Friday, February 21, 1947 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle HISTORY OF JEWS IN MICHIGAN **. By IRVING I. KATZ ARTICLE 54 Bnai Brith in Michigan Hillel Foundation 7-71 ■ ••• ■ . - (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. 1- n h :s ir. Is LS te Lg ar re IC a n- at n- 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. 1, It 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. • 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. • • 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 ▪ • • 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." p 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. ammalmeimmimms. Lewis Bros. Detroit's Leading Jewish Funeral Director NATION WIDE AFFILIATIONS TR. 2.2113-4 Fifteen 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. a a- Lecture Is Slated by Johannes Steel Page STR Bohemian Beer • . iTHE STROH SREWERY CO., DETROIT 26,1,1104. '