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MIRIAM R. EPHRAIM, retired
director of program services of
the National Jewish Welfare
Board, will assume the post of
director of the World Federation
of YMHAs and Jewish Community
Centers on July 1, Mrs. Hugo Dal-
sheimer of Baltimore, president
of the World Federation, an-
nounced. Miss Ephraim succeeds
Rabbi Philip Goodman. The feder-
ation includes 16 countries of
North and South America, Europe,
Australia, Asia and Africa. JWB
is the American member of the
federation. Miss Ephraim who re-
tired in June 1965, after serving
JWB for 20 years, was the first
winner this year of the Florence
G. Heller Award for "a distinguish-
ed career of professional contribu-
tion in JWB's fields of work."

Friday, June 28, 1968-33
Cynthia Geller Engaged THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
to Mr. Ronald Grossman Israel Conflict Over New Technical College

RABBI JACOB P. RUDIN, pres-
ident of the Synagogue Council of
America, delivered the invocation
on Solidarity Day, June 19, at the
Lincoln Memorial. He called on
the nation to "heed the hungry
who cry out from the depths of
their bitterness." He stressed that
there was no need for hunger in
a land so rich and 'no need for a
chasm between men." He said the
gap was "deep and growing deep-
er, dangerous and growing more
dangerous."
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Tora convocations for Jewish
military personnel on duty with
the U.S. Air Force in the Far
East — Hawaii, Guam, the Phil-
ippines, Taiwan, Okinawa and
'Japan — will be conducted July
MISS CYNTHIA GELLER
11 - Aug. 4 by RABBI S. GER-
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Mr. and Mrs. Sam Geller of
SHON LEVI, vice president of the
Dundee Rd. Huntington Woods, an-
MRS. LEONARD M. SIMS, 15460 Rabbinical assembly. The spiritual nounce the engagement of their
Meyers, has been appointed na- leader of the Jamaica, N.Y., Jew- daughter Cynthia Ann to Ronald
tional chairman of the laws com- dsh Center, Rabbi Levi has visited
David Grossman, son of Mr. and
mittee of Bnai Brith Women for a number of U.S -. military instal-
a three-year term. The com- lations over the years as a mem- Mrs. Eugene Grossman of Snow-
den Rd.
mittee reviews and recommends ber of the JWB Commission on
Miss Geller is a student at
constitution and policy changes for Jewish Chaplaincy.
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Wayne State University. Her
Bnai Brith women. A former inter-
SOL M. LINOWITZ, United fiance is a graduate of the Amer-
national president of Bnai Brith
Women, Mrs. Sims has been a States Ambassador to the Organiza- ican Academy of Dramatic Arts
member of the Bnai Brith Interna- tion of American States, and VIC- in New York.
An October wedding is planned.
tional Council. She has been na- TOR BORGE, noted Danish-Ameri-
tional membership chairman and can entertainer, have been named
national Anti-Defamation League co-chairmen for an American Jew-
chairm an.
ish community's Salute to Denmark
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and Sweden next October. The
salute
will commemorate the
KARL HERMANN KNOCKE
will be West Germany's new Am- twenty-fifth anniversary of the
bassador to Israel, succeeding Dr. rescue of Danish Jews from the
Rolf Pauls. The Israeli govern- Nazis in October, 1943. Mrs. HER-
The opening of the New World
ment has conveyed its acceptance BERT H. LEHMAN will serve as to Spain and Portugal in the early
of Knocke to the West German honorary co-chairman.
part of the 16th Century had re-
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Foreign Office. He will take up
percussions on art as well as poli-
MRS. CHARLES R. FOX, of tics. It not only paved the way
his new post in August. Knocke,
ambassador to the Netherlands, 16790 Stanmoor, Livonia, has been for Iberian colonialism in the
was an officer in the German appointed Michigan state represen- Americas; it also gave rise to
army during the Second World tative for UNICEF according to some of the most spectacular
War, but informed sources said, an announcement by the U.S. Com- painting, sculpture, and architec-
was never a Nazi Party member. mittee for UNICEF. Mrs. Fox has ture in the Western Hemisphere—
been coordinator of the UNICEF a blend of European and native
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fund-raising program in Livonia.
elements known as Latin Ameri-
SIDNEY SPITZ announced he
can Baroque and Rococo.
will seek the Democratic nomina-
tion to the Wayne County Board Schweitzer's Classic
. That this tradition is no longer
of Supervisors in the 10th district
considered a weak imitation of
`Bach'
in
Paperback
in the Aug. 6 primary. Spitz pres-
European forms is largely due
ently serves on the 130 member
Though Albert Schweitzer is to the efforts of pioneer historians
board of Supervisors, which will be chiefly remembered as a humani- like Pal Kelemen. His lavishly-
dissolved when the paired-down 26 tarian, he was also one of the illustrated, two volume work,
member board takes office Jan; 1. world's greatest musicologists. As "Baroque and Rococo in Latin
He serves on the roads and bridges, early as 1899, while studying the America," conclusively proved
taxation and apportionment, hu- organ, he surprised his teacher by that these styles were not only
man relations and vice-chairman resolving some important problems European phenomena. This en-
of the Port Committee, also the connected with J. S. Bach's use grossing book, the first systematic
Port Channel All-American Sub of melody in chorale preludes. study of colonial Latin American
Committee. He is an active Old "Why," asked his teacher, Charles art ever written, is now available
Marie Widor, "these sometimes al- from Dover in a revised, paper-
Newsboys Goodfellow.
most excessively abrupt antitheses back edition.
of feeling? The more I study them
In addition to correcting the
the less I understand them." And text,
Mr. Kelemen has written a
Schweitzer replied, "Naturally,
new preface to the Dover edition.
many things must seem obscure to
you, for the reason that they are
only explicable by the texts pre- Famous 'Lost Painting'
taining to them."
Schweitzer, it seems, had mem- to Be Home at Last
orized the actual poems used by
The Museum and Library of
Bach as texts for the pieces. As Medical History in Tel Aviv will
soon as he translated them into be the permanent home of a valu-
French for Widor, the mysteries able masterpiece with a checkered
were solved. Thereafter, he im- past, thanks to Dr. Leon Kolb of
parted to his -teacher a whole new San Francisco, a noted collector
understanding of the master, one of medical art. The painting's story
which encompassed both Bach the is told in APF News, the official
poet and Bach the contrapuntist. publication of the American Phy-
And, at Widor's suggestion, he sicians Fellowship, Inc.
wrote a little essay on the subj
ect
In the fall of 1953, Dr. Kolb vis-
for the benefit of the French or- ited an auction house in San Fran-
ganists. He also added brief re- cisco and, while walking through
marks on the nature of the Ger- the cellar, noticed a dilapidated
man chorale and church music in painting which was about to be
Bach's day.
thrown into the incinerator. Dr.
The little essay grew into an Kolb, recognizing the portrait as
epitome which became a book that an unusual and excellent work of.
ranks — along with Spitta — as art, bought it, had it restored and
MISS IRIS MEYERS
the most authoritative study of the hung it on a wall in his library.
Mr. and Mrs. Nat Meyers of Cin- master ever prepared. This book,
After a year of searching, Dr.
cinnati announce the engagement "J. S. Bach," has been reprinted
Kolb, who had always felt that
of their daughter Iris to David by Dover in two volumes paper-
the face in the painting was fa-
Gimbel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mi- backs. The Dover edition is an un-
miliar, noticed a similar face
abridged
reprinting
of
the
first
chael Gimbel of Southfield Rd.,
among his hundreds of medical
English edition which was trans-
Southfield.
historical woodcuts.
lated by Ernest Newman,
The bride-elect received her
It was the face of Vesalius, the
bachelors degree from the Univer-
Kadesh Barnea
father
of anatomy and the founder
sity of Cincinnati and her MA on
Kadesh Barnea is one of a score
a grant from Northwestern Univer- of oases in the Sinai wilderness. It of scientific medicine (1564-1614).
The painting, by J. C. Hammon-
sity. Her fiance received his BS
was a camping site for the Israel- and was exhibited in 1849 at the
degree from Wayne State Univer- ites on
their journey from Egypt. annual Brussels exhibition but,
sity.
Now" Bedonin tribe's 'make use of after its sale for 10,000 gold francs.
An Oct. 19 wedding is planned. the spring waters - there.
it disappeared.

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — An an- new technical college. Holon and
nouncement by the Israel Treasury Beersheba have large immigrant
that the country will need a new populations.
technical college to train an esti-
FOR THE BEST IN
mated 1,600 engineers required
MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT
over the next decade has raised
a sharp controversy. The 56-year-
old Haifa Technion, Israel's only
And His Orchestra
institute of technology, has pro-
tested the plan for a rival institute.
DI 1-1609
The Technion, founded in 1912,
said it could train the required
engineers if it were given suf-
ficient funds. But the townships
of Holon, south of Tel Aviv, and 14
- rk
Beersheba, plan and each has
offered to assist in obtaining land
and financing for the proposed

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