America,' fritiqk Paiodical Cotter CLIFTON AV3NUI • CINCINNATI 30, OHIO Bret Itliolnqi of tip , l'agott ormony fi Ewisit fiRomox t , THE ONLY ANGLO-JEWISH NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN MICHIGAN DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1930 VOL. XXXI. NO. 4 The Story of Chanukah CHANUKAII GREETINGS You'll find a visit to our exhibit an interesting hour among the great de- signers and great styles of the past ... and more. Here at your disposal is Detroit's largest, most comprehensive showing of distinguished furniture, and in con- nection is a decorating staff that will gladly suggest treatments for your rooms ... or will work helpfully and intelligently with your decorator. Why put off your visit to this, one of Detroit's showplaces? You are wel- come to browse and to study—and, since no retail sales are made, you'll not be urged to buy. Bokrt Witivirt Compativ Factory Showroom MICHIGAN THEATER BUILDING TWO HARMS—TAKE H.EVATOR DESIGNERS AND MAKERS OF FINE FURNITURE FOR FIFTY YEARS FF 1 Chanukah Greetings and Sincere Good Wishes AN ARTISTIC CHANUKAH MENORAH Kelvinator Sales Corp. DETROIT BRANCH ELECTRICAL REFRIGERATION 2842 WEST GRAND BLVD., at Hamilton Madison 9840 ♦ Holiday Greetings :0 1 -41111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111g CHANUKAH GREETINGS LOOSE-WILES BISCUIT CO. Bakers of Northwestern SUNSHINE BISCUITS GEORGE C. HURLEY, Mgr. Carpet Cleaning Works 1124 Oakinan Blvd. Longfellow 0637 "WORK THAT SATISFIES" Chanukah Greetings Cleaners of Oriental and Domestic Rugs and Upholstered Furniture MORRIS ROSENBERG Kosher Meats and Poultry 4515 COLLINGWOOD Garfield 4653 EUCLID-HAMILTON MARKET Empire 5670 ilitiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11111111111111111111 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1111111 1 1 1 1 1111111111111 111111 1 1 JEWISH ALLIANCE ENDORSES A 5-DAY WEEK FOR WORKERS The proposal by Senator Walsh of Massachusetts for a five-slay working week for government em-. ployees was lauded at the execu- tive meeting of the Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America, 302 East Fourteenth street, New York. The Jewish Sabbath Alliance has been advocating a five-day work- ing week since 1915, when Dr. Bernard Drachman, the president, proposed it at the national conven- tion of the Lord's Day Alliance held in Oakland, Cal. At that time its advocacy was based mainly on religious and sociological grounds. "We agree most thoroughly," Dr. Drachman said, "that em- ployees of the government are en- titled to the shorter working week Brand NewFURE1 1 4 SPECIAL Detroit's Well Supplied MEAT, FISH and POULTRY MARKET Coorteom Service and Prompt Deloerie• at All Time. Phone Garfield 10334 Holiday Greetings to My Jewish Patrons LANE DRUG CO. ELECTRIC NEEDLE EXPERT Chanukah Greetings to All Let Your Next Car Be a Model A Ford Accessories Parts Service Northeastern Motor Sales Sincerest Chanukah Greetings to all Detroit Jewry. May you all enjoy the festival of the Feast of Lights. Brennan, Fitzgerald & Sinks CITY POULTRY CO. and Western Market* Fancy Poultry BETTER FOOD SERVICE FRENCH VILLAGE Majestic Bldg. MAJESTIC LUNCH CADILLAC LUNCH 132 Michigan Ave. THE LAFAYETTE 22 Michdgan Ave. 238 Lafayette Blvd. GRISWOLD LUNCH, 1446 Griswold St. Live and Dressed PARK LUNCH, Park and Adams CHANUKAH GREETINGS Baker Beauty Salon Permanent Waving Complete Beauty Service by Specialists 11725 Linwood. Long. 3623 395° This magnificent. full sire Eureka Special Is of the same model that was awarded the Grand Prize at the Sesqui•Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia—only greatly Improved sad 30% stronger suction. Formerly sold at $53.50. You'll have to hurry. Order today. Telephone Beritz School of Languages Day and Evening CI —Indi- vidual Instruction 11745 Linwood Avenue Phone Arlington 1.0487 NORTHWOOD INN Between the Eleven and Twelve-Mile Roads on the World's Greatest Highway, Woodward Avenue Native teachers—Free trial lesson 820 David Whitney Building Randolph 2559 Chanukah Greetings We carry a full line of drugs and sundries. Tarpentre5 iirterinarp FAMOUS FOR ITS Frog, Fish, Chicken and Steak Dinners Dancing Every Night ONLY $ 2 " Season's Greetings DOWN RIVARD BROS. EUREKA VACUUM CLEANER COMPANY ,'-::,: 16s 1521 Broadw•y—Phone Randolph 3909 8608 crater Ave. 13414 Mark Twain Ave. Season's Greetings Prescriptions Our Specialty FREE TRIAL— and Allowance for Your Old Cleaner URING this great special offer—every purchaser of • Grand Prize Eureka Special at $39.50 will receive • complete set of famous Eureka "High-Vacuum" attachments—absolutely Free. Wood...4 Ave. Michiean Ave. and that the adoption thereof will be a great blessing to the so-called 'white collar' class and that unem- ployment and over production will he greatly lessened by the adop- tion of the five-day working week." The alliance advised Senator Walsh of its desire to do all in its power in favor of his bill. Lead- ing organizations are being asked to endorse the Walsh bill. INVESTIGATE! D 11305 6523 Margaret A. .King CHANUKA II GREETINGS WITH THE Grand Prize $53.50 Season's Greetings Shop 14 A COM PLETE SET OF "HIGH•VACUUM" ATrACHMENTS Formerly sold for • 1"15011LUARD SHOPPE Bet. Webb and Tuxedo sPi‘SG I FREE: E, `Chi best looking things in town! tary leader of Syria, arrived at the head of another invading army, 60,000 strong, Judas met with 10,000 well-armed and picked men, eager for the fray. The He- FURS brews dauntlessly opened the at• tack on the enemy near Beth-Zur, HATS south of Jerusalem, and once more the Syrians were defeated. 1165 SUITS B. C.) Lysias was compelled to return to Antioch. COATS Their early victor:es paved the ENSEMBLES Maccabeans' way towards Jeru- salem, and Judas and his band of heroes encountered no serious ob- stacle in occupying the capital and the Temple hill. Only the citadel of Acra still remained in the hands of the enemy, and leaving a well- armed detachment of his men to see that no Syrians escaped from WASHINGTON BOULEVARD AT CLIFFORD STREET the fortress, Judas set to work, unmolested, to restore the holy places of Jerusalem. As he climbed the Temple Hill with his warriors, a scene of ruin and desolation net Ir their eyes. They found the Tem- ple all but destroyed, having been ransacked by the invaders; the main altar desecrated with idol- worship, the gates burned down, the inner chambers wrecked and the courtyard overgrown with weeds. Strong men though they Established 1905 were, neither Judas nor any of his followers could restrain their tears, remembering the former HELEN RESKE, Prop. beauty and splendor that lay in ruins before them. But it was no Specialists in All Lines of Beauty Culture time to mourn the past; the fu- Hair Goods and Toilet Articles ture was waiting to be built. They Now 1n Our New Home immediately began to clear away the debris and restore the Temple. 610 METROPOLITAN BLDG. When the outer and inner Randolph 0737 chambers of the Temple were once more in order, the ceremonies of -eels consecration were begun. On the twenty-fifth day of the month of Kislev, exactly three years since itta* OCTO O 0 O00 0 0 0 0 s es 0 0 CI-Cs On entelata 01:4131,101>l the worship of Zeus first defiled the building, solemn services were held and offerings made to the God of Israel. The rehabilitation of the holy temple was celebrated for eight (lays and the ante-cham- bers were brightly illuminated every evening. The legend adds that Judas and his men had found only one small vessel containing sacred oil in one of the chambers of the Temple, but that a miracle of God caused this to burn in the Temple lamps for fully eight days. In other cities of Judea the people also illuminated their houses to' celebrate the joyful restoration of their holy places, and it was de- cided that those eight days every Arlington 7025 11426 Jos Campau year should be kept as (lays of re- joicing, to commemorate the de- 0***00****00000oeeci a********00*0otiececta* liverance of the Ilebrews from the heathen yoke. This holiday, ob- served to this (lay by Hebrews all over the world, is called Chanu- kah, that is, "The Feast of Conse - cration," and each evening little oil lamps or tapers are lit in all Jewish homes, Chanukah Greetings The joyous festival of Chanukah has been interpreted in artistic fashion in the Menorahs used by Jews throughout the past 20 cen- turies. The above is an example of the artistic efforts put into the moulding of the Menorah. COHEN & EISENSTAT Only $ CHANUKAH GREETINGS A Great Moment in Jewish History. In a little mountain town called By S. M. DUBNOW publiAtol by Max N. M•iael, New York/. Modin, near Jerusalem, there lived (Front As Outline of J•ai4 an aged Ilebrew priest named Mat- tathias, a member of the Asmo- nean family. Ile had five sons, Jo- the shelter of their inaccessible expecting to sell all their Hebrew prisoners as slaves. Great was the hannan, Simon, Judas, Eleazar and mountains. Jonathan, and the whole family The aged leader, Mattathias, consternation when the news of was well known for its great piety died soon after his heroic exploit the formidable invasion reached and ardent patriotism. One day against Apelles, but before his Judea; the people gathered in Miz- Syrian officials appeared in Modin death he exhorted his sons to con- pah, where Judas and his army to carry out Antiochus' decree that , tinue the holy struggle against th e were garrisoned. They held sol- all llebrews should adopt his own enemies of their country and their emn services at which the people heathen religion. The king'sof- religion. His most distinguished fervently invoked the help of the ticers raised an altar in the town son was Judas, or Jehudah, sur- Lord, and Judas tried to inspire to the pagan gods and summoned named Nlaccabaeus, or the Ham- his men with courage for their the people to worship before it. mer, on account of his warlike high task of defending their coun- Some of them, lacking either faith spirit. He longed fur nothing so try and faith. All who showed or courage, did as they were com- much as to free the Hebrews from signs of timidity and hesitation manded and repudiated their own the alien yoke and became the he dismissed from the army anti religion, but others were not to be leader of the valiant rebel war- left himself with a paltry 6,000 moved from their loyalty to Juda- riors. Then he came out openly men to pit against the enemy le- ' ism. Seeing themselves thus only against the Syrians. When Ap- gions. But his ardent faith and partially successful, the officials pollonius, the Syrian governor of the consciousness that he was went to Mattathias, the most re- l'alestine, learned of the rebellion, fighting for a just cause, gave to spectful man in Modin, and tried he left Samaria with a consider- each Hebrew warrior the strength to persuade him to take part in the ' able army to put down the insu r- o f 10 The Syrian leaders divided their heathen rituals, pointing out that rection, but Judas met him with his the state religion, which was that army and inflicted a severe defeat army into two parts, intending to of the Greeks, had been made com- upon him. Appollonius was killed surround the Hebrews and exter- pulsory for all subjects of the in the fight and Judas took his minate them at a single blow. But Syrian empire, and that the law sword, which he fastened to his Judas Maccabeus found out their , applied to natives and aliens, with- own belt and carried ever after- intention and made a rapid detour out distinction. But 5attathias wards into all his battles, his first which brought his army out on the proudly answered: "Let all the trophy of war. . . . Judas gained vanguard of the enemy forces. nations of the king's subject prov- another victory near Beth-lloron Shouting, "The Lord IS with us," the Hebrews attacked the Syrians inces obey him if they choose, where the Hebrew warriors fought even to the extent of betraying the like raging lions. These two ini- and routed them completely just outside the city of Emmaus. When religion of their ancestors. W.t tial successes aroused the enthusi- the second section of the enemy's shall not leave the path of our re- asm of the people and instilled army, commanded by Gorgias, ap- , ligion to go either to the right or fresh courage into them, and the to the left." And on another oc- rebellion against Antiochus spread peared on the scene and saw its vanguard defeated, the leader and casion when Mattathias came over the whole of Judea. his men beat a hasty retreat, leav- across one of the Ilebrew apos- When reports of the rebellion in ing the Hebrews master of the tates walking across the city square Judea reached King Antiochus, his situation. (166 B. C.) Judas' to approach the heathen altar with fury knew no bounds. Ile sent a captured the entire enemy camp' . an offering, his anger so over- huge army into the country of the and a great dael of booty in the whelmed him that he pursued the Hebrews with orders to raze the , form of ammunition and money false Ilebrew and killed him then capital to the ground, exterminate which the slave-dealers had I and there. Afterwards he and his or banish the people and colonize brought for the purchase of the' sons, with a small band of religious the land with other nationalities. Hebrew prisoners. The Hebrews' zealots, took up arms against Ap- Two famous generals, Nicanor and were jubilant at their heroes' ex- . cites, the king's chief official, and Gorgias., led the Syrian army into traordinary success, and the vic- •after slaying them, tore down the , Judea. The invaders were so cer- tory brought so many new volun- lheathen altar in Modin. (167 B. teers flocking to join Judas' army tain of victory that they even in- I C.) Then Mattathias took up his vited rich merchants to their camp, that when Lysias, the chief mili- war-cry: "Whosoever is for God and His holy law, let him follow me," and the summons was an- swered by all the Assideans (as the loyal Jews were called). Un- 'I able to fight the enemy openly, they hid in mountain passes and whenever circumstances were at all favorable they made sudden and repeated attacks upon the, Syrians, forcing their way into , cities and villages, where they put the Hebrew apostates to death and destroyed their heathen temples and altars. The Assideans and . their followers met in the syna- gogues and sought inspiration in their readings in the Torah and the Book of the Prophets. When they met small bands of Greeks on the road they slew them, but would not fight against odds, and rather than risk an encounter with bands more numerous than them- selves they would flee in haste to In felicitating the Jewish Commun- ity upon this occasion, we also extend them a cordial invitation to visit our Showroom. 1 find Illisllen of tip tivafion 5. DR. II. T. CARPENTER, Proprietor. Ford Sales and Service 4224 Grand River Ave. V.. Dyke at Lielit•Mile Road Baseline P. 0, Mick. Glendale 0904 Lincoln PH Res Phone Madison 1302 For Reservation Call ROYAL OAK 480 and 2577 PAUL J. WEYHER, Manager