Friday, July 22, 1966-25

Stuart Starr to Marry' Joanne Greenberg Janis Saks'Engagement THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Marsha Alpert Dec. 4 Writes 16 Stories
toLesliePinesAnnounced JDC Grants $1,000,000

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in 'Summering'

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The

"The King's Persons," one , of

the most dramatic stories witJ a
forceful Jewish theme, about 12th
century E n g l an d, immediately
established an enviable role as a
brilliant writer for Joanne Green-
berg.
Now, with her book of 16 short
stories, "Summering," published
by Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
her standing as a narrator is
greatly enhanced and she may well

MISS MARSHA ALPERT

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Alpert of
Charlton Sq., Southfield, announce
the engagement of their daughter
Marsha Caryn to Stuart Jared
Starr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Starr of Oak Park Blvd., Oak Park.
Miss Alpert attended the De-
troit Institute of Technology. lier
fiance is a graduate of Wayne
State University.
A Dec. 4 wedding is planned.

Hebrew Schools Attended
by 53 Per Cent of Jewish
Pupils in U.S., Parley Told

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Dr. Wil-
liam Chomsky, faculty chairman
of the Gratz College of Philadel-
phia, asserted here Monday that
only 53 per cent of American Jew-
ish children attend some Jewish
school and that more than. half of
them attend only Sunday school.
Speaking at the 40th anniver-
sary convention of the National
Council for Jewish Education of
the United States, w hi c h is at-
tended by 168 American Jewish
educators, Dr. Chomsky added that
in spite of the low percentage, the
number of young people attending
Jewish high schools and Jewish
t ea c h e r s institutes or studying
Judaica and Hebrew was increas-
ing in the United States.

He said this was "a sign that
in the hearts of American Jews
there still whispers the ember
of Jewish consciousness."

The American Jewish educator
also asserted that American Jewry
was paying only "lip service" to
Jewish education. "Amid all their
fine talk about the value of Jew
ish education," he charged, "the
Jewish federations continue to sup-
port it stingily to the extent of only
10 per cent of their total expendi-
ture."
The convention which opened
last weekend is scheduled to last
two weeks. Its theme is "50 Years
of Jewish Education in the United
States—Retrospect and Prospect."

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to Yeshivot in Israel

be considered among the best
short story writers of our time.
The title for the book is taken
from the final of the 16 stories. It
is a deeply moving tale, about a
child in need of friendship, about
a search for warmth and the acqui-
sition of a human touch that be-
comes so vital in delineating kind-
liness, especially to children.
"Summering' is a collection with
many motivations. The Jewish
girl's experience as a waitress
among Indians, the life in an In-
dian environment by a young girl
who, while passing a bakery on
Yom Kippur, is nearly overcome
by the sweet smell of fresh bak-
ing, the numerous other emotional
aspects of life among many peo-
ples—Jews and non-Jews, white
and colored—all combine to make
this a great collection of splen-
didly written narratives.
There is one story that will, how-
ever, cause concern. Entitled
"Feinberg Returns," the hero has a
dream. He is in Jerusalem. He
pleas with "rabbis" for the life of
"the Messiah." It is as if "the rab-
bis" left it mercilessly to the Ro-
mans to do with Jesus as the
Romans pleased. It is not historic-
ally true.
The author goes to great lengths
"to predict" (in retrospect) that
there would be many followers
for this "Messiah," that he was
producing a great movement. All
well and good! But that could have
been done without resenting "rab-
bis" roles as if there really had
been a Sanhedrin that condoned
crucifixion. From this point of
view one of the stories renders a
disservice.
Otherwise Jo anne Greenberg
(who "lives with her husband and
two small sons on top of a moun-
tain where, when she faces a par-
ticular direction, she can see the
sky and the ranges of the moun-
tains to the limits of the horizon")
has produced a volume that mea-
sures up with her previous excel-
lent writings.

Famous Portrait Painter

Vittorio Matteo Corcos, 19th Cen-
tury Italian Jewish artist, was one
of the leading portrait painters of
his time with many of the major
figures of European royalty sit-
ting for him.

Joint
Distribution Committee is giving
grants totaling $1,000,000 to 130
yeshivot in Israel this year, or
about 15 per* cent of their total
budget, Rabbit Leo Jung of New
York, speaking for the JDC, an-

BLOCH-ROSE AUXILIARY will
hold a membership meeting 8:15

Dr. Aaron Greenbaum, the JDC
consultant on yeshivot, stressed a
relatively new development en-
couraged by the JDC, the transfer

For the HY Spot
Of Your Affair

p.m. Tuesday at the Oak Park
Community Center. There will be
early-bird prizes, followed by a
nounced.
lecture on money management giy-
Jung said these yeshivot were at- en by Detroit Bank and Trust Co.
tended by more than 15,000 stu- Prospective members are welcome.
dents or 90 per cent of all the For information, call Fern Seltzer,
546-5875.
yeshiva students in the country.

MISS JANIS SAKS

At a cocktail party in their Oak
Park home, Mr. and Mrs. Milton
M. Saks of Morton Ave. announced
the engagement of their daughter
Janis Faye to Leslie Mark Pines,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Pines of Majestic Rd., Oak Park.

Hadassah Opens Classes
in Industrial Electronics
for Israel Industry Boom

JERUSALEM—At the request of
Israel's ministry of education, Ha-
dassah has opened the country's
first classes - in industrial elec-
tronics.
To accommodate this new proj-
ect, Hadassah has earmarked
$60,000 for expansion of its Bran-
deis Vocational Center, which in-
cludes a fine mechanics and
precision instruments workshop
and a printing workshop.
The Brandeis center already has
a one-year course in radio and
TV electronics, but this special
four-year course will be an ad-
vanced-level program.
This newest addition is dictated
by technological progress in
Israel. It will train technicians for
electronic equipment used today
in research and industry and pro-
vide skilled manpower for the
budding electronic equipment pro-
duction field.

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