DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
ROBERT LURIE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER AT
DISGAH 85Ih ANNIVERSARY BANQUET
Plans for an afternoon and
evening celebration of Pisgah
Lodge's 85th anniversary at the
Stainer Hotel On Sunday, Nov.
22, have been completed, accord-
ing to Ben F. Goldman, general
chairman of this event. Robert
Lurie, national dinictor of Bnai
Brith's War Service Department,
will be the principal speaker at
the banquet. Mr. Lurie is a
dynamic and powerful speaker
and from reports of his talks
elsewhere he has presented his
message in a way that held his
listeners captive. This will he
Mi. Lurie's first appearance in
Detroit and he has a message of
unusual interest.
From the beginning of the
emergency, Bnai Brith has recog-
nized the complete necessity to
utilize its manpower for further-
ance of the cause of democracy.
When the bombs fell on Pearl
Harbor, Bnai Brith, which had
been operating in the defense
field for many months, immedi-
ately moved its machinery into
high gear for an all-out war
effort and created Bnai Brith
War Service Department. This
new department has attained the
same national prominence as is
occupied by other Bnai Brith
activities under the direction of
Mr. Lurie.
Rabbi Folkman To Speak
The day's festivities will com-
mence with the exemplifications
of the teachings of Bnai Brith
by the degree team of Pisgah
Lodge, which will initiate the
new members who joined during
the 85th anniversary membership
drive. The principal address of
the afternoon will be delivered
by Rabbi Jerome D. Folkman,
president of District Grand Lodge
No. 6, Bnai Brith.
The banquet in the evening
will be addressed by Robert
Lurie, as well as leading govern-
mental and Bnai Brith digni-
taries. The speakers' program will
be interspersed with solos by
prominent vocal artists. At the
conclusion of the banquet pro-
gram there will be dancing to
Dave Diamond's orchestra.
Drive Successful
Pisgah Lodge, oldest and larg-
est Jewish organization in De-
troit, is now engaged in an ex-
tensive membership drive in hon-
o• of its 85th anniversary. Isador
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Starr. chairman of the member-
ship drive committee, is gratified
with the returns to date. A large
class of new members will be
initiated on Sunday afternoon,
Nov. 22. Any male Jew 21 years
of age of good moral character
is eligible for membership in
Bnai Brith. If you are not ant-
proach•d to join during this drive.
Mr. Starr states that you can
secure an application blank by
calling the secretary's office.
Cherry 3372. Members who are
called into the armed forces will
have their du 3s waived for the
duration,which has been the
policy of PIigah Lodge since
Pearl Harbor and will also apply
to members who join at this
time.
Rudolph M yyersohn, president
of the lodge, urges members and
Recently two Portuguese vessels readied Baltimore with 452 refugees from war-ridden Europe,
bringing to a total of 7,3(10 the number of victims of Hitlerism evacuated since Pearl Harbor to
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with funds raised by the United Jewish Appeal. The J.D.C., which buys up space on Portugues e
ships for refugee transportation, is continuing to arrange railings for refugees front Lisbon. The
resources for this and other phases of its rescue program are provided through the nation-wide
campaign of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine, in which the
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ROBERT LURIE
friends to make their reservations
early for the banquet. As on past
occasions, events of this charac-
ter sponsored by the lodge have
drawn capacity attendance. Res-
ervations for the banquet and
dance are now being taken by
Harry Yudkoff, associate general
chairman of the 85th anniversary
committee, at Randolph 8009.
Movie Night at Pisgah
On Monday, Nov. 9
Monday night, Nov. 9, Pisgah
Lodge No. 34, Bnai Brith, will
present a night of movies in the
main auditorium of the Jewish
Community Center at 8:30. The
latest war films and other films
of interest to men will be shown,
according to Max Blumenthal,
chairman of the entertainment
committee. This is another of
Pisgah's 85th anniversary jubilee
programs, and Rudolph Meyer-
sohn, president of the lodge,
states that the ticket of admis-
sion on this night will be to
bring a non-member to the
meeting.
Last Monday night a large
number of applications to mem-
bership in Pisgah Lodge in honor
of its 85th anniversary were
voted upon. Reports of all of the
committees of the 85th anniver-
sary program were heard. Fol-
lowing the business meeting a
scholarly address on "The Post-
War Economic Problems" was
eloquently presented by Jacob
Margolis, publisher-editor of The
Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
On Nov. 16 Pisgah Lodge will
hold its first open meeting of
the season with a past-presidents'
night. This meeting will be ad-
dressed by Dr. Leo M. Franklin,
rabbi-emeritus of Temple Beth
El and honorary past president
of Pisgah Lodge. A delightful
musical program and other in-
novations will round out the eve-
ning's program.
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YOU SHOULD KNOW
World War to be raised from a
Irving Berlin says that he will private's rank to an honorary
not regard the tour of "This Is lieutenancy?
the Army" complete until it plays
Das Grosse Schauspielhaus in Ber-
lin . . . And in Berlin, says Ber-
lin, he wants to be billed as Israel
Berlin.
Arrangements have been com-
pleted for the transportation of
the first thousand Jewish chil-
dren from France to the United
States . . . They will travel on a
Portuguese ship, under the aus-
pices of the Quakers of America
. . . A group of nurses and doc-
tors has already left this coun-
try for Portugal to supervise the
crossing and to take care of the
refugee youngsters.
Did you notice that during the
debate on the teen-age draft Sen-
ator Bilbo of Mississippi recalled
that "the first conscript army in
recorded history will be found in
the Fourth Book of Moses," and
pointed out that the lower age
limit in that draft was 20.
Professor Albert Einstein will
deliver an important address over
a national and international radio
hook-up in the near future.
There is one clipping in Ed
Sullivan's scrap-book which the
Irish columnist cherishes particu-
larly . . . It is a story in a He-
brew paper about his participa-
tion in a Jewish benefit perform-
ance.
JEWISH NEWS
Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Dr.
Nahum Goldman are now in Mex-
ico in the interests of the World
Jewish Congress . . . Dr. Wise
will also address some general
meetings to be held in behalf of
the American war effort.
Too bad that Mrs. Wise was
forced by illness to cancel her
trip.
Don't be surprised if Alfred
A. Strelsin, chairman of the Ex-
ecutive of the Committee for a
Jewish Army, should be drafted
for an important defense job.
Meyer Grossman, who is now
the news editor of The Day, has
resigned from the Committee for
a Jewish Army . . . He rendered
this cause come very important
services during his tenure of of-
fice as vice-chairman of the Com-
mittee..
Yehudith
Simchonith,
that
charming labor leader from Tel
Aviv, Palestine, is flying back to
Eretz Israel after a year of de-
voted service to the Pioneer Wo-
men's Organization of America.
. . . She says she belongs on the
battlefront. . . .
LITERARY SIDELIGHTS
Did you know that Vladmir Jo-
botinsky, the late Revisionist lead-
er, whose book "The War and the
Jew" is about to be published
here, was the only foreigner in
the British Army in the first
We've lust learned that the
mother of Anna H. Rosenberg.
New York regional directorof
the War Manpower Commission,
is, a writer well-known for her
juvenile fiction . .. Her name is
Charlotte Lederer.
Shalom Asch, the great novelist,
has joined the sponsorship of the
Jewish Army under the auspices
of the Committee for a Jewish
Army . .. If the wishes of Mrs.
Rose Gershwin, mother of George
Gershwin, are followed, the role
of the late composer in the forth-
coming biographical film about
him will be played by Clifford
Odets. who has written the scen-
ario for the picture . . . Not that
the prospect is too alarming, since
Odets did. after all, start out as
a Group Theatre actor.
We hone your city will have the
opportunity to see, this winter,
the Yiddish play "Nations in
Flames," in which dramatist Ossip
Dymow presents a Zionist theme
in his usual fascinating way . . .
The play has its premiere at
Newark a couple of weeks ago,
and arrangements are being made
to show it throughout the coun-
try.
THE ARTS
To vour list of men in uniform
odd the name of Elias Newman,
the painter particularly known
for his Palestine landscapes, and
for his book on "Art in Palestine"
. . . Who do you suppose was
playing the clarinet in the Tos-
canini-conducted National Broad-
casting Company Symphony Or-
chestra's presentation of George
Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"
last week? . . . Why, none other
than our old friend Benny Good-
man, also known as the king of
swing.
Luther Adler and his missus,
Sylvia Sidney, are expected back
on Boardway this season in a play
which they will direct and appear
in together.
Thanksgiving Day will he a big
day in Ted (High-lint) Lewis'
life, for it will mark his thirty-
fifth anniversary in show busi-
ness . . . Producer Oscar ("Life
with Father") Serlin will be in
the army before the month is
out . . . And bandleader Abe Ly-
man hones to be wearing a ma-
jor's uniform soon.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Bernard M. Baruch, Washing-
ton whispers, is in line for the
chairmanship of a new central
war board, the function of which
will be to coordinate all phases of
our war effort except the purely
military and naval.
Col. Hebert H. Lehman, who
in the meanwhile still is Governor
of New York, will most probably
be advanced to the rank of Ma-
jor General when his term ex-
pires . . . When he leaves Al-
bany he will be drafted for a
post in the Service of Supply.
The prediction is that Sidney
Hillman, the labor leader, who
has been quite ill, but is now
fully recovered, will return to
Washington as head adviser on
labor problems . . . Congratula-
tions to New York's New School
for Social Research on the acqui-
sition of Dr. Abrahm S. Yehuda,
who is probably the outstanding
Orientalist in the world, as its
Professor of Middle Eastern and
Near Eastern Civilization.
Morris Margulies, former sec-
retary of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America, is going to di-
rect the fund-raising campaign
for the United War Relief of the
American Jewish Congress.
More people should follow the
example of composer Jerome Kern,
who has arranged With a dealer
for the delivery of a hundred
phonograph records to some Army,
Navy or Marine post each week.
THE CLASS STRUGGLE
The story is told of a meeting
between Mme. Maxim Litvinoff,
wife of the Soviet Ambassador to
Washington, and a British peer-
ess . . . Herself English-born,
Mme. Litvinoff mentioned this cir-
cumstance to the noble lady, Ado
immediately, as women always do,
began to wonder whether they
might have any mutual acquaint-
ances ... "Do you know Countess
So-and-So?" inquired the peeress.
And Mme. Litvinoff replied that
she (lid not . . . "But surely you
know the Duchess of Thus-and-
Thus?" continued the other . .
Again Mme. Litvinoff acknowl-
edged that she had never met the
woman. . . Finally the peeress
commented that it was strange
that the Ambassador's lady knew
none of the fashionable women of
her own native land . . . And
Mme. Litvinoff who had grown
up in the literary circles of Lon-
don, explained: "You see, I had
to marry a Soviet Commisa to
get the opportunity to mingle p i ith
the British aristocracy."
Bnai David Sisterhood
The Bnai David Sisterhood held
an open meeting, Monday, Nov. 2,
at which time Mr. Ravitz gave
a very interesting talk on the War
Chest. It was decided that all
proceeds from the annual keno
feather party which will take
place Monday evening, Nov. 9,
will go towards the sisterhood's
pledge to the War Chest. It was
reported that plenty of fowl will
be on hand for the lucky; also
many door prizes.
The Sisterhood is contributing
jars and tubes of shaving cream
for the service men's kits. Nov.
23 will be Sisterhood night at the
U.S.O. in the Hammond Bldg..,
The seventh annual donor will
be held Tuesday, Nov. 17 at the
Jericho Temple, Joy Road, at
12:30.