Friday, May
23, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
We Need Revival
of Sinai Spirit
HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN
Page Thirteen
reporter chatted. with him.
He
wants me to let 3' iti know that the
greatest kick that he gets out of
his work is making other people
happy. . . . Gene also told me
that he is American born and that
true to his heritage he believes in
equal opportunity for all men, .
Gene says "Thank you, all my
loyal fans."
By HELEN TENNENBAUM
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WOW, what a day, Mr. Weather-
Tv man, won't you make that
JUNIOR CONGREGATION at
rain go away? . . . The DIM-
Beaux had planned a wienie roast, Shaarey Zedek. . . Shy Kramer
among others and then there was Who has done such a wonderful
the Demolay Mosaic Chapter's hay job during the past year as presi-
ride in Windsor which the weather dent tells r.,o that he soon will
ruined....
turn over his office to a new man. ?.
Mosaic Chapter and Perfection Soon you will be mailed a ballot.
Chapter will renew their rivalry Be sure to vote for the candidate
when their two baseball teams who will in your opinion benefit
clash in June . . . Incidentally two the congregation most
players on the Mosaic team are
So long. Have nice wienie roasts
from Durfee. They are Howard
.
Binkow and Sheldon Otis and the and a joyous Shavuos.
latter leads the team in hitting..
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RED AND WHITE ARE a share.
combirrtion for sharp lads to wear.
Those are the hues of the Diablos
sweaters . . . the club is only a
half year old but it's off to a super
start witn Mary Perlin as presi-
dent, Otis as vice president and
Donny Kahn, secretary-treasurer.
The other fellows are Murray
Shekter, Morty Wallaoh, Mel Eder,
Bob Jaffe, Dave Mendelson and
Gil Galens. . .
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A NEWLY BORN GIRLS' club,
"The Dellows" has already had its
first party. . . . Some of the gals
-A
are Murriel Fox, Leanore Deitch,
Mickey Woolf, Marelyn Waxman,
-Ccrvice
Cotinlin9
Maureen Werner, Shirley Wein-
man, Annete Sheperd, Charleene
Okum.
nib ,/
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GUESS WHO WAS seen with
Mayor Jeffries and Councilman
9419 DEXTER BOULEVARD
George Edwards at the Statler
Terrace Room? One of our own
of Edison
boys. Bernard Otis, who is on the
. CETROIT 6, m r.!
city housing and planning commis-
sion.
Wow, some class . . . and only
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18 years old.
Another outstanding teenager ...
Larry Clamage from Central is an
active member of Kern's Prep
Club and you probably saw his
picture in the Detroit News Pic-
torial last Sunday. .. . He models
youth clothes. . . . If you have
done something outstanding, why
not let me know? Call TO. 7-6128.
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Teen-Age
Sophistic/Iles
(Continued from page 3)
ther commanded me to kneel down
at the foot of the mountain, but
I said I wasn't afraid of anything.
I
had freedom and nothing could
ARTICLE 66
hold me and make me kneel down.
Moses came down from the
Detroit's Early Orthodox
mountain with the tablets He said
Congregations
to all of us: "I have the Law for
you. Morality, that is. You are to
live by this Law from now on that
'ONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM was organized by Austrian you may have freedom."
"Says who?" I shouted.
A and Galician Jews and incorporated May 10, 1892. The charter
"Says God," Moses replied.
embers were Abraham Barnett, Abraham J. Gliekston, Abraham
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loldman, Joseph I3urnstein, Abbey Dunn, Menasha Suvalk and Meyer
JEERS AT TIIE LAW
ohen.
HE READ THE LAW from the
Services were first held on the second floor of a private residences
tables: "Thou shalt not: Thou
444 Hastings street, near Winder. The first Synagogue at 235
shalt have no other God before
Winder street, between Hastings
me . . . Thou shalt not kill . .
and Rivard, was dedicated in
Thou shalt not commit adultery
1907. In 1923 the congregation
... Thou shalt not steal . . Thou
moved to its second home at 433 shalt not bear false witness .
E. Palmer, near Eeaubien, which Thou shalt not covet."
was built at a cost of $150,000. The
"So that's law!" I jeered into the
congregation remained at that lo- ears of Ahiezer and Pagiel. "It's
cation only four years.
nothing for us, fellows. Let's get
From 1927 to 1932 services and out of here."
activities were conducted in a
Moses replied: "Your chains are
rented hall in Jericho Temple, Joy off but you are still slaves if you
and Lawton. In 1932 the present are without moral law."
synagogue at 12517 Linwood was
But I was young then, a fresh
dedicated. young barbarian just starting to-
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ward civilization. My untutored
BETH ABRAHAM was a con- youth is the only excuse I have
stituent of the United Hebrew for my rude ways at Sinai. I was
Orthodox Congregations of Detroit just out of slavery, an unformed
during the early ministry in the human being, except for the crude
city of Rabbi Judah L. Levin. In molding of the slave-master's lash
1915 the congregation called to its on my back. Please, then, excuse
pulpit Rabbi Joseph Thumim. my delinquency at Sinai .
Rabbi Thumim was born in Aus-
But what shall be said of men
tria, June 14, 1878, the son of some 4.000 years later who, in
Rabbi Naftali Hertz and Faega these times, still flout the moral
RABBI THUMIM
(Lieberman) Thumim. He received law of the Commandments, as I
is Jewish education under his father and his grandfather, Rabbi did in my barbaric youth?
oses Thumim.
Men In the highest places of the
At the age of 22 he received his Smichah (ordination) from Rabbi world who do as they please and
snac Schmelkes of Lemberg, Rabbi Leib Horowitz of Stanislav and have come to no understanding of
abbi Benjamin Weiss of Czernowitz. He served for several years as the fact that there is no social
abbi in Rosweelof and in May, 1912, came to the United States to good for any one without moral
law among nations. Men . who, like
ecupy the pulpit of Congregation Anshe Austria in Boston.
me in my remote youth, assert that
In 1913 he was called to Congregation Adath Israel in New York they can do as they like, to kill
here he served as rabbi until July, 1915. He was then called to the by warfare, to steal the wealth of
ulpit of Congregation Beth Abraham of Detroit, a position which peoples, to covet.
e still occupies. Rabbi Thumim is the fourth oldest rabbi in Detroit
Yes, it seems a time for a uni-
rom the standpoint of continuous affiliation with a congregation.
versal revival of the Command-
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ments, for a Shavuos that all man-
WHEN RABBI THUMIM came to Detroit, Beth Abraham had kind may celebrate in Commemor-
membership of less than 200. Today the congregation numbers over ation of Sinai.
00 members and is one of the largest orthodox congregations in
he city.
Rabbi Thumim organized in 1915 the Ladies Auxiliary of Beth
braham (now the Sisterhood). In 1935 the Beth Abraham Free Loan
GENE KRUPA WAS at East-
asociation came into existence for the purpuse of loaning money,
Dr. Hairy W. Stoler, 3777 Boston wood the other night. . . , Your
ithout interest to needy persons. The association has helped hun- boulevard, has returned after two
reds of persons.
years' service n the U. S. navy and
In 1946 Beth Abraham, through the efforts of a special commit- has opened his offices for the prac-
Rev. Cantor
e, sent 4,000 packages of clothing and food to individual European tice of dentistry at 19378 Kelly
Jacob
ews on which the postage alone amounted to $5,000.
road. Dr. Stoler served as a lieu-
Silverman
Of
Louis Ellenbogen is president of Congregation Beth Abraham, tenant (j.g.) in Japan.
SERGICAL
rs. Louis Ellenbogen is president of the Sisterhood, and Hyman
MOHEI,
eller is president of the Beth Abraham Free 1.4,4” Association.
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Dr. Harry Stoler Back
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Looking Back Through the Years
Events
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compiled from the files of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
25 Years Ago
An Odessa Rabbi is killed in a riot in his Synagogue when Soviet
officials came in to confiscate the Synagogue valuables.
Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of the Pale-'tine Jewish Legion, will
address the Detroit Jewish community.
20 Years Ago
Non-partisan body is named to survey Palestine's economic pos-
sibilities and to report to Jewish Agency.
Dr. David Philipson, author of "History of the Reform Movement
is Judaism," will occupy the pulpit of Temple Beth El.
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