For Hamtramck Woman
Youth Commission
Faith Comes in a Blue and White Box Names Dr. Posner
Health Chairman
Women's Cluhs
(More Clubs Page 19)
f ZEDEKAH - CLUB will meet
Dr. Irving Posner will serve as
JEWISH WOMEN'S EUROPEAN 112:30 p.m. Monday at the home of
chairman of the health committee
of the Michigan Youth Commission WELFARE ORGANIZATION will Mrs. Isidore Muskovitz, 19371
meet noon Monday at Jericho Tem- Monica. A report on the donor
for 1965.
ple. Mrs. Morris Miller. president, luncheon will be given. and des-
T h e appoint-
announces a report on the recent sert .luncheon will be served.
ment was made
luncheon will he given, and latkes
by Miss Rosemary
will be served.
Scott, chairman,
FOR THE BEST IN
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at the commis-
MUSIC 8, ENTERTAINMENT
ROSENWALD AUXILIARY,
. sion meeting at
American Legion. has appointed
Michigan State
Mesdames Sarah Jacobson, Isabelle
University.
And His Orchestra
Levitt and Josephine Weinsweig
Each person on
to wrap presents for patients in
t h e 44-member
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the Dearborn Veteran's Hospital
Michigan Youth
9 .m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Commission
was
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appointed to one
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or two commis-
BETH SHALOM SISTERHOOD
sion committees
will hear Congresswoman Martha
Committees will
Griffiths 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at
deal with such Dr. Posner
the synagogue.
youth concerns as education. out-
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of-school. out-of-work youth. rec-
SOL YETZ - MORRIS COHEN
reation, integrated county welfare
department. Economic Opportunity AUXILIARY will meet 8 p.m. Mon-
Act, delinquency. neglected chil- day at the home of Bertha Miller,
22044 Kessler, Hostesses will be
dren. and others.
The over-all purpose of the Michi- President Betty Spinner. Sol Ho-
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planning to meet the needs of Association, will be guest speaker.
Done in a Distinctive
Guests invited.
.Michigan's children and youth."
Way For Those
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SAM EMMER
The blue and white JNF box holds a unique meaning for Mrs.
Misha Bickoff of Hamtramck. She and her husband. a music store
owner, look at pictures of their children and grandchildren alongside
the box she has kept filled for 40 years.
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The blue and white JNF box,
school and "too old for such kid
for many years a symbol of the
stuff." Reminding them of their
hope and faith of a people without
"duty as children of Israel" was
a country. represents another kind
not as easy; Kay was a pretty
of hope and faith for a Hamtramck
girl — why shouldn't she have
Jewish woman.
dates like her non - Jewish
Clara Bickoff and her husband
friends?
Misha have lived at 8586 Joseph
What can a mother say?
Campau for 40 years. There, Mr.
When it came time for Kay to
Bickoff opened up the Warsaw decide where she would continue
Music Store. and his family moved her education, she chose the Uni-
into the same building. only doors versity of Michigan. It was expen-
away.
sive. and the Bickoffs didn't have
Both of them' came from Ortho- much money, but for the children's
dox families in the Old Country. sake . . .
Now they had to instill the Jewish
Kay worked her way through the
spirit in their two children. Kay university and met Max Tacouni.
and Robert. But hoW? There were scion of an old Sephardi Jewish
no Jewish playmates in this pre- family. Today, she and her hus-
' dominantly Polish neighborhood. band. an attorney. live with their
The Bickoffs had no car, and the 12-year-old daughter in New York
children would have to cross rail- City. Mrs. Tacouni works for a
road tracks to reach the nearest television station there.
Hebrew school. No. better not send
Robert went to Wayne State Uni-
versity, where he majored in
them; it was too dangerous.
pharmacy. Now the owner of a
Mr. Bickoff wasn't worried. He
drug store in St. Clair Shores. he
had good children. It would be a
and his wife. the former Lolly
long time before they were ready
Smith. have three children.
to marry, so why worry about
Seeing both her children remain
playmates now?
But Clara Bickoff worried. They true to their religion reaffirmed
aren't ready to marry now, she Mrs. Bickoff's belief in the blue
agreed, but what about -later? She and white box. Every six months,
tried to bring the Sabbath and it yields almost S20 — an accumula-
holidays into their Hamtramck tion of the dimes and nickels she
home, hoping to make Jewish life puts in "when I feel like it"—
Yizkor, holidays, a siincha.
meaningful for the children.
At the last fall clearance, Mrs.
And there was the little blue and
Bickoff was too ill to carry the
white box.
box to David Silver, who owns a
Back in Romania, there had al-
store nearby. He came to clear
ways been a pushka, she remem-
the box and found it, as usual,
bers. One day a homeless people
full.
would have their home; a few pen-
The box still stands on the table
nies a day would help attain that
in front of the pictures of Kay and
dream.
So. every Friday evening, before Robert and the four grandchildren.
the candles were lit. Kay and Tonight, Mrs. Bickoff will. again,
Robert would be brought before drop in some money-----in gratitude.
the Jewish National Fund box and
reminded of their duty as children
of Israel. Into the box went what
few pennies could be scraped to-
gether that week.
Judge Ira G. Kaufman, presi-
It came to be a tradition, even
dent of the Zionist Organization of
when the children were in high
Detroit, and Dr. Alex S. Fried-
laender, BalfourPIPV4: ,
Concert chair- "
m a n . extended
Leave Everything to Us
an invitation to
members of the
ZOD to a cham-
pagne Balfour
victory and Han-
ukah celebration,
8:30 p.m. Thurs-
day at Al Rosen-
b e r g's Ho liday
Manor.
Cantor Harold!:
Orbach of Tem-
ple Israel will
present "Songs
of our People,"
accompanied by
Bella Goldberg.
WYN and HAROLD LANDIS
Balfour concert Cantor Orbach
awards will be presented and
Hanukah refreshments will be
served.
Members planning to attend
Phone
are asked to call the Zionist House,
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Balfour Victory
Party Scheduled
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Eichelbaum
Exhibition.
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At the Arwin Galleries at Robin-
son's Furniture on Washington
Boulevard, the works of Edward
W. Eichelbaum will go on display
Monday.
Eichelbaum. who has made. a
reputation as an
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outstanding
draftsman. is
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known widely for
his Israel Sketch-
book and his on-
the-spot drawings
for "The Glass
Cage." the book
on the Eichmann
trial.
Born in Brook-
lyn in 1932. Eich-
elbaum studied Eichelbaum
in Detroit schools. was graduated •
from Chicago Art Institute. won
fellowships. traveled widely and
lived for a year in Israel.
His local exhibition will be the
first one-man show of his work
outside New York.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Eichelbaum of 18645
Cherrylawn.
Exhibit Israeli's
Art atU. of 11.
Hillel Foundation
Governor and Mrs. George Horn-
ney head a list of sponsors of an ex-
hibition of contemporary Israel art
in the Hillel House, University of
Michigan. Additional sponsors in-
clude the President and Mrs. Har-
aln Hatcher of the university,
Mayor Cecil 0. Creal of Ann Ar-
bor. Congressman and Mrs. Neil
Staebler and Dean and Mrs. Wil-
liam Haber.
The exhibits contain works of
contemporary Israel artists in a
variety of media—oil paintings,
scupture, water colors and litho-
graphs.
JWV Activities
SILVERMAN POST will hold a
brunch meeting 9:30 a.m. Sunday
at the Labor Zionist Institute, Pros-
pective members are invited.
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DETROIT AUXILIARY 135 will
meet 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the La-
bor Zionist Institute. Bertha
Schaap, senior vice president, will
set up fund-raising plans with her
committees for the Hawaii pro-
gram.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 4, 1964-27
CLUB 2, Pioneer Women. will
meet noon Wednesday at the La-
bor Zionist
Institute. Cultural
chairman Celia Plafkin has planned
a Hanukah celebration, including
as participants Jeanette Serling.
Esther Butsel and Rose Kreshin.
Refreshments will be served.
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By
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J. CLARKE
CALL MR. ROSEN 341 - 4141
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SA'AD, a group aiding research
in Parkinson's Disease, will meet
8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home
of Mrs. Dorothy Rosen. 19760 Lit-
tlefield. Co-hostesses will be Jane
Sahn and Estelle Benjamin. Elec-
tion of officers will be held. and a
Hanukah party will follow, with
exchange of gifts.
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