Page Shriven THE JEWISH NEWS Friday. August 20, 1942 Jewish Activities on the Home Front Pressure of War Stimulates Community Service Effort 0 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 FREE NEW SUBSCRIBERS Please Use This Blank THE JEWISH NEWS 2114 Penobscot Bldg. Detroit, Mich. • 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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