Cong regations I Activities Synagogues Planning Annual Thanksgiving Day Observance In keeping with a tradition Master Irwin Ratner, members developed here in recent years, of the Bnai David Religious many Detroit synagogues will School and the Bnai David Boys' conduct special Thanksgiving Club will participate in the ser- Day services this Thursday vice. morning, Nov. 24. Cong. Bnai Moshe will conduct the annual services at 11 a.m. Thursday. Rabbi Moses Lehrman will preach on 'How to Be Thank- ful." Cantor David Katzman will chant prayers appropriate to the spirit of the day. Rabbi Mordecai Paretzky, na- Northwest Hebrew Congrega- tional field director of the tion will hold its annual con- League for Religious Labor in gregational Thanksgiving ser- vice in the main Synagogue. Israel and former Detroit rabbi, has returned to The service will begin at 11 a.m. Detroit to bring and will end at 12 noon. Rabbi :the message of Jacob E. Segal will preach on the religious the subject: "Thanks for the :pioneers in Is- Privilege." Cantor Miklos Fena- - rael. kel will lead in special prayers. He is seeking The annual Thanksgiving ser- :.funds for t h e vice has become a traditional religious labor part of the synagogue calendar movement in Is- at Cong. Shaarey Zedek. Rabbi r a e 1 including Morris Adler will preach on Hapoel ' Hamiz- "Feeling Grateful in a World Rabbi Paretzky rachi, Hash o- of Anxiety." Participating in the mer Hadati and Bnai Akibah service will be Rabbi Benjamin Youth Groups. Besides maintain- H. Gorrelick, director of educa- ing more than 45 colonies, tion at Shaarey Zedek; Cantor numerous welfare and educa- Jacob H. Sonenkler, and the tional institutions and coopera- synagogue choir, conducted by tives, the movement also aids Dan Frohman. This service will last from 11 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. refugees to settle in Israel. Local _officers of the league Thanksgiving services will be held at Cong. Bnai David, Elm- are: Rabbi Dr: A. M. Hershman, hurst and 14th, at 11 a.m. Thurs- honorary chairman, Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka, chairman; day. Charlie Wolok, treasurer. A new A special feature of this ser- committee is being formed to vice will be the welcoming and sponsor the work of the league. honoring of all newly arrived refugee families in the com- munity, who will celebrate their first Thanksgiving on American soil. Cantor Hyman Adler and the Bnai David choir, under the di- rection of Harry Seigel, will chant The father-son-mother-daugh- appropriate songs and psalms. ter party, sponsored by the Men's Rabbi Joshua Sperka will preach on the subject "Another First Club of Temple Beth El, will be Thanksgiving for New Ameri- held at the Temple Sunday, Nov. 20, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. The cans." Officers and members of Bnai party is open to Men's Club David will be host to the newly- members and their families. Leonard Kasle, a graduate of arrived Americans at a reception following the service. The Bnai the Jewish Institute of Religion David Scout Troop No. 135, and a member of the faculty of under the leadership of Scout the University of Michigan Ex- tension Course Division, will ad- dress the Sunday morning break- Grand Rapids Temple fast club and discussion group Group Presents Concert at 10 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 20. Rabbi M. Paretzky Seeks Funds Here for Religious Chalutzim Beth. El Family Fete Planned For Sunday The Grand Rapids Temple Beth El Sisterhood Men's club will present a concert by Susie Michael and Maurice Friedman in the group's first annual Music and Lecture series. Appearing Nov: 30 at the Lad- ies Literary Club, Miss Michael, musician and narrator, and Friedman, dramatic baritone, will interpret through song, nar- rative and pantomime, a "Caval- cade of Jewish Music." The program was arranged in cooperation with the Jewish Center Lecture Bureau of the National WelPare Board. It has been presented before audiences in over 400 cities in the United States and Canada. S erviced in Northwest Women To Honor Sabbath Friday; November 18, 1949 Meyer Pomerantz, board chair- man of Beth Aaron Sunday School, announces the inaugura- tion of a series of monthly brunches for parents of Sunday School pupils. The first monthly brunch will be at 10 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 20 at the synagogue. Wyoming and Thatcher. Guest speaker will be Bernard Isaacs, superintendent of the United Hebrew Schools, who will discuss the "Future of Jewish Education." Refresh- ments will be served by the board members, Mesdames M. Levine, S. Docks, N. Feld, J. Raisin, S. Schneider and M. Pomerantz, I. Katz, M. Harris, M. Silverman and Dr. M. Last. Purpose of the brunches is to afford a social educational hour for parents, while their children attend Sunday School. They will be sponsored alternately by the Men's Club and Sisterhood. _Bernard Panush, director of the school, advises that limited enrollment is still open, due to the increased facilities of the school. Late Friday Services At NW Congregation The first late Friday evening service of the season will be held at the Northwest Hebrew Con- gregation at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 18. Rabbi Jacob Segal will preach on the subject, "If I Forget Thee, 0 Jerusalem." Cantor Miklos Fenakel will chant the service and lead in Sabbath Z'miros. During the so- cial hour following the services, Rabbi Segal will present a brief reading from the writings of Sholem Aleichem, in original Yiddish. The community is in- The first Oneg Shabbat of the Northwest Sisterhood will be held at the home of Mrs. Jacob E. Segal, chairman, 19175 Wood- ingham Dr. at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, with the assistance of Mesdames Barney Goldman, Samuel Kaner and Emanuel Fineberg. Mrs. Alexander Sanders will be the guest speaker, Mrs. David vited. Tschor will give the opening On Saturday morning, Nov. 19, prayer and Mrs. Philip Hellman services begin at 8:45. Rabbi Se- will present current \events. gal will preach. Feature of the afternoon will be a "Teaching Quartet," four members of the Sisterhood chor- Feinberg to Display al group, Mesdames Louis Berish, Judaica Collection Zangwell Garber, Max Gold- smith and Nathan Shafkind. Charles Feinberg, Detroit at- Four members will be chosen from the choral group to sing torney noted for his collection at all future Oneg Shabbats. of Jewish ceremonial and art The dramatic group of the objects, will speak on "Cere- Sisterhood is working on a pro- monies of the Synagogue" to gram for the forthcoming Han- students at Bnai Moshe's adult ukah party. The group consists. Cong. Shaarey Shomain school of Jewish Studies at 9 of Mesdames M. Gabel, chair- p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22. man; M. Raznick, vice chair- Elects Rosenberg Head Feinberg also will display his man; E. C. Armstrong, secretary; collection of Judaica. Robert Rosenberg was elected M. Plaskove, treasurer; Ira His talk will follow the regular Kaufman, dramatic coach; I. president of Cong. Shaarey Sho- class sessions at 8 p.m. at the Feldman and A. Ross, directors. main, 15700 Wildmere, to suc- synagogue. ceed Julius Berman. Other officers elected were, Postage stamps first were is- Rabbi Fram to Lecture Philip Taubman, vice president, sued in England, in 1840. and Joseph Kay, treasurer. On Dewey Philosophy A membership drive is being planned. Plans will be outlined Joining in the world-wide ob- at the installation dinner. servance of the 90th birthday of the American philosopher and educator John Dewey, Rabbi Beth Shmuel Sets Jan. 22 Leon Fram of Temple Israel will For 2nd Annual Banquet deliver a lecture on "The Moral ALUMINUM OR WOOD Philosophy of John Dewey" at Cong. Beth Shmuel announces Kaufmann Dealer the Sabbath eve service of the that its second annual banquet congregation at 8:30 p.m. Fri- has been scheduled for Jan. 22, WRIGHT'S day, Nov. 18, in the Lecture Hall at the synagogue, Dexter and HOME EQUIPMENT of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Buena Vista. The public is invited. Ben Blow is chairman of the 13226 W. McNICHOLS Rabbi Fram recently lectured affair, with Nathan Kravetz as UN. 4-9034 on "J o h n Dewey's Religious co-chairman. Philosophy" before the faculties of philosophy and education of Wayne University who are cele- _ CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK brating. the anniversary event by a series of Saturday morning Chicago Blvd., at Lawton lectures on Dewey's work. STORM SASH Agudath Israel Leader Speaks Here Tonight Major problems facing Jewry in Israel and America will be outlined by Rabbi Eliyahu May- er Bloch, dean of the Rabbinical College of Telse, and member of the world Agudah executive, at the Agudath Israel Oneg Shab- at 8:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. Beth Tikvah Sisterhood bath, 18, and Mlavah Malkah, at 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, at their Opens Sunday School Synagogue, 11331 Linwood. The programs are under the The Sisterhood of Cong. Beth direction of Rabbi Leizer Levin. Tikvah held a joint social with the Men's Club. Installation of the Sisterhood officers took place. The Sisterhood announced the opening of the Sunday School Nov. 13. Chairman of the evening was Jack Kaufman. Speakers were Hy Freedman, president of Men's Club; Jerome Kagan, president of Beth Tikvah; Belle Freedman, president of Sisterhood, and the guest speaker, Rabbi Leizer Le- AUSPICE S: vin. OUP 8—THE JEWISH NEWS ireth. Aaron "Brunch Series Start Sunday THANKSGIVING SERVICE NOVEMBER 24th, 1949 — 11 A. M. RABBI MORRIS ADLER WILL SPEAK ON "Giving Thanks in a World of Anxiety" Rabbi Benjamin H. Gorrelick and Cantor Jacob H. Sonenklar will officiate with choir under the direction of Dan Frohman. ALL WELCOME re3icient .7tittrriart: Don't Take Jerusalem Away From Israel: Synagogueo CONG. MOGEN ABRAHAM Dexter at Cortland: Sabbath services,' 4:45 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18; 9 a.m., Saturday Nov. 19. Rabbi M. J. Wohlgelernter will speak. CONG. BETH ABRAHAM, Sabbath services at 4:50 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18; 9:15 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 19; Rabbi Israel Halpern will preach. Mincha at 4:15 p.m. Daily services at 7:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; Sunday morning at 8. TEMPLE EMANUEL, Grand Rapids; Sabbath eve services Friday. Nov. 18; Rabbi Harry Essrig will preach on "Two-Way Pas- - sage to Israel." CONG. BNAI MOSHE, Dexter at Lawrence: Sabbath services at 4:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18; 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19. Rabbi Moses Lehrman will preach at late Sabbath eve services. Week-day services, 7:15 a.m., 4:45 p.m. CONG. BNAI DAVID, Elmhurst at 14th: Sabbath services at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 18. Rabbi Joshua Sperka will preach on "Jewish Family Life." CONG. ADAS YESHURUN, 2625 Tyler: Sabbath services at 4:45 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18; 9:15 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19. Rabbi Leo Goldman will preach. Brien Berrill Dubin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dubin, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah. ZIONIST COUNCIL. of DETROIT with cooperation of JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCI L. JOIN IN PROTESTING AGAINST THE PLAN TO INTER NATIONAZE LI 30 0 Np.o rnit N o Ve 2 1 / Allevelimmmumfteimmil;iimammr JERUSALEM Central High School Auditorium TUXEDO AT LINWOOD PROGRAM • EZRA SHAPIRO • Former Law Director and Acting Mayor, Cleveland; Noted Zionist, Educator and Communal Leader. • RABBI ISAAC STOLLMAN • Chairman, Detroit Vaad Harabonixn. • PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor, The Jewish News; Just Returned from Israel. 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