40—Friday, July 26, 1974
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Immigrant Self-Help Recalled
The dedication of the long-
ago volunteer is emulated by
many of the younger genera-
tion, but there is "so much
work still to be done," ac-
cording to Anna Finkel in a
brief recollection of "the
early days" in Detroit.
Mrs. Finkel, of Northgate
Ave., Oak Park, recalled the
activities of immigrants to
help each other and their
community:
"We lived in the Fenkell
neighborhood with other
newcomers. Since money was
tight and most of us were
quite poor, we initiated the
Fenkell Ladies' Loan As-
sociation. Every woman who
bought $50 worth of shares
could borrow $100. At that
time $100 bought a great
deal. We also organized our
husbands and encouraged
them to found the Fathers'
Club. They had to become
shareholders of $250 to be
eligible to borrow $500. This
helped many people to start
their own businesses."
Mrs. Finkel said the Fen-
kell ladies ran various af-
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fairs to raise money. "We
held card parties, bingo
games and got ads and dona-
tions as well. We gave
bazaars for the United He-
brew Schools," of whose
auxiliary she was a founder.
She also helped organize the
Jewish National Fund Aux-
iliary.
"In 1922, Mrs. Eva Prenz-
lauer called on me and a few
other ladies to assist preg-
nant women coming to
America. These women need-
ed doctors, layettes and
various maternity supplies.
Mr. Prenzlauer arranged to
have hospital bills taken care
of as well.
"We carried on for many
years pleading with doctors
and merchants for their gen-
erous contributions and serv-
ices.
"When the Petoskey Old
Folks' Home was built, we
worked towaise money for
all its needs. We held two to
three affairs each week. Mrs.
Ferrar was the first presi-
dent of the Old Folks' Home
Auxiliary. I was ticket, rum-
mage and banquet chairman
of many of these fund-raising
activities — and the biggest
shnorrer when it came to
getting tickets, ads, etc."
Librarians Honor
Book on Partisans
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LETTER BOX
`Jewish Destiny Tied to Law'
Editor, The Jewish' News:
I was first amused, then
puzzled, and finally angered
by what appears to me to be
a rather unconscionable and
totally irresponsible state-
ment by Rabbi David H.
Wice of the World Union for
Progressive Judaism to the
effect that world Jewish
unity is threatened by Ortho-
dox interpretations of the
Halakha.
The Halakha, the Jewish
Codes of Law, embrace the
Torah way of living Judaism.
The Halakha articulates what
Judaism is; it defines what a
Jew is. Without the Halakha,
we are nothing. After all,
what is the Jewish people?
We are the People of the
Book. The whole destiny of
the Jew is so intimately tied
to the Halakha that, as his-
tory has shown, without it,
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Author Pleased by 'Walls' Review
Editor, The Jewish News:
Dr. (I. M.) Goldman for-
warded your review of
"Walls."
I want to thank you for
conveying to your readers
what I meant to say. Thank
you for helping me to spread
that then and now the chal-
lenge to each individual is
to realize that we are given
a choice! That the hope for
a better tomorrow rests sole-
ly in ourselves, in our rec-
ognition that we must never
cease to listen to the voice
of our conscience—the high-
est order there is.
I was permitted to attend
a review of my "Walls" by
Dr. Goldman at C h i z u k
Amuna synagogue in Balt-
CHICAGO—"Uncle Misha's
Partisans," a children's book
by Yuri Suhl, won the award
for the best Jewish juvenile
book published during the
year at the Association of
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Jewish Libraries convention
held here recently.
The award is given an-
nually by the synagogue,
school and center division of
the association.
During t h e convention,
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MOVING?
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we perish through the in-
souciance that we know so
well: intermarriage and as-
similation. If we speak of
Judaism, we speak of the
Halakha; they are insepara-
ble.
When Rabbi Wice decries
the Halakha as a threat to
world Jewry, he speaks in
terms that are self-contra-
dictory. Perhaps the Halakha
is inimical to the Reform
movement — I hope not! —
perhaps the Halakha runs
against the grain of what
Rabbi Wice calls "Progres-
sive Judaism." But as for
Torah Judaism, it and the
Halakha are one and the
same. Long may they flour-
ish in Zion and the world
over.
RABBI JACK GOLDMAN
Jewish Chaplain, Macomb
County Community College.
more and was deeply moved
about his words on brother-
hood, giving me hope that
one day the "Walls" of in-
difference, hate and suspi-
cion will be overcome.
H. Margaret Zassenhaus
Baltimore, Md.
Editor's Note: Dr. Zassen-
haus' reference is to the re-
view of her book "Walls"
(Beacon Press), reviewed in
The Jewish News, July 5,
under the heading "Autobio-
graphy of Righteous Catholic
Who Resisted Nazis." For
her "Walls" and her courag-
eous defiance of Nazism as a
young girl, in Hamburg, Dr.
Zassenhaus has been nomi-
nated for a Nobel Prize.
1,500 Engineers Needed in Israel
for Its Entry Into Nuclear Power
HAIFA — More than 1,500
engineers are needed by the
Electric Corporation here for
its entry into nuclear power
generation in the next
decade.
According to Ariel Amiad;
general manager, 500 men
are required just to fill the
vacancies of retiring workers
over the next five years.
Ya'Acov Ardon, Jerusalem
Post reporter, wrote that the
corporation plans to retrain
company engineers and offer
scholarships to students.
Amiad, surveying the plans
for his corporation said that
representatives of nuclear
reactor equipment will come
here in the fall to negotiate
the sale of the first reactor.
He said at least 40 per cent
of the equipment must be
Israel-made.
Amiad proposes to plant
forests around the reactors
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Jewish poet SALIS TAGGER
on the occasion of his 50th
birthday. Ivan Spassov, a
literary critic, paid homage
to the life and works of the
Jewish poet.
Yeshiva U. Honorees
NEW YORK — Since 1933
Yeshiva University has con-
ferred 'honorary degrees upon
270 outstanding men and
women.
Among them are: Lyndon
B. Johnson, Richard M. Nix-
on, Earl Warren, Yitzhak
Rabin, Levi Eshkol, Golda
Meir, Zalmon Shazar; and in
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Albert Einstein, Jean Piaget,
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