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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

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anuary I', 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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literary artist will be among the
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objects discussed by the Mothers'
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Clubs during the conning week.
Current events and a considera-
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Calendar of the Week
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Northwest Study Club: Sunday,
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Jan. 9, 7 p. m., "Husbands'
and
Night" at the home of Mrs. 11.
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Young. Women's Study Club:
Cher,
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1:15 p. m.,
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Northwest Branch, Lawton at Ty-

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New Term of First Aid
Begins 2nd Week in Jan.

There will be an open meeting
Tuesday, Jan. 5, at Bind Moshe
Synagogue, at 8:30 p. m. This
A new terin of First Aid and meeting is sponsored by the
other war effort classes, such as Louis Marshall Lodge, Louis
home nutrition, home crafts, etc.,
will be inaugurated at the Jewish
Community Center the second
week in January. Home nursing
classes are scheduled for the
first of February.
Registrations for all these
classes are now being taken at
the Center office.

New Detroiters Group First
Dance of Season Jan. 2

The younger members of the
New De In) l'S' group will bob]
the first dance of the season on
Saturday evening, Jan. 2, at the
Jewish Community Center, Wood•
wi.rd at Holbrook. The affair will
take place in Butzel hall, and
guests are welcome.
Other Activities
Beginning in January, the New
Detroiters will institute a variety
of activities for its members.
Discussion groups, card parties
and sewing groups are scheduled
at the Center under the direction
of Mrs. Alice Schwab.

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Linwood-Dexter Club, Tuesday,
vari- ii Jan. 12, 1:30 p. m., Bnai Moshe
:olax
Synagogue, Dexter at Lawrence.
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Davison-Oakman Club, Tues-
and day, Jan. 12, 8 p. i n., Northwest
Club, Lawton at Tyler.
Parkside Study Club, Wednes-
day, Jan. 13, 1:30 p. m., Midland
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at Parkside.
Woodward Club, Wednesday,
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Jan. 13, 1:30 p. M., Jewish Com.
27 inanity Center, Woodward at
Holbrook.
Twelfth Street Club, Thurs-
r u t's
day, Jan. 14, 8 p. m., Assembly New Term of Dancing
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Classes Begins Jan. 20
Hall, 9125 12th St.
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Special Programs for
Newcomers Arranged

The Jewish Community Center
is the gathering place for new-
comers in the city. Every eve-
, ning one finds ninny out-of-town-
! yrs- in the Center, and special
nual
programs have been arranged for
for
therm.
racial
On Monday nights there is the
trey . out-of-town war workers party,
the . sponsored by the Center hostess
deal
committee.
On Tuesday nights, the newly-
ally
organized war brides group meet
sing
for recreational and community
ngs,
service purposes. All young wom-
tor
en whose husbands are in service
are welcome.
the
Wednesday nights, the Senior
an;
Victory Club is sponsoring out-
wry . of-town young women; games,
ran.
entertainment, refreshments.
is
The Business and Professional
7-
girls meet on Thursday nights.
the
The girls bowl front 5 to 6:15
ack
p. m., have supper in the Adult
Lounge, and a special interesting
speaker and discussion follow.
Members usually attend mixed
at 9 p. m.
Si swimming
Plans are in progress for swim-
ming and bowling parties for out-
of-towners on Sunday afternoons
The athletic activities will be fol-
lowed by a discussion hour and
a musical program.
Miss Matilda Segal, at the
Jewish Community Center, Madi-
son 8400, would be pleased to
have newcomers to Detroit con-
tact her.

Kathryn Garten at
Fisher Town Hall Jan. 6

Kathryn Taney Garten, "first
lady" of book reviewers, will re-
turn to Detroit Town Hall at the
Fisher Theater for her third an-
nual engagement, Wednesday
morning, Jan. 6, at 11 o'clock.
In her talk, "What To Read
and Why?" Mrs. Garten will
discuss some of the headlining
books of the year.
Franklin P. Adams, erudite
star of "Information, Please."
will be the second attraction on
the post-holiday Town Hall se-
ries, appearing at the Fisher
Theater, Wednesday morning,
Jan. 13.

The new term for elemenkry
and advanced classes in rhumba,
fox trot and waltz will begin at
the Jewish Community Center,
Wednesday evening, Jan. 20, with
Jimmy Murphy as instructor.
An outstanding rhumba and
ballroom dancer, Mr. Murphy has
presented exhibition dances and
serves as an instructor at the
Book-Cadilla•. He has also served
as instructor at the Detroit Boat
Club and formerly was on the
staff of the Rodrigues School of
Dancing in New York City.
The social dance terms, at the
Center, are of eight weeks dura-
tion, and the fees are $4 per
term for Center members, and
$6 for non-members.
Registrations are now being
taken for each type of class.

Jewish Youth Wear
Yellow Badges in Protest

The problem of "What can
we do to align ourselves with
our European brethren" has
faced Americaan Jewish youth.
This past week there appeared
among a number of Detroit youth
a badge with the yellow Mogen-
Dovid, a badge similar to that
which Hitler has forced the Jews
of Europe to wear, as a symbol
of shame and degradation.
These groups Of youth are
wearing this yellow badge, not
with shame, but with pride; not
with bent backs, but with heads
up and chins high.
As the Dutch and other free
peoples of Europe took up the
yellow badge as their protest
to the treatment of the Jews, as
a sign of their being anti-Nazi,
anti-Fascistic, and striving for
freedom, so have these youth
taken on the badge as a protest
to Fascism, as a personal at-
tachment to his people, and as a
pledge that he too is striving
for freedom for the world and
for the Jewish people, and he
too is striving for the rebuilding
of Palestine as the Jewish Home-
land for the Jewish people.
Any persons interested in re-
ceiving a badge, or desirous of
obtaining more information, may
call or write Sora Levine, 15039
Wildemere, Un. 3-0713.

ISAAC FRANCK

Marshall Women's Auxiliary, and
the Louis Marshall Business and
Professional Auxiliary. The guest
speaker of the evening will be
Isaac Franck, direccor of the
•ommunity Council.
A musical program has been
arranged and a social hour will
follow.

Jewish Folk Music Is
Halevy Program Theme

As the second in the series of
programs which the newly-formed
Halevy action committee is pre-
senting at the close of each
Tuesday evening rehearsal, the
Halevy chorus heard a talk on
Dec. 22 by Max Levy on Jewish
folk music. Mr. Levy is one of
Detroit's best known vocal in-
structors and is chairman of the
Halevy musical committee; he
has devoted considerable time to
the study of folk tunes and
songs.
Mr. Levy pointed out that
folk songs are defined as those
which seem to spring spontane-
ously from the hearts and lips of
groups of people with similar
feelings and experiences. They
are distinguished from -the for-
mal "art" songs which are writ-
ten by a specific composer to ac-
company a poem or lyrics which
may have been written by some-
one else. Mr. Levy further point-
ed out that many Jewish folk
songs are melodies without word4,
though many have been given
beautiful arrangements by com-
posers who have heard the melo-
dies and have felt that they
should be recorded on paper.
Illustrating Mr. Levy's re-
marks, the Halevy heard several
popular Jewish folk songs sung
by Dorothy O'Koon, soprano, ac-
companied by Bella Goldberg.
Miss O'Koon is also an accom-
plished pianist and occupies the
post of regular Halevy accom-
panist.
The action committee promises
an interesting program every
week, and invites all active and
associate Halevy members, for-
mer members and their friends
to come to the auditorium of
Roosevelt School, Linwood and
Burlingame, each Tuesday at
9 p. m.

B'NAI B'RITH'S

I SECOND

!. CENTURY

!D The National Jewish Monthly, IS'nai R'rith.

"THE SUN ALSO RISES, AND IT GOES DOWN."—Ecclesiastes, 1:5

REFUGEES

The Detroit Unit of Jr. Hadas-
sah will be hostesses at a "Reel
Stuff" party on Tuesday evening,
Jan. 5, at 8 p. in., at the home
of Marion Hoffman, 8812 LaSalle
Blvd.
This party is open to all mem-
bers, who are urged to bring a
prospective member with them.
Movies which will be taken at
this party will be shown at the
general February meeting.
Girls who wish to contact their
group leaders on fund raising,
can do so at this party. Miss
Edith Weiner, Chairman of
Fund Raising Committee, which
is diligently working on the fin-
ishing touches of the Donor
Luncheon to be given Feb. 14,
will report on the progress of
their activities.
Anyone who wishes to work on
fund raising may see Miss Weiner
and her working committee at
the "Reel Stuff" Party on Jan.
5, or may telephone Miss Weiner
at TO. 8-7523 for information.

SEGAL

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they could not be silent. Th..
Christian churches in France
found their soul again in theft
decision to conic to the defense
of the Jews.
The Swi ss Government adopted
a generous attitude toward the
imperiled refugees who fled to its
borders. At the time when I ar-
rived in Geneva refugees Were
pouring in at the rate of about.
200 per day. Probably .1,000 found
asylum in Switzerland, in addi-
tion to the 10,000 refugees who
were already there.
The influx of refugees int•
Switzerland laid a greatly increas-
ed responsibility on the World
Council of Churches, which pro-
vides an international clearing-
house for refugee service—par-
ticularly to those who are Chris-
thins. The American Committee
for Christian Refugees cooperates
with the Swiss and the Swedish
churches in supporting this pro-
gram.
It would be a great mistake to
assume that because southern
France is now occupied, the work
of the agencies serving refugees
in Europe can no longer be car-
ried on. There are still large num-
bers in Spain and Portugal;
doubtless the number has been
'nereased by recent arrivals who
have succeeded in getting out of
France. Moreover, one important
new area of service has now been
opened up—North Africa—where
about 25,000 refugees who had
been doomed to labor under the
Nazis in building the Trans-
Sahara railroad have been lib-
erated. In addition to the Jewish
agencies, the American Friends
Service Committee and the Uni-
tarian Service Committee, which
have been working in Lisbon for
several years, now plan to extend
their beneficent ministry to
North Africa.
As for the refugees who reach
America, the aid given to them
by such agencies as the American
Committee for Christian Refugees
takes on enhanced significance in
the light of the new inferno from
which the refugees have escaped.
Their gratitude to our country is
beautifully expressed in the new
verse which one of them lately
wrote for America:
"From foreign shores to thee;
Champion of liberty,
We found our way.
Though not in flesh born here,
In spirit we adhere
To thee and hold thee dear
Till our last day."
To give assistance to such
refugees as the author of these
lines is a high privilege as well
as a Christian duty.
Our attitude toward the refu-
gees does more than determine
what will happen to thousands
of our fellow men. It is a crucial
test of our very civilization in
at least three important respects:
1. It is a test of our under-
standing of what is morally at
stake in the war. The refugees
are the victims of an anti-Chris-
tian racial philosophy or of out-
spoken opposition to Hitlerism.
To aid the refugees is to aid
those who are the clearest sym-
bols of the moral bankruptcy of
the Nazi regime.
2. Our attitude toward refu-
gees is also a test of our com-
petence to help in building a bet-
ter world-order. All the interna-
tional, political and economic
plans for peace finally stand or
fall on our attitudes toward other
peoples. If we cannot demonstrate
now a just and brotherly treat-

oral of my missionaries would be
from among the Jews. I can think
of a number of great prophetic
spirits of Israel, but I shall not
publicly name these phophets, lest
I cause resentment among other
prophets who are not chosen. (Is-
rael is divided enough already).
Were it not that I might get
myself in bad with Republican
readers, I would also place among
my missionaries Franklin D.
Roosevelt and his luminous vice-
presidential partner, Henry Wal-
lace.
I select the excellent journal-
ist, Mr. Simms, to go with these
missionaries to Germany and to
report to hopeful mankind the
progress of the Germans toward
morality. When they have attain-
ed it they shall be restored to
the flintily of the nations.
(I hope, however, that in the
meantime, the other peoples of
the world will not neglect their
own education •toward establish-
ing at more lovely• world by jus-
tice and compassion, In such a
world there will be no problem
of what to do with the Jews.
The Jews will not be considered
a separate people to he done
with.)

Ezra Women's Division
Pep Rally on Jan. 5

The next luncheon pep rally
will take place at the home of
Mrs. Jennie Weinberg, 3279 Ful-
lerton Ave., on Tuesday, Jan. 5.
All committee chairmen will he
called upon for a report and final
luncheon arrangements will be
decided upon.
All effqi.ts of the Ezra Wo-
men's Division of the Ezra Sis-
terhood are now being concen-
trated on their annual Donor
Luncheon, scheduled for Jan. 19,
at the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue.
The chairman of the arrange-
ments committee reports that an
entertaining- program, including
musical talent is being prepared
for the afternoon. The souvenir
book is going to print shortly,
and all those who expect to at-
tend . the luncheon are therefore
urged to call in their pledges
"oon.
A special committee of the
Ezra Women's Division has been
active on the War Prisoners Aid
Committee, in packing and seal-
ing the boxes of food and cloth-
ing being shipped to Jewish pris-
oners in Germany. The following
have each devoted several hours
to this task: Mesdames S. Wein-
berg, C. Weinberg, Goodman,
Garaek, Sborow and Schultz, and
Messers. J. Mohr and A. Green-
baum.

ment of those who are the most
obvious victims of Nazi injustice
and scorn for human rights, what
right have we to talk in glitter-
ing generalities about building a
new world of democracy and jus-
tice?
3. Our attitude toward refu-
gees is likewise a test of our
Christianity. In so far as the
refugees are Christians we have
a special responsibility for them
as members of the same household
of faith in a fellowship that ad-
mits no racial barrier. In so far
as they are Jews they afford a
unique opportunity to exhibit the
spirit of universal good will which
our Lord enjoined in the parable
of the Good Samaritan, whose
sympathies knew no limitation of
race or creed.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

DUE

Jr. Hadassah To Hold
—BUY WAR BONDS— "Reel Stuff" Party Jan. 5

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Isaac Franck To Be Bnai
Brith Guest Speaker

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