Hebrew Schools' Graduations Monday Night ;
Mother and Daughter Among the Graduates

The United Hebrew Schools' High School graduating class and faculty: Left to right:
Seated, faculty member and superintendents, Miss IOLA R. SCHIPLER, SOLOMON KASDAN,
JOSEPH HAGGAI, BERNARD ISAACS. ALBERT ELAZAR, A. J. LACHOVER, MAX GORDON;
middle row, Mrs. HELEN RING, VIVIAN SOMBERG, SAM HOCHBERG, ANNE GUYER. MOR-
RIS DWORKIN, EARL MANDELL, SYLVIA GREENFIELD, RALPH KOLLER, REUVEN BAR-
LEVAV, instructor; last row, - EDWARD KROLL, ELISSA PANUSH, JUDY PANUSH, BERNICE
SCHWARTZ. GAIL SMOLINSKY, FRANCES NOVETSKY, JUDITH SPERKA, ILANA GREEN-
BAUM. JUDY SANDERS. A graduate not in the photo is Ora Kutnick.
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The gift to the graduates and
The joint exercises of the ele- direction of Miss Iola R. Schip-
mentary and high school classes ler, will sing a group of Hebrew medals for outstanding students,
will be presented by the Worn-
of the United Hebrew Schools songs.
Three members of the High an's Auxiliary of the United
will be held Monday evening. in
the auditorium of Adas Shalom School graduation class. Ralph Hebrew Schools and the Ladies'
Koller. Frances Novetsky and Auxiliary of the Kvutzah Ivrith.
Synagogue.
The program will begin with a Judy Sanders. will talk on "The The Joel Cashdan Memorial
processional by the graduates, Prophet Amos". This will be Award will be presented by Solo-
be
which will be followed with followed by a group of choral mon .Kasdan. and there will
opening remarks by Albert Ela- Biblical readings directed by an award from the Hebrew
zar, associate superintendent of Moshe Haar and Miss Schipler. Teachers Organization.
The graduates, their parents The program will terminate
the schools. Ileen Order. a mem-

ber of the elementary depart-
ment, will recite a poem. Fay
Mathis and Albert Kaplan will
talk on the subject: "What Does
the Hebrew School Mean to Me."
Jonney Seligman and David .
Katz will speak on "Israel and
the United Hebrew Schools";
Barbara Frank. a graduate. will
render a vocal solo "Omren
Yeshneh Eretz".
The traditional candle cere-
mony, in which the lighted can-
dle, theSTrhbol of the Torah, is
handed over by the present
graduation cla_ss to the next
class, will be carried out by
Gerald Starr and Barbara Gold-
smith, the graduates, and Shel-

and friends. will be greeted by with closing remarks by Ber-
Abe Kasle, president of the nard Isaacs. superintendent of
schools. the schools.
The principal address of - the
An interesting feature of
graduation ceremony will be de-
this year's commencement ex-
livered by Rabbi Jacob E. Segal
ercises is the graduation of
of Adas Shalom.
Mrs. Helen Ring from the high
The diplomas will be awarded
School and her daughter, Es-
by Maurice H. Zackheim and
tete, f r o in the elementary
Maurice Landau, co-chairmen of
department.
the board of education.

- ion—based on personal exper-
ience—that persons who pur-
chased Israel bonds were more
likely thereafter to contribute
to the United Jewish Appeal.
He cited several instances of this
which had come to his personal
attention.

I and a disinterest in Judaism
By NORMAN KURLAND
many other Jews refuse to
( Mr. Kurland, the son of Mr. Still,
identify themselves as Jews. IrE. ,
and Mrs. Aaron Kurland, of Holland, all residents must reg--i
Huntington Woods, Mich., is cur- ister, and are asked to statei.
rently in Holland with his wife their religion. These files were
on a scholarship. Both are in- available to the Germans andi
structors at the University of were used to identify Jews wh4
were subsequently massacred
Michigan).
The Jewish community in Hence, the reluctance to admilj.
Holland is weak—due not only religion and to avoid contactl:
with fellow
feow ews.
J
to the Germans who reduced w
Jewry from 120,000 persons to During the war many Jewish
only 20,000, but also to a great children were taken for safe-1
defection among those who sur- keeping into non-Jewish homes!
vived. Some of the foster parents nowt ir
In Holland, before the Chris- refuse to give up the children!
tian festival, St. Nicholas Day, to the Jewish community, anc4'
on Dec. 5, it is customary for they are being raised as Chris-1
!
children to receive.- their initials tians.
This problem is being pro- l'
in large chocolate letters. This
year for the benefit of Jewish jetted into the future because i
parents a confectioner sold He- of the difficulty in providing l:
adequa to religious training for- i
brew chocolate letters.
This paradoxical display typi- the young. All schools here are i:
state supported. Besides the is
fies the Jews of post war Hol-
land, who do not know whether muncipalities, any group ful-
to cling to or to abandon their filling specified requirements'
and having enough members;
faith and traditions.
Many Jews survived the war can receive state money for
because even before the Nazis . teachers and buildings.
f
they had abandoned their ties r This has developed three typei'
schools:
Catholic.
Protestan4
of
.
with Judaism, made alliances
with non-Jews and so had lit- and municipal schools. The lati -
tle trouble finding friends to ter is the poorest since both
give them safe hiding places. state and church money is pour4,'
Others intermarried and were ed into the religious schools.
left alone until the last depor- There are two Jewish schools
tations. There was not enough but most youngsters attend non-1,•
time to have them murdered Jewish schools. After schoc4
and they survived. Generally, Jewish training in Amsterdam•
this group is not interested in The Hague and other large ceni
the affairs of the Jewish corn- ters is offered, but there are nol .
munity. nearly enough teachers to send:
But even among those whose to smaller communities. Chi)!
ties were strong before the war dren there are growing up wit!'
there has grown an embittered no Jewish education or contacts)
feeling. a loss of faith in God Community leaders are plain -
ly worried, but they can not
how to cope with the probleW
This typifies the Dutch Jewl“
P. A. Leemon to Head
leadership, which reflects

Pisgah Lodge, Bnai Brith

With most of its pre-war leaden
or di`
in its 95th year, has elected illusioned, present leaders a
Philmore A. Leemon president unaggressive and overwhelm -
for the current by immediate problems.
term.
This weakness has added t
Serving wit h the general sense of insecurit
him will be Mor- and is shared by Jews throug.::
ris Burnstein. out Europe. All that are
Beryle Walters. are leaving—the old to Canad . :3
vice-presidents: the young to Israel. Reports •:7
Marvin Reider, the rigorous life led in Israel'
Alfred Bounin. however, has slowed the move,"
t.
secre t a r i e s: men* to the Jewish state.
Archie Katcher.
There is much interest in
chaplain; I s a- Israel. Funds are collected.i
d
o r e Perlman.
assistant
chap- Near Amsterdam is a Halutzi
training camp. Young people
lain; Sam Seli- are preparing for life in zi;
Leemon
kowitz, treasurer; William Lite. kibbutz. Before the war Dutch;
warden; A r t h u r Markowitz, Jews were isolated from world,
guardian; Sam Wider, Joseph Jewry, but wartime exeprience .
Faudem. Dr. George Leib. Ben-
and the bond with Israel has..
jamin Goldhoff. Isadore Gussin, broken this isolation.
i
Louis Lightstone. Robert Ostrow.
Prior to the Nazis. Amsterdart:
trustees.
had
seven
large
and
many
smai
Officers will be installed at
Today three art
ues.
ceremonies June 23. at Bel-Aire synagog
A cocktail hour and used The rest are shells, with
Terrace.
still painted on ther
dinner will be followed by the swastikas
Only one synagogue was lei
installation event.
The annual party of the con- completely untouched—the 23C
servation committee of the year-old Portuguese Synagogui:
Lodge will be held Tuesday eve- which has long been classifie.
ning. at Sutton & Clements Sup- as a Dutch national monumen:.
per Club. Morris Burnstein, because of its historic and arch!
chairman, announced that din- itectural value.
The Portuguese Jews tactual;:
ner will precede entertainment
they were Spanish, but adoptl;
and dancing.

To Honor Father-Son Combinations
At Campaign Workers' Rally Friday-

Moshe Sharett Welcomed at the Airport

Kiwanis Magazine to Print
Sermon of Rabbi Friedman

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Awarded an honor medal by
the Valley Forge Freedoms
Foundation for a sermon he de-
livered last year. Rabbi Alfred L.
Friedman. of Lansing, has been
notified his sermon will be pub-
lished in the November issue of
the International Kiwanis mag-
azine.

weakness of the communit

Pisgah Lodge, Bnai Brith. now destroyed, discredited

To pay tribute to the father- the drive. Joseph Keidan also
and-son combinations working has two sons covering slips for
in the 1952 Allied Jewish Cam- the campaign — Herbert a n d
paign, trade and professional I Jacob.
workers will gather at a 12 :15
Other teams where the- father
Haifa Mayor Find.,
p.m. report luncheon today. at is active in the trades and pro-
:No L JA-Bowl Conflict the Fred M. Butzel Memorial ; fessionals and the son works in
Bldg. 163 Madison.
the Junior Division include
NEW YORK. tJTA , —The be-
The real estate and building Maurice Aronsson and Herbert.
Irwin
I. Cohn and Avern. Joseph
lief that the Israel bond cam- I division boasts seven pairs of
paign and the United Jewish fathers and sons: Charles N. Frenkel and Marvin. Samuel J.
Appeal drive are exerting a mu- Agree and A. Arnold. Julius Ber- Greenberg and Hugh. Joseph
tually beneficial effect on one , man and Mandell L.. Louis Ber: y Holtzman and Irwin T.. Ivor J.
another w a s expressed at a and Harold. Alex Belkin and Kahn and Richard. George Keil
luncheon by Mayor Abba Hushi Jack. Theodore Kelter. Sr. and land Robert. Maurice A. Landau
of Haifa on the eve of his re- Theodore. Jr.. Saul Sloan and and Graham. Jack Lapides and
turn to Israel after a speaking Richard. and David Wilkus and Max. Judge Theodore Levin and
tour in behalf of the Israel bo:vi James.
Charles. Charles Rubiner and
drive which took him to 21
Representing the mercantile Arthur James. Louis Tabashnik
American cities.
and David.
Mayor Hushi said that the im- division will be Jacob A. Citrin
and Martin. Israel Davidson and
Concluding the list of father
pression which he formed prior
Joseph. Benjamin D. Lieberman and son teams in the trades and
to his arrival of the "disastrous
effects of the rivalry of the two and Morton. Louis Robinson and professions are Solomon Alper
campaigns" was not confirmed Harold, Jack J. Stark and Jo- and Henry S., Louis Bielfield and
by his study of conditions as seph. Henry Wineman and Jerry. Nathan Epstein and Jack
he visited various American cit- James. Leon G. Winkelman and W., Samuel Gottlieb and Rich-
Stanley.
ard. William B. Isenberg and
ies.
While there was need of co- Abe Kasle, campaign chair- Bernard. Julian H. Krolik and
ordination of the t w o cam- man. has two sons—Leonard and Henry A., and Morris W. Zack
paigns, he said, it was his opin- T. Ben—who are helping him in and Eugene.

don Spector for the next class.
The school choir. under the

Fate of Dutch Jews Feared
As a Vanishing Community

The sermon, "Thanks for the
To extend an official welcome to H. E. MOSHE SHARETT on his arrival at the airport were
Memories," originally preached
as a Thanksgiving Day sermon Jewish communal leaders of Detroit. Members of the caravan that met Sharett's flight included
in 1951, was re-deli•ered before Nathan Balaban, Joseph Bernstein, Harry Cohen, Philip Dubrinsky, Walter L. Field, Albert Fruman,
the Lansing Kiwanis club, of Jack Geller, Joseph Holtzman, Abe Basle, Leon Kay, Harold Kempner, Benjamin M. Laikin, Jack
which the rabbi is a member. Lapides, Lester Lapides, A. C. Lappin, Daniel A. Laven, Alfred A. May, Dr. Martin Naimark, Samuel
The club recommended its pub- H. Rubiner, Morris L. Schaver, Philip SlomoVitz, Isidore Sobeloff, S. Joseph Wallach and Morris W
Zack.
lication.

the former title when the Dutci
were at war with Spain in tlt
16th and 17th centuries) befo'
the war were an aristocrat.,

group, holding themselves aloe
from the rest of the Jewisi
community. Many did not coil
sider themselves to be in an
way related to the "hordes" c!: .
German and Eastern Europea, „
Jews who had come to Hollan:,7
poor and uneducated from tt
eastern ghettos.
Today the handful of Port
guese Jews still remain' apa_
from the community. They hat i
had a long and colorful histor

but unless a miracle occurs, thl
generation will be the laSii
Whether the rest of the con
munity will have a better fa.;

cannot yet be determined. '
hangs in the balance which
deciding the fate of Europe

Israel, and also in the ideals
the present generation.

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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 13, 190

