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DETROIT JEWISH CIIRONICLE

Friday, April 20, 195..

Vibrant Community
Booted in Knowledge

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

Yeshiv ah 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
CAN JEWRY is grappling with the form of democratic organization. Community councils teachers.
AMERICAN
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AMERI welfare funds on the local level and such national bodies as the American Jewish Committee
vie with each other for the right to speak in the name of the larger constituencies.
COMMUNITY PATTERNS
were modeled after institutions of
In Detroit, too, we have an unj
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
PASSOVER GREETINGS
ophy and practice will in time dispersion and the consequent
x
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 Jewish 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 I work in the United States and
, resentatives of the religious, fra-
• 7577 W. McNichols Rd.
we delegate such powers to an Canada. The most encouraging
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
orally.
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
the
mushrooming
of
various
within
the
framework
of
a
cen-
in
that religious issues are not to be
tral
structure
is
an
important
adult schools, is another omen.
included within the purview of
consideration. A few examples Much misunderstanding will be
either the Jewish Community
may be cited. It should be axi- eliminated and many crude ex-
RABBI WOHLGELERNTER
Council or the Jewish Welfare
omatic that only kosher food be pressions of Jewish life removed
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Federation.
served at public functions, even when the products of these
ish
life
in
America,
it
is
not
sqi
It is not expected that a uni-
though only a small number of schools will have an opportunity
form program of public worship much the form of representation people refrain from attendiug to share in the molding of our
that
matters
but
rather
the
abil-
arranged
for
the
three
types
of
be •
public opinion. It is then only 13521 W. SEVEN MILE RD.
trefa dinners.
synagogues, nor would it be ex- I ay of masses and leadership alike
that we may hope to achieve a
Near Schaefer
ected that religious practices ob- to judge issues from the per- I The inability of some highly more perfect form of community
Phone
UNiversity 4-7580
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.
As an illustration, the plan- Jewish day schools cannot justify
But what of such a field as
the exclusion of such institutions
PASSOVER GREETINGS FROM
Jewish education? Is that to be ning of our Detroit Allied Jewish from support by public funds.
classed in the category of re- campaign and the city-wide ob-
All three religious groupings
ligious activity, which properly servance of Israel Independence
belongs to each of the congrega- Day should be motivated down must be given equal consideration
through the last solicitor, donor wherever congregational repre-
tional divisions?
sentation is indicated. As long as
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3918 JOY ROAD
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 1, that have come . to play in the needs and sensibilities should be
synagogues be jointly operated by I moinentous events of our era.
GREETINGS .. .
It is not sufficient that a respected on the public platform
• a "Kehillah." Yet there has been
GENERAL ELECTRIC SIGN
a definite move recently in our workers' rally or a meeting of and in the press without conde-
city in the direction of a corn- delegates decide on steps for the scension.
The democratic Kehillah de-
COMPANY
munal system of week-day He-1 achievement of a fund raising
brew education of the American I goal or the success of a public rives strength from its component
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2451 GRAND RIVER AVE.
Jew. anniversary function. The sense parts.,,
of
partnership
with
the
state
of
Jewish
cohesiveness
in
the
Di-
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Israel in the process of Kibbutz
IT IS IN THIS area of Jewish Goluyos (in-gatfering of the aspora was made possible by the
integrated life of our people. Dis-
a
education that one may find
,PASSOVER GREETINGS
key to the solution of the prob- exiles) must seep through the cipline stemmed from the general
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
bilities of federal and state au- local scene should be directed to
is
the
training
of
the
thorities
the encouragement of all con-
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HAROLD AND ISADORE PODOLSKY
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States. Lacking such background,
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no resident may lay claim to di-
rect or indirect participation in
GREETINGS .
the processes of representative
government.
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This then inust be our first
TO. 6-3800
t concern in the building of a
democratic Jewish community.
i; Jewish learning on the high-
. est level is not to be considered
a luxury but a pre-requisite for
participation in communal af-
'4 fairs.
If we are seriously concerned
II . with the development of a proper
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