Jewish Center
Activities
FridaY, Mardi '9, 1945
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Engagements Congress Women
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Soifer of
2655 Oakirian Ct. announce the
engagement of -their daughter,
Jeanette, to Barney Katzman,
son of Solomon Katzman of
Tucson, Ariz.
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David Nessenfeld. of Sturte-
vant Ave. announces the engage-
ment of his daughter, Johanna
Ida, to Nathan Lipson, recently
of the Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Lipson of Elmhurst Ave.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry Goldman
of Canterbury Rd. announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Shirley, to Lt. Alfred Edelsohn,
USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
E. Edelsohn of Cincinnati, 0.
Dr. Tumin to Address
B. & P. Group on Thursday
Dr. Melvin Tumin, formerly
of Chicago and now a member.
of the sociology department at
Wayne University, Kill be the
guest speaker at the meeting of
the Business and Profession Dis-
cussion Group next Thursday at
9 p.m., at the Jewish Center
Adult Lounge. His subject will
be "The Good Neighbor Policy."
All are welcome.,
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Rev. White to Review
"Freedom Road" by Fast
"Freedom Road" by Howard
Fast, will be reviewed at the
next Book Chat program by
Rev. Horace White, . pastor of
the Plymouth Congregational
Church and member of the De-
troit Housing Commission, at
the Jewish Center Library, next
Wednesday, at 9 p.m. All are
welcome.
* * *.
New Books Acquired by
Jewish Center's Library
A number of new books .have
recently been added to the
library of the Jewish Com-
munity Center, according to an
announcement by Morris Dom-
bey, chairman of the library
committee. New titles are:
"The Romance of a People"
by Howard Fast, -"The Picture
Book History of the Jews" by
Howard and Bette Fast, "Mak-
ing of the Modern Jew" by
Milton Steinberg, "Hasidic An-
thology" by Louis J. Newman,
"History of Jewish Life" by
Meyer Waxman.
The library is open Monday
through Thursday evenings, as
well as Sunday and Wednesday
afternoons. Dorothy Hagberg is
the librarian.
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Accept New Students In
Ballroom Dancing Course
A new term in ballroom danc-
ing started March 7, under the
instruction - of Miss Barbara
Chase, who maintains her own
studio in Detroit. The course is
held at the Jewish Community
Center from 8:15 to 10:15 p. m.
and includes the Lindy Hop, FOx
Trot, Rhumba and Samba. For
further details new students
should call Miss Grau, director
of Health Education for Wo-
men, at the Jewish Center, MA.
8400.
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Fannie Aronson Directs
Center's Dance Group
The Dance Group of The Jew-
ish Community Center, under
the able direction of Fannie
Aronson, meets at the Center on
Tuesday and Thursday evenings
to work on technique, rehearse
the dances already in repertoire
and compose new dances. The
members of the group are Esther
Cash, Sara Goldberg, Rose Gold-
stone, Irene Lieberman, Gwen
Lurie, and Ruth Podolsky. Man-
uel Silberstien; also a member of
the group recently left to join
the armed forces.
The Group recently performed
two dances, "Out of the Depths"
and "Celebration", at the Hanu-
kah program at the Center.
They will dance for the Hunt-
ington Woods Hadassah Group,
at the ROyal Oak. Women's City
Club, March 15.
It is now preparing the
choreography of a Western
dance. The music for this dance
was composed by Frieda Miller.
Interfaith Unit
Meets Wednesday
Crockett, Diamond Will Talk
at Luncheon-Meeting
at Hotel Statler
The luncheon meeting of the
Interfaith committee of • the De-
troit Women's Division of the
American Jewish Congress, with
Mrs. Harry Stocker as chairman,
PWO Council Holds
General-Cultural
Meeting on Monday
The Council of the Pioneer
Women's Organization will hold
its semi-annual report meeting
and general get-together next
Monday, at 8:30 p. m., at the
Rose-Sittig Cohen Bldg.
A cultural program will in-
clude the showing of the newest
Palestinian film, "Builders of
Palestine."
Plans are being made by the
national office for the tour of
Beba Idelson, secretary of the
Working Women's Council of
Palestine, who recently arrived
in this country to assist in PWO
work. The date of her visit will
b_e announced later.
All clubs are participating in
the Jewish National Fund and
Gewerkshaften drives.
Palestinian evenings were
carried through by Club 1 and
Club 2, in the interest of the
Histadrut campaign, and all
groupS are confident of exceed-
ing their quotas.
Post-War Europe Talks
To Start on Saturday
Dr. Jacques L. Salvan, assist-
ant professor of French at Wayne
University, will be the guest
speaker at the meeting of the
N e w Detroiter's Discussion
Group, Saturday, 8:45 p.m., in
the - Conference Room of the
Jewish Center on the subject
"DeGaulle and French Con-
tinuity." This will be the first
in a series of talks on Postwar
Europe. All are invited.
Mothers' Clubs
The Observance of Women's
International Week and its sig-
a
lasting
. nificance towards
peace will be the _subject to be
discussed this week by the
Mothers' Clubs.
Warsaw Club Plans
Anniversary Dinner
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The Warsaw Club will cele-
brate its 19th anniversary with
a dinner party, this Sunday, at
which time it is hoped the bal
ance on the mortgage on the
club building will be wiped out.
The club consists of 25 couples
who devote their efforts to char-
itable endeavors.
At a card party and dinner
held on Feb. 18, the group raised
$500 for t h e Gewerkshaften
campaign.
Ben Silber is president of the
club and Louis Steinberg is fi-
nancial secretary.
Washington Jewish Center
Used As Proving Ground
For Course of Red Cross
The Jewish Community Cen-
ter, Washington, D. C., has been
a proving ground- for the new
streamlined American Red Cross
course in home nursing, "Six
Lessons in Care of the Sick."
This course was largely devel-
oped during the past year and is
now being taught in many urban
areas.
Room '10, the permanent Red
Cross home nursing classroom at
the Washington Center, was used
by Miss Eula Butzerin, associate
professor of nursing education,
University of Chicago, who help-
ed develop the course while on
leave to the Red Cross, and also
by Miss Elizabeth McCoy, assis-
tant to the director of Red Cross
Home Nursing.
MRS. HARRY STOCKER
will be held Wednesday at Hotel
Statler.
This committee will present,
as a result of its findings, a posi-
tive program for combating anti-
Semitism. George Crockett, ex-
ecutive director of the Fair Prac-
tices Committee, former super-
vising attorney for the U. S.
Department of Labor, and Sig-
mund Diamond, professor of his-
tory at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity and research representative
of the UAW-CIO, will speak on
"Labor's Interfaith and Inter-
racial Program for Eliminating
Discrimination.
For optional luncheon reserva-
tions call Mrs. J. C. Solomon,
HO. 9106.
Leading Jewish women's or-
ganizations • are asked to send
two representatives each. The
luncheon will be served at 12:30
a n d the meeting will follow
at 1:30.
Local Brevities
At the Feb. 25 meeting of
JACOB SKLAR FAMILY CLUB,
Capt. Ben Reder, of the Army
Medical Corps, and Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Sussman, of Flint, were
guests. A donation to the Matzo
Fund was voted. The club was
thanked by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Sklar for the gift on their recent
silver anniversary. The next
meeting will be on March 25 at
the home of the Sani Rothen-
bergs, of Gladstone Ave.
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DEVI DJA and her Bali-Java
dancers with a native Gamelin
orchestra will appear at Detroit
Town Hall in the Fisher Theater,
Wednesday morning, March 14,
at 11 o'clock. This exhibition of
Far East dances officially will
close the Fall and Winter season
of Town Hall's 20 mornings of
lectures, music and entertain-
ment. A fashion show will be
given during the luncheon.
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An exciting visit to the North-
woods via natural color motion
pictures is scheduled for t h e
World Adventure Series in the
Detroit Institute of Arts, Wood-
ward at Kirby, next Sunday at
3:30 p. m. The naturalist, MURL
DEUSING, will appear in per-
son with the film.
"SINGAPORE" JOE FISHER
will appear at the World Ad-
venture Series Sunday afternoon
and evening, March 18 and 25,
to repeat, by public demand,
four of his popular travel talks.
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GALLOW FAMILY CLUB
held its monthly meeting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sie-
gel of 3221 Sturtevant. Final
plans were made for their forth-
coming charity card party.
Give to the Red Cross
A report on the activities of
the Black Book Committee will
be submitted to this community
on Sunday, March 18, at 11 a.m.,
at a conference called by the
local committee, to be held at
Jericho Temple, 3705 Joy Road.
The Black Book is being pub-
lished by the National Commit-
tee of Writers and Artists to
exp6se the crimes of Nazi Ger-
many.
Elias Rubenstein, who w a s
Detroit's representative at the
Black Book conference in New
York recently, will submit the
report on Maroh 18. Dr. J. Agins,
chairman of the local committee,
will preside.
Representatives of organiza-
tions and all interested individ-
uals are invited to this con-
ference. •
The Black Book has the en-
dorsement of Dr. A. M. Hersh-
man and other Detroit 'leaders.
New Volume by Poet Klein
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (JPS)—
"Poems," a book of verse by
A. M. Klein of Montreal, Canada,
has been published by the Jew-
ish Publication Society of Am-
erica. Mr. Klein, an attorney by
profession, is considered the
"most Jewish" of contemporary
Jewish poets writing in English.
He is the author of two other
books of poetry, "Hath Not A
Jew," published by Behrman's
in 1940 and "The Hilleraird" pub-
lished in 1944 bylNew Directions.
Births
Feb. 9 To Dr. and Mrs. Harry
S. Burstein (Florence Rosen), a
son, Richard Joel.
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Feb. 9—To Mr. and Mrs. Allen
Passerman (Gilda Moss) o f
Buena Vista Ave., a son, Michael
Victor.
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Feb. 9—To Lt. (j. g.) and Mrs.
Arnold H. Monash (Charlotte
Finkel), of Tyler Ave., a son,
Richard Allen.
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Feb. 27—To Rabbi and Mrs.
David Klein (Malvina Kraemer)
of- Kraemer's Olympia Hotel, Mt.
Clemens, a son, Arnold Wil-
liam.
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To
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Leonard Fox
LUBLIN (JTA)—The Central
Committee of the Jews of Po- of 18433 Muirland, a daughter,
land, headed by Dr. Emil Som- Susan Faith.
merstein, shortly will transfer its
headquarters to Warsaw, it was
announced here. The committee
has been functioning in Lublin
for several months.
Two Jewish partisan leaders,
veterans of the battle of the
Warsaw ghetto, arrived here this
week to discuss establishment of
political and social organizations
for the surviving Jews in Po-
land. They are Prof. M. Sachs
and Sholem Grajek, who were
the representatives of the Poale
Zion party on the underground
Jewish National Committee.
In addition to participating in
the uprising of the Warsaw Jews,
the two men, who were leaders
of their party in the five years
of German occupation, played an
important role in organizing re-
sistance in other ghettos.
Central Committee
Of Jews in Poland
Moving to Warsaw
Black Book Report
Here on- March 18
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