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February 16, 1945 - Image 16

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1945-02-16

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Friday, February 16, 1945

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle

Nis Sixteen

Plea for Torah
Voiced at Yeshivah
Beth Yehudah Event

Dr. Nisson Touroff
To Speak in Detroit

Plays to Feature
Beth El School
Purim Programs

J. L. Hudson to Stage
Spring Flower Show

`Tomorrow the World'
Yiddish Version at
Masonic Feb. 25

March 19 through March 24
Dr. Nisson Touroff, Hebrew
will be the week of the Spring
"Tomorrow the World," Gold-
writer, educator and lecturer,
The Religious School of Tem- Flower and Garden Show which berg and Jacobs' Yiddish ver-
A capacity audience which will be the guest speaker of the ple Beth El will celebrate the will be presented on the 12th sion of the recent American
filled the Social Hall of Con- Teachers' Organization of the Feast of Purim on Feb. 24 and floor of the J. L. Hudson store. stage hit, which proved a smash-
The store's two auditoriums ing- success also in the Jewish
greagtion Shaarey Zedek last
25.
The Junior High School will will be tkansformed into gar- theater in New York, will he
Sunday night at the third an-
present • their Purim program dens. Sixty-five garden clubs presented here for one perform-
nual patron's dinner of Yeshi-
vath Beth Yehudah, listened to
with the play, "A Merry Purim," will participate.
ance on Sunday evening, Feb,
Mrs. David D. Dunlop is chair- 25, at the Scottish Rite Audi-
by Woolf, at 10:15 a. nt., Feb.
Rabbi William Drazin of Tor-
24. The play is under the direc- man of this spring flower show torium.
onto, for "putting first things
tion of Mrs. Blanche Gordon which will be open to the public
first" by restoring Torah to its
The Yiddish version of 'To-
Romtn, with the following cast: without charge.
position of primacy in Jewish
morrow the World" was staged
The show, to be beautiful and and co-produced by Nathan Gold- :-
Ruth Schwartz, Estherann Hon-
life.
The speaker, president of the
eyman, Joanne Strauss, Nancy educational, will feature a pool
and Jacob Jacobs, who ako
Greenberg, Marilyn Kirschmann, garden, a garden gate, the plant- berg
Rabbinical Council of America,
play the leading male roles in it.
medium
ing
for
a
front
yard
of
a
Judy Aller, Larry Clamage, Mar-
reviewed the communal history
Others in the original Jewish
shall Loewenstein, Sally Press, priced home, a terrace garden,
of American Jewry.
include Rose Goldberg, Lilli e
cast
In America, the speaker stat-
Stephen Fuerth and Harry Car- a patio, a bulb garden and four Lillian", Betty Jacobs, Frances
formal rose gardens around a Wagenfeld and Saul Schwartz,
ed, there has been a gradual de-
ris.
The seventh and eighth grades wishing well. Three lectures will who portrays the part of the
velopment of the Yeshivah idea
will hold their party in the third be given daily.
as embodied in elementary and
young Nazi.
floor Chapel following the play.
advanced schools now organized
The drama just concluded a
in all of the major Jewish cen-
There will be a program of en-
four-month capacity run at the
tertainment in which every class Purim Program at
ters.
Parkway Theater in New York
Rabbi M. J. Wohigelernter of
will take part. The Confirma-
City.
tion class will have a Purim Temple Beth El
Beth Tefilo Emanuel Congrega-
luncheon party in the Social Hall
tion, president of the Detroit
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, rabbi
of the Temple at noon.
Yeshivah, declared that the bud-
Histadrut Adopts Unified
"The Purim Wizard of Oz," of Temple Beth El, will preach
get had to be enlarged from
by Ben Aronin, will be the at 8:15 p. m. Friday, Feb. 23, Hechalutz Movement
$50,000 to $85,000, with the in-
Purim presentation of the Inter- at the Sabbath eve services of
crease of the student body from
JERUSALEM (WNS) — The
DR. NISSON TOUROFF
mediate Drama Group before the Temple Beth El on "The :Fes- conference of the Histadrut, the
300 to 500. Tuition fees are
tival
of
Purim—What
Can
it
expected to total $25,000 for United Hebrew Schools, the primary and intermediate as-
Palestine Jewish Federation of
Mean for Us Today."
the year.
Koutzah, and the Zionist Organ- sembly at 10:15 a. 01. Sunday,
Labor, adopted a resolution
A
program
of
Purim
music
He announced that the patrons' izations of Detroit on Tuesday Feb. 25.
which provides for the establish-
The cast is as follows: Bert- will be presented by the Temple ment of a unified Hechalutz
dinner and souvenir porgram and Wednesday evenings, March
Quartet
with
Julius
Chajes
di-
ram
Shapiro,
Robert
Frankel,
would probably raise $10,000, 6 and 7. Tuesday evening Dr.
movement in the countries out-
and that the board of directors Touroff will speak in Hebrew on Richard Levinson, Suzanne Alt- recting, and Jason Tickton at the side of Palestine and for the
organ.
A
social
hour,
under
the
man, Marcia Kleinman, Susan
had voted to raise the additional "Jewish Education."
auspices of the Sisterhood, will sending of special instructo r
$15,000 needed before the end
Bernard Isaacs, United Heb- Klein, Marilyn Schwartz, Marcia follow the services.
from Palestine to train the Cha-
rew Schools superintendent, will Wisok, Elaine Platt. Mrs. Blan-
lutzim. The Hashomer Hatzair,
che
G.
Romm
directed
the
play.
be chairman.
left wing of the Histadrut, o p-
A
masquerade
party
for
the
On Wednesday evening, Dr.
UHS
Auxiliary
to
See
this decision.
', posed
Touroff will deliver an address primary department with movies,
Other resolutions demanded
songs
and
refreshments
will
be
Play
"Behold
the
Jew
in English on the "Jewish Cul-
the opening of Palestine to un-
ture in the Dispora," with Rabbi held in the Social Hall; the in-
of the restricted Jewish immigration, es- . •
Daughters
of
members
termediate
department
will
have
Leon Fram as chairman. Both
pecially of children from libel
lectures, will be held in the Rose a special program of entertain- Women's Auxiliary of the Unit- ated Europe; action by the Pal.
ed
Hebrew
Schools
will
stage
ce Ida
Sittig Cohen Bldg. and will start ment and refreshments in the
the play, "Behold the Jew," a estine Government to c redu ed
third floor Chapel.
high
cost
of
living;
inreasine
at 8:30 p. m.
The High School will meet in dramatization of the prize poem ports of raw and building mate.
Dr. Touroff was professor of
for a by Ada Jackson, noted British vials as well as machinery foi
philosophy of education in the the Men's Club Room
and refresh- poet.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Purim program
industry; the openini
The play will be presented on Palestine's
and is now professor of Hebrew ments.
by the government of the poi
Wednesday,
Feb.
28,
at
1:30
in
language and modern Hebrew lit-
Tel Aviv, and a larger pro
the afternoon, in the Rose Sittig of
erature at the Jewish Institute
portion of government allocation
Cohen Bldg., 13226 Lawton.
100,000 Jews in
education and publi
of Religion in New York.
Morry Wiess, of the Jewish for Jewish
Liberated Hungary
Community Center staff, is the works.
BERNE (WNS) — There are coach. Mrs. Bert Smokier is
Convoy of 1,200 Jews
about 100,000 Jewish survivors chairman of the program com- Jewish Civil War
Arrives from Austria
in the Soviet-liberated area of mittee. Mrs. Jack Tobin is pres- Veteran Dead at 98
Hungary, according to reliable ident of the Woman's Auxiliary.
BERNE (WNS) — A convoy information reaching here.
NEW YORK (WNS) — Dani ,
of 1,200 Jewish refugees from
BRITISH ARREST 49
Dr. Gabor Lengyl, president of
Harris, 98, last Brooklyn vetera
the Theresienstadt concentration the Zionist Organization of Hun-
War and the he
JERUSALEM (PaIcor)—Some of the Civil
ROBERT ROSENBERG
camp in Austria arrived at Kreuz- gary, was reported to have de-
of the 8,000 Jewish so
iingen following negotiations with clared that there are about 280,- 600 persons were interrogated survivor
on the UM(
of the year, through contribu- Heinrich Himmler.
and 49 detained by police dur- diets who fought
000 Jewish survivors in Hungary, ing a search for terrorists in the side, died at his home in Br oo
tion from synagogues and organ-
Other convoys of approximate- including the territory still held
lye last week.
Tel Aviv-Jaffa border area.
izations.
ly the same number are expect-
Robert Rosenberg of Congre- ed weekly for five or six weeks. by the Germans.
gation Bnai Moshe, and a Yesh-
ivah director, was named chair-
man of a special membership
drive.
The musical program was
eliminated in observance of a
period of mourning for millions
of Jews exterminated in Europe,
decreed by Palestinian and Amer-
ican Rabbinate.
Cantor David Katzman read
Psalm 79. Rabbi Joseph Thuniin,
chairman of the Vaad Horabon-
im, led the audience in Birchas
Homozon. Greetings were pre-
sented by Rabbi Simcho Wasser-
man, head of the Yeshivah fac-
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250,000 Pounds of Clothing
Collected for Russia

More than 250,000 pounds of
clothing have been collected here
for the Russian Relief. There
w a s wholehearted cooperation
from all Jewish factions. The
Laundry and Linen Drivdrs lo-
cal helped to collect the old
clothes from the various depots.

SILVER TESTIMONIAL

NEW YORK—Professor Albert
Einstein heads the list of prom-
inent leaders from all walks of
life who are acting as co-chair-
men of the testimonial dinner
being tendered by Dr. Abba Hil-
of Cleveland, on March
lel Silver
21 in New York.

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