THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Edelman Runs for Probate
Leonard Edelman, the
hief administrative officer
Of Wayne County Probate
Court, has announced his
candidacy for Wayne
County Probate Judge.
He has been probate reg-
ister of that court for the
past nine years.
Prior to that he was chief
deputy probate register for
10 years.
He is a graduate of the
Detroit College of Law and
is a faculty member of the
L ute of Continuing
Education. '
Edelman was named a
court analyst in 1954. He
serves on the Michigan
upreme Court probate
rules committee and the
committee to consolidate
Michigan court rules.
Edelman is a former
president of ,the Wayne
county Supervisory Em-
ployees Association, an or-
ganizer, charter member
and officer of the American
Veterans Committee and a
25-year member of the-
American Legion.
He is a member of the De-
LEONARD-EDELMAN
-
troit Institute of Arts Foun-
ders Society and the Detroit
Economic Club. Also,
Friends of the Detroit Pub-
lic Library, Friends for Or-
chestra Hall, and a charter
member and former officer
of C.I.O. Local 116, Wayne
County Employees.
A longtime member of the
Democratic Party, he
served as precinct delegate
in the 1st District, the 15th
District and the 17th Dis-
trict.
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A recent article in the To- his superiors began over
ronto Globe and Mail about 300-years of speculation and
Jewish communities in writing about the Jews of
China drew an informative K'ai-feng. Their greatest
correction from David number is estimated to have
Simonoff of Toronto: been about 1,500 persons, in
Your man in China, John seven clans: Ai, Chang,
Fraser, makes a little error Chao, Chin, Kao, Li and
in his report on Russian Shih. They called them-
exiles (No Tears in China as selves, variously, T'iao-
Russian Exiles Leave — chin-chiao (the sect which
Sept. 1), which involves an extracts the sinew); T'iao
interesting period in ching-chiao (the sect which
Chinese history. He wrote of does not accept Chris-
the "synagogues that were tianity); or Chiao-ching- •
built there (in Kaifeng) over chi ao (the sect which
80 years ago." Had he writ- teaches the scriptures).
In 1909 William Charles
ten "over 800 years ago" he
would have been closer to White, ari Anglican mis-
sionary from Toronto,
the truth.
That Russian emigres and for 40 years a legen-
settled in Harbin cannot be dary figure in China,
disputed; while not a border moved to K'ai-feng to
city, Harbin is only 300 begin 25 years as Bishop
Miles up the Sungari River of Honan province.
from the Soviet Union. But By this time the Jews in
settling in Kaifeng? Most the city, whom White "dis-
unlikely. K'ai-feng Fu, the covered, had dwindled in
capital of Honan province, number to a few, families,
is about 1,000 miles south of very poor, completely as-
similatecl, knowing little, if
Harbin, as the crow flies.
Jews first settled in anything, about themselves
as Jews, although they pos-
K'ai-feng (Fu is • the de-
sessed scrolls of the Law
signation of a provincial
(the Old Testament), prayer
capital) in . 1162 (some
books and other religious
would have it in the year
72 — the ubiquitous Ten relics.
Bishop White made
Lost Tribes) and built
friends with these families,
their-synagogue in 1163.
In 1605, a young Chinese visited them and tried to re-
scholar, Ai T'ien, visited a wive among them, without
Jesuit missionary in Pek- success, interest in their
ing, Father Matteo Ricci. tradition and heritage.
The result of their conversa- When he returned to To-
tion about religion was the ronto in 1934 he brought
astounding revelation to with him a number of ob-
Father Ricci that Ai T'ien jects from the Jewish coin-
was a Jew, although his munity,. including a large
physical appearance and black basalt stele, which are
dress differed not at all from now in the ROM.
In 1942 the University of
that of other Chinese.
Father Ricci's letters to Toronto Press published his
Rabbi David Nelson Heads
ZOD Scholarship Body
arships are provided by
the Philip Slomovitz
Scholarship Fund of the
ZOD.
The Molly Goodman High
School is a major project of
the Zionist Organization of
America. It benefits from
proceeds of the Balfour Con-
cert of the ZOD, this year to
be held Nov. 12 at Cong.
Shaarey Zedek.
Sukkot Cream Cheese Treats
SUKKOT
HARVEST PIE
8-oz. pkg. Philadelphia
Brand cream cheese
1 /4 cup sugar
1 /2 tsp. vanilla
h unbaked pastry shell
1
1 1/4 cups canned pumpkin
1/2 cup sugar
:1 tsp. cinnamon
1 /4 tsp. ginger
1 /4 tsp. nutmeg
Dash of salt
1 cup evaporated milk
2 eggs, slightly beaten
Combine softened cream
cheese, sugar and vanilla, mix-
ing until well blended. Add
egg; mix well. Spread onto bot-
tom of pastry shell.
Combine remaining ingre-
dients; mix well. Carefully
pour over cream cheese mix-
ture. Bake at 350°,1 hour and 5
minutes. Cool. Brush with
maple syrup and garnish with
nuts, if desired. Yield: 6 to 8
servings.
RALPH
YAMRON'S
Orchestra
China Jews Traced 900 Years
This Sukkot Harvest Pie is one of many desserts
which can be made with Philadelphia. Brand Cream
Cheese. The pumpkin and cheese pie can be gar-
nished with maple syrup or nuts if desired.
In the days of the Temple,
Sukkot was the great festi-
val of thanksgiving. Having
'.completed the harvesting of
•the crop, our grateful people
made a pilgrimage to the
Temple to give thanks. This
Sukkot, use kosher
Philadelphia Cream Cheese
with seasonal fruits to make
this year's celebration extra
special and deliciously
different.
Friday, October 13, 1918 39
APPLE GLACE PIE
1 8-oz. pkg. Philadelphia
Brand cream cheese
2 tbsps. sugar
1 tbsp. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 9-inch baked pastry shell
2 /3 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
1 /4 cup red cinnamon candies
4 cups peeled apple slices
1 tbsp. cornstarch
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tbsp. Parkay Margarine
Combine softened cream
cheese, sugar, milk and van-
illa, mixing until well blended.
Spread mixture on bottom of
pastry shell.
Combine water, sugar and
candy in saucepan; heat until
candy is melted. Add apples;
continue cooking 8 to 10 min-
utes or until apples are tender.
Drain, reserving 3/4 cup liquid.
Combine cornstarch, re-
served liquid and lemon juice
in saucepan. Stir over medium
heat until clear and thickened.
Blend ' in margarine. Arrange
apples on cream cheese layer;
cover with glaze. Chill. Yield: 6
to 8 servings.
Rites Observed
LONDON — Vestnik, the
monthly bulleting of the
Czechoslovak Jewish corn-
munity, for the first time in
many years gave increased
space to announcements of
High Holy Day services
throughout the country.
RABBI NELSON
Rabbi David Nelson of
Cong. Beth Shalom has
been named chairman of the
scholarship committee of
the Zionist Organization of
Detroit.
Dr. Maxwell Hoffman,
ZOD president, announced
that serving on the commit-
tee with Rabbi Nelson will
be Myron Steinberg, Albert
Berke and Louis Panush.
Scholarship winners are
sent for a year of study at
the Molly Goodman High
School in Kfar, Silver, Ash-
kelon, Israel, and to Zionist
camps in this country.
Funds for the schol-
If only one man repents
for his sins, the whole world
is pardoned.
great work, "Chinese Jews:
A Compilation of Matters
Relating to the Jews of
K'aifeng Fu," which in-
cludes a register of the Li
clan for 15 generations from
about 1400 to 1870
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