THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, October 3 0, 1959-6
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Opening of Center Is Not
Teaching Judaism to Child
Editor, The Jewish News:
It has been brought to the
attention of the Sisterhood of
Beth Abraham Synagogue that
the Jewish Community Center
intends being open for activities
on Saturday.
This is an institution spon-
sored and supported by the
Jewish community of Detroit.
To allow this sacriligious action
to follow through is not the
proper way of teaching Judaism
to our children.
There are, no doubt, a few
who seek to derive enjoyment
from the facilities that the Cen-
ter would make available on
Sabbath afternoons. However,
the members of our Sisterhood.
who themselves are parents of
children attending the Center,
feel very strongly against this
decision.
Mrs. Samuel Cash
Secretary
Editor's Note: The Jewish
News also is in receipt of seven
letters from pupils of all ages
of the Beth Shalom School,
pleading with the Jewish Center
board to reverse its stand on
opening the Center facilities on
the Sabbath and expressing
their hopes that the Sabbath
would remain sanctified in pub-
lic Jewish institutions.
Editor, The Jewish News:
Please add my momen-
tarily - weak and far - away
voice against any opening of
the Jewish Center on Sat-
urdays.
Today is the 98th day of
my being in bed. I got out
and WALKED with the aid
of a contraption for about
100 steps, then back in bed.
However, I now am on my
way to full recovery and
will see you in Detroit soon.
Have been enjoying The
Jewish News sent to me to
the hospital. Regards.
JOSEPH HOLTZMAN
Cumberland Infirmary
Carlisle, England
Lawson to Get
Mizrachi Award
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Salutes Jewish News
on Newspaper Week
Editor, The Jewish News:
On the occasion of National
Newspaper Week I want to ex-
press the appreciation of the
people of Michigan for the out-
standing service The Detroit
Jewish News has performed for
our state in your recent public
service advertising on the sub-
ject of sound community indus-
trial development.
Certainly there has been no
single contribution of greater
importance to community de-
velopment anywhere in the
country than that made by
Michigan newspapers during
the past year in the work they
have carried on through the
Michigan Press Association and
our state Economic Develop-
ment Department. Congratula-
tions and thanks!
John B. Swainson
Lt. and Acting Governor
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Self-Respect the Issue
Editor, The Jewish News:
I am greatly disturbed to
learn that the Jewish Center is
to be opened on the Sabbath.
Instead of proudly proclaim-
ing our faith and adhering to
our principles, some Jews are
self-depreciating. When will we
realize that no one can have re-
spect for a people who have no
respect for themselves.
Mrs. ARNOLD EISENMAN
18636 Cherrylawn
Reform Sisterhoods
to Meet in Miami Beach
Approximately 1,500 dele-
gates and official visitors will
participate in the 22nd biennial
assembly of the National Fed-
eration of Temple Sisterhoods,
at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami
B e a c h, Nov. 14 to 19. Mrs.
Henry Monsky of Los Angeles,
Cal., national president, will
preside.
"Israel and
the Soviet Union"
A Lecture By
VALIA HIRSH
Member, Editorial Board
of Israel Horizons
Just Returned from a Trip
to Israel and the U.S.S.R.
At 8:30 P.M.
Sunday, Nov. 1st
In the A.P.I. Center
18073 Wyoming at Curtis
Sponsored by Americans
for Progressive Israel
Public Invited
Admission Charge
North End Clinic First Truman Freedom Bell Award
Moves to Sinai
Given Publisher, Former Detroiter
Irving G. Rhodes, former De-
for Out-Patients troiter
and present publisher of
Holtzman Adds
Protest Against
Action by Center
EDWARD B. LAWSON, for-
mer U.S. Ambassador to Israel,
will receive the annual Amer-
ica-Israel Friendship Award of
the Mizrachi Women's Organiza-
tion of America at its 34th
annual convention, Nov. 8 to 11,
in Atlantic City, N.J. The award
is given to a person not of Jew-
ish faith "who has contributed
most deeply to understanding
between the peoples of the U.S.
and Israel, according to Mrs.
Moses Dyckman, national presi-
dent of the women's religious-
Zionist organization.
Cinema Forum to Present
Film on Capital Punishment
"We Are All Murderers", An-
dre Cayatte's attack on capital
punishment, will be the next
program of the Jewish Commu-
nity Center Cinema Forum, at
the Aaron DeRoy Theater, 8
p.m., Sunday.
A discussion of capital pun-
ishment, led by attorney Harold
Norris, will follow the film. Re-
freshments will be served.
Chairman and host will be Rob-
ert Molner.
MELVILLE S. WELT
An historic landmark in the
community closed its doors on
Monday after 36 years of con-
tinuous service to the commun-
ity.
Announcement was made this
week that North End Clinic had
served its last patient at Hol-
brook and Oakland.
Facilities of the clinic will be
moved to the new Shiffman
Clinic Wing of Sinai Hospital
and will re-open on Tuesday,
according to Melville S. Welt,
president.
The clinic, which will con-
stitute the out-patient depart-
ment of Sinai Hospital, serves
all medically indigent people,
regardless of race, religion or
color.
Start Israel Bond
Collection Effort
Israel Bond Women's Division
is spearheading an intensive
cash collection drive following
Detroit's successful High Holy
Day appeal, it was reported by
Mrs. Joseph Katchke and Mrs.
Max Stollman, Women's Divi-
sion co-chairmen.
More than $135,000 has been
collected in cash since Rosh
Hashanah, according to an an-
nouncement by Tom Borman,
general chairman for Israel
Bonds.
At a special report meeting
on Oct. 21, at the home of Mrs.
Ben Z. Freeman, last year's wo-
men's division cash collection
chairman and a member of this
year's advisory board, more.
than $20,000 in cash was turned
in by the volunteer women,
headed by Mrs. Harry Portnoy
and Mrs. David J. Miller, 1959
cash collection co-chairmen.
An all-day Israel Bond Door-
to-Door Action Day has been set
for Sunday, Nov. 8, to climax
the special cash drive.
The Wisconsin Jewish Chroni-
cle, has received the first Harry
S. Truman Freedom Bell
Award, an Hadassah citation.
The award, designated in
honor of former President Tru-
man, was given to Rhodes
because of "his devotion to the
cause of world Jewry."
In addition to a scrolled
citation, Rhodes' name will be
inscribed on the 'Freedom Bell
which Hadassah is setting up
in the courtyard of Kiryat
Hadassah Shikum (Hadassah's
Garden City), located adjacent
to the Medical Center at Ein
Karem, Israel.
The Freedom Bell will be
rung twice yearly—on the oc-
casions of the commemorative
dates of the founding of the
state of Israel and the Declara-
tion of Independence.
Names of Americans will be
IRVING G. RHODES
inscribed on the bell, similar in
shape to the American Liberty
Bell.
JNF Given Control
Rhodes' brother, Samuel, is
past president of the Jewish in Israeli Afforestation
Community Council.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
In an open letter to Hadassah Cabinet approved arrangements
which appeared in Rhodes' pa- giving the Jewish National Fund
per, his staff made the follow-
sole authority over afforesta-
ing tribute to him:
"The staff of the Chronicle tion work in Israel. The Cab-
is overwhelmingly happy and inet's action supplements an
gratified about this spendid agreement between the govern-
award to Mr. Rhodes, because ment and the Jewish National
. . . we have first—hand op- Fund, establishing joint author-
portunity to witness the day-by- ity over the development of all
day, year-by-year intensity and lands held by the government
selflessness with which Irving and the JNF.
Rhodes throws himself into
Actually, authority over the
community causes.
Forestry Division of the Min-
"We agree that his selection istry of Agriculture was trans-
was well-merited, masterfully ferred to the JNF last April.
conceived and genuinely war- The Cabinet decision did not
ranted."
specify any time limit for the
new afforestation arrangement
He that hath knowledge and can, therefore, be reviewed
spareth his words: and a man and changed at any time by the
of understanding is of an ex- next Cabinet to be formed after
cellent spirit.—Prov. 17:27
elections.
IT'S STILL
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
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Phone UN 4-2767
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
18414 WYOMING AVE.
DETROIT 21, MICH.
Mr. Barney Citrin and Children
announce the unveiling of a monument in memory
of the late
TZ1VIAH CITRIN
Dearly-Beloved Wife, Mother, Grandmother
and Great Grandmother
At 2 P.M., Sunday, November 8, 1959,
At Hebrew Memorial Park Cemetery,
14 Mile Road, at Gratiot Ave.
Relatives and friends are asked to attend.