rican Awish Periodical Cotter CLIFTON AVENU1 • CINCINNATI 30, OHIO IfEbETROVEWISR efitONICL- Efts Emil! iTwiliintall ' 6rretlitgo 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. rachitt'fi (6rrrtittgg nub 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 etV •• I 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 O il 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111101= 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. 6mtiugg 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 CHASE'S DEPARTMENT STORE PONTIAC, MICH. AVRRIMK'f.tfn sR 14 a, ielumirmitmeirmithemiiimilleeiromomenetionetopiteemememeneeeememeimeinifinNIMINW 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. 8 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 •••••••••••••••• 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. .4;? 7 ,1 7 ,1 Annette Jefferson JEWISH WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES IN PONTIAC Rockwell Coal Co. "Guaranteed Coal" GREETINGS Clarence R. VanBuskirk C. I.. 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