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36—Friday, March 14, 1969
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Youth News
Crusty Lathe-Loving Scholar Creams
Hamentashkin in 3-Cornered Debate
By RONALD LOEB
Wayne State University Profes-
sor Otto Feinstein, defending the
virtues of the latke, claimed over-
whelming victory last week over
hamentashkin Dr. Stuart Schweit-
zer, also of Wayne.
The action took place at the Jew-
ish Center's first annual Hamen-
tash-Latke Debate. It was sponsor-
ed by the Center's Parents Without
Partners, Single Adults, Young
Adult Groups and the WSU Hillel
Foundation.
Over 200 people watched the
grueling verbal battle between
Feinstein and Schweitzer.
Feinstein's victory was not an
easy one. Things got rough when
a third party interjected, attempt-
ing to use both the latkins and
hamentashkins as front groups for
his basically revolutionary move-
ment.
Paul Winter, commentator from
Detroit's WTAK radio station, was
the third-party interloper. He rep-
resented the IBC, International
Bagel Conspiracy, active only on
Sunday mornings at the New York
Bagel Factory.
"Oyvey," muttered Professor
Feinstein, "a bagel is nothing
but a latke with its heart cut
out." Laughter and applause
from the audience scored a point
for the latkins.
Dr. Schweitzer, WSU economics
professor, used his financial sci-
ence to support the hamentash.
"The triangle," he emphasized, "is
much easier to pack in a box than
the round latke."
"But latkes are so delicious that
American-Style Orthodox
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they are eaten right away and not
stored in boxes!" roared Feinstein
in definite opposition.
Again the audience voted the lat-
kins a point.
And so the evening went until a
final vote proved Feinstein and the
latke the winner. Paul Winter's
IBC never did "breakthrough."
Latkes won, but hamentashen
were served with tea and coffee at
the conclusion of the program.
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Northern Lights
By ELLEN COHEN
North Farmington High
The success of North Farming-
ton's first all-school play has led
to a second drama. Also done in
the round, "Tom Jones" will be
presented March 27, 28 and 29.
The cast includes Jeff Fighman,
Steve Silverman, James Kaplan,
Dave Shapiro, Carl Segal, Kenny
Mann and Mike Kaplan. The cos-
tume crew is headed by Nancy
Kadushin and Ellen Cohen.
Dave Shapiro, president of Amer-
ican Youth Hos-
tels, (AYH) an-
nounced that
30 students will
participate in the
AYH trip to Taos,
N.M., April 4-12.
The Junior
Class at North is
sponsoring a va-
riety show 8 p.m.
today featuring talented North
Farmington students.
The Raiders took the North-
west Suburban League Title as
they defeated the Oak Park
basketball team 80.76, Feb. 14.
Sue Kornfield and Heidi Rudner,
both juniors, helped in defeating
the girls gymnastics team from
Clarenceville High School.
After several weeks of discus-
sion and voting, the seniors have
finally gotten their wish: their
June 8 graduation will be held
at Ford Auditorium.
This year's class symbols are
white rose, class flower; "Revolu-
tion," class song; black and white,
class colors; and "Grant me the
courage to change things, the ser-
enity to accept the things that
cannot be changed and the wisdom
to know the difference," class
motto.
Historian Dr. Rivkin
to Deliver U-M's
Zwerdling Lectures
Dr. Ellis Rivkin, professor of
Jewish history at the Hebrew
Union College in Cincinnati, will
deliver the 12th annual Zwerdling
Lectures in Old Testament Studies
at the University of Michigan Wed-
nesday and Thursday.
The lectures, under the auspices
of the university, will be on the
theme, "The Revolutionary Dy-
namic in Judaism." Prof. Rivkin
has taught Hebrew at Gratz Col-
lege in Philadelphia and for the
past 20 years at Hebrew Union
College.
The first lecture, "The Penta-
teuchal Revolution," will be
given in auditorium C, Angell
Hall, at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday.
The second, at the U-M Hillel
Foundation building 8:15 p.m.
that day, will be on "The Phari-
saic Revolution."
The third lecture, "The Era of
Permanent Revolution" will be
given in auditorium Angell Hall,
4:15 p.m. Thursday. The lectures
are free, and the public is invited.
These lectures are made pos-
sible through Morris, Abraham
and Joseph Zwerdling in honor of
their parents, Osias Zwerdling
and the late Mrs. Zwerdling.
NEW YORK—Camp S'dei Chemed
International will inaugurate a U.S.-
style camp in Israel. The camp is
situated among the gardens of
Rishon LeZion, and elaborately
equipped for all sport activities,
including an olympic-size swim-
ming pool. It will be run as a mod-
ern American style Orthodox camp
with many features which only Is-
rael has to offer.
Camp S'dei Chemed Internation-
al's program will include touring
of the land, classes in conversa-
tional Hebrew and musical instruc-
tions.
The camp is sponsored by Zeirei
Agudath Israel of Israel under the
guidance of Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz,
member of the Knesset, and ad- Youth to See Slides
ministered by Rabbi Eli Teitel-
of Camp 'Program
baum of New York. The New York
Information on the camping pro-
registration office is at 122-25 Met-
ropolitan Ave., Kew Gardens, N.Y. grams of the Zionist Organization
of America will be offered at a
meeting sponsored by the Detroit
Old-Fashioned Comic
chapter 2 p.m. Sunday at the Zion-
ist Cultural Center.
Students age 8-17 are invited by
Louis Panush, president of the
ZOD, and Reuben Young, youth
chairman. A representative of
Camp Yehuda, at Leonidas, Mich.,
will show slides. Refreshments will
be served.
Other ZOA summer camping pro-
grams include a new facility at
Kfar Masada, near Albany and
teen-age camp at Kfar Silver,
Israel. Leadership training courses
are offered at all three camps.
The inimitable W. C. Fields
sounds forth in "The Old Fash-
ioned Way" in which he co-stars
with Baby LeRoy opening March
12 exclusively at the Village
Theater. Featured on the same
program is another W. C. Fields'
film, "Tillie and Gus," co-star-
ring Alison Sklpworth and Baby
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Escapism on the Screen
MISCHA MISCHAKOFF, retire
concertmaster of the Detroit Sym-
phony, emphasized that he would
not leave Detroit although he was
planning to accept a position as
concertmaster of the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra. Mischakoff,
74, who also may teach at Balti-
more's Peabody Conservatory, said
he would fly back and forth for the
year, and "then no,morp.orchestra
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Offer String Scholarship
to Meadow Brook School
The National Federation of Music
Clubs has announced it will award
a $200 scholarship to a talented
young string musician to attend
the 1969 Meadow Brook School of.
Music.
Competition is open to students
of the violin, cello, viola, or string
bass. Applicants must have com-
pleted the 11th grade and be 25
years old or younger.
Auditions will be by 10-minute
tape recordings. Applications and
audition takes should be addressed
to National Federation of Music
Clubs Scholarship, Meaddw Brook
School of Music, Oakland Univer-
sity, Rochester, Michigan 48063.
Center Cagers to Host
Midwest Tournament
The Jewish Center basketball
team will host the annual Jewish
Welfare Board. Midwest regional
Tournament this weekend at both
main and branch buildings.
Jewish center teams will come
from Canton, Cleveland, Toledo,
Akron, Youngstown, Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago and
Louisville, the latter defending
champs.
Winner of the tourney will rep-
resent the Midwest at the national
tournament in Nashville later this
month. Everyone is invited to
watch the-- games at no charge.
`Arts in Crises'
at Adas Shalom
An Adas Shalom Synagogue sym-
posium postponed earlier in the
season because of inclement wea-
ther, has been reschafitiled for 8:45
p.m. Tuesday when th?ee local per-
sonalities will participate.
The three, Dr. Martin Herman,
Robert Broner and Esther Broner,
will discuss the role which art,
music and literature played in
times of Jewish crises.
Dr. Herman; associate professor
in musicology at Monteith College
of Wayne State University, has
published articles and reviews in
many scholarly publications.
Broner, also an associate pro-
fessor at Monteith College in
humanistic studies, has served
as art columnist and art critic
for a number of newspapers and
has written extensively in art
magazines and periodicals. His
works appear in many perman-
ent museum collections.
Mrs. Broner, author and play-
wright, is an instructor of English
at Waype State University. One of
her short stories, "The New Nobi-
lity" won second prize in the 1968
O'Henry short story contest.
The community is hivited to par-
ticipate in the sympoSium.
By HERBERT G. LUFT
(Copyright 1969, JTA Inc.)
HOLLYWOOD — Love, its folly
and heart-break, and perhaps the
revolution of youth everywhere
against the conventions of society,
are at the core of current motion
picture productions, here and
abroad.
George Jessel introduced Anthony
Newly to the foreign press at Holly-
wood's Playboy Club, and lavished
praise on the young playwright-
actor from England. Newely, who is
in town to plug - "Can Hieronymus
Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe
and Find True Happiness?," the
very first motion picture directed
by him,' is 'featured in the current
issue of Playboy Magazine, and so
is his wife, actress Joan Collins,
and Connie Kreski, the latter mak-
ing her screen debut as Mercy
Humppe.
Newly, the 37-year-old boy won-
der who appeared in some 20
movies before coming to the atten-
tion of the American public with his
stage musical, "Stop The World—I
Want to Get off," cooked up the
latest "New Wave" cinematic spec-
tacle as co-author, director, pro-
ducer and male star of "Hierony-
mus Merkin."
delves into another aspect of love—
the tragic affection of one man for
another. A 16-year army veteran,
portrayed by Rod Steiger, is haunt-
ed by memories of World War II,
yet tries to overcome his fears by
cold disregard for his men and his
sense of superiority. When he finds
himself drawn to a young man, the
borderlines between comradeship
and homosexuality are complicated
by the presence of a French girl
with whom both soldiers are in-
fatuated. Not since his portrayal of
the Jewish victim of Nazism in
Lumet's, "The Pawnbroker," has
,Steiger given a performance of
such magnitude in human emotions
and irrationalism.
GORDON I. SILVERMAN has
been appointed the first Hillel coun-
selor at Dartmouth College, Han-
nover, N.H., it was announced by
the Jewish Life Council on campus
and the Hanover Jewish Commu-
nity Council. In serving both the
campus community and area fam-
ilies, Silverman will be the first
resident leader of the Jewish com-
munity in the Upper Valley. The
innovative, dual pastorate was
created through the joint coopera-
tion of the Tucker Foundation at
Dartmouth and the Hanover Jewish
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Community Council, organized in
"Mayerling," in its current mo-
1967.
tion picture version produced by
Romanian-British Marcel Hellman Poverty
and Frenchman Robert Dorfmann,
Cultivate poverty like sage, like
takes us into the past to another a garden herb. Do not trouble your-
aspect of love's frailty and the self to get new things, whether
eternal rebellion of youth. Basic- clothes or friends. That is dissipa-
ally dealing with the romantic in- tion. Turn to the old; return to
volvement of Austrian Archduke them. Things do not change; we
Rudolph, who committed suicide change. —Henry David Thoreau.
together with his mistress, Baron-
ess Maria Vetsera, some 80 years
ago, the -picture, oddly enough,
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FOR ALL OCCASIONS
The immortal love yarn, based
on histo;y and a novel by Claude
Ample Parking
Anet, had been .projected on the
screen twice before; by Alexander
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Korda as a silent movie in Berlin
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in 1924 with Maria Corda in the
leading role, and in Paris Of 1937
by producer Seymour Nebenzal and
director Anatole Litvak, co-starring
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