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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Friday, September 12, 1947

Hope is the Keynote British Slug Federation Women to Open
as Jews Stream to Ret fugees Season at Meeting Oct. 8

Rosh Hashonah Rites

Buoyed by the prospect of a year of justice for Israel,
Detroit's Jews rock .to Rosh Hashonah rites Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday to mingle prayers of thanksgiving
with their private devotions of penitence.
A spirit of confidence and hope is certain to prevail as
the General Assembly of the United Nations gathers the
second day of Rosh Hashonah to consider the Palestine
committee's recommendations for the reestablishment of the

Jewish State after 2,09O'yeara of
dormancy.
There will be several now
faces in pulpits "here: Temple
Beth El will intrtititice its new
director of religious education,
Rabbi Sidney Akselrad', and a
visiting Rabbi will conduct the
services in the BrOwn Memorial
Chapel.

OTHER GUEST RARRIs

Shaarey Zedek, Bnai Moshe
and Temple Israel will also have
the assistance of guest Rabbis at
their supplementary services.
Rabbi Leon J. Liebreich will
alternate with Rabbi Morris Ad-
ler at the services at Shaarey
Zedek, Rabbi Liebreich, prior
to becoming an instructor at
Gratz College, Philadelphia,
served for 18 years as Rabbi of
Adath' Israel in Trenton, N.J.
Cantor Jacob' Sorienklar' and
visiting Cantor David Garen will
chant the liturgy.

RAllitr LE*: LIETIREICH
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on Monday and on "A Land
Where the Shofar' is Heard" on
At 'Briai Moshe; Rabbi Norman TueStit4r:
Frimer, direetor of Hi71el at
the University of Minnesota, will BNAI DAVID SERVICES
be the guest Rabbi. He will al-
Supplenientary' see- Vices at
ternate' in the pilhilt with Rabbi
MoseS FiScher'in the main audi- Briai DaVid will be under the
toriuni and at the additional direttion . of David J. Cohen,
service in the social hall. Can- Louise Please, Julius Ritten and
tor David Katzman will lead Hyman Rottenberg. Cantor Ben-
the prayers in the main audi- jamin Baumgarten of Palestine
torium and Cantor Samuel
will lead the devotions. Rabbi
Glantz in the soefal hall.
Joshua
Sperka will preach the
Children 7 to 12 will pray in
the Harry Rosman assembly hall sermons.
under the direction of Walter
At the rites in the main Syna-
Farber. Those from 13 to 17
gogue, Rabbi Sperka will speak
will hold services in the Mittel-
man Memorial Chapel. Max` Monday on "Our Day of Judg-
Chomsky will direct the latter ment" and Tuesday on "Our
services.
Future."
Young Israel will 'conduct
AT TEMPLE ISRAEL
services in two locations, at
At Rosh Hashonah eve serv- Yeshivath Beth Yehudah where
ices of Temple Israel at 8 p.m. Rabbi Alvin M. Poplack will
Sunday, Rabbi Leon Frani will preach, and at the Jewish Cul-
preadh on the subject, "The tural Center: 2709 Joy road,
Houge of God." The worship where Harry Blitz will be in
will be held in the auditorium charge.
ofl the Institute of Arts. Cantor
Rabbi Herman Rosenwasser
Robert S. Tulman and organist will conduct the devotions of
Karl W. Haas will participate. t;,,e Downtown Synagogue in the
Dr. Irving Levey, librarian of Colonade Room at the Masonic
the Hebrew Union College, will Temple.
preach the sermon at the addi-
tional service in the lecture hall
of the Institute that evening.
Morris Kesner will serve as
Cantor and Mrs. Edmund Gilbert
as organist.
At 10 a.m. Monday, Rabbi
Fram will conduct the services
In a statement to the Jewish
and preach on the subject, Community Council, Miss Evelyn
"Children of Israel."
Booth, principle of the Winter-
halter School, denied that she
BETH EL SERVICES
called parents in the school
Worship at Temple Beth El area "low class type."
will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday
The remarks carried in a De-
and 10 a.m. Monday. Dr. B. troit paper were alleged to
Benedict Glazer will officiate in have been made in connection
the main auditorium, Rabbi with an accident at Wintertial-
Phineas Smoller of Chicago in ter in which some plaster fell in
the Chapel and Rabbi Akselrad a kindergarten classroom,
in the social hall.
slightly injuring a few 'children.
Helen Alexander, Lois Len-
Miss Booth's statement indi-
hoff, Ronald Pollack and Joseph cated that she has been on the
Berke will be the readers at best terms with, and thinks
Temple Beth El's children's serv- highly of, all religious and ra-
ice at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the cial groups.
main auditorium. Rabbi Aksel-
A Council spokesman said
rad will give the sermonette.
many telephone calls had been
At the Northwest Hebrew received from both Christians
Congregation, worship will be and Jews supporting Miss Booth,
held in the newly-enlarged au- some pointing out that she has
ditorium. The morning services always done her utmost in pro-
will start at 7:30 am. Cantor moting goodwill in her classes
, William Glueck of New York and through the Parent-Teachers
Association.
will chant the prayers.
The Council has suggested that
Rabbi Jacob E. Segal will
preach on "The Sword of Peace" a meeting of the association of

BNAI MOSHE RIIES

of Exodus

The women's division of the
Jewish Welfare Federation will
launch its 1947-48 activities at
its annual meeting and luncheon
Wednesday, Oct. 8 at the Hotel
Statler. A "Community Har-
vest Festival" will be featured
in the program.
The division recently rounded
out its year's work by enrolling
a record high total of 10,00
women contributers to the 1947
Allied Jewish Campaign.

HAMBURG (JTA)—In a wild
battle during which many Jews
were knocked unconscious and
others suffered serious injuries
from steel-tipped rubber trunch-
eons, British troops completed
the forcible debarkation of the
last of the 4,400 Exodus refugees
to be returned to Germany. .
The disembarkation began
when the 1,428 refugees on the
Empire Rival landed without
any struggle. The violence COMMITTEE NAMED
Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner, chair-
started when the passengers on
the Runnymede Park refused to man of the program committee;
has asked Mrs. Harry Landiman
leave the ship.
to prepare a dramatic sequence'
LEADERS BATTLE
for the Oct. 8 meeting which'
The bloody battle on the will be presented under the joint
Runnymede Park began when direction of Miss Pearl Deve-
troops attempted to remove sev- now and Mrs. Joseph Fenton.
eral men described by British
Other members of the com-
authorities as the "ringleaders"
mittee
include Mesdames Jack
of the resistance. Among them
was Mordechai Rosman, the ac- Berger, Milton - Donor, Max
knowledged leader of -the de- Dushkin, Stanley Fleischakar,
portees on the vessel who was Seymour J. Frank, H. • J. L.
dragged off the ship unconscious, Frank, Samuel R. Glogower,
with blood streaming from sev- Harry Jacobson, Harry L. Jones,
eral head wounds. Eyewitness Julian H. Krolik, Leonard T.
reports said that he fought off Lewis, Maurice Pearlman, Al-
six British soldiers until he was exander W. Sanders, Jacob
subdued by several blows on the Shreier, Nate S, Shapero, Wal-
ter L. Field, Samuel Green, Sid-
head from wooden clubs.
ney Kalt, Royal Mass, Jerome
Meanwhile, a JTA correspond- Morton, and Miss Julia Klein.
ent at the Poppendorf • Camp,
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CHARTS AMENDMENT
Mrs. Abraham Cooper, chair
man of the committee on noini-
nations, will present the reptirt
of her committee, the remaining
members of which are Mesdames
I. IrVing Bittker; Lewis B. Dan:
Death ended a promising
iels, Leon Zechman, Louis
young career when Marvin B.
Zlatkin, Max Goldsmith and Os=
Spevakow, 15, son of Mr. and car Zemon.
Mrs. Nathan Spevakow died
Mrs. Sally L. Brown, chairman'
Tuesday after an illness of five
4
days.
His of the committee on constini-
home was at

Marvin Spevakow
Taken by Death

2215 Hazel-

wood avenue.
Services were
held Wednes-
day at the Ira
Kauf in a n
Chapel. Burial
was in Clover
Hill Par k
Cemetery.
MARVIN
Marvin was in the 12th grade
at Central High School and at
Shaarey Zedek where ehe„was a
leader in the Junior Corega-
tion. He was a graduate of the
high school of the United He-
brew Schools where he had been
a brilliant pupil.
He was a Boy Scout and a
member of Young Judea and
AZA.
He is survived, in addition to
his parents, by t*o sisters, Joan
and Marcia.

Slur at Parents Is Denied
by Winterhalter's Principal

the area be called to enable
Miss Booth to explain the inci-
dent.
Miss Booth has told the Coun-
cil that she would be happy to
meet with parents who h av e
doubts of her attitude and who
desire facts of the accident.
The school administration has
informed the Council that Win-
terhalter has one of the best in-
tercultural programs in the De-
troit school system and has been
used as a model in this respect.

Rabbi Sperka, Choir
to Broadcast on WWJ

The significance of Rosh Ha-
shonah will be explained over
WWJ by Rabbi Joshua Sperka
of Congregation Bnai David at
11 a.m., Sunday. The subject
of his talk will be "The Soul
and Its Destiny."

Cantor Hyman Adler and the
Synagogue choir will present
liturgical Music.

tion, will present an amendment
designed to add additional di-
rectors to the board. Other
members of the committee are

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MRS HARRY LANHAMAN

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Mesdames David Cooper, L E.
Goodman, Eliezer A. Levi, and
Miss Edith Heavenrich.
The women's division, which
was organized for carnpaign
purposes in 1939, has grown
from a small auxiliary of 1,500
contributors whose gifts totaled
less than $40,000 to its pregent
numerical strength and to a
level of giving far in excess of
$400,000: Figures and facts on
the Campaign growth and on
the deVelopment of a year round
program will be submitted at
the annual meeting.
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DISCUSSION GROUP

The Wednesday Evening Dis-
crissiCh group will present Dr.
Robert S. Drews at 8:45 p.m.
Sept. 17 in the Jewish Center.

Dates Available

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