A Purim to Top All Purims in Store Here

Purim knows no age difference I
—young and old will welcome the
festive holiday Monday night,
when the story of Queen Esther,
brave Mordecai and wicked Haman
is read anew from the Megila.
Each synagogue and temple has
set its own schedule of services for
Monday evening and Tuesday
morning. For additional family and
children's services and celebra-
tions, contact the individual syna-
gogue.
At least one, The New Temple,
will hold its family service and
Megila reading 7:45 p.m. today at
Birmingham Unitarian Church.
Temple Beth Jacob of Pontiac will
hold its service 8 p.m. Monday.
The Young People's Society of
Temple Beth El will hold its an-
nual Purim carnival 12:30-5 p.m.
Sunday at the temple.
Shaarey Zedek Synagogue will

ager groups are sponsoring the
carnival, to which the public is
invited.
Temple Emanu-El's J u.n i o r

Choir, directed by Abraham Sil-
ver, will present a Purim musi-
cal, "The Tax Collector of Tep-
litz," at a special service 7:30
p.m, Monday. A reception will
follow.
Cohn Branch of the United He-

brew Schools will celebrate Sun-
day with a costume contest, ham-
entashen and a presentation by
"Magic Mel."
The Rizhiner Progressive Farein
will hold its party 5 p.m. March 9
at the new Rizhiner Youth Center
in Oak Park.
The Criterion Club for single
adults will have a "Queen Esther
Ball" 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Cong
Beth Hillel. George Grossett and
his orchestra will provide the
hold several Purim events: a dance music, and there will be
carnival 11 a.m. Sunday, spon- social mixers, prizes, grand march I
sored by the Young Married and hamentashen, as well as a
League, Junior Congregation and "coronation.'"k
the PTO; adult services 6:15
The Zionist Revisionists of De-
p.m. Monday in the chapel; and troit will hold tts Purim ball 9 p.m.
children's services 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Ybu.pg Israel of Oak-
Monday in the main sanctuary, Woods. Eric Rosenow and his Con-
for children and their patents. tinentals will provide the music,
Graggers and refreshments will and there will be refreshments.
be featured at the latter.
Proceeds will go to the Israeli Sick
Cong. Bnai David Sisterhood and Fund.
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Men's Club will hold their annual
Purim at the Jewish Center
party 8:30 p.m. Monday in the
social hall. The Livonia Congrega-
tion_ Youth Group will present
"Fiddler on the Roof" in panto-
mime.
Cong. Beth Isaac of Trenton will
hold a Purim party . with games
and refreshments 8 p.m. Saturday.
There will be a nominal charge per
couple.
Cone,. Beth Hillel is having a
Purim supper and entertainment
6 p.m. March 9 at the synagogue,
sponsored by the sisterhood for
entire families. Tamer Levitt will
sine and perform on the guitar.
Young Israel of Oak-Woods is
planning on refreshments, games
and prizes at its Purim carnival
11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. March 9 at the
synagogue. The Young Israel teen-

will stay for a full week—with
window decorations, costumes,
music, games, puppet and qtliz
shows and refreshments fea-
tured.
The Center celebration begins 8

p.m. Tuesday when "The Latke vs.
Hamentash in the Space Race" will
be debated by Wayne State Univer-
sity faculty members Esther Bron-
er, Dr. Otto Feinstein and Dr. Stu-
art Schweitzer. Paul Winter of sta-
tion WTAK will be moderator. Re-
freshments will be served at the
Shiffman Hall event, sponsored by
Center Single Adults, Young Ad-
ults, Parents Without Partners and
Wayne State Hillel Foundation.
There is no charge.
Musical dramatists Joe and
Penny Aronson will present two
performances at the Center, one
for adults 8:30 p.m. March 8 and
the other for children 2 p.m. March
9.
A parade at 11:45 a.m. from Six
Mile Rd. and Meyers into the Cen-
ter's parking lot will launch the
March 9 celebrations. Floats, cos-
tumes and a band will highlight
the parade, in which the Center
club groups, United H e b r e w
Schools, Bnai Moshe Boy Scouts,
Habonim, Parents Without Part-
ners and Young Adults will par-
ticipate. Prizes will be awarded to
the most creative and original
floats and costumes.

Other Sunday activities include a to a possible prize, hamentashen
special drop-in program for juniors and drinks. The ticket does not in-

(1-4 p.m.) featuring movies, pup- clude Omnibus.
pet show, games and crafts;

A family photo booth set up in
the main lobby for pictures in cos-
tume; dancing to the music of a
five band, a go-go all afternoon,

Purim Mitzva Drive
Launched by Chabad

sery, with prizes and treats; and
The "Nosherie," an entertain-
ment-restaurant in cabaret-style,
1-4 p.m. in Shiffman Hall, featur-

the poor)." According to. the Cha-
bad, the fact that parents perform
this mitzva does not exempt chil-

In connection with the approach-
ing , Purim festival, Merko L'Iny-
onei Hinukh (Chabad), the Luba-
Shalakh Manot carriers, senior
adults in European costume, vitch educational arm, has em-
selling sweets (candy sale pro- barked on a campaign initiated by
Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi
ceeds added to those from a the
Menachem M. Schneerson, to call
wishing well and gift shop will the
attention of rabbis, teachers,
go to the Jerusalem Y); three principals
parents "to the fact
quiz bowls from 1 to 3 p.m. in that there and
is widespread miscon-
the main lobby; Israeli slides;
ception on the part of Jewish chil-
Heralds, mime and tumbling dren and teen-agers regarding the
groups performing in the European mitzvot of Mishloakh Manot (send-
tradition throughout the building; ing food gifts to friends) and Mat-
a pre-school carnival in the nur- tanot Lo'Evyonim (donations to

for teens and tweens;

ing presentations by the Center's
dance department, the Senior Ad-
ult Choral Group, Israeli music,
tumbling exhibitions, satire by the
audio-visual Hebrew students, pan-
tomime groups and jug band by
Habonim, and the Young Adult

dren from performing this mitzva

on their own.
The Merkos is making available
at no charge small packages con-

taining two edibles for "Shalakh
Monot," and two cents for "Mat-
tonot Lo'Evyonim." These pack-
ages will be available to teachers
and youth directors for distribu-

Israeli dance group.
A nominal fee admits the bearer tion. For information, call the
to various events and entitles him Chabad, 398-2611.

''HE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

12—Friday, February 28, 1969

Sen. Croll Elected
Head of Group
to Study Poverty

David Croll, former mayor of
Windsor and now senator in the
Canadian Parliament, has been
elected chairman of a Senate com-
mittee to investigate all aspects of
poverty in Canada.
Sen. Croll, who came to Windsor
at age 5, was the son of a former
cattle dealer in Central Russia, and
he shined shoes and sold papers to
help his family. Following his col-
lege training, he worked in auto
supply plants to augment his earn-
ings, and at 28 opened his own law
firm.
His first entry into local politics
was in the 1930 race for mayor,
which he won hands down over four
other candidates. He later entered
the army as a private in the Essex
Scottish and rose to lieutenant-
colonel. He moved to Toronto after
the war and became a member of
the House of Commons.

At age 39, he was named On-
tario welfare minister—the young-
est cabinet minister at that time
in the. British Commonwealth. He
was named to the Senate in 1955
by the prime minister and has
served ever since.
The 68-year-old senator and 17

other members of the Senate com-
mittee on poverty plans to hold
hearings across the country. Sev-
eral years ago, Sen. Croll headed
the Senate committee on aging,
and he was co-chairman of the
parliamentary committee on con-
sumer credit and food prices in
1967.

Laughter, as I have come to see
in my old age, is the innocent
youthful side of repentance, of dis-
illusion, of understandiria.,
• • • George Santayana,

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Labor Statesman

Today organized labor is taken for granted
as a force in American life. Yet it is barely
78 years since Samuel Gompers was
selected as the first president of the newly
founded American Federation of Labor.
Samuel Gompers knew poverty at first
hand as a child in London. His father,
a cigar maker, was hard put to make ends
meet for his family. Samuel, too, became
a cigar maker to help eke out the family
income. When he was thirteen, he emi-
grated with his family to the United States.
Conditions among workers in the United
States in 1863 were appalling. Samuel
Gompers joined the Cigar Makers Union.
His education began. A natural leader, he
was soon participating in every phase of
union activity. Learning through trial and
error, Gompers became one of the first
advocates of craft unionism, the labor

philosophy which was to dominate the
labor movement for fifty years.
Samuel Gompers was in the vanguard
of the fight for the eight-hour day, for
union recognition; he was prominent in
the battle against sweatshops and low
wages, company unions and anti-labor in-
junctions. Gompers became a national
force. Under his leadership the American
Federation of Labor became the largest
union in the world, with a membership of
five million in 1924.
During World War I, Gompers
lized labor behind the American war
effort. In 1918, President Wilson appointed
him to the Commission for International
Labor Legislation. The measure of Samuel
Gompers' unique achievement'is the fact
that even today his name is synonymous
with organized labor,

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