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THE JEWISH NEWS

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Friday February 18, 1944

Activities in Our Synagogues and Schools

Bnai David Gets
New Honor Roll

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Sgt. Peter Bader's Parents
Present Gift to Be
Dedicated Feb. 25

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Congregation Bnai David,
Elmhurst and 14th Sts., an-
nounces that the dedication of a
new Honor Roll with the names
of the men and women of the
synagogue now in service will
take place at the Friday night
gathering on Feb. 25.
• This Honor Roll is being giv-
en by Mr. and Mrs. David Bader
in memory of their son, Sgt. Pe-
ter Bader.
Invitations have been extend-
ed to all servicemen in the city
to participate in this ceremony.
The dedication sermon will be
preached by Rabbi J. S. Sperka
who also will read the names on
the Honor Roll as prayers will
be offered for those listed.
Cantor Irving Ringel and his
choir will render an appropriate
musical program for the oeca-
sion. At the social hour follow-
ing there will be a reception
for parents of servicemen.

3 Speakers Listed
By Shaarey Zedek

Dr. Hailperin on Feb. 18, Dr.
Neuman, Feb. 25, Rabbi
Tenenbaum, March 3

Congregation Shaarey Zedek
announces that the speaker at
the late Friday evening services
on Feb. 18 as well as at the Sab-
bath morning services will be
Dr. Abraham Hailperin of the

DR. ABRAHAM A. NEUMAN

Tree, of Life Synagogue of Pitts-
burgh. His topic will be: "Who
Is Really Responsible for Hit-
ler? How Many Are Guilty?"
At the Friday evening, ser-
vices on Feb. 25, the speaker at
the Shaarey Zedek will be Dr.
ivlurder of American Jew in Abraham A. Neuman, president
of Dropsie College, Philadelphia,
South Pacific Revealed
whose topic will be "America,
the Future Center of Jewish
by Lt. J. F. Kennedy
Learning."
The speaker on March 3 will
BOSTON.—Lt. John F. Kenne-
dy, USN, son of the former U, S. be Rabbi E d w a r d M. Tenen-
Ambassador . to Great Biitain, baum. His topic will be "Threats
speaking at a ceremony mark- to Jewish Life."
The public is welcome to all
ing the awarding of prizes to
winners in a children's essay services,
contest on "Racial and Religious
Discrimination," on Monday, re-
vealed that a Japanese prisoner
in the South. Pacific killed an
American Jewish Army 'Chaplain
who was handing him a glass of
water. Lt. Kennedy said:
WASHINGTON — To mobilize
"I saw two Protestant and two American youth in support of
Jewish Chaplains working to- inter-faith and inter-racial amity
gether. A number of Jap prison- a n d to cement unity among
.ers were being brought back by young people of all races, creeds
our boys. One of the Japs asked and colors, Aleph Zadik Aleph,
for a drink of water.
the Bnai Brith youth organiza-
"One of the Jewish Chaplains tion, and its distaff counterpart,
Went to give him the water. As the Bnai Brith Girls, will sponsor
he was performing this humani- youth brotherhood rallies
. -tarian act, the Jap produced a throughout the country during
pistol and shot the Chaplain."
the annual observances of Na-
tional Brotherhood Week, Feb.
20-26, in cooperation with other
youth organizations, it was an-
nounced here by Philip M. Klutz-
nick, president of the Supreme
Advisory Council of AZA.

U.S. Chaplain
Killed by Jap

Bnai Brith Youth
To Sponsor Rallies

Chachmey Lublin
Gets Sefer Torah

Wohlgelernter
Appointed as
Eloise Chaplain

Educational Symposium Monday
At Yeshivath Beth Yehudah

Isaac Franck, Dr. A. M. Hershman and Dr. Nathan Drazin
of Baltimore to Participate; Patriotic Evening
Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter
on Feb. 28; Annual Banquet March 5

has been 'appointed Jewish Chap-
lain at Eloise Hospital by the
Board of Waynepmr
County Institu-
tions.

H i s appoint-
ment was an-
nounced thisk
week by the\
president of
board, Frank E.
Kelley. Samuel
Brezner is vice-
Rabbi
president of the
Wohlgelernter
board.
Rabbi Wohlgelernter reports
that there are more than 190
Jewish patients at Eloise.
As a first step following his ap-
pointment-, Rabbi Wohlgelernter
has called upon the Jewish Social
Service Bureau to co-operate
with him in co-ordinating serv-
ices for Jewish patients by De-
troit Jewish organizations.
A meeting of representatives of
the Social Service Bureau, to-
gether with spokesmen for the
Sisterhoods of Temple Beth El
\ and Temple Israel, Home Relief
Society, Zedakah Club, Junior
Bicur Cholem, House of Shelter
and its Women's Auxiliary will
be held at the JSSB office on
Tuesday morning. Other groups
will be asked to co-operate in
providing kosher food and ar-
ranging entertainments and serv-
ices for the Jewish patients.

Dr. Glazer Gives
Sermon on Status
of Negroes in U.S.

At the services at Temple
Beth El this Friday evening, Dr.
B. Benedict Glazer will deliver
the sermon on the subject: "The
Present Status and Future of the
American Negro—With Special
Reference to Roy Ottley's Mas-
terful Portrayal of Negro Life,
`New Life' 'A-Comin'."
The musical portion of the
program will be directed by
Julius Chajes and the Temple
Quartet, with Jason Tickton at
the organ.
A social hour, under the sup-
ervision of the Temple Sister-
hood, follows the services.

Gemiluth Chassodim
Passes Bond Quota

As part of the Yeshivah
Month program the community
is invited to a symposium next
Monday evening, at the school's
auditorium, Dexter at Cortland.
Featured on
the program
will be Is a ac
Franck, execu-
tive director of
the Jewish
Community
Council, w h o
will speak on
"Jewish Educa-
tion and Jewish Isaac Franck
Survival"; Dr. A. M. Hershman,
Rabbi of .Congregation Shaa-
rey. Zedek, whose topic - will be
"Jewish Education and the - Syn-
agogue"; and Dr. Nathan Dra-
zin, Rabbi of Congregation
Shaarey Tefilph, Baltimore, Md.,
who will talk on "The Roots of
Yeshivah Education in Jewish
History."

The Guest Speaker

Rabbi Drazin received his or-
dination with honors at the
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theologi-
cal Seminary. He has the B. S.
and M. A. degrees from Colum-
bia University and the Ph.D.
degree from Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity, where he earned Phi
Beta Kappa honors.
Dr. Drazin is the author of
"History of Jewish Education
from 515 B.C.E. to 220 C•E." For
the last 10 years he has served
as Rabbi of the Shaarey Tefilo
Congregation, one of the largest
Orthodox synagogues in Balti-

Rabbi E. Silver of Cincinnati
will arrive Sunday to participate
in the Sefer Torah presentation
to Yeshivath Chachmey Lublin,
as the gift of Sarah Frankel,
Ethel Greenwald, Chaye Leven-
holtz and Benjamin Waxman, in
memory of their late sister,
Esther Menucha and her late
husband.
The ceremony will commence
at 2 p. m. in the Yeshivah build-
ing, Elmhurst and Linwood.
Rabbi Silver will be the guest
here on Sunday and Monday and
will direct students' examina-
tions Monday, 10 a. m. to 1 p. m.
Louis Rose, vice-president of
the Yeshivah, will preside at the
ceremony. Morris Fisher, treas-
urer, will open the program. Can-
tor Isidore Podetzky. of Cleve-
land will be on the program. -Re-
freshments -will be served.
Rabbi Moses Rothenberg will
preside during the religious por-
tion of ,the ceremony. The Scribe,
Mr. Gavrilowitz, will inscribe the
final words in the Torah.

Segal Bags 12 Zeros
WASHINGTON (JPS) — Lt.
Harold E. Segal of New York
City was reported here as hav-
ing to date bagged 12 Jap Zeros
in the Solomons. He is on top
o\f the list in his squadron, known

as the Wake Avengers.

Anniversary Dinner March 5

On Monday, Feb. 28, the De-
partment of Michigan, Jewish
War Veterans ' of the United
States, will sponsor a patriotic
evening, presenting the Yeshi-
vah program through the stu-
dents of three major classes,
and an address by Rabbi Morris
C. Katz of Congregation Beth
Jacob- of Hamilton, Ont., who
serves as a part-time chaplain in
the Canadian Army.
The concluding event of Yesh
ivh Month will be the annual
dinner Sunday, March 5, at the
Shaarey Zedek, with Rabbi
Samuel Cooper of Charleston,
W. Va., as guest speaker.
Rabbi Cooper is an outstand-
ing leader in the Orthodox Rab-
binate and in the Zionist move:-
ment. He is a member of the
executive committee of the Rab-
binical College of America a n d
president of the Ohio Zionist
Region. He has been in the
Charleston pulpit since his grad-
uation from the Rabbi Isaac
Elchanan Theological' Seminary
in 1932.
Reservations for the dinner
are being received at the Yesh-
ivah office, HO. 7990.

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Dr. I. M. Goldman Rabbi Fram to Give
Named Lecturer Brotherhood Sermon
Will Preach February 25 on
At Seminary

"Brotherhood or Chaos";
Providence Rabbi to Speak
Gives Radio Sermon
on Adult Education at
Brotherhood Sabbath Eve
N. Y. School
will be observed at Temple Is-

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rael, Friday night, Feb. 25, at
Dr. Israel M. Goldman, direc- 8:30, in the Lecture Hall of the
tor of the National Academy for Detroit Institute of Arts.
Adult • Jewish Education since its
Members of the Congregation
inception in 1940 and Rabbi of
Temple Emanuel, Providence, R. will bring non-Jewish friends to
listen to Cantor Robert S. Tul
man's singing of synagogue mu-
sic and to hear Rabbi Leon
Fram preach on the subject
"Brotherhood or Chaos."

Rabbi E. Silver of Cincinnati
Due Sunday to Participate Lincoln's Letter to
Synagogue Discovered
In Presentation

Congregation Gemiluth Chas-
sodim, organization • of recent
newcomers to Detroit from Nazi
dominated countries, participated
successfully in the Fourth - War
NEW YORK (WNS)—An un-
Loan drive by topping their goal
published letter sent by Abra-
of $20,000.
ham Lincoln to a Jewish con-
The congregation will hold a
gregation 'in which • the Civil
social gathering Sunday at 7:30
War President expressed his
p. m. in the social hall of Bnai
thanks for a praYer for the
Brith Synagogue, Elmhurst and
country as well as for its wel-
14th. Edward Jenkins of the
fare was made public at the treasury department and Harold
opening session of the annual Silver, director of the Jewish
So-
meeting of the American Jewish cial Service, will address the
Historical Society at the • Jewish meeting. Rabbi Dr. S. R. Weiss
Theological Seminary, Broad- will be chairman.
way and 122nd Street.
The letter was discovered by
Rabbi Moshe Davis, registrar and Bnai Moshe Father-Son
teaching fellow at the seminary, Dinner Tuesday Evening
in the archives of Dropsie Col-
lege for Hebrew and Cognate
Parents and youngsters of
Learning in Philadelphia among Congregation Bnai Moshe will
the papers of Sabato Moaris, meet on Washington's birthday,
author , of the prayer who for Tuesday, for the annual Father
many years ' was rabbi of Con- and Son dinner, in the social hall
gregation - Mikveh Israel (Hope of the synagogue:
of Israel) of Philadelphia. The
Roy Hall, magician and ven-
letter, addressed • to A. Hart, triloquist, will furnish entertain-
president of the Philadelphia ment.
congregation, was dated May 13,
Reservations can be made by
1862.
calling the congregation office,
Rabbi Morais's prayer was de- HO. 0862.
livered at the synagogue on a
day set aside by • Presidential Theological Seminary
proclamation for prayer for the Opens Mid-West Office
casualties of both armies in the
The Jewish Theological .,Sem-
Civil .War, and for the preserva- inary of America announces the
tion of the Union. Dr. Morais's opening of its Mid-West office at
papers were collected by the late 203 Wabash Ave., Chicago, under
Dr Cyrus Adler, and are stored the direction of Rabbi Morris V.
at Dropsie College.
Dembowitz.

more, Md. He was the only dele-
gate from Baltimore at the last
World Zionist Congress held at
Geneva, Switzerland, In 1939. He
is chairman of the Moriah Col-
lege of Jewish studies in Balti-
more which he helped to found,
and is a member of the executive
boards of several Jewish national
organizations.

DR. ISRAEL M. GOLDMAN

I., has been appointed visiting
lecturer in Adult Jewish Educa-
tion at the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America, New York
City.

This is believed to be the first
attempt to establish such a lec-
tureship in the history of Amer-
ican Jewish Education.
Dr. Goldman has lectured and
written on various problems per-
taining to Adult Jewish Educa-
tion and his articles have appear-
ed in American and foreign
magazines. Under- his direction,
the National Academy has ex-
tended its services to more than
100 Jewish communities through-
out the country, publishing some
2Q texts for courses for adults in
many fields of Jewish culture.
Dr. Goldman organized Con-
gregation Emanuel in Providence
and has been its spiritual leader
since his graduation from the
Jewish Theological Seminary in
1926. He is also extension lectur-
er in American Jewish History
at Brown University. He re-
ceived his Bachelor of Arts from

Columbia in 1926. In 1937, the

The Detroit Council of
Churches has invited Rabbi
Fram to be its radio preacher
on Brotherhood over the Little
Church of the Air Program on
WWJ, Sunday morning, Feb.
20, 9:30 to 10, on the subject
"Vision of a New World."
This Friday night, Rabbi
Fram preaches on "Psychoanal-
ysis of the Reform Jewish Con-
gregation of Houston, Texas."

Class Examinations
In Hebrew Schools

Class examinations which
were started in several of the
branches of the United Hebrew
schools with the beginning of
this semester are continuing.
Last week examinations were
held in the Philadelphia-Byron
School in the classes of Abra-
ham Panush and Miss Rose
Pike; in the Rose Sittig Cohen
Branch in David Shakney's
class; and in the David W. Si-
mons Branch in the class of
Abraham Schachter.
Next Sunday morning, Feb.
20, at 11, an examination will be
held in Louis Panush's class in
the Philadelphia-Byron School,
and in Mrs. B. Lehrman's -class
at the David W. Simons Branch.

degree of Doctor ,of Hebrew Let-
ters was conferred upon him by
the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America.