September 15, 1944

…Detroit Jewish Chronicle and The Legal Chronicle_ VOL. 46, NO. 37 SECTION FIVE DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1944 10c Single Copy: $3.00 Per Yee Jewish Members of Armed Forces Send Greetings from Abroad Through facilities provided by the American Red Cross, men and women of Jewish faith serv- ing their country in all parts of See Pictures on Page 16 of this section the world have sent holiday greet- ings to their people bac...…

…2 Friday, September 15, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Fr A HADASSAH By MARTIN SILVER Standing at the summit of a 30-year-old career devoted main- ly to building and maintaining public health works in Palestine, Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, is pre- paring now to expand its medical and other welfare departments so as to be ready for the post- war immigration of European Jews to Palestine, ...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 3 American Jews Contributed $82,000,000 to Aid Victims of Nazism In the five-year period since the outbreak of World War II, communities i n 4,200 Jews throughout the United States contributed a total of $82,000,- 000 to the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine in a concerted effort to save large numbers of Jews in European lands from ann...…

…- 4 Friday, September DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 15 1 944 , We Hitch-Hiked Through Eretz Israel and Saw a Sturdy People Reclaiming Its Homeland What Two British Soldiers on Leave Saw and Experienced in Palestine's Agricultural Settlements By N. POWER and M. RIVLIN EDITOR'S NOTE:—The following article was written jointly by two British soldiers who utilized their leave to hitch-hike through the agricultural settle...…

…5 DETRO4T JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15, 1944 RESCUE IN ERETZ ISRAEL • • • Now Refugees from the Balkan Countries Find Their Way to and are Welcomed at the Frontiers of Jewish Palestine A Newsletter from Beirut, Syria By M. BEN-DAVID We left for the Turkish-Syrian frontier to meet a group of refu- gee immigrants there and accom- pany them to Palestine. We went by bus as far as Tripoli, continu- ing our jou...…

…6 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONIq.E and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September IS, 1944 New Year's Greetings to All From Michigan Communitie s GINGHAM BLOUSE Portrait of an American Woman Pioneer in Palestine By JULIAN L. METZLER Correspondent of the New York Times in Palestine I have always cherished an apophthegm about the soil. and the most striking is that beau- tiful line from Keats in his "Grasshopper and the Cricket" which says: "The poe...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 7 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle New Year's Greetings to All From Michigan Communities LIBERATION, RESCUE AND RESETTLEMENT Rosh Hashonah Message By JUDGE MORRIS ROTHENBERG President, Jewish National Fund of America As the gates of the Nazi in- ferno are being smashed, the ye ar 5705 of the Hebrew calen- dar promises to be the harbinger of victory for America and the United Nations, liberation...…

…$ DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15, 1944 New Year's Greetings to All From Michigan Communitie s CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE JEWISH HOME FOR AGED The following have made con- tributions to the Home: Mr. and Mrs. Lee W. Oppen- heim, in memory of Robert Deutsch and Mrs. Rose Burn- stein; Mrs. Max Weinberg, in memory of Ella Levinsohn; Mrs. S. Funkenstein, Alpena, Mich., in memory of Mrs. Octave Mar- tineau; Char...…

…DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15, 1944 New Year's Greetings to All From Michigan Communities ANALYSIS OF UNRRA FROM THE JEWISH VIEWPOINT "Relief and Rehabilitation," a and pattern of operations of 223 _p age study of the implica- UNRRA. Mr. Warhaftig, when tions of the UNRRA program for he finds it necessary to criticize Jewish needs, by Zorach Warhaf- UNRRA, does so in a construe- tig a nd published by...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle New Year's Greetings to All From Michigan Communities N THE PROMISE OF THE NEW YEAR By JUDGE JOSEPH M. PROSKAUER President, American Jewish Committee The New Year holds forth many promises. It holds forth victory and a democratic peace. It holds forth the end of savag- ery and suffering, tears and heartbreak. It holds forth lib- BAY CITY, MICH. A Happy and Prosp...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 11 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle New Year's Greetings to All From Michigan Communities French Patriots Rescue Forty Jewish Children from the Hands of the Gestapo GENEVA (WNS)—Forty Jew- ish refugee children, who were rescued from the hands of the Gestapo by the Interior French Forces in the liberated French town of Annemass, on the Franco-Swiss frontier, arrived in Switzerland this week where ...…

…12 Friday, September 15, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle THE BRANDES SCHOOL AT TUCSON STARTS SIXTH YEAR OCTOBER FIRST The Brandes School at Tucson commences its sixth year Oct. 1. In the past, Jewish families who wanted to have a child in Tucson, either had the mother come with him or the whole family had to uproot itself, since there was no private school available to them. The emotional tension, huge ex- pense, and ...…

…11 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Fr iday, September 15, 1944 the eyes of their successors as Shevuoth, the Harvest Festival. evidence of their intention to All the settlers were gathered bring to final fruition the hopes on the lawn. As darkness fell Continued from Page 4) and aspirations of those who first the music of fiddles heralded the The young people ly-born calf, of his work in the sowed the seed. It is not our fe...…

…14 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle AID Continued from page 3 tinuous relief. During the a•- ious periods when most of them were in transit, the JDC has given assistance to about 24,000 refugees in Portugal and about 12,000 in Spain. For this group the JDC has provided, in whole or in part, food, shelter, clothing and medical care. Through a sys- tem of local 'borrowings as well as by means of its package pro- gram and thro...…

…'¢ DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15, 1944 estine. In 1933, when she had necessary to provide for long- were made available to the Allied reached the age of 75, she want- term maintenance and education. military staffs stationed in the ed to retire and come back to In all, over 11,000 children country. An improved process of (Continued from page 2) the United States. have been wards of Youth Aliyah develo...…

…16 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Fisher Town Hall Lecture Series Opens With Donald Dickson Two nationally known special- ists in science and medicine, and a noted Chinese aviatrix have joined celebrities appearing at Detroit Town Hall in the Fisher Theater this season. The series, featuring 20 Wed- nesday mornings of lectures, mus- ic and entertainment, opens Oct. 11 with Donald Dickson, opera. radio, and stage star. Next...…

…Detroit Jewish Chronicle and The Legal Chronicle SECTION FOUR DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1944 VOL. 46, NO. 37 The Universal Overtones of Rosh Hashonah which make us free and utter a declaration of independence from EDITOR'S NOTE:—The author of this article is Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at the Jewish Theological Seminary in lowly and unworthy aims. By America. He is the former president of the Rabbinical Assem...…

…Page ! Friday, September 15 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 1944 Fr What's In A Name? - By CHARLES WARANOW ing himself a failure, was reluc- tant to attend and sit at the foot of the table in the company of Zalman Slotnick and other in- competents. He could not afford to court Jake's displeasure by his absence, however. When Max had been in the country seven years, he served as usher at the wedding of a friend. The groo...…

…Page 3 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15, 1944 A MYSTERIOUS CURE FOR ANTI-SEMITISM By E. Z. GOLDBERG THE EDITOR:—The author of this article is the daily columnist of the "New York Day" and one of America's most distin- guished Jewish journalists. Mr. Goldberg is the son-in-law of the immortal Sholem Aleichem. I read about the conference of experts held underthe aegis of the American Jewish Commit- tee ...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page 4 Denver Home Pioneers in Gild Asthma Relief DENVER, COLO.—Nestled at the foot of the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains in the dry clime of Colorado's mile high city has been discovered a haven for suffering children—a Home whose directors have simply and quietly gone about their work of saving and rehabilitating a segment of America's allergy- afflicte...…

…Page 5 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15, 1944 On the Threshold of Peace By MICHAEL FREEMAN For Jews throughout the world, the traditional sounding of the ram's horn will usher in the be- ginning of a New Year which will, we hope, bring the end of war and the beginning of peace. No New Year in recent history has marked such a fundamentally important turning point in the life of the Jewish people. Just a...…

…r Page 6 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15, 1944 OUTSTANDING JEWISH BOOKS By MARVIN LOWENTHAL an altogether different stamp. of the participation of Palestine EDITOR'S NOTE:—The following address by Marvin Lowenthal, American life has changed its Jewry in the United Nations' war Jews, as it itself has changed, in for freedom—a story sadly neg- noted author, was delivered over Radio Station WHN under th...…

…Page 7 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The ..gal Chronicle Friday, September 15, 1944 The Hebrew University---Its Work and Its Plans ceived their Master's degrees to the Military, Naval, and Royal education. since the outbreak of the war. Adult Education Air Force authorities. Director Except for a few living abroad, The growing and insistent de- Special courses in malaria and The Hebrew University, found- Society of England and, in past typh...…

…Page 8 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September is 1944 Fr A HAPPIER NEW YEAR -:- By WILLARD JOHNSON Assistant to the President of the National Conference of Christians and Jews The year 5705 will be a hap- assuming more and more of their pier year, both for Jews and non- proper share of responsibility for Jews, than was 5704. The Nazi the strengthening of democracy yoke of domination and brutality at home and...…

…DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15, 1944 Page 9 The Rescue Front on V-Day By CARL ABRAMSON EDITOR'S NOTE:—The following article on the major rescue operations during the past year deals with the effect of the latest war developments on the program for speeding the re- habilitation of liberated Jews in Europe. The curtain of darkness which has shrouded the European con- tinent for the past five years is ...…

…Page 10 Friday, September is 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle UNIVERSITY (Continued from Page 7) tion of undergraduates. Other- wise, in the very near future, there may not be enough young physicians to succeed their sen- iors in Palestine and perhaps also in other countries. Both the University and Hadassah (its as- sociate in the Medical Center on Mount Scopus) are keenly alive to this situation. Special com- mittee...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE sod The Legal Chronicle Page II Dutch Jews Approach the Holidays In a More Hopeful Spirit By JULIUS MORITZEN "The Contemporary Jewish Rec- EDITOR'S NOTE:—Mr. Moritzen is a writer on International ord," there is for instance an in- affairs. He is the author of "Peace Movement of America" teresting account of the genesis of the Dutch Jews. and other works. "To Amsterdam, the Venice of To s...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page 12 Fr RESCUE (Continued from Page 10) for housing and adjusting the more than 10,500 refugees who reached the Jewish homeland dur- ing that period. To speed the integration of the new arrivals and give them an opportunity to rebuild their lives as self-sustaining citizens of the Jewish homeland, the Unit- ed Palestine Appeal expanded its agricultural settlem...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 Page 13 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle : : THE DIGNITY OF PERSO\ALITY - By RABBI LEON SPITZ Our liturgy puts it quaintly but also significantly that tradi- tional usage has enjoined upon w orshippers to spend Atone- the ment Day in prayer and fasting, don white clothes and con- to verse in Hebrew, the loshen hak- kodesh that we may exemplify both physically a and spiritually the Ministering An...…

…CURE (Continued from Page 3) levels than ever before. Thitre are two wings in the Catholic Church—a liberal and a fascist one. By failing to fight the fascist wing, we strengthen its power over the liberal wing within the fold of the Church and leave the field wide open to its fascistic and anti-Semitic de- ments. On the contrary, should it come to a showdown with fascist Catholics, a showdown which may hurt the prestige of Catholi- cism as ...…

…Page 15 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15, 1944 NAME new lines for next season. They littlement, in the presence of the He was grateful for his aid; but were eagerly attentive. All that girl, was a whip lashed across perhaps Ile would fare better is, with the exception of the host. Max's face. in the future if he didn't feel Continued from Page 2 Jake was frowning. It displeased "What do you mean, Jake— ...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page 16 OVERTONES (Contnued from page 1) righteous conduct. Precept is not enough. Spiritual maturity is at- tamed by him who proceeds to transmute his highest aspirations into habitual deeds of integrity, justice and compassion. Thus we are offered a plan for victorious living and a discipline leading to self-mastery and moral regenera- tion. In accentuating the ...…

…Detroit Jewish Chronicle and The Legal Chronicle_ SECTION THREE 10c Single Copy; $3.00 Per Yee! DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1944 VOL. 46, NO. 37 THE DETROIT JEWISH HOSPITAL By DR. DAVID J. SANDWEISS Various Jewish groups in De- troit long have had the vision of a Jewish Hospital. As early as 1900, the Hebrew Ladies' Aid Society for Widows and Orphans made arrangements with the Poor Commission to provide medical care for it...…

…AMIL".."2=71- 7,7777, N111111111•111111111111111k DETROIT JEWISH CHRONIQLE and The Legal Chronicle 2 HOSPITAL and possible deficit of the port demands that the existing independent out-patients' services above proposed hospital." 1932— should make a serious effort to (Continued from Page 1) secure hospital affiliation to their The D. W. Simons Bequest tives of the Federation, with Dr. (1) D. W. Simons, Detroit mutual advantage. North End ...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 3 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle :- REVIEW OF THE YEAR -:- A Glance Back at Some Headline Events of the Jewish Year 5704 Israel is like a mother who has received from the War Depart- ment a dispatch that her son is missing in action. She hopes By MARTIN SILVER that this does not mean death. She hopes that somehow he is The world's eyes the past year high officers was also very signifi- alive an...…

…4 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15 1944 "I LEOPOLD ZUNZ, PIONEER • • • The history of the develop- that of the opening of a new ment of a new field of science area for settlement. First there or scholarship is very similar to come the explorers, who make their way into new territory and reveal its p..,ssibilities to the world. Then come the pioneers, who make the land accessible by cutting new roads, b...…

…5 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Fr iday , September 15, 1944 "I FIGHT BECAUSE IT'S MY FIGHT" . By RUTH KARPF "I fight because it is an obligation, because free people must fight to remain free, because when the freedom of one nation or person is taken away the rights of all nations and all people are threatened. Because—through our elected representatives—I have the choice; to fight or not to fight . . . "I fight becaus...…

…DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 6 LEOPOLD ZUNZ Eduard Gans and Moses Moser, founded, in 1819, the Verein fur Cultur and Wissenschaft des Judentums (Society for the Cul- ture and Science of Judaism). It set out for itself two tasks: That of sifting and organizing the vast literature of Judaism according to its historical de- velopment so as to preserve the continuity of Jewish thought; and that of showing the rela- tionship ...…

…7 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15, 1944 Reunited Refugee Families Begin New Year in Freedom young soldier was sent to Eng- teen million appeals for help in haunted, ragged band, he recog- land, but he kept in touch with tracing war-separated families. nized with amazement his wife's the Council's Service to the For- Sir Herbert Emerson, Director with firm faith and, this year, This immense Red Cross fi...…

…DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 8 LEOPOLD ZUNZ (Continued from Page 6) responded in every way to the reconstruction made by Zunz- a conclusion as thrilling as that of any mystery story. Zunz next undertook, as a con- tribution to the knowledge of Jewish history, a study of Jew- ish martyrdom through the cen- turies. But his chief interest, as before, was in Jewish literature; he turned to study Jewish syna- gogue poetry, e...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The legal Chronicle iiMaintaining the Spirit of Israel. (An interview with Samuel Rothstein, newly-elected President of The United Synagogue of America) By ALFRED WERNER EDITOR'S NOTE :—Alfred Werner was born in Vienna, Austria, and is a graduate of the University of Vienna. He was editor of "Gerechtigkeit" and "Die Stimme," and director of the literary department of the Vienna Jewis...…

…Friday, September 15 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle ID REFUGEES (Continued from Page 7) escape had failed. The husband asked help in securing an affi- davit for the family, "all state- less and all Jews." Today in Fort Ontario, they b,Tin the New Year in clean and private quarters, and the father is get- ting acquainted with his six-year- old daughter. Since the years following the First World War, the N.C.J.W. has ...…

…ISRAEL Continued from page 10 Ay Law School in 1924, he was admitted to the bar two years later, and he has ever since prac- tic ed law in New York City. From his very childhood he has been active in Jewish af- fairs, starting as a disciple of an East Side Talmud Thora and a member of an orthodox Junior congregation. The center of his activities is the borough of Brooklyn where he has lived with his family for over 35 years. He is president ...…

…Friday, September IS, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 12 These are some of the men "whose heroic actions materially continued at his post and laid thoughtless of peril, devoted him- we aided the United States troops down such accurate fire that his self to his single mission. His know of. Some of the actions in establishing a beachhead in gun succeeded in silencing two determined perseverance in im- that are on the rec...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 ISRAEL Continued from Page 11) the gist of your idea?" Rothstein: ".We want to make our fellow-Jews feel that God enters into our every-day exist- ence, that we serve Him by con- tributing to the improvement of His creation." \Verner: "I suppose that this includes the fight against anti Semitism which we all consider contrary to the precepts of relig- ion." Rothstein: "I think that the anti-Semitism of phenomenon ...…

…Friday, September 15 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 14 was clear that an international munities in various cities through- casting station in Palestine was Bolivia, fascist regimes resorted bill of rights for Jews would be out the country, showed that ap- to anti-Semitic devices. In Ar- momentarily taken over by the demanded. It appeared that the proximately nine per cent of the extremists. Later an attempt was gentin...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 LEOPOLD ZUNZ (Continued from Page 8) Justice. Judaism was to him es- sentially a religious culture; in political matters all things should be equal. Ile regarded the strug- gle for liberty for the Jew as bound up inextricably with the struggle for universal freedom. A w hole volume of his writings is devoted to general political problems, to the advance of the idea of universal suffrage and the attainment of democ...…

…Friday, September 15, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 16 ROSH HASHONAH 5705 GREETINGS 1944 "Am I My Brother's Keeper?" Far back in the dim past, there arose that question: "Am I My Brother's Keeper?" It was a defensive question — but the implied answer then was, "Yes you are your brother's keeper!" Down through the centuries, men who would shun their responsibility have asked that question and then answered it wit...…

…1` Detroit Jewish Chronicle and The Legal Chronicle SECTION TWO 1 '4' NO 37 k A i racles or fl t h e e S ea on Day of Atonement Mi 10e Single Copy; $3.00 Per Yee! DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1944 here and there, between the breath of the sea was hardly asunder. The play will become roofs . . . How different it was audible and its roar indistinct, serious soon; the quiet murmur From dawn to sunset, the fam- In Holland, in a ...…

…M11111111111111111 2 Friday, September DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 15, 1944 :- Judaism Revived in Italy By MABEL LYON (Reprinted from Liberal Judaism) "The synagogue of the Eternal City has reopened its doors, re- moving the bars placed upon it by the Nazis."—News item. The first definite appearance of Jews in Italy was in about the year 140 B.C.E., when Sim- on, the brother of Judas Macca- beus, sent an envoy to R...…