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Friday, December 1, 1950

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

BBYO Slates Open House,
Youth Program Seminar

The Bnai Brith Youth Organi-
zation is holding open house at
its headquarters from 3 to 6
p.m., Sunday.
The occasion marks a climax
to the recent refurnishing of the
quarters by the Women's Chap-
ter of Bnai Brith in Detroit.
Hostesses for the event are
representatives of District Six,
Grand Lodge of the Bnai Brith
Women.
Members of the four branches
of the Youth Organization will
serve as guides for the afternoon
and a choir of AZA boys and
Bnai Brith Girls will conduct a
candlelight ceremony in honor of
the Jewish festival of Hanukkah
at 5:30 p.m.
Mrs. Charles Solovich, vice-
president of the Supreme Coun-
cil; Mrs. Leonard Sims, past
president of District Six; and
Mrs. Sam Banks, district BBYO
chpirman, are on the planning
committee for the event.
The choir will be led by Larry
Frohman. Refreshments will be
served by the Bnai Brith Young
Women.
The BBYO committee of De-
troit will conduct a seminar on
the youth program at 8:15 p.m.,
Monday at the Young Israel
Center.
Climaxing the program will be
the presentation of certificates
of recognition to advisors who

MRS. SAMUEL BANKS
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have led youth groups in Detroit
for a year or more.
Talks will be given by Mrs.
Jack Hartstein, BBYO chairman
for the Detroit Women's Council
of Bnai Brith, and Aaron Tucker,
district director of the BBYO.
James Laker, Men's Council
BBYO chairman, will lead the
discussion and Charles Levy, re-
gional director, and Mrs. Ervin
Schwarcz, assistant regional di-
rector, will be consultants.

Rabbi Decries Religious
Autocracy in Holy Land

By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN

A

T A TIME when the orthodox rabbis in Israel, under the heady
influence of the establishment of the first Jewish slate in 2,000
years, have succumbed to political nationalism and are doing every-
thing in their power to make their religion a department of their
state, it is good to report that there are some rabbis in this country

who have not lost heir heads in the vapors of patriotism and have
managed to retain the high spiritual values of their religion—espe-
cially the most precious of them all: freedom.

The wonder is greater still*
when it is learned that such rabbis defy its rabbinic hierarchy and
are found even among the Zionist government and preach and teach
clergy who had little, if any, corn- and practice Judaism in accord-
punctions in former years about ance with my understanding of
exchanging the universal spiritual it."
values of Judaism for nationalistic
There was a theory once that
aspirations.
the emergence of the state would
One rabbi, who is an ardent usher in the messianic era of re-
Zionist and who has remained a demption of Jews all over the
spiritual teacher of his people at world and would make Israel the
the same time, is Dr. Solomon spiritual center of all Jews in the
Goldman of Anshe Emet Congre- diaspora.
In less than three years that
gation in Chicago. Dr. Goldman is
a great scholar, an historian of theory has been exploded beyond
note and a man of modern ideas repair. But something else seems
to be arising to take its place. This
and outlook.
is that Israel may become a po-
Above all, he possesses that
litical center for a number of Jews
spark of courage which was the in the Middle East but that spirit-
chief glory of all real spiritual ually it is not going to lead Jews
leaders of all times from the
in the diaspora.
prophets on.
On the contrary, it appears that
A member of Dr. Goldman's the very political nature of Israel
congregation has written to him vitiates its spirit and the diaspora
to ask him what he would do if seems to be destined to maintain
he were a rabbi in Israel now. Judaism in its purer form and to
This is what Rabbi Goldman an- retain its universalistic values
swered in his Anshe Emet Bulle- above the tribal ones.
tin:
For all one knows, Israel may
"To the best of my knowledge one day have to appeal to Ameri-
there is no religious freedom in can Jews to save it not only from
Israel in the sense in which we its financial difficulties but also
Americans understand the con- from its religious and nationalistic
cept. Why so many Jewish leaders fanatics.
seek to cover up the reality of the
situation I do not know.
Detroiters to Attend
"Maybe they do so out of fear
of hurting the UJA. Or it may be Welfare Fund Meeting
that 18 centuries of intensive
Delegates of the Jewish Wel-
prayer and propaganda have made fare Federation of Detroit will
many of us far too squeamish to join representatives of welfare
be able to stomach an Israel that funds at the annual Assembly of
is not sans reproche.
the Council of Jewish Federations
"Or it may also be that many of and Welfare Funds Dec. 1 in
our saviors are affected with a Washington, D.C.
nostalgia for pilpul.
Delegates from Detroit will in-
"Be that as it may, the fact is clude Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich,
Inconvertible that there is a James I. Ellmann, Rabbi Leon
religious party ir. Israel, which, Fram, Harvey H. Goldman. Jul-
ca with the support of the govern- ian H. Krolik, Milton K. Mahler,
ment, is imposing its particular Samuel H. Rubiner, Ben L. Sil-
interpretation of Judaism on all berstein, Isidore Sobeloft and
Abraham Srere.
the Jews in the land.
"Regarding your hypothetical
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`Think' Parties Set

Inauguratinge a series of "drink
and think" parties, leaders in the
Jewish Welfare Federation Wo-
men's division and the Detroit
Service Group will be hosts to
volunteer workers in the Allied
Jewish Campaign for discussion
of year-round and campaign op-
erations, at 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec.
10 and 17.
The parties will give men and
women workers an opportunity
to exchange experiences and
ideas concerning community or-
ganization, as well as to suggest
changes for improving methods
of operation.
Hosts on Dec. 10 will be Mrs.
Hyman C. Broder, Mr. and Mrs.
Abraham Cooper, Mr. and Mrs.
David Emerman, Mr. and Mrs.
Maxwell Jospey, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward C. Levy, Mr. and Mrs.
Jule G. Solomon and Mr. and
Mrs. David Wilkus.
On Dec. 17, hosts will be Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene J. Arnfeld, Mr.

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JWF Groups

and Mrs. Harry Becker, Mr. and

Mrs. Louis Berry, Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Hamburger, Mr. and Mrs.
Jason L. Honigman, Mr. and Mrs.
Meyer L. Prentis, Mr. and Mrs.
Ben X. Silberstein, and Mrs. and
Mrs. James Wineman.

UHS Launches
Enrollment Drive

The 1950 membership enroll-
ment project of United -Hebrew
Schools was launched at a meet-
ing in the home of Ben Fishman,
chairman of the committee.
The following members will
assist isr this work: Henry Fein-
berg, Ben Gould, Joseph Katz,
Ira G. Kaufman, Joseph Keidan,
Samuel Schwartz, Mrs. Morris
Fishman and Isadore J. Goldstein,
secretary.
The next meeting will be held
Sunday, Dec. 10 in the Rose Sit-
tig Cohen Building.

Wayne Group Sets
Job Conference

The annual job outlooks con-
ference, sponsored by Mackenzie
Union, the men's organization of
Wayne University, will be held
in State Hall. Cass and Putnam,
on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec.
5 and 6.
The keynote address will be
given by Robert Fisher, president
of the National Bank of Detroit.
Following his address the con-
ference will break up into eight
panels: medicine and pharmacy,
finance, marketing, law, educa-
tion, journalism, engineering, and
management.
Outstanding men from each of
these fields will participate in the
panels. Among the students tak-
ing part will be Edwin Blum-
berg, 4277 Tyler.
Mackenzie Union extends an
invitation to all the young
people In the community to at-
tend the conference.

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