America 'apish Periodical Cotter

April 9, 1943

SEGAL

Rabbi Adler Addresses
Philomathic Club

Detroit Women's League
To Honor Mothers and
Daughters May 5

Telling how he, a Protestant
minister, and a Catholic profes-
sor had traveled to Camp Stod-
den, Georgia, to speak before the
soldiers there on the elimination
of prejudice, Rabbi Morris Adler
addressed a meeting of the Philo-
=title Debating Club at Shaarey
Zedek last Sunday.
"Un-American prejudice is aid
to the enemy," declared Rabbi
Adler, "and that's what we told
the soldiers. Moreover, the very
presence of representatives of the
Catholic, Protestant and Jewish
faiths on one platform was elo-
quent testimony to the soldiers
of the steps already taken toward
inter-faith harmony. In address-
ing these soldiers, as many as
4,000 at a time, we reached
many different elements—includ-
ing men who ordinarily would
not be interested in 'tolerance'
speeches."
As to the morale of the men
whom he had seen and spoken to,
Rabbi Adler stated that he was
very favorably impressed by their
enthusiasm and vigor. But he
added that their enthusiasm was
of a mature and intelligent kind
— not boisterous. Generally
speaking, he asserted that this
was a very youthful army—that
the boys looked not 18 and 19,
but 15 and 16.
"This trip has made me even
more intensely patriotic," con-
cluded Rabbi Adler. "I have re-
alized that we must make far
greater sacrifices than now to
win the war speedily!"
During the business meeting of
the program a topic for the
Model Meeting was chosen: "Re-
solved that India should have her
independence immediately."

The Detroit Women's League
announces the first annual mothers
and daughters dinner to be held
at Lachar's on Twelfth St., Wed-
nesday, ROSH CHODESH IYAR,
May 5, at 6:30 p. m. Mrs. Josejh
Temchin is in charge.
With Mrs. Moses L. Weiser as
chairman of the membership com-
mittee, the organization is ex-
panding its activities to interest
a larger circle of young women.
Among the new projects planned
are open meetings once a month,
study periods in Jewish religious
practices, history and literature,
and a city-wide annual fund-rais-
ing affair to be held each year
during the Spring.

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with God.. ble--put on no sanc-
timonious air of piety in saying
this; but if you asked him he
said that was his idea of God.
My memory tried hard enough
to dig up some fragment of Jew-
ish kudos that he might have
once attained and that would
burnish up his obituary. He had
never lent his name to a com-
mittee. I had never seen his
name or picture in the papers in
connection with any matter hav-
ing to do with any of those af-
fairs called Jewish activities.
It seemed the man, as a Jew,
had devoted himself exclusively
to being a good man and had
found satisfactory fulfillment in
that.

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wrapped himself up in'his pri-
vate virtue and thought of walk-
ing with God as a speciial priv-
ilege of his own. Living the good
life was more than a self-serv-
ice with him. It included com-
passion for all mankind in all
its varieties. It embraced the Ne-
gro servant who worked in his
house and whom he paid well
and dealt with justice. I recall-
ed that during the depression
when he was trimming expenses
he couldn't fire the woman be-
cause, he said, she needed the
money more than he did.
His way of life had to do with
fair treatment of the men who
worked for hiM in his small
shop and who thought of him
more as a friend than employer.
(The time he invited the union
into his shop lie said that if
there was a union his-men would-
be as strong as he when is came
to dealing with him. He wanted
it that way.)
Well, that's the way is was
with him. If the rabbi wanted
a catalogue of organized Jewish
activities there was nothing in
this man. He did give his money
generously, beyond hsi means
even, and very quietly. I
couldn't say that being Jewish
was a separate and exclusive
identity. He said it takes all
kinds of people to make the
brotherhood and the Jew was
just one of the kinds.
What can be done with a quiet
man like him at his funeral? He
was just one of the kind that
doesn't make an obituary dazzl-
ing with the titles of organiza-
tions and committees. A dead
man for whom there was not
even one group of honorary pall-
bearers representing Jewish or-
ganizations. He was carried off
by his friends. A dead man
whose total Jewish learning con-
sisted only of the Ten Com-
mandments and the words from
the prophet Micah.
The quiet man simply had
lived a very decent life. Now
that I have had time to reflect
on his way I think it was Jew-
ish enough—the whole sum of
being Jewish.

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Louis Marshall Auxiliary
To Hold Open Meeting.

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The Women's Auxiliary of the
B'nai B'rith Louis Marshall Lodge
will hold an open meeting on
Tuesday, April 13, at the Rose
Sittig Cohen Center, Tyler at
Lawton. After the regular meet-
ing, during which committees will
report on the various activities
of the auxiliary, there • will be
games and refreshments. Mem-
bers are urged to attend and
bring their friends who will be
given an opportunity to acquaint
themselves with B'nai B'rith work
and to affiliate themselves with
the Louis Marshall Auxiliary.
Mrs. Florence Adler, member-
ship chairman, announces that
this meeting will close the cur-
rent membership drive which has
more than doubled the club's rolls.

Major Morton Hack
Celebration Chairman

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Major Morton Hack is over-all
chairman of the Michigan Night
celebration to be held by Air
Corps men of Sheppard Field and
their wives at the Lamar St. U.
S. 0. in Wichita Falls, Texas, on
May 1.
Other committee members from
Detroit include First Lt. and
Mrs. Harold Ginsburg, Sgt. Dave
Stouffer, Pvt. and Mrs. Julius
Friedman, Staff Sgt. Sam Schiff
and Sgt. Rolfe Weil.

East Side Bnai Brith
In Blood Donor Drive

The next meeting of the East
Side B'nai B'rith Lodge No. 1465
will be held at the new meeting
hall, Pillar Temple, 14529 Ker-
cheval, on Monday, April 12, at
9 p. in. -
The coming B'nai B'rith Red
Cross Blood Donor Drive sched-
uled for May will be the main
topic of the evening. Five Hun-
dred or more members of the
lodges and auxiliaries are being
signed up to donate blood (luring
this special week. All members
unable to attend this meeting are
requested to call Pres. R. A.
Coggan at Le. 0818 and register
for the drive.
At the last meeting the Ladies
Auxiliary and Men's Lodge saw
the special motion picture, "The
World We Hope to Live In."
presented by The Round Table
of Catholics, Protestants and
Jews. Lou Schostak made a spe-
cial appeal for funds to help pay
up the mortgage on the Hillel
House in Ann Arbor.
The executive committee and
lodge passed a resolution thank-
ing The Jewish Chronicle for the
superb support given the B'nai
B'rith Million Dollar Drive com-
pleted recently.

Katz Elected President
National Association
Of Temple Secretaries

Irving I. Katz, executive sec-
retary of Temple Beth El, was
re-elected president of the Na-
tional Association of Temple
Secretaries at the Second Bien-
nial Convention in New York
last week. He was also honored
at the Convention of the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions by appointment as a mem-
ber of the Commission on Syna-
gogue Activities of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations.

J. N. F. Auxiliary
Entertain at U. S. 0.

The Ladies Auxiliary of Jewish
National Fund were hostesses to
U. S. 0. on Monday, April 5, at
U. S. 0. headquarters, Lafayette
Blvd. Mrs. Harry Schwartz, U.
S. 0. chairman; Mrs. John Hay-
man and Mrs. Morris Feldstein,
co-chairmen, were assisted by
Mesdames Hyman Bookstein, Wm.
Klafer, Jules Kraft, S. Harrison,
B. Harrison, A. Potaker, Moritz
Schubiner, Harry Schumer, Ben
Schwartz, Philip Slomovitz and
Mrs. M. Weisberg. Approxi-
mately 1,000 sandwiches and hot
dogs were served.

Synagogue Conference
Urges Congregations
To Join Mizrachi

At a meeting of the board of
the Michigan Synagogue Confer-
ence held Saturday evening, April
3, a resolution was adopted urg-
ing all affiliated congregations to
call special meetings for the
purpose of enrolling their mem-
berships in Religious Zionist
ranks. It was further passed
that in all member synagogues
either the first or second day of
Passover shall be devoted to ex-
plain to the congregants the urg-
ency of immediate active partici-
pation in the cause of Zion.
The local Mizrachi organization
is calling a series of parlor
meetings to act • upon a number
of important matters adopted at
the recent national convention
held in New York, ,' At the last
such meeting held i., the form
of a dinner at Lachar's on 12th
St. on March 31st, a substantial
sum was raised tbward the fund
for re-habilitating refugee chil-
dren in Palestine. Plans will, also
be formulated at these meetings
for the mass enrollment of local
synagogues into Mizrachi.
Irving Schlussel, president of
the Detroit Mizrachi. stated:
"Every Jew, who is affiliated with
a synagogue, dare not at the pres-
ent moment be satisfied by merely
Professing his love for Zion in his
daily prayers, but must join the
active ranks in order to show
our solidarity and strength. The
aim of Mizrachi is to build Eretz
Israel according to the Torah of
Israel and every Traditional Jew
should help us in this task. By
mass enrollment within our ranks
we will give courage and strength
to our leaders to carry on the
difficult task confronting them at
present, and to speak with greater
authority at the peace co Terence
in behalf of Eretz I c 1 for our
peeople, when victo y shall be
won by the United ations."

BUY WAR BONDS!

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SYRICI,LY

Young Israel Scout
Program Under Way

After several preliminary con-
ferences with parents, arranged
by the Detroit Area Council, the
Young Israel Boy Scout Troop
at Yeshivath Beth Yehudah has
begun its functions with Mr.
Cohen as scout master. Dr. Hugo
Mandelbaum, chairman of the
junior intermediate committee,
and Rabbi M. J. Wohlgelernter
are members of the committee in
charge.
While the troop will follow the
general pattern of the Scout
Movement, the committee plans
for the inclusion of distinctly
religious elements in the pro-
gram, which will be launched in
the Spring. Such occasions as
Lag B'Omer and Succoth, for
example, will be utilized for qut-
door and manual projects, in
conformity both with Jewish
tradition and scouting ideals.

PONTIAC NOTES

The Sisterhood of Temple Beth
Jacob held its April meeting Mon-
day evening at the Temple. With
Mrs. Harold Goldberg conducting
the business session, Mrs. Jack
Wainger gave a review of the
book, "The Man Who Stayed in
Texas," by Ann Nathan and
Harry I. Cohen. The annual
luncheon will be held the last
Friday in May at the Temple
with Mrs. Sam Benson as general
chairman. A mother's and daugh-
ter's luncheon will also be spon-
sored by the group.

Mrs. Norman Buckner opened
her home Saturday afternoon on
Ottawa Drive for an Oneg Shabot.
Mrs. Rudolph Hartman presented
the afternoon's program and Mrs.
Hyman Y. Levinson served as
chairman of the tea which fol-
lowed.

In the absence of Rabbi Fried-
land, the regular Friday evening
service was conducted by Mr.
Harry Abel and the sermon, "Men
and Machines," was given by Mr.
Julian Levine.

Rabbi Friedland has spent the
the last week in New York.

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