Friday, May 7, 1943

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Sixteen

Sedorim for Jewish Servicemen

Jewish Welfare Board, USO and Local Communities
Co-Operate in Bringing Passover to Fort
Custer, Fort Brady and Detroit

Wherever there are Jews in
the uniforms of the United
States in this country or at
overseas posts, t h e Jewish
Welfare Board has provided
for• their needs for Passover
and arranges for their spirit-
ual needs at all times.
The photographs on this
page show the Sedorim held
at Michigan military points.
The Jewish Welfare Board is
one of the six constituent
agencies of the USO, whose
officers and directors have co-
operated in arranging some of
the Passover Sedorim.

HENRY MEYERS
President of the United
Service Organizations
of Metropolitan Detroit.

SAMUEL RUBINER (right)
Chairman, Detroit Army
and Navy Committee of
Jewish Welfare Board.

A group of charming Jewish WAACs added
'color to the assembly at the Fort Brady Seder.
Jack Spencer, JWB director in Michigan as-
sisted with arrangements for this Seder.

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At the Fort Brady Seder in Sault Ste. Marie FRED M.
BUTZEL, chairman of the Michigan Army and Navy Committee
of the Jewish Welfare Board, is shown on the extreme right
reading from a JWB Haggadah. Others in the photograph, left
to right, are: MRS. ARDREY, GEN. SAMUEL T. LAWTON,
commanding officer at Fort Brady, PVT. ALBERT SPERKA,
who assists in religious services at Fort Brady, and MRS
LAWTON.

In Battle Creek, the Jewish community provided a Seder for
Jewish servicemen stationed at Fort Custer and Kellogg Field
and for patients at Percy Jones General Hospital. This photograph
shows a section of the Battle Creek Seder which was arranged by
the JWB Army and Navy Committee of Which A. J. Pearlman is
chairman. Samuel Kurzon is JWB director in Fort Custer area.

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The Seder at Congregation Beth Abraham, 12715 Linwood
Ave., arranged by the Eli Leyin Post of Jewish War Veterans in
cooperation with the Jewish Welfare Board, was an impressive
event. A section of the audience is shown above. RABBI
HAROLD N. ROSENTHAL conducted the Seder at the Beth
Abraham. With him, in the photograph to the right, are, left to
right: CPL. CHARLES CLEARFIELD, SEAMAN IRVING SAB-
SELS, Rabbi Rosenthal, CAPT. IRA FISCHER and CHAP-
LAIN ELLIOT FLECKLESS of the Headquarters of the Army
Air Forces TechniCal Training Command, Detroit.

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The National Jewish Welfare Board arranied for Pass-
over food and services on every front.

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