Monbaz, Rabbi. Wohlgelernter (Ittamar)
Speak Here Sunday at Israel Celebration
Col. Jacob Moribaz, Counsellor
to-:the Permanent . Mission of Is-
rael to the United Nations, Rab-
bi- M. J. Wohlgelernter (Itta-
mar), general secretary of Is-
rael's Chief Rabbinate, and the
Habonim Dance Company, will be
featured in Detroit's celebration
of the 15th anniversary of Israel's
independence Sunday, 8 p.m., in
the Mumford. Auditorium, 17525
Wyoming.
Col. Monbaz organized the first
artillery unit of the Israeli Army
in 1948 during Israel's War of
Independence. He was assigned
to the post of Quartermaster of
nated. There will be taps,
the flags . to be presented will
be draped in black. and . the
El Molei Rachamim will he
chanted.
Special decorative motifs have
been prepared with the cooper-
ation of Maynard Feldman, Sam
Field and Oscar Rappaport.
The Detroit city-wide celebra-
tion follows a tradition begun in
this city at the very re-establish-
ment of the new State in 1948.
The Jewish community has
marked this new and joyous hol-
iday in the Jewish calendar with-
out interruption for the last fif-
teen years. In Israel this event is
celebrated with parades, special
Dutch Will Expedite
Indemnification to Jews
prayers in the synagogues, and
festivities.• In Jewish communi-
ties throughout the world, sim-
ilar celebrations will be held
to mark the re-establishment of
Israel as a sovereign state after
almost 2,000 years of non-state-
hood.
The Detroit program is ar-
ranged by a Joint Committee
composed of representatives of
the Zionist Council, Rabbi Leon
Fram, chairman, and of the Jew•
ish Community Council, Stanley
J. Winkelman, president, co-
chairman.
Tickets will be available at the
Mumford Auditorium on Sunday
evening.
Beth El to Hold 10th Anniversary
Testimonial Dinner. for Dr. Hertz
Temple Beth El will honor its
senior rabbi, - Dr. Richard C.
Hertz, at a tenth anniversary
testimonial dinner, in the Frank-
lin Social Hall of the Temple,
Sunday, May 5.
The guest speaker will be Dr.
Albert G. _IVIinda, president of
the Central Conference of Amer-
ican Rabbis. Other participants
will be Mayor Jerome P. Cav-
anagh; Father Celestin J. Stein-
er, Chancellor of the University
of Detroit; Rev. G. Merrill Len-
COL. JACOB MONBAZ
ox, executive director of the De-
the Southern Command of Is- troit Council of Churches; Rabbi
rael's Army during the Sinai Morris Adler, Rabbi Leon Fram,
Campaign and served. as General Rabbi Louis L. Mann of Chicago
Staff Officer of Armistice Af- Sinai Congregation, Rabbi Mil-
fairs for his country. He partici- ton Rosenbaum, Rabbi Harold D.
pated actively in the Haganah Hahn, Stanley J. Winkelman,
Jewish self-defense organization. president of the Jewish Commun-
During World War II he saw ity Council, and Sydney Sara-
service with the British Eighth sohn, president of Temple Beth
DR. RICHARD C. HERTZ
Army in the Middle East. His El.
Sidney J. Barbel, vice-presi-
Palestine artillery unit was later
Since
coming to Temple Beth
incorporated into the famous dent of Temple Beth El and El in 1953, Dr. Hertz has taken
Jewish Brigade, which saw battle chairman of the anniversary an active part in Detroit's civic.
in the heavy fighting on the committee, will be the toast- philanthropic, and religious af-
Italian front. At the end of the master. Morris Hochberg, as- fairs. He is past-president of
War he was sent to Germany sistant concertmaster of the the Wrangler's Club (Detroit's
where he took an active part in Detroit Symphony Orchestra, leading clergy of all denomina-
arranging for the then illegal im- assisted at the piano by Sylvia tions) and is vice-chairman of
migration to Palestine of the Hochberg, will present a spe- the American Jewish Committee
newly liberated concentration cial musical program.
Dr. Hertz was ordained with (Detroit Chapter). He is a mem-
camp inmates.
honors
at Hebrew Union College ber of the boards of the United
Rabbi Wohlgelernter (Itta-
Community Services, United
in
1942.
He did, his . undergrad- Foundation, Detroit Institute of
mar), who, as general secretary
at the Chief Rabinate in Israel, uate work at the University of Technology, Boys' Clubs, Michi-
occupies a leading position Cincinnati and his post-graduate gan Society for Mental Health,
among Israel's religious commun- work at the. University of Cincin- Detroit Historical Society, Jew-
ity, will make his first public ap- nati and his post-graduate work ish Welfare Federation, Jewish
pearance in Detroit since he set- at the University of Chicago and Community Council, Jewish Fam-
Northwestern University, where ily and Children's Bureau, Mich-
tled in Israel.
The Habonim Dance Company he earned his Ph.D. degree in igan Advisory Board for Anti-
which has been featured on tele- the field of religious education.
Defamation League of B'nai
A member of several learned
vision and at many organizational
Brith.
societies,
Rabbi
Hertz
has
been
a
functions in Detroit and subur-
In 1954, he was the American
frequent
contributor
to
Jewish
ban areas, will present a series of
Legion's Department Chaplain
new dances specially choreo- and secular journals. His book, for the State of Michigan, and
graphed for this event by Shaul "Education of the Jewish Child," in 1956 was Department Chap-
Rosenfeld, the Israeli delegate was published in 1953. A volume lain for the Jewish War Veter-
to Habonim who was formerly of his sermons, "This I Believe," ans. In 1957, he was chairman
director and choreographer for appeared in 1952, "Our Religion of the Committee for the Junior
the prize-winning Central Mapai Above All" was published in Chamber of Commerce to choose
Dance Company which was fea- 1953, "Inner Peace for You," Detroit's "Man of the Year." This
tured at Israel's International in 1954, "Positive Judaism" in year he was appointed by Gov-
Dahlia Dance Festival, and which 1955, and "Wings of the Morn- ernor Romney as a member of
represented Israel at a special ing" in 1956. After a summer of the Committee on Ethical and
study in Israel in 1956, he wrote
performance in Moscow.
Moral Aspects of State Affairs.
The celebration will also fea- a series of articles for the De-
On the national level, Dr. Hertz
ture a mass presentation of troit Times, which subsequently
American and Israeli flags with were reprinted in a pamphlet, is a member of the boards of
the participation of the Ameri- "Impressions of Israel." His American Jewish Committee,
Joint Distribution Committee,
can Legion Rosenwald Post, book, "Prescription for Heart-
with Joseph Shapiro in com- ache," came out in 1958 and was Religious Education Association,
serialized in the Free Press and Union of American Hebrew Con-
mand of the color guard.
gregations, Central Conference of
Sunday night's event will other newspapers.
In 1959, Dr. Hertz under- American Rabbis, Chautauqua
be utilized to pay tribute to
took a study mission on the Society, Hebrew Union College-
the memory of Israel's sec-
situation of Jews and Judaism Jewish Institute of Religion. He
ond President, Itzhak Ben-
behind
the Iron Curtain, and is chairman of the Committee on
Zvi. There will be a eulogy
was
received
at the White Jews in the Soviet Orbit and is
to the deceased President and
House upon his return. "Faith a member of the committee on
in accordance with the Israel
church and state of the Central
in Jewish Survival" (1961)
government's decision, the
and "Jewish Life Today" Conference of American Rabbi's.
the musical portion that has
(1962) are current booklets of He has been active in the affairs
been planned for the pro-
sermons. In 1962, his book of the World Union for Progres-
gram here has been elimi-
"The American Jew in Search sive Judaism, and has been a
of Himself," came out, and delegate to the last two Interna-
•4)ty/ 4!0.118a isapauw, unim
this month his "What Counts tional Conferences in London
(1959 and 1961).
Most in Life" was published.
From 1942 to 1957, Dr. Hertz
In" what was one of the first
ministered to the North Shore
Congregation Israel, Glencoe, Ill. boundary disputes between the
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During World War II, he served states, Michigan was ceded most
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as a Chaplain in the Army and of the Upper Peninsula in ex-
held the rank of Captain. From change for a few miles of Ohio
1957 to 1953, he was associate territory of which Toledo is
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rabbi of Sinai Temple, Chicago. now the center.
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Dutch cabinet decided to pro-
vide funds for indemnification
of Jewish victims of Nazism
without waiting for payments
of the installments which West
Germany has agreed to con-
tribute for that purpose.
Under the cabinet decision,
payments, will begin immedi-
ately after the Dutch senate
approves. That approval is
expected in about two weeks.
West Germany has agreed to
pr o vide 125,000,000 marks
($31,200,000).
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