Leah Pike Dies at 70; Pioneered in Danny Raskin•s Turkish Authorities Dissolve Board
of Grand Rabbinate Without Reason
Founding of Hebrew Kindergartens
Leah Pike, of 3353 W. Boston,
for more than 40 years one of
Detroit's most prominent He-
brew educators, died Saturday
at the age of 70.
Funeral services were held
Sunday morning at Kaufman
Chapel.
Surviving her are her sister,
Shoshanah (Rose); and two
brothers, Dr. Maurice and Jo-
seph.
A native of Rosh Pina, Israel
—then Palestine, Miss Pike re-
ceived her . high school educa-
tion in Rosh Pina under a group
of the then most noted Jewish
pedagogues, including Chaim
Wilkomtiz and Israel Aiton.
She acquired her pedagogic
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training in the famous Lemel
School, the training center for
kindergartners, under the tute-
lage of the late Dr. David Yel-
lin and of Dr. Yitzhak Epstein.
She was on the faculty of
the Shaarey Zedek school with
the late Joseph Haggai and both
j oin e d the United Hebrew
Schools upon its organization
here under the direction of
Bernard Isaacs.
Serving on the staff of the
United Hebrew Schools from
the very inception of the com-
munal school system, Miss
Pike was responsible for the
formation of the schools' first
kindergarten. There were no
kindergarten textbooks at the
time and she wrote the first
such manual, which was used
by teachers here for a num-
ber of years, under the title
"La Peutoth—For the Little
Ones."
When Bernard Isaacs prepar-
ed, together with the late A. H.
Friedland, the children's book
"Dovidel," she collaborated in
the task and wrote the nekudot
— the punctuations — for the
book.
Many prospective kindergar-
ten teachers acquired their
training under her tutelage, and
teachers were sent to her classes
for instruction and observation.
As one of the founding teach-
ers of the United Hebrew
Schools, she was in the front
ranks of Detroit's educators.
She was a member of Kvut-
zah Ivrith and contributed sev-
eral articles to the literary
magazine Hed Ha-Kvutzah.
LISTENING
LET'S GO LATIN" is the
name of the 'dance album super-
vised in New York by Joe Cor-
nell . . . Joe is a faculty member
of Dance Caravan, U.S.A., and
recognized among the top dance
teachers in the country . . He
is president of the Dance Mas-
ters of Michigan and his next
record will be a social routine
for Bar Mitzvahs . . . Joe and
wife Irene have set the date for
the opening of their new sub-
urban dance studio in the
Greenfield Center off 10 Mile
Rd.
BAR MITZVAH of Randy
Knight, son of Mary Lou and
photog Leo Knight, at Raleigh
House, had a lot of - camera-
clickers taking pictures . . . Leo
took it easy and enjoyed 'doing
nothing . . . When one of the
photogs asked if he wanted to
use his camera to take any par-
ticular shot, Leo said, "Make
like I'M just another guy giving
an affair!"
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ISTANBUL, (JTA) — The
board of trustees of the Grand
Rabbinate has been dissolved
without explanation on orders
of Turkish authorities.
The board had the task of
administering properties be-
longing to the Grand Rabbin-
ate, the official representative
body of Turkey's 46,000 Jews.
The board was elected last De-
cember, after authorization for
the election was obtained from
the Interior Ministry.
That Ministry, however, has
now issue d the dissolution
order, which surprised Jewish
communal leaders. Israel
Menasse, board president, was
instructed to return to the
Ministry the seal and Act given
last December. The order simp-
ly said that the board was dis-
solved "until some juridicial
questions in this connection are
settled."
It was not immediately indi-
cated how the Jewish communal
properties would be . adminis-
tered, or whether the authori-
ties would insist that each item
of property be administered by
a separate board. Such separate
administration has been the
policy of authorities in the past,
to avoid centralization. The
Grand Rabbinate has begun in-
quiries on this point, and a
formal statement is expected
soon.
N.Y. Founder of UJA
Henry Rothman Dies
NEW YORK (JTA) — Henry
Rothman, one of the founders
of the United Jewish Appeal of
Greater New York, and a trustee
of Bnai Jeshurun Synagogue,
died Aug. 18. He was 80. Roth-
man was also active in the af-
fairs of the Joint Distribution
Committee and the Federation
of Jewish Philanthropies of
New York.
Alaska . . . While there, he
bumped into Detroiter couple
dental doc Mike Gus and wife
Elaine, at Fort Wainwright .. .
From 60 miles away at Fort
Greely, local dentist Dr. Seldon
Schwartzberger came to Fort
Wainwright for the High Holi-
days . . . Out of the Army and
back in civies, Bert was in
town eroute for a month in St.
Petersburg, Fla., where dad
Julius, is building . .. What a
difference from 86 degrees
below to 90 degrees above .. .
Only reason Bert's coming back
is to attend his junior year in
residential construction at
Michigan State U.
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