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1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Fifteen

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Rabbi Sperka To Give
Thanksgiving Message
Thursday Over WWJ

UPA Conference
To Hear Reports
On Zion Prospects

Resuming the broadcast of the
Jewish Radio Pulpit over Station
WWJ which has featured ser- Detroit Delegation to Attend
Four Schools Name Students mons for the last two years,
National Palestine Parley
Who Have Completed
Rabbi J. S. Sperka will open this
in Chicago, Nov. 1 8-19
year's sermons with the Thanks-
Full 7,Year Course
giving broadcast next Thursday,
First-hand reports of develop-
at 12:45 p. m., on the topic "War ments and prospects in Palestine
Definite plans have been made
and Thanksgiving." The regular will be the feature of the Na-
for the following graduations of
time of the broadcast of Jewish
branches of the United Hebrew
Radio Pulpit will soon be an-
Schools:
nounced.
Parkside School, Sunday, Nov.
26, 8 p. m., in the auditorium of
Custer Public School, 15531 Lin-
wood. The graduates are: Shel-
don Bross, Eleanor Clayton, Al-
fred Hyams, Ralph E. Levy,
Rachel Shulman and Jack
Trombka. The principal is Alex
Roberg. Instructor of graduates
An audience of 400 persons
is Michael Michlin.
gathered at the social hall of
Philadelphia — Byron School, Shaarey Zedek Monday evening
Prof. Roth
Dr. Joseph
Tuesday, Nov. 28, 8 p. m., at 1245 to hear Dr. Chaim Heller, reput-
W. Philadelphia. The graduates ed as the greatest Biblical scholar
are: Israel Kroll, Joseph Segel, of our times, known as the Gaon
Eva Zaretzky, Marvin Spevakow, Hador, the genius of the genera-
Leo Stein, Bernard Hammer, Sol tion, who has devoted much of
Cicurel, Lela King, Ester Marks. his life to disproving the claims
The principal is Morris Lachover. of the exponents of Biblical
Instructor of graduates is Max criticism.
Gordon.
Dr. Heller's subject was
David W. Simons School, Wed- "Sources of the Oral Law." His
nesday, Nov. 29, 8 p. m., in the talk was a series of quotations
auditorium of Win ter h alter and their corresponding lines in
School, 12121 Broadstreet. The the various Biblical translations
graduates are: Jean Baschin, such'as the Septuagint, the Latin,
Sander Singer, Charlotte Lehr- the Assyrian and the Samarian
man, Sally A. Hechtman, Itta versions. Declaring that there are J. G. McDonald Dr. Heller
Levin, Gerald Higer, Aaron more than 2,000 distortions and tional Conference for Palestine
Kraft, Noa Mandelbaum, Rosa- falsifications in the Septuagint, sponsored by the United Pales-
lind Ribiat, Dick Sanders, Bert- for instance, he disclaims the tine Appeal at the Hotel Stevens,
rand Sandweiss, Aaron Schreier, malicious intent of the trans- Chicago, Nov. 18-19.
Aaron Sheldon, Judith M. Starr, lators.
Among the distinguished
Edward Stern, Jacqueline Levin.
He lays the blame to the gram- speakers on the two-day program
The principal is A. J. Lachover. matical difficulties in the Bible will be Dr. Bernard Joseph, le-
Instructor of graduates is Joseph and the comparative . ignorance gal adviser of the Jewish Agency
Haggai.
of the translators for the falla- for Palestine, who will be flying
Rose Sittig Cohen School, cies. In attempting to render the here from Jerusalem; Dr. Nahum
Thursday, Nov. 30, at 8 p. m., at text readable and logical they Goldmann, member of the Exec-
13226 Lawton. The graduates are: often changed the gender or utive of the Jewish Agency who
Sidney Katz, Anna Zelonka, Jer- number of a word, thus distort- is now visiting in Palestine and
ome Kutinsky, Sarah Selesny, ing the entire meaning, he said. will return by air; Prof. Leon
Eleanor Betman, Harold Shapiro.
Dr. Heller pointed out that one Roth, rector of the Hebrew Uni-
The principal is Solomon Kas-
frequently
encounters diversified versity in Jeru- • • --
dan. Instructors are David
translations
of the same sentence salem; James G
Shackney and Morris Plafkin.
in
the
different
translations thus McDonald.
These graduates hive com-
chairman of the
pleted the seven-year course pre- manifesting the error in inter- President's Ad-
scribed by the schools which pretation. Also, the translators visory Commit-
includes elementary H e b r e w, lived long before the Biblical tee on Political
composition and grammar, study commentators such as Rashi and Refugees, a n d:
the Rarnbam had explained and
of Chumosh, Prophets, Jewish
clarified the more difficult pas- Dr. James G. -
history, a thorough study of the
sages which until their time had Heller, national
Siddur, holidays, customs and been unintelligible.
chairman of the
ceremonials.
United Palestin
Rabbi
M.
J.
Wohlgelerenter,
Programs for these graduation
Appeal, central Dr. Goldman
exercises, to which the public is chairman of the evening, greeted fund-raising instrument of Amer-
the
assembly,
and
Dr.
A.
M.
invited, consist of recitations,
ican Jewry for the upbuilding
playlets by the graduates. Choral Hershman welcomed Dr. Heller. of the Jewish National Home in
singing is directed in the David Rabbi S. Wasserman, dean of the Palestine.
W. Simons School by Abraham Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, under
Mrs. Rebecca Sieff, chairman
Schachter, in the Parkside He- whose sponsorship the meeting of the Women's International
was
held,
spoke
of
the
impor-
brew School by Mrs. Al e x
Zionist Organization in London,
Roberg, and in the Rose Sittig tance of intensive religious Jew- will speak on behalf of British
ish
training.
Cohen and Philadelphia-Byron
Jewry at the luncheon session of
School by Henri Goldberg.
the conference on Sunday.
Detroiters who are listed among
the large 'number of local dele-
Continue Katz Art
gates at the conference include
Exhibit at Center
Rabbi Leon Fram, Lawrence W.
Crohn, William Hordes, Morris L.
The work of A. Raymond
Congregation Bnai Jacob will Schaver, Walter L. Field, Philip
Katz, Chicago artist, will be on celebrate the burning of its mort- Slomovitz, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
view at the Jewish Community
gage at a banquet this Sunday N. Heyman, Leow Kay, Mrs. Al-
Center through Thursday, Nov.
evening for members and guests. bert Feldstein, Sophie Blanche
23.
Rabbis Joseph Eisenman and Schwartz and others.
Mr. Katz, who has achieved
considerable fame in this country Isaac Stollman will be guest
Rabbi Nathan Gives
for his work based on Jewish speakers.
Organizations specially invited Bnai Moshe Sermon
motifs, has his pictures on ex-
hibit in the Conference Room include Mizrachi, Turover Vere-
"Prejudice, Nemesis of De-
and the Adult Lounge of the in, Chesed shel Ernes and Mer- mocracy," is the subject of the
Jewish Community Center.
kaz LeChizuk Hatorah.
address Rabbi Jacob J. Nathan
Last Monday, Mr. Katz lectur-
Thanks have been extended by will deliver this Friday evening
ed at the Jewish Community the congregation to its president, at late services at Congregation
Center on, "A New Art for an Jacob Nosanchuk, officers and ac- Bnai Moshe.
Old Religion."
tive members and the Ladies'
This will mark the second of
Mrs. David B. Werbe is chair- Auxiliary for the efforts to help the 1944-1945 series of late Fri-
man of the Center art committee. wipe out the mortgage.
day evening services \inaugurated
Mesdames Edward Quint and
by th econgregation. Cantor
Harry Farbsten are chairmen of
CARD OF THANKS
David Katzman will lead the
the art appreciation committee.
The family of the late Rachel prayers at 8:15 p. m.
The next lecture in the series Weinman wish to thank ,-their
A social hour will follow with
will be given Dec. 11 by Albert many relatives and friends for refreshments served by the Sis-
DeSalle on "Paintings for the the kindnesses shown them in terhood in the banquet hall. The
Modern Home."
their recent bereavement.
public is invited every Friday.

400 Hear Dr. Heller
Expose Criticism of
Bible Translators

Bnai Jacob to Burn
Mortgage on Sunday

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93 HUC Graduates
Serve as Chaplains

Bauman, Lyman, Friedland,
Gordon, Cohn, Sands Are
the Men From Michigan

CINCINNATI—The Hebrew
Union College here is believed to
rank first among American semi-
naries in point of percentage of
alumni serving the colors as
chaplains, Dr. Julian Morgen-
stern, president, announced.
The H. U. C. Chaplains' list
includes the following from
Michigan: Capt. Morton A. Bau-
man, Lt. Morton J. Cohn USNR,
Lt. Eric Friedland, Capt. Albert
A. Gordon, Lt. Herschel Lymon,
and Capt. Melvin S. Sands.
Recent commissioning of 10
more H. U. C. graduates raised
the number of chaplains to 93.
In addition, two members of
the faculty are in service. They
are Dr. Abraham N. Franzblau
and Dr. Franz Rosenthal.
Three undergraduates in serv-
ice are Charles E. Israel, Irving
B. Cohen and Alvin S. Roth.
Two chaplains died in service.
One was Alex D. Goode, who
died at sea with two Protestant
and one Catholic colleagues after
the four had given their life-
preservers to members of the
fighting forces on their boat. The
other was samuel D. Hurwitz,
who died in this country.

Drew Pearson
Speaks Dec. 5
At the Temple

Drew Pearson, one of the
country's best known radio com-
mentators and, newspaper col-
umnists, will speak under the
auspices of the Men's Club of
Temple Beth El, in the main aud-
itorium of the Temple, at 8:30
p. m. Tuesday, Dec. 5, it was an-
nounced this week.
Each member of the Men's
Club has received two tickets,
but additional tickets for non-
members and guests will be
available at $1.20 each, tax in-
cluded. Tickets may be pur-
chased at Grinnell's and at the
office of Temple Beth El. .>

Sholem Aleichem Group
Sponsors Seminar

Sholem Aleichem People's In-
stitute is sponsoring a seminar,
consisting of a series of lectures
on the history and sociology of
Detroit. A. W. Snyder, direct-
or of the institute, announces that
the seminar, which commenced
on Nov. • 13, at the institute, 3754
Monterey, will feature the fol-
lowing lecturers:
Robert H. Larson, director of
the Detroit Historical Society; Dr.
Donald C. Marsh, assistant pro-
fessor in sociology, Wayne Uni-
versity; Paul Deac, journalist and
cosmopolitan editor of the De-
troit Free Press; Harriet Pawlow-
ska, research scholar in Polish
literature and folklore; Rev. Mid-
Rabbi Israel Shorr of Congre- drag D. Migatovich, scholar and
gation Beth El, Borough Park, spiritual leader of the Serbian
New York, national president of Church of Detroit.
Hapoel Hamizrachi, will be the
guest speaker at the Eretz Israel
evening to be held on Saturday
night, Nov. 25, in the social hall
of the Shaarey Zedek, to mark
the culmination of the campaign
on behalf of the religious colon-
ies and pioneers in Eretz Israel,
conducted by the League for Re-
ligious Labor in Palestine. There
will also be a prominent soloist.
At the last meeting of the
League, at the Shaarey Zedek,
David Zeitani, Palestine dele-
gate of the League, reported that
the Jewish masses in Detroit had
HUNDREDS OF YEARS
shovin keen interest in the work
of medical experience
of the League. Over $3,000 had
and the latest develop-
already been received by the
campaign treasurer, Isaac Shet-
ments of modern re-
zer, besides several thousand
search are combined in
dollars in pledges.
the capable judgment of
Dr. A. M. Hershman, Detroit
your druggist. Doctors
president of the League, has an-
trust Schettler's judg-
nounced that the campaign will
ment. They know that
continue for another two weeks
we are well informed.
and will close on Nov. 25.

N.Y. Rabbi Guest
At Eretz Israel
Evening, Nov. 25

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