Noted Detroit Cantors to Participate Israelis to Present Center Hanukah Program
Felix Resnick will be guest con-
The traditional telling of the both the program and dance. Tic-
in Bnai David's 5th Annual Concert Hanukah
story and a candle-light- kets are on sale at the Center ductor. The program will include
An evening of entertainment is
planned for those who attend the
fifth annual Hanukah Concert at
Cong. Bnai David 8:30 p.m. Dec.
18. The concert will be under the
direction of Cantor Hyman J.
Adler.
Assisting Cantor Adler will be
Reuven Boyarsky, dean of Detroit
cantors; and Cantors Moses Seren-
sen of Cong. Beth Aaron; Harold
Orbach of Temple Israel and
Shabtai Ackerman of Beth Abra-
ham. Max Sosin will be master of
ceremonies, and Cong. Bnai David
choirs will also be on the program.
Pianist Bella Goldberg will be ac-
companist.
The musical program includes
renditions by Cantor Adler,
"Kindling of the Menorah Serv-
ices" and "V'seran," especially
composed by Reuven Boyarsky
for this concert. Cantor Seren-
sen's numbers ,include "Rabbis
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ing ceremony will highlight a
Hanukah program and dance to be
sponsored by the Israeli Student
Organization and the Israeli Wom-
en's Club of the Jewish Center
8:30 p.m. Dec. 19 in the Center's
Aaron DeRoy Theater.
Performances by an Israeli folk
dance troupe and folk orchestra,
as well as a presentation by a
classical pianist, will be included
in the program. An Israeli student
group chorus will also present a
number of Hanukah songs.
A Hanukah A Go Go Dance will
follow the program. Refreshments
will be served.
Preparations are being com-
Nominal admission fee covers
pleted for the Hanukah festival,
with Sam Levenson, humorist, as
guest star, heading the program,
Dec. 22, in Cobo Hall, for Israel
Bonds.
All Jewish or-
ganizations have
"A City Destroying Itself—An
been invited to
Angry View of New York," by
participate i n
Richard J. Whalen, issued as a
this celebration.
paperback by William Morrow and
Admission is
Co. (42,5 Park, S., NY 16), is an
open to 1965 Is-
interesting commentary on New
rael Bond p u r-
York.
chasers with
tickets at a nom-
The anger expressed echos in
inal price.
other communities, and what the
A Hanukah
author has to say about the great
candle . lighting
metropolis may be applied by oth-
ceremony will be
ers to many of the large U. S.
a highlight of the
cities.
program.
Whalen, whose work is interest-
For reserva-
ingly illustrated by Feliks Topol-
tions call the Is-
ski, states:
rael Bond office, Sam Levenson
"New York shows alarming
DI 1-5707.
A native-born New Yorke r, signs of spiritual malnutrition and
Levenson's six brothers and a sis- death-by-inches. It is frowning,
ter were raised in a close-knit fam- tight-lipped, short-tempered, the
most nervous city in America. It is
ily group.
After graduation from Brooklyn a city without grace, it is humor-
College, Sam went on to get his less, able to mock and taunt, but
MA from Columbia University. too tense to gain the release of
He then taught Spanish at Samuel laughter."
There are hopeful signs, but they
Tilden High School in Brooklyn
for 10 years. He also spent five are declared by Whalen to be "few
and feeble in the face of the city's
years as guidance counselor.
When Sam graduated from col- mounting crisis." He declares:
lege in the midst of the Depression "More and more, New York has
he didn't receive his diploma be- the look of a place that has been
cause he couldn't afford the $1.78 abandoned, physically and psycho-
fee. It was not until 23 years logically, by those citizens who
later that he did receive the cer- might somehow bring about its res-
tificate "for free" when he was cue. No program of reform con-
cited as the Brooklyn College tains the smallest hope of success
"Man of the Year."
unless these citizens experience a
When Sam married his child- change of heart—it is as simple
hood sweetheart, Esther (t h e y and as bleak as that. Of what must
have a son, Conrad, and a daugh- this indispensable changed atti-
ter, Emily Sue), their honeymoon tude consist? Nothing more or less
consisted of a trip to Manhattan than the conviction, born of what-
on the subway.
ever individual motive, that the
Sam's career as a humorist got place is worth the bother after
started as a result of humorous all."
notes he used to drop on the desks
of his fellow teachers, and the
Spare the rod and spoil the child
monologues he used to deliver at
lunch. Soon he was making ap- —Amer. proverb.
pearances at parties for $5 an
engagement.
By 1948, he found himself with
an income of $3,072 as a teacher
and $15,000 as a comedian. At this
point, Levenson hesitantly decided
to leave teaching. Levenson be-
came a nationally known per-
sonality in 1949 when he appeared
on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Complete Plans
for Israel Bonds
Hanukah Festival
NYC Seen as City
Destroying Itself
cashier's office and from organiza-
tion members.
(For other Center Hanukah ac-
tivities, see youth page).
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Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and
Beethoven's Overture to "Prome-
theus."
Tickets available at the Center
cashier's office.
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Young Adults to Get Taste
Parents Without Partners
of Skiing at Dry Run
Ski instructor Chuck Yearnon Sets Social Security Talk
will lecture, demonstrate and show
films of ski instruction and equip-
ment at a special ski program at
the Jewish Center 8:30 p.m. Thurs-
day in room 384 of the main
building. The free program is open
to all young adults age 20-40.
Parents Without Partners at the
Jewish Center will hear Edward
Fergal of the U. S. Social Security
Administration, discuss "Recent
Changes in the Social Security
Law" at its 8:30 p.m. meeting on
Tuesday at the Center.
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The PWP club is open to
widowed and divorced parents
under age 55. Nominal admission
charge for prospective members.
For information, call President
Julius Chajes, conductor of the Bernice Robbins, KE 8-0038.
Jewish Center Symphony Orches-
tra, will appear as pianist in his
own piano concerto at the next
Center Symphony concert 8 p.m.
Dec. 21 at the Center.
Chafes to Solo
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To accommodate a majority of
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and third performance of the
Hanukah Festival will be held on
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Jan. 3, in Madison Square Garden.
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and Masters," "Israel Lives On,"
"My Blue and White Flag" and
"Nation, Nation."
The concert committee includes
Robert Gottlieb, Sandy Shore, Phil-
lip Bolton, :Niel Richman, Yale
Phillips and Alex Lipson.
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