THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6 Friday, December 24, 1976
The third Lateran
Council of 1179, prohi-
bited Jews from having
Christian servants, ac-
cepted the testimony of
Christians against Jews
in all lawsuits, and de-
clared that "Jews ought
to be subject to Christ-
ians."
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How Butzel Viewed Jewish Center Objectives
.
Editor's Note: The late Fred M. Butzel, who was the
acknowledged leader of the Detroit Jewish community
for many years, had interesting views on Jewish Center
objectives. He expressed them in an article he wrote in
the November, 1933 issue of Federation News, an organ
that was briefly published by the Jewish Welfare Feder-
ation. In that article Mr. Butzel expressed ideas that are
applicable today. The text of that article, which Temple
Beth El Executive Secretary Irving Katz located in his
files, is reproduced here as an interesting recollection of
an era in Detroit Jewry's history.
By FRED M. BUTZEL
Old-timers remember
the Young Men's Hebrew
Association on Brush St.,
opposite Winder; the Fel-
lowship Club on Colum-
bia, just west of Wood-
ward; the Boys' Im-
provement Club and
Self-Help Circle housed in
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our first center building,
on the southeast corner of
Montcalm and Brush.
Of tender and pleasant
memories is the Hannah
Schloss Memorial on
High St., near Hastings,
where we had a very
lively social life, involving
education, art, music,
athletics and public
speaking, not to mention
fights, dances and an oc-
casional scandal.
A few of 'us remember
the set-up which pur-
chased on time a lot for
the YMHA, and had a
complete organization
which was dissipated
within two weeks by the
entrance of the United
States into the war. The
lot was lost by default,
and the organization dis-
banded because so many
of the campaigners for
funds went to the train-
WITH SOME CAR
DEALERS, COURTESY
IS OPTIONAL.
At Glassman Olds, it's standard equipment.
It has to be. Or there wouldn't be a
Glassman Olds.
No, you won't stroll down red carpets
and be crowned with laurel wreaths. But
you will be dealing with people who care about
people and not just cars.
Simply put, we want your business.
But we also want your good will. And the
way we see it, the first follows from the
second.
WHERE PEOPLE STILL COME FIRST
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ing camps.
The need for a center
has been about the only
thing on which the Jews of
Detroit have been able to
agree. The project re-
ceived the right-of-way
about 10 years ago but was
side-tracked by reason of
the insistence of some of
our leading citizens that a
hospital, concerning which
there was much agree-
ment, was equally neces-
sary.
As a result of this insis-
tence, neither the center
nor the hospital was ac-
quired.
The Allied Jewish
Campaign of 1930 pro-
vided funds for the pur-
chase of a center site on
Taylor and Woodward,
but the financial crash
made its tentative acquis-
ition highly questionable.
We were fortunate,
through the good offices
of Messrs. Friedman,
Meyers & Keys, to obtain
our deposit back and to be
released from our bar-
gain.
With all of these
memories, it was quite
natural that there should
be a continuing skepti-
cism as to whether we
should ever have a
center. No one was ever
satisfied with our various
temporary homes after
leaving the Hannah
Schloss Memorial.
The frame shanties on
East Philadelphia Ave.,
and the labyrinthian
maze on Melbourne Ave.
did not even approxiMate
our minimum needs; and
the very beautiful home
of the Young Women's
Hebrew Association on
Rowena St. was badly af-
fected by the change in
neighborhood conditions
and the tremendous ex-
pansion of activities,
when the girls com-
menced to entertain the
boys and were almost dis-
placed by them.
The new Jewish Center
at Holbrook and Wood-
ward will probably not
satisfy those who are more
concerned with appear-
ances than with reality.
Many would prefer a
showy building with a
greater debt, and are more
concerned with marble
fronts than with effective
activities.
Our young people, how-
ever, who are looking for
an adequate gymnasium,
good clubrooms and a
place for banquets and
dramatics, for the study
of the useful and fine arts,
will find our new building
most adequate. Its homey
appearance will conduce
greatly to the mixing of
our various groups.
The Center has already
a fine tradition of self-
government and; de-
mocratic self--expi.ession.
It has splendid relations
with . our synagogues,
Hebrew schools, lodges
and the Federation.
There is no one group
Dutch Synagogue
to Be Monument
AMSTERDAM (JTA)-
which owns it and there is
no one group whose in- The municipal council of
terests should predomi- Groningen in the north-
east of Holland has
nate.
It starts out without unanimously decided to
any particular bias or buy the former
particular tendency, and Groningen synagogue as
I hope it will always re- an historical monument.
The synagogue, which
main so. It is a place for
the Jewish people, and was inaugurated some 75
especially our young years ago when . the
people, where they can Jewish community still
find self-expression and flourished, proved much
be encouraged to act too large after World War
freely, happily and intel- II when the majority of -
Groningen's Jews were
ligently.
Quite obviously, no one deported to death camps.
building can offer all the The Jewish survivors ~ v
facilities needed and our "meet in the former yi
center must remain com- synagogue.
The main synagogue
plementary to all the
numerous Jewish activi- was sold some time ago
ties of the city, both in and in recent years
existence and to be served as a laundry.
created in the future.
We all welcome the new Danny Kaye Cited
Jewish Center as a sym-
bol of a co-operative spirit GENEVA (JTA) —
fostered by our Federa- Danny Kaye was one of
tion, and as a real answer five recipients last week
to the essential needs of to receive UNICEF
our young people. May awards in recognition of
our young people grow in distinguished volunteer
spiritual, intellectual and services rendered to the
physical strength, free United Nations chil-
from any unwarranted dren's fund. Kaye, born
feeling of superiority, and David Daniel Kaminsky,
free from the too- has made several world-
prevalent sense of in- wide tours during which
feriority abroad in the he helped raise millions of
land today. dollars for UNICEF.
Ex-Argentine Jewish Minister
Sought by His Government
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)
— Federal Judge Tulio
Garcia Moritan has asked
the United States gov-
ernment to arrest former
Argentine Minister of the
Economy Jose Ber Gel-
bard who is wanted here
on charges of embezzle-
ment.
Gelbard, who was the
only Jew in the cabinet of
former President Isabel
Martinez de Peron, now
lives in Washington.
Mrs. Peron, who has
been under arrest since
her government was
ousted by the military
last March 24, is pres-
ently being prosecuted on
charges that she used
funds from a Peronist
Party charity fund for her
own use.
Judge Garcia Moritan
said she told him that
Gelbard had assured her
that there would be
enough money in the fund
to be used for any purpose
she desired.
The former president
told the judge that Gelbard
stressed that money would
flow into the fund.
During the investiga-
tion the names were
made public of some 100
firms which had contrib-
uted to the fund. Repre-
sentatives of the com-
panies said that the con-
tributions were made
either at the suggestion
of Gelbard or the mem-
bers of the General Eco-
nomic Confederation of
which Gelbard was presi-
dent until May 25, 1973.
-
Gelbard, who was born
in Poland, was stripped of
his citizenship after the
military coup last March
and the court has at-
tached his assets of some
$400,000. He left the
country last February.
Partisan Efforts
for Jews Filmed
SOFIA (JTA) — The
Bulgarian film industry
has started shooting a
film on the efforts of the
partisans to save the
country's Jews from de-
portation during World
War II.
The film, "The Death
Transports Will Not
Leave," is based on a book
by Haim Oliver.
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