UHS-Center Program Gives Children
An Opportunity to 'Enjoy Jewish Living'
Junior. T h e s-
pians at the
David W. Simons
School are intent
on rehearsals for
t heir Hanukah
play. Drama
coach DRORA
SELESNY (s e c-
o n d from left)
directs cast
members GAIL
POSEN, HELEN
WEINER, MARI-
LYN LOFMAN,
HAROLD EISEN-
Children in the arts and crafts club at Rose -Sittig Cohen branch
MAN, EVELYN are completing a model of an Israeli Kibbutz. Left to right: MARION
RABOTNICK, FELDMAN, crafts instructor; ESTELLE RING, SHELDON GROSBERG,
LORETTA RICHARD WOLFE and SPENCER PARTRICH. Other arts and
W E I N TRAUB, crafts projects include creation of scenery for the drama group's
LE'PNARD Hanukah productions.
LACHOVER
and MELVIN
_ SHAPIRO.
—Photographs by Paul Kirsch.
By RUTH MIRIAM LEVINE
8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 29, at Central High
School. The program was set in the -evening,
An experimental program of integration
of classroom and club activities to give . Elazar explained, because the children will
students an opportunity to "enjoy themselves be on vacation from the public schools at that
as Jews" is meeting with remarkable success time.
this year at the United Hebrew Schools.
Most popular of the clubs is the choral
Formally inaugurated this fall, the pro- group, which, for expediency and better
gram features a variety of club activities— effects, is arranged on an inter-school basis.
arts and crafts, woodworking, dramatics,
Shirley Subar Sklash directs the inter-school
choir, metal-working, sports—following the chorus, combining 85 Simons ; Cohen, Phil-
Sunday morning classroom sessions. So popu- adelphia and Parkside students, at the Rose
lar has the program become, that Sunday Sittig Cohen Bldg. Over 50 of the Bagley
attendance has jumped 40 per cent over last
and Beth Aaron students also are combined
year.
into a choir.
UHS—Center Sponsorship
The crafts, drama and sports groups
Training in craftsmanship is combined with construction of
The club program is co-sponsored by the attract large numbers, the first two meeting
on Sundays only. The athletic activities are articles of Jewish interest in this woodworking class at the David W.
Hebrew Schools and the Dexter extension of
the Jewish Community Center. Its staff of available during the week, too, so that Simons School. Attendance at these crafts sessions is voluntary,
13, each of whom is a specialist in his field,
students coming directly to their Hebrew but they have proved so popular that attendance at Sunday sessions
is directed by Albert Elazar, associate super-
classes from public school may remain for has almost doubled.
intendent of the Schools, and Samuel Neus- sports and games, while the same recreational
chatz, the Center's Dexter director. In this program is available at 4 p.m. for students
area, 700 students are enrolled in four UHS in the afternoon and early evening classes.
branches: David W. Simons, Rose Sittig
This is one of the first instances in which
Cohen, Philadelphia-Byron and Parkside. The the Center and the Hebrew Schools have
UHS sponsors separately the program in the cooperated on a large-scale program. On pre-
a parlor meeting- held at Hanukah youth party at Congre-
Bagley and Beth Aaron branches.
vious occasions, Center activities in the Dex- the At
home of Harry L. Blitz, chair- gation Bnai. Moshe for members
Attendance at he extra-curricular clubs ter area have been housed in UHS buildings. man of the Young ,Israel board of and all Detroit Jewish youth. The
- is completely voldntary, the directors point
For this program, however, the cooperation is directors, Dec. 16, plans were theme of the evening is "Rebirth
out, and students are invited to bring as
complete, from the planning and organiza- laid for a city-wide campaign to of the Land." Six of the Young
guests boys and girls who are not regularly tional level, through actual operation of the secure funds necessary to com- Israel youth groups will preseht
plete the Youth Center now un- a variety show, which will in-
enrolled.
project and on to review and evaluation .
der construction on Dexter Blvd. elude playlets, choral work, in-
While
the
Hebrew
Schools
provide
the
Correlate Club — Class Work
between Fullerton and Sturte- dividual recitations, games and a
physical
facilities,
as
well
as
many
of
the
Adhering to its purpose of "getting child-
vant.
Hanukah carnival. Latest Pales-
staff
members,
the
Center
offers
supervision
ren to know Jewish life in a pleasant way,"
The steering committee, headed tinian films and comedies will be
and conducts group leaders' conferences.
by Morris Karbal, and including shown. Refreshments will be
the program provides official correlation be-
tween club and classroom work. This month,
Progress Watched Nationally 4. Henry Keywell, David J. Gold- served to the children by the
berg, Morris Mohr, Arthur Klein, Women's League of - Young IsraeL
for example, the classroom studies feature
The progress of this program is being Morris
Kaner, Max W. Temchin,
Women's League Election
the historical background and modern appli- watched carefully by educational and group Ben
Gould and Max Kaplan,
Mrs. Harry L. Blitz will be
cation of the festival of Hanukah. In the clubs, work leaders throughout the country, since Morris Snow, Samuel Hechtman hostess to the Women's League
the children learn the mode of celebration it is one of the first such experiments to be and Abe Nusbaum, have pledged of Young Israel, Tuesday eve-
of the holiday. The choral group is singing conducted. A similar program is now under- to raise a substantial ,sum for the ning, Jan. 4; at which time the
Hanukah songs; the dramatics group is re- way in Buffalo, N. Y., co-sponsored by the building fund, but the largest election of officers of the organi-
hearsing a Hanukah play; the crafts groups Bureau of Jewish Education and the Jewish portion remains to be raised from zation will be held. Mrs. Hyman
other sources. Young Israel mem- R. Cohen, retiring president,
are busy creating costumes and scenery for Center.
will be organized into urges all the league's members.to
the plays, as well as decorations for the school
It is an encouraging example of the bership
teams
which
a systematic attend, as a very entertaining
buildings.
manner in which a positive feeling for Ju- canvas of the make
community.
program is benig arranged, which
The results of all these efforts will be in
daism can be instilled in tomorrow's Jewry,,
Youth Hanukah Program
will include the showing of the
evidence at a combined Hanukah assmbly through the cooperative efforts of the
On Saturday evening, Jan. 1, movies taken- at the cornerstone
for students of all the Hebrew Schools at agencies of the Jewish community.
Young Israel will hold its annual ceremonies.
Young Israel to Launch Building
Campaign; Plan Hanukah Programs
Wayne Hillel Schedules
Series of Discussions on
Community Organizations
Beginning in. January, the
Wayne University Hillel Found-
ation will conduct a series of pro-
grams on the Jewish community.
Purpose of these programs is
to acquaint the students with the
organizational f r a m e work of
American Jewry on a local and
national basis. Prominent speak-
ers will present the organiza-
tion, philosophy, and work of
their respective groups.
The series will open at 1 p. m.
Wednesday, Jan. 5 when • Erwin
S. Simon, Detroit lawyer, will
discuss "The American Jewish
Committee."
Wednesday, Jan. 12, S a m
Brown, executive director of the
American Jewish Congress, will
discuss his organization. Other
organizations to be presented,
will be Bnai Brith, the Federa-
tion and Welfare Funds, and
the Jewish Welfare Board, with
particular emphasis on the Cen-
ter movement.
24—THE JEWISH NEWS
• Friday, December 24, 1948
LIVES OF OUR TIMES
YAAKOV DORI
OROOtittO tv NORMAN t 001. NOOt•
TEXT
BY MARC RUTNER.
HE ARRIVED AT THE THEN REMOTE REHOVOTH
AREA OF PALESTINE WHEN HE WAS ONLY
SIX YEARS OLD. LATER THE DOSTROVSKY
FAMILY SETTLED IN HAIFA.
CHIEF OF STAFF Of THE ARMY Of
ISRAEL,WHO HAS MASTER-MINDED
THE DEFENSE OF THE JEWISH STATE
IN THE SPIRIT OF THE MACGABEANS..
YAAKO V
DOR /
11
BORN JA • B DOSTROVSKY IN ODESSA,RUSSIA,IN
1899,HIS FAMILY BROUGHT HIM TO PALESTINE
AFTER THE NOTORIOUS 1905 POGROMS.
IN 1918 HE JOINED THE JEWISH
LEGION AND RECEIVED MACHINE-
GUNNERY INSTRUCTION.SECRET-
LY,HE TAUGHT THE USE OF THE
MACHINEGUN TO ILAGANAH MEM-
BERS AFTER THE WAR ENDED.
OOP
AT THE BEGINNING OF WORLD' WAR I,YAAKOV
DORI ORGANIZED A SELF-DEFENSE ORGAN -
LZATION KNOWN AS "HASHOMER"(THE WATCH-
. MAN).THIS UNIT BECAME THE FORERUNNER OF IIAGANA
DURING THE 1929 RIOTS HE WAS AP- '
POINTED DEPUTY COMMANDER FOR
HAIFA AND DEFENDED THE CITY
SUCCESSFULLY AGAINST ATTACKSR014
THEN ON HE BEGAN TO MOLD THE
HAGANAH UNITS INTO A STRONG,
MODERN MILITARY FORCE.
TODAY.AT THE AGE OF 49.11E IS
CONSIDERED ONE Of THE FEW
SUCCESSFUL MILITARY COM-
MANDERS WHO HAS NEVER
HAD FORMAL MILITARY TRAIN-
ING— DEFENDER OF TILE
STATE OF ISRAEL.
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HE STUDIED CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER-
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NE WORKED AS AN ENGINEER.THIS
TRAINING WAS To STAND INN IN GOOD STEAD
HE HAS SERIOUSLY STUDIED GERMAN.
FRENCH,RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH
BOOKS ON MILITARY TECHNIQUE.
AT THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WARE,
HE WAS NAMED CHIEF Of STAFF OF HAGMAN.
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