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The Suburban Community

Suburbia Continues Growth;
Points Now to Maturity

Oak Park's Birthday
Party to Have Hebrew
Academy PTA Booth

Wealth of Data in 1960 Year Book

Among its many articles per-
haps the most significant—and
one of immediate interest to
American Jews—is the summary
of the First National Study of
Jewish Education in the U.S.
It contains a wealth of data on
enrollment; size and location of
schools, their sponsorships,
financing and co - ordination;
curricula, and the attitudes of
children and parents toward
Jewish education.
Of special interest, also are
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Rabbi the articles on the National
Simkha Teper, of the township Jewish Cultural Study and the
of Faleschti, in Soviet Molda- Conference on Jewish Material
via, and a former rabbi in the Claims Against Germany, 1953-
town, Rachmil D•aznin, were 58.
tried in a "Comrades Court,"
Others cover such subjects as
convicted of "teaching pupils civil rights, church-state issues,
to pray," and sentenced to be anti-Semitism, Jewish philan-
"held up to public ridicule, con- thropy, religion, the community
tempt and scorn," according to center field, and even the new
a cable from Moscow in The states of Hawaii and Alaska.
New York Herald Tribune.
In all, 170 pages are devoted to
With the two religious lead- the U.S
ers, two other Jews were tried
There is the usual compre-
on the same charges and also
convicted, the Moscow dispatch hensive coverage of Jewish
reported. The trial of the reli- communities the world over,
gious Jews, according to the mainly by experienced 1 o c al
report, was staged publicly in observers, which cannot be de-
a motion picture theater where tailed here for lack of space;
not a single witness testified population statistics, directories
on behalf of the rabbi and his of organizations and periodicals,
obituaries and calendars.
co-defendants.
By asking Jewish children to
pray and soliciting a woman for
a contribution to the local
synagogue, the convicted Jews
had been guilty of "barbaric
acts incompatible with Socialist
Serving Detroit
humanism and morals," the
Homes and Industry
court in Faleschti ruled. The
for Over 45 Years
verdict also declared that the
Jewish religion is fundamen-
tally "not only reactionary but
nationalistic."

The new American Jewish
Year Book, edited by Morris
Fine and Milton Himmelfarb.
published by the Jewish Publi-
cation Society of America and
the American Jewish Commit-
tee, has just come off the press.

Russian Court
Convicts Rabbi of
Teaching Prayer

The Hebrew • Academy PTA
has announced it will be repre-
we
have
watched
and
covered
By the Oak-Woodser
sented at the coming "15th
Into each life a bit of nostal- the material growth of the com- Birthday Party" for the City of
munity.
With
greater
joy
and
gia will fall. And as activities
Oak Park.
ebb for the summer and we satisfaction we are now wit-
An ice cream booth operating
nessing
the
upswing
in
com-
think of closing up shop for a
along the midway during the
munal
identification
and
civic
spell, we recall the astonishing
festival will be supervised by
growth of the suburban com- particip2tion-
Max Silverman, Sonia Ribiat
It
was
our
privilege
to
see—
munity during the seven years
and Fayga Dombey.
we have been penning this in addition to Young Israel of
The organization r e p or t s,
Oak-Woods and Temple Emanu- also, that Max Silverman has
corner.
When the Oak-Woodser be- El—five other synagogues come been re-elected president at a
gan his weekly beat, the entire to Oak Park—Cong- Beth Sha- recent meeting.
Others taking office are Myer
suburban community consisted lom, Cong. Mishkan Israel,
of an established Huntington Cong. Shaarey Shomayim, Cong. Mandelbaum, vice president;
Woods and a growing Oak Park. Bnai Moshe and Young Israel Helen Sherman, program chair-
man; Doreen Mirvis, recording
But Oak Park had only be- of Greenfield.
Then, too, there began the secretary; Rose Ann Silver,
gun to expand, and few were
able to foresee that it would Hebrew Academy, the suburban corresponding secretary; Fayga
be the Metropolitan Detroit branch of the Yeshivath Beth Dombey, treasurer; and Sonia
Ychuda and the 10 Mile branch Ribiat, Pauline Jonas and
area's fastest growing area.
There was, at the time, the of the Jewish Community Pearl Silverman, publicity.
Appointed to the board were
beginnings of both Young Is- Center.
In neighboring Southfield Bernard Jonas, Morris and
rael Center of Oak-Woods and
Temple Emanu-El. These two arose Cong. Bnai David and the Frances Flatt, Adele G-ittleman
institutions formed the bulwark Yeshivath Chachmey Lublin. and Alice Mandelbaum.
The Academy announces the
of the burgeoning Jewish com- And in Livonia was organized
the Livonia Jewish Cong. Soon, sale of Hebrew New Year's
munity.
Now Oak Park is almost the largest of the suburban cards under the chairmanship
established as a community, structures will be erected when of Mrs. Seymour Ribiat, LI
with only a few large parcels Cong. Shaarey Zedek begins to 7-2773.
of land remaining. Livonia build its $4,500,000 sanctuary
and Southfield, Birmingham and synagogue center in South- Jews Must Care for
and Bloomfield Hills are at- field.
The suburban areas will con- Survivors of Eichmann
tracting our Jewish poulation
CHICAGO, (JTA)—The Adolf
tinue
to rise—in numbers and
as the swing to suburbia con-
in contributions to the overall Eichmann case must not absorb
tinues with little let up.
Jewish interest to the exclusion
It is with no little pride that Jewish community.
Already functioning in the of "far more important busi-
suburbs is a Hadassah Chap- ness—the responsibility of the
ter
with branches in all the Jewish people to those who
Dolores Fishman New
new areas of development. were so fortunate as to escape
Sisterhood President
Women's American ORT, Eichmann's slaughter of inno-
cents," Judge Simon E. Sobel-
Dolores Fishman has been which is growing by leaps
and bounds in the outlying off of the United States Court
named president of the Mish-
of Appeals warned here.
kan Israel Sisterhood. Others areas, is attracting an ever-
Judge Sobeloff was the princ-
growing
number
of
young
elected to office at a recent
ipal speaker at a dinner on be-
meeting were Edith Flack, first women.
half of the Combined Jewish
Mizrachi, Pioneer Women, Appeal of Metropolitan Chicago.
vice president; Shirley Cohen,
second vice president; and the Jewish War Veterans, the Howard Mesiro•, general chair-
Sarah Zalla, recording secre- Masonic order, Bnai Brith all man of the Appeal, announced
have epresentation in suburbia. that, thus far this year, the
tary.
Perhaps most significant in CJA has raised $4,528,119, "con-
Included, also, are Sarah San-
dles, corresponding secretary; the story of the maturing sub- siderably more than the sum
Ida Wargon, dues secretary; urbs is the number of children raised at this point a year
Lillian Greenwald, treasurer; now attending religious and ago."
Bea Goldman, youth chairman; Hebrew schools. It is a rarity
Those who survived the
Marilyn Gante, parliamenta- now when a youngster does not atrocities committed by -Eich-
rian; and Gail Berger, hospital- attend a Jewish c„ool.
mann and his kind, Judge
How much our children will Sobeloff told the 250 Chicago
ity chairman.
absorb;
how
much
help
they
Others are Helen Rosenfeld,
leaders assembled at the din-
historian; Sarah Barden, ser- will receive from us; how much ner, have "necessarily become
geant-at-arms; Ida L i c h t i g, of their enthusiasm will rub off the care of their kinsmen.
phone squad chairman; Belle on us to promote positive Jew- American Jews were the great-
Cohen and Barbara Wruble, ish thinking and accomplish- est single force in their rescue.
gift shop co-chairmen; and ment — these are the chal- We must not let the Eichmann
case overshadow our responsi-
Bessie Luckman, social chair- lenges that yet lie befo:e us.
bility to the living, the sur-
man.
The Sisterhood recently hon- Fall Registration Open vivors."
ored Mrs. Arthur Greenwald,
treasurer and director of the at Bnai David School
Form Rabbinical Court
synagogue's Sunday school, at a
Registration for classes in the
testimonial dinner. She was Sunday and weekday Hebrew in the Marital Field
presented a silver bracelet.
Rabbi Emanuel Rackman,
schools of Cong. Bnai David is
Mrs. Greenwald was de- currently being accepted for the president of the Rabbinical
scribed as an "arduous commu- fall semester, it is announced Council of America, represent-
nity leader and the personifica- by Rabbi Hayim Donin, spiri- ing 750 orthodox rabbis in the
tion of Judaism in action."
United States and Canada, an-
tual leader.
The school is open for boys nounced the creation of a Beth
and girls 5 to 15, and accepts Din (Rabbinical Court) to ren-
students of non-member fami- der guidance in the field of
lies. Transportation is provided. marriage and family status to
Classes are conducted at Oak all Jews who require it, regard-
The director of the Fair Park's Francis Scott Key less of synagogue affiliation.
Campaign Practices Committee School, and, under the direction This Beth Din, which will be
declared today that the Wis- of Rabbi Eric Greenbaum, di- see up at 84 Fifth Avenue in
consin primary gave a "sober rector, a complete curriculum is New York, was made possible
and unhappy yes" to the ques- offered, including Bar Mitzvah, by a generous grant from Mr.
tion whether religious bias will Bas Mitzvah and consecration and Mrs. Gustav Stern of New
York.
be a continuing factor in the preparation.
Inquiries may be made to the
1960 Presidential campaign.
Bruce L. Felknor, writing in synagogue office, 24350 South- O-W Young Israel Men
the ADL Bulletin, published by field, EL. 6-8210, daily and Install Fein as President
the Anti-Defamation League of Sunday.
At recent installation cere-
Bnai Brith, said that a study
monies for newly-elected of-
of the Wisconsin campaigns Temple Emanu-El Begins
fiicers of Ycung Israel Center
showed that "the real winners Summer Services by Laymen of Oak-Woods, its Sisterhood
were bigots who found that they
and Men's Club, the following
Milton ,LucoW, newly-elected officers of the Men's Club were
still can exploit religious ten-
president
of
Temple
Emanu-El,
sions and up-stage the political
will lead the first summer sab- inducted:
pros."
Louis Fein, president; Shel-
The Fair Campaign Practices bath eve service at 8:15 p.m., don Fridson, vice - president;
Committee director found that today. Mrs. Lucow will light Simon M. Kleinplatz, secretary;
some of the incidents of the the sabbath candles.
Leaders of the congregation, and Samuel Ginsburg, treasurer.
Wisconsin primary were remin-
their
spouses and the adult Board members are Wein-
iscent of the 1928 campaign
choir,
together with Rabbi Mil- garden, Seymour Ribiat, Sam
and that, in some cases, "even
ton
Rosenbaum,
will conduct Glanz, Ben Grossinger and
the same mailing pieces were
Jonah Alter.
the
summer
services.
used."

Religious Bigotry
Seen in Campaign

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