A mericam (eivish Periodical Curter
April 10, 1942
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
SHORT HISTORY OF UNITED
HEBREW SCHOOLS OF DETROIT
During the Passover festival Hebrew Schools became one
SECRETARY KNOX ASKS U. S. A.
"LEND PALESTINE YOUR STRENGTH"
of
o f the year 1919, the first unit the first constituent agencies of
o f the system of schools known the Federation.
THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
Women's Division
Of A.J.C. To.Hear
Mrs. A. Silverman
Date of Masonic Tem-
now as the U. mted Hebrew
In the fall of 1927 the first
w A ti M .N OVON
ple Meeting Is Changed
Schools of Detroit was formally Education Month observance was
on Account of Passover
opened. This unit was erected introduced. The purpose was to
on Wilkins St. near Hastings, anti make the Jewish population of
Mrs. Archibald ' Silverman
was then known as the Wilkins Detroit education-minded and,
Providence, R. I., noted Zionist'
Street Talmud Torah i and Kin- naturally, to increase the enroll-
and Congress leader, will be'
d ergarten. This then s the 23rd ment of the United Hebrew
guest speaker of Detroit Wom-
January 16, 1942
a nniversary of the founding of Schools. This Education Month
en's Division of the American
the United HebrewSchools sys- has now become one of the most
Jewish Congress, at Masonic!
tem. The first president of the popular projects of Hebrew
Temple, on Monday,' April 20, at'
school was Esser Rabinowitz.
Dear Rabbi Silver:
schools throughout the country.
2 p. m., instead of the regular'
In 1920 the Division St. Tal-
During the same period, in
meeting day, due to change
The National Conference for Palestine could be held
mud Torah, which has been in the fall of 1927, the formal
et no more propitious hour. The land of Palestine looms large
necessitated by the Passover
existence long before the exec- opening of the Tuxedo-Holmur
on the !mediate horizon as a strategic key to the control of
holidays.
tion of the Wilkins School, anti school took place. This school is
the Middle East. Hitler must capture it if he is to reach
Mrs. Silverman organized and'
which was supervised and di- now known as the David W.
Iran and the Mosul oil fields he needs. We in the United
is honorary president of the
reeled by the well known scholar Simons Branch.
States must helm strengthen Palestine aceinat that eggrersion.
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Rhode
and educator, Hyman Buchhal-
No new schools were then
Island Jewish Orphanage, League
In this critical hour every last measure of help
ter, was merged with the United built until the erection of the
of Jewish Women's Organizai
must be given Palestine for yet another reason. Once again a
Hebrew Schools and became a Rose Sittig Cohen Building in
tions and Hadassah Chapter of
would-be world conqueror firds this little country in his
constituent part of it.
October, 1940. This building was
path. Japan hopes et the same time to capture Singapore and
Providence, R. L' She is also'
In the year 1921, the Talmud made possible by the bequest of
move westward toward India, thus closing in on that storehouse
chairman of the Jezreel Develop.
Torah Ohel Moshe of the con- the Cohen estate through the
of Allied resources in a gigantic pincer movement. But Hitler
ment Company, and a member
dares not march through Turkey chile Syria and Palestine
gregation bearing the same name, United Jewish Charities.
of the board of directors of the
threaten his lines of comnunicetion.
The Jewish population, how-
and situated at 29th and Michi-
llerblia Development • Company
1
gan, was turned over to the ever, did not remain static. In
of Palestine.
is a tiny country on the map of the
United Hebrew Schools for su- fact, it was constantly moving world, but Palestine
On a recent visit to South
it is shaped like a thorn. It is r thorn indeed
up north and west. This necessi-
pervision.
America in the interests of the
in the flank of Hitler.
At the same time the Congre- tated the opening of classes in
American Jewish Congress, Mrs.
rye must strengthen that thorn until it becomes a
gation Ahavath Achim of Del- public school buildings. The fol-
Silverman visited Brazil, Uni-
sword that will halt the tyrant's eastward march. In Palestine
mar and Westminster transferred lowing four units of the United
guay, Chile, Bolivia, Argentine,
Hitler faces the wrath of the people he has starved and tor-
its school to the United Hebrew Hebrew Schools have been es-
Peru, Ecuador, Trinidad and the.
tured and degraded --- Jews, over half a million strong, sany
tablished in the public schools:
Dominican Republic.
Schools.
Brady, corner Joy Road and of whom know the ache of a stormtrooperle kick, the agony of the
Mrs. Silverman will draw on
The Hebrew Free School of
schutzataffel's lash. On this side of the Atlantic, at this
Lawton, Central High School, National Congress for Palestine, ere Jewish leaders representing
her wealth of experience and
the Congregation Mogen Abra- LaSalle and Tuxedo ; Winterhal-
millions of patriotic American citizens who are glad to make any
travel for her timely talk to the
ham of Farnsworth St. was also
sacrifice to save Democracy. It is my earnest hope that some of
women of Detroit.
given over to the management of ter, Broadstreet and Fullerton ;
Bagley, Curtis and Rose-
the fortitude of America can be passed on through your organiza-
This meeting is .open to the
the United Hebrew Schools for and
tion to the valiant defenders of our common cause in Palestine.
lawn.
public and members are invited
supervision and guidance, mak-
bulwark
for
Democracy
a
The Jewish haven in peacetime has become
The number of pupils in the
to bring their friends and all
ing it a total of five units man- entire system of schools is about
in wartime. Lend it your strength.
those interested in . hearing Mrs;
aged by the United Hebrew
1,500. The staff consists of 42
Silverman.
Sincerely yours,
Schools.
men and women. The main of-
In the year 1922, when the fice is at the new building, Law-
Rabbi Abbn Hillel Silver
Hastings section showed a ten- ton and Tyler.
National Chairman, United Palestine Appeal
dency of moving up north be-
The officers are: Louis Robin- 41 bet 42nd Street
tween Forest and Medbury, a son, president; Rudolph Zuie- New York City
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second unit was erected on the back, first vice president; Charles
corner of Kirby and St. Antoine, Rubiner, second vice president ;
ghettos differed from that of his
A facsimile of the letter which the Secretary of Navy sent to the National
known as the Kirby Center Maurice Landau, treasurer; Aar- Conference for Palestine, sponsored by the United Palestine Appeal. The :Nazi idol.
School. This school played a on A. Silberblatt, secretary.
United Palestine Appeal raises its funds through the United Jewish Appeal
Seized upon orders of Acting,
prominent part in the develop-
The chairmen of committees for Refugees, Overseas Needs, and Palestine.
Attorney General Charles. Fahy;
ment and furtherance of Jewish are: Executive committee, Louis
the Silver Shirt leader watt
education in Detroit.
Robinson ; Board of Education,
charged under the 1917 espion=.
life.
There was one problem with Maurice H. Zackheim; publicity, Mrs. Ehrlich to Review
age act with distributing false
This Neshev closes one of the statements intended to harm the
which the management of the Rabbi Morris Adler; house, Na- Life of Henrietta Szold
most successful seasons that Ha- U. S. and "promote the success
schools was faced, and that was than Yaffa ; real estate, Louis
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich will bonim ever had. It marks the of our enemies". The statements
how to bring, the question of Stoll; finance and budget, Mau-
Jewish education to the atten- rice Landau; membership, Ru- review "Life and Letters of Hen- dividing line between the ac- appeared in Pelley's recently dill-,
tion of the indifferent popula- dolph Zuieback; scholarship, Har- rietta Szold," by Marvin Lowen- tivities in the city and the open- continued publication, The Gall ,
thal, at a regular monthly meet- ing of their summer season, lean.
tion; how to focus the atten- ry Cohen.
which is spent in camp, Kvutza
tion of the people upon the
Pelley stated that . he would
Board of directors: Rabbi Mor-
Kinneret.
problem of Jewish education, ris Adler, Fred M. Butzel, Jos-
plead innocent to the charges it
Among its activities are the indicted, explaining: " T h e re,
and how to bring them nearer to eph B. Colten, Lawrence W.
sponsorship of First Aid classes, hasn't been a damn thing in the
the work, activities and accom- Crohn, Judge Harry B. Keidan,
the promotion of knowledge con- magazine that Boake Carter,
plishments of the school. That Rabbi Harold N. Rosenthal, Har-
cerning home and civilian safety, 'Iron Pants' Johnson, Father
was done in a very successful ry Seligson, Aaron A. Silber-
the encouraging of all individual Coughlin and many others have n
and unique manner through the blatt, Louis Stoll, Rabbi Isaac
members to cooperate in all ways n't also said." wt.;
large scale presentations of Stollman, Henry Wineman, Rabbi
with the Office of Civilian De-
operettas in Hebrew, "Saul and M. J. Wohlgelernter, Rudolph
Pelley justified Hitler's prp.
fense and the Red Cross, and gram as "OK for Germane..
David," "Samson and Delilah," Zuieback, Julius Berman, Louis
the use of its meeting rooms know what those fello,ws were
and "Jepitah's Daughter," which Dann, Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich,
by the Office of Civilian Defense. up against before Ilitle,r," he
were presented at Orchestra Rabbi Moses Fischer, Rabbi
Hall. This was the first time in Leon Fram, Aaron Klein, Mau-
said. "And if we have inflation
the history of Detroit Jewish rice Landau, Saul R. Levin, Rob-
here we'll be in the same boat.
Ladies' Auxiliary 135,
education that any school at- ert R. Marwil, Gus D. Newman,
I believe that what Hitler itj
J.W.V.,
To
Celebrate
tempted such productions as Seymour Tilchin, Nathan Yaffa,
trying to do is to set up
Pan-American Week
these operettas. These presenta- David S. Zemon, Dr. A. E. Bern-
United States of Europe to do
tions have done very much to stein, Harry Cohen, William
The Detroit Ladies' Auxiliary away with tariff barriers and
popularize the schools.
Friedman, Dr. A. M. Hershman,
No. 135 of the Jewish War Vet- racial prejudice."
During the first year of the Abe Kasle, Jack Kellman, Louis
erans of the U. S. are holding
existence of the Kirby School, Robinson, Isaac Rosenthal, Judge
their regular meeting at the
the first graduation of the United Charles Rubiner, Dr. A. W. San-
Book-Cadillac Hotel, Monday, 1
Hebrew Schools was celebrated. ders, Isaac Shetzer, Philip Slomo-
April 13, at 8:15 p. m. Mrs. Lil-
A total of 14 boys and girls vitz, Rabbi Ralph Spalter and
lian Fink, Americanism chair-
MANDELL ti DAVID
completed the prescribed inten- Maurice II. Zackheim. Repre-
man, is in charge of the Pan-
sive course and received their sentatives of the Woman's Aux-
American program celebrating
diplomas on June 27, 1923. Sev- iliary are: Mrs. Charles Robin-
Pan-American Week, which be-
eral of these graduates are now son, Mrs. Bert L. Smolder and
gins April 14. The guest speaker
residing in Palestine as Chal- Mrs. Jack Tobin.
HENRIETTA SZOLD
will be Mrs. Theresa Wollemaen,
utzim, several are very active
ing of the Detroit Chapter of Spanish secretary of the Inter-
in this Jewish community, one
RADIO NEWS
of them is occupying the position Zionist Organization,
Hadassah at Hotel Stotler, Tues- nation Center.
The
president
of
the
Detroit
COMMENTATORS
of rabbi in an eastern town, and Chapter 1, Ends Its
day, April 14, at 2 p. m.
Under the chairmanship of Ladies' Auxiliary No. 135, Mrs.
all of them have contributed
„Membership
Drive
Mrs. Joseph Jackier and the di- May Ginsburg, announces the
much to Jewish life.
NEW TIME
Auxiliary is sponsoring a bingo
In the year 1924 a new school
rection of Mrs. Sidney Winer, a party on Wednesday, April 22,
Chapter 1 of the Detroit Zion- simulated broadcast of an imag-
was erected on the corner of
8 p. m., at the Bnai Moshe
EVERY SUNDAY
Philadelphia and Byron. It was ist Organization will conclude its inary magazine entitled "The at
opened April 7, 1924. The exec- Louis D. Brandeis Memorial Jewish Women's Home Compan- Dexter Center. The chairman of
tion of this school was necessi- Membership Campaign with an ion" will be presented. The this affair is Mrs. Henrietta Ni-
11:45 A.M. to 12 Noon
tated by the shifting of the Jew- open meeting at the home of script, which is entirely original man. The purpose of this party
ish population to the northwest Lois Linden, 2097 Oakman Blvd., in concept, will deal with the is to raise funds for Airacobra
STATION
part of the city.. A year later, on Thursday evening, April 16. various phases of activities for pursuit pursuit planes which the
in 1925, the bus system was in- This meeting is the last in a and about Jewish women, and Jewish War Veterans, through
their national commander, Ben
WJLB
troduced whereby children living s e ries of three meetings held was written by the following
in outlying districts were con- during the membership drive of women who will participate in Kaufman, pledged to the Gov-
ernment.
veyed to and from the Philadel- the Zionist Organization as a the presentation: Mesdames Sam-
phia-Byron school. This school tribute to the memory of the uel Schwartz, Max Biber, Jacob
is now maintained by the well late Justice Brandeis.
Citrin, Herman Feinberg, Har-
At its last open meeting, Mrs. old Schiller, Raymond Sokolov,
known and active Woman's Aux-
diary of the United Hebrew Morris Adler gave an interesting Mrs. Harry LePofsky, Daniel
Schools headed by Mrs. Charles and informative talk on the life Cohn, Louis Braitman and Jos-
of the late Justice Brandeis. Ac-
Robinson.
eph Jackier.
In July, 1926, a combination cording to Ruth Friedland, chair-
synagogue and Hebrew school man of the program committee,
for travelers who want
was erected on Brush and Min- the meeting to be held April 16
to help America!
nesota. This was built by the will be of the same high caliber.
then populated district of the Chapter 1 was formed to pro-
Annual
Neshev
East Six Mile Rd. section with vide an outlet within the Zion-
Whenever possible pick Monday, Tuesday, Wed-
Habonim, one of the most ac-
nesday or Thursday to do your traveling—you'll
the cooperation of the manage- ist Organization for the energies
enjoy
more comfort and convenience on your trip,
tive
Zionist
Youth
groups
in
De-
ment of the United Hebrew and activities of the younger
and you'll be saving seat-space on more crowded
Schools. people within the community. All troit, is holding its 3rd annual
weekends for soldiers, sailors and war workers.
In October of the same year, young people of the community Neshev at Central High School,
You'll be doing a favor to them—and yourself
the school at Parkside and Mid- are cordially invited to attend May 3,.
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Habonim has for the past dec-
River
l and, known as the Fenkell the next meeting.
Washington Bouleva sl at
ade dedicated its program to
School, was erected.
the
upbuilding
of
Palestine
along
During the latter part of
cooperative lines, and, since its
"'A, immediately upon the for-
existence, has participated ac-
mation of the Jewish Welfare
LINES
tively in all phases of Jewish
Federation of Detroit, the United
,
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