Ti nt Community News
Noreen Kasle Engaged
to Arnold S. Schafer
MISS NOREEN KASLE
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kasle of
Flint announce the engagement of
their daughter Noreen Laura to
Arnold Stewart Schafer. A June 30
wedding date has been chosen by
Miss Kasle and her fiance, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Sol Schafer, also of
Flint.
Robert Marc Abram,
Flint Attorney, Dead
Robert Mark Abram, past presi-
dent of the Flint Chapter, Ameri-
can Trial Lawyers Association and
. a member of the board of the
Flint Urban League, died Aug. 31
at age, 33.
Mr. Abram, who was born in De-
troit, was a graduate of Michigan
State University in 1954 and Wayne
State University's law school in
1957. He worked in the mortgage
division of the American Savings
and Loan Association in Detroit
until opening law offices in Flint
in 1958. He was a, partner in the
law firm of Leitson, Dean, Dean,
Abram, Segar and Hart.
A member of Flint's Temple
Beth El, Mr. Abram also was a
member of the American, Michigan
and . Genesee County bar associa-
tions, National Lawyers Guild, Am-
erican Arbitration Association and
the Pheonix Club.
Surviving are his wife, Barbara; I
a son, Matthew; a daughter Wendy
Sue; his parents, Mr:rand Mrs. Har-
ry Abram of Oak Park; and a sis-
ter, Mrs. Richard Schaefer of South-
field.
Comings ...
and
... Goings
Youth on the Move
United Synagogue Youth will
conduct a membership drive, "Op-
eration White Knight," Sept. 24.
Ilissa Kramer, Martin Natchez,
Debbie Levy and Annette Weston
are chairmen.
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Michigan State Temple Youth
officers' retreat this year will be
at Clear Lake Camp this weekend.
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College days have begun at the
University of Michigan for Ellen
Katz, Phyllis Hurwitz, Shirley Ler-
ner and Valerie Scho. Elayne Ris-
kin is leaving for Eastern Michigan
University and Scott Feller is on
his way to Cornell. Bud Rosenberg
will be going to Central Michigan
and Mike Alexander, Pola Sorkin
and Brian Polisky will attend Flint
Community Junior College.
• • •
Judy Gotlib ; daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Benzion Gotlib, has completed
her sophomore year at the Uni-
versity of Michigan and is taking
her junior year at the . Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.
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Martin Edward Weisberger. son
of Dr. and Mrs. 14. Warren Weis-
berger, will be called to the Tora
for his Bar Mitva 9 a.m. Saturday
at Cong. Beth Israel.
Gilbert Rubensteins
Joseph Gordon, Age 64; on UJA Survey Tour
Forty young Jewish community
Owned Sanitary Supply
leaders from 14 American cities
will fly to Israel Sunday for a
two-week survey of post - war condi-
tions in that country. The mission
is sponsored by the Young Leader-
ship Cabinet of the United Jewish
Appeal, and each participant will
pay his own way.
Representing Flint are Mr. and
Mrs. Gilbert Y. Rubenstein. Ruben-
stein, UJA chairman for the Flint
Jewish Community Council. served
three years as president. This year
he has served' as emergency col-
lection chairman for the Council.
An attorney, partner in the law
firm of Hoffman and Rubenstein,
he is a past president of the Gen-
esee County Bar Association and
a member of the state and Ameri-
Moshe Giskan Heads
can hal...associations. He is also
Beth Israel School
chairman of the Lawyers' Section
Cong. Beth Israel's Religious of the Red Feather Drive.
Joseph Gordon, owner of Sani-
tary Supply Co., which he founded
in Flint 27 years ago, died Sept.
6 at age 64. .
Mr: Gordon, who was born in
Russia, lived in Detroit before
coming to Flint. He belonged to
Cong. Bnai Israel, Bnai Brith and
the Elks.
Surviving are his wife, Minnie;
two sons, Kenneth and Richard:
his mother, Mrs. Bessie Gordon of
Detroit; a brother, Martin; and
four sisters, Mrs. William (Lottie)
* 'Oppenheim of Jackson, Miss., Ruth
and Belle of Detroit and Mrs. Kurt
(Rae) Liebenthal of Cincinnati.
School has a new principal, Moshe
A. Giskan.
Maurice Leavitt Dies;
Giskan, born in Jerusalem, came
to the United States in 1949. After Was Flint Fuel Dealer
Maurice Leavitt, 84, a retired
service in the army, Giskan at-
tended Columbia University and Flint fuel dealer, died Saturday
the Jewish Tehological Seminary in Tampa.
Teachers InStitute, where he re-
ceived his teacher's license. He
has been educational director in
Alabama and Connecticut. He holds
a master's degree in religious edu-
cation and has completed other
educational courses.
He is - married and has two chil-
dren.
Mr. Leavitt, .a native of Russia.
had operated the former Genesee
Coal and Ice Co. in Flint for about
30 years before retiring and mov-
ing to Tampa.
He leaves two sons, Harold J. of
Flint and•Dr. Alfred Leavitt, Grand
Rapids; nine grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren. -
2 L.A. Reform Temples. Plan Merger, Sanctuary
LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Temple the merged congregation. Temple
Israel of Westchester and Beth Ohr Beth Ohr currently does not have
of Inglewood, both Reform syna- a rabbi.
gogues, have announced plans to
Hadassah's opening meeting of merge. The merged temples will
the season will be held 12:30 p.m. be located at the present site of
Sept. 20 at Cong. Beth Israel. Pro- Temple Israel. Ground will soon
gram chairman Mrs. Harry Sher- be broken there for a new sanctu-
win is planning a preview of corn- ary. Rabbi Mordecai I. Soloff, rabbi
ing events in a skit "This Is the of Temple Israel for the past 15
Year That Is". Participants will years, will be spiritual leader for
be Mesdames Peter Kronick, Stan
The world is my country, all
ley Kaller, Marshall Cossman, Leon
mankind are by brethren, and to
Rosky and Harry Sherwin.
do good is my religion.
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For the Ultimate in
Beth Israel Sisterhood chairman
Fine Photography
Mrs. Francis Hertz and Mrs. Isa-
Now . . .
There Can Be No
dore Sugarman announce the fall
rummage sale will be held Sept.
There Are
Compromise With Detail
26 and 27 at the synagogue.
Two
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Corners .
11 is the extra "Little
Temple Beth El Sisterhood board
heard Mrs. Marshall Miller, past
On
Things" we give which
president of Michigan Federation
Livernois
are so much appreciated.
of Temple Sisterhoods, at an in-
With
doctrination meeting Sept. 12. The
general membership heard her at
Internationale
the first meeting of the season
Fashions !
that afternoon. The Grand Blanc
circle hosted the luncheon meeting.
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Bnai Brith's Mixed Doubles
League is in full swing. Heading
studio of photography
the committee are Sam Gershinzon,
Harry Mills and Ted Vinacow.
19492 Livernois Avenue
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UN 2-0660
Beth Israel Sisterhood and the
Ann Lebster Chapter of Hadassah
UN 2-0200
are inaugurating a joint 'study
19301 Livernois nr. 7
group to be led by Rabbi Hillel
Milgram three Tuesdays a month
EMILY BROWN, Bridal Consultant
at the BelliSrael _Synagogue and
the fourth Tuesday in the form of
a luncheon meeting at the home of
a member.
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WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY:
Rabbi Greenebaum will ask "Do
You Do the Twist?" at services
Now that things have quieted down and our beautiful wedding party is
8:30 p.m. today at Temple Beth El.
over, we hove been saying that it would not have been so if not for
Group Calendar
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Goldman
and their family have moved to
Grand Blanc from Detroit.
Mr. and Mrs. George Stone are
leaving Flint for New. York.
Mark Voight has finished his
service in the Reserves and is now
residing in Detroit.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Buckler
celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary Sept_ 4. Pamily and
close friends attended a dinner in
their honor at their home on La-
peer Rd.
There was a reunion of the
Marty Gordon family last week-
end. Harvey was back from a sum-
mer of counseling at Camp Nahelu,
Judy was in from Chicago and
Nancy was getting ready to leave
for school.
Abbe Hirsch is bidding Flint
farewell; she's going to live in
Miami.
Friday, September 15, 1967-27
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Engagements
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Barkman of
Flint announce the engagement of
their daughter Judith Ann of De-
troit to Leonard Poger, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Yale Poger, also of De-
troit. Mr. Poger is managing editor
of the Garden City-Westland Ob-
server. Miss Barkman teaches in
the Lamphere Public Schools,
Madison Heights. An April wed-
ding is planned.
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Marriages
WEINSTEIN -LARSON :, At
Northwest Temple. Nashville.
Tenn., Sheldon Weinstein and
Vickie Larson were united in mar-
riage recently. The bridegroom's
best man was his brother, Ernie.
Both sets of parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Weinstein and Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Larson, flew down
to attend the wedding.
53,500 Jews Aided
by Hias Service
United Hias Service provided
rescue, resettlement and related
services last year to approximately
53.500 Jewish men, women and
children, Carlos L. Israels, presi-
dent, stated in the agency's 1966;
annual report. More than 8,800 of
these people were assisted to re - 1
r settle in the United States and
I other Western countries.
During the past year, the active
caseload of persons regiStered to
emigrate reached 23,608; pre-
migration services in the United
States and Latin America were ren-
dered to 16,319 relatives and spon-
sors of prospective migrants; 3,030
were aided in the United States
with such post-migration services
as naturalization, adjustment of
status, and prevention of deporta-
tion and jeopardy; 1,549 persons
were located throughout the world
and, in Latin America, 158 mi-
grants who arrived in prior years
received agency assistance.
The cost of .the agency's world- .
wide operations for the year,
Israels stated, amounted to 52,250,-
334 and resulted in a net•cumula-
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