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THE ONLY ANGLO-JEWISH NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN MICHIGAN
STATE SECTION
Section Two
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 1928
Growth o Michigan Cities Reflects State's Prosperity
The store which Waites have but re-
cently completed gives to Pontiac a
store thoroughly in keeping with the
other advances made in this fast grow-
ing city. Larger—finer—more modern
—the greater Waites is designed to
efficiently serve the Pontiac of today as
well as the city of tomorrow.
Mr. and Mrs.
Saul J.Birnkrant
EXTEND BEST WISHES FOR
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS
WYEAR TO ALL THEIR
FRIENDS AND RELATIVES.
75 Ottawa Drive
Pontiac, Michigan.
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Pontiac's
Leader and Finest
Hotel
Waldron
New and Fireproof
Most Centrally Located at
Pike, Perry and Mill St..
F. C. WOOD
REA LTOR
Specializing in
BUSINESS PROPERTY
BUSINESS FRONTAGE
APARTMENT SITES
Artistically and Comfortably
Furnished Rooms, all with
Private Toilets; 75 Combina-
tion Tub and Showers;
Rooms en suite—Twin Beds;
Sample Rooms
Rates, $2.50 and Up
Coffee Shoppe
In Connection
Popular Prices
Convenient Parking Space
Stop in Pontiac
and the
Hotel Waldron
GREETINGS
96 North Safiinaw Street
PONTIAC, MICH.
H.L.Stout
General Contractor
35 MARK AVENUE
We Wish All Our Jewish Friends
and Patrons a Very Happy
New Year
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W. E. SLY
COAL CO.
Home of Bonny Blue Coal
Coal
Coke
Wood
and
154 BAGLEY ST., PONTIAC, MICH.
Telephones 1411-1412
According you sinCe'fe' wishes
for pleasant holidays and a pros-
perous New Year in gratitude for
the good will extended us during
the past year, and in anticipation
of your favors during the year to
come.
Pontiac's Expansion is Sensation of the Year
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Compliments
of the Season
lIE story of the expansion of Year's number devoted to the throughout the land for its health- the group commonly referred to
igan communities, is happy giving baths, it is teeming with as the Border Cities, are likewise
Michigan's cities during the
TMich
fairy to be able to outline their growth life during every season of the showing such rapid growth, par- 7
past year
s like
and expansion.
year.
ticularly in the numbers of popu-
tale. Communities bordering on
Wyandotte, Bay City, Saginaw, lotion, that they are keeping up the
A resume of the successes of the
Detroit, including the Border Cit- communities to which these pages Lansing, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo,' pace with the other cities.
ies in Canada, as well as cities are devoted shows that Pontiac Jackson, I'ort Huron and many
Thus, there is developing, in and
further removed from this me- and Flint, chiefly as a result of other communities whose stories around Detroit, in the many com-
tropolis, have shown an industrial General Motors Corporation ac- are included in these pages, are munities
throughout Michigan
expansion which has increased by tivitics, have led the field.
not to be outdone. They are seek- and in neighboring Canadian s.+;ii
leaps and bounds.
Mt. Clemens, the queen of num- ing progress and prosperity and towns, a great spirit of expansion
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, mar resorts, continues to hold the are attaining it.
as a result of these communities'
in these special sections of its New attention of tourists.
Known
Windsor and the other cities in great growth.
Phone 2230
Pontiac
Rosh Itashonah Greetings
Stanley Thomas
Upholstering
New suites made to order. Re-
Ask
pairing and slip covers.
your neighbor for references.
499 Orchard Lake Avenue
Phone 2-M
GROWTH OF PONTIAC JEWISH
COMMUNITY
The Interesting Story of the Establishment of a Community
Center Where Reform and Orthodox
Co-operate; Many Other Activities.
Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Kovinsky
O
The growth of the Pontiac Jew-
On Rosh Ilashonah and Yom
ish community, and the expansion Kippur services are held separately
EXTEND BEST WISHES FOR
of the many local communal pro. for the Reform and Orthodox, but
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS
jects, is an interesting reflection throughout the year there is genu-
of the general growth of the cons- ing co-operation. Friday evening NE WYEAR TO ALL THEIR
munity. services are participated in by FRIENDS AND RELATIVES.
So far as the Jews are cons both groups, and in the past years
cerned, activity in I'ontiac began lecturers from Detroit and else-
267 Perry Street
eight years ago. A small group, where visited the community to
headed by Jacob A. Meyer, found address Pontiac's Jews.
Pontiac, Michigan.
a need for some Jewish work, in
May Get Rabbi Next Year.
order first to offer a Jewish edu- For the coming year, the hope
cation to the Jewish boys and is expressed that a rabbi may be
girls, and secondly, to fortify the secured for the community to
Jewish position of the adults. serve it on a part time basis. A
Spiritually, the 20 families then rabbinical student from the Ile-
residing in Pontiac were starved. brew Union College may be gotten
They had no synagogue and no to fill this need.
school. So the handful that be-
The congregation today has 50
came concerned over conditions
active members, and its expansion
decided to organize.
is considered by them a tine sue-
I extend best wishes
Organise Jewish Center.
cess fur the short period of its
They formed a Sunday School existence.
to all my Jewish friends
and things began to hum. A year
Functioning under the name of
and patrons for a happy
later the B'nai B'rith Lodge No. Beth Jacob Congregation, the Pon-
820 was organized. There then • tiac center has for its president
and prosperous New
became visible signs of a new life. Nathan H. Blumrosen. Sol Manes
Year.
The turning point, however, oc- is vice-president; Dr. George S.
curred when, on Oct. 18, 1923, Weiss, secretary; Joseph Schwartz,
nine public spirited men, uncle- the treasurer. Members of the board
leadership of Sidney M. Netzorg, of directors, in addition to thew
first president of the community, officers, are Norman Buckner, Jack
started work for a Jewish Com- Fink, J. Barnett, Philip Taubman
munity Center of Pontiac. They and L. Hershowitz. This board is
applied for a charter, which was in charge of the various center and
granted them, and then the crea- auxiliary activities.
tion of a unified Jewish force in
Community'. Growth.
the community was assured.
The Jewish numbers, during the
The other men in the group of
last eight years, have grown from
nine were Julius
Jacob Levin,
A. Meyer,
secretary;
Jacob first
Ko- 20 to about 100 families. The es-
vinsky, Saul Orman, Jacob Fink, tablishment of a community cen-
ter only
and achievement
a synagogue was
not past
the
Joseph II. Barnet, Louis Solomon
of the
82 N. Saginaw, Rooms 3-4-5
and Morris Fine.
PONTIAC
five years. The women were or-
Center Cost $40,000.
ganized, the Sunday School ex-
The Center was completed that panded, Zionists have shown prog-
year at a cost of $40,000, and all ress in their work.
Now showing new
but $12,000 was subscribed that
Suits and Dresses which
The Friday evening betures
year.
They
An interesting thing about the proved very successful.
emphasize exquisite sim-
formation of the Center was the helped to bring new life into the
plicity and refinement.
existing difference of opinion be. community. These and many
tween the Reform and Orthodox other things, particularly now
elements. To avoid conflict, the that at spirit of co-operation is dis-
We also carry a full line
suggestion of Mr. Meyer was Played with Detroit, point to ever
of negligees.
adopted to build not a synagogue, • greater progress
Other l'ontiac activities are de-
but a center, and in such a center
both wings could function freely. scribed in other articles in this
This has so far proven successful. section.
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Sisterhood Is Active in Congregational and School Matters;
Hadassah Co-Operates With Detroit Section;
Women's Council Also Functions.
Pontiac's Jewish women are not
With the co-operation of the
to be outdone and are equally as same staff of teachers as last year,
active in Jewish affairs
are the Mr. Meyer will now take charge,
with the Sisterhood as the direct.
men.
ing organization.
Under the leadership of Mrs.
Besides the president, Mrs. Pres-
William Present, as president, the eat, other officers of the Sister-
Sisterhood of the Jewish Corn- hood are: Mrs. Blumrosen, vice-
munity Center in Pontiac has been president; Mrs. Wolfman, treas-
very active, and plans for the corn- urer; Mrs. Irvin Steinman, secre-
ing year point to even greater ac- tary.
tivities.
Hadassah's 28 members co-oper-
The interest the Sisterhood is ate with Detroit Hadassah. Mrs.
now showing in the Sunday School Benjamin Goldstein is chairman of
makes the educational angle its the board of directors.
Many
most important activity.
Mes- plans are being made for the corn-
dames Nathan Blumrosen, Murray ing year, and great accomplish-
Wolfman and Benjamin Goldstein ments as Pontiac's contributions to
form the board of education. Palestine are expected.
The women made a pledge of Among other women's activities
$1,000 for the Sunday School for in Pontiac is the existence of a
the coming year, and called upon branch of the Detroit Council of
Jacob Meyer to become superin- Jewish Women. Thirty Pontiac
tendent of the school. Mr. Meyer's ladies are members of the Detroit
ability has been recognized as a Council.
result of his many years' of serv-
A Child Study Club is also ac-
ice. Ile has been superintendent tively functioning, with an inter-
since the formation of the school, ested group of Pontiac women
except for the past year.
forming the membership.
PONTIAC AIDS PALESTINE WORK
Pontiac
SEELEY & LINTON
REALTORS
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DEPARTMENT STORE
PONTIAC, MICH.
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The Season's Greetings
Pontiac again went over the top
Jacob A. Meyer headed the Pon-
last year. This time it was for tiac committee, and he was assist.
Palestine.
ed by Harry Hirschberg.
The United
Palestine
Through the efforts of 'William campaign,
however,
was Appeal
not the
R. Blumenthal, regional director only Pontiac activity for Pales-
of the United Palestine Appeal for tine. The local Iladassah has, as
Michigan, and Louis Dann, treas-
the Palestine.
past, co-operated
in efforts
urer of the Detroit committee, a in for
By co-operating
campaign
was
launched,
and more with the Detroit Hadassah it has
than $1,000
was
raised towards
considerably
its
the upbuilding of Palestine as the contributed
efforts, and it
hopes to do of
more
Jewish National Home. next
year.
This was the largest sum ever
Young Judaea, which is the
raised for Palestine in Pontiac,
Phone 908 and satisfaction over the result branch of the American Zionist
54 Wayne St.
movement,
has also prospered. It
was expressed by state leaders.
The larget contribution was that was organized. by Mr. Meyer and is
PONTIAC, MICH.
today
the
leader
among the youth
of Jacob Kovinsky, who led the groups.
/ list of donors with $300.
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Samuel G. Backus
Realtor
PATRONIZE PONTIAC
We to all our work in our
own plant—it is not sent out of
the city.
Expert Rug Cleaning—
Dry Cleaning—
Dyeing
8-11 Marsh Block, Pontiac, Mich.
Phone 72-I
Star Garment
Cleansing Co.
Plant, Pike at Marion
Phone 340
Office: 14 East Pike St.
Phones 19-3858
PONTIAC, MICH.
A Happy and Prosperous
New Year to All Our
Season's Greetings
Jewish Friends
KLINE'S
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PONTIAC'S OLDEST
Radio Shop
Estalished 1921
Phone 3582
76 NO. CASS AVENUE
PONTIAC
SETS — SUPPLIES
SERVICE—TESTING
Subscribes More Than $1,000 to United Palestine Appeal,
Hadassah Very Active; Young Judaea
Club Shows Fine Progress.
New Year's Greetings.
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Annette
Jefferson
JEWISH WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES IN
PONTIAC
Rockwell
Coal Co.
"Guaranteed Coal"
GREETINGS
Clarence R. VanBuskirk
C. I.. ROCKWELL
D. C. PERUCIII
PHONE 31 488
371 S. PADDOCK
ARCHITECT
Office, 23.28 Crofoot Bldg.
Phone 882
Pontiac, Michigan
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Specializing in Plana for
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