Meth Mose's 14esidents Cited Windsor's Beth El Religious Scfiool ' 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. • • • 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. • • • 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. • • • 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. • * • 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." 11 Mile & Lahser "If, at the end of the year, the student has not fulfilled the re- Security OPEN EVES TO 8:30 quirements to the satisfaction of SUNDAY 11 TO 4 Michigan Bankard the teacher and the board, he will Charges 353-1027 • not be promoted to the next grade" under the new regulations, Rabbi Nationally Advertised Merchandise . • • THE • OGGERY ARIBIESSIEREFIEF 13ET}I MOSES MEN'S CLUB will hold a Hanuka dinner 6 p.m. Dec. 25 in the social hall. A complete roast beef dinner, including latkes, will be served. 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