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28t1, Year of Service to Oar State and Nation

VOL. 45, NO. 34

Detroit
Jewish
Chronicle
_____ and The Legal Chronicle

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Noted Jurist Dies at 60

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1943

Bldg. Fund Drive
Of Temple Israel
Now in Full Swing

Large Committee of
Workers Organized

10c Single Copyi $3.00 Per Yea;

Jews in Palestine Angered
By Charges of Disloyalty

•
Ben Gurion Calls Attack of Major
Verdin
On Agency Slanderous and Anti-Semitic

JERUSALEM.—Much criticism from two
The building fund campaign o
Army
Temple Israel, whose launchin g.
f of the British authorities has C. A. Stoned and C.
R. privates
Harris,,
was announced last week, is no arisen in the Jewish community, who were found guilty of illegal
in full
swing. A
large
w especially among those nearest Possession of arms and ammuni-
great
committe
of campaign workers, organize e the Jewish Agency, because of tion and sentenced to 15 years
under the direction of Ellis M d alleged anti-Semitism in the mill- imprisonment.
Thal, is calling upon prospectiv . tary inquiry into gun running in
The soldiers appeared as wit-
contributors. A number of con e which Jews are said to be con- passes for the prosecution, testi-
- nected.
tributors have taken the initia -
Eying that the arms they procured
rye and offered their gifts in ad -
The prosecutor, Maj. J. L. on behalf of an unnamed organi:.
vance of the campaign.
Bexter, assisted by Capt. G. W. zation were delivered to Jewish
A
deal of enthusiasm has Treadwell, in prosecuting two settlements in the vicinity of
been expressed about the leaflet Jewish civilians, Abraham Rach• Haifa.
descriptive of the future Temple elfin and Leib Sirkin, for the
Israel building which has just illegal possession of arms and Reason for Indignation
The principal reason for the
been issued. The following are ammunition submitted evidence indignation
in Jewish circles ap-
the names of the workers who furnished principally by the Pal-
estine
police,
who
had
received
it
pears
to
be
an address made in
have thus far volunteered to do
the campaign work:
the military court Wednesday
•
morning by Maj. R. B. Verdin,
Saul J. Benyas, Edward Bern-
counsel for the soldiers. He spoke
stein, Jacob A. Citrin, Dr. Sam-
of their underprivileged home
uel B. Danto, Maxwell H. Ern-
.
environment, their poor educa-
mer, Alexander Freeman, Morris
tion and lack of knowledge of
Garvett, Fred H. Gottfurcht,
the world and of money, of their
Harry C. Grossman, David J.
clean military records over a
Hubar, Benjamin Jaffe, Jerome
long period and then went on,
Kanter, Nathan Kolb, Maurice H.
as he said, "to show how they
Levin, Reuben Levine, Harry M.
Quarterly
Conference
became entrapped by an organi-
Baden, Edward Rose, Saul H.
zation so powerful and so ruth-
Rose, George M. Stutz, Murray
To
Be
Held
Sept
.
21
J. Sutkin, Ellis M. Thal, Harold
less that once its tentacles had
closed on them there was vir-
Trunsky,Isadore Winkelman, Ar-
Jame s I. Ellmann
no, president of tually no escape."
thur J. ITass, Dr. Julian B. Web- the Jewish Comm
unity Counci l
The part
er, Dr. Randolph Weber, Charles of Detroit, anunces
of the address that
the ap- was said to. have
he given
A. Alloy, Claude S. Grasgreen,
of
chairman
and
co_
offense,
quoted
from
the he most
Charles L. Goldstein, Samuel D.
e official
chairman
of
permanent
commit-
record,
follows:
Jacobs, Philip Brezner, Louis J. teees. They are: Admissions corn-
Goodman, Charles I. Bassey, Ben-
"What does this mean? Does
jamin Jackson, Harry L. Jack- mittee, Benjamin M. Laikin, this mean that now that the war
chairman; Mrs. Leonard H. Wei_ has receded from their frontiers
ner, co-chairman; Arbitration and the threat of concentration
See FUND—Page 9
committee, Morris Garvett, chair- camps no longer faces the Pal-
man, Louis Rosenzweig,
co _ estinian Jews. some of their sol-
chairman; community
diPrs have fallen under the influ
committee,
Rabbi Leon relations
_
. Fram, en
this or
hid an
are
Harry Yudkoff, co- - no longer working in the and
inter-
chairman; discrimination commit_ ests of the United Nations?
tee, Aaron Droock, chairman;
"If so, it is a state of affairs
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, co- which should be b r o a d c a s t
chairman; inter group committee, throughout the United Nations.
Dr. Leo M. Franklin, chairman; "'It cannot be that this Jewish
Will Officiate at
Lawrence W. Crohn, co-chairman; Agency, the fountain of Jewish
relations committee, Rub- policy, which has been crying out
Synagogue Aug. 27-28 internal
i Morris Adler, chairman; Joseph
B ernstein, co-chairman; w
•
to the United Nations to save
Joseph A. Block, president of f orts committee, Dr.
S. Klein_
Ke
and succor their downtrodden
Congregation Bnai David, Elm- ran, chairman; Mrs. Carl Schil-
See JEWS—Page 12
hurst and 14th, announced the er. co-chairman.
The personnel of these com-
appointment of Rev. Irving Ringel
mittees are now being selected
by James I. Ellmann in consulta-
tion with the chairman and co-
NOTICE
chairman of the respective com-
mittees. The chairman of com-
mittees not named above have
All copy must be in not
rot vet been selected. They will
be announced in the near future. later than Wednesday, 3
The first Quarterly conference
of delegates in the 1933-34 year p.m. It must be written
will be held Sept. 21 in the au-
on one side of paper only
ditorium of the Jewish Commu-
and
where possible should
pity Center. Detroit's delegates
be typewritten.
to the American Jewish Confer-

Com. Council
Ch airman. Named
By Jas. I. Ellmann

I I I MI I

CIRCUIT JUDGE HARRY B. KEIDANT

Circuit Judge Harry B. Keidan whom there were multitudes.
died in Henry Ford Hospital on Ministers, lawyers, businessmen
Sunday,'
Aug. 15. Death was and scores of others found in
au
sed
by embolism. Members him a sympathetic counsellor in
of the immediate family • were time of trouble.
at the bedside.
Some he helped with financial
Simple
services i were held at aid. Others were helped by sound
2 p.
m. Tuesday
n Clover Hill
Park Cemetery chapel. Rabbi il and wise advice. Still others were
helped
M. Hershman of Shaarey Zedek they
had, merely by the fact that
Synagogue, of which Judge Kei- one to w in Judge Keidan, some-
whom t ey could turn and
dan was a member and trustee pour out their h troubles.
for many years, officiated. Mrs.
This publicized
phase of his life was
Keidan asked that flowers be omit- never
ted because of Judge Keidan's
because he
often-expressed belief that flower never wished it to be. But there
a time
when even
he was
funds could better be devoted to was
not never
available
to those,
if
charities.
only acquaintances, who were
Held People's Trust
vexed in spirit.
Judge Keidan's integrity, his
impartiality as a man and his Political Start Late
His
training
law
ability as a jurist were so clearly was
in practical
a good school.
His in early
understandable
won and training in the practical applica-
held the trust of that
the he
people.
tion of law to human conduct
The press of his court work was obtained under a series of
was often heavy, but it was never able prosecutors. He was 30 years
too heavy to prevent him from
devoting time to friends, of
See KEIDAN—Pag

e 12

INDIAN JEWS OF MEXICO

By S. F. BRANDES

Editor's Note: The author of this article made an extensive stud"
of the history of the Jews in Mexico. She has visited Mexico
several times interviewing representative leaders of Mexican
Jewry including those claiming to be descendents of the early
Maranos. She has visited the communities populated by th2
Indian Jews of Mexico and has examined documents purporting
to show their Jewish origin.

"Let us reaffirm our faith." the establishment of Mexico as
These words of the historic Sab- New Spain, many of Cortes' men,
bath I liturgy were being chanted including some Maranos, settled
as
entered the modest one- there. Later, in 1579, one of the
story building in one of the richest and most influential Ma-
poorest sections of Mexico City ranos of Spain, Luis de Carvajal,
which houses the synagogue of was sent to New Spain as Gov-
the so-called "Indian Jews". At or of Leona Neuva, compris-
a moment of world history when ing what is now parts of Texas
more sophisticated and worldly and New Mexico in the United
endowed Jews were reaffirmiag States and the northern section
their racial and religious origin. of Mexico.
The story of these Indian Jews
of Mexico is a fabulous one,
The story of how, through the
rich in all the elements of drama. intervention of the Pope, he sue-
in ringing some of his
ealth and pomp, conquest andd
fellow Maranos with him into
persecution, fame and mystery. territory forbidden to the new
They stem from the very earliest
white settlers in the New World. Christians, as the Maranos were
called. his
to p ower , his
In 1519 when Cortes conquered founding
and rise
developin
g of such
Mexico to add it as a new jewel cities as Monterey, second
in
in the crown of his Queen, some, importance in present day Mexic.)
secret Spanish
known
Maranos,
were in Jews,
his train.
With as only to the capital city itself.
he completion of conquest and
See MEXICO--Pag e 9

Bnai - David Names
Rev. Irving Ringel,
Brooklyn, Cantor

See COUNCIL—Pa ge 9

Report to Joint Distribution Comm ittee
Tells Tragic Plight of Yugoslavia
n Jews

When peace comes to Italy, starvation, exposure, deliberate
thousands of Yugoslavian Jews contamination with fatal diseases
who were sent to internment cen- and deportation. There are prac-
ter§ there
when the ex-Duce's rically no Jews left in German-
armies
appropriate
Yugoslaia, w illd areas of occupied Yugoslavia, the task of
of free v share j
oys making the region "Judenrein"
om with havin
the liberate
dd
b
Italians. Through the unpredic- Nazis g een
d out by the
in c cooperation
with the
table turns of war, these refugees native Fascists,
have become the fortunate stir- Ustachis.
known as the
vivors of Yugosla •
CANTOR IRVING RINGEL
cwr Confined in Interior
whose tragic dispersal and devasY
-
„
of Brooklyn, N. Y., as cantor of ration
on are detailed in a report
the congregation for the coming just received at the Joint Dis-
The Jews who succeeded in
fleeing to the regions occupied 14-
three years. Cantor Ringel is ex- tributi on
Committee headquarters the Italians were confined by the
pected in Detroit to officiate in New York from its European
Italian authorities in the interior
Shabbos M'vorchim Rosh Chodesh headquarters in Lisbon.
of Italy ," the
Ellul, Aug. 27 and 28.
states. "No
such
measures as'
the forced
Cantor Irving Ringel was born
report
wear-
The report, was
based
on first-hand
ing of the Yellow
Star of David
experiences.
made
avai
ar
in New York City 42 years ago. to. . the J. D. C. by ref
lable
were
taken
against
At the age of
-
riving
them. Many
e began to n
in Portugal. It describes of them are in Camp
officiate as cantor in the Kalvarier c
Ferramonte
0
nditions
in
Yugoslavia
as
late
n
Pik
in
the
province
of
Cosenza
in
Shul oe St. in New York 8 ,5 May of
City. It was there that he became !T
y this year. The
Ita ns, Southern Italy. Others are iii
known as the "Boy Wonder Can- in 1 e report discloses, were lenient small places of Northern Ital y
tor". As a youth he officiated in their treatment of the Jews in so-called forced residence. Th2
at the Beth HaMidrash HaGodol co the areas they occupied in total number of Yugoslavian Jews
and the Sinier Shul. me mparison with the brutality in Italy amountg to about 6,000.
At the age of 20, Cantor Ringel sec ted out by the Germans in the The number of Jews who at th-
was elected to his first annual ove tions of the country they took time fled to Yugoslavia from Ger-
r. The Nazis followed the many, Austria and Poland, who
pat tern
See DAVID—Page 9
used in other occupied are now in Italy, is estimated at
sec tions of
Europe: exeCutions,

See YUGOSLAVIA—Pa ge 12