Friday, February 21,
1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN
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By IRVING I. KATZ
ARTICLE 54
Bnai Brith in Michigan
Hillel Foundation
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(This is the ninth in a series)
1923, RABBI BENJAMIN M. FRANKEL, who had just graduated
from the Hebrew Union College, took up his first pulpit in Cham-
paign, Ill., the home of the University of Illinois. He quickly became
aware of the aimlessness and lack of leadership of the growing Jew-
ish student body and realized the need for some technique to bring
Jewish boys and girls closer to
Jewish life.
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Cooking Lessons
in UIIS Program
Lessons on preparing Jewish
foods will be offered at a meeting
of the Women's Auxiliary of the
Jnited Hebrew Schools at 12:30
m. Wednesday in the Rose Sit-
:ig Cohen, Bldg.
Demonstrations in culinary tech-
nics will be given, after which
:iook books will be distributed.
VIrs. Bert L. Smokier and Mrs.
Herbert Moss are chairmen.
Participants will include Mes.
lames Morris Adler, Morris Fish-
man, Saul Gordon, Philip J. Gil-
bert, Max Hayman, Theodore
Isaacs, Alexander Moss, George
Dr. Abram L. Sachar, the. noted Orley, Charles Robinson, Nat Ty-
historian, is the present national ner and Joseph Yolles.
director of the Hillel Foundations.
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Hillel came to Michigan in 1926
when a foundation was established
at the University of Michigan in
RABBI LYMON Ann Arbor, the third to be estab-
lished in the country. It had a membership of several hundred stu-
dents, a number that has more than trebled since the group's in-
ception.
The first foundation was located on East University avenue. As
the foundation expanded in membership and activities, Its headquar-
ters were moved to 1102 Oakland and then to its present site at the
corner of Hill and Haven avenues.
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THE PRESENT HOME, a beautiful 20-room house, was dedicated
Nov. 1, 1942. Its purchase was made possible through the efforts of
the Michigan Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation, Inc., and the Michigan
Enai Brith Council. It has been beautifully furnished by Women's
Grand Lodge No. 6.
The foundation is the first one in the country to be purchased by
Bnal Brith by means of what has become known as the "Michigan
Plan," all foundations having been rented until that time. Since the
"Michigan Plan" was conceived, other Hillel Foundations throughout
the country have adopted this plan of purchasing their homes.
Last spring Hillel members were told that their home and equip-
ment, which represent ,an investment of more than $35,000, would
have to be moved to make way for the expansion of the university.
The Foundation is planning to move to bigger quarters in a, newly
erected home at 1429 Mill.
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THE FOUNDATION AT Ann Arbor is more than a religious and
cultural organization. It serves as an educational and recreational
center as well, and as living quarters for 12 fellows, who are pro-
vided with a kitchen and given the full use of Hillel facilities. Serv-
ices are held every Sabbath Eve in the Hillel Chapel and are con-
ducted by the director and student cantors.
The first director at Ann Arbor was Rabbi Adolph Finkelstein.
His successors were Dr. Bernard Heller, Dr. Isaac Hahinowitz, Rabbi
Jehudah M. Cohen. The incumbent, Rabbi Herschel Lymon, is as-
sisted by Rabbi Gershon Rosenstock of the Ann Arbor congregation
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IN 1938, THE MICHIGAN Bnai Brith Council recognized the need
of the Jewish students at Michigan State College in East Lansing
for "a home away from home" on their campus, such as was pro-
vided by the Hillel Foundation at Ann Arbor. The result was the
creation of a Hillel Extension Unit with funds provided exclusively by
the Michigan Council. A few years later it became a counsellorship
and in 1946 it was converted into a full foundation. The Michigan
Council and Detroit's Pisgah Lodge made the expansion possible.
The ling director at Michigan State College was Rabbi Arthur
Zuckerman who was followed by Rabbi Morton M Applebaum. The
present director is Rabbi Abba Fineberg of the Reform Temple in
Lansing.
The Hillel Foundation at Wayne University, Detroit, was estab-
lished In 1946 through the efforts of Detroit's Harry B. Keidan Lodge
which also financed the purchase and furnishings of the Keidan
House, the home of the foundation, at 4841 Second boulevard. The
foundation has a membership of 700 students. Rabbi Milton Aron
is the director.
(Next week: BBY0)
Austria Assailed
as Anti-Semitic
NEW YORK—Denouncing pro-
Austrian propaganda in the United
States purporting to create the
impression that Jews in Austria
being fairly treated, Arthur
reenleigh, who has just re-
ed from an Austrian mission
for the American Jewish Com-
mittee, charged:
"1. Nazis are still occupying
apartments in Vienna belonging to
Jews while the former owners are
obliged to live in displaced per-
sons camps.
"2. Nothing tangible has been
done to return Jewish properties
and other assets to the few Jews
who survived the Nazi terror and
have returned to Vienna.
"3. Anti-Semitism is rampant in
Austria, with a recent bloody anti-
Semitic riot at the University of
Vienna taking on the aspect of
a full-fledged exhibition in the
best Nazi tradition with parades
through the city, placards and
beatings of Innocent people."
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MRS. JACK IIARTSTEIN, pres-
ident of the Greater Detroit
Bnai Brith Women's Council,
will be guest speaker at a mem-
bership brunch of the Sigmund
Livingston Auxiliary, Bnai Brith,
at 12:30 p. m. Sunday in the
Jewish Community Center. Edith
Goodman is membership chair-
man assisted by Mrs. Tillie
Kushner, Mrs. Sylvia Freedman,
Bernice Fleisher, Mrs. Phyllis
Teichman and Mrs. Lillian Sie-
gel Mrs. Gladys Phillips is pro-
gram chairman. For reservations
call TO. 7-8409 or TY. 4-4058.
KREPLACII
1 egg, 2 tablespoons water
% teaspoon salt
114 cups flour
Beat egg slightly, add salt and
water. Sift flour in gradually,
kneading until dough is stiff and
smooth. Roll out to a thickness of
one-eighth inch. Cut in squares
or circles. Place a tablespoon of
'Ming in center of each, fold over,
ninch edges together until krep-
1ach are tightly sealed. Boll in
salted water for five minutes,
drain well and bake in greased
min until browned. If desired,
'creplach may be boiled in clear
soup for ten minutes and not
browned.
Meat filling: Dice two onions
Ind lightly brown in 1 tablespoon
• ndered suet or chicken fat. Mix
yell with 1 cup mashed potatoes,
1 /2 lb. (1 cup) finely ground cooked
neat and 1 egg, slightly beaten.
Delicatessen Opened
Downtown by Al Miller
One of the most modern and
complete delicatessens in the Mid.
Ile West has been opened by Al
Miller at 620 Woodward avenue.
Specializing in all the popular
kosher foods, the delicatessen
furnishes customers with a menu
listing nearly 200 separate items.
In conjunction with Its current
membership drive, Chapter I, Zion-
ist Organization of Detroit will
sponsor an open meeting for young
nen and women of Detroit and
Windsor at 8:15 p. m. Thursday
in Bnai Moshe.
Included during the evening will
be a discussion of the Palestine
problem, to be followed by a so-
cial, which will include dancing.
Climaxing the drive, the chap-
ter will hold a party for paid-up
members March 15 at Bnai Moshe.
For information call Harold Weis-
man, president, TO. 6-3356.
Marks Is Speaker
for Career Group
Dr. Ben Marks, Detroit psychiat-
rist, will speak on "The Psychd-
sexual Development of the Individ-
ual" at a meeting of the Council
Career Group at 8 p.m. Thursday
in the Jewish Community Center.
Members are asked to bring a
guest. Mrs. Herbert Smith and
Mrs. Bpn Schwayder will be pa-
tronesses.
Attara Chapter Books
Eddy King for Dance
Eddy King and his orchestra
will furnish music for the annual
charily dance of Attara Chapter
of Junior Mizrachi March 1 at
the Park Avenue Penthouse.
Betty Hoffman, Dorothy Weber
and Pearl King are in charge of
arrangements. Proceeds will go to
orphaned children in —Palestine.
Stags are invited.
Rex Stout to Speak
for Americans United
AESCULAPIAN AUXILIARY
New members of the Aesculapian
Ladies Auxiliary will be honored
at a tea at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday
in the home of Mrs. Philip Ruskin,
3294 Glendale avenue. All drug.
qists' wives are invited. For in-
formation call Mrs. Martin Share,
TO. 6-6145.
UNIVERSITY AREA
A food shower for the SOS drive
will be held by the University
Area Women's qub at 8:30 p. m.
Wednesday in the home of Mrs.
Theodore J. Robins, chairman,
19212 Roselawn avenue. Assisting
is Mrs. Estelle German. Canned
ood will be the price of admission.
INFANT'S SERVICE GROUP
The Infant's Service Group has
voted to donate $250 for the pur-
chase of 10 dunam of land in
Palestine for settling refugees. A
.contribution was also made to
the National Foundation of In-
fantile Paralysis.
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This Week's
Recipe
Chapter I Spurs
Membership Drive
Rex Stout, author and radio
speaker, will lecture on "Can We
Obtain World Security"? at a
meeting of the Detr611 chapter of
Americans United for World Gov-
ernment at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday
at the Institute of Arts.
Stout's best known books are
the Nero Wolfe mysteries but his
writings attacking fascism and
American isolationism have been
also widely acclaimed.
3800 Puritan
7739 John R. St.
Livingston Speaker
Johannes Steel, internationally
famous radio commentator and
writer, will speak at 8 p.m., Fri-
day, Feb. 28, at the Jewish Cul-
tural Center, 2705 Joy road.
His subject will be "American
Foreign Policy and New Euro-
pean Democracies." As a U. S. war
correspondent in the spring of
1945, Steel covered England,
France, Germany, Italy and North
Africa. After visiting German con-
centration camps, he promised
Gen. Eisenhower to tell the Amer-
ican people the price the people of
Europe had paid for the rise of
fascism.
Steel is being brought here by
the International Workers Order.
At the suggestion of Dr. Edward
Chauncey Baldwin, professor of
Bible literature, and with the en-
couragement of Isaac Kuhn of
Champaign, this young rabbi con-
ceived a program and developed a
technique which he convinced
Bnai Brith in 1925 to accept as
part of its then widening pro-
gram of service to the Jewish
community. From this modest be-
ginning has grown the present
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation pro-
gram serving 90,000 Jewish stu-
dents on 163 university campuses,
through full-time foundations and
part-time counselorships.
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Lecture Is Slated
by Johannes Steel
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