THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, October 12, 1962 — 24
Fun in Learning Israel Ministry of Posts Issues
Postage Stamp Honoring El Al
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By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1962,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
My nine-year-old niece was
giving me lessons in conversa-
tional Hebrew and if I could
have continued the lessons a bit,
I probably could qualify as a
melamed and then maybe I
would have been richer than
Rothschild, for as the melamed
in the story said, if he were as
rich as Rothschild, he would have
been richer for he would give
some Hebrew lessons also.
Danny, aged six, coming back
after a year, was astonished how
many people in the United
States speak English. He was
quick to come back to English
of course, but he sandwiched his
Hebrew with it. "Gam" a horse
is in the picture," he said. (Gam
in Hebrew means also.)
In Jerusalem many years ago,
I asked a young sabra, who knew
a modicum of English, how to
say "efficiency" in Hebrew. He
replied, "dag bayam. (Fish in
Sea).
Every language has its special
joys. There is much more fun
in ordering pate de foie gras
than chopped liver. They mean
the same thing but one is French
and the other English. The
Frenchman of course may think
chopped liver is more fun.
I have sometimes had the
queer thought that if the colored
people in the south really want
to win their rights, they should
quit speaking English and re-
turn'to the African languages of
the forefathers. It has seemed to
me that the blacks among the
Puerto Ricans who speak Span-
ish, are treated better than the
Negroes in America, who speak
English. I think the American
Negro has lost something by sur-
rendering his African tongue. I
read the other day that some
of the Negroes from Africa find
they are treated better here if
they appear in their African
clothes instead of western attire.
A language is like a suit of
clothes. Any kind of clothes will
do to cover you, yet people re-
spect differences in attire.
It is told of Shalom of Lubin
that once some Hasidim heard
him reciting his prayers at the
appearance of the new moon.
His prayers were different from
those of others. They were sur-
prised, but the rabbi said to
them, "What kind of a God
would it be, if He could only
be worshiped in one way?
The Israel Ministry of Posts has announced the forthcoming
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issue of a commemorative postage
stamp (insert) in honor of El Al
Israel National Airlines. On the.
occasion of the issue of this stamp,
an exhibition will be held by El Al
in Tel Aviv from Nov. 7-14. The
stamp, designed by M. and G. Shamir
of Tel Aviv, shows an El Al Boeing
70'7 jet plane in flight.
South Oakland County Hadassah
Launches Drive for New Members
This year marks the 10th an-
niversary of the founding of
the South Oakland County
Chapter of Hadassah. October
of this year is . the month in
which the chapter plans a cam-
paign for new members.
The five groups of South
Oakland County Hadassah are
Oak Park East, Oak Park West,
Southfield, Huntington Woods
and Birmingham-Franklin.
The Chapter has grown from
313 to over 2,000 members and
has raised funds for a four-bed
nursing suite in the Hulassah
Hebrew University Medit al
Center, two surgical-obstetrical
beds, an operating theater and
an underground emergency op-
erating room. Last year, . the
chapter pledged and fulfilled
the rescue of 18 children at the
cost of $600 per child.
The membership drive will
be conducted within the five
groups and will consist of teas,
luncheons and "Operation Shoe-
leather," in which members will
ring doorbells to solicit new
members. Mrs. Alan Soskin is
the membership co - ordinator
and the membership chairmen
of the five groups are Oak Park
East, Mrs. Arnold Mundell; Oak
Park West, Mrs. David Gold-
stein; Huntington Woods, Mrs.
Harold Garber; Southfield, Mrs.
Harry Hoffenbloom; and Bir-
mingham-Franklin, Mrs. Mitch-
ell Fishman.
Rosenfeld, Ghetto Singer
By Dr. BLANCHE KATZEN
Jewish GIs Help
Rededication of
Catholic Chapel
Oppenheim-Olinick
Troth Announced
HINESVILLE, Ga.—Two Jew-
ish GIs with the New York
497th Signal Company, a Re-
serve outfit called into active
service during the Berlin crisis
last year, left a lasting memo-
rial to interfaith cooperation in
a Catholic military chapel at
Fort Stewart, it was reported by
Chaplain (Col.) 0. H. Tietjen,
Chief Chaplain of the Third
U.S. Army at Fort McPherson,
Atlanta, in a bulletin received
by Rabbi Aaron H. Blumenthal,
chairman, National Jewish Wel-
fare Board Commission on Jew-
ish Chaplaincy.
The outstanding feature of
the chapel is an impressionistic
mural painted over the altar by
Sp.4c1 Stanley Isaacs of Brook-
lyn. The mural, which gives the
effect of stained glass, uses
color to depict the seasons of
the Catholic calendar. Another
Jewish soldier, Sp.4c1 Herbert
Grief, also of Brooklyn, design-
ed and installed the concealed
lighting system which empha-
sizes the mural and the cross
which hangs at its center.
The altar itself, a gift of the
New York 497th Signal Com-
pany, is based on the altar used
in the Temple of Solomon in
Jerusalem. Three Catholic sol-
diers built and finished the
altar. The chapel's renovation
was completed by three Protes-
tant and three Catholic GIs who
painted the chapel walls.
All the work on the memorial
t3 the Company was done dur-
ing the soldiers' off-duty time
and was completed shortly be-
fore they completed their 10-
month tour of duty at Fort Stew-
art and returned to their home
state and reserve status. Chap-
lain (Capt.) Jerome S. Reisin-
ger, the Catholic chaplain at
Fort Stewart, guided the refur-
bishing of the chapel.
MISS JUDITH OPPENHEIM
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph M.
Oppenheim, 24091 Dante, Oak
Park, announce the engage-
ment of their daughter, Judith
Rose, to Michael Olinick, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Olinick,
23511 Kenosha, Oak Park.
The couple are seniors- at the
University of Michigan, where
the future bridegroom is editor
and his fiance editorial direc-
tor of the Michigan Daily. An
Aug. 11 wedding is planned.
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Radical labor poets like Morris Rosenfeld pleaded in their
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don, but after a stay of three .
years sailed to America at the
age of 20. There he slaved as
a tailor in a sweatshop on New
York's Lower East Side.
Professor Weiner of Harvard
of
University, deeply moved by
Henry Ford forgot to put a
the young poet's pleas for
reverse gear in his first auto-
better working conditions,
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translated Rosenfeld's poems in
English, introducing the authorL
to the world at large as a great:i:: ,
literary talent. Rosenfeld's firs
book; "Songs of the Ghetto,'
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