Music Festival of Major Proportions Being Organized by Adas Shalom Friday, February 1, 1957 Adas Shalom Synagogue and its affiliate groups will present its seventh annual Jewish Music Festival at 8 p.m., Feb. 24, in the main sanctuary of the syn- agogue. John E. Lurie has been named concert chairman, and will be assisted by Samuel Frankel, JOHN E. LURIE Julius Green, Jack Klein and Harry Keller, co-chairmen. Max Biber is liaison music chairman of the congregation. The entire program will be staged under the direction of Cantor Nicholas Fenakel, with proceeds going to the Cantors Institute of the Jewish Theolo- gical Seminary of America. Cantor Fenakel will be joined in the program by two col- Green Frankel, leagues, Cantor Hyman Adler, of Cong. Bnai David; and Can- tor Reuven Frankel, of Cong. Shaarey Zedek. They will sing solos and duets of liturgical, Israeli and Yiddish composi- tions. Young Israel Council to Host National Vice-President Karper Nathan H. Karper, national vice-president of Young Israel, will address the first function of the Young Israel Council of Metropolitan Detroit this Satur- day evening, at the Young Is- rael Center of Oak-Woods, 24061 Coolidge, Oak Park, an- nounces David I. Berris, Coun- cil chairman. T h e newly- • formed council Karper is the coordi- nating body for the three branches of Young Israel — De- troit, Northwest and Oak Park. Its purpose is to coordinate the activities of the existing branches, to effect a stronger youth program and to provide for an orderly expansion of Young Israel in the newer sec- tions of the community. Karper, a New York attorney, was for 15 years a club leader and then youth chairman and director of Young Israel. In 1951, he was awarded the dis- tinguished service plaque by the National Council of Young Israel. The Council functiOn is open to Young , Israel members only and will consist of a Melavah Malke, at which the Sisterhood of Oak Park will serve as host- esses. A program of entertainment is to be prepared by a social committee chaired by Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka and Meyer Eisenberg. Karper will spend the sab- bath with Young Israel of Northwest Detroit where he will speak. The musicale also will fea- ture as guest artists Betty Koi,v- alsky, local concert pianist; Mrs. Geraldine Posen Schwartz, soprano; the Adas Shalom Youth Choir, t h e Talismen Quartette, directed by Harry Siegel; and the Adas Shalom Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Zinovi Bistritzky. Honored guests of the eve- ning will be Rabbi Jacob M. Chinitz, spiritual leader of Cong. Ahavas Achim. According to Lurie, this year's program is dedicated to the "future cantors of America." He said that unless _ the y o u n g, American Jew concerns himself with the perpetuation of syna- gogue music, a shortage of haz- zonim will become acute before long. Tickets to the music festival are now available at the syna- gogue office, Curtis and Santa Rosa. Newly-Merged Mizrachi Ahavas Achim School Starts Registration to Hold First Board Meet The first board meeting of the Detroit Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi will occur at 11 a.m., Sunday, at the Young Is- rael Youth Center, Dexter at Fullerton. The program of proj- ects for the newly-merged or- ganization will be presented as will a special proclamation of the event to the community-at- large. Rabbi Isaac Stollman, na- tional president of the organiz- ation, will participate in the meeting. New students will be ad- mitted by the Ahavas Achim Religious School, where open- ings exist, at registration this Sunday, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., at Vernor School, Pem- broke and Tracey. Rabbi Joseph Hirsch is prin- cipal of the school, which has an enrollment of 450 young- sters. Leo Korn is chairman of the education committee, and is assisted by Dr. Irvin Lefton, Albert Kaplan, George Norman, Mrs. Sam Tower and Mrs. A. Creed. Folk Schools Open Classes for Beginners United Jewish Folk Schools will open new classes for be- ginners this Monday. Registra- tion is now open for grade school children, ages 7 to 13, and nursery children, ages 31/2 to 5. Hebrew, Yiddish, Bible, Jew- ish History, customs and songs are included in the intensive educational program. Special at- tention will be given to beauti- fication of holiday celebrations. Movsas Goldoftas, principal, announces availability of a Bar Mitzvah class for students who attend for at least four years. The nursery is licensed and reg- istered by the state of Mich- igan. - For more information, call UN 4-6319 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Parents are invited to visit the school. Dr. Hertz's Articles Reprinted by Times The. series of articles written for the Detroit Times by Dr. Richard C. Hertz, rabbi of Temple Beth El, have been re- printed by the Times in pamph- let form. • Thou tremblest before anti- cipated ills and still bemoanest what thou never losest. 4. You Are Invited to . . • • , ie for Spring 44,---A Dr. Schwartzman at Temple Israel This Weekend Dr. Sylvan D. Schwartzman, professor of Jewish education at the Hebrew Union College-Jew- ish Institute of Religion, Cincin- nati, 0.,. will be the guest this weekend of Temple Israel. At 8:30 p.m. sabbath services today, which is dedicatedto teachers of the Temple Israel Religious School, Dr. S c h w artzman will deliver the sermon on "Re- ligious Educa- tion Today." Members of t h e religious school staff will participate in Schwartzman the service, and citations will be given to teachers having served the school for five or more years. A special luncheon is planned for 12 noon, Saturday, in the temple building, at which Dr. Schwartzman will conduct an educational conference w i th teachers of the school. The program is being planned by the temple's religious school board, of which Mrs. Robert Coggan is chairman. Morris W. Stein and Dr. Theodore Rosen are co-chairmen of the arrange- ments committee. Dr. Schwartzman, a noted Jewish scholar, is the author of several religious school text books, among which are "The Story of Reform Judaism" and "The Lifetime of a Jew." Grades run from kindergar- ten through confirmation, ages 5 to 15. The first large confirma- tion class will be graduated this June 9. Members of the congrega- tion's Bar Mitzvah Club will go on an outing to Olympia to see a hockey game on Sunday. The club is open to all boys, sons of members or non-members, from 12 to 15. Presented by Cardinal--' Detroit • Thursday, February 14th Curtain time: promptly at 1 P.M. 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