NEWS-
Veterans Solicit for Memorial
Building on Council-Proclaimed
Buy-a-Brick Day, Sunday, March 26
Detroit Jews will be asked to buy bricks for the
new Jewish War Veterans Memorial Building on Davi-
son and Holmur, in a door-to-door solicitation from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, March 26.
, "Buy-a-Brick for JWV" has been proclaimed by
unanimous action of the Detroit City Council. The
solicitations will be conducted in the Jewish neighbor-
hoods. Bricks sell at $1 each.
The new JWV buiding was erected as a memorial
to the more than 300 Detroit Jewish young men and
women who gave their lives for the cause of democracy
in World War II.
Bnai Brith Hosts Interfaith Dinner
The ninth annual interfra-
ternal dinner, instituted by the
Detroit Round Table of Catho-
lics, Jews and Protestants, and
sponsored by Bnai Brith,
Knights of Columbus and Ma-
sonic Lodges, will be staged
April 13.
General chairman is Abraham
Satovsky, past president of De-
troit Lodge, Bnai Brith, repre-
senting the Greater Detroit
Bnai Brith Council, official
hosts to the intr af r at e rnal
group.
Louis Rosenzweig will be
chairman for the Bnai Brith.
The social hall of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek, Chicago Blvd. at
Lawton, has been selected as the
site for the dinner. A limited
number of tickets are available
through the sponsoring organi-
zations.
Purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
'Five Jewish Lawyers of the Common Law'
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"Five Jewish Lawyers of the Common Law" by Arthur L.
Goodhart, K.B.E., K.C., professor of jurisprudence in the Univer-
sity of Oxford, published by the Oxford University Press by its
printers in London, is a remarkable little
book dealing with the careers of Judah P.
Benjamin, Sir George Jessel, Louis D. Bran-
deis, Rufus Isaacs, the First Marquess of
Reading, and Benjamin N. Cardozo.
Prof. Goodhart'S work originally was
given in 1947 as the Lucien Wolf Memorial
Lecture which was instituted by the Jewish
Historical Society of England in memory of
its founder, Lucien Wolf (1857-1930). The
lecture has been expanded into its present
form and in the Oxford book it appears as
a group of •five miniature biographies. The
introduction and the conclusion enhance the
scholarly "contents and in its totality the
74-page book—including eight pages of notes
—becomes a work that will delight laWyers
L. D. Brandeis
and laymen alike.
The able author-lecturer, who informs the reader that he is
the nephew of the late N. Y. Court of Appeals Justice Irving
Lehman (brother of U. S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman), points
out convincingly that the Jews are the "people of the Law," that
„Moses was the first law reporter, that "Dr. David Daube of Cam-
bridge University has shown in his recent studies how closely
the work of the Talmudic scholars resembles that of the com-
mentators on Roman Law." We are told that the important
contributions to legal thought by Jews were made in little
more than a century "because, even in so liberal a country as
England, the Jews were excluded from the Bar and from the
universities of Oxford and Cambridge until nearly the middle
of the 19th century. In 1833 Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid was
called to the Bar by Lincoln's. Inn, but this call was by sufferance
and not as of right."
Prof. Goodhart states that _it would have been natural for
him to add to his compendium the names of the late Justice
Lehman and Arthur Cohen, Q.C. He eliminated the former be-
cause of his relationship to him and the latter, who,' "when a
Member of Parliament, was . offered a High Court judgeship in
1881 by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Selborne, the offer being later
withdrawn for political reasons as the government did not wish
to have a by-election," because. "the career of Cohen was so pre-
dominantly forensic that it has tended to be forgotten." ,
The five biographies are presented in a charming style and
in a spirit of admiration' for the entire group. Of Sir George
Jessel he states that he "was the first Jew who, as Solicitor-
General, took •a share in the executive government of his country,
the first Jew sworn as a regular member of the Privy Council,
and the first Jew who took a seat on the Judicial Bench."
About Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
we are told that as a child he "was
taught by a tutor, Horatio Alger, who
later became famous as the author of
the most popular boys' book of the peri-
od, in all of which the hero triumphed
over poverty and adversity by courage
and hard work. It is highly probable
that his tutor's heroes played a part
n moulding Benjamin's character. It
was also Alger who helped to develop
in him his love for English literature,
which later found expression in his
judgements and in his legal essays."
Prof. Goodhart believes that the
five men had many qualities in com-
mon. Calling them liberals, he states:
"No one of them was a revolutionary
in the sense that he wished to destroy
or even to alter in any radical degree
the great system of law which he was
helping to administer, but, on the other
hand, no one of them was prepared to
B. N. Cardozo accept the established rules merely be-
cause they had been long established." He finds that all of them
possessed "clarity of thought," that they had an interest in
scholarship, that the mothers of four played a dominant role
in their lives. He emphasizes that "the five Jewish lawyers I have
here described have played their part in 'the ennobling tradition
Df the law'." By pooling together the stories of this interesting
quintet, Prof. Goodhart has provided us with a most fascinating
story which pays honor to men who rightfully have earned it.
Friday, March 17, 1950
Mizrachi Wind Up
Shekel Campaign
The climax of the local Miz-
rachi Shekel campaign will take
place at 8:30 p.m. Saturday,
March 18, at the Young Israel
Center, Dexter at Fullerton. Rev.
Solomon Chinitz, chairman of
the Shekel committee, will sub-
mit his final report.
Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter,
president of Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah, will speak on "The
Road to Geulah." A recording
of a recent Mizrachi radio pro-
gram will be played.
Plans have been completed for
Mizrachi Sabbath, to take place
May 13 in all local synagogues.
Abraham Nusbaum, chairman of
this committee, announces that
Cantor Leibele Waldman will
conduct services at Bnai Zion
Synagogue, a c c o m p a vied by
Samuel Sterner's chorus of 10
men. On Sunday evening, May
14, Cantor Waldman and the
chorus will count the Sefira and
give a concert of liturgical and
Israel music.
Suit Against Waksman
Called 'Preposterous'
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.—A
suit instituted by Dr. Albert
Schatz of 210 Riverdale Ave.,
Brooklyn, N. Y., against Dr. Sel-
man A. Waksman of Rutgers
University was labeled "baseless
and preposterous" by Dr. Waks-
man's attorney, Russell E. Wat-
son. The suit asks for an ac-
counting of royalties, Dr.•Schatz
maintaining that he assisted Dr.
Waksman in the development
of streptomycin.
Congregation Beth Moses to Build
New Synagogue on Oakman, Linwood
ARCHITECT'S PLAN FOR BETH MOSES BUILDING
Congregation Beth Moses, for-
merly known as the "Romanian
Shul," is planning to build a
new synagogue on the north-
west corner of Oakman and Lin-
wood Ayes. The congregation is
over a half of a century old in
Detroit, and is now located at
8740 Linwood Ave.
Emil Kahn, well known among
orthodox congregations, treas-
urer of the Jewish National
Fund, is the president of the
synagogue. A building com-
mittee,- in which the two Ladies'
Auxiliaries are active, is working
toward a speedy completion of
the project.
The building design is accord-
ing to the latest trend in re-
ligious building styles. It will
have an auditorium seating 450
people. The congregation's of-
fice will have its entrance from
Oakman Court, which will . also
lead to the auditorium. The
main entrance will be from Lin-
wood. There will be an ample
kitchen, checking facilities and
other required auxiliary rooms.
The architect is Arnold A.
Weitzman who, during his
many years of practice in Los
Angeles, before starting practice
in Detroit 10 years ago, designed
many religious and ether' insti-
tutional edifices. Mr. Weitzman
also practiced as a consulting
engineer.
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SlosSon to Address
Detroit Zionists
Wednesday evening, March 29,
at Northwest Synagogue Prof.
Preston Slosson, of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, widely-known
Vandenberg Assures His Backing
Of Kilgore-Ferguson DP Minority Bill
Senator Vandenberg has in-
formed the. Jewish Community
Coun.cil that_he will work for re-
commendations made by the
National Community .:Relations
Advisory . COuncil -and' file De-
troit Jewish Community Council
for liberalization 'of the DP act
which will come up for final ac-
tion on March 31.
Consideration of the bill was
postponed as a result of a
threatened filibuster.
Senators Ferguson and Van-
denberg were asked by Dr.
Shmarya Kleinman and B. M.
Joffe, president and director of
the Council, to work for the
minority bill, known as the Kil-
gore-Ferguson measure, of which
Senator Ferguson is one of the
18 sponsors.
The specific request of the
Council was that the bill to be
adopted should seek admission
of displaced persons -only and
should not introdude the extra-
neous subject of Volksdeutsche
which was introduced by Sena-
tor McCarran as a relief meas-
Midrasha to Open
For Spring Term
ure for those who were diSplaced
by Hitler's aggression. Volks-
deutsche are Germans deported
from Czechslovakia, Hungary,
Poland and other countries after
the defeat of Nazism and are
now residing in western Ger-
many.
The Council also pleaded
against the establishment of a
precedent of advancing $2,500,-
000 for the transportation of
Volksdeutsche.
Weizmann Accepts Honorary
Presidency of Hebrew Congress
TEL AVIV, (W.J.A.)—President
Weizmann has accepted Hon-
orary Presidency of the First
World Congress, of the Hebrew
language and culture, to be held
in Israel this summer.
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PRESTON SLOSSON
authority on United States 'for-
eign relations, will address De-
troit Zionists.
In announcing this meeting,
Leon' Kay, president of the Zion-
ist Organization of Detroit, de-
clared: "Prof. Slosson, a mem-
ber of the American Christian
Palestine Committee, has been
a valued friend of our cause, and
has given much study to the re-
lation of our government to the
state of Israel.
"His message will do much to
clarify some of the puzzling is-
sues tkat are coming up every
day. ffil who are anxious to
know the policy of our govern-
ment in the Middle East should
hear Prof: Slosson."
The public is invited.
Between You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1950, Jewish Telegi.aphic Agency, Inc.)
Zionist Pact
Representatives of the Israel government and of the world
Zionist movement are studying a proposal for an agreement
between the Jewish state and the World Zionist Organization •
It provides for the granting of a Charter to the World Zionist
Organization by the state of Israel . . . The Charter, which would
be incorporated into the laws of Israel, would define the rights
of the WZO and the Jewish Agency in Israel . . . The Israel
government would recognize the WZO as the instrument of the
Jewish people throughout the world for accomplishment of the
specific tasks set forth in the Charter . . No public organization
dealing with similar tasks would then be permitted to operate in •
Israel without the prior joint consent of the world Zionist execu-
tive and the Israel government.
The functions of the WZO organization will include: 1. - Or-
ganization and administration of immigration; 2. Maintenance 'of
immigrants in the initial stages of their absorption into Israel's
economy; 3. Cooperation with the government in colonization and
development schemes for the integration of the immigrants . .
There are to be joint consultations between the Jewish Agency
and the Israel government in the matter of immigration schedules.
The Jewish Agency would bear the responsibility for the
immigrant up to the point where he obtains permanent housing.
. . . The world Zionist executive would be entitled at all times
to consult with the Israel government on matters relating to the
Charter . . . It would also be entitled to transmit to the Israel
Parliament, through government channels, communications rele-
vant to the operations of the WZO . . . This would include sug-
gestions for the initiation of legislation deemed helpful to theie
operations .. . The world Zionist executive would be free to raise
loans secured by WZO property in Israel . . . This property would
be exempt from taxation or seizure.
The Supreme Court of Israel would have final jurisdiction on
all questions pertaining to the interpretation of the rights granted
to the WZO under the terms of the Charter ... This proposal will
The spring quarter of the Mid-
rasha will begin Tuesday, March
21, and will continue through
Tuesday, June 13. Classes will be
held Tuesday and Thursday
evenings.
The following courses will be
offered in the intensive depart-
ment:
Bible, Hebrew text; Psalms;
Bible, a study of Psalms in Yid-
dish; Mishna, Yoma and Rosh
Hashanah; Hebrew grammar;
modern Hebrew literature,
Ahad-Ha-Am; Yiddish litera-
ture, Y. L. Peretz; education.
The following courses will be
offered in the extension depart-
ment:
Hebrew, elementary; Hebrew,
intermediate; philosophy; art-
craft.
In addition, special classes for
women who are unable to attend
evening classes will be offered
on Wednesday mornings, includ-
ing Hebrew—beginners, inter-
mediate and advanced; Bible,
and an illustrative course on
Israel.
For further information, call be one of the main issues under discussion at the forthcoming
the Midrasha, TO. 8-0063.
session of the Zionist Actions Committee next month.