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The Suburban Community
Brotherhood — a Two-Way
Street with No Dead End
By the Oak-Woodser
Although • geographical fines
physically separate Detroit from
its surrounding suburban areas,
there remain close ties in busi-
ness, social, cultural and spiri-
tual activities.
It was particularly the spiri-
tual ties of Brotherhood that at-
tracted a capacity audience, in-
cluding many Jews and non-
Jews from suburbia, to Temple
Israel last Friday night.
The occasion was the first an-
nual Inter - Faith Choral Pro-
gram, dedicated to Brotherhood
Week. The combined choirs of
Temple Israel and seven Detroit
and suburban churches massed
for a rendition of Felix Mendels-
sohn's cantata, "The Hymn. of
Praise."
The fact that the cantata
followed regular Friday eve-
ning services of the temple
Slate Essay Contest
at Beth Shalom Dance;
'Queen Esther' to Reign
The Sisterhood and Men's
Club of Cong. Beth Shalom are
jointly sponsoring a Purim
dance at 9 p. m., March 16, at
Carpenter's Hall, on 12 Mile
Rd., in Berkley.
A host of prizes, including a
hi-fi set, tickets for "My Fair
Lady" and a week's free vaca-
tion for a youngster at Totem
Pole Day Camp, will be award-
ed.
All young ladies in the area,
between 15 and 18; are eligible
to compete f o r the title of
Queen Esther, a contest held
in conjunction with the dance.
Girls mus"
in 50 words or more, on "-What
Jewish Life Means to Me." En-
tries should be mailed to Mrs.
Miles Greenwald, 10801 Oak
Park Blvd., before March 10.
Of the five finalists, the winner
will be announced on the night
of the dance.
All finalists will be awarded
prizes, with the winner to re-
ceive a $50 gift certificate. For
tickets or information, call Mrs.
Greenwald, LI. 6-1044, or Mrs.
Jerry Efros, KE. 5-6705.
Briai Moshe Schedules
Suburban Service
The fourth in the series of
suburban late Friday = evening
services sponsored by Cong.
Bnai Moshe will be held at the
Oak Park Branch of the Jewish
Community Center, 15150 10
Mile, at 8:30 p.m., March 8.
Donald J. Katz, secretary of
the congregation, announced
that Rabbi Moses Lehrman will
speak on "The New Jewish
Look," an analysis of the emerg-
ing pattern of American Juda-
ism.
The Married Couples Club of
the congregation will meet at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nor-
bert Reinstein, 14510 Leslie, Oak
Park, at 8:30 p.m., Monday. "The
Wisdom of the Talmud" will be
discuSsed. Melvin Weisz, pres-
ident of the club, announced
that non-members are welcome
to this meeting. Rabbi Lehrman
will lead the discussion.
Rabbi Rosenbaum to Speak
on 'Most Wasted Hour'
Rabbi Milton Rosenbaum will
speak on "The Most Wasted
Hour of the Week" at 8:15 p.m.,
services today at Cong. Emanu-
el. Andre Freidlis, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Julius Friedlis, will be
the Bar Mitzvah.
At 8:15 p.m. services, March
8, Rabbi Rosenbaum will preach
on "Where Judaism Differed,"
first of a series on the work
of Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver.
Blessings will be recited by Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Strager, Dr.
and Mrs. Barnard Lieberman
and Edward Woloveck.
proved an additional inspira-
tion for those who attended,
and there was agreement that
a lofty purpose had- been
served.
Music, one of the common
properties of all peoples, had
helped to cement gbod relations
among white and Negro, Chris-
tian and Jew in an experience
they will share hereafter an-
nually. Next year's program
will be at Christ Church, Cran-
brook.
But, there was no music to
accompany the crowds which
gathered at the home of Mrs.
Ethel Watkins, a Negro seam-
stress who moved into an all-
white neighborhood during the
period of Brotherhood Week.
Although the incident hap-
pened in Detroit, it quickly be-
came the common shame of all
of us in the area, when it was
given nationwide notoriety on
radio and television newscasts.
And we couldn't help compar-
ing the two separated incidents
—a demonstration of united faith
on one hand, in which each par-
ticipant felt a close kinship for
his brother man • and the other
a demonstration of hundreds of
citizens against one pers'on — a
new neighbor.
The Interfaith program was
given scant attention, even lo-
cally, because the. voices of the
singers carried only to the back
walls of Temple Israel. Perhaps,
throughout the year ahead, the
sweet music of that massed choir
will penetrate by word of mouth
into the general community.
But the voices of an -angry
mob shouting jeers and foul
mouthings already has reached.
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' all over the country. And it
has been picked up quite nat-
urally and most venomously
in the South, where espousers
of anti - integration measures
now have taken up the cry,
"Why don't you Yankees clean
your own dirty linen before
you come to correct us."
Fortunately, despite unto-
ward incidents like that which
involved Mrs. Watkins, t h e
Southland can still learn-many
things from the North about in-
tegration, but in this post-
Brotherhood Week, which we no
longer celebrate officially, there
are many things we can do to
put our own affairs in order.
Number one on the list is never
to prejudge a person, but accept
him for what he is once you get
to know him. The Inter-Faith
Choral Program undoubtedly
has this as an underlying mo-
tive, for by getting people of
different faiths and colors and
ideologies together in one place,
it is possible to start learning
about one's neighbors.
SOC School Daze
By
DAVID
MARCUS
South
Oakland
County
More than 20 first, second and
third place winners marked Oak
Park High School's third ap-
pearance at the District Solo
and Ensemble music festival at
Ypsilanti.
Held annually at the Eastern
Michigan College of Education,
there are more than 1,300 cate;
gories in which more than 85
junior and senior high schools
compete.
Those who qualify, by win-
ning in the first division, may
go on to the state festival.
Oak Park High School's first
place solo winners and their
instruments are Leslie David-
son, Phyllis Balamut and Rita
Sloan, piano; Herbert Brown
and David Oppenheim, clarinet;
Lewis Kleinsmith, oboe; Leon-
ard Lieberman, alto saxophone;
Stuart Siefer, tenor saxophone.
In addition, four small instru-
mental groups, a mixed clari-
net quartet, a clarinet trio, a
woodwind trio and a woodwind
duet all took group firsts.
Second place soloists were
John Moses and Phyllis Lef-
court, alto clarinet; Robert Bar-
ris, bassoon; and a clarinet
quartet.
Six of the soloists are plan-
ning to enter state competition.
Beth Shalom Slates
Services Tonight, Musical
"Your Child's Bar Mitzvah--
Sacred Event or Farce?" will
be subject of Rabbi Mordecai
Halpern's sermon at 8:30 p.m.,
services today, at Cong. Beth
Shalom. Under the direction of
Mrs. Joseph Gallen, an oneg
shabbat will follow the services,
to be held at Oak Park High
School.
At 9 p.m., Saturday, the con-
gregation will present "Subur-
bia," an original musical corn-
edy, at the Burton School, Hun-
tington Woods.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Brown,
Mrs. Kenard Lawrence and Mrs.
Felix Rosensweig are co-direc-
tors of the review, which paro-
dies the hit production "Okla-
homa." Mrs. Sam Beckerman,
Mr. and Mrs. Miles Greenwald,
Mrs. Fred Clinton, Louis Law-
son, Mrs. L. Lissen and Mrs.
Ira Albion are stars of a cast
of over 20. Miriam Zaks will
be accompanist.
For further information, call
Mrs. Seymour Tarnoff, LI.
6-2155.
Dr. Kaminetsky to Meet Youth in Limelight
with Day School Leaders at Suburban Center
Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky, na-
tional director of Torah Ume-
sorah, national society of He-
brew day schools, will confer
with leaders of the Hebrew
Community Day School here on
March 25.
Both he and Rabbi Meir Bel-
sky, Torah Umesorah educa-
tional consultant, will help plan
the new day school projected
for northwest and suburban
Detroit.
Both education authorities
will be here for the,day schools
Parent-Teachers Association re-
gional convention, to be held
the preceding day at Yeshivath
Beth Yehudah.
Rabbi Homnik to Preach
Rabbi Yaakov I. Homnick will
preach on "Shekalim and Shek-
arim" at 9 a.m., Saturday sab-
bath services at Young Israel
Center of Oak Woods, 24061
Coolidge. Evening services to-
night are set for 6:10 p.m.
Among the young adult ac-
tivities at the 10 Mile Jewish
Center will be a record dance
at 8:30 p. m., Saturday, spon-
sored by the Collegians, a club
of young men and women, 17
and over. The center is located
at 15110 W. 10 Mile.
The newly-organized club,
which meets at 8:30 p. m., each
Thursday, in the adult lounge,
is headed by Arnold Atler,
president; Stan Rosenberg,
vice-president; Sheila Pensler,
secretary and Sandy Katz,
treasurer. It is open to new
members.
Members of the Teen Vaad
are arming its "Bagel Bounce"
for 8:30 p. m., March 9, at the
center. _Music will be furnished
by the Counts. Tickets will be
available at „the door.
Another suburban group, the
Sharonas, are working on an
Israeli song and dance program,
to be presented later this
month for residents of the Jew-
ish Home for Aged.
Affadavit Forces Red Admission
of Abducting Swedish Diplomat
FRANKFURT (JTA) — The
affidavit of a German business-
man incarcerated in the same
Moscow prison where Raoul
Wallenberg was held apparently
was a key factor in inducing
the Soviet Government to admit
its arrest of the Swedish diplo-
mat, the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency learned.
Ernest Wallenstein, who told
the JTA he occupied a cell di-
rectly under that of Wallenberg,
said the Swedish diplomat—who
saved 20,000 Hungarian Jews
from Hitler's furnaces — was
alive four months after July 17,
1947, the date of his death listed
by the Soviet Government in its
report to the Swedish Govern-
ment.
(Tribute to the Swedish dip-
lomat was paid in the Israel
Parliament by Rabbi Mordecai
Nurock who described him as
"an angel of salvation" for his
unique life-saving mission in
Nazi-occupied Hungary.)
Jewish Youth Week March 15-20
"Jewish Youth, Bound in Fel-
lowship" is the theme of the
1957 nationwide observance of
Jewish Youth Week, to be
marked from March 15- to 22.
This year marks the tenth an-
nual observance of Jewish
Youth Week, a project of the
National Jewish Welfare Board..
sponsored National Jewish
Youth Conference.
An affidavit Mr. Wallenstein
executed at the request of the
- Swedish Government shortly
after his return from a Moscow
prison to Germany in 1955 con-
tained so many particulars that
when the information was con-
veyed to Moscow, the data ap-
parently proved instrumental in
inducing the Soviets to abandon
their previous insistence that
Wallenberg was unknown to
them and had never been in
the Soviet Union.
Mr. Wallenstein's account to
the JTA challenged the Soviet
version of Wallenberg's death
in several respects. The Swed-
ish diplomat was never in the
Lubianka prison as alleged by
the Soviet note, which ended
the long mystery of his dis-
appearance. Mr. Walleri s t e i..n
said he and the diplomat were
inmates of Leffortoskaya prison,
which is also in Moscow. When
the two men, who had met
through business contacts in
Bucharest, found themselves in
the same prison, with the diplo-
mat in the cell over that of Mr.
Wallenstein, they maintained
constant communication through
knocking signals and other
ways.
The German businessman said
that their state of health was
a perennial topic for exchanges
of messages and that the diplo-
mat had never complained about
heart trouble, although t h e
Soviets asserted he died of heart
failure. Mr. Wallenstein said he
had been sentenced for "espion-
age" by the Russians and later
released and permitted to return
to Germany.
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