Synagogues, Schools Ready to Greet Ne wYear 5718
Ticket Distribution, Special Plans
Revealed by Congregation Leaders
With the approach of the
High Holy Days and the open-
ing of the school term, syna-
gogues and communal schools
are announcing their plans for
the ushering in of the year
5718. Following is a partial
listing according to congrega-
tions:
Temple Israel
The engagement of an addi-
tional cantor to chant the High
Holy Day ritual at supple-
mentary services in the - tem-
ple's Leon Fram Hall was an-
nounced this week.
He is Cantor Morley Margo-
lis, who previously occupied a
similar position at Temple Beth
Zion, St. Paul, Minn. Under
the stage name of M o r l e y
Meredith, he previously ap-
peared in Detroit as a baritone
with the New York Civic
Opera.
Temple Israel will celebrate
a special dedication event at
8:30 p.m., Sept.
13,when, at the
social hour fol-
lowing services,
two plaques
w ill be un-
veiled. One will
contain the
names of do-
nors who made
possible the Ac-
tivities Build-
Cantor
ing and the
Margolis
Leon Fram
Hall, while the other designates
the social hall of the building
as the Leon Fram Hall.
Two choirs—the Temple Is-
rael 'Quartet and the Choral
Group—will sing in support of
Cantor Robert S. Tulman, un-
der the direction of Karl Haas,
music director.. Rabbi M. Rob-
ert Syme will lead. the dedica-
tion service, and Dr. Fram will
deliver the sermon.
The temple's Hebrew school
will open on Monday after-
noon, while the religious school
begins on Sept. 15. Special of-
fice hours are being main-
tained from 9:30 to 12 Sundays
and 7 to 9 weekdays to enroll
new members.
Temple Beth El
Dr. Norman Drachler, educa-
tional director, announces that
the second annual open house
for newly-enrolled children of
the religious school, will be
held Saturday to give parents
and pupils an opportunity to
meet with the Beth El rabbis
and staff. The Sisterhood will
serve refreshments.
On Sunday, the faculty will
meet from 9:15 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. to participate in work-
shops. Sessions will be depart-
mentalized for priinary, inter-
mediate, confirmation and high
school grades.
Greetings will be extended
by Di r. Richard C. Hertz and
Rabbi David I. Baylinson;
Burton Friedman, religious
school chairman; and John
C. Hopp, president. Mrs. Al-
len Bernstein and Bernard
Weiss, supervisors, will con-
duct the workshops.
The school will open for re-
gistra'don that same morning,
and'on weekdays, from 2 to 4
p.m., through Thursday. School
begins on Sept. 14 and 15. For
information, call Rosalind
Schubut, school secretary, TR.
5-8530.
Cong. Beth Yehudah
Distribution of tickets is cur-
rently taking place at the syna-
gogue, 17556 Wyoming, from 8
to 9:30 a.m. and 6 to 9 p.m.,
daily, and from 8:30 a.m. to 1
p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m., Sunday.
Rabbi Joshua Spiro conducts
the High Holy Day services.
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Cong. Beth Shalom
The first sabbath services to
be held in the newly-completed
building at 14601 W. Lincoln
will take place at 9 a.m., Sat-
urday, when the Bar Mitzvah
of Allan David Lovinger will
be observed. Rabbi Mordecai S.
Halpern will preach the ser-
mon, and Cantor Reuben Erl-
baum will chant the liturgy.
An open house is planned by
the congregation on Sunday to
honor Cantor and Mrs. Erl-
baum, and is the first social
affair ever to be held in the
synagogue.
The social committee work-
ing on the event includes Mes-
dames Elaine Plotkin, Betty
Pianin, Shirley Kaplan, Janet
Korn, Irene Lawson, Renatta
Lipshaw, Ruth D.obrowitsky,
Elayne Brown, Bess Gorelick
and Paula Balkin. The commu-
nity is invited to welcome the
Erlbaums.
In another announcement,
the congregation named
Leonard Servetter as educa-
tional director of the congre-
gation's religious school. Ser-
vetter, a Wayne State Uni-
versity graduate, holds a BA
in education and an MA in
educational administration.
He has previously served as
a group worker for the Jewish
Community Center, director of
the youth program for a large
Detroit synagogue and has
taught in numerous Sunday
and Hebrew schools for the
last 10 years. He also has been
active in children's camping
work for several summers.
Beth Aaron Synagogue
Rabbi Benjamin H. Gorre-
lick, who recently returned
from Israel and Europe, was
welcomed by his congregation
at last Saturday's services,
when he told of his experi-
ences in the Jewish state.
An informal reception will
be tendered in honor of Rabbi
and Mrs. Gorrelick by the Sis-
Dr. Spiro to Direct Wayne
Extension Course in 'Growth,
Development of the Bible'
.
A course in the "Growth and
Development of the Bible" will
be offered by Wayne State Uni-
versity's Department of Semitic
Languages and Literature this
semester.
The course, which will begin
Monday, Sept. 16, will be held
at the Esther Berman Building
of the United Hebrew Schools,
18977 - Schaefer. -Dr. Abram
Spiro, LaMed Professor and
chairman of the Department of
Semitic Languages at Wayne
State University, will conduct
the classes.
Fees for the course, which -
will be held.eath Monday night
at 8 p.m., will be .$10 per per-
son, or $15 per couple. The
United Hebrew Schools are giv-
ing the university free use of
the building. Louis LaMed,
who endowed the LaMed Chair
in the Department of Semitic
Languages, is acting as regis-
trar. Registration fees and in-
quiries can be addressed to him
at 980 Whitmore, or by calling
UN 4-8478.
Dr. Spiro, who was director
of studies for the Union of Lib-
_ eral and Progressive Syna-
gogues in London, England, be-
fore coming to Wayne in July,
is a graduate of the Hebrew
University and also holds an
M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia
University.
His lectures will be accom-
panied: by slides and archaeo-
logical materials gathered dur-
ing - his studies in' Israel and in
the Holy Land. He was winner
of the Bialik Prize as a • Bible
scholar at the Hebrew Univer-
sity in 1937.
The course is designed to ap-
peal to Christians as well as
Jews.
terhood at a meeting planned
for Monday.
The religious school will open
for its two sessions at 9:15 and
11 a.m., this Sunday, in en-
larged quarters, advises Ber-
nard Panush, director. Classes
are conducted from kindergar-
ten through 10th grade.
Offering courses in Jewish
history, B i b 1 e, customs . and
ceremonies, Zionism and Israel,
current events, Israeli and tra-
ditional songs, holidays and re-
ligious observances, the school
has added several new fea-
tures, including:
Compulsory three-year He-
brew course, in cooperation
with the United Hebrew
Schools; attendance at Satur-
day -morning Junior and Youth
Congregation services; partici-
pation in Sunday morning
- breakfasts by 10th grader s;
two-year preparation for con-
secration.
Dr. Marvin A. Last, educa-
tional chairman, advises that a
committee will register chil-
dren from 5 to 7 p.m., daily,
and on Sunday morning.
United Jewish Folk Schools
Harry Mondry, school board
-chairman, announces that a
large attendance greeted the
opening of classes on Tuesday.
The Schools maintain three de-
partments, a nursery for 3 1/,. to
5-year-olds; a Sunday school
for pre-schoolers' 5 and 6; and
an elementary school for chil-
dren, 6 to 13. Students attend-
ing the five-year program are
eligible for entry into the Unit-
ed Jewish High School.
Although registration re-
mains open for Sunday and
elementary school classes, the
nursery school is filled to capa-
city. Enrollment is being- ac-
cepted, however, for a waiting
list. For information, call M.
Goldoftas, director, UN. 4-6319.
Cong. Bnai Moshe
Over 500 students are ex-
pected to register at the Dex-
ter school and the Pepper
school in Oak Park from 9:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sunday.
Parents of youngsters, particu-
larly in Oak Park, were urged
to register early because of a
large anticipated enrollment.
Meanwhile, the last hurdle
toward erection of its new
Oak Park sanctuary was
cleared Tuesday night by the
zoning commission, which ap-
proved the proposed building
plan, according to Harry -
Gunsberg, vice-president.
The synagogue, with an esti-
mated seating capacity of 1,500,
will be erected on the North-
west corner of Kenosha and 10
Mile Rd. Dr. Paul Fraiberg is
chairman of the building com-
mittee, and Alfred Deutsch is
chairman of fund-raising.
High Holy Day services will
be conducted by the syna-
gogue's.suburban branch at the
Oak Park High School. Dr.
Seymour Fox and Cantor
Moshe Purjes will officiate.
Information on seating may
be obtained by calling the con-
gregation office TE. 4-5897, or
Eliot Raskin, LI. 6-2838.
Young Israel of NW Detroit
Rudolph Kar, acting presi-
dent of the congregation, an-
nounces the appointment of
Detroiter Louis Kosman as
cantor during the High Holy
Day services.
A lyric baritone, Cantor Kos-
man received his training in
Europe. He had been affiliated
with the late Cantor Mordecai
Hirshman, and formerly served
here at Congs. Bnai Zion and
Beth Tikvah.
A committee for the distri-
bution of seats, consisting of
Gilbert Averbuch, Sam Belkin,
Harry Blitz, Al Friedman, Ar-
thur Klein, Kar, Gus Lew, Al
Schwartz and Theodore Weiss,
meets at the synagogue, 17376
Wyoming, from 7 to 10 p.m.,
daily, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.M.,
Sundays. Tickets are available
for non-members. For informa-
tion, call UN. 4-9776.
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Young Israel of Detroit
Samuel W. Platt, vice-presi-
dent and chairman of the High
Holy Day committee, announces
that Cantor Eugene Greenfield
.
will chant the Dexter branch
services on the holidays. Rabbi
Samuel H. Prero will officiate
at the services.
A young people's minyan
will be conducted, and mem-
bers of the young adults of
Young Israel - will conduct the
services, which are open to all
young men and women in the
community. Admission cards
are available at 12521 Dexter.
Cong. Shaarey Zedek
Tickets are being mailed out
to all members on Sept. 16, it
was announced this week, with
the High Holy Day seating
committee meeting to review
requests for all unmarried chil-
dren of members. Times for
each service will accompany
the mailing.
O-W Young Israel
For the first time since con-
struction of its building three
years ago, High Holy Day
seating will be available for
the general suburban public.
Joseph Rodd, ticket chair-
man, states that the expand-
ed facilities of the congrega-
tion's sanctuary makes this
possible. Services will be
conducted by Rabbi Yaakov
I. Homnick- and Cantor David
Greenbaum.
Tickets are _being distributed
from 8 to 10 p.m., Monday,
Wednesday and Thursday, and
from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, Sun-
day, at the synagogue. For in-
formation, call LI. 6-6662.
Sabbath services this week-
end are at 6:30 p.m., today,
and at 9 a.m., Saturday. The
Bar Mitzvahs of Alan Foster
and Martin Morgan will be
observed.
The expansion program of
the synagogue also has includ-
ed the school system—Hebrew,
Sunday and nursery facilities—
necessitating the addition of
new teachers to its present
staff, announced Max Nusbaum,
president. '
Classes will now be available
for boys and girls 3 to 15. For
information, call the synagogue
office.
liammarskjold Reports 'Basic Will to
Peace' ' Still Is Evident In Middle East
(Direct JTA TeletYpe_ Wire to
The Jewish News)
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—
Secretary General Dag Ham-
marskjold insisted Wednesday
that there was still existent in
the Middle East "a basic will to
peace," that the Arab-Israel
armistice agreements, which Is-
rael views as no longer valid,
must be restored to effective-
ness, and that the problem of
the Arab refugees remains one
of the "special responsibilities"
of the United Nations.
Hammarskjold made these ob-
servations in the introduction
to his annual report to the Gen-
eral Assembly. The report it-
self, addressed to the forthcom-
ing twelfth session of the As-
sembly, convening September
17, was issued by the Secretary
General several weeks ago. It
has been his practice to file the
introduction as a separate docu-
ment each year, just prior to the
opening of the Assembly.
"In the Palestine question,"
he declared, "the United Na-
tions has two special responsi-
bilities. One of these is in re-
gard to the armistice agree-
ments, endorsed by the Security
Council. The other is the hu-
manitarian responsibility for the
Palestine refugees, who have
been under United Nations care
for nine years now as homeless
victims of events outside their
control, while the problem of
the repatriation or resettlement
remained unsolved by the gov-
ernments upon whoni rests their
hopes for a life more consonant
with human dignity.
"To work toward a restora-
tion of the armistice agree-
ments primarily in their spirit
but in consequence, also - in
their letter," the Secretary Gen-
eral continued, "and to give
constructive help to the ref u-
gees, are obligations of the first
priority resting upon the or-
ganization and its member gov-
ernments."
"There continues to exist, I
am convinced, a basic will to
peace in the area, despite what-
ever signs there may have been
to the contrary," he declared.
"I would be the last to mini-
mize the very great difficulties
that lie in the way of steps by
governments which are neces-
sary in order to translate this
will to peace into concrete pro-
gress toward peaceful solutions.
These difficulties nevertheless
must be surmounted."
The Secretary General added
that the UN could not "and of
course should not attempt to do
this alone. The governments
concerned, with whom the pow-
er of decision rests, may not
be able to do it alone. But the
governments, strengthened by
the help . available from and
within the United Nations, can
and I hope will, decide to lead
their peoples step by step upon
this road toward a more secure
and promising future for them
all."
• 'Hammarskjold, in his intro- -
duction to his annual report,
paid high tribute to the UN
Emergency Force. "The com-
parative quiet" in the area pa-
trolled by UNEF, "is a welcome"
symptom," he said. However,
the Secretary General pOintecl
out, . "there have been -few -if
any signs of further progress"
from the stage of comparative
quiet to peace in the area:
Elsewhere in the introduction
dealing with the Suez Canal
problem, Hammarskjold made
this specific point: "It should
also be noted that the six-year-
old question of Israeli shipping
remains in dispute."
Expect U. S. Intervention
If Syria Attacks Neighbors
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
TEL AV1V.—The United States is expected to revise its
current policy and announce that any further Soviet expansion
in the Middle East or a Syrian attack on any of its neighbors
would call for United States.intervention, Dr. Giora Josephthal,
secretary general of the Mapai party, told a party conference at
Tel Adashim Tuesday.
Dr. Josephthal pointed out that Israel had -warned the U.S.
at an early phase of Egypt's rapprochement with the Soviet
Union, but that Washington had responded with further ap-
peasement of Col. Nasser. Syria may go the - same road as •
Egypt, he Continued, unless America- makes policy declaration
which will replace. the Eisenhower Doctrine . which, Dr. Jo-
sephthal said, has proved ineffective. The leader of the Labor
Party suggested that Israel ask the United States now for arms
to protect herself, in view of the newest arms imbalance in the
Middle East.
Dr. Josephthal's statement was seen here as a clue tO
Israel's view of current developments. When Ambassador Abba
Eban returns to his post in Washington, he is expected to stress
the same points.