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November 26, 1943
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Rabbi Jacob J. Nathan Speaks on Air
For Women's Sabbath Observance League
Friends of the radio audience:
A very important campaign is
now in prograss in the city of De-
troit and simultaneously through-
out the entire United States,
wherever there is a large concen-
tration of the Jewish population.
It is a campaign which is inter-
ested not only with the physical
welfare of the members of our
faith, but one that is intimately
bound up with the spiritual re-
birth of our people. I am re-
Initiation To Feature
Henry Monsky's Visit
ferring to the all-important cam-
pa;gn for the observance of Sab.
bath, which is being currently
conducted here.
These are dark and tragic days
for us. It is a time when our
morale must be at its highest if
we are to survive the merciless
and inhuman blows to which our
people, in particular, have been
subjected by the barbaric' enemy
of mankind. No wonder that
many of us have felt the necessity
of strengthening our religious
bonds and reinforcing the spiritual
foundations upon which we and
our forefathers have stood these
thousands of years.
What greater booster to Jewish
The Greater Detroit Bnai Brith morale? What mightier support
Council and all its constituent to our fighting spirit could there
groups will commemorate the one be than rejuvenating the Shah-
hundredth anniversary of Bnai bos—that day which reminds man
Brith's founding with an after- of his intrinsic dignity and teaches
noon and evening program on Dec. that life is holy and must he
12 at Temple Beth El.
defended against the assault of
Henry Monsky, president of Su- those who seek to pervert its true
preme Lodge, Bnai Brith, will be significance.
the guest of honor on this occa-
What more genuine demonstra-
sion. Louis H. Schostak, president tion of Jewish solidarity and unity
of the Council, announces that Mr. could we show the diabolical ene-
Monsky will be the principal and my whom we face, than by prov-
only speaker on the evening pro- ing our religious life has been
gram. In addition to being presi- bolstered and reinvigorated be-
dent nf Supreme Lodge Bnai Brith cause of the challenge he has
Mr. Monsky is active in many hurled against us.
civic and social undertakings as
What greater source of bless-
well as war service. He is today ing and strength does the Jew
recognized as one of the leaders possess than the Sabbath—which
of American Jewry. The response raises him from the secular world
to his invitation to American of strife and competition—and ele-
Jewry to ioin in a discussion of vates him into a world of seren-
Dombed out of _heir homes, robbed of their cause the Tunisian population has suffered severely
unified action last January at the its and nobility where he may
household possessions, the Jews of Tunisia, through f.um Allied bombings, the Jews, who are friends
of the Allies, arc being fined 20,000,000 franca to
Pittsburgh Conference, which gave seek communion with God; and
these orders in French, Italian and Arabic, were
pay for the relief of air raid victims.
birth to the American Jewish Con- find that inspiration and stability
forced to pay hedvy fines and turn in their radios
Despite oluilesale looting and destruction of tneirl
ference, is evidence of his lead- in these chaotic times for the
to the authorities. Kurt Peiser of Philadelphia, just
Jewish communities of Tun-
ership and statesmanship.
building of a free and more hu-
returned from four months in North Africa, as a homes by the Nazis. the
isia
aided
by
J.D.C.,
are
rising
out
of
their
ruins
to
At the present time, the local mane world.
relief aide of the Joint Distribution Committee,
u preview of even
start
life
anew.
With
North
Africa
Bnai Brith lodges are engaged in
The Women's League for the
brought the posters back with him.
greater tragedies to be found on the liberated conti-
a membership campaign to enlist Observance of the Sabbath, to-
The one on the left pertains to the confiscation
nent,
J.D.C.
operations
in
Tunisia
set
a
vital
pattern
1,500 new members in honor of gether with a delegation of the
of radios. The trilingual one on the right is signed
for work in other lands torn from the grip of the Nazis
Bnai Brith's hundredth annivers- Detroit Rabbinate, have succeed-
b, Nazi General von Arnim and delcares that be-
ary. Aaron Rosenberg, city-wide ed in having the U. G. A. pass a
membership chairman, states that resolution favoring the closing of
all lodges have embarked an ex- stores on Shabbos in the Jewish
Yishuv's
Activity
Stops
"WHY BE A WAC?" Detpite Government Ban
tensive membership campaign and community. This resolution looks
Bill in Congress
that more than one-third of the fine on paper, but it can only
AURELIA
M.
RITIVEY
On
Stoppage
Proclamation
3GT.
To Aid Jews in Europe
quota has been attained to date. become a reality if all men and
the
women,
who
Are you one of
On the afternoon of Dec. 12, in women of Jewish faith will honor
Nov.
(Palcor)
JERUSALEM,
WASHINGTON ,WNS). — A at one time might have remarked,
honor of Henry Monsky's presence the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
Despite
the
government's
effort
joint resolution setting up a com- "If only they would let WOMEN
in the city, the new members se-
Jewish women, you in particular
to
frustrate
the
Yishuv's
two-hour
mission of diplomatic, economic join the Army!" Your chance has
cured in this membership drive
the sacred responsibility of
and military experts to effectuate arrived—it's here. The opportun- stoppage yesterday, by prohibit- will be initiated at a ioint cere- carry
the Sabbath campaign a
"a plan of immediate action de- ity to be right in "the thick" of ing newspaper publication of the mony of Pisgah Lodge, Louis Mar- making
success! Mothers of Israel, re-
Vaad
Leumi
Proclamation,
the
en-
things
.
.
.
not
to
sit
on
the
side-
signed to save the Jews of Europe
shall Lodge. Detroit Lodge, Theo- frain from purchasing on Shab-
from extinction at the hands of lines, but to actually wear Uncle tire Yishuv was at a virtual dor Herzl Lodge, and East Side bos. Let your devotion to the Sab-
standstill
between
ten
and
twelve
Sam's
uniform;
to
do
a
soldier's
Nazi Germany" was introduced
Lodge.
bath day, together with your tear-
last week in the House and Sen- job—and to get as close to this noon, the scheduled time of stop-
The Women's Auxiliaries of the ful prayer, plead before our
ate by a group of ten Senators war as you can possible get! Not Page.
The stoppage was called by the city, Pisgah, Business and Profes- Father in Heaven for the speedy
and two Representatives. The pulling a trigger or using a bayo-
sional, Theodor Herzl, East Side
resolutions were immediately re- net, but with every non-combatant Vaad Leumi in protest against and Louis Marshall are also en- and safe return of our loveeones.
the
attacks
made
on
Jewish
Pal-
Let us not be found wanting in
job
taken
over
by
a
qualified
ferred to the Senate Foreign Re-
and on its institutions at gaged in a membership drive in this h'storic life and death strug-
lations and House Foreign Affairs woman of America means one estine
honor
of
Bnai
Brith's
one
hundred
the recent Jerusalem arms trials.
gle in which we are engaged, by
committees where early favorable more trigger spitting bullets and
Adults and children joined in years.
desecrating the most sacred of our
a bayonet stopping one or more
action was expected.
Tentative
plans
call
for
the
in-
this effective demonstration, with
precepts — "Remember the Sab-
The sponsors of the resolution enemies!
If they are not stopped . . .we Jewish schools recessing their itiation to take place in the Brown bath day and keep it holy." To-
declared that it would be the func-
classes and the teachers explain- Memorial Chapel of Temple Beth
tion of the proposed commission will be stopped . . . which is more ing to their pupils the motives for El. The interest in Mr. Monsky's gether, all of us will be able to
make the Shabbos again what it
important?
A
future
safe
to
live
to work out with neutral coun-
and significance of the stoppage. appearance at the evening pro- was to our forefathers—the day
tries bordering occupied Europe in or Hitler's and Hirohito's com-
gram is so great that the commit-
All
trade,
industrial
and
agri-
a system of reservation camps to mands?
Every day boys are returning to cultural activity in urban and tee has made plans for this pro- of rest—the day of inspiration,
which Jewish refugees might es-
this
country—with memories (long rural areas was suspended and gram to take place in the main the day which will bring the harb-
transfer to suitable United Na-
to
live)
of what they have just Jewish traffic halted for the en- auditorium of Temple Beth El inger of peace. Thank you.
cape and be cared for until their
through . . . others will not tire two-hour period, while meet- with the Brown Memorial Chapel
tions territory could be arranged. gone
return but will they have died in ings were held throughout Pal- wired to accommodate the over-
Representative Rogers, one of the vain?
These boys believed in what estine to protest against the alle- flow.
sponsors of the resolution in the America
A, Greater Detroit Bnai Brith CH:10-1:0041;100-41-000-CHME:HXR:HM
is fighting for—and until gations made at the Jerusalem
House, declared that the financ- the last shot is fired, will remain arms trials. The allegations were souvenir book in honpr of Bnai
ing of the project could be work- to make certain our next armis- described as "ritual murder libels" Brith's Hundredth Anniversary
ed out privately once the machin- tice will not be temporary. They by David ben Gurion, who re- which is being published, will be •
ery has been established by the will need help . . . this war is not signed last week as chairman of released at the celebration.
the Jewish Agency Executive.
commission.
their responsibility.
Senator Gillette, one of the spon- just
Window Shade Co.
American women should feel
Eugene Mondry Inscribed •
sors of the resolution in the Sen- proud to answer this challenge,
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ate, suggested that the commis- NOW! The call is urgent. Thous-
In Golden Book by Parents • WINDOW SHADES
sion would make it quite clear ands of women are needed to help Goebbels Sees Rise of
MADE TO ORDER
Eugene Phillip Mondry was in- • •
"to the peoples of occupied Eur- pave the road to VICTORY!
Anti-Semitism in England
•
scribed
in
the
Golden
Book,
in
ope and to the enemy that the
Cleaned and Repaired
"Let's aid in the raid, that the
GENEVA. (WNS) — Joseph honor of his Bar Mitzvah, by his
provisions of the recent statement boys will make to win in Berlin!"
Goebbels, German Minister of parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mon- •
LINOLEUM
on atrocities signed by President
Propaganda, declared in an ar- dry. Mrs. Mondry is chairman • •
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Church-
Inlaid
and Battleship
ticle in one of the recent issues of the War Efforts committee for
ill and Premier Stalin also apply
Rugs
and
Furniture
ot the .Jewish people of Europe." Bnai Moshe Sisterhood and of Das Reich that anti-Semitism the Pioneer Women's Organiza-
The Emergency Committee to Men's Club Party Dec. 12 was growing in England despite tion.
VENETIAN BLINDS
the "pro-Jewish propaganda spon-
Save the Jewish People of Europe
Mrs. R. Glassgold, member of
Drapery Hardware
supported the request for Con-
The Sisterhood of the Congre- sored by the Gritish Government." Group One of the Pioneer Wom-
Get
Oar Prices and Save
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The
German
Propaganda
Minis-
gation Bnai Moshe and the Men's
gressi nal action.
ens' organization, has raised a
Free Estimates Furnished
Club will jointly sponsor a sup- ter stated in the article that goodly sum for trees for the Jew- • •
per and card party Sunday, Dec. Jews were doomed to disappoint- ish National Fund, at a Pidyon •
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12 in the main hall of the con- ment of they thought "that they Haben, in the home of Mr. and
CALL
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Emergency Crops
are on the eve of their greatest Mrs. Phillip Rosenberg of 1923
gregation.
Among the crops that make good
Mrs. Manuel Engel, Mrs. Ethel triumph," and that "according to Euclid Ave.
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emergency pasture for dairy cattle Goodman and Mrs. Joseph Hieman German war prisoners who have
are oats, oats and peas, oats and will act as chairmen of the affair just returned from England un-
sweet clover, rye, Sudan grass, Su- with Mr. Harold Haas in charge der an exchange arrangement,
anti-Semitism is growing there
dan grass mixed with soybeans and of the ticket sale.
A full course dinner will be daily."
sorghum mixed with soybeans. Mix-
Simultaneously, n e w s p a p ers
tures of oats with a number of leg- served and cards will follow. The
reaching here this week from
umes and grasses are also suitable. public is invited to attend.
Paris reveal that the Nazi and
anti-Semitic press there has be-
gun a campaign against the
Will
Always
Be
a
London"
"There
French Jews, urging that they be
placed in concentration camps in
Delicatessen areas that are being subjected
to frequent aerial attacks by the
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ori, went so far as to suggest
delicious.
that the Jews in France were re-
sponsible for the air raids on
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Beer & Wine to take out and served
against Jews for every French
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victim.
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