THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 10, 1967-17
Community-Wide Testinionial Dinner
Planned for Rabbi Benjamin Gorrelick
Beth Aaron Synagogue will honor
Rabbi Benjamin H. Gorrelick, its
spiritual leader, at a community-
wide testimonial dinner April 9,
it was announced by Sam Lober-
man, president of the congregation.
Rabbi Gorrelick recently re-
RABBI BENJAMIN GORRELICK
ceived an honorary doctor of divin-
ity degree from the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of America, con-
ferred upon him for his 34 years
of service as a rabbi and for his
contribution to Judaism and to the
communities which he has served.
Rabbi Gorrelick, ordained at the
Jewish Theological Seminary,
served congregations in Boston and
Albany and was director of edu-
cation at Shaarey Zedek before as-
suming the Beth Aaron pulpit in
1950. During World War II he
served as chaplain of the U. S.
Army in the European Theater and
was engaged in rescue and reha-
bilitation work with displaced per-
sons.
An organizer of Hillel Day
School, Rabbi Gorrelick is chair-
man of the Leadership Teachers'
Training Institute of the Midrash
and has headed the Synagogue
Adult Institute. He is on the boards
of the United Hebrew Schools, the
Zionist Organization of Detroit and
the Jewish Community Council.
Jerome Silberman is the dinner
chairman with Morris Ginsberg as
dinner co-chairman. The dinner is
being sponsored by the congrega-
tion, the men's club, headed by
Joe Medwed, and the sisterhood,
whose president is Mrs. Morris
Ginsberg. A cocktail reception will
precede the dinner, and dancing
will follow. For reservations, call
Beth Aaron, UN 1-5222, or Dr. Mar-
vin Last, UN 2-4464 or 356-4461.
JNF Planning
Purim Appeals
The Jewish National Fund has
called upon the synagogues of De-
troit and out-state again to con-
duct the traditional Purim appeal
for Shalakh Monos to the JNF for
land reclamation and the planting
of trees in Israel. The call, ad-
dressed to the spiritual and lay
synagogue leaders, was issued by
Phillip Stollman and Harry Cohen,
co-chairmen of the JNF religious
groups committee.
Purim this year will begin with
the reading of Megila Esther in
all synagogues Saturday evening,
March 25. The Megila reading
will be repeated Sunday morning,
March 26. Rabbis have already in-
formed the JNF that they will
dedicate their Saturday morning
sermons preceding Purim to the
work of Jewish National Fund.
They will also make the special
appeal to their congregants before
the reading of the Megila Satur-
day evening.
Stollman and Cohen expressed
confidence in a "most favorable
response of Detroit and Michigan
Jewry to the call for Shalakh
Monos to reclaim and reafforest
more of the land of Israel, thereby
also providing work for more new
settlers, for which they are paid
by the JNF."
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Isaac Leeser—Pioneer in Establishing
A Rabbinical Seminary in America
• ezuza is Soviet
Officer's Gift to
Israel Museum
• The rare silver mesuza which
had been in Germany during World
War II was now presented to the
Israel Museum, Jerusalem — in
the name of a high Soviet officer.
, The officer headed one of the
Soviet army columns which en-
tered Berlin at the end of the
war. At a museum in the German
Capital he discovered a beautiful
Silver mezuza. He took it with him
and tried for years to send it to
Jerusalem. The mezuza arrived
flow at the Israel Museum after
wandering through many coun-
tries.
The silver mezuza had been
Made in Russia nearly a hundred
years ago, in 1873. Its measures
are extraordinarily large, being
nine inches (25 cm) long and two
inches (5 cm) wide. The parch-
ment roll in it has a big and clear
writing and is undamaged to this
very day. The mezuza has two
shutters closing on a little window
and it is decorated with pillars,
vases, birds and a crown. At the
Israel Museum it was placed near
other 18th and 19th century me-
zuzot—the most peculiar of them
being one made of porcelain in
Germany 200 years ago.
According to a statement in its
most recent catalogue, the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion is "the first successful
rabbinic school in America."
However, while the college-in-
stitute, founded in 1875, is the
oldest permanent school of its type
in the country, Miamonides College,
founded 100 years ago in Philade-
lphia by Isaac Lesser, actually
represents the first attempt to es-
tablish an American Jewish theol-
ogical seminary.
Numerous documents at the
American Jewish Archives on the
Cincinnati campus of the HUC-JIR
deal with this project.
In 1867, worn and haggard from
a life of vigorous service to Ameri-
can Jewry, Isaac Lesser, hazzan of
Philadelphia's Beth-El Emeth Con-
gregation, began to devote his last
energies to the creation of an
American Jewish theological
seminary.
The school was to be called
Maimonides College, and Leeser,
who had worked so hard and
with such ingenuity to build an
affirmative Jewish life with e
United States, was to be its pro-
vost. As early as 1864, he had
stimulated prominent Philadel-
phia laymen like Abraham Hart,
Moses Dropsie and Isidore Bins-
wanger to labor "for the purpose
of founding a college for the
education of youth for the Jew-
ish ministry."
The Rev. Mr. Leeser knew the
needs of American Jewry. As early
as 1843$ he fathered the first
significant American Jewish peri-
odical, The Occident, and he also
wrote and translated numerous
textbooks for Jewish education.
His translation of the Hebrew
Bible into English emancipated
American Jews from dependence
on Christian versions. Through his
magazine and his books, Leeser
sought tirelessly to reach even the
most isolated Jews and to make
Jewish knowledge available to all.
Leeser's dream of Maimonides
College proved to be rich in dis-
appointment. When the school
opened in the fall of 1867, it was
immediately beset with problems.
Finances were far harder to come
by than Leeser had hoped, nor did
the new institution arouse suf-
ficient student interest.
Organization troubles smoth•
ered Leeser's pioneering effort,
and by 1873 the lights of Mai-
monides College had gone out.
Still, through his attempt, Leeser
had paved the way for the Hebrew
Union College, which, under the
guidance of Isaac M. Wise, would
shortly become, in 1875, the first
lasting American Jewish theologi-
cal seminary.
Max Lerner to Speak
at Bnai Moshe March 21
The Jewish News regrets it er-
roneously listed the date of the
speaking appearance of Max Ler-
ner at Cong. Bnai Moshe. Lerner
will speak on "Is American Civili-
zation Healthy or Sick" 8:30 p.m.
March 21 in the synagogue audi-
torium.
British Causes Aided
The Conference on Jewish Mate-
rial Claims Against Germany last
year allocated $192,000 for educa-
tional, research, publication and
communal rehabilitation projects in
England.
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