Thursday, May 12, 1949
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Name Change
Trend Ebbing
Extends Bid
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wrath and Jewish children have
the humiliating experience of
`Jude" being shouted at them in
the movies, streets and play .-
grounds.
On an 86th street crosstown bus
passing Yorkville, this writer
overheard a quarrel between two
women. At the height of the ar-
gument one said to another, "Why
don't you go to Jewland where
you belong," and when the in-
evitable reply "Why don't you go
to Germany" came, the first wom-
an shot back, "Yorkville is Gk.
ma ny" .
. I
FATHER OF MARINE
THE FATHER of Israel's mer-
chant marine is the 3 1-year-old
Italiair-born Enrico Levi. He is
of Spanish Jewish origin. His
forebears settled in Italy in 1942,
the year of the Spanish expulsion
of Jews.
Young Israel
to Celebrate
There was fear in Jewish cir-
cles that Dr. Chaim Weizmann
Young Israel of Detroit will
had undertaken too strenuous a celebrate its 26th
anniversary
task when he came to the United Sunday evening, May 29 at the
States. However the 75-year-old Mayfair Room. The community
Israeli president bore up better was issued a general invitation
than expected. In fact he joked to the affair by Abbe A. Levi,
about it, telling friends he had president of the local organiza-
just recently discovered that one tion.
can't do at 75 what he did at
Levi emphasized the import-
seventy.
ance of the moral and financial
Weizmann has told intimate backing of the community in the
friends that his visit to the U. S. building of the youth center on
was an exhilarating and fruitful De;iter and Fullerton.
experience.
The schedule calls for comple-
Israel's first lady has made a tion by mid-summer, he said, but
. profound impression on Washing- the strong, wholehearted support
ton circles. Mrs. Truman relates of the community is necessary
that wherever she goes these days for the successful conclusion of
she finds herself engaged in' con- the project.
For dinner reservations, call the
versation about Mrs. Weizmann.
• • •
.Young Israel office, TO. 8-8064.
Meyer Weisenfeld, Meyer Eis-
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
EINSTEIN ONCE SAID that enberg and Shinion 'Berris were
the most profound emotion one elected officers of the Northwest
can experience is the sensation branch.
of the mystical because it is the Rabbi Samuel II. Prero, Young
Israel director, has inaugurated
sower of all true science. It is a series
of lectures on Pirkei
probably that emotion which led
the great scientist to groping with Aboth, Ethics of Our Fathers. The
lectures are held at 6 p. ni. Sat-
the problem of the universe.
urdays at the Yeshivah.
Laymen who have been in-
The Young Adults of Young
trigued by the father of relativ- Israel will be host to all Young
ity would do well to read Lin- Israel groups Saturday evening,
coln Barnett's "The Universe and May 21. The Women's League
Dr. Einstein," published by Wil- Mother and Daughter dinner will
liam Sloane Associates. The vol- be held Monday evening.
ume is, as the publishers claim,
the clearest, most lucid account
at the universe as science sees it
today.
The story of the false Messiahs
its one of the most fascinating Bnai David Sisterhood will hold
chapters in Jewish history. The an election of officers at 8:30 p.m.
name of Sabbatai Zevi holds us Monday. The nominating com-
mittee was composed of Mrs.
though he wrought havoc to Jew-
ish life in his days. Even now in Joseph Greenberg, chairman, and
Mesdames Charles Jones, Bernard
Salonaika and throughout Asia Blostein, Samuel Kane and H.
Minor the sect persists and his Pearson.
followers remain strong in their
The executive committee will
faith. A fine analysis of this false meet May 23.
prophet is given in Harry C.
Schnur's volume "Mystic Rebels,"
Nathan Hacks Elected
a Beechurst Press produce.
A magnificent "Haggadah" was to California Posts
recently published by the Feld-
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Hack, for-
heim press. It is a reproduction mer Detroitres, who have been
of the Haggadah Codex in medie- residents of Santa Monica,
Cal.
val style with illuminated letters for the past three years, were
and multi-colored pictures. It is honored last week.
a work that represents the revival Mrs. Hack was elected secre-
• of a great and forgotten art.
tary of the Crescent Bay Chap-
The artist, Kafra, in his pictor- ter of Toastmistresses, Interna-
ial interpretation, reveals a great tional, and Mr. Hack was elected
Intimacy with Jewish artistic tra- vice-president of the Toastmas-
dition. It is a book lover's prize. ters, International, branch there.
Another great addition to our
holiday literature is Philip Good-
INSURED
man's "Purim Anthology," pub-
lished by the Jewish Publication
Society of America. It is the third
volume in the holiday series pub-
lished by the society and the best,
Bnai David Group
to Elect Officers
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Ben Gurion- Defends Policy
of Compromise on Religion,
TEL AVIV—(MNB) — In an to eat Kosher meat, while the
important policy declaration re-
garding religious. matters in Is- former can choose either Kosher
rael, Premier David Ben Gurion or non-Kosher. The same applies
to marriage. It is possible to love
virtually told the Knesset that a wife or a
husband andshave
Israel is not the sole perogative
children according to a religious
of the anti-religious elements, rite. '
but must serve all sections of the
"I wish to make one thing
Yishuv, World Mizrachi head-
clear—not as prime minister but
quarters reported.
in the name of the party of
The Israel premier made the which
I have the privilege of
following statement which is re-
being a member. We would have
, leased as an MNB exclusive:
"I have been asked what is pursued this cause. even if the
the meaning of equal rights for Religious Bloc had been in the
women. "Does this involve civil opposition, for we are not of the
opinion that the present juncture
, or religious issues?
is opportune to solve questions
PROMISES EQUALITY
"In the very near future a law which touch so closely upon Jew-
will be promulgated in Israel ish spirit.
„1 have been asked about
making
every man in
and
woman
equal
in everything
matters
of Kash•ut. You have the reply in
inheritance, maintenance and jur- our program. There will be.no
idical rights, whether before a coercion, but as we have done
Rabbinic, Moslem or 'Christian in the army, we shall do like-
court.
wise in the State. Whoever wishes
"There will be no legal dis- to eat non-Kosher will not be
crimination between man and forced to do otherwise.
woman. In regard to marriage
and divorce, this government is Ex-Servicemen Slated
not prepared to legislate for non-
religious marriage and divorce as for Israeli Settlement
such legislation would give rise
TEL AVIV—(WNS)—Prepara-
to a serious cleavage in Israel.
lions for the absorption on a
"We are of the opinion that large scale of ex-servicemen are
there are matters of far greater being made by the Israeli gov-
importance which call for prece- ernment, Josef Gurion, head of
dence such as immigration, hous- the government resettlement de-
ing, settlement, etc. We can safe- partment, revealed.
ly permit ourselves to defer such
a discussion to a later date.
ADVANTAGE CITED
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esses an advantage over the reli-
gious Jew, as the only' alterna-
tive which the latter possesses is
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214 Nazis Go on Trial;
137 Freed, 46 Jailed
FRANKFORT — (YIVNO) —
During the month of March, there
took place 214 trials of . Nazi
criminals who were charged with
having fired Synagogues in No-
vember, 1938, with having sent
Jews to concentration camps, and
with having appropriated their
properties.
The German courts acquitted
137, sentenced 46 to three months
to one year's imprisonment, and
fined the remaining 31 sums
ranging from 50 to 100 marks.
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