…THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review VOL. 8—NO. 11 2114 Penobscot Bldg. RA. 7956 of Jewish Events Detroit 26, Michigan, November 30, 1945 34 •4510. 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c The Feast Of Lights Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's fore- head o'er the earth, And add each night lustre till afar a An eightfold s p l e n do r shine above thy hearth. Clash, Israel, the cymbals, touch the lyre, Blow the bra...…
…S Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOL. 47. NO. 48 and The Legal Chronicle SECTLON_IWO DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1945 10c a single copy; $3.00 per year CHANUKAH MESSAGES ; ) Chanukah Repeats Itself Rabbi's Reply To Al Segal By RABBI LEON FRAM Temple Israel The Maccabean war, which ended in the triumphant rededi- cation (Chanukah) of the Tem- R- ple at Zion, was not a war be- ot' tween two countries, but be- tween two faiths. ...…
…Page Two Purely Commentary By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ THE NEW ZOA PRESIDENT Turn back the pages of this column for the past two years and you will find our predictions, coupled with our proposals, that Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland will be named president of the Zionist Organization of Americca and that he will eventually be called upon to assume the post of president of the World Zionist Organization. The first prediction is now reality. To...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Two Pure and Impure Oil The Modern Maccabees against its better knowledge, and greatest national traditions to deposits of Arabia and Persia close its eyes before the greatest which is largely, if not wholly, catastrophe that has ever over- responsible for the present come a people which has lost a plight and unequalled calamity third of its population — six of Eur...…
…Friday, November 3O, 1945 Eisenhower's Directives Ignored, Chaplain Charges Incompetent, Disinterested' Subordinates Disobeyed His Orders to Improve Conditions of Displaced Jews, Capt. Marcus Says after Tour NEW YORK (JPS)—American military personnel, administer- ing the DP camps are generally "incompetent and disinterested" and are not carrying out Gen. Eisenhower's directives on the treatment of Jews, Capt. Robert S. Marcus, Jewish chapla...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Three A CHANUKAH MESSAGE FOR OUR TIMES 1 (Continued from Page 1) spoiled his subjugated peoples of every vestige of economic and political liberty, but decided to enforce a common religion and a uniform depraved Syrian-Greek culture throughout his Empire, including Judaea. It was a long and uneven battle with the grim brutalities of a powerful and ruthless ene...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS .Page Four Father Hubbard As the Editor Views the News - - • • . Echo of Inquisition A shocking bit of arrogance, echoing the tragedy of the Spanish Inquisition, is report- ed from London by the JTA. The report states that a Madrid radio commentator calling himself "Alons," com- menting upon the statement of policy on Palestine made by Britain's Foreign Secre- tary Bevin, said that Spaniards do not under- stand anti-Semiti...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Four SOME THOUGHTS ON CHANUKAH By LIONEL J. ZIPRIN Wars are fought for the pres- ervation of ideals. In our own times, it has been Democracy against Fascism. At others, our own Civil War for example, it was unity against disunity. And our Revolutionary War was, of ter all, fought primarily on ac- count of religious intolerance. Chanukah, the dedication fes- ti...…
…- Friday, November 30, 1945 Troop THE JEWISH NEWS Page Five aids on Palestine Colonies Increase Strife 9 More Jews Die, 100 Hurt In Defense of Settlements Troops Withdrawn Early in Week as Labor Pauses in Tribute to Martyrs; Situation Remains Tense as Protests are Cabled to Leaders in England and U. S. (Special Cable to the Jewish News) JERUSALEM—Determination by British forces to halt the entrance of Jews unless they are admitted on v...…
…I Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and Pege Five The Legal Chronicle FROM 2nd AVENUE TO WORLD FAME - - - ON PAUL MUNI'S 50th BIRTHDAY By ALFRED WERNER A photographic exhibit, "The Jew in American Life," is now travelling from State to State. Intended to show the Jews' in- tegration into American life, it demonstrates by means of en- gravings, portraits and photo- graphs, that American Jews are farmers as well as scien...…
…Page Six THE JEWISH NEWS - Kindle Ye the Festive Light A Hanukah Poem in Free Verse By DR. NOAH E. ARONSTAM Behold—the Feast of Lights! The tale perchance is old, And yet is ever new: It tells of Mattathias, Named the Hasmonean, Called the Hammer of his people, It tells the tale of Epiphanes, Designate as Epimanes, Antiochus, cruel, madman. The Syrian host was led by Heron, It advanced, it advanced: Chariots and stalwart warriors, With we...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Four SOME THOUGHTS ON CHANUKAH By LIONEL J. ZIPRIN m °ties of . • living. 1. Luc • oy...., • come ..•,...— •••.,•.., ,.....•• over uld accept the Greek easily, did that general know that be- hanes were as shattered as his! a rmies. He had underestimated h is enemy. He had thought too Ii ttle of this people. Now he had r eason to be afraid. When the so...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, November 30, 1941 JDC's European Officials To Report at ec. 9 Parley Findings of Investigators into Condition of Surviving Jews to Feature 3 I st Annual Meeting in New York; Cost of 1946 Relief Program to Be Told NEW YORK—The needs of Europe's surviving Jews and the cost of carrying out a program of relief and reconstruction in 1946, based on the Joint Distribu- tion Committee's investigations into the situation con...…
…1 Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle FROM 2nd AVENUE TO WORLD FAME - - - ON PAUL MUM'S 50th BIRTHDAY By ALFRED WERNER c Pegs Five A photographic exhibit, "The Jew in American Life," is no w travelling from State to State. Intended to show the Jews' in- tegration into American life, it demonstrates by means of en- gravings, portraits and photo- graphs, that American Jews are farmers as well as scie...…
…Page Eight THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, November 30, 1945 UPA Retraining Returning Soldiers Hoover Proposes Palestine Arabs' Transfer to Iraq al* Among the major problems confronting Jewish Palestine today is the reintegration of demobilized servicemen and women: The Jewish Agency for Palestine, which derives its American support through the United Palestine Appeal, is collaborating with the War Needs and Rescue Fund in providing vocational re...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle his first English-speaking role, to see. As he left, he shook pany returned to New York. yet one of the ill-informed crit- alter Seeing that he could not everybody's hands and wished us ics, who was thrilled by his per- the boy's decision, the elder "Good Luck." This we needed, formance, expressed his pity Weisenfreund gave in, not with- indeed. True, Muni's visit to ...…
…kvo Friday, November THE JEWISH NEWS 30, 1945 UJA to Continue as Fund Raising Agency for JDC, UPA Next Year Special Wire to Jewish News NEW YORK (JTA)—The United Jewish Appeal will con- tinue to serve as the fund-raising instrument for the Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal and Na- tional Refugee Service in 1946, it was announced on Tues- day. Terms of the 1945 UJA contract, providing for 57 per cent to JDC and 43 per ...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle educated! Whether he portrayed the zealous French bacteriolo- gist who braved the sneering stodgy academicians, or showed the simple Chinese peasant's struggle with nature: whether he transformed himself into the fearless French novelist fighting for innocent Captain Dreyfus, or into the stolid idealistic Mexican Indian who defied European des- potism and imperialism ...…
…Page Ten THE JEWISH NEWS tr A * * * * * Friday, November 30, 1945 * A Igr hat Price icto • • our Share rf the Cost is an Extra and in America's Great Victory Loan THIS VETERAN will never get back what he gave up for his country. You get back more than you lend your country—$4 for every $3--ivhen you buy VICTORY "E" Bonds. THIS VICTORY LOAN ADVERTISEMENT SPONSORED EY THESE FIRMS AS THEIR HANUKAH GREETINGS TO THE COMMUNITY House ...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Eight Judge Guy A. Miller, Circuit Judge Cites Need For Furthering Unity Among Different Faiths duties in the office before Court In a letter to The Chronicle, dinary man carries it through, each morning we casually dis- the whole program fails. Judge Guy A. Miller, of the As an illustration of my col- cuss the question of the day. Wayne County Circuit Court, c...…
…Friday, NoveirlUer 30, 1945 THE JEWISH- NEWS Kahn Firm Starts Designing Detroit's Jewish Hospital Page- Eleven To-the Jewish People Halevy Center Plan Revealed at Social BY GABRIELA MISTRAL (EDITOR'S NOTE: Gabriela Mistral, famous Chilean poetess who was recently awarded the.Nobel Prize for literature for 1915. wrote the fol- lowing poem last year on the occasion of the disclosure of the Nazi massacre of Jews in Poland.) • At the overf...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle „ WAR, STORY by SEYMOUR POLEVETZ E 4 t t My story starts with the com- mand, "Prepare to mov e up." The order came through just about dark last Chanukah. We a ll groaned as all infantrymen do and Prepared to move. Mo=t of us were already tired from the ten or more miles we had already walked that (hiv plus the two times we had to "dig in." As we walked along, a r...…
…Page Twelve Jewish Youth's LISTENING THE JEWISH NEWS Jewish War Vets Urge U.S. Back Palestine State Veterans of Two Wars De- mand Impeachment of BO- bo; Cohen Commander By Danny Raskin TWO THOUSAND years is a long time to go back in history . . . but the Maccabean struggle of that age produced the spirit of Hanukah and presents us with the symbolic realization of the part played by Jewish boys in the recent war. * * * THEIR FIGHT Was no...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Ten not fear, at the sight of the Chanukah Speaks to Mr. and Mrs. World Germans. I was no longer trap- ped like a rat. I do not remem- And we have the flaming mem- ber too much of that battle. I traditional story of the miracle a degenerated Syria. Hundreds ories of the Chanukah of the By RABBI LEON SPITZ left my hole several times to of the little cruse of oi...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 THE JEWISH NEWS Congregational Activities Ground Broken For Synagogue Dr. Crane Speaker Youth Participate In Pontiac Hanukah At Beth El Dec. 7 Service This Friday Page Thiiieen . Rabbi Schoenberger To Preach at Temple Israel Next Friday Rabbi Fram and Delegation to Attend Hebrew Union College Celebration Rabbi Levi _Principal Speaker Dr. Glazer in Washington; at Ceremonies of N. W. Hanukah Dinner to - Be Hebre...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 4 I t • Page Eleven DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Congregation Bnai Jeshurun 100th Anniversary When Congregation Bnai Jr- ! between Buffalo and New York changed to a purely Religious gested by symbols found on the remains of buildings in Pales- shurun in New York City, the from twenty days to six. A School. oldest Conservative country's tine and Egypt. Distinguished Rabbis New York has swelled...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS Page Fourfeen NCJW Holds Affair At Center Monday; Mrs. Engel to Talk Detroit Section, N a ti o n a 1 Council of Jewish Women, will honor paid-up and new membefs at a luncheon and fashion show at 12:30 Monday, at the Jewish Center. •:" Members are being asked to bring a bundle of china, crystal or bricabrac, which will be sold at Council's Resale Shop, Cass at Peterboro. During luncheon models will parade beautiful clothes. M...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle e Rescue of Michel Page Twelve have worshipped there. Mem- bers helped to found Mount Si- nai Hospital, Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Bnai Brith and the Home for Aged and Infirm He- brews. During Mr. Goldstein's rab- binate, the Congregation has grown from 350 families to more than 1,000. 400 students attend the Religious School. Tin' 7-story Community Center built :in 1928...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 Local Brevities In honor of the safe return of their sons, Dr. Gerald Finkel, Laurence J. Berman and Allen E. Finkel, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Finkel of 3350 Lawrence do- nated $100 to SHAAREI CHE- SED FREE _LOAN SOCIETY of Jerusalem, Palestine, through Rabbi J. Eisenman, the sole rep- resentative of the cause in the United States. * * * Harry Schaeffer, national vice- commander, Philip Cantor, na- tional executive commi...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 4I ( 1 ed over little Michel to her eld- est daughter, Esther, and said: "I have a ,clever • daughter, she will know what to do." The clearer daughter` lived up to her mother's expectation. She saved herself from the .gas chamberg, although a prankish guard locked her up in one of the chambers for a half hour and then released her. Believing she was dead, she waited numb- ly until he unlocked the door, called her o...…
…Page Sixteen Friday, Proverrifie ► 30, 7941 THE. JEWISH NEWS ACTIVITIES IN SOCIETY Recent Bride Palestinian Afternoon Features 6th Tea Talk At Center This Sunday Bridal Calendar Dec. 2—Miss Lois Jean Werbe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Werbe of 1074 Atkinson, to Phil- Mrs. William Isenberg, chair- lip Brodax, son of Mrs. Rae' man of the Jewish Center's Wo- Grossman of Cleveland. Dr. B. men's Activities Committee, an- Benedict Glazer wi...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle - — Page Fourteen War Crimes U.P.A. BUILDS NEW SETTLEMENTS ' 4 4,4: 1:4 The Jewish Agency for Pal- estine has submitted a 1500-page report of detailed Nazi war crimes against European Jews collected from the refuge es who reached Eretz Israel since the outbreak of the war. Soon after 1939 the political department of the Jewish Agency set up a spe- cial section ...…
…Plovemtier 30.1945 THE JEWISH NEWS Page Se ► entee* NHJC Unit Sponsors Seek 50 Sifre Torah Fund-Raising Affair For European Jewry ACTIVITIES IN SOCIETY Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. Segar of Birchcrest Dr. and Dr. and Mrs. Saul Rosenzweig of Boston Blvd. are expected home Mon- day from 10 days in New York City and Philadelphia. Stanley B. Friedman, who received his discharge from the Army last July while in France and who since that time has b...…
…1.iday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Chaplain Returns I By RABBI PHILIP S. BERNSTEIN ,„4 E ,) Two disturbing facts emerge from recent conferences with chap- litiqs. The first is the opinion of a large liercentage that they have no definite jobs to return to. Th e other is the feeling of many that th , ; will not wish to minist er in synagogu es after the war. These po,. such serious problems for th...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS Page Eighteen Women's Club Activities YOUNG WOMEN'S BICUR CHOLEM seventh annual donor luncheon will be held Dec. 5, at the Book Cadillac. Funds will be used to aid needy sick. The program for the afternoon in- cludes Edgar A. Guest, speaker, Roberts' fur style show, Mrs. Rosina •Betman LaKritz, vocalist, and Mrs. Betty Schmalt Blin- strub, accompanist. For reserv- ations call Mrs. Joseph Shaman, TO. 7-0257.. * * * YOUNG WOME...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Sixteen general Mexican population. A contributing factor to the high standard of organized Jew ish life in Mexico, in the opinion of Mr. Resnikoff, is the fact that there is little inter-Jewish group dissension. The Sephardic Jews and the Ashkenazim have learn- ed to work and live together and to cooperate in all matters pro- moting Jewish welfare, whether it b...…
…Detroiters to Print Migdal to Celebrate Korman Translations Hanukah This Sunday Of Yesenin's Poetry Migdal Chapter of League for Detroit friends of the Yiddish poet, Ezra Korman, well known Detroiter, have formed a com- mittee to sponsor the publication of his forthcoming volume of translations into Yiddish of the Russian poet, Sergey Yesenin. The planned .volume will con- tain 75 poems, among them Yinonia," t h e poetical vision :•,of a bett...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 t t The DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle an By DANIEL FRISCH Recently, I happened upon small notice in a Yiddish new paper which awakened many thoughts within me. It was a brief report of a memorial meet- ing held in honor of the late Vladimir Jabotinsky on the oc- casion of the fifth anniversary of his death. It was in a modest hall, under very simple circum- stances, that the gathering was held...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS Page Twenty Committee Demands Inquiry Not Delay Zion Immigration NEW YORK—Establishment of the Joint Anglo-American Com- mission to inquire into the ques: tion of Palestine and the situa- tion of the Jews in Europe should in no way preclude or delay the granting of President Truman's request for admission of 100,000 displaced European Jews into Palestine, Secretary of • State Byrnes was told by Jacob Blau- stein, chairman of...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronic!e I Page Eighteen there should be a concentration, majority in Palestine and to cre- he espouses, should sit down not only of all our reverence with folded arms and wait for but of our own deepest under- ate the Jewish State — imme- 3r, without delay, with iron a full discussion of all the angles standing, imagination and en- diatel determination, t h r o u g h every ...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 THE JEWISH NEWS Eliowitz's Coaching Brings Denby First Grid Title in 16 Yrs. In the comparatively short span of three years, Abe Eliowitz has become one of the most out- standing high school football coaches in Michigan. His Denby high eleven last week climaxed his three years of coaching with a 19-19 tie with Catholic Central in the 8th annual Goodfellow city championship game at Briggs Stadium. In three years as ...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 oz% ) DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle Vaad Hatzalah Reveals Plight of Million Refugees; Program NEW YORK --:The New York headquarters of the Vaad Haat- zalah - Rehabilitation has just published a report from its rep- resentatives overseas, Rabbi S. P. Wohlgelernter of Seattle, Wash- ington; Rabbi Dr. Isaac Lewin; Dr. Zorach Warhaftig, Warsaw laver and author, and Samuel Schmidt, publisher. Their...…
…gi;;44.4140.4,44, THE JEWIS11 1 NEWS Page Twenty-two M. Steinberg, Former Detroiter, Weds Lillian Adelman in N. Y. The marriage Of Miss Lillian Adelman, daughter of Mrs. Pepie Rosenzweig of the Bolivar Apts., 230 Central Park W., New York City, and Morris .Steinberg of New York, well known former Detroiter, was performed Thurs- day, Nov. 22, in the parlor of the Bolivar Apts. Rabbi Louis I. Newman per- formed the ceremony. Myron Steinberg ...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Twenty AIDS RETURNING SOLDIERS Orphan Girl Becomes "Daughter of Regiment" mittee, headed by Sgt. George W. Friedman of Los Angeles, A beautiful brunette whose presented the JDC representa- shy smile enchants all who see tives in Brussels with their check her, the unanimous pin-up girl for five thousand dollars. of the whole 344th Bombard- Since the deportation...…
…Friday, November 30; 1945 THE JEWISH NEWS A Multi-Faceted Career Rabbi. Fram's Activities Reviewed on 50th Birthday Played Leading Role in Important Community Projects; Noted for Educational Work; Is One of Michigan's Leading Zionists; Testimonials Planned in His Honor When Rabbi Leon Fram celebrates his 50th birthday on Dec. 12, those greeting him and wishing him well will not be limited to the members of Temple Israel or the Jew- ish co...…
…?3 Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Peg. Twenty-One 'The Orthodox View --- Rabbi Wohlgelernter 6 t. (Continued from page 1 • The identification of Jews with ,d e n ce (Exodus xxx, 111, 14). other Jews of all lands and gen- What constitutes an answer to erations is in itself of tremen- th e fundamental problems of life dous religious and nationalistic on this earth and the relation- importance. T...…
…• Friday, November 30, 1945 THE JEWISH NEWS Page Twenty-four Rabbinical Assembly flits Religious Rites in Schools Rabbis Oppose Introduction of Sectarian Insfruction and Observance of Festivals; Not. a Respz,smi'Dility of State; Can't Do Justice to All Religions NEW YORK:—Dr. Robert Gordis, president of the Rab- binical Assembly of America, has announced the issuance of a statement by the Executive Council of the Assembly, op- posing the...…
…Friday, November 30, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Twenty U. P. A. AIDS RETURNING SOLDIERS Orphan Girl Becomes "Daughter of Regiment" mittee, headed by Sgt. George W. Friedman of Los Angeles, A beautiful . brunette whose presented the JDC representa- shy smile enchants all who see tives in Brussels with their check her, the unanimous pin-up girl for five thousand dollars. of the whole 344th Bombard- Since the ...…
…• 7.7 7.7.7 ▪ ▪ . . '411111111W Friday, November 30, 1945 THE JEWISH NEWS Windsor Welfare Fund Makes Progress in $75,000 Campaign Vienna Jews Ask Detroit Round Table Conference Property Return To Discuss 'Prejudice' Thursday Left to right: REUBEN MADOFF, treasurer of the Windsor Jewish Community Council, HARRY CHERNIAK, president of the Council and chairman of the Windsor Welfare Fund Cam- paign, and MILTON MERETSKY, vice-president of ...…
…ridey, November 30, 1945 to .; 7 ll ) (Continued from page 1) • ,, : ice (Exodus xxx, 111, 14). What constitutes an answer to the fundamental problems of life on this earth and the relation- ,hip between Man and God? The answer is daily communion V. th the Creator through the -service of the heart" and the symbolic representation of unity th e causality in nature as one commentary interprets the mean- ing of "Kesher Shel Tefillin." They p...…
