DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Lt. Walter Slakter
Completes Training
Lt. Walter Carl Slakter, son of
Mr. and Jack C. Slakter, of 1940
Pingree, is now home on leave,
having completed his training as
navigator at Selman Field, Mon-
roe, La.
His brother 1st Lt. Martin M.
Slakter, a paratrooper is with the
occupational forces in the Pacific.
Another brother, Benjamin, a
veteran of over two and half
years service in North Africa and
European theatres, and now a
civilian, was reunited with his
younger brother after an absence
of almost four years.
The Year in Review
5705 Was Perhaps the Most Fateful
Year in History
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Detroit Jewry
Mourns Death of
George Freedman
Friday, Septe-,, ,
r 7. 1945
Beth Yehudah
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fisc
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the current fiscal
willilteach
$134,000.
Major sources of :.come, in ad.
dition to tuition t
are High
George Freedman, Detroit buil- Holiday appeals
m . ;
der and a resident of Detroit i o u s synagogue, at the
memb
since childhood, died Wednesday, contributions,
at annual due,
Aug. 29, at Henry Ford Hospital, between $5.00 and $100.00,
and
after a brief illness. He was 53 bequests
corni.i,?toorating tht
names of departed loved ones.
The Yeshivah 1.,s en ved Je w.
ish religious education in D etroit
during almost threw decades, since
By MARTIN SILVER
If we were to ask ourselves wherein lies the great significance
of the past year as compared to others, the answer would probably
be in its "'globalness". If we look at all the developments of the
past year. national and racial and territorial differences seem to fade
before a world impression. No year has made us so world-conscious.
The victories over Germany and Japan of course affected us as
Jews or as Americans or as Russians, but the whole world was
affected. The World Charter was another event which focalized world
its establishment ins 1917 by the
attention.
late spiritual head of Detroit
Even the victory of the British Labor Party was impressive
Jewry — Rabbi Yehudah Leib
Levin. Its growth to an enroll.
because it did not seem so much a victory to a single patty but a
ment of more than 500 student
sign of the times from a world standpoint. And lastly as a super-
I.
has placed the Yeshivah in the
climax, the atom bomb snapped the last cords of isolationism and
forefront of Jewish education.
made us feel that those who still preached that doctrine were as
New Year
Services in the (downtown area
antiquated as the stone age.
will be held by the Downtown
Greetings
The past year was a year of two young assassins of Lord
Synagogue on Griswold near
ioy. It brought deliverance from Moyne were tried in Egypt and
State and by Congregation Beth
perhaps the greatest enemy that executed.
Jacob.
civilization has ever faced—in the FAVORED JEWISH STATE
Congregation Beth Aaron will
conquest over the Nazis.
worship in its new edifice at
In America, the White Paper
POETIC JUSTICE
Wyoming and Thatcher while the
and Zionism entered into politics
Northwest Congregation will war.,
We enjoyed that deliverance. and both the Democratic and Re-
ship at the Bagley School.
We did rot hang Hitler and publican party platforms came
Music Corp. of America
Himmler and Goebbels as Haman ouf with strong planks favoring
and h s associates were hung. the establishment of a Jewish
Detroit
They saved us the trouble — by State in Palestine.
ending their own lives.
GEORGE FREEDMAN
Following the election, however,
We got our little trimmings of t h e Democratic administration
poetic justice. Synagogue services took no steps to implement the years old. He was born Nov. 21,
1891, in Lithuania, coming to De-
New Year's Greetings and Best wet e held by American Jewish pledge and in fact Secretary Stet-
troit
as a young lad.
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troops in a castle formerly be- tinius appeared before the House
Wishes are Herewith
longing to Dr. Goebbels. A Jew- and Senate Committees consider-
Funeral services were held Fri- children under 10. Services Fri.
Extended to All
ish servicemen's club occupied ing the Palestine resolution and day, Aug. 31, at 2 p.m. at Brown day evening will begin at 6:30
the very residence of Hitler in succeeded in blocking the meas- Memorial Chapel, Temple Beth and Saturday and Sunday morn-
Brunswick, Germany. A Jewish use.
El. Dr. B. Benedict Glazer con- ings at 8:15 a. m.
officer captured Herr Streicher,
Dr. A. M. Hershman will be
Zionists, too, were irked by the ducted the rites. Interment was
SEASON - SEAL
the editor of the pornographic fact that the San Francisco Con- in the family plot at Clover Hal assisted by Dr. Alexander Burn.
. anti-Semitic sheet, the Stuermer, ference of the United Nations Park Cemetery. Samuel Jacob, stein of New York. Cantor J. H.
Screen and Sash Combination
which in the early days of the gave no representation in the Joseph Holtzman, Joseph Benis, Sonenklar and a choir of male
, Nazis kept up such a continuous body of delegates to Jews as Dr. Jack I. Winshall, Michael voices will chant the services in
tirade against the Jews. such. In England, Professor Har- Luft and Lee C. Lippman were the Main Auditorium. Rabbi Nei.
Yes, we got these satisfactions old Laski, commented on this the pallbearers. Hundreds, both mand will officiate at the Junior
—and yet there was the terribly strange anomaly that while the Jews and Gentiles, attended the Congregation.
Congregation Bnai Moshe sill
20460 JOHN R near 8-Mile Road sad confirmation of the fact that Arab states which had been pro- final rites.
conduct three separate services.
Hitler's threat of exterminating Nazi up to the very end of the
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Survivors are his wife, Edith; Besides the service in the main
the Jews had not gone far astray. war were well represented, the
Five million Jews, it is estimat- Jews, who had been the chief vic- four sisters, Mrs. Minnie Levin, Synagogue there will be Auviliary
Mrs. Anna Wangrow, Mrs. Rose services in the Social Hall and
ed, had been done to death by liras of the Nazis and had give
the Nazis in Europe. In Poland, a million troops to the Allie n Sloan, all of Detroit, and Mrs. children's services. Rabbi Moses'
of some three and a half million ranks, had not a single represen Allen Shoenfield of Ann Arbor, Fischer will deliver the sermons
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
and three brothers, Morris, Jacob on both days of Rosh Hashonah
Jews, only several hundred thou- tative.
I and Max, all of 'Detroit.
and a choir
sand remained. In Belgium, Hol-
Jewish organizations were how
will
chant Katzman
the High Holy Day
Mr. Freedman was for many and
Cantor
land and Czechoslovakia, nine- ever represented in advisory ca
tenths of the Jews had been put pacities at San Francisco, an d years a member of the Builders' melodies.
Real Estate Exchange
Services will start at A a, a•
to death. In France, the Jews they bent their efforts toward th e Association of Metropolitan De-
had fared somewhat better—some achievements of two aims, pro _ troit. He was also a member of Saturday and Sunday.
Complete Real Estate Service
At Bnai David Synagogue Can-
200,000 had escaped. In Austria, tecting the existing rights o f the Moslem Temple and Grand
General Insurance
90 percent had been killed. For- Jews in Palestine, and advocat Lodge, F. & A. M. He was affili- for Hyman J. Adler and a choir
tunately for the German Jews,
Property Management
ing an international bill of right s. ated with Temple Beth El and be-
preach on
about two-thirds of them had fled
The death of President Roose _ longed to the Harry B. Keidan will chant the services. Rabbi
5039 McDougall Ave.
both
days
of
Rosh
from Germany in the early years velt on the eve of the San Fran _ Lodge of Bnai Brith and the Zion- Joshua S. Sperka will hel Sep•
d fo:
crate services are being
of Hitlerism.
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cisco Conference deeply move d jet Organization of America, liashonah.
children in the Social Hall. Can• .
THE WHITE PAPER
Jewry. Coming into office i
for Abraham Garenhaus and a,
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, of the Washington at the same time tha
trained choir will chant the serv•
Joint Distribution Committee, es- Hitler came to power in Ger
ices at Congregations Beth Abra•
timated that only a million and a many, he appeared as heaven
ham, Linwood and Sturtevant,
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half Jews were to be found alive sent to combat the forces of ev it
with Rabbi Thutnin preaching the
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
in all Europe, outside of the So- personified in the Nazis.
The 'members of the Jewish
sermons.
viet Union. Large numbers even
Women's
Europtan
Welfare
Or-
ZIONISTS HEARTENED
Rabbi Max J. Wohgelernter
of this "saving remnant" had un-
The victory of the British La- ganization will hold their annual will preach at Beth Tefilo Eman•
dergone so much suffering that
bor Party toward the end of the before Yom Kippur Bake Sale on uel Synagogue with Cantor Hy.
there was a question whether thy
Thursday, Sept. 13, at all kosher
man Schulsinger chanting the
Velvet Nut Products too would not have to be written year again heartened Zionists, butcher
shops. The public is asked
who had about come to the con-
services.
off. The one ambition of most of
clusion that the Arabs held all to patronize them as the funds go
these Jews who had been incar-
the trumps. Four Jews were to aid Jewish orphans.
PRAGUE (WNS1 — A new
cerated in concentration camps
A board meeting will be held
named to the Labor government
,contemplating the speed•
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was to emigrate to Palestine. Yet and more than twenty Jews chos- Sept. 24 in the home of Mrs. Isi- decree
ing of the restoration of con&..
the ironic fact presented itself en to the House of Commons on lore Weiner, 4262 Monterey.
has been
a
c
an ov
Jew
Nn ish
that just at this time of supreme the Labor ticket, but what caused
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announced by the zechoslovaki
emergency, the White Paper had
particular satisfaction to Jewry
Patronize Our Advertisers.
t e Govern ment.
taken effect and the number of was the fact that the Labor party
Jews still admissible to Palestine had in the past so strongly sup-
Seasons Greetings and
was extremely limited.
ported Jewish aspirations in Pal-
The White Paper was vigorous- estine, and it was hoped that this
East Wishes to All
ly attacked. Ben-Gurion charged
reflected a genuine feeling on its
the British government with be- part, which would in time ex-
THE OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRE( I ORS
ing responsible for the loss of press itself in deals.
possibly hundreds of thousands of
The revelation of the atomic
o f
Jewish lives by the difficulty of bomb and the victory over Japan
FRED'S CARTAGE
getting immigration certificates to were two climaxes of the year.
Palestine, and now in another It was revealed that Jews had
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hour of critical emergency even played a great part in atomic re-
more restrictions—in fact a com- search from the days of Einstein
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plete ban on Jews—was to be set who had shown that mass was
up. Over the doors of the Jewish ?onvertible to energy. The assist-
Homeland was to rise a sign:
ance given by Jewish refugees
Wish the Members and Their Families
NO JEWS ALLOWED HERE
from Nazi countries was particu-
larly noticeable. It was a heaven-
And the Detroit Jewish Community
By Order of John Bull
Rosh Hashonah
That in effect was what the ly boon perhaps that these refu-
White Paper meant.
Greetings
gees had been driven out of Ger-
A Happy and Prosperous New Yco ,'.
In Palestine, some fanatic Zion- many or Hitler might have suc-
ists, egged on by the White Pa- ceded in perfecting the bomb.
Jewish scientists had begun
per, resorted to terrorism. Siege
It is our hope that our people shall lose the stigma of suffering
was laid to a number of police their research in the atom with
stations and other government the hope of finding a construc-
and homelessnes s in the conning year and that our dream
buildings in Palestine, a number tive peace-time use for it and it
and aspirations may be realized and Eretz Israel shall
of British policemen were killed was the hope of decent people
by the terrorists. Finally the ter- that after the war, the great
5627 Grand River
become the Land of Israel.
rorists reached out to assassinate powers locked in the atom might
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Lord Moyne, the British Resident be used for the enrichment of the
`• Minister
in the Near East. The life of all humanity.
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,
MIKE
FALK
Jews Throng
Synagogues
And Temples
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SUPERIOR SASH
SCREEN CO.
Jos. F. Temrowski
I
JWEWO To Hold
Bake Sale Sept.
THE NOR TH WEST
HEBREW CONGREGATION
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DETROIT
POPCORN CO.