Detroit Edison Company President
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Commends Hebrew Schools ; I for staff members. A trend to-
Opposes Non-Daily Trends ward a system of non-daily at-

Joan Alexander
Weds Carl Shulak

tendance would cause dedicated
Editor, The Jewish News:
To Jewish educators through professional teaching personnel
out this country the "Detroi • to by-pass Detroit, and would re-
Plan" has become a symboli ' ! suit in the downgrading of the
goal. It consists simply of a Hebrew teaching profession in
"community system" of afternoon our city.
Rabbi Joseph Hirsch
Hebrew schools on an elementary
President, Association of
and high school level, as exem
Heb. Teachers and
plified by the United Hebrew
Principals
Schools of Detroit. Detroit shares
this honor of a united system
with only one or two other cities
in the United States. In most
cities afternoon Hebrew schools
are owned and administered by
individual congregations. The
merits of the "community sys-
BY HERBERT G. LUFT
tem" as in Detroit, with its lower
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overhead in expense to the Jew-
Jewish gleolaarpitlict' Agency Inc.)
ish public, its transfer privil-
MRS. CARL SHULAK
Haya Harareet, the Israel
leges for students from one part beauty who won the coveted
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Alexander
Walker L. CisIer( right), president of the Detroit Edison of the city to another, its uni- role of • Esther in "Ben-Hur,'
Company was installed as president of the USO at the annual
fied curriculum, its potentialities completed her first Hollywood of Trenton, N.J., announce the
meeting held Feb. 14. The USO, a Torch Drive agency, has of attracting professional teach- assignment in "The Interns,"
a marriage of their daughter, Joan
served 2,504,105 servicemen in the last 11 years. Above, from
ers and school administrators, its behind-the-scene story of hos Harriett, to Carl A. Shulak, son
left, are Herman Bauer, USO executive director; N. Brewster
possibilities of raising standards pital life from the best-seller of Mr. and Mrs. William Shulak
Broder, annual meeting chairman and Jewish Welfare Board
of Fairfield Ave.
of Jewish education locally and by Richard Frede.
representative on the USO executive committee; Capt. Fred-
The bride is employed by
consequently nationally, and its
Miss Harareet portrays a
erick W. White, Jr., commander of Brodhead Naval Armory; I manifold side-merits, are easily character unlike anything she the State of New Jersey Treasury
Samuel H. Rubiner, USO vice president, and Cisler.
recognized by the educated has done before on the stage Department. The bridegroom
reader.
and screen — Mado, a woman attended the University • of De-
Whereas in many cities He- doctor from behind the Iron troit and is now serving with
brew schools are afflicted with Curtain who takes her intern- the United States Navy at Mc-
inter-congregational rivalry, in ship in a hospital somewhere Guire Air Force Base.
y Detroit the United Hebrew in the United States, deter-
Schools have enjoyed a blessed mined to become a surgeon.
Bnai David Couples
"The Life and Death of Serge most below zero:. . . There wa
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of cordial cooperation and
She faces and wins a fight
Rubinstein." by Gene Smith, a cruel saying among the Ge r- sirit
I - t al support
Sponsor
Games Night
all
type
with
the
head
of
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whose
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ifublished by Doubleday, is a ! man Jews that if you put a!
Bnai David Synagogue will
story about a millionaire who tuxedo on a Polack he wa s congregations, some of whose prejudice against women in the
had an ugly existence, who was !still a Polack, and the though t l i rabbis and lay-leaders constitute medical profession is para- hold its second annual Night of
board of directors and its mount.
Games on March 10 at the Syna-
repulsive, who was the most also applied to the Russians v is
arious committees.
"The Interns" is not the first gogue, 24350 Southfield.
notorious draft-dodger of World Rubinstein to the old America n
The teachers and principals of picture completed by Haya
The Mr. and Mrs. Club, spon-
War If, who had been called a •Jewish community was of a
the United Hebrew Schools, com-
liar, a cheat. a skirt-chaser, a piece with the poor and fly-by prising a staff of seventy indi- since her appearance in the sors of the event, will offer
multi - million dollar spectacle prizes and refreshments. Tickets
braggart and a parasite. night peddlers of violently anti
vithials, have been organized for "Ben-Hur." She appeared in will be available at the door.
He was born a Jew and had Semitic Poland coming to Ger the last sixteen years as the
"Siren
of Atlantis" —Italian
a Jewish funeral, but he was man business offices before
"Association of Hebrew Teachers re-make of the Maria Montez
buried in a non-sectarian ceme- Hitler• with the cattle-dealers and Principals of Detroit," and movie.
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The
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tery %-vhich, the author of this and shysters and talking with
are affiliated with the National
revealing story states "seemed the hands hinter Berlin."
Council of Hebrew Teachers and Pepper PTA to Vote
the appropriate place for a man
The frequent references to Principals. They are at present
The Pepper School PTA will
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upon whose body. hanging from Rubinstein the Jew will aggra- the only organized group of pro-
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a silver chain' around his neck. i ‘'ate many readers• especially in
f fessional Hebrew educators in p.m. Tuesday at the school.
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were a Jewish mezuzah and a view of the repulsiveness of the this city.
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A special program, "This Is
Christian cross side by side." millionaire who lived on the
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His death remains a mystery. ; glory of his Russian back- with great admiration such ad- Your Wife," and other features •
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It was believed to have been a I ground, of his father's equally vances as the public acceptance will be presented. Mrs. George •
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murder. but the case remains' unsavory background, of his of the five year minimum re- Ramshaw and Mrs. Morton Mel- smosoosemottooseeso
len are in charge of the pro-
unsolved since 1955. !parents' friendship with the quirement, the conversion of a gram.
When he landed in jail for Mad Monk Rasputin who help- local Sunday school system into
draft-dodging, a friend corn- ed get the elder •Rubinstein out an afternoon Hebrew school, and
mented that "Serge is a Rus-lof a Russian jail.
the gradual change in one of the Give Scholarships to 2
sian .Jew and not a Grand i When it served Rubinstein's suburban unaffiliated schools from Ford High Graduates
Duke." It leaves a bad taste• purpose. he shouted that he a three-to a four-days-a-week
The Henry Ford High School
iut in the course of his revela- was discriminated against be- attendance. Such changes consti- Parent-Teacher Club has an-
PHOTOGRAPHERS
ions the author states:
tuting an intensification of Jew- nounced the selection of Bonnie
"There was one element in cause he was a Jew.
"The Best Need
ish education, deserve the high- Barnett and Ronnie Warfel as
The best proof of . the revul- est commendation.
New York that did not accept
Cost No More"
recipients of the Club scholar-
im with open arms. They were s lion against him is recorded
It is the Association's conten- ships for the January graduating
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hose Jews of the conservative in the description of the fu- tion that a non-daily attendance class.
inancial community downtown, neral. Rabbi Julius Mark of of students, compensated for by
a lmost all of uniformly German Temple Emanu-El, New York, a lengthened study period is in-
a ncestry. who found this Rubin- w
was asked to officiate. He was feasible, due to the following
and "Temple
Emanu-
tein from Russia impossible— hess members
did not want
him reasons:
d too gaudy, too showy, El's
1. A lengthened study period is be-
00 loo.
the fatigue limit of e studentsthat
too quick. With that group, to have anything to do with yond
have attended public school for the
d
which was more sophisticated the last rites for a man who better part of they'
thus making
and teaching
a a less effective.
ARE NO LONGER AFFILIATED WITH
in the ways of Europe than had in their Minds thrown such studying
2. The strain of lengthened
study
perhaps any other in America, a. stain upon the record of ippaerre i the ch ld would d brin, about
louty
pressure
s
e
to
shorten
it,
thus
Rubinstein's reputation was al- achievement of the Jews in drastically reducing
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the total number
America." But Serge's mother of hours of study per week.
The routine of daily attendance
was a regular worshiper in his is 3. broken,
and the average child be-
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and Rabbi Mark did comes confused in his day-by-day
If You Dare to Be Temple,
as to his particular days of
not want it said that he was planning
attendance.
4. On a non-daily basis a student's
whitewashing Rubinstein. He
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absence could amount to his being
FAME
stated in the "eulogy" that he without
review of his work for a
Visit-
had no intention of condoning period of five consecutive days.
5. One absence would amount to
the dead man's actions, that he missing
as much as one third of
was "dead and therefore in the his weekly studies.
6. Detroit parents, whose children
hands of God;" that he was- a now
attend daily afternoon schools,
frustrated man who wanted have successfully found ways to send
heir children to the barber, to buy
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love but did not know that it shoes,
to visit the dentist, or to take
had to be earned and could piano lessons, without interfering ap-
preciably with their daily attendance
not be - bought.
at Hebrew school.
7. The National Study on Jewish
Serge Rubinstein's friends
Education in the U.S., conducted a
wanted to protest. They sat ew years ago, pointed out that the
crushed. His relatives continued eaching hours in afternoon Hebrew
were insufficient to accom-
"Speedy Recovery," "Sympathy"
to suffer from the stigma of his p chools
lish the goals of a good Jewish
or "Bon Voyage"
name. His wife divorced him n e ducation, and that there is a recog-
ized trend toward intensification of
more important than what you say is
just before he got out of jail tudy
as exemplified by the rapid
how you say it. Expressions of sym-
and his two daughters now hear g rowth of the Jewish-Day-School
pathy, best wishes or congratulations
ovement.
are much more effective with. a gift
another name.
Nationally speaking, the field
basket that speaks for you . . . in an
No story of any man could 0 f Jewish education is suffering
eye-appealing, taste-tempting and sat~
isfying manner.
he uglier. It is to be hoped f rom a lack of dedicated and well
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that readers of the Smith story e ducated professionals. In this
•Creations icy
the occasion, order from our large
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variety of champagnes, wines and
liquors . . . by the bottle or case
recognize that at no time did S chools in cooperation with other
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to meet your neds.
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