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Pisgah Inaugurates Entertainment
Programs to Mark 90th Anniversary
Jon and Ruth Silo to be Featured Next Monday Evening;
Aaron Droock to Speak on "Our Community Council;
Set Nov. 5 as Deadline for Banquet Reservations
Next Monday night. Nov. 3,
Pisgah Lodge No. 34 of Bnai
Brith' will inaugurate a policy of
presenting 'outstanding attractions
at open monthly meetings.
Jon and Ruth Silo will• enter-
tain with humor, drama and song
in the main auditorium of the
Jewish Community Center at 8:30
P. M. Monday. Admission will
be free for all the members of
the lodge, their. families and
'friends.
Droock to Speak
Aaron Droock, president of the
JeWish Community Council, past
president of District Grand Lodge
No. 6 of. Bnai Brith and of Pisgah
Lodge, will talk on "Our Com-
munity Council."
Herbert Eskin, president of
Pisgah Lodge, states that the pro-
gram committee nat. arranged for
,a series of attractions for present-
ation at open meetings, as the
lodge's 90th •anniversary gift to
members and their friends.
Jon Silo, who recently was
featured on the air in his portray-
al of Walter Damrosch and Sam
Bernard on the program "Amer-
icans By Choice," began his career
at a very early age in Palestine,
where he appeared before pioneer
groups in Hebrew plays and as
soloist with vocal groups. In the
U. S. he directed :2nd played prin-
cipal .roles in the Had Gadya
Lodge series of Broadcasts over
WRAX and WPEN at Radio Cen-
ter, Philadelphia.
To Appear With Ruth Silo
He will appear here with Ruth
Silo, radio artist and popular
monologist, in 'a program of
'drama, hunior and song.
The programs are being
arranged by the intellectual ad-
vancement committee , of Pisgah
Lodge with Henry M. Abramo-
vitz as chairman and Julius Deu-
telbaum as co-chairman
Max Goldhoff, chairman of
the ticket committee for the
90th anniversary banquet, an-
nounces that the deadline for
reservations is Nov. .5.
A souvenir book in honor of
Pisgah's 90th anniversary will be
distribute _ d at the anniversary
banquet in the Masonic Temple
.on Nov. 18. All Bnoi Brith lodges
in Detroit, under the sponsorship
•of Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
Council are coopera.ting in issuing
chairman of the s -fficiatation corn-
:
3nittee.
Ben F. Goldman, a past presi-
dent of Pisgah Lodge, is editor
of the book, which will contain a
history 'of the lodge as well as a
history of Bnai Brith. in Detroit
and a section devoted to general
Bnai Brith activities.
Reservations for 1,500
Mr. Gordhoff states that as
soon-as 1500 plates are reserved
for the banquet no more can be
accomodated.
Mr. Eskin states that he has
received many communications
from organizations in the com-
munity 'after the publication of
Mayor Edward J. Jeffries' pro-
clamation declaring Tuesday,
Nov. 18, Bnai Brith Day.
Harry Yudkoff, general chair-
man of the 90th anniversary. com-
mittee, reports that the commit-
tee has completed the program
which will include a prominent
speaker and a program of enter-
tainment.
Shutkin. Addresses First
In Series of LZOA Rallies
•
Mexican Jewry, with a popula-
tion 'of , 25,000 s p p-o r t s far
more extensile Hachsharot (train-
ing farms • for Palestine - emi-
grants) than do the 5,000,000 U. S.
Jews,. members of Branch 5 of
LZOA were told by Arthur Shut-
kin, executive director for the
Jewish National Fund for Mich-
igan, who reported on his recent
tour of central and South Amer-
ican Jewish communities, which
ended last April. He was the first
.in . an array of speakers to be
presented by Branch 5 at meet-
ings twice a month, Joe Epel,
president, said. The next meeting
willlke held next Thursday at the
LZOA Institute.
Friday, October 31, 1947
THE JEWISH NEWS
RUTH SILO
Congress to Offer
Series of Talks on
Jews in America
Morris GleiCher, chairman of
the Committee on Law and Social
Action of the Detroit Section of
the American Jewish CongreSs,
announces an all afternoon con-
ference on the subject, "Jews in
the American Scene" Sunday,
Nov. 16, at the Jewish Center.
Byron Miller, midwest regional
director of the Congress, will
highlight the conference, analyz-:
ing the current temper of Ameri-
can society in relation to Jews
and other minority groups. Draw-
ing upon an extensive first-hand
experience in fighting anti-
Semitism, Miller will describe the
latest techniques in combating
the hate mongers.
Scheduled to particip,ate in the
conference are leading repre-
sentatives„ of Detroit Jewry, to-
gether with outstanding persons
in political; labor and Negro life
of the community. The Confer-
ence will devide into four panels
organized around the following
four key issues facing the Ameri-
can Jew:
Democratic Action for Jewish
Security — Progress through
Social and Political. Participation.
Anti-Semitism—The Subtle and
the Obvious. How to Recognize
and Combat It.
Allies at Home — Cooperation
with Labor, Negro and Other
Groups.
Palestine and a Democratic
World.
The Conference is open to dele-
gates from every Jewish organi-
zation, as well as to the com-
munity at large. No admission
charge will be made.
Thomas Dodd to Give
Town Hall Lecture
Overseas Aid Among
Projects Benefitting
From Bnai Brith Ball
Aid and succor to European
Jewry in the form of food, cloth-
ing and medical supplies and the
Adopt-A-Family program are
among the services and philan-
thropies to which the 14 chapters
comprising the Greater Detroit
Bnai Brith Women's Council are
committed, advises Mrs. Samuel
aron, president of the -Council.
The Bnai Brith Ball, to be held
Saturday evening, Nov. 29, at
Masonic Temple, marks the ini-
tial attempt of the 14 chapters to
merge their fund-raising activi-
ties. Each of the chapters, says
Mrs. Saul Bloom, council fund
raising chairman, has adopted at
least one needy overseas family
and some of the chapters have
adopted two or more.
Music for the ball will be fur-
nished by the ,orchestras of Ray
Gorrell and Jimmy.Stevenson.
"One God" Staging
Repeated at Mackenzie;
Author Attends Program
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Continuing its propram of post-war service, -the Louis Marshall
Women of Bnai Brith peresented another 20 lap robes to the Dearborn
Veterans Hospital. Pictured above are sewers HELEN SILVERSTEIN,
SADIE GOTTLEIB, GOLDIE EINHORN and BESSIE YAFFA, convers-
ing with a patient on whose bed is a robe. To • further such philan-
thropies, Bnai Brith plans a city-wide donor ball to be held Nov. 29
at Masonic Temple.
A dramatic presentation of the
book "One God" was brought to
the students at Mackenzie High
School by the sixth grade of
Fitzgerald elementary school
Oct. 15.
The young students developed
this interpretation of the varied
ways of worshipping God during
their library conference period.
With the aid and coaching of
Mrs. Margaret Barnes, librarian;
Iris Flannery, auditorium teach-
er; Mrs. Florence White, music
teacher, and with the coopera-
tion of Mrs. Vera McEwen, prin-
cipal, they presented it to 'their
parents. Since then they have
giVen it for the JeWiSh Commun-
ity Center and several other
groups as well as for the student
body at Mackenzie High School.
Dr. Florence Mary Fitch, au-
thor of the bobk, retired profes-
sor of religion and Bible litera-
ture 'at Oberlin College, made
the trip from Oberlin especially,
to see this portrayal of her work.
The. book, a best-seller since its
publication in 1944, has received
high praise from all three sects.
Dr. Fitch has just published a
companion volume on the ways
of worshipping in the Orient.
The program was brought to
Mackenzie under the auspices of
the Democratic Human Relations
Committee with Mrs. Emilie
Jones Stern as chairman.
RABBI ARTHUR J. LELYVELD
Rabbi Lelyveld of Washington,
D. C., national director of Hillel
Foundations, will be the guest
speaker at the 90th anniversary
dinner of Pisgah Lodge, Tuesday
evening, Nov. 18, in the Fountain
Ballroom of the Masonic Temple.
'Pappy' Douglas M. C.
Of Intermediate Ball
Barden Names Leaders
For Lodge Committees
,
Miss Arlene Cohen, chairman
of the Teen-Agers Turkey Trot
dance to be held Nov. 29, an-
nounces that the committee has
been fortunate in obtaining Disc-
Jgckey. Allan "Poppy" Douglas
as master of ceermonies at the
first fall affair of the Intermedi-
ates at the Jewish Community.
Center. The dance is sponsored by
the Cliques, the Saturns, and the
Cinders.
Proceeds will be given to the
SOS drive. Admission will be 50
cents for Center members and
75 cents for non-Center members.
Center membership for Intermed-
iates is $5 per year. For informa-
tion, see Iz Rosenberg, member-
ship director, or Mort Goodman,
intermediate activities director.
"International Tribunals-What
Protection for You?" is the subject
chosen by Thomas J. Dodd, form-
er chief trial counsel at the
Nuernberg trials for his lecture
at Detroit Town Hall, Nov. 5, at
11 'a. in., in the Fisher Theater.
Dodd acted as special 'assistant
to the U. S. Attorney General
from 1938 until 1946. He achiev-
ed prominence for his convic-
tion of Kurt Molzahn, Count
Anastase Vonsiatsky, and others Zionist Unit Plans to Study
implicated in Nazi espionage.
Reservations are available at Periods in Jewish History
Grinnell's, RA. 1124.
A study program . on Jewish
history is being. planned for the
Workers Alliance
Haifa Chapter of the Zionist Or-
Starts Lecture Cycle
ganization of. Detroit by Mrs..
Alex Zuckmani, chairman of . the
Branch 114 of Jewish National educational committee. The dis-
Workers Alliance began its cul- cussions will be likcid at every
tural activities on Oct. 22- at the second meeting of the month.
Labor Zionist Institute;
Rabbi Irwin Gordon, director
The year's program includes a of the Wayne University Hillel
discussion of "Sayings of the Foundation, will lead the first
Fathers" (Pirke Aboth). The first program Monday, Nov. 3, at the
lecturers were M. Naimark and Parkside branch of the United
M. Goldoftas.
Hebrew Schools. He will review
Next Wednesday at 8:30 p. m., Jewish history from the destruc-
at the institute, the second in the tion of the Temple to the first'
series of lectures and discussions colonization period in Palestine.
will take place.
Hostesses for the evening will
A family gathering is planned be Mesdames Ann Brandt, Edith
for Nov. 16.
Fraiberg and Sylvia Barr.
.
Present Robes to Veterans '
Pisgah Guest Speaker Louis Marshall B and P
Invites Women to Tea
Louis E. Barden, president of
Detroit's most recently-chartered
Bnai Brith Lodge, Tikvah, an-
nounces the following committee
appohatments:
' Advisory to women's ,
Paul
Carpenter, chairman. an Jack'. Raisin;
Americariism and Civic Affairs, Bert
nard Panush, chairman, Harry Nach-
man and Hy Avrin; Anti-Defamation,
Maurice J. • Karo. chairman. David
Goldman, Milton Harris, Phillip Blad-
en and Dr. Morris Botwin; Athletics.
Sam Schneider chairman: Morris
Lasser,. Al Rood and Edward Rothen-
berg; lodge program. Louis J. Cohen,
chairman, Manny Lax, Malcolm Rivkin,
Frank Holtzman, Philip Kramer and
Kurt Levi; membership, Arthur
Schultz, chairman, Alfred Brook, co-
chairman, Morris A. Strassner. Hyman
C. Storchan, Louis Sosnick, William B.
Davis and Moe Gantz.
Hillel foundation, Max M. Silverman,
chairman, Charles Char lip, M. M.
Shillman, Alfred A. Deutch, Ben A.
Bonin and Al Bortman; Bnai Brith
youth organization, Dr. W. A. Gold-
berg, chairman, Herbert Harris, Joe
Bortman, Irving Lash, Larry Schwartz
and Haywod Heiman; Bnai Brith youth
services appeal, Jblius Allen. chairman,
N. R. Epstein, Dr. Jack Jackman and
IrWin Levine; charitable institutions.
Sam Bez. chairman. Samuel Seyburn,
Philip Heitman and Sam Green ; con-
servation, Louis Wornow, chairman,
Howard Copley, Leo Genzer, Meyer
Pomerantz and Leonard 'Cross; Press
and pUblicity, Alfred Brook, chairman,
Zang Garber and Max Haidy; veterans
affairs, Irwin Burdick, chairman and
Alex Brooks.
By-laws; Ira G. Kaufman and Allen
Blandy, co-chairmen, and Nat Benton;
Meeting-place, Jack Charlip, chairman
and Gerald ISgow; social service, Allen
Bloody, chairman, Carl Krupp and
Alex Belinsky; vacational service. Sol
Superfon, chairman, Harry Leibus,
Nate Marbelstons; sick and welfare,
Joseph AI e h r. chairman, Maurice
Rosender and Al l-Ielfgot. '
Under the co-chairmanship of
Arthur Schultz and Alfred L.
Brook, the lodge has opened an
intensive 'membership campaign.
Information. regarding admittance
to the organization may be had
by contacting Schultz - at UN.
3-4392 or Brook at UN. 4-1427.
4011Aftelisaihooffeetetamor•romenes_
Mrs. Jack Hartstein, past presi-
dent of Greater Detroit Bnai
Brith - Women's Council, will be
guest speaker at a membership
tea to be given by the Louis
Marshall Business and Profes-
sional Chapter of Bnai' Brith at
2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, at the
home of Blanche Feigenson, 4903
Sturtevant.
Membership chairman Lena
Trock urges every member to
come and bring a new member.
Young business and professional
women interested in joining the
group may call Mrs. Jack Cutler•
president, TY. 4-3850, or Miss
Feigenson, HO. 3415.
Regular meetings of the group
are held eve r y third Tuesday of
the month at the Workmen's
Circle. The next board meeting
will be held Wednesday, Nov. 5,
at the home of Sarah StolinSky,
3054 Pingree.
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