Schaver Testimonial Dinner Wednesday
To Observe Labor Zionist's 60th Birthday
Leonard Kasle to Be Candidate for
Detroit Board of Education
in Alsace -Lorrain e, Chateau
Thiery, Verdun and the Argonne
Forest.
In 1943, Schaver established
the Schaver Foundation as a
memorial to his parents. The
Foundation was formed to sup-
port many organizations and
their cultural activities.
In this Tercentenary year,
the Foundation has established
a fund for publications of Jew-
ish interest, which was formu-
lated in conjunction with the
Wayne University Professor-
ship in Jewish Culture.
Leonard Kasle, well known
Detroiter, this week announced
his candidacy for the Detroit
Board of Education.
Kasle, who is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Abe Kasle, is a gradu-
ate of the Jewish Institute of
Religion. He officiated as Rabbi
and as a director of Hillel
Foundation for several years,
before entering business with
his father in the Kasle Steel
Corp.
A lecturer in the extension di-
vision of the University of Mich-
igan is active in educational
circles here and is considered
one of the best informed men
in Detroit on matters affecting
the school system.
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Where once not long ago stood a sordid collection of mud huts
and buildings which blighted the landscape, the beautiful city of
Ramie is now emerging. Shown above is the city of today, with
beautiful green trees and shrubs everywhere and wide streets en-
abling swift movement of traffic.
Friendless and near penniless, were developed even as a little
a bewildered young man of 19 boy in his native Poland. He
debarked amongst a stream of would travel with his father,
collecting pennies for the poor.
other immigrants from Europe
one sweltering August day in He became the 'd f or his
family at 12 when his father
1913.
He little dreamed then that died.
He continued this work in
one day his name would become
prominent in the business world, America when he joined the
nor did he realize that he would Farband and the Labor Zionist
Organization of America. Prob-
ably his greatest achievement,
however, has been accomplished
through the Histadrut campaign.
It was in great part through
his energetic leadership, re-
sourcefulness and initiative that
the Detroit community has time
and again emerged as the top
national leader in the Histadrut
campaigns. _
Schaver received his citizen-
ship after World War I, during
which he served in the Red
Arrow Division and saw action
His work for the Jewish corn-
munity and the general commu-
nity has brought him much per-
sonal recognition and satisfac-
tion. He has devoted himself to
such causes as Jewish National
Fund, Sinai Hospital, and the
Jewish Welfare Federation, ,the
latter two in which he serves
as a board member.
Other causes he supports are
the Hebrew University American
-Red Cross, Haifa Technion,
American Cancer Society and
Torch Fund. He is on the na-
tional executive of the Histadrut
and LZOA.
On his 60th birthday, his de-
votion to Israel is even more
intensified than in the past.
Many of the Halutzim, with
whom he developed friendships
through the years, now occupy
important positions in Israeli
governmental and cultural in-
stitutions, and they know Morris
Schaver may be counted on for
any worthwhile project.
Locally, Schaver's 60th year is
being celebrated by intensive ef-
forts on his part and many oth-
ers to establish a new home for
the Detroit Labor Zionist Move-
ment, which will serve Detroiters
as a modern Labor Zionist Cen-
ter.
MORRIS SCHAVER
be one of the most potent Zion-
ist forces in this country.
On Wednesday, when dis-
tinguished communal leaders
from all over the United States
gather at the Sheraton Cadillac
Hotel to pay tribute to Morris
Schaver, he will be celebrating
his 60th birthday. Forty-one of
them have been celebrated right
here in Detroit.
On that occasion, Schaver will
be presented with $60,000 repre-
senting the first installment
toward the Civic and Culture
Center of Ramle, Israel, which
will bear his name.
The testimonial dinner is
sponsored by the Detroit Israel
Histadrut Campaign Commit-
tee, which will raise the re-
mainder of the funds in its
campaign for a quarter of a
million dollars and send them
to Ramie, to be transferred
into a network of hospitals,
clinics and cultural facilities
in the former all-Arab city
which is promising to be one
of Israel's greatest centers.
Schaver, who has been chair-
man and honorary chairman of
the Histadrut Campaign for 16
years, began his career in this
country like many immigrants
who have subsequently reached
fame and fortune.
He started work in an overall
manufacturing plant, earning $4
a week, of which he sent $2 home
to his mother and four sisters
in Poland. As a dishwasher, fac-
tory worker, grocery store pro-
prietor, jitney driver, Schaver
finally found his niche in life
in the pivotal year 1923.
In that year, 10 years after
landing in , this country, there
things happened to him. He met
a girl named Emma Lazaroff,
who later became his wife; he
launched an enterprise destined
to become the Central Overall
and Supply Company; and he
met a man named Max Pine on
the latter's visit in Detroit,
which led to an intensification
of Schaver's Histadrut activities.
Schaver's philanthropic ways
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Religious Leaders Demand Primacy
For Synagogue in American Life
NEW Y OR IC, (J T A) — The
charge that organized lay forces
in the American Jewish com-
munity are "usurping the pre-
rogatives of religious leadership
by barging in where the 'place
belongs clearly to the religious
representation of Am e r is a n
Jewry" was made at the con-
cluding session of the General
Assembly of Jewish religious
leaders sponsored by the Syna-
gogue Council of America, the
central representative body of
Ithe Orthodox, Conservative and
Reform movements in this
country.
The Assembly issued a state-
ment warning that "unless the
synagogue retains or regains its
primacy, Jewish life is bound to
atrophy, and Jews and Judaism.
are likely to perish."
The statement called for "the
restoration of the synagogue to
centrality in organized Jewish
life in America." A message of
greeting from President Eisen-
hower was received by the As-
sembly.
The keynote of the all-day
gathering was set by Rabbi
Abraham J. Feldman, vice-presi-
dent of the Synagogue Council
and chairman of the General
Assembly, who said, "The pre-
servation of all that is signifi-
cant in Jewishness is dependent
upon the synagogue.
Differing with the other
speakers, Rabbi Israel Goldstein,
of New York, while asserting
that "the synagogue today does
not -have the all-inclusive scope
it once had," said "there is no
use in trying to turn back the
clock to restore the r•-.-ereignty
of the synagogue in all areas—
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ist, defense of Jewish rights."
He said the synagogue must
content itself with "inspiring,
aiding and facilitating the re-
sponse to the deserving claims
of Jewish necessity. An excep-
tion, however, must be made in
the field of education which is
the very essence of the syna-
gogue's aim and purpose."
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