Ameriaur lewisk Periodical Carter CLIFTON ARNIM - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO Page Three une 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 ur, $15u tini, Penn* It :tni a lu 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. 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