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With the announcement that
Robert Lurie, national director
of linai Brith war activities, will
be the principal speaker at the
$5111 anniversary of Pisgah
Lodge banquet on Nov. 22, a
portion of the chapter service—
Boa i Brith in Washington, which
will be published in a book,
"This Is Bnai Brith," is being
released at this time.
national defense re-
When
quired the enactment of Amer-
ica's first peace-time conscrip-
tion act, President Monsky pro-
•laimed Bind Brith's official po-
sit ion in a statement in which
he said :
"America must build its mili-
tary defenses strong :end uncon-
querable, free from partisanship
;u,d personal considerations, so
to discourage any hope on
part of the dictatorships that
t, is, the greatest democracy of
all. may he vulnerable. Our
elected leaders must be given
assurance that back of them
stands a united people of free
own and women, who are de-
te
to remain free and %rho
c ount no sacrifice too dear and
to service tun great to preserve
the American way.
"The road to peace lies in
strengthening our defense's. The
security of the nation is para-
mount and supreme responsibil-
ity that rests equally upon all
who are privileged to call them-
selves Americans. Some Of us
will be called upon to protect
that security in the armed forces
of our nation. Others will be
asked to give of their technical
and professional talents. Still
others will be looked to give
of their material resources. Bat
in whatever way WC may be able
to serve, serve we must. Service
to the country in this hour is all
unprecedented
opportunity for
patriotism in action."
This utterance was followed
by an announcement that dues
were being waived for all Bnai
Brith members in the armed
service of the United States.
Bnai Brith's Vocational Guidance
Service Bureau \vas the onl
Jewish agency represented •et o
Iii ion al conference on defense
and jobs held in Washington un
der the auspices of the United
States Office of E, lucat ion and
the National Vocational Guil -
ance Associat ion On Nov. 18.
1940.
Official recognition from the
White House was once again ac-
corded Bind Brith when Presi-
dent Roosevelt appointed Bnai
Brith President Henry M onsky
to the National Participation
Committee of the Office of Civ-
ilian Defense. Other national ex-

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

(Editor's Note—This is the fifth
in a series of articles sum-
ma•izing the place of Bnai
Brith in Jewish life, as a
solute to the 85th anniversary
o f Pi sga h Lod ge No. 31 Bnai
Brith to be celebrated Stur-
dily, Nov. 22 at the Stotler

:co tives were recognized and
served on national defense com-
missions.
limn Brith's service's in the
national defense program cre-
ated a valuable machinery which
was quickly converted for all-
out war effort immediately after
Pearl Harbor. The dedication f
every ounce of Bnui Brith en-
ergy a nd strength was made by
President :11 onsky when he said
on Dec. 9, 1941:
"As president of the Suprenu
Lodge of Bran Brith and on be-
half of its vast membership, men
and women, living in every sec-
t ion of the country, permit no.
to say that in this hour of na-
tional peril we stand ready for
any and all sacrifices of blood,
treasu•e, talent and toil in de-
fense of our country. We pledge
you and the government of
I'u iteiI States all our re so u rc• .s
a nd ail our organizational faciii-
t ies and machinery.
Our entire membership, as
well as the ninny thousands of
our youth organized in the linai
Britt) Aleph Zadik Aleph and the
Bnai Brit im Billet Foundations,
many of whom are already in
the armed services M. otherwise
engaged in defense activities,
recognize it as their sacred privi •
lege to perform every duty and
to make every sacrifice that may
be required in the common
struggle against the enemies of
freedom."
Almost immediately thereafter,
upon the announcement of the
Red Cross $50,000,000 war re-
lief campaign, President 'Monsky
pledged $50,000 from the Bnai
Brith units which \vas over-sub-
scribed by April 1, 1942. This
act made Bnai Brith the first or-
ganization to contribute to the
ca mpaign. Norman H. Davis,
chairman of the American Red
Cross said in part in a state-
ment, "Again Bnai Brith is
among the very first to rally to
an appeal of the American Red
Cross."
With the necessity for identi-
fication of the individual in the
organized giving of service, and
with the need for fulfilling that
pledge enunciated by President
Monsky, a War Service Depart-
ment of Bnai Brith was estab-
lished. A special War Service

Fund equal to $1 for each mem-
ber in each of the District Grand
Lodges and Women's District
Grand Lodges was created, in or-
der to make available sufficient
funds to carry on effectively this
vital service.
A complete seven point pro-
gram of operation was mapped
out, consisting of : contributions
to the American Red Cross; the
111-Caffill And Hospital program ;
special activities in behalf of the
med forces; War relief ; special
projects, including civilian de-
fense, youth training and hos-
pitality programs ; war efforts of
Bnai Britt in aid of the armed
forces of United Nations ; ro-
se. arch : collection of war service
data and coordination of :II-
f ()lima ion.
In accordance with its policy
4 cooperation with but not en-
croaching upon the work of exist-
ing agencies specially created
for services in the field of in o-
ale work, Bnai Brith has con-
tinuously cooperated with the
US() and with the Jewish Wel-
fare Board's Army and Nav e'
committee, on which Preside'. t
Monsky serves as Boni Brith's
official representative.
To meet the spiritual need:
of Jewish men in the armcd
services, the Bnai Brith \V ag
Service. Committee completed an
a! rangement With Rabbi Dr. D.!-
vid deSola Pool, chairman of
time Committee on Religious A 0-
t ivities of the Jewish Welfare
Board. by a•hich Bnai B rith ar-
ranged, through its constituent
It•dges, to supply Si fre Torah for
a rmy chapels. To date, 137 Sif.1
Torah have been secured.
Through the efforts of Con-
gressman Samuel A. Weiss of
the War Service Comm itte-,
hundreds of miniature football
games were distributed to Army
and Navy camps.
In accordance with the com-
mitment of the Supreme Lodge,
and in response to urgent ap-
peals received from war-torn
areas, Bnai Brith has responded
promptly and generously to all
recognized and worthy war relief
funds.
On January 26, 1942, still a o
oth e r and highly important plan
of cooperation was consummated
between the American Red Cross
and the then newly created Bnai
Brith War Service. Department,
which provided for Bnai Brith
assistance in rendering service
and supplying equipment and
needs for hospitalized and able-
bodies service men within army
camps. This plan gave Bred
Brith the status of being the
only Jewish organization privi-

Marshall Lodge and Aux..
To Hear Rabbi Leon Frain

Kozenn and Chajes
On Hillel Program

Marguerite Kozenn, dramatic
dramatic soprano and Julius
Chajes, composer pianist have
been invited to appear for the
Bnai Brith HMO Extension at
the Michigan State College in
Lansing on Sunday, Nov. 15.
The concert will be devoted to
traditional, ChassAic and Pales-
tinian music. The following Jew-
ish composers a re listed on the
program : Jacob Weinberg, Leo
Low, A. \V. Binder, Lazar Wein-
er; .1 Halvey, Julius Chajes,
Verdina Shlonsky. Rabbi Morton
Applebaum is in charge of the
program.

leged to supply such service in-
side army camps. This is in addi-
tion to the Home Service pro-
gram of cooperation with the
American Red Cross : (1 ) plan-
ning and providing helpful advice.
on welfare matters for families
of men in service ; ( 2) assisting
it locating service men or fam-
ilies of service. Wren; (3 ) helping
it obtaining employment for
members of families of men in
service ; (4 ) aiding families of
men in service to solve business
problems; 5) furnishing partic-
ulars of the government's de-
fense . program to families of men
in service and assisting them in
obtaining benefits and legal rights
to which they are entitled under
the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civm1
Relief Ace: ( 6) heliiing men
discharged front the. service to
re-establish themselves in civl
life.
Just as we go to press, paral-
leling. its In-Camp program of
furnishing company day rooms
at Army posts throughout the
country, Bnai Stith has added
another major national war serv-
ice project, the "Adopt a Ship"
Man through which lodges and
auxiliaries will be given an op-
portunity of "adopting" ships of
the U. S. Navy by providing
their officers and crew with such
items of comfort, entertainment
and recreation as are not •l-
ready specifically furnished by
the Navy itself, thereby making
a vital contribution to their mor-
ale at sea and on shore.
Another news bulletin 'states
the Treasury Department hails
Bnai Brith's great War Bond
record as sales pass the $19,000,-
000 mark. An official Treasury
Department certificate "for dis-
lint • 'oished services" was pre-
sented to Mr. Monsky, president
of Bnai Brit h. Bond and stamps
are sold by ail Bnai Brith lodges
;Ind they arc on sale at every
meeting of Pisgah Lodge..

Following their usual custom
of separate business meetings and
joint social and cultural gather-
ings, the Bind Brith Louis Mar-
shall Lodge and the Women's Aux-
ilia•y will meet on Tuesday, Nov.
17, 8:30 p. m., at the Rose Sittig
Memorial Center, Lawton, at
Tyler rive.
Upon conclusion of their in-
dividual meetings, the two groups
will join to hear an address by
Rabbi Leon Franc.

Rabbi Adler To Open
Series, "Crucial Places
Of Our Day," Nov. 20

Rabbi Morris Adler will inau-
gurate a series of lectures on
"Crucial Places of Our Day" at
the late Friday evening, services,
Nov. 20, at 8:15 o'clock, at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
This series will discuss the
unique place in the war, and in
the peace to follow the war, pos-
sessed by several key places on
the globe, which have been
highlighted into a new promi-
nence in our time. The first lec-
ture ins'
series will deal with
China. In other addresses, India,
ussia and Palestine will be dis-
cussed. These places represent
not only significant battlefronts
in the present conflict but are
also symbolic of trends and prin-
ciples with which any attem'ted
reconstruction of society will
have to reckon. Cantor Jacob
Sonenklar, assisted by a choir
of male voices, will officiate at
the. service.

J. N. F. Tag Day To
Be Held Nov. 28-29

On Nov. 28-29 the Jewish Na-
tional Fund tag day will take
place throughout the country.
In Detroit the J. N. F. Youth
Committee under the sponsorship
of the Zionist Youth Council and
the Jewish National Fund council
of Detroit, are planning for a
very successful tag day.
At a meeting of this commit-
tee held at the home of William
Hordes, president of the J. N.
F. council plans were formed.
All Zionist Youth are invited
to a Mass Rally at tht Rose Sit-
tig Cohen Center, Tuesday, Nov.
25, at 8:30. A very interesting
program is planned depicting epi-
sodes in J. N. F. history. Final
plans for the tag day will be
made.
Chairman for the tag day will
be Thelma Jaflin and assisting co-
chairmen are Joseph Rosenburg
and Sora Levine.

Fall Convention of Michigan Synagogue
Conference Held at Yeshivah Sunday, Nov. 8

The fall convention of the
Michigan Synagogue Conference
took place last Sunday, Nov. 8.
at Yeshivah Beth Y ehu doh,
Cortland and Dexter, and was
attended by delegates of 20 De-
troit synagogues and representa-
tives of outstate congregations.
Th e convention was preced-d
by a meeting of the board of
directors of the Vaad Ila-Yeshi-
vath. The meeting heard a re-
port of the activities for the
last three months during Which
th e regulated collections amount-
ed to a total of $12,125.87, of
which $6,556.56 went to Pales-
tine institutions (one-third to
yeshivahs, one-third to religious,
labor, and one-third to chari-
table institutions) ; $2,310.01 to
American institutions, and $3.-
59.30 to the Vaad Hat zala
I Emergency Committee for 'War
Stranded in Siberia ). The board
of directors added to the execu-
committee the following
hulls: Mr. Dubrinsky. Mr. I..
Soiai, president Congregation
ogen Abraham, William Sa ntl-
ler. president Congregation Beth
Tefilo Emanuel.

Mr. Mohr of Congregation
.
Beth
Abraham, president of the
NI higan Synagogue Conference.
w•eomed the delegates and
guests and called upon Rabbi
Moses Fischer, as the representa-
ive of the Vaad Horabonim. to
(Jett the convention. The guest
sneaker was Rabbi S. P. Wohl-
12.4 , 1 (Toter of Seattle, Wash., who
eloquently analyzed the pressing
Problems of the Jewish commu-
nity in war time, and who pre-
sented a challenge to synagogues
in Michigan to cooperate with
the Michigan Synagogue Confer-
(Tee towards the solution of the
Mengency problems which con-
front us.

The business session of the
convention discussed the reports
and recommendations of the fol

lowing standing committees.:
Vaad Ha-Yeshivoth, Rabbi L.
Levin, as chairman of the Vaad
Ila-Yeshivat hs, gave a brief re-
view of t h e activities and ac-
complishments of his committee,
introducing Rabbi M. Levi, time
new executive director, to read
1 more detailed report.
Rabbi Wohlgelernter, chairman
of the religious mumd educatiowd
committee, reported on activitie
of the Sabbath League, on defer-
ment of induction of Jewish
boys during the Rosh Hashonah
and Yom Kippur season, on ef-
forts for accommodation of war
workers on High Holy Days ; .mn
the need for participation of
laymen of all constituent syna-
gogues in the distribution of
religious material provided by the
Jewish Welfare Board to Jewish
inductees. A significant recom-
mendation was Made to the con-
vention to establish a regional
rabbinate in the Upper Penin-
sula. The delegates accepted the
plan most enthusiastically, hop-
ing that it will lead to a greater
appreciation of traditions and
Jewish observances in the smaller
communities in our state.
The committee on finance and
budget reported on the need of
raising funds to maintain the
conference program and in order
to extend activities. .Joe Block,
president of Congregation Bnai
David, was appointed to head a
special committee with J. Shevitz,
vice president of Beth Tefilo
Emanuel. and Daniel Team chin of
Congregation Bnai Jacob, for this
purpose.
Rabbi Meir Levi. executive di-
rector of the Michigan Syna-
gogue Conference appealed to all
delegates to support the confer-
ence and cooperate with the pro-
gram of activities as it will he
presented during' the ensuing
season. Rabbi Joshua Sperka
served as secretary of the con-
vention.

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