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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN
By IRVING L KATZ
ARTICLE 34
Winder Street Synagogue
of Shaarey Zedek
(This is the fourth of a series of articles on the
first 50 years of Shaarey Zedelc)
WHEN SHAAREY ZEDEK'S new synagogue on Congress and
St. Antoine streets was completed and was ready for occupancy, dis.
sension over financial matters arose among the members. The result
was that the members were unable to pay for the building and on
April 1, 1879, the synagogue was taken over by the contractor.
m
The mebership
was now searated into three
grou ps,
meet-
ing in Kitte lberger's Hall on Randolphtreet
(the
group), another at the home of Mr. Kinsell on Gratiot Shaarey
avenue Zedelt
(this
group organized Congregation Beth
Jacob in 1878), and the third in
.,Funke's Hall on Macomb street
(this group became Congregation
,Bnai Israel in 1881). A number
of the members, among them
some of the founders of Shaarey
Zedek, rejoined Congregation Beth
El.
RABBI JUDAH L LEVIN
In 1880 the membership of Shan-
rey Zedek dropped to 35. David
W. Simons, who was president of
Congregation Bnai Israel, attempt-
ed to unify the groups but was
not successful In his efforts. Late
in 1881, however, a group of faith.
ful members of Shaarey Zedek
undertook, under the leadership of
Reuben Mendelsohn, the president,
to rebuild the membership. They
rented the building on Congress
and St. Antoine which they had
been forced to give up, and finally
purchased it and dedicated it as
their synagogue in February, 1885.
From 1881 to 1883 Joseph Rap-
paport was rabbi of the congregation. He was succeeded by Rabbi
L.
Bloomgarden.
About
this
time
Sunday
School was opened which
met in the afternoon.
M. In 1884 the membership increased to 70 and the new rabbi was
Caplan. In 1896 H. L. Cohen was the rabbi.
The presidents who served Shaarey Zedek after Reuben Men-
delsohn
Simon, Louis Blumberg and Alexander Tannen-
/wiz,
the were
latter Aaron
serving as president until 1903.
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AT THE TURN of the century the Jewish community began to
spread northward and it soon became apparent that a new synagogue
would have to be built in the new Jewish section if the Congregation
was to serve its members adequately.
The matter -
)f a new building occupied the attention of the fol-
lowing officers and trustees of 1900: Alexander Tannenholz, president;
Michael
Davis, vice president; A. Jacobs, treasurer; A. Benjamin,
retary;
Samuel
N.
sec-
Ginsburg, A. Simon, M. Harris, J. Levy, S. Fried-
man and P. Sillman.
Samuel N.
Ginsburg, one of the pillars of Shaarey Zedek and a
man of great generosity, donated a site on Winder street, between
Beaubien and St. Antoine, for the future home of the congregation,
and late in 1901 the building on Congress and St. Antoine was sold.
* * *
IN 1902 THE MEMBERSHIP was 45 and the officers were: Judah
L. Levin, rabbi; Rev. Moses Rogoff, cantor; Alexander Tannenholz,
president; Michael Davis, vice president; A. Jacobs, treasurer; A.
Benjamin, secretary; Meyer Smith, shamos. The trustees were: Samuel
N.
A. Simon, William Saulson, Samuel Friedman, H. Harris
and Ginsburg,
Jacob Levy.
On Sunday, June 15, 1902, the ceremonies of the laying of the
cornerstone of the new synagogue on Winder street took place, with
Bernard Ginsburg, only son of Samuel N. Ginsburg, presiding. The
program consisted of an address by Dr. David Levine of Syracuse,
N.
Y•, who was the guest speaker; a review of the history of Shaa-
rey Zedek by Bernard Ginsburg, an address by Rabbi Levin and
greetings by Dr. Leo M. Franklin of Congregation Beth El.
(Next week—The Dedication of the Winder Street Synagogue)
CARE Slashes Price of Food Parcels
to Speed Up Food to Europeans
NEW YORK—In order to speed
delivery of food packages to the on in full to the American buyra -,
CARE operates through its own
undernourished people of Europe,
Lt. Gen. William N. Haskell, ex- staff of Americans in each of 11
ecutive director of CARE, Co- European countries which are giv-
operative for American Remit- ing it tax exempt, duty free agree-
tances to Europe, Inc., announced ments for admission of its food
a Price reduction of one-third in packages.
In each country, CARE'S staff
the sale of these former Army
10-in-1 rations for consumption has set up chains of warehouses
abroad.
which enable CARE to pre-ship
Eff ectiveOct.
its food packages in bulk and
1, the price store them temporarily near points
dropped from $15 to $10 for the
Purchase of a food parcel con- of delivery. When an order Is
aining 40,000 calories, or enough placed for a parcel in the United
ood to supplement for two weeks States, the order Is merely air-
he present rations of an Euro- mailed to the proper country, the
package released from a nearby
)ean family of four.
warehouse, and made available for
'ABED ONE-TIME
immediate delivery.
Recently returned from a food
-3Pection visit to Europe, Gen.
faskeil said that widespread mal-
trition in most countries makes
deci food help from America a
NEW YORK—Extending holiday
continuing
necessity for some time
t o come.
greetings, Mrs. Joseph M. Welt,
of Detroit, president of the Na-
"And," he added, "it is to make tional Council of Jewish Women,
possible for more Americans to in a statement issued from the
send personal food packages to council's national offices, declared
CARE. In establishing its new that opening the doors of Pales-
mtract with CARE," he continued, tine must be the primary concern
the WWA has taken into consider- of American Jewry.
ation CARE
's request ?or a low-
Stating that "the task for us
inview. of Europe's In America is to assume our full
P'essin price
g need."
responsibility to our fellow Jews
a LIE RS BENEFIT
abroad", Mrs. Welt reiterated the
keeing with CARE's non- National Council's traditional in-
tilt opera
stion, the resulting price terest In immigration and the
le nts, he
said, are being passed open door in Palesetine.
Open Palestine Doors,
Mrs. Welt Demands
"A
*Carel
Segal Wants Grandson to Be United
With All Men by His Way of Life
grandson know enough to say kad-
dish for you?" I shall answer: "I
don't know whether the boy knows
how to say kaddish but I think
his way of being a Jew speaks
for me. I tried to teach him that
the way of being a Jew has to do
chiefly with climbing up to lofty
character and that's the way he
went and turned out to be an ex.
cellent Jew. I submit his Jewish
character Is more eloquent than
kaddish."
So having said, I may be per-
mitted to sit at the right hand
of the saintly Hillel. "Hiller, I
shall tell him, "I am happy to be
allowed to sit with you. You had
the right idea about the matter
of being Jewish."
not all one Father? Ilath not Jew who by the closest application
one God created us ""
of Jewish ethical teaching will
Sure, to live right is also the prove the Jewish unity with all
teaching of the Christians and, for other kinds of decent men.
all I know, the Hottentots may be
Democratic society abhors to
getting the same teaching from accentuate a n y distinctiveness
missionaries and may be living
whether of race, religion, culture,
that way.
color or wealth; the only things
That's all to the good and glory that count are the oneness of
of being a Jew. If Paul turns out man, as revealed in the ethical
to be the man I hope for, he will teaching of his various religions.
say, Yes, the fact that we all have
We Jews, riding in all other di-
the same ethical teaching In our
separate religions proves the es- rections of being Jewish—Jewish
nationalism, Jewish culture, Jew-
sential unity of mankind. It is
ish civilization — may forget the
the evidence of the brotherhood.
main way of being Jewish, pointed
I, the Jew, am enabled to climb out In the directions given at
to the high spots of human char- Sinai.
acter by the light of my Jewish
* *
EUROPEAN WELFARE
teaching: the Christian gets to
FIRST
TO
BELIEVE
Plans for the coming donor
the same place by his lights.
There we may know each other
HOPE THAT BY the time Paul luncheon of the Jewish Women
I
as brothers.
-a gets to manhood the confusion European Welfare Organization,
* * *
will have cleared and all Jews North Woodward Branch, will be
will see again this one, sure up- formulated at \ a meeting at 12:30
NOT DISTINCT WAY
y AM NOT SURE that I want ward way of being Jewish. They p. m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, at the home
Mrs. Sonia Epstein, 11535 By-
I Paul ever to feel that to be a won't feel any the less Jewish be- of
ron avenue.
Jew is a distinct way of life, as cause the ethical teaching they
emphasise is the same as the
the Chronicle's editor says. It teaching of the Christians.
may be heresy for me to say that.
They will feel special pride in it
I want Paul never to feel that
there is anything distinct or because, as Jews, they were the
separate in his Identity as a first to bring it to human society;
Jew. I shouldn't like to see Paul on that account they will feel un.
in a physical, spiritual or cul- der special obligation to keep on
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Haman said of us to his king:
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as that kind of a Jew he will be
those of every people." Hitler
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a
Jew
good
enough
for
me.
He
had the same idea of Jews be-
may have none of the ritual
ing in all ways separate when
practices and he may not say
by extermination he ejected
kaddish for me when I die, but
Jews from the German people.
I don't want Paul ever to give up in Paradise—if I get there—I
feel blessed enough by
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Paul.
or Haman. I hope he will be a
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