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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

October

1942

was the first secretary, it appears
JONES
ZIONISTS
Hitler Declared War on
that he was fairly well educated.
FRANCK
When he conceived the idea of
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Jews; What's Answer?
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Bnai Brith, he was a young man
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immigrants who had arrived from of few worldly goods but of con- statements. There have also been
Isaac
Franck
has
taken
a
lead-
Germany in the late 1830s were siderable standing in the Jewish reports of unauthorized political
There will be a special Jewish
mostly men of little means and community. A machinist by trade, negotiations by Dr. Magnes and War Bond program, Monday, Oc- ing part in the fight against Fa s.
less education. While they had he was prominent in the affairs his associates. We have been in- tober 19, 1942, from 10:15 to cist, anti-Semitic and other sub-
and need of material assistance of Congregaton Anshe Chesed, formed that conversations are 11:15 p. m., over Station WJBK. versive movements in Detroit and
and cultural guidance, the Jewish New York's third oldest syna- now taking place between duly
Detroit cantors will sing. De- throughout the country. Ile has
community was too weak and too gogue, of which he was secretary constituted representatives of the troit rabbis will talk and the also made important contributions
divided to offer either in any for some years during the late Jewish Agency for Palestine and Detroit Jewish organizations and to projects for education for de-
effective measure. Then, too, 1830s and early 1840s. Later he leaders of the Ichud group with individual members will buy War mocracy. He has been an agent
unity in Israel was the great left Anshe Chesed to help Rabbi a view
Bonds right in the studios of of good will and understanding
, to adjusting
the Ichud
principles
among the many nationality
desideratum, for the various Leo Merzbacher, one of the and activities
of the
to Station WJBK.
groups
quthis
e ne ecity,
groups of Jews had little to do earliest members of Bnai Bran,
Presidents
of
organizations
are
i eloquence on the subject
with each other. Synagogues in- found the Cultus Verein in 1843, conform with Zionist aims and urged to take up this question
creased in number but more be- which subsequently became Tem- policies. We have hitherto re- at meetings. Decide how many of American unity has been an
any on
public
cause of the spirit of competition ple Emanu-el, the famous Re- sion of from
and
opinion
the expres-
propa- bonds your members will buy important factor in consolidating
lack of leadership than any form congregation.
and come to this special program an anti-Nazi and pro-dennieratic
ganda
ganda campaign which has been
front among the various language
real need. The times called for Communal Leader
conducted in this country by Dr. and give it her the air, no mat-
nationality groups in De-
a new type of organization and
De-
Jones was also a factor in the Magnes and are reserving judg- ter how large or small the sum. and
troit.
All can help make this Jewish
it was some of the younger and early organized Jewish philan- meat on the activities of the
The general public is invited
better educated among the Ger- thropies of New York. As one of Ichud, pending the outcome of War Bond program a huge suc-
man newcomers who did some- the organizers of the German the conversations now in progress. cess. Remember the (late, Oct. to hear Mr. Franck. The Friday
thing about it. Chief among these Benevolent Society, which was We deem it necessary, however, 19, 10:15 p. m., at Station evening service of Templ e Israel
is followed by a social reception,
was Henry Jones. founded in 1845,0Jones became to advise you of the position of WJBK.
sponsored by the Sisterhood of
Jones first began talking about in fact one of the creators of American Zionists.
Temple Israel.
a new organization with some what is now the vast system of
"In our view the crux of the
of his friends who used to gather organized Jewish philanthropy in issue is the large-scale immigra- Semi-Annual J. N. F.
The social hour is followed by
at Sinsheimer's coffee shop on New York City. In 1847, five tion of European Jews after the Box Clearance
the Youth Symposium, when the
Essex Street in New York. He years before the establishment of war, their right of free entry into
young people of the congregation
sensed the need for an instru- Mt. Sinai Hospital, the first Jew- Palestine and their settlement
Under the chairmanship of get together to discuss the ad-
meat that would bring together ish hospital in America, Jones there under self-governing con- Mrs. Abraham Twersky, semi-an- dress and question the speaker.
on the same platform all Jews, and other leaders of the German ditions. On this vital issue the nual clearance of Jewish National
regardless of religious opinion, Benevolent Society proposed to statements to which we refer Fund blue-and-white boxes is now
geographical origin or economic the older and wealthier Hebrew have been either silent or evasive. taking place.
status. Although a religious man Benevolent Society (a creation The events of the past few years
All Zionist organizations are co- —BUY WAR BONDS
and a synagogue leader, Jones of the Sephardic Jewish commu- and the unparalleled sufferings operating in the October box
was sufficiently realistic to see nity), and to the several Jewish inflicted upon our people have clearance effort. Contributions re-
that the rivalry between the con- congregations that they unite to- made more urgent than ever the ceived through the JNF boxes help
gregations of the Portuguese, gether for the erection of a hos- necessity for a permanent solu- provide the supplementary income
Dutch, English, Polish and Ger- pital. To give point to its plan, tion of the problem of Jewish of the fund in Detroit.
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An appeal has gone forth to all
man Jews, each with their own the German Benevolent Society homelessness. This requires that
BETTIE TAYLOR'S
ritual and their separate and voted the sum of $1,500 out of Palestine be recognized by the box-holders to receive volunteer
WEST INDIAN
tightly knit community, was be- its general fund and a certain nations of the world in the fu- collectors cordially and to assist
getting a spirit of jealousy and portion of its yearly receipts to tore as in the past as the Jewish them in a successful clearance
drive.
provincial antipathy that blocked help start the hospital.
Homeland, where Jews may be
union and cooperation. Recog-
The Hebrew Benevolent Society free to become a majority.
REVUE
nizing the difficulty of uniting quickly approved of the plan and "We, therefore, reaffirm the adopted, a message was cabled
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the congregations, he proposed a meeting of Jewish leaders was resolution adopted unanimously to the Jewish Agency stating
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to found a society which, while called, with Mordecai M. Noah at the Extraordinary Zionist Con- that "no plan or complicated po-
ANDREW H. SNEED-MGR •
based on the teachings of Juda- presiding. Several of the larger ference, held in New York May litical frameworks which do not
Altir
ism, would be free in its delibera- congregations declined their co- 9. 1942, by representatives of clearly and effectively ensure the
tions from everything dogmatic operation, thus giving emphasis all Zionist groups in this country, objectives set forth in that reso-
and doctrinal and would be able to the lack of unity that had to the effect that in order to lution can be acceptable to
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to unite in a common purpose brought Bnai Brith into being. solve the problem of Jewish American Zionists."
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German and Pole, Hungarian As a result the plan fell through. homelessness it is essential that
and Hollander, Englishman and Meanwhile, the moneys voted by 'the gates of Palestine be opened!
Alsation. Such a society, he was the German Benevolent Society that the Jewish Agency be vested
convinced, would not only de- were kept apart and grew stead- with control of immigration into
"There Will Always Be A London"
velop mutual toleration and re- ily. In 1859, a few years after Palestine and with the necessary
spect among the various sections Mt. Sinai Hospital had been authority for upbuilding the
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Pursuant to the statement
sheimer's were sympathetic to man Benevolent Society was made
Jones' idea but they differed on available to the consolidated
the means of giving it concrete agency for the establishment of
an orphan asylum, the now fam-
expression. Some suggested a
ous Hebrew Orphan Aslyum of
Jewish lodge of the Masons or
Odd Fellows. Others urged the New York. Jones became a di-
establishment of a mutual benefit rector of the new society, serv-
society. A few thought the prob- ing until his death. In 1874 the
lem could be dealt with through Hebrew Benevolent Society be-
a cultural club. But Jones was came a part of what is now the
a man of vision, and he saw that Jewish Social Service Association
of New York, a unit in the Fed-
a little club or benefit society eration for the Support of Jew-
could not achieve what was essen-
ish Philanthropic Societies.
tial. He had the bigger idea of
something entirely new in Jewish Headed District 1
Almost from the day Bnai
life—a Jewish fraternal order—
the first of its kind in the world, Brith was organized Jones de-
which would have a program voted himself to it unstintingly.
sufficiently flexible to embrace He was secretary of the first
all aspects of Jewish life and win lodge. From 1851 to 1855 he was
the adhesion of all elements in grand sear (president) of the
Supreme Lodge. At the time of
the Jewish community.
Such were the ideals that ani- his death on February 16, 1866,
mated Jones when he gathered hewas president of District
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around him like-minded men, and Grand Lodge No. 1, which he had
on October 13, 1943, laid the helped to organize. His death
groundwork for what was to be- left his .family in serious straits,
come Bnai Brith. The broad airs and Bnai raised a fund for
of the new order were enunei- their relief. When Mrs. Jones died
ated in its first constitution which at the age of 81 in 1881, the
declared that "Bnai Brith has fund was diverted to educational
taken upon itself the mission of purposes.
Benjamin F. Peixetto, who
uniting Israelites in the work of
promoting their highest interests knew Jones intimately and who
and those of humanity." At the was president of Bnai Brith when
same time the motto—"Benevo- the founder died, told the 1866
lence, Brotherly Love and Hai.- convention of Bnai Brith that
mony"—was selected, and it has Jones "was universally mourned
never been changed. as a true friend of humanity, a
philanthropist whose goodness of
Machinist by Trade
heart never denied aid to the
Who was this man Jones who sufferer nor sympathy to the un-
fathered
with
Bn a i
Brith? fortunate."
Strange . to say, we know little
No monuments have been
about him, but that little is erected to Jones; neither have
worth telling. Jones was born in biographies been written about
Hamburg, Germany, Dec. 22, him. He needs none. His monu-
1811. From the minutes of New ment is the Bnai Brith and his
F ork Lodge No. 1, of which he biography is its history.

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Editor's Note: On October 13, Bnai Brith enters its 100th year,
which will be climaxed in 1943 with the centennial of this
oldest and largest national Jewish organization in the United
States. While plans for the observance of the centennial are
being held in abeyance, because of the war, until early in 1943,
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle has obtained for its readers a
series of articles and other features dealing with the great
men and events in Bnai Brith history, whose story parallel,
that of American Jewry for the past century. The first of this
series is this word picture of Henry Jones, the founder of
Bnai Brith.

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