THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, October 7, 1960
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National, Local Leaders Pay Soviet Claims 150 Synagogues Are Active in USSR
VIENNA, (JTA)—Tlie Sov
cow Jewish religious community port also said that the Moscow
Tribute to L. Kay's Memory; Government,
apparently disturbed has a bank account of 500,000 synagogue has a ritual slaughter-
mounting criticism of its treat- rubles. It asserted that the Mos- house, and that the Moscow Jew-
Plan Memorial at Teehnion by
ment of Russian Jewry, reported cow synagogues are visited by ish community publishes a Jew-
Leaders of many national as
well as local organizations this
week joined in paying tribute to
the memory of Leon B. Kay (Ko-
misaruk), one of Detroit's most
distinguished community figures.
Mr. Kay died at Sinai Hospital,
Sept. 29, at the age of 65. Funeral
services were held Friday after-
was a U. S. Army Captain. He
headed important missions to
aid Jewish war sufferers in be-
half of the Joint Distribution
Committee, and in that task he
assisted in rescuing hundreds of
persecuted and oppressed.
He was a member of Congre-
gation Adas Shalom and served
as a member of the board of
governors of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation.
in the official weekly publication
of the Soviet Embassy here that
Jewish religious services are be-
ing held in 150 synagogues
throughout the Soviet Union.
The publication, named "Soviet-
Union Today," said that a new
edition of the Siddur, the Jewish
prayer book, is being prepared
for publication and that the Mos-
500 Jews daily and by 1,500 on ish calendar annually.
the Sabbath.
The publication stressed that
Chief Rabbi Yehuda Levine is
head of a rabbinical seminary in
Moscow and that the Jewish religi-
ous community pays each student
1.200 to 1,500 rubles a month and
provide free lodging and food for
the seminary students. The re-
The cities in which the syna-
gogues were listed include Ber-
ditchev, Lvov, Cherson, Chmel-
nizki, Kiev, Leningrad, Minsk,
Nikolayev, Odessa, Poltawa, Riga,
Zhitomir, T a s h k en t, Tbilissi,
Tchernigow, Vilna and Biro-Bid-
jan.
Paying tribute to Kay's
memory, Jules Lev, president
of the Detroit Technion Soci-
ety, and Benjamin Wilk, a
national Technion leader and
a former president of the local
chapter, announced that a
planned project for a food
technology building, as the
gift of Detroit Jewry to the
Haifa Technion, will be con-
verted into a Kay memorial
undertaking.
LATE LEON B. KAY
noon, erev Yom Kippur, at Kauf-
man Chapel. Rabbi Jacob Segal
and Cantor Nicholas Fenakel
officiated.
Active in American Zionist
circles since his student days,
Mr. Kay rose to great heights
in his promotion of the cause
which resulted in the establish-
ment of the State of Israel. He
was a national vice president of
the Zionist Organization of
America, a national vice pres-
ident of the American Technion
Society and a member of the
international board of governors
of the Technion, the Israel en-
gineering college at Haifa.
It was thanks to his efforts
that a strong Technion movement
emerged in Detroit. He lectured
in a number of communities in
behalf of the Technion, and he
exerted a strong influence in ef-
forts hi behalf of private invest-
ments in Israel.
Many meetings with Israeli
leaders, including Israel Cabinet
members, held at his home, 19221
Strathcona Drive, resulted in the
formation of industrial enter-
prises for Israel.
His. other Zionist activities in-
cluded leadership in the Zionist
Council. He was a former presi-
dent of the Jewish National Fund
Council of Detroit. He. was active
in the Israel Bond movement. He
attended all of th on-
ventions in
ears
visited
ce
nt of the State.
the
ormer president of the
an Zionist Region.
Among the scores of commu-
nications honoring his memory
were messages of condolence
from J. R. Sensibar and J. R.
Elyachar, national Technion
leaders; Abraham Tulin, chair-
man of the national Technion
board; Dr. Emanuel Neumann,
world Zionist leader, who wired
that he was "bowed with grief"
over the loss of his dear friend,
and other leaders.
In behalf of the Zionist
Organization of America, Max
Br essle r, president, and Dr.
Sidney Marks, national secre-
tary, issued this statement:
"The Zionist Organization of
America records its profound
sorrow and shock at the un-
timely passing of its esteemed
vice president, Le on Kay: A
life-long dedicated Zionist, Mr.
Kay was a faithful son of the
Jewish people and the mirror
of its attributes in their purest
quality. He saw modern Israel
as the embodiment in this gen-
eration of the ideals of liberty,
justice and universal peace of
ancient Israel. He spent his
days in loving c o n c ern for
Israel's economic future. His
wise counsel will be sorely
missed in the days ahead. His
record of achievement will be
written in golden letters across
the pages of Jewish _ history.
May his family find comfort in
the perpetuation of his noble
deeds."
Born in Grafskoye, Russia, Jan.
28, 1895, Mr. Kay received his
degree in chemical engineering
from Ohio State University. He
came to Detroit 37 years ago and
was a founder of the Keystone
Oil Refining Co., which recently
as absorbed by the Aurora
asoline Co.
He is survived by his wife,
rothy; son, Barry Stephen; two
others, Sol and William Komi-
aruk, and a sister, Mrs. Joseph
(Sylvia) Naiman.
. Kay had
other
local interest
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with the expansion program,
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of 1,000,000 ordinary shares
through an underwriting group
headed by Bank Leumi.
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