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30th Year of Service to Detroit Jewry
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
VOL. 47, NO. 25
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1945
10c Single Copy, $3.00 Per Yea,
Zionist Teams Charity Funds Perverted
To Canvass All To Build the Jewish News
Detroit Jewry
Editorial
Rabbi Fram Issues Call;
Registration on July 1
Summoning the Jews of
Detroit to register their will
for the creation of a Jew-
ish Commonwealth in Pal-
estine, Rabbi Leon Fram,
President of the Zionist Or-
ganization of Detroit, has
isued a call, designating
Sunday, July 1, as Zionist
Registration Day.
A corps of workers will make
a house-to-house canvass that
day, inviting the Jewish people
of the city to enroll as members
of the Zionist Organization.
The workers will meet at
breakfast at 10 a.m., Sunday,
July 1, in the Rose Sittig Cohen
Building, at Lawton and Tyler,
where they will receive instruc-
tions. They will then break up
into teams of two and three and
spend the rest of the day in the
work of Zionist registration.
Membership Fee $5
Because of the difficulty of the
task of reaching every Jewish
home in Detroit, Rabbi Fram has
asked that those who are not ap-
proached by canvassers during
the day take the initiative and
send their enrollment check of
85 direct to the Zionist Organi-
zation of Detroit, 1044 Penobscot
Building.
Fram in Ids call de-
clared: •
"The hour of decision has
arrived. Our American govern-
ment as well as the organiza-
tion of the United Nations are
about to pronounce a final ver-
dict on the claim of the Jew•
'ish people to a homeland in
Palestine. Their decision is
bound to be influenced by one
powerful consideration, name.
ly, the will of the Jewish peo-
ple itself.
"The y would not undertake
th e drastic action of establish.
ice a Jewiih Commonwealth
in Palestine unless the y defi-
nitely knew that such action
was desired by all the Jewish
People of the word and espe-
ciall y by the Jews of America,
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One of the great tenets of Judaism is charity. The
giving of charity, the aiding of the hungry, the naked,
the homeless, is incumbent upon every Jew.
Because charity is such a great virtue, one of the
Mitzvahs which will insure forgiveness, the misuse of
charitable funds is considered one of the most heinous
of sins.
Such a sin is happening here in our Detroit Jewish
community. Funds which are supposed to feed the hun-
gry, to shelter the homeless, to clothe the naked, are in
fact being "perverted" to subsidize a private profit-
making corporation.
Our Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation is guilty of
this practice and the sooner the 24,000 Jewish contrib-
utors to the Welfare Fund know about it, the quicker
they can stop this practice.
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Especially at this time, at this most tragic hour in the
entire history of Jewry, such a perversion of charitable
funds is deplorable. The wretched remnants of Euro-
pean Jewry cry to us for help. The Jews who survived
the persecutions of the Nazis, the horrors of Camp Mai-
danek and Camp Treblinka, of Dachau and Buchen-
wald, are unspeakably destitute. They need food, cloth-
ing, shelter. They need medicines. They need schools.
They are naked in this world of plenty with no one to
help them but the Jews of America.
Should we use the money to help these unfortunate
ones or should a part of the charity funds which we
raise here be employed to support a private money-
making business?
The Joint Distribution Committee asks for $46,000,000
to help these European Jews and we Detroit Jews are
counted on to help.
The United Palestine Appeal seeks $35,000,000 to
help develop the Jewish Homeland in Palestine to bring
in 200,000 Jewish war refugees during the next year.
Palestine is the only hope for a great part of European
Jewry and we are asked to help. But part of the funds
which should go to Palestine are aiding a Detroit pri-
vate enterprise.
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What is this private business which Jewish charity
is supporting?
THIS BUSINESS IS THE JEWISH NEWS WHICH
EVERY MONTH RECEIVES A CHECK FROM THE
FEDERATION.
The Jewish News is a private corporation organized
for profit and deriving a profit from its advertisements.
The Jewish News, while rattling a tincup for charity
money, yet "modestly" boasts that it was "founded
lilt
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$41,000Raised
By Hadassah
'45 Honor Roll
Head of Zionists
Speaks at Rally
A p p roximately $41,000
was raised by the 18th an-
nual Hadassah Honor Roll
drive, Mrs. Sidney J. Allen,
honor roll chairman re-
ported at the rally Wednes-
day night in the Detroit In-
stitute of Arts. This was
double the amount raised
last year. There were more
than 1,500 contributors to
the fund.
HANK GREENBERG
Greenberg Lifts
Pennant Hopes
We
haven't had such good
news since
VE Day," is the
General
Zeller,
way Jack
Manager of the Tigers put it.
And the good news is simply
that Capt. Hank Greenberg, bet-
ter known as maestro of the
swat, better, known us the home-
run king ofthe Detroit "Tigers,"
is honorably discharged from the
Army and will be in the Tigers'
lineup by July 1st.
The good news is that Hankus,
Champeen-of-the-Swat, will be
taking his turn at the bat with-
in a fortnight.
And Jack Zeller was not alone
in his "delirium" out Trumbull
way.
"Watch our stuff with Hank
in there," said Hal Newhouser,
Tiger pitcher extraordinary.
"Boy-o-boy-o-boy," interrupted
big-Indian Chief Rudy York.
It's impossible to quote all the
Detroit players as we heard them
in the club house.
Hank Inspires Tigers
Hank has been in Detroit since
Wednesday. He's at Briggs stadi-
um daily, getting batting practice,
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The contributions by districts
were as follows:
Huntington Woods group, $600;
Russell Woods, $5,406; Central,
$15,439 and University Gee_,,,
$21,000.
Detroit chapter of Hadassah is
also planning to raise $25,000 to
equip a children's ward in the
new tuberculosis hospital in Jeru-
salem.
The main speaker at this honor
roll rally was Dr. Israel Gold-
stein, president of the Zionist
organization o f America, a n d
rabbi of Congregation Bnai
Jeshurun, New York, one of the
oldest congregations in America.
Dr.
Tells of Conference
Goldstein, who was an ad-
viser to the American delegation
ut the United Nations Conferonce
in San Francisco, declared that
Jewry had le.st nothing- and
gained nothing at the world con-
ference. He praised the American
delegation for protecting Jewish
rights in the new trusteeship plan
and declared that Commander
Harold E. Stassen was especially
vigilant to see that nothing was
inserted in the trusteeship plan
to impair the Jewish position in
Palestine. Arab attempts to
freeze out the Jews failed.
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$1,218,000 Bonds
Sold By Beth El
Leonard N. Simons and
Samuel Rands, co-chairmen of
the Temple Beth El 7th Wur
Loan Committee, report sales
of $1,218,075 in War Bonds,
as of noon Monday, June 18.
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Pronounce "Cherem" List 2 Detroit Seek $250,000 Here
On Jewish Dean
Jewish Soldiers toFight Anti-Semitism
The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States
and Canada has issued a proclamation of excommunica-
tion, the first in its 43-year history, against Dr. Mordecai
M. Kaplan, dean of the Teachers'
Institute of the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary, accusing him of
expressing "atheism, heresy and
disbelief in the basic tenets of
Judaism" in the compilation of a
recently published prayer book,
it was learned last week.
Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, presi-
dent of the union, said the an-
cient cherem, one of the severest
forms of Jewish excommunica-
tion, was invoked last week at a
meeting of the members of the
organization. After the edict was
passed unanimously, Dr. Kaplan's
‘Y.ork," w the "Sabbath Prayer
assembly, as burned before the
Rabbi Rosenberg said state-
ments in Dr. Kaplan's introduc-
" lion
m to the book outlining a
odification of traditional doc-
trine" were contrary to the spirit
tand law of Judaism. He added
.hat there was danger that the
bk might be confused with th.'
traditional
volume of prayer, and
h
t i n at s the edict prohibited its use
ynagogues.
To All Jewry
Although Dr. Kaplan is not a
member
of the union and is not
€
111. orthodox rabbi, Rabbi Rosen-
6,.rg
said the proclamation was
al ected to "all Jewry."
Dr. Kaplan, who is the founder
of the Society for the Advance-
ment of Judaism and head of the
Jewish Reconstructionist Founda-
tion, publishers of the book, said
the charge that he was an atheist
was "absurd."
"How can any one who edits
a prayer book be an atheist?
he asked.
The preparation of the book,
Dr. Kaplan explained, was mo-
tivated by a desire to develop a
religious service that would give
"modern-minded Jews a form of
worship in which they could par-
ticipate with devotion and sin-
cerity."
He said it was not intended for
those Jews who were satisfied
with the traditional prayers, and
that the action against him raised
the question of "freedom of wor-
ship.'
Dr. Kaplan characterized the
proceedings as "barbarous." He
said: "It is just too bad that men
who call themselves rabbis should
in this day and age resort to the
barbarous practice of outlawing
man without giving him a hear-
ing God save us from such
leadership and from the disgrace
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Killed In Action
Two Detroit Jewish soldiers
were listed as killed this week by
the war department. Both heroes
were officers. Two are reported as
wounded.
KILLED
LT. DAVID BLUMENFIELD,
husband of Mrs. Rhea G. Blumen-
field, 3331 Fullerton.
FIRST LT. RAYMOND
BLOCK, husband of Mrs. Rhoda
H. Block, 2628 Webb Ave.
WOUNDED
S/SERGT. ALEX K. GOOD-
MAN, second time. son of Mrs.
Anna Goodman, 3824 Tyler,
PVT. MORRIS F INK, son of
Mrs. Gussie Fink, 3346 Rochester.
FREED
WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN,
son
of Mrs. Anna Hoffman, 2231 La
Salle Gardens, reported April 26,
1944 as captured in Italy.
PVT. JEROME S. KRAUS,
son of Mrs. Hanna Kraus, 9307
Broudstreet.
LT. CHARLES A. EPSTEIN,
27, Marauder bombardier, navi-
gator; captured during a Feb.
29, 1944, mission from Italy, son
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Quentin Reynolds, noted journalist, author and radio
commentator, will be the speaker at a public report rally
of the Special Defense Fund Campaign for civic-protec-
tive work now being conducted
by the Jewish Welfare Federa-
the responsibility of a Jewish
tion of Detroit.The rally will be ly
held in the grand ballroom of fund."
Hotel Staler at 8:15 p.m., Tues- $250,000 Budget
The Jewish Welfare Federation
day, June 26, with Judge William
Friedman, president of the Fed- has set a quota of $250,000 for
eration, serving as chairman, and the next two years for the na-
Irving W. Blumberg, president tional and local civic-protective
of the Detroit Service Group, also programs. The amounts to be al-
located to each of the agencies
on the program.
will be decided later.
The campaign to raise funds
The Council of Jewish Federa-
for the financing of national and tions and Welfare Funds is now
local civic-protective services is studying on these matters, When
intended to cover the two-year she report is ready the executive
period from June 1, 1945 to May committee of the Federation, and
31, 1947.
the boards of governors of the
The major agencies engaged in Jewish Welfare Federation and
civic-protective work are the the Detroit Service Group, sitting
Atnetican Jewish Committee, the as a budget committee, will set
American Jewish Congress, the the allocations.
Anti-Defamation League of Bnui
All the beneficiary agencies are
Brith and the Jewish Labor Com- menlbcrs of the National Commu-
mittee, all of which operate on nity R ,dations Advisory Council,
a national scale.
created in March, 1944, with a
Or the local scene, the Jewish view to joint planning. and clea--
Community Council, which de- ance by national and local agen-
rives support for its regular op- cies. The Federation statement
erating budget and administra- declared:
"Wp are &aline with a prob.
tive costs from Allied Jewish
lam that is beset with diffi-
Campaign funds of the Wat•
culties. In the fight on anti-
Chest, also receives a grant from
the special defense fund, outside I Semi.Ism even as in other fields
of War Chest, for those parts of --one face is clears the Jewish
its program which are "peculiar- i
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