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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1945-09-14

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Friday, September 14, 1945

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and Tho Legal Chronicle

Synagogues Join
In Appeal for
Sioo,000 Here

Page i'lusa

History of Hebrew Union College
And Development of Reform Movement

'Jewish Survivors in Camps
through its frontiers an d Jews Complain They Arc Not Aided
were going along. Wit

By ALFRED SEGAL
CINCINNATI — Reform Juda-
h them
At a conference of synagogue ism, in its organized identity, is must go American Jewish leaders
By NORMAN LOURIE,
presidents held Thursday at Shaa- coming to a stately birthday in to carry Wise' concept o f A mer _ Independent Jewish Press Service lish Jews that have fled to Hun-
rey Zedek, a merger was effected October and this city, its cradle, ican Judaism to the n ew-born Palcor News Agency Corresp't I gary and Austria told me that
pogroms and excesses, inspired
between the Detroit appeals for is making quite an affair of it. and growing communities . Amer-
SALZBURG — Jewish relief by the fascist Armja Krajowa,
the Vaad Hatzala Emergency The matter is to be sacreily ob- ican-born, English-speakin g rabbis
organizations overseas draw noth- now working underground, have
Committee and the American Re- served, too, in every city and were few if any.
ligious Palestine Fund for the so- town in the country in which a
So in 1875 Dr. Wise founded ing but scorn from the "liberat- raged without letup in the past
licitation of pledges among wor- Reform temple is served by an in Cincinnati, under the auspices ed" Jews in the American, British few weeks. Polish Jews here dis-
shipers on the Day of Atonement alumnus of the Hebrew Union of the Union of Americ an He- and French occupied areas of pute official figures and claim
College.
in all local congregations.
brew Congregations, the Hebrew Austria. Four months after liber- that the maximum number of
ation, at least 10,000 Jewish Jews in Poland now is 50,000, al-
Yes, it's the Hebrew Union Col- Union College to train A merican "displaced persons," mostly of Po- though the number fluctuates,
The agreement was negotiated
by Isaac Meyer Lewin, rcpresent- lege that will be seventy years Jewish youth for the rabbi nate. lish, Romanian and Hungarian or-
and some consider even this fig-
ing the Agudath Israel coloniza- old on October 3 and looking
igin, still live in approximately ure high.
AJC
TO
ESTABLSH
tion and child rescue efforts in back to the beginning you may
twenty camps, where conditions
Hungarian Jews are differently
the Holy Land, and Rabbi Eliezer say it has made a great life of OFFICE IN EUROPE
— range from tolerably good to situated. According to present es-
Rabinowitz of Vaad Hatzala head- it. As a rabbinical seminary it
NEW YORK — The'Ai nerican thoroughly
ghly bad. I visited them, I timates there are some 200,000
quarters in New York, both of hasn't been a mausoleum of dead Jewish Committee will e stablish have o been
with these people; I Jews in Hungary, which provides
whom are visiting here, for the letters standing on a remote peak permanent headquarters in Eu- 1 know.
a one-in-four chance that some
of
history.
purpose of avoiding duplication
rope. Dr. Max Gottschalk, direc- '
At Camp Riedenberg, near Salz-
and conflict, and was previously
It has concerned itself with for of the foreign affairs depar t.. burg, admittedly the worst of all kin of the "liberated" from con-
centration camps may have sur-
approved by the Detroit Council today's Jewish life, particularly ment of the AJC last week
sailed spots, 23 persons sleep in 14 beds, vived. Therefore many refugees
of Orthodox Rabbis. The goal of American Jewish life, to make it for Europe. The AJC plans to aid without mattresses, with no light-
are returning to search for their
the Yom Kippur appeals is $100,- effective and respected in the in the rehabilitation of European
ing in their dormitories. In an- families, The younger elements,
000.
American scene. Some 350 tem- Jewry and in the safeguarding of
other room in that camp, 20 wo- by contrast, are almost all deter-
At the meeting which was con- ples are being served by Hebrew the civil and religious rights of men sleep on the bare floor, with-
mined to wait for the opportunity
vened by William Sandler, presi- Union College rabbis who carry the Jews.
out any blankets.
of reaching Palestine, but in many
the
Jewish
name
in
dignity
in
dent, of Congregation Beth Tefilo
At Camp Ebensee, where 400 cases there is a great inner con-
1_ r1
Emanual; Joseph A. Block, presi- their communities. They serve the J
Polish Jews, mostly Orthodox, flict between the desire to return
i
h
L
Jewish
name
and
with
men
of
R
dent of Bnai David; Harry Ros-
have been living for the past and the hope of building a new
man, president of Bnai Moshe, other faiths go to serve the corn-
three
and a half months, I was life elsewhere.
esumes
Weekly
and Harry Cohen, head of Shaa- mon life as well.
told: "Rosh Hashonah is almost
The winter is approaching, and
rey Zedek, quotas were aodpted
OF COLLEGE
with us, and we haven't a single these men, women and children,
for all 40 houses of worship and
The College has had the idea
machzor."
face bitter, cold months ahead.
committees appointed to prepare that good lives are the best prod-
In all these camps I have heard
UNRRA representatives are on
the appeals.
uct of Judaism and counts its
the universal complaint about the the scene in Austria, scheduled to
success
in
the
characters
of
the
It was also decided to send a
monotony and inadequacy of the take over the administration of
Detroit representative to New members of the congregations led
daily, official ration of 2,000 cal- the camps by October 1.
York for a first hand report of by Hebrew Union College rabbis:
ories, which is quite insufficient
the relief and rehabilitation ac- Their ethical idealism, their so-
for persons who have spent years BI-NATIONAL STATE
tivities in European countries, cial consciousness, the manful
in concentration camps. Under-
TEL AVIV (Palcor) — The
and Palestine. This report will be part they play as Jews and citi-
nourishment is the chief source Palestine Communist Party which
submitted to another meeting of zens in the affairs of their com-
of illness. Two thousand persons met in Tel Aviv during Rosh Ha-
local synagogue representatives to munities.
confined to the camps' hospitals shonah adopted a resolution sup-
That is the greater pride of the
be held Thursday night, Hoshana
are victims of starvation.
porting the establishment of a bi-
Rabba, Sept. 27. All monies Hebrew Union College in its sev-
There is hardly a Hebrew book national state of Arabs and Jews
pledged during the Yom Kippur entieth year, though it possesses
in any of these camps. Many of in Palestine.
appeals are to be collected be- a group of stately buildings and
the children are completely illit-
fore that time and turned in at a library of Judaica unsurpassed
erate. And only education, reli-
the Sept. 27 meeting.
and its renown for scholarship ;s
gious education, can break down
world-wide.
the "lager psychologie," fear and
It's all in line with the teach-
hopelessness, which has possessed
Beth El Men's Club
ing of old Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise
these people.
Plans Dinner Oct. 3
who came here from Bohemia 100
FROM POLAND
years ago and preached a Juda-
The opening meeting of the
An exhaustive tour of these
ism liberated from ghettoes self-
Men's Club of Temple Beth El,
camps has convinced me that, as
made and ghettoes imposed by en-
set for 6:30 p.m:, Wednesday,
regards the Polish Jews, theirs is
emies. It was called Reform Juda-
Oct. 3, will be a stag dinner par-
a one-way traffic only — escape
ism but nowadays it is more often
HARRY M. KAMINER
ty open to all male members of
from Poland, no repatriation. Po-
spoken of as liberal and pro-
The weekly Saturday night ra-
Temple Beth El and their guests. gressive Judaism. (Reform may
dio programs sponsored by the sCuswiwomwomeamogs
Principal speakers will be Clif-
become static but a religion that Detroit Section of the American
ford Epstein, foreign correspond-
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These
broadcasts
conditions in Europe, and Tony
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The two pre-school classes, men of good-will toward a world Jewish campaigns are publicized.
For the opening broadcast of
which meet from 10 - 12:30 in more just and lovely.
He announced a Judaism "with- this season, Morris Lieberman,
the morning, have also been re-
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opened — one is located at the out mysteries," rational, a voice president of Detroit Section of
for
brotherhood
and
justice
in
American Jewish Congress, will
Rose Sittig Cohen, with Miss Mir-
open the membership drive; Har-
iam Gold as instructor; the other tho world.
at the David W. Simons (Tuxedo
Specializing in
His preaching was taken up in ry M. Kaminer, in charge of the
and Holmer), with Miss Fannie congregations in the larger cities radio programs and vice president
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and in 1873 Dr. Wise took steps of the Detroit section, will give
Finest Lobsters, Fish, Oysters
Regular sessions are held from to bring these scattered voices of the news and various announce-
Clams, Prime Meats
4 p.m. on. The high school depart- Reform together. He organized ments; Miss Eve Neidelman, sec-
533-547 E. FORESTAVE. t.-
ment begins its sessions at 7:00 the Union of American Hebrew retary of the Detroit section, and
Downtown
Branch : -4,tr
Complete
Carry-Out
Service
administrative
secretary
of
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Zion Solution
Seen Imminent

(Continued from Page 1)

)ieve that the London conference
will avoid direct talks on the Pal.
estine question. These sources
base their opinion on the fact that
Lord Gort, High Commissioner
for Palestine, is not to participate
in the discussions.
A prediction that Britain will
announce its decision on the Pal-
estine question "before the end of
the year" was made last week by
the official French news agency.
The agency's report said that be-
fore announcing its decision the
British government will hold a
J°Int conference of Arab and Jew-
l'h leaders.

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