It All Started in 'Heder' Oak Park Window Cleaner Turns to the Arts By MARCY MILLER • .... • Fromwashing windows to wash ing paint brushes might seem lik e an unusual transition, but it is on e which Oak Parker Morris Bright man, owner of the Bright WindoN v Cleaning Co., manages almost dail y Standing in his with dazzling enthusiasm. basement work- Improbable? "Not at all," he shop, part - time says. Brightman finds the hours artist Morris he spends in his basement work- Brightman d i s- shop or on Sunday afternoon plays some of his painting expeditions satisfying, recent paintings self-expressive and the culmination as examples of of a life-long ambition. the diversity of He has put to work the patience his creative and the insights into perspective, work. His son, a light and shadow, distance, and noted Tel Aviv character that grew out of his artist, first en- many years on window ledges, couraged Bright- conversing 200 feet above the ban in this ground with a variety of people hobby. on an even greater variety of topics. "I've only been painting under Instruction for eight or ten years," Brightman explained as he pointed out the most recent works among the many that are hung on the walls of his home of the publicity he has arranged at 21600 Kipling, Oak Park. "But for them. He also has a permanent 1 even when I was a kid in Rus- roving exhibit of half a dozen sia, living with two religious paintings in the Men's Health Club grandfathers, I would sit in the at the Center and has participated heder and draw pictures on the in local and New York showings. desk with my finger until the For two years, Brightman was rabbi would rap at my hands a discipline of the Hylozoist group, This Week's Radio and to make me stop." which believes that life is derived Television Programs Once in the United States, in from matter, and accordingly plas- ETERNAL LIGHT 1921, Brightman found his artistic ters their paintings with sponge, pursuits secondary to the more rope, or whatever else appeals to Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday. pressing ones of earning a living them. Brightman says now, "Those Station: WWJ. and supporting a growing family. pictures usually come out looking Feature: Poet Mark Van Doren His children occupied much of like a cross between an oil paint- and author Maurice Samuel will his time, and it is through them, ing and a collage—or between a discuss the ramifications of knowl- strangely enough, that he began fish and a dog, you might say. edge and the relationship of to develop his artistic endeavors. The trouble with it is not the specialization to wisdom in "In- "I used to work around schools a abstraction, but that they don't tellect and Intelligence," the fifth lot," he explained, "and I saw what know what they mean to represent. of a series of "Moral Dilemmas of the children liked to do. So I It's just not my conception of what the Bible." * * * would bring home to my own chil- I want to portray." dren watercolors and clay, and in COUNCIL-ALTMAN HOUR Pointing to a mass of corrugated showing them how to express tin and paint-hardened rags, he Time: 10 p.m. Saturday. themselves with them, I taught added, "Here's one you can hang Station: WJBK. myself as well." either way. What's the point?" Feature: Mrs. Jack Iden, newly Both children show strong signs elected president of the Ladies Brightman's current work is of the early training they received Auxiliary of the Jewish War Vet- more representational, basically from the Brightmans. They ac- erans, department of Michigan, landscapes and portraits: the quired so much of their parents' morning mist over the docks at will discuss the role and program faith and hope in men, and their the river, a Negro boy playing a of her organization. dedication to Judaism and Zion- * * * guitar, the Canadian skyline ist philosophy, that both settled seen from Belle Isle. One of his THE JEWISH HERITAGE in Israel. (Brightman still main- more recent works in the Hylo- Time: 11:30 p.m. Sunday tains membership in the Zionist zoist tradition is a circle of rope Station: WCAR. Organization of America, the Jew- figures dancing an oil-painted Feature: A special broadcast ish Center, Pisgah Lodge of Bnai horah. depicting Jewish contributions to Brith, the Esearion Club, the Ma- "I have no one style yet—I don't American freedom, "With Faith sons and the Oddfellows.) Artistically, both children also want one," he explained. "If it in Freedom," will feature Irving S. carry out the creative tradition comes out a nice painting, I like it. Cane, past commander of the Jew- that was begun with Brightman's I don't care what style it is. I do ish War Veterans; Lawrence Gu- early indoctrination. His son Jack, try to avoid having more than one bow, of the national executive com- now 34 and living in Israel, has style in the .same painting, but if mittee of JWV; Walter E. Klein, made an international name for I don't like it, I paint over it. executive director of the Jewish himself teaching and creating arts That's how I learn, and I find that Community Council; and Joseph and crafts, particularly miniature I learn more and more every day. Edelman, director of the Council's statues of stylized animals and You might say—I love painting, Cultural Commission. * * people in the Jewish tradition, period." TO DWELL TOGETHER He a d d e d, "Sometimes all hand-carved from wood and I do Time: 9:15 a.m. Sunday. things that I didn't anticipate. leather. think that is the greatest satisfac- Station: WJBK and Channel 2. The gifts that Prime Minister Feature: "To Recount the Holo- Levi Eshkol brought from Israel tion in the world." caust—Mission of the Survivors," to the children of the late Presi- with Dr. Leon Weliczker Wells, dent Kennedy included a wood- Name Marvin Berman author of "The Janowska Road." en Noah's ark from Jack Bright- man's studio in Tel Aviv. Resident Director at Dr. Wells, who testified as a sur- vivor at the Nuremburg trails and Brightman's daughter, married other trials of Nazis, will discuss to Israeli writer Chayym Zeldis Camp Tamarack and now living in New York City, Camp Tamarack of Ortonville, relationship between men during is carrying the tradition to a third Mich., has named Marvin Berman the holocaust and in general so- generation. Yona Zeldis, at 6, is as the new resident director. He ciety with Sidney Shevitz, presi- a three-year veteran of imagina- also will serve as the assistant dent of the Jewish Community Council. tive crayon and pencil drawings. executive secretary of Tamarack "One day Jack said to me, 'If Hills Authority. you want so badly to paint, why Berman has been associated Sao Paulo U. Bestows don't you paint?' " Brightman re- with Camp Tamarack since 1955 called. From the simplest of be- as counselor, assistant village su- Hebrew Letters Doctorate SAO PAULO (JTA)—The first ginnings, the hobby grew, and Mrs. pervisor, village supervisor, canoe Brightman finally convinced him trip specialist, and program di- doctorate of Hebrew letters granted to take his work to a Jewish Cen- rector. Previous camping experi- by Sao Paulo University was award- ter art class for criticism. ence included counselinig at. the ed to the cultural attache of the Under the tutelage of Saul Hor- Muskegon YMCA camp and the Israel Consulate here, Zvi Caspi, witz, Ben Glicker and Gerome National. Music Camp at In Ler- for his thesis on "The Language of the Dead Sea Scrolls as Com- Kamrowski, Brightman has devel- lochen. pared with the Language of the oped his pastime into something He received his BA from Bible." worthwhile and profitable, with a Wayne State University in 1956, Brazil's chief rabbi, Dr. Fritz workshop in his basement that in- and his MA in history from the cludes machinery to make his own University of Michigan in 1957. Pinkuss, professor of Hebrew at frames. His paintings have been He taught social studies at Os- the university, presided over the shown at the Center, the Raven born High School and was a doc- examinaion board which heard Gallery, and Zampty Art Imports toral student and half-time in Caspi defend his thesis. on Hamilton, where he is regarded structor in education at the Uni- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS as something of a saint because versity of Michigan last year. Friday, July 3, 1964 18 11111.11 ■ 1111 0.1111 ■ 11.111/1.0 411 ■■ 0 ■ IONIflal ■ 0•111 ■ 01111 ■ 4101. ■ 04M ■ every al the Xir State Pharmacists Marcia Kaplan to Wed Give Top Award Paul E. Himelhoch to Dr. Blockstein Dr. William L. Blockstein, assist- ant to the dean and associate professor of pharmacy, Wayne State University, was given the Distinguished Service Award of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association at its 81st annual con- vention in Grand Rapids. The highest award possible for Michigan pharmacy to bestow was presented to Dr. Blockstein, 24100 Seneca, Oak Park, for his "un- swerving devotion to duty in the fields of public health, public serv- ice and the advancement of the profession of pharmacy. A native of Pennsylvania, Dr. Blockstein received his BS, MS and PhD degrees from the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh. During the past five years, Dr. Blockstein has served the associa- tion as a member of several com- mittees and for the past two years has been chairman of MSPA's pub- lic relations committee. Dr. Blockstein recently was re- cipient of the annual Distinguished Faculty Adviser's Award from the Wayne State University Beta Eta Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, national leadership honor society. On July 1, Dr. Blockstein will assume new duties as chairman of the extension services division of pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, where he will also hold an associate professorship in the school of pharmacy. MISS MARCIA KAPLAN Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kaplan of Muirland Ave. announce the en- gagement of their daughter Marcia Lee to Paul E. Himelhoch, son of Mrs. _arry W. Himelhoch and the late Mr. Himelhoch of Woodward Ave., Royal Oak. Miss Kaplan attended Michigan State University and is currently enrolled at Wayne State Univer- sity where she is affiliated with Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority. Her fiance was graduated from the University of Detroit, where he was affiliated with Phi Sigma Delta Fraternity. The couple plans to marry Dec.. 26. "Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord's side? Let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto Him." (Exodus 32:26). PLANNING A WEDDING? A BAR MITZVAH? , REMEMBER . . . Want The Best? SID SIEGE' Ask the Folks Who've Had SAVES ".7X E DAY! SAM BARNETT and His Orchestra For Fine Color Movies Call LI 1-2563 Dl 1E26990 Michigan's Newest & Most. 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