November 7, 1941

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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Representation of 46 Groups Participated in
Semi-Annual Meeting of Michigan
Synagogue Conference

One hundred and ten repre-
sentatives of 20 congregations and
26 women's auxiliaries attended
the fall convention of the Michi-
gan Synagogue Conference on
Sunday, Nov. 2, at Congregation
Bnai David, Elmhurst and 14th.
The program which continued
throughout the day included the
bi-monthly meeting of the Vaad
Ha-Yeshivoth in the morning,
presided over by Rabbi Leizer
Levin, who was elected chairman
of the committee; a luncheon at
which Joseph A. Block, president
of Congregation Bnai Brith, act-
ed as toastmaster, with Rabbi
Moses Fischer, chairman of the
Detroit Vaad HaRabbonim giving
the opening prayer, and Rabbi
S. Z. Fineberg of Flint, vice-
president of the conference, the
benediction; a simultaneous busi-
ness session of the conference and
its women's branch.
Rabbi Eliezer Silver of Cincin-
nati, a member of the presidium
of the national Agudas HaRab-
bonim, addressed the gathering at
its conclusion.
the interesting
Highlights
conclave were:
1. Report by Rabbi M. J. Wohl-
gelernter, chairman of the reli-
gious and educational committee,
which among other activities was
in charge of the Sabbath observ-
ance efforts adopted as a special
project of the Detroit region of
the synagogue body for this year,
and of the adult classes, sponsored
jointly with the Young Israel
of Detroit at Central High School
on Monday evening.
2. Financial statement presented
by Maurice H. Zackheim, treas-
urer of the Vaad Ha-Yeshivoth,
reporting a total of $17,654.45
collected for religious-educational
and charitable institutions since
the beginning of the fiscal year

Recent Bride

Maurice Samuel
Speaker at Bnai
Brith Ladies' Event

The Business and Professional
Women's Auxiliary of Bnai Brith
announces that Maurice Samuel,
outstanding Jewish author, pub-
licist. and lecturer, will be the
speaker at the second annual
donor dinner dance to be held
Sunday, Dec. 14, at Bonnie Brook
Country Club.
Mr. Samuel has had a varied
and colorful career. To equip
himself for his work as inter-
preter of Jewish life to the Eng-
lish-speaking world, he has trav-
eled extensively. He was educa-
ted at English and French uni-
versities. As an author, he has
contributed a series of fine books,
the latest of which is "The Great
Hatred." As a translator, he has
introduced to the English-read-
ing public the works of such im-
portant contemporary Jewish cre-
ative spirits as Chaim Nachman
Bialik (poetry); Shmarya Levin,
(historical autobiography) ; I. J.
Singer, (sociological novels) and
lately Sholom Asch's novel, "The
Nazarene." Mr. Samuel served in
France for two years in 1917
with the U. S. Army.
Mr. Samuel's lecture will be
entitled, "The Jew in the World
of Tomorrow."
Many reservations have already
been received. Anyone interested
in attending, contact Miss Gussie
Eisenberg, Tyler 6-0052.

July 1, 1941. During the same
four months' period, July through
Oct. 15, credentials were issued
by the Committee to Meshulochim
of seven Palestinian Yeshivoth
and three institutions of the old
Yishuv, four Hungarian centers
of Jewish learning and one Amer-
ican Talmudical School.
3. Talks by Rabbis Abraham
Kalmanowitz and J. Gorelick, the
latter one of the most recent
European Yeshiva scholars to ar-
rive in the United States, who
moved the audience to tears by
their graphic description of the
odyssey of the Polish-Lithuanian
Yeshivoth in the two years of the
war. A sum of more than $4,009
has already been raised locally
for the refugee groups now
stranded in Shankhai.
4. Finals in the local oratori-
cal contest sponsored by Young
Israel in conjunction with its
mid-western convention on the
subject, "The Rise of America
as the Jewish Center in the Ga-
luth." Joyce Penslar, grandchild
of Rabbi and Mrs. Joseph Eisen-
man, and a pupil of the Shaarey
Zedek Sunday School, was chosen
for first place from among the
three winners in the preliminaries
held a week earlier. David J.
Cohen, Rabbis Fineberg and Her-
man Rosenwasser were the judges.
David I. Berris, president of
the Michigan Synagogue Confer-
ence, and Mrs. Joshua S. Sperka,
head of the women's branch;
Isadore Cohen, chairman of the
board of directors; Rabbi Joseph
B. Rabinowitz of the Vaad Ha-
Yeshivoth and Rabbi Joshua S.
Sperka, secretary of the confer-
ence, actively participated in the
proceedings. Nathan Finkelstein
of Flint, treasurer, presented the
financial report for the period
May 11 through Oct. 31.

Two Noted South American
Artists with Detroit Sym-
phony on Thursday and
Friday

—Photo by J. J. Clarke Studios.

MRS. ALCON A. COOPER
(Miss Marion Hartman)

Annual Luncheon Planned
by Neugarten Sunshine
. Club

The board of directors of Neu-
garten Sunshine Club met at the
Community Center Nov. 3.
Mrs. Emil Eckhouse, honorary
president, made an inspiring ap-
peal to the members for their
co-operation in making the an-
nual luncheon an outstanding
achievement.
Mrs. Samuel Convissor, case
chairman, cited several convinc-
ing reasons to substantiate the
urgent necessity.
Mrs. Morton L. Snyder, presi-
dent, read encouraging reports
from workers. A rally at the
home of Ms. Leo M. Brown,
16835 Wildemere, in the form of
a tea, was well attended and
members pledged their whole-
hearted support.
A combined meeting of the ex-
ecutive board and the luncheon
committee will take place on
Nov. 11 at 12:30 p. m. at the
Golden Pheasant Tea Room on
Second Blvd., to promote plans
for the luncheon.
Friends and members desiring

Miss Marion Hartman, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hart-
man, was united in marriage to
Alcon A. Cooper, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Cooper, on Sunday
evening, Oct. 26, at Congrega-
tion Shaarey Zedek.
The maid of honor was Miss
Eva R. Cooper, sister of •the
groom.
The matron of honor was Mrs.
Saul Kirzner, sister of the bride.
The bridesmaids were Miss
Isabel Hartman, sister of the
bride, Miss Sydel Stone, niece
of the groom, Miss Tubbens,
cousin of the bride, Miss Char-
lotte Metz, Miss Ann Pomerantz

Sisterhood of Beth
El to Hear Erika
Mann Next Monday

and Pauline Trepel.
The groom was attended by
his brother, Edgar H. Cooper, as
best man and ushers were Saul
I. Kirzner, Abe Duke, Murray L.
Singer, Marvin F. Jacobs, Melvin
C. Barnett and Albert L. Lieber-
man.
The Junior bridesmaid was
Miss Shirley Sider, cousin of the
bride.
The junior usher was Jerry B.
Hartman, brother of the bride.
The ring bearer was Ronald
Sider.
The couple left for their
honeymoon to Niagara Falls, and
will reside on Schoenherr Rd.

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Celanese Curtains

Edna Lee Booker at Cass
Town Hall Nov. 14

Edna Lee Booker, far Eastern
correspondent for the Interna-
tional News Service, author and
feature writer for "The China
Press", will speak for the Detroit
Town Hall in the Cass Theater,
next Friday morning, Nov. 14, at
11 o'clock. One of the first Amer-
ican newspaper women to serve
as a war correspondent, with 17
years in China, making her an
authority on the historical back-
ground of that country, having
lived through the rapidly changing
conditions there under the Japan-
ese invasion and the threatening
Daniel Charney to Be Guest development of Japan getting more
Speaker at Sholom Alei- and more openly "anti-American,"
Miss Booker's talk "I Saw Ja-
chem Folks Institute on pan's
'New Order' at Work" will
Sunday Evening.
be based on truth-telling facts.

The Sholom Aleichem Folks
Institute will present a novelty
program on Sunday, Nov. 9, at
to earn luncheon quotas may se-
the Arbeiter Ring Educational
cure dates for rummaging by
Center, 11535 Linwood Ave., at
8:30 p. m.
calling Mrs. Samuel Rothstein,
The Sholom Aleichem Insti-
chairman, To. 8-0756.
tute succeeded in securing the
distinguished emigre, Daniel
Charney, who escaped from Po-
land to France and recently
came to New York. At present
he is writing for the Jewish
daily, Der Tag.
Daniel Charney (Tschorney),
Where Ben Pupko arranged for ship-
author, lecturer and poet, will
ment of merchandise he had foresight
give a bird's-eye view of the gen-
eral world situation, and Jewry
to buy months ago before the price
in particular.
rise. Another Ben Pupko SCOOP!
In addition to the lecture, Can-
tor Robert S. Tulman of Temple
Israel, former star of the Vienna
Opera House, will render select-
ed arias from his operatic rep-
ertoire.
A group of pupils of the Sho-
lom Aleichem shule, under the
supervision of Moishe Haar, will
ERIKA MANN
contribute their talents to this
Erika Mann, who will lecture program.
here on Monday, Nov. 10, at 2
p. m., under the auspices of the Games Party of Mt. Sinai
and
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is the brilliant daughter of
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Thomas Mann, one of the world's
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greatest living novelists.
The League of the Mt. Sinai
21/4 yds. 81 inches finished.
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Mann has been one of the speak- its annual mah Jong and bridge
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ers in greatest demand by Amer- Madison Ave., Nov. 12, at
ican audiences both for her plat- 8 p. m. Tickets may be procured
form ability and for the timeli- from members, at the door, or
ness of her knowledge. She was from Ruth Applebaum, social
in Europe during the =summers chairman, 3225 Grand Ave.,
of 1939 and 1940, and again un- Townsend 6-1238. There will be
expectedly flew to Europe in prizes and refreshments.
the summer of 1941 to secure
first-hand, authentic and intimate
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information on the international "Britain Under Nazi Bombs".
Phone HOgarth 4857
situation. The subject of Miss The meeting is open to the
Mann's lecture here will be public.

MRS. EMIL ECKHOUSE

By all odds the most novel pro-
gram planned for the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra this season
will be heard at the concert of
Thursday night, Nov. 13, in Ma-
sonic Auditorium, and at the re-
peat performance Friday after-
noon, Nov. 14.

"Vacation in Florida" Lec-
ture at Art Institute

"Vacation in Florida," illus-
trated with new natural color
motion pictures taking the audi-
ence on a 2,500-mile tour that
includes every highlight of this
renowned holiday state, will be
the first of six Tuesday evening
travel lectures to be presented
by the World Adventure Series
at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Van Wormer Walsh will give this
Florida lecture at 8:30 next Tues-
day evening, Nov. 11.

Parent-Teacher Association
of Brady School

The Brady School parents and
teachers will participate in Amer-
ican Education Week. Open house
will be held in all classes on Mon-
day, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p. m. Regu-
lar sessions will be held in read-
ing, writing and arithmetic. Many
exhibits .will be on display in the
classrooms. All parents are urged
to come.
Mothers are invited to attend
the study group on Thursdays.
Miss Mary Sullivan, principal of
Brady School, will be discussion
leader. "Defense Begins at Home"
will be the first topic discussed.

New Gemara Class in the
Hebrew Schools

The United Hebrew Schools an-
nounce the opening of a new Ge-
mara class in the Fenkell lie-
brew School, Parkside and Mid-
land. Rabbi Leizer Levin will be
the instructor of this Gemara
class. This is the fourth Gemara
class of the United Hebrew
Schools. The other three are at
the Philadelphia-Byron School,
the David W. Simons Branch and
the Rose Sittig Cohen Branch.

