Bnai Brith District No. 6
Elevates Two Detroiters
Mrs. Solovich Elected Head of the Women's 'Auxiliary;
Yudkoff Named Vice-President. as Frankel
Succeeds Rabbi Folkman
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THE JEWISH. NEWS
Friday, July 30, 1943
Harry A. Frankel of Peoria, Ill., civic leader and welfare
worker, was elected president of District Grand Lodge No. 6
of Bnai Brith, at the convention held in Milwaukee last week.
Mr. Frankel was a member of the sponsoring committee
which supervised the purchase of the new Hillel Foundation
building at Ann Arbor. He succeeds to the presidency Rabbi
Hillel Honor Keys Awarded
To 'NI' Students, Civilians
Aided by NRS,
He Now Downs
German Planes
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,Fled Froni Europe in 1940,
Residents of Bnai Brith District No. 6 to Receive
Awards; Names to Be Inscribed on Special Plaque
for Distinguished Service
He's a Citizen - , Active as
Aerial Gunner
The Student Council of the
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at
the University of Michigan an-
nounced this week the winners
of Hillel Honor Keys and the
students whose names are to be
inscribed on the Hillel Honor
Plaque.
Rabbi Jehudah M. Cohen, di-
rector of the Foundation, also
announced the names of 18 resi-
dents of District No. 6 of Bnai
Brith who are to receive Hillel
Honor Keys and whose names
are to be inscribed on a special
Hillel Honor Plaque for "distin-
guish'ed service to the U. of M.
Foundation."
Adult winners of keys include
Harry Kaufman, Mrs. Martha
Levey, Mrs. Samuel Levy, Sam-
uel Levy and Osias Zwerdling,
of Ann Arbor; Mrs. B. C. Bolo-
tin, Mrs. Martin Gerber and Mrs.
Albert Schneider, of Chicago;
Mrs. Samuel S. Aaron, Irwin I.
Cohn, Aaron Droock, Abe Kasle,
Herman Osnos, Mrs. Herman
Prady, Mrs. Saul Rosenman, Mrs.
Louis Schostak and Louis H.
Schostak, of Detroit; . and Harry
A. Frankel of Peoria, Ill. '
At a United States bomber sta-
tion in England, Waist Gunner
Sgt. Eric Neuhaus, .20, formerly
of Vienna, is hard at work shoot-
ing down Nazi planes. A few
years ago he was assisted by the
National Refugee Service in
learning the machinist' trade
which stood him in good stead
when he joined the Army.
Eric started his war against
the Nazis when, at 13, he and
a number of others roamed the
Austrian and Czecho-Slovak
countryside clubbing unsuspect-
ing German sentries.
An American citizen, being
among 250 aliens in the American
forces in England naturalized
under the provisions of the Sec-
ond War Powers Act of 1942,
Sgt. Neuhaus came to the United'
States early in 1940 after work-
ing his way throtigh the south of
Europe and Palestine for three
years. In New York, where he
was reunited with his parents, he
set about finding work.
He paid a visit to the National
Refugee Service, where he was
Student Winners
enabled to take the necessary
courses for the machinist trade.
Civilian s t u dents receiving
Then NRS assisted him to re- Hillel Honor Keys include Grace
settle for a time in 'Wisconsin Freudberg, Washington; E l y s e
where he continued -to work.
Gitlow, New York City; Syril
Green, Utica, N. Y.; Charlotte
to War." One project, sponsored Kaufman, Ann Arbor; Norm
by Aleph' Zadik Aleph' and the Schwartz, Waukegan, Ill.; Netta
Bnai Brith Vocational Service Siegel of Cle-ireland; J. Louis
Bureau, aims to niobilize Jewish Singer, Hart, Mich.; Donna
high school youth for the victory Weiss, Grand Rapids; Shirley
farm- volunteer camps where the Winokur, Watervliet, Mich., and
young people will help relieve Elise Zeme, Detroit.
the far labor shortage.
Students who have left the
The second new war service' campus to serve in the army and
project was announced by Dr. A. navy include Albert M. Cohen,
L. Sachar, national director of Detroit; Herbert Edelhertz, New
the Hillel Foundations, when he York; Herbert Levin, Detroit;
reported that the Hillel. Founda- Paul Mishkin, Brooklyn, N. Y.;
tions and Counselorships have ac- Samuel Rosen, North Chicago;
cepted the responsibility of pro- Dan L. Seiden, Chicago; Lewis
viding for the spiritual and wel-
fare needs - of Jewish men and
women in uniform who have been
assigned to college campuses for
technical military a n d naval
MICHIGAN'S LARGEST
training.
FLORSHEIM DEALER
FLOISHEIM
That Bnai Brith is helping to
et.
combat the enemy on the psy-
chological front too was empha-
sized by Max Kroloff,- assistant
national director of the Bnai
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Open Evenings
Brith. Anti-Defamation League,
another participant in the semi-
nar.
Pointing out that through the
A. D. L., Bnai Brith is serving in
the - front line trenches in the
battle of ideas,. Kroloff said that
the League's war on anti-Semit-
ism and other un-American activ-
ities is a part of the offensive
against the common foe.
Jerome a Folkman of Grand€
Rapids.
Harry Yudkoff of Detroit was
elected second vice-president of
District No. 6. Samuel W. Leib
of Detroit and Abe Roman of Bay
City were elected members of
the general committee of the dis-
trict. -
Mrs. Solovich Elected
A distinct honor went to an-
other Detroiter in the election
of Mrs. Charles D. Solovich as
president of Women's Grand
Lodge No. 6. Mrs. Solovich also
was selected one Of the repre
sentatives to the Women's •Su-
preme Council of Bnai Brith.
Mrs. Solovich is past president
of Women's Auxiliary No. 122 of
Pisgah Lodge and _past president
of Michigan Women's. Council of
Bnai Brith.
Mrs. Samuel Aaron, past presi-
dent of Pisgah Auxiliary, was
elected a member of the general MRS. CHARLES D. SOLOVICH
committee of District No. 6 Wo- nounced :that 430., recreational fa-
men's Auxiliary.
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cilities for the armed forces have
Mrs. Monsky's Address
been furnished by Bnai Brith in
The American Jewish Confer- 37 states at Army camps, air ba-
ence must bring unity in the ses, coast guard stations and
American Jewish community and other military and naval installa-
must find some basis of agree- tions.
ment between the diverse groups
'Bnai Brith also is serving 29
constituting that • community,
naval vessels with recreational
Henry Monsky, president of Bnai
material, it was reported, through
Brith and chairman of the execu-
its serve-a-ship program.
tive committee of the Conference,
Panelists were Royal Agne,
which he called into being
through the Pittsburgh Confer- Midwest area director of the
ence, said at a victory dinner of American Red Cross; William C.
the 75th anniversary convention. Fitzgibbon - of the Treasury De-
Emphasizing that the sole ob- partment; Charles H. Louer, Dis-
jective of the Conference is to trict 6 war service chairman;
arrive at some common program Mrs. Aaron Osri, war service
of action to deal with post-war chairman of the Women's Grand
Jewish problems, Mr. Monsky Lodge. Robert Lurie, National
said that the ' Conference cannot War Service Director, served as
be dogmatic, doctrinaire or intol- moderator, while Bert C. Broude,
erant of the views of different District 6 member of the national
viewpoints. He predicted the suc- war service committee, presided.
Dedicate Service Flag
cess of the Conference because of
At a memorial service for Bnai
"the awareness of the grave re-
sponsibility that rests upon every Brith war heroes, Maurice Bis-
delegate."
gyer, national secretary, dedi-
cated a service flag in honor of
Pact on Palestine
He also predicted that a basis the 3,268 District 6 members in
of agreement on Palestine will be the armed forces. He reported
arrived at the Conference. Urg- that 79 memberS of Bnai Brith,
ing the delegates to strive for A. Z. A. and Hillel Foundations
that which is achievable, Monsky have died, that 15 are missing in
asserted that the Conference "will action and 12 are prisoners of
not be a propaganda conference war. Nationally, the Bnai Brith
but an attempt to synthesize the service record is more than 17,-
fundamentals of all viewpoints." 000, he added.
Two new nationwide Bnai
Doubling their quota of $10,-
000,000, District 6 and Women's Brith war service projects were
Grand Lodge No. 6 sold $20,207,- announced during a convention
110 in War Bonds in a district- symposium on "Bnai Brith Goes
wide campaign that closed on the
eve of the convention. During the
WE ARE NOW ISSUING
convention itself $120,000 worth
more was sold, including $11,800
subscribed by the Supreme
Lodge.
In a letter to the convention,
Secretary of the Treasury Mor-
genthau paid tribute to Bnai
Brith's War Bond drive as "an
outstanding success."
War Service Fund
A quota of $40,000, $25,000 by
the men and $15,000 by the wom-
en, was accepted in the new na-
ALL THESE HAZARDS FULLY COVERED
tional Bnai Brith war service
Fire and lightning damage
fund. A resolution calling for the
Tornado, cyclone, windstorm and hail
continuance of morale-building
Burglary, theft, larceny and holdup
service to men and women in uni-
Riots, strikes and civil commotion
form even • after the war was
Aircraft and motor vehicle damage
unanimously adopted
Smoke and smudge damage
Rabbi Folkman, in his presi-
Mysterious disappearance
dential message, recommended
Transportation hazards
that Bnai Brith give thought to
Water damage
the advisability of creating a
Collapse of building
Bnai Brith university as "a school
Malicious damage
of the liberal arts • and sciences
Spilling of liquids
open to all American students
Earthquake
Explosion
regardless of race, creed or social
For Information
Duststorms
background," and as a place
Phone or Write
Floods
where exiled and homeless scho-
lars driven out of European cen-
ters of learning "may continue
to make contributions to the in-
tellectual and scientific glory and
progress of the United States."
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war service activities, it was an-
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Rabbi • Cohen also announced
that this year's winner of the
Milford- Stern Forensics Award
is Miss Hannah Katz of Tampa,
Fla., who was in charge of an
outstanding Friday night Fire-
side Discussion Series during the
last semester. The award, pre-
sented annually to the Hillel
member "who has done the most
for forensics at the Foundation,"
was established several years
ago by Mrs. Milford Stern of
Detroit.
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For Last Period
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Camp Chelsea, the Jewish
Community Center camp for
mothers and children, is accept-
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to 12 years dld, for the last per-
iod, Aug. 17 to 31. A camp pro-
gram has also been planned for
this' period for children 4 to 7
years old.
Camp Chelsea, located 20 miles
west of Ann Arbor, offers a
healthful vacation. A -- varied
program of activities, under the
direction of Mrs. Clara 'Avrunin,
camp director, is available for
both mothers and children.
Rates per week are as fol-
lows: Mother's Club members,
$16, and their children, $12; non-
member adults, $21, and their
children, $14. Further details
may be obtained at the Center
office, MA. 8400.
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