Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

DETROIT. MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 6. 1942

VOL. 44, NO. 10

Chairmen of rive Divisions of the Allied Jewish
Campaign Are Announced by Irving W.
Blumberg and Maurice A. Enggass

Rabbi Abraham
Bender Hero
Organizes Drive for
Seminary and Ye-
shivah College

Rabbi Leon Fram, Chairman of Speakers Committee; Women's
Division to Open Rally with Jay Allen as Speaker;
Junior Branch Hears Julian Krolik

ts

Organization of the major di-
visions of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign is proceeding rapidly and
Irving W. Blumberg and Maur-
ice A. Enggass, president and
chairman of the board, respec-
tively, of the Detroit Service
Group, have announced the
names of chairmen of five of the
eight major divisions.
Israel Himelhoch and Louis
Robinson will serve as chair-
men of the Mercantile Division,
known in the campaign setup
as Division A.
Barney Smith, Max C. Hand-
ler, Julius Berman and Charles
N. Agree have accepted chair-
menship in Division D, the Build-
ing Trades.
Benjamin Grosberg and Philip
Lipson will be the chairmen of
Division E, Food Products.
Leonard Simons, Alex Schreib-
er and Harry Raden will serve
as chairmen of Division G, Arts
and Crafts.
.Toseph Bernstein, James I.
Ellmann and Myron A. Keys will
serve as chairmen for Division
II, Treasury Gifts and Special
Funds.
Advisers in each of these divi-
sions were previously announced
by Mr. Enggass and Mr. Blum-
berg, for all of the major divi-
sions. For the five divisions
whose chairmen are now being
made public, the advisers are as
follows : Division A—Maurice A.
Enggass and Julian H. Krolik;
Division D--Ben B. Fenton and
Milton M. Maddin ; Division E—
Max Schayowitz, Irving W.
Blumberg and Harry Cohen ;
Division G—Melville S. Welt and
Maurice Aronsson ; Division H
—Sidney L. Alexander and Clar-
ence H. Enggass.

BUDGET HEARINGS
BEING HELD

The budget beatings for the
1942 Allied Jewish Campaign,
being conducted under the chair-
manship of Julian H. Krolik, will
come to a climax on Sunday,
March 15, beginning at 10 a.
m. in the Michigan Room of the
Hotel Statler, where authorities
on the work of the United Jew-
ish Appeal agencies, which in-
clude the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, the United Palestine Ap-
peal and the National Refugee
Service, will present the facts
and figures dealing with the lat-
est devlopmnts in the progress
of these services. Also repre-
sented will be authorities on the
work of the Hebrew Sheltering
and Immigrant Aid Society, Ort
Reconstruction Fund, the lieb-
rew University and other major
overseas causes.
Henry Montor, executive vice-
chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal, will be the principal
speaker in behalf of the United
Jewish Appeal and will lead a
Question and Answer Period fol-
lowing the formal presentation.
Members of the overseas bud-
get committee and the other
budget sub-committees of the
campaign, along with represen-
tatives of the contributing pub-
lic, are being invited to attend

The city-wide drive for the
support of the Rabbi Isaac Elch-
nan Theological Seminary and
Yeshivah College has gained im-
petus with the arrival in De-
troit of Rabbi Abraham Bender,
distinguished scholar, who will

Enggass Releases
Statement on
Allied Drive

"Esprit de Corps of
Jews Should Be in He-
roic Mold," He Says

ISRAEL HIMELHOCH

the budget hearing and to join
in the discussion period that will
follow.

RABBI FRAM
CHAIRMAN

Rabbi Leon Fram of Temple
Israel, who for a number of
years past has served as chair-
man of the Speakers' Bureau of

See CAMPAIGN—Page 12

Drive Brinning
New Members
To Baal Brith

Five Local Lodges Con-
ducting a Successful
City-Wide Campaign

In the second of a series of
statements by officers of the
Allied Jewish Campaign, Clar-
ence H. Enggass, chairman of
the board of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation, has released to
the contributing public a com-
munication, the highlight of
which points out that our mor-
ale as Americans will be served
best if our esprit de corps as
Jews shapes itself in the heroic
mould.
"What we should be saying
and doing in our opproaching
1942 Detroit Allied Jewish Cam-
paign," declared Mr. Enggass,
"involves mechanics not nearly
as much as moods."
It is mood and temper and
frame of mind that are required
for successful campaigning. The
democracy that we are engaged
in saving is not a word, but a
way of life that we have built
for ourselves in this country,
that is developing in Palestine
and that millions of other Jews
throughout the world want to
share, at least with life and hope
as a minimum, until some bright-
er (lay ahead.
The maintenance of vital serv-
ices by voluntary groups in a
democracy is part of the war

Mrs. Braverman

See BNAI BRITH—Page 10

Allied Jewish Campaign Opens
1942 Offices at Hotel Statler

The greatest Jewish community project of the
year, the Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign, will get
its organizational phases under way on Monday,
March 2, with the opening of campaign headquar-
ters at Hotel Statler, Room 1401, Telephone Ran-
dolph 3940, Campaign workers of past years and
prospective workers are invited to get in touch
with the office by telephone, or by stopping in at
headquarters any day of the week except Saturday.

Reform Rabbis
Seek Reasons
For Failure

James Heller Elected
First President of
Conference

CINCINNATI. (JPS) —Over
200 Reform rabbis of America,
gathered here for the 53rd an-
nual convention of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis
under the presidency of Rabbi
James G. Heller, pondered the
reasons for the failure of Re-
form Judaism to reach the
masses of American Jewry in a
series of addresses whose key-
note was struck by Rabbi Heller
in calling for drastic action to
reach those who are "Jews by
inheritance only."
Each spokesman offered a dif-
ferent interpretation of the rea-
sons for the deterioration of
Reform Judaism as a potent
force in American lfe, but all
agreed that it had not met the
changing needs of the country.
Some suggested that ritual be
replaced, that current events be
removed, that prayer be empha-
sized, that a central code of
action be adopted. But there
were as many interpretations of
what one speaker asking for a
RABBI BENDER
return to the Torah, while an-
be in charge of the activities other contended that the only
for the coming month. Rabbi American Judaism is Reform Ju-
Bender, at one time superviser daism.
of the Yeshivah of Slonim, is
Rabbi Heller's Address
well-known in Jewish learned
Rabbi James Heller is the first
circles by his connection with president of the conference
the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theo- whose father, Max, was also its
logical Seminary, for the past president. During his message,
23 years.
See REFORM—Page 9
Following the precedent estab-
lished last week when Rabbi
Louis Engelberg of Cleveland,
Ohio, Rabbi Leon Stitskin of Manchester Paper
Warren, Ohio, and Rabbi N.
Katz of Toledo, Ohio, alumni of Flays Government
the Yeshivah, preached at vari-
ous Detroit congregations, a In Stumpy' Incident
schedule of speakers for the Sab-
bath of March 7, includes the

See BENDER—Page 9

See ENGGASS—Page 10

At the meeting of the Steer- Will Address
ing Committee of the City-Wide
Bnai Brith Membership Drive IIadassah Mar. 10
held last Sunday, reports showed
Featuring the "Town Hall of
that new members to Bnai Brith
are being received in larger Hadassah," the regular monthly
numbers than was originally an- meeting of the Chapter will be
held on Tuesday, March 10, at
ticipated.
the
Statler Hotel.
This membership drive is be-
Mrs. Morris Adler and Mrs.
ing conducted by the following :
Pisgah Lodge No. 34, Louis Adolph Ehrlich, education chair-
Marshall No. 1203, Detroit Lodge men, who have planned the pro-
No. 1374, Theodor Herzl Lodge
No. 1377 and East Side Lodge.
Every male Jew 21 years or
older of , good moral character
is eligible. The fee is the same
for all lodges—$10.00 which in-
cludes initiation and dues to Oc-
tober 1, 1942.
Bnai Brith is the oldest and
largest Jewish fraternal organi-
zation in the world, being found-
ed on October 13, 1843. During
all these years, its leaders have
evinced a keen understanding of
the needs of the day and have
adjusted their program to handle
the situation at hand. So, today
in addition to its manifold ac-
tivities familiar to all, the Anti-
Defamation League, Hillel Foun-
dations, hospitals, etc. Bnai
Brith was the first large national

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Urges U. S. Support
`Legitimate Aspiration
of Jews for Homeland'

Dr. Weizman Sees
Colonial Sec'y; Calls
Special Conference

LONDON. (Palcor)—"The New
Colonial Secretary must examine
thepolicy • of the Palestine Ad-
ministration and tell its officials
that either the policy or the Ad-
Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr
ministration itself will have to
be changed," the Manchester
States Strong Case for
Guardian declared editorially,
Zionism in Nation
castigating the course of action
NEW YORK. (JPS)—An ap- which denied admission to Pal-
peal to the liberal Christians of estine to the 750 Jewish refu-
America to "support more gen- gees aboard the Struma despite
erously than in the past the leg- the fact that immigration cer-
itimate aspiration of Jews for a tificates were available under
'homeland' in which they will the current quota.
That there was no economic
not be simply tolerated but which
they will possess," is sounded in basis for the exclusion, whose
The Nation by Prof. Reinhold direct result was the loss of the
Niebuhr, of Union Thelological unseaworthy craft and most of
Seminary, in the second of two her passengers, is amply demon-
articles analyzing the position of strated, the Guardian's diplo-
"Jews after the War." matic correspondent points out,
Offering a two-point program by the fact that in addition to
to stabilize the "relation of the the known shortage of hands in
Jews to our Western democratic the . Holy . Lan.d "the American
world," Prof. Niebuhr suggests Joint Distribution Committee not
that "we must on the one hand o . nly offered to pay the expenses
preserve and if possible extend incurred by the Struma refugees
th dmocratic standards of tol- but to give a subsidy of £6,000
erance and of cultural and racial toward the training of those
among them capable of under-
pluralism which allow the Jews amo
Lebensraum as a nation among taking production tasks. "
Giving the background of the
the nations." The second point
Involves support for a Jewish case, the editorial writer de-

See HOMELAND—Page 9

See STRUMA—Page 9

MRS. SAMUEL BRAVERMAN

gram for this meeting in con-
junction with the program chair-
men, Mrs. Saul Meyers and Mrs.
Isidore Sobeloff, announce that
sessions will begin at 10:30
o'clock and will be followed by
a luncheon at 12:30 o'clock.
Participating in the morning
panel discussions will be Mes-
dames Herman Stenbuck, Max
Engelman, Max Dushkin, Har-
ry Jones, and Carl Schiller. Mrs.
Morris Adler will be the mod-
erator and Mrs. Saul Meyers will
preside at the meeting.

See BRAVERMAN—Page 10

Rabbi Regensberg Speaker at
Luncheon in Honor of I. Stollman

The ladies of the Yeshiva
Beth Yehuda and friends of
Rabbi I. Stollman will gather
at a luncheon in the new Yesh-
iva auditorium Thursday, March
12, at 12:30 p. m. to honor the
president of the Yeshiva Rabbi
Stollman. The ladies of the Ye-
shiva are responsible in great
part for bringing the institution
to its present advanced status.
Through their untiring effort on
behalf of the Yeshiva for the

past 10 years the vision of a
torah center in Detroit has been
materialized. This gathering is
a small token of appreciation
and thanks to Rabbi Stollman
for his unstinting sacrifice of
time and energy on behalf of
the Yeshiva. Many prominent
rabbis and laymen have cooper-
ated in realizing the new struc-
ture on Cortland and Dexter,

See REGENSBERG—Page 9

