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In favor of the Maccabee-All-
•tar soccer game, the Philomathic
Debating Club did not hold its
weekly meeting Sunday, Oct. 18.
The program for the next meet-
ing, to be held at 2 p. m., Sun-
day, Oct. 25, will feature a debate
on the subject: "Resolved, that
the city of Detroit own and oper-
ate an electric plant for the peo-
ple of metropolitan Detroit." The
, participants will be: Sam Hertz-
' berg and Murray Frosh, affirma-
live: Norman Leemon and Morris
Green. negative.
An invitation is once more ex-
tended to any Jewish young man
between the ages of 14 and 21
who is interested in public speak-
ing, to attend any weekly meet-
ing, held Sundays at the Philadel-
, phis-Byron Hebrew School.
LECTURER TO SHOW
NAZIS' OPERATIONS,
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studied conditions from every I
angle. His +tory is frank, reveal-1
ing and straight from the shoul-
der.
Tickets for "Germany Under
Hitler" are now on tale at the
World Adventure office at the De-
troit Institute of Arts
Center Basketball Team to
Begin Practice Oct. 26
Members of the Jewish Com-
munity' Center's varsity basket•
ball team will begin practice on
Monday evening, Oct. 26, at 10
o'clock in the Center gymnasium.
Sam Babcock, who has coached
the Center team for a number of
years, will again be the coach.
Practice will be held every
Monday and Wednesday at 10 p.
m. Star players, good players and
peornising players who are inter-
vete(' are invited to the first prac-
tice on Monday, Oct. 26, u
Huns on the team are available.
Two julets of Cellophane, net
Director George Cukor spends:ONE but TWO, stand guard ever
most of his time away from work: the freshness of the prom crop
in his new two-acre garden. tobacco of 044 Gold Cigarette
A REFORM JEW
ON PARADE
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the pageant of Israel that had
been marching with Torah even
from Sinai?
I should have been conscious
of all the sainted ghosts from
Moses down, marching with me
in these aisles, their fingers
touching the silver crowns to
make them tinkle as I marched.
My soul should have been
addressing them: "0 my fa-
thers! Here am I still march-
ing in the everlasting parade of
Israel!"
But, in fact, Israel was
scarcely there. Israel's wife
had come to the service of the
Torah but Israel was at his
business. Israel had no time
for this. Instead of feeling
as a marcher in an immense
and mystical pageant I was
like a straggler far from the
tail-end of a parade. The cap-
tains and kings had marched
on and we eight Torah-bear-
ers were like lost wanderers
left over from Reform Judaism.
Not that I could take to my-
self any praise for being there:
"Ah, Segal, you are one of the
few of the faithful!" . . . No!
I had come to carry the Torah
as a favor to the rabbi. I had
been invited and had consid-
ered whether I ought to take
time off for this, and finally
had said, "Well, once a year I
can afford it."
So I was a supernumerary,
like the boys on the street who
are brought in to make the sem-
blance of a parade on a stage;
I and the seven other bearers
of the Torah.
Therefore, as I marched, my
thoughts seemed enveloped in
the twilight of Reform Judaism
rather than in the dazzling
glory of the Torah which had
come down from Sinai even
unto this day. My eyes con-
templated the rows of pretty
fall millinery and counted male
heads of Israel .. . one ..
two ... three .. 25 men of
Israel in all! . . mostly old,
bald heads that were retired
and hadn't anything else to do
this day.
Had Reform Judaism become
but the pastime of the ladies'
hour? I was mindful of simi-
lar procession in the Orthodox
synagogues . . . Eager men
carrying the scrolls with the
zeal of torchbearers . .. Feet
almost dancing with joy for
the privilege of marching with
Torah . . . Rapt Jews in the
aisles bending to kiss the scrolls
as they passed by.
Upon the hands of the eight
supernumeraries the weight of the
law grew heavier at each step.
Thank goodness, soon we would
be back at the altar and could
rest this load . . . How long the
center aisle . . . In the orthodox
synagogues they were marching
seven times and considered it was
a distance short enough to be al-
lowed to march with Torah.
"You," I mused, "have writ-
ten about the imminent death of
Orthodoxy, but today you seem
like a pall-bearer ,of Reform and
a hired.. pall-bearer at that . . .
A stooge! . . . Consider: Which
is the more vital . . . Orthodoxy
or Reform?"
We (the Reform Jews) had be-
come symbolized in these eight
stooges who at a signal from the
rabbi had mounted the altar to go
through their little part of Juda-
ism.
I could only feel sorry for the
earnest rabbis who were leading
this procession. They had been
r0 zealous to give some warmth
to the naked, chilly spirit of Re-
form Judaism, to illuminate Re-
form Jewish eyes with something
of the drama of the Jewish story,
to make Judaism more than the
cold print of the Union prayer
book. They had staged a lovely
drama, what with children bear-
ing fruits and flowers, what with
fresh young voices singing, what
with a blessing laid on each
child's head; but Reform Jewry
cared little enough. Reform
Jewry was in the eight marching
stooges.
In the <mall children ascending
the altar to be blessed, the de-
voted rabbis may • have beheld fut-
ure Torah-hearers (more authen-
tic than we) for the Reform di-
vision of the Jewish pageant
which had grown so thin; but
to me it looked more like a dusk
than ■ dawn.
It is a dusk not of any one Re-
form but of many, as I hear; •
twilight of Reform Judaism.
I have not written this to find
any carping faults; since I am one
of this Reform Jewry and on me
is the fault as on all others.
Nor is this written for the sake
of restoring an enthusiastic ob-
servance of Shemini Atzereth
among Reform Jews, or for rally
them on to march with Torah
seven times around the temple
instead of only one; or is it di-
rected at Reform rabbis who are
guarding well their rather lonely
altars.
This is intended to be • report
on the serious sickness of Re-
form Judaism as manifested in
Reform Jews. How is it going
to keep on living in Jews who
don't care much?
It is to be guessed that this
will be answered by Reform Jew-
ish authorities who will marshal
statistics in evidence of the vital-
ity of Reform Judaism: So many
teMplea, an many rabbis, so many
dues-paying members.
But paying dues Is the easiest
thing we do. I, • Reformer, sign
a check for the temple and con-
sider my accounts with Judaism
.squared ... "Well," I say, "this
Jacobs to Address
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND
I Shaarey Zedek Men
ITS AFFILIATED AGENCIES on Monday Evening
Herman Jacobs, executive di-
EDITOR'S NOTE; Detroit Jewry's share in the service of the com• rector of the Jewish Community
munity presents interesting high-lights of an integrated effort Center, will address a member-
which includes local, national and international causes. The ship meeting of the Men's Club
following is one of • series of sketches outlining the work of of Congregation Shaarey Zedek
the agencies which are included in the Detroit Community on Monday evening, Oct. 26, at
Fund and the Jewish Welfare Federation, as well as the Allied 8:30 o'clock. He will discuss the
Jewish Campaign. In view of the approaching Community Jewish Center movement in this
Fund drive, we present the Community Fund agencies first. country.
JEWISH CHLDREN'S HOME
Placing its emphasis on health education and recrea-
tion, the Jewish Children's Home cares for approximately
70 children a year, the average number of children that
is always in the home being approximately 45 and the
average length of stay for any one child being about
one year.
The Jewish Children's Horne receives its income from
the Detroit Community Fund and is an affiliated agency
of the Jewish Welfare Federation.
Carefully guarded in their work in the public and
high schools of the city, the children receive their red-
gious and Hebrew training at the Tuxedo branch of the
United Hebrew Schools. In addition, there is a certain
amount of tutoring in the home, and the children attend
Sabbath morning services at the Shaarey Zedek and B'nai
Moshe synagogues.
The Jewish Children's Home offers the boys and girls
recreational activities and gives them a chance to apply
hobbies in clay modelling, art instruction, handicraft and
sewing. There are story-telling periods conducted by
volunteer recreational workers. A number of clubs func-
tion to stimulate sports and art interests among the
children.
The Women's Auxiliary of the lime arranges for oc-
casional outings for the children.
EMIGRATION HAS RELIGIOUS MEANING,
STATES GERMAN CHRISTIAN REFUGEE
Gives Fall Clothes
This meeting will be for mem-
bers only and will be in the form
of a smoker, featuring entertain-
ment
ment and a musical program.'
Games will be played after the
meeting, including bridge, ping
pong, etc.
That Feeling of
Fresh Newness
Dance of Jr. J. N. F.
at Statler Jan. 10
Vitalize is an extra process which gives
T h e Junior Jewish National
Fund held an open meeting at the
home of Rose I'askel,
Abe Rozenzweig, president, ap-
pointed Lou Papo chairman of
the program committee. Ways
and means were brought up in
which Palestine, its problems and
progress may be studied a n d
brought into active discussion by
the members of the organization.
Lou Papo distributed J. N. F.
pins among all present at this
meeting.
Plans were discussed concern-
ing the seventh annual dance to
be held at the Spitler Hotel on
Jan. 10.
Arrangements were completed
for the Hallowe'en party to be
held at the home of Miss Goldie
Weiner on Saturday, Oct. 20.
The meeting on Oct. 22 was
held at the home of Sam Yagoda,
9727 Cameron.
added
life and smartness to clothes—glues them that
feeling of fresh newness.
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more the tragic complexity of a
real destiny in the present emi-
separation from her settled exis- gration than a simple and one-
tence in Egypt, and of her migra- sided immortality. And just this
tion through the desert.
feeling that moral categories are
Christian prophetism in all insufficient for understanding the
centuries warned the stabilized world situation generally and our
churches not to forget their per- own situation especially drives me
iod of emigration, of persecution and should drive all of us toward
and underground-life. The fight- the ultimate, the religious, mean-
ers for the rights of man and so- ing in understanding the fate of
cial justice always challenged the emigration.
settled classes, which made them
Emigration today, especially
refugees and prisoners, that they emigration produced by the de-
have forgotten their own unset- moniac power of nationalism, can
tled and fighting period.
become a prophetic word to the
This, I think, is the ultimate Christian churches. The fact of
point of view, from which an separation from their homeland,
emigration such as the present experienced by thousands and
one from Germany has to be con- thousands of people, can become
sidered. There are also other a manifestation of the limited
possible and very serious consid- meaning of nation and homeland
erations.
compared with the unlimited
This, I think, is the ultimate meaning of the Kingdom of God.
point of view, from which an emi-
Emigration by itself is a pro-
gration such as the present one test against the nationalistic dis-
from Germany has to be consid- tortion of Christianity and de-
ered. There are also other pos- famation of humanity. The sup-
sible and very serious considera- port of emigres is a support of
tions.
this prophetic protest against the
First of all, the actual situation demonry of religious nationalism.
of a tremendous emergency which
Emigration can become a sym-
challenges Christion love; then the, bol for humanity beyond national
special causes of this situation, and racial divisions. It can be-
the merely natural fact of rac- come a sign for the Christian
ial differences in the one group churches to resist the rather ir-
of emigres, the struggle for peace, resistible temptation of national-
social justice and the rizhts of ism in our period.
man in the other group, both
There should live the conscious-
challenging the Christian con- ness that emigration is a religious
science, the former by their inno- category concerning every Chris-
cent suffering, the later by their tian, indicating the majesty of
defense of indispensible elements God and the exclusiveness of His
of Christianity.
command, separating us at times
Prophetic Word
from home and family and soil
As an emigre with emigres II and nation and every other thing
confess frankly that I feel much on earth.
AKIBA: A GREAT BIOGRAPHY
Community-wide interest is be-
ing displayed in connection with
the silver jubilee anniversary of
the Ilebrew Ladies Aid Society
on Sunday evening, Nov. 8, at
the Phalanx Club. There will be
a catered dinner followed by en-
tertainment and dancing.
Rabbi Moses Fischer, spiritual
leader of the B'nai Moshe Con-
gregation, who has always main-
tained interest in this organiza-
tion, will deliver the invocation.
Ile will commemorate the memory
of the departed members with an
appropriate blessing.
Miss Selma Klein has composed
some poetry especially appro-
priate for this occasion. Miss
Klein is the daughter of the late
"Mother" Malvina Klein, who
prior to her untimely death was
closely identified and associated
with all of the activities of the
Hebrew Ladies' Aid Society.
William I. Miller, the husband
of the general chairman of this
affair, will act as toastmaster. Mr.
Miller is well known for his many
affiliations with phianthropic as
well as fraternal organizations
throughout the city. Dancing to
the tunes of a well known popular
orchestra will conclude the eve-
ning.
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ity—these are among the sub-
jects ably discussed by the able
most personalities in the Hebrew author. On the occasion of Akiba's
tradition: Moses and Isaiah among mission to Rome, according to Dr.
the prophets, Maimonides, Crescas Finkelstein, he met Josephus. The
and Spinoza among the philoso- author utilizes the opportunity
phers." The author introduces, thus presented him for a discus-
the reader to his theme by tell-. sion of Josephus' activities and
ing him that Akiba "dominates the repentance of his transgres-
the whole scene of Jewish history) sion! in the writing of his "Wars"
for 18 centuries, from the period ; when he later produced his volu-
of the Second Isaiah, about 540i minous history of the Jews. The
B. C. E. until the rise of the discussion of Josephus' life and
Spanish school of Jewish philoso- works, if isolated from the rest of
phers about 1100 C. E."
the story, would form another
Pointing out that in spite of ; very fine essay.
Akiba's rise from an ignorant
Akiba's greatness he remains tin-1
known outside the limited circles' shepherd to great learning, the
best
manner
in which this illiterate at
of Talmud students; that the
available biography of him until' ' 40 became the master at 60, how
now in any language is Prof. he influenced the rabbis of his
day, his debates with them—
these are elements of unsurpassed
literary value in this narrative.
Akiba's juristic philosophy, his
theological and political ideals, his
maxims, his wit, are packed into
this biography. The great rabbi's
atttude toward women, his views
on slaves and slavery, reveal that
his ideas are worthy of 20th cen-
tury thought and that he was on
a par with the, prophets in his
ethical and moral teachings.
The concluding chapter is a
very touching one. It is no won-
' der that Dr. Finkelstein writes—
to turn back again to the fore-
' word of this excellent historical
biography:
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treasure chest. The life of Jews •Itident• gather to p.m seer Ii,. Tole
in the first century of the Chris- mad Mal the brilliance of AkIhter
tian era, their relations to the I7 air
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early Christians, the origins of
In this concluding chapter, Dr.
rabbinic Judaism and Christian- Finkelstein relates how Jewish
students continued to teach the
is one of those things you've got law. He tells how Akiha'e aseo-
to do, I sum."
elates, desiring to get his opinion
And Reform rabbis are consci- on certain subjects, sent meeten•
entious doctors doing their best , gees to his prison and used all
to make the blood flow full, again sorts of tactics to get his ideas.
in the hardening arteries of Re- On one occasion. Dr. Finkelstein
form Judaism. Oh, there are relates, one of these meesenrers
plenty of temples, plently of rab- took a peddler's basket and dar-
bis, plenty of dues-paying mem- Lngly went up and down before
ber!, plenty of everything but the jail, crying, "Needles for
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