European Welfare Women Give
Deaf Student Prepares for Rabbinical Career
CINCINNATI—He is 25, first rabbi in Reform Judaism was awarded Hillel's Gold Key,
Scholarship for Yeshivah Student warmly
gregarious, eager to be-
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come a rabbi.
He already has a pulpit where
he delivers sermons — in sign
language. He "speaks" in Eng-
lish.
But when his swift-moving
fingers "chant" the weekly read-
ing of the Torah — they do it
in Hebrew.
He is Alton S. Silver, deaf
since b i r t h, now a third-year
student at the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Re-
ligion here, working toward his
ordination.
His ambition to become the
The Jewish Women's European Welfare Organization has
contributed a scholarship for a needy student in the Beth
Hamedrash for advanced Talmudic learning at the Beth Yehudah
Schools. Pictured, from left, are Rabbi Abraham A. Freedman
of the Beth Yehnidah; Mrs. Morris -Miller, president of the Or-
ganization; Sadie Haut, branch president; Mollie Baseman,
branch vice-president; Ida Goldsmith, treasurer; Mrs. Louis
Honigman, vice-president; and Mrs. Jack Seder, past president.
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The Jewish Women's Euro-
pean Welfare Organization has
announced • its participation in
the Yeshivath . Beth Yehudah
budget program by providing a
one-year scholarship for a needy
student in the Beth Hamearash
for advanced Talmudic learn-
ing.
Out of the Yeshivah's stu-
dent enrollment of 1,000, as
many as 75 require scholarships
in order to receive their educa-
tion.
The scholarship contributions,
of $365 annually, or $1-per-day,
which is the average cost of
maintaining a student at Beth
Yehudah, are a popular form
of participation by individuals
and groups in the overall Yeshi-
vah Beth Yehudah budget
which came to $282,783.54 for
the current fiscal year.
Approxirnately 30 per cent Of
the total expenditure is covered
by tuition fees which are set
in accordance with the finan-
cial ability of parents who
come from all economic groups
in the Detroit Jewish commu-
nity.
Next year's anticipated de-
ficit is included in the Yeshi-
vah's $1,000,000 Building and
Maintenance Fund Drive now
in progress, which is to provide
the needs of the schools for
the period from September,
1963, to August, 1965.
Yeshivah classes will open
again for the new school term
on Sept. 4.
to serve deaf Jews exclusively
was nurtured by Bnai Brith Vo-
cational Service, a career coun-
seling program celebating its
25th anniversary this year.
During undergraduate days at
Gallaudet College in Washing-
ton, the famed school for the
deaf, Silver was active. in Jewish
affairs. He struggled against be-
ing "left on the outside, looking
in to Judaism through thick win-
dows of, silence." As president
of the Bnai Brith Hillel Founda-
tion on campus, he helped or-
ganize Sabbath services for
thirty deaf Jewish students. He
Richard Tucker to Be Holy Days
Cantor in Chicago Park Synagogue
Richard Tucker, widely held
to be the greatest lyric tenor
singer of the generation, will
again be the cantor of the Park
Synagogue, Chicago, for the
High Holy Days on Rosh Ha-
shanah and Yom Kippur, ac-
cording to Rabbi Alvin I.
Kleinerman, the congregation's
spiritual leader.
Last fall, 1400 worshippers
participated in the Park Syna-
gogue's.High Holy Day services.
Rabbi Kleinerman called at-
tention.to the fact that Tucker
was the regular cantor of the
Brooklyn Center Synagogue be-
fore beginning his sensational
career with the Metropolitan
Opera and with Lyric Opera of
Chicago, and that he never left
the cantorate, serving as Chazan
a citation for service, the first
ever presented to a deaf student.
He attended Gallaudet with
one aim—"•o prepare myself for
the seminary."
The BBVS office guided Silver
toward his goal.
This summer Silver is serving
as spiritual leader to the 175
congregants of Temple Beth Or
for the Deaf in New York. When
he ministers to the group, he
simultaneously speaks and trans-
lates his words with finger move-
ments. The speaking is for lip
readers.
Silver hopes, after ordination,
to develop a more meaningful
religious service for the deaf.
His experiences as a student
rabbi suggest there is - need for
visual aid techniques to help the
deaf understand.
Janet Silver, his bride of six
months, is also deaf. She is com-
pleting her last semester at Gal-
laudet and will join her husband
on the HUC-JIR campus in the
fall. She wants to help him pry
open a bit those "thick windows
of silence."
every year of the past 19 years
since his opera debut,. in con-
gregations throughout the
United States and in Israel.
Tucker is in Israel this sum-
mer, for a series of soloist ap-
pearances with the Israel Phil-
harmonic Orchestra, and also
leading prayers in principal
synagogues there.
Michigan has 1,791,900 pupils
The Park Synagogue, formed
in 1961 to accommodate wor- enrolled in public schools and
shippers in the near-north and the annual total expenditure to
mid-north areas of Chicago, educate them is $737,100,000.
holds its services at the
Sheraton-Chicago Hotel, 505 N.
SABAROFF
Michigan Ave. A permanent
EXPERT TV REPAIR
sanctuary is currently under
Personal Service
construction, being built into
CALL 342-1934
the 16th floor of the hotel,
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
adjoining the synagogue's pres-
Detroit License No. 201
ent offices.
Kansas City Rabbis
Back Negro Cause
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (JTA)-
The Rabbinical Association of
Greater Kansas City, represent-
ing the Orthodox, Conservative
and Reform religious leader-
ship of the Jewish community,
called upon civic, business and
labor leaders of the city to act
"with dispatch" in eliminating
racial segregation "and. in-
equality in the social, educa-
tional and economic spheres of
our community life."
Expressing "our profound
sympathy with the Negro com-
munity in Greater Kansas City
in its struggle to achieve full
emancipation and equality in
our midst," the rabbis urged
the members of their congrega-
tions "to act in all their busi-
ness and social contacts with
their fellow citizens in the
Negro community in accord-
ance with the moral impera-
tives of our historic religious
tradition."
Philly Rabbis Urge
Pro-Negro Measures
PHILADELPHIA, (JTA) —
Strong endorsement' of Presi-
dent Kennedy's civil rights pro-
gram was voiced by the Board
of Rabbis of Greater Phila-
delphia in a statement urging
Congress to enact the bills pro-
posed by the President.
S M OK E ALL ?.
5 U.S. Nazis Will
Stand Trial in 'L.A.
LOS ANGELES, (JTA)—Five
youths who are allegedly mem-
bers of the American Nazi
Party, were held here for trial
in Superior Court Sept. 4 on
charges of causing a disturb-
ance. They were arrested last
spring when they caused the
disturbance here while Israel
Independence Day was being
celebrated.
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