THE JEWISH NEWS
Page . Four•een
Quebec Expropriates Site
Intended for a Synagogue
Literature of Islam
Topic of Rabbi Fram
Friday, July 2'., 1'y.
Wezemael Soloist
At Center Concert
Wednesday Evening
"The Ethical Literature of
Islam," will be the subject of
a reading to be given by Rabbi
City's Proferred Piece Rejected Unless Different Site Is Leon Fram at the Sabbath Eve Chajes' "String Quartet No.
services of Temple Israel on
Provided as Choice of Jewish Community;
2" Included in Program
Friday night, July 30, at Terriple
Protestants Side With Jews
for Its Premiere
Israel Meeting Room, 14 Boule-
QUEBEC, Canada (JTA)— elements, passed a regulation vard Bldg., 3076 E. Grand Blvd.
Cyril Wezemael, noted bari-
The City of Quebec this week forbidding the building of houses
This is the third in the series tone, will be the guest soloist at
served notice that it planned to of worship in that section of the of readings in universal religion the fourth in a series of open-
expropriate a site on which a city. The regulation was tested which Rabbi Fram is delivering air concerts at the Jewish Corn-
synagogue is being erected by in court and the case was dis- at the summer Sabbath • Eve
the Jewish community. The no- missed. The Jewish community, services of Temple . Israel.
tice, returnable within 10 days composed of 109 Jewish famil-
This Friday night, Rabbi Fram
in Superior Court, stated that ies, went ahead with its project
the site was needed for an ex- and foundation work is now reads from the moral literature
near completion. "We are ready of China.
tension to Lockwell Park.
to contest the notice of exprop-
"The action is a most flagrant riation- to the end," S. Lazaro-
to
assault on freedom of worship vitz, attorney for the Jewish
and the civic right to erect a congregation, stated after the
Sermon
house of worship for the citi 7 notice was served.
zens of Jewish. faith," M. Caiser-
Anti-Semitic Issue
man, general secretary of the
The issue goes back to 1932
Canadian Jewish Congress, de-
Rabbi Leonard Kasle of Char-
clared. "Never before in the when the Jewish community of
history of our country has the Quebec decided to build a syn- lottesville, Va., son of Mr. and
right been so openly or so un- agogue in the section of the city Mrs. Abe Kasle of Detroit, will
ashamedly suppressed or chal- where most of the Jews reside. occupy the pulpit of Congrega-
A lot was then acquired for this
lenged."
purpose. • The French Catholic tion. Shaarey Zedek this Sab-
Demand Other Site
populaticin, however, objected to bath morning, July 24.
City Attorney Benoit Pellet- having a synagogue in the
Rabbi Kasle, who is vacation-
ier, in explaining the action of neighborhood. The city council
the municipality, said that a few then adopted an ordinance pro- ing here with his family, is dir-
weeks ago the city council hibiting the building of non- ector of the Hillel Foundation at
adopted a motion to purchase residential edifices in that sec- the University of Virginia. He
the site for $25,000, but repre- tion of the city, thus preventing is a graduate of the University of
sentatives of - the Jewish com- the Jews from erecting the syn- Michigan and the Jewish Insti-
tute of Religion. He was gradu-
munity said that they could only agogue.
CYRIL WEZEMAEL
accept the offer if another site
The Jewish community then ated from the Shaarey Zedek
of their choice Was provided.
sold the land and acquired an- school and the United Hebrew munity Center Wednesday, at 9
Schools.
p. m.
• The site was acquired in 1941. other site after securing permis-
Mrs. Edwin C. Sherrill will
sion
from
the
town
planning
Shortly after its purchase, the
Stein's
Lodge
Invites
accompany
Wezemael.
commission
to
build
a
synagogue
Quebec city council, acting un-
A premiere performance - of
der pressure •• from anti-Jewish there. Members of a neighbor- Vacationers to Omena
ing Catholic church, however,
Julius Chajes' "String Quartet
started a movement to bar the
Stein's Clover Lodge, located No. 2" will be given at this con-
Jews from building their syna- on Grand Traverse Bay, at cert. The performing artist will
gogue on the new site and sub- Omena, Mich., extends an invi- be Max Weiner and Felix Res-
mitted a petition with 10,000 sig- tation to Detroit Jews to spend nick, violinists, Harold Smith,
natures to the city council.
violist; Harry Seigal, cellist.
their vacations at this resort.
Protestants Side With Jews
Chajes, who is music director of
Stein's
is
the
only
Jewish
re-
The issue became one of the
the Jewish Community Center,
Membership Drive to Enroll
major controversies in the city, sort in Northern Michigan. It has stated that this composition,
500 Supporters Extended
with Protestants siding with the the best facilities for rest and which is written in a Dorian
September
Jews. The Jewish community, recreation. There is a private key, was recently performed at
realizing that anti-Semitic ele- bathing beach, tennis courts and a music festival at Kansas City.
Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter, ments were seeking to exploit other facilities.
The Mozart "Clarinet Quintet"
president of Yeshivah Beth Ye- the. situation, decided to post-
A competent counselor cares with Bernart Rosen, clarinetist,
hudah, announces that the pone building the synagogue un- for the children at Stein's and will be the opening number of
school's board has decided to ex- til a time when it could not be there is a playground for their the , concert.
tend the campaign for 500 new utilized by political propangand- enj oyment.
Announcement has been made
members to the opening of the ists. •
that
Henry Siegl, violinist of the
Reservations for a stay at
new school term in September.
In 1942, when it was be-
Detroit Symphony Orchestra,
Stein's
are
being
accepted
by
Directors and friends of the lieved that the reactionary ele- Mrs. Ida Komaroff, UN. 1-6172. and George McLeod, baritone,
will be the guest artists on the
institution will utilize the sum- ments in the city had given up
During the July 4 week-end, a
mer months for the solicitation their anti-Jewish and Fascist ac- large group of Detroiters spent August 4 concert.
of annual contributions to sup- tivities, at least for the duration their vacation at Stein's. Among
One of the most heroic men
port the Yeshivah.. Final reports of the war, the Jews decided to those present were Dr. and Mrs.
will be submitted at a public start . construction work on the Sklare who were surprised with fighting for the United States
in the War of 1812 was the French
meeting on Sunday afternoon, site. Immediately, the city coun-
cil passed an ordinance prohib- a party on their second wedding Jewish privateersman, Commo-
Sept. 12.
anniversary.
Other
Detroiters
in-
iting the erection of houses of
dore John Ordroneaux.
One hundred new members worship in the neighborhood. cluded Mr. and Mrs. Moe Fried-
and contributors were secured Later the city council approach- man, the Joseph Haas family,
thus far, for a total in cash and ed the Jews and offered to buy Mr. and Mrs. Margolin and son,
pledges of $2,000, according to the land and use it as an ex- Mr. and Mrs. Edelson, Mr. and
Samuel Hechtman, chairman of tension to Lockwell Park. The Mrs. Tolchin, Mr. and Mrs. W.
the budget and finance commit- offer was rejected when the mu- Beckerman, Mrs. Libby Jaffee.
tee.
nicipality refused to give assur-
There were also guests from
Adopt $30,000 Budget
ances that another site suitable New York, Saginaw, Grand
The board of directors has for a synagogue would be pro- Rapids, Royal Oak and other
cities.
voted a budget of $30,000 for the vided.
current year, through May 31,
t.
1944, to meet the needs of the
Yeshivah which now has a daily
attendance of more than 200
boys, in °12 classes taught by a
factulty of seven.
Rabbi Kasle
Give
at Shaarey
Zedek This Sabbath
Yeshivah Adopts
Budget of $30,000
Hundreds
At 12th St.
Bond Rally
Win War Council Officials
Commended for Drive to
Sell $540,000 Worth
Having for its goal the sale of
$540,000 in War Bonds, the Unity
for Victory Rally of the Win. the
War Council enlisted the aid of
several hundred Detroiters at
the street meeting on Gladstone
and 12th Sts. last Sunday eve-
ning.
It was a gala event for the
12th St. workers for 'the war ef-
forts, and the officers and work-
ers in the Win the War Council
received the commendations of
speakers and spectators.
Participants in the program in-
cluded Samuel Wilson, president
of the sponsoring organization;
Miss Florence Arden, secretary;
Mrs. Edith Cohen, chairman of
the arrangements committee; Lt.
T. J. Burke, Navy Chaplain; W.
E. Hartman, U. S. Treasury De-
partment representative; Philip
Slomovitz, editor of The Jewish
News; Henry Sazer, organiza-
tional director • of Win the War
Council: Mandell Bernstein, ra-
dio commentator and attorney;
Sheldon Tappes, Ford Local 600
UAW-CIO; Mildred Geller, radio
star, and Rabbi J. S. Sperka.
Sammy Morris, M. C. of the
Bowery, was chairman. The
American Legion Band contrib-
uted musical selections.
The Win the War Council un-
dertook to purchase a Unity for
Victory Navy Fighting Ship. A
group of sailors were "adopted"
at the rally as means of swelling
the sales in the $540,000 drive.
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Included in the expenditures
for the year are: Teachers' sal-
aries, $19,000; building mainten-
ence, $3,500; administrative costs,
$2,500; school supplies, $1,500;
transportation of pupils from
distant neighborhoods, $2,000;
payments on land contract,
$1,500.
During the vacation month of
August, provision has been made
for individual instruction of
students who remain in the city.
A number of the Yeshivah alum-
ni, now studying in rabbinical
seminaries in New York and
Chicago and spending their va-
cation in Detroit, gather at Beth
Yehudah for daily study under
the guidance of members of the
staff.
Enrollments in all depart-
ments of Yeshivath Beth Ye-
hudah, which will reopen at the
beginning of September, . are
now taken at the office of Yes-
hivath Beth Yehudah, Dexter
and Cortland, telephone HO-
garth 7990.
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