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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
rage 24
Yemen Jews
May Enrich
Life in Israel
By MEYER F. STEINGLASS
*THE TRANSFER OF SOME
40,000 Yemenites from Aden
Ito Israel represents one of the
reatest operations in the rescue
f any Jewish community. A
itregular shuttle service of planes
ooperates day and night bringing
'In an average of 500 people daily.
Persecution and pOverty has
been their lot for a long time
and the establishment of Israel
represents to these oppressed
people the realization of a Messi-
anic hope.
To reach Israel, many of them
endure the greatest suffering and
hardships. Some walk for many
miles through the desert without
food or drink and a number have
died on the way. Those who sur-
vive reach Aden in weakened
condition, suffering from diseases
contracted on the way.
Because they have lived in an-
other world and another century
there are many difficult prob-
lems involved in adjusting these
( people to a more modern form
of existence. For example, a spe-
cial effort must be made to teach
them to use a bed. It was found
on their arrival that the Yemen-
ites did not know what a bed
was for.
4,
THEY HAD BEEN BROUGHT
into a tent with eight or more
cots, and in the morning the au-
thorities found that the cots had
been pushed aside and that the
Yemenites had gone to sleep on
the bare floor.
The 'Yemenites are industrious
and good pioneer material. They
have a good deal of self-discipline
' which very often amounts to an
excessive civility, submissiveness
and apathy.
Unlike other immigrants, they
never complain. The difficulty
with them is that they offer no
resistance whatever to any move-
ment and the camp directors
have to find - ways to develop a
certain freedom of action and
thought as individuals. Inured
through long suffering, they en-
dure pain and other discomforts
in silence.
Most of the Yemenites have a
good religious background and
spend considerable time reading
the Bible.
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A SPECIAL CAMP has been
set up for Yemenite children to
give them indoctrination in hy-
giene and physical fitness.
There is every reason to antici-
pate that the Yemenite immi-
grants will in time make a major
contribution to the growth and
development of the State of
Israel.
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Temple Israel
Plans Family
Festival Rites
Temple Israel will hold a
Chanukah Family Sabbath Eve
service at 8:30 p.m. Friday at
the Institute of Arts.
A children's choir, conducted
by Henrietta Reznick, will sing
traditional Chanukah songs. The
Temple choir, led by Karl Haas,
will also be heard. Cantor Rob-
ert Tulman will chant the bene-
dictions over the Chanukah
candles.
Rabbi Leon Fram will speak
on 'The Chanukah Spirit."
Following the services, the Sis-
terhood will sponsor a social
hour.
Saturday and Sunday mornings
three dramatic groups of the
Temple religious school will pre-
sent Chanukah plays.
The school children will hold
victory assemblies on those morn-
ings to celebrate the raising of a
cornerstone fund to help com-
plete the new Temple Israel
building.
The Sisterhood will conduct a
Whose Turn Next?
Larry Story
Rouses Most,
Scares Some
By ALFRED SEGAL
GO AROUND our town, I
have been meeting some
stufly people, like Mr. Zilch,
lately.
They say: the idea of that! Was
that a thing for a great institution
of Jewish learn-
ing to bother it-
self with?"
These, in fact, k
were exactly the
words of the citi-
zen whom I shall
charitably call
Mr. Zilch. M r
Zilch was burn-iv•: ,
ing up. Ile didn't e
like at all the 4,•
reception that
Segal
was given Mrs. Goldstein at our
Hebrew Union College. Ile wasn't
there—had absented himself de-
liberately—but he didn't like it,
anyway.
Do you recall Mrs. Goldstein?
Mrs. Sylvia Goldstein, that is, of
Lynn, Mass. In case you need to
be reminded she is the Mrs.
Goldstein who wrote that letter
to the editor of the Lynn news-
paper.
Her boy, Larry, age 11, had
been set upon and beaten by a
gang of kids when he was on the
way home from a Boy Scout
meeting. They shouted "Jew" at
him. ("Paste the little Jew.")
Instead of going to the police
about it, Mrs. Goldstein went
straight to the public conscience
with her letter.
As I
Absorbed in the traditional Chanukah game of Dredel are Esther Zwick, Jerome Cohen, Judith
Berris, Harry Rochelle, Abigail Bressler, first graders in Beth Yehudah Schools. Beth Yehudah
holds open house Chanukah week.
Centennial Dedication Rites
Planned by Temple Beth El
Hapoel Slates
Kapustin Talk
Temple Beth El will hold its lit by the oldest and youngest
centennial past confirmands re- confirmands of the Temple.
Following the service there will
be a reunion of classes and a
social hour, which will be in
charge of a committee of past
confirmands.
There will also be an extensive
exhibit of confirmation pictures,
confirmation programs and con-
firmation textbooks, covering a
period of 65 years.
The first confirmation in Tem-
ple Beth El was held in 1862,-at
the Rivard street Synagogue, dur-
ing the ministry of Rabbi Abra-
ham Laser. Over 5,000 children
were confirmed at the Temple
since that year.
An additional feature of the
service will be the singing of
Chanukah songs by the Religious
School Choir.
Hapoel Hamizrachi Council of
Detroit will sponsor a Chanukah
celebration on Wednesday eve-
ning. Dec. 21, at the Halevy Music
Center Linwood avenue corner
Fleet street.
Rabbi Max Kapustin, chairman
of the program committee, an-
nounces that a timely "Parade of
Talent" will be featured.
Ernest Greenfield president of
the Bar Ilan Chapter, will offi-
ciate at the candle lighting cere-
mony.
Drora Selesny Kleinplatz and
Rhoda Goldschlag will render
vocal and piano selections, and a
member of the Morasha Chapter
will give selected Chanukah
readings.
DR. B. BENEDICT GLAZER
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dedication service at 8:15 p.m.,
Friday.
Past presidents of the Congre-
gation, who were confirmed at
the Temple, will participate in the
service, a portion of which has
been especially written for this
occasion by B. Benedict Glazer.
The Chanukah lights will be
Center to Fete
Donor on 10th
Year of Gift
The Jewish Community Center,
celebrating the 10th anniversary
of its main building, will sponsor
a testimonial dinner at 6:30 p.m.,
Wednesday in honor of Mrs.
Aaron De Roy whose gift in
memory of her husband made
possible the construction of the
major wing of the building at
Woodward and Holbrook avenues.
The dinner will be followed by
a public meeting at 8:30 p.m.
During the week of Jan. 15,
dedication ceremonies will be
held for the opening of the Dex-
ter neighborhood branch of the
Center, now under construction
on Davison and Holmur avenues.
The program is being arranged
by Samuel H. Rubiner, chair-
man, Mrs. Sidney J. Allen, Mrs.
Arthur Bloom, Mrs. Hyman C.
Broder, Mrs. Samuel R. Glogow-
er, Jacob L. Keidan, Mrs. Royal
Maas, Saul Saulson and Rabbi
Joshua Sperka.
At the dinner in honor of Mrs.
De Roy the principal speakers
will be Henry Meyers, past presi-
dent of the Center, and Morris
Garvett, president. Lewis B.
Daniels will be toastmaster.
_ LIBRARY DONATED
NEW YORK CITY—(WNS)—A
fund for the establishment of an
extensve library of books and
materials on American business
administration has been donated
gift exhibit and sale at Hampton' to the Hebrew University by
• School Sunday morning.
Thursday, December 15, 1949
Meyer Gold of Coral Gables, Fla.
James I. Ellman Is Elected
President of Knollwood Club
James I. Ellman, attorney and
leader in numerous Jewish and
civic causes, was elected presi-
dent of Knollwood Country Club
at a recent meeting of the board
of directors.
Ellman served the club as
president in 1937-38.
He is a former associate jus-
tice of Highland Park and a for-
mer attorney general of Michi-
gan.
He is past president of t h e
Jewish Community Council and
has served on the board of the
Detroit Round Table of Catholics,
Jews and Protestants, the Detroit
Service Group and the commis-
sion on community interrelations
of the American Jewish Congress.
He also served on the War
Labor Board and acted as arbi-
trator in industrial disputes.
Other officers elected by the
club are Harold H. Gilbert, vice-
president; John Isaacs, secretary;
Nathan Fishman, treasurer; Jo-
seph Gendelman, assistant secre-
tary, and Adolph H. Lichter, as-
sistant treasurer.
In addition to the officers, the
following members were elected
to the board of directors: Henry
S. Alper, Dr. Raphael Altman,
JAMES I. ELLMAN
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Louis Berry, Irving W. Blum-
berg, Irwin I. Cohn, Harry N.
Grossman, Arthur Robinson, Da-
vid Tann and Ben' Tolmich.
Technion Unit `Anna Lucasta'
to Hear Urey Due in Yiddish
Dr. Harold C. Urey, disting-
uished service professor of chem-
istry at the institute for nuclear
studies of the University of Chi-
cago, will address the Annual
Dinner of the Detroit Chapter of
the American Technion Society
on January 14 at Huyler's.
Dr. Urey will speak on the
social implications of modern
science, with special reference
to Israel.
The discoverer of heavy water.
which is used in certain types of
chain reacting piles for the re-
lease of atomic energy, -Dr. Urey
received the Nobel prize in chem-
istry is 1934.
On the evenings of Jan. 1 and
2 Gerald Taines will present the
Yiddish-English version of the
Broadway hit Anna Lucasta at
Music Hall. Two stars of the
New York Yiddish stage, Miriam
Kressyn and Seymour Rechtzeit,
head the cast.
"Anna Lucasta" will determine
whether Detroit Jewry, both
young and old, are ready for this
new kind of theater, which com-
bines the best plays of Broadway
with the native Jewish idiom,"
Taines said.
For ticket information, call TA.
3-9899.
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A HUMAN DOCUMENT
OUR HEBREW UNION College
thought Mrs. Goldstein's letter
was as eloquently Jewish, finely
human as any book or manu-
script in its great library. Dr.
Nelson Glueck, president, invited
Mrs. Goldstein and her son to be
the guests of the college on a
weekend.
In the college chapel there was
a reception for her and the boy
the other Sunday. The Mayor's
Friendly Relations Committee
was in on it; the Conference of
Christians and Jews; the Fellow-
ship House.
Larry was presented with a
baseball that was batted over our
National League baseball field
the past season.
But here was Mr. Zilch pro-
testing: Was this nice? How does
it look for a great institution of
Jewish learning to worry about
an incident on a street between
a bunch of kids. Mr. Zilch said
an institution of learning—a rab-
binical college at that—should
concern itself . Mr. Zilch
hesitated while he reached for
an idea as to just what should
bother a rabbinical college most.
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NATION'S COURSE
TRUE ENOUGH, INCIDENTS
like the one in which Larry
Goldstein was involved occur
every day. The practice has been
to brush them off until Mrs.
Goldstein came along
Look, Mr. Zilch, her few words
challenged the millions. It was
like asking everybody; How are
you bringing up your children?
Is it for the good of America that
the kids go on carrying this evil
inheritance of prejudice and
hate?
Maybe it would be finely fit-
ting for the Hebrew Union Col-
lege to include Mrs. Goldstein's
letter among the treasures of its
library; together with some au-
thoritative response to her ques-
tion: For what did her husband
die? Something like this:
It is good that you ask, Mrs.
Goldstein. The reply must come
from the consciences of the whole
world—from the big people and
the little ones; from statesmen
who stumble toward new wars,
from the neighbors whose mouths
chew ancient hates which they
feed also to their children; from
all who at the moment forget
what Maurice and all the others
died for.