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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Friday, April 20, 19s-

Vibrant Community
Booted in K nowledge

Recognizing that the present organilational structure of Detroit Jewry presents
to write
many problems, the Jewish Chronicle has asked a number of local rabbis
are
presented
ideas
on
how
the
community
may
be
organized.
Their
down their ideas
on the following pages.—Ed.

Yeshivah to Issue Passover Appeal

At a meeting of the board of
directors of Yeshivoth Beth Ye-
hudah, Morris Snow, president of
Congregation Bnai Zion, was
elected chairman of the Passover
appeals that are traditionally
made for the school.
Snow, in calling his first or-
ganizational meeting, stated that
a concerted effort will be made
to obtain as many appeals as

By RABBI M. J. WOHLGELERNTER
Congregation Mogen Abraham

possible from all synagogues and
temples in Detroit.
These appeals, he added, should
be made on the eighth day of
Passover, with special emphasis
on the lunches that are served
the children each day, pointing
out that $18 feeds a child his
lunches for one month.
The Vaad Hachinuch has ag-
reed to issue a proclamation in
all synagogues explaining the
urgency and need for supporting
the Yeshivah.
For information regarding the
appeals or speakers, contact
Hyman Wohl, executive director
of the Yeshivah, TU. 3-3700.

of principles to changing condi-
tions, was entrusted to qualified
MERICAN JEWRY is grappling with the form of democratic organization. Community councils teachers.
• • •
and welfare funds on the local level and such national bodies as the American Jewish Committee
speak
in
the
name
of
the
larger
constituencies.
to
COMMUNITY
PATTERN S
vie with each other for the right
were modeled after institutions of
In Detroit, too, we have an un-'
An intelligent laity with a the Biblical-Talmudic era in Pal-
dercurrent of jurisdictional con-
healthy respect for differences of estine. With the development of
troversy as to the authoritative
opinion on questions of philos- new centers in the lands of the
spokesman for local Jewry. Do
i time dispersion and the consequent
PASSOVER GREETINGS
ophy and practice will in
the 30,000 contributors to the Al-
constitute an ideal electorate dislocation of authority the cure
lied Jewish Campaign ipso facto
which may take up fundamental was always sought in the estab-
become eligible to vote for a
issues of Jewish life. lishment of academies and the el-
board that is empowered to make
We are at present not prepared evation of the•standards of schol-
important policy decisions involv-
to entrust the Federation or the arship.
ing the entire Jewisi' population
Council with authority, to legis-
We have just begun to do this
of this city, or do the elected rep-
late for Detroit Jewry, nor could work in the United States and
resentatives of the religious, fra-
we delegate such powers to an Canada. The most encouraging
• '7577 W. McNichols Rd.
ternal and social bodies affiliated
overall national body.
chapter in American Jewish
• Prairie and W. 7 Mile Rd.
with a central body have such
In technical organizational mat- history is the recent growth of
• Meyers and W. 7 Mite Rd.
rights?
ters, however, much remains to the Yeshivah movement.
• Fenkell and Parkside
A moot question is the area of
be done. A stronger community The quest for authentic knowl-
authority which may legitimately
organization will help both our edge of Judaism on the part of
be ascribed to one or the other
philanthropic endeavors and the men and women in their thirties
of the two central agencies. How
enhancement of Jewish life gen- and forties who have been denied
far can each go in legislating by
Passover Greetings
erally. an elementary Jewish education
majority vote for the entire com-
and Best Wishes to Our
The protection of minorities in their youth, which has resulted
munity? There is tacit agreement
Friends and Patrons
various
of
within
the
framework
of
a
cen-
in
the
mushrooming
, that religious issues are not to be
tral
structure
is
an
important
adult
schools,
is
another
omen.
included within the purview of
Much misunderstanding will be
consideration. A few examples
either the Jewish Community
may be cited. It should be am- eliminated and many crude ex-
RABBI WOBLGELERNTER
Council or the Jewish Welfare
omatic that only kosher food be pressions of Jewish life removed
*
•
•
Federation.
served at public functions, even when the products of these
It is not expected that a um- ish life in America, it is not sc. though only a small number of schools will have an opportunity
form program of public worship much the form of representation people refrain from attending to share in the molding of our
be arranged for the three types of that matters but rather the abil-
public opinion. It is then only 13521 W. SEVEN MILE RD.
trefa dinners.
synagogues, nor would it be ex- I ity of masses and leadership alike
Near Schaefer
The inability of some highly that we may hope to achieve a
judge
issues
from
the
per-
pected that religious practices ob- to
more perfect form of community
Phone
UNiversity 4-7560
placed
individuals
or
groups
to
served or prohibited by one group spective of information and sym-
adjust themselves to the idea of organization. \..
should be dictated for the others, pathetic understanding.
But what of such a field as I As an illustration, the plan- Jewish day schools cannot justify
PASSOVER GREETINGS FROM
Jewish education? Is that to be ning of our Detroit Allied Jewish the exclusion of such institutions
classed in the category of campaign and the city-wide ob- from support by public funds.
ligious activity, which properly servance of Israel Independence) All three religious groupings
belongs to each of the congrega- Day should be motivated down must be given equal consideration
through the last solicitor, Bono wherever congregational repre-
tional divisions?
sentatCon is indicated. As long as
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No one would suggest that the and participant by a deep under- there is a sizable Yiddish-speak-
Sunday schools of the reformed, standing of the historic forces ing population in our midst, their
conservative and some orthodox that have come' to play in the needs and sensibilities should be
synagogues be jointly operated by momentous events of our era.
GREETINGS .
It is not sufficient that a respected on the public platform
a "Kehillah." Yet there has been
of and in the press without conde-
a
meeting
workers'
rally
or
GENERAL ELECTRIC SIGN
definite
move
recently
in
our
a
scension.
city in the direction of a • corn7 delegates decide on steps for the
The democratic Kehillah de-
COMPANY
munal system of week-day He- achievement of a fund raising
,: brew education of the American goal or the success of a public rives strength from its component
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2451 GRAND RIVER AVE.
anniversary function. The sense parts„
: Jew.
of partnership with the state of
Jewish cohesiveness in the Di-
Israel in the progss of Kibbutz
IT IS IN THIS area of Jewish Goluyos (in-gatfiering of the aspora was made possible by the
education that one may find a exiles) must seep through the integrated life of our people. Dis-
cipline stemmed from the general
,PASSOVER GREETINGS
key to the solution of the prob-
lem. A pre-requisite of every community when called upon to acceptance of a code of law which
AND BEST WISHES
make
contributions
to
the
UJA
had its roots in the Tora. Its in-
democratic society is the literacy
or to observe the fifth day of lyar terpretation, and the application
of its citizenship. Suffrage is
as a modern Jewish festival.
rightfully denied to those who
• • •
cannot read or write.
THE
BEST
EFFORTS on the
One of the primary responsi-
PASSOVER GREETINGS
I bilities of federal and state au- local scene should be directed to
; thorities is the training of the the encouragement of all con-
; population in the basic knowl- structive forces in Hebrew educa-
edge of the constitution, history
HAROLD AND ISADORE PODOLSKY
' and civic laws of the United tion for the young and the adult.
States. Lacking such background, .........
no resident may lay claim to di-
rect or indirect participation in
GREETINGS ...
the processes of representative
government.
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This then must be our first
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concern in the building of a
democratic Jewish community.
Jewish learning on the high-
est level is not to be considered
a luxury but a pre-requisite for
participation in communal af-
fairs.
If we are seriously concerned
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