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VOL. L, No. 30
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17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 48235—March 17, 1967
Editorial
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Detroit. Allied Jewish Campaign
Opens Wednesday; Flint to Start
Annual UJA Drive Next Tuesday
Joseph Megdell Again Nained
Chairman of Flint UJA Drive
Jack C. Shaprow, president of the Flint Jewish Community Council,
announced that Joseph Megdell, chairman of Flint's record-breaking 1966 ITJA
Campaign, again will serve as general chairman of the 1967 drive.
• Megdell, dynamic founder and former president of Yankee Stores, is
first vice president of the Flint Jewish Community Council. He is a member
of the National United Jewish Appeal Campaign Cabinet and the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare • Funds Committee on Campaign Services.
He was recently appointed a member of the National Budget and Consultation
Committee of the United Community Funds and Councils of America. He is
immediate past-president of the Urban League of Flint, and in 1962 received
their Man of the Year and Brotherhood Awards.-He is a member of Bnai Brith
and is affiliated with congregation Beth Israel and Temple Beth El.
A large UJA contribu-
tor himself, Megdell an-
nounced • a $25,000 gift in
behalf of the Yankee
Stores' division of the Bor-
man Food Stores at the
annual UJA conference
dinner in New York in De-
cember, w h e n. Governor
Romney was guest speaker.
Megdell . was general
chairman of the 1966 UJA
drive which raised a record
total of $291,000,. and made
Flint one of • the leading
communities in the., nation
in percentage of increase.
The campaign Opening
affairs for both the men's
and women's divisions will
be launched Tuesday.
Rivka Raz, Israeli singing
star of "My Fair Lady,"
and Zvi Kolitz, noted author,
producer of "The Deputy,"
will be featured at both af-
fairs.
Detailed Flint UJA sto-
ries on pages 20 and 23.
Joseph Megdell
Two important community campaigns will open next week in behalf of the
United Jewish Appeal and a large number of local, national and overseas
causes.
Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign, whose goal is $6,000,000, will open at a
meeting at the Jewish Center on Wednesday evening. Philip M. Klutznick, former
international head of Bnai Brith and a former U. S. delegate to the United
Nations, will be guest speaker. Alfred Deutsch is chairman of this year's
campaign. ,
The 'Flint community drive will start • Tuesday evening.
Major beneficiaries of the Detroit campaign) are:
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Overseas agencies: United Jewish Appeal, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, United Hias Service, Hebrew University and Technion.
Detroit agencies: Fresh Air Society, Hebrew Free Loan Association, House of Shelter,
Jewish Community Council, Jewish Community Center, United Hebrew Schools, Jewish
Home for Aged, Jewish Family and Children's Service and• Bellefaire, Jewish Vocational
Service and Community Workshop, Resettlement Service, Sinai Hospital, Shiffman Clinic,
Tamarack Hills Authority.
National agencies: American Association for Jewish Education, American • Jewish
Committee, American Jewish Congress, Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, Bitzaron,
YIVO, SynagogUe Council of America, Bnai Brith National Youth Service Appeal, Council
of Jewish Federations and. Welfare Funds, Dropsie College, Histadrut Ivrit, Jewish Labor
Committee, Jewish Occupational Council, Jewish Publication Society, Jewish Teachers
Seminary, Jewish. War Veterans, National Community - Relations Advisory Council, National
Conference of Jewish Communal Service, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, National
Jewish Welfare Board.
The UJA allocation includes assistance to ORT, Joint. Distribution Committee and New
York Association 'for New Americans.
The educational fund includes allocations to Midrasha, Comb;'-ed. Jewish Schools of
Sholem Aleichem and Arbeiter Ring, Beth Yehuda afternoon schools and Chaim -Greenberg
Hebrew Yiddish -School.
Klutznick will speak at the Detroit public rally which begins at 8:15 p.m. in the Aaron
DeRoy Auditorium of the Community Center. Special invitations have been issued to officers
of Bnai Brith and to presidents of local Jewish organizations, to attend and hear their former
leader. Klutznick will also speak briefly at a dinner for campaign leadership at the Center
Klutznick will also speak• briefly at a. dinner for campaign leadership at the Center just
prior to the kick-off rally. Hyman Safran, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, is
scheduled to open the meeting. The Golden Age Chorus of the Jewish Center, under the
direction of Cantor Nicholas Fenakel, will sing a specially prepared program of choral
numbers at the rally.
Metropolitan division workers will receive their campaign workers kits at a continental
breakfast 10 a.m. Sunday at the Jewish Center.
The linen and laundry drivers section will meet 10:15 a.m. Sunday at the Furniture Club.
Lawrence Gubow, U.S. district attorney, will speak to members of the furniture section
of the mercantile division 10 a.m. at the Jewish Center.
The campaign will close with a victory dinner on May 10.
Trial Merger Undertaken by Livonia Reform, Conservative Synagogues
The boards of directors of the Livonia Jewish Con-
gregation (Conservative) and Temple Beth Am (Reform)
announce a trial merger of the two congregations.
After several meetings; the general membership
__voted to undertake this trial merger to be in effect for a
maximum period of 12 Jnonths, according to a statement
issued by the two congregations.
During this time, they will be able to combine the
many committees and work out mutual arrangements for
operations at all levels. This also pertains to any ritual
differences to be agreed upon to the satisfaction of all
parties.
In 1958, several families newly residing in
Vivonia formed the Livonia Jewish. Congregation under
lay leadership. At first meeting in homes and renting
various local halls for religious services, they later opened
the doors of an old farmhouse on Seven Mile and Osmus
With the combined efforts of lay members and Cantor
Henry J. Blank conducting services.
During the High Holy Days, student rabbis from
the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York City
officiated. Facilities were rented for Sunday school at
a number of local schools. Now located on Six Mile and
Middlebelt, the congregation has a classroom for Sunday
school and a sanctuary.
Temple Beth Am organized in 1960 with lay leader-
ship for the first six months. Later, the services of stu-
dent rabbis were obtained from the Hebrew Union College
in Cincinnatti. In July 1963, Rabbi David Jessel assumed
the pulpit as full-time spiritual leader.
Together, Cantor Blank and Rabbi Jessel will conduct
the first joint service on Purim, March 26, at the LJC
building. Regular Sabbath services on Friday night will
be jointly conducted beginning 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 7.
These congregations operating together are the only
such' Jewish facilities serving Western Wayne County,
Northwestern suburban areas from Lahser Rd. in Detroit
to Ann Arbor. Residents from Birmingham, Bloomfield,,
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Southfield, Oak Park, Redford, -Farmington, Livonia, Gar-
den City and Westland make up the membership.
Rabbi Jessel told The Jewish News that he knows
of two precedents in Michigan for joining a Reform and
Conservative congregation. Whereas the Lansing and
Muskegon congregations hold separate services for Re-
form and Conservative members, however, members of
the two Livonia congregations will hold joint services.
For these services, Rabbi Jessel said, he will attempt
to use prayers from both Reform and Conservative prayer-
books and in some instances will mimeograph portions of
the service. "By. Rosh Hashana, we should know if the
trial merger is going to work," he said.
Another area of concern, although not as serious as
ritual, he said, is the religious schools. Although' Beth Am
school — from kindergarten to 12th grade — has been
under the direction of Rabbi Jessel, the LJC religious
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