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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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by Phineas J. Biron

YOU SHOULD KNOW

One of the most impressive
dinners in the history of New
York will be the testimonial din-
ner tendered to Albert Einstein
by the Jewish Council of the Rus-
sian War Relief, in October. .
That exotic-looking young lady
who is very much in evidence in
the Washington House of the
Jewish Army Committee is Eve-

HAPPY NEW YEAR Ts) ALL.'

lyn Zeiger, one of the most re-
cent additions to the public re-
lations staff of the Committee. . .
Some time ago, reports Leonard
Lyons, a government agency
asked William Gropper to make
a series of paintings for a book
about the Nazi-destroyed Czech
town of Lidice. . . . Which Crop-
per did with his usual vigor. So
the agency rejected his work—
on the ground that the American
public is not yet ready for such
brutal representation of the
Nazis.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

British soldiers in the Middle
East have become the mezuzah
dealers' best customers. Not only
do the non-Jewish boys wear the
mezuzahs around their necks as
good luck charms, but they send
them home to be put on the fam-
ily doorpost as a "protection"
against air raids

RUFF

ICE CREAM CO.

Bernard A. Bergman; one-time
crack publicity man for important
Jewish organizations and person-
alities. and for the last few years
and executive editor of the Phila-
delphia Record, is now, at the age
of 49, a captain in the Air Force.
Jo Mielziner, famed as one of

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READER'S DIGEST

Rabbi Bernard Heller's book
"The Odyssey of a Faith," pub-
lished by Harpers this summer, is
in the best-selling class . . . And
Maurice Samuel's book on Sholem
Aleichem, which Knopf is bring-
ing out this winter, will become
a classic, we predict . . . The
September issue of "The Protes-
tant" has an editorial by Josep:i
Brainin which takes Westbrook
Pegler to task for copying Wil-
lian Dudley's parodies on Eleanor
Roosevelt's column "My Day" ...
"Hostages," a novel telling of
events in Prague under Nazi rule,
will be coming out before long
. . . Its author is Stefan Heym.
who, as a refugee from the Nazi
terror. knows only too well
whereof he speaks. If you want
to know what George S. Kauf-
man and Moss Hart think of each
other, get their newly published
"Six Plays by Kaufman and
Hart" . . The volume contains
an article by Kaufman on Hart
and another by Hart on Kauf-
man.

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Broadway's foremost scenic de-
signers, is now Captain Jo Miel-
ziner of the Army Air Corps,
stationed at Mitchell Field.
Lawrence Helfgott is a ser-
geant in the Glider Division of
the Marine Corps . . . being su•
perior in rank to Tyrone Power
of Hollywood, he gives orders to
the handsome movie star . . . All
of which makes Lawrence's bro-
ther. Martin, very happy . . .
Martin himself is the office boy
at the New York headquarters of
the Committee for a Jewish army.
Did you know that Camp Dix.
N. J.. has a Hebrew-speaking
club, the members of which are
officers stationed at the camp?

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The forthcoming film about
Sam Dreben, the "Fighting Jew"
of the first World War, will fea-
ture Lee Tracy in the role of
the American Jewish hero . . .
A nephew of the late Sergeant
Dreben, incidentally, is Private
Alan Dreben, of the "This Is the
Army" cast . . . Another planned
film is a modernized version of
"Quo Vadis," with the character
of Nero being replaced by Hit-
ler . . . Those loud screechings
you hear in various Universal
horror films all stem from the
same pair of lungs, belonging to
one Sarah Schwartz . . . Spine-
chilling shrieks are Sarah's spe-
ciality, and she has a well-pay-
ing contract that assures her stu-
dio of her availability whenever
such screams are required.
Live and Learn — we never

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Lechayim, Rebonoh-shel Oloml

A Story About "Kaparuth"

By RABBI JOSEPH THUMIM
Of Congregation Beth Abraham

One of the Yom Kippur rituals
is the "Kaparuth," meaning "ran-
som," which is performed on the
eve before Yom Kippur and con-
sists of having a fowl waved over
one's head while reciting the
prayer. "This is my exchange, this
is my redemption. etc." There is
a remarkable story about an un-
usual K a p a r u t h performance
which inspired the great rabbis.

The great rabbi of Nikelsburg
who was known as The Rebe
Schmelka, being eager to
learn the divine secret of the Ka-
paruth service. decided to go to
the founder of Chasidismus, Rao-
hi Israel Bal-Shem-Tov, and watch
him in the act of its celebration.
The rabbi ordered him to go to
the innkeeper of a Kretchma in
a certain village and watch his
way of performing the rite.
Disguised as a country peddler,
the great rabbi of Nickelsburg ar-
rived in the village towards eve-
ning and asked the innkeeper,
Abraham Isaac, to let him pass
the night in the Kretchma. The
rabbi, feigning sleep, sat and ob-
served the Kretchmer serving his
customers food and drink, and
was astonished at the Bal-Shem-
Tov's sending him there.
After midnight when all the
customers had left, Abraham
Isaac closed the door and turned
to his wife and said, "Sarah
Leah, now is the time to per-
form Kaparuth, first I will audit
my accounts in the Books. Bring
me the two books which are under
the bed."
He sat down at the table,
opened one book, and began to
count all the "Aweiroth"—sins
—which he had committed during
the year. Among these were that

knew that Jack Benny's famous
violin is a genuine Amati worth
$100,000 . . . That, at least, is
the amount the fiddle has been
insured for, according to the
Benny publicity department . . .
Columbus Day will see Molly Pi-
con's return to her theater, in a
musical the title of which is very
much in tune with the times: "Ow
Is Dos a Leben."

COMMENTARY

The walls of buildings in oc-
cupied France have recently been
coming out in a rash of portraits
of Teutonic-looking pigs, caption-
ed as follows: "Born in Germany
—fattened in France—salted in
the Channel — and roasted in
England" . . . Hitler, cracks
Harry Hershfield, has given or-
ders that the Nazi custom of
raising the right arm in the tra-
ditional salute be discontinued
. . . because the gesture reminds
him of the height of the snow-
drifts in Russia last winter—and
next . . . And the Mikado, says
a Broadwayite, has been giving a
farewell performance at the Gil-
bert and Solomon Islands.

ABOUT PEOPLE

he had failed to finish recit.!: the
whole of to Psalms, that
had
one (lay interrupted his
,ye ss
to speak some necessary • .i•d s,
and that he had not propel
ful-
filled the Mitswah of hosp.•ality
toward ng
a stranger.
finish e d with
first
Having
book, he opened the secom: hook
and read therein of all th , mis-
eries and sufferings he in, . es .
(lured (luring that year and these
were plentiful. He then turi,1 to
his wife and ordered her to bring
him his Talis and also a
glass of liquor. He •rapp•, him-
self in his "Talis, made a Bro.
cha," lifted up his eyes and said,
"Lechayim, Rebonoh sh•l (Horn!
Listen, Lord, if we count a;1 my
transgressions of the past year
and set them against al m y
"Tzores"—woes—during the same
period, it would seem that Thou
hath sinned against me. But why
bother with an accounting'? Art
Thou not a good "Poritz" and
em I not your Kretchmer? Let
us forgive one another and let us
be good friends. Lechayim, Re-
bonoh-shel Olom, Lechayim'."
He then waved about his heal
the both books reciting "This
book is the exchange of the other
book, this is my redemption, etc."
the whole reciting of "Kaparuth."
The rabbi returning to the Bal.
Shem said, "now I learned how
to direct the Yom Kippur prayers
after a year of so many misfor-
tunes and woes of the Jewish peo-
ple, and will insist that the Lord
should answer upon the "Lech-
ayim, of Abraham Isaac," that he
will w'koswenu bi serer Hacho-
yem," to inscribe us in the hook
of life "Ge'ulo Woj5hma, redemp-
tion and salvation.

Cass Town Hall Season
To Open October 16

The Detroit Town Hall at The
Cass Theatre, opens th Lith
Consecutive Season of the Friday
Morning Series, on Oct. 114 pre-
senting the University of Chicago
Round Table, radio's popular edu-
cational broadcast. The particip-
ants will be: T. V. Smith found-
er of the Round Table and Pro-
fessor of Philosophy at Chicago
University; Maynard C. Krueger,
brilliant young political econo-
mist and Louis Wirth, Professor
of Sociology.

Among the speakers for the
Twenty Friday mornings are four
noted women: Anne O'Hare Mc-
Cormick, foreign correspondent
and writer for the New York
Times; Helen Kirkpatrick, Amer-
ica's foremost woman war cor-
respondent; Vera Micheles Dean,
director of the Foreign policy
Association and Mady Christians,
one of America's great actresses.
Other outstanding authorities
are: Drew Pearson author of
Washington Merry - Go - Round;
Henry C. Wolfe, brilliant foreign
analyst; The Hon. George Kreeek,
late envoy to Paraguay, on South
America; Tehyi Heieh, China's
premier spokesman; Dr. Beryl D.
Orris, American psychiatrist;
Frederick L. Schuman, Professor
of Government at Williams Col-
lege; Carveth Wells, internation-
ally known explorer, engineer and
traveler; Edward Weeks, editor
of the Atlantic Monthly; Cal leton
Smith, music commentator, writer
and world traveler; Charming
Pollock, playwright. produce' and
critic; Walter B. Pitkin. journal-
ist, editor and psychologist; Har-
old R. Peat, famous as "Private
Peat" in World War
J ohn
Mason Brown in his I : annual
"Broadway in Review"
I‘leoni J.
n s Ct. a t e i lsammabnr.o, emit-1(1111;i the

Reeves Lowenthal, director of
Associated American Artists, was
the first to introduce mail order
selling of art works by catalogue
. . . The clientele of his organ-
ization now numbers a quarter of
a million people • throughout the
world ... Zeppo Marx, the fourth
Marx Brother, you remember—
who left the erstwhile acting com-
bine quite some years ago to be-
come an agent, is also the owner
of a defense plant we learn.
Seen at Ruby Foo's recently
was Dinah Shore, visiting town
between Hollywood chores, in the
company of Alfred Crown, one
of the Latin American experts of
the Rockefeller Good Neighbor
organizations . . . When Alfred
dons Uncle Sam's uniform, as he
expects to do shortly, he'll be one
of the handsomest Jewish soldiers
in captviity.
Information
6993. and reservatie ■ at
Congratulations to Cleveland's Room 749 Book-Cadillac
Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner on the Cadillac
marriage of his daughter, Joy, to
Lieutenant Samuel Rabinowitz of
the U. S. Army.
Dr. David Polish, the new rabbi
of Temple Israel of Waterbury,
Conn., is the son-in-law of the
late A. H. Friedland of Cleve-
The titles of Rabbi SIR, ka's
land, the noted Hebrew educator. icers111(
e
arc (
Kippur -ore-
as fn f t' g o l 1 o l %'‘o .s m :
On Kol Nidre eve Rabbi Sis . rka
will preach on "The Gil test
Thing in the World." and on Vont
Kippur the sermon will be "V hat
Are We Fighting For?" Csntor
The Jewish Community Center Mosh Ber Gordon will officiate,
will be closed to celebrate the assisted by a large and im:a .es-
Succoth Festival, the first two sive choir.
days of the holiday period, Sat-
Junior Services for all yt.uths
urday and Sunday, Sept. 26 and will be held in_the Chapel. Rabbi
27; and the last two days, Satur- Sperka will address the children
day and Sunday, Oct. 3 and 4. at 2:00 o'clock Yom Kippur day.

Rabbi Joshua Sperka's
Yom Kippur Sermons

Center To Be Closed
For Succoth Festival

