Congregational Activities

Inter-Racial
Institute Series
Starts Jan. 8

American - Jewish Problems
to Be Discussed at Six
Weekly Programs

Prof. John F. Shepard, presi-
dent of the Civil Rights Federa-
tion, announces the opening of
the second Institute series, deal-
ing with the problems of minor-
ity peoples under the auspices of
that organization, called the "In-
stitute on the American Jewish
People." The director of the In-
stitute is the Rev. Ellsworth M.
Smith, director of the War
Emergency Commission of the
Detroit Council of Churches.
Beginning on Jan. 8, the Insti-
tute will run for six consecutive
Monday nights at the First Con-
gregational Church, Woodward
and Forest, and will deal with "A
United Program to Eliminate
Anti-Semitism for the Preserva-
tion of Democracy."

Jan. 8—Dr. Joshua Block, Chief of
the Jewish Division of the New York
Public Library.
Jan. 15—Rev. Ben Richardson, execu-
tive secretary of Protestant Ministerial
Association.
Jan. 22—Dr. Horace Grinnell, noted
New York musicologist.
Jan. 29—Leonard Golditch, secretary
of the National Committee to Combat
Anti-Semitism.
Feb. 5—Michael Sayers, co-author of
'Sabotage!"
Feb. 12—A Panel Discussion-Modera-
tor, Ernest Goodman, Labor Attorney.
1. A Program for the Church: Rev.
Leslie Bechtel, Executive Secretary of
the Detroit Presbytery.
2. A Program for the Negro People:
Beulah Whitby, National President of
the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
3. A Program for the Labor Unions:
Mr. George F. Addes, Secretary-Treas-
urer UAW-CIO.
4. A Program for the Jewish People:
Philip Slomovitz. editor The Jewish
News.

The Institute on the American
Jewish People is based on a four-
point action program, according
to Prof. Shepard, .that: 1. Anti-
Semitism must be brought out
into the open for discussion; it
thrives on secrecy and silence; 2.
The recognition that anti-Semi-
tism is a threat not only to the
Jews but to the liberty of all the
people; 3. Extensive education on
the background and history of
the Jewish people to dispel mis-
conceptions and prejudices; 4.
Public exposure and criminal
prosecution of thoSe engaged in
organized anti-Semitism.

RAbi E. Silver
Guest Speaker at
Yeshivah Banquet

Friday, CfeceinUer 29, 1,44

THE 'JEWISH NEWS

Page Twelve

Rabbi Fram to Give
Sermon on Mixed
Marriage on Jan. 5

Temple Beth El
Holds Service
For Servicemen

"Earth and High Heaven," the
novel on mixed marriage, will
be the subject of Rabbi Leon
Fram's sermon at the Sabbath
Eve service of Temple Israel
Friday night, Jan. 5, at 8:30, in
the Lecture Hall of the Detroit
Institute of Arts.
The services will be featured
by the Bar Mitzvah of Arthur
Weisman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Seymour Weisman, formerly of
Har Sinai Congregation of Balti-
more. After the services Mr. and
Mrs. Weisman will be hosts to
the congregation.
On Jan. 10, Rabbi Fram will
be guest of the faculty and stu-
dents of Youngstown College,
Youngstown, 0., and will lead
several discussion groups on
"The Role of the Jew in the
History of Civilization."
This Friday night, Rabbi Fram
will deliver his annual New
Year Prophecy on the -subject,
"A Prophecy for 1945."

At the Sabbath Eve services
at Temple Beth El this Friday
evening, at 8:15, Dr. B. Bene-
dict Glazer will preach the ser-
mon . on the topic "What Does
the Future Hold for Us—Some
Thoughts Suggested at the End
of the Year 1944."
Included in these services will
be a special service of interces-
sion for the safety 'of our boys
in the armed forces and for the
victory of the United Nations.
A social hour will follow the
services.

Vacid Horabonim

Lists Committees

an-
The Vaad Horabonim
nounces that the work of the or-
ganization has been divided
among the members as follows:
slaughterhouses, Rabbis M.
Fischer and J. Rabinowitz; poul-
try shochtim, Rabbis L. Levin
and ,M. Silver; taharas hamish-
pocho, Rabbis J. Eisenman, M.
Rothenberg and M. Wohlgelern-
ter; restaurants, Rabbis J. Thu-
min and J. S. Sperka; bakeries,
Rabbis I. Stollman, J. Nathan;
marriages, divorces, Sabbath
observance, etc, through the of-
fice with Rabbi I. Stollman, men-
ahel.
A special committee to investi-
gate the possibility of opening a
strictly kosher restaurant in De-
troit was appointed at the last
meeting.

Merkaz to Honor
Vaad Horabonim
At Banquet, Jan, 21

A banquet honoring the Vaad
Horabonim is being arranged by
the Merkaz L'chizuk Hatorah
V'Yahadus in cooperation with
the Kosher Butchers' Association
is to be held at the Bnai Moshe
Synagogue, on Jan. 21, at 6 p. m.
Proceeds will enable the Merkas
and the Vaad to continue their
work.
Tickets are available at the
office, 3367 Lawrence near Dex-
ter, by calling TO. 8-6778, or by
calling Isadore Sosnick, chair-
man of the banquet committee,
TE. 1-5777 or TY. 7-3408 or
Harry Stolsky, president, TY.
4-6749.
Members of the arrangements
committee are: J. Lachar, D.
Temchin, M. Snow, M. Fisher,
J. Nosanchuk, S. Braitstain, M.
Lipshitz, M. Kaner, B. Eiselman,
L. Solai, A. Tilchin, A. Margolis,
D. Kraus, H. Freedman and
D. C. Vikser.
The first meeting and M'lava
Malka of the Merkaz in the new
offices of the organization was
held Saturday evening, Dec. 9.

The second annual banquet of
Yeshivath Chachmey Lublin,
will take place on Sunday, Jan.
7, 6 p. m., at the Jewish Com-
munity Center.
Rabbi Eliezer Silver of Cin-
cinnati, national chairman of the
Yeshivah's Board of Education,
and president of the Union of
Orthodox Rabbis of the United
States and Canada, will be the
guest speaker of the evening.
Rabbi Abraham M. Hershberg,
rabbi of Bnai Reuben Congrega-
tion of Chicago, will greet the
audience in name of Chicago's
Rabbinical Council.
A dinner will be catered by,
Lachar and the musical program
will be earried out by the stud-
ents GI the Yeshivah.
For reservations call Mr. La- Rabbi Schneerson Here
char, TY. 4-4920 or TO. 8-5055.

FDR Stresses Duty to Keep
Nation Free From Bigotry

Statement Issued by President Urging Observance oi
Brotherhood Week, Feb. 18-25; Sponsored by
Conference of Christians and Jews

NEW YORK (Religious News Service) — Asserting it i:
"a solemn duty for us to keep our country free of prejudice
Dr. Glazer's Topic Will Be and bigotry," President Roosevelt urged observance o.
Brotherhood Week, Feb. 18-25, sponsored by the Nationa
'What Does Future Hold
Conference of Christians and Jews.
For Us', This Friday
Referring to the Brotherhood Week slogan: "In peace a:

Yeshivah to Open
Three New Grades

Yeshivath Beth Yehudah will
open, in addition to classes al-
ready in operation, a new 1B
grade and the third and fourth
years of its Day School. This de-
partment operates under the su-
pervision of the Detroit Board
of Education and Board of
Health.
The children who receive a
full course in English' and He-
brew subjects from 9 a. m. to 4
p. in. are allowed free time for
play and recreation after school
hours.
Class programs and text books
are those employed in the city
institutions, including such sub-
jects as music, arts and crafts,
nature study, drawing, reading,
writing, spelling, arithmetic, his-
tory and geography.
Parents who have children in
the first four years of elementary
school may enroll them at the
Yeshivah Day School. Bus trans-
portation and hot lunches are
provided. The new term starts
at the end of January, 1945. The
Yeshivah is located at 12301 Dex-
ter, telephone HO. 7990.
Further details for the next
semester will be announced at a
conference of local organizations
and synagogues, Sunday, Jan.
14, 2:30 p. m., in the synagogue
auditorium, Dexter and Cort-
land. Chaim Lieberman of New
York, well-known journalist and
lecturer, will speak on the topic
"Jews and Judaism in a Gentile
World,"

in war — teamwork," the dhief.
Ekecutive said, "The United bigotry so that when our fightinl
States is the greatest team of free men return they may find u
men and women that the world
living by the freedom for whit
has ever seen.
Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, presi- they are ready to give the f
dent of t h e Conference, an- measure of devotion. .
nounced that Brotherhood Week
Greatest Team of All
observances will be held in Army
"The United States is th'
and Navy camps- and stations in
addition to civilian communities greatest team of free men an
women that the world has eve
-
throughout the country.
seen. This is the hour for us ti
President's Message
Text of President Roosevelt's decide that our determinatioi
message follows:
shall be in peace,- as in war
"It is highly fitting that in the teamwork. I am happy, ther ,
midst of the world struggle for fore, to welcome the twelfth an
liberty we should remind our- niversary of Brotherhood Weep
selves of the spiritual realities by February 18-25, .1945, under th
which the ideals of freedom are auspices of the National Confer
nourished. The principle of ence of Christians and Jews.
human brotherhood is the source hope that our people will corn
of our political democracy and together during this week to re
this principle is rooted in the new and strengthen their deter
faith which our fathers knew and mination to serve the high prin t
which we have lived by. One ciples of liberty through spiritua
God is our father and all of us unity."
are brothers and sisters in His
family. We worship at different
altars and express this faith in
many ways. But deeper than the
differences is the spiritual unity
that makes us one people.
"On battlefields throughout the
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for all. As these men and women here from Hollywood.
of the fighting forces carry on
their struggle against tyranny
overseas, they dream of the
homeland in which equal oppor-
tunity for the good life is open
to all. It is, therefore, a solemn
duty for us who live and work
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For Lubawitcher Yeshivoth

Rabbi Fram to Serve
On State CoMmittee

Eugene B. Elliott, head of the
Department of Public Instruction
of the State of Michigan, has
invited Rabbi Leon Fram of
Temple Israel to become a mem-
ber of the Committee on Inter-
cultural Understanding.
The committee works with the
Curriculum Planning Committee
of the State of Michigan to into-
duce into the public schools
lessons and programs on mutual
understanding and goodwill be-
tween the various racial, cultural
and religious groups.

Rabbi Israel Schneerson, a
member of the eminent family of
the Lubawitcher Rebbe, is in De-
troit conducting an emergency
drive for the United Lubawitcher
Yeshivoth.
Contributions are being accept-
ed at the office of Vaad Haye-
shivoth, 12219 Dexter.
It is announced that these
Yeshivoth have a total enrollment
of 1873 and that they operate at
an annual expense of $250,000.
Recently an additional expense of
$100,000 was incurred for a new
building for Central Yeshivah of
Brooklyn.

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