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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and Th. Lena Chronic].
Friday, November 8, 1946.
`Jewish Vote'
Myth Resented
HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN
By LRVLNO L KATZ
FOUR JEWISH gridders are on
the University of Southern Cali-
fornia roster this year. They are
Seymour Fuhrman, guard; Albert
Bernstein, fullback; Richard Glass-
Dy FRANK BECKMAN
man, tackle; and Mel Pierson,
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guard. All are vets.
hopefully to the PAC. In this af-
Bernstein played with the 71st
LOOKS LIKE the 1947 National
filiation they are governed by Bnai Brith Bowling Association Division eleven, ETO champs.
economic hopes similar to those tournament will be a strictly mid-
that causes others, in their politi- western affair. Tentative plans call
IF YOU ARE thinking of form-
cal thinking, to follow the stock for sectional competition in St. ing a basketball team this winter
exchange. They like to believe that
Louis, Milwau- and need an experienced coach,
if the PAC is triumphant wages
kee and Toledo, call Charles Lambert, 2010 Tuxedo
will be better and their way of
with the three avenue, TO. 8-1719.
living more secure.
winners playing
Lambert, former physical educa-
(I should add, though, that
it off in some tion director at YMHA's in Mon-
there are well-to-do Jews who
other city.
treal and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., has
don't mind the stock market at
St. Louis and been in the coaching and training
all and have the idea that if
Milwaukee have business for some 40 years.
wages are good and workmen
never been hosts
While in Montreal, he had the
have security it will be all right
to BB keglers job of keeping the city's two pro-
for them, too. These go along
although Toledo fessional hockey teams, the Cana-
did the honors diens and Maroons, in top shape.
with PAC.)
in 1940. Last
So it goes politically among the
Lambert is interested in coach.
Jews, though the politicians hav- year's tourney took place in ing a semi-pro or industrial team.
en't found it out yet. To these Chicago.
If such a spot is not available, he
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backward thinkers the Jew is still
would like to try his hand with a
the bewildered voter who could
veteran aggregation.
THE NEW YORK Knickerbock-
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be had by little favors and flat-
ers, Madison Square Garden's en-
teries.
MOJA KNOW that James
Well, yet, they say, we'll tell try in the new Basketball Associ- Coleman, the part time instruc-
them we're Zionists; that'll get ation of America, will play the tor in weight lifting, aerobatics
them. We'll put on a look of be- Detroit Falcons Jan. 4 at Olympia, and boxing at the Jewish Com-
ing plenty sore because Goering Tom King, publicity man and munity Center, won the middle-
died by poison instead of by hang- player for the local quintet, told weight crown of the U. S. Ar-
us the other day. The Falcons will my in 1941? Ile also was Inter-
ing; that should get them.
To the American Jew, all this have one meeting with the New Allied middleweight champ of
gives a pain as it does to all other Yorkers under their belt before the CBI.
the local tussle as they play them
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self-respecting Jews.
VERY FEW persons know that
My being a Jew is a matter of Nov. 18 in the East.
That means one of the best al- Sid Luckman, Chicago Bear's pas-
my conscience and the politician
can't speculate with it for the most all-Jewish teams in the coun- sing whiz, once tried out for the
try will travel west to give De- New York Giants baseball team.
profit of votes.
troit fans a basketball treat.
Well, he did and his career, in
Among the standouts are Ossie his own words, went like this:
Schechtman, who attended Long
"I played three years at short-
Consolidated Air Travel Island University; Hy Gotkin, for- stop
for Columbia University. It
star at St. John's; and Sonny finally got so nobody would sit in
Offers Chartered Trips mer
Hertzberg and Hank Rosenstein, the vicinity of first base for fear
Consolidated Air Travel Service erstwhile CCNY cage greats.
of getting hit by one of my over-
has been appointed general agency
throws. I had a tryout with the
and Detroit representative unit for
THE PALESTINE Amateur baseball Giants once — I worked
Nationwide Air Transport Service,
Inc., with offices at 1219 David Fencing Union, an affiliate of with 'em one day."
the Palestine Amateur Sports
Stott Bldg., CH. 7554.
The service specializes in non- Federation, has begun intensive
schedule flights to Miami in 21- training for the 1948 Olympic
passenger luxury liners. The trip games.
takes seven hours.
Synagogue Built on Willis
and Brush Streets
(This is the ninth and last article of a series
on the first 50 years of Congregation Shaarey Zedek)
IN 1908, DAVID W. SIMONS, one of the leading members of
Shaarey Zedek, was elected to the presidency of the congregation. He
held the post for the next 12 years, following which he was honored
with the office of Honorary President. The other officers elected in
1908 were Samuel Rosenthal, vice president; A. Benjamin, secretary;
and William B. Saulson, treasurer. The trustees elected were; William
Friedman, Samuel
:loldstein, Samuel
Sarasohn, Alexan-
der Tanne nhol z,
Louis Smith and
M. Braudy.
With the growth
and development of
Shaarey Zedek and
the continued
Tread to the north
of the Jewish popu-
lation, the congre-
gation again felt
the need for a
larger, more cen-
trally located build-
, Mg. A site was
purchased at Wil-
and Brush
streets, at that
Willis and Brush Synagogue
time one of Detroit's finest residential neighborhoods. But it took
three years of hard work on the part of the members and the Ladies
Auxiliary before sufficient funds could be raised for the new building.
Finally, on Nov. 16, 1913, the cornerstone laying ceremonies were
held amid great rejoicing. Not until two years later, however, in the
fall of 1915, was the imposing structure completed and all activities
housed therein.
The leaders in the movement to build the new synagogue, and
those who aided most in making such a building a reality, were
Rabbi A. M. Hershman, David W. Simons, Abraham Jacobs, Jacob
Friedberg, Aaron Klein and Isaac Shetzer.
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THE LAST CANTOR who officiated in the Winder Street syna-
gogue was Cantor Dlugoff who was succeeded in 1915 by Cantor Abra-
ham Minkowsky.
When the United Synagogue of America, the national organization
of conservative synagogues, was organized in 1913, Shaarey Zedek was
one of the first congregations to become affiliated with this body and
thus officially joined the ranks of the conservative movement in
America.
During World War I, the Ladies Auxiliary of Shaarey Zedek, un-
der the presidency of Mrs. Wolf Kaplan, transformed the basement
rooms of the synagogue into hospital sewing rooms, and practically
every member of the auxiliary worked for the Red Cross.
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ACCORDING TO Fred M. Butzel, the best informed person on
the history of Detroit Jewry, soon after the arrival of Dr. Louis
Grossman as rabbi of Beth El (December 1885), a dispute arose which
led to the formation of an Independent relief society by the members
of Shaarey Zedek. The society took the name of "Jewish Relief So-
ciety" and duplicated the work of the Beth El Relief Society.
These two rival organizations existed until November, 1899 when
Dr. Leo M. Franklin, who came to the pulpit of Beth El in January,
189 9, succeeded in amalgamating the Beth El Relief Society, Jewish
Relief Society and other charitable groups into the United Jewish
Charities.
(Next week—Participation of Michigan Jews In the Civil War)
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during the early years of its existence. It may be assumed, however,
that the congregation dispensed charity on a small scale along the
same lines as did Beth El, the mother congregation.
In December, 1869, the Beth El Relief Society was organized "for
the purpose of relieving all deserving JeWish applicants" and the two
congregations (Beth El and Shaarey Zedek) worked harmoniously in
the raising and dispensation of funds.
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