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The Suburban Community
Friendliness Not Friendship
Is Trade Mark of Suburbs
By the Oak-Woodser
The ADL Bulletin, that very
interesting a n d informative
monthly publication of the Bnai
Brith Anti-Defamaton League,
has an article of interest to
many suburbanites in its cur-
rent issue.
Under the title of "Suburbia:
Just a Pleasant Hello," Rabbi
Albert I. Gordon has taken ex-
cerpts from his book "Jews in
Suburbia" and condensed some
of the Jewish attitudes toward
his Christian: neighbor in the
suburban sections.
Widespread, he reports, is
the comment that there is a
"five o'clock shadow" that
seems to transcend these rela-
tionships, so that there is
little social mixing by Jews
and their neighbors.
Rabbi Gordon makes an ex-
tremely significant report from
his findings, which cover sub-
urban areas in 10 sections of
the country, representing 89
suburban communities.
He states that "primary
friendship (between Jew and
Gentile) is natural and char-
acteristic of every kind of sub-
urb. It is equally true in such
different towns as the oldest
SOC Hadassah
Groups to Meet
Hadassah .groups in Oak Park,
Huntington Woods and Birming-
barn-Franklin will meet at 12:30
p.m., TueSday, in individual
. meetings, as follows:
Oak Park East and West,
. meeting jointly at Conga Beth.
Shalom, 14601 W. Lincoliv- will
stress "The Magic WOrk of
Hadassah." Guest speaker will
be Dt. Leonard Moss, assistant
professor of sociology at Wayne
State University.
Surprise awards also are
•, planned by the arrangements
committee, which includes Mes-
dames Marshall Fisher, Julius
Rubin and Paul Kaye.
An original musical skit,
"Around the World with Had-
: assah," • written by Mesdames
David Edelman and Leslie
Schmier, will highlight the Bir-
. mingham-Franklin meeting, at
the home of Mrs. Benton Wolfe,
1199 Charrington, Birmingham.
Members will serve as models
for a fashion show, according
• to Mesdames Seymour Joffe
: and Albert Newman, chairmen.
; A luncheon will be served.
Mrs. Allan Marks will show
' movies of a trip to Israel at the
Huntington Wciods group meet-
! ing at the 10 Mile JeWish Cen-
t ter. Original vignettes of Hadas-
' sah's projects = will be done in
the manner of a Greek chorus.
Mesdames George Must and
Sidney L. Berman have ar-
ranged the peogram.
one I studied, Newton, Mass.;
the mass-produced ones such as
Levittown, N. Y., and Skokie,
Ill.; the suburban industrial-
town of Euclid, O.; as well as
the dormintory town of St.
Louis Park, Minn.
"The social segregation of
Jews and Christians after dark
is not to be explained as vol-
untary self-segregation on either
side. Instead, it appears that
suburban Jews and non-Jews
do not yet mutually share the
same interests and attitudes."
Rabbi Gordon states that
there are few suburban areas
which have "almost-all-Jewish
neighborhoods," even though
there is a tendency for this sit-
uation to result.
He says that there is a tend-
ency for non-Jewish families "to
move out from streets on which
a feW Jewish families have
bought homes. The availability
of good housing quickly brings
other Jewish families to the
same streets.
"Thus, 'Jewish neighborhoods'
are created to a great extent
by the sudden withdrawal of
Christian families, creating a
vacuum which in turn is filled
by newer Jewish families."
This latter point is proven
quite accurate in speaking - of
the Detroit area suburbs. Al-
most always when a non-Jewish
family vacates their property, it
is sold to a Jewish family.
Many people, especially in
the Oak Park area, remember
that several years ago when
the suburb was first devel-
oped, there were far more
non-Jews than Jews on most
of the streets. Now that has
changed, so that the.percent-
age of Jewish residents is
close to one-half the total
population of the city.
There is still good feeling and
neighborliness, but yet to be
broken down are the social bar-
riers—and they exist both ways.
Jew seemingly preferring to
mix with Jew and Gentile with
Gentile.
Early Deadline
for - Nov. 27 Due
to Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day will
shorten the working week,
necessitating an earlier
deadline for our issue of
Nov. 27.
All copy for that issue
must be in our hands be-
fore 2 p.m. on Friday, Nov.
20.
Deadline for Classified
Ads for that issue will be
at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov.
24.
Our regular deadline is at
noon on Mondays.
Chachmey Lublin
to Honor Founder
of Torah Center
A memorial meeting in honor
of a man who infused the spirit
of the Torah into untold thou-
sands of Jews will be held at 6
p.m., Nov. 22, in Cong. Beth
Yehuda, 17556 Wyoming.
The tribute will be given by
Yeshivath Chachmey Lublin to
its founder, Rabbi Meyer Sha-
piro.
The Yeshivath Chachmey
Lublin was one of the foremost
schools of its kind imthe Poland
of the 1930's. The Nazis wiped
out this great Torah institution
together with the entire Jewish
community when they invaded
Poland in 1939.
Rabbi Rothenberg, a student
at the Yeshivah at the time of
its destruction, managed to
reach the United States and
devoted himself to the estab-
lishment of Torah institutions
in this c o u n t r y. When he
opened his Yeshivah in Detroit,
he named it for the one de-
stroyed in Lublin.
The 27th of Cheshvan marked
27 years since the passing of
Rabbi Shapiro, whose lifetime
aim was to make the Torah the
most important factor in Jew-
ish life.
Guest speaker at the memo-
rial meeting will be Rabbi A.
M. Hershberg, a former student
of Rabbi Shapiro.
Cottlers to Open
New OP Market
One of the most modern mar-
kets in the Detroit area will
open in Oak Park on or about
Tuesday, Nov. 17.
After several years of plan-
ning, Norman and Ruben Cott-
ler, proprietors of the Dexter-
Davison Markets on Curtis and
Wyoming and Dexter and Davi-
son, will open their third store
in the suburbs.
Located on Coolidge, at the
southeast corner of 10 Mile Rd.,
the modern new supermarket
will have parking facilities for
300 cars.
The pleasant interior design,
planned for the utmost in shop-
ping comfort, will feature eight
check-out counters, guarantee-
ing minimum waiting.
A hi-fi system has been in-
stalled for the comfort of shop-
pers and personnel at the store,
and there is a public address
system which will provide fast
service.
The Cottlers advised that the
store's offieial grand opening
will be announced shortly. Mean-
while, they invite their many
customers to become acquainted
with the new store.
"Our slogan 'Where Old
Friends Meet to Shop'pwill truly
apply in our new Oak Park
store," the Cottlers said. "Many
of our long-time friends have
been asking us when we will be
opening. We are ready now."
Beth Shalom to Greet
New Members Tonight= Bnai Moshe Deadline
Families who have recently for Adult School Nears
Bnai David to Give Away
joined Cong. Beth Shalom will
be officially welcomed at late
evening services at 8:30 p.m.,
today, in the synagogue.
Rabbi Mordecai S. Halpern
will deliver a sermon entitled
"United We Stand." A portion
of the services will be devoted
to the induction of new mem-
bers. An oneg shabbat will
complete the program.
Heads Chicago Fund Drive
Dr. Axelrod Here
for Sinai Meeting
Deadline for enrolling in the
Bnai Moshe School for Adult Turkeys at Games Night
Prizes and turkeys will be
Jewish Study is Tuesday, ac-
cording to David Blum, adult given away at the Bnai David
education chairman for the Men's Club's annual "Night of
Games," to be held Thursday,
congregation.
The 20-week series of classes in the synagogue. For tickets
meet from 8:15 to 10:15 p.m. and information call Neil Kalef,
every Tuesday evening at the VE 6-9619, or Harry Warsh,
Bnai Moshe Educational Center, LI 7-6268.
10 Mile Rd. at Kenosha in Oak
Tadmor at Buffalo Parley
Park.
Dr. Shlomo Tadmor, direc-
Three basic courses are given
-elementary Hebrew reading for of adult education at the
and conversation and the "Life Jewish Community Center here,
Cycle of the Jew," which deals attended the ninth annual Con-
with customs and ceremonials. ference of the Adult Education
Each participant may enroll in Association of the U.S. last
two of these classes. weekend in Buffalo, N. Y.
Bernard Nath was ' reelected
president of the Jewish Wel-
fare Fund of Metropolitan Chi-
.
Dr. Solomon J. Axelrod, pro- cago.
fessor of public health econom
ics at the school of public
health, University of Michigan,
will be guest speaker at the
seventh annual joint meeting of
Sinai Hospital and North End
Clinic, it is announced by Ben-
ALL WOOL
jamin E. Jaffe, program chair-
man.
The meeting will be held at
8:15 p.m., Nov. 24, in the Aaron
Reg. up to
$16.95 $6 50
DeRoy Theater of the Jewish
Community Center. Dr. Axelrod
will speak on "Perspectives in
BOY'S GENUINE CORD
Hospital Care."
A feature of the program
will be a tribute to past and
Reg. $375
present workers of the recently-
$6.95
closed North End Clinic. An his-
torical review of the 33-year-
Expert Alterations in
old clinic, and a display of his-
torical documents will be in-
Men's and Ladies'
cluded in the tribute.
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Arrangements for the annual
meeting are being made by Mrs.
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