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The Mystery of Kol Aidre

(Continued from preceding page.)

the seheme of God's judgment of
men there was some provision for
their awful plight.
The Vindication.

Desperately and eagerly, they
searched the Torah of Moses and
the Talmud of the Rabbis for sone-
intlication that their situation had
been provided for and that their
in was foririveable. Did not the
Torah say that a sin committed by
a whole congregation of Israel
against God, meaning the worship
of another god, could be atoned for,
as it is written in the Book of Num-
bers: And forgiveness shall be
granted to the entire congregation
of the children of Israel for the
whole people has sinned in error?"
They found that the Mishnah of
Rabbi Jehudah the Prince dis-
tinguished between the sin com-
mitted by man against man and
the sin committed by man . against
God. The transgressions of man
against God are forgiven on the
Pay of Atonement. The transgres-
s ions hf a man against his neighbor
are not forgiven on the Day of
Atonement, unless the man has
first been reconciled with his neigh-
bor." Did not the Talmud, the great
code of law, say cleanly that rash
vows made to God under exception-
al conditions, such ns the vow of
Jephthah, could be absolved?
A Melody I. Born.

To avail themselves of these
legal remedies for their pathetic•
situation in the law of the Bible
and in the codes of the Rabbis, they
wrote down and recited this verb-
ally exact and legally accurate
formula which we now know as the
Kol Nidre. It was no dry docu-
ment to them. To them those dead
words meant life and hope. For
them this formula was the suhlim-
est of all poetry. Every phrase
was freighted with significance,
every word carried salvation. And
when they recited it they accom-
panied the words with many a sob
and with many a sigh. Fear of de-
tection and the dread of death com-
bined with high courage and stub-
born faith to shape the tone in
which the prayer was recited. Grad-
ually the tears and the smiles. the
tremblings and the exultations,
fashioned themselves into a melody.
That melody was a mosaic com-
posed of every beautiful note that
had been voiced in the musical
traditions of Israel. it was 800
years in the making. It was hand-
ed down from father to son, and
from cantor to cantor, becoming
richer and more powerful with
every generation.

Recently a great musician, Max
Brush, hearing the Kol Nidre
chanted by a cantor in a synagog
was struck by its profound quality
and he wrote it down in notes. No
sooner was it heard upon the con-
cert platform, played on the cello,
than it took rank immediately
among the classics of music. To
the discerning ear it expresses the
throbbing pain of the martyr peo-
ple, suffering in the pursuit of its
ideals. And in uttering the mar-
tyrdom of the Jews, the Kol Nidre
gives voice to all the anguish of
the human flesh in conflict with it-
self. To the discerning ear it sings
forth the exultant joy of the Jew-
ish soul, triumphant despite all suf-
fering in the pursuit of its ideals.
And in articulating the victory of
the Jewish idealism, the Kid Nidre
melody proclaims also the triumph
of the human seal in its struggle
upward from the dust toward the
light. This is why the melody with
which our service began exerts
such a spell upon all who hear it.
That terrible chapter of Jewish
history which it re-echoes is now
dosed. A wonderful thing has oc-
curred before our own eyes. Spain ,
the very country that drove our
forefathers out—Spain, the coun-
try whose cruelty gave such poig-
nancy to the Kol Nidre melody—
Spain is now inviting the Jewish
people to come back into her terri-
tory. The expulsion of the Jews
has impoverished her. From the
leading commercial country of the
medieval world, she has degenerat-
ed into a backward country. Her
own intolerance has destroyed her.
NOW she wants to atone for her sin.

Reform Union to
&In* aleth El
Drive For Funds
Notro

David A. Brown Will Launch
Intensive Campaign in
November.

Bernard Zeiger of the Ilebrew
Union College will deliver the ser-
mon on the Sabbath of Repentance-,
Saturday, Oct. 1, at 10:311 o'clock.
The month of November will be
the vt•ene of intensive activity in This service will be held in the
behalf of the Union of American Alain Temple Auditorium.
Hebrew Congregations when nwta-
Children'. Yom Kippur Service:
ings will be held in the various

reform temples of the country with
a view to securing adequate sup-
port for the work of the organiza-
tion. Two hundred and seventy-
nine meetings are being planned in
us many reform synagogues
t hroughout the land, which will be
addressed by a flying squadron of
100 rabbis and laymen, headed by
David A. Brown, chairman of the
finance committee of the union.
Co-operating with Mr. Brown
will be the alumni association of
the Hebrew Unitau v.11,ge which at
its recent annual nee tins.; passed a
resolution pledging support of its
members in a financial drive in be -
half of the union. A meeting was
held last week at the office of Mr.
Brown in Detroit, at which were
present a special committee ap-
pointed by the alumni association,
which included Rabbis Morris
Feuerlicht, of Indianapolis, chair-
man; Joseph Rawl', of Louisville,
Ky.; Jonah B. Wks-, of New York
city; Julian Morgenstern and
Zepin, of Cincinnati. Other mem-
bers of the eommittee who were
unable t,, r e present were Rabbis
A. 11. Siker, of Cleveland, and
Louis Wolsey, of Philadelphia.
Plans for all intensive effort were
considered and adopted at this con-
ference.
Announcement was also made at
the meeting of the support of both
the National Federation of Temple
Sisterhoods and the National Fed -
eration of Temple Brotherhoods. I n
a communication to Mr. Brown,
Roger W. Straus, president of the
brotherhood federation, told of the
resolution adopted at the Ra.ent, ex-
ecutive hoard meeting, offering the
co-operation of his body in the Ii-
nancial campaign. The resolution
read :Is follows:
"Resolved, That the executive
board of the National Federation
of Temple Brotherhoods and the
Constituent Brotherhoods of Men's
clubs co-operate with David A.
Brown in his endeavors to place the
finances of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations on a firm
foundation."
In speaking of the financial sit-
uation of the union, Mr. Brown in
a statement said:
"The country at large must be
awakened to the present situation.
The union and the college are suf-
fering from lack of support not be-
cause the reform Jews are not in-
terested in the survival of Judaism,
but because they have taken the na-
tional institutions for granted and
have devoted themselves to the up-
building of magnificent local syna-
gogues. What we especially need
today is a national outlook in Jew-
ish life."

Packard Breaks All
Records in August

Packard car shipments for Aug-
ust were the greatest in any month
of the company's 28 years, accord-
ing to figures just compiled by the
Packard factory. The previous
high record for any one month was
substantially bettered and it is a
certainty that September ship-
ments will total the largest pit.
Although the new Packard cars
which comprised these shipments
were formally announced only with-
in the past two weeks, many thous-
ands have been in owners' hands
fur nearly three months. Refine-
ments and improvements on the
new series Packard Six and Eight
cars have proved to be so import-
ant that even before their an-
nouncements public acceptance was
great enough tic set a factory ship-
ping record in a month long known
as one of the quietest In motor car
sales.
Officials of the Packard factory
believe that such a record is furth-
er proof of progress in the stabil-
izing of motor car buying. It in-
dicates, they feel, a steady forward
march toward a better buying
trend in the purchasing of a good
motor car and the driving of it
over a longer period of time. Cone-
parison of shipment figures in
Packard history show how this
habit of better motor car buying
has been steadily growing.

This is a happy time for Israel,
wh en his former enemies have be-
cone. his friends. And see—the
J ews of the 'twentieth century—
se, the spoiled children of proe-
perity—whenever we hear the Kol
Nidre melody, which is the sweet
essence of the agony which our
forefathers endureil for their faith,
we are inspired by it to the high
There is no fool like a learned
resolve that we shall not be con-
tent until upon all the peoples of fool.
the world who suffer persecution
there shall shine the sun of free-
Men's sins and debts are always
dem and of justice.
more than they think them to be.

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The special service for children
on Yom Kippur will take place in
the Main Temple Thursday, Oct.
at 12:45 o'clot.k. All children should
be present. Rabbi Franc will tell
"A Pont Kippur Story." Children
should assemble in their cress
rooms at 12:30 o'clock where the
teachers will attend them.

Sunday Services:
Sunday services will be resumed
at the Temple Sunday, Oct. 9, at
10:45. Dr. Leo M. Franklin will
occupy the pulpit and speak on the
subject "Paying the Price."

ROM ICUS

CENTERS ASS'N

Turning Back the Pages
.
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

House Council:

The first ms•eting of the house
, council of the Jewish Centers As-
sociation will he held on Sunday,
()chiller 2, at the Jewish Center, 31
Melbourne. This is the most im-
portant meeting of the sensor; and
all clubs affiliated with the center
are urged to send delegates. The
mortis;; will start at 11 o'clock
Announcement was made last Sunday by Jacob Billikopf, execu-
sharp.
tive director of the American Jewlish Relief Committee, of which
---- a
Louis Marshall is chairman, that the first two weeks in December had Rally:
been selected for the campaign to be undertaken to raise in New
All
the
group's
affiliated with the
York City $4,000,000 to complete the $10,000,000 fund fur Jewish
coder are growing enthusiastic
war sufferers, in order to procure the $1,000,000 pledged by Julius
about the rally which will be held
Rosenwald of Chicago.
at the
on Sunday evening, Oct.
center at s o'clock. Medals will be
Governor Sleeper offichdly recognized the value of the communal
distributed to the winners in the
activities of Fred M. Butzel last week by appointing him to the newly
debating contest, oratorical contest,
created Michigan Child Welfare Commission.
and fur the track meet held this
summer. Jacob Mazer and fly
The refusal of President Lowell of Harvard University to change
Keidan, both well known in ath-
the dates for entrance examinations larause they fall on Jewish New
letics in the city, will be the prin-
Year and to make provisions for other dates when Jewish students
cipal speakers. Milton M. Alex-
may take examinations, was condemned by 500 delegates to the con-
vention of the Associated Young Men's Ilebrew Associations of New
England in Faneuil 11811.

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Ten Years Ago—

president of the Jewish Cc'
ter: Association, will preside at the
rally.

"Rector's on the Boulevard."

.% 'ready, though it has been In

Mothers' Clubs:

iteration but a few weeks, Cafe
1;ector, in the basement of the
Stephenson building at Cass ave-
nue and West Grand boulevard,
has come into its own with the
thousands of Detroitera who live
in the north end, and likewise) with
the hundreds who occupy offices in
the mammoth General Motors
building. Proof of its rapidly won
popularity is found in its being
Fenkell Branch:
ish Centers Association known in this brief time as "Rec-
announces the opening of a branch tor's on the Boulevard."
in the h'enkell district at 3130 'tl-
Cafe Rector opened early in
ked Avenue near Dexter Boule- September under the management
vard. The office of that branch will of Dr. H. J. Goodman and asso-
be of from 4:30 to Cl end 7:30 to ciates. The dining room is open
10 o'clock every evening, at which from 7 a. m. to 1:30 a. nt. week
time registrations; for clubs and days and Sundays. The new cafe
has an excellent band—Rector's
classes will be taken.
Serenaders—which furnishes music
'Tis a mark of great perfection for the dancing periods-12 to 2
to bear with the imperfections of p. nt., 6 to 8 p. m. and 9:30 to
others.
1:30 a. ni.

The Mothers Clubs of Detroit
are having their annual Succoth
celebration about the middle of
October, the exact dote to be an-
nounced next week. This part' will
bike the form of a Welcome home
to the monitors who were at the
Mothers ('amp this season.

The .low

Five Years Ago—

Affiliated Organizations:

Plans of tremendous magnitude for the saving of as many as pos-
All affiliated societies, including sible of the vast mass of suffering, starving, freezing sick and naked
the Men's Temple Club, the Sister- Jews of the Ukraine have been laid before the Joint Distribution com-
hood, the Temple Arts Society, the mittee by Dr. Joseph Rosen, whose seeding program has saved the
Young People's Temple Club, and Volga peasants.
the Gyninasium will resume their
activities immediately following the
oint restitution adopted by the
President Harding signe
h
Holy days. The program commit- Senate and the House expressing American approval of the restora-
tees and the board of directors of tion of Palestine as a Jewish homeland,
these societies are busy arranging
the preliminaries for the year's
Charges that Harvard University was seeking to discriminate
work.
against Jewish students have been renewed with the publication of
excerpts from the new blank form which applicants for admission are
School of Religon:
required to fill out, says a Boston dispatch to the Times.
Regular classes of the School of
Religion will re-open Sunday, Oct.
The national headquarters of the Karen Ilayesod in America an-
a The new schedule is as follows: nounces that Col. Josiah Wedgwood, D. S. 0, M. I'., vice-president
the primary and intermediate chil- of the British labor party, sailed from England on the Carmania on
dren report to their class rooms at Sept. 28 and will arrive in New York on Oct. 5 to take part in the
10 o'clock. They are dismissed at fall compaign of the Palestine Foundation Fund.
12:15. II igh school students report
to their class rooms at 0:25. Please
The Jewish Workmen's Circle, at a special meeting, of the New
note that the pupils on arriving at
York branches attended by over 300 representatives of 45 different
the school report in their class
trades voted that each of the 83,000 members of the organization be
rooms and not in the assembly hall
taxed $1 for the benefit of the Hebrew Sheltering and Aid Society.
as was the practice last year.

Beth El College of Jewish Studies:

Greetings From Palestine

At the Yom Kippur services
every member of Temple Beth El
will receive a bulletin announcing
the new courses of Beth El College
By BERTHA FRIEDMAN ZEFF.
of Jewish Studies for this season.
The college will open Monday night,
Greetings from the Holy Land to date in Hebrew and English. To-
Oct. 21. Special attention is called
to the course in "Comparative the Detroit Jewish Chronicle and night I shall visit the cinema
Ethics" by Dr. Leo M. Franklin all my Detroit friends. Everything (movie theater) where pictures are
which will compare the moral ideas here is lovely. Tel Aviv, the little shown in Ilebrew and English.
Most of the people here are Eng-
of Judaism with those of all other
lish or American. One humps
religions and philosophies, and the
against people from the U. S. A.
course in "Current Jewish History"
everywhere.
given by Rabbi Leon Fram in which
Streets are all beautifully paved
the current events of Jewish life
and well cared for by the Jewish
all over the world will be taken up
government of Tel Aviv. Jewish
and explained by their historical
I presume you have already
baekground. The attention of the
Great! One cannot possibly deny
women is called to the special after-
that the foundation for our Jewish
noon classes on Tuesdays from 2 to
Homeland, where our tortured
3 and from 3 to 4 o'clo•k. The
European Jews will find peace, is
women will have the privilege of
already laid. Sometimes in the
choosing any one or two of the
near future our hope of the ages
courses offered on Monday eve-
will be realized. God grant it.
nings.
I presume you have alreaedy
heard of the earthquake which took
Young People's Temple Club:
place
just the week before I came.
Talent wanted! Can you sing,
It was horrible. The little town
dance, act, whistle, do stunts? The
called
"Scham" was entirely buried.
Young People's Temple club will
In this city no Jew was allowed.
need your talent for its musical
It
was
entirely occupied by Arabs,
comedy to lie given in December.
who were killed in tremendously
Apply at once in 'writing to Nor-
large
numbers.
No Jews were
man Birnkrant, Temple Beth El,
killed. About three were injured.
In
Jerusalem
many,
many build-
Succoth Services:
ings were destroyed, causing a
BERTHA FRIEDMAN ZEFF.
Members of the congregation
shortage
of
rooms
and
rents were
should bear in mind that our sea-
son of sacred celebrations; dues not Je•iah city outside of Jon, is now immediately raised in those build-
known
as
the
"little
Paris"
and
ings which remained. Immediate-
end with Yom Kippur. Succoth,
the Festival of Tabernacles, occurs rightfully so. It is just three ly following the earthquake, a dele-
on Tuesday, Oct. 11, and Shminee times as big as it was when I visit- gation of Arabs came to beg par-
ed here five years ago. We now don of the Jews, saying they have
Atzcreth, the Feast of Conclusion,
occurs on the following Tuesday. have large hotels and cafes, dance sinned against God's people and
places galore and one can have a the Lord therefore showeth his
Services will be held in the Temple
wrath toward them.
on both of these occasions at 10 jolly good time here. The casino,
similar to the one at Belle Isle,
These two stories are related.
o'•lock.
caters to a fine group with dancing
In "Schram" the town that was
twice
a
week.
Bathing
in
the
Med-
destroyed,
there lived an Arab who
Prayer Books:
Prayer books for the ]holy Days iterannean Sea, which is part of had sold some acreage to a Jew and
the
daily
life
of
the
residents
here
was
therefore
ousted by his church
may be obtained from the secretary
is also a fine sport to indulge in. which decreed that no land be sold
at $1 each. Every member of the
My
little
girl,
Billy,
and
I,
have
to
Jews.
This
Arab
remained alive
congregation should possess a copy
of the prayer book for himself and already acquired the art of jump- and his but remained unhurt while
ing
over
the
waves
of
the
sea
so
all
others
were
destroyed.
the members of his family.
that they will not throw us over.
In a town called Itamle (per-
Last night I saw a fine group of haps I have misspelled it) some
ballet dancers depicting the art of Arabs had called on a Jewish doc-
the Orient in Arabic and Hebrew tor to administer medicine to re-
rostumes. The place is called the lieve an ailing member of their
"Retain" in Hebrew.
family. The doctor went to the
Gee, its a glory and a blessing home of the Arabs and after caring
to walk on streets named in mem- for the patient drank some tea.
The ideal which has been the ory of great Jewish leaders and
Immediately upon his departure thy
aim of the Detroit Symphony So- biblical characters such as Ilerzlia,
house crumbled before him.
ciety since its inception is to pro- Nachlas Ben Yanu, etc. How good it
It sounds like magic, but it's KO,
vide the finest orchestra music, not feels to hear our "sprouting Jews,"
Now, my dears, I am afraid I am
for the enjoyment of the few, but the little two, three and four-year making this letter too long so I
fur the great masses of music olds, speak, revive and live the shall leave some to fill space next
lovers in the city of Detroit. Tee old, dead Hebrew languages. It's time. I shall let you know in
my
think fur one minute that this great, just great. You find the next letter, the financial status of
splendid organization is main- license tags on autos bearing the Palestine.
tained for the few is obviously ab
surd.
ever forget the delicate shading
To provide these programs of
and limpid tone that Schkolnik
popular appeal, the board of di-
on Oct.
puts into the narrative part of
rectors, is collaboration with Os-
Itimsky Korsakoff's "Scheheraz-
sip Gabrilowitsch and Victor Ko-
To those who have only seen the ade" Suite.? Picture that same
lar, have arranged again this year
two series of Sunday afternoon Detroit Symphony orchestra on artist away up in the Canadian
popular concerts. The first series the concert platform, with the wilderness fighting for two hours
of 12 concerts will start on Sun- :solemn, dignified way in which to land a fifty pound salmon; both
day afternoon, October 10, and the everything is conducted, it would artistic achievements in different
second series on Sunday afternoon, probably be a shock, and at that spheres.
perhaps a pleasant surprise, to see
January 22.
Arthur Luck, who serves the or-
The entire orchestra plays each some of this same group of men chestra in the dual role of double
and every concert. This year five when the season is over and the bass player and librarian had a
new men hove been added to the playtime of the year arrives for strenuous summer indeed. Arthur
orchestra, which now consists of them. Just a little sketch of what will be remembered by all sym-
89 musicians together with the some of them have been doing this phony patrons as the good looking
two conductors. The character at
young man in the very last row
Scarcely had the last note of who seems to get an awful big kick
the music played is popular in the
best sense of the word--not jazz. that memorable performance of out of his big bass fiddle.
but all the lighter forms of sym- Bach on Saturday afternoon pre-
Fred Paine is back from Cali-
phonic music, including selections ceding Easter died away than our fornia where he has spent a sum-
from popular operas, single move- conductor, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. mer making improvements on his
ments; from the most popular sym- left for Europe where he enjoyed farm. Fred says that when he gets
phonies and many novelties—in a brief visit to the music centers. too old to play a seven stroke roll,
fact, a program built with the one' Ile returned for a day or two it he is going west to end his days
idea in mind—to provide an hour June and then hurried out to Cali- on the farm! We tried to find out
and a half of music which will be fornia to be in time for his ap the sae of the farm but he said,
filled with the greatest enjoyment pearance as conductor in The Hos' "Well, tee only a small form, per-1
for the average orchestra enthus- at Hollywood and at San Fran- haps I shouldn't have mentioned
iast. In addition to the orchestral cisco. His work there, together it." Anyway, Fred's back and'
numbers, a splendid soloist is en- with his piano recitals, kept hire ready for work, and as he says,
gaged for each concert and the occupied until very recently, and "When the roll (meaning the strum ;
numbers chosen for the soloists are his only real vacation this summer roll, we presume) is played up
entirely in keeping with the rest has been the leisurely trip he p yonder I'll be there."
now taking east to reach Detn. ,
of the program.
And so it goes: Herman Holod.
In order to create additional en- in time for the first rehearsal er
kin, our talented first viola player,
thusiasts and to provide a large the orchestra which takes place
returns after a summer season
and appreciative audience, the Oct. 4.
Los Angeles Symphony
The !summer has not been itl! with the
management of the orchestra has
orchestra; Carter, Ostrowska and
made a special offer to readers of play by any means for Mr. Kolar
Mosbach
from
Europe; summer
The Chronicle, and has agreed to After his strenuous season with
from further study on his Metro-
provide tickets for either of these the Sunday concerts and the tre-
meat in the east; many others
series of 12 concerts for only SC, mendous effort he put into tip
I from eastern points and some
exactly half of the regular price. choral work for the two Bach per-
from Northern Michigan. but the
Undoubtedly these series offer formances, he again conducted the
main point is they are all return-
eight
weeks
of
Belle
Isle
concerts
an unusual and splendid opportun-
,
ing home and why? Simply to
ity to form • better acquaintance- and brought those concerts up td
make this year's orchestra season
ship and finer appreciation of a standard of perfection not
the
best in the history of the De- ,
symphonic music, and The Chron- reached in the two previous sea-
trait Symphony Society.
icle urges its readers to take ad- sons.
Ilya Schkolnik is now on his IV/IV "From foreign fields and distant
vantage of this generous offer.
lands they come
home from the Canadian wilds
Think much and often, speak where, with his wife, he went after I To lay their talents at the Shrine
of Art."
big fish. Who is there who can
little, and writes less.

Symphony Makes
Offer to Readers
of The Chronicle

Detroit Symphony to

Rehearse

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For MAYOR

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schemes that would bankrupt Detroit.

Second Reason: Mayor Smith vigorously opposed the use of
money for higher education until the grammar and interme-
diate school children are properly taken care of.
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