• THE JEWISH NEWS • Page Sixteen . Friday February 18, 1944 Activities in Our Synagogues and Schools Bnai David Gets New Honor Roll . Sgt. Peter Bader's Parents Present Gift to Be Dedicated Feb. 25 -.41111. 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. - 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- . 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.