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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday. August 20, 1942
Jewish Activities on the Home Front
Pressure of War Stimulates
Community Service Effort
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effectiveness of the civilian ac-
tivities. While the proposed Jew-
ish Theater Guild project has
not succeeded for the present,
we can feel certain that the Yid-
dish theater, as supervised by
Women Reilly to Aid Country in Emergency; USO Needs, Abraham Littman in the last 25
years, will renew its programs
War Workers' Housing Problems, Morale Building
in the coming few weeks. Litt-
man's theater already is being
Programs Claim Attention
redecorated for the new season
and Mr. Littman is planning a
Our home front is feeling the are carrying on their efforts trip to New York to engage an
pressure of war with increased without interruption.
able staff of actors.
intensity.
A representative of the Army
How Many Worshippers?
With many hundreds of Jewish Ordnance Department was in De-
In the main, it is the synagogue
young men already in the serv- troit last week to make arrange- that occupies the center of im-
ice, the women's turn now has ments for the housing of some portance. A subject for discus-
sion for years has been the ques-
come, and a number of young 1,500 workers who are expected
tion of how many Jews usually
women have joined the WAAC. to come to Detroit. It is believed atend Holyday services in De-
The latest to enlist is Miss Helen that about 250 of them will be troit.
Some have "guessed" the num-
Goodman, daughter of Mr. and Jewish and it will be necessary
to provide housing accommoda- ber to be approximately 30,000,
Mrs. Isadore Goodman.
tions for them. It sounds like a but others believe it is exagger-
Several months ago, Miss Ce- serious problem, but with the ated. Based on the figure of
celia Shetzer joined the Red Cross aid of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration's agencies, the Jewish
staff.
Council, the- Jewish
As in the case of the young Community
Community Center and others,
men, a complete list of those in this problem will be less difficult
the service is not available, but than it appears on the surface.
the Detroit Army and Navy Corn-
The Yiddish Theater
mitee of the Jewish Welfare
Discussion of the needs of men
Board, under the chairmanship in the Armed forces leads us to
of Henry Meyers, hopes to be the problem of the thousands of
able to compile such a record uniformed men who are coming
_in the course of the coming here and who must be provided
with entertainment and with the
months.
ordinary needs required by vis-
Schools Resume Classes
iting soldiers and sailors. The
In the meantime, normal ac- USO is carrying on, the Jewish
tivities continue. The Hebrew Center and the Welfare Board
and Yiddish schools and the Yesh- committees are helping, local or-
ivah are planning registrations ganizations are co-operating and
of new pupils, the synagogues the Detroit groups are rendering
are preparing for the High Holy- genuine services.
days, the social service agencies
This by no means reduces the
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85,000 Jews in Detroit, this num-
ber may be too conservative.
There are more than 40 houses
of worship in Detroit, and during
the High Holydays there are at
least 25 additional auxiliary
"minyanim," some of which have
been called "mushroom" syna-
gogues. T h e commercializing
groups have been condemned by
the organized community, and to
provide means of worship for
the additional thousands who do
not attend synagogues regularly,
most of our synagogues have spe-
cial or supplementary services.
The Political Front
There is also the political front
to be considered.
Gerald L. K. Smith's candi-
dacy has aroused the country at
large, and those who are con-
cerned that there should be no
monkey-wrench in our war ma-
chinery hope that Michigan vot-
ers will overwhelmingly defeat
the man who accepted the label
"rabble-rouser" when it was ap-
plied to him.
There is hope, at the same
time, that those to be elected to
Congress will be men who will
pledge wholehearted support in
the war effort and will not per-
mit politics to hinder our defense
work.
- Interest is especially rife in
the 13th District where Prof. Ed-
ward McFarland is running for
the Democratic nomination on an
all-out-for-the-Roosevelt-program
platform.
The home front is a beehive of
activities, and the war has cre-
ated a tense feeling which spurs
us on to greater efforts in cer-
tain fields. The fact that normal _
activities have not been reduced
is an encouraging factor in a
period of war.
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