And a Plague for (Robert) Moses
The Writing on the Wall
Warner-Jackson Rites
Set for September 20
BY CHARLOTTE HYAMS
abroad, professing one thing, but
underneath another, began buying
up the land and stirring up the
people . . . The strangers, once
thought terror's victims, became
terror's fierce practitioners . . . "
She turned to her husband.
"Honey," she said, "what are they
talking about?"
"I dunno," he replied.
"Well, then, I don't see what the
big fuss is about." she sniffed, and
headed for the door.
Two college students read
from the mural: "Even now to
protect their gains ill got as if
the land was theirs and has the
right, they are threatening to
disturb the Jordan's course and
make the desert bloom with wail --
Hors."
IVI ELLEN RUTH WARNER
"Arab propaganda," one scoffed.
"Awful grammar," scoffed the
nnoullt: rent is made of the
lien Ruth Warner
eng4r,Ine nt of
other.
Apparently, the gathering crowd and Sioney DaviLl Jackson, son of
was unsettling to the Jordanian of- Mr pnrt. mrs, Bylnalp M. Jackson
!
ficials. "WILL the guides keep the of Parkside Ave.
people moving, puh-leez?" came
The bride-elect, daughter of
the order over the PA system.
Mrs. Gertrude Warner of New
One person kept moving. The re- York City, attended the Neighbor-
mainder continued to study the hood Theater and is currently act-
picture thoughfully, their faces re- ing in the Chicago area.
flecting puzzlement. If anything, it
Her fiance is a graduate of
was a peace through lack of under-
Wayne State University and the
standing.
Perhaps the most profound com- University of Michigan, where he
ment came much later from a was affiliated with the Tau Delta
Bronx housewife. Sharing a bench Phi fraternity.
A Sept. 20 wedding is planned
and experiences, she confided,
"Well, yeah, I think I saw the in Detroit.
Jordan Pavilion, but I'm not sure.
•
Was that the one with the fela-
fel sandwiches?"
No, that was the UAR Pavilion,
she was told. Jordan had the
The Detroit Garden Center will
mural.
"Oh, yeah, I remember now. present its SPRING GARDEN
TOURS in the Northwest Detroit
But I liked Israel better. And are area Saturday and Sunday and in
NEW YORK—World's Fair po- those kosher pastrami sandwiches Birmingham June 20-21, The gar-
lice hunted this week for a $150 terrific !"
den Pilgrimages are open to the
Jordanian flag which was removed
public. Children under 12 years of
over the weekend from the Jordan
age are admitted free when ac-
Pavilion and replaced with a pen-
companied by an adult. Wear low
nant from the American Israeli
heels. Gardens are open from 1 to
pavilion.
6 p.m., and tickets, including an
area map, may be purchased at
Police leaned to the theory that
the entrance of any garden on the
the theft of the Jordanian flag
tour. Proceeds from these tours
and the substitution of the
Max Bressler will pay his first are used to maintain the Detroit
American-Israel pennant was the
work of pranksters and that is was official visit to Detroit as president Garden Center. MRS. LOUIS BAR-
not connected with a long-running of the Jewish National Fund of NETT, chairman of the Northwest
dispute over controversial mural America and will be guest of De- area, has selected 11 outstanding
troit JNF at its annual meeting gardens, starting in the Palmer
in the Jordan pavilion.
Woods garden of K. T. Keller,
Jewish organizations have pro- 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Labor 19366 Cumberland Way.
tested that the mural is anti-Israel Zionist Institute, it was announced
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and anti-Semitic. Three suits by Dr. Israel Wiener, president of
The MADISON GALLERY OF
the
Detroit
JNF
Council.
against the mural are pending in
ARTS will present a showing from
Election of officers for 1964-65 Rome of the drawings of Hugo De
New York City courts.
will
be
held
during
the
business
American - Israel pavilion
Soto, for two weeks starting Satur-
meeting.
officials said they knew nothing
day. The Gallery is located at 297
about the incident and that if
Former nation- Grand River E.
al president of
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it was "a practical joke" it was
rf the Zionist Or-
"in poor taste." Police returned
"MAYER ENTERPRISES LTD.,"
g anization of Tel Aviv export firm, has been
the pennant to the American-
America. Bress- retained by Gimbel Brothers Inc.,
Israel pavilion. Jordanian pa-
ler recently was New York as their buying agents
vilion officials, who put another
h onored at an in Israel.
Jordanian flag up, said that
Israel Bonds din-
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hereafter the flag would be
ner in his home
taken down each night when the
The curtain will go up on the
community of ninth season for Northland Play-
pavilion is closed.
Chicago, where house 8:30 p.m., June 12, with
New York State Supreme Court
he received tri- Walter Pidgeon starring in "TAKE
Justice George Postel took under
Bressler bute for his many HER SHE'S MINE."
advisement a petition for a show-
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cause order to the World's Fair years of devotion to Israel and the
Pianist PAUL SCHOENFELD
Corp. to remove the disputed Jewish people.
His election last November to a and violinist ROBERT VERNON
mural at the Jordan pavilion. He
promised an early ruling on the two-year term as national president will hold a joint recital 8:30 p.m.
of Jewish National Fund climaxed Monday at the Detroit Institute of
petition.
Judge Postel took the action Bressler's long career of leadership Arts Lecture Hall. A reception will
free.
after hearing arguments presented in major Jewish endeavors. He has follow. Admission
4:
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by counsel for the Anti-Defamation served in the national cabinet of
DETROIT CITY BALLET will
League of B'nai B'rith, which in- United Jewish Appeal, on the hold a picnic excursion to Bob-Lo
itiated the action, and for the Cor- Israel Bonds board of governors, June 24, to which the public is
poration and World's Fair Presi- World Zionist Organization's action invited. There will be a special
committee, and Israel's Bar-Ilan
dent Robert Moses.
performance in the pavilion. For
The order directing Newbold University board of directors, as
Morris, New York City commis- well as numerous educational, com- information, call the ballet offices,
sioner of parks, and Moses to show munal and civic bodies in Chicago. UN 1-2824 or UN 4-2197.
Several years ago, Bressler, who
cause why the mural should not
The JEWISH CHAUTAUQUA
be removed or the Jordan Pavilion came to America in 1921 from SOCIETY recently presented the
lease canceled was signed last Russia, was honored by Interna- beginning of a collection of books
month by Justice Joseph A. Sara- tional United HIAS Service as the on Judaica to the library of Mercy
fite. A similar petition was signed most outstanding Jewish immi- College.
last month by another Supreme grant to this country.
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In recognition of his work on be-
Court justice in an action brought
Soprano Gwendolyn Walters will
by Robert B. Blaikie, a business- half of Jewish National Fund over be soloist with The Detroit Sym-
man, asking the Fair to remove the many years, JNF established a phony Orchestra in a "SYMPHONY
mural. That petition is now pend- settlement in Bressler's name for UNDER THE STARS" concert 8:15
ing.
4,000 families in the suburbs of p.m. Tuesday at the Michigan State
Jerusalem.
Fairgrounds. Valter Poole will con-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
A social hour will follow the duct. On Thursday, pianist Hiroko
, 26
Friday, June, 12, 1964
meeting. The public is invited.
Nakamura will be soloist.
It loomed on the horizon, a
mound of sand molded into strange
little hillocks. A mirage?
"Look! Look!" a weary, thirsty
soul gasped. "It's the Jordan Pa-
villion! At last!"
Another determined creature
had found her way to that World's
Fair landmark on the Avenue of
the United Nations just off Africa
Ave.
The only striking feature of the
pavilion is its perplexing architec-
ture (to put it kindly). But the
much-publicized painting of an
Arab refugee cradling a child in
her arms pulls in the crowd. It
pulls them right to the back of the
pavilion where the mural (to put
it kindly) is hung.
Jewish groups found it objec-
tionable enough to issue public
protests, the president of the
American Jewish Congress was ar-
rested for picketing the exhibit,
and World's Fair Corp. President
Robert Moses faces legal action
for refusing to have the mural re-
moved.
And if it weren't for them,
the Jordan Pavilion could have
fallen flatter than a slab of Leb-
anese bread.
The words on the mural are,
without question, objectionable ...
to those who understand them.
One elderly woman standing
nearby read: "Strangers from
-
Pranksters Run Up
Israeli Flag at
Jordan Pavilion
Brevities
JNF's Bressler
Due in Detroit for
Annual Meeting
Reform Rabbis Organized
75 Years Ago in Detroit
BY IRVING I. KATZ
Executive Secretary, Temple Beth El
This summer marks the 75th
anniversary of the Central Con-
ference of American Rabbis (CC-
AR), the national association of
Reform rabbis in America.
Of special interest to our com-
munity about the CCAR is the
historic fact that it was organized
in Detroit, at Temple Beth El on
Washington and Clifford and at
the Russell House, on July 9 and
10, 1889, during the 11th Council
of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations. Detroit then had
about 1,200 Jews (240 families) in
a total population of 285,000.
Temple Beth El had a member-
ship of 117. Julius Robinson was
president of the congregation and
the spiritual leader was Rabbi
Louis Grossmann, a graduate of
the second class of the Hebrew
Union College and the first Am-
erican trained rabbi to occupy
Beth El's pulpit. The only other
rabbi in Detroit was Rabbi Aaron
M. Ashminsky who served the
orthodox Jewish community. Con-
gregations Shaarey Zedek, Beth
Jacob and Bnai Israel. The fol-
lowing Jewish organizations, frat-
ernal lodges and social clubs were
in existence: Beth El Hebrew Re-
lief Society; Ladies Society for the
Support of Hebrew Widows and
Orphans in the State of Michigan;
Hebrew Ladies' Sewing Society;
Self-Help Circle; Pisgah Lodge
Bnai Brith; Montefiore Lodge of
the Free Sons of Israel; Michigan,
Beth El, Nathan and King Lodges
of the Order Kesher Shel Borzel
(Iroh Knot), and Phoenix Club.
The Jewish population lived
near the downtown area.
The CCAR was the brain-child
of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the
founder and master builder of Re-
form Judaism in the United
States. After the meeting of the
Pittsburgh Rabbinical Conference,
which had been assembled at the
call of Rabbi Kaufman Kohler
(spiritual leader of our congrega-
tion from 1869 to 1871) in Nov-
ember, 1885, it became evident to
Isaac M. Wise that if Judasim was
to survive in America it could be
only by educating rabbis under
American conditions and with an
American viewpoint. In 1875 he
had started the Hebrew Union Col-
lege for the purpose of training
Reform rabbis. By the year 1889
Wise felt that he had enough of
his former pupils to undertake the
organization of a Conference of
American Rabbis. The 19 gradu-
ates of the Hebrew Union College
served as a nucleus. Dr. Wise went
to the convention of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
in Detroit in 1889.
The following rabbis of Beth El
were members of the CCAR: Lieb-
man Adler, Elias Eppstein, Kauf-
mann Kehler, Emanuel Geretcht-
er, Leopold Wintner, Henry Zir-
ndorf, Louis Grossman (served as
president from 1917 to 1919), B.
Benedict Glazer. Rabbis Richard
C. Hertz and Harold D. Hahn are,
of course, presently members of
the CCAR.
The following former assistant
or associate rabbis of Beth El are
members of the CCAR: Samuel S.
Mayerberg, Henry Berkowitz (de-
ceased), Leon Fram, Herchel Ly-
mon, Sidney Akselrod, Minard
Klein, David Baylinson, Sherwin
T. Wine.
July Dedication Slated
for BB Camp Buildings
Dedication of the Philip M.
Klutznick Education Building and
the Label A. Katz Arts Building
will take place, July 12, at Camp
Bnai Brith, Starlight, Pa.
Honoring the two Aleph Zadik
Aleph alumni who have served as
international presidents of Bnai
Brith, the new buildings are part
of the Sam Beber Leadership Vil-
lage, which will also be dedicated.
They are of contemporary design
with laminated beams, redwood,
and natural stone trim.
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