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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle_
SECTION ONE
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY MAY 9, 1941
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VOL. 43. NO. 19
Allied Jewish Campaign to Open at Dinner
•
on Sunday ; Quota of '940,000 for 5 5 Causes
Jewry Mobilizes All
DR. ABBA HILLEI. SILVER GUEST Palestine
Report French
U n married Men Between 20 & 30
IndignantmOi t
For Immediate Military Service
vie sr m SPEAKER Al OPENING FUNCTION
Yishuv Placed on War Footing; 60 New First
German Jews Seek Es-
Posts Opened in Tel Aviv; May
OF COMMUNITY'S MAJOR PROJECT Aid Form
cape in Face of Mad-
Jewish Army of 100,000
agascar Threat
Detroit's Greatest Campaign of "All-Out" Aid
JERUSALEM (Palcor Agency) — A joint proclama-
and Sacrifice to Be Launched on All Fronts tion issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the
Vaad Leumi (Jewish National Council) •calls on all un-
Under Leadership of Henry Wineman
NEW YORK (WNS) — That
the French people are revolted
by the Nazi-imported anti-Semit-
ism and that the Marshal Petain
Detroit Jewry's greatest campaign of "all-out" aid
government at Vichy introduced
anti-Jewish measures in unoccu- and sacrifice will be launched with a dinner meeting at
pied France in return for Nazi the Statler Hotel, on Sunday evening, May 11, at 6:30
concessions, were the conclusions
drawn by Thomas Kernan, writ- o'clock, in behalf of the 1941 Allied Jewish Campaign.
ing in the current Saturday Eve- Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, famed rabbi, author
ning. Post.
and orator, will be the guest speaker.
In his article, Mr. Kernan, who
The campaign has already advanced on many fronts,
was a magazine publisher in according to Henry Wineman, chairman of the fund-raising project
France before the Nazi occupa- sponsored annually by the Jewish Welfare Federation for 55 causes,
tion, said: "One day last Septem- meeting overseas needs, needs in the U. S. A. and needs in Detroit.
ber I happened to be standing
"No emergency in the past two decades is comparable to the
there in the pleasant air, talking
with one of my colleagues, when tragic position of the Jewish people today," said Mr. Wineman.
we heard shouting up toward the "The war has swelled the ranks of those who are in desperate
Etoile. A yellow roadster sped
down the almost deserted avenue
at 50 miles an hour, with a
vaguely uniformed young man
standing up in the tonneau yell-
ing, "A bas les Juifs!" (Down
with the Jew!).
"There was a crash and tinkle
of broken glass like a wake in his
passage, for, as the car passed
each one of the ready-to-wear
shops on the Champs-Elysees, a
uniformed young man stationed
in front hurled a brick wrapped
in newspapers through the win-
dows. Before my startled eyes,
the great windows of Cedric,
Vanilla, Annabel, Brunswick, Ma-
rie-Louise, Toutnutin—a million
francs' worth of plate glass—
fell into shards on the pave-
ment. Most, if not all, of these
shops were owned by Jews, and
had been reopened by their faith-
ful French employees, who stood
trembling and weeping in the
See NAZIS—Page 17
Ilerzog Retains
Hope for Zion
Addresses Large Audi-
ence on Visit in
Detroit
Dr. Isaac Halevy Herzog, Chief
Rabbi of Palestine, received a
royal welcome on his Detroit
visit last Sunday and thrilled an
overflow audience at the Bnai
Moshe with an inspiring mes-
sage.
Coming here in behalf of the
Allied Jewish Campaign, under
the auspices of the United Jew-
ish Appeal for Refugees and
Palestine which is included in
the drive, Rabbi Herzog spoke
in the evening to an audience
that filled to overflowing the
main synagogue of Congregation
Bnai Moshe, as well as to an
additional 400 people who heard
the address broadcast by spe-
cially installed loud speakers in
the banquet hall of the syna-
gogue.
that
confidence
Expressing
Palestine will survive the pres-
ent crisis and that the Jewish
National Home will conic through
safely with God's help, Rabbi
Herzog pleaded for the reten-
tion of faith, for a strengthen-
ing of the Jewish spiritual values,
for refusal to yield to despair
in the present crisis. He urged
unstinted support of the funds
which continue to build Pales-
tine and to aid unfortunates
throughout the world.
Dr. Herzog opened his address
in Hebrew, continued in English
and concluded with remarks in
See HERZOG—Page 11
married men of Eretz Israel between the ages of 20 and
30 to prepare themselves for immediate military service.
"In view of the position in the Middle East," the
manifesto declared, "we proclaim
it the duty of all such men to
present themselves for service
w th the Jewish units on May 4."
The announcement emphasized
the fact that the Yishuv had al-
Diplomas to Be Given ready given almost 10,000 young
men to the British Army.
at Services Next
A further step in the completion
of Tel Aviv's precautions against
Friday Night
air-raid attacks was taken with
the opening recently of 60 more
Rabbi Jehudah M. Cohen of first aid posts in that city by the
Ann Arbor will be a guest in Jewish A.R.P. Association. There
the pulpit of Temple Beth El had previously been 10 posts
next Friday night, May 16. He there.
will preach on the subject:
Each first aid post has 10 sec-
"Judaism's Contribution to De- tions under a warden. The posts
mocracy."
each have two stretchers, fire-
The principal feature of the fighting appliances, devices to
service will be the awarding of handle incendiary bombs and
the Temple High School diplomas other life-saving equipment. Each
to students who have completed also has a staff consisting of a
of three
years
instruction
in doctor, several fire fighters and
the
Temple
High
School course
nursing orderlies and A.R.P.
Jewish history, community life wardens.
The equipment of these stations
and comparative religion.
Leon Fram, of the Temple, will cost £1,000, and the amount was
Rabbis Leo M. Franklin and quickly oversubscribed.
There are now over 7,000
deliver messages of greeting to A.R.P. wardens and volunteers
the delegates. attached to Tel Aviv's A.R.P.
Association. They serve without
The winners of the Young pay.
Peoples Temple Club scholarship
medals are: Albert Cohen, Col-
man Goldberg, Joseph Lefkof- Axis-Inspired Reports of Anti-
sky.
Honorable mention was Jewish Riots in Palestine Untrue
given Estelle Blumenthal.
reports of anti-Semitic
The
The winners of the Temple
High School activity keys are JERUSALEM
(WNS) — 8 Axis-
See WAR—Page
Estelle Blumenthal, Albert Co-
hen, Ruth Reinheimer, William
Singer, Warren Shwayder, Rich-
and Barrer, Arthur Danto, Au-
brey Broudy, Victor Baum.
Warren Shwayder is the win-
ner of the Felix Winsen medal Jacob L. Keidan Heads
given • annually to the student
who shows the finest qualifica-
Youth Group to
tions for leadership.
Allied Drive
The following students will
take pert in the commencement
Over 250 young men and wom-
See GRADUATION—Page 11
en attended the Detroit Junior
Service Group opening dinner
for the junior division of the
Adolf Boehm Dies
1941 Allied Jewish Campaign,
Sunday evening, at the Jew-
In Vienna at 68 last
ish Community Center. Those
assembled were members of the
LONDON. (Palcor Agency)— 12 divisions within the junior
Word was received here May 1 division campaign set-up, all of
that Adolf Boehm, leading his- whom had already received their
torian and Zionist writer and prospect cards and were ready
DR. ABBA HILLEL SILVER
editor, had died in Vienna on to begin their solicitation of
April 10th at the age of 68. No funds for this community-wide
need of help and reduced the ranks of those who possess the re-
sources to provide that help. The Jewish community in the United details of the circumstances of effort, from the young Jewish
States must, in this most critical period, assume the responsibility his death were immediately people of Detroit.
Guest speaker of the evening,
and leadership which devolve upon it, by virtue of the fact that available.
Born in Northern Bohemia in Richard A. Meyer, president of
it enjoys the means and opportunities for immediate and effective
the Jewish Youth Assembly of
rescue, resettlement and relief effort. To prove its readiness and 1873, Boehm
Zionist movement at Chicago told the meeting of the
the Detroit Jewish community has already gone forward. The Wo- its very political beginnings. His experiences of the Chicago Jun-
men's Division, the Junior Division and other advance solicitation many pamphlets and brochures ior Group which has just finished
'
committees of the 1941 Allied Jewish Campaign have long been and more extensive works—such its campaign.
gn. Keidan, president of
Jacob I) L.
Ja
at work and, following the inspiration by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, as particularly his comprehensive
toir e y zoifontishte. the . Detroit Junior Service Group
who will be our guest speaker next Sunday, the drive will surge a zn ia daia st uth ao la rv iteam tie v a e t, hi,s ,D
s ia h n ich an sa non w sh oa rs isth se ervjiv an g ioa rs iil a ivai:
forward on all fronts."
ische Bewegung," which consti- v‘
The Guest Speaker
tuted the first systematic pre- ior division chairman, presided
One of the outstanding leaders of world Jewry today, Rabbi scmtation of the wealth of mate- at the dinner. He urged all Jun-
Abbe Hillel Silver serves, along with Rabbi Jonah B. Wise,
rial . invoked—secured his repu- ior workers to turn in their re-
chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. Spiritual leader of the Temple taor'
b as an authority through- ports as soon as possible. "The
atCleveland, he has also assumed the chairmanship of the Cleveland out the Zionist world. He played younger group must provide the
a very definite role in shaping spark for the general campaign,"
Jewish Welfare Fund drive,
A distinguished figure in the American Rabbinate, Dr. Silver the e political and cultural policies said Mr. Keidan, "and our early
has occupied a high position in American Jewish effort in the re- of the Zionist movement.
o
and full reports
will prove
a
r
building of Palestine. In addition to being the national chairman of
stimulant
to
the
workers
in the
.
Boehm's literary activities in
the United Jewish Appeal, he is also national chairman of the United
c to hr eial Ra
a cna
odch
trib au utiodn us ria t go general drive."
Palestine Appeal and a member of the Executive of the Zionist Or
Junior workers are requested
- e the d eJdueedilsi
ganization in America.
s
of
its
publication
in
to
bring
their r reports to cam-
Dr. Silver made an exceptional record during the World War, the day
paign headquarters at Hotel
Statler, daily if possible.
See BOEHM—Page 11
See CAMPAIGN—Page 20
Beth El High
Graduates 36 wi i
Juniors Start
Division Drive