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Calls Halt to Automatic Promotions

A procedure of automatic pro-
motion of students has been ended
by the religious school of Temple
Beth El, Windsor, which hereafter

Current and past presidents of Cong. Beth Moses and its affiliates
Rho gathered for a group picture at the synagogue's recent dedica-
cation banquet are (from left) standing: Harry Shiovitz, Jerome L.
Kohn, Sheldon Manson and Sol Goodman, men's club presidents;
Itabbi A. Irving Schnipper; President Franklin L. Levy; Benjamin
Kinzer, Hy Kinzer, Dr. David Silver and Dr. Manuel Feldman, all
past congregation presidents; and Kalman Brass, dedication weekend
chairman. Seated: Mesdames William Naftaly, Harry Shiovitz, Mau-
rice Blumenthal and Julius Feldman, sisterhood presidents; Mrs.
Schnipper; Samuel Wilner, Edward Waldman and Franklin L. Levy,
Sisterhood presidents. Not pictured are congregation past presidents
Isadore Silverman, David Steinman and Herman Sussman; men's club
past presidents Max Marshak, Joseph Katz and Aaron Katzman;
Sisterhood past presidents Mesdames Harold Eskovitz, Albert Heide-
man and Joseph Katz; and ladies auxiliary past president, Mrs.
Mary Kahan.

MEN'S CLUBS

TEMPLE BETH EL MEN'S
CLUB will hear Irving L Katz,
temple executive secretary and
historiographer of the Jews of
Michigan, present a series of five
lectures on "Michigan's 'Our
Crowd' " at the Sunday Morning
Breakfast Club and Discussion
Group. At 10 a.m. Sunday, Katz
will discuss "Michigan's Territor-
ial Governor and His Jewish
Friends." Other topics are "An
Early American Rabbi and His
Detroit Family," Jan. 5; "Mich-
igan's First and Only Jewish Con-
gressman," Jan. 12; "Michigan's
Flint and Only Jewish State
Supreme Court Juistice," Jan. 26;
and "First Jewish Graduate From
Wayne State University," Feb. 2.
Avery Fisher is chairman of the
breakfast club and ' discussion
group.
The club is holding a series of fire-
side seminars at the homes of
members, led by Dr. Richard C.
Hertz. The subjects yet to be dis-
cussed are: "Israel's Future: Has
Reform Judaism A Place There?"
8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the• home
of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley H. Levy,
5385 Bywood, Bloomfield Hills;
"The Faces of Democracy: Is
Negro Anti-Semitism on the Rise?"
8:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Canvasser,
13 Cambridge, Pleasant Ridge; and
"The Synagogue: What Changes
for Tomorrow in the Suburbs?"
8:30 p.m., March 19, at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart A. Graff,
7174 Glen Grove, Birmingham. Dr.
Levy is chairman of the men's
club home seminars.
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SHAAREY ZEDEK MEN'S
CLUB will sponsor its annual
Hanuka dinner-dance 6:30 p.m.
Sunday at the synagogue. Follow-
ing dinner, entertainment will fea-
ture the Shaarey Zedek Men's
Club Chorus. The candle-lighting
ceremony will be led by Cantor
Jacob Sonenklar, and dancing will
be to the music of Larry Fried-
man's orchestra. For reservations,
call the Shaarey Zedek office,
357-5544.
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GOODFELLOWSHIP MEN'S
CLUB, and its ladies' auxiliary,
have voted to merge and, known
as the Goodfellowship Club, will
meet biweekly on Wednesday eve-
nings at Lutzker Hall. Officers to
be installed are president, Al Ma-
gitz; vice president, Sophie Finkel;
secretaries, Rae Kaufman and
Gertrude Bloom; treasurer, Ben
Milstein; trustees, Joe Rosson and
Jack Schecter; and hospitalers,
Mary Bednarsh and Morris Albert.

Youth Group. For reservations
call Harry Shiovitz, 535-0952 or
Sheldon Manson, 531-3760.
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ALPHA ZETA OMEGA PHAR-
MACEUTICAL FRATERNITY will
hold a Hanuka square dance 7:30
p.m. Saturday at Northgate East
Apartments. For reservations, call
Mrs. Max Millman, 356-8615.
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BNAI MOSHE MEN'S CLUB will
hold a New Year's Eve dinner-
dance in the social hall, beginning
9 p.m. A full course dinner will be
served, along with breakfast and
drinks. For reservations, call the
synagogue office, LI 8-9000.

Air pollution and smoking are
chief causes of chronic bronchitis,
which affects about one out of five
men between the ages of 40 and 60.

Benjamin reported. "To continue
with his class, the student" who
is not promoted "will be required
to complete a supervised assign-
ment over the summer months."
The student who misses a year
or more of study may continue on
with his class "when he satisfac-
torily compiles an assignment
based upon the work he missed.'

Inaugurate New Course
to Train Ulpan Teachers

NEW YORK—An eight-week, 16-
hour course to train teachers in
conducting ulpan courses in He-
brew will be sponsored by the de-
partment of education and culture
of the Jewish Agency-American

will require evidence of satisfac-
Section, it was announced by Dr.
tory scholastic progress as a con-
A. P. Gannes, director.
dition for promotion.
The course will be held in Janu-
Rabbi Robert M. Benjamin re-
ary, and will be conducted by
ported that the temple's board of
Aharon Rosen of the Hebrew Uni-
religious education had adopted
versity, Jerusalem, an expert in
the new regulations in "an attempt
the training of ulpan teachers who
to convey the idea that what we
is
now serving as a member of the
It is good to be without vices, but
are doing is serious and that stan- it is not good to be without temp- staff of the department of educa-
dards must be maintained."
tations. —Walter Bagehot. tion and culture.
He reported that the problems
Friday, December 13, 1968-29
hampering the Jewish education THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
provided by the school included
inadequate textbooks, insufficent
classroom s p a c e, inadequately
trained teachers and student in-
We Specialize
difference. He said there was little
the religious school could do about
in gifts for
the textbooks and that in recent
years, "our school has come to be
Boys
and Men.
the largest Jewish religious school
in the city," that it was almost cer-
With
our huge
tain that this "upward trend will
continue" and that, corresponding-
selection of
ly for some time, the school would
have to operate without adequate
space.
He added that school officials
were acting to get better teaching
personnel by "making an effort
to train teachers in a professional
manner."
Rabbi Benjamin said attitudes
you are assured
of some students were in con-
tradiction to the temple's posi-
of
happy gift-giving
tion that the religious school
was both "serious and vital" and
for HIM for Hanuka .
he added that the school was
not operating a "baby sitting
service." He said some students
attend because parents insist.
Each year promotion to the next
grade is automatic. Progress re-
ports are written and then dis-
of HARVARD ROW
carded."
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"If, at the end of the year, the
student has not fulfilled the re-
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