CTORY
27th Year of Service to State and Country
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VOL. 44, No. 47
Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1942
85th Anniversary of Pisgah Lodge
Bnai Brith to Be Observed Nov. 22
Rabbi Jerome Folkman To Address Initiation;
Robert Lurie Principal Speaker at Banquet
This Sunday, Nov. 22, Pisgah
Lodge No. 34, Bnai Brith, will
celebrate its 85th anniversary
with an impressive all-day pro-
gram at the Hotel Statler.
The festivities will commence
at 2 p. in. with the registration
of candidates. The public is in-
vited to attend the initiation of
the 85th anniversary class at
2:30 p. m. Initiatory exercises
exemplifying the teachings of
Bnai Brith will be recited by
Pisgah Lodge Degree Team with
the assistance of the Halevy
Singing Society under the direc-
tion of William Gayman.
Following the initiatory cere-
monies, Rabbi Jerome D. Folk-
man, president of District Grand
Lodge No. 6, Bnai Brith, will
deliver the principal address of
the afternoon. Other features of
the afternoon program will be
a response by one of the newly-
initiated members of Pisgah
Lodge 85th Anniversary Class,
presentation of awards to those
who secured the largest number
of new members during the an-
niversary drive by Isadore Starr,
chairman of the 85th anniver-
sary membership drive commit-
tee, and greetings by Rudolph
Meyersohn, president of Pisgah
Lodge.
Invocation by Franklin
The program for the evening
will commence at 6:30 p. tn. The
invocation will be delivered by
Dr. Leo M. Franklin, rabbi emer-
itus of Temple Beth El and
honorary past-president of Pis-
gah Lodge. Aaron Droock, past-
president of Pisgah Lodge and
three years ago president of Dis-
trict Grand Lodge No. 6, Bnai
Brith, will be the toastmaster of
the 85th anniversary banquet.
Felicitations will be extended by
Ben F. Goldman, a past-presi-
dent of Pisgah Lodge and gen-
eral chairman of the 85th anni-
versary committee, and greetings
by Rudolph Meyersohn, president
of Pisgah Lodge.
Robert D. Lurie of Washing-
Mizrachi to Hear
Rabbi Jacob Unger
Saturday, Nov. 21
Midwestern Delegates
To Deliver Report
Crohn Rebukes
A. II. Sulzberger
For Zionist Stand
Points to Palestine
Cultural Achievement
10c Single Copy: $3.00 Per Yea
730 Rabbis, Drawn from All Sections
Of Jewry, Rebuke Zionist Opponents
Envisage Post War Migration from Ravaged
Lawrence W. Crohn, president
And War Torn Europe To Palestine
Zionist District Council of De-
ton, D. C., national director of troit, voiced his disapproval of
NEW YORK (WNS) — More prominent pulpits in various cities
Bnai Brith War Service Activi- the speech of Arthur Hays Sulz- than 730 rabbis, including the including Rabbi Philip S. Bern-
ties, will be the principal speaker berger, publisher of the New York heads of all the national rabbini- stein of Rochester; Barnett R.
Brickner of Cleveland, Mordecai
at the 85th anniversary banquet.
cal associations and drawn from M. Kaplan of New York, Israel
Rabbi Folkman and other Bnai
all sections of religious Jewry in H. Levinthal of Brooklyn, Joshua
Brith dignitaries will also speak
America, this week issued a joint Loth Liebman of Boston, Jacob R.
at the banquet. Rabbi Jehudah
pronouncement rebuking Jewish Marcus of Cincinnati, Abraham
A. Neuman of Philadelphia, Louis
M. Cohen, director of the Uni-
opponents of Zionism as dealing I. Newman of New York, David
versity of Michigan Bnai Brith
a
"cruel
blow"
to
the
Jewish
peo-
de Sola Pool of New York, Abba
Hillel Foundation will deliver the
benediction.
ple. The statement declared that Hillel Silver of Cleveland, Milton
"the defeat of Hitler will not of Steinberg and Stephen S. Wise
The dinner and speakers pro-
itself normalize Jewish life in of New York.
gram will be interspersed with
Europe" and pointed out that af-
The statement refutes the
musical and vocal renditions by
ter the war "Europe will be so
popular local artists, featuring
charge
that Zionism is a secular-
ravaged and war torn that large
Sally Johnson of the Civic Opera
ist movement and asserts that
masses
of
Jews
will
elect
migra-
Company, Tommy Evans, soloist
tion to Palestine as a solution "it has its origin and roots in
with the Detroit Symphony Or-
the authoritative religious texts
of their personal problems."
chestra and Civic Opera Com-
of Judaism" and scores anti-
Prominent
among
the
signator-
pany, as well as violin solos by
ies are Rabbi James G. Heller of Zionism as "a departure from the
Dave Diamond. At the conclusion
Cincinnati, president of the Cen- Jewish religion." It defends the
of the banquet there will be
tral Conference of American Rab- political program of the Zionist
dancing to music by Dave Diam-
bis; Rabbi Louis M. Levitsky of movement as an indispensable
ond and his orchestra.
Newark, president of the Rabbini- means for assuring large scale
Annive, sary Committee
cal Assembly of America; Rabbi Jewish colonization in the Home-
The 85th anniversary is com-
B. D. Levinthal of Philadelphia, land and affirms that "the settle-
member of the praesidium of the ment of a half-million Jews in
prised of the following: Ben F.
Union of Orthodox Rabbis; Rabbi Palestine since the last war was
Goldman, general chairman; Har-
Joseph H. Lookstein of New York, made possible by political action
ry Yudkoff, associate chairman;
president of the Rabbinical Coun- which culminated in the Balfour
Isadore Starr, membership drive
cil of America and Rabbi Israel Declaration and the Palestine
chairman; Herbert Eskin, sou-
Goldstein of New York, president Mandate." It adds "there can be
venir book ad chairman; Robert
of the Synagogue Council of little hope of opening the doors
Wallach, treasurer, souvenir ad-
LAWRENCE W. CROHN
of Palestine for mass Jewish im-
America.
book; Clement Weitzmann, de-
The declaration is a rejoinder migration after the war without
gree team chairman, and Ru- Times, delivered recently, before
to a statement recently made by effective political action."
dolph Meyersohn, publicity chair-
the Brotherhood of the Madison a group of Reform Rabbis regard-
man.
Scouting the idea that the Jews
Annual Temple of Baltimore, Md. ed as unfriendly to the Zionist in Palestine should be prevented
Lurie Main Speaker
Among other things Mr. Crohn cause. The pronouncement of the from ultimately constituting a ma-
Robert Lurie, who will be the said:
733 rabbis was released by a jority of the population, the rab-
group of ministers occupying binical pronouncement declares
See PISGAH—Page V
See CROHN—Page 16
that "those who are opposing the
movement render it a grave dis-
service" and adds "it may well
be that to the degree to which
their efforts are at all effective,
Jews who might otherwise have
found a haven in Palestine will
be denied one." They also state
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"to the Jews of Palestine facing
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the gravest danger in their his-
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tory and fighting hard to main-
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tain morale and hope in the teeth
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of the totalitarian menace" anti-
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Monday, November 10, 1942
Rabbi Jacob Unger, well known
local religious Zionist leader will
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
be the guest speaker at the Mela-
Detroit, Mich.
veh Malkeh sponsored by the De-
troit Mizrachi on Saturday, Nov.
21, 1942 at 8:30 p. m. at the
Gentlemen:
Yeshiveh Beth Yehudah, Dexter
at Cortland.
The Detroit delegates who at-
For a number of reeks I have been following with
tended the Mid-Western Mizrachi
conference at Chicago from Nov.
both interest and appreciation your eminently fair-minded
12 to the 15, will deliver their
and non-partisan reporting of news in the Jewish scene.
reports at the Melaveh Malkeh.
I need not tell you that such an Anglo-Jewish paper is
The Sisterhood of Cong. Beth
a rarity in these days and refreshingly so to those of us
Abraham will prepare and serve
who do not happen to subscribe to what is made to appear,
the refreshments. Louis Solm,
but really is not, a uninimous opinion about certain well-
president of the Congregation, is
known issues in American and world Jewry.
in charge of all arrangements.
The public is invited. There are
no charges or collections.
I should like to make this commendation of your
attitude in a concrete way, always acceptable to newspapers.
Icing Schlussel, president of
the Detroit Mizrachi, announced
You may enter my subscription to The Chronicle and bill
that Daniel Temchin, well known
no for it as of the current issue.
religious Zionist leader, will be
chairman of the 31st anniversary
More than that, I should like to enter a subscription
banquet to be held Sunday, Jan.
for a friend of mine who was as favorably impressed as I
10, 1943 at the Jericho Temple.
by your policy. You may begin sending Mr. George Olds, 1402
Meyer Beckman, former Mizrachi
pre:-ident, has been named co-
Ida St., Flint, your paper and bill him for the subscription
chairman. Aaron Tilchin is the
at that address.
journal chairman, assisted by Isi :
dor Sosnick, prominent Mizrachi
With every good wish for a continuing success, I am,
leader. Lazar Levine, Louis
Dann, Rabbis Isaac Stollman,
Abraham Danzig, Max J. Wohl-
Very siverely,
gelernter, Jacob Fisher, Jacob Un-
ger and Joshua Sperka, Rev.
Jacob Hoberman, Isaac Rosen-
thal, Israel Levenson, Morris
Mohr, Joe Weiss, Dave Goldberg,
Rabbi Elmer Ber
Sol Chinitz, Isaac Gendelman, Sol EB oom
See MIZRACHI—Page 9
See RABBIS—Page 16
Temple Israel Will
Dedicate New Organ
Friday Eve., Nov, 27
Fund Established by
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Raden
Temple Israel will observe
Thanksgiving Sabbath Eve next
Friday night, Nov. 27, at 8:30
p. m., in the Lecture Hall of the
Detroit Institute of Arts.
The religious service will cen-
ter around the dedication of the
new organ, which has just been
purchased for Temple Israel by
the contributors to the Louis
Frankenstein Memorial Organ
Fund.
The new Hammond organ,
which will be built into the fu-
ture structure of Temple Israel,
will meanwhile be used in port-
able form at all of Temple Is-
rael's services of worship, in the
Lecture Hall of the Detroit In-
stitute of Arts.
The organ fund was establish-
ed last September by Mr. and
Mrs. Harry M. Haden. The Sister-
hood of Temple Israel made a
large appropriation towards it,
and so many members of Temple
Israel volunteered to contribute,
that the Fund was quickly corn-
pleted and the organ purchased.
It will be played for the first
time at the Thanksgiving Sab-
bath Eve Service. In honor of
the occasion, Rabbi Leon Fram
will preach what he has announc-
ed as a "Musical Sermon." He
will speak on the subject, "The
Music of Religion," and his ser-
mon will be interspersed with the
rendering of masterpieces of re-
ligious music by Cantor Robert
S. Tulman and by the Organist,
See ISRAEL—Page 16