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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
16 Baking Shops
Closed Saturday
NEW YORK (JPS) — Charles
Jaffe, famous chess player and
writer on chess for the Yiddish
press, died here at the age of 60.
Among those who had been taught
chess by him were Charles Chap- Community Welcome s Elimina-
lin and Mischa Elman.
tion of Seven-Day
Working Week
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From synagogue pulpits, or-
ganizational platforms and Hy-
man Altman's Radio Hour; in
hundreds of homes and in the
thickly populated Jewish districts,
widespread expressions of ap-
proval were heard all through
last week, commending the step
taken on Saturday, July 12, by
the Jewish Master Bakers of De-
troit in closing the majority of
retail baking shops which serve
the Jewish population of the city.
The movement was initiated by
the Michigan Synagogue Confer-
ence whose Women's Branch
circularized a petition among
sever al thousan d housewives
pledging themselves to patronize
Sabbath-observing stores and to
use only Jewish bread in their
homes.
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Workers Union, Local 78, A.F.L.,
through its chairman, Henry
Hubert, and business agent,
Meyer Cohen, also voiced agree-
ment to the closing of the
bakeries on Shabbos in response
to the demand of the Rabbinate
and the community at large, aim-
ing for the enforcement of a
six-day week in the bakeries and
the wider observance of the sa-
cred day of rest in Jewish homes.
More than 10,000 letters and
circulars were distributed urging
the Jewish public to patronize
Shabbos-observing stores. Stu-
dents of the United Hebrew
Schools and Yeshivath Beth Ye-
hudah were urged by their
teachers to bring the message of
the Sabbath to their parents in
conjunction with the movement
for the closing of the bakeries,
and pupils of older classes helpel
to distribute circulars in front of
bakeries.
Intensive plans for the further-
ance of the project through
house-to-house canvass and other
methods were outlined at a meet-
ing last Monday of the religious
and educational committee of the
Michigan Synagogue Conference,
presided over by Rabbi M. J.
Wohlgelernter. Attending the
meeting were Rabbis Moses
Fischer, Leizer Levin, Jacob J.
Nathan and Dr. Samson R.
Weiss; Mrs. Abraham Caplan,
chairman of the women's branch
Sabbath observance committee;
David I. Berris, president of the
state synagogue body; Isadore
Cohen, vice president for the
Detroit region, and Wolf Cohen;
Messrs. Leon Leibhaber, Morris
Weiner, H. Felhandler, David
Garber, Felset, Pearlman and
Mrs. Nidorf, representing the
bakers' organizations.
Rabbi Morris Adler of Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek; Rabbi
and Mrs. Joshua S. Sperka of
Congregation Bnai David; Mrs.
Charles Robinson, president,
Women's Auxiliary of the United
Hebrew Schools, and Mrs. Joseph
H. Kunin, president, Sisters of
Zion Mizrachi, assisted in the
work of the committee. Bakers
cooperating in addition to those
present Et Monday's meeting are
the following: Messrs: Abraham
Hoptman, J. Haftka, Morris Web-
erman, Alec Elson, L. Zeman,
Goldstein Bros., Isaac Emmer,
Itzkowitz and Meyers.
A message of greeting to De-
troit Jewry upon the closing of
the bakeries came from Boston,
Mass., in a paid advertisement
nublished last Sunday in the New
York Jewish Morning Journal, in
which the local project was laud-
ed by the leaders of the New
England community.
Young Israel Statement
Jack Isbee, president of Young
Israel of Detroit, and Mrs. David
Applebaum, president of Wom-
en's League of Young Israel, in
a letter addressed to the Jewish
bakers of Detroit. expressed their
sentiments as follows:
"Young Israel of Detroit was
elated at the decision reached
by the Jewish bakers of Detroit
to close their retail sto'"s nn
Shabbos, beginning July 12. Our
Women's League participated ac-
tively in the movement launched
hv the Women's Branch of the
Michigan Synagogue Conference_
ceveral months ago. to gather
qignatures of housewives pledg-
ing themselves to refrain from
patronizing Jewish bakeries that
are open on the Sabbath, and
giving further assurance that
they will buy only Jewish bread
for their homes. As you know,
more than 3,000 signatures have
been affixed to that petition.
"We hope that you are enjoy-
ing your Sabbath, observed in
nccordance with Jewish religious
law and tradition.
"Young Israel Sabbath services
at our Main Synagogue, 2691
Joy Road: in the Beth Abraham
Congregation, Linwood and Stur-
tevant; at the Beth Tefilo Eman-
uel Synagogue, Taylor and Wood-
row Wilson, as well as all of the
other synagogues of the city, will
be glad to welcome you and
your family as worshippers on
Friday evening and Saturday
morning. On our side, we shall
continue the intensive effort to
spread the word among all Jew-
ish circles of the city, urging
patronage of the stores closed on
Shabbos, and the use of only
Jewish bread in Jewish homes.
Our good wishes to you for •the
success of this venture."
ENCYCLOPEDIA
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In addition to contributions by
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in Jewish liturgy, Hebrew Union
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economist, New York; Avrahm
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July 18, 1941
Linwood Branch of
U. S. Post Office
Will Remain Open
Peter Wiggle, assistant post-
master for the Detroit area, stated
this week that the Linwood branch
of the Post Office will remain
open.
Mr. Wiggle revealed that the
Federal authorities had reached
an agreement with the lessors
of the building on Joy Road and
Linwood enabling the retention
of the Post Office branch. He ex-
pressed the hope that the building,
after remodeling, will take care
of all postal needs in that sec-
tion of the city.
Cardozo Moonlight
On Sunday Evening
Cardozo Club, an organization
composed of Federal Jewish em-
ployees, will hold its second an-
nual moonlight on Sunday. The
boat will leave from the foot of
Woodward Ave. at 8:45 p. m.
Proceeds will go to charity. For
information call Gilbert Miller,
Tyler 5-4315.
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(U.S.A.), Germany, (45 pages),
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stein (sculptor), Herbert Feist,
Leo Feis; Joseph, Mary and Sam-
Feuchtwanger, Abigdor (Hameiri)
uel Fels, Edna Ferber, Lion
Feuerstein, Jacob Fichman, Louis
Finkelstein, Samuel Fischer, Mau-
rice Fishberg, Milton Foreman,
James Franck, Jerome K. Frank,
Waldo Frank, Lee K. Frankel,
Felix Frankfurter, Leo M. Frank-
lin, Sigmund Freud, Israel Fried-
lander, Leo M. Friedman, Michael
Friedsam, David Fischman, Dan-
iel and Charles Frohman, Felix
and Caroline (Bamberger) Fuld,
Ludwig Fulda, Casimir Funk,
Max Gabel, Rudolph Ganz, Moses
Gaster, Abraham Geiger, Nathan
Ghazzati, Louis Ginzberg, Enrico
Glicenstein, Alma luck, and
Gluckl of Hameln.
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families famous for generations
in various countries, described in
the fourth volume of the Uni-
versal Jewish Encyclopedia, are:
Ezra (India), Fano, Finzi, Foa,
Gentili (Italy), Farjeon and
Frank 1 i n (England) Fischer
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Goldberger (H ungary ) ; Etting,
Falk, Flexner, Franks, Freiberg,
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States).
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Franck, Frank, Frankau, Fran-
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Franks. Similarly 47 biographies
appear under such names as
Fredman, Freeman, Fried, Fried-
berg, Friedland, Friedlander, and
Friedman.
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King Ferdinand and Queen Isa-
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garian bishop; Anatole France,
French satirist; Benjamin Frank-
lin, American statesman; Fred-
erick II, German emperor of the
13th cent.; Gebiah ben Pesisa,
legendary champion of the Jews
in the days of Alexander the
Great; Wilhelm Gesenius, pioneer
Hebrew philogist of Germany,
Ghazali, Mohammedan the ologian
of the 11th cent.
The fourth volume of the Uni-
versal Jewish Encyclopedia con-
tains an article by Rabbi Schlomo
Z. Fineberg of Flint.