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The Detroit Jewish News, 1969-09-19

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Isaac Levi Opera to Premiere on TV

Friday, September 19, 1969 39

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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Kalamazoo Dinner for Bonds Planned

Air

This Week's Radio and
Television Programs
SPECIALS

The 21st anniversary of Israel's Levene, Arlene Lando, Nelson
statehood will be celebrated • at a Schupan and Joseph Thall.

dinner in Kalamazoo 6:30 p.m.
Oct. 11 at Inman's Restaurant, it

For information, call Herman B.
Lando, 349-4947.

was announced by Dr. Ben A.
Appel, general chairman of the Resistance
Kalamazoo Committee for the
Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday
The spirit of resistance to govern-
State of Israel Bonds.
Station: WJR
ment is to valuable on certain
Guest -stars will be Jan and Lil- occasions that I wish it to be al-
Feature: Services for Yom Kip-
pur from Temple Beth El will be lian Bart, who will give a special ways kept alive. It will often be
broadcast. The sermon, "The War performance from "Fiddler on the exercised when wrong, but better
on Hypocrisy," will be delivered Roof."
so than not to be exercised at all.
by"Dr. Richard C. Hertz.
Members of the committee
—Thomas Jefferson.
* s *
planning this communitywidl
Time. 2:30 p.m. Sunday
affair are James S. Gilmore Jr.,
Station: Channel 7
master of ceremonies; honorary
Feature: "Isaac Levi," an opera committee, Dr. Wiliam Appel,
in one act, is based on sketches in
Herman Fisher, Mrs. James S.
the life of Isaac Levi of Berdit- . Gilmore Jr., Dr. Robert II. Gre-
chev. It is a modern version of a
kin, Ilugh Harper, Mrs. Manuel
Russian folk tale that tells of a
Konigsberg, Jack Levene, Dan
rabbi whose faith, lost when he
Ryan, Louis .1. Slavin and Wil-
witnesses the cruel oppression of liam Slavin; ticket co-chairmen,
Sidney Reznick and Shirley Benyas are shown in a scene from
"Isaac Levi," a one-act opera based on sketches in the life of Isaac 'xis people, is restored after a con- Herman B. Lando and Jerome
Gerber.
Levi of Berditchev. The program will be shown 2:30 p.m. Sunday on versation with God.
...
*
The committee consists of Nor -
Channel 7.
ETERNAL LIGHT
man Besbris, Stanley Besbris, Da-
Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday
vid Davidoff, Sarn Eliet, Andrew
Max Schrut
Station: WWJ
For Good Photographs
and Prompt Service
Feature: Prof. Mark Van Doren
MUSIC IN THE FASHION
Call Me at
NEW YORK—In a medium where duced as a program for Yom Kip- and Maurice Samuel discuss Jos-
OF WILD GYPSY PASSION
the rule is almost always instant pur, brought an avalanche of more eph's power to interpret dreams.
s * *
JOCELYN
success and sudden death, the than 10,000 letters after its initial
Eternal Light radio program is a performance. It has been produced
HIGHLIGHTS
And Her Gypsies
Weddings — Bar Mitzvas
complete anomaly. The oldest dra- professionally in Yiddish and He-
4 to 20 Men Available
Time: 9:45 a.m. Sunday
We Come to Your Horne
474-7638
epatic religious show on the air, brew, has had hundreds of ama-
Station: Channel 2
With Samples
Eternal Light is celebrating its 25 teur productions in colleges and
Feature: "News of the Year in
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! schools and still has electifying Review" a , documentary focusing Classified Ads Get Quick Results
anniversary this fall.
Conceived jointly by Dr. Louis lim act when repeated on the air. on the Jewish community this past
O ver the years the program has year in two successive parts, nar-
Finkelstein, chancellor of the Jew-
Professional Entertainment
ish Theological Seminary, and Gen: garnered almost 70 awards, includ- rated by Rabbi Morton Kanter of
David Sarnoff of the National , ing the Brotherhood Week Award Temple Beth El.
* * *
Broadcasting Company in 1944, the of the National Conference of
-HEAR OUR VOICE
program has been produced by the j Christians and Jews, a citation for
Time: 11:30 p.m. Sunday
Seminary and NBC ever since. It , excellence from the Radio and
Station: WCAR
has proven to be a cooperative ' Television Critics Circle of New
Feature: Melodies of the Day of
effort between scholars, rabbis, York and, twice, the George Foster
Peabody Award, the most coveted Atonement will be presented and
artists and technicians.
Private and Commercial Shows
discussed by Cantor Harold Or-
Before The Eternal Light went on in the industry.
547-0896
545-2737
Although the program makes no bach.
the air, religious prograining was

'Eternal Light- Marks 25th Year

BLAIR STUDIO

THE
SHELDON ROTT
ORCHESTRA

made up of sermons and liturgical
music. "A Rhode Island Refuge,"
by the late Morton Wishengrad.
produced on Oct. 8, 1944, intro-
duced a new concept—a dramati-
zation of universal values inherent
in the Jewish tradition that avoids
both sermons and sectarianism.

appeal for funds, voluntary contri-
butions from hundreds of listeners
are received every year.
Milton Krents has been producer
of the program since its inception.
Mr. Wishengrad wrote the first
script and continued to create
moving and popular material until
his death in 1963.

Dr. Charles Levi, Wife
to Host Sukka Fete

Dr. and Mrs. Charles S. Levi.
17190 Hilton, Southfield, will host!
a "wine-tasting" reception in their
sukka 8 p.m. Oct. 1, in celebration
Since then, the program has
of the festival of Sukkot and in
attracted as many as 6,000,000
advance of the inaugural Medical
Profession Israel Bond Dinner.
listeners in a single week and Rabbi Jessel Awarded
has built a faithful audience that
Dr. Arieh L. Plotkin, who served
stretches from Bangor, Me., to Grant for Research
as an intelligence officer in the
Israel defense forces, will be guest
Fresno, Calif.
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations
The subjects have ranged from
speaker at the reception on behalf
announced a $1,000 grant to Rabbi
the lives of biblical heroes to the David B. Jessel of Livonia to as- of Israel Bonds.
Dr. and Mrs. Levi were among
rehabilitation of war veterans, sist him in preparation for a doc-
from the writings of the talmudic toral degree in sociology at Wayne the founders of Akiva Hebrew Day
School, which their four children
sages to the spiritualism of Ghandi,, State University.
from the American Revolution tol
Rabbi Jessel is a community af-
rebellion on college campuses. Ma- fairs associate with the Jewish
terials have been drawn from the Community Council of Metropoli-
Bible, the pages of history and tan Detroit aficr rabbi at Temple
countless contemporary sources. Bnai Israel in K amazoo. He will
Purpose of The Eternal Light is to use part of his rant for a re-
increase understanding among peo- search project f r the Michigan
ple.
Jewish Historical Society.
Probably the most famous pro-
Rabbi Jessel is one of 22 se-
gram is "The Battle of the War-
lected by a committee of acade-
saw Ghetto," by the late Morton
micians to receive grants from
Wishengrad. This play, first pro-
a special fund established by

Mother of the Bride!
Mother of the Groom!

or a

Guest at the Wedding!

With the help of JEAN BLACK-
BURN and her staff . . you just

might steal the show!

Jean Blackburn Fashions
251 MERREU.

At

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the escalator"

646-4760
Birmingham
Open Thurs. 'NI 9

the Charles E. Merrill Trust and
administered by the Hillel Foun-
dations.
The late Charles E. Merrill was DR. AND MRS. CHARLES LEVI
a founding partner of Merrill, attend, and Dr. Levi is on the
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Akiva board. They are active in
the nation's largest brokerage
Mizrachi, Bar-Han University and
house.
Young Israel of Greenfield.
The $60,000 fund, distributed
At the outbreak of the Six-Day
over two years, is to help rabbis
War, Dr. Levi, an ophthalmolo-
"deepen their competence in those
gist,
flew to Israel and served
branches of learning required to
on the staff of the Shaarey
interpret the complexity of the
Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem. He •
modern world against the back-
has visited Israel five times.
ground of Jewish traditions and
Mrs. Levi has been to Israel
values."
four times.
Rabbi Jessel is a graduate of
A graduate of Wayne State
and was ordained by Hebrew

Union College-Jewish Institute of University Medical School and a I
member of Phi Beta Kappa and of
Religion in Cincinnati.
Alpha Omega Alpha, medical
honor society, Dr. Levi is a strong
Anti-Jewish Cleric
Italian Franciscan preacher John supporter of Israel Bonds, Jewish
of Capistrano (1386-1456) was one I National Fund and the Allied
of. the leaders and inspirers of Jewish Campaign. He has been a
Christian reaction against the Jews leading contributor to the Ponevez
of Sicily and Central Europe. His Yeshiva in Bnai Brak, Israel. Mrs.
accusation of Host desecration' Levi is a member of Hadassah,
against the Jews of Breslau, Sid ORT and American Jewish Con-
lesia, in -1453 led to the killing of gress, and the Levis are both
41 Jews and the banishment of the members of the Maimonides So-
.
rest from that -city.
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