November 21, 194!

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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Education Month Stirs Detroit Community to Renewed Efforts for Jewish

Zackheim Consults
With Schools' Heads

Maurice H. Zackheim, chairman
of the Board of Education of the
United Hebrew Schools, made ar-
rangements to meet with the
heads of the various branches of
the schools at least once a month
to discuss matters pertaining to
the schools.
The first meeting was held Fri-
day morning, Nov. 14. Mr. Zack-
heim, in his opening remarks,
stated that he was happy to be

connected with a school which
stands for intensive education,
which connects the child directly
with the sources, and uses He'-
brew as the medium of instruc-
tion.
Mr. Zackheim pointed to the
fact that the past generation had
the Torah handed down to them
by their predecessors who were
steeped in Jewish learning and
tradition. It is now our duty to
raise a generation which will be
fully equipped Jewishly to trans-
mit the Jewish heritage to their
own children in a full unabridged
manner.

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"We Must Retain
Fresh the Passion
For Righteousness"

By RABBI MORRIS ADLER

It was Matthew Arnold who
said, "As long as the world lasts
all who wish to make progress in
righteousness will come to Israel
for inspiration, as to the people
who have had the sense of right-
eousness most glowing and strong-
est." It is the duty of the Jewish
group to retain fresh and vigor-
ous the passion for righteousness
that inheres in its tradition. For
it is only through that tradition
that the Jewish group as a group
can make a significant contribu-
tion to the totality of American
democracy. This vital prophetic
glow undimmed arid undiluted can
be captured and preserved by
Jews only through an intensive
and constant form of Jewish edu-
cation and learning. We deprive
our children of -a most essential
and indispensable element in the
building of 'their character and
in the attainment of a balanced
personality when we shut them
out through indifference or ne-
glect from their rightful heritage.
I pray that the call issued dur-
ng Jewish Education Month will
strike a responsive chord in an
ever-increasing number of Jew-
ish hearts.

Education Month
As a Guide to Our
Noblest Need

By HARRY COHEN

Member, Executive Board, United

Hebrew Schools

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Hebrew Schools of Detroit, its officers,
directors and members, and the children
and faculty of the Schools, on the occasion
of the 15th Annual Education Month.

Our educational system is the strongest
factor in our democracy and is the most
important element for creating friendly
relationships among all elements in the
American population.

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The pOrpose of the Education
Month is to focus the attention
of the Jewish community upon
our most vital problem, that of
educating our children. It is
through a knowledge of the He-
brew language, Jewish history,
the study of the Bible, an ac-
quaintance with our holidays, cus-
toms, and ceremonies that our
children will be ours and remain
ours, that our children will be-
come the real heirs to our great
heritage.
We, of the United Hebrew
Schools, are making it possible
for our fathers and mothers to
give their children a thorough
Jewish Education. Our schools are
located in the most populated
Jewish sections in the city. We
have also opened classes in some
of the public schools.
We accept children at a very
early age, as early as the age of
four. Such children are admitted
to our kindergartens, while chil-
dren of the age of six and over
are admitted to the regular
classes. The very first subject
they are taught is Ivri, the pro-
per reading of the Sidur, the
prayers. But simultaneously with
the study of reading they are also
taught the elements of the He-
brew language, and in this man-
ner they are prepared for the
study of the Chumosh and till
prophets. Our elementary course
of study includes a thorough ac-
ouaintance with the five books of
Moses, a study of the former
prophets, Jewish history, and cus-
toms and ceremonies. It takes a
normal child seven years to com-
plete this elementary course. The
child is then ready for the next
advanced course, the Junior High
School, after which he enters the
Senior High School. The major
subjects in the high school are
Chumosh, Rashi, prophets, his-
tory, Mishnah and Gemara.
The United Hebrew Schools
are now embarking on their an-
nual membership enrollment pro-
ject, and everybody is urged to
become a member of the Hebrew
schools.
There is no finer or nobler
deed than that of helping our
children receive a Jewish educa-
tion.

U.H.S. Membership
Group Progresses

The next meeting of the mem-
bership enrollment committee of
the United Hebrew Schools will
be held Wednesday evening, Nov.
26, at 8:3Q o'clock, at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Berman.
This committee is headed joint-
ly by Rudolph Zuieback and D,r.
Albert E. Bernstein.

CHRONICLE

(Continued from Page 1)

Ministers, and other eminent de-
fenders of democracy have con-
tributed brilliant articles and
messages of felicitation to the
Centenary Issue of the Jewish
Chronicle , of London ( twice
bombed) which, according to a
dispatch received by Louis Rit-
tenberg, American editor of the
Chronicle, appears Nov. 14. Spe-
cial governmental dispensation—
removing restriction on paper-
was necessary to observe in this
fashion the 100th anniversary
of the oldest Jewish periodical
in the world.
Mr. Rittenberg, who is literary
and executive editor of the Urn-
versal Jewish Encyclopedia in
New York, further discloses that
the Jewish Chronicle has received
for publication numerous contri-
butions of appraisal, of fellow-
ship, and sentiments of solidarity
from heads of national organiza-
tions, prominent spiritual spokes-
men, and editors of Jewish pub-
lications n the United States.
Among those who have sent
messages are the following:
Dr. David de Sola Pool of New
York; Henry Monsky, president
of Bnai Brith; Dr. Israel Gold-
stein, president of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund of America; Dr.
Julian Morgenstern, president of
Hebrew Union College; Rabbi
Samuel M. Blumenfield, clean of
Chicago College of Jewish Stud-
ies; Dr. Julius H. Greensteon,
principal of Gratz College, Phila-
delphia; Joseph C. Hyman, vice-
chairman of J. D. C.; David L.
Meckler, editor of Jewish Morn-
ing Journal; Philip Cowen, first
editor of American Hebrew;
Philip Slomovitz, editor of De-
troit Jewish Chronicle; Carl Al
pert, editor of New Palestine;
Alexander Brin, editor of Boston
Jewish Advocate; Arthur Weyne,
editor of Brooklyn Examiner;
Martin Panzer, journalist; Ed-
ward E. Grusd, editor of Na-
tional Jewish Monthly; Sol Sil-
verman, publisher of Emanu-El;
Sidney J. Jacobs, 'editor Chicago
Advocate ; Isidore Moscowitz, edi-
tor Southern Jewish Weekly; Ar-
thur J. Kirchstein, editor West-
ern Jewish Advocate; Rabbi Is-
rael H. Levinthal of Brooklyn,
Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston,
Dr. Barnett R. Brickner of Cleve-
land, Dr. Harry Friedenwald of
Baltimore, Rabbi William Rosen-
au of Baltimore, Rabbi G. George
Fox of Chicago, Rabbi Morris S.
Lazaron of Baltimore.

History of Chronicle

The Jewish Chronicle made its
appearance on Nov. 12, 1841. At
the celebration of its centenary
in 1941, it had been for more
than 50 years the oldest Jewish
journal in existence. The sug-
gestion for the establishment of
a new Anglo-Jewish periodical
came from the Jewish publisher
Isaac Vallentine, who undertook
its issuance. David Meldola, ha-
ham of the Spanish and Portu-
guese Synagogue, and Moses
Angel headmaster of the Jews'
Free School, were chosen as edi-
tors. The first form of the Chron-
icle was a weekly quarto; the
following year it became a small
octave. Joseph Mitchell, who be-
came editor in 1844, changed the
title to The Jewish Chronicle and
Working Man's Friend. As such
it was a Ed-weekly until 1847,
when it became a weekly.
As the representative organ for
the Jews of the British Isles at
a time when admission of Jews
to Parliament was stilt impos-
sible, the Jewish Chronicle be-
came the spokesman for a pro-
gressive Jewish community, whose
legal disabilities did not . prevent
it from achieving influence in
its own homeland and from being
courageously concerned with the
welfare of Jews in other coun-
tries. Episodes like the Damascus
affair and the waves of persecu-
i Russia evoked comment
tion in
and action from British Jewish
leaders of the period. Forthright,
dignified reports of these venets
appeared in the Chronicle during
its early years. As the legal
handicaps of the Jews in Britain
were removed, and the system of
communication became modern-
ized, the reports and comments
from Britain abroad expanded,
so that the Chronicle, toward the
end of the 19th century, became
a compact history of activity and
the T oh re y.
Chronicle exerted, at vari-
ous times, influence leading to
better treatment of immigrants;
secured favorable action in con-
nection with ritual slaughter ;
exposed violations by kosher

Dr. Simeon Halkin
to Address Kvutzah
Ivrith on Saturday

The opening lecture of the
Kvutzah Ivrith of this season,
will be given by Dr. Simeon Hal-
kin, a Hebrew poet of note, and
at present special lecturer on
Hebrew literature at the Chicago
HebreW Teachers College.
Dr. Halkin has spent several
years in Palestine, and was en-
gaged in literary activities, con-
tributing to various magazines,
such as Moznaim and Ktuvim.
Dr. Halkin will be in Detroit
Saturday evening, Nov. 22, and
will lecture before the members
and friends of the Kvutzah Iv-
rith, in the Hebrew language, on
the subject "The Individual and
the Group in the Modern Hebrew
Poetry in Palestine," at the
Shaarey Zedek. While in De-
troit, Dr. Halkin will also ad-
dress the forum of the Jewish
Community Center on Sunday,
Nov. 23, on the occasion of the
Book Week observance.
The Kvutzah Ivrith meets ev-
ery other Saturday night at 1322;
Lawton Ave., and lectures in the
Hebrew language are presented
at every meeting by either local
or out-of-town speakers. The cul-
tural committee is headed bv
Abraham Twersky and Morris
Lachover.
All who are conversant in the
Hebrew language, or are famil-
iar with the Hebrew literature or
are generaly interested in the
movement for the revival of He-
brew culture, are urgently re-
quqested to affiliate themselves
with the Kvutzah Ivrith and at-
tend the meeting.

butchers; fought against osten-
tation in Jewish life.
Though the Chronicle may he
said to have kept up with the
Liberal Reform movement in Ju-
daism, it nevertheless typified the
cohesive strength of British
Jewry in its adherence to the es-
sentials of Orthodoxy. Weekly
sermons, based on the portion of
the week, were regular features
of the Chronicle. By including
an interview with Theodore Ilerzl
during his London visit in 1895,
the Chronicle contained the first
published form of his scheme for
a Jewish homeland, preceding the
appearance of the "Judenstaat"
by four weeks. Under the direc-
tion of Asher Myers, who was
managing editor at the turn of
the 20th century, and Leopold
J. Greenberg, who was editor
until 1931, the Chronicle at this
time became outspokenly Zionist
in attitude.
Among the editors of the
Chronicle since its appearance as
a weekly were: M. H. Breslau
(1854), Abraham Benisch (1855-
69; 1875-78), Michel Henry
(1869-75). When Benisch (lied in
1878, he bequeathed the paper
to the Anglo-Jewish Association,
which sold it to Asher J. Myers,
Audrey M. Samuels and Isaac
Davis. Myers was editor until his
death in 1902, and was followed
by M. Duparc. Greenberg, who
succeeded Duparc, was succeeded
at this death in 1931 by J. M.
Rich, under Pivhose direction the
paper became more moderately Zi-
onist. In the late 1930's Ivan Mar-
ion Greenberg, son of Leopold J.
Greenberg assumed editorship.
Louis Rittenberg has been Amer-
ican editor since 1938.
Changes in format have been
few. Until 4937 the Chronicle
had the same appearance it had
taken late in the 19th century;
in 1937, however, a new kind of
type was adopted and the front
page advertisements were eli-
minated. At the outbreak of war
in 1939, further changes were
necessitated by the removal of
the printing offices outside of
London, where facilities for put-
ting out the Chronicle in its reg-
ular form could not be found.
Despite the destruction of its
London headquarters by bombs,
the Chronicle did not fail to ap-
pear regularly, and turned the
100th year of its existence still
provding a record for world Jew-
ish events to its many readers,
some of whom had been follow-
ing its pages for half a century.

Constable Shot in Rehoboth

TEL AVIV. (JPS-Palcor)—In
a renewed flare-up of violence
Constable Yaakov Chupayov was
killed in the heart of Rehoboth,
scientific and agricultural center
south of here.

