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Over 8,000 people visited the newly opened American
)., Beauty Tri-level home at Southfield Farms on Sunday, despite
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almost continuous rain. Gross sales, for the weekend, of over
$2,000,000, are reported by William Holland, president of _Regal
E4 Realty Co., who is handling sales for the 150 luxury home
development.
Les Taubman, president of American Community Builders,
the building company for the development, said he believed the
amount sets a record for weekend home sales in this area.
The American Beauty Tri-level home was opened officially
on Saturday; by Louis Miriani and TV personality Lee Meri-
wether of Garroway's "Today" show. Miss Meriwether also acted
as hostess, pointing out the features of the home's Philco built-in
kitchen equipment. Offering of the Philco built-in oven, range,
refrigerator and freezer with these homes; at no extra cost,
marks the national launching of this new Philco custom kitchen
line.
A newsreel of the tri-level's opening ceremonies was fea-
tured on the "Today" show, coast to coast, over the NBC net-
work, on May 7.
The model home, located between Greenfield and Southfield
on Ten Mile Road, is open to visitors 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.
Regal Realty 'offices are at 15605 W. McNichols.
Local Committee Joins Sid Shmarak's
National Sponsors
Business Briefs
Of Yiddish Dictionary
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Choose '55 LaMed U.S.-Israel Exchange Naval Courtesy
Prize Winners
As Cruiser 'Albany' Sails into Haifa
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Chaim
Grade, H. Leivick, Moshe Avig-
dor Shulvass and A. R. Malachi
have been announced as the
winners of the Louis LaMed
prizes for their Yiddish and He-
brew books which were pub-
lished last year.
This is the 16th year in which
the prizes, which the LaMed
Foundation awards annually
to two books in each of the
languages, have been awarded.
Competition for the $500 prizes
is restricted to works published
in the Americas.
The prizes for Yiddish works
went to Mr. Grade's "Der Mam-
me's Shaboism" (Mother's Sab-
baths), a prose work, and Mr.
Leivick's collection of poems
entitled "A Blatt Ovf Am Apple-
boym" (A Leaf On An Apple
Tree). Winners in the Hebrew
language category were "Chay-
el Hayehudim B'Ihalia B'Tkufat
Ha-Renaissance" (The Life of
the Jews in Italy in the Period
of the Renaissance), by Mr.
Shulvass, and to Mr. Malachi's
"Otzar Halexiikografia Haivrit"
(A Treasury of Hebrew Lexi-
cography). Members of the jury
which made the awards were
Shlomo Bickel, Reuben Wallen-
rod, and Jacob Shatzky.
Dr. Barr Gets Award
PHILADELPHIA (JTA)—Dr.
Martin Barr, associate piofes-
A Detroit committee for the
sor of pharmacy at the Philadel-
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publication of a Yiddish diction-
phia College of Pharmacy and
Livernois,
this
week
introduced
ary was recently formed, and
Science, has been awarded the
has associated itself with a na- to the community, beautiful the Ebert Med-al for 1956 by the
Swiss
woven,
hand
rolled
hand-
tional project emanating from
kerchiefs with embroidered in- American Pharmaceutical As-
New York.
itials in Hebrew. They are sociation.
T h e dictionary committee
available in white - on - white,
numbers among its sponsors au-
thor Maurice Samuel, Prof.. wtih initials in a variety of
Abraham Katch, of New York colors.
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University; Horace Kallen, New
Because of many requests,
School for Social Research;
Shimon ,Rabidowitch, of Bran- ELITE STRICTLY KOSHER
deis University; and Samuel RESTAURANT, located at 18246
Belkin, president, Yeshiva Uni- Wyonling near Curtis, is now
accepting reservations for par-
versity.
ties and club group dinners. For
Editors of the Yiddish. diction-
UN. 3-5935.
ary will be Yudel Mark and information call
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Yuda Jaffe.,
WYOMING-CURTIS FISH &
Wolf Snyder is president of SEA FOODS, 18252 Wyoming,
the local committee, on which recently announced a new pol-
serve J. Rosenshein, vice-presi- icy of delivery to the North-
dent; Sarah Friedman and Adele
west, Oak Park and Huntington
Mondry, secretaries; and Max
Woods areas. They carry a com-
Tepper. treasurer.
plete selection of fish, cooked
Other members are Samuel shrimp and lobster tails. As a
Sigal, Moishe Haar, Saul Maltz, service to the housewife, fish
Emanuel Mark, Morris Fried- are skinned, boned and - ground
man, Sam Jacobson, Harry Mon- free of charge. Call U-N. 2-9677.
dry and David Sislin.
The dictionary will contain
words, local expressions, idioms
and phrases and their transla-
tions in English. Over 130 lin-
guists are now working on the Farber Replies to Laikin
project in many parts of the Editor: The • Jewish News:
world.
Iri reply to the provocative.
When completed, the diction- letter by B. M. Laikin, in which
ary is expected to be composed he takes Dr. EisenStein to task
of from five to seven volumes. on his interpretation of Judaism:
The Reconstructionist move-
Information on the project may
be obtained by writing Mrs. ment does not assert that the
Sarah Friedman, 19931 Sussex. majority is always right or that
we can dispense with a sense
responsibility to God for our
`Club AZA' to Feature of
acts — whether individual or
AZA713BG Revue
collective. Reconstructionists be-
lieve that our decisions must be
The Detroit-Windsor Chapters
our own.
of the Aleph Zedek are spon-
Dr. Eisenstein does not "de-
soring . "Club AZA," featuring bunk traditional Judaism." He
cabaret entertainment, refresh-
ments; and the crowning of gave a survey of the growth of
"AZA. Sweetheart" on Saturday Judaism.
It is unfair to insinuate that
evening at Cong. Bnai Moshe,
Dr. Eisenstein proposes to throw
Dexter at Lawrence.
A special night club style the Pentateuch, Talmud, and the
revue will include the follow- Prophets overboard. The philos-
ing members of the AZA and ophy of Reconstructionist Juda-
ism believes -in revitalizing
Bnai Brith Girls.:
Margo Woolf, Harriet Levine, Jewish religion through a con-
Allen Shulah, Barbara Herman, tinuity of belief and practice.
Mr. Laikin is a bit unfair to
Allen Hurwitz, Jeff Levy, San-
ford Fenkell, Norton Bicoll, Dr. Eisenstein when he implies
Noel Lawson, Al Orman, Mike that non-believers are among
Gaines and Ronnie Aronson; as the proponents of Reconstruc-
MC.
- tionism. Would he call Mordecai
Committee members arrang- Kaplan, Milton Steinberg, Solo-
ing the affair include Carl Shu- mon Goldman, Eugene Kohn,
lak, chairman, Sheldon Winkel- Jacob Weinstein, Roland Gittel-
man, arrangements, Ronnie sohn, non-believers?
We, in our age, have as much
Aronson, entertainment a n d
Lennie S o 1 o in a n and Jerry right to interpret Jewish life as
did Rabbi Yohanan Ben Zakkai,
Uzanski, contact.
Tickets can be purchased or Rabbi Tanchumah, or Rav,
from any AZA member, or at in their day.
Walter Farber
ate door.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
TEL AVIV—The U.S. Cruiser
Albany sailed into Haifa Har-
bor Tuesday on a goodwill
visit. The cruiser exchanged - a
21-gun salute with an Israeli
naval craft in the port.
As the Albany dropped her
anchor overboard, a crew of
1,500 stood at attention on her
main deck. The band played
"Hatikvah," the Israeli anthem,
and the Israeli flag vas hoisted
aloft. The ship's band paraded
Publishers Plan
Seminar May 24
A seminar on the subject of
mutual relations in which exec-
utives and publicity directors of
ranking national organizations
have been ;invited to participate,
will highlight the annual con-
vention of the American Asso-
ciation of English-Jewish News-
papers, to be held in New York
May 24-27. Following the panel
discussion, the publishers will
entertain their guests at a lunch-
eon. Tentative plans provide for
an address by a nationally-
prominent leader in Jewish af-
fairs.
The first day of the assembly
will be given over to considera-
tion of vital association matters,
reports and appointment of
committees. Later the group will
act on matters previously dis-
cussed and elect officers and
board members.
and played in Tel Aviv Tues-
day and gave a repeat per-
formance in Haifa Wednesday.
The mission of the Sixth U.S.
Fleet stationed in the Mediter-
ranean Sea is, among other
things, to "be ready to take
instant naval action in case of
emergency in which the security
an freedom of our friends are
jeopardized," Rear Admiral
Ephraim McLean, commander of
the Albany and of the Second
Cruiser Division of the Sixth
Fleet, told Israeli naval officers
at a luncheon Tuesday aboard
the Albany.
He told his guests, who in-
cluded the head of the Israeli
Navy, Cmdr. Shmuel Tankus,
that the fleet's mission also in-
cluded training officers and men
in Mediterranean waters, giving
crews an oppOrtunity to im-
prove their knowledge of
various nations of the region
and to visit their ports and to
protect American inter ests "as
our naval units protect them all
over the world."
Junior Hadassah Schedules
Cocktail Party on Sunday
Detroit Chapter of Junior
Hadassah will hold a cocktail
party at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, at
13351 Borgman, Huntington
Woods. Hostesses will be the
MiSses Estelle Rosenberg, Betty
York, Rhoda Ehrlick, Dorothy
Feinberg, Lillie Zwirn, Julia
Sherr and Dorothy Gordon. For
information. call Miss Zwirn,
TY 6-2765.
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