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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1946-06-07

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CLIFTON ARNIM - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

Page Three

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Friday, J

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

7, 1946

HISTORY OF JEWS
• IN MICHIGAN

Community Council Election June 11;
Amendments, Reports To Be Presented

Sale Apartments

I'I NEaT a APT.
all Detroit. 3 rms. tiled bitthit,
w watiir heater. 1.1Ite DPW.
st ober,
paYlli.t• 512,000.
111.11t $4,01 , 0. I )4,, II
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$15u tini, Penn* It :tni a

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admission until eighteen
The annual election of the dem- for
months after such rejection. The
ocratic representative body of De- Constitution Committee has as its
troit's Jewish community will take chairman and co-chairman, Louis Charlevoix.
INDIAN VIIIIACil%
ruts. new 01 ulcer
place Tuesday, June 11, at 8:30 Rosenzweig and Joseph Bernstein.
Is ant 4
By IRVING I. KATZ
water
heater,
Nulld well built. Sold
p.m., in the Center's auditorium, Other members of the Committee
Will
l'rlee $60,000. %\'0
Woodward at Holbrook. At this are Morris Garvett, Morris Lieb- on. e ISO,o0O.
$20,000 mortgage.
18
ARTICLE
election meeting, the accredited erman, Joseph Snitman and Ab-
41 Al"I'S. 10
Leh and
:lee] n ame, Terra roan, bm
delegates of the 227 affiliated or-
raham
White.
conery e, fireptool, rent $41,000. Pelee
ganizations of Detroit's ' Jewish
$27,0,1100. Tema, $115,000 lo new -1 1,:
The delegates assembled at the
Community Council will elect '12 meeting will also Nal Aaron ., e r. cut int CO.
tirrrEt, 100 rim.
Detroit Jewish leaders to serve Droock, president, did Isaac
Clean, 32 baths, OPA cheap cut
for a period of three years on Franck, executive director, pres-
00 S100,0 00.
rlee
I at en $20,000 year
the Community Council's Execu- ent a brief summary of Commun-
only O$6 n10. S ve
Te, ms $25,000.
MARCUS COIIEN
tive Board. The Council's broadly
N11. llottrot
Marcus Cohen came to the United States from Bavaria in the '40's representative and democratically- ity Council activities in the past
year.
of the last century and after a residence in New York and Cincinnati elected Executive Board consists
came to Detroit in 1849. According to Magnus Butzel, in an Obituary of forty-two members who are
CA. 0321
DIME BLDG.
Letter published in the Detroit Free Press of July 11, 1880, Marcus charged with the responsibility of
SPECIAIAZE IN TIRE
Cohen was a pioneer in religious observances. He conducted services making decisions representative
01'
APARTMENTS
NIANACKMENT
from the time he reached Detroit and performed all the duties then of Detroit's Jewish community,
lving on a rabbi. It was largely his earnestness and example and reporting regularly to the
devo
which inspired the formation of Detroit's first Jewish congregation body of delegates by whom they
In recognition of his services to
and his influence which brought his friend, Rev. Samuel Marcus of are elected.
New York, to Detroit as the first rabbi. He was one of the founders of
In addition to the election, the Young Israel as president of the
Temple Beth El and served as its vice-president. He was also one of delegates assembled at the June organization for the past four 1
the charter members of Pisgah Lodge Bnai Brith and served twice 11 meeting will discuss and vote years, Charles T. Gellman was re-
upon a constitutional amendment elected to a fifth term in that of-
as its president.
Marcus Cohen was married to Babette Hirschman, daughter of which was proposed by the Com- fice at the annual meeting May
munity Council's Constitution 29. Samuel W. Platt was re-elect-
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hirschman, early pioneers of Detroit. Their
were: Simon, Moses, Herman Rice, Solomon, David, and Caroline Committee, and has been approved ed to a fourth term as chairman
of the board. Ruth Bodzin was
den
were:
(Mrs,
Sigmund Simon). Their grandchildren now residing in Detroit by the present Executive Board. elected secretary, succeeding
This amendment provides that any
are: Louis Simon and Mrs. Louis Musliner (Carrie Cohen).
Berris, and Solomon B.
organization whose application Francis
MOSES COHEN
for membership in the Community Cohen was elected treasurer, suc-
Moses Cohen, son of Mr. and Council was rejected by the dele- ceeding Morris Kar. Prior to the
Mrs. Marcus Cohen, was born in gate body may not again apply election, Mr. Gellman delivered
Cincinnati and came to Detroit
the president's annual report on
with his parents in 1849. The story
the past activities and future
is told that when the men as-
plans for the organization.
sembled in Detroit for the first
Mr., Gellman's report stressed
Minyan it was found that the re-
the steady growth of Young Is-
Tremon McDermott, Democratic rael's youth program which now
quired quorum of ten males over
thirteen years of age was lacking candidate for sheriff of Wayne includes fifteen groups and clubs.
only one person. The delicate sit- County, has issued a statement Over three hundred children par-
uation was solved by Marcus Co- vigorously condemning the con- ticipate in Young Israel activities.
hen by placing a Siddur (Prayer duct of the incumbent sheriff, An- Mr. Gellman outlined the progress
Book) in the hands of his son, drew C. Baird. In his statement, made in reintroducing veterans
Moses, then a lad of about tell, he scorched the handling of the into Young Israel. He announced
ALAN N.
and wrapping him in a Tails case of Joyce Raulston whose plans for an adult education pro-
ELECT . . .
s found on a city dump gram to begin studies in New
(Prayer Shawl), a permissible or- body
thodox practice in such emergen- A confession, said McDermott, was York conducted by the National
"extorted by torture chamber
cies.
Moses Cohen served as presi- methods" from a youth named Council of Young Israel.
dent of Pisgah Lodge Bnai Brith Vincent. When the . trial of Vin-
Mrs. M. Schlang and Mr. and
k the Mrs. Desmond Brown, o • New
and as secretary of Temple Beth cent was in its t hird
El. He was married to Sarah Ro- real killer confessed.
York, were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
"What would have happened to Samuel Soss, of Hamilton Drive,
senstock and they were the par-
ents of Jennie (Mrs. Henry E. Vincent if the real killer had not having attended the confirmation
Kent), Carrie (Mrs. Louis Mus- confessed?" asked McDermott. He of Miss Marjorie Soss.
liner), Solomon R., and David R. announces his candidacy on the
Their only grandchild residing in platform of law enforcement which
Detroit is Mrs. Fred Bradfield will be zealous yet intelligent.
His candidacy has been endors-
(Jeanette S. Musliner).
ed by the CIO Political Action
SIMON COHEN
Committee, the Railroad Brothers
Simon Cohen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Cohen, served four and many other labor, civic and
times as president of Pisgah Lodge Bnai Brith and for eight years Democratic organizations.
as secretary of Temple Beth El. His wife was Rosa Sittig, daughter
Ials
—of the-
of Juda and Marie S. Sittig, early residents of Detroit. Their children Ni!0:51:50MMICWCSIC
were: Solomon, Joshua, Carrie.
MOSS
SIGMUND SIMON
e with his KOSHER CATERING CO.
Sigmund Simon was born in Bavaria in 1842 and camNew
502$ Joy Road
parents to the United States at an early age, settling in York.
In 1865, Mr. Simon came to Detroit where he became prominently and
near Grand River
—at—
actively identified in the retail millinery business. He was active in
TYler, 4.9221
Temple Beth El, Pisgah Lodge Bnai Brith, and the Phoenix Club. He
Caroline Cohen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus
was married to
Cohen, and they were the parents of Louis, Clara, Isaac, Fanny and
Marcus (Louis Simon of Detroit is the only surviving member of the
-on—
family). Their grandchildren residing in Detroit are: Harold Simon,
Mrs. Clifford Jacobs (Marjorie Simon), and Eugene Simon.

Biographical Sketches

of Detroit Jews

Homer Warren & Co

Gelman Elected
Again as Young
Israel President

McDermott Candidate
For Sheriff of Wayne

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