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Friday, March 1; 1946
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Hebrew Free Loan Association
Commences 51st Year of Service
HISTORY, OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN
By
4
IRVING I. KATZ
Executive Secretary, Temple Beth El, Detroit
(ibis is a series of articles covering Jews in Mich-
igan I
1763 to dale. It is written by the historian
o t Tomato Beth El and contains material never before
published.)
ARTICLE V
1850-1860
Articles of Incorporation
On April 21, 1851, the Beth El Society filed Articles of Incorpora-
tion with the County Clerk of Wayne County, where they were record-
ed on December 21, 1852. These articles are signed by eleven charter
members (Jacob Silberman, president; Solomon Bendit, treasurer;
Joseph Freedman, Max Cohn, Adam Hersch, Alex Hein, Jacob Lang,
Aron Joel Friedlander, Leo Bresler, Charles E. Bresler, Louis Bresler)
and read as follows:
The undersigned Israelites of the City of Detroit have this day
assembled for the purpose of forming a Society to provide themselves
with a place of Public Worship, Teacher of their Religion, and Burial
Ground, and give such Society the name of Congregation Beth El,
and adopt the following laws for the administration of the affairs of
their Congregation.
Article I
NAME OF THE CONGREGATION
1. The name of the Congregation shall be Beth El.
2. The name of the Congregation shall never be changed.
Article II
ADMINISTRATION
1. The business of the Congregation shall be administered by a
Roard of Directors,' consisting of a President, Vice-President, and
three Trustees.
2. None of the above officers shall receive a salary of the Con-
gregation.
Article III
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
1. The election for officers shall take place every year in the third
week of the month of Tishri.
2. The President and Vice-President shall be elected for one year
and three Trustees for two years.
3. The election for officers shall be by ballot.
4. Every member ot good standing, who is not more than six
months in arrears with his dues, shall be entitled to give a vote, try
all transactions of the Congregation, and is eligible to any office.
ARTICLE IV
DUTIES OF OFFICERS
1. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Congregation.
2. By equal ntr.mber of votes, he shall have the casting vote.
3. 'file President shall countersign all certificates of the Congrega-
tion and orders for disbursements out of the treasury.
4. On application for charitable purposes, the President shall have
a right to grant a sum not exceeding five dollars.
5. The President shall have a right to call extra or special meet-
ings, or shall do so'when applied to in writing by seven members.
O. All documents, papers, deeds, etc., shall be in safe keeping of
the President, who shall deliver them on leaving office in open meet-
ing to his successor. It shall be his special duty to see that all rules
and regulations of the Congregation are carried out.
Article V
DUTIES OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT
1.
The Vice-President, who has the office of Treasurer, shall take
in safe keeping all the monies of the Congregation and shall disburse
them on a written order of the President, countersigned by Secretary.
2. Before entering his duties as Treasurer, he shall have to give
satisfactory security to the President and Trustees for the faithful
performance of the duties of his office.
3. The Vice-President, as Treasurer of the Congregation, shall
keep a corre:st account of all the receipts and disbursements of the
monies of the Congregation and shall deposit all sums in his hands
exceeding fifty dollars according to the direction of the officers of the
Congregation and place the Certificates of Deposit in the hands of the
President. He shall make a report of the state of the finances at every
quarterly meeting or to a committee if appointed by the Congregation
for that purpose. By leaving office he has to deliver books, papers, etc.,
of the Congr , 7sgation in open meeting to his successor.
DUTIES OF THE TRUSTEES
It shall be their duty to be present at all meetings of the Congre-
gation, to see that the rules and regulations of the Congregation arc ,
stiictly carried out and do their best to promote the welfare of th.
Congregation.
Article VI
DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY
1. A Secretary shall be elected by the Congregation and, if the
services of such a one cannot be obtained gratuitously, the Congrega-
tion shall determine the amount of salary.
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To Nazis, Fascists
WASHINGTON (JTA) ,— The
House Immigration Committee has
opened hearings on a bill to halve
all immigration quotas f6r the
next - ten years, and to deny ad-
mission to the United States to
Nazis, Fascists, or "any other
persons classified as a war crim-
inal by the Allied War Crimes
Commission." The bill was intro-
duced by Rep. Edward Cosset of
Texas.
Mizrachi to Start
$350,000 Drive
At a Dinner tendered to two
of its leading workers, the Miz-
rachi Organization of America, na-
tional religious Zionist group, an-
nounced formation ot an Educa-
tion and Expansion Campaign for
$350,000. Rabbi I. M. ICowalsky,
co-treasurer of the Jewish Nation-
al Fund and former vice-presi-
dent of the Mizrachi Organiza-
tion; and Herman Hollander,
present vice-president of the His-
rachi, were guests of honor. The
projected fund will be devoted to
the advance of Jewish education
in America and Europe, and
preparation of young American
Jews and Jewesses for settlement
as pioneers in the Holy Land,
Clark Blames Lack of Approach
To Present Negro-Jewish Friction
Efforts to wipe out dangerous
frictions between Negroes and
Jews in America hatie so far fail-
ed, largely due to lack of a re-
alistic and practical approach to
the problem. Such is the conclu-
sion of Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, in-
structor in psychology at the Col-
lege of the City of New York and
Queens College, in an article en-
titled "Candor About Negro-Jew-
ish Relations." in the February
issue of the magazine "Comment-
ary."
Chief factor in Jewish-Negro
antagonisms, Dr. Clark declares,
is the basically insecure status of
each group in modern society. In-
stead of developing a feeling of
kinship, as might be expected,
each minority tends to regard the
other as a buffer which can serve
to deflect unwelcome attention
from itself. Also, Negroes and
Jews alike often try to identify
themselves with the viewpoints of
the majority — the Negro finding
fault with the Jew and vice-versa
— for whatever sense of security
such an attitude may offer. An-
other aspect of the situation, ac-
cording to Dr. Clark, is that some
persons persecuted on racial or
religious , grounds develop hatred
for all groups, including minor-
ities.
"The chances of success," Dr.
Clark concludes, "would appear to
be greater if enlightened Jews
and Negroes and their ' progres-
sive organizations, instead of ap-
proaching each other specifically,
pooled their efforts with all other
enlightened human beings work-
ing to rid society of the virus-like
affliction which is one man's hat-
red of other men. The obvious ob-
stacle here would be a tendency
on the part of any group of hu-
man beings -- Jewish, Negro, or
other --- to he limited by narrow
group loyalties and ethnocentri: - .
considerations. The seriousness of
the threat that these, our still un-
solved problems present, may w,:d1
demand a more resolute effort to
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tending as far north as Watson
At its annual meeting held re-
St., to its present size. Its first cently, the Hebrew Free Loan As-
office was in a store on Hastings sociation began its 51st year of
near Gratiot; and as its clientele continuous service with the fol-
moved northward, so did its office lowing as officers: Morris H. Blum-
to accommodate them — to the berg, president; Maurice Landau,
Hannah Schloss Building on High first vice-president; George M.
St., to the Kirby Center, to Clair- Stutz, second vice-president; Jul-
mount Ave., and now to 9134 Lin- ian L. Zemon, secretary, and
wood Ave., at Joy Road.
Louis Stoll, treasurer.
The Hobrew Free Loan Associa-
Three new members were added
tion, in the early years, helped to the Board of Directors: Rabbi
those who were called "immi- B. Benedict Glazer, Michael Krell,
grants." They brought their jew- and Barney B. Smith. The other
elry as security for loans. Within members of the Board are: Fred
the last few years, many who M. Butzel, Irwin I. Cohn, Law-
are called "refugees" have been rence W. Crohn, Mrs. Joseph H.
served; and now, since the close Ehrlich, Maurice A. Enggass, Wil-
of hostilities, the organization is liam Friedman, Jacob L. Keidan,
assisting a number of veterans Aaron Klein, Robert R. Marwil.
in establishing themselves.
Gus Newman, Seymour Simons.
No interest or other charges and Frank A. Wetsman.
are paid by anyone who borrows
The Hebrew Free Loan Associa-
from the Hebrew Free Loan As- tion is affiliated with the Jewish
sociation. He must, however, se- Welfare Federation, the Detroit
cure the endorsements of two Community Fund, and the Council
men in business. Loans are grant- of Social Agencies of Metropolitan
ed for business, household needs, Detroit.
Detroit Zionists to
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Page Three
Plans are in progress for the
publishing of a monthly bulletin
by Chapter I of the Detroit Divi-
sion of the Zionist Organization
of America, it was announced re-
cently by Harold B. Weisman,
president. Jack Kape, membership
chairman, will head the staff as-
sisted by Sarah Philka, Shularnith
Michlin, Louis Burk, Irving Han-
delman. Stanley Greenbaum, Per-
nice Schane, Blanche NS'cincr, Sam
Borak and Evelyn Eiselman.
Due to the expansion of mem-
bership in the organization, regu-
lar sessions will now be held at
centrally-located meeting halls ra-
ther than at private homes. For
information on the group, contact
Harold B. Weisman, TO. 6-3356, or
Evelyn Eisclman, vice-president,
TO. 5-4074.
DR. KOVAN OPENS OFFICE
Dr. Dennis D. Kovan has re-
turneci from 40 months of active
duty with the U. S. Army and has
resumed practice in his former
office in the Professional Bldg.
discard traditional grotto loyalties,
or at least to submerge them then
in larger group loyalties, as a pre-
requisite to their solutions. Loyal-
ty to mankind may have to be
given priority over all other loyal-
ties."
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