Friday, May
23, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
We Need Revival
of Sinai Spirit
HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN
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Teen Age
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reporter chatted. with him.
lie
wants me to let y tu 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."
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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
By HELEN TENNENBAI'M
ARTICLE 66
hold me and make me kneel down. WOW, what a day, Mr. Weather-
Moses came down from the " mien, won't you make that
Detroit's Early Orthodox
JUNIOR CONGREGATION at
mountain with the tablets He said rain go away? . . . The Dum-
Congregations
to all of us: "I have the Law for Beaux had planned a wienie roast, Shaarey Zedek. . . Shy Kramer
you. Morality, that is. You are to among others and then there was
live by this Law from now on i that the Demolay Mosaic Chapter's hay who has done such a wonderful
job during the past year as presi-
you
may have freedom."
eONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM was organized by Austrian
ride in Windsor which the weather dent tells me that he soon will
"Says why?" I shouted.
ruined....
1 - 4 and Galician Jews and incorporated May 10, 1892. The charter
turn over his office to a new man.
replied.
Mosaic Chapter and Perfection Soon you will he mailed a ballot.
members were Abraham Barnett, Abraham J. Glickston, Abraham „ "Says God," a Moses
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Chapter will renew their rivalry Be sure to vote for the candidate
Goldman, Joseph Burnstein, Abbey Dunn, Menasha Suvalk and Meyer
JEERS AT TIIE LAW
when their two baseball teams who will in your opinion benefit
Cohen.
. Incidentally two the congregation most
Services were first held on the second floor of a private residence JIE READ THE LAW from the clash in June
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tables:
"Thou
shalt
not:
Thou
players
on the Mosaic team are
Hastings
street, near Winder. The first Synagogue at 233
at 444
So long. Have nice wienie roasts
shalt
have
no
other
God
before
from
Durfee.
They
are Howard
Winder street, between Hastings
and a joyous Shavuos.
.
and Rivard, was dedicated in nie , . . Thou shalt not' kill . . . Binkow and Sheldon Otis and the
1907. In 1923 the congregation Thou shalt not commit adultery latter leads the team in hitting..
... Thou shalt not steal . Thou
moved to its second home at 433
shalt not bear false witness . . .
RED AND WHITE ARE a sharp
E. Palmer, near Beaubien, which Thou shalt not covet."
combirrtion for sharp lads to wear.
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was built at a cost of $150,000. The
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"So that's saw!" I jeered into the Those are the hues of the ithalcs
congregation remained at that lo- ears of Ahiezer and Pagiel. "It's
sweaters.. . . the club is only
cation only four years.
nothing for us, fellows. Let's get
half year'old but it's off to a super
From 1927 to 1932 services and out of here."
start
with Mary Perlin as presi-
activities were conducted in a
Moses replied: "Your chains are dent, Otis as vice president and
rented hall in Jericho Temple, Joy off but you are still slaves is you
Donny Kahn, secretary-treasurer. ,
and Lawton. In 1932 the present are without moral law."
The other fellows are Murray
synagogue at 12517 Linwood. was
But I was young then, a fresh
Shekter, Morty WaNaoh, Mel Eder,
dedicated.
young barbarian just starting to-
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Bob Jaffe, Dave Mendelson sand
ward civilization. My untutored
BETH ABRAHAM was a con- youth is the only excuse I have Gil Galens. . . .
stituent of the United Hebrew for my rude ways at Sinai. I was
A NEWLY BORN GIRLS' c hub, I
Orthodox Congregations of Detroit just out of slavery, an unformed
during the early ministry i the human being, except for the crude "The Dellows" has already had its
city of Rabbi Judah L in. In molding of the slave-masier's lash first party. . . . Some of the gals
1915 the congregation c ed to its on my back. Please, then, excuse are Murriel Fox, Leanore Deitch,
pulpit Rabbi Josep Thumim. my delinquency at Sinai Mickey Woolf, Marylyn Waxman,
Jera
(20,;3° tin 9
Rabbi Thumim was born in Aus-
But what shall be said of men Maureen Weener, Shirley Wein-
in
man,
Annete
Sheperd,
Charleene
tria, June 14, 1878, the son of some 4,000 years later who,
c h. ./
Rabbi Naftali Hertz and Faega these times, still flout the nioral Okum ," • • • •
RABBI THUMIM
(Lieberman) Thumim. He received law of the Commandments, as I
GUESS WHO WAS seen with
his Jewish education under his father and his grandfather, Rabbi did in my barbaric youth?
Men In the highest places of the Mayor Jeffries and Councilman
Moses Thumim.
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and
George
Edwards at the Statler
At the age of 22 he received his Smichah (ordination) from Rabbi world who do as they please
of Edison
come to no understanding of Terrace Room? One of our own
Isaac SchmeHies of Lemberg, Rabbi Leib Horowitz of Stanislav and have
the fact that there is no social boys. Bernard Otis, who is on the
LETROIT 6, M ,r ∎ •
Rabbi Benjamin Weiss of Czernowitz. He served for several years as
without moral city housing and planning commis-
rabbi in Rosweelof and -in May, 1912, came to the United States to good for any one
law among nations. Men . who, like si "'
occupy the pulpit of Congregation Anshe Aust.•a in Boston.
Wow, some class . . . and only
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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 18 years old.
where he served as rabbi until July, 1915. He was then called to the by s'arfare, to steal the wealth of
Another outstanding teenager ...
pulpit of Congregation Beth Abraham of Detroit, a position which peoples, to covet.
Larry Clamage from Central is an
he still occupies. Rabbi Thumim is the fourth oldest rabbi in Detroit
Yes, it seems a time for a uni - active member of Kern's Prep
from the standpoint of continuous affiliation with a congregation.
vernal revival of the Command- Club and von probably saw( his
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ments, for a Shavuos that all man- picture in the Detroit News Pic-
WHEN RABBI THUMIM came to Detroit, Beth Abraham had kind may celebrate in eommemor- torial last Sunday. ... He models
a membership of less than 200. Today the congregation numbers over ation of Sinai. youth clothes. . . If you have
done something outstanding, why
400 members and is one of the largest orthodox congregations in
I not let me know? Call TO. 7-6128.
the city.
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Rabbi Thumim organized in 1915 the Ladies Auxiliary of Beth Dr. Harry Stoler Back
Abraham (now the Sisterhood). In 1935 the Beth Abraham Free Loan from Service in Japan j GENE KRUPA WAS at...East-
Association ciline bOo existence for the purpose of loaning money,
Dr. Harry W. Stoler, 3777 Boston {w ood the other night. . . . Your
without interest to needy persons. The association has helped hun- boulevartl, has returned after two '
CLEANED IN YOUR
dreds of persons.
years' service n the U. S. navy and
..OWN ROME
In 1946 Beth Abraham, through the efforts of a special commit- has opened his offices for the prac-
Rev. Cantor
tee, sent 4,000 packages of clothing and -food to individual European tice of dentistry at 19378 Kelly
Jacob
Jews on which the postage alone amounted to $5,000.
road. Dr. Stoler served as a lieu-
Silverman
Louis Ellenbogen is president of Congregation Beth Abraham, tenant lig.) in Japan.
settotCAL
Mrs. Louis Ellenbogen is president of the Sisterhood, and Hyman
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Weller is president of the Beth Abraham Free Loan Association.
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Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of the Palestine Jewish Legion, will
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20 Years Ago
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