Friday, January 26, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
Detroit Self-Study Program
To Be Started in February
150 Interviewers to Visit 100 Jewish Families During First
Two Weeks for Survey on Behalf of Program;
Organization Reviewing Activities
' During the first two weeks in February, 150 interviewers will
visit 100 Jewish families in Detroit to determine their attitudes to-
wards Jewish educational, recreational, and cultural activities.
This consumer survey will help the Citizens' Committee of the
Detroit Self-Study to decide what recommendations it should make
for the improvement of the Jewish educational programs in the
community and what new programs it should recommend.
Some of the questions the interviewers will ask are: How do
you like the Jewish school your child attends? If your child does
not attend any Jewish school, why not? How do you spend your
leisure time? What leisure time activities are you interested in?
What new activities do you think should be organized in Detroit?
Cooperation Urged•
Mrs. Maurice A. Landau,. chairman of the Consumer Survey
Committee, has expressed the hope that all families visited will co- -
operate with the interviewers who have volunteered to make this
survey. Mrs. Landau expressed her appreciation to the following
who have undertaken to act as zone supervisors and who will be in
charge of the interviews in their neighborhoods:
Zone 6:—Mesdames Maurice A. Landau, Ephraim Ralph, Harry
Pernick, S. Bank, Albert Green, Harry Buchman, Harold Shapiro,
Theodore Levin and Max J. Wohlgelernter.
Zone 21:—Mrs. Oscar Zemon, Mrs. Jacob Weissman.
Zone 2:—Miss Janet Shiffman.
Zone 4:—Mrs. J. J. Marks.
Mrs. Landau also expressed her gratitude to the following
women's organizations which have to date recruited interviewers
for this part of the study.
National Council of Jewish Women, Sisterhood •of Temple Beth
El, Womens' Auxiliary of Jewish Home for the Aged, Business and
Professional Women of Bnai Brith, Sisterhood of Bnai Moshe and
Ladies Auxiliary of Jewish National Fund.
Organizations Plan Self Study Programs
The self-study of education and cultural activities in Detroit
has also stimulated Jewish institutions to review their programs
and the services they render. Among those organizations which
have appointed committees to plan their own self-study programs
are:
The Jewish Community Center, The United Hebrew Schools,
The Jewish Community Council, and Yeshivath Beth Yehudah.
Under the co-chairmanship of Mrs. Samuel R. Glogower and Mrs.
Charles Lakoff, the self-study committee of the Jewish Community
Center has conducted two meetings and is planning to review the
entire Center program in the light of new developments in Detroit
and relationships to all groups in the community.
Rudolph Zuieback, president of the United Hebrew Schools,
has announced the appointment of a self-study committee under the
chairmanship of Lawrence Crohn. This committee is planning
to review the aims and purposes of the Unitetd Hebrew Schools
and its relationship to other Jewish 'agencies in Detroit.
Yeshivah Board Discusses Program
Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter has informed the Citizens' Com-
mittee that the board of directors of the Yeshivah has devoted a full
meeting to a discussion of its program and is planning to continue
its study in the early part of February. Amon°. other organizations
which have indicated an interest in such a self-study are Temple
Israel and Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
It is the hope of the Citizens' Committee that all Jewish educa-
tional organizations in Detroit will complete their self-study pro-
grams by the end of February. A summary of these self-study acti-
vities will help give the Citizens' Committee a total picture of edu- -
cational life in the community of Detroit and will help it determnie
the community's needs.
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Social Legislation
Committee to Hold
Benefit Music Affair
Social Legislation Committee
of Detroit will sponsor a music
festival at 8:30 p. m. next Wed-
nesday in the Lecture Hall of
the Detroit Institute of Art, to
raise funds for the Institute on
the American Jewish People.
Tickets are available at Grin-
nell's and will be sold at the
door on the night of the event.
Two Negro choirs—The Dukes,
a male quartet, and DuPrettes, a
women's sextet—will be featured.
The Robert Nolan Choir will be
presented by Gil-Bias Jackson,
Negro baritone, and Miss Doro-
thy Wilson, soprano. Thomas As-
ken will be pianist.
Modern dancing by Miss Ruth
Cottler and miss Emma Pelavin
of the Wayne University Dance
Group will include a Mexican
dance. Miss Shirley Lachman,
pianist, also will be on the pro-
gram.
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Local Brevities Mizrachi Quits
PERCY GRA INGER, cele- National Council
brated pianist, and one of the
most colorful musical personali-
ties of the age will appear at
Detroit Town Hall in the Fisher
Theater next Wednesday morn-
ing, at 11 o'clock. Grainger will
give an hour and a half pro-
gram beginning with Toccata and
Fugue in D minor by Bach, and
ending with Liszt's Hungarian
Rhapsody.,
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Sunday's attraction at the
World Adventure Series will be
a natural color motion picture,
"ADVENTURES IN THE FLOR-
IDA :KEYS" with famed James
B. POnd serving as narrator.
D e e p s e a fishing, sports and
scenic highlights of Florida are
featured. /The picture starts at
3:30 p. m.
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NORMAN LIPSCHUTZ, whose
Bar Mitzvah was observed last
Saturday at Petach Tikvah Syna-
gogue, had his name inscribed in
the Sefer Bar Mitzvah of the
Jewish National Fund by Mr. and
Mrs. William Hordes. His par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael B.
Lipschutz, who were hosts at a
dinner to relatives and a few
friends Sunday evening, are plan-
ning to aid an important Pales-
tinian cause in their son's honor.
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MR. AND MRS. MAX GEL-
FAND of 9627 Martindale, cele-
brated their 50th wedding an-
niversary Sunday at Lachar's.
Mr. Gelfand is 75 and his wife
71. They were married in Minsk,
Russia, where both were born.
Mr. Gelfand came to the U. S.
in 1904 and his wife joined him
in 1910. They have four sons,
Maurice, David, Jack and Lewis;
a daughter, Mrs. Irving Siegan;
12 grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.
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JERUSALEM (JTA)— Rabbi
Meir Berlin, leader of the world
Mizrachi organization, has re-
signed from the Jewish National
Assembly and the Jewish Na-
tional Council in protest against
domination of Yishuv affairs by
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the Mapai, the Jewish labor
party, it was announced this
week.
Rabbi Berlin issued a state-
ment declaring that "the Miz-
rachi and the Poale Mizrachi
have not received what was
promised by the Mapai during
five months of negotiations."
Meanwhile, the central com-
mittee of the Poale Mizrachi
criticized recent statements by
Dr. Chaim Weizmann and Moshe
Shertok, charging that they were
straying from the Biltmore
policy, which calls for the im-
mediate establishment of a Jewish
Commonwealth in Palestine. It
urged the return of .Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver to the chairman-
ship of the American Zionist
Emergency Council and sharply
attacked the policy pursued by
Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Dr.
Nahum Gcldmann.
Rome Zionists Ask
Pope, Allies Act to
Save Surviving Jews
ROME (JTA)—An appeal to
the Pope and to the leaders of
the democracies to act to save
the surviving Jews in German-
held areas was issued here at
the closing session of the Italian
Zionist conference, the first to
be held since 1938, when. Musso-
lini introduced anti-Jewish laws.
The meeting also expressed
gratitude for the assistance given
Jews by Italian Catholics and by
the Catholic church during the
German occupation, enabling
many to escape death and depor-
tation, and also thanked the lib-
erating Allied troops, the Jewish
soldiers in the Allied armies and
the Palestinian units of the Brit-
ish forces. It sent greetings to
the Italians "now fighting the
common enemy, especially the •
partisans with whom are many
of our brethren," and to the
Jewish Brigade.
The delegates adopted a reso-
lution backing the world Zionist
demands for the opening
of
Palestine to unrestricted Jewish
immigration and colonization and
for the establishment of a Jewish
Commonwealth.
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D E T R O I T LODGE NO. 55,
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, will
meet every Tuesday evening at
Castle Hall, 10350 Dexter Blvd.
A program of important speak-
ers on current events is being
planned. The Lodge has purch-
ased a lot on Dexter Blvd. for
the erection of a Castle HalL
Hebrew Schools Observe
Hamisha Asar Monday
Hamisha Asar b'Shevat will be
observed in all branches of the
United Hebrew Schools on Mon-
day.
All classes in all branches will
have parties and the children
will plant trees in Palestine
through their gifts to the Jewish
National Fund. They will be
served traditional refreshments
at their parties.
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