The Suburban Community
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Dedicate Hebrew Academy in Oak Park
Friday, April 4,
Name Yeshivah Branch for Goldsteins
Dedication of a new school
building always calls for a re-
dedication of effort in perpet-
uating the ideals of education.
It was in this spirit that Jew-
ish education in the Detroit
area received a new injection of
vitality last Sunday, when over
300 people gathered under
sunny skies to dedicate the He-
brew Academy of Oak Park.
Rabbis, lay leaders and two
"non-Jews who own their own
yarmelkes" attended the cere-
monies, which, principally hon-
ored Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Gold-
stein, for whom the building
at 13855 W. 9 Mile is named.
The day's major speakers
were Mayor Richard W. Marsh-
all of Oak Park and Michigan
Sen. Charles E. Potter, who flew
here unexpectedly from Wash-
ington to participate.
In introducing Mayor Marsh-
all, Ernest Citron, chairman of
the board of Young Israel Cen-
ter of Oak-Woods, said he was
the only Mayor he knew that
owned his own yarmelke. Lat-
er, when Sen. Potter arrived
with a yarmelke, he added that
"we now have a Senator who
owns his own yarmelke."
The Senator spoke "as a Gen-
tile who knows very well how
much the Jewish people has
given in the way of intellect
and culture to the freedom-lov-
ing peoples of the world."
He said that it was his be-
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lief that the "opening of the
new Hebrew Academy will be a
source for the continuance of
the teachings of a great faith,
not only to the people of Oak
Park and the state of Michigan,
but to all peoples, everywhere."
Mayor Marshall pointed to the
little white schoolhouse which
stands just south of the new
academy, and said that as late
as 1950 it was the only school
building in the Oak Park School
District.
Now, he said, in addition to
the growth of our public school
system, "we have schools such
as the Yeshivath Beth Yehudah
which add to the lives not alone
of the Jewish community, but
to the overall community."
The Hebrew Academy, or-
ganized two years ago in North-
west Detroit, meeting at the
Young Israel of Northwest De-
troit Synagogue, was formally
transmitted to Oak Park in cere-
monies in which Dr. Leo Y.
Goldman, spiritual leader;
turned over responsibility for
the school to Citron, as a rep-
resentative of the suburban
community.
Other leaders who participat-
ed in the program were Rabbis
Samuel H. Prero, of Young
Israel of Northwest Detroit;
Yaakov I. Homnick, of Young
Israel of OakWoods; Morris
Greenes, executive director of
the Yeshivah; Joseph Elias,
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JOEL SIMMER, 12, opens the doors of the Hebrew Acad-
emy of Oak Park, as his grandfather, PETER S. GOLDSTEIN,
looks on proudly. The new school, a branch of the Yeshivath
Beth Yehudah, is named the Peter and Pauline Goldstein
Bldg., in honor of Goldstein and his wife.
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Best Wishes For A Happy Passover
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dean; and S. P. Wohlgelernter,
executive vice-president.
The speakers cited the philan-
thropy of the Goldsteins who
made the purchase of the build-
ing possible, and also cited the
efforts of David M. Edelman
and Mrs. Sarah Reisman, after
whom rooms in the school are
named.
Additional rooms were dedi-
cated to the memory of Mrs.
Pearl Rottenberg, whose work
for the Yeshivah was president
of the Ladies Auxiliary was
reverently m e n t i one d, and
Rubin Kaplan, another leader
in the schools.
Acknowledging the naming of
the building in his honor, Gold-
stein credited his own "heder
education" with responsibility
for "everything I learned in the
way of culture and morality."
Pointing to the choir of young
students of the Yeshivah, which
later presented a program of
songs, Goldstein said, "As we
look at these boys we have the
thrill of knowing that some day
they will be our future lead-
ers."
The Goldsteins' grandson, 12-
year-old Joel Simmer was given
the honor of turning the key
which opened the doors to the
new academy. Classes already
have begun at the new school.
List Passover Services
at O-W Young Israel
Siyum b'Chorim services for
the first born will usher in Pass-
over at the Young Israel Center
of Oak-Woods at 6:45 a.m., to-
day, according to Ernest Citron,
chairman of the board.
Regular holiday services will
be held at 6:50 p.m., today and
Saturday, with morning services
Saturday and Sunday at 9 a.m.
Rabbi Yaakov I. Homnick will
preach the sermons on "Orbit-
ting as a Jew" and "The Price
of Adjustment."
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Homnick,
parents of Rabbi Homnick, of
New York City, will be guests
of the congregation. The rabbi's
father is an active communal
leader and president of Cong.
Shomray Torah. He will lead
several of the holiday services
by serving as guest cantor.
Passover—a Romantic Time
to Believe in New Miracles
By the Oak-Woodser
Yearly, at Passover time, we
shed our cloak of hard-nosed
realism and don the garb of the
romanticist—this being brought
about we suspect by the pros-
pect of again going" through the
pages of the Haggadah.
In this age of the realist one
almost has to consider himself
a romantic to justify the stories
that are told of the escape of
the Jews from ancient Egypt.
Yet, we never question the
miracles that occur with such
regularity in the tale of the
Exodus because in them we see
a beauty of faith that has be-
come a basic part of our Jewish
heritage.
At our sedorim, we will
read of the plagues that were
wrought against the Egyptians
—blood, boils, locusts, the
slaying of the first born—and
how the Jews were spared to
make their journey into the
Holy Land and write the first
glorious chapter of the world's
oldest existing religion.
The realist asks, "What is the
explanation of these miracles—
why were the Jews spared,
while the Egyptians suffered;
how did the sea part to permit
them to make good their escape.
If they are miracles, as you say,
then why don't we see such
miracles today?"
Certain things we have re-
fused to question. Still, what of
the realist's query? Is it so that
today we have no miracles?
We suspect that many people
have pondered over this very
question, and have either satis-
fied themselves or given up try-
ing to find an answer. We think
it's all in the mind, or the heart,
or the soul, or whatever other
term you wish to use to desig-
nate faith and hope.
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One of the advantages we
have today that our forefathers
did not possess is a way to re-
cord for posterity -a permanent
record of the history of our
times.
But what if suddenly we
had no pencils or pens with
which to write, no paper to
write on, no recording ma-
chines, no cameras or film—
what if we lost every means
of recorded communication.
As in days long ago, what if
the only lasting means of re-
laying information was by
word of mouth?
What if for several hundred
years we existed in this state?
— many generations to pass
along verbally what had tran-
spired in, say, the 20th century?
How would the story of the
survival of the Jews during the
Hitler era be handed down?
What would be said of the re-
birth of the state of Israel? How
would word of mouth explain
the flight "on the wings of
eagles" of an entire people from
Yemen to Israel?
It is pretty much a fantasy
to make such guesses, but then
Mr. & Mrs.
Jack Schwartz
Wish You A
Happy Passover
we are searching for modern
miracle like the miracles of the
Exodus.
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Today's realist sees answers to
our questions in man-made ac-
tions. The romanticist, the be-
liever, sees these events written
by the hand of a More Powerful
Being.
We cannot know who is right,
but we can take comfort in what
we believe. And we, ourselves,
turn romanticist at every Pass-
over.
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