Thursday, - - — Fehreiar 2:1. 1950 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Page 5 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. • a o uvlodl u h n taavie; been e A 1 % di sdhi t i ovn.0 to tnha organizations el • Searrvdicoef the like the Detroit Federation. • 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- • 4 • 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. 411 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. • • • 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," • • • 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. • • • 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 • • 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, • • • (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. Secretary - Stenographer MR FAST-GROWING CHAIN 5 Days EXCELLENT SALARY Claudette Chocolates 8385 LYNDON HO. 2323 MONDAY 10 to 1 P. M. BEST WENN N TOWN! caroo'cL l a w n ur MUSIC BY MATTERS OF MELODIES o (7. d 1114(11111111 WORLD WIDE NEWS OF JEWISH S IGNIFICANCE 111 Every SUNDAY MORNING at 10:15 • IDICATII• TO BETTER C014 MONITY RELATIONS