THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW S — Friday, Sep tember 26, 1958—$

Israel Bond Oraanization, Plaits
Testimonial Dinner in Honor of
75th Birthday of Harry Cohen

The 75th birthday of Harry
Cohen, one of Detroit's most dis-
tinguished leaders and com-
munal workers, will be marked
by a community banquet which
will give every element in our
city an opportunity to extend
greetings to him, in apprecia-
tion of his numerous services
to all worthy local causes.
The Detroit Committee for
Israel Bonds is sponsoring a
kosher testimonial dinner in
Cohen's honor, to be held Tues-
day evening, Oct. 28, at the
Statler Hotel.
One of American Jewry's
most prominent leaders will
be the principal speaker at
the dinner, and encomia will
be expressed by local spokes-
men.
A community-wide committee
is being organized to assist in
sponsoring the dinner. The
chairman and committee mem-
bers, as well as the guest speak-
er, will be announced during
the coming weeks.
Born in Grodno, Poland, Sept.
15, 1883, Cohen came here at
the age of 3 with his parents,
Meyer B. and Gittel. His father
was one of the founders of the
United Hebrew Schools, when
he aided in the establishment
of the Columbia Street Talmud
Torah. The family resided in
Windsor for a short time, be-
fore• coming to Detroit.
Harry Cohen was educated in
the Everett and Bishop Ele-
mentary Schools and Central
High School. He entered the
wholesale dry goods business,
in the firm of Sarasohn and
Cohen with which the late Isaac
Shetzer also was affiliated.
Later he was associated with
the Robinson & Cohen and
Robinson furniture companies
and for several years he op-
erated the David Furniture Co.
on McNichols Rd., the latter
firm having been named in
memory of his son David, who
died in September, 1934.
A former president of Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek and
the United Hebrew Schools,
Cohen has rendered invalu-
able services to both. He
officiates at morning Holy
Day services at Shaarey
Zedek. He has a deep love
for liturgical music as well
as for folk songs, and he has
been known for his ability
to lead large groups in com-
munity singing.
Cohen also has distinguished
himself as a leader in the Zion-
ist Organization of Detroit. As
chairman of the Balfour Con-
certs he has enrolled scores of
supporters for the Zionist
cause.
He has served as a member
of the board of governors of

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HARRY COHEN

the Jewish Welfare Federation,
as a board member of the Zion-
ist Organization and in official
capacities in behalf of numerous
other movements.
His activities in behalf of
the Israel Bond efforts have
brought marked results, and
he is considered one of the
top Israel Bond salesmen in
this area.
On his 65th birthday, Cohen
was honored with the planting
of a Jewish National Fund Gar-
den in Israel. On . his 70th
birthday he was tendered a
community-wide testimonial eve-
ning at the Shaarey Zedek.
He was married Aug. 9, 1908,
to the former Rachel Gold-
stick, who died in 1956. He has
a daughter, Mrs. Charles (Isa-
belle) Rosenblatt; a son, Julian
Carter, and five grandchildren.
His father died in 1940 and
his mother passed - away in 1943.

ZOD Starts

Activities
for Concert

An enthusiastic gathering of
75 attended the first rally of
Balfour Concert workers at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman
S h a p i r o, 18084 Warrington.
Shapiro, general chairman of
this year's Balfour campaign
of the Zionist Organization of
Detroit, presided.
Abraham Borman, ZOD pres-
ident, Harry Cohen, Irving
Sniderman, Rabbi S. H. Epstein,
ZOD director, Dr. I. Walter
Silver and A. C. Lappin ad-
dressed the workers.
The highlight of the evening
was an address by Dr. Leon
Fram, rabbi of Temple Israel,
who emphasized the importance
of this year's concert, which will
feature the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, with Paul Olefsky,
cellist, as soloist, on Nov. 15,
at .Ford Auditorium.
The Zionist Organization of
Detroit has celebrated the Bal-
four Declaration for 26 years,
in earlier years with a ball,
currently with a concert.
The funds realized from
these concerts are used to help
develop the cultural and econ-
omic life of Israel. Kfar Silver
Agricultural Institute is one of
the major beneficiaries. It has
become the Boys Town of Israel.
The Detroit Zionist Organiza-
tion is specifically interested
in the erection of a children's
clinic to safeguard the health
of the students at the Silver
Agricultural Institute.
For information about the
concert, call the office of the
Zionist Organization, 10424 W.
McNichols, DI 1-8540.

`Dr. Laurent' at Krim
"The Case of Dr. Laurent,"
starring Jean Gabin and Nicole
Courcel, is being held over at
the Trans-Lux Krim Theater
for its third week.

Integration Issue Proves Menace to Southern Jews

NORFOLK, Va.,. (JTA)—Nor-
folk police are maintaining
careful surveilance to protect
the Jewish community here in
the wake of widespread distri-
bution of anti-Semitic propa-
ganda in connection with the
public school integration crisis.
Statewide segregrationist
"massive resistance" to the U.S.
Supreme Court integration ril-
ing has been accompanied by
anti-Semitic manifestations. This
has given rise to concern in
Virginia Jewish communities.
The RiChmond News Leader,
a leading daily newspaper, re-
cently made a sweeping edi-
torial attack on the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai
Brith because of that organiza-
tion's support of Negro rights
in the school issue. The News
Leader' editorial said: It is ap-
parent that something is stir-
ring up hostility to the Jews,
and it may be that Jews will
soon begin asking themselves
if that something is not their
own Anti-Defamation League.
By deliberately involving itself
in the controversy over school
segregation, this branch of
Bnai Brith is identifying all
Jewry with the advocacy of
compulsory integration.
"The Bnai Brith, diving
gratuitously into these muddy
waters, has to expect to get
wet," the editorial continued.
"Relations between Jews and
Gentiles were excellent in the
South before the ADL began
setting up regional offices, as
in Richmond, and stirring up'
clouds of prejudice and mis-
understanding." The editorial
circulated throughout the state,
told how ADL provided pro-
integration literature to Ne-
groes in Charlottesville, Va.
"It requires no great stretch
of the imagination to hear em-
battled whites asking resent-
fully what segregation at Ven-
able School . has to do with
defamation of the Jews," the
editorial said. "Such inquiries,
once bruited about, will be

seized upon by the ADL as
evidence of anti-Semitic feeling.
And having thus stirred up de-
famation of the Jews, ADL can
lustily combat defamation of
the Jews. But where did it come
from?"
In Arlington, Va., a segre-
gatidnist sought to inject a
Jewish issue into the school
crisis facing that community.
He is William Burdette, Jr.,
spokesman for a so-called "Fed-
eral Employees Protective As-
sociation." A racist hate sheet,
"The Virginian," has emerged
in Newport News. It attacks
both Negroes and Jews, fea-
turing material similar to that
distributed by Gerald L. K.
Smith. Thousands of copies
have been distributed door-to-
door in Norfolk and through-
out the state. The "Defenders
of State Sovereignty and In-
dividual Liberties," a segraga-
tionist front, has in some in-

stances aided in the distribu-
tion of anti-Semitic material.
In Rosh Hashanah sermons,
a number of the state's rabbis
urged compassion for the Negro
and advocated support of social
justice by Jews as individuals.
A general pattern of concern
existed in Norfolk and other
cities lest a Jewish group in-
tegration stand during current
tension cause "violent hositility
including bomb attacks on syna-
gogues.

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Mr. Nathan Agree
President of the Isaac Agree Memorial Society
Announces the Opening of the New

Downtown Synagogue

In the Frederic Collin Building
1442 Griswold, near Clifford

Cantor
Morris Cooper

Will Conduct

SUKKOT SERVICES

Sunday Evening, Sept. 28, 6 P.M.
Monday and Tuesday,
Sept. 29 and 30 at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Shemin; Atzeret Memorial Services will be held at
9:30 A.M., Monday, Oct. 6, in the New Synagogue
—Kiddush Following Sukkot Services—

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