to
rush
up
to the room and drag
the
Polish
government
even-
Jacobson and Abraham Kirsch • And
' tually had to recognize the justice her in. Meanwhile the girl's
II. A. LAWRENCE
baum.
strength
failed
and she fell down
A Young Judea Club was re- of the Jewish demands, and called to the pavement.
GLASS OF ALL KINDS
cently organized by 18 boys and together a conference to go Into the
The
Jewish
soul
is certainly very
'question. It invited representatives
girls of the -city.
of all sections of the . wish poi et sick. It is hard to go into the reit-
Phone 364.
S0119 which lead to these numerous
In a sense it is cruel for a man'" lotion and asked them for their
to console another for a sorrow views as to the possibilities of alt- cases of suicide in Poland. But it
21 S. Perry St., Pontiac, Mich.
is much harder to reflect how hap-
that himself has not experi- ering the Sunday closing law.
: Tee the conference came the rea- hazard life has grown among the
enact.
Jews,
among a people which always
1 ident of the Club of Jewish Depu-
i ties, Devuty Ilartglaas, the vice- had such respect for life and feared
resident oi the Central Union of death.
The streets of Warsaw are full
lewish Merchants, Deputy Wislicki,
The Season's Greetings.
the president of the Central Arti- of tragedies.
ICO5yr12111 1527, J. T. A.)
sans asso•iation, Councillor Runner,
Engirteer Malkin who represents
Council-
Lillian,
The
Persian King Sabur asked
the Small Traders'
lor Alter of the Band, Councillor Rabbi Hama: "What proof have
Lev of the Left Poole Zion, and Mr. you front your law that the dead
lOchrent of the Union of Shop As- should be buried?" (As the l'ersian
custom was to cremate the dead.)
' sistants.
The Jewish representatives ex- And Rabbi Hama did nut reply.
plainest the position and made sug- "The world is given over to fools,"
gestions to the government. UTI- exclaimed Rabbi Aha bar Jacob
' fortunately the Jews were not unit- when he heard of this: "Rabbi
Acreage — Lemke — Financing
" ed among themselves. Yet they all Hama should have replied with the
I insisted that it was time to make a verse 'his body shall not remain all
night upon the tree, but thou shalt
9-10-11 S. L. BIRD BUILDING, PONTIAC, MICH.
I chaTnhge' government representatives bury hint the saute day,' (
took
no
part
in
the
discussion.
They
xxi. 25.)" (Sash.
Phone 727.
contented themselves with putting
quest ions. But judging by the tone
The Gentile philosophers at Rome
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of their questions, it appears that asked the elders, the wise of Israel:
the government has been forced to "If your God dislikes idolatry, why
the view that in closing workshops, does He riot destroy the idols?"
Jewish artisans should be allowed "If," answered they, "they served
Greetings of the Season.
to work without hindrance. The only such things as are useless to
general km1,11, 1011 of those who the world, He would surely destroy
• took part in the conference is thil. them; but they serve the sun, Inmn,
the minorities section of the goy- stars, and constellations: is Ile to
" cramt-nt is really preparing for the destroy the world because of tails?
introduction of changes in the cOM- But the world takes its course, and
,lotilsory Sunday closing law.
the foolish are called to account."
A few days later, a semi-official I Ab. ''I,, 5110
statement was issued that the gov-
-
—
ernment intends changing the law
"Thou shalt put in order for thy-
in i•011aillallea with the .levsh e-
the way" (to the city of ref-
mands. The statement has been re- self
uge). (neut. xix 3.) On this verse
Pontiac's Largest Recreation (Irate:.
ceived with gratification by all sec-
Rabbi
Eliezer says: "The word 'ref-
tions:1d the Jewish population, tired
uge' was written nt every crossing,
as it is of the constant fight fur the so that the man-slayer would know
Sabbath. This ray of hope has con-
Thompson Bldg., 100 North Saginaw St.
siderably strengthened the faith of the road to take." And Rabbi Kan-
said "This is inferred from
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PHONE 3530.
W. W. SPARGO
the Jews in the good intentions of AIM
the above-cited verse, which means
the Pilsutiski government.
you shall establish all preparations
needed on this way.''' (Mak. tutu.)
A big change selans to have come
about in the mentality of the Jews.
During the course of an argu-
They no hunger fear death so much.
The war, the famine, and the dis- ment, Itablti Elit•zer asked Rabbi
Joshua:
"Did not Ben Stada bring
tress have made many Jews lose
their terror of death. Suicides magic out of Egypt tattooed on his
skin?"
Rabbi
Joshua answered:
were at one time rare among Jeers,
but of late they have become quite "Ben Stada was a fool, and it is
an
established
rule
that see cannot
frequent. Old men, women and
young "girls ta.mmit suicide on the take the action of a single fool as
basis
for
a
general
rule." (Shah..
slightt•st provocation, Si that peo-
ple are astounded to ask themselves 10.1b. See Sid. 30b.)
time: it has happened that human
life has lost all its old associatnons
The pious men of old used to wait
an hour of preparation, and then
of sanctity among the Jeers.
The epidemic of suicide's has say t h e T•fillah in order to direct
spread throughout the whole of Po- their hearts to their Father in
land, but it is especially strung in (leaven. I Ber. 30b.)
605 PONTIAC BANK BUILDING
the capital. There is not a day
without Snail' new tragedy in w hich
Said Rabbi Akiba: "No limb
Pontiac, Mich.
the suffering soul of Polish Jewry that the Holy One, blessed be Ile,
mai., itself manifest. It is hard created in man, was created in
to live as things are, and so easy vain; the hands, wherewith to to
to leave behind life with all its suf- work; the feet, wherewith to
ferings and its starvation.
walk, etc." (Letters of .A. Agiha,
During the fortnight after Pass- Pem ; of Ber. 31b.)
over there were about a dozen of
mist, of suicide. in Warsaw alone.
The feet of a man are his all
There was one case of a Jewish to the place he is summoned, there
woman if about 51, a tailoress who
they
take him, i. e., either to ful-
made three. attempts at suicide.
She was ill and lonely. She- had no fill his decreed salvation or de-
struction.
(Suk. 53a; or Gen R.
husband and her children were far
away in S01111 . provincial town. She lxxxviii.)
email stand it no longer. So she
Before the exilaich Mar l'klia
taintal a bottle of ascetic acid and
drunk it down. She was brought died he asked that they should
bring
him the sum of the charities •
I' the hospital and she threw her-
he had expended in all his life, and •
-elf finally out of the window.
• • •
they found it wa, more than 7,000
'iH
.1 . n there is the ease of Muses denarii. 110 remarked: "A Inc
Itio•hidz. 27; years of 110', a Taff- iourney- -with s•. little prepara
: hunt, who committed suicide by lion!" (Kid. CIO
fl1liat Is Happening
In Warsaw
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"FUNERAL HOME"
44 West Huron Street, Pontiac, Mich.
Phone 475.
Registered Architect.
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Pontiac, Mich.
Phone 2431
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Pontiac, Mich.
Phones 2506.1105
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REALTORS
Attorney-at-Law.
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Waldo Building, Pontiac, Mich.
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Telephone 2832
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Pontiac, Mich,
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