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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

SECTION ONE

VOL. 43, NO. 2

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10,

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Report Britain Zionists
Membership Drive
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Rabbi Morris Adler, president
of the Zionist Organization of
Detroit, on Monday announced
the appointment of James I. Ell-
mann as chairman of the drive
for 2,250 new members.
In a statement accepting the
appointment and expressing the
LONDON. (WNS)—The Brit- hope that this number of De-
ish Government, looking ahead to troiters will enroll in the organi-
the end of the war, is consider-
ing the creation of a federation
of Arab States with Palestine
as autonomous Jewish territory,
it was reported here. Government
officials refused to comment on
the report.
The plan for the creation of
an Arab Federation was broached
to the British Government by
Arab nationalist leaders, it was
said. The original Arab plan made
no mention of Zionist aspira-
tions in Palestine but, following
conferences with British Colon-
ial officials, the project was en-
larged to include Palestine.
While the report did not state
how far the British Government
would go in granting autonomy
to Arabs and Jews, it was under-
stood that the project provided
for liberal concessions to the
Jewish people in Palestine.
Behind-the-scene negotiations
were veiled in the deepest se-
crecy, it was explained, because
Britain feared violent repercus-
sions in India if it became gen-
JAMES I. ELLMANN
erally known that the govern-
ment was considering broad con- zation and thereby strengthen the
cessions to Arabs and Jews.
hands of those who seek to build
the Jewish National Home in
Jewish Agency to Build Houses Palestine, Mr. Ellmann said:

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Selection of Heads of Functioning Sub-Committees Is
Announced by Clarence H. Enggass; Three Major
Groups to Study Requests for Funds

The organization of the De-
troit Service Group Budget
Committee for the 1941 Allied
Jewish Campaign has been com-
pleted, according to an announce-
ment by Clarence H. Enggass,
who heads the committee. Meet-
ings, to hear the petitions of the
various agencies seeking inclu-

Bible Evening
On Wednesday

Ribalow and Hershman
to Speak at "Neshef
Ha-Tanach"

The public is invited by the
Hebrew Cultural Group of De-
troit to attend the "Neshef Ha-
tanach," the Bible evening, Wed-
nesday, Jan. 15, at 8:15 o'clock
in the evening, in the Rose Sittig
Cohen Bldg., 13226 Lawton Ave.
The speakers will be Dr. A. M.
Hershman, rabbi of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, and Menachem

Mr. Ellmann's Statement

for Refugees
JERUSALEM. (Palcor Agency)

—The acute housing shortage in
Palestine resulting from the in-
flux here of thousands of Jew-
ish refugees in recent years will
be alleviated by the Jewish
Agency's building program for
the new year, it was announced.
Many of the refugees had to live
in tents because of the housing
shortage.
The number of dwellings to be
erected will reach at least 2,427;
in addition, there will be 17 com-
munal buildings and 150 farm
buildings. Small cottages, de-
scribed as "hutments," will be
provided for those refugees who
are at present occupying tents.
The Jewish Farmers' Federa-
tion has received 800 dunams of
government land for housing
purposes. Each household site
will comprise two and a half
dunams, just under three-quar-
ters of an acre. The leasehold
will be 400 mils per dunam per
annum, or roughly £1 annual
ground rent. The new housing
division lies on high land along-
side the main Rehoboth-Gedera
road.

"I cheerfully accepted the in-
vitation to work with the men
and women who will devote the
next three weeks to the most in-
tense effort for enlarging the
membership and activities of the
organization. It follows the pro-
gram of the new national presi-
dent, Edward I. Kauffmann, and
of our Detroit president, Rabbi
Morris Adler.
"I wish I could travel once
again and take with me to Pales-
tine for a short while every man,
woman and child through the
hills and valleys, the university,
the schools, the colonies, the in-
dustrial and business centers, the
resorts along the Mediterranean
or near the Dead Sea. They
would feel that strange feeling
which comes over you when you
realize instantly that Palestine
has become not only a home,
not only a place of refuge, not
only a center of tremendous
business and industrial activity,
but the rebirth and the deposi-
tory of our historical faith, our
literature, our poetry, our en-
tire background and future. They

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MENACHEM RIBALOW

Ribalow of New York. Cantor
Jacob H. Sonenklar will sing se-
lections from the Bible. He will
be accompanied on the piano by
his daughter, Charlotte. Morris
Lachover, associate chairman of
the cultural committee of the
Kvutzah Ivrith, will extend greet-

See BIBLE—Page 9

Dr. Perlzweig at
Dual David Friday

Committee Co-Chairmen

Serving with Mr. Enggass as
his co-chairmen are Sidney J.
Allen, Melville S. Welt and
Henry Wineman. Abe Srere heads
the steering committee.
The members of the budget
committee represent a cross-sec-
tion of the local Jewish commu-
nity. Grouped into several sub-
committees, they will consider
the requests of local, national
and overseas organizations for
inclusion in the 1941 Allied Jew-
ish Campaign. "In addition to
considering the amounts to be
allocated to the individual agen-
cies," stated Mr. Enggass, "bud-
get committee •members must
weigh the broader problem of
inclusion policy for the Jewish
Welfare Federation. The ques-
tion of policy, as to which agen-
cies overseas, national and local,
shall be included in Federation
and Welfare Fund grants, is also
of _vital concern to the Detroit
community."

Separated into three major
groups, local, national and over-
seas, each group of the budget
committee has been divided into
sub-committees to review specific
problems in these different fields.
Sidney J. Allen is chairman
and Simon Shetzer co-chairman
of the entire local group. Within
this group, William Friedman is
chairman and Sidney L. Alexan-
der co-chairman of the educa-
tion committee, reviewing the
budget requirements of local
schools. Judge Harry B. Keidan
is chairman and Gus D. Newman
co-chairman of the committee
dealing with local health agen-
cies. Hyman C. Broder is chair-
man, Louis C. Blumberg co-
chairman of the committee on in-
stitutional care. Mrs. Henry
Wineman is chairman, Irving W.
Blumberg co-chairman, of the
committee reviewing the needs of
the recreational agencies. Julian

See BUDGET—Page 16

See ZIONISTS—Page 12

Homes of Jews
Given Over to
Nazi Officers

Wholesale Evictions in
Rumania; Many Air
Raid Casualties

BUDAPEST. (WNS) — Thou-
sands of Rumanian Jews were
made homeless by a decree issued
by the Rumanian government
compelling them to leave their
homes to provide room for Nazi
army officers, it was reported
here.
The mass eviction of Jews in
Bucharest and other cities was
supervised by anti-Semitic Iron
Guardists who visited Jewish
homes and ordered the occupants
out within a few hours. Many
of the wealthier Jewish-owned
homes in the capital were con-
fiscated outright.
The arrival of hundreds of
thousands of Nazi troops in Ru-
mania within recent weeks, pre-
paratory to a new Nazi cam-
paign in the Balkans, has created
an acute housing shortage with
the Jewish population the first
victims.

Further Restrictions

At the same time the govern-
ment announced further anti-
Jewish restrictions, barring Jews
from the nation's theaters, con-
cert halls and motion pictures.
All Jewish theaters were ordered
closed. T heaters, vaudeville
houses, film companies and cafes
were ordered to dismiss their
Jewish employees.
All Jewish publishing houses
were confiscated and non-Jewish
publishing firms were warned not
to publish books by Jewish au-
thors or books by non-Jewish au-
thors treating Jews sympatheti-
cally. Firms owned jointly by
Jyaewn'iszeadn.,d, Gentiles must be "Ar-

German sources here cicaim
that, following an Axis victory,
Europe's five million Jews will
be shipped to some African col-
ony in accordance with Hitler's
plan for "a new order" in Eu-
rope. The Nazi project requires,
they say, that Jews finance the
wholesale emigration.

Typhus Epidemic Breaks Out in

Lodz Ghetto

STOCKHOLM. (WNS) — A
typhus epidemic has broken out
in the overcrowded Jewish ghetto
of Lodz in Nazi-occupied Poland,
according to reports published in
newspapers here, which stated
that inadequate medical supplies

See NAZIS—Page 13

Schechter and His Disciples

An Evaluation of the Late President of the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of America on the 25th
Anniversary of His Death

By LOUIS GOLDING and JAMES WATERMAN WISE

Editor's Note: American defense, so closely allied with Great
Britain' s determined struggle against the Nazis, is of para-
mount importance to all sections and groups of our com-
munity. In this revealing dialogue Louis Golding, outstanding
English-Jewish author, and James Waterman Wise, distinguished
American Jewish man of letters, discuss a topic that is upper-
most in th e mind of America. This interestin g double inter-
view is presented through the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate,
by special arrangements with Radio Station WEVD.

MR. WISE: First let me say
how delighted your many Ameri-
can friends and readers are, that
after a year of being bombed in
London, you have come safely
to our shores for a visit and, I
trust, a vacation. All of us are
deeply interested in hearing
some of the things which you
can tell us of conditions in Eng-
land. With your permission, I
am going to bombard you now
with a few questions.
In the United States we have
heard conflicting reports as to
whether the English people can
continue to hold out against such
bombings as have been suffered
by London, by Plymouth, by
Coventry. What is your judg-

sion in the spring drive, will be
called within the next few weeks.
Chairman of the board of gov-
ernors of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, which conducts the
annual Allied Jewish Campaign,
Mr. Enggass also serves on the
board of directors of the Detroit
Service Group, the fund-raising
organization w hi c h motivates
Federation activities. His long
and active participation in com-
munity affairs has given him ex-
perience, not only as a cam-
paigner, but in the technical bud-
geting process of allocating funds
in the amounts necessary to
campaign beneficiaries and the
computation of campaign goals
to meet these needs.

Three Groups

England Sees It Through

ies

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Budget Committee of Service Group
To Commence Hearings on '41 Drive

James I. Ellmann Named
Chairman of Campaign
to Enroll 2,250

Considers Proposal as
Part of Arab
Federation

This Paper Printed in Two Sections

1941

By LOUIS LIPSKY

ment on this all-important ques-
tion?
MR. GOLDING: I think I can
safely say this: that throughout
the whole of this rather trying
year in England, there hasn't
been a single_moment in which
I doubted that we are going to
carry on—with difficulty, with
hardship, with misery—but I as-
sure you, with a great deal of
pride and quite a lot of tough
and simple courage. It is only
when I've been away from Eng-
land and have seen what propa-
ganda has done about suggesting
that Englishmen are getting
weary and that they can't stand

Dr. L. M. Perlzweig, minister
of the North Western Reform
Synagogue of London, chairman
of the British Section of the
World Jewish Congress, will ad-
dress the Friday evening gather-
ing of Congregation Bnai David,
Elmhurst and 14th Sts., on Jan.

See DIALOGUE—Page 8

See PERLZWEIG—Page 8

DR. L. M. PERLZWEIG

The 25th anniversary of the
death of Solomon Schechter was
observed this, year. A perfunc-
tory interest ' vas evident. The
event passed almost unnoticed.
Several articles were printed in
the Anglo-Jewish press, and a
few sermons were pi ched. This
is rather strange. Es ecially so
in this year of grace, when so
many birthdays and yahrzeits
have been given extended com-
ment.
Schechter was one of the most
colorful individualities in the
American Jewish community dur-
ing the first two decades of this
century. He exercised an enor-
mous influence on the develop-
ment of Jewish religious thought.
He stimulated the organizaztion
of religion. He gave form, dig-
nity and radiant personality to
a scholarship equally at home
in the Yeshivah and the syna-
gogue as in the secular academic
world. He was a brilliant Yeshi.

vah-bocher who came to the Jew-

ish Theological Seminary not as
a poor, unrecognized scholar, but
wearing the scarlet robe of a
doctor of a great English uni-
versity. He wore that robe with
grace and distinction. He had
spent 18 years in England, 12
of them at Cambridge; and had
made a deep, warm impression
upon the best minds in the Jew-
ish and non-Jewish world of
scholarship. His friends at Cam-
bridge had found in him "a rare
example of intense devotion to
scholarship, combined with gen-
iality and generosity." He was
the peer of a brilliant group of
English men of letters, who al-
ways remembered him as a rare
example of personality in schol-
arship.

His coming to the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary in 1902 was

See SCHECHTER—Page 12