…Detroit Jewish Chronicle (9 _ VOL. 46, NO. 14 and The Legal Chronicle _ SEON061•4110 DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1944 10c Single Copy: $3.00 Per Year A SPIRITUAL EXODUS By DR. SAMUEL BELKIN President, Yeshivah and Yeshivah College Passover is the eternal symbol which possesses the most popu- assuming the educational, intel- tion will not be intellectually must make all efforts to offer a of inspiration for freedom loving I ou...…
…War Savings Stamps and Bonds VOL. 5—WO. 3 HE JEWISH NE A Weekly Review 2114 Penobscot Bldg. RA. 7956 of Jewish Events Detroit 26. Michigan, April 7, 1944 ais-nver are Buy U. S. War Savings Stamps and Bonds 34 4Wo. 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c s 5 701 - 19 1 t Passover, the festival on which "He brought us out from slavery to freedom, from sadness to joy, from mourning to festivity, from darkness to great light, from oppre...…
…April 7, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 2 MASARYK CHARTS JEWISH FUTURE they could share with the Jews ceived the right of franchise and the freedoms they had won in to hold elective office. They were unison with them. It requires no free to employ their own mother Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia Sees in Traditions and clairvoyance to see that such tongue. A broad autonomous base freedoms breed better citizens. ser...…
…Page Two THE JEWISH NEWS Purely Commentary Friday, April 7, t944 Quotation of the Week By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ "M'AVDUTH L'HERUTH" The central Passover theme is based on the emergence of the Israelites "M'Avduth L'Heruth"—from slavery to freedom. This theme represents the very root of the challenge of our time to all peoples. The chains of slavery, symbol- ized by oppression and indecency, must be broken, and not a link must be left in sight...…
…A merica 'apish Periodical Carter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110 April 7, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle SEDER TREASURE HUNT A Tale of the Afikomen By BERNARD POSTAL National Director of Bnai Brith Publicity Editor's Note—One of the quaintest features of the symbolic Seder service is the search for the afikomen. The origin of this picturesque game of hide and seek with a sliver of matzoth together with a nu...…
…ri-tday, April` 7, • •944 * 700,000 Christians Face Fate of Jews in Hungary Full Nurem6urg Program to Be Established in Hungary Affecting Christians as Well as 750,000 Jewish ,Residents, Reports to Ankara State ANKARA (JPS)—With Hungary under the strangling grip of the Nazis, reports reaching here told of Nazi preparations to „introduce the full Nuremburg program of anti-Jewish legislation which may place 706,000 Hungarian Christians, with ...…
…DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 4 April 7, 1944 A PASSOVER TRILOGY By SIDNEY JACOBS Editor's Note: Mr. Jacobs is a rabbinical student at the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, and is a student-rabbi of the Baisley Park Jewish Centre in Long Island. He is a frequent contributor to the Anglo-Jewish press, and for a number of years was the editor of "The Advocate" magazine of Chicago. swarthy "Mitzri," steeped in...…
…Page.. ,Four T:#-IF' JEWISH . NEWS • As the Editor - -Friday; Busted Umbrella Views the News - - 1944 Talmudic Tales (Based upon the ancient legends and philosophy found in the Talmud and folklore-of the Jewish people.) The Holiday of Redemption •Passover is_more than a holiday. It is a, great institution in the life and history of our people. Thy Own Deeds Make Thy . Friends " We • speak of PaSsover as the festival.. of redemption...…
…A merica ffewish Periodical Cotter CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle April 7, 1944 • 5 Jews in the Dominican Republic By JULIUS MORITZEN when the colony was first estab- tribute of their best Dominican along different lines. prosperity. lished some few years ago. The Dominican Jews are whole- Editor's Note—Julius Molitzen has been a frequent contributor Whether it is as mechanics, Gen...…
…Page Five THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, Aprn 7, •1944 Dr. Eisenberg to Address UHS Anniversary Institute Detroit Passes Red Cross Goal Lipkin, 16, Brilliant Pianist, to Lead Symphony Orchestra on Sam's Hour Listeners of the Sam's Cut tors will represent Eastern Detroit and Wayne County Rate, Inc., weekly broadcasts by schools of music, one of them a Noted Jewish Educator to be Guest Speaker at First again have over-subscribed the former Detroi...…
…6 April 7, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle PILLAR OF FIRE By CHARLES A. RIEGELMAN President, National Refugee Service, Inc. Once again Passover is ob- served in the midst of world suf- fering. Today, 10 years after the rise of Hitler, Europe has become an armed camp in which millions of our people, like Pharaoh's slaves, are the victims of tyranny. More than half the Jews of Eu- rope have been destroyed and as defeat...…
…Page Six THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 7, 1944 Wei H EINRICH HEINE had been told that he was to figure in "A Gallery of Famous Israelites," and he was angry with Karl Ludwig Boerne and other Jews of Frankfort, His susceptibilities were shocked and he made the statement, in Journal des Debats,, that he was not a Jew and had never crossed the threshold of a synagogue. Many years later, he bitterly regretted this shocking declaration. He...…
…7 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle April 7, 1944 THE PALESTINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA same as of the leaders in all and held auditions for some 200. lost his temper was when we tried walks of life. One of the elements Sometimes I had to be cruel when with great sublety to raise the is the glorious past of the coun- in order to select the cream of the questions of his fees. He simply By BRONISLAW HUBERMAN try and the prophecies ...…
…Page Seven - THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 7, 1944. . Fondilter, Eminent Engineer, to Speak East. During the war it has Hate-Preachers Turn trained over 1,000 engineers and Hate on Each Other technicians, most of them now serving with the military forces NEW YORK (JPS)—Some of and in war industries. the hate-spreaders under Federal The Haifa Technical Institute indictment charged with subver- Louis Redstone, president of :quests to Partic...…
…April 7, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle and for the 52 sovereign states resolution, the answer is that whose business it is in the final this is a military secret. And in- instance to regulate, supervise deed a secret it is, and not only and assure the economic and po- a secret but a dark mystery and By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN litical development of the Jew- a mystification to boot. The Wagner-Taft-Compton res- there is an ...…
…Page Eight THE JEWISH NEWS Priday, Apr! 7, • P944 _ ' rde Charles Wingate THE LAWRENCE OF JUDEA The man who prepared the campaign for the recapture of Burma once lectured Palestine authorities on Zionist policy . . . Was the leader of British Jewish military group that put an end to Arab riot- ing ... His death is plane crash in Burma March 24 was a distinct loss to United Nations . . Mrs. Wingate and her mother are de- voted Zionists. ...…
…April 7, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE 9 and The Legal Chronicle A NEW FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM SORROW racy the British Colonial Ad- tenance of world peace, doing it in our own enlightened self-inter- ministration makes common cause with the Arab princes and est. Only in such a way can we (Continued from Page 8) By ARTHUR G. KLEIN landlords against the Arab Editor's note: The author of this article is a member of Congress, hope to prevent ano...…
…Jewish Servicemen Observe Passover on Every Front Jewish. Farmers Maj. Gen.. Wingate Save Samaritans In U.S. Active in LaWrence of Judea - Notable Pleads ' (Continued from Page 8) JERUSALEM (ZOA)—A plea Food Production attended the . Quebec Conference. to "the chosen . representatives JWB Arranges Sedorim at All Camps and Bases Wherever Allies are Fighting; 400,000 Boxes of Matzoth and Other Supplies Shipped from U. S. Increased Activity Re...…
…April 7, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 10 day in a special series for the "Musical Commandos." Have we technical high school, hospitals, tionalism we could be expected workers and peasants with the not every reason to be proud of public schools, theaters and big to be as religious as people were same programs and the same this institution? And should not cinemas, they created a Jewish in ancient times when they wit- ...…
…Pge Ten THE- JEWISH NEWS New Women Take A NOW residents By RUTH KARPF National Director of Bnai Brith Publicity k Passover, the Jewish Festival of Freedom commem- orating the deliverance of Israel from Egyptian bond- age, which this year begins on April 8 (first seder is on April 7) is observed by Orthodox Jews for eight days, but according to the Bible the holiday lasts only a week. In Palestine Passover is observed for seven days. * * ...…
…A merica lavish Periodical CeNter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle April 7, 1944 REFLECTIONS ON THE ISSUES OF THE DAY to extend to them the sanctuary and refuge of a free nation will always shine as the most glorious By RABBI MOSES FISCHER example of genuine brotherhood "Little children will lead on." rael's future glory there will be On the horizon of mankind. According to the prophec...…
…F4dai, April 7; 1944 Page Eleven THE JEWISH NEWS With 8 Sons Army Dignitaries Attend Seder in Bermuda Family In Armed Forces and by the selective service board of the - city, and they acknowledged these honors with pride and said they were happy that their boys could serve to help preserve the ideals that WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Trib- make it possible for Catholics, Protestants and Jews to live to- ute to a Pittsburgh Jewish fam- gether in a spi...…
…April 7, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 12 REFUGEE DOCTORS PROTEST PRACTICE OF AMERICAN COLLEAGUES IN ARMED FORCES THE GENERAL GAVE THE RABBI A TANK RIDE Page from the Diary of a Jewish Soldier Refugee physicians, over mili- result has been highly gratifying By DAVID ZAGIER tary age or otherwise ineligible and, in our opinion, the refugee for the armed forces are not physicians may well be proud of ago after Chapla...…
…Page Twelve - THE JEWISH NEWS ACTIVITIES IN SOCIETY Sgt. and Mrs. David S. Hershman of Alexandria, La., are spending the Passover with their parents. • Miss Shirley August of Chicago Blvd. has as her guest Miss Lorraine Eisenberg of Wilmette, Ill. Mrs. Morse Saulson of Virginia Pk. has returned from New Brunswick, N. J., where she was the guest of her brother-in-law and sister, Dr. and Mrs. Jack Uhr. Mrs. Seth Jacobson and her small son, O...…
…April 7, 1944 13 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle TRILOGY read the Haggadah while the tinues to have a message which rest of the company, especially is at once dynamic and contem- the youthful element, maintain porary. (Continued from Page 4) a raucous fire of pseudo-witti- The First Lesson The first lesson of Passover is tions as the youngest in the cisms and banalities. Strangely enough, these young ORGANIZATION. group. P...…
…Page Thirteen 'THE JEWISH NEWS Fri'day, Apra 7, 1944 Engaged ACTIVITIES IN SOCIETY Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Butzel of Burns Ave. returned on Wed- nesday from a stay in Palm Beach, Fla. Dr. and Mrs. Leo M. Franklin or Edison Ave. returned on - Monday from a visit in Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wineman returned on Sunday from a few weeks' stay in Palm Beach, Fla. Enroute home they visited their son and daughter-in-law, Lt. and Mrs. James...…
…14 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle JEWS BRING THE LAND TO PALESTINE By MARTIN SILVER How can the Jews bring the land to Palestine? It's the other way round, you think. They are bringing the Jews to the land of Palestine. But if you think so, you are wrong. The Jews are actually bringing the land to Palestine. They are actually creating the land on which they are settling. At least that is what you are led to believe if you...…
…Page Fourteen THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 7, 1944 roblems 0S -1 of the Anit riean Jewish Community A FTER YEARS of unstable condi- tions, of economic depressions, of war o r preparation f o r war, CI mounting anti-Semitism — years in which civilization has come close to the abyss of self-destruc- tion—we are now en- tering the concluding phases of the world H. L. Lurie war and are nearing the period of reconstruction. Even with a deci...…
…April 7, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 15 FUTURE in Czechoslovakia became an un- prejudices. Minorities and small vakia would often say: 'Yours is tive effort to tradicate the evil bridled source of irritation. Hit- nations may choose to luxuriate a great country, you have built religious and other hatreds. ler found ready aim among the in proud isolation, but they can a true democracy with freedom of "I am confiden...…
…Page Fifteen - TH-E JEWISH NEWS Frkiay, April 7, 1944 Congregational Activities Seder Services In Hillel Chapel Friday Evening Jews in Port Huron To Hold Community Seder on Saturday A special holiday service will be conducted on the second day of Passover in Port Huron, with Rabbi S. S. Auerbach preaching on "Three Ways to Gain Free- dom." On the eve of the last day of Pesach, Rabbi Auerbach will speak on "A Blueprint for Final Redemptio...…
…April 7, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 16 411111•11111111111111111•111•1111 111111111110116 Out Or The Ashes... Two monuments surviving from ancient Once more brute force is extending times proclaim the destruction of Juda- its sway . . . once more the shrill cry ism . . . two tyrants, who had subdued the world, boasted that the religion of Israel and its people had been de- stroyed . . . that the teachings...…
…•Paige Sixteen T'HE JEWISH NEWS Mitoses, Strike That Rock Again A True Passover Story by DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright, 1944, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) P RIVATES MOSHE YAARI and Richard Saunders were very unlike as far as superficial appearances are concerned. Moshe was a Jewish soldier from Palestine and Richard Saunders was an Australian. Moshe was a brunet and Richard was a blond. Moshe had 2,000 years of Jewish life with all of it...…
…America Apish Periodical Cotter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO ((A 29th Year of Serviee to Our State and Nation SECTION ONE VOL. 46, NO. 14 Detroit and Jewish Chronicle The Legal Chronicle THIS PAPER PRINTED IN TWO SECTIONS DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1944 Conference to Be Held by Jewish Youth April 22.23 White Paper Goes Into Effect Over Jewish Protests "Living in Democratic World" to Be Topic At a meeting at the Jew...…
…Page Seventeen THE JEWISH NEWS Friday., April 7, 1944 Isadore Ressler, Detroit Artist, To Celebrate His 75th Birthday Also Observes 30th Anniversary of His Settlement in Detroit: His Works Were Exhibited in Many Cities Throughout the Country JNF Annual Box Hebrew Schools' Clearance Here 25th Anniversary (Continued from Page 5) April 16 to 30 $75,000 Sent to Palestine by U. S. Leaders in Defiance of White Paper William Hordes, president ...…
…. DETROIT JEWISH •....1RONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 2 Heifetz's Playing of Mendelssohn Concerto On Toscanini's Easter Symphony Program Jascha Heifetz, the noted Rus- sian-American violinist, will share honors with Arturo Toscanini on the General Motors Symphony of the Air program, Sunday, April 9 (NBC, 5 to 6 p. m., EWT), for the performance of Mendels- sohn's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E-Minor. In ob- servance of the Easter s...…
…Page Eighteen THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 7, i 944 Ilihrith's Integral Part of Detroit Jewish Life An Historical Analysis of the Growth of the Movement In This City from an Organizing Membership of 13 in 1857 to Its Present Combined Membership of over 5,500 in 5 Men's Lodges and 7 Women's Auxiliaries By LOUIS H. SCHOSTAK • T HE STORY of the development and growth of Bnai Brith in Detroit is virtually contempora- neous with the history...…
…A merican (wish Periodical Center April 7, 1944 CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The 1.9.1 Chronicle CHRISTIANITY FIGHTS ANTI-SEMITISM By KENNETH LESLIE Editor's Note—Kenneth Leslie, distinguished poet and lecturer, is founder-editor of the non-sectarian monthly journal, "The Protestant". Mr. Leslie is in the vanguard of those men of good will—dedicated to the struggle against anti-Semitism. Not so long ...…
…-Pt ciay . , Apr; 7, • 1944 THE. JEWISH NEWS Palestine to Defy White Paper . Ban on Immigration 'Jewish Agency Prepares for New Colonization Plans; Important Declaration Made by Dr. Weizmann Arabia haS informed the other Arab states that they may count onhim to use the oil deal as a bargaining point against the abrogation of the Palestine White Paper, according to a report in the London Daily Sketch. Permission for Jamal Husseini and Amin...…
…. 4 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Detroit Jewish Chronicle and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. JACOB H. SCHAKNE Pres.-Gen. Mgr. JACOB MARGOLIS Editor CHARLES TAUB Advertising Mgr. General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. Telephone: CAdillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle Subscription in Advance $3.00 Per Year To insure publication, all correspondence and n...…
…11, Page Twenty THE JEWISH NEWS The Jewish Communit in the 14th Century By DR. A. M. HERSHMAN In his interesting book "Rabbi Isaac Perfef a Congregation Shaarey Zedek, .Detroit, describes communities in Aragon in the days of the hero article contains the major potion of Chapter X community organizational set-up of that period. in our time. Its references to the use of the we vigilance committees are of particular interest. I BN ADRET in...…
…Almeria:It Yewish Periodical alder CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO ..710111•MININIM April 7, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle D & C Steamers Open Mrs. Monte Weston Answers Why, When Home Navigation Season For Jewish Children at Denver Was Organized Earlier This Year I IC Opening of the 1944 passenger and freight navigation season on the Great Lakes considerable earlier than last year, the D & C steamer City of ...…
…Friday, April 7, 1944 night and wedding bells in To- ledo on Saturday . . Arky Chabin and Jean Goldberg will mid-die-aisle it iri September ... Cpl. Phil Kaplan and Marge Cooper were secretly wed, re- cently, on an elopement to Chi- cago . . Leonard Fink and Frances Newman were married, last Sunday . . Ben Glenner sends word of his marriage in California. * * * HE STILL doesn't know why it happened, but at a recent dance, Pfc. Marvin Adler wa...…
…r. 6 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle April 7, 1944 stronger. The envoy from the now. It had been worth losing a Capt. Merle M. Fenton THREE PEOPLE J. D. C. got into touch with his leg during that cold crossing of On April 18 the Neugarten brother in Chicago. The brother the Pyrenees, when his limbs had AND A PRAYER Medical Aid will honor its paid- Writes from W. Africa wired the necessary transporta- frozen, to escape the ...…
…Page Twenty-two THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, WprIl 7, y$44r While your $100 nestled in the bank THE TIME: November, 1943. THE PLACE: Betio, just one of twenty-five outcroppings that comprise Tarawa atoll of the Gilbert Islands. SCENE I: Early morning of November 19th. In the most concentrated naval gunfire in history, 800 tons of bombs are dropped by American car- rier planes and 2000 tons of shells are hurled by battleships, cruisers, and de...…
…Americo ffewish Periodical Carter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO April 7, 1944 1 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The •Legal Chronicle Temple Israel Men's Club to Hold "Evening With Rabbi" April 17 PRAYER (Continued from On Monday evening, April 17, at 8:30 p. m., the Men's Club of Temple Israel will once again hold an "Evening with the Rab- bi". The program will consist of asking questions of Rabbi From, who, without prior prepa- ra...…
…Page Twenty-three THE JEWISH NEWS triday, April 7, 1944 the Jewish people may ultimately reconstitute, Palestine as a free and democratic Jewish Common-. wealth." (Heads of Michigan colleges who signed the petition are Jewish Telegraphic Agency Seeks Official Statements John L. Seaton of Albion Col- lege and Merle S. Ward of from. British, U. S. Officials: Learns Only Those Ferris Institute). U.S. Jews Also Prohibited From Entering Palesti...…
…8 DiTROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle April 7, 1944 Jewish Appeal agencies in Euro- Dr. Nahum Goldmann to Address Hashomer pean lands, in Palestine and among refugees in the United Hatzair Convention in Chicago April 11-15 By RABBI JONAH B. WISE States. But, in view of the havoc that has been wrought in Jew- Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chair- work, and the movement for th- National Chairman, United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, ish life ...…
…Page Twenty-four THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 7, 1944 appy Passover, verybody! This year, when you wish others a Happy Passover, think of the millions of American boys who are not having such a happy time. Think of the wounded soldiers in Italy, the half-frozen sailors on the At- lantic, the Marines in .dap-infested jungles. You'll find it a little , easier to think about them if you're doing everything you can do to help the cause...…
…America yetvislt Periodical Carter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO April 7, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle WITHIN FREEDOM'S GATES Three Vignettes of Modern Palestine By SOLOMON HERSCHEL THEY SAVED THEIR SHIP "Fire! Fire!" The crowded t ransport carrying Royal Engi- eel's of the British Eighth Army .:rocs the Mediterraneon belched sheet of fire and smoke. Lt. Rosser dashed forward into the flames. "Get the e...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 7, 1944 Two Brothers Are Captains In U. S. 5 Years, Ger. shensons Acquire High Hanks in the U. S. Army Jewish Soldier Makes Sacrifice Returns From Anzio Battle Minus a Leg; Left Kin In Poland in 1.938 "He can still . smile" is what Capt. Charles H. Gershenson Capt. Samuel N. Gershenson Two prominent Detroit broth- ers, heads of one of the best known auto supply buusinesses 'in the state, have risen to th...…
