A xericam lavish Periodical Center CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO Friday, September 27, 1946 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Thirteen – onto a new, unspoiled world. far of Ameridan Hebrew Congrega- with such eminent and universally a removed, by a vast ocean, from tions. Now, he nor his congrega-1 acclaimed distinction as chaplains the bitter memories of Europe, tion no longer stood alone. They in the armed forces of our nation. NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS! that worked this strange magic in were magnified and Multiplied Both the Hebrew Union College the soul of those who came to into a Union of some 30 congrega- and the Union of American Heb- these shores. Perhaps it was the tions and some 2,000 souls. Though rew Congregations, so uniquely 3939 GRAND RIVER consciousness of the ever-present the beginning was small, the lat- "Made in America" Will continue frontier which brooded over our ter end has reaped abundant fruit- their ministrations which have s: nation's history for a hundred age from his planting. Today, that proved to be of such far-reaching years, the frontier which called ha n d f u l of congregations has blessing to America and to Israel. NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES (or brave, resolute men to heat grown to well over 300 and the Thus, the Liberal Judaism, as en- across the wilderness a road to mere thousand or so souls whose visaged by Isaac Mayer Wise, a . freedom and better life. Whatever representatives first met together Judaism first forged in ancient • was, this we have become; ere- three score and ten years ago Zion, but now recast, remade in FORD DEALERS tive, constructive men who build. have become many hundreds of America, created out of the uni- 2475 W. GRAND BLVD. AT 14TH ST. thousands of men and worsen, who Even now, we will leave to the versal vision of the Hebrew proph- TYLER 4-5704 leaders of other nations to debate view with pride the achievements ets and intensified by the all in- and devise the theories and ideo- of their pioneering forbears. clusive fellowship which Is Amer- "Made in America," likewise, has ica, continues today as a living logies for a united world. We Americans will forge the machin- been the Hebrew Union College, monument to a Bohemian im- ery which will make it work and the first Jewish theological semi- migrant rabbi who came to these Best Wishes for a Joyous New Year move. Whatever it was, that kind- nary to be reared on the soil of shores just 100 years ago. led this creative spark In virtually this new world which wee brought every pioneer who touched these into being exactly 70 years ago by Quality of South African wool shores, Isaac Wise possessed it to the Union of American Hebrew has been lowered this year by 5333 VERMONT a preeminent degree for of none Congregations. Here also was drought. TR. 1.2880 are these characteristics of Amer. something new under the sun-- something "Made in America" in- Ica more true than of him. From the moment he came here, deed! And again, though its be- SEASON'S GREETINGS therefore, though as he himself ginnings were small—a basement room in Wise's synagogue—its !at- confessed he was but an humble immigrant hardly able to speak ter end hath, in truth, become our tongue, nonetheless, he sought exceedingly great. It stands today, to build, to build, and continuously in one of Cincinnati's attractive to build. First of all, he found, suburbs, this Hebrew Union Col- AETNA SMELTING AND WISHES THEIR FRIENDS A VERY HAPPY among his own people especially, lege, with its several modern and a lamentable lack of any genuine majestic buildings, high upon its REFINING COMPANY NEW YEAR religious organization. Everyone stately hills, fringed by the ver- dant woods across the way, which, did what was right In his own TE. 1.3266 1826 ILLINOIS eyes with the result that naught with its eminent faculty, its in- Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel B. Carroll and Family but chaos and anarchy main- comparably rich library, has be- Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lieberman come, in truth, the cultural and tained. The facilities for Instruct- Mrs. Sam Lieberman and Family ing the young and for ministering spiritual arsenal of American Is- to the old were totally inadequate rael. Ito benefactions have been and, being sundered one from the almost beyond belief; it has sent Rosh Hashonah Greetings other by the vast distances of forth its spiritual sons, echoing this wide-spreading half-continent, the Hebrew prophets of old, but there was little cooperation or co- speaking the :diom of America, to ordination between one community minister to hundreds of congrega- and another. There was no na- tions and communities not alone tionwide unification of all these in these United States, but in the Pocohontas scattered and sporadic efforts, no Dominion of Canada, in Great Semet-Solvay Coke Britain, in Australia,' and the means by which the new ideal- ism could be widely disseminated. Union of South Africa and who, 9351 PRAIRIE AVE. Each teacher who shared his own to so unparalleled a degree, have more recently served in such pro- HO. 7234 fresh vision and purpose was an HO. 4524 Isolated voice crying in the wild- portionately large numbers and erness, so pathetically alone that few would hearken, while even 4 fewer would heed. Roth Hashonah Greetings Le Shone, Tikosevu Very quickly, he came to the conclusion that if this new inter- pretation of Judaism were to be saved, the individual teacher must be implemented to a strong, united Jewish religious community In the MADISON 8560 United States. All Jews who be. Alterations — Repairs lieved with him that Judaism, to Prompt Pick-Up and Delivery live, could not be static, but must be a continuous and progressive 8638 WOODWARD AVE. development, would have to join UN. 1.3705 16826 Hamilton MORRIS GRIBOW together for an organized expres- sion of that faith. Through such a widespread institution his Liber- al, "Made in America Faith" would no longer stand alone in pitiful isolation, but would reach out into distant places, to crowded cities and remote villages; would 1426 Woodward Ave. follow the frontier westward and southward whither Jews were go- ing with America on the March. And like the good American that he was, he was not content with words or wishes, with pious pray- ers or devout desires. He acted. In the year 1873, he called togeth- er the representatives of a bare handful of congregations and to- ORIENTAL RUGS — GIFTS — AV. OBJECTS — LAMPS gether they established what is known to this day as the Union TULLER HOTEL — ADAMS AT PARK ASH 8 CO. HETTCHE MOTOR SALES 0 EVER-KRISP FOOD PRODUCTS • MONROE WASTE PAPER CO. GOOD FUEL COAL CO. ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS We Extend Our Greetings and Best Wishes To THE ENTIRE JEWISH COMMUNITY 0. K. 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