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November 15, 1940
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
errors of the British Govern-
the world who would not be in the
ment and emphasized that the
lege. Another great man famed
mortal
peril.
in the field of religious education
Despite the fact that normal Britain which is now fighting the
and the author of a number of
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shipping lanes had been blocked war is not the Britain which en-
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books upon that subject was Dr.
war.
The the
conference
urged Ameri-
Louis Grossman, who, after a reproduction of the Jewish Gold- because of the war, Sir Norman tered
beginning of its liberal
history,
Beth
El
interpreta- service of 15 years as the Rabbi en Book, containing the signa- reported that 24,000 Jewish refu-
tunes
of
1,000
persons
and
or-
gees
had
entered
Palestine
dur-
can
Jewry
to
rush
all possible
a
has stood for
the 500,-
of Temple Beth El, went to Cin-
tion
of Judaism
has stressed
the identity
of and
Jewish
American cinnati as the successor to Dr. ganizations, each a contributor through
ing the Sweden,
first year
of
the
war
financial
assistance
to
in
Pal estine to
Russia,
Greece,
000
Isaac M. Wise, the founder of of $100 for land in Palestine.
stren g then the country's position
ideals.
In accepting the Golden Book Rumania, Turkey and Syria.
d
Reform Judaism in America.
as a st rong hold in the efense
The Jewish Agency y
ar -
In 1862, a small group of Other distinguished names in the f th
of Britai n in the Mediterr anean
the P
President,
id eat, Sena t or Bark-
members became displeased with roster r D of Beth
B th others
El's Dr.
r. Leib ley told the delegates: "I am a special immigration office in
the liberal tendencies of the con- were Ad rl . H . irn d ers of equal sure the President will cherish Athens which functioned up to
this gorgeous book to the re- the time of the Italian invasion.
gregat ion and withdrew
and o
m
noatne.
gregation,
the Shaark
Con to
form
we
mainder of his days and his chil- More than '7,500 Jews are still
ey Zed
which is now o ne of the leading
Since 1899, when he came dren and grandchildren will bless in their way to Palestine in a
spiritual
conservative synagogues in the here from Omaha Ne b ., Dr.
Leo you for this recognition of his steady flow which has not been
great service. The original will interrupted by the war's spread
country. Moreover, Temple Beth M. Franklin has, been
In MIAMI BEACH
El has parented liberal reform leader of the congregation. Dur- repose in the City of David, the to the Mediterranean.
congregations in many of the ing the course of his long min- City of God. What a wealth of
Emphasizing Palestine's impor-
cities of the state, including istry, now in its 42nd year, Con- historic memories this day must tance as a strate is point in the
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siRvil
e r-
t S . agina w, Pontiac, gregation Beth El has occupied rekindle among a race which, British olii n nte e
t at t S h ier IHoly
La nsing, Flinr,
TR UE REFIREMERT
e h El gained three houses of worship. When from Moses to Brandeis and man pointed d of
an d Port Huron. Bt
DIGIIIFIED HOSPITALITY
country wide recognition many Dr. Franklin came to Detroit, Frankfurter and Einstein, has Land "has become a vital bas-
years ago as the first Jewish Beth El was worshiping, as
C RERTIRG
enriched every field of endeavor.", lion in the defense not only of
congregation to dispense with had been for some 35 years, In
in
Dr. Israel Goldstein, p resident Britain but o of Jews the won
ROV
o f J ewr y
the assigned pew, thus doing an old church edifice at the cor- of the Jewish National Fund, over; and not aone
EI TURE I A n
l
LUXURY
Al
human
.
away with what was described
told the meeting that many refu- but of all free men, of
MODEST IRRIff
as a rich man's corner and a ner of Washington Blvd. and gees now in Palestine "thanks to right everywhere."
poor man's corner in the syna- Clifford St. Within a few years
thereafter, the congregation built the Roosevelt Golden Book proj-
"The battle of the British
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gogue. It was the first step taken a new and beautiful Temple on ect is today fighting valiantly" people, the battle of Palestine,
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ROOMY fine R I
by Beth El in the democratiza- Woodward Ave. near Eliot St., but on the side • of Great Britain in the battle of world Jewry, the
oar Esaucm
so c "
lion of the House of God.
that building was soon outgrown, the interests of democracy.
battle of the rights of Jews, for
The delegates voted to plant the rights of man, is now all one
From the very beginning of and in 1924 there was dedicated
its history, Beth El laid tremen- the magnificent edifice which the a grove of 1,000 trees in the battle, one and indivisible."
dons stress upon the importance congregation now occupies at the Holy Land in honor of Senator
The British writer told the
of religious education, both for corner of Woodward and Glad- Barkley.
conference that no Englishman
The
Detroit
delegation
at
the
the young and the old. As early stone Ayes. This edifice, which
could address a Jewish audience
as 1861 Dr. E. Gerechter, then has many times been described conference consisted of William without a sense of deep apology
the spiritual leader of the con- as a beeshive of activity, is re- Hordes, Nathan Linden, Mrs. for the shortcomings of British
gregation, wrote a textbook for garded as one of the finest reli- Maurice Landau and Miss Rose policy in relation to Palestine.
religious study in the preface of
ous buildings in the Middle Greenwald.
He said, however, that the Brit-
in Tin Ot(RI MP! 1111WEIll 10th ial 11111 Sts
which he paid high tribute to West.
ish people suffered even more
the Board of Education of Beth V
Sir Angell Predicts Britain Will than the Jews in Palestine from
El as a forwardlooking and en-
Accept Offer of Jewish Army
thusiastic group of men and Mrs. Rebecca Fenton Dies
WASHINGTON. — (WNS) —
women. Although the educational
Mrs. Rebecca Fenton died on Sir Norman Angell, Nobel peace
program of Beth El was thus
well organized for many years, Friday, Nov. 8, at her home, 3760 Prize winner
and prominent
that
writer, ' predicted
it received a new impetus with W. Chicago Blvd. Funeral sere- British
Great Britain would soon accept
the coming in the year 1925 of ices were held Sunday afternoon the offer of the Jewish Agency
Rabbi Leon From as Director of
Religious Education, and his as- in Lewis Bros. Funeral Home, for Palestine to raise an army
of 100,000 Jews for the defense
sistant, Miss Anna Oxenhandler, and burial was in Clover Hill Park of
the Holy Land, before 500
who had preceded him by a few Cemetery.
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delegates to the United Palestine
months. At that time Beth El
Surviving are seven sons, Ben Appeal conference.
College of Jewish Studies was
"The British and Jewish peo•
organized, and it has become the B., Morry, Joseph G., Herman,
model for many similar institu- Albert, Fred and Dr. Meryl Fen- pies," Sir Norman said, "now
tions of learning throughout the ton, all of Detroit; three daugh- share the honor of being the two
eo p les 1 all the earth upon
land.
ters, Mrs. Barney Smith, of De- p whom Hitler visits his deadliest
Temple Beth El had a number troit, Mrs. Albert Pierce, of Ni- enmity."
of eminent men in its pulpit in
He described Nazism as the
the course of the years. Among agora Fall, N. Y., and Mrs. San-
these were Dr. Kaufman K. ford Kramer, of Miami Beach, supreme enemy of both the Brit-
Kohler, a scholar of international Fla.; and two sisters, Mrs. Bessie ish and Jewish people and said
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repute, who later became the Rubenstein and Mrs. Lena Kahn, that if Britain were defeated
president of Hebrew Union Col- both of Detroit. there would not be a Jew in all
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