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VOL. 45, NO. 36

Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1943

Henry. Monsky Opens American Jewish
Conference at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

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Governor Bricker to Address
46th Zionist Convention

500 Delegates Representing Every Shade of Opinion Attend;
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Judge Proskauer Address Meeting

Palestine Status, Postwar Program and Plans
For Expansion Are Major Items on Agenda

NEW YORK.---In an atmosphere tense with realization that this was the most
tragic period in the long history of the Jews, 500 delegates, representing every shade
of opinion in Jewish life in America, met last Sunday, Aug. 29, at the grand ball-
room of the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, to begin the first of the five-day session of
the American Jewish Conference.
The Conference was called to order at 3 p. m. in the presence of more than 3,000
guests. Following an impressive memorial service held in tribute to the memory
of the 3,000,000 Jews who perished in Europe at the vile hands of Hitler and his

WASHINGTON, D. C. — Gov. sion memorial services for mem-
John W. Bricker of Ohio is sched- bers of the armed forces who
uled to address the opening ses- died on the battlefield will In
:ion of the 46th annual conven- held with Chaplain Isadore Bres-
don of the Zionist Organization .
of America which will take place mu of Washington, D. C., Rabbi
on Sept. 11-13 at the Deshler- Barnett Brickner of Cleveland,
Wallick Hotel, Columbus, 0., the 0., and Ben Kaufman, national
national Zionist headquarters an- commander of the Jewish War
nounced here. At the same ses- Veterans, officiating.

satellites, Rabbi B. L. Levinthal —
of Philadelphia read, the invoca-
ing in Europe only 3,000,000
The war time annual gathering
tion and opening prayer. When were still alive today, and that
of American Zionists will deal
the traditional El Mole Rachamin any further delay in rescuing
was chanted by Cantor Ben Zion them would "doubtless mean that
with major issues affecting the
Kapov-Kagan of New York, the there would be no Jews to save
future status of Palestine, the
conclave was swept into such a in what was Hitler's Europe,"
Jewish position throughout Eu-
high pitch of emotion that many Rabbi Wise said: "Let not the
rope in a postwar world and with
of the assembled, delegates and reproach be incurred that more
guests, burst out into tears.
plans for an expansion of Zion-
could and would have been done
At efforts in this country .
Henry Monsky, chairman of if the threatened and endangered
A. Droock To Report
Mrs. M. P. Epstein
The Palestine situation in the
the executive committee for the had not been Jews. This would
On Jewish Conference
organization of the Conference be too terrible a recollection
light of the latest developments
To
Be
Guest
Speaker
and president of Bnai Brith, de- upon the professions and princi-
on the war and political fronts
First public meeting of the
livered the opening address. He ples and practices of the United
Detroit Chapter of Hadassah will be reviewed, in the annual
m es sage of Judge Louis E. Levin-
deplored the attitude of some Nations and above all, upon the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Coun-
Jews who, he said, viewed "with moral quality of our own nation cil will be held Wednesday, Sept. will mark the opening of a corn- thal, president of the Zionist
anxiety, if not alarm, any forth- and its leadership."
bined honor roll and membership Organization of America.
8, at 8:30 p. m., at the Jewish
right expression of the Jewish
He contrasted the contribution Community Center, Woodward at drive at a luncheon meeting at Among the principal speakers
community in behalf of our fel-
who will address the sessions de-
low-Jews in time of war" and
See MONSKY—PAGE 9
Holbrook. Max F. Baer, national
voted to Palestine and to the
expressed regret at the lack of
director of the Bnai Brith Voca-
American and world scenes will
practical measures b y the Unite d
be Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Robert
tional Service Bureau, the young-
Nations for the reli ef of the mil-
Szold, Louis Lipsky and Dr. Is-
est department of the Bnai Brith,
lions of suffering Jews.
rael Goldstein of New York; Dr.
will be the principal speaker. An
ence: Monsky outlined the fol-
Solomon Goldman of Chicago, Dr.
lowing program for the Confer-
alumnus of Aleph Zadik Aleph,
Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland,
ence: (1) the facilitation of emi-
0.; Dr. James G. Heller of Cin-
Bnai Brith's youth organization.
gration and the rehabilitation of
cinnati, and Dr. Nahum Gold-
Mr. Baer studied economics at
refugees now living in neutral
mann, member of the World Zi-
the University of Arizona and
countries, (2) the physical, spiri-
onist Executive.
Notre Dame, won his law degree
Public Meeting To
tual. religious and economic re-
William B. Ziff, noted aviation
from Creighton University and
habilitation of the Jews in the
expert and author of "The Corn-
a masters' degree at Columbia
Be
Held
Sept.
21
devastated war areas, (3) the
ing Battle of Germany," will be
University. He did post-graduate
development of Palestine "not-
one of the guest speakers at the
The Jewish Community Council work in the field of education at
sessions, according to a furtlux,_
withstanding the setbacks that will welcome Detroit's representa- George Washington University.
have come about as a consequence
announcement by Maurice M.
A frequent contributor to the
of the war, and weak and uncer- fives to the American Jewish Con- Jewish press on vocational prob-
Boukstein of New York, chair-
tain appeasement diplomacy" in- ference during a public meeting lems, he has been in great de-
man of the National Convention
eluding the White Paper of 1939 September 21. This meeting wilt
Committee.
which "was a flagrant injustice be the season's first quarterly mand as a speaker before youth
MRS. MOSES P. EPSTEIN
Delegates representing some 500
and (4) the election of a body conference and will be held at
the Book-Cadillac Hotel, Tues- Zionist units throughout the corm. '
which, together with other ac- the Jewish Community Center,
try are expected to attend the
day, Sept. 14, at 12:30 p. m.
credited leaders of Jewry Woodward at Holbrook. Members
sessions. Plans for iritteasing
Mrs. Moses P. Epstein of New Zionist participation in the war
throughout the world, will curry of all constituent organizations
out the program, objectives and are invited.
York, a former president of the effort of the United Nations will
mandates of the American Jew-
The delegates to the American
national organization, will be the
ish Conference.
See ZIONIST—Page 10
Jewish Conference will present
guest speaker.
Dr. Wise Speaks
reports and impressions of this
I.
Mrs. Epstein, who was born in
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president important conclave. Their mes-
Worcester, Mass., is a graduate
of the American Jewish Congress sages will be of paramount im-
of Hunter College. She has been
and chairman of the American portance to the future activities
NOTICE
a Zionist for many years, and
Emergency Committee for Zion- and responsibilities of Detroit's
has
served
in
many
capacities
ist Affairs, proposed in his open- Jewish community.
in both the local and national or-
All copy must be in not
James I. Ellmann, president of
ing. address at the ,evening ses-
ganization. Mrs. Epstein directed
sion the appointment of a dele- the Jewish Community Council,
the fund-raising campaign for the later than Wednesday, 3
gation from the Conference to announces the complete personnel
medical center built on Mt. Sco- p.m. It must be written
seek an audience with President of the discrimination committee
pus, Jerusalem, by Hadassah, and
Roosevelt to urge immediate ac- of the Jewish Community Coun-
the American Jewish Physician's on one side of paper only
tion to rescue the remainin• cil:
Committee in 1935. Mrs. Epstein
ews of E urope.
Aaron Droock and Dr. B. Bene-
headed the Hadassah delegation and where possible should
Declaring that of the more dict Glazer, chairman and co-
to the World Zionist Congress in
than 8,000,000 Jews formerly liv-
See CONFEREES—Pa ge 12
Zurich and Geneva in 1937 and be typewritten.

Bnai Brith Council Hadassah to Open
To Hear M. F. Baer Honor Roll Drive at
Wednesday, Sept. 8 Luncheon, Sept, 14

Conferees to Be
Welcomed by
Lon]. Council

The Next President of the Z.O.A.
A Profile of Dr. Israel Goldstein

By ABRAHAM HARRIS

See HADASSAH—Page 9

MAX F. BAER

SIDELIGHTS ON THE AMERICAN
JEWISH CONFERENCE

and adult groups, concerned with
occupational questions. He is
These are troublous days in
chairman of the publicity com
Israel and inevitably so for the of the Jewish National Fund for mittee of the National Voca _ NEW YORK. (WNS)—A corn ous parts of the country. The
Zionists, for the Zionists, strictly a decade. No organization is so tional Guidance Association and pilation of biographical data con
speaking, are those Jews who spe- comprehensively Zionist as the a member of the executive corn corning the composition of the - total number of rabbis among
National Fund. It is the
_ 500 delegates to the American the delegates is 98. Professional
cialize in the troubles of Israel. Jewish
one wing of the Zionist movement mittee of the Jewish Occupa
They are the doctors seeking to in which general Zionism, Labor tional Council. His feature ar _ Jewish Conference reveals the workers in organizations and la-
_ legal profession has contributed
restore the Jewish .economy by Zionism, Mizr
bor unions are represented by
h', Had assah-- tides, under the title of "Wash- by far the largest quota f
the restoration to the people of all brands and groups—agree
9
ington
Flashes,"
appear
regularly
to
resentatives
to
the
historic
con-
delegates;
writers, editors and
those vitamines of social existence honor and support.
in the "Occupations Magazine," vocation. Its members constitute journalists by 20. There are eight
which they have been deprived of
published by the NationalVoca- 27 cent of the delegates, physicians and dentists, and six
Dr. Goldstein's .incumbency
by their dispersal.
tional Guidance Association.
the
post
of
J..
N.
F.
chieftain
has
while rabbis come second with delegates engaged in the teaching
With the mounting problems
Aaron Droock, past president 20 per cent. Delegates engaged profession.
been
outstanding.
Dr.
Goldstein
before them, there was yet more
of District No. 6, Bnai Brith,
Approximately 81 delegates are
foreboding that the Zionist con- chuckingly remarks that he came and a delegate to the American in business and trade constitute
vention, which is to be held ;it to the J. N. F. post "at the same Jewish Conference, will report on 16 per cent. A comparatively engaged in a wide variety of
Columbus on Sept. 12 would be time as Roosevelt and Hitler." the proceedings of this confer. small number of delegates conic business activities. This classifi-
turned into a sharp and bitter These were critical clays which ence, just concluded in New York from the ranks of professional cation includes banking, account-
brawl over the choice of the next tested a man and Dr. Goldstein City. A musical program has workers in Jewish organizations ing, manufacturing, retailing,
president of the Zionist Organi- has stood the test very well. Thy been arranged for this occasion. of various types, including labor wage earners, etc. The largest
unions. This last group is nu- proportion of the woman dele-
zation. The announcement there- success of the J. N. F. has be- The public is cordially invited.
merically equaled by delegates gates--of whom there are 66—
fore by Dr. Stephen S. Wise that come almost a proverb. When Dr.
The Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
m Council is composed of the fol- who are engaged in the newspa- are married and not engaged in
after a conference with the lead- Goldstein took office. the incoe
business or professional ac-
ers of the various Zionist groups, of the J. N. F. for that year was lowing lodges and auxiliaries: per and writing profession. The any
Dr. Israel Goldstein would be the $140,000 a year. Last year, it was Pisgah Lodge No. 4 34, Louis Mar- list of professions represented in tivity.
$2,000,000.
The
annual
income
the delegation includes educators,
Several of the delegates are
sole nominee for the presidency
has increased over twenty-fold shall Lodge No. 1203, Theodor physicians, judges and miscella- civil service workers in the Fed-
has tended to allay much anxiety. since
Herzl Lodge No. 1377, East Sid neous fields such as chemists, en-
I
he
took
the
helm.
e and Municipal branch-
The choice of Dr. Goldstein
Lodge No. 1465, Detroit Lodge gineers, etc. Thirteen per cent of es. '
The
best
test
of
the
success
of
Former office holders in the
for the presidency of the Zionist
No. 1374, Pisgah Auxiliary, Busk the delegates are women.
an
organization
is
probably
not
various
branches
of government
Organization is a natural one.
ness & Professional Auxiliary,
The legal profession is repre- are included among the delegates.
Dr. Goldstein will assume it after so much the financial receipts as Theodor Herzl Auxiliary, East
sented by 136 'delegates, includ- The ages of the delegates range
having held the post of president
See GOLDSTEIN—Pa ge 12
ing 11 judges at present occupy. from the youngest, William V.
See COUNCIL--Pag e 12
ing places on the bench in vari-

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See SIDELIGHTS—P age 10