I2
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
October 17, 1941
TEMPLE ISRAEL TO HOLD FIRST
Plan for Parley of
97 Pupils Receive Diplomas at
ANNUAL MEETING NOVEMBER 2
Synagogue Women
Junior Graduation Exercises of
New Reform Detroit Congregation to Elect Officers; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to
Shaarey Zedek on Simchas Torah
Its Enrollment Grows to 600 Members
Temple Israel, the new liberal
Jewish congregation of Detroit,
will hold its first annual meet-
ing at the Detroit Institute of
Arts on Nov. 2 at 8 p. m.
At this meeting the congrega-
tion will elect officers and the
board of trustees to take over the
administration of the Temple
which, up to this point, has
been governed by a temporary
executive committee.
Since its inception at a meet-
ing held at the Book-Cadillac
Hotel on July 7, 1941, when
Rabbi Leon Fram was called to
be the spiritual leader of the
new congregation, Temple Israel
has grown rapidly. It is now
one of the large Jewish congre-
gations of the country with an
enrollment of over 600 members.
Temple Israel now also has
one of the largest religious
schools in the country, with an
enrollment of over 500 children.
The congregation held its High
Holy Day and Succoth services
at the Detroit Institute of Arts,
and conducts its religious school
at the Hampton School at 18460
Warrington Drive.
The school enrollment quickly
outgrew the capacity of the
Hampton School with the result
that the school now has to be
used for sessions on Saturday
as well as on Sunday.
Morris Garvett, who has from
the beginning, acted as chairman
of the temporary administrative
committee of the new congrega-
tion, will deliver his report at
this first annual meeting. He
will also announce the opening
of the regular Friday night or
Sabbath Eve services of Tem-
ple Israel. Sabbath morning
services are already being held
at the Hampton Public School.
Definite announcement will be
made also of the organization of
a Temple Israel Sisterhood, and
a Temple Israel Men's Club. The
Temple Israel young people's
group is already organized and
engaged in religious educational
and social activities.
Mr. Garvett will also announce
the organization of adult classes
in Jewish history, religion and
culture. He will give the place
and date for the meeting of the
Friday night services and of all
the congregational organizations,
groups and classes.
At the conclusion of the busi-
ness meeting there will be a
musical program, including oper-
ic selections as well as Jewish
folk songs by Cantor Robert S.
Tulman. He will be accompanied
by Temple Israel's organist, Karl
Haas.
Temple Israel plans to revive
among its members the apprecia-
tion of traditional Jewish music.
BRANDEIS
tice was incorporated in the
Pittsburgh program of June,
1918, and was the Magna Charts
or American Zionism.
The Pittsburgh program de-
clared:
(1) . . . for political and
civil equality irrespective of race,
sex, or faith of all the inhabi-
tants of the land.
(2). To insure in the Jewish
National Home in Palestine
equality of opportunity we favor
a policy which, with due regard
to existing rights, shall tend to
establish the ownership and con-
trol by the whole people of the
land, of all natural resources and
of all public utilities.
(3). All land, owned or con-
trolled by the whole people,
should be leased on such condi-
tions as will insure the fullest
opportunity for development and
continuity of possession.
(4). The cooperative principle
should be applied as far as feas-
ible in the organization of all
agricultural, industrial, commer-
cial, and financial undertakings.
(5). The system of free pub-
lic instruction which is to be es-
tablished should embrace all
grades _and departments of edu-
cation.
The history of the policies in
the past that gained European
colonization of Africa, Asia and
America was well known to
Brandeis. He knew that in the
name of "White Man's Burden"
natives have been exploited eco-
nomically, discriminated against
socially and made powerless po-
litically. He shuddered to see an-
other such scene re-enacted in
Palestine. For Palestine he
planned such an economic and
social system that would be based
upon the highest ideals of Amer-
icanism or Judaism - Democracy,
Social Justice and Liberty.
(Continued from Page One)
cause of some of our greatest
tragedies . . . As a nation may
develop though composed of many
nationalities, so a nationality
may develop forming part of
several nations. The essential in
either case is recognition of the
equal rights of each nationality."
Brandeis quoted such a high
authority as W. Allison Phillips
that the Jews are "a distinct
nationality."
Brandeis was not a compro-
miser. The high ideals of Zionism
became translated into policies
and acts. During the trouble-
some years of 1915-1916, there
was recognized the need for an
American Jewish body to deal
with the new problems that con-
fronted the Jew everywhere.
There was, however, a difference
of opinion in the minds of Jew-
ish leaders as to the form or
body that is to be created. The
American Jewish Committee de-
cided in favor of a conference
limited in scope of program and
number of delegates and to be
held privately. Brandeis, however,
was on the side of the "Con-
gressists" who stood for a repre-
sentative democratic body open
to the public. In an address on
Jan. 24, 1916, in Carnegie Hall,
Brandeis declared: ". . . The
demand for democracy in the
consideration of the Jewish prob-
lem is not a matter of form. It
is of the essence. It is a funda-
mental Jewish conception, as it
is the basic American method. It
rests upon the essential trust
in the moral instincts of the
people; potent to create their
own well-being; to perfect it;
and to maintain it, if an oppor-
tunity is given."
Fought for Fair Play
Brandeis dedicated his life to
the service of social justice and
fair play. He fought special
interests, capitalistic exploita-
tions, trusts and monopolies. As
the people's attorney he cham-
pioned the cause of woman suf-
frage, rights of labor, municipal
ownership — the public cause.
Brandeis' greatest contribution
to Zionism was the just social
and economic system upon which
Palestine is being built. As early
as Jan. 13, 1918, Brandeis wrote:
"The utmost vigilance should
be exercised to prevent the ac-
quisition of land, water rights,
or other natural resources or any
concessions for public utilities.
These must be secured for the
whole Jewish people. In other
ways, as well as this, the pos-
sibility of capitalistic exploitation
must be guarded against." This
Brandeisian code of social jus-
ARGO
FURNACE OIL
LA 4500
Work! Work!
Brandeis was not a mere
theorist. He believes in work.
He believes that a land cannot
be built by politicians and propa-
gandists but by efficient business-
men and experts. "Political work
in Palestine" ought to end. "The
man who is best fitted to per-
form a particular task must be
selected. There must be no such
thing as favoritism, if we are to
succeed. There must be an end
put to expenditures and appoint-
ments because of our adoration
of the heroes of the past; if we
are to succeed in this task . . .
I repeat," he said, "the men who
are to serve the cause of the
Jewish Homeland as members of
the Executive Committee must
have other qualities besides an
understanding of the Jewish sit-
uation. They must have beyond
all this, ability as financiers and
business men. They must have
financial reputation and standing.
They must be men whose names
will convince the Jewish world
that the money entrusted to them
will be properly expended."
Brandeis believed that the
greatest public service one can
perform in Palestine is to earn
there an honest living. "No easy
money in Palestine, and no easy
living must be the slogan."
Speak on Nov. 11
Plans for the national con-
vention of the Women's League
of United Synagogues which will
be held here Nov. 9 to 12 are
well under way, according to
Mrs. Charles Robinson, local
,chairman of the convention, and
At an impressive ceremony on
Simchas Torah—Tuesday morning
—at Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
97 pupils received diplomas at the
traditional junior graduation ex-
ercises.
Sherwin Wine gave the prayer.
Fayanne Chatlin spoke on "Our
Special Responsibility." After the
graduates sang "Ilithkabzu," the
valedictory address was given by
Dorothy Sharon Lublin. A song
for Simchas Torah was sung by
the graduates.
Dr. A. M. Hershman and Rabbi
Morris Adler addressed the grad-
uates. Morris Blumberg, president
of the synagogue, s.awarded the
diplomas and Harry Cohen, vice-
president, made the, honor an-
nouncements. The singing was di-
rected by Cantor J. H. Sonenklar
and the soloists were Sonya Len-
ore Drews, Elaine Gloria Jasen
and Kate Corine Polier.
The graduates are:
Gloria Abram, Harriet Apple-
baum, Shirley August, Ruth Avi-
son, Miriam Baker, Richard Jer-
ome Bayles, Barbara Ann Berk-
man, Eileen Berner, Jackson
Black, Beverly Bluestein, Harold
Brode, Seymour Brode, Brewster
N. Broder, Bernice Lorraine Burg,
Lois Jean Burnstein, Rita Cantor,
Vera Chad, Fayanne Chatlin,
Irene R. Clinton, Miriam E. Cog-
gan, Divera Cowan, Eunice Croll,
Sonya Lenore Drews, Irving Du-
brinsky, Shirley Dubrinsky, Sonia
Dunitz, Grace Engel, Phyllis Fein-
berg, David Frank, Ardis Franz-
blau, Marvin Frenkel, Marvel
Elaine Gale, Mildred Geffen, Ger-
son Geltner, Phyllis Ann Glasier,
Beatrice Goldberg, Rhoda Gold-
berg, Rhoda oldberg, Milton Gold-
rath, Lenore Goodman, Gerald
Goren, Carolyn Joy Greenberg,
Ronald Lee Greenberg, Shirley
Greenberg, Gloria Hamburger, Isa-
bel Hartman, Lenore Shiffra Hel-
ler, Elaine Gloria Jasen, Edythe
Kaminsky, Robert S. Kasle, Shir-
ley Mae Kavanau, Vivian S. Kei-
dan, Laurette Knopper, Marilyn
Jane Kopel, Larry Kritt, Rita
Kroo, Max Lapides, Kenneth Stu-
art Lastar, Judith Lenora Levin.
Eileen Levin, Rhoda Lipman, Dor-
othy Sharon Lublin, Lucille Mil-
ler, Betty Minus, Phyllis Morgan,
Ethel Moss, Kate Corine Polies,
Howard Lee Radner, Gayle Res-
nick, Seymour Rimer, Avram Ro-
senthal, Phyllis Rossen, Phyllis
Joy Rubin, Marianne Rubiner,
Saul Saulson, Stanley Saulson,
Elinor Schiff, Arthur Schreier.
Eliot C. Schubiner, Ivan Earl
Shalit, Martin Seymour Shuger-
man, Elaine Siden, Gertrude Sil-
verman, Barbara Sloan, Maxine
Snyder, Ethel Jo Stark, Lenore
Sally Stramer, Arthur Stein, Mark
Stern, Norma Elaine Stone, Fran-
ces Naomi Treisman, Herbert Na-
thaniel Waze, Alvin Albert Weis-
berg, Harold Irving Weisberg,
Sherwin Wine, Shirley Wolstein.
Will Wed Oct. 19
Charney to Address
Sholom Aleichem
Event on Nov. 9
MRS. MORRIS BLUMBERG
Mrs. Aaron Silberblatt, presi-
dent of the Sisterhood of Shaa-
rey Zedek.
The lecture Tuesday evening,
Nov. 11, by Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt is in conjujnction
with the convention and is be-
ing sponsored by the Sisterhood.
Tickets can be obtained at the
Shaarey Zedek or at Grinnell
Bros.
Serving as hospitality chair-
man for the entire convention is
Mrs. Morris Blumberg. Her co-
chairmen are Mesdames Louis
Glasier, Arnold Frank, Samuel
Rubiner and Louis Tobin. Res-
ervations for the luncheons
which are to be held Nov. 10,
11 and 12, and for the banquet
Monday evening, Nov. 10, are
being taken by Mrs. Samuel
Rubiner, University 1-7521.
Mrs. Samson Wittenberg is
chairman of arrangements for
the Sunday evening, Nov. 9, re-
ception which will follow the
symposium opening the conven-
tion. Members of the registra-
tion committee will be Mesdames
Harry Z. Brown, Carl Schiller,
Leonard Sidloe, Arthur Purdy,
Samuel Feldman, Arthur Gilbert,
Hy C. Broder and Miss Eliza-
beth Finley.
(-' ,
L A0,16,
MISS SELMA JOYCE LEVIN
Mr. and Mrs. David Levin of
3286 Glendale Ave. announce the
approaching marriage of their
daughter, Selma Joyce, to Norman
Edgar Fixler, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry A. Fixler of 4572
Allendale Ave., on Oct. 19, at the
Belcrest Hotel, at 5 p. m. Rabbi
Leon Fram will officiate. The
couple will motor to Florida.
•
Daniel Charney, author, lec-
turer and poet, will be the guest
speaker of the Sholom Aleichem
Folks' Institute affair on Sun-
day, Nov. 9.
In place of the annual tradi-
tional banquet, a varied program
will be presented at the Arbeiter
Ring Educational Center, 115:35
Linwood Ave., at 8:30 p. m.
For many years the Sholom
Aleichem Folk's Institute has
played its important part in every
phase of Yiddish cultural work
with ever increasing efforts to
perpetuate and enrich the Yid-
dish platform.
Daniel Charney, guest speaker
on Nov. 9, escaped from Poland,
landed in France and recently
Came to New York. He is writing
for the Jewish daily, Der Tag.
and has a wide knowledge of
world affairs.
In addition to the lecture, there
will be a musical composed of se-
lected numbers rendered by emi-
nent artists. Also a group of
talented children, under the su-
pervision of our teacher, Moiche
Haar, able dramatic technical in-
structor, will add lustre to the
novel program of the evening.
Brandeis Was a
Norman Cousins to
Chronicle Reader
Address Fisher Town Honor Gus Newman
at Dinner Oct. 21
For Last 20 Years Hall Next Wednesday
The late Justice Louis D.
Brandeis was a reader of The
Detroit Jewish Chronicle for the
last 20 years.
Twice a year, in his own hand-
writing, the great jurist wrote
to The Chronicle asking that
changes be made in his mailing
address—once when he left for
his summer home in Chatham,
Mass., and the second time when
he returned to his home in Wash-
ington.
Naomi Chertoff, Jr. Hadas-
sah National Fund Chair-
man, to Speak Here on
Monday
Junior Hadassah will hold an
open board meeting on Monday,
Oct. 20, at 8 p. m., at the Jewish
Holbrook, to acquaint members
Community Center, Woodward at
with plans for the coming year.
Naomi Chertoff, national chair-
man of Jewish National Fund for
Junior Hadassah, will speak at
this meeting.
The "Reel Party" will be held
at Edith Zamell's home, 3824
Fullerton.
For additional information call
Helen Waldstein, To. 7-6623.
UNVEILING OF MONUMENT
An unveiling of a monument
in memory of Sadie Kaplan Mar-
cus will take place on Sunday,
Oct. 19, at 2 p. m., at the Tur-
over Verein Cemetery, Gratiot
and 141/2 Mile Rd. Relatives and
friends are invited.
Norman Cousins, brilliant young
literary critic and editor of the
Saturday Review of Literature,
who has sky-rocketed to popu-
larity on the lecture platform,
will be the Detroit Town Hall
speaker in the Fisher Theater,
Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 11 a. m.
His subject will be "Dynamite
Between Covers."
Sir Philip Gibbs, British jour-
nalist, who was to have arrived
for this date, has been delayed.
He will speak here instead on
Wednesday, Nov. 12.' This was
the date originally assigned to
Erskine Caldwell, who is now
scheduled for Nov. 5. Mr. Cold-
well arrives in the United States
by Clipper from his Moscow as-
signment; Oct. 26.
Mr. Cousins is the youngest
editor of a major magazine in
America. He came to the Satur-
day Review of Literature after
five years as an editor of Cur-
rent History magazine, where in
addition to his editorial respon-
sibilities he wrote a monthly ar-
ticle on non-fiction books and
headed the magazine's literary
board, whose members included
Dorothy Thompson, Van Wyck
Brooks and John Dewey.
Detroit Service Group to Pay
Tribute to Its President
At a dinner meeting on Tues-
day evening, at the Jewish Com-
munity Center, the Detroit Serv-
ice Group will pay tribute to its
retiring president, Gus D. New-
man, for his many years of de-
voted service.
Final Allied Jewish Campaign
figures will be announced, there
will be a report of the nominat-
ing committee and the reorgani-
zation of the Trade Council will
be discused.
National President
Of J.W.V. Auxiliary
Will Be Guest Here
Mrs. Miriam G. Hoffman, na-
tional president of the Ladies'
Auxiliary of Jewish War Vet-
erans of the U. S., will be here
on an official visit next Monday
for inspection tour of the Vet-
erans Hospital Unit at Dearborn,
Marine Hospital in Detroit, Fort
Wayne Military Reservation, Sel-
fridge Field, Mt. Clemens, Red
Edward G. Robinson, the screen's Cross units and Aupxiliary of
toughest guy, is a widely known the Jewish War Veterans.
art patron. In fact, he is so keen
In her honor a tea will be
on art that he had a modern art given on Monday, Oct. 20, 4 p. m.,
gallery built at his Beverly Hills in the Washington Room of the
home. The gallery, which has just Book Cadillac Hotel, under the
been completed, was designed by auspices Of the Detroit Ladies'
members of the Chicago Art In- Auxiliary No. 135 Jewish War
stitute. *`Veterans of the United States.