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VOL. 42, NO. 37

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BRANCH OF HEBREW SCHOOLS
New Lecture NEW
AND JEWISH CENTER IS OPENED
Program at
The Center

Rose Sittig Cohen Building Fulfills Important Need in
Northwest Section of the City

Concerts and Special
Courses Also to Be
Offered

Under the chairmanship of
Rabbi Leon Fram, the educa-
tional committee of Detroit's Jew-
ish Community Center is com-
pleting plans for an extensive and
embracing program of adult edu-
cation, designed to satisfy the
interests of the various elements
in the adult population of De-
troit's Jewish community. The
outstanding feature in the fall
program will be the second an-
nual Jewish lecture-concert ser-
ries, which will open on Tuesday,
Nov. 12, and will bring to De-
troit some of the foremost speak-
ers and artists in the field of
Jewish art and thought.
Such nationally known think•
ers as Prof. Mordecai M. Kaplan
of the Jewish Theological Sem-
inary, Prof. Sidney Hook, chair-
man of the department of philo-
sophy at New York University,
and Prof. Oscar I. Janowsky, of
the department of history at the
College of the City of New York,
are among the speakers being
booked for the series. Naomi Aleh
Leaf, brilliant Palestinian danc-
er; Shulamit Silber, scintillating
violinist from Tel Aviv; Ernst
Wolff, baritone who accompanies
himself at the piano; and the
team of Susie Michael and Mau-
rice Friedman, who earned an en-
viable reputation in their lecture
recitals which present a "Caval-
cade of Jewish and Hebrew Mu-
sic," are among the artists being
engaged for the concerts in this
series. Dates and final a••ange-
ments will be announced shortly.
This will be a series of six
events, featuring three concerts
and three lectures. It will be pre-
sented on six consecutive Tues-
day evenings, beginning Nov. 12
and ending Dec. 17.

This Paper Printed in Two Sections

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1940

NEW ROSE SITTIG COHEN BUILDING

Serving as a branch for both
the United Hebrew Schools and
the Jewish Community Center,
the new Rose Sittig Cohen Build-
ing, on Lawton near Tyler Ayes.,
opened its doors last week.
The attractive new neighbor-
hood building fulfills a great need
in the northwest section of the

Jabotinsky's
Tribute Tues.

Memorial Meeting at
the Bnai Moshe
Sept. 17

city. As a result of a survey,
conducted by the United Hebrew
Schools, it has been definitely as-
certained that this particular sec-
tion has a Jewish school popula-
tion of over 4,000. While a very
significant part of this number
has been receiving Jewish educa-
tion in the United Hebrew Schools
branches, formerly rented from
the Detroit Public Schools sys-
tem, a large percentage of the
children has been without Jew-
ish education because of the lack
of neighborhood facilities.

Center Program

As a branch of the Jewish Cen-
te•, the Rose Sittig Cohen Build-
ing will also offer recreational
activities for groups of all ages.
The Center's program will be flex-
ible, designed to meet the chang-
ing needs of the northwest Jew-
ish c o mm unity. Games, arts
and crafts, ...draniatica_and classes
of various types, including Eng-
lish classes for refugees, will be
offered.
In addition, meeting space will
be available to local organiza-
tions. Some of the Mothers'
Clubs have already planned to
meet in the new building as have
various young people's and chil-
dren's groups.
The Rose Sittig Cohen Build-
ing, serving as the northwest
branch of the Jewish Community
Center, replaces the Center's Dex-
tex Branch. The Dexter Branch,
where the Center previously had
rented quarters, was given up
to take advantage of the greater
facilities offered by the new

At a conference of Detroit
Zionist Organizations, plans were
completed for a memorial meet-
ing for the late Vladimir Jabot-
insky, Jewish— leader, writer and
orator, president of the World
New Zionist Organization and
heroic founder of the Jewish Le-
gion in the World War. Mr. Ja-
botinsky passed away Aug. 4, at
Hunter, N. Y.
The meeting is sponsored by
the New Zionist Organization of
Detroit, the Detroit Zionist Dis-
trict, Mizrachi, Hadassah, Junior
Hadassah, and will be held at
Concerts, Discussion Groups
the Bnai Moshe Synagogue, Dex-
In addition to the lecture and ter and Laurence, Tuesday, Sept.
concert series, other mass pro- 17, at 8 n ni.
grams will include several con-
The speakers will include a
certs by the Michigan Symphony special delegation from the head-
Orchestra, under the direction of quarters of the New Zionist Or-
Valte• Poole. There will also be ganization in New York, consist-
a political symposium in October, ing of J. E. Raffaeli of Jeru-
at which representatives of the salem, Aaron Z. Propes, world See NEW BUILDING—Page 9
three major political parties will leader of Brith Trumpeldor, youth
discuss the issues of the national, group of the New Zionist Or-
state and local elections.
ganization. Other speakers will
The discussion groups will be be Rabbi A. M. Hershman, Rabbi
conducted by the Center regular- Moses Fischer, Meyer Beckman
ly. The first will be "a listen- on behalf of the Mizrachi, and
ing-discussion group," in connec- Aaron M. Weisbrot of the New
tion with the New York Town Zionist Organization. Rabbi Mor-
Hall of the Air. The group will ris Adler will be the chairman
gather on Thursday evenings, of the evening. The memorial
half an hour before the Town services will be conducted by
Hall of the Air broadcast, to lis- Rev. David Katzman, cantor of
The Louis LaMed Literary-
ten to a preliminary discussion the Bnai Moshe synagogue.
The committee invites the pub- Foundation for the advancement
of the evening's subject. The
lic, especially the Zionists, to at- of Hebrew and Yiddish Literature
See CENTER—Page 12
tend. Admission is free.
was organized here this week
with headquarters at 12804
Broadstreet.
Formation of this foundation
was first announced by Mr.
LaMed at the convention of the
Jewish National Workers' Al-
Memorandum Submitted by Dr. L. M. Birkhead of liance (Farband), held here in
Friends of Democracy; Hour Charges Formation
June.
The board of trustees of the
of Dagger Group by McWilliams
Louis LaMed Literary Founda-
NEW YORK (WNS) — As Congressional District, New York; tion will be composed of S. Nie-
part of a nationwide Fifth Col- Kenneth A. Brown, seeking elec- ger, chairman, prominent Yid-
umn effort, a group of pro-Nazis tion to the House of Represen- dish writer and lecturer, of New
will seek high public office in the tatives from the 1st Congression- York, and the following Detroit-
forthcoming election on a plat- al District, Oregon; Harold A. ers: S. Bercovich, Mary Dombey.
form advocating appeasement of Snarling, candidate from the 17th Joseph Haggai, Louis LaMed and
Hitler and opposing national de- Congressional District, Califor- J. Rosenshine.
fense, it was disclosed by L. M. nia; Louis B. Ward, candidate
Foundation's Statement
Birkhead, national director, for United States Senate from
In a statement announcing the
Friends of Democracy, Inc., in Michigan; Dr. George H. Derry, organization of this foundation,
a memorandu m to the Federal
candidate for the House of Rep- the following rules are outlined:
Bureau of Investigation urging resentatives from the 15th Con-
"It has been our tradition to
an emergency probe of the politi- gressional District, Michigan, and regard Yiddish and Hebrew as
cal supporters of 7 pro-Nazi Con- T. W. Hughes, Los Angeles, Cali- the inseparable instruments of
gressional candidates and all can- fornia. Mr. Birkhead mentioned one literature, as the products of
didates running on the Commun- also George Deatherage, St. Al- an integrated folk-story and his-
ist Party ticket.
bans, West Virginia, who an- tory.
The candidates mentioned by nounced that he would run for
"This basic view has almost
Mr. Birkhead were Joseph E. Mc-
Congress as an independent can- disappeared during the recent de-
Williams,
aspirant to the House
of Re
presentatives from the 18th
See LaMED FUND—Page 13
See PRO-NAZIS—Page 8

LaMed Fund
Organized

Formed for Advance-
ment of Hebrew, Yid-
dish Literature

F. B. I. Urged to Probe Pro-Nazi
Candidates, Two from Michigan

10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Year

Italian Bombs Kill
112 in Tel Aviv

TEL AVIV. — Destruc-
tion of many homes, the
death of 112 and the
wounding of 151 is the
result of Italian bombing
of Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
Among the dead are
55 children. Many weep-
ing Jewish mothers were
among those who joined
the air patrol workers
who dug in the debris for
bodies of the victims.
Preceding the funeral,
200,000 persons viewed
the bodies of the victims
which lay in state in the
Balfour Municipal School.
Among the wounded is
the noted 'cellist, Joachim
Stutchewsky. In c l u ded
among the dead is an
American citizen, Theo-
dore Pehr, 41, who came
here in 1935. Seven Arabs
are among the 112 killed.
Many of them formerly
lived in the United States.

New Deerees
In Rumania

Synagogues, Hospitals
and Schools Limited
for Jews

London Jews
Hardest Hit
In the Raids

Jewish Quarter Virtu-
ally Destroyed
by Nazis

LONDON. — (WNS) — Great
Britain's Jews were the hardest
hit as wave after wave of Nazi
bombing planes rained incendiary
bombs on the heavily Jewish-
populated East End district of
London in the fiercest aerial at-
tack of the war.
The Jewish quarter was virtu-
ally destroyed as Nazi raiders,
estimated in some quarters as
2,000 planes, dropped their ter-
rifying, death-dealing missiles in
a night-long raid on apparently
non-military objectives.
Though the proportion of Jews
among the dead and maimed
could not be determined imme-
diately, observers said it was un-
doubtedly high because of the
predominance of Jews in the dis-
trict.
Jewish residents of the quar-
ters, the majority of them in the
lower-income brackets, piled their
possessions on their backs and
moved into central London. The
thousands of Jews made home-
less by the raid were sheltered
in schools, hotels and other pub-
lic buildings.

Doriot Fans Anti-Semitism

Rapidly forgoing ahead as the
LONDON (WNS)—In another
move to eliminate the Jews in No. 1 anti-Semite of un-occupied
Rumania from all phases of na- France, a position held in Nazi
tional life, the new pro-Nazi Germany by Julius Streicher, is
Rumanian Government issued a Jacques Doriot, founder of the
series of decrees limiting the Fascist French Popular party in
number of synagogues, Jewish 1936, whose activities are mainly
responsible for the recent anti-
hospitals and schools,
The decree stated that all Jew- Jewish demonstrations in a num-
ish communities must vacate syn- ber of French cities.
agogues unless they could estab- In the latest issue of his week-
lish memberships of 400 in the ly newspaper, "L'Emancipation
larger towns and 200 in the Nationale", Doriot reported with
villages. The Jews will have to pride that the French Govern-
apply to the Ministry of Educa- ment at Vichy, "aroused by the
tion for special permission to manifold public anti-Semitic dem-
maintain each synagogue.
onstrations in the un-occupied
Synagogues in communities zone," was now concerning itself
which do not have the specified with the Jewish question.
amount of Jewish families will
Lauding the Petain Govern-
pass into possession of the State, ment for repealing the racial
which will use them for Chris- anti-defamation la w, which
tian churches. The same ruling barred anti-Semitic attacks in the
applies to Jewish schools and French press or radio, Doriot ap-
hospitals.
proved the action of the Govern-
Horia Sima, Iron Guard lead- ment in "purifying" the medical
er, announced the domestic and profession but said that it had
foreign policies of the violently not gone far enough. He recom-
anti-Semitic organization.
mended application of the nu-
Report Many Suicides Among merus clausus to other profes-
Jews in Hungarian Army
sions.
Scores of Jewish soldiers in
"A statute must provisionally
the Hungarian Army have com- settle the fate of Jews," Doriot's
mitted suicide as a result of the paper said in its leading editorial.
severe treatment received at the "Measures of this kind are urgent
hands of violently anti-Semitic and indispensable. The Govern-
officers, according to advice reach- ment must take immediate steps
ing here.
in re-establishing the French in
rampant their rights."
is
Anti-Semitism
among the privates, who frequent-
Echoing the predictions made
ly band together to persecute
See LONDON—Page 16
their Jewish comrades.

BEWARE OF THE NAZI RUSE!

Black Front Under Otto Strasser Presents Danger as
Great as Hitlerism; Biographies Quoted
as Evidence

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

A campaign is in evidence to
impress America with the sincer-
ity of Otto Strasser and the value
of his "Black Front." Hermann
Rauschning has indirectly con-
tributed to it. Newspaper writ-
ers have cheered this force as
an anti-Hitler movement. Doug-
las Reed has written a book
("Nemesis?", it Houghton-Mifflin
publication) to present the story
of "Hitler's arch enemy." Stras-
ser's "Hitler and I" ( Houghton-
Mifflin) is another contribution
to this movement in favor of the
"Black Front." The latest mani-
festation for it was the recent
arrival in this country of Stras-
ser's brother, the Benedictine
monk, the Rev. Paul Strasser.
Although he refused to discuss

his brother's status, Father Stras-
ser said enough to indicate that
the Gestapo is after his brother
as a result of the revelation by
the American press that he is in
Portugal. His statement had the
desired effect of giving emphasis
to a campaign to impress the
world with the fact that Otto
Strasser is anti-Hitler and there-
fore the logical person to suc-
ceed the Nazi leader as the fueh-
rer of Germany.
How is the democratic world
to be guided in protecting itself
against misleading movements in
behalf of persons advanced as
saviors in the present Germanic
situation? It is, after all, pos-

See STRASSER—Page 9

