The Suburban Community
o Jewish Ghetto in Detroit,
ims Sociologist Mayer
he Oak-Woodser
peated charge that
s are becoming
s" is not true-
ically speaking.
assurance from
ayer, associate
iology at Wayne
y, who knows
about the com-
e local Jewish
an any other De-
ormal evaluation of
t "Is There a Jewish
n Detroit?" before the
Affairs Luncheon Club
e Jewish Community Cen-
ter, Prof. Mayer claimed that
neither in Detroit nor its sub-
urbs is there a ghetto as we
have come to understand the
term.
The true ghetto, Dr. Mayer
explained, is that which our
fathers and grandfathers knew
in Europe—an area where only
Jews could live and usually
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where Christians could not, an
area which was inhabited by
Jews according to either law
or custom.
Even at the height of its
concentration, Dr. Mayer said,
the Dexter area contained only
about 60 percent of the Jewish
population of Detroit, and, even
then the area was only about
60 percent Jewishly populated.
Now, he said, only about
3,000 families — about . 10 per-
cent of the 28,000 Jewish fam-
ilies in the Metropolitan area
—live in the Dexter area, while
60 percent live in the North-
west. The latter he bounded by
Woodward and Evergreen and
6 and 8 Mile Rds. -
The remaining .30 percent are
in the suburbs, mostly Oak
Park and Huntington Woods. .
Areas such as Southfield, Li-
vonia, Birmingham, Franklin
and Farmington Township have
lesser numbers but are increas-
ing steadily. There are still
other smaller centers of Jewish
settlement, as well.
Dr. Mayer predicted that in
the next five to six years, it
will be rare to find a. Jewish
family below Six Mile Rd.,
and the suburban areas will see
further growth.
As he chooses to move into
new areas, Dr. Mayer said, the
Jew, "by a subtle and complex
process," will select certain
w e 11 defined neighborhoods,
often for social and economic
reasons.
"As more families move into
a specific section," Prof. Mayer
asserted, "other Jews feel that
it's a good place to live. The
non-Jew figures it's going to be
Berkley Schools
Drop Sectarian
Baccalaureate
Complaints by parents of Jew-
ish pupils enrolled in the. Ber-
kley school system, registered
with the Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit,
have led to the abandonment of
baccalaureate services in con-
nection with senior high school
graduation exercises.
The decision of the Berkley
Board of Education to discon-
tinue the baccalaureate services
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Bnai Moshe Sets `Limited' Drive
Cong. Bnai Moshe this week
embarked on a membership,
campaign to bring into the syna-
gogue a limited number of fam-
ilies for which it now has room
in its new building at 10 Mile
and Kenosha, in Oak Park.
At a workers' brunch last
Sunday, Eugene Weiss, chair-
man of a special membership
committee, said that the con-
gregation has the room, the or-
ganization and the staff to serve
750 families.
The nearly - finished sanc-
tuary is scheduled for comple-
tion on Jan. 15, when its en-
tire facilities will be made
available to the membership
for the first time.
Assisting Weiss as co-chair-
men of the campaign are Theo-
dore Curtis, Alfred Deutsch,
Sam Freedman and Ben Gold-
man, past Bnai Moshe presi-
dents, and William Gottlieb,
Louis Kepes and Richard Guns-
berg.
Families interested in details
may call any of the chairmen
or the synagogue office, LI
8-9000. A special brochure de:
scribing synagogue facilities'
and policies will be mailed on
request.
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Council. It followed a series
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their feelings that the sectarian
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calaureate exercises for their
respective congregants among
a Jewish area, so he moves out. the graduates.
"It's much the same way with
Negroes moving into Jewish
areas," Dr. Mayer continued.
"And while it's not necessarily
bias, a family will figure that
it is good to get out early in
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The newly elected officers
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for the "comfort of having a David E. Utley was the install-
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synagogue or a bagel factory ing officer, assisted by Cantor
near by," he added.
Hyman Adler as soloist.
"We are likely to have identi-
Other elected officers are as
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The appointed officers are
Rudy Newman. chaplain; Joe
Bnai David Affiliates
Shur, tiler; Charles Sill, or-
PHYLLIS WOLFF says:
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Appointed as stewards were
the first joint affair of the three
affiliates of Bnai David Syna- Al Bennet, Milt Moss, Al Zeit-
gogue — the Men's Club, Sister- lin, Art Luzkow, Mary Palmer,
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Al Levine, movie chairman,
Michael Dworkin, youth direc-
tor. A game day will be held announces that "The Littlest
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will be featured.
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