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2911, Year of Service to Jewry
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle—
VOL. 46, NO. 43
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1944
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Dr. Weizmann Honored by
Jewish Theological Seminary
Degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters
Conferred Upon Him in Absentia
NEW YORK (WNS) — Nineteen students were
awarded the degree of Rabbi, Teacher and Preacher at
the commencement exercises of the Jewish Theological
Seminary, held here on Oct. 23, This class was the third
to be graduated under the Seminary's accelerated pro-
gram, which was inaugurated to facilitate the entrance of
rabbis into the chaplaincy.
A feature of the commence-
ment exercises was the awarding
of the Degree of Doctor of Heb-
rew of Letters, in absentia, to Dr.
Christian Zionist
To Address Local
Meeting Oct. 31
Judge Frank A. Picard
To Introduce Speaker
The Zionist Organization of
Detroit will celebrate the anni-
versary of the Balfour Declara-
tion creating a Jewish homeland
DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN
Chaim Weizmann, president of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine
and distinguished scientist. In
conferring the degree, Dr. Louis
Finkelstein, president of the Sem-
inary, stressed Dr. Weizmann's
outstanding contributions to the
cause of democracy and his un-
HERBERT W. MOWAT
ceasing effort in behalf of the
Jew:sh people and all mankind. in Palestine in the form of a
"His far-sighted devotion to the Christian-Jewish Fellowship Night,
humanitarian ideals of Judaism on Tuesday night, Oct. 31, at 8
and of civilization," declared Dr. o'clock, when Christians and
Finkelstein, "have made him a Jews will gather in the Social
blIcved figure wherever he is Hall of Congregation Shaarey Ze-
known, whether in the councils dek, Chicago Blvd. at Lawton, to
of ',..;overnment, in the centers of hear the distinguished head of the
learning, or among the masses Canadian Palestine Committee,
of people."
Herbert W. Mowat, speak on
Another recipient in absentia Zionism from the viewpoint of
of an honorary Degree of Docto: Canadian Christians and from the
See WEIZMANN—Page 16
See MOWAT—Page 16
Jewish "Parochial" School
By RABBI OSHER ZILBERSTEIN
EDITOR'S NOTE:—In this article the writer takes issue with the
views recently expressed by our columnist Al Segal regarding
Jewish Parochial Schools. After the publication of Mr. Segal's
article we received a number of letters requesting us to pre-
sent another point of view of the problem. We believe that
Rabbi Zilberstein's article, which originally appeared in the
Bnai Brith Messenger of Los Angeles, Cal., serves that purpose.
The word "Parochial" in the
title is in quotes because the
idea of Parochial Schools in this
country is not Jewish and did not
originate with the Jews. "Par-
ish" in Old English signified the
particular following of a pastor,
graduating, to a district commit-
to him, and then to a local
c;mrch or congregation.
When the church was dominant
i' the life of the state there
v,- re no Parochial Schools, for
all schools were controlled by the
ch rch. In the last century, many
c ,, untries separated school from
church and religion from school.
IlJligious leaders, however, re-
tained control over part of school
are youth by separating as many
as possible into a church school,
generally known as Parochial
School, where religion and sec-
ular subjects are taught in the
aonosphere and environment of
• the church.
It apparently never occurred
to Catholics, Seven Day Adven-
tists and others, that maintaining
u
Parochial Schools was unpatriotic
or undemocratic. On the' con-
trary, they knew that they were
practicing democracy whose fund-
amental maxim is freedom of re-
ligion and the right to worship
God as one pleases. They believed
that this is patriotic, since Amer-
icanism does not specify a cer-
tain race or a certain religion,
but a composite nation of dif-
ferent nationalities and different
religions living the American way
of life in freedom and harmony.
They maintained that conducting
religious schools in a country
with a secular and non-religious
school system is Americanism,
and consequently patriotism. They
probably believe that if separate
religious schools Is "segregation,"
making them "Ghetto Builders,"
they should also be censured for
separate churches with separate
forms of worship.
They are not afraid lest Al
Segal "takes them over his knee
See SCHOOL—Page 16
f171VJ to Carry 1st
Jewish Program
From Nazi Soil
Aachen to be Scene
Of Broadcast Oct. 29
The liberated German city of
Aachen will be the scene of the
first Jewish broadcast from Nazi
soil to the United States when
Chaplain Morris A. Frank of Gen-
eral Hodges First Army will con
duct religious services on Sun-
day morning, Oct. 29, in a pro-
gram presented by the American
Jewish Committee in collabora-
tion with the National Broadcast-
ing Company.
In Detroit, the Jewish Com-
munity Council has made ar-
rangements with Radio Station
WWJ for a rebroadcast of this
historic program from 11:15 to
11.30 p. m.
The program will come direct-
ly to American listeners from the
ruins of Aachen's only syna-
gogue, almost six years after the
Nazis had destroyed it when they
vented their special fury against
the Jews during the pogroms of
November, 1938.
Aachen is said to be the oldest
Jewish settlement on the Euro-
pean continent. The Jews were
believed to have settled there in
the first century of the Christian
era, and there are historical ref-
erences to Jews in the town dat-
ing from the eighth century. In
1629 Jews were expelled from
the town and only six Jews were
allowed to return in 1667. The
founders of the modern Jewish
community settled in Aachen
during the French Revolution.
The synagogue was built in 1860,
and at the time of its destruction
in 1938 ministered to a Jewish
community of approximately
1,000.
Chaplain Frank, who will con-
duct the services, was formerly
a rabbi in Lawrence, Mass., and
Richmond, Va. Arrangements for
the broadcast are being handled
by James Cassidy, NBC commen-
tator in Germany. Following the
broadcast to the United States,
NBC will beam the program back
to occupied Germany.
Chachmey Lublin
To Hold Memorial
Meeting Oct. 28
Rabbi El Silver of Cincinnati,
0., president of the Union of
Orthodox Rabbis in the United
States and Canada, will be the
guest speaker at the memorial
meeting of Rabbi Meyer Sha-
piro's Yahrzeit, founder of Yesh-
ivath Chachmey Lublin in Lub-
lin, Poland. Detroit's Jewry is
cordially invited to participate
in this honoring affair. At the
same time tribute will be paid to
Mandel Corinblit, a friend of
the Yeshivah. Rabbi El Finkel,
one of the administrators of the
Yeshivah will deliver an eulogy in
his honor. Tribute will also be
paid to Berl Frenkel who re-
cently passed away. Rabbi Leizer
Levin, one of the administrators,
will speak in his honor. The
chairman for this affair will be
Henry C. Keyrell, and toastmas-
ter will be Rabbi Joshua S.
Sperka. The dedication will take
place Sunday, Oct. 29, at 2 p. m.
in Congregation Bnai David, 14th
and Elmhurst. A dinner will be
served by the Ladies Auxiliary.
Letters have been sent to the
members and friends and we urge
all acquainted with the Corinblit
and the Frenkel family to come
and pay this last tribute to their
memory.
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Romanians to Study Problem
Of Restoring Jewish Property
Special Commission Named to Draw
And Recommend Necessary Legislation
BUCHAREST (WNS)—An initial step in restoring
the Jews in Romania to their prewar economic status
was taken this week from the Romanian Cabinet an-
nounced the establishment of a special commission to
study the problem of restoring the property which was
confiscated from the Jews when that country was under
Conference on War
Chest to Be Held
Sunday, Oct. 26
Rabbis Stollman and
Glazer to Speak
A second conference of all
Jewish organizations on behalf
of the War Chest campaign has
been called by James I. Ell-
mann, chairman of the Jewish
Treasury Gifts section for next
Sunday, Oct. 29, at 10.30 a. m.
at the Jewish Home for Aged,
11501 Petoskey. Dr. B. Benedict
Glazer and Rabbi Isaac Stollman
will address the meeting.
Presidents and other represen-
tatives of all Jewish congrega-
tions, landsmanshaften, fraternal
orders, societies, clubs and their
auxiliaries have been invited. A
number of organizations have al-
ready decided on their contribu-
tions; others are expected to re-
port them at the meeting on Sun-
day.
As new territories are being
liberated by the victorious march
of the Allied armies, the Jewish
situation in Europe is being re-
vealed in all its stark tragedy.
It is now clear that the work of
the Joint Distribution Committee
and of the United Palestine Ap-
peal will become even more urg-
ent. Both of these agencies, as
well as 50 other local, national
and overseas causes, are included
in the War Chest through the Al-
lied Jewish Campaign.
The War Chest also provides
the funds for the USO, the local
agencies of the Detroit Commun-
ity Fund and the war relief ap-
peals for Britain, Russia, China,
Poland and others.
Organizations wishing to have
speakers on the War Chest ad-
dress their meetings may secure
them through the Speakers' Bur-
eau, Columbia 1600.
under the aegis of the Nazis.
The commission is expected to
draw and recommend the neces-
sary legislation.
In the meantime, the plight of
the Jewish population in Ro-
mania, native and refugee, con-
tinues to be a source of worry
to Jewish leaders and organiza-
tions, particularly in view of the
approach of cold weather.
Dr. Ernest Marton, chairman
of the Relief Committee for Jew-
ish Refugees from Poland and
Hungary, disclosed here in a
statement to the press that Ro-
mania now holds about 1,300
Jewish refugees from Hungary, a
similar number from Poland and
about 1,000 Jewish repatriates
from Hungary, a similar number
from Poland and about 1,000
Jewish repatriates from Trans-
nistria. Each of these, he said,
is getting about eight dollars a
month from the Jewish relief
committee. He said the plight of
these refugees was so precarious
that it was necessary to send a
special appeal to the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee asking for
increased relief and for a single
grant of $50.00 for each of the
refugees to be spent for winter
clothing.
Dr. Marton indicated that there
was reason to believe that the
International Red Cross would
accept his recent proposal that
an organization of Jewish youth
be formed in Romania to organ-
ize relief for the surviving Jews
in recaptured Transylvania. Un-
der this plan the youth organiza-
tion would accompany the troops
going into Transylvania.
Censor Massacre Stories
Recently the Romanian cen-
sorship forbade the publication
of photographs and stories about
the mass slaughter of Romanian
Jews during the Antonescu dic-
tatorship. The order was signed
by General Carlaontz, Under-Sec-
retary of State for the Interior
in the present government.
In 1941 General Carlaontz was
military commander at Jassy and
was responsible for the massacre
See ROMANIANS—Page 16
Budapest Will Be Freed Soon
By ALFRED WERNER
When I arrived at Budapest,
in the eventful summer of 1939,
on my complicated hegira from
Nazi-occupied Austria to New
York, I felt like having exchanged
Gehinom for Gan Eden. Com-
pared with Nazi-fled Vienna,
where the remaining Jews an-
xiously hid in their homes, afraid
of being attacked by hoodlums
or rounded up by the Gestapo,
the comparative freedom our co-
religionists enjoyed in the Hun-
garian capital appeared paradis-
iac to the ex-prisoner of the
Dachau concentration camp. Sup-
erficially, it looked as though
Budapest's Jews were having a
very good time. Well-groomed
Jewish women sported the latest
Parisian fashions, crazy hats and
precious jewelry on the swanky
avenues along the Danube River,
or listened to the gypsy bands
playing in the restaurants. There
were no mass-demonstrations,
no riots, no anti-Semitic posters
to be seen in the streets, and the
shops displayed plenty of food
and fine clothes no longer avail-
able in the Third Reich.
Yet if you talked with the
husbands of some of these ele-
gant ladies, you soon noticed that
there was growing fear and even
despair under the glamorous sur-
face. The chief topic of conver-
sation was the newly adopted
anti-Jewish law that severely re-
stricted the civil rights of the
Jews. In addition to depriving
many foreign-born Jews of their
citizenship and limiting the po-
litical and cultural activities of
the native Jews, it restricted their
possibilities of earning a living,
for it limited their ratio in the
lberal professions and in business
enterprise to a maximum of six
per cent of the total. Moreover,
within the next five years Jews
employed in business offices had
to be dismissed until the ratio of
12 per cent of the total number
of employees in the individual
concern would be reached.
Quite a few Jews began to
write to their relatives and
friends in America, asking them
for affidavits. Of course, the
well-to-do Jews were not immedi-
ately threatened by the new trend
of affairs, but it was an entirely
different story with the middle-
class Jews, especially professional
men, such as physicians who could
not get hospital jobs any longer.
Numerous impoverished Jews
flocked to the capital from the
small cities and villages, especial-
ly from Sub-Carpathia and Upper
Hungary, acquired by the Axis-
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