HE JEWISH NEWS'
Dr. A. H. Silver:
Courageous
Leader
A Weekly Review
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Story, Page 24
of Jewish*Events
17100 W. 7 Mile Rd. — VE. 8-9364—Detroit 35, October 15, 1954
EDITORIAL
The 300th Birthday
1654-1954
American Jewry's Tercentenary Year is
the occasion for re-dedication to the sacred
principles which have marked our existence
as Americans and as Jews.
Accepting 'seriously the theme of the Ter-
centenary — ``Man's Opportunities and Re-
sponsibilities Under Freedom" — we reaf-
firm our adherence to the sacred ideals we
have inherited from the Fathers of this Re-
public and from our Prophets.
From the very day in 1654 when the
first group of 23 Jews settled in New Ams-
terdam to establish the first religious Jew-
ish community in America, they dedicated
themselves to the principle of religious free-
dom. We re-dedicate ourselves anew to this
imperishable ideal.
Throughout the three centuries of the
development of the great American Jewish
community, the Jews of this country estab-
lished the great tradition of caring for the
needy, of providing means and sustenance
for the aged, the orphaned and the home-
less. In the last half century, American
Jews rose to great heights in their relief
efforts for those who" were either uprooted
by wars or were dispossessed by the in-
humanity of bigots and tyrants in lands
of oppression. We re-dedicate ourselves to
the • philanthropic ideals as we re-evaluate
our contributions to humanity during our
Tercentenary celebrations.
American Jewry has been in the fore-
front among the forces that helped in the
re-establishment of the State of Israel. This
may be recorded by history as our genera-
tion's greatest accomplishMent. We reaf-
firm, as one of the Tercentenary's re-dedica-
tory aims, that we retain our interest in the
great cause of ending Jewish homelessness
and of assisting in establishing the security
of Jews who have found freedom in the land
Of their fathers.
On the occasion of the Tercentenary we
solemnly re-dedicate ourselves also to ad-
vancing and expanding our cultural and
spiritual institutions. We reaffirm the ob-
ligation to elevate the standards of our
schools, to provide a Jewish education for
every young Jew, to encourage adult educa-
tion activities, to strive towards the creation
of a thinking, well-informed, properly edu-
cated Jewish constituency,
With these aims in view, we acclaim the
Tercentenary celebration in our community,
to be climaxed by the dinner on Sunday eve-
ning that is to be privileged to have as its
spokesman the eminent scholar and leader,
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. May this day elevate
us to the high purposes for which we strive
as Americans and as Jews.
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Tercentenary
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A Salute to the American
Jewish Tercentenary
And to Detroit's Tercentenary
Dinner Guest, Sunday Evening
DR. ABBA HILLEL SILVER
Community Invited to Hear
Dr. Silver at Tercentenary Event
The Detroit TerCentenary Committee announced this week that
the halls adjoining the banquet hall, at Hotel Statler, have been re-
served to enable those who could not secure reservations for the dinner
to hear the address of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver on the American Jewish
Tercentenary, this Sunday evening.
Dinner guests will be served at 6 p.m. and the adjoining halls
will be opened for the overflow audience at 8 p.m.
Participants in the program will include Dr. A. M. Hershman.,
Samuel H. Rubiner, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation,
whose allocation has made possible the Tercentenary celebrations in
Detroit; Rabbis Moses Lehrman and Leon Fram, who will gi'e
the invocation and benediction; Max Osnos, who has been delegated
to represent the Governor, and William E. Stirton, vice-president of
Wayne University, who will represent the Mayor. Emma Schavec
will sing the national anthems.
Details on Page 24
The Shin, the 21st letter of
the Hebrew alphabet, whose
numerical value is 300.