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Program and Bridge
Owing to unforseen circum-
stances the Mother and Daughter
banquet of the Fenkell Ladies
Loan An'n will not be held at the
Phalanx Club as scheduled but
reservations have already been
made at the Wilshire for May 6.
The chairman of the evening will
be Mrs. Dora Schwartz. The
speaker for the mothers is Mrs.
H. Jackson, and for the daughters,
Miss Belle Fienman.
There will be music and dancing
after the banquet.
The dessert bridge luncheon
sponsored by the Fenkell Ladies
Loan Ass'n will be held as planned
in the auditorium of Fyfes, on
Wednesday, May 13. The proceeds
will go to the Allied Jewish Cam-
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paign and the Jewish Old Folks'
Home. The chairman of the affair
is Mrs. Rae Rim, and her co-
chairman is Mrs. Stien. On the
ticket committee are Mesdames
Factor, Lipsit, Fabor and Davis.
The hostesses are Mesdames Gold,
Tobb, Varnen, Margolin, Weinman,
Weitz, Fienstien and Denhoffer.
Information can be had by calling
Townsend 6-4136.
CAMPUS ALUMNI CLUB
Dr. Adolph Lowenstein ad-
dressed the club on "Tuberculosis,
Symptoms and Cures".
Plans for the athletic program
were completed and baseball games
will be played at Central field.
Plans for the annual "sports
dinner" were discussed. This din-
ner takes place in June and honors
on outstanding Detroit Jewish
athlete.
ery in the grip of a hurricane. It
was an impromptu outpouring of
ideas and emotions which revealed
that the speaker had lived with
and for the Congress idea for a
long time. Nothing but a ver-
batim quotation of his own words
can convey the power that ema-
nates from the head of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress and animates
so large a part of American Jewry
today.
Emancipation Foresworn
Said Dr. Wise: "If only my
fellow-Jews could come to see
one thing, that lierzl in summon-
ing the first Zionist Congress did
more than summon a Jewish as-
sembly on behalf of Zionism. Ile
summoned a Jews assembly for
the open and public discussion of
what he believed to be the su-
premely pressing Jewish problem
—the problem of establishing a
legally secured, publicly guaran-
teed Jewish National Home, as
runs the Basle platform. It might
have been imagined in 1897, the
year of the convening of the first
Zionist Congress, that if a way
out could be found, a Nachtasyl,
as Nordau put it, that the chief
obligation of Jewish life would be
met. Who could have believed,
less that 40 years ago, that within
little more than a generation
every postulate of the emancipa-
tion, every underlying basis of
the 19th century civilization
would be foresworn and almost
concertedly abandoned by the na-
tions of Europe! Yet that is ex-
actly what has happened. There
are few lands in Europe, though
they be lands of importance in
which emancipation, whatever it
may have meant, has not been
thrown to the winds, in which the
dreams of France of 1789, of
America of 1776, of England of
1832, of Germany of 1848, to
say nothing of Austria of 1792,
have not been foresworn and—
for s time, in any event—repu-
diated.'
"The question today facing the
Jews of the world is this: We
have lost, or are losing, the fruits
of emancipation, however much
we may once have cherished them.
We do not surrender the battle
against those who would destroy
the values of emancipation, but
these results arepassing, if not
completely gone. What shall we
do, even those of us who are Zion-
ists in our viewpoint that no solu-
tion of the Jewish problem is
thinkable without the Jewish Na-
tional Home? Generations will
pass before the majority of the
Jewish people will dwell in Pal-
estine. What until then? Shall
Jews, each in their separate star
—or shall I say realm of dark-
ness?—battle against Fascist op-
pressors and destroyers of Jewish
life, to say nothing of Jewish
rights? Or shall there be a co-
ordinated and unified attempt to
see the problem steadily and to
see it whole, to claim the glory,
as a British statesman put it, of
facing the facts, however dark
and dismal, of Jewish existence
and meeting Jewish problems ev-
erywhere—which are essentially
one problem—in an organized
way?
The emancipationists of an-
Congratulate
Temple Beth El on
Eighty-Five Years
of Attainments ...
As Temple Beth El commemorates its
85th anniversary, we are pleased to add
our congratulations to the vast flow of
messages of friendship and good will
which are pouring in from far and wide.
Yours has been a remarkably influential
Congregation, a power for much good,
proponent of charity and justice, ably
and illustriously directed. May your an-
niversary yield renewed ambitions and
project larger achievements.
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TURNING FIRST SPADEFUL OF
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April 24, 1936
tion, but they forgot that the
sectional hits become the ubiqui-
tous and the local the universal.
Anti-Semitism is not a local ques-
tion. It is the inevitable result
of the dwelling of J•ws with, by
the side of and smog non-Jews.
It rises in every land, sometimes
hastened, sometimes postponed,
sometimes concealed, sometimes
denied, but it is and it rages
from Japan to the United States,
the world over; in politer forms
in civilized countries such as
France, England and America; in
savage and brutal forms in the
lands of Central and Eastern Eur-
ope.
Jews Must Meet Frankly
"We who are summoning the
World Jewish Congress into being
cannot even understand the fears
of those w: maintain that we
Jews will be called international-
ists if we summon representatives
of the different Jewries together.
There are international congresses
of a thousand kinds—Internation-
al Health Congress, International
Labor Congress, International
Tuberculosis Congress, Interna-
tional Psychiatry Congress, Inter-
national Religious Congress, In-
ternational Legal Congress, Inter-
national Medical Congress. I have
never heard of a surgeon in Peru
fear that his Peruvianism would
be called Into question because he
consulted at an International Con-
gress in Paris or London with a
surgeon from Chile or the Argen-
tine Republic! The best proof of
the unutterable status of the Jew
is revealed by the fact that thete
are Jews of status and seeming
significance who are fearful of
I`ourtesy 1)rtr•ll News.
publicly meeting with Jews from
other lands lest such meeting in-
Jacob Levin, president of the Jewish Old Folks' Home, is shown
volve an impugnment of their na- here treeing the first spadeful of earth for the new building for
tional and separate loyalties. That the home for the aged, on Burlingame and Petoskey Ayes. Breaking
dread in itself calls for a congress of ground for the new building began after the ceremonies last Sun-
to deal with it, and to allay the day after, in the presence of more than 1,000 people. Seen in the
psychoses which constitute that photograph with Mr. I e•in is Moses Weissw , superintendent of
dread, in order to banish it from the Jewish Old Folks' Home; Mrs. Kate Levitt, 92 years old, one
of the original founders of the Old Folk's Home, and David Oppen-
Jewish life.
"I have said before, and I am helm, one of the vice-presidents of the home.
tempted to say once again: If I
were a non-Jew and I was told as ery. .That philanthropy should ' of all, that we are pledged one
a non-Jew that, although half the be regarded as almost the solu• for another, to use the ancient
Jews of earth today are oppressed tion of the Jewish problem is Jewish saying, and that each is
and would, if they could, be on token of the forfeiture of self- responsible for the fate of all
the march; if as a non-Jew I respect of g masses of Jews, Jews, that no Jew is so poor and
was told,. what as a Jew I know who imagine that relief can so abased by the injustice of the
to be the truth, that the whole ever be more thanpalliative, world that he ceases to be within
great Jewish belt of Eastern Eur- that philanthropy can do more the circle of Jewish brotherhood.
o pe seeths with the agony of anti- that tentatively repair the rav- In other words, that there are no
Semitism; and if the further in- ages of injustice of breach the Jewish untouchables.
formation were given me that gaps left by an imperfect and
Will Serve Jewish Cause
Jews do not 'meet in a public way inadequate social order of life.
"Brother Jews are we, living on
for the open discussion of their
"The World Jewish Congress the one common level of tradition
problems and ills and oppressions must once and for all proclaim
in many lands, the feeling would that we Jews are brothers, one to of which we are a part and which
almost inevitably be mine that if another. No brother ever saved is the supreme dominance of our
Jews do not meet frankly in a another through the medium of own life. The economic condi-
public way, it is because they are relief; no brother ever delivered tions or accidents in the life of
meeting in other ways, because another from bondage, except pos- individual Jews or Jewish com-
their failure to meet it a method sibly for a time, through the in- munities, do not take them out
of hiding the fact that they do strumentality of so-called phil- of that wide circle of Jewish un-
meet. That would be my reac- anthropy. The basis of brother- ity. And the world, as well as
tion to the incredible information hood is oneness. Oneness never, we ourselves, will see that we do
that Jews cannot be brought to- save momentarily and in hours of not shut out Jews because they
gether to discuss their common crises, expressed itself in terms hold political or social views to
problems, though virtually half of relief and giving and so-called which we cannot subscribe. There
of the Jews of the world would philanthropy. Out of this ac- are no Jewish social or political
today leave the countries in which cursed notion that charity and re- views. Jews are independent as
they live and move on elsewhere lief and philanthropy will solve political beings. Every Jew has
if the chance were given them. all Jewish problems comes some- the right to think and to decide
for himself on all social, economic
Must Profit by Experience
thing even graver and more tra-
"I confess that I am no longer gic and that is the control of and political problems, and no
patient enough even to discuss the Jewish life by the philanthropists. group of Fascists, whether in
question whether Jews should The moment philanthropy is re- Nazi Germany or in Endek Po-
meet together to discuss their garded as the solvent of Jewish land, or increasingly Fascist
common problems in an open and questions, then philanthropists, Jews, is going to determine for us
public way. The reasons for do- wise or unwise, assimilationista or that we Jews either have or ought
ing this are so obvious that to nationalists, become the ultimate to have one political or economic
dwell upon them would be insult- judgers of what is good and evil viewpoint. The coming together
of a thousand varieties of eco-
ing to the intelligence of the Jew- in Jewish life.
nomic and political viewpoints is
ish people. We have much to
"Today throughout the Jewish the best answer to the mendaci-
learn from one another in the world the philanthropists, which
matter of experience. If Jews in means people who imagine that ties of those who maintain that
Germany had sat together in a alms, relief, charity can solve per- all Jews are either capitalist or
World Jewish Congress with the maneht problems, are elevated— Communist. There are capitalist
Jews of Russia and of Rumania o r for the most part elevate them- Jews. There are Communist Jews.
There are Jewish liberals and
25 years ago, they might has
elves—to the place of leadership
learned how to arm themselves in Jewish life. And that is a there are Jewish Liberty-
intellectually, racially and spirit- grave disaster, for philanthropy Leaguers. Until a Jew affirms
ually against the debacle which is o fttimes grows largely, if not that he has ceased to be a Jew, he
now being visited upon them. Only wholly, out of opulence, abun- cannot throw himself out of the
a generation of fools fails to pro- dance of means, without regard circle of Jewish life. And Herr
fit by the experience of other to character or intellectual capac- Adolf Hitler in Germany has
generations. We Jews, scattered ity in the opulent, in the well-to- taught him that he even then
and dispersed in different lands, do, in the possessing class which, cannot shut himself out of Jewish
learn nothing from one another through the device of philanthro- life and that he, Hitler, is pre-
because we are too timid to ex- py, undertakes to determine the pared to resurrect his great-
grandmother in order to affix the
change experiences, because ours fortunes of a people.
stigma of Jewishness upon him.
is the absurd imagining that al-
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though Jews of other lands have
"They who look upon their
"It is not for me to announce Jewishness is, • badge of hon.
been oppressed, we are immune,
the
program
of
the
World
Jewish
ours alone is the security which,
or, as • token of responsibility,
of course, for one reason or an- Congress. The World Jewish Con- will assemble in a World Jew-
other, Jews in other lands could gress will be made up of groups ish Congress. They who are
not expect to enjoy. And this is of men who will decide for them- fearful, they who stand in fear
because Jews do not face funda- selves which are the supreme is- of their own Jewishness, they
mental truths, the truths of the sues and how they are to be met. who are fearful of the resins-
economic relationships which are Not that final solutions can be rection of their great-grandpar-
bound up with the peculiar status improvised or that new panaceas ents they who assent to the
of the Jew as a landless and seem- are to be invented for the occas- judgment of our enemies that
ingly uncreative middleman in a ion. I have little doubt that the Jewishness is • badge of shame
world of industry. It Is because end of the Congress will be the instead of • mark of honor,
the members of the Jewish race— constituting of a series of commis- I will sedulously absent them-
and race we are—are forever re- slang which will for a year or more selves from the World Jewish
garded tag aliens by so-called na- consult with regard to problems Congress. It will beiicid and it
tives, even when these Jewish to be enttusted to them, the prob- will serve the Jewish cause.
aliens have been native for a lem of the unceasing defense of The World Jewish Congress
thousand years in the lands which minority rights, problems of mi- will, just as truly as did the
deem them alien. And that diffi- gration, problems of economic re- first Zionist Congress, mark the
culty will not for generations be adjustment, problems of Palestine. inauguration of • new era of
"The Geneva World Jewish Jewish self-awareness, self-
immeasurably increased because
of the growing racial supersti- Congress will propound questions
self-govern-
and
tion that a land belongs to the rather than answer them, but it ment."
members of the dominant race will propound them publicly, sol-
Thus spoke Dr. Wise. He had
and because of the Fascist-in- emnly; it will submit them to the forgotten the interviewer and the
spired contempt for minorities, judgment of the Jewish people and stenographer who took down his
which exist only to be scorned lay them at the door of the trib- words. Ile was exhorting, plead-
unal of the world conscience. I n ing and warning the Jewish world.
and to be destroyed.
"What an illustration we Jews one word, the World Jewish Con- His words, uttered with the fire
could•give, if only we had the de- gress summons Jews to think to- o f a world tribune, were a clarion
cent courage to do so, of real gether, to consult publicly and call to American Jewry. As he
Jewish solidarity. In one word, openly about their own questions, stood there, forgetful of his sur-
I am not interested in the Polish which involve life and sustenance
government protesting against end even death; and at the same roundings, one was forcefully re-
Arab outrages in Palestine or time invites the non-Jewish world minded of the Knot figures of the
Nazi crimes against Jews, against to face those problems, the Jew- Jewish leaders of a past era, Herzl
even Polish Jewish subjects in ish problems, which arise not out and Nordau, who by the magnet-
Nazi Germany, as long as vio- of Jewish life in itself, but out ism of their personalities had
lence, oppression, disorder and de- of the relationship of Jews to charted an indelible course in Jew-
struction threaten to become the other peoples, out of the inhospi- ish history.
order of the day in Poland. The tality of non-Jews to Jews, out
Polish Jews may not be able in a of the flagitious injustices of
World Jewish Congress to speak mighty peoples throughout the Bridge Dance of Equality
Club Sunday
the whole truth, but we non-Pol- the world to the Jewish peoples
ish Jews are free to speak and to and above all to Jewish mniorities.
demand of Poland not sympathy
"The Congress will then serve
A special meeting of the Equali-
with the Jewish victims of Nazi these purposes. It will move Jews ty Club was held at the home of
oppression or Pan-Arab conspir- to see that they can with secur- Mrs. Sarah Weingarden, 3222
acy, but decent and just treat- ity, and they must with self-re- Richton Ave. and plans were com-
ment for its own millions of Jews, spect , meet together to face the pleted for the bridge dance to be
justice to whom was made, by consideration of Jewish questions. held at the Barium Hotel Sunday
Woodrow Wilson, Clemenceau and Second, it will show that there is night, April 26. All proceeds from
Lloyd George, the basic condition • capacity for leadership in Jew- this affair will go to alleviate the
of Poland's independence.
ish life, leadership other than
"A World Jewish Congress is that w' eh now resides in the needs of destitute Jewish families,
needed today in order to banish realm k philanthropy. Third, it to the Allied Jewish Campaign,
forever from Jewish life the na- will reveal to us and to all the and to the Old Folks' Home. The
tion that relief and Wan. world that we Jews are one. that president, Mrs. E. Goose, asks all
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GOLDA MYERSON
HERE THURSDAY
Prominent Palestine Woman
Leader to Speak at
Detroit-Leland
Golda Myerson, eminent Pal-
estine labor leader, who has just
concluded a lecture tour of Can-
ada and the United States, will
speak on Thursday evening, April
30, at 8:30 o'clock, at the De-
TO. 8-5880-81
Children to See "Land
of Promise" Tuesday
Bernard Isaacs, superinten-
dent of the United Hebrew
Schools, has announced that
children of all branches of the
Hebrew Schools be excused at
4:30 p. m. on Tuesday in or-
der that they may all attend,
in a body, a special children's
performance of "The Land of
Promise."
There will be a special feat-
ure for the children, a brief
address and an especially ar-
ranged program of songs. The
teachers of the schools will act
as ushers and the school buses
will be on hand to take the
children home from the per-
formance.
Renew Appeal for
Yeshiva of Lomza
GOLDA MYERSON
troit-Leland Hotel, under the aus-
pices of the Detroit branches of
the League for Labor Palestine.
Mrs. Myerson, a former teach-
er in midwestern public schools
in this country settled in Pales-
tine with her family and has de-
voted her life to the cause of a
redeemed Jewish homeland. Her
tours to this country in behalf
of the Palestine labor movement
have won for her large audiences
which are recalling her again and
again because of her fluency as an
orator and her deep understand-
ing of the Jewish issues.
The League for Labor Palestine
has made great progress since its
formation here three, years ago.
There are two branches at this
time which have attracted large
groups of professionals.
The lecture by Yrs. Myerson
next Thursday ever log is open to
the public.
All • Sports Tournament of
Campus Club
Rabbi Yechiel Mordechai Gor-
don, dean of the Lomza Yeshiva,
and his brother-in-law, Rabbi M.
Halpern of New York, this week
renewed the appeal for this world
famous Jewish theological school
and called upon Detroit Jews to
supply funds which will help keep
the school's building in Jewish
hands.
Many Detroit Jews are expected
to enroll as $100 members in the
nationwide drive to enlist 350 such
donors whose names are to be in-
scribed on a tablet in the Yeshiva
in Lomza.
Contributions additional to those
announced last week are:
Mrs. Ida Solai and Mrs. Peshe
Cohen, $200; Mr. and Mrs. S.
Chesluk, $100; anonymous, $100.
Rabbi Gordon is the guest here
of Mr. and Mrs. Levin, 2015 Glad-
stone Ave., telephone Garfield
7044-W.
Yeshivah Banquet May 24;
„Memorial Services
May 3
The Yeshivah Beth Yehuda
announces the change of date for
the banquet from April 22 to
May 24.
Mrs. H. Rottenberg is chairman
of the banquet and Mrs. H. Len-
n y is supervisor. Those desiring
to donate for the banquet should
get in touch with either Mrs. Rot-
tenberg at Townsend 8-7995, or
Mrs. Lensky, at Trinity 2-5203.
Mrs. S. Friedman is chairman
V the tickets and may be reached
at 2225 Blaine Ave., Apt. 306,
telephone, Garfield 9540.
Yeshivah Beth Yehuda an-
nounces that a memorial day for
its members who passed away has
been set for Sunday, May 3, at
8 p. m., at 1705 Pingree. Relatives
of the members who passed are
invited. Tributes will be paid the
memory of Mrs. Annie Caplan,
Mrs. Annie Katz, Mrs. M. Cohen,
Mrs. L. Katzer, Rabbi J. -Levine,
Rabbi A. Sheskin, M. Ginsberg,
E. M. Friedman, Mr. Miller and
D. Tucker.
The Campus Club of Wayne
University is arranging its all-
sports tournament with the Cam.
pus Club Alumni. In the first event,
an interclub basketball game, the
senior members were routed 56-
23. The bowling match was' also
taken by the undergraduates with
Leonard Tigay turning in a high
of 214. With the first two events
already lost, the Alumni will be
out to even the count in the corn-
ing golf and tennis meets. The
tournament will include all season-
al competitive sports and will con-
tinue throughout the school semes-
ter, the winners Jo be announced
at the club's annual Webster Hall
The Adam Rosens of the Pales-
banquet.
tine Tours had to add another
nursery room to their apartment
Louis Friedland, young director for a little girl who made her en-
at Universal, was once a child trance into this bad world of ours
actor on the stage and screen.
• week ago.