Page Five
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Friday, August 29, 1947
Death of Jacob B. Rogvoy,
Beloved Teacher, Mourned
Zionist Leader
The Voice of the
Man in the Street
Photos by JACK BIGFLNIAN
State Fair Display
Council Sponsors
Human Relation.
By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D. from home. He would stand for
Is Exhibit Theme
a long time before a restaurant
Jewish Chronicle Columnist
TIME: Thursday afternoon.
window, trying to identify the
One of the features of the
DO YOU say "farewell" kinds of food he wanted. But
PLACE: Dexter and Webb.
to a friend? The fluidity of his experience, in a strictly ko- Michigan State Fair openin; to-
QUESTION: What articles or
language, the eye-watering I sher house, failed him for eating day is an "Exhibit on Human
stories would you like to see
must leave to others more prac- out in restaurants. Many times Relations," sponsored jointly by
in an Anglo-Jewish newspaper
ticed in their uses. I shall say he would point to a dish on the the Detroit Interracial Commit-
in Detroit?
nothing about the details of the counter without knowing its tee and the Coordinating Coun-
work of Jacob. B. Rogvoy be- taste or value. Only slowly did cil on Human Relations. The
Jewish Community Council, as
cause the name, dates, places he learn to identify food.
MRS. MAXWELL GOLDMAN,
one of the participating agencies
are, no doubt, recorded in the
3273 Cortland, housewife.
in the Coordinating Council, is
Book of Life.
KNEW MODERN YOUTH
Since I feel that the Palestine
among the sponsors of the ex-
Simply, I say: There is a void
JAKE SPENT HIS working life hibit.
issue is very important, I think
in my heart because "Jake" is
teaching public school and re-
The Coordinating Council. a
more news pertaining to it should
gone. Jake was my friend, even
ligious school. At heart he was city-wide grouping of agencies
be published by
though
we
hadn't
seen
each
other
HARRY COIIEN
a Melamed but a Melamed who dedicated to breaking down bar-
our newspapers.
• • •
much in these past years.
also knew psychology, pedagogy, riers of prejudice and misunder-
The metropoli-
Jake the teacher, Paul the
modern youth and how to in- standing, has selected as the
tan dailies na-
druggist, Harry the physician and
still, into their almost unwilling theme of the exhibit "This is
turally, subor-
I were raised together, went to
minds, his love for his own re- America .. . A Land of People
dinate the Pal-
the same schools, argued and
ligious and educational views.
. . . A Land of Faith." A display
estine problem
dated together.
Perhaps he may have been of posters, literature, films and
to the stories of
.Whatever our differences in
everyday oecur-
ideas, there was a warmth be- among the leading educators of presentations of radio dramatiza-
ences.
Voices Strong Appeal tween us because we were this country. But to me, his tions will highlight the exhibit.
Aaron Droock, president of the
• I also like to
friends. We knew each other basic glory is that he did an
for Zionist Campaign well,
read about the
we saw one another daily, everyday job in an unusual way. Community Council, said that
social events going on in. Detroit.
we strengthened each other and These combined jobs he carried the exhibit is "an example of
the constructive kind of under-
Harry Cohen, leading Detroit laughed together at our several on until his illness.
It may seem catty at first glance,
Though we differed violently taking that can be developed by
but I like to know what the next Zionist and a member of the mistakes.
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on religious matters and some- the joint efforts of all the agen-
person is doing. I have numer- Zionist expansion fund commit-
times thought each other narrow- cies in our city interested in the
ous ' friends and acquaintances tee, has issued an appeal for De- RETAINED MANNERISMS
minded, there remained an un- important problem of human re-
.here* and the .Jewish paper should troit Jews to support the fund
JAKE, BORN IN Europe, had spoken warmth. For we had lations.
drive.
•keep me posted.
"The Jewish Community Coun-
"The Jews in Palestine for not entirely lost his European known each other well and ap-
whom no assignment is too dif- speech and mannerisms. He preciated our mutual aims in cil is proud to be a part of this
program to promote and increase
MRS. HELEN IIOLTZ, 2544 ficult or too dangerous, look to spoke with the same deliberate, life.
understanding among Detroiters
Grand avenue, housewife.
use to take up their struggle on clipped speech as his late father,
Though his years were com-
the American front," Cohen as- also a teacher. Perhaps that paratively short, he brought his of all origins and creeds."
I at intreSted in the personal
The \ exhibit will be housed in
came because he was raised in careful, technical ability and hu-
serted.
side of Detroit .and I welcome
He pointed out that no money one language and lived in an- man warmth into both the high a tent just south of the band-
stories about family life and do-
is available for carrying out the other.
school and religious school of stand.
ings in a news-
As the oldest male in a ba- is affiliation.
program of "Operation America"
paper. There
IIIIIN
from the United Palestine Ap- sically European family, he was
I shall miss him deeply. From
are plenty of
peal or from the $1 which is the waited on. Until he left college,
:..
All Cars-,I932-1947
interesting-tales
share of the membership dues he never ate away from home. the Heaven in which he believed
—
Plaid Fibers—
concerning the
At college, he was fortunate fervently, Jacob B. Rogvoy looks
retained here.
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Coaches,
Sedans,
everyday social
down
on
his
life-work
and
smiles
....
The national and local expan- that his sister lived in the same
$1.2.88 — E
= Club Coupes
happenings
sion fund of the ZOA, in financ- town. So Jake merely transferred that he labored well for and with
here, and I
Jewish
and
non-Jewish
youth—
Custom
Tailo,ed
himself
from
his
mother's
house
ing this operation, will provide
know everyone
al
the hope of mankind.
= Heavy Fiber
the means to force a action orig- to his sister's. He ate there what-
likes to read
$29.88 —
a
inating in America to help in the ever was prepared for him.
E SATIN
about them.
Being a scholar at heart, he
Maroon, Blue and Green
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struggle of the Yishuv, Cohen
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—
But I don't
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never bothered himself with the
We Install Covers
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think the society items should stated.
Contributions to the fund names of food. He just ate.
overshadow the news about Pal-
Once he told this story on him-
estine which should be given should be sent to the Zionist dis- self, about his first job away
trict,
1044
Penobscot
Bldg.
The first meeting of the fall
prominence. Palestine is going to
season of the Sisters of Zion
play a vital role in our lives and
Mizrachi will be held Wednes-
we should be informed about it.
day at Rosenberg's as a linen
shower. Mrs. Rose Singer, presi-
CELIA YAROST, 4050 Tuxedo
dent, has announced.
18000 WYOMING at THATCHER
avenue, student.
Proceeds from the shower will
he
sent to aid refugee children. E 1 ° 19 P ITGII
lil i ER:t Hot.9 11.0 1 6 90
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r N ' D RIVER
HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICES
, I like to see news and informa-
E
For
information,
call
Mrs.
Isaac
tive articles in a Jewish news-
Rosenthal, TY. 6-6066. :511111111 Detroit 4, Mich. nilim
Reservations will be accepted Sunday, August 31, from 10 a.m.
paper. I want to know what is
happening to
to 12 noon—Also every night after August 31, from 6:30 p.m.
the Jews in the
to 10 p.m. at the Synagogue
world and the
only place I
Please Make Reservations Early
can get the
complete story
is in a Jewish
newspaper be-
cause the regu-
lar dailies just
brush over the
You're Particu ar About Wall to Wall
Portraits by
Jewish items.
I don't care for the personality
articles, and the social items about
where someone went for a vaca-
Photo rappers
What
tion don't interest me.
'people do with their private lives
OUR SPECIAL OFFER — for a limited time
should not be spread in print. I'd
rather see news.
THREE 8x10 PORTRAITS
H OW
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Expansion Fund
Spurred by Cohen
oilluSEAT COVERS = =
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Sisters of Zion
Set Linen Shower
Beth Aaron Synagogue
FOR MEN ONLY!
KEITH
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MRS. JOSEPH BECKERMAN,
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Of greatest importance to me is
the news about the Jewish strug-
gle for a Homeland in Palestine.
We learn so
tery little from
the non-Jewish
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papers. But I
don't think the
entire paper
should be de-
voted to that
problem.
I like to read
.a bout what's
going on in the
social world, too. The paper
should strive for variety, includ-
ing personalities. club news,
columnists and local features. The
Jewish newspaper should print
those neighborhood items which
we can't find in the local news-
papers.
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