America/I ,fcwish Periodical &ter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 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, ' (Continued from page 3) 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 • • • 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- • • • 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 • « • 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. • • • 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. • • • • • 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) AESCULAPIAN AUXILIARY The Aesculaplan Ladies Auxili- QUALITY SOAP ary will meet Wednesday, Nov. 13, For Washing Clothes and Dishes at the home of Mrs. Albert Ber- man, 2690 Tuxedo avenue. The Call TR. 1-8060 twentieth annual dinner dance of . For Free Delivery. the auxiliary will be held Dec. 2 STONE SOAP CO. at Northwood Inn. Mrs. Harry Katzman, UN. 2-9428 has charge *y- of reservations. WINDOW SHADES MADE TO ORDER Cleaned and Repaired LINOLEUM Inlaid and Battleship Rugy end Furniture ' VENETIAN BLINDS Drapery Hardware Better Quarters—Better Service To Customers MOVED TO 8642 LINWOOD AVE. CALL TYLER 5-1230 • • • • INFANT'S SERVICE GROUP , Mesdames Larry Weingarden and Edward Rosenfield were elected by the Infant's Service Group re- cently to fill vacancies in the of- fice of social secretary and chair- man respectively of the Barbara Goldsmith Memorial Fund. vommisso Lewis Br( Detroit's Leading NATION 3800 Puritan 7739 John R. St. Say It With OUR Flowers She'll be thrilled, no matter what the occasion. CieantijiYour Hama Also Furniture Cleaning ) Weddings, Parties, Banquets, Funerals our Specialty Telegraph and Delivery Service TY. 6.6622 Telephone Charge Accounts Solicited Dexter-Joy Florist 9200 DEXTER BLVD Joe and Moe Feldman, Owners • LITTLE IS KNOWN about the charity work of Shaarey Zedek 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. 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