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Friday, November 24, 1950

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Detroit Jews Set to Commemorate Segregation Sails. Fails
United Jewish Charities' 50th Year Under False Colors

Representatives of all groups in
Special messages from Judge
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
the community will mark the 50th
Levin and Samuel Rubiner,
RUTHLESS EXPERIMENT in segregation that began two
anniversary of the United Jewish
presidents of the United Jewish
months ago in the school system of a village in Canada will
Charities at a dinner, 7:30 p.m.,
Charities and Federation, respec- come to an end at the termination of the school term.
Tuesday, in the Hotel Book Cadil-
tively, will be included in the
A suburb of Toronto, Forest Ilili Village, has more than 18,000
lac.
program.
residents, with Jews constituting 40 per cent of the population.
The occasion celebrates the im-
The United Jewish Charities is
As far as the record shows there had been no
p o r t a n t underlying principle
the parent organization of the
anti-Semitic friction in the village beyond "normal"
which motivated the founders of
Jewish Welfare Federation which
manifestations of that ill. The community is a rich
the Charities—that members of a
emerged in 1926.
one and most of its Jews are prosperous Toronto
community, in voluntary associa-
businessmen and merchants.
Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner, presi-
tion, can accomplish more in be-
dent of Federation's Women's
Like all towns of that size Forest Hill Village
half of themselves and their
has its own school system and its own board of
Division, and daughter of a past
neighbors if they work through a
president of Federation, the late
education. And like in all such towns the children
central communal organization.
Milford Stern, is serving as chair-,
mix freely in the schools and other precincts of
Present and former presidents
man of the coordinating commit- ,
educational and social activities i
of United Jewish Charities and
tee on general arrangements.
But suddenly the village board of education
Jewish Welfare Federation will
Other committee chairmen for the
had a brainstorm. It discovered that when the new
have as their guests at a cocktail
celebration include Mesdames S.
Ziprin high :school opened in the village last year, the
party preceding the dinner all
Lambert Brown and David Wil- registration showed that of the 550 students about 65 per cent were
members of the community at-
kus, program; Irving Hirschman Jews and although there were no public complaints the board de-
tending the celebration, at 7 p.m.'
and Nathan Simons, dinner ar- cided to rectify the disproportion—a disproportion due to the fact
Cooperating hosts for tl.e cock-
rangements; Henry Wineman, that many rich gentiles were sending their children to private
tail party are Henry M. Butzel,
and Hymen C. Broder and Isaac schools, many of which were closed to Jews.
Clarence H. Enggass, William'
HENRY M. RIMEL
Gilbert, vice-chairmen, recep-
Rationalizing that the unequal ratio of Jews to non-Jews was
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Friedman, Walter M. Fuchs, Jul-
tam; and Joseph H. Ehrlich and creating bad adjustment problems for the gentile students, the
Ladies
Sewing
Society
and
Beth
Julian
II.
Krolik,
citation.
ian Krolik,
H.
Theodore Levin,
board decided that seven classes were to be restricted to Jews.
Samuel H. Rubiner, Abraham El Relief Society.
Thus the rest of the classes would strike a balance between
Mrs. Donald J. Lane, grand-
Srere and Henry Wineman.
Jewish and gentile students and the millenium of interfaith rela-
Principal speaker of the anni- daughter of Joseph H. Werth- I
tions would be reached. But at the same time there was no such
versary program will be Charles eimer, has loaned a silver tea
noble
experiment in other school activities.
C. Simons, judge, U. S. Court of service given her grandfather for
Jewish
and non-Jewish students ate in the same cafeteria,
Appeals, who is the son of the his service on the founding board;
played in the same gym, studied in the same library and participated
of
the
Charities.
founding president of the United
in the same social functions. And then there was trouble.
Other pieces contributed to the!
Jewish Charities, the late David
The youngsters who previously had not been aware of religious
Album include a ledger kept by
W. Simons.
distinctions suddenly became conscious of the evil. There were
Clarence
Enggas'
mother
in
the
Charles Rubiner, one of De-
There is perhaps no more re- complaints. When protests reached the school board there was a
troit's leading civic and Jewish 1870s, as a record of activities of warding work that a small or- unique explanation for the unhappy experiment.
communal leaders, will be the the Hebrew Widows and Orphans ganization can do than undertak-
The board denied it was segregation. Instead they called their
narrator of a feature film high- Ladies Society, and a gavel used ing to care for the welfare of a device "not segregation but congregation—of friends."
by
Mrs.
Julian
H.
Krolik's
father,
lighting the history of the De-
child in want.
We wonder how much this hush-hush policy has hurt the
troit Jewish commuity. Prepara- Bernard Ginsburg, when presid-
It is the search for this type of relationship between the children in the school and to what extent
tion of the film is being handled ing at early UJC meetings from satisfaction, the knowledge of it may hurt the Jewish community itself?
by Special Feature Chairmen 1904 through 1908.
having helped another person,
Charles Rosen, Leonard N. Sim-
that led the Brucha Family Club,
ons and Leon S. Wayburn.
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in response to the program of the
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Documents, souvenirs and pic-
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Jewish Labor Committee, to be-
tures portraying the early days
come the foster parents of Pol-
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of organized Jewish community
line Feldbaum of France.
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life in Detroit are being combined
Polline's f at her disappeared
into a "Community Album."
Meyer Levin, well-known nov- when the Nazis invaded the court-
Mrs. Melville S. Welt and Miss elist and newspaperman, will ad- try. Nothing has ever been learn-
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Edith S. li-avenrich are co-chair- dress the Detroit Women's Di- ed of his fate. The mother and
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vision of the American Jewish child managed to hide out during )
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Special consultant and largest Congress at a Hanukkah brunch the war, but were left destitute
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contributor to the Album is Irv- at the Bel-Aire at 12:30 p.m., when peace was restored.
MENORAH BOX
ALEPH - BET
DREDEL
Delicious fr u it s,
author of "The His- Dec. 6.
The Brucha Club responded to
ing Katz,
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This meeting will be the cul- the appeal of the Jewish Labor
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for the kiddies.
a specially design- Chocolate Bar . . .
Among the materials to be in-, mination of the local membership Committee by appropriating $300
66c and 99c
ed Chanukah Box. delicious from
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eluded from Katz' collection are drive. Chairman of the meeting to support the child.
Aleph to Toy. lie ea
$1.98 Lb.
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But
in
addition,
they
have
done
will
be
Mrs.
Harry
Frank,
presi-
copies of the Jewish American,,
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the first English-Jewish weekly dent, and Mrs. Morris Adler will the equally important job of writ-'
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newspaper in Detroit, dating from deliver the invocation and kindle ing regularly to Polline and her • •
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1901; original minute books from the candles. Everyone is invited mother, so that they may know
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that there are, somewhere in the
memorable charitable organiza- to attend.
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Levin will speak on ''Required world, people who do care for the • •
tions predating the United Jew-
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sanctity of a human life.
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ish Charities, such as the Hebrew I Reading for an Anti-Semite."
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He studied with the late
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He was awarded a scholarship
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This year she is the winner of
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