PIEDerRonjEwisit (A RONIGLE

PACE )l71:

DIRECTORY TE!
GROWTH OF 'TV

. evidence of its inherent
scrap iron and the old fashioned ficient money to buy the land
st iter nignth
an
buggy, together with a dogged de- later build the Strand Theater, at
Impetus.
,
termination to win the respect of 1211 Saginaw street, Pontiac.
The growth of the liberal Jewish
"Those early years were hard
those who ridiculed hint as a "for-
synagogue which has made it the
eigner," have speeded Joke Kovin - ones," Mr. Kovinsky said. "Neither Dr. Mattuck Discusses Varying Shades of Liberalism in largest Jewish congregation in the
fam
America r England and Germany.
United Kin g
dom, and the estab-
k} • ot • 3 • r the rough road from ob- my wife nor I had any pleasures.
sky
placed the t, glup I ‘. o f the
in
• lama Kovsky
We saved every penny, and soon
lishment of other synagogues Estimates Population
Pon.
•.ne of ' the new Peoples and pictures of Mr. Birnkrant and obscurity to riches.
as our earnings had reached any
-
I
though
these
are still small, show
Some
odd
chapters
would
lie
be
tiac at 74,496; Ni,t +II
By DR . ISRAELI . MATTOCK
• .uiik Building, he realized an hi- family.
11 e proportions, I t mug, ht ou t -
tween the covers of the book. One sizable
liberal Jewish movement , in 1926 thought us conservative, I that liberal Judaism is satisfying a
cm formed many years ago.
\Ir. Talbot, as spokesman, said:
Within Limits
timeshas a distinctive quality in each and the Germans thought us radi- spiritual need in Anj•lo-Jewsi.
are forward to the would depict a small buy, yearning right the best piece of business
Ilorn in Poland, Mr. Kovinsky
DV has
rty I could find. Sonic times
ortunity to test his iniwt- property
, for example, cal. These opinions were
ere based on Several factors lead to the belief
,me to Pontiac in 1900 with 821:3 conopletion of the building with fur the opp
county
Y; in Gentling
on
a
little
farm
the
deals
almost
took
more
nerve
Pontiac's
population I
le .1
as he worked
in his pocket. By diligent art tug pride II , I be the new home of tie,
in Poland.
Another would see the than I had, but that nerve has it differs from liberal Judaism in the service with which the confer- that that need will grow. There
to 71,19h, an increase
7.edt
and careful investments this origi- the 1'e.-Ides State Bank." Judge
in his promised land, America, made me one of the wealthiest men England and America. But under ence began. The fact is that lib- are signs that many of those who
since
last
year,
accord..
the
the difference there is a common oral Judaism in England has in it belong to the older congregations
nal sum has grown until he now Dot) and .fudge Gillespie also gave boy
this
city. he bought a three-strir, basis of unity. The establishment at the same time both elements. In are getting restless, finding their estimate of It. I.. l'olk et,
s inking out single-handed to make in In
191f,
is the largest individual tax payer shoi t talks, referring to the build- s
1929 Pontaic city di roc ,
is dreams (lime true. Another
made
ing
a,.
a
contribution
to
the
city's
in the city.
would find him a millionaire, driv- block at Saginaw and Pike aye. of the World Union show's that ceremonies it is inclined to be services inadequate and some of its appearance. This
the
rues. Then he bought a strip of community in thought, ideals and conservative, compared to Ameri- the teachings and practices us-
Assisting Mr. Kovinsky. in plac- progm.ss.
k wagon through the
ing a junk,
and hoPes• In Germany the relations can liberal Judaism, though the acceptable, so that in several di- publishers state, COVer.
ing the polished grand, some was
"It has lace my' ambition since
Luke,
Ker•go
Ilarbor
ae
e last vacant property at Saginaw,
of
Pontiac.
And
th
small
of the Jewish congregations to the actual changes we have made in r•ctions there are movements for
Saul J. Birnkrant, hi- —twin-law.
19211 build it skyscraper in Pon-
fringe of outlying terra
boy
Whitimore aventles and lank six an
high
page would find this imigrant
•
In preparing a base fel t tone tiac," NO. Kovinsky
vinsky said after the in the living rusini of his beautiful houses, a four-family flat and a state are very different from what our services show a considerable change.
A rapid enlargement of scope of is, to most intents an,',
several guests hoodled some of the ceremony. "I have full confidence
a hanker, builder of sky- garage. To get money for further they are in England and America departure from traditional forms.
a part of the city.
home,
•oun • man, and inve stments, he sold the houses and (and again they differ in the differ- The ministers, for example, wear the liberal Jewish movement is
concrete. Thoy very: Clifford W. in the future prosperity of the city
The directory present •
• • •I'll
1Ve .
.. •
Ham, city nhinaio ,
or , eat states of which the Reich is cap, gown and talith—that looks not, however, to he expected.
and when its growth brings a need
Assessed
ll tilt ice.
,
o f the best known and influen- fiat, but retained the garage,
mayor; C. R. Talbot, president of fur more office spare I will build a one of
composed). Owing to the special censer - alive; on the other hand, cannot expect
:V00)00;
odes Of sIi
of
the
largest
in
the
city.
relations of the various "Genie- the service is almost altogether in spring up in the very near future
the Peoples State Bank; Cramer bigger structure where the Croford tial residents of Pontiac.
school census, 1:Q;
1,f
the
six
Investments
Multiply.
ky,
.lake
Kovins,
one
J
inde" to the state and of the indi- English, a largo part consisting of many liberal synagogues in other
Smith, president of the Pontiac Building
stands at Saginaw
:350;
postal
reckluts
cities of Great Britain. The num-
children of Frank and Mollie Ko-
In 1916 he bought thee Da ws•un virtual Jews to the Cemeintle (re- altogether new prayers.
Commercial & Savings Bank; Judge
u streets"
1
bar of Jews is too small. In only 209; bank deposits,
vinsky, Was limn in Poland
1 Buil d ing, and the I. H. Strut)' lotions
Frank L. Doty, Judo F. I.. ('o-
Even more important, however,
n s which would take too long
Already hilt per cent of the build-
an the changes in the form of a few' cities are there enough Jews factory operatives, 2t-
. .: , to set forth here, and which are than
vert, C.J. Nephler, Carl H. Pelton, ing is leased. Occupants who will years aiyii and christetieul J acob. ers store at Saginaw and Law
non'
industrial payroll, 0:37.. ,
Jacob he Was until the spring o
v enues.
E. I.. Waite and C. M. (retest.
purchases went on a io li- not easy for Englishmen and the service, are the changes in the to support both an Orthodox and nual value output
move in some time in Judy are:
liberal synagogues. In such cities
t
1000,
when
at
the
age
of
17
he
left
a
is
Should people 2,000 yours from Pe, phis State Bank, first and sec-
II
Americans to understand) the po- ideas which the services express.
$252,000,0181; vain, I
'
now know where to look they may ond floors; county treasurer, all of his home and became a buyer of ,ally, u Pntil foist}, besides l in 'r n '
sition
of the liberal Jewish move- A full exposition of these would the time may not be far if when nits 119281, 811,2 , :n
'n um meat in Germany is almost races- take us too far—one illustration
ldi ; ngs ; he owns
find documents of historical vgnili- third flour; Schulte Cigar Store, old iron. Then he became Jake, and
12,551; families,
The
small
communities
other
of I I sSiall
erty holdings,
on both
cance and interest in a copper hog Gumm Jewelry company, Saul J. Jake he chooses to remain. By sable pro
; $4:- sarily different from what it is in will do. There is no reference in liberal synagogues will be estah- rectory also contain-
present, however, an almost insol-
at the base of the column whim the Birnkrant and the Schiff Shoe com- this name he is known to all of {raw street between Mkt ' and sa"• England and America, It may be our services to the L aw as a reve- lished.
problem. Not only, facts about (Ackland
,
Pontiac's men, women and chit- ranee a venues.
1918 I was a millionaire," roughly said that, outwardly , in eral Judaism is somewhat conserv- able religious
cornerstone. As part of the cere- pany.
The publishers mine...
however will the future, as we be-
dren.
' "By
mony this box, containing a history
ritual and synagogal arrangements Sin
n m
much of i t s
Sinai.
a . I It shows in
The rise of Mr. Kovinsky was
cr cism, chiefly
in the stress
e 't., bring. an increase in the ad- tit the directory's elo
Went to Windsor.
Mr. Kovinsky smiled proudly. "liut and services, the manifestation o f teachings
of Pontiac for the past 50 years, pictured in the Detroit News as fol-
the influence
of Bible
•!, foo
bution, effected Thu?n ea
herents
to
liberal
Judaism,
but,
iti
Was set inside the corner column.
, With his m o ther and a younger I I still drove the horse and wagon liberalism is much less "advanced'
lows:
what is equally important, it will directory libraries ino
In
In the box were signatures of
If Jake Kovinsky ever writes the sister he left the farm and Poland, on my daily rounds. By this time than in America or in the liberal which it lays upon development in bring increased impetus to the the chief center of
many well known Pontiac business story of his life, he might well en- I when he was 11 years ()Id, and I moved my junk yard to roomier synagogue at London. (There is Judaism.
movement for change within the Stays and t'anada. Th. • al unit
Was
shipping my old indeed one "Reform" synagogue in
men and city officials, a copy of title the book "Scrap Iron," and moved to Windsor, Ont. The father quarters and I
Liberal Judaism in England, be- other Jewish organizations; and of the directory
chain,
where
the arrangements
are . cause it is much younger than lib-
The Daily Press with clippings of dedicate it to the defunct buggy and the other children had estalw iron in car load lots. Then in 1916
"advanced"
and where
; them containing the direct,
ill bring
b i
••I many.
these changes will
all the atones about the new build- tnanufacturing industry of Pon- lished a home there four years I gut the greatest pleasure of my extremely
el Judaism in Germany or nearer to liberal Judaism.
cities,
is
in
the
['mai,
II
•
,
dIrd
of
s
ing appearing in the paper since
the weekly service is held on Sun! an
earlier.' For three years the re- whole life.
America, has had the advantage of
(Copyright, 192n, J. T. A.)
('ommerce.
tiac.
"I always had been on my own day and not on Saturday, but this the experiences in these two coun-
June, 1928, a life history and pho-
An odd combination, perhaps, but united family lived there, the
father a dealer in old iron, and the and knew that I could make good synagogue, though it has been
een • s- tries and the profit of their in-
children struggling to master a and hold my own with the b e st. tablished for some 80 years, is the
N. LAMPORT AND WIFE
g-
only
one
of
its
kind.)
In
the
aver- struction. Both in its appearance
strange language and live down But in 1918 came outside res ,
and teaching it show's perhaps a
BURIED IN JERUSALEM
•,
nition. The Oakland County Sae- age liberal synagogues, there are distinctive English quality, for it
the name of "foreigner."
prayers, or there is is characteristic of the English to
me t to it its b oar. I some German
G •
Then the family moved to Chat- i ngs Bankelected
an
JERUSALEM.—(J. T. A.)--Im-
ham, Ont., young Jake helping his of directors, and I served on the an organ, there are fewer repeti-
pressive exercises were held at the
father ill his business and selling board until the first of this year ' thins; but otherwise the service is retain,
of sentiment,
old forms;
even out
while
accepting new
ideas, Jewish cemetery on the Mount of
pretty much on the actual Ortho- however radical, which reason
papers and doing odd jobs about when I resigned."
Olives when the remains of the
Mn, Kovinsky resigned from the dux
ontnhees.
lines.
the town. Another three years and
h lib- late Nathan Lampert and his wife, Program to Further Work
holds to be true. So English
other hand, while the en• oral Judaism is somewhat consery -
the family moved to Detroit. By board, he explained, because he had
New
Includes Manifold
Sarah, transported from
this time the boy, now 17, had too great an interest in the Peoples ternalists, so to speak, have not so ative in practice, but almost rad i-
York, were interred.
Activities.
State Bank, which he helped to or- very greatly changed, there has cal in thought .
saved $213.
A procession, in which the chil-
NEW
YORK.-1J. T. A.)_n r,
"The time for me to make my ganize in 1022 and of which he is conic. in the last few years, a very
dren of the Talmud Torah partici- Parkes Cadman is the new chair-
Departure From Old Forms.
-
Considerable
change
of
spirit.
Ile also is'
start had come," Mn, Kovinsky said, first vice-president.
pated, preceded the exercises at
"and I visited every small city and president of the Federal Loan Co., , The outlook, the teaching, the The opposition which liberal the cemetery. Speakers at the man of the Committee ■ oi Gondl
Will Between Jews and Christians
town in Michigan looking for a like- which he organized t 'KO years ago, ideals are distinctively liberal. The Judaism in England has had to graveside included Chief Rabbi A.
ly place to begin operations. Pon- and president of the Pontiac Scrap presentation is liberal, even if the face has been due more to its de- J. Kook, Rabbi Meyer Berlin. The of the Federal Council of Churcher
of Christ in America, says an an-
Co.,
which
he
incur-
embodiment,
for
particular
reasons
parture
from
old
forms
than
in
its
tine was a city of 7,000 persons. Iron & Metals
bodies were accompanied from nouncement issued by the. commit.
which cannot be explained here, departure from old teachings.
My father gave me his horse and porated in 1025.
New York by Samuel I,. Sar, rep- tee concerning its meeting held re.
But Mr. Kovinsky sees nothing lags behind. Hence it is that the That opposition has at times been resenting the board of directors
waimn and I moved my few belong-
cently.
...
Germany, very violent; but it has diminished.
in
leaders
of the Yeshiva College, New York,
logs here. The first thing I did remarkable in this Horatio Alger liberal
The meeting, the announeeme•
whether rabbis or laymen, are It could not, however, prevent the
was to rent an old barn in the rear life of his.
says, approved the following state-
t e i s and members of the family.
able first of all to combine among growth of our movement ; there
of what was formerly the Hodges
Gave His Best.
ment
as its program:
themselves, and constitute liberal no authority with power to inter-
•
e. I • just gave the best that was in
at Saginaw and Pike ave-
house
II
"Ti create conditions that will
nues. The 'Dikes House now is me, stinted myself when I had to. "unions" and associations, and, fere officially. in England, as in Jew Elected Cracow City
not
permit
anti-S•mitism; to pro-
secondly, to unite in sympathetic America, there is nothing to pre-
otel.
the Kenwood lintel.
Vice-President.
'and worked hard. Now, although I and active co-operation with their vent a synagogue from adopting
mote tolerance, in the sense of ap-
"The barn cost me $-1 a month in have no thought of retiring, could
preciation
and mutual respect;
and an form of sery ice th at suits its
ell ow liberals in Engand
CRACOW.—(J. T. A.)—Dr. further, to undertake a program
advance. Then I went looking for if I wanted to. I have every pleas-
pleas- f
erica.
he teaching land spirit needs, except those synagogues
A m
a place to stay, and after many ore and every
Ignacy
Landau,
former
deputy
in
luxury.
My
children
of
actual
co-operation
in interests
every
are similar, the ideals are akin, that have given up their independ-
-
''
long hours of walking I rented an are being educated properly
and I , and these are regarded by all con- ence for membership in the the Galician Sejm, was elected which are common."
attic bedroom for $4 a month.
vice-president
of
the
city
of
Cra-
The
program
of
work
adopted
am immensely happy.
• corned in all three countries as United Synagogue; those cannot
"I left school when I was in the much more important than the ex- change their services without the cow, filling the vacancy of the late includes manifold activities such
Hours Were Long.
vice-president, Josef Sara.
as research into the technique of
"In those days I worked hard fifth grade. One of my daughters
. It is indeed a plank in approval of their chief rabbi.
Jewish-Christian discussions; a
and long, making the rounds of the is a junior at the University of terna
the liberal Jewish platform that
There is in the Jewish commu-
h
bibliography of Jewish-Christian
uggy factories, buying all the old Michigan, the eldest i s app y
DISTRICT ENDORSES
relations; a study of Sunday
iron I could get and storing it in married, and although the young- there may be many varying out-
in England no organization
- nity
representing all the synagogues. ,
HARTMAN FOR MAYOR School literature insofar as it re-
expressions
of liberalism,
my barn.
ba, When my $213 was about est is still in high school, later she ward
cording
to the needs
and wishes a of In London, theer are two organ-
fers to the Jews. Writing, news
I
sold
the
iron
and
began
a
can
attend
any
university
she
de-
different congregations and coon-ations
representing
gone,
, represent
ng Orthodox
'
NEW YORK.—(J. T. A.)—The stories and articles have appeared
second collection. So the business sires "
numb er
Judaism;
iz IC
.---..
•
But one sorrow has crept into
.. of synagogues. There are, how- twenty-third Manhattan Assembly in the Bulletin of the Federal
Difference of Opinion.
went on for two years. At the end
Council, in newspapers and in re-
of that time I had saved about the life of this man. His only son, ,
It is significant of the quality ever, a number of independent District Republican organization ligious journals. Organs of vari-
years old, suffered a
gave its endorsement for the nomi-
$1,000, and I married Ida Ster- Patil, 11
injury when a baby that will of liberal Judaism in England that congregations that are not Ortho- nation of Judge Gustave Ilartman ous church denominations. Ad.
spinal
dux. The latter are the Reform
ling."
dresses over the radio and
leave him a life cripple. The boy the American delegates to the in-
Although not yet 20 years old,
ternational conference held here synagogues established some 80 of the City Court as Republican through the 1'. M. and Y. W. C. A.
not leave his home.
candidate for Mayor of New- York
the young broker in old iron knew does
"Now I suppose I must tell about — years ago, which is conservatively
The Young Women's Christian
City.
I that some day he would he a rich
my clubs and hobbies, like all rich much fun. You may say, also, that progressive, and the synagogue be-
It was indicated that this step Association, the report states, has
man. He invested his savings in a
on GA'
men,"
Mr.
Kovinsky
chuckled.
,
I
am
a
golfer.
But
I
do
not
play
longing
to
our
movement.
Ortho-
marks the beginning of a struggle invited the Committee
IMPROVED—VACANT—LEASES —ACREAGE
two-family flat on what is now the
"Well, I am an Elk and a darnlgolf like I do business. My game dux Judaism, though divided and' between Judge Hartman and Rep- Will to conduct a seeendlay semi-
Verner highway near Beaubien
not all-inclusive, is sufficient to
nar
in
conjunction
with
their
sum-
street, in Detroit. Ile still owns good Republican. That is all for is rotten."
make progress difficult. That the resentative F. II. LaGuardia for
conference In Eagles-
the. Republican organ . " . p mer college
the • cIubs and organizations. I may
the
property.
His
major
invest-
Only
the
ignorant
is
really
liberal
Jewish
movement
has
grown
PONTIAC, MICH.
more.
ments did not begin until 1915, quit the metal business but I will
steadily in spite of these difficul- port in Manhattan.
' however, when he had saved suf. never get out of business. It is too poor.--T h e Talmud.

"NIMMI1=1". 111•11111i/b1M,

8.1 LIBERAL JUDAISM IN ENGLAND CONSERVA-
TIVE IN PACTICE RADICAL IN THOUGHT.

JACOB KOVINSKY--PONTIAC S
PUBLIC-SPIRITED BUILDER

Increased

DR CADMAN IS NEW
GOOD-WILL LEADER

CONGRATULATIONS

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to my friend and neighbor

JACOB KOVINSKY

S S. L. GOODMAN

REAL ESTATE

Suite 13, Huron Bldg., 53 1 / 2 W. Huron St.

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REETINGS and Good
, Wishes to Mr. Jacob Ko-
vinsky for the substantial con-
tribution he has made to Pon-
tiac; to the good of our com-
munity, and the tribute he has
given to charity and the bet-
terment of the world because
of his having lived in it.

An Appreciation

of

Mr. Jacob Kovinsky

W

HEN the citizens of Pontiac and its thousands of
visitors look upon the new Peoples State Bank
Building, which has risen in majestic beauty in
the downtown section, they will see a magnificent
expression of the ideals and methods of a most unusual
man—Jacob Kovinsky.

We of Pontiac are proud to call
him neighbor and fellow citizen.

In stone and steel he has wrought today, just as he
wrought in smaller ways and more humble units at the
beginning of his career—endeavoring to translate into
beauty, usefulness and service the materials that other-
wise might have lain in sordid idleness.
The massive bulk of the new building bespeaks
character, a solid and enduring character of many
facets; it bespeaks high idealism, reaching after new
expression. It bespeaks a regard for the needs of the
present, the opportunities of the future and the best
traditions of the past.
Mr. Kovinsky is to be congratulated, and the city he
helps to build.

B ldwinRubberCo.

Wilson Foundry II Machine Co.

Pontiac, Michigan

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Pontiac, Mich.