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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
1992
27th rear of Service to State and Country
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle_
VOL. 44. No. 28
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Michigan Jewish War Veterans to
Hear National Commander Kaufman
Emma Schaver to Sing Patriotic Songs. Butzel,
Principal Speaker at Corn. Center July
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Emma Schaver, Detroit's bril-
liant soprano and opera artist of
note, will he featured at the pa-
triotic program to be sponsored by
the Department of Michigan Jew-
ish War Veterans on Saturday,
July 11, 9:30 p. m. in the social
hall of the Congregation Shaarey
Zedek, Lawton corner of Chicago
Blvd. Emma Schaver sang with
the San Carlo Opera Company,
the Chicago Opera Company. and
in concert recitals throughout the
United States and Canada. She
appeared in joint recital with the
famous Metropolitan Opera tenor.
Tito Schipa, and she has had
numerous successful tours in Eng-
land, Poland. Mexico. and Pales-
tine. In Palestine she appeared
in concert in Tel Aviv. Jerusalem
and most of the settlements of
the Home Land. Specializing in
modern Hebrew melodies, she has
been acclaimed both in Palestine
and abroad as the finest inter-
preter of modern Hebrew melody.
Some of her most note-worthy
performances has consisted of
operatic arias. Hebrew and Yid-
dish folk songs.
United We Stand
The theme of the patriotic pro-
gram will be "United We Stand."
The principle address w ■ 11 be de-
livered by the National Command-
er of the Jewish War Veterans,
Benjamin Kaufman of Trenton,
N. J. Mr. Kaufman and past
commander J. George Fredman,
editor of the National Jewish
War Veterans Magazine, recent-
ly consulted with President Frank-
lin I). Roosevelt, at which con-
ference the President received the
Jewish War Veterans' program
in the resent emergency. Recent-
ly Mr. Kaufman, in behalf of the
Jewish War Veterans, presented
to Henry Morgenthau, Secretary
of the United States Treasury, a
check for $30,000 as an out-right
donation for the purchase of a
pursuit plane for the United
States Government. A second
check for $30,000 was presented
by the national commander at the
Air-Cobra Pursuit Plane Manu-
facturing Co. in Buffalo, N. Y.
on July 10. Mr. Kaufman has
traveled extensively throughout
the length and breadth of the
Country on behalf of the Jewish
War Veterans "all-out war effort"
and "United We Stand" program.
Fred M. Butzel, honorary pres-
ident of the Detroit Jewish Com-
munity Center, will give a short
address in behalf of the commu-
nity. Honorary department chat,
lain, Leon Frans. Rabbi of pin-
ple Israel. will render the invoca-
tion. Dr. Robert Rosen, national
Rabbi-Scholar In
Dire Need of Aid
Rabbi Moses Fischer advises
that a well-known rabbi and
great Talmudic scholar of De-
troit. has suffered a stroke.
He is now gravely ill at home
and needs assistance. Getter-
, ios Detroiters are asked to
make contrib utions, which
should be sent to Vaad Ha-
Rabonim, care of Rabbi Moses
Fischer. 37-19 Fullerton Ave.
vice commander of the Fifth
Region, will extend greetings for
the Region. Dr. Perry Burnstine•
department commander, will ex.
NEW YORK t\\ - NS )—Zionist
leaders in America and Jewish
leaders in Palestine gave evidence
of deep concern as the march of
Rommel's troops to Egypt inevit-
ably raised the threat to Pales-
t'ne. In what was described as
a 12th-hour appeal, Dr. Stephen
S. Wise and other Zionist lead-
ers dispatched a final plea to Win-
stun Churchill asking for the
immediate mobilization of all
available Jewish manpower in
Palestine.
"The advance of the Nazi
armies," the Zionists cabled,
"brings with it the threat of in-
vasion to Palestine and therewith
the possible annihilation of Pal-
estine Jewry. For more than two
and a half years, the Jews of
Palestine have demanded the right
to defend their country and to
fight the mortal enemy of their
people and of humanity along-
side the armies of the United
See SCHAVER—Page 12
See LEADERS—Page 12
EMMA SCHAVER
Red Cross Unit of
Beth El Continues
Work all Summer
Over 300 Women
Knitting for Soldiers
Because of the large produc-
tion. quotas assigned to the Red
Cross Unit of the Sisterhood of
Temple Beth El, the unit will
continue working all summer. on
Tuesdays and Wednesdays from
9 a. m. to 4 p. no. Another work
day is being added.
The Red Cross work rooms have
been moved from the second floor
of the Temple to the large, cool
social hall. According to Red
Cross headquarters, the unit is
one of the most efficient in the
city because of the quality and
volume of production. Mrs. Mer-
rill Silverstein is the general
chairman, assisted by Miss Hilda
Gottlieb. The unit has been in
See RED
By WENDELL L.
CROSS—Page 10
WILLKIE
EDITOR'S NOTE:—Answering the widely protested "Case Against
the Jews" by Milton Mayer comes this forthright articl e by
Wendell L. Willkie. Expressive of the American attitude on
minority groups, the following excerpt has been reprinted by
special permissio n of the Saturday Evening Post, Copyright
1942. by the Curtiss Publishing Company.
There is health in bringing
into the open, by honest discus-
sion, such wartime menaces to
racial, religious and political mi-
norities. But I can find only dis-
ease and death in the wailing dis-
tortion of Milton Maye•'s recent
flagellation of the Jews.
For only one useful purpose is to
be served by any such discussion-
to-develop, by a forewarning of
the consequences, a sober public
judgment that will prevent any
tendency toward a repetition of
such national ignominies as the
Ku Klux Klan and such calamities
JULY 10. 1941
Leaders Aroused
Hy Zion Danger
The Case For The Minorities
War, when prolonged and diffi-
cult, imposes severe stresses upon
as people, and such necessary sac-
rifices we will make. We will
keep out fortitude in adversity.
Our danger is from another di-
r ection. It is the threat to indi-
vidual and minority rights inher-
ent in every war and its after-
math.
MICHIGAN. FRIDAY
as the series of race riots in our
cities which grew out of the emo-
tionalism of the First World War.
The threat to racial and reli-
gious, even to political, minority
groups springs in wartime from
two things—an overzealous mass
insistence upon general conform-
ity to majority standards, and
the revival under emotional
strains of age-old racial and reli-
gious distrusts. Mirrities then
are apt to be charkd with re-
sponsibility for the war itself,
and all the dislocations and dis-
comforts arising from it. They
are jealously subected to scrut-
iny to determine if they are the
recipients of special advantages.
Some groups may not display
what is regarded as the required
patriotic fervor, and becont the
objects of ostracism or attenfpted
chastisement on the part of their
See MINORITIES—Page 10
Meeting in Honor
Of labotinsky's
Memory July 20
Noted Speakers to
Addres; Gathering
A large meeting to honor the
memory of the late leader of the
World New Zionist Organization,
Vladimir Jabotinsky, is being ar-
ranged by a special local me-
tOo; Single Copy: St.00 Per Yee'
Dinner Meeting Hears Report
On Jewish Theater Guild Drive
Rabbi Morris Adler of Shaarey Zedek
Principal Speaker at Corn. Center July
Less than two months follow- ttog to hear reports whtch sound
ing the presentation of the con- ed the keynote of the spirit in
cept of a Jewish Qoannuttal the which Detroit Jewry has
around this endeavor.
B. M. Laikin, chairman of the
budget committee, presided at
the meeting. to which had vonie
delegates and representatives of
not one group but of every la/ -
portant element its our commun-
ity, all determined to merge their
united efforts to make this cul-
tural enterprise a success. Con-
spicuous aiming these was the
large number of young rople
who welcom• the advent of a
theater in Detroit and an oppor-
tunity to participate in and b•'-
came familiar with the artia'ie
heritage of their people.
RABBI ADLER
RABBI MORRIS ADLER
toter to the Jews of Detroit. a
large and enthusiastic group
gathered last Wednesday eve-
ning. July 1, in the Jewish Com
munity Center, at a dinner-meet
Alternate Plans
Heard at Jewish
Hospital Meeting
Estimates Range from
$125,000 to $1,500,000
At a meeting held on Monday-
July 6, at the Jewish Community
Center, Holbrook and Woodw to rd
Ares.. the Hospital committee
which was a ppointed suotr ti me
ago presented the report of J. J.
Golub of New York and J. N.
Lewis, architects, who had been
EtYllleSted to prepare Hall submit
alternate plans for a Jewish hos.
pital in Detroit.
A group of representative citi-
zens heard the alternate reports
submitted and a lively discussion
took place. No definite action woos
taken at the meeting, but (1 1 11-
Mt0 proposals for organization
development are likely as a result
of the meeting. Five alternate
See HOSPITAL—Page 12
INSPIRES
Rabbi Morris Adler, honovary
president and guest speaker,
thrilled his audience w OM the
note of evurage and determina-
tion which he sounded. "A Jew-
ish theater today which will pro-
ject the beauty and dignity awl
wholeness of Jewish life, 11101114
two thilogs," he said "First, it
signifies our faith in American
Jewry, and second, our deter-
mination that Jewish life will
not exhaust itself. Now, more
than ever, it is important that
we carry on and vitalize those in-
stitutions and ideals which Jew-
ish life in Europe can no longer
nourish and which we are de-
termined shall not have been de-
veloped in vain," Ile noted the
particular characteristic and `en-
ins of our people in building con-
structively tomll solidly in periods
of greatest darkness and des-
pair, and cited the farsighted.
Hess of those who eau rally to
OW CAM. Of a theater in this day
Rabbi Joshua Sperka, who was
present and who pledged hi9
whole-hearted support and back-
ing for this project, weleomed
theater which would be of such
quality and standard that the or
thodox ar well as non-orthoolox
element of the voitimunity would
flood in it oo true expression of
the creative genius Whiel1 for
Velitturb's was tb , Yelopeti by OP
religious lift) of the Jewish peo
ple.
Jacob NIalgelis, editor and
publisher of The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle, commended the plat-
form of the proposed theater,
See DINNER—Pago 10
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The Laurels of Immortality
Rr DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following evaluation of the
modern Zionism, by his successor ll
the mantle
(mottles- of
of Wool.'
Zionist leadership, he, bee n released by the Zionist 01 ganise
lion of America a n the occasio n of the 314th AMINO' 1141
y of tho
death of Hord, which is being lib 11 by lionial Districts
during July.
If we speak of Theodor Herd,
is not to mensure . the extent
VLADIMIR JABOTINSKY
of his success at' to institute nom
parisons with oth er lead e rs o f
mo•ial committee for Monday thought or action, but
us all
evening, July 20. The meeting net of lionotgo to I he
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Synagogue. The speakers will in- incomparable. In adopting this
clude Dr. Steiner, a prominent attitude, there is no desire to
Zionist leader from Chicago); Dr. create a omit of hero-worship,
Lew. a leading Zionist, who re but an endeavor to avoid the de•
cently arrived from Belgium; veluument of hike values in our
and several prominent lo-al Zion- assessment of what he did awl
ists. The well-known cantor, of that which lie nought to
David Kerzman, will chant the achieve.
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It is related by Herzl himself
Vladimir Jahotinsky advocated how in his first appearative be-
a Jewish Army long before the fore the Jewish mionntoo---it was
present war and the imminent in the ‘Vhitecluopel Ghetto In
danger to Palestine by the armies 1896 he then felt that legend
of Rommel. As a militant Zion- wan beginning too weave Its
ist he would no doubt be in the threads around his personality.
forefront of the movement for A true aristocrat by iodine, 1.I.
a Jewish army and with his gpi.- WW1 inntinctively drawn towards
the "common people" who so
See JABOTINSKY—Page 10
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