School Survey
To Cover Wide
Community . Area
David Safran and Mrs. Carl
S. Schiller, co-chairmen of the
Detroit Study Committee as-
sisting Dr. Engelman and his
Commission for the Study of
Jewish Education in the United
States, this week made public
a list of schools participating
in the Detroit study.
They also announced that
Herman Fisher has accepted
responsibility for the phase of
the study dealing with ascer-
taining from a large number
of community leaders their
views regarding Jewish educa-
tion.
He is recruiting a staff of
volunteers. to administer ques-
tionnaires to members of the
boards of dozens of community
organizations.
Schools participating in the
study are Adas Shalom, Ahavas
Achim, Beth Aaron, Beth
Abraham, Beth El, Bnai David,
Bnai Bnai Moshe,
Emanu-El, Gemiluth Chasso-
dim,. Israel, Shaarey Zedek,
Sholem Aleichem, United He-
brew Schools (all sev en
branches), United Jewish Folk
School, United Jewish High
School, Workmen's C-i r c 1 e
Sehool, Yeshivoth Beth Yehu-
dah and Young Israel Center
of Oak-Woods.. .
.The list includes congrega-
tional and communal schools,
and the study- will go from
kindergarten t h r o ugh high
School. The sampling will in-
clude children from all schools
People Make News
Sobeloff - Nominated; .
Opposition Active
President Eisenhower this
week again sent the name of
Solicitor General Simon E. So-
beloff to the Senate, nominat-
ing him to a Federal Circuit
Court judgeship.
Immediately, Southern Sen-
ators started a movement to
prevent the confirmation of the
nomination.
Heads Food Council
Merwin K. Grosberg will be
the 1956 Jewish Campaign
chairman for the Food Service
Council and Louis J. Cohen his
associate chairman.
and fiorn homes in various sec-
tions of the city.
Five hundred letters signed
by Jewish Welfare Federation
president, Judge Theodore Lev-
in, and the committee co-chair-
Men have been sent to parents
chi&en attending the por-_.
Cho ()
informilit
them that they have been se-
lected for .'interview by the
c ommission. Parents 'will be
phoned by volunteer interview-
ers to arrange interviews in
which they hope to discover
• he parents' attitudes on the
Jewish education his child re
Ceives.
At last week's meeting of introduced Dr. Priver .who made
the Women's Guild of Sinai the awards.
Hospital, which marked the
LEONARD KASLE has been hospital's third anniversary, Dr.
U. of M. to Offer Parley
Dr. YEHUDI A. COHEN, 28,
cultural anthropologist in the
department of psychiatry at the
Albert Einstein College of Medi-
cine of Yeshiva University, has
been named the recipient of the
1955 Socio-Psychological Award
of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Cohen's entry, which re-
ceived the $1,000 prize, w a s
entitled "Food and Its Vicissi-
tudes: A Cross-Cultural Study
of Sharing and Non-sharing in
Sixty Folk Societies."
Grosberg
Cohen
IS. FiloilliaftomitilWier;
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA) —
Paul A. Bissinger has been
.named a member of the Police
Commission by Mayor - elect
George Christopher.
8—Detroit Jewish News
Friday, January 20, 1956
Grant Awards To Sinai Guild
appointed a member of the na-
Julien Priver, executive direc-
tional committee on civil rights tor, presented the following in-
and civil liberties of the Ameri- signia awards for service:
can Jewish Committee.
Three chevrons for 1,800 or
* * *
DANIEL G. ROSS, president more hours of service, Mes-
of the American Friends of the dames Harry Barnett, Louis
Hebrew University, announced Blumberg,.. Joseph Hartman and
that Walter P. Reuther and Abe Schmerin; two chevrons for
Matthew Woll ha- Te agreed to 1,200 hours, Mrs. Irvin Her-
serve as - National Labor spon- manoff; one chevron for 600
sors of the -Hebrew University. hours, Mesdames Adelaide Al-
*
*
*
len, John Allen, Arnold Cohen,
JUDGE DAVID C. VOKES Leo Goldsmith, William Green-
has been elected presiding judge berg, Sam Rands, Israel Samit,
Nathan Schermer and _Nate S.
of -the Common Pleas Court.
Shapero.
A check for $3,000 was pre-
JNF Tree-Planting
sented to Dr. Priver from the
Program in Local
Guild, bringing to $11,000 the
amount donated for hospital re-
Schools, Societies
A special effort will be made search since the organization's
this year by many local or- inception. Funds are obtained
ganizations to help Israel by from sales in the gift shop.
For The Mature Woman'
"Age of Opportunity—A Con-
ference for the Mature Woman"
will be presented by the Uni-
versity of Michigan Extension
Service and the Detroit Feder-
ation of Women's Clubs, begin-
ning at 9 a.m., today, in the
Rackham Education Memorial.
Mrs. Samuel B. Danto, co-
chairman of the Women's Divi-
sion of the Detr8it Round Table
of Christians and Jews, is pro-
motion chairman of the all-day
conference.- The League of Jew-
ish Women's Organizations is
one of the -participating groups,
The program will feature a
number of speakers, informal
discussion groups, luncheon,
general sessions and consulta-
tion clinics. A fashion show will
maintained in the hospital lobby climax the conference.
by the Guild.
Mrs. Joseph G. Fenton, pro- Mayor Knows 'Who's Who'
NEW YORK (JTA)—A spe-
gram chairman, introduced Dr.
Joseph W. M o 1 n e r, Detroit cially designed volume of
Health Commissioner, who was "Who's Who in World Jewry"
guest speaker. Mrs. H. C. was presented to Mayor Wagner
Broder, president of the Guild, at a City Hall ceremony.
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planting more trees in Israel
during the month of Shevat
(Jan. 14 to Feb. 12). The month
of Shevat has been designated
as "Plant a Tree in Israel"
Month by the Jewish National
Fund Council.
The 15th of Shevat, Jan. 28,
is Hamisha Asar b'Shevat, or
Tu b'Shevat, the New Year of
the trees. In accordance with
tradition, every Jewish school
day, afternoon, and Sunday,
has undertaken a vastly ex-
panded Tu b'Shevat effort on
b eh a l f of trees in Israel.
School buildings and class-
rooms have been appropriately
decorated to create an Israel
and tree planting atmosphere.
.S e v e r al organizations are
planning special Tu b'Shevat
programs and have asked the
Clear • with Rice
JNF office to provide program
material, Is r a e l i films and with Noodles • with Kreplach • with Matzo Balls
speakers. Some of the pro-.
Try 411 !
grams will promote the plant-
(NW
ing of securitlVve,s in Israel's--
border areas. -
Tree planting orders can be
made by calling . the Jewish
National Fund, TO. 8-1384,
Mondays through Thursdays, 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.; Fridays to 4
Also: MANISCHEWITZ KASHA SOUP • MUSHROOM and BARLEY SOUP
p.m., and Sundays, 10 a.m. to
1 p.m.,
Rich and heady...
chock-full of
oldtime
chicken goodness
KEN
THE DETROIT ISRAEL HISTADRU'T CAMPAIGN
ANNUAL CONCERT
To Make '56 Butzei
Award at Federation
Annual Meeting, Feb. 7
The sixth annual Fred M.
tutzel Memorial Award for 1956
will be made -at :the annual
meeting of Federation, Feb. 7,
at the Esther Berman Branch of
the United Hebrew Schools.
Presented since 1951, the
award
. . is for outstanding•leader-.
Ship in communal service en-
compassed by the Jewish
Federation and its agencies.
f
The committee to select the
recipient of the award is corn-
prised of presidents of Federa-
tion agencies:
SUNDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1956, at 8:30 p.m.
MUMFORD HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
17525 WYOMING
The Entire Jewish Community Is Cordially Invited
to Attend This Outstanding Annual Community Event
' Samuel S. Greenberg, Community
Workshop; Nathan L. Milstein, Fresh
Air Society; Julian Zemon, Hebrew
Free Loan Association; Samuel J.
Rhodes. Jewish Community Council;
Jacob L. Keidan, Jewish Community
Center; Gus D. Newman, Jewish
Home for Aged; Jerry •ielfield, Jew-
ish House of Shelter; Mrs. Theodore
Bargman, Jewish Social Service
Bureau; Hoke Levin, Jewish Voca-
tional Service; Melville S. Welt,
North End Clinic; David I. Rosin,
Resettlement Service; Max Osnos,
Sinai Hospital; Abe Kasle, United
Hebrew Schools; Abraham Srere,
United Jewish Charities; the Federa-
tion president, Judge Theodore
Levin; Mrs. Lewis Daniels, president,
Women'.s Division; Milton K. Mahler,
president, Detroit Service Group, and
previous winners of the award.
Business to be conducted at
the annual meeting includes
presentation of the annual re-
port, election of nine members-
at-large to Federation's board
of governors and action on a
proposed amendment to Feder-
ation's by laws.
New Minn. Home For Hillel
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., (JTA)
Dedication ceremonies for the
new home of Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation on the University of
Minnesota campus were held
'here, as the culmination of a
campaign that began. 1947.
Hillel was fiFat establi ied at
the University m 1940.
VIVIAN GOLDSTEIN
Dramatic Readings from
the Yiddish Classics
DR. DOV BIEGUN
National Secretary,
Israel Histadrut Campaign
SHOSHANA FREEDMAN
Concert
Soprano
PLUS
THE WAYNE UNIVERSITY DANCE GROUP
IN A SUITE OF ISRAELI DANCES SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THIS OCCASION
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3,0 ADMISSION CHARGE
HARRIET BERG—Choreographer
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