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MISS ELLEN-LEE STURMAN
Dr. and Mrs Harry H. Sturman,
12830 Northfield, Oak Park, an-
nounce the engagement of their
daughter Ellen-Lee to Sherwin S.
Newman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles J. Newman, 18104 North-
lawn.
Miss Sturman is a student at
the Detroit Institute of Technology.
Her fiance is a graduate of East-
ern Michigan University and is at-
tending graduate school there. He
is affiliated with Alpha Epsilon Pi
Fraternity.
A Dec. 22 wedding is planned.
Cypriotes Hail 'Miracle'
by Israeli Physicians .
NICOSIA, Cyprus (ZINS) - All
newspapers here are publishing
the story of a little girl who is
recovering from an incurable di-
sease thanks to Israeli physicians.
Twelve-year-old Andrela Krukida,
paralyzed since birth, has begun
to walk with the aid of crutches
following a series of operations in
an Israeli hospital. The residents
of Nicosia regard this as a mir-
acle performed by a Jewish physi-
cian.
Larry Freedman
Orchestra and Entertainment
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An Opera on a I3imah . . Temple Undertaking Mark ed by Anomalies
Julius Chajes received ovations for his opera when Israel was re-
at the'two performances of his new born as the Jewish State. He inter-
opera, "Out of the Desert," for rupted his work and was inspired
to renew it after 18 years when he
which he had composed the music was invited to prepare an opera
especially in honor of the 25th for Temple Israel's 25th anniver-
anniversary of Temple Israel, sary.
The opera commences in the
where the premiere presentations
of his work took place on Sunday desert. It shows the generation
in Pharaoh's time and there is
and Monday evenings.
emphasis on "The Dead of the
Both performances were played Desert" who are reborn with the
to packed houses, and there were rebirth of the State of Israel
standing ovations to composer and This could allegorically remind
singers. Chajes once again evi- the audience of the prophecy of
denced marked ability as a musi- Ezekiel about the dead bones
cian, and he was especially ac- that will come to life in the
claimed for his wise selection of redemption. Whether this is
participants in his new opera. At understandable is, however, ques-
the same time, he gained renewed tionable, since even the printed
admiration for his skill as a direc- synopsis doesn't explain it prop-
tor-havi4g supervised the opera's erly.
performance, the musicians who
There is a love scene marked by
accompanied the singers and espe- a number of solos in the first act,
cially the Kenneth Jewel Chorale,
and there is the action in the
which very ably served as chorus desert • during which impatient
in the work that impressed the Israelites clamor for immediate
audiences.
conquest of Canaan and acquisi-
The opera's singing participants tion of the Promised Land for the
included Cantors Harold Orbach Jews of old. This, too, is rather
and Louis Klein; Annette Chajes, dubious: it needs explaining.
Leo Mogill, Marilyn Cotlow, Sid-
In the final act, presenting first
ney Resnick and Robert Angus. the battle for independence and
Cheryl Bensman had the role of then the acquisition of freedom in
a Yemenite youngster.
Israel, the dead bones come to
Michael Atzmoni Keen wrote the life, those of the desert are re-
libretto. Evelyn Orbach directed united in the new life.
the opera's rehearsals. Joseph Chajes' compositions are strong
Hacker was the producer and Har- and effective. Of the more than
riet Berg the choreographer.
30 songs listed in the program,
The opera's plot linked the gen- however; eight were starred as
erations, from Pharaoh of old to already having been printed. They
the emergence of Israel 18 years are among his previous composi-
ago.
tions that have been included in
Chajes had conceived the idea his new opera.
By MAL ABRAMS
"In accordance with August
Scholle's wishes, the proCeeds
from his tribute dinner will go
toward the establishment of a
perpetual August Scholle Histadrut
Scholarship Fund for underpriv-
ileged teen-age children in the
State of Israel, thus strengthening
the bonds of friendship between
the people of the United States
and the people of Israel." This is
a portion of the resolution passed
by the Common Council of the
City of Detroit.
On Sunday, August Scholle Day,
650 of Michigan's leaders in busi-
ness, politics, labor and religion
gathered at the Latin Quarter to
pay tribute to Gus Scholle, presi-
dent of the state's AFL-CIO, and
to raise money for his Histadrut
Scholarship Fund.
A host of distinguished men
spoke in recognition of the achieve-
ments of Scholle, Histadrut and
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on the temple bimah, during the
observance of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising anniversary, vulgar
dances were performed. Only a
handful of people protested-and
even their protests were rather
meek.
Again, the dance was the theme,
the gun was the instrument of
action, opera was the hymn.
Disregarding the weaknesses in
the operatic performance last Sun.
day evening, the project itself
serves the valuable purpose of
compelling consideration of very
serious issues: does a gun belong
on a bimah? how much leeway
does a congregation give its cantor
to transform traditional hymns
into operatic hazanuth? can a house
of worship condone idolatrous
dances on a sacred bimah?
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Installation of desert scenes,
tents and related properties in
the limited area available on a
temple pulpit that was trans-
formed into a stage attested to
the skill of the director who
supervised the settings. The
lighting also showed some skill.
Of the three acts in the opera,
the first could have been elimi-
nated very easily and the arias
and the love scenes included in
the second act. In fact, it was dif-
ficult to grasp the significance of
the theme at the outset. Perhaps
the smallness of the transformed
stage had something to do with it.
But even the elimination of the
first act would not entirely pro-
vide for a better understanding of
the theme without careful reading
of the synopsis. To repair that
shortcoming, it would have been
well to include a few speaking
voices in the drama. That cer-
tainly would provide for improve-
ments.
* *
Having so extravagantly dis-
tributed bouquets for able artistic
efforts, generously having ac-
counted for serious desires on the
part of the congregation to intro-
duce something unique in a re-
ligious institution's 25th anniver-
sary, there now remains the task
of evaluating the spiritual angles
in the entire undertaking.
How far afield does a synagogue
go to transform its pulpit into a
stage? How acceptable is a hazan
with a gun on a bimah?
How much freedom does a hazan
acquire in introducing operatic
hazanuth in a beth tefillah?
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the State of Israel. The list in-
cluded Mayor Cavanagh, Gov.
Williams, Judge George Edwards,
Sidney M. Shevitz, Gregory J.
Bardacke and Joseph J. Kawalski.
Scholle, who just returned from
Israel, marveled at the progress
the young state has made. The
co-operative system of the kib-
butz, the education program, de-
fense of the country and the spirit
of the people were all extolled in
his speech.
Referring to a woman soldier
he had met on the Syrian
border, Scholle said, "They are
guarding something precious to
themselves, but they are guard-
School Network ; Provides
for 80 Pct. of Mexico Youth
NEW YORK - Eighty per cent
of all Mexican Jewish children are
enrolled in a network of day
schools provided for the entire
community 'both in Mexico_ City and
the two principal provincial cen-
ters, Guadalajara and Monterrey,
where there are sizeable Jewish
populations.
I. Z. Berebichez, secretary-gen-
eral of the Central Jewish Commit-
tee of Mexico, Mexican Jewry's
representative body, reported here
that the high enrollment of ,lewish
children was primarily due to
thorough planning which had been
initiated about two decades ago.
Berebichez, who is attending a
series of World Jewish Congress
meetings in New York, said that
his community had foreseen that
there would be a dearth of qual-
ified Jewish school teachers as a
result of decimation of European
Jewry. The community had then
established a seminary where to-
day '70 young women are being
trained as Jewish teachers. The
Mexican Jewish leader added
that there was one lone male
among the student teachers.
About 6,000 Jewish children are
enrolled in the day-school network,
Ashkenazic and Sephardic, in the
main cities. In all, Mexico has
about 30,000 Jews, and 6,000 chil-
dren are currently obtaining a bi-
lingual education - Spanish-He-
brew or Spanish-Yiddish, accord-
ing to the schools they attend-to-
gether with a thorough grounding
in Jewish history and culture. Some
are trilingual, learning Yiddish,
Spanish and Hebrew.
ing something precious to us
also. They are guarding the
frontier of democracy."
Mayor Cavanagh also had words
of praise for Israel. He said, "In
a dark and troubled corner of
the world, Israel stands out as
an oasis of freedom, opportunity
and enlightenment."
Gregory J. Bardacke, represent-
ing Histadrut, expressed the feel-
ings of the Jewish people for Is-
rael. "It is more than a state of
mind, it is an ideal, a hope -
and many people in many lands
have worked for this hope."
The scholarship which will bear
August Scholle's name will pro-
vide an education each year for
12 underprivileged children. As
Bardacke said in his address,
"Gus, You're a real Israeli!"
Israel Arabs Arrested;
1 Admits Poisoning Well
TEL AVIV (JTA)-Three Israeli
Arabs were arrested Sunday
after one of them admitted putting
deadly insecticides in the well of
the Shadmot Evora Settlement in
the lower Galilee. The youths are
aged 16 to 18. The well was closed
temporarily.
Police were puzzled by the sabo-
tage effort because the Arabs are
residents of a village near the
settlement which has always had
friendly relations with the settle-
ment.
Missouri Teachers College
Students Form Association
WARENSBURG, Mo. (JTA) -
Thirty Jewish students, of 100
Jews enrolled here at the Central
Missouri State Teachers College,
formed a Jewish Student Organi-
zation, hold Sabbath services on
Saturday mornings, once a month,
at the college chapel, and are
drawing up plans for official recog-
nition as a campus body by the
administration of the college.
The students are being aided and
advised by two Jewish members
of the faculty, Dr. Marvin Rimer-
man and Michael Rosenbush and
are being encouraged by other
Jews living in this small commu-
nity, as well as by Jews in nearby
Sedalia.
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