THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, June 17, 1960 -. D AYE/1 6# mmumws. Allan G. Agree Dies; Noted Architect BY HENRY LEONARD I I "When you're ready, lust press this button, then the ark and pulpit will disappear and you'll have your full-size basketball court." eityytliAt tpf9. litomard Delta Phi Epsilon Installs Anita Davis Anita Davis was installed as president of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority at Wayne State Uni- versity recently. Also inducted were Sylvia Wolf, vice-presi- dent; Sue Ellen Bloom and Myra Cohen, secretaries; Rosa- lind Marx, treasurer ; Helene Clifford, pledge mother; Renee Schiff, parliamentarian; Mar- cia Morris, historian; Barbara ICrakow and Michelle Man- heimer, Pan-Hellenic represen- tatives; and Miriam Goldberg, junior Pan-Hellenic represen- tative. Barbara Krakow was awarded the best active award, • and tokens were presented to gradu- ing seniors Jaquelyn Baggle- man, Jacquelyn Beber, Rose Ellen Cohen, Rosalind Lax, Har- riett Lebt and Adele Nieman. Costa Rican Priest Sent to Israel to Learn Hebrew GUATEMALA CITY, (JTA)- The Costa Rican-Israel Cultural Institute will sponsor a trip to Israel of a Catholic priest, who will tour the country and learn Hebrew with the view of teach- ing the language in Costa Rica. This was reported here by Joshua Shai, Israel's Ambassa- dor to all the Central American RepublieS, who returned from a Visit to Costa Rica where he presented his credentials as Israel's first Ambassador to that country. Before returning here, Shai stopped in Managua, where he presented his creden- tials to Nicaraguan President Luis Somoza Debayle. Honor Mrs. Meir UNITED NATIONS — The permanent representatives of 19 countries that are member nations of the UN, and high ranking officials of the UN, in- cluding Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, were enter- tained at a luncheon here Tues- day in honor of Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister. Israel's Ambassador Michael S. Comay, head of the Israeli UN delegation, was host at the luncheon in a private dining room at UN headquarters. Truman's 'Mr. Citizen' In a remarkable political and personal document that has created considerable contro- versy even before publication, former President Harry S. Truman reveals his opinion of men and events during the seven eventful years since he left the White House. "Mr. Citizen," published by Bernard Geis Associates, is the first frank personal account of the former president's thoughts and activities since he turned over the presidency to General Eis- enhower in January of 1952. ► ritain Summer Reading of 'Ethics of Fathers By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX (Copyright, 1960, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) It is customary to study the Rabbinic Teachings "Ethics of the Fathers" in the synagogue during the spring and summer months. About the earliest mention of this custom is found in the Gaonic literature. While the Sabbath was primarily devoted to study, it was forbidden to concentrate upon deep intellec- tual matters such as are gen- erally found in the Talmudic literature after the • Mincha ser- vice on the afternoon of the Sabbath. This was because Moses had passed away in the late afternoon of the Sabbath. There thus had to be a change in pace between the study be- fore the Mincha prayers and the study after the Mincha prayers, it being required that when a great rabbi dies his lecture hall is closed, out of respect to him. Since the rabbis did not want to leave the late afternoon study hours as empty and vain mo- ments, the lighter texts of the "Ethics of the Fathers" • were reviewed. Originally, it seems this was ordainee. for year- round concentration. However, since in many areas the winter months have such short days, a few chapters of the Psalms were substituted in their stead. Some comment that thp "Ethics of the Fathers" being mainly moral capsules, are especially fitting for the warm summer and spring months when human fancies are most alluring and tempting. Others claim that the study of the "Ethics of the Fathers" is especially fitting between the Passover and ::;havuot holidays because these weeks are the weeks before the festival of Revelation which commemorates the presentation of the Torah at Sinai. These weeks are thus spent in moral and spiritual refinement Some consider these chapters of the Mishnah to be especially beneficial to those who are be- ing subjected to the Gehenna (Hell) and its punishment, either because, according to one Tanna, this punishment takes place especially between Pass- over and Shavuot, or because the souls are released from Ge- henna on the Sabbath and are taken back immediately after the Sabbath. During the last period of the Sabbath (after- noon) we review these chapters so as to ease their suffering in purgatory, and to remind our- selves of those moral principles which, if we abide by them, will spare us from having to endure the fate of Gehenna in the next world. Allan G. Agree, prominent Detroit architect, died June 14 of a heart attack while testify- fying as a witness in a Circuit Court trial between two Livonia bowling proprietors. He was 48 years old. Mr. Agree, who was the archi- tect for the Wonderland Shop- ping Center, had been associ- ated with Louis Redstone for six years, prior to leaving for his own practice some eight months ago. He was the architect for The Jewish News when it moved to its present building at 17100 W. 7 Mile, in 1953. Born in Stanford, Conn., Mr. Agree has resided in Detroit most of his life. A 1935 graduate of the Uni- versity of Detroit, Mr. Agree was affiliated with the Ameri- can Institute of Architects, the Michigan Society of Architec- ture and Alpha Epsilon Pi fra- ternity. He was a member of Temple Israel. He leaves his wife, Florence; three daughters, Rollie, Sharon and Arlene; and five sisters, Mrs. Jack Goldstein, Mrs. Jack Flusty and Minette, both of Los Angeles; Mrs. Ben Kronmal, of Encino, Calif.; and Mrs. Neil McDougall. OBITUARIES ELI NOLAND, 39565 Dequin- dre, Troy, died June 11. He leaves his wife, Wanda; two brothers and three sisters. * * Dr. SAMUEL ISADORE MOSS, of Chicago, died June 13. Services and interment in Detroit. He leaves a son, Milton, currently serving with the U.S. Armed Forces in Germany; a daughter, Sheila Hellman, of Laguna, Calif.; two brothers, two sisters and five grandchil- dren. * * * JACK TUGMAN, of Miami Beach, Fla., died here June 13. Services and interment in De- troit. He leaves his wife, Fan- nie; a son, Julian, of Lynbrook, Long Island; two daughters, Mrs. Max Sherman and Mrs. Abe Levine; a brother and five grandchildren. * * * EDWARD L. ZIMMERMAN, 18609 George Washington, Southfield, died June 9. Sur- vived by his wife, Rose; two daughters, Susan and Debra; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Zimmerman, of Akron, 0.; two brothers and two sisters. * * * NATHAN - B. NOBLE, 3841 Monterey, died June 9. Survived Ana Pauker Dies his wife, Josephine and a The London Daliy Express re- by ported this week that Ana Paul- brother. 4 * * ker, former Romanian Foreign MEYER SILVERMAN, 19501. Minister, who Hubbell, died. June 8. He leaves was known as his wife, Emma; a daughter, "Red.Ana," Mrs. Maxwell Schwartz; a broth- died last week er, four sisters and a grand- of a heart at- child. tack at the age * * * of 66, in Ro- SARAH COHEN, 16859 St. mania. She Marys, died June 8. She leaves w a s removed a daughter, Mrs. I. Deitch. from office by her Com- munist associ- 'Red Ana' ates. While in office, she was a party, to anti-Jewish measures, and was anti-Israel, altough her father still was living at the time in Israel. LENA ZOHOTT, 4369 Clem- ents, died June 12. Survived by two sons, C a r 1 - and Arthur; a daughter, Mrs. Joseph Bren- ner, of Toronto; and six grand- children. * * * LEAH ORLOFF,. 19477 Coyle, died June 9. She leaves a daugh- ter, Mrs. Lawrence Guss; two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Singer and Mrs. Jennie Kogen, and a grand- child. * * * BERTHA ROSENBERG, 2911 Monterey, died June 11. Sur- vived by two sons, Max and Irv- ing; two daughters, Mrs. Ben Jacobs and Mrs. Joseph Berick; six grandchildren a n d seven great-grandchildren. * * * LENA FIVENSON, of 254 Washington Ave., Alpena, died June 13. Rabbi Morris Adler conducted funeral services for her in Alpena, Thursday. Sur- vived by her husband, Arthur; son, Morton; daughter, Mrs. Harry (Jean) Pinsky, and three grandchildren. Israel May Dies; Was Brother of Dr. Bernstein Israel May, brother of Dr. Eugenia Bernstein, died June 13. A bachelor, he had resided at 4084 W. Philadelphia. Mr. May, a real estate in- vestor, was born in Russia. He had lived here most of his life, and was a veteran of World War I. Besides Dr. Bernstein, • who only last week lost her daughter, Miriam Aboulafia, of Canton, Mass., Mr. May is survived by a brother, Bofis; and another sis-: ter, Mrs. Rose Schecter. JEWISH NEWS Advertising Brings Mrs. Burrows Dies; Detroiter for 50 Years Mollie Burrows, of 225 Mer- ton Rd., died Monday. Funeral services were held at Kaufman Chapel Tuesday. Surviving her are two sons, Albert and Newton; two grand- children and a sister, Kate Nu- rick of Toronto. Mrs. Burrows was the widow of Jacob Burrows, who was a prominent Detroit merchant. Her deceased husband, while in Russia, was a Government Rabbi (Kazonnyi Rabbin). Born in Toronto, Mrs. Bur- rows was a Detroit resident for 50 years. She was a member of Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Hadas- sah, Women's Auxiliary, United Hebrew Schools, and National Council of Jewish Women. P R 0 V E N Rome Jewish Community Elects Dr. Fausto Pitiglani ROME, (JTA) — Dr. Fausto Pitiglani, lecturer in economics at Rome University and di- rector of the Rome Institute for Economic and Statistical Re- search, was elected president of the Rome Jewish Community. Dr. Pitiglani, who lived in the United States from 1938 to 1948, was the organizer and vice-president of the New York Italian Jewish club attached to the Spanish and Portugese Synagogue which was founded to assist Italian refugees from Fascism in the United States. Rubenstein Brothers Co. Inc., with head offices in Montreal, was founded three years before Confederation, making it one of the oldest businesses in Canada. Louis Rubenstein, of this firm, brought the skating champion- ship of the world back to Can- ada, in 1890, after competing in the International' Tournament in Russia. 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