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Thirty-One Years of Service to Detroit Jewry
AN UNAFFILIATED,
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
INDEPENDENT
NEWSPAPER
Vol . 48
, No. 41
To Speak Here
and The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1946
Democracy in action was,,exem-
piffled Monday night wha' 110
delegates of Detroit organizations
joined in the quarterly meeting of
the Jewish Community Cotincil in
the auditorium of the Jewish Com-
munity Center. Rabbi Leon Fram,
vice president, presided.
The delegates unanimously ap-
proved four amendments to the
council constitution wItich were
presented on behalf of the con-
stitutional committee by Louis
Rosenzweig, chairman. One amend-
ment limited future membership
of the council's executive commit-
tee to persons who are duty ac-
Henry A. Wallace, former vice credited delegates to the council
president of the United States DEFINES
COMMITTEES
and former Secretary of Com-
With the same objective of
merce, will address the Detroit
Jewish community at a rally at making committees more repre-
1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20 in Cen- sentative of the council's consti-
tral High School auditorium. tuency, another amendment pro-
His appearance is sponsored by vided that at least 50 per cent of
the Rabbi Mandell M. Zager the membership of all other stand-
Lodge of Bnai Brith of which ing committees consist of accred-
Sidney Ersher is president and ited delegates to the council. Two
Barney A. Ross, program chair- other minor changes related to
the method of and time for con-
man.
vening meetings.
Reporting on behalf of the com-
munity relations committee, of
which he is chairman, Rabbi Fram
described activities undertaken by
this. committee since the Mite
meeting of • the delegates.
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. Children Await
Simchas Torah
Gay Rites to Start •
Thursday Evening
A day with some solemn rites
followed by a full day of rejoic-
ing will conclude the nine-day
Succoth festival in the synagogues
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 17
and 18.
On Thursday, Yizkor, the Mc.
morial Service, will be recited as
part of the ritual for Shemini
Azereth, the Feast of Conclusion.
It will be followed by the tradi-
tional supplication for rain and
bountiful crops in the Holy Land.
GA Y TAKES OVER
So g and gayety will take over
at sunset Thursday when joyous
&inches Torah, Feast of Rejoicing
for the Torah, will draw thousands
of children bearing flags to festi-
vities and processionals in honor
of the Torah.
At Congregation Bnal Moshe.
evening services will begin at 5:30
each day while the morning ser-
vice Thursday writ start at 8:30
and Friday at 9 o'clock. Rabbi
Moses Fischer and Rabbi Eliezer
A. Levi will preach.
BETII EL SERVICES
Devotions Thursday at Temple
Beth El will start at 10:30 a. m.
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer will deliver
the sermon and the Temple quar-
tet will render the liturgical music.
Cantor Berele Kelemer will lead
the prayers at Beth Yehudah,
0600 Pingree avenue. Services will
start at 8:30 a. m. both days. There
is no charge for these special
rites, Harry Stolsky, president, an-
nounces.
Rabbi Joshua Sperka will preach
at the Enal David services on
Shemini Azereth on the subject,
"Eternal Life."
SILVAREY'ZEDEK RITES
At Shaarey Zedek, Ylzkor will
be recited at 10:30 a. m. Thursday
and Rabbi Morris Adler will
preach. Simchas Torah evening
services will be held at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday. American and Hebrew
flags will be distributed to the
children.
NEGROES SUPPORTED
He revealed that the council will
back the Negro community in
fighting restricted covenants in
titles to property which bar Ne-
groes from certain areas. — —
"Whatever affects one minority,
affects us also," Rabbi Fram de-
clared. "We arc accordingly join-
ing Negroes In their court fight
on the covenants as friends of the
court."
Discriminatory advertising in a
Detroit newspaper and in resort
copy and brochures was fought
through the summer, Rabbi Fram
reported. He said, the guilty news-
paper promised to eliminate any
future references and the attor-
ney-general of Michigan Instructed
resort organizations and owners
benefiting from state subsisidies
that the money would be stopped
when discriminatory language is
used in advertising.
Dachau—the site of the In-
famous Camp Dachau, a name
that put the fear of death in the
people of wartime Germany. Stand-
ing before the altar of flowers
stood a Detroit girl, dressed in a
bridal gown, and a Detroit boy
in uniform.
Everyone was silent as the chap-
lain rabbi spoke: "It Is significant
that we are gathered here to per-
form a marriage ceremony be-
tween two Jews, in a place where
not so long ago, just the mention
of the word 'Jew' meant death—."
This first American marriage
in Dachau was that of two De-
troit civilian employees of the
war crimes trials at Dachau,
Irving J. Ilayett and Sally Rose.
For their wedding, the main
ballroom of the War Crimes of-
ficers club was decorated with a
large American flag made of roses
and carnations and there was a
bower of flowers before the altar.
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TRADITIONAL RITES
THERE WAS the traditional ta-
ble with a white, shining cloth, the
candelabra with the seven candles,
the wine glass and the glass wrap.
Council Picks
New Director
Names Canadian
Ex-Officer, Editor
Oscar Cohen of, Toronto, Cana-
da, was named this week as ex-
ecutive director of the Detroit
Jewish Community Council. He
succeeds Isaac Franck, who re-
cently left to take up new duties
In Brooklyn.
Cohen, who Is executive direc-
tor of the Canadian Jewish Con-
gress, central division, is a grad-
uate of the University of Toronto.
He also studied at Columbia Uni-
versity. Following the completion
of his post-graduate studies he
became editor of the Jewish
Standard of Toronto.
In 1936 he assumed his present
position with the Canadian Jew-
ish Congress. Cohen served in the
Canadian Army from April, 1941
to March, 1946. He was separated
from the service in the confirmed
rank of lieutenant colonel.
ON PAGE 16
Give Us Deeds,
Wise and Silver
Ask of Truman
Words Not Enough
Statement Asserts
NEW YORK—Rabbi Ab-
ba Hillel Silver and Dr.
Stephen Wise, joint chair-
men of the American Zion-
ist Emergency Council, in a
statement Wednesday ac-
claimed President Truman's
"continuing interest in the
desperate plight of the dis-
placed Jews in Europe."
MR. AND MRS. HAYETT
pod in a napkin ready for the
"hazel-Tov."
There was a white rug leading
down the aisle to the altar and
baskets of flowers lining the aisle.
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Junior Group
to Give Mixer
at the Center
Get acquainted with your com-
munity, and make new friends too.
That is the theme of the first
general meeting of the Junior
Service Group, to be held in the
form of a mixer- at 2:30 p. m.,
Sunday, Oct. 20 at the Jewish
Community Center. Detroit young
men and women from 16 to 30
are invited to hear Fred Butzel
discuss the "Role of the Junior
Group in the Jewish Community."
DANCING PLANNED
Dancing will follow the pro-
gram. The meeting will offer an
opportunity to all young people
interested in participating in com-
munal affairs to join the Junior
Service Group in its year-round
activities of social service and
general good times.
The Oct. 20 meeting Is the first
of a planned series which will in-
clude a Palestinian night, a re-
'(Continued on page 16)
Europe's Jewish Orphans Seek New Homes
The statement added, however,
that "unhappily, past experience
and the bitter disappointments
which have followed upon earlier
pronouncements have ripened Into
the conviction that public expres-
sions, however sincere, and well
meaning, do not suffice."
The two ,Zionist leaders declared
that "to date none of the 100,000
whose entry into Palestine the
President requested more than a
year ago has received admission"
and they denounced the "evasive
and dilatory tactics devised by the
British government to which un- '?
fortunately our Government was
repeatedly induced to give assent.
"We most earnestly and respect-
fully urge the President to make
full use of the authority of his
high office to the end that ef.
festive action be taken without
delay in fulfillment, of his state-
ment urging. Britain to reopen
the doors of Palestine."
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Agency Welcomes
Truman Statement
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A Jewish
Agency spokesman this week de-
clared that the Agency welcomed
President Truman's statement on
Palestine, but doubted that
the
i
British government would agree to
his proposals.
Referring to the widespread at-
tacks on the Truman statement in
the British pant, which termed it
a political gesture, the Agency
representative said that it was in
accordance with American policy
and not a campaign stunt.
The "unanimous outcry" in the
British press, however, indicates
that the British government Is
not ready and unwtiljng to come
to grips with the Palestine prob.
lent, the spokesman said.
The Haganah radio, "Voice of
Israel," said Sunday, in comment.
ing on Truman's statement, that
"we are happy and grateful to see
that there is at least one man in
power in this world to whom a
pledge renplins a pledge." It ad-
ded, howevtr, that the Jewish re-
sistance movement awaited deeds,
not words. Referring to Prime
Minister Attlee's reply, the radio
declared that he had "let the cat
out of the bag" by clearly indi-
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80 Orphans Join
British Relatives
LONDON ( JTA)—Eighty Jewish
orphans whose parents either died
from starvation or in Nazi gas
chambers, arrived here this week
by air from Prague to join rela-
tives in Britain. Most of them
have concentration camp numbers
tatooed in their arms and still
bear the signs of the cruelties in-
flicted on them. The youngest Is
a boy of three who was born in
•the Oswiecim camp. The eldest Is
19.
Two hundred Jewish orphans
from Poland arc expected to ar-
rive here aboard a chartered ship
some time this month.
Yizkor will be recited at Tem-
ple Israel at Feast of Conclusion
worship at 10:30 a. m. Thursday.
Jewish Conqueror
of Lampedusa Lost
LONDON—The Jewish war hero
Who "captured" the Italian island
of Lampedusa, Warrant Officer
Sydney Cohen of the RAF, has
been missing since Aug. 27. Cohen
was
en route home to await dis-
charge.
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4 Amendments THE SCENE WAS the City of
Limit Executives
to Own Members
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Hollander to Lead
Tel Aviv Symphony
Part of the 150,000 Jewish child survivors in Europe who must be
cared
for, these youngsters
receive
relief with funds provided by the United Jewish Appeal. The Joint
Distribution
Committee
has
established a network of 240 child care institutions which provide for the needs of
20,000
Many of them will be brought to Palestine.
young Jews.
INIIIIMMIMMmmommowo
AMSTERDAM, (JTA) —Edward
van Belnum, conductor of the
Amsterdam Concert-gebouw Or-
chestra, will leave for Tel Aviv
In March to conduct a series of
concerts with the Palestine Sym.
phony Orchestra, the Hilversum
radio reported.
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