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November 20, 1959 - Image 5

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1959-11-20

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Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff
(right) grins as Label A. Katz
adjusts Bnai Brith President's
Medal for him. Katz, head of
the Jewish service organiza-
tion, presented the award to
RCA's chief at the Bnai Brith
banquet for its 116th annual
meeting in New York.

Belkin Essay on Philosophy
Published in Yiddish

"The PhiloSophy of Purpose,"
an essay written by Dr. Samuel
Belkin, president of Yeshiva
University, is now available in
a Yiddish translation.
Since its publication, the
monograph, the first in the
series "Studies in Torah Juda-
ism," published by Yeshiva Uni-
versity, has been hailed as set-
ting forth a pattern of Jewish
philosophy.

Label Katz, Bnai Brith President,
S peaks Wednesday at Center Jewish
Affairs Club and Bnai Brith Rally

Label A. Katz, of New Or-
leans, newly elected interna-
tional president of Bnai Brith
will make his first official visit
to Detroit next Wednesday.
A rally of Bnai Brith . mem-
bers will be held in the main
auditorium of Beth Aaron Syna-
gogue at 8:30 p.m. The. public
is invited. This meeting is -spon-
sored jointly by the Metropoli-
tan Detroit Bnai Brith Council
and Detroit Bnai Brith Worn-
en's Council. The 27 local Bnai
Brith lodges will present Katz
with a Label A. Katz Member-
ship Class at an invitation cere-
mony for new members being
performed by the Council De-
gree Team, assisted by Cantor
Hyman Adler and his Bnai
David SYnagogue Choir. Katz
will then deliver the main ad-
dress of the :evening.
At noon Mr. Katz will speak
at a luncheon in the new
Jerusalem Community Cen-
ter, Meyers at Curtis. This
affair is -being sponsored
jointly by the Metropolitan
Detroit Bnai Brith Council
and the Center Jewish Affairs
Luncheon Club. He will talk
on the subject "Who Speaks
for American Jewry?"
Milton M. Weinstein is chair-
man of the arrangements com-
mittee for Katz's visit, with
Nathan Rubenstein as co-chair-
man. Maurice Zeiger, a vice

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president of the Council, is
chairman of the Label A. Katz
Honor Membership Class Drive.
Harr y Weinberger, Council
president, announces that a din-
ner meeting has been arranged
for officers, lodge and chapter
presidents and other local Bnai
Brith leaders.
Katz, 14th president of Bnai
Brith, is the youngest man to
hold the office since its found-
ing in 1843. He was 40 when

LABEL A. KATZ

elected in May 1959 at the tri-
ennial convention in Jerusalem.
' Katz is the second native
Southerner to achieve the Bnai
Brithpresidency. Leo N. Levi,
born in Galveston, served from
1900 to 1904.
Born in New Orleans, Sept.
22, 1919, Katz received a B.A.
and L.L.B. degrees from Tulane
University. After several years
of law practice he branched out
into housing rehabilitation and
real estate investments.
He began his Jewish activities
with Bnai Brith at the age of 15
as a member of A.Z.A., and 21
years later he was elected
chairman of the Bnai Brith
youth movement.
He has been active in Bnai
Brith Hillel Foundation, assisted
in establishment of two centers
for Jewish college students and
served as chairman of the Hillel
board of trustees for Tulane
University and Sophie New-
comb College.
As chairman of the Southern
regional advisory board of
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith, he has been a spokesman
for progressive race relations.
Katz's participation in Jewish
communal activities include
membership on the Natiohal
Cabinet of the United Jewish
Appeal; executive committee of
the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds; the
board of the American Associa-
tion for Jewish Educaton; the
board of HIAS and vice chair-
man of the Joint Defense Ap-
peal.

Obstacle to Exhibit
Told by Fleischman

Special insight into the cen-
sorship controversy over paint-
ings for the recent American
Exhibition in Moscow is offered
in the December issue of Grad-
uate Comment, published by the
Graduate Division of Wayne
State University.
"In Support of the United
States Information Agency," is
written by Lawrence A. Fleisch-
man, member of the USIA Ad-
visory Committee on Culture
which approved the paintings to
be exhibited.
Fleischman relates in his
article the difficulties he en-
countered with Congressman
Walter's Congressional Commit-
tee when the Congressman
sought to censor certain paint
ings approved for the exhibit.
Reproductions of the contro-

Dr. Goldstein to Serve 30th Term as Arbiter

Dr. Israel Goldstein, rabbi
of Congregation Bnai Jeshurun,
New York, one of the nation's
outstanding Jewish leaders, was
elected to his 30th term as
president of the Jewish Con-
ciliation Board of America at
its annual meeting in the Bnai
Jeshurun Center.

Dr. Goldstein stated that dur-
ing his 30-year tenure, more
than 9,000 cases have been
handled by the 40-year-old tri-
bunal, the oldest free court of
arbitration in the country. By
so doing, it has saved the city
and state millions of dollars in
court costs.

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5—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, November 20, 1959

Medal for Sarnoff

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