World Jewry Evidences Concern in Rabbi Adler's Well-Being
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receiving his BSS degree from the
College of the City of New York
in 1928.
The Jewish Theological Semi-
nary last month conferred upon
him the honorary Doctor of Di-
vinity degree, and a group of 50
Detroiters, including Christian
friends, made a special trip to
New York to attend the convoca-
tion. Wayne State University con-
ferred upon him the honorary
LLD degree in 1960.
Last summer, Rabbi Adler
was honored by the Jewish Na-
tional Fund in Israel with the
establishment of the Rabbi Adler
School at Gadot on the Syrian
border.
Dr. Adler came to the Shaarey
Zedek in Detroit in 1938, after
holding the pulpit in Ten-iple
Emanu-El, Buffalo. He came here
as associate to the late Rabbi A. M.
Hershman and in 1954 was eleeted
rabbi for life.
He was married to Goldie Kad-
ish on June 12, 1929. They have
one daughter, Mrs. Eli (Shulamith)
Benstein, and three grandchildren.
Rabbi and- Mrs. Adler first visit-
ed Israel in 1954. Last year they
were there for nine months, on
Rabbi Adler's sabbatical year's
leave. and his activities there were
varied. They befriended Israel's
and world Jewry's most noted
leaders.
After serving as chairman of
the Bnai Brith adult education de-
partment for several years, Rabbi
Adler, resigned recently to comp-
peared in two volumes in 1947.
human spirit? Love and hate ! In- assailant was taken to New Provi- Frank and Mr. and Mrs. M. Ben
Ironically, the Shaarey Zedek telligence and madness! The dence Hospital, were found more Lewis, all well known and active
Recorder, which arrived in the
search for clarity and the accept- bullets.
in the community.
homes of members on Thursday
It became known that Richard
ance of fantasy ! 'The neart's devi-
A formal dinner-dance was ar-
morning — having no reference ous—who can know it?' "
had purchased the gun in Toledo, ranged for the Bar Mitzvah
for
to last Saturday's tragedy—con-
Wishnetsky, whose 24th birth- and the community is horrified Saturday night. It was held—in de-
tained Rabbi Adler's message to
day would have been on July 1, that guns should become so easily ference to what the family was
the congregation address to "My
marched down the aisle towards obtainable. The gun that was used certain would be Rabbi Adler's
Dear Unbeliever"—"and I ad- the bimah, shoved aside Cantor by Richard was cut four inches to wishes not to mar a simha.
But
dress you by the title with which Reuven Frankel who had begun to make it more concealable.
those in attendance were grim.
you designated yourself in your recite the Kaddish before Mussaf,
There were so many sidelines to
Many conflicting stories began
recent letter . " and is signed
and commenced to read a pre- Saturday's events that they added
to float around, as is natural from -
by the rabbi as: A BELIEVER. pared, rambling speech. Then he to the gloom of that tragic day.
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Rabbi Adler's sermon that morn- a pandemonium that erupted at
shot Rabbi Adler, first striking his
A team of the ablest neuro sur- left shoulder and then hitting him ing was on Lincoln, his Emanci- the synagogue. The facts were
geons and consulting physicians in the most vital spot. Then he pation Proclamation—and his as- most accurately related by the sy-
nagogue's president, Louis Berry.
sassination.
are continually at Rabbi Adler's shot himself.
The sister of the sick boy who He was among those who were or-
bedside, providing mechanical sup-
The tape recorder which was
port to assure his breathing, giv- set to transcribe Rabbi Adler's committed the crime, Ellen Wish- dered, with the Bar Mitzvah, to
ing him all the needed aid in the sermon and his charge to the Bar netsky, gave the Prayer for Our get off the platform. Berry hesitat-
Country at the Sabbath morning ed, but Rabbi Adler insisted, tell-
effort to save his life.
Mitzvah was still on. It would not
ing Berry and the cantors, Jacob
Starting at 11:15 a.m. on Monday, have been turned off on the Sab- services less than an hour before H. Sonenklar and Reuven Frankel,
for nearly three hours, Dr. Gass bath. It therefore included the he made his demonstrative appear- to get off, that he knew the
boy,
performed a second operation to- "speech" Richard delivered to the ance on the birnah to perform his who was sick, that he
could
gether with Dr. Milton Sorock, congregation while fondling his apparently planned act. His par- handle him. It was a natural
feel-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wish-
Sinai's chief of surgery.
gun. It is this recorded text that
netsky, and his grandmother, Mrs.
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Dr. Edward Kahn, professor of may tell more of a story about the William Hordes, were in the audi-
neurosurgery at the University of demented youth than all other ac- ence. All have played vital roles in
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Michigan, who was called in as counts of the horror that trans- many leading community affairs.
pired.
The
taped
'speech
follows:
consultant, concurred in all the
The lad whose Bar Mitzvah was
medical efforts. Dr. Herbert Ravin,
"This congregation is a travesty solemnized that morning and who
neurosurgeon, was another mem- and an abomination. It has made was given the charge by Rabbi
ber of the attending physicians' a mockery by its phoniness and Adler, also less than hour before
team.
hypocrisy of the beauty and the the shooting—Steven Frank—is the
After Monday's re-operation, the spirit of Judaism.
grandson of two very prominent
following statement was issued on
"It is composed of people, ah, it Detroit couples. Mr. and Mrs. Max
behalf of the attending physicians is composed of people who on the
by Sydney Peimer, Sinai Hospital whole make me ashamed to say I
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administrator, who has been issu- am a Jew.
ing the bulletins in the doctors' be-
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"For the most part . . . (there
half:
was a pause here) . . . it is com-
MORE REPEAT
"The operative site was reexplor- posed of men, women and children
o
CUSTOMERS
SAY:
ed and was debrided of limited who care for and love nothing ex-
amounts of edematous tissue, and cept their own vain egotistical
established the flow of spinal selves. With this act I protest the
fluid. Also ventricular drainage was humanly horrifying and hence un-
instituted as a precautionary meas- acceptable situation. Rabbi . .
ure. A tracheotomy was performed
That's when he turned to Rabbi
to replace the endotrachea tube Adler, first shot him in the left
to assist the management of res- arm, then stepped forward shot
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regained consciousness. The pro-
The Mussaf service was not com-
gnosis is extremely guarded."
pleted, there was pandemonium as
The explanation of the technical the demented lad turned the gun
terms was that bits of brain tissue upon himself and shot himself
WHY
were cut out, having been swollen through his temple.
by blood and other tissue. A drain
NOT
Three physicians who were in
was inserted to relieve _pressure on the worshiping congregation at the
YOU?
the brain.
time — Drs. Bernard Eisenstein,
THE NICEST PEOPLE
Rabbi Adler showed slight im- Morton Hochman and Manuel
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provement Tuesday after the re- Sklar
attended Dr. Adler im-
operation but attending physicians' mediately.
Milt Levin
Allen Charms
prognosis is still "extremely guard-
In the pocket of Richard's
ed." A bulletin stated that "con- jacket, which was left at the
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To keep the world-famous pati-
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tive procedure of tracheotomy was
performed.
Dr. Adler's doctors stated on
Wednesday that "a few small
gains suggest an improving trend,"
but Dr. Gass added: "We do not
any longer expect an hour-by-
hour change, and alterations in I
Rabbi Adler's condition probably •
will be much slower in develop- •
ing."
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day, after being unconscious for
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four days, since he had shot
himself at Shaarey Zedek Sat-
urday morning. There were pri-
vate graveside services at Clover
Hill Park Cemetery at 1 p.m.
Wednesday. Rabbi Irwin Groner
and Cantor Reuven Frankel of-
ficiated.
On Jos. Campau 2 Blocks S. of Davison
Rabbi Groner said in his eulogy
that Richard was "intelligent, an
outstanding student," that he was
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"not only in search of God—he
was in search of himself ... There
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was in him fear and anger. There
was an byss of dread. There was
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Photo shows Rabbi Adler in his
uniform as chaplain in Japan
during World War II.
plete several literary efforts,
among them the editing of the
published works of the late Dr.
Hayim Greenberg, one of world
Jewry's most noted historians and
philosophers.
Rabbi Adler, whose home is at
22522 N. Bellwood Dr., Southfield,
within walking distance of Sha-
arey Zedek, headed many national
commissions. He was honored by
the UAW:CIO, which selected him
as a member of its arbitration
commission and public review
board.
His labors as a member of many
city and state commissions, his
services on the Fair Elections Prac-
tices Commission have served as
guides for action to eliminate dis-
crimination in political campaign-
ing.
He has led in many important
movements, serving as president of
the Zionist Organization of Detroit,
heading the religious commission
of the United Jewish Appeal and
has been among the outstanding
leaders in the country battling for
just civil rights.
Rabbi Adler's "The World of
the Talmud" is one of his publish-
ed works which went into several
additions, including' a paperback.
He was the author of numerous
monograph and magazine ar-
ticles, and his essays were on
matters that aroused discussion
after their appearance in Herit-
age, Bnai Brith monthly literary
magazine.
His "Great Passages of the Tal- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
mud," his first published work, ap- 12—Friday, February 18, 1966
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