Equality Club Plants Grove of
1,000 Trees in JNF Israel Forests

MRS. MAX STOLLMAN (right), president of the JNF
Ladies Auxiliary, presents a certificate on behalf of the JNF
and its Auxiliary for a grove of L000 trees in Israel to the
Equality Club, which has financed the grove. (Left to right)
Mesdames OSCAR SCHWARTZ, Equality Club president;
MICHAEL J. KUSHNER, tree chairman; and DAVID ROSEN-
BERG, vice-president, accept the certificate.

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By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Israel Bonds campaigns were
The New Year
A group of neighbors were following their usual pattern;
spending a social evening in the list of events at the Jewish
a home . . . The TV was going Center featured the same speak-
but nobody paid attention to ers, the same topics . . • The
the rather boring adventures of rabbis' sermons aroused little
a private eye, whose "dangerous interest . . . Their titles and
life" had become something subject matter were of the
too familiar . . . The discussion cliche type . . Most of the
lagged . . . A heavy compla- congregational members sighed
cency hovered over the men and and mumbled "we heard that
women . . . The timely subjects song before." ... the threshold
had been exhausted . . . Eisen- of a new year, this complacen-
hower, Nixon, Dulles, Ben- cy, or, if you prefer, boredom,
Gurion had been psychoana- got us down . . . What was our
lyzed and found incompetent little Jewish community miss-
. . . The last best seller had ing? Why was its communal life
been mentioned without pro- so static? . . . Does this picture
voking enthusiasm or contro- apply to most of our communi-
versy . . . After futile at- ties, we asked ourselves . . . Or
tempts to get a discussion under is our suburbia different from
way, the men and women set- all the rest? .. .
Well, what's wrong? . • Are
tled down to card games . . .
In a few days 1958 was to make our organizational set-ups at
fault? . . . Is too much emphasis
its entrance . • .
being placed on fund-raising?
We were reminded of this Are cultural interests being sac-
evening when somebody asked rificed because money cam-
us: "What do you think is going paigns take too much of our
to happen in the new year?" time and energy . . . Are we
. We were at a loss to answer going to the theater because we
because we were in doubt that are invited to a benefit? Do we
anything of a sensational na- keep up human relations be-
ture was going to happen to our cause of organizational contacts?
Jewish community in 1958. . .
The above is the essence of
It suddenly struck us rather a letter that we received the
forcibly that Jewish life during other day and we were frankly
the last few years had become baffled . .. Is our correspond-
routinized . . . The UJA and ent right? . . . Is there anything
fundamentally wrong with Jew-
ish communal or social life in
America? . . Are we bored,
fed up with the repetitious pat-
tern of what we are doing (are
asked to do) year in year out?
"The Aristocrat of Teas"
. . . Before we try to answer all
these questions, we would like
to hear from our readers, who,
we are sure, must have been
thinking about some of the
same aspects of life which our
correspondent raises.

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The 10th anniversary year of
the founding of American Sav-
ings was also its most success-
ful, it was stated this week by
Adolph Deutsch, president.
The announcement was part
of a statement advising that
the firm's 21st – —
consecu-
tive dividend
would be dis-
tributed to
more than 38,-
000 account
holders, bring-
ing the total
dividends dis-
bursed in 1957
to over $1,-
547,000.
Deutsch
The Association's statement
of condition as of Dec. 31 shows
that its growth during the past
10 years has been matched by
no other savings association in
the country.
Savings accounts increased
more than $15,746,000 since Jan.
1, 1957, while assets have
jumped to $67,585,181.65. Amer-
ican Savings has invested more
than $54,492,000 in first mort-
gage loans, including FHA and
VA Government mortgages.
Mr. Deutsch, founder and
president of American Savings,
has had a long and distinguished
career in the banking field.
Other officers are:
Samuel Hechtman, vice-presi-
dent and chairman of the board;
Jack Sylvan, vice-president; Al-
fred L. Deutsch, treasurer; Na-
than I. Goldin, secretary; Fred
J. Ruelle and George M. Zelt-
zer, assistant vice-presidents;
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Using the slogan "Let's All
March Together in the March
of Dimes," three Northwest area
congregations will sponsor a
joint concert at 8:30 p.m., Jan.
20, at Adas Shalom Synagogue.
Participating in the interfaith
project for the second straight
year are All Saints Episcopal
Church, Mayflower Congrega-
tional Church and Adas Shalom.
All proceeds go to the March of
Dimes.
The concert will feature both
church choirs, under the respec-
tive leadership of Ian H. Thom-
son and Dr. John H. Secrist.
Supporting the choirs will be
the Adas Shalom Symphony En-
semble, under the direction of
Zinovi Bistritzky, assistant con-
certmaster of the Detroit Sym-
phony Orchestra.

Marguerite Kozenn,
Anthony Marlowe in
Next Center Concert

Soprano Marguerite Kozenn
and tenor Anthony Marlowe will
perform a concert of operatic
music with the
Center S y m -
phony Orches-
tra, conducted
by Julius Cha-
fes, 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan.
21, at the Dav-
ison Jewish
Center.
The third
concert in the
S y m p hony's
18th season
w i 1 I feature
s e lections Miss Kozenn
from Beethoven, Puccini and
Rossini.
Miss Kozenn, who has toured
the United States, Israel, Eu-
rope and Canada, has since 1946,
made 12 concert tours to Eu-
rope and Israel alone. Prior to
the outbreak of World War II,
she was the prima donna at the
Vienna Volksopera and Buchar-
est Royal Opera.
She is a co-chairman of the
music department of the He-

brew University in. Jerusalem,
musical adviser to Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity in Israel and the Dora
and Julius Green Fund of the
Detroit Music Study Club.
Marlowe's career has includ-
ed appearances in most of the
great opera houses of the world
as well as in M-G-M films. He
currently is head of music at
Mercy College • and has insti-
gated the artist series there.
Last August he appeared as so-
loist with the Detroit Symphony.
Before coming to Detroit,
Marlowe was the leading tenor
at the Royal Opera House, Co-
vent Garden, London.
Tickets for the concert are
available at the Center office.
The next concert will feature
violinist Mischa Mischakoff in a
Feb. 25 performance of Men-
delssohn's Violin Concerto.

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