Thursday,
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Fehreiar 2:1. 1950
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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The Chronicle Was There
Federation Elects Nine to Board
More than 600 members of thei
Jewish Welfare Federation at-
tended the Federation's 24th an-
nual meeting at the Jewish Com-
munity Center when nine mem-
bers-at-large were elected to the
board of governors.
Sperka and Mrs. Henry Wineman
Lukoff and Mrs. Samuel 11. Ru -
An amendment, which called biner.
for the automatic! addition of all
NEW BOARD MEMBERS
former presidents of the Federa-
Those who will fill a three-
tion and former chairmen of Al-
year term as board members for
lied Jewish Campaigns to the
the Jewish Social Service Bureau
board of governors, recejveci a
Board members selected to majority of affirmative votes, but are Mrs. Harry E. August, Mrs.
serve three-year terms are Rabbi not the necessary two-thirds ma- Morris Beckwitt, Julius W. Gil-
Morris Adler, Irving W. Blum- jority of all votes cast and so bert, Mrs. John C. Hopp, Benja-
min
E. Jaffe, Mrs. Charles Ru-
berg, Mrs. Joseph II. Ehrlich, was defeated.
.
biner, Joseph Seltzer, Dr. Benja-
James I. E llmann, Dr. B. Bene-
guest speaker ‘ssis Stanley C. min Welling and Rabbi M. J.
diet Glazer, Samuel H. Rubiner, Myers,
president of the national Wohlgelernter.
Sidney M. Shevitz, Rabbi
Joshua Council of Jewish Federations and
Mrs.• Samuel J. Greenberg and
----• - Welfare Funds, who set forth the Morris Jacobs were selected for
1950 agenda for American Jewry. a two-year term and Huldah Fine
Myers pointed out that none of and Milton K. Mahler for one
the achievements of the past year.
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organizations
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the
Detroit
Federation.
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Leon G. Winkelman, Milton J.
Dotter and S. Joseph Wallach.
MOBILIZE RESOURCES
''Only by strengthening these , Elected to the board of North
By HAROLD S. COHEN
ganizations can we mobilize the End Clinic' were Louis Baum,
"T_TOW LONG CAN one be a manpower and resources neces- Louis Berry, Mrs. Stanley P
Al guest without inviting one's
nary to carry out the program for Fleischaker, Mrs. Philip Narcose s
host to dinner in return?"
Ralph Mayer, Jacob B. Neiman,
195(1," he said.
With this simile, Dr. Abram
In discussing what is to be done Leon G. Winkelman and Julian
L. Sachar, president of Brandeis
G. Wolfner.
University, stated the motive be- at home and abroad and how the New board members of the
entire agenda for 1950 is .
hind the founding of the only
to be Resettlement Service • are Mrs.
Jewish sponsored university in achieved, he emphasized "there Eugene Arnfeld, Joseph Fenkel
is
no
real
distinction
between
and Mrs. Jason L. Honigman.
the United States.
local and non-local responsibili-
Jews make up 11 per cent of
TREASURER'S REPOIsT
the student body of our univer- ties—every responsibility is a lo-
Henry Wineman, treasurer of
cal one,"
sities and colleges although they
Julian H. Krolik, president of the Federation, reported that 94
are only three per cent of the
cent of the 1947 Allied Jew-
population, Dr. Sachar stated at the Federation, in presenting his , per
ash Campaig n pledges had been
a fund-raising dinner given by annual report, pointed to Detroit's
per cent of the • 1948
achievements in the past year, paid, 92
friends of Brandeis University.
pledges and 73.2 per cent of-the
"This is a fact of which we
These accomplishments were 1949 pledges were paid as of the
should be proud, but it raises significant not only in themselves. ' date of the meeting.
the question of the Jewish con- but in that they embodied the : Wineman added that 'since
tribution to higher education."
independent thinking and the 1948 we have made four succes-
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combined effort of countless men sive loans from the National
SEVENTY PER CENT
our and women, Krolik added, I Bank of Detroit to meet the ur-
colleges a r e denominationally
Preceding the Fed e ration 's gent needs of the United Jewish
founded and supported, he added, meeting were the annual _meet- Appeal." These loans totaling $2,-
and even the 125.000 Quakers ings of the Fresh Air Society, 250,000 have all been repaid,
support seven schools, but the Jewish Social Service Bureau,
Rabbi Leon Fram gave the in-
Jews are not , in that pattern.
Jewish Vocational Service, North vocation and Isidore Sobeloff, ex-
As a group they haVe never Eid Clinic and Resettlement ecutive director of the Federation
supported a college to repay Service. Federation members ac- spoke on the "harmony of effort
America for the educational op- cepted all of the candidates for and performance, in which , lead-
• portunities they have received, board positions, proposed by the
er, worker and giver joined" to
' Dr. Sachar said. "Brandeis Uni- nominating committees of these build a better community,
versity is our first opportunity agencies.
to repay our debt."
Elected for a three-year term
"QUEEN ESTHER" FILM
"The Christians have great un the board of Fresh Air So-
"Queen Esther," a spectacular
confidence in us," he added, cit- ciety were Milton Doner, Clarice
film based on the story of Purim,
ing as an example the great Freud, Adolph Goetz, Mrs. Harry
will be shown at the Jewish Cen-
academic turnout at the inaugura- L. Jones, Mrs. Hoke
Levin, Lou ter, Wednesday evening, March 1.
tion of the school.
•
"We had the greatest assem-
bly of university representatives
since Dr. James Conant was in-
stalled at Harvard."
• • •
• Sachar Urges
(and Gets) kid ye rs
f or Brandeis U.
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THE PROPERTY on which the
school stands was formerly a
medical school. The son of the
founder turned the valuable
property and buildings over to
Brandeis without charge. Dr. Sa-
char said, with only the pro-
vision that the school be operated
without bias or discrimination.
"As if we needed that provision,"
he added.
Dr. Sachar told the audience
of the careful search for top men
and expert advisors. "We had
the peculiar situation, the first
1 year, of having Ludwig Lewisohn
teach freshman English and Dr.
Max Lerner, freshman political
science.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt devot-
ed a whole column to the en-
trance application used by the
university, Dr. Sachar said. It
is a model for the nation, since
k gives no way of determining
race, religion or parent's occupa-
tion.
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AJC Women Hold Luncheon
to Mark Brotherhood Week
TAKING
THEIR CUE from the
A Book of Ruth in the Bible,
the American Jewish Congress'
women's division held a luncheon
last Wednesday at the Woodward
Center dedicated to the theme
"Thy People Shall Be My Peo-
ple." The affair was held in con-
nection with Brotherhood Week,
An inter-faith event, the lunch-
eon was attended by approxi-
mately 300 women representing
the Congress, the Women's Alli-
ance of the Unitarian Church
and the Council of Church Wo-
men,
ANOTHER SPEAKER FOR the
Council of Church Women, Mrs.
James Wesley, warned the wo-
men that the term "brotherhood"
is often so bandied about without
conviction that it becomes a
sham,
The world showed little in-
dignation when Mussolini and
Hitler openly committed atroci-
ties against peoples as a whole,
she said.
Representing the Jewish Wo-
men, Mrs. Louis Tatken, presi-
dent of Shaarey Zedek Sister-
hood, declared that "the success
of a democracy can only be
proven when different peoples
can live together in harmony,"
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The groups went on record in
support of the new federal bill
for aid to public schools only.
Telegrams signed by those in at-
THE MUSIC STUDY CLUB
tendance were sent to Congress Choral Group, directed by Dan
affirming their support of the Frohman, closed the program
bill.
with choral selections.
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Mrs. William Cohen, chairman
SPEAKING FOR THE Wo- of the Congress Commission on
men's Alliance of the Unitarian Community Inter-Relations, was
"I WENT TO Mrs. Roosevelt, Church, Mrs. Andrew Dempster program chairman for the day.
with my usual "Chutzpah" and told the group that "tolerance is Mrs. Moses Lehrman gave the
asked her to accept a trusteeship an evil." No one wants to be invocation and said grace.—E.M.
post on our board, since she was "tolerated," she said.
interested in our work." he re-
Reiterating her point, Mrs.
Galled. "She accepted,"
Demster quoted Thomas Paine's
We are in the process of rais- words that "tolerance is not the
ing $250,000 in Detroit, to cover opposite of intolerance, but a
our operating deficit and for our counterfeit of it." The goal we
building program, he said. Since want, she concluded, is to drop
we have no alumni as yet, the "thy" and "my" and say
We have to have a foster alumni simply that "people are people."
from the Jewish population at
Mrs. Burton Fralick of the
large.
Council of Church Women re-
At the conclusion of the dinner, minded the audience of Stephen
funds for the university were Vincent . Benet's words to the
pledged and a complete chemical United Nations, "Yet most of all
laboratory and library were do- grant us brotherhood, not bro-
Doted by a group of Detroiters.
therhood of thought, but of deed."
'Affair Blum' NW.. Honors
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riumpli for Jewtsh
Music
German Film
serve Northwest Hebrew Con-
gregation and its Men's Club de-
"The Affair Blum" is the first serve the praise of all music lov-
product of the post-war German ers for bringing an exceptional
film industry to reach Detroit. If program of liturgical and worldly
it is a representative sample of music• to a large audience which
that industry, then German films was spellbound from beginning to
end,
will soon occupy a significant
position in the vanguard of the
Ely Stulrnan, violinist, among
art such as they did before Hitler. other pieces, played Ernest
The story is based on an actual Bloch's "Niglin," Joseph Achron's
incident in post World War I "Hebrew Melody" and Ef rem
Germany when the Nazis were Zimbalist's "Hebrew Dance" with
little heeded and the "rightist" an admirable perfection of tech-
were seeking power.
nique and sweetness of tone.
The affair is reminiscent of the
Dreyfus case, with the difference
that Blum was a wealthy man
with powerful friends and thus
was never convicted.
Although the actors are un-
familiar to Americans, they are
first rate and so manage to
create a sense of reality that the
lack of action (Hollywood style)
is never noticed. The English
titles are perfect.
The film is a powerful preach-
ment of tolerance and an equally
strong indictment of those who
use anti-Semitism as a profes-
sional means to power.
"The Affair Blum" which is
currently being shown at the
Cinema Theater, is artistically
worth anyone's time and will
rank with "Gentlemen's Agree-
ment" as a major contribution to
intei -racial understanding, We
hope that the Germans see it
often. —H.C,
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(The "Affair Blunt" was with-
drawn by the Cinema Theater
after two days because of "poor
attendance."—Ed.)
The Halevy Singing Society,
ender the baton of Julius Chajes,
proved again that it occupies an
outstanding place in Detroit's
Jewish music life. "The Song of
the Pioneers" by Julius Chajes or
the "Song of Jewish Partisans" as
arranged by Chajes were stirring
examples of modern Jews' ex-
pressions of hope and invinci-
bility,
Finally, the congregation's can-
tor, Nicholas Fenakel, again dem-
onstrated that he is not only a
master of Hebrew music but an
artist of highly impressive qua-
lities. His rendition of the aria
from "La Juive" was an example
of fine singins and a flair for dra-
matics. He also was very impres-
sive in his rendition of the Kol
Nidre which he sang together
with the choir.
Rabbi Jacob E. Segal gave short
explanations of the texts to be
sung. Greetings were extended
by Ira G. Kaufman, president,
and Herbert Harris and Dave
Aaron of the Men's Club.
—G. N.
BETH TIKVAII SCHOOL
PURIM FEAST
The Sunday school sponsored
The Hollywood Telcove Club by the Beth Tikvah Sisterhood
will have a Purim Feast at 8 p.m. has space available for pupils
Sunday, March 5 at the Jewish between the ages of three
and
Center.
fourteen.
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