Marking the completion of 18
years of service to the Detroit
Jewish community by Yeshivath
Beth Yehudah as a 12-grade day
school since it began operation
on Dexter Blvd. in 1945, the
local religious educational cen-
ter with an enrollment of more
than 900 pupils will honor its
living past presidents at an $18
a plate dinner July 7 at Cong.
Shaarey Shomayim.
The annual event is sponsored
by the Synagogue Council for
the Beth Yehudah Schools, of
which Morris Dorn is chairman.
The five leaders who headed
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah during
its growth
from a small
afternoon Tal-
mud Torah to
one of the
largest Yeshi-
va th in the
U.S. to be
given recogni-
tion for their
services a r e
Rabbi Isaac
Stollman, pres-
ident of t h e
Detroit Coun-
c i 1 of Ortho-
dox Rabbis
a n d national
leader of the
Religious Zion- David Cohen
ists of America; Rabbi M. J. E.
Wohlgelernter (Ittamar), for-
morely with Congregations Beth
Tefilah Emanuel and Mogen

Abraham in this city and now
General Secretary of the Chief
Rabbinate of Israel, presently
on a visit here from Jerusalem;
David J. Cohen, attorney and
communal worker in various
synagogues, Jewish National
Fund, Mizrachi and presiding
officer of the Vaad Harabbonim
Merkaz lay body; Isadore and
Wolf Cohen, the two brothers
noted for their support of Jew-
ish orthodox causes, both of
whom are now touring Israel
and expected to return in - time
for the banquet.
Max Biber presently heads
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah.
The "Chai" couples' dinner
will also serve as the occasion
for formal announcement of de-
tailed plans approved by the
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah Execu-
tive for the construction of a
new edifice to accomodate the
growing student population in
suburban Detroit. Beth Yehu-
dah's main center is to be relo
cated during 1963-64 on a large'
campus at Greenfield and Ten-
and-a-Half Mile Rd. in South-
field. Daniel A. Laven and David
Goldberg are co-chairmen of the
building campaign which is
about to be launched.
Reservations for the July 7
dinner are received by Jack
Carmen, chairman, at Factory
Steel, TW 2-4600; David N.
Cohen and Nathan A. Bonin-
stein, vice-chairmen of the ban-
quet committee. The Yeshivah
office may also be contacted:

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An historic event will be recorded in De-
troit's Jewish educational circles next Thurs-
day, at the graduation exercises of the United
Hebrew Schools. The occasion will mark the
40th anniversary of the first graduation cere-
mony of the UHS. This photo shows the first
UHS graduating class, whose members re-
ceived their diplomas on June 27, 1923. Many
prominent members of the community and
one distinguished Conservative rabbi were in
that class. In the photo, from the left, are:
Top row: Mordecai Hecker, Sadie Tilchin
(presently Mrs. Norman Sandweiss), Morris

Schlussel, Eva Shevitz, (now Mrs. Joseph Lee),
David Lubetsky; middle row, Theodore Baruch,
Max Weine, now serving as rabbi in Camden,
N. J.; the late A. D. Markson, who was the
teacher of the class; Herd Shur, Judith Liepah
(now Mrs. Norval Slobin, a member of the
UHS faculty); bottom row, Yechiel Yidkofsky,
Seymour Tilchin, Herman Chesluk (now a prac-
ticing physician here), William Durchin and
Meyer Harrison (now Ben-Zvi, a leader in
Kfar Yochanan, Israel, and presently visit-
ing here with his family).

Jewish Theological
Seminaray Ordains 14
Rabbis, Graduates 65

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America held its 69th Com-
mencement here Monday and
65 graduates received degrees
of whom 14 were ordained as
rabbis.
Two members of the Semi-
nary faculty, Rabbi Raphael
Posner and Rabbi Dov Zlotnick,
received the degree of doctor
of Hebrew Literature at the ex-
ercises. The honorary degree of
Doctor of Hebrew Letters was
awarded in absentia to Israeli
author Chaim Hazaz of Jerusa-
lem and Judah A. Joffe of New
York, a linguist and lexicogra-
pher, received a Doctor of Let-
ters degree.
Honorary Doctorates of Divi-
nity were awarded to Rabbi
Abraham Burstein, secretary of
teh Jewsh Academy of Arts and
Sciences of New York, Rabbi
Morris Goodblatt, Philadelphia;
Rabbi S. Joshua Kohb, Trenton,
N. J.; Rabbi Israel Lebendiger,
Liberty, N. Y.; and Rabbi Lud-
wig, Uniontown, Pa.

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New 'Mourner's Vest'
Called Solution to
Disregard for Kriah

Dr. Victor Solomon, chairman
of the funerary commission of
the Philadelphia Rabbinical As-
sociation, stated this week that
a new "mourner's vest" manu-
factured by Marlu Co. of Phila-
delphia solves the problem of
the disregard for the Kriah
law. Dr. Solomon stated:
"One of the most vexing
problems in regard to funerary
practices has been the almost
universal disregard for the very
explicit Jewish law about
Kriah—the rending of the gar-
ment by mourners.
"There seems to have arisen
from some unknown source the
absolutely invalid ripping or
cutting of a ribbon. This prac-
tice is not only unacceptable
Halachically, but in many cases
involves the added desecration
of making an unnecessary bless-
ing."
The new vest, he added, meets
specifications of Jewish law and
requirements of comfort and
good taste.

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17 -- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, June 14, 1963

Yeshivath Beth Yehudah to Honor Historic Event for United Hebrew Schools:
5 Past Presidents at `Chai' Dinner 40th Anniversary of First Graduating Class