…HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review VOL. 5—NO. 26 2114 Penobscot Bldg. RA. 7956 of Jewish Events Detroit 26, Michigan, September 15, 1944 34.400. 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c —Photo by Arnold. Eagle, Courtesy Jewish Education Committee of Nev York The Shofar's message on Rosh Hashanah, 5705, heralds the eqtrance ova year of victory for the democratic forces and peace for all humanity. May the New Year bring an end to all evil and su...…
…Page Two THE JEWISH NEWS Strictly Confidential Bosh Hashanah. Messages "Upon this celebration of the New Year, I extend to my fellow citizens of the Jewish faith most cordial greetings, mindful of the tragedy in which so many of their faith still live and die abroad, and determined withal to persevere until justice, tolerance and peace are re-established throughout the world." —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. By PHINEAS J. BIRON (Copyright. 1944,...…
…Mlay, SepTehZer Tg, 1#44 1,200 Greek Jews Executed By Nazis at Majdanek Camp Survivors Report They Were Beaten to Death; Only- Few of Million Exterminated by Gas Are Identified;;" Retreating Nazis Wreaking, Vengeance on Jews LUBLIN, (JTA)—The mystery surrounding the fate of sev- eral thousand Jews deported from Athens by the Germans last year has been solved partially with the disclosure here that 1,200 of the deportees were executed at the...…
….1 - Page Four THE JEWISH NEWS As the Editor Views the News God's Law Is Supreme IN - Education Month I . . Lionist Emergency Efforts The description of the current battle for the ,protection of Jewish rights in Palestine, by Bernard Lerner, published in last week's issue of -The Jewish NeWs, reveals that an important, job has been accomplished by the American Zionist Emergency Council, under the leadership 'of Dr. Abba Hillel Silve...…
…Friday, September 15, 1944 Page Five THE JEWISH NEWS Hebrew Schools Inaugurate Annual Education Month UAHC Summarizes Progress Since '40 CINCINNATI — "The Union of American Hebrew Congrega- Charles Rubiner and, Mrs. Ehrlich in Charge of Radio tions has been deeply concerned with developing the spiritual and Programs; Addresses to Be Delivered , in Synagogues; moral life of our people," Adolph Numerous Events Planned Rosenberg, president o...…
…Page Six THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, September I 5, 1944 Brigadier Frederick H. Kisch Soldier, Engineer and Friend By MAJOR PETER W. RAINIER B RIGADIER FREDERICK KISCH stands high among those men whose personal services have had a direct effect in waging what is soon to be a victorious war. There were several causes for the phenomenal suc- cess against apparently unsurmount- able obstacles which made the fame of the British Eighth Army in...…
…T H F Friday, September IS, 1944 JEWISH NEWS Page Seven ' • ■ =3 Enrollment of Children Urged By Detroit's Yiddish Schools Appeal to Parents Issued by Council Acting in Behalf of Arbeiter Ring, Farband and Sholem Aleichem Schools of Detroit The Council of Jewish Schools of Detroit and the United Jew- ish High School, functioning on behalf of the Arbeiter Ring Schools, Farband Folk Schools and Sholem Aleichem Schools, halie issued an app...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS Page Eight CORWIN Epilogue To The Dreyfus Affair Calls Radio Weapon Against Anti-Semites By ALFRED WERNER Editor's Note: The issues raised by the Dreyfus af- fair, and the alignments then established, have continued to this very day and gave birth to Vichy. With the Allies reconquering Fortress Europe, the final verdict will at last be rendered. Alfred Werner, free lance journalist, reviews French ' anti-Semitism in thi...…
…r. Friday, Sep:fern4er IS, 1944 'THE JEWISH NEWS Page. Nino' • $8,250,000 War Chest Drive to Start Oct. Henry Wineman Appointed Vice-Chairman of Drive More Than 20,000 Volunteer Workers Expected to Assist, B. E. Young, Chairman, Says; Allied Jewisil Campaign One of 24 Beneficiaries Benjamin E. Young, campaign chairman of the Detroit War Chest, this week announced that the next drive for a goal of $8,250,000 will be conducted here from •...…
…cf Page Ten THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, SepTerrtlier 15, 1944 LeGingham 1111°11,se Soviet Jewry in the Past Year, Portrait of an American Woman Pioneer in Palestine ‘I By By JULIAN MELTZER i Cvoerwr e s? o rnir nTimes t he in I Palestine I HAVE ALWAYS CHERISHED an apoph- thegm about the soil, and the most striking is that beautiful line from Keats in his "Grasshopper and the Cricket" which says: "The poetry of earth is never dead". Think...…
…TH ^ JEWISH NEWS. Friday, Sepfember 15, 1944 . - Many of these soldiers, who were former refugees, fought with dis- tinction in the crucial battle of El Alamein, which turned the tide for the Allies' in North Africa, and served in the British Large - Scale War Rescue Operations in Europe and Eighth Army, which drove the Nazis out of Tunisia. More re- Palestine, and Refugee Aid in U. S. Finariced cently, Palestinian Jewish soldiers have take...…
…Page Twelve THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, Sepfen-16r t5, /94 begin life all over the past, and who have placed es- again in a strange reers of art and professional en- country?" deavor aside in order to start We It was a challeng- anew. ing query. When "Its industries have sprung lap Sara answered, her where there were only stones' not voice contained a so long ago. Its orchards and note so t mphatic it farms and groves can be seen, now , bordere...…
…Friday, =September 15, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS U. S. Must Declare Policy On Middle East, Warning Editor of Fortune Magazine, Just * Back From Long Tour of Arab Countries and Palestine, Warns Nation to Protect Interests There Against Foes while in 1943 it was only 3 per cent. Page Thirteen Dr. Schwartz Back With JDC Report Jewish. industrial institutions and the authorities have been negotiating lately for an increase European Director of ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS 'Page Fourteen Friday, September 15, 1944 Remembering the Faith of Our Fathers By PAUL KRESH Copyright, 1944. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc. When war came to Medford, Ore- gon ' , a town of 15,000, the Jewish "community" there consisted of five ` 4- and a half families — counting the town's one Jewish bachelor—who lived almost wholly vblivion of their Jewish identity. Sustained ex- posure to a completely non-Jewish envir...…
…F4Sey, September IS, T444 THE JEWISH Jewish Underground Unit ► Reveals Heroism in France Rabbis Led Bands of Young Jews Fighting With Maquis; Only 90,000 Out of Prewar Population of 350,000 Jews Still Alive, 10,000 in Paris By VICTOR M. BIENSTOCK - Windsor Jr. Hadassah Sets Yom Kippur Dance Council Hits `Mushroom' Synagogues Junior Hadassah of Windsor' will hold its annual Yom Kippur night dance on Wednesday, Sept. 27, at the Shaar Has...…
…Page Sixteen THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 15, 1 944 . Dr. Israel Moses, Surgeon Fighting Hero of the Civil War By BURRILL B. CROHN, M. D. gical operation and prescribe. for the sick, I don't attend any ladies!" From Williamsburg, Virginia, they are "on to Richmond," and the Penin- sula Campaign is in full swing. Shortly he speaks of being wounded, but of paying little heed to his injury of the previous day. The transfer of Colonel ...…
…Friday, September .15, Book by Glazer, Feuer to be Out In New Edition IF- BloCh's Book Bulletin, publish- ed by Bloc Publishing Co., 31 W. 31st St., ITIew York, this week announced that "The Jew and His Religion: A Guide for Con- firmation and High School Class- es," by Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, Rabbi of Temple Beth El, Detroit, and Rabbi Leon I. Feuer of To- ledo, will be reprinted due to popular demand. The new editioli will be ready in De...…
…Page Eighteen THE JEWISH NEWS Frkitty, Sephratier 15, f944 To Bury or To Resurrect The Needs and the Errors of the American Jewish Conference (The subjoined views by Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, national director of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, were pen- ned before the Interim Committee voted to postpone the second session of the American Jewish Conference, which was to have been held in Chicago during the Labor Day week- e...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, Sepfember IS, 1944 Dr. Israel Moses, Surgeon (Continued From Page 14) with the Provost Marshall Gen- men and officers killed and eral until October, 1864. For the wounded. Up to the first of No- remaining period of the Civil War vember , Moses alone diligently he is less arduously employed in recorded and catalogued 1,904 examining recruits in New York case s of variously seriously City. On July 24, 1865, he is mus- ...…
…P ar+P T•uenty THE JEWISH N_CWS Friday, SepTeml3er -15; 1944 .0.1111•1111k ''".6 Inrrrin,nrizn 77= 1111111141111•1611212, nalv, In behalf of the following affiliated and beneficiary agencies and services of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, at home and abroad, which your contributions to the War Chest, the Community Fund, the Allied Jewish Campaign and other sources have helped to support, the Federation and the Detroit Servi...…
…Friday, SepfemUer 1S, 144 TH.E JEWISH NEWS GIs in New Quinea View the Peace Weizenbaums' Son Views Soldiers' Postwar Plan Page Twenty-one Harry Fogel Raised To Rank of Captain Sgt. Miller Helped Wipe Out Enemy Force of 200 in Italy His Brother, Lt. Louis Fogel, Is In European Theater Detroiter, Now in France, Letter to Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Sugges ( ting Allies Of Operations Was Member of Patrol Force Germans to Rebuild War-...…
…Friday, September 15, 194 THE JEWISH NEWS Page Twenty-two KEEP IT FLYING KEEP ON BUYING • • "Peace Unto You!" On the New Year 5705 it is proper that mankind should think in terms of the Mission of Israel—which is summed up in one word: "PEACE!" rAs we approach Victory, we humbly invoke the spirit of everlasting brotherhood for all mankind. We pray for the realization of the great ideal of the Prophet Isaiah: "And they shall beat...…
…Friday, September IS, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS Servicemen at Home in Bnai Brith Free Los Angeles Hotel JDC Names H. D. Biele Latin-Amerircan Aide Harry D. Biele, prominent so- cial worker, has been appointed secretary of the Latin American Committee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Corn- mittee, it was announced by Jo- seph C. Hyman, executive vice- chairman of the organization. The JDC is the major American agency for aid to distress...…
…Page Twenty-four THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, September IS, 1944 NYINHE NYHOIN! HING That's the Spirit of Our Fighting Men — Let's Match It in Buying War Bonds This War Bond Message Sponsored By These Firms and Look at that insignia adopted by one of our Individuals As Their New Year's Greeting to the Community fighting outfits as - a symbol of their fighting spirit. They are ready for anything! Acme Paper Co. What about you? Are you re...…
…Fficley, September 1S, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS Palestine Faces Tontorroiv Review of Year's Events In Jewish National Howe By ABRAHAM REVUSKY The author of "Jews In Palestine," standard textbook on the Jewish Na- tional Home, reviews the economic, cultural and political scene in Pales tine in the past Jewish calendar year, in this article.—The Editor Jewish Palestine the spiritual center of the martyred Jewish people, and a community which w...…
…Page Twenty-six Friday, September 15, THE JEWISH NEWS Right now, while you are reading this, men are- dying—American men, giving their lives to establish • beachheads from which they can sweep on to Vic- tory. That's their duty—to smash the Nazis and the Japs, and all they represent, once and for all—to make this a better world to live in—for you. And they never stop to ask the cost. You're an American—you have a duty, too ! Here's your cha...…
…FA:Jay, Sepfemtier 1S, •f144 THE :JEWISH NEWS An Expose of the of one of the important elements —the witches' revel—which ex- erted pressure on the fate of uropean affairs. That which has become known as the ruthlessness of the Nazi military machine finds its coun- terpart in the intrigues exposed in the soothsayer's role in Ger- Nazis' Soothsayer, Feuchfwanger's Novel Is a Brilliant Explanation of Hit- lerite Witches' Revel The famous t...…
…e Page Twenty-eight Friday, September TS, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS • •.• ,•••••;,, - • ' • • • • F Rom General Bradley, leading the Invasion ground forces, right through every rank, American men now face a brutal, despeiate, able enemy. For this invasion has only begun—be- fore our fighters lies a hard and bloody task, one that demands all their courage, backed by all your faith in their ulti- mate victory. That faith will be tested ...…
…Friday, September IS, 1944 THE Half-Million Polish Jews Reported Saved by Russians 50,000 Others Have Found Safety in Palestine, Britain and the U. S., Dr. Sommerstein Reveals; Jewish Relief Organized in Lublin LUBLIN (JPS) — More than 500,000 Jews, of Poland's prewar Jewish population of 3,500,000, were saved by the Russians, and 50,000 found safety in Palestine, Britain and the U. S., according to statistics by Dr. Emil Sommerstein, pre...…
…Friday, September /5 THE JEWISH NEWS Patio Thirty IVA ats 11 star Every white wooden star (or cross) that marks the grave of an American fighting man is paid for in full—with a gold star, a And Here Are 5 MORE Reasons handful of bitter-sweet memories...and an empty heart at home. for Buying EXTRA Bonds! I. War Bonds are theabesti r.the• safest" it's tough to die alone, far from your loved ones, with the feel of the metal in vest...…
…Friday, September 15, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS Center Announces Program of Fall, Winter Activities Morris Garvett Reveals Adult Education Schedule; Mrs. Cooper Announces Musical Events; Variety of Doings for All Age Groups . The Jewish Community Cen- ter announces an extensive series of activities for the fall and win- ter, .commeneing. on Wednesday, Sept. 20. Under the leadership of Morris Garvett, chairman of the adult MORRIS GARVETT educa...…
…Friday, September 15.-1944 THE JEWISH NEWS Page Thirty-two Rely on Your Own Good Judgment and Faith ... BVY WAR BON D S N cr7 i7: 7' .,.. • OBODY need fell you that the FIGHTING in this war is reaching a crisis. But we've got to realize also that we face a similar crisis in FINANCING the war. Make no mistake! Right now the most vitally important financial effort of this war MUST be met. No one can hold back . . . We can't afford...…
….Ftiday, September 1944 Service Schedule At Shaarey Zedek THE JEWISH NEWS Red Press Assails Dorothy Thompson CHIT-CHAT MOSCOW (JPS) — Pleas for Dr. Hershman to Preach Ser- mercy on behalf of the German mons in Main Auditorium, people, made by columnist Dor- Rabbi Haas in Social Hall Dr: A. M. Hershman, rabbi of Shaarey Zedek, will preach in the Main , Auditorium of the Syn- agogue on both days of Rosh Hashanah. On Monday, the first day...…
…'THE Page Thirty-four Friday, Sept-ember 15, r94 JEWISH NEWS Over 105,000 "Purple Hearts" APPEA.1.. TO YOU! SHRAPNEL SHATTERED the knee of Pvt. Thomas Della- _ rossa, Trenton, N: J: He'll always wear a leg brace: WITH KNEE-CAP BROKEN, Sgt. Nicholas Miller, of Paterson, N. J., rescued two comrades under fire. ior this he wears the Silver Star: Hasn't he done enough? No, he's buying War Bonds! Are you? ..What's Your Answer? ANUNLUCKYSNR...…
…▪ Friday, September IS, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS Engagements Women's Clubs Sgt. Davidson, The opening meeting of RO- DIN CLUB was held in the form Bride Residing of a luncheon on Sept. 13, at the home of Mrs. Nathan Fish- man, 3411 Sherbourne Drive. In- In Nebraska stallation of officers featured the meeting. * * * JUNIOR BNAI BRITH GIRLS, Frances Solovich Group, an- nounce postponement of the meeting that was scheduled for Sept. 6 to Sept, 2...…
…▪ Page Thirty-six THE JEWISH NEWS I ACTIVITIES IN SOCIETY Serviceman's Bride Miltori S. Cohen, son of Mr. • and Mrs. Max Cohen of Oakman Blvd., has left for St. Petersburg, Fla., where he will attend the Florida Military Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Meyersohn of Cortland Ave. celebrated the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Aubrey, at a house reception, Sunday, Sept. 10. He was confirmed Saturday, at Congregation Bnai Jaco Richton and Linwood. She...…
…Ricky, Septentber 15, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS I ACTIVITIES IN SOCIETY I .1. Mrs. David J. Levy and her daughter, Betty, of West Boston Blvd. returned on Friday from Woodmere, L. I. where they visited with Mrs. Levy's son and daughter-in-law,, Nir. and Mrs. David J. Levy Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Gilbert who have been spending the sum- mer in Charlevoix were the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Newman of Canterbury Rd. Mrs. A. M. Kondri...…
…Page Thirty-eight THE J E WISH NEWS Friday, September 15, 1944 HAPPY NEW YEAR --••••■■•• hhh1.1. rIZ1P rl:V5 In Greeting Our Friends and Relatives With Sincere Wishes for a Happy 5705, We Pray, Together With Jewry Throughout the World, That This Year We May Celebrate the Complete Victory of the United Nations A Chaplain and Mrs. Samuel Adinoff and family 2818 Electric ave. Port Huron, Mich. Chaplain and Mrs. Morris Adler and daughter...…
…Friday, Sepfemtier 15, 1944 ZOA Organizes Unity Committee For Palestine Group Launches National Educational ,Program To Clarify Issues THE :JEWISH NEWS HEROES OF VILNA Chaplain Adler Greets Detroit Jewry Through Jewish News By RABBI mom's ADLER Chaplain, U. S. Army, Stationed at Rhoads General Hospital Utica, N. Y. I pray that the. New Year may .bring its redeeming and compensating blessings for the sorrows and horrors of the tragic per...…
…f Page Forfy THE JEWISH NEWS .Friday, Sepfemiiqr (S,: 19. 44 1 1 1 211AZPIZIM rl:V5 On This Eve of Vittory . We Greet Our Families and Friends With a Prayer for the Safe and Speedy Return of Those Fighting so Courageously for the Freedoms We Cherish D Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dorf and son 18286 Indiana Mr. and Mrs. M. Davis and family ilb 2676 Webb Mr. and Mrs. Jack V. Diamond and 'daughter, Marjorie 4804 Cortland Mr. and Mrs. Joe Deytshe...…
…Friday, September .15, 1944 Jewish Variety Theater to Open In Biro-Bidjan JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Keren Kayemeth (J e w is h National Fund) headquarters announced here that the Fund's world re- ceipts for the period from De- cember 1, 1943, to July, 1944 were $5,603,508, representing a 61% increase over the corresponding period last year. America is in the lead with $3,381,480; South Africa is second with $582,748; Palestine contributed $579,952;...…
…Page THE JEWISH NEWS Forty-two it i ll wjzig Friday, September I5, 1944 HAPPY NEW YEAH !CirlAti mzlo 7-1:w5 We Greet Our Relatives, Friends and the Entire Jewish Community With the Hope That the New Year 5705 Will Be One of Peace and Joy for Israel and All Humanity K L M P Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kraft and family 3816 Sturtevant ave. Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Levin 1600 Seward Mr. and Mrs. H. Murav and sons 2665 Hazelwood Mrs. Gussie Philli...…
…Friday, Sopferabef 15, 1944 JEWISH NEWS Jewish Women in the News Eminent Figures Among Great Heroines, Palestine Builders By SHIRLEY HOROWITZ As we review the achieve- that meager start, hospitals, ments of the past year in a medical schools, and clinics have search for Jewish women who been built—open to Jew and have distinguished themselves, Arab. we select from lists of musicians, Today Henrietta Szold brings scientists, humanitarians,...…
…Page Forfy-four \. Friday, September 15, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS 4 - WIw71 1 9 HAPPY NEW YEAH !Izrzn rtni5 May the New Year 5705 Witness the Dawn of an Era Happiness and Security for All. In This Spirit, We Greet All Our Relatives and Friends With Best Wishes for a Happy New Year S R Dr. and Mrs. Bernard •Rose and children, Lois and Richard 2505 Boston Mr. and Mrs. .Morris Ross and sons 4211 Tuxedo Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Radner and Famil...…
…▪ Fi:iday, September 'IS, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS Exclusive Cable From Feffer 30,000 Jews Back in Kiev; Rabbi Restores Synagogue In Spite of Evidence of Destruction, Children Laugh Again; Repatriated Jews Find Words to Express Nazi Atrocities By ITZIK FEFFER Noted Soviet Yiddish Poet NHJC Pioneer In Rescuing Ailing Children DENVER—Nestled at the foot of the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains in the - dry clime of Coloiado's mile hi...…
…Page Forty-six Friday, Sepfer4er TS, 1944 - THEJEWISH NEWS HAPPY NEW YEAR !ItrIzztrmItomto5 With Hope in Our Hearts We 'Greet Our Relatives and Friends on This New Year for We Look to- 5705. to Bring Release to Our Suffering .Brethren MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANEOUS Mr. and Mrs. Leonard B. Wolstein and family 4301 Clements In this column appear .greetings which arrived too late to be classified alphabetically. Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Goodma...…
…• Fri ley, Sep‘rnber 15, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS Livingston Believes Civilization May Anathematize Anti-Semitism Founder and Chairman of Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith Outlines Causes and Cures of Bigotry in New Book, "Must Men Hate?" Few men are as well informed on the anti-Semitic issues and the cures offered to fight them as Sigmund Livingston, founder and for 30 years chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith. All his lif...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS Page Forty-eight Friday, Sepfernlier I5, 1944 • erica He's Doing His Part •-•ii We Must Do Our Pad! For him the terrifying grand climax of the war is at hand. The supreme military Tisk—bound to be bloody, costly in American lives. Our boys know this. They don't have to read the heart- ' rending headlines or casualty lists to know what is expected of them. THEY ARE IN IT! But they are not flinching . . . not hold- i...…
…;:cadiyi -Seffifembor ,t5; f'944 THE JEWISH NEWS Jewish News Letter Box Vice-President's New Year Message Disabled Soldier Gets Things off His Chest Editor, The Jewish News: "It is good to be home." That perhaps better than anything else sums up the feelings of those - servicemen who are fortunate enough to be back home. But if I were to forget for one moment the mi:Fevies and sufferings that I have observed from one end 'of the globe to a...…
…Friday, September 15, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS Page Fifty 74- a *h. r ice ewe Billions and billions of dollars. , "That's the price we must pay for a decent world—a world in which we and all peoples can live in peace. We GIs will furnish the bodies. Will you furnish the dough?" "They know. Every GI Joe knows. "This is the big show. This is the pay-off. This is the one that counts. "Sure, we're going to take -"ern. But it's going to cost ...…
