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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

26—Friday, May 23, 3969

Seminary to Honor Bnai Moshe Rabbi,
Cantor at June 8 Commencement

Rabbi Moses Lehrman will be
awarded the honorary degree of
doctor of divinity and Cantor Louis
Klein will be installed as an honor-
ary fellow of the Cantors Institute
at graduation exercises of the Jew-
ish Theological Seminary 3:30 p.m.
June 8 in the Park Avenue Syna-
gogue in New York City.
Rabbi Lehrman, who has served
as spiritual leader of Bnai Moshe
since 1948, is the 10th generation
of rabbis in his family. A graduate
of the City College of New York,
he did postgraduate work at Col-
umbia University and held his first
pulpit in Buffalo.
President of the Zionist Organ-
ization of Detroit for three conse-
cutive terms and chairman of the
religious division of the Allied
Jewish Campaign, he has served
for two years on the executive
board of the Rabbinical Assembly,
international association of Con- •
servative rabbis.

Rabbi Lehrman, who was
awarded life tenure by Bnai
Moshe in 1963, is married to the
former Rose Cherkas and has
two married daughters. He is
one of two seminary alumni to
receive honorary degrees at this
commencement, the other being
Rabbi Benjamin M. Kahn, inter- I
national director of the Bnai

* This summer marks the 80th
anniversary of the Central Confer-
ence of American Rabbis (CCAR),
national association of Reform
Brith Hillel Foundation of Wash- rabbis, founded in Detroit in 1889.
ington, D.C.
From an original membership of
Cantor Klein, who came to Bnai 32 it has grown into an organiza-
Moshe in 1959, has served in the tion of more than 1,000. most mem-
cantorate for 30 years. Born in bers graduates from Hebrew Un-
Romania, he sang first as a can- ion College-Jewish Institute of Re-
tor in Belgium in 1939, moving on ligion, now serving congregations
to the Great Garden Street Syna- in the United States, Argentina,
gogue in London in 1943 and later Australia. Brazil, Canada. England,
to the Wembly Synagogue, also in France, West Germany, Israel.
London. He and his wife, Sonia, Netherlands, Netherland Antilles,
Republic of Panama, Scotland.
have one son.
Among the 98 recipients of de- South Africa and the Virgin Islands.
grees in course at the seminary is It is the oldest rabbinical associa-
Robin Tanzman, daughter of Mr. tion in the United States.
and Mrs. David S. Tanzman of
Rabbi Levi A. Olan of Temple
Sherwood Ave., Oak Park. She will Emanu-El in Dallas, is currently
be awarded the degree of bachelor president of CCAR.
of religious education from the
CCAR was the brain-child of
seminary's Teachers Institute.
Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder
Twenty-four students will be of Reform Judaism in the United
ordained as rabbi, teacher and States. After the meeting of the
preacher; three will be awarded Pittsburgh Rabbinical Conference
the degree of doctor of Hebrew which had been assembled at the
literature; 23 will receive the de- call of Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler
gree of master of Hebrew litera- (spiritual leader of Detroit's Tem-
ture; three the degree of doctor of ple Beth El from 1869 to 1871) in
religious education; 39 will grad- November 1885. it became evident
uate from the Teachers Institute- to survive in America it could be
Seminary College of Jewish Stu- only by educating rabbis under
dies; and three from the Cantors American conditions and with an
Institute with the diploma of Ha- American viewpoint. In 1875. he
zan, two receiving the degree of had started Hebrew Union College
bachelor of sacred music as well. as a seminary for the training of
This year's graduates represent rabbis. By 1889 Rabbi Wise felt
16 states, Canada, Argentina and that he had enough former pupils
Israel. Six cantors will be made to undertake the organization of a
honorary fellows of the Cantors Conference of American Rabbis.
Institute.
Rabbi Wise went to the conven-

Oak-Woods Plans
Installation Dinner Synagogue Youths
Young Israel of Oak-Woods will
dedicate plaques for items acquired Get St. John Book

during the past year at the instal-
lation dinner 6:30 p.ta. June 1 in
the social hall.
To be dedicated are a meeting
room presented by Mr. and Mrs.
David I. Berris in honor of their
grandchildren; sanctuary window
in memory of David Spinner by his
family and friends; talis cabinet
in memory of Morris Goldenberg;
and pulpit lectern presented by
the children of Hyman Moore on
the occasion of his 60th birthday.
Rabbi Samuel H. Prero of Young
Israel of Greenfield will install the
officers.

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Beth Achim Appoints
New Youth Director

Dr. Manuel Feldman, president of
Cong. Beth Achim, announces the
appointment of Louis L. Rosen as
the director of the youth activities
department of the congregation.
Rosen, who has had 10 years' ex-
perience as director of youth activ-
ities in two local Conservative con-
gregations, teaches social studies
at Cass High School and has a
wide Jewish background.
Beth Achim youth activities for
the coming year will be concen-
trated at the suburban building in
Southfield.

Robert St. John's newest book,
"Jews, Justice and Judaism,"
published by Doubleday, has been
chosen as a synagogue gift for
synagogue youth.
Dr. Israel Wiener announced
this week that 30 boys who com-
pleted a year's services with the
Tallis and Tefilin Club of Cong.
Beth Achim were given copies of
the book as gifts by the synagogue.
"We recognize this work as a
valuable review of American Jew-
ish history and have chosen it as
the proper gift for our young peo-
ple," Dr. Wiener said. "We select-
ed it because St. John so well de-
picts the role of the Jew in the
United States."

Soil Sciences Center
Near Golan Heights

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A soil
sciences center named in honor of
former Congressman Herbert Ten-
zer of New York will be located
in Kibutz Dan in the northern
frontier area, near the Golan
Heights.
Tenzer, on a recent visit to Is-
rael, personally selected the site
of the center which will be de-
voted to the study of scientific
techniques for reclamation of land
and for experimentation.

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(Hammond Building) was built
downtown, one of the first sky-
scrapers in the United States. Pub-
lic school teachers received a
salary of $30 per month. The Mich-
igan Federation of Labor was
organized. Local stores advertised
butter for 25 cents per pound.

In 1889, Detroit had a Jewish
community of 1,200 (240 fami-
lies), concentrated near the down-
town area. There was one Reform
congregation, Temple Beth El,

with a membership of 117 fami- j
lies, led by Rabbi Louis Gross-
man, and three small Orthodox
congregations (Shaarey Zedek,
Bnai Israel and Beth Jacob), led
by Rabbi Aaron Ashinsky.
The following Jewish organiza-
tions were in existence: Ladies'

Society for the Support of Hebrew
Widows and Orphans in the State
of Michigan, Beth El Hebrew Re-
lief Society, Hebrew Ladies' Sew-
ing Society, Self-Help Circle, Pis-
gah Lodge of Bnai Brith, Monte-
fiore Lodge of the Free Sons of
Israel. Michigan. Beth El Nathan

former

1941.
Since 1889, CCAR held its con-

ventions in Detroit in 1903, 1914,
1929 and 1960.

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Franklin of Detroit's Temple
Beth El) were present at the
founding of the World Union for

(now the site of the First National
_ Building) on July 9 and 10. 1889,

Rabbi Kohler, also a

orary president of CCAR from
1903 to the time of his passing in
1926. Rabbi Emil W. Leipziger, a
confirmand from the religious
school of Temple Beth El, served
as president of CCAR from 1939 to

Hillel Day School
Of Metropolitan Detroit

Representatives of the confer-
ence (including Rabbi Leo M.

prayer book, and within a few years
Volumes I and Il of the Union
Prayerbook were published, which
became the accepted ritual of Re-
form congregations in the country.
The conference also has publish-
ed 78 volumes of the yearbook,
containing the proceedings of its
conventions as well as scholarly
papers there presented. Since 1953,
the conference has been issuing
semiannually the CCAR Journal.
As stated, CCAR was founded in
Detroit, the organization meetings
were held at the Russell House

Rabbi Franklin from 1919 to 1921.

rabbi of Beth El, served as hon.

al% 1 7,

a means of establishing a position
of dignity for the rabbi in America.
The country was filled with self-
styled rabbis, and he desired a
means by which the public might
distinguish between the ordained
rabbi and the shohet (ritual
slaughter) and mohel (ritual cir-
cumcisor) who called themselves
rabbis.

Progressive Judaism in London,
in 1926, and the conference has
taken an active part in its work
ever since.
In 1937, at its convention in
Columbus, the conference adopt-
ed the "Guiding Principles of Re-
form Judaism," which has become
known as the Columbus Platform.
Together with the Union of Amer-
ican Hebrew Congregations, the
conference established the Rabbini-
cal Pension Board in 1944.
In 1954 the conference opened its
permanent office in New York City
and appointed Rabbi Sidney L.
Regner,as its executive vice presi-
dent.
Together with the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
and the Hebrew Union College-
Jewish Institute of Religion, the
conference established the rabbini-
cal placement commission in 1954

Temple Beth El

during the 11th council of the Union and King David Lodges of the Or-
of American Hebrew Congrega- der Kesher Shel Hanel (Iron Knot),
tions. Detroit's population was 205,- and Phoenix Club.
Two rabbis of Beth El served as
876 and it ranked 15th among cities
in size. The city area was 291/2 presidents of CCAR: Rabbi Louis
square miles. A 10-story building Grossmann from 1917 to 1919 and

tion of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations here in
1889, with a constitution for the
new conference already prepared.
Over his protests, Rabbi Wise
was elected the first president, an
office he held until his death in
1900.
Rabbi Wise sought to make CCAR

and appointed Rabbi Malcolm H.
Stern as its director.
One of the first matters that en-
gaged the attention of the confer-
ence after its organization was the

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Proudly Presents

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