Is Jessie Sampler's Legacy
Being Betrayed in Israel?

Bertha Badt-Straus of Shreve- was of Kashrut. Jessie herself
port, La., directs the following , was not extreme in her Conserv-
challenge to the Kibbutz Givat j atism, coming from the utmost.
Brenner in Israel, in a letter to left of Judaism as she had; but
the Reconstructionist:
I she would have deeply resented
Jessie Sampte r, the well,- this change. In 1936, she wrote:
known American-Jewish poet "The Rest Home is like the
and pioneer is peacefully sleep- Kvutzah itself, a living experi-
ing in the little graveyard of ment: So far, both its founders
Givat Brenner "on the slope of and its guests are satisfied with
the hill" (al morad hahar) as the results."
Are they less satisfied today?
ber last song foresaw:
Some morn, from my narrow Why was this change deemed
necessary? A beautiful dream,
bedstead
which had been translated into
Arise I also will,
And then I shall sleep in the reality, was sacrificed. Why?
evening
There on the slope of the hill.
Harry Horowitz Elected
However, in these days of ours",
she won't rest easy in her grave. Northwest Israel Head
Jessie Samnter had sold her own
At the annual election meet-
house, in Rehoboth, had turned
the money over to the Kibbutz, ing of Northwest Israel Syna-
where • she became a member, as gogue and Center, Harry Horo-
well as the rest of. her private witz was elected congregational
property, with the provisions president. Elected with him
that they build a Vegetarian w ere Samuel Novetzy, vice-
Rest Home for "Teachers and ,_president; 'Milton Duchan and
Workmen": they : badly needed -Ben Greenbaum, secretaries; and
it in the Palestine of 1933. She Harry Blitz, treasurer.
The following were elected to
made only two conditions when
she decided to have the Rest the synagogue's board of direc-
Horne built: 1) that the "Rest tors: Gilbert Averbuch, Simon
Home be vegetarian," and 2) Ash, Albert Friedman, Nathan
that a suitable room be "reserved Grunt, Lew Gus, Isaac Henig,
for me, where I can live for the Benjamin Br o d m a n, Arthur
Klein, Alexander Moss, Sam Su-
rest of my days."
Whoever bias traveled through kenic and Norman Sukenic.
Officers and board members
Israel knows that this Rest
Home, with its magnificent gar- will be installed at a congrega-
den, which Jessie herself had tional Hanukah party tb be held
planted and taken care of, with at 8:30 p. m., Saturday, in the
the help of "Esther the garden- synagogue. Friends are invited
er," became one of the beauty to attend.
spots in beautiful Israel. It was
Ethel Merman: "Women love
overcrowded most of the time;
and it was vegetarian, as its to exchange hats at a milliner's.
founder had wanted it to be Men prefer a restaurant."
Whoever read Jessie Sampter's
essay, "Vegetarians in Pales-
tine," knows that .she was not
solely interested in
food, but that she saw in this
way of living an approach to
those times of peace "when the
lion would eat grass like the
lamb." But she, in - her .American
common-sense, did not go so far
as to recommend vegetarianism
at any price; that's why she was
proud to see a good Vegetarian
Home prosper, when her. friend
Leah Berlin ran the place. The
Rest Hothe became a -spiritual
center as Weil as a rest center
Today, a ."new Pharoh" seems
to reign in..Givat Brenner, "who
did not lu-i0w of Joseph." Though
the Rest Home (called Beth
Jesha), seems to flourish as be-'
fore, and they built a new -annex
to it, they decided to serve meat
and to abolish whatever there
1317 Gratiot

Best Wishes

for a Joyous

Hanukah

MILLER BROS.

POULTRY

14 — DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, December 4, 1953

Best Wishes to the Jewish Community

For a Joyous Holiday

Sheruth League Luncheon Slated for Dec. 15

Sheruth League will hold its incide with the tenth birthday
seventh annual donor luncheon Of Sheruth League. This building
on Dec. 15, in Masonic Temple, will be the start of a complete
village, which will house .42 chil-
dren when completed.
Last summer, Sheruth sent 34
youngsters to camp for a total of,
111 camp weeks. Scholarship to
camps also were provided for
children with physical an men-
tal handicaps.
Besides this pfoject, the group
also supports the Allied -Jewish
Campaign, Torch Drive, Ruth
Alden Dress Fund, Mo'os Hitim
Fund, Round Table of Christians
- -

and Jews, Wayne Cultural Fund
and cancer drive.

Beth Abraham Talmud
Study Group to Elect Officers

Chevra Mishnayoi Society—
the Talmud study group—of
Cong. Beth Abraham, will hold
its annual Siyum ceremony and
election of officers at a M'laveh
Malkeh supper at 9 p.m., Dec. 12,
in the synagogue.
Rabbis Joseph Thumim and
Israel I. Halpern will participate
in the proceedings, announces
Samuel Weiss, chairman, who
will preside.

Hanukah. Greetings to

All Our Friends and Patrons .

MRS. NATHAN SPECTOR

it was announced this week by
Mrs. Nathan Spector, president:
Raymond Chase, master of the
concertina and a popular radio
and television humorist, will
provide entertainment. For tick-
ets, call Mrs. Norbert Ketai, UN.
2-3766.
Proceeds fiom the donor will
further the group's chief pro-
ject—a $35,000 building at Camp
Tamarack which is being con-
structed in collaboration with
the Fresh Air Society.
Ground will be broken for the
building around March 10 to co-

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