THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, June 14, 196 3 Yosef Almogi, Sam Rothberg at Fete Honoring Schumer June 19 Yosef Almogi Ohela Halevy Yosef Almogi, Israel Minister of Development and Housing, will head the program at the "Labor Zionist Man of the Decade" Harry L. Schumer testimonial next Wednesday, 8:30 p.m., at the Labor Zionist Institute. Almogi is coming to Detroit especially to honor Harry Schumer. Ohela Halevy, popular Is- raeli Folk singer and a heroine of Israels War of Liberation, will be the guest star. Sam Rothberg, national chair- man of the Israel Bond cam- paign, also will be on the pro- gram. Mrs. Morris L. Schaver is honorary chairman and Morris Lieberman, testimonial chair- man. The affair, honoring Schumer for his many years of dedicated service to the Detroit Jewish community and to the State of Israel, is sponsored by the Labor Zionist Organization- Farband-Pioneer Women-Lands- manshaften 1963 Israel Bond Campaign. For reservations call DI 1-5707 or DI 1-0669. Mrs. Schaver will introduce Minister Almogi. Rabbi Jacob E. Segal will give the tribute to Schumer. Tom Borman, general chair- man of the Detroit Israel Bond Organization, will bring greet- ings from the Bond Committee; Sidney S he v i t z will greet Schumer on behalf of the Jewish Community Council, The names of all those who buy Israel Bonds in Schumer's honor will ,be in- cluded in a souvenir folio to be presented to him at the affair. Schumer has been chairman for years of the Labor Zionist Movement-Landsmanshaften Is- rael Bond campaign. He is president of the Labor Zionist Institute, honorary president of the Detroit Israel Histadrut Campaign, ,chairman of the De- troit Farband. City Committee and president of Arlazaroff Branch 137, Farband. He is the president and founder of the General Linen Supply Company. Minister Almogi, a key man in Histadrut, was for many years chairman of the Haifa Workers' Council. He was born in Poland in 1910, son of a prosperous textile merchant. At 15 he left home to join a Polish road gang. At 17 he joined an Hechalutz training camp. He came to Palestine in 1930 and worked as a laborer on planta- tions, gaining a reputation as the hardest worker in the area. In his second year in Palestine he was elected to the manage- ment of his kibbutz and com- mander of the Haganah unit in . Kfar Saba. During World War II, he joined the Jewish Brigade of the British Army as an officer and fought against Germany in Greece. In 1941, he was cap- tured by the Germans. For three years he was the com- mander of the Palestinian prisoners of war in Germany. During the final stages of the war, in 1945, as the Allies ad- vanced on Germany, Almogi planned and executed an escape of 4,000 British and Palestinian prisoners and led them on a Sam Rothberg 560-mile march to safety. - Ohela Halevy, native of Tel- Aviv, is a daughter of Moshe Halevy, founder of the first Israeli theater — the celebrated "Ohel." Rothberg, nationally promin- . ent Jewish communal. leader, also will be the guest of honor at a luncheon for the I.I.C. at noon on June 19, in the Shera- ton Room of the Sheraton- Cadillac Hotel. Wernick Family Has Penchant for Boston University Degrees Geneticists may never isolate a gene for attendance at Boston University but the family of Mrs. Erma Barron Wernick of Chestnut Hill, Mass., would seem to exhibit just such an hereditary trait. When Mrs. Wernick, mother of three, receives her master of Science degree from the Uni- Independence Hall Event Will Precede Opening of CCAR Convention Monday PHILADELPHIA — The 74th Annual Convention of the Cen- tral Conference of American Rabbis, which opens formally here on Monday evening, will be preceded by a ceremony at Independence Hall earlier in the day to be marked by the placing of a wreath at the foot of the Liberty Bell, symbol of American freedom. Rabbi Albert . G. Minda of Temple Israel, Minneapolis, president of the Central Con- ference, will deliver a short address. Other participants in the ceremony will be Frederic R. Mann of Philadelphia, who will extend the city's official greetings to the CCAR Conven- tion, and Dr. David H. Wice, rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Shalom of Philad elphia. ■ 11,40 ■ , Atm 411110 Allo 411. 41110 401. Ado Alo ARO Allo Ai Ado AP 411 ■ mosAllo NMI moseamooramoseaseamootanooar o alsomelearo anseloodoream• aramowareaneamoo versity's School of Education during the Wednesday, June 5 annual Commencement exer- cises, she will join a half-dozen family members and close rela- tives with University sheep- skins. The wife of Boston hanker, Philip Wernick, the 44-year- old housewife-student is the mother of three sons: Lee B., 20; Stanley B., 16; and Howard B., 11. Forerunner of the Boston University tradition is her mother, Judge Jennie Loitman Barron, the first and only woman justice in the Massachu- setts Superior Court. Mrs. Barron holds four Uni- versity degrees, including an Ito ang honorary LL.B. degree from the School of Law. Other School of Law grad- uates in the Wernick family are Mrs. Wernick's sister, Mrs. Joy Barron Machlin, and two cousins, Philip Gopen and Richard Kanter. Another cousin, Mrs. Susan Jay Smith, grad- uates this year from the Col- lege of Liberal Arts, which is also the alma mater of a fourth cousin, Mrs. Ruth Smith Baker. Mrs. Wernick received a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Education in 1941, the same year she married Mr. Wernick, executive vice president of the Home Owners Federal Savings and Loan Association. IKUF PRESENTS RABBI AVROM BIK Famous Lecturer & Literary Critic Topic: "H. Leivick His Work, His Life" SATURDAY, JUNE 22nd at 8:30 P.M. At The JEWISH MUSIC CENTER 14868 SCHAEFER Near Fenkell eareeseseseeereemseeme 111 SEE THE "MONEY MUSEUM" EXHIBIT AT OUR SEVEN MILE-WYOMING OFFICE Silver Tetradrachm of Athens, 5th Century B.C. Exhibit will be here T he National Bank of Detroit Special Money Museum it. Admission free. Thursday, June 20, through Tuesday, July 2. See Money talks—when it's in the form of rare old coins. They tell a good part of the story of mankind. Come in and see coins that tell tales of traders and pirates, of merchants and seafarers. See coins of the Holy Land exchanged for goods in markets during the time of Christ. See, too, ancient coins of the mysterious East, coins that tell of lost cities and forgotten temples. Let your imagination tour the modern world through the collection of foreign coins -- to and paper money. Come in any time during banking hours-10:00 a.m. p.m. Friday. 3:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday or until 6:00 SEVEN MILE-WYOMING OFFICE 10201 W. SEVEN MILE NATIONAL BANK OF DETROIT Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation