4.
Monsky Portrait Unveiled at Parley
Center to Present
Open-Air Music
A PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
said Rabbi Elieur, ''is an
other one of the wayi to God.'
Mr. Knox said: "Yes, it's an
other one of the ways. like ;
The music department of the
Jewish Community Center will
present a series of six open-
air concerts at which recordings
of great artists will be heard.
The first concert will take
place at 9 p.m. Monday. The pro-
gram will consist of Beethoven's
Symphony No. 3 (Eroica),
Hadyn's Symphony No. 13 in G
Major and Rossini's Overture to
"William Tell" by the NBC Sym-
phony under Arturo Toscanini.
Other concerts will be present-
ed on subsequent Mondays, July
28 and Aug. 4, 11, 18 and 25.
The July 28 presentation will
synagogue."
Rabbi Piezer: ''Up here we
come from our various way,
and all together we find God.'
Mr. Knox: "In coining to Goe
together from our separate ways
we discover the essential unity
of man."
Rabbi Eliezer: "We haven't
seen God yet but we know
be a program of Jewish Music.
It will include songs of the syna-
gogue by Cantor Robert Seigal
and a choir under A. W. Binder;
"Shelomo" by Bloch, with the late
Emanuel Feuerman as solo-cell-
An oil portrait of the late Henry Monsky was unveiled at the District 6 convention of Bnai
Brith in St. Paul. Shown above (i. to r.) with the portrait are Louis Pickus, Waukegan, Ill.,
past president of District 6; Curt Frankenstein, 25-year-old German refugee student who painted
the portrait; and Maurice Bisgyer, Washington, D. C., national secretary of Bnai Brith, who ac-
eepted the portrait.
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ist: and Hebrew melodies.
The Aug. 4 concert will be an
all-Gershwin program.
Irgun Coup
(Continued from page 3)
ator who has established the
Armstrong Foundation, which is
spreading prejudice against Ne-
groes and Jews . . Armstrong
is a great admirer of Rep. John
Service in Church
Stirs N. Y. Rabbi
(Continued from page 3)
a Presbyterian church."
`Eroica' on Program
of Records Monday
Envisioned
Page Thirteei
DETROIT JRWISM CIRONICLI
July 11, 1M7
District 6 Elects Mrs. Sims, Leib
as Vice-Presidents at Convention
Him. Knox: ''God is always
away somewhere. That's why we
haven't seen Him yet."
Rabbi Eliezer: "Yes, he's away
among the hearts of people. We
look down from here and we
see His image among men, Then
we know Dim."
Mr. Knox: "We knew Him the
other day? You remember Him.
don't you, Rabbi Eliezer, in the
heart of that black man the other
day? The black man laid down
his life for a white child. We
saw God's image in him and
that way we knew Him."
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MIGHT RETURN
RABBI ELIEZER and Mr.
The unv eili in g took
said they were con-
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Samuel largest of any of the seven Bnai May 1.
Districts in the United place before 1,500 persons as- tent to know God in this way.
W. Leib of Detroit was elected Brith
second vice-president of Bnai States and Canada — was ap- sembled in the St. Paul Auditor- Maybe some day, in a thousand
ium. It was painted by a 25- years or more, He would be
Brith District 6 at the organiza- proved by the convention. sets year-old
German refugee, Curt through with perfecting the
tion's 79th annual convention.
Frankenstein, who never had any hearts of men by justice, com-
E. Rankin, and apparently has
Mrs. Leonard Sims, former
formal art instruction until this passion and generosity; He
no fear of any investigation. But
president of Pisgah Chapter, De-
year.
pro-
might, at last, be enthroned in
Jewish and non-Jewish
troit, was named first vice-presi-
democratic organizations should dent of the district women.
Frankenstein attends the Am- all the synagogues and churches.
back the American Jewish Com-
erican Academy of Arts in Chi- Then, Ills work done, he could
cago under a Bnai Brith Hillel return to Heaven to rest, as in
mittee's request for a show down
Louis 11. Harrison and Mrs.
on Armstrong . .
Foundation scholarship. He was the cool of the evening in the
Adele
Jeffe,
both
of
Chicago,
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brought to the United States un- Garden of Eden and they would
were elected presidents of the
der Bnai Brith auspices and see Him at last . • .
two
groups.
THE JEWISH ASPECT
painted the Monsky portrait as
"And God's in a Presbyterian
The conclave, June 29 to July
THE GARSSON BROTHERS
an expression of his gratitude.
church, too," they added.
ex-Congressman M a y 2, brought more than 700 dele-
After this heavenly experience
A retiring young man, he re-
were found guilty—and rightly so gates from Illinois, Iowa, Mich-
Minnesota, Nebraska, North
fuses to acknowledge that his I can feel that it's no profana-
—on charges of graft in their igan,
Dakota, South Dakota and Wis-
paintings are anything out of the tion of the Holy Name -of God
work for the government during
consin, and the Canadian prov-
ordinary but he was acclaimed by for Jews to worship in a house
the war. The Garsson case, how- inces of Alberta, Manitoba and
army and navy officers in a of Presbyterians.
in
ever, was a minor matter
Shanghai detention camp as "a
Saskatchewan.
Rather with deeper feeling
comparison with the war-pro-
genius." He left Germany in 1939 they can cry out: How beauti-
Frank
Goldman
of
Lowell,
fiteering scandals in the billion-
because of persecution of the ful. 0 God our Lord, are the
Mass., successor to the late Henry
dollar class.
Jews under the Hitler regime.
brethren when they know each
Now thy Garsson brothers Monsky as Bnai Brith president,
'other as Thy children under
USES SNAPSHOTS
were Jews, and as such were delivered the main address at
resented, because Jews are not the convention banquet.
In Shanghai, he became an ap- Thy roof.
supposed to break into the big HITS 'IMPERIALISM'
SAMUEL W. LEIB
prentice artist for a newspaper
munitions game. There is a
managed to eke out a living Welfare Parley Set
He was given a tremendous aside ;137,000 for Bnai Brith ser- and
similarity between the Garsson ovation
by sketching portraits of Am-
when
he
said:
"We
in
activity
and
philanthropies.
vice
case and the case against Ber-
erican military personnel and 1 to Study Aged, Ill
Bnai Brith, in company with
A convention resolution rec-
CINCINNATI—Judge Maurice
nard J. Marcus of the Bank of every
humanitarian in the world, ommended the establishmenttun- fighting ships. It was through an lemon of Cleveland and Stan- -•
the United States some 15 years will not rest until the hundreds
American naval officer that Bnai
a
ago. Marcus was sentenced to of thousands of displaced persons der Bnai Brith auspices of
Brith learned of Curt's ability. ley J. Hann of Pittsburg were
jail and his bank closed, al- of Europe, of every faith — Jewish university in the United Bnai Brith then arranged for his named co-chairmen of a regional
though•the receivers were able Catholics, Protestants and Jews— States to afford npn-sectarian op- passage to this country and pro- meeting of the Council of Jew-
ish Federations and Welfare
to reimburse the depositors to are resettled in other lands where portunities of the highest stand- vided funds for his education.
Funds on Jewish community plan-
the extent of well over 90 per they want to go; in other lands ards as a practical step toward
He arrived in Chicago on the ning which will be held Sept. 6
solving the "unjust and un-
cent of their so-called losses.
where they may be rehabilitated American quota policy which day of Monsky's burial in May,
But there too a definite Jew- and where they may enjoy the closes the door to many deserv- this year. He painted the portrait and 7 in Toledo.
The conference will deal with
ish angle came into play. Jews freedoms and liberties and the
from a group of snapshots after health services and care for
are far from welcome in the big natural rights of human beings." ing youths."
"Numerous Catholic and Pro- talking with many of those who sick, convalescent and aged
banking game. It will always
Goldman charged thate'imper- testant universities throughout intimately knew the great Jewish Jews. Community leaders from
remain a mystery why a Jewish ialism
leader.
and power politics" are
major cities in the east central
banker and a Jewish munitions causing the frustration of the the land attest to the effective
states will attend the sessions.
maker were selected as the tar- Jewish community in Palestine. way in which other denomina-
12th STREET DAY CAMP
gets when non-Jewis culprits He called for the abrogation of tions have long since met this
had much more to answer for. the British "white paper" and vital need in the field of higher
Parents
who wish to send
Not that we condone the actions asked that the doors of Palestine education," the resolution read.
their
children
to a camp in the
of the Garssons at all ... They be opened immediately for un- UNVEIL PORTRAIT
city may enroll them at the 12th
deserved their punishment . . . restricted immigration of Jews
A highlight of the convention
But where are the other cul- and removal of restrictions in of the late Henry Monsky, presi- Street Center Day Camp. llor-
prits?
the purchase of land.
dent of Bnai Brith who died on old Weiss, director, announces.
President Roosevelt, while still
governor of New York, admitted BACK ADL PROGRAM
rr to us in a private interview that Full support of the Anti-
there was a Jewish aspect in the Defamation League's 5-point pro-
Marcus case. Well, there was a gram for legislation against dis-
KOSHER
big Jewish angle in the Garsson crimination was pledged.
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