THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, October 12, 1962 — 24 Fun in Learning Israel Ministry of Posts Issues Postage Stamp Honoring El Al a Language 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 . 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. ERWI N KANTER AND HIS ORCHESTRA Radical labor poets like Morris Rosenfeld pleaded in their LI 8-5313 moving poems for better working conditions. Rosenfeld, the bard of the sweatshops, the centenary of You Can Now Get whose birth was just celebrated, was born in Russian Poland in The Best 1862 and received the traditional Jewish education. He went to Amsterdam, from there to Lon, 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, mobile. 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,' And His Orchestra - For Only published in English in 1898, Complete Entertainment met with enthusiastic reception and Photography Service Overnight, Rosenfeld became, - DI 1-2480 the great artist who expressed - the fervent longing of the Jew ish masses compelled to work Morris Rosenfeld All work guaranteed. EXPERT COOK like slaves for ruthless em- Ask to see exciting IN JEWISH STYLE FOOD ployers in their dimly lit sweatshops. In his book, "The Spirit PREPARING HOME PARTIES, samples. No obligation. of the Ghetto" (1902) Hutchins Hapgoods wrote: "Rosenfeld is BAR MITZVAHS IN YOUR a thorough representative, one might say victim, of the modern HOME Histadrut Campaign spirit." In weary accents, he sings to the main spirit of the SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Jewish slums. It is a fresh, naive note, the pathetic cry of the Sponsors Unit at "Distinctive Photography bright spirit crushed in the poisonous air of the ghetto. PHONE 862-7937 for Special Occasions" Negev Research Center In his poem, "The Sweatshop," Rosenfeld sings of the bad working conditions and laments: A $250,000 contribution to- ward establishment of a residen- Oh, here in the shop the machines roar so wildly, WHAT EVERY YOUNG LADY SHOULD KNOW That oft, unaware that I am, or have been tial compound and other facili- about the Ritualarium ties at the proposed Education I sink and am lost in the terrible tumult; And void is my soul . . . I am but a machine, and Research Institute at Sde For Information About the New Modern Mikvah Boker, Negev retreat of Prime I work, and I work, and I work, never ceasing; Create and create things from morning till e'en, Call Mrs. Hilda Cohen — WE 3-8799 Minister David Ben-Gurion, will be made by the National Com- For what? — and for whom? — Oh, I know not, Oh I ask not; Whoever has heard of a conscious machine? mittee for Labor Israel, accord- (Translated by Rose Pastor and Helena Frank) ing to Dr. Sol Stein, national In a truly visionary mood, Rosenfeld prophesied the return ATTENTION ORGANIZATIONS! executive director of the Israel to Zion and he sings: Histadrut Campaign. Looking for Better Housing for Next Year? I see happier years, and brighter morrows A start toward this goal has Dawning, oh my Jew, for thee! INVESTIGATE OUR FACILITIES been made by the gift of $100,- Hark! Your olives shall be shaken, Large and small auditorium, stage, meeting rooms and kitchen. 000 by a member of the board Suitable for lectures, banquets, Bar Mitzvahs and Weddings. And your citrons and your limes of directors of the Histadrut Filled with fragrance; God shall waken Campaign, who wishes to remain SHOLEM ALEICHEM INSTITUTE Lead you as in olden times. anonymous. The balance of the lot, and still your Peace shall be DI 1-3556 or VE 8-7440 funds will be raised among Hero-hearts shall throb with gladness AMPLE PARKING AIR-CONDITIONED 19350 Greenfield American friends of Histadrut 'Neath Moriah' silent hill. on an individual basis, Stein (Translated by Joseph Leftwich) revealed. Rosenfeld's moving poetry will survive as an eternal stern YOU CAN NOW BUY witness of the hardships with which the emigrant Jews in sweat- CHINAWARE AND ISADOR KITSEE, an Ameri- shops had to cope at the turn of the 19th century. can-Jewish inventor, credited CUT CRYSTAL with having introduced more Rabbi Who Taught Priest than 2,000 inmovations into the ANGELO BRUNETTI, a non- Bar Hanina, a Palestinian Jew- industrial and commercial life Jewish hero of the Italian of the United States, counted Risorgimento, used his popular ish scholar who lived in Bethle- AT OUR LOW, LOW CHINA SHOP Maimonides among his ances- influence in 1848 to bring about hem in the Fourth Century C.E., CANADIAN • PRICES was a teacher of the Church 188 OUELLETTE WINDSOR tors. Born in Vienna, Kitsee the dissolution of the ghetto in ALL OPEN-STOCK Irish Belleek - CL. 3-6098 came to this country in 1866 Rome. 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