Masada Young Adults
823,000 in Bonds Is Sold at Reception Robert Merrill's Life Story: Many
Negations Related to His Jewishness
At a leadership reception hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Sam Maza
in advance of the Temple Israel Presidential Toast to Israel Din-
ner, over 523,000 in Israel Bond subscriptions was raised. Standing
here are (from left) Nathaniel H. Goldstick, dinner chairman; Mr.
and Mrs. Maza; Harry L. Pliskow, president of the temple; and
Robert Lurie, national Israel Bond special events chairman, who
spoke. The Temple Israel dinner, which will honor all the past
presidents and the incumbent president, will be held Dec. 5 in the
social hall as a highlight of the temple's 25th anniversary year. For
reservations, call Mrs. I. Walter Silver, ticket chairman, UN 1-7072
or DI 1-5707.
News Brevities
THE MOSCOW PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA will perform Nov. 12
at Masonic Auditorium. Making his
American debut with the orchestra
is guest conductor Evgeni Svet-
lanov. Khachaturian's Concerto-
Rhapsody for Cello is featured in
the program with Mstislav Rostro-
povich as soloist. This will be the
first performance of this work in
the United States; Tickets are
available at Masonic Auditorium
or at downtown Grinnell's.
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MACKENZIE HIGH SCHOOL'S
fall play, "Arsenic and Old Lace,"
will be performed 2 p.m. Nov.
18 and 8 p.m. Nov. 19 at the school.
The public is invited.
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THE OAK PARK SYMPHONY'S
next concert will be held Dec. 19.
Season tickets for the concert
series are available from Oak Park
Symphony Society, VE. 8-6740.
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
WOMEN'S AUXILIARY will meet
noon Thursday at the hospital
nurse's lounge. A boutique of
handmade articles will be featured
along with the luncheon.
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Phi Mu Alpha Fraternity, Wayne
State University, will hold its AN-
NUAL JAZZ CONCERT 8 p.m.
Monday in the University's Com-
munity Arts Auditorium. Featured
will be the George Bohanon
Quartet, the Jim Hartway Trio,
singer Dorothea Buchalter, the
Wayne Ramblers, and the Western
Michigan University Big Band. The
public is invited.
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GARELICK'S GALLERY will
hold an exhibit of graphics by
Marc Chagall 2-6 p.m. Sunday
through Nov. 27. This show will
include signed colored lithographs
from Chagall's window s e r i e s,
hand-colored etchings from t h e
Bible series, and a group of etch-
ings based on fairy tales and folk-
lore. The public is invited.
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"THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
STORY," a motion picture written
by Pulitzer Prize winning author-
poet Archibald MacLeish, will have
its world premiere 8 p.m. Sunday
at the Studio North Theater. At-
tending the invitational affair will
be Sens. Patrick V. McNamara and
Philip A. Hart, Mayor Jerome P.
Cavanaugh, Assistant Secretary of
State G. Mennen Williams, and
UAW President Walter Reuther,
honorary co-chairmen. The picture
will be shown starting Nov. 2,3.
Opportunities, advantages and
problems of a career in VISTA,
the domestic Peace Corps, are
answered in a CAREER GUIDE
being published by Bnai Brith
Vocational Service at the invita-
tion of the U.S. Office of Economic
Opportunity. Some 35,000 copies
of the pamphlet will be distributed
to guidance counselors throughout
the country.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
28—Friday, November 5, 1965
A one-man show, "THE WORLD
OF CHARLES AZNAVOUR," will
be presented 8:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in
the University of Detroit's memor-
ial building auditorium. Aznavour,
the number one entertainer in
France, sings his own songs some-
thing in the style of Edith Piaf.
Tickets are available at the uni-
versity, DI. 2-1029.
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LAFAYETTE PARK PLAYERS,
in association with the 'City of De-
troit Department of Parks and
Recreation, will hold auditions for
its first production, "Fair Game,"
8 p.m. Monday at Chrysler School
in Lafayette Park. Potential actors
and those interested in behind-the-
scenes production are invited.
For information, c a 11 June
Rouke, WO 2-3947.
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The board of directors of
"ARAD" QUARRIES AND ROADS
LTD. in Israel has declared an
interim cash dividend of 4 per cent
of par, equivalent to 40 cents per
share, payable Dec. 31, to stock-
holders of record as of Nov. 15.
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Dr. Henry D. Kaine, chairman
of the Michigan Diabetes Detection
Program, will head the 17th annual
DIABETES DETECTION DRIVE
in Michigan spearheaded by
Diabetes Week, Nov. 14-20, when
special facilities will be established
to test citizens.
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The board of directors of BANK
LEUMI LE-ISRAEL has declared
an interim cash dividend for 1965
on the ordinary and "A" ordinary
shares of the bank amounting to
six per cent less 25 per cent Israel
income tax. The dividend is pay-
able Nov. 24, to stockholders of
record Oct. 25. * *
JUDGE BENJAMIN D. BURD-
ICK of the Wayne Circuit Court
will speak 12:30 p.m. Thursday at
a meeting and luncheon of the
Detroit Schoolmen's Ex-Service
Club at the Veteran's Memorial
Building. Burdick's subject will be
"Disregard for Law and Order."
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Sixten Ehrling, a distinguished
pianist and conductor, will join
violinist GORDON STAPLES in a
special recital 3:30 p.m. Sunday at
Oakland University's Gold Room.
The program will include works by
Brahms, Debussy and Beethoven.
For tickets, call the university,
338-7211.
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THE KENNETH JEWELL
CHORALE will open its fifth sea-
son with a formal concert 8:30
p.m. Nov. 22 in Wayne State Uni-
versity's Community Arts Audit-
orium. Directed by Dr. Kenneth
Jewell, director of choral music
at the Interlochen Academy of
Arts, the chorale will perform,
among other works, Poulenc's Mass
in G Major as a tribute to the
memory of the late President, John
Fitzgerald Kennedy. Tickets avail-
able at Grinnell's, J. L. Hudson
stores or Wayne State University.
Immigrants' transformations
may be responsible for some
attitudes among youth which
caused them to confuse environ-
mental influences with the Jew-
ish traditions
they did not
understand or
which may not
have been pre-
sented to them
properly. It's
pitiful chapter in
American Jewish
history, and
there is an indi-
cation of it in
the biography of
R o bent Merrill,
Merrill
"Once More from
the Beginning," which he wrote
with Sandford Dody and which
has just been published by Mac-
millan.
Would that the early beginnings,
which the great musician recalls
in his life's story, were prettier.
He loved baseball, but when he
was beaten on one occasion his
mother forbade_ the sport and "my
only physical exercise was limited
to digging for pickles and herring
in the barrels of brine that stood
in front of the butcher and grocery
stores."
This was the early Williamsburg
experience.
But Robert, the son of Abe
Millstein, nevertheless rose to
fame, and his genius was so great
that:
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There is a lesson in this story
for our educators who face up
with such experiences time and
again. Here's a great artist who
flirts with strange gods. All glory
to his musical art !
I Am a Hebrew
By CYRUS ADLER
I will continue to hold my ban-
ner aloft. I find myself born-ay,
born into a people and a religion.
The preservation of my people
must be for a purpose, for God
does nothing without a purpose.
His reasons are unfathomable to
me. but on my own reason I place
little dependence; test it where I
will it fails me. The simple, the
ultimate in every direction is
sealed to me. It is as difficult to
understand matter as mind. The
courses of the planets are no hard-
er to explain than the growth of a
blade of grass. Therefore am I
willing to remain a link in the
great chain. What has been pre-
served for four thousand years
was not saved that I should over-
throw it. My people have survived
the prehistoric paganism, the Baby-
lonian polytheism, the aesthetic
Hellenism, the sagacious Roman-
ism, at once the blandishments and
persecutions of the Church; and it
will survive the modern dilettant-
ism and the current materialism,
holding aloft the traditional Jewish
ideals inflexibly until the world
shall become capable of recogniz-
ing their worth.
Young people, age 20-30 are in-
vited to the annual election meet-
ing of Masada Group, Zionist Or-
ganization of Detroit, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday at the Zionist offices,
18501 W. 10 Mile.
Rabbi Moses Lehrman will be
guest speaker. Refreshments will
be served. For information, call
the ZOD offices, 353-3636.
Bulgarian .JerryCited
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
SOFIA — The Jewish Cultural
and Educational Association, the
representative body of Bulgarian
Jewry, was honored Tuesday by
the Bulgarian government for its
efforts for peace. The citation
states that the award was given
for the educational activity for
peace conducted by the Jewish
body since its inception.
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"President Truman used to
fly me to Washington in his
private plane so that I could
sing at his parties. He had first
heard me when I sang the
Lord's Prayer and 'Eternal
Father, Strong to Save,' in the
Senate on the first anniversary
of President Roosevelt's death."
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One wonders, however, whether
success needs to be accompanied
by negative Jewish attitudes. De-
at civet a woman .
scribing his visit at Dachau, he
recalls his childhood Passover
with the comment: "The rituals
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were a bore to us kids—only the
food was remarkable." Then he
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"Religion meant so little to
me, and in my childhood any
brush with it had been unpleas-
ant. Now, in Germany bits and
pieces of the Seder, the Pass-
over service, fell into place.
The whole ceremony, a com-
memoration of Moses' leading
the Jews out of Pharaoh's Egypt
and into freedom, was so apt.
Was any Pharaoh ever as terri-
ble as Hitler? These Jews of
Germany and Poland and all
of Europe weren't led to safety
by anybody. This consciousness
at the scene of the crime made
me really aware for the first
time. Tradition and ritual were
not always empty, barbaric, and
outdated. It was important to
remember these things, but
there was a way of remember-
ing without forgetting the rest
of the world.
"My children not only have
the beautiful and happy Christ-
mas tree and gifts I missed, but
they also enjoy something else
I never enjoyed. Being Jewish
to them is not what it was to
me—something separate from
the rest of the community—
but part of the whole.
"My life had changed so much
since Williamsburg. I had moved
far from that ghetto. The little
boy who could only see a ball
game in a counterfeit Boy Scout
uniform had sung for the Pres-
ident of the United States."
There's how a good story gets
spoiled with negations. Surely ;
one can be a good American and
can have the utmost respect for
Christian practices without resort-
ing to them. But 1VIillstein-Merrill's
childhood experiences must have
been devoid of the Jewish influ-
ences that are vital for proper
reactions in manhood.
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