DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Sixteen 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 I Detroit Jewry Mourns Death of George Freedman Friday, Septe-,, , r 7. 1945 Beth Yehudah (Continued fisc ) 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. (Continued from page 1) 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 TOwnsend 8-5466 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. Plaza 5100 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, 13 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• 6335 LYNDON AVE. 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 C 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 4845 MT. ELLIOTT hour of critical emergency even played a great part in atomic re- more restrictions—in fact a com- search from the days of Einstein 1 PL. 8306 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 TYler 4-6912 Lord Moyne, the British Resident be used for the enrichment of the `• Minister in the Near East. The life of all humanity. • , MIKE FALK Jews Throng Synagogues And Temples • SUPERIOR SASH SCREEN CO. Jos. F. Temrowski I JWEWO To Hold Bake Sale Sept. THE NOR TH WEST HEBREW CONGREGATION • DETROIT POPCORN CO.