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Jewish Center
Activities
Friday, October 27, 190
Brig. Benjamin Appointed
Jewish Brigade Commander
British-Born Jew Now in Middle East. Organizing Forces;
Confidential Memorandum Instructs Employes Not to List Move Lounge to Expand
Son of Zionists, He was Friend of Late Gen. Kisch;
Intermediates' Program
Imigrants as Jews, Nor to Classify Them as to Religion;
In order to expand the Inter-
Helped Allied Invasion of Madagascar
Move Hailed by Minority Groups
mediate Council program, the
lounge has been moved from the
first floor to rooms 300 and 302.
Plans for furnishing the room
will •be completed by the Council
Lounge Committee, .which is be-
ing advised by Miss Anna R.
Solomon of the intermediate
board activities committee.
Denting to juke box melodies
will feature the program in room
302, while table games will be
played in room 300.
Temporary plans of the Coun-
cil include - the transfer of danc-
Mg to,Butzel Hall on a •mid-week
evening and on Sunday afternoon
or evening.
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Mothers' Clubs Discuss
Coming Election Issues
- Issues in the coming election
will be featured by the Mothers'
Clubs during the week at the fol-
lowing meetings:
Young Women's Study Club,
Tuesday, 1:30 p. m., at the Jew-
ish Community Center. The club
also will have a harvest social.
Fenkell Mothers' Club, Tues-
day, 8:30 p. m., at the new hall,
3138 Fenkell. The meeting will
be featured by a harvest social.
Woodward Study Club, Wed-
nesday, 1:30 p. m., at the Jewish
Community Center. Officers will
be installed.
Davison Mothers' Club, Thurs-
day, 8:30 p. m., at Workmen's
Socially-Minded Henry Ehrlich
Circle, Educational Center. Offi-
cers will be elected.
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B. & P. Group Will Hear
Judaism Council Leader
S. J. Varon, chairman of the
Pontiac chapter of the American
An interesting tribute to a prominent young Detroiter was Council for Judaism, will be the
given on Tuesday by James S. Pooler, in his column in the Detroit guest speaker at the meeting of
Free Press. This column was devoted to a descriptiOn of the the Business and Professional
interest Henry Ehrlich, son of Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, showed in Discussion Group, next Thurs-
an incapacitated Canadian enlisted man. The story as related by day. His subject will be "A Pro-
Mr. Pooler follows:
gram for Jews in America," and
It started three months ago
Shimmering Memory
will deal with the platform of the
when the one-legged Canadian, ' So we might add that there American Council' for Judaism.
David G. Bolton, of Beanville,
The meeting will be held in the
Ont., swayed between his isn't anything you can do. Ehr- Adult Lounge and will begin at
crutches, lost on Detroit's Broad- lich is seeing to that. He's got 9 p. m. Everyone is invited.
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way. Just a small-town kid of nurses day and night for a fellow
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soldier and is taking care' of Two Important Films
Up stepped the lieutenant, that $200 or $300 worth of medi- at Center Wednesday
Henry H. Ehrlich, of the jewelry cine a week it takes for Bolton's!
"The City," a well known film
family, back after 42 months
on housing, will be shown at the
case.
with the Army and with a - ma-
Center - film program next
If you've got to put a focus Wednesday.
laria discharge after 22 of them
overseas. You know how guys some place, it might be well to - "Common Cause," a film pro-
are. From directions, they skid- put it on Ehrlich's summation. duced by the OWI, will also be
ded off into baseball and kindred
"It's something to look back shown on the program. The pro-
matters.
and know you gave a guy the gram will be held in the Adult
happiest day of his life," he says. Lounge at 8:45 p. m. It is open
Kid Impressed Tigers
It came out that, like a lot "You never know when -you give to the public, without charge.
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of red-hot fans, the kid had somebody the one shimmering
never seen- a- big-league game. So memory that keeps them going." Announce Center Library
Hours and Librarians .
Ehrlich asked Bolton to have
The Jewish Community, Center
lunch with him, and Bolton's Dr. Weitz a Professor
Litvary is now open Sunday aft-
eyes started popping. He met
ernoons, to 6. p. rn.; • Wednesday
Seymour Simons, the bandman- At U. of Washington
afternoons, 1 to 5 p. m.; Monday,
composer. He got out to the ball
Dr. Morris Weitz, son of Mr. Wednesday and Thursday eve-
game. In fact, he saw it from
the Tigers' bench. He got • an and Mrs. A. Weitz of 3344 Fuller- nings, 7 to 10 p. m. Leonard
ton, has left for Seattle, Wash., Baruch is assisting the librarian,
autographed baseball.
where he is serving as assistant
"He was impressed by all professor in the department of Dorothy Hagberg.
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those Tigers," Ehrlich said, "but PhiloSophY of the University of
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they were twice as impressed by Washington.
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him—his courage, joy-of-living
Dr. Weitz, who attended Wayne
The photography room of the
and great outlook on life." So
the kid went back to Canada and University and the University of Jewish Community Center is
his artificial leg, thrilled by his Chicago, received his doctorate now open to Center members,
from the University of Michigan Monday to Thursday evenings, 8
big day.
in 1943.
to 10. Morris Safran will super-
Loses Other Leg
vise the room Monday evening,
Mrs.
Weitz,
the
former
Ger-
A few weeks ago,' Ehrlich got
a letter from the Christie Street aldine Pliscow, will join her hus- Bernard Victor on Tuesday,
Hospital, Toronto. Bolton wasn't band later. At present she is re- Leonard Farber on Wednesday
doing so well. They'd had to take siding with her parents at 9317 and Dr. Burton Ross on Thurs-
day.
off his other leg. Ehrlich sent Genessee.
him some books and the Tigers
all signed a "get well" letter to
the game kid.
Two weeks ago another letter
came. Bolton had been sent home
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on leave. His nurse sister added
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that it was to die. The kid kept
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talking about the lieutenant who
had given him that big day in
Detroit after they'd met on the
street.
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the 82 miles to Beanville. The
kid wasn't doing so well, but he
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the baseball under it.
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the Tigers had blown the pen-
nant than he was for himself."
In accordance' with regulations al-
WASHINGTON (JPS)
ready in effect, Jews are no longer classified as Jews in U. S. immi-
gration records. The, new policy is in corripliance with instructions
issued in a confidential memorandum to its employes by the Immi-
gration a n d Naturalization Service of t h e U. S. Department of
Justice and apProved by the U. S. Attorney General on Nov. 8, 1943.
Jews hitherto have been classified as of the "Hebrew" race. The
Attorney General pointed out that the federal government several
years ago discontinued classifying Jewish applicants for naturaliza-
tion as Jews, and the existing system of recording Jews is neither
accurate nor reliable. The term "race" not being defined by federal
law, the administration may formulate its own' definition. The in-
structions issued do not indicate how. Jews will be classified.
Religion, however, is to be definitely disregarded.
Result of Pressure by Minority Groups
The new regulation is believed to be the result of pressure from
some minority 'groups in American Jewry who first sought to effect
changes in classification some two decades ago.
The Yiddish Scientific Institute (Yivo) of New- York points out
in its monthly newsletter that "the deletion of the term 'Hebrew'
has been received as a happy change by some people, since it may
seem that the official presentation of data on the Jews foCuses
public attention on them and thus foments anti-Semitism. On the
other hand, accurate knowledge is the best weapon in public life
and data on Jewish immigration are both useful and desirable."
In a questionnaire mailed to 200 social scientists and Jewish
leaders, the Yivo asks:
1. Do you think it important to have exact data on the immigra-
tion of Jews into this country, or do you see any reasons for re-
fraining from collecting these data?
What Designation Would You Suggest
2. If you do not approve of the decision - of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service as to the deletion of the term "Hebrew" from
the classification of immigrants, would you simply recommend a
return to the previous procedure as far as the Jews are concerned or,
if not, what change would you suggest?
3. Do you consider the classification of immigrants according to
"race" appropriate? If not, what other designation would you sug-
gest?
Free Press Columnist Pooler
Relates Interesting Incident
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. LONDON •(JTA)•Brigadier E. F.. Benjamin was this week
appointed commander of" the Jewish Brigade whith is now being
formed, it was announced by the British War Office. •.‘
Brigadier Benjarni• is a British Jew who is serving with the
Royal Engineers., He is familiar with Palestine, having visited the
country. . - -
Jewish military clubs and canteens flying the Blue-arid:White
Mogen Dtivid should be established in Germany, •it ..was stated -here
by Lord Nathan launching' an appeal for funds for the Jewish Hos-
pitality • Committee which furnishes rest and recreation fatilities for
Jewish servicemen of all the Allied *nations. The committee, LOrd
Nathan said, hopes to extend its services to the Jewish Brigade.
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JeWish Brigade Commander Is Son of Zionists
LONDON - (JPS) — The commander of the Jewish Brigade,
Brig. Ernest Frank Benjamin, is the son of a Zionist family and was
a protege of the late Brig. Frederick Kisch, ZioniSt leader who died
in the fighting in the Western Desert where 'he was Chief of the
Engineers of the Eighth Army. •
Brig. Benjamin, 44, has risen rapidly in rank in this war. Born
in Farnborough, England, in 1900, 'he studied at the Woolwich Mili-
tary College and was commissioned in 1-919.- At the outbreak of this
war he was given the rank Of major and was sent to Staff College.
In 1941 he was prOmoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel' and as-
signed to the Royal Engineers. His knowledge was a major contribu ,
tion to the success of the Allied invasion of Madagascar, then occu-
pied by Vichy forces. He is now in the Middle East, engaged in
organizing the Jewish Brigade.
Moshe -Shertok, chief of -the.-'Political Department of the Jewish
Agency, who left London last week en route to Palestine, visited
the Jewish Brigade.
U. S. Jewish General Arrives in Palestine
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) -- Brig. Gen. Edward Morris, U. S.
Army, a Jew, has arrived- in Palestine. In an interview published
in the Palestine Post, English-language daily, he expressed satis- ,
faction with the formation of a Jewish Brigade, and paid tribute
to Tel Aviv, stating that the reality does not pale bef or e "the
fabulous tales I previously heard."
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Complete Plans for
Mt-. Sinai Donor Fete
M. Mohr Outlines
Polish Food Drive
Before Ezra Group
Sisterhood Donates $1,000
for Packages for Jews in
Liberated Poland
Ezra Women's Division of the
American Federation of Polish
Jews was addressed by M. Mohr,
president of the Detroit chapter
of the Polish Federation, on Oct.
17, at a meeting at the home of
Mrs. P. Imber, 2693 Webb.
Mr. Mohr outlined plans for the
drive for food packages for Jews
in liberated Poland. Ezra Sister-
hood contributed $1,000 to this
cause. Additional pledges are be-
ing solicited from members and
friends. '
Contributions are being, taken
by Mrs. Jennie Weinberg, presi-
dent of Ezra Sisterhood, TO.
9-7589.
At a board meeting held last
Friday, • at the home of Mrs. A.
Michelson, 1975 Tuxedo, captains
reported on activities, for the corn-
ing luncheon, pledges for which
are .being accepted by Mrs. B.
Redblatt, chairman, • UN. 1-8001.
Mt. Sinai Women's Association
will hold a pre-donor rally and
card party at the Bnai Moshe So-
cial Hall on Nov. 1, at 8 p. in.
All.committee chairmen will give
reports and members are urged
to turn in their pledges that eve-
ning. Refreshments will be
served.
Mrs. Bernard Rose is general
chairman of the donor event and
Mrs. Jack Nadler is chairman of
the rally and card party. -
Mrs. Jacob Harvith, president,
announces that Mrs. Max Schub-
iner, reservation chairman, will
be at home at 1721 Atkinson, 'TR.
1-6044, until the day of the donor .
luncheon to receive pledges. The
luncheon is scheduled for Nov. 8,
at the Book Cadillac Hotel. Mrs.
Charles Gitlin_ is in charge . of
arrangements for the affair.
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