Friday, September 4, 1942

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Sixteen

What's Happening in Detroit

D ETROIT'S

Jewish community again is hum-
ming with activities. The High Holyday period
traditionally ushers in the season's events, and this year
is no exception to the rule.
The synagogues have completed arrangements for
the Holyday services. Some of the houses of worship
have new cantors. In the main the program for the
synagogues is similar to last year, except for Temple
Beth El, where Dr. B. Benedict Glazer will officiate for
the first time on Holydays and the minister of religious
education, Rabbi Herschel Lymon, will conduct the
supplementary services in the social hall of the Temple.
In the other synagogues there have been no changes
in rabbinical posts.
Rosh Hashanah also will mark the beginning of the
16th annual Education Month of the United Hebrew
Schoo Is.

Shetzer Addresses Zionists

IN THE Zionist movement there is a renewal
of activities. The visit here last week of Simon
Shetzer, executive director of the Zionist Organization

Many Local Fronts Hum With
Activities as New Season is
Ushered in by High Holydays;
Zionists, Bnai Brith, Women's
Groups Announce Programs

J. N. F. Auxiliary Activities

THE FIRST open meeting of the year of the
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Jewish National Fund will be
held Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 1:30 p. m., in the Rose Sittig
Cohen Bldg. The guest speaker will be Rabbi Morris
Adler.
Mrs. Philip J. Cutler, president of the Auxiliary, has
extended an invitation to all members and friends to
attend, and to assist in plans for the
extension of land-redemption work in
Palestine. Mrs. Benjamin Laikin, chair-
man of the program committee, is ar-
ranging a musical program.
The Auxiliary announces the receipt
of a bequest of $100 from the late Mrs.
Sarah Miller for a Golden Book In-
scription as a memorial.
Members of the Auxiliary were
hostesses to the U. S. 0. in the Ham- Rabbi Adler
mond Center, Aug. 17. Mrs. Harry
Schwartz, chairman, was assisted by Mesdames Morris
Feldstein, Philip J. Cutler, Harry Buchman, Jack Gar-
finkle, Louis Pollack, Morris Pollack, Jule Kraft and
Louis Lightstone.

Women's Sabbath League

ACTIVITIES are being resumed by the Women's
League for Sabbath Observance.
At a board meeting held this week, plans were
made for a rally on Oct. 8 to inaugurate a membership
drive. Mrs. M. H. Zackheim is chairman. October was
designated as membership month. A unique program is
being planned by Mrs. Abraham Caplan for the Oct. 8
meeting.

Best Wishes to Fred M. Butzel

A WEEK ago Fred IL Butzel was congratulated

on his 65th birthday.
Today, we wish him speedy recovery from an oper-
ation he underwent in the University Hospital in Ann

Arbor.
Not only Michigan Jewry, but all American Jews

pray for his welfare and for his early return to active
leadership in communal affairs.

Bnai Brith Bowling League

THE BNAI BRITH lodges of Detroit are planning

numerous activities during the present year.
The Bowling League of Pisgah Lodge will officially
open its season Sept. 17. Milton Weinstein, president of

the league, invites all persons who are interested in

becoming members of Pisgah Bowling League to meet
him at the next session of practice bowling, Thursday,
Sept. 10, at 9 P. M. at the Bowl-O-Drome on Dexter,
or to call him at CA. 3984.

Raise $1,500 for Russian Relief

AN INTERESTING- item comes from the Jewish
community of Woodhull Lake, near Pontiac. After a
three-weeks' campaign for Russian War Relief, a
benefit affair was held on Aug. 23 and $800 was realized,
making a total of $1,500 that has been raised by the
Woodhull Lake Association.
Aaron Rosenberg, treasurer of the Folks Committee
of Russian War Relief, appeared on the program at

this 'event.

Religious Zionist Leader Here

A GUEST in Detroit for a few weeks is David
Zeitani, leader in the organized labor Zionist movement
in Palestine, who is here in behalf of the League for
Religious Labor in Palestine.
Mr. Zeitani has been prominently identiled for 15

Mrs. Sarah Miller's Bequests

of America, was the occasion for a luncheon at Cafe
Madrid, last Friday, given in his honor by the board
of directors of the Zionist Organization of Detroit. Abra-
ham Cooper, president of the local organization, pre-
sidedt, and about 40 persons attended.
Mr. Shetzer told of the progress made by the Zionist
organization during the last year. He outlined the suc-
cesses achieved in membership and pointed to the fact
that nearly 50,000 will be represented at the convention
in New York in October. This assembly, he said, would
set a new high in the history of the movement. He
also revealed that the organization's deficit has been
reduced from $85,000 to $35,000.
Announcement was made this week by Mr. Cooper
that the first general meeting of the year of the Zion-
ist Organization of Detroit will be held Monday evening,
Sept. 14, in the Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg. Delegates to
the convention will be chosen at that time and plans will
be outlined for the coming year's program.

J. N. F. Conference Here

THE ZIONIST front is keenly alive as a result
of plans now being formulated to hold the annual con-
ference of the Jewish National Fund of America in
Detroit, either in November or December.
Mendel M. Fisher, national director of the Jewish
National Fund, was in Detroit Tuesday to make plans
for the conference. He conferred with members of the
Jewish Natoinal Fund Council of Detroit at the office
of the local president, William Hordes, in the Fox Bldg.
Mr. Fisher is confident that Detroit will make this year's
conference as successful as the first conference five years
ago, which also took place here. Further details will
be announced in the coming week or two.
In the meantime the Jewish National Fund is gath-
ering names for the scroll to be sent to Palestine as
Detroit's message of hope and courage to the Jewish
communities in Eretz

The Theatrical Season '

THE THEATRICAL season is about to commence
here. Abraham Littman, of Littman's Yiddish People's
Theater, announces the presentation of a Yiddish talkie
and Aaron Lebedeff on Sept. 13.
While the main objective of the Jewish Theater
Guild has not materialized; the organization is planning
to carry into effect its proposed cultural activities. The
group hopes to create a dramatic school and a public
lecture and seminar platform.
A committee under the chairmanship of Max Holtz-
man has been designated to plan this program. He is
assisted by Gershon Chertoff, Mrs. Sarah Friedman,
Benjamin M. Larkin, I. A. Liebson and J. Margolis.
"The Man Who Came to Dinner" is coming to enter-
tain the servicemen at the Navy Training School Sun-
day evening, Sept. 6, in Dearborn, under the auspices
of the U.S.O. Production and direction is in the hands
of Walter Koste. Harry Goldstein will portray Kaufman
and Hart's vitriolic cherub. Goldstein is well-known
for his work over WWJ and behind the footlights in
Wayne University Worshop Theater productions. Gold-
stein has been director of dramatics at the Jewish Com-
munity Center for two seasons. He is a member of the
faculty at Northern High School, where he teaches

English and radio.

OF INTEREST in the week's news is the announce-
ment of bequests made in the will of the late Mrs.
Sarah Miller, who died Feb. 19.
In addition to her $100 gift to the Jewish National
Fund for a Golden Book Inscription, Mrs. Miller left
$50 to the Yeshivath Beth Yehudah and $25 each to
United Hebrew Schools, Mt. Sinai Hospital Associa-
tion, Jewish Children's Home, Jewish Home for Aged
and Mrs. M. Zager. Mrs. Millen is survived by Mrs. Allan
Abramson, Hy C. Miller of St. Louis, Gilbert Miller,
and J. C. Miller, who is serving in the U. S. Navy.

September Events

Sept. 9—Women's Division of American Jewish
Congress, at 1:30 p. m., at Masonic Temple.
Sept. 13—Reopening of Littman's Yiddish Theater.
Sept. 13—Annual A. Z. A. Dance.
Sept. 14—Zionist Organization of Detroit, at Rose
Sittig Cohn Bldg. Election of convention delegates.
Sept. 15—Ladies' Auxiliary of Jewish National
Fund. Public meeting at Rose Sittig Cohn Bldg., at
1:30 p. m. Guest speaker, Rabbi Morris Adler.
Sept. 17—Protest meeting against Nazi atrocities
in Poland, called by Federation of Polish Jews, at
Jericho Temple.
Sept. 19-20—Reopening of Temple Beth El and
Temple Israel religious schools.

Situation- Well In Hand

years with the civic and political affairs of Tel Aviv,
Palestine. He represents 20,000 organized men and
women in Palestine who are following the ideology of
"Torah v' Avodah" (Torah and Labor).
Zeitani pointed out that thousands of the adher-
ents of the religious labor movement are volunteers

now fighting in the ranks of the British army in Egypt;
and thousands others are actively engaged in civilian

defense work.

The organizational activity carried on by Mr. Zeit-
ani in the United States has received the indorsement

of numerous Jewish leadeii, among them Prof. Louis
Finkelstein, president of the Jewish Theological Sem-
inary of New York; Judge Louis Levinthal of Phila-
delphia, president of the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, and Rabbi D. A. Levinthal of Philadelphia.
In Detroit, the first organizational gathering was

held at the Shaarey Zedek, Aug. 29, under the direction
of Dr. A. M. Hershman. Among those participating were

Rabbi Morris Adler, Hy Keidan, David S. Friedman,
Jack Tobin, Meyer Beckman, Sol B. Edelman and Rev.

Jacob Sonenklar.

Miscellaneous Events

THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S Society of Congregation
Bnai Moshe held its re-union moonlight Aug. 19.
The board has announced an extensive program for
the fall and winter seasons, which includes dances,
educational programs, USO parties, dramatic events and
talks by various speakers.

Mrs. Joshua Karbel, general chairman of the Mt.
Sinai donor luncheon scheduled for Oct. 28 at Masonic
Temple, announces a special meeting for next Tuesday
night at the home of Mrs. Isaac Rosenthal, 2479 Blaine
Ave., when a complete report of the summer's activities
will be given.

An item of local interest is the .resignation of Peter
P. Gilbert as assistant U. S. District. Attorney and his

affiliation with the law firm of Freud, Markus, Gilbert
and Stutz.
Mr. Gilbert was in charge of the civil division of
the U. S. District Attorney's office. He was graduated
from the University of Michigan in -1925. He has acquired
considerable fame by . being named a Chief of the

Chippewa Indians.

