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Married Affiliates...

-Synagogues • ctivate Young Members

Clubs and younger InenlbeTS
and annual picnic either in devoted to cultural, informative prayer books to the congrega-
of the youth groups.
June or July.
and religious discussions fea- tion in memory of the depart-
Throughout the country in the
Synagogues also felt that a
Directing its ac tivities are turing member participation.
ed and will soon participate in
past several years, there has group of young marrieds would Nathan S. Peterman,
With a membership of 60
president;
sprung up a new affiliate group be an asset to congregational Mrs. Stanley J:• Winkelman, vice- couples, about 75 per cent of corner-stone laying ceremonies
in many of the nation's syna- life because it would offer- them president; Mrs. Richard Miller, whom are also synagogue mem- for the new building.
Officers of the Couples Club
gogues. In one community, this a voice of expression in congre- secretary
bers, the organization has a
new organization is known as gational affairs and would in- treasurer. and Bernard Isenberg, study group which meets every are Kalmon C. Kaufer, presi-
dent; Bernard Gold, treasurers
terest them in sending their
other week .to ponder religious Delores Goldman and Jean
Temple Israel
children to religious school.
The Young Marrieds Group of matters, such as the prayer Blach, secretaries; and Marvin
That there was a need for
Berlin, sgt-at-arms.
Temple
Israel offers an example book, ceremonies and history.
young couples themselves to be-
During the Passover holiday,
There was some thought at
of
the
work
that is being done
come affiliated with such an
members have planned an in-
organization is borne out by the by organizations of this type to formal meeting with Rabbi the time many of these groups
were organized that perhaps
and expand the ac-
ever-increasing • in ern b e r s h ip
ever-increasing
Morris Adler, who has been on they would interfere with the
tivities of the congregation.
roles.
sabbatical leave while visiting programs of the Sisterhood and
One of the most significant With a membership of 76 in Israel and teaching at the Men's
Clubs.. .
reasons for the success of the couples, the Young Marrieds Jewish Theological Seminary. In
The opposite, however, has
groups was that here was a me- have taken over sponsorship of May, there will be an election of
dium in which both husband the temple's holiday workshop officers and in June a family proven true. Young marrieds
clubs have succeeded in at-
and wife could participate to- program, having conducted Ha- picnic.
tracting
an unaffiliated seg-
nukah,
Purim
and
Passover
gether.
Currently guiding the organi- ment of the community and
workshops
since
the
spring
of
More o
- ver, the problems and
zation are William A. Yolles, have brought these young peo-
desires of young married coupl as, 1953.
president; Hubert Sidlow, vice- ple into active contact with
being similar, the groups form-
The membership, in addition president; Shulamith Benstein, synagogue life.
ed. the basis for common inter- to once a month programs, par- secretary; and S. M. Israel,
By participation in many
est in marriage and child prob- ticipates in several interest treasurer.
congregational programs, in-
lems, religious school. attend- groups, such as child study, dra-
cluding sabbath services, young
Cong. Beth Abraham.
ance and future goals and in- matics, bridge, choral group and
Gathered at the invitation of marrieds have in many cases
terests.
dancing. These they join as their Rabbi Israel I. Halpern last fall, been re-oriented into active syn-
As a strictly social enterprise interests dictate.
membership in the Beth Abra- agogue activity.
the groups fostered good feel-
Membership in the temple is ham Couples Club has reached
Young married people are now
SIDNEY DWORKIN
ingS of camaraderie among its
Temple Israel Young Marrieds members and became a good not require d althoUgh two 14 couples. Presently meeting in offered the opportunity of
thirds of YMG members also are each other's homes, the group speaking on synagogue policy, of
place to meet new people, dis- temple members. One of the envisions a rapid rise in mem- planning its programs, of join-
cuss new ideas and build new spouses must be under 35 at the bership when the new syna- ing in its services.
friendships.
time of joining.
gogue building on 7 Mile Rd., is
And they are learning to be-
A majority of the programs
The group is currently paying completed.
come .leaders—in the Men's
sponsored by the local couples on a pledge to the temple ac-
'The group- so far has con- Clubs, in the Sisterhoods, in the
clubs are of a social nature, tivities building fund, and has ducted a model seder, started a Congregations and, moreover, in
but most groups devote meet- started an audio-visual aid bereavement fund to present the total Jewish community.
ings or special study groups to project for the religious school.
religious matters, child pro-
• Its big event of the year will
grams, speakers and informa-
take place April 16, in the
tive activities.
These two Sabras
temple youth hall. A supper-
(native Israelis) are
To provide a better under- dance, the program will fea-
standing of how each of the lo- ture Ben Katzman and his
absorbed in the task
cal groups functions we have orchestra and a midnight sup-
tasting some of the
per.
-
In
June,
members
hold
compiled a list of general
new
crop of Israel's
formation on membership, pro- their annual steak roast.
famous oranges.
gram and contributions to the
Officers presently are Sidney
Through additional
synagogue for each.
Dworkin, president; Mrs. Jerome
irrigation a n d new
Arfa and Mrs. Jack Wolrauch,
Cong. Bnai Moshe
agricultural e q u i 0-
Officially called the Young vice-presidents; Mrs. Jerome
ment provided by Is-
Oppenheim
and
Mrs.
Moe
Trau-
rael bond capital, the
Married Couples Club of Bnai
rig,
secretaries;
and
Frank
Si-
export of citrus
Moshe, its purposes as outlined
which consisted of
in its constitution are social, mons, treasurer.
SAMUEL KANER
Cong. Shaarey Zedek
5,500,000 cases in
cultUral and spiritual. Member-
Adas Shalom Couples
The Young Married League of
1952-53 amounting to
ship
is
open
to
couples
married
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Cong. Shaarey Zedek has sought
$17,000,000, rose to
10 years or less.
more than 7,000,000
While synagogue 'membership a balance of its programming.
cases for a total of
is not necessary, about 60 per- About 60 per cent of its affairs
$21,200,000 for 1954.
cent of the couples are' affiliat- are social, tire remainder being
ed with the congregation. Mem-
bership now approximates 50 Dr. isidor Rabi and Bertrand Goidschmidt
couples, ten of whom joined the
synagogue as a direct result.
Present officers of the Couples
Club are Julius Reznik, presi-
dent; Mrs. Michael Weiss, vice-
president; Robert Sontag, treas-
ernment• on the atomic bomb, Dr. Rabi found
By ARTHUR LEWIS
urer; Mrs. Aaron Friedman,
(Copyright, 1955, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
time to be an associate director of the Radiation
secretary; and Melvin Weisz,
Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of
Among the scientists who are advising the
program chairman.
Technology and a member of the Scientific Ad-
Secretary
General_
on
the
coming
International
Adas Shalom Synagogue
visory Committee of the Ballistics Research La-
The Young Married Couples Conference on Atomic Energy, there are two boratory
in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Club limits membership to Jews: Dr. Isidor Isaac Rabi, the American rep-
The American representative, who is 57, re-
couples in which one of the resentative, a Nobel Prize winner in physics, and
gards himself as a New Yorker; he lives on
spouses is under 35. Its 35 mem- Dr. Bertrand Goldschmidt, the French delegate,
ber couples meet twice a month, who at 40 is one of the youngest men to have Riverside Drive overlooking the Hudson River
such a responsible position.
and close to his beloved Columbia University.
once for a planned program.
Both are members of the advisory committee
He has not only taught at that great institution
One big fund-raising event is
of learning; he was educated there.
NATHAN S. PETERMAN
planned each season, this year's which has already drdawn up the conference's
After graduation, Dr. Rabi won an Interna-
Temple Beth El Marrieds
being a square dance in Novem- agenda and set its date and place (August and
tional Education Board Fellowship which took
ber from which proceeds were Geneva). The committee's task now is to screen
the Ball and Chain Club. But distributed to the synagogue li- the papers which will be presented at this his-
him to universities in Munich, Copenhagen,
in most congregations, the af- brary and scholarship fund and toric scientific meeting.
Hamburg,' Leipzig and Zurich. Thus, he has an
, filiate is more formally called a for CARE packages.
A small grey man whose eyes have a slightly
international . background for his work on the
young couples club.
quizzical, slightly humorous, look, behind their
advisory committee. . ,
The membership also is work- glasses, Dr. Rabi is one of the leading atomic
In Detroit, seven such organ- ing to f o r m a nursery, which
The youthful looking Dr. Goldschmidt is as
much a Parisian as Dr. - Rabi is a New Yorker;
iations have begun activities would become its main project, scientists in the United States. Although his
since 1949 when Cong. Bnai and has set up a blood bank name may not be as well known as those of
he was born in Paris, was educated there, and
Moshe established the first committee to work jointly with others, he has played as important a role as has his home there now. From the time that he
anybody in the development of the atomic bomb
couples club.
received an engineering degree at the age of 21
the synagogue.
and the maintenance of American superiority in to the Fall of France, he was engaged in re-
Others who soon followed were
Officers include Samuel Ka-
search at the Curie Laboratory.
Adas Shalom, spring of 1952; ner, president; Dr. Marvin Ru- the nuclear field.
Dr. Rabi is a member of the General Advisory
In 1941, he escaped to Great Britain and
Temple Beth El and Temple Is- benstein, vice-president; Irving Committee
joined the Free French Forces. From 1942 un-
rael, fall of 1952; Shaarey Zedek, Barit, treasurer; Mrs. Lois Bot- and is a of the Atomic Energy Commission,
trustee of the Brookhaven National
til 1946, Dr: Goldschmidt was placed at the
summer of 1953; ,Cong. Bnai Da- nek and Mrs. Gerry Goldstone, Laboratory.
A lecturer and professor in physics
disposal of the Department of Scientific and
*id and most recently Beth secretaries.
at Columbia University since the twenties, he
Industrial Research of Great Britain, and
Abraham, which organized in
was named to the "Vacuum Tube Development
Temple Beth El
worked on the development of the atomic
November, 1954.
With a membership of 100 Committee," one of the cover organizations of
bomb. He was first at the Metallurgical Lab-
Most of the couples clubs were couples, almost 75 per cent of the National Defense Research Council for the
oratory in Chicago and subsequently with the
organized at the invitation of whom are congregational mem- development of the atomic bomb, when it was
British-Canadian Atomic Group in Montreal
their rabbis whose idea it was to bers, the Young Married Group formed. He was the chairman of this commit-
and at Chalk River, Canada.
bring newly-married couples in- of Temple Beth El is the largest tee from 1942 to 1945, and a consultant at the
Shortly after the war, Dr. Goldschmidt re-
to congregational activity.
of these organizations in the great atomic bomb manufacturing plant of Los turned to France where he lectured in chemistry
Although most synagogues city. New members joining must Alamos from 1943 to 1945.
at the Sorbonne in Paris. He joined France's
try to make their young peo- be 36 or under.
Besides winning the Nobel Prize in 1944,
Atomic Energy Commission when it was formed
pie at home in the congrega-
The affiliate sponsored last
Dr. Rabi was awarded the Elliot Cresson Medal
and worked on the production of plutonium;
tional family, many young
year's Detroit visit of Mrs.
of the Franklin Institute in 1941, and the
he is now the director of the chemistry division
marrieds feel out of place
Eleanor Roosevelt, and donat-
prize of the American Association for Ad-
in the commission.
among the older members of
ed the profits to various
vancement of Science in 1939. He gained these
Dr. Goldschmidt represented France at the
the Sisterhoods and Men's
temple funds.
honors for his work in the field of nuclear
atomic bomb tests carried out by the United
Activities for the coining
physics, quantum mechanics and molecular
States at Bikini Atoll in 1946. He was also a
beams.
technical adviser for the French delegation to
00 — DETROIT JEWISH NEWS three months incliide a one-
act play in April; d i n n e r-
Despite his job as professor at Columbia Uni-
the United Nations Atomic 'Energy Commission
Friday, April 1,, 19 , 1 315
dance and installation in May; , versity and the work he was doing for the goli-
in, 1946, 1947 and 1948, and is no stranger here.

By FRANK SIMONS

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