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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, Ocfober 22, 1943

Council Institute to Hear Bnai Brith
Roosevelt Blasts Argentina
Simon at Center on Sunday Seeks 1,500 For Curb on Yiddish Press
New Members
of

Public Invited . to Attend All-Day Session on Problems'
Vital to Community. Work; Afternoon and .Evening •
Speakers and Subjects .Announced • •
Most Extensive Campaign
With "The Jewish Community Council and the Evolving
In History Under Way
J6vish Commimity" as its central thenie -,. the COminUnity*
On 100th Birthday
Council Institute this Sunday will' present to the community
a full day's progi-am• of discussiOns . on. . -vital problems 'of
On Oct. 13, the day Bnai Brith
community work, at the Jewish' ComMunity Center. The became 100 years old, presidents
and membership chairmen of
Institute is open to the public.
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President's Excoriating Criticism Comes at a Time
Crisis
for Military Government of General Ramirez;
Action Termed Anti-Semitic

WASHINGTON (JPS)—President Roosevelt described
as "obviously anti-Semitic" and "closely identified with the
most repugnant features of Nazi doctrine" the ban on Yiddish
newspapers decreed by the Argentine government. The
President's excoriating criticism was made at a White House
local Bnai Brith groups gathered press-radio conference, widening the breach between the two

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. Authorized delegates and of
ficers of the Community Coun- Srere . will act. as Moderator. at a birthday dinner. under the countries.
The President's rebuke' came at has been exposed in all its
cil's. 195 constituent organizations Rabbi Leon. F•ani will 'give ..an auspices of the Greater Detroit
historic and analytic presentation Bnai Brith Council, to launch the a time of profound crisis for the ousness as a depraved and hide-
will be in attendance.
can-
military government of Gen. cerous growth affecting the south-
The principal speaker at the of the Community Council idea
as
a
new
pattern
in
American
Pedro Ramirez, three of whose ermost extremity of our Western
evening prograM will be Max
cabinet ministers had resigned Hemisphere.
Simon, who was the first presi- Jewish life, making for unity
because they disapproved of pro-
dent of Cleveland's Jewish Com- and democracy.
"Only distance and other han-
Discuss Programs
Axis policies.
munity Council, and held that
dicaps stand in the way of physi-
Philip
Slomovitz
will
discuss
office for four years.
Relations Strained
cal union and the application of
programs for dethocracy and
Other Affiliations
Diplomatic relations between brute force which would place
unity
nationally,
with
specific
He is a member of the board
the Ramirez government and the on a parity the government of
of trustees of the. 'Cleveland reference to the American Jewish
U. S. became markedly strained the Southern Republic with the
Federation, - and an officer of its Conference and its permanence.
several weeks ago when Secre- government of defunct Italy and
Welfare Fund; member of the Dr. B. Benedict Glazer will dis,
tary. of State -Hull addressed a the tottering and despicable gov-
cuss
the
relations
between
local
Civic Protective Committee of
stern reproof to Argentina's For- ernments of Germany and Japan.
community
councils
as
instru-
the Council of Jewish Federations
eign Minister Storni, refusing a All Americans must deplore the
and Welfare Funds, and has been ments for democracy and unity,
request for lend-lease from the degradation of the Argentine
one of the leading exponents of and national bodies such as the
only government in the Western people by their bigoted fascist
unity among national civic-pro- American Jewish Conference or
Hemisphere still unweaned from government."
any
national,
representative
body.
tective agencies. His subject will
the Axis. Minister Storni subse-
be "The Community Council in The period of self-criticism will
quently' resigned.
be followed by a summary by
the American Jewish Scene."
Yiddish, for centuries the
The Institute will open with a Aaron Rosenberg.
tongue of millions of Jews in the
.
A
two-hour
dinner
recess
will
registration period at 1 p. in. At
Diaspora, has become the match
1:20 D. m. James I. Ellmann, take place between 6:15 and 8:15
which has set off the President's
p.
m.
War-time
conditions
have
president of the Council, will
long-smoldering g r i e v a n c es
welcome the assembly and will made it advisable to eliminate
against the Argentine govern-
AARON ROSENBERG
introduce Rabbi Max J. Wohlge- the dinner which has been a part most extensive membership drive ment. A number of discrimina-
The Detroit Women's Division
lernter, who will deliver the of past Community Council In- in the history of local Bnai Brith. tory actions presaged the sup- of the American Jewish Congress
stitutes.
opening key-note address on the
Louis H. Schostak, president of pression of the Yiddish press by will hold its second annual Armi-
The evening's program will be
theme of the Institute.
the
Bnai Brith COuncil, an- the government and were accom- stice Day luncheon meeting at
•Three town-hall discussions, on presided over by Julian H. Kro-
nounced the appointment of panied by government diffidence Hotel Statler, Wednesday, Nov.
three phases of the Community lik. Mr. Ellmann will present his
Aaron Rosenberg, a past presi- to an intense anti-Jewish cam- 10. Arrangements are being made
Council's program and functions
dent of Pisgah Lodge, as mem- paign carried on by extreme right- by the inter-faith committee of
will follow. At each of these
bership chairman of the city-wide ist newspapers, despite a recent which Mrs. William Grahm is
Meetings, three speakers will out-
drive conducted simultaneously statement by the minister of the chairman and Mrs. James Rossin
line the Community Council's
by all local Bnai Brith lodges and interior which called on the press secretary._
work in the field under discus-
auxiliaries. Mr. Rosenberg an- "to avoid publication- of anything
"Winning the Peace," the sub-
sion. A period of questiOns,
nounced that after consultation likely to wound or mortify any ject of *the day, will be interpret-
suggestions a n d self - criticism
section
of
the
Argentine
popula-
with chairmen of membership of
ed by the following: "Economic
from the audience will follow.
local lodges, a goal of 1,500 new tion by attacking its nationality, Justice" by Rev. Claude Wil-
Each of the sesssions will be
members has been set in Detroit. religious beliefs or customs."
liams, "World Organization to
briefly summarized .
The auxiliaries are awaiting a
Banned Indefinitely
Maintain International Order" by'
Fight Against Anti-Semitism
quota from the Women's District
The Buenos Aires police issued Rev. Joseph Q. Mayne and
The 1:45 p. in. discussion, con-
Grand Lodge. •
a suspension order, rescinded it "Eliminating Anti-Semitism and
cerned with "Our Community
Harry Yudkoff, second vice- temporarily and then again Establishing a Jewish Homeland
Council Among Our Neighbors,"
president of District Grand Lodge banned ' the publication of all in Palestine" by Rabbi Leon
will discuss the Community
No. 6 of Bnai Brith, said at the Yiddish newspapers for an in- Fram.
Council's work in combatting
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dinner: "We are assembled here definite period. The order has
anti-Semitism and building better
A luncheon for those wishing
finally
been
rescinded.
this
evening
because
of
the
mani-
understanding between Jews and
to attend will precede the meet-
fold problems that confront our
The Jewish community in
non-Jews. The moderator will be
people. Because the program of Buenos Aires, according to sta- ing, Mrs. Sidney Sidell is in
Judge William Friedman. Aaron
Bnai Brith in its manifold phases tistics of some years back, con- charge of reservations which
Droock will speak on anti-dis-
generates the type of thinking sists of more than 120,000. It should be in by Nov. 8, by calling
crimination work.
and 'understanding that is so has Yiddish theaters, schools, Mrs. Sidell, UNiversity 1-4184.
Michael Gimbel will outline
RepreSentatives of many Jew-
essential to the creation of a uni- daily newspapers and periodi-
the Community Council's fact-
fied. Jewish followting, it becomes cals. Yiddish schools care for ish and non-Jewish organizations
finding .program. Isaac Franck
MAX SIMON
quite evident that one of our pri- approximately half of the chil- and church groups are to be in-
will . sketch the broad program
presidential message. Herman M. mary obligations must be that of dren attending Jewish schools in vited and - members of the Amer-
of public education, community
Pekarsky, acting executive direc- bringing into the sphere of Bnai Buenos Aires.
ican Jewish Congress are re-
relations, and social research.
tor of the Jewish Welfare Feder- bringing• all Jews into the sphere
quested to invite their non-Jew-
After the self-criticism and dis-
The two most widely read ish friends.
ation, will speak on the 1943 War of Bnai Brith influence."
cussion• period, Mrs. Leonard H. Chest.
newspapers affected by the ban
Mr.
Yudkoff
reported
as
mem-
Weiner will summarize t h e
are the Diario Israelita, or Yid-
Discuss Service Record
bership chairman of District
session.
MICHIGAN'S LARGEST
Samuel H. Rubiner, chairman Grand Lodge No. 6, that lodges dishe Zeitung, which recently cel-
At 3:15 D. in. the town-hall
FLORSHEIM DEALER
of the Detroit Army and Navy throughout the district are con- ebrated its fiftieth anniversary,
meeting will discuss "Our Com-
Committee of the Jewish Welfare ducting extensive membership and the Prensa Israelita, or Yid-
munity Council Among Our-
Board, will discuss the signific- drives on the 100th anniversary. dishe Presse, which was founded
selves." Cultural and organiza- ance of building up a
20 years ago.
-full record
Samuel W. Leib, member of the
tional coordination, and programs
of Jewish men and women in aeneral committee of District
of self-discipline in the Jewish
2231-35 Woodward Next to Fox Theatre
the armed forces. Isaac Franck, Grand Lodge No. 6, addressed the Rep. Dingell Assails
community, will be analyzed.
Open Evenings
executive director of the Council ; dinner. Pledges to co-operate in Argentine Government
Abraham Meyerowitz will outline
will summarize the discussions at this extensive drive were given
the Community Council's func- the afternoon sessions.
Congressman John D. Dingell,
by the presidents and member- in a statement to The . Jewish
Open
tions in cultural and organiza-
Men's Wear
A musical program will be ship chairmen of the following
Evenings
tional work. Louis Rosenzweig
News, excoriated the 'Argentinian
furnished
by
Henry
Siegl,
De-
groups which comprise the government as follows:
will speak on the arbitration . and
troit violinist, member of the De- Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Coun-
conciliation tribunal. Lawrence
"The soul of the government of
W. Crohn will discuss programs troit Symphony Orchestra. Karl cil: Pisgah Lodge, Louis Marsh- Argentina, by its recent pro-
J. Hass will accompany him at all Lodge, Theodor Herzl Lodge,
DEXTER
of internal Jewish discipline. the piano.
Detroit Lodge and East - Side nouncement in banning all Jew-
at
WEBB
Rabbi Morris Adler will serve
The musical interlude will be Lodge Pisgah Auxiliary, Busi- ish newspapers and - magazines,
as moderator. Joseph Bernstein
followed
by
Max
Simon's
princi-
ness and Professional Auxiliary,
will summarize the period.
address, which will conclude Theodor Herzl Auxiliary, East
At 4:45 D. in. the meeting will pal
the day's -program.
Side Auxiliary and Louis Marsh-
explore the position of "Our
The. Community Council Insti- all Auxiliary.
Community Council in the Amer-
The Bnai Brith Council will
ican 'Jewish Scene." Abraham tute was planned by a special
program committee consisting of culminate this membership drive
Rabbi Morris Adler, Mrs." A. H. with a public initiation in De-
Benton Harbor Women
Brodie, Aaron Rosenberg, Mrs. cember, to be addressed*-by a
Entertain Servicemen
Leonard H. Weiner and Rabbi foremost Jewish personality in
Max J. Wohlgelernter.
the United States.
In addition to other activities
at• the USO Club on W. Michigan
Ave., Battle Creek, a group of
women from Benton Harbor, rep-
resenting the Bnai Brith Aux-
DRESS INFORMAL
iliary and consisting of Mrs. H. S.'
9th Annual Detroit League
Friedman, Miss Rose Jacobson,
Miss Lillian Jacobson, Miss
Freida Jacobson and Miss Lottie
DAVE DIAMOND'S ORCHESTRA
Daken, gave a supper for Jewish
of the National Home for
soldiers, their wives and friends,'
Jewish Children at &Inver
Five Dollars Per Couple Plus Tax on General Admission
in the lounge of the USO Club,
SATURDAY,
OCT. 30 8:30 P. M.
on Sunday evening.
SPONSORED BY THE
Earlier in the afternoon, the
Detroit Institute of Art Auditorium
Benton Harbor group visited sot-
For Underprivileged Children
diers in the Percy JoneS - General
Exposed to Tuberculosis
Hospital and presented them
Ticket: Mrs. Jos. B. Slatkin. TO. 8-6887
with gifts. .„- - . •

Luncheon Meeting
Set for Nov. 10 by
Congress WoMen

llth

Annual
Ball

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Don't Miss It!

Saturday Evening,
November 6,1943

Hotel Statler

THEATER PARTY

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Zionist Organization of Detroit

