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VOL. 45. NO, 38

Detroit _and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle_

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1943

Zionist Convention Demand Termination
0f Present Policy of Mandatory Power

Lauds American Jewish Conferenc e

for Adopting Resolution
Demanding Establishment of Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine

10c Single Copy; $3.00 Per ,Yea,

Wm, Friedman Named Circuit
Judge by Gov. Harry F. Kelly

Fills Vacancy Caused by Death of Noted

COLUMBUS, 0. (WNS)—An
And Beloved Juri:t Harry B. Keidan
appeal t
o the leaders of the the control and direction of the
William Friedman, Detroit at- in my opinion will be a worthy
United Nations to initiate inane- Jewish Agency which shall be
diate discussions with the Jewish vested with authority to develop
torney and civic leader, was ap- successor."
Agency in Palestine with a view the country to the maximum for Ira
pointed to fill the vacancy in the
Friedman, 63-year-old native
to determining the role which the benefit of all its inhabitants.
Wayne County Circuit Court cre-
Palestine is to play in the post- In the rebuilding of the Jewish
ated by the death of Judge Harry Detroiter, was a lifelong friend
war world, a demand calling for commonwealth, we pledge full re-
B. Keidan.
the immediate termination of gard for the religious linguistic,
Announcing the appointment.
the White Paper and a resolution and cultural rights of the Arab
Gov . Harry F. Kelly said he had
for the establishment in Pale- population of Palestine, and the
Shofar Services To
sought carefully for a man wor-
stifle of a Jewish Commonwealth, civil and religious equality of its
thy "to succeed that great jurist,
Be Heard on WWJ
were the highlights of the 46th inhabitants before the law. The
Judge Keidan, whose friendship
annual convention of the Zionist inviolability of the holy places
I valued most highly."
On o'clock,
Sunday morning,
"I sought for one who would
Organization in America which of the various religions shall be at 11
the choir Sept.
of T 26,
el
osed here with the unanimous guaranteed. We appeal to the I
em- Perpetuate the high standards,
Je
Israel,
directed
election
of Dr. Israel Goldstein leaders of the United Nations man, will broadcas b y Dan F rob- the dignity and the honor which
as
president.
t a prog ram Judge Keidan brought to the
now that post-war plans are of the music of Rosh Hashonah
The
three
day
session
which
maturing,
to
initiate
without
de-
over
Station
WWJ,
Mrs. Abra- bench," the Governor said.
opened here on Sept. 12 was at-
"Friedman, a successful and
tended by more than 1,000 dole-
See ZIONIST—P a ge 10
ham Cooper will be guest soloist. scholarly lawyer, known for his
Cantor
gates representing over 500 Zion- --------------- for
of Robert S. Tulman, can- civic and philanthropic endeavors,
ist units and groups throughout c
by K Temple Israel, accompanied
•
the country.
Karl W. Haas, organist, can-
will p•
Lauding the American Jewish
render some of the f
torsi recitatives of the amous
Conference for having adopted
New Year
a resolution calling for the estab-
service. Rabbi Leon Fram will
lishment of a Jewish Common-
introduce and interpret and give
wealth in Palestine, file Zionist
the historical backgrounds of the
convention adopted the following
great music traditions of Rosh
resolution:
Hashonah. A feature of the
tyre "We demand themmediate
They Are Undi gn ifie d , broadcast will be the shofar sere
i
ices,
termination of the prevailing poi-
the sound of the ram' 3 -
Rabbi Morris Adler
Says James Ellmann horn when
. WILLIAM FRIEDMAN
icy of the mandatory power in
will be broadcast over the
the Palestine Administration. W e
To Be Guest Speaker
air to millions of listeners.
of Judge Keidan and closely as-
With the approaching High
reject the Palestine Administra-
The choir of Temple Isr ael
On Monday night, Sept. 20, sociated with him in many chari-
tion's so-called post-war recon- Holy Days our community, like will also broadcast a program
ot. i.gah Lodge No. 34, Bnai Brith, table, religious and civic activities.
struction plan for Palestine which, ninny other communities, will be Yom Kippur music on Sund ay
based on the White Paper ofmorning,
faced with the problem
Oct.
of mush- 3,
morning,
at Oct.
11 3, o'clo
at 11 o'clo ek, will officially install its newly- Since 1923, he has been senior
1939, is calculated to stifle these room synagogues. when Emma Lazaroff Shaver w
ill elected officers at an open meet- member of the law firm of Fried-
developments and reduce the
James I. Ellmann, president of be the guest soloist.
ing in tile main auditorium man Meyer & Keys, with offices
Jewish homeland into a ghetto. the Jewish Community Council
The Holy Day broadcasts o f the
of in the Dime Bldg.
Jewish Community Center at
We condemn the villification o fTemple
Israel
choir have beco me 8 :30
of Detroit, has reissued
the Com-
p.
m.
This
will
be
the
first
Election in 1944
the Jewish Agency brought about munity Council's resolution con- an annual institution in Detro
by the transformation of a milt- cerning mushroom synagogues, Thy e w WWJ begun last year a it. Public meeting of the new ad- Friedman will serve until the
tary police cou rt into a prom_
)
ra ministration.
A- special program general election in November,
s Sta
a
tion J was so flooded w nth
. which wadopted
by the repre-
has
ganda forum to impugn the Pal sentatives
been arranged, to be followed 1944, when a successor will be
of the Community expressions of appreciation o
Jewish war effort.
We
the
beauty of the music a nil f by a reception and refreshments. elected for the balance of Judge
de- Council's
190 de
member
organize-
Rabbi Morris Adler of Congre- Keidan's term, which expires Dec.
plore the censorship which has Lions at a meeting in 1939. The gratitude for 'the broadcast th a
Shaarey Zedek will be the 31, 1948.
prevented a fair report of the resolution reads as follows: WWJ invited Temple Israel to t gation
Principal speaker of the evening
magnitude and significance of
Each year the Jewish com. make the program an annu a
William Friedman was born
event. Opens
l and will talk on the. subject: April 1, 1880. He was educated
Palestine's Jewish contributions to munity is plagued with undigni- School
"The Responsibility of American in Detroit public schools, attend-
the winning of the war. We de- fled announcements about tempo-
mand the abrogation of the White. rary improvised synagogues which
The Religious School of Tern Jewry in the Post-War World". ed the Detroit College of Law,
pie Sept.
Israel 18,
opens
of 1939 and the opening are opened for the brief period ing,
and Saturday
Sunday mor a . Rabbi Adler has just returned and was graduated from the Uni-
of the gates of Palestine to a of the High Holy Days. These ing'
a _ from the American Jewish Con- versify of Michigan law school
_ ference in New York City. Henry in 1901. He has practiced law
19. The foraturday
large Jewish immigration under synagogues are conducted usually ing g,
S
en
mor
n- Siegl, one of Detroit's outstand- here since his graduation.
classes are
for private gain and therefore in-
childr
o f ing violinists, will head the pro-
grades 6, 7, 8 and 9. All othe r
Friedman's only previous ptrb-
. traduce
element
of which
commer-
cialism an
into
a sphere
tra- classes, including the kinderga r gram of entertainment. Mr. Siegl lie office has been his membership
ten Sunday.
and high Rabbi
school Leon°
groups, Frani
mee _ is a member of Detroit Symphony on the Detroit House of Correc-
ditionally has been free from it. on
t Orchestra and WJI1 Radio Studio tion Commission. He
NOTICE
served
, Orchestra, and has appeared as on the commission since has
The
religious
feelings
and
needs
who
has
been
out-
of
the
city
fo
1926 un-
of many worshippers are ex-
r a soloist with both grou ps.
some
time,
is
now
back
in
th
der seven successive mayors, is
e
All copy must be in not ploited for the profit of the spon-
city and will be at the school t Aaron Droock, past president now president of the commission,
sors of such synagogues.
0
of
District
Grand
Lodge
No.
6,
and
later than Wednesday, 3
"These temporary synagogues greet the returning children. Th e Bnai Britt, will install the of- times. has been its president five
are generally set up in halls and Religious School of Temple Is ficers: Isadore Starr, president;
p.m. It must be written stores which do not possess the
He is widely known and re-
Milton Weinstein, first vice presi- spected for his charitable and
See ISRAEL--Page 12
dignity and atmosphere associ-
on one side of paper only ated
dent; Jack Leeds, second vice religious work in Detroit's Jew-
with the synagogue, and
president; Max Goldhoff, tress- ish community. He is president
and where possible should therefore convey to many an un-
urer; Leonard Belove, financial of the United Jewish Charities
worthy impression of the Jewish
secretary; Leonard Radner, re- and also served as its president
be typewritten.
religion. The establishment of
cording secretary; Jack Lawson, for a three-yea• term beginning
such three-day-a-year synagogues
assistant monitor; Harry Schwartz, in 1921. He has been a member

Temple Israel to
nroadcast High
Holy Day Music

om. Council
Opposes Mushroom
Synagogues

See MUSHROOM—Page 10

Jews in Denmark

Hadassah Jrs.
Sponsor Winter
Lecture Series

tsgah Lod g e to
Install Officers
m onday, Sept.
20

See PISGAH—Pag e 10

See FRIEDMAN—Pag e 12

The Detroit Unit of Junio
Hadassah, young women's Zionis
organization of America, has an
By JULIUS' MORITZEN
By DAVID BERGELSON
flounced a very interesting and
EDITOR'S NOTE—Julius Moritzen is a writer of international af- informative series of cultural lee
fairs with special reference to Denmark. Mr. Moritzen is of tures to be held throughout the - EDITOR'S NOTE—In the past two months, since their arrival in
the United States, as an official delegation of Soviet .Jewry,
Danish-Jewish ancestry, long residing in the United States. coming season at the Hadassah
Prof. Solomon Mikhoels, the greatest Yiddish actor in Russia,
He is the author of "Georg Brandeis In Life and Letters," and offices, 9144 Linwood, at 8 p.
and Lieut.-Col. Itzik Feffer, noted Yiddish poet, have been seen
the "Peace Movement of America," and hits recently finished a the first one taking place Tues-
and heard by tens of thousands of Jews. They have been feted
biography Hans Christian Andersen. lie is a contributor to day, Sept. 21.
by the Jewish populations of the principal cities of the country.
many leading American publications.
This series of lectures is open
For those, however who have not had an opportunity to see
to all members, and all girls 18
Up to a few weeks ago, the head of the more than 200,000 years of age
or hear these two representatives of Russian Jewry, the fol-
and older interested
status of the Jews in Denmark occupational troops; the continu-
lowing two character sketches by a prominent Russian Jewish
in
the
work
of
Junior
Hadassall
was exactly that of all other ation of the sabotaging of manu- are urged to attend.
writer paint a clear picture of the men whom the Soviet Jews
citizens of the country. Naturally, facturing establishments in the
chose to represent them in America.
The first lecture on Sept. 21
like all other Danes they felt the hands of the Nazis, all this does
will
deal
with
the
subject
"What
1.
Solomon
Mikhoels
presence of the Nazis to their not prove reassuring. Little won-
and interesting per-
There is something sculptural great . artist
dislike. At the same time, King der then that apprehension fills Zionism Means to Me," and will
y.
have as guest speaker Mrs. J. H. about Solomon Mikhoels — both
Christian, whose friendliness to- the lid* of the Jews in Den- Ehrlich.
Mikhoels
is of
the a youngest
of
ward his Jewish subjects had been mark, as the holiday season once
face and his entire body. He twelve
children
timber
Other speakers scheduled are his
is
111P - -
shown on more than one occasion, more approaches.
of medium height, firm and chant in Dvinsk. Educated to
Rabbi Morris Adler, on Oct. 5; broad-shouldered
was still the ruler of Denmark;
and his high an attorney, Mikhoels, with
The
history
of
the
Jews
in
Rabbi
Leon
Fram,
on
Oct.
19;
the Parliament, even though the Denmark has been generally a Philip Slomovitz, on Nov. 2; Mrs.
Prime Minister, Eric Scavenius peaceful association with the citi- Morris Adler, on Nov. 16 and 30; lower p appear to be chiseled have become one of the most
ou. of stone. Everything in his
was German-friendly, still func- zens
of other faiths. They hve
Rosenthal, on Dec. 14; Ber- body seems to gravitate toward prominent lawyers in the country.
tioned, and justice was dispensed always had the respect of their Zelda
nard Isaacs, on Dec. 28; Law-
On the other hand, his devoted
equitably by the Danish courts.
Dan i sh fellowbeings, and even rence Crohn, on Jan. 11; A Mey- the ground on which he stands.
The events of Sunday, Aug. 29, though there have been attempts, erowitz, on Jan. 25, and Philip Only his hands—strong, rather championship of art made it seem
thick hands, are free of this grav- at one time that he was destined
with a suddenness that was ap-
since the coming of the Nazis Slomovitz and Rabbi Fram in a itation. And it is precisely with to become a great art critic. His
palling, changed this situation, to make separate laws for the symposium on Feb. 8.
his hands that this great artist love and devotion to Jewish cul-
with results that are still to be Jews, these attempts have been
Hebrew songs will be a part
also seemed to indicate that
seen. The internment of the Dan- failures because King Christian of each session, and will add zest often enchants his audience. His ture
he would be a leader in the cul-
ish king and many high officials, was adamant in the matter of to an altogether most promising hands are beyond a doubt the
coming on the heels of the dec- discrimination. That the King's series of events sponsored by the moat rhythmical, I might say the ture and education of generations
most profound, actor's hands that of Jewish youth. It is easy to
laration of martial law by Gen-
cultural committee of Junior have ever enthralled one. They imagine that it was not easy for
eral Herrmann von Hannecken,
See DENMARK—Page 12
Hadassah.
reflect admirably the spirit of this

Ambassadors of Good Will

See GOOD WILL—Page 12

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