Thursday, May 12, 1949 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Name Change Trend Ebbing Extends Bid (Continued from Page 3) 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 SAVINGS ACCOUNTS WARNING - LANDLORDS You may lose your property, but don't lose your mind. We relieve you of all worries in managing your property. We collect rent 1005,. make repairs with your 0 lc, and take care of 0 P.A. matters. We need property to sell. Isabel' Management Co. CERTIFIED - BONDED COLORED PROPERTY MANAGERS 139 Cadillac Square WO. 1-8741 0 CURRENT RATE AMERICAN SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION Your Neighborhood Savings Institution Dexter Blvd. at Cortland TO. P6611 . • Page Five 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 "The non-religious Jew pos- esses an advantage over the reli- gious Jew, as the only' alterna- tive which the latter possesses is FUN at OMENA INN Prescriptions and Repairs Called For and Delivered For Service at all Times Call WE. 3-3332 Swimming. Golf—Any Sport of Your Choice. Phone VA. 2-5563. 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