CTORY 27th Year of Service to State and Country BUY /TAM MAN 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 OFFICERS EXECUTIVE BOARD "to the Jews of Palestine facing ELLIS H wARREN JOSEPH BLOCK the gravest danger in their his- .BEE OD, JOSEPH BURRY tory and fighting hard to main- LAWRENCE COVITZ LOMB A WEIRS( ARTHUR W DUBOIS tain morale and hope in the teeth DR A EISEMAN .'CE RAMPANT DAVID W GOLDFARB of the totalitarian menace" anti- HYMAN GREENBERG GEORGE OLDS Zionist agitation comes as a TAt•Su•L. DR I H GUTOW Rabbi Berger Sags The Chronicle Is a Fair- Minded, Non - Partisan Jewish Newspaper Xemple T13 etb CI Oft 5 MIA , SICAITAAN 70' ft M CO. onpr, SECOND STREETS FLINT MICHIGAN R ADD! ELmER VERGER LOUIS LAZARUS HOWARD IA LOEB OR MAURICE TAYLOR myRON WINEGARDEN MORRIS ZWERDLING MAWS CLUB fti•AISINTATIv5 MRS ARTHUR W DUBOIS MRS HOWARD M LOEB , IHATERpoop PPPPPPP N ,AY , Y• 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