Soviet Jews Feel
Economic Pinch
The Suburban Community
1956 a Year of Continuing soc
Expansion in the Suburbs
—
By the Oak-Woodser
As the year 1956 draws to a
close, the biggest story in the
S6uth Oakland. County suburbs
continues to be the growth and
expansion of the area.
Several significant events in
the Jewish community marked
this development:
. 1. The construction and
dedication of the 10 Mile
Branch of the Jewish Com-
munity Center, a joint under-
taking carried out with the
United Hebrew Schools;
2. The announcement that
Detroit's Cong. Bnai Moshe
had purchased a four-acre
tract of land in Oak Park, on
which it plans to construct
a suburban synagogue;
3. After several obstacles
were placed in its path, Cong.
Bnai David, also of Detroit,
was given a green light to
proceed with its building pro-
gram in Southfield Township;
4. In a moving Rosh Hash-
anah service, memb.e r s of
Oak Park's original Conser- -
vative *syngogue, Cong. Beth
Shalom, inaugurated its re-
ligious program in the con-
greggtion's new, but still
uncompleted, building.
Indications of growing com-
munity awareness were noted
during the year, too, as the
South Oakland County Chapter
of Hadassah, having reached a
membership exceeding 1,200
women, split into two groups,
one in Oak Park and the other
an Huntington Woods.
The year saw the formation
of Alonah Chapter, of Pioneer
Women, the first Labor Zionist
group to start functioning in
the suburban area.
The spirit of goodwill which
has captured the general subur-
ban community was best shown
in February, when Jews and
Protestants moved to aid in the
restoration of Our Lady of
Fatima, a Catholic Church,
which was gutted by fire and
suffered a financial loss of Over
members of the Greater Detroit
Evangelical Minister's Fellow-
ship protested the introduction
of the resolution as a violation
of the principle of church-state
seperation.
At the nett Council meeting,
the original resolution, calling
attention to the fact that Broth-
erhood Week was being cele-
brated, was rescinded, but the
committee which had been for-
med remained in being to aid
the church. Over $5,000 was col-
lected.
During the year, Dr. Frank
F. Rosenthal, founding rabbi of
Temple Emanu-El, left to as-
sume spiritual leadership of
Temple Anshe Sholo in in
Chicago Heights, Ill.
His successor, Rabbi Milton
Rosenbaum, returned to Michi-
gan from Temple Beth-El, Fort
Worth, Tex. He had previously
been associated with Temple
Beth Jacob, in Pontiac. Rabbi
Rosenbaum arrived in time to
conduct the temple's first High
Holy Day service in its new 10
Mile Rd. building.
Earlier in the year, Rabbi
Yaakov I. Homnick, spiritual
leader of Young Israel Cen-
ter of Oak-Woods, was hon-
ored by his congregation by
being officially installed in
his post. The ceremony was
picked to coincide with the
celebration of the synagogue's
first building anniversary.
Individual honors came to
Nancy Helen . Cohen, of Hunt-
ington Woods, a senior at Berk-
ley High School, who won a 15-
day, all-expense-paid tour to the
United Nations with her entry
in the Odd Fellows "What the
United Nations Means to Me"
contest.
And at year's end, an Oak
Park girl, Susan Sandler, has
won national prominence as a
contestant on television's $64,000
Question. Answering questions
on horse-racing, although she
says she has never been to a
$100,000.
race and doesn't believe in bet-
The Council of Oak Park, ting, Susan already has reached
acting on behalf of a number the $8,000 question.
of civic-minded citizens, passed
a resolution forming a com-
mittee to work to obtain funds
for the stricken church.
But, vigilance persisted, when
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Jews
Homnick, N.Y. Rabbi, Start in Poland have formally re-
quested the new regime of
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Jewish refugees in Hungary is action against growing anti-
being organized here by Rabbis Semitism. At the same time,
I. Rottenberg, of New York, and they demanded permission for
Yaakov Homnick, of Oak emigration to Israel and closer
contacts with - Jewish groups
Park.
The committee, known as the abroad.
The requests were voiced in
"Fund to Save the Jews of Hun-
gary" is sponsored by the Cen- resolutions adopted at a con-
tral Rabbinical Congress. The ference of the Cultural-Social
organization includes Hungarian Association of Polish jeivry held
rabbis who raised monies to in Warsaw. Party leadership
transfer Jews to Vienna, the was held responsible for failing
U.S., Israel, Canada, and South to adopt a "clear-cut" attitude
toward anti-Semitism.
America.
(The New York Times re-
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from Wars a w that
"Poland's Jewish communities
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Pullets, Caponettes, Fryers Gornulka revolution "released
latent forces and gave free reign
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School Daze
By
DAVID
MARCUS
South
Oakland
County
Whatj4ver you have to your
discrealit, be the first to tell it.
JERUSALEM—Soviet Jewry's
'social and economic position is
getting steadily worse, accord-
ing to reports reaching Jews of
former Russian origin who have
contacts with the Soviet Union.
Anti-Israel publicity appear-
ing daily shows the Soviet press
creating growing anti-Jewish
feeling among the general popu-
lation.
This not only creates grave
concern among Jews concerning
the attitude of the non-Jewish
population, but also is already
creating economic distress for
many Jews. Jews have been re-
moved from jobs and replaced
by non-Jews.
Reports reaffirm that tens of
thousands of. Jews, not only the
older generation but also youths
who were born and educated
under the Communist regime,
are ready to emigrate to Israel
immediately if permitted.
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