Atonement: By and For AN Mankind Editorial Page 4 Inrirumn rizin THE JEWISH NE DETROIT A Weekly Review Youth Leader in South African Struggle • Negativism in Viewing Jewish Future MI CH IGAN of Jewish Events Commentary Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle 1:iti ft:iUnSt o 13 Vol. XLIV, No. 5 1 001: Page 2 171 00 W. 7 Mile Rd. — VE 8-9364 -- Detroit 35, Sept. 27, 1963 — $6.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c Issues Affecting USSR Jewry, Israel Face 18th UN Assembly History of Hannah Schloss Bldg. Recalled 60 Yrs. After Opening By IRVING I. KATZ - -Executive Secretary, Temple Beth El This month marks the 60th anniversary of the dedication of Detroit's first Jewish community service building—the Hannah Schloss Memorial Building at 239-241 East High Street (now East Vernor Highway), between Hastings and St. Antoine, in the heart of the then Jewish dis- trict, as the headquarters of the United Jewish Charities (UJC).. _ • Detroit's population in 1903 was approximately 300,000, which included some 6,000 Jews (1,200 families), most of whom were recent immigrants from Eastern Europe. When the United Jewish Charities came into existence in 1899 it was housed in a ramshackled honSe at the southwest corner of Brush and Montcalm Streets. With the expansion of the UJC, it became neces- .sary to find a home for its activities. The real estate committee, headed by the late Justice Henry M. Butzel, purchased land, at a cost of $2,000, _at 239-241 East High Street, for such a home. At a meeting of the executive board of the UJC on January 6,1903, . _it was announced that Seligman Schloss offered a contribution of $5,800 -to. the building fund, then the largest gift in the history of Detroit's Jewish community, in memory of his wife Hannah, on condition that the balance of $5,200 needed to construct the building would be raised by the Jewish, community. It Was also announced that Bernard Ginsburg .offered to furnish and maintain in the new building a Day Nursery as a memorial to his wife, Ida. Hr. Schloss' offer was accepted and a cam- paign was initiated for the building fund. The sum of $5,430 was raised from 82 subscribers. On April 21, '1903, the corner stone laying ceremony for the new -. building took place, and the participants were Rabbi Judah L. Levin, David W. Simons, president, UJC; Henry M. Butzel, chairman, building committee; Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, Seligman Schloss. - The following was deposited in a copper box in the corner stone: Copies of the daily press, copies of the- Jewish American (Detroit's first English-Jewish weekly, published- from 1900 to 1911), reports of the United Jewish Charities, a history of Jewish - charities in Detroit, a list of contributors to the building fund, photographs of Hannah Schloss and Ida Ginsburg. Albert Kahn offered his services gratuitously as the architect of the two-story and basement, pressed red brick building. The plans included klassrooms, quarters for the Hebrew Ladies' Sewing Society, kitchen gar- den, model bedroom, model kitchen: kindergarten, plain and shower baths, manual training department, day 'nursery, large lecture hall, and office. The building committee consisted of Henry M. Butzel, Mrs. Sarah Berger,- Rabbi Franklin, Bernard' Ginsburg, Albert Kahn, Mrs. Sarah Ewell Krolik, Seligman Schloss, David W. Simmons, and Mrs. Leopold Wineman. The officers- of the -UJC in 1903 were David W. Simons, president; -Bernard Ginsburg, Henry M. Butzel, vice-presidents; Abraham Benjamin, secretary; Emanuel H. Van Baalen, treasurer; trustees, Mrs. Sarah Ber- ger, Louis Blitz,'Michael• Davis, Dr. Karl M. Fechheimer, Rabbi and Mrs. Leo M. Franklin, Mrs. 'Rudolph Freidenberg, Samuel Ginsburg, Miss Regina Heller, Samuel Heavenrich, Dr. Louis J. Hirschman, Mrs. Bella 011esheimer, Charles Redelsheimer, Louis J. Rosenberg, Mrs. Joseph Rosenzweig, William Saulson, David Scheyer, Mrs. Adolph Schlesinger, Mrs. Zachariah Selling, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Sloman, Louis Vineberg, Joseph H. Wertheimer, Mrs. Leopold Wineman. Miss Blanche Hart -served as superintendent of the UJC, a position - - - By MILTON FRIEDMAN JTA Jewish News Washington Correspondent - WASHINGTON, (JTA)---The State Department indicated that the situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union was a subject of "continuing concern" to the United States Governinent and that the United States would work through the United Nations to improve conditions of Soviet Jewry. Assistant Secretary of State Frederick G. Dutton, in a communica- tion reporting extensively on the situation of the Jews in the USSR, said that all observers agreed that Soviet Jews were being placed under increas- ing restrictions with regard to religious worship. At the same time, he pointed out that the State Department "has no information that Soviet Jews fear the magnitude of physical persecution against them such as occurred during the Czarist regime or during the immediate post-war period under Stalin." The communication, addressed to Rep. Seymour Halpern, N.Y. Republican, made it clear that the State Department feels that anti-Semitic prejudices in the Soviet Union still persist. Dutton noted reports that the Moscow Jewish community will - no longer have special burial facilities in consecrated ground, that the last- kosher meat establishment in Moscow has been closed, and that three JeWS were sentenced for alleged speculation in matzohs. The State Departiiiehroffkial Said that there was "a marked decline over the past few months in the number of publicized trials involving defendants of Jewish background," and added that "the Department of State has noted that the attendant publicity less frequently has suggested an anti-Semitic bias." Dutton felt the "long term anti-religious campaign" in the Soviet Union has grown in intensity over the past several years and that "all religions, including the Jewish religion, are being subjected to increasing restrictions, forms of interference, and negative social pressures." He said that "in the case of the Jews these pressures prevent the normal mainte- nance and development of Jewish religious and cultural life." Emphasizing that the State Department viewed with "concern" the situation of the. Jews in the Soviet Union, Dutton said that it preferred to intervene for them through the United Nations, because it believes that direct U.S. representations to the Soviet government "would not be in the interests of Soviet Jews; these representations could in fact - antagonize the Soviet government to the detriment of Soviet Jews." Tracing past events, Dutton said there was "no doubt that Soviet press reports and commentary concerning some of the economic trials have Continued on Page 6 Yom Kippur and Mussar Teaching By ARYEH OSCHRY Two Yom Kippur stories have gained wide popularity in the Jewish world. The first concerns the rabbi who kept - the whale congregation waiting on Kol Nidre night while he took care of a weeping child . until the mother could be' summoned from the synagogue; the second concerns the Cholera - epidemic in Vilna, when a prominent Rabbi, though occupying no official Position in the community, forbade the Jews to endanger their health .by .not eating on Yom Kippur, and to overcome their reluctance to go home and break their fast, he himself took out food and ate in full view of the congregation. - Continued on Page 32 ........... •••• , • .. . " • . The Hannah Schloss Institute—Home of United Jewish Charities and Affiliated Detroit Jewish Institutions. The hero of both 'stories was Rabbi Israel Sala nt (1810-1882). An outstanding scholar, his actions, as illus- trated by the two foregoing episodes, were by no means an impulsive outflow of sud- den emotions, but the rea- soned decisions of• a re- nowned halachic authority and a completely disciplined personality. When the cholera epidemic broke out, he rented - a hos- pital of 1,500 beds, set np the financial apparatus to secure the necessary funds, organized agroup of 60-70 yeshiva stu- dents to nurse the patients, and obtained free medical Continued on Page 3 Yom Kippflr in a Polish Synagogue. Oil painting by Isidor Kaufman (1853-1921)