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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 19, 1943
What's Happening in Detroit
• B ROTHERHOOD WEEK, observance of which
commences today and will continue through
Feu. 28, will bring together men and women of all
faiths at numerous meetings being arranged by the
Detroit Round Table of Catholics, Jews and Protestants.
M. Hubert O'Brien, Henry Wineman and Edgar A.
Guest are 'the Catholic, Jewish and Protestant co-
chairmen of the Detroit Round Table, and the Rev.
J _ oseph Q. Mayne is the executive director.
The nationwide character of the celebration of •
Brotherhood Week is reflected in the numerous mes-
sages which have been issued by men of all faiths
encouraging the movement to establish a spirit of co-
operation among Christians and Jews. President Roose-
velt's message has already been quoted in our columns.
Numerous Brotherhood Week Events
Numerous and varied are the events arranged for
the observance of Brotherhood Week in Detroit.
Addresses before church, community and social
groups; interchange of pulpits; concerts and other
events have been arranged by the Detroit Round Table
of Catholics, Jews and Protestants.
"World We Want to Live In"
The film "The World We Want To Live In" will be
shown by the Detroit Round Table before the Religious
Schools of Temple Beth El and Temple Israel Saturday,
and before the Youth Speaks Forum at the Jewish
Community Center, Sunday evening. A panel discus-
sion on Brotherhood will follow the latter, with Dr.
Alfred McClung Lee, head of the department of soci-
ology at Wayne University; Fr.J. Lawrence Cavanaugh,
assistant, superintendent of Roman Catholic Schools
of Detroit, and E. L. Niemand of the Jewish Commun-
ity Center as resource leaders.
The National Council of Jewish Juniors, at their
meeting at the Statler Hotel on Sunday afternoon, will
hear Brotherhood addresses by Rabbi Leon Fram of
Temple Israel, Prof. Francis J. Donohue of the Univer-
sity of Detroit and Dr. Norman Kenzie, director of the
department of social work of the Detroit Council of
Churches.
The president of the League of Detroit Jewish
Youth, Harold Noveg, will act as moderator. Admission
will be free. All who are interested are urged to
attend.
On the committee of arrangements for the forum
are Mrs. Shonnie Kulka, chairman, Mrs. Martha Glei-
scher, Miss Selma Jacobson, Aaron Sumetz and Miss
Nettie Seligson.
Miss Celia Plotnick will complete the program with
several musical selections.
Rabbis Adler, Fram Among Speakers
The ministry of Southern Oakland County in as-
sOciation with other community groups will present a
Brotherhood Mass Meeting in the Royal Oak High
School at 8 P. M. on Feb. 22. The speakers, who will
be introduced by Joseph Q. Mayne, executive secretary
of the Detroit Round Table, will include Rabbi -Morris
Adler of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Dr. Herbert
Beecher Hudnut of Woodward Ave. Presbyterian
Church and Fr. John F. Quinn, S. J., University of De-
troit, Dean of School of Art and Science.
An inter-faith team will discuss the post-war world
at a Brotherhood meeting at the Northeast YMCA,
Tuesday. Rabbi Adler, Dr. Henry Hitt Crane of Central
Methodist Church and Fr. George A. Kmieck, S. J.,
Dean of Freshman, University of Detroit, will speak.
Rabbi Fram will deliver a Brotherhood address at
the Emanuel. College, Berrien Springs, Mich. (Seventh
Day Adventist Institution), Feb. 24. He will also par-
ticipate in a good will team to be presented at Hender-
son Methodist Church, Lilac and Puritan, with Fr.
Quinn and Chaplain Westwood of the Naval Training
School, Dearborn.
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Speakers at Synagogue Services
Bnai Brith Helps Plan Brotherhood Fete
Dr. Marshall Reed of Nardin Park Methodist Church
will be the Brotherhood guest speaker at the Sabbath
Eve. services at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Feb. 26.
Dr. Crane of Central Methodist Church will be the
guest preacher at the lrotherhood Services of Temple
Israel in the Lecture Hall of the Detroit Institute of
Arts on Feb. 26. Rev. Tracy M. Pullman of the Church
of Our Father will be the guest preacher at the Brother-
hood Service of Temple Beth El, Feb. 26.
A Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew will Speak at the
second annual inter-faith Brotherhood banquet, to be
held at Amity Hall, the home of the Gabriel Richard
Council of the Knights of Columbus, Amity Ave. and
Parkview, Wednesday evening, March 3, at 7:30 p. m.
This banquet is sponsored jointly by the Knights of
Columbus Councils of Detroit, Wayne County Council
of Master Masons and the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
Council, with the cooperation of the Detroit Round
Table of Catholics, Jews and Protestants. The speakers
will be Governor Harry F. Kelly, Edgar A. Guest, na-
tionally known poet, and Rabbi Jerome G. Heller of
Cincinnati, president of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis.
Center Brotherhood Concert Tuesday
Outstanding soloists will participate at the next
Center musicale which will be devoted to the music of
Catholic, Jewish and Protestant composers, on Tuesday,
in the main auditorium of the Jewish Community
Center.
Dr. Nellie Beatrice Huger, director of church music
of the Detroit Council of Churches, will lead the Radio
Male Choristers, and the Center Symphony Orchestra
under the direction of Julius Chajes will play an over-
ture by Mozart.
Rose Cooper, well-known Detroit soprano, will sing
songs by Isadore Freed, Gustav Mahler, and Julius
Chajes. Other soloists will be Emily Mutter Adams,
violinist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Marshall
Bruce, baritone, president of the Catholic Youth Organ-
izations; and Margaret Mannebach, pianist of the De-
troit Symphony Orchestra.
Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, vice-president of the Jewish.
Community Center, Dr. Thoburn T. Brumbaugh, execu-
tive secretary of the Detroit Council of Churches, and
Rev. Joseph Q. Mayne, executive secretary of the De-
troit Round Table of Catholics, Jews and Protestants,
will welcome the audience.
Tickets may be obtained free of charge' prior to the
day of the concert at the Center office. .
Rose Cooper to Sing Over WWJ
The Detroit Council of Churches, which has its radio
program every Sunday at 9:30 A. M., is arranging an
Inter-Faith program during Brotherhood Week.
Rose Cooper, distinguished Detroit soprano, has been
invited to participate in that program over WWJ on
Sunday. She will sing 'By the Rivers of Babylon" by
Julius Chajes which is dedicated to her.
"Signifigance of Brotherhood Week" is the topic
chosen for discussion by Mothers' Clubs during the
coming week.
The following _questions are being raised in connec-
tion with these discussions by the Mothers' Clubs: "Will
Brotherhood Week unlock American silence to Jewish
suffering abroad? Or will it be just another 'Week'?
Will the American clergy follow the example of the
Church of England thereby inspiring Congress to make
an official expression in behalf of the downtrodden
minority groups of Europe?"
Pisgah Lodge's Programs for March
With the successful conclusion of the Greater De-
troit Bnai Brith Council's $1,000,000 War Bond drive to
sponsor two Submarine Chasers. Pisgah Lodge No. 34 of
Bnai Brith will join the District Grand Lodge No. 6
membership campaign to enroll 10,000 new members
in hono! of Bnai Brith's 100th year. Rudolph Meyer-
sohn, president, announces that a brief membership
campaign will be conducted by Isadore Starr, member-
ship chairman of the loci f_Ye. to culminate in an initia-
tion during the month of May.
Programs for March, according to Louis Rosenzweig,
program chairman, include a business meeting on
March 1 and an open meetin g on March 15. featuring
an evening of Jewish music, humor and arts.
Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Council will have a vic-
tory Bond rally at Temple Beth El on Feb. 28 and the
second annual inter-faith Brotherhood banquet on
March 3.
Max Goidhoff, chairman of Pisgah Lodge war serv-
ice committee, announces the appointment of Harry
Schwartz as a chairman of a sub-committee on soldiers'
needs.
JNF Thanks Christadelphians
FEBRUARY
Compiled From the Records of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Has Been Designated
BUCHAREST—King Ferdinand has promised a
Jewish delegation that he will personally probe the
recent outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence, especially
by students in the universities.
Zionist War Bond Sales Continue
Abraham Cooper, president of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of Detroit, announces that progress is being made
here in behalf of the sale of War Bonds during the
February War Bond Month.
The nation-wide memberships of Hadassah, women's
Zionist organization of America, and of the Order Sons
of Zion; fraternal. Zionist organization, have joined in
the furtherance of War Bond Month which has been
designated by the U. S. Treasury Department for mem-
bers of the Zionist Organization of America, it was an-
nounced in New York by Judge Morris Rothenberg,
chairman of the Z.O.A. national war effort committee.
Shaarey Zedek Red Cross Unit
Twenty Years Ago This Week
MOSCOW—The Jewish sections of the Communist
Party have been authorized to distribute the supply
of matzohs for Passover. The American Jewish Joint
Distribution has been given permission to distribute
money to those Jews who do not have sufficient
funds to purchase the matzohs.
This meeting• inaugurated a program of education
on Jewish history, cultural background and problems,
for all Bnai Brith Lodges and auxiliaries in Michigan.
Rabbi Applebaum devoted the entire period to a "dis-
cussion of the Jewish holidays.
The Shaarey Zedek Red Cross Unit has established
a surgical dressing work room under the chairmanship
of Mrs. Sidney Frank.
The work room is open for production every Mon-
day and Tuesday from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Due to the
great need for surgical dressings, all those who have
taken the, course are urged to come and work.
Additional classes- in surgical dressings will be held
soon. All interested in taking the course, contact Mrs.
Philip Gilbert. University 1-9212.
Program at the Shaarey Zedek
NEW YORK—A young Jew from Edmonton in
Canada is one of the chief advisers to Dr. Sun Yat
Sen who is seeking to regain his position as head of
the government of South China, the correspondent of
the New York Globe reports. The young man, whose
name is Morris A. Cohen, is a member of the inner
circle about Dr. Sun, which is known as the Kuo
Min Tang Society.
Bnai Brith Cultural Programs
Rabbi Morton Applebaum of Lansing, director of
Bnai Brith Michigan Educational Council, spoke to an
enthusiastic audience of the East Side and Louis Mar-.
shall Lodges and their auxiliaries, including the Bus-
Mess and Professional Groups, at the Rose Sittig Cohen
Auditorium.
Mothers' Clubs Brotherhood Programs
The young people of Calvary Presbyterian Church
will be the guests of the Young People's Club and the
Men's Club of Congregation Shaarey Zedek at 8 P. M.
on Feb. 24. Dr. Leslie A. Bechtel will give the Brother-
hood address and a forum will follow. The leaders will
be Dr. Bechtel, Rabbi Adler and Mr. Mayne.
' Cantor Jacob H. Sonenklar will chant traditional
Hebrew melodies and the organist of the Calvary Pres-
byterian Church will render selections. There will be
a social hour, with refreshments, after the program.
All members of the Men's Club, the Y.P.S. and the
Sisterhood of Shaarey Zedek are urged to attend this
good will meeting.
WASHINGTON—The records of heroism of Jew-
ish soldiers in the American army as well as those
of other armies who fought under the American
Flag were cited today in the minority report of the
House Immigration Committee, which asked liberal-.
ization of the immigration laws. The report partic-
ularly cites eight veterans who received Disting-
uished Service Crosses.
Plans for the banquet have been arranged by James
E. Frazer, State Navigator, Fourth Degree Knights of
Columbus, general chairman; Eugene Fisher, president
of Gabriel Richard Council of Knights of Columbus,
vice chairman; William J. Newton, president of the
Master Association of the Masonic Temple, vice chair-
man, and Harry Yudkoff, president of the Greater De-
troit Bnai Brith Council, vice chairman.
Committee members include Paul Henry, William T.
Buckeridge, Norman Randolph, Rudolph Meyersohn,
William J. Newton, William ,A. Ross, John Wysocki,
Louis Rosenzweig, Dr. Robert Coggan, Mark Dunn, Wil-
liam. Friemuth and Rev. Joseph Q. Mayne.
Yudkoff says that reservations for the banquet are
limited, and will not be accepted after Feb. 24. For
reservations write to Louis Rosenzweig, secretary of
Bnai Brith Council, 1108 David Stott Bldg.
WAR BOND MONTH
G. V. Growcott of 15586 Normandy Ave. this week
received the thanks of the Jewish National Fund of
America for the gift he remitted in behalf of the
Christadelphian Ecclesia of Detroit. Mendel N. Fisher,
national director, in his letter of thanks, expresses
gratitude for the humanitarian spirit of the Christa-
delphians..
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Coming Events
of the
Feb. 21—Youth Speaks Forum at Jewish Center.
Feb. 21—Father, Son and Daughter Funfest at
Shaarey Zedek.
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
Feb. 22—United Nations Sound Films program at
Jewish Center.
Detroit Jews are urged to buy War Bonds
this month through the Zionist Organiza-
tion of Detroit: Call Abraham Cooper,
president of the Detroit organization, to
credit your investment for speedy victory
to the Zionists of America.
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Feb. 23—Opening of Chess Touranment at Jew-
ish Center.
Feb. 23—Brotherhood Week concert at Jewish
Community Center.
Feb. 24—Symposium on factory jobs and women
at Jewish Center.
Feb. 28—Symposium on "Jobs and Training in
the Army," at Jewish Center.
Feb. 28—Mass demonstration against Nazi atro-
cities at Cass High School.
March 7—Torah Month banquet at Jewish Cen-
ter, marking first anniversary of Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah.
March 8—Annual meeting of Jewish Welfare
Federation and its constituent agencies. Guest speak-
er: Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, European chief of the
Joint Distribution Committee.