gage Fourteen
U. • S. ••
Leaders View Jewry's
Crisis i in Inauguration Talks
THE
JEWISH NEWS
Women Workers
Begin Soliciting
This Wednesday
Friday, March 19, 1948
Etiowitz in Charge
Eight Detroit Leaders
Join
Fight on Bigotry
Of Waltoon Programs
Providing leadership "in this
area for tht fight against anti-
Semitism, eight Detroit Jewish
communal leaders have agreed
to serve as memberS of the Na-
tional Council of the Joint De-
fense Appeal, it was announced
ty Oliver M. Kaufmann, vice-
chairman of the JDA National
Council. As, council • members
they will help rally support in
Detroit on behalf of the $6,104,540
goal, of the JDA needed to fi-
nance of the 1948 program.
Detroiters who have agreed • to
serve are: Leo M. Butzel, Dr. B.
Benedict Glazer, Aaron Droock,
Victor Klein, Isadore Levin,
Leonard T. Lewis, Joseph "M.
Welk and Henry Wineman. nut-
zel and Droock also are member's
of the JDA executive committee.
Dr. Neon Glueck Becomes Fourth President of Hebrew
Getting the work started in the
Union College at Colorful oCeremonies; Rabbis Ask
1948 Allied Jewish Campaign for
the Women's Division; solicitors
New 'Dynamic' Pattern in Traditions
CINCINNATI.—Declaring that `peace in Palestine
and peace on earth are-,ultimately indivisible," Dr. Nelson
Glueck, in his inaugural address as president of the He-
brew Union College, urged-the immediate. enforcement of
the United. Nations' plan for the partition of Palestine.-
Speaking at the .historic old Plum St. .Synagogue, where
_
the Hebrew Union college first
held classes 73 years ago under knew "from personal experience
its founder, Dr. Isaac M. Wise, the folly and insanity of violence
Dr. Glueck said that repudiation in Palestine," stated unequivocal-
of the • UMted Nations' plan for ly "that peace' there is possible,
the 'participation of - Palestine and that there are no insurmount-
would result in "international able obstacles in its path, Let
anarchy."
Christians, Moslems and Jews
The 48-year-old president of endlessly examine, every avenue
the Hebrew Union College, -who of conciliation."
as one of the world's foremost ar-
`Assignment in -Education'
chaeologists spent 10 of the last
Dr. Glueck said that the He-
15 years- in Palestine; was inaug- brew Ignion College. has "an as-
urated as the fourth president of signment in education, the in-
Hebrew Union College at exer-
crease -of knowledge and under-
cises last Saturday.
standing which encompasses our
The exercises also marked the
heritage as Jews and our birth-
inaugurailon of Lester Jaffe of
Cincinnati as chairman of the right as Americans. Our concern,"
board of governors of .Hebrew he continued, "is the survival and
Union College as . successor to advancement of civilization, the
- preservation and progress of hu-
Dr. Hiram :B. Weiss.
manity to the extension of a
Colorful Processios„
spilitual Zion over the faCe of
from
More than 125 rabbi
the earth."
throughout the country,' most of
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president
them alumni of • the 'Hebrew
Union College, marched in a of the Jewish Institute of Relig-
colorful academic procession 'ac- ion paid tribute to Dr. Glueck as
companied by repreSentatives of a man well qualified to achieve
‘50 academic and theological in- "the higher unity of our people,
stitutions and leaders in all to give leadership, not to a sect
or party, but to the whole Jew-
walks of Jewish life.
Saturday, at Netherland Plaza ish community in its many-sided-
Hotel, more than 1,000 persons ness."
Declaring that "he, who cap
heard addresses by Judge Sam-
uel I. Rosenman, special advisor rescusitate the very stones of
to both Presidents Truman and Palestine can .do even more to
Roosevelt, and Dr. Leo Baeck of bring back to life and vitality
London, president of the World some of the unvital tendencies of
Liberal Judaism," Dr. Wise said
Union for Progressive Judaism.
Pointing out that Palestine "has that Dr. Glueck's role is to seek
o make impossible further Jew-
rightfully become a crucial con-
cern of the. Assembly of Nations, ish segmen.tation and fragmenta-
and an integral interest of Amer- tion and sectarianism. Your high
ica." Dr. Glueck said that to task and passion it will be not to
abandon the United Nations' plan seek the lowest common denom-
of partition while it is "literally inator, but, above all names and
under fire, is to give freedom to classifications and categories, the
frightfulness and lend license to higher unity of our people."
New Emphasis on• Culture •
terror. The nettle of enforcement
Stating that "the degrada-
of its decisions must be grasped
by the United Nations," he said, tion and devastation of all Euro-
"else it simply cannot survive. If pean life has forced on American
its members accept of its edicts Jewry the responsibility for car-
only what is convenient and corn- rying on that culture which is
fortable, will not international known as Israel," Dr. Jonah B.
anarchy ensue? The spreading la- Wise of New York, son of the
va of violence in Palestine must founder of the Hebrew Union
be stemmed _forthwith, not only College, said that "the Hebrew
for the welfare - of all of its in- Union College is „today faced with
habitants, but in the interest of the time when a new emphasis
mankind itself. Tfie sacred soil must be placed on the needs of
of Palestine will not sustain nor the cultured Jews in the new
will the stage of history_ support world so that Israel should not
those who spill innocent blood. be absolutely destroyed in our
The consequence of violence day and in the days that are to
there will be visited' upon the en- come."
Dr. Morgenstern, Dr. Glueck's
tire world."
Dr. Glueck, saying that he predecessor under whom he stud-
(
in general solicitation. and special
gifts will receive their instruc-
tions and kits at a kickoff meet-
ing at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday,
MarCh 24, at the Jewish Com-
munity Center. Each division
chairman will have- an office
where her workers will gather to
pick up their kits.
All women workers will meet
in .the auditorium for an infor-
mation session and lunchedn, fol-
io-7ring individual division meet-
ings. The feature presentation of
the day will be a playlet given
by the Temple Israel High School
dramatic group, Under the direc-
tion of Mrs. William P. Oreen-
berg. United Jewish Appeal
agency programs will be drama-
tized, as well as the job of the
Women's Division in the "Year of
Destiny" for the Allied Jewish
campaign.
Mrs. Joseph G. Fenton, program
chairman, and Mrs. Harry Jacob-
son, arrangements chairman, are
in charge of plans for the kickoff.
ABE ELIOWITZ
SAYE-..
Mrs. Anna Mann, director of
on
Camp Walloon, near Charlevoix,'
QUALITY
CLEANING .
announced this week that an out-
SPORT
standing staff of counselors is be-
,
e
SHIRTS
ing enrolled for the camp's corn-
Week
Only
One
ing year's activities, with Mr .and
•
,Mrs. Abe . Eliowitz, both well
known throughout Michigan, in
Pick-Up
TO.
and
charge of camp programs.
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Delivery
ied as. a -student at the Hebrew
According to Mrs. Mann, her
Union College, paid tribute to Dr. camp, previously known as Camp
From Our Own Plant
Glueck as a man of character, a
10228 TWELFTH
Playfair,
will
resume
its
former
scholar of first rank and as a
•
spiritual, and devoted rabbi in name of Camp Walloon because
'another Michigan camp previous- -
Cash & Carry Depots
Israel.
ly functioned as Camp 'Playfair..
Asks Emphasis on Tradition
-
Rabbi Philip Bernstein of
Mr. Eliowitz, coach and gym in-
TWELFTH—Near Calvert
Rochester, speaking on the pres- structor, former Michigan State
ervation of American Judaism,
TWELFTH-7.at Seward
stated that although there is a College football, basketball and
DEXTERot Richton
high degree of non-observance of baseball star, is known widely,
formal Judaism among young , for his athletic activities and his
FENKELL—at Livernois
Jewish people throughout • the camping experience. He has done
world, "most Jews are fondly graduate work at Wayne Univer-
and firmly attached to the -mern- sity, has specialized in health ed-
ories and the ceremonies of Juda- ucation programs and is a spe-
"Quality Work Always"
ism." He urged a Judaism of dialist in every aspect of program-
ming.
the future in which "there must
be a central emphasis on tradi
tion. The mistakes of early ra-
tionalistic Reform Judaism must
be abandoned," he said.
Sees 'Spiritual Hunger'
Dr. Mordecai Kaplan of New
York urged the "defrostation" of
Saturday Eve.—All Day Sunday
the Torah tradition. "Jewish
tradition," he said, "must achieve
GIVE GENEROUSLY! GIVE WILLINGLY!
a new life-and-thought pattern
that is dynamic rather than sta-
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tic. Jewish tradition must • be
rendered sufficiently plastic to
ir_clude a vast range of theoretic
and practical content in order'
You are invited to hear first hand reports on position
that it may conform to the
of
Jews in Palestine and the surviving Lithuanian Jews
dynamic frame of modern life."
Dr. Abra"harn A. Neuman of
at the
Philadelphia, president of Drop-
sie College, analyzing the -place
of religion in contemporary life,
stated: "The need for filling , our
of the
life with - greater spiritual con-
Detroit
Chapter
of
Federation
of Lithuanian Jews
tent is not limited to modern
Jewry. There is spiritual hunger
Sunday, March 21, 6:30 p. m., at Bel-Aire
abroad. it the world and sick-
ness has affected the soul of man.
Speakers:
Civilization is starved spiritually
at the roots, and the result has
Mrs. SHOLAMIT GOLDOFTAS
ROSOWSKY
been mass, moral stultification.
National Executive
The problems that plague society
Recent Visitor in Palestine
Director of Federation
on all levels—personal, national-
of Lithuanian Jews
and international—are being in-
For reservations call -Mrs. Max Goldberg,
creasingly recognized- as mani-
2670 Pasendena; TO. 5-2879
festations of lack of spiritual
faith."
Announcement that over three-
quarters of a million dollars
($761,797), has been raised to-
All Detroit Jews are Invited to Attend the
ward the eight million dollar
foundation fund of Hebrew
Union College was made by Jaffe
and Robert S. Adler of Chicago,
fund chairman. Of This amount.
0168,677 was raised in Cincinnati
gifts. The fund seeks to raise $8,-
000,000, of whiCh $1,500,000 is for
an immediate building „program
on the site of the New - Synagogue
and $6,500,000 is for permanent
IRVING BRONSON (center.), business representative of the endowment.
• Five Detroiters Attend
Painter's Union and AFL co-chairman of the Trade Union Council
Detroiters who attended the
for Labor Palestine, is shown here reveiving a check for $3,537.95,
representing a half day's pay contributed by Local 442 and matched' inaugural ceremonies in Cincin-
by an equal amount from employers, for the 1948- Histadrut (Gew- nati included Rabbi Leon Fram
Speakers
erkshaften) campaign.. Others in the photo are, left to right: LOUISE of Temple Israel, an alumnus of
HOFFMAN,. director of Palestine Trade Union COuncil; MAX Hebrew Union. College; Irving I.
RABBI JOSEPH RABINOWITZ
SHNIDERMAN, president. Detroit Cloak and Suit Manufacturers katz, president of ' the National
Spiritual Leader of the Congregation
Assn.; Bronson; PETER LUKEVICH, president, Local 442 ILGWU, Association of Temple Secretar-
and WILLIAM DAVIS, Michigan manager, IGLWIT.
RABBI MORDECAI AARON KAPLAN
Edward J. Cote,. regional director of UAW--CIO, chairrhan: ies; Mrs. Samuel Blacher, preii-
Eminent New York Rabbi
Bronson and Miss Hoffman, head the drive among Detroit trade' dent of Temple Israel Sister-
hood; Mrs. Samuel II- Danto, past
union.
Local
Lay and Rabbinical Leaders
The campaign, which has the endorsement of Detroit-Wayne president of 'the Sisterhood, and
County Federation of Labor AFL; Wayne County Cio Council- and Harry C. Grossman, also of
ISADORE ROSENBERG President
Michigan State CIO Council,' is receiving a favorable response from Temple Israel.
ABRAHAM GOROFF Secretary
many unions of AFL and CIO. Carpenters, Painters, Bakers, Laundry
MRS. BEN BABCOCK President Ladies' Auxiliary
Drivers Locals and the Building Trades Council of the AFL; Amal-
ALIYAH BBYW will - have a
gamated Clothing Workers, Wholesale and Retail Dept. Store Work-
HARRY E. CITRIN Chairman Building Committee
ers. UAW.. Locals 600 (Ford) and 157, of the CIO are among those Purim carnival next Thursday
evening at the . Barlum Hotel.
who have already contributed toward the $50,000 go;: - .
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MASTER CRAFT
ZIONIST YOUTH TAG DAY
for HISTADRUT
—
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ANNUAL BANQUET
.
Painters' Union Gives Half-Day's
Wages for 1948 Histadrut Drive
CORNERSTONE
LAYING CEREMONIES
Of Congregation Beth Shiniel
.
DEXTER AND BUENA VISTA
Sunday, March 21, I P. M.
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