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Moses Fischer, Rabbi Emeritus
of Cong. Bn_ai Moshe, Dies at 78

I Obituaries

SAMUEL PHILLIP GOLD-
STEIN, 20460 Lesure, died May
16-. He leaves his wife, Bella; a
son, Paul; three daughters,
Carole, Minde and Pearl, three
sisters and four brothers.
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SAMUEL GROSSMAN, 2956
Sturtevant, died May 12. Sur-
vived by his wife, Rose; three
sons, Philip, Louis and Maurice;
a daughter, Mrs. Michael A.
Wainstock; a brother and two
grandchildren.
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ANNA RABINOVITCH, 20244
Bentler, died May 13. Survived
by two. sons, George Rickart.
and Nathan Rabin, now at For-
mosa, China; daughter, Dr. Bella .
Rabinovitch; a brother, a sister
and a grandchild.
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SARAH RO,VIN, 2301 West
Buena Vista, died May 13. Sur-
vived by. her .husband, Samuel
A.; a son, William Elkin; two
daughters, Mrs. Bill Berkowitz,
of Wichita, Kan., and Mrs. Phil-
ip Heller, of New York; a sis-
ter and three grandchildren.
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PHILLIP KOLINCHICK, 11501
Petoskey, died May 15. Survived
by two daughters, Mrs. Samuel
Levine and Mrs. Oscar Joseph-
son; a brother, three grandchil-
dren and three great grandchil-
dren. -
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LILLIAN GUITTARD, 1289
Union St., Brooklyn, N. Y., died
May 15, 1957. Funeral services
arranged through Hebrew Me-
morial Chapel with interment
in New York. Survived by two
, sons, Arthur and Neal, of Free-
port, N. Y.; a brother and four
sisters.
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SIGMUND SCHEY, 18235
Washburn, died May 16. Sur-
vived by his wife, Goldie; a
son, Carl; a daughter, Mrs. Otto
Schuster; - and four grandchil-
dren.
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ANNA GORMAN, 24256 Lee-
win, died May 19. Survived by
two sons, Samuel and Manuel;
- a daughter, Mrs. Milton Drap-
---, kin, • of Van Nuys, Calif.; a
brother; three sisters and four
grandchildren. -
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JOYCE WEINGARDEN.MAR-
- KLE, 15779 'Ohio, died May 19.
She leaves her husband, Marsh-
all; two daughters, Sandra and
Frances; her parents, Mr._ and
Mrs. Louis Weingarden; and two
. sisters, Mrs. Harvey Tanner and
Mrs. Ruben Isaacs.

Rabbi Moses Fischer, a lead- ways maintained a love for
ing figure in the local rabbinate Eretz Yisrael. He had supported
for nearly 35 years, died May the philosophy of the s group
19, in Sinai Hospital. He was since his association with Rabbi
Isaac Jacob Reines, founder of
78 years-old.
Rabbi', Fischer, an eminent the , Mizrachi movement 55
Talmudic scholar, was rabbi years ago.
emeritus of Cong. Bnai Moshe,
Rabbi Fisctter was in constant
contact with Rabbi Reines since
the famous Pressburg confer-
ence of world leaders which
laid the foundation for the fu-
ture of the movement.
Rabbi Ficher was the organ-
izer of Yeshiva Beth Midrash
Torah in Chicago.
Surviving Rabbi Fischer are
his four sons, Kenneth, Sidney,
Milton and Bernard; a daughter,
Mrs. David Pollack; two
brothers, Rabbi Julius Fischer
and 'Solomon of Chicago; two
sisters, Mrs, Herman Newberger.
of Chicago, and Mrs." Mayer
Israel; and six grandchildren.

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RABBI MOSES FISCHER

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ROGER JAY HERTZBERG,
16581 Pinehurst, died May 19.
He leaves his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. David Hertzberg; a broth-
er, Richard; and his grandpar-
ents, Mrs. Rae Brower and Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Hertzberg.
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SOPHIE PLOTKIN, 15850
Robson, died May 20. Services
and interment in New Jersey.
She leaves her husband, Joseph;
and two brothers, Sam Cheifitz,
of New York, and Simon Chei-
fitz, of Philadelphia.
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JOSEPHINE COHEN, who
died May - 20, is survived by a
sister, Jeanette, and a nephew,
Maurice. Warehauer.
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LEO FREEDMAN, 20460
Tracey, died May 2.2. Survived
by wife, Mary; children, Philip,
David, Mrs. Harry Schweitz
and Mrs. Hyman Baren, and
sister, Mrs. Pearl Tuchman, of
Indianapolis.

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which he served for more than
two decades.
Services for Rabbi Fischer,
who had resided at 3749 'Fuller-
ton, were held for the syna-
gogue on Monday.
Tributes to the r 'ever e d
rabbi's memory were paid at
the Bnai Moshe service by
Rabbi Moses 'Lehrman; Rabbi
Fischer's successor; and the
brother of the deceased, Rabbi
Julius Fischer 'Of Beauford,
S. C.
Born in Hungary, Jan. 26,
1879, Rabbi Fischer was de
scended from a long line of
_noted rabbis and leading schol-
ars. He , studied at numerous
yeShivoth, including Bacz Pappa
and Pressburg, where the re-
ceived serriicha•
He - came to this country in
1903,, after a Chicago congre-
gation wrote to leading rabbis
of Hungary to ask them to
recommend a young rabbi for
their pulpit.
After 20 years in Chicago,
Rabbi Fischer came here, as-
suming his post at Bnai Moshe.
He proceeded to build a small
congregation- into one of the
cortimunity'-s leading syn-
agogues.
lie was active " in' tens of
local, national and world-.
wide religious and --educa-
tional organizations; however,
he is most familiarly assirei
ated as chairman of the board
of education of Yeshivath
Beth Yehudah, past president
of the Council of Orthodox
RabbiS and a leading member
of Mizrachi.
Rabbi Fischer's association
with Mizrachi dates back to his
youth, from which he had al-

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son Hotel, in Halifax, Nova Sco-
tia; and William Pitt Chatham
Hotel, in Chatham, Ont.
He resided at 19475 Warring-
ton here. He leaves hiS wife,
Minnie;- two sons, Gerald and
Meyer; a brother, Rubin; four
sisters_, Mrs. Harry Goldbaum,'
Mrs. Roy Kurian„, Mrs. Hyman
Margolis and Mrs. Fred Men-
delsohn, and six grandchildren._
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Appeals Court Decision
Releasing Nazi Books
MUNICH, (JTA) —The Mu-
nich Chief prosecutor entered an
appeal against a verdict of the
district court revoking action
by a lower court for the con-
fiscation of five Nazi books pub--
lished by a firm operated by
Helmut Suendermann, former
deputy press chief in the Hitler
regime. The three members of
the court also rejected a prose-
cution demand to indict Suen.-
dermarm,

BUYING! SELLING!
RENTING!

C. J. Laskey Dies ;
Was Detroiter 39 Years

Charles J. Laskey, owner of
the Laskey Cleaners, died May
20. He was born in Owosso,
Mich., andl had been a. Detroit
resident for 39 years.
Mr. Laskey,- who resided at
160 Hendrie, Royal Oak, was a
member of Cong. Shaar.ey Ze-
dek. He also was affiliated with
Harry. K eid an Lo dge, Bnai
Brith, Mosaic Lodge, F. &
and the Dry Cleaners Institute.
He leaves his wife, Florence;
two sons, Marshall and Jerry;
three daughters, Marlene, Gail
and Linda; his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Lebowsky; and two
sisters, Mrs. Reuben Kallman
and.,Mrs. Jack Schiff.

Israel Cabinet Allows
Visits by German Tourists

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
seVeral-week-old decision by the
Israel Cabinet to admit or-
ganized parties of German
tourists to viSit Israel was re-
vealed by local newspapers .
Which reported that . the first
group was due to arrive in July.
When a tourist applieS for a
visa to enter Israel ,he must
present a certificate issued by
the Bonn gOvern'ment that he
tad not been an active Nazi.

Detroit Hotel Owner, Isadore Kowal, Dies

• Isadore Kowal, Detroit hotel
and apartment owner, died in
Miami Beach, Sunday, at the'
age of 63.
Co-owner of the Barlum and
full owner of the New Centre
Apartments, here, Kowal came
to this city about 40 years ago
as a penniless immigrant from
Russia. From a $1-an-hour job
in a sausage factory, he saved
enough money to purchase a
shoe repair shop.
Unable to repair shoes, he
hired skilled help. He began
three more shoe repair shops
here and then started a chain
of shops in Canada.
He later became owner of the
Chateau Frontenac, the Seward, -
the Belcrest and Barium Hotels.
Four years ago he purchased the
Manhattan Towers Hotel in New
York. At the time of his death
he also owned the Empress Ho-
, tel, in Miami Beach; Lord Nel-

Mazer's Widow Dies

NEW-'YORK, .(JTA) — Mrs.
Eva Mazer,- widow of Abraham
Mazer, rioted philanthropist,
died here at the age of 76. Like
other members of her family,
she was active in Jewish af-
fairs: She was a founder of the'
Albert Einstein College of
Medicine at Yeshiva Univer-
sity, a leader ins Hadassah and
other organizations.

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