People Make News

Stern's Appearance
Recalls Violinist's
Extensive Services

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, October 3, 1969-31

Hippies — The New Schnorrers

By DAVID SCHWARTZ
; other hand, there is the strong
Isaac Stern, who has been called
(copyright 1969, JTA, Inc.)
The appointment of Lillian
Jewish feeling for the poor. We are
BEBA IDELSON, world presi- "the world's busiest violinist," per-
Margolin as executive director of dent of Pioneer Women-Moetzet forms at the Masonic Auditorium,
When the present writer was a told in the Talmud of one rabbi
Hapoalot, will attend Pioneer 8:20 p.m., Oct. 18.
the Bureau for
boy, people had to keep quarters who to save the poor from the em-
Women's 21st biennial national
Careers in Jew-
Stern has concertized widely in about. If the light went out, you barrassment of accepting assist-,
convention in Washington. Oct. 12- Europe, Israel and Japan, has per- put a quarter in the slot meter and ; ance, would drop the money around
ish Service was
15. Mrs. Rose Kaufman, national formed with most of the major the gas went on again. the premises of the poor when
announced by
president of American Pioneer orchestras of Europe and made
Recently walking in lower Man- they could not see him and could
Morton L. Man
Women group, said Mrs. Idelson one dramatic appearance on Mt. hattan, we were stopped by a not not therefore tell who was their
del of Cleveland,
will come from Israel as a special Scopus overlooking Jerusalem with unattractive well-dressed Jewish benefactor.
president of the
envoy of the 600,000- member or- Leonard Bernstein and the Israel . girl who asked us for .a quarter.
'bureau; The Bu-
The hippie of course is another
ganization she heads. Mrs. Idel- Philharmonic after the Israeli war. Several days later, an American- story. I mentioned the two young
reau fez* Careers
son is former deputy speaker of
in Jewish Service
Although Stern gives more than ized Chinese girl made the same girls who asked for quarters. They
the Knesset.
is a coordinated
were not embarrassed in the slight-
100 concerts a year, he manages request for a quarter.
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venture of 40 na-
I don't think they wanted the est. They are young, strong and
to maintain a phenomenal sched-
Dr. ROBERT R. LUBY, divi- ule of civic, cultural and philan- quarters for the gas meters. They would have no difficulty in getting
tional JewiSh or-
sional director of the physical thropic activities. In 1969, he led a were hippies.
ganizations to
jobs. They are just against labor.
education department of the De- campaign to save New York's
stimulate the in-
There is a considerable Jewish They feel that they are entitled to
troit Public Schools, was elected Carnegie Hall from the wrecker's literature about schnorrers. I am it. After all, they did Nature a
terests of students
vice chairman of the Wayne axe, and is now the Hall's presi- not one to decry all schnorrers. good turn by being horn.
and young pro-
County Council on Smoking and dent. For the past two years he Some are honest poor people and
fessionals in the
They have a point. The Bible
Health. Norbert Reinstein of Unit- has been president of the Ameri- some work at schncirring as at a tells us that labor was imposed on
many types of Miss Margolin
career opportunities available to ed Community Services is treas- can-Israel Cultural Foundation. In I craft. There is the story of the a man as a curse for his dis-
them in Jewish organizations, urer.
1965, Stern was sworn in by Presi- schnorrer who kept coming to see obedience. Even in more recent
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agencies and institutions in the
dent Johnson as a member of the Rothschild before breakfast. Roths- times than the Garden of Eden,
Catholic Social Services of Wash- National Council of the Arts, in child always gave him something the Indians punched no clocks and
United States. Miss Margolin was
formerly deputy director of the tenaw County has announced an which capacity he helps formulate but rebuked him for coming at so did really very little labor. But
New York City Office for the Aged. expanded program of premarital an dguide cultural policies of the unseemly an hour. "Listen," said they didn't have to pay any rent.
and marriage counseling, to he U.S. government.
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the schnorrer, "you know your When they got hungry, they would
business and I know mine."
Dr. ALBERT B. SABIN, inter- directed by Dr.
go out and catch a buffalo.
nationally famed virologist, presi- Herman Jacobs,
Recently, we read in an Israeli
If somebody paid our rent and
Archaeological
Finds
former
director
paper of a schnorrer. He asked a
dent-elect of the Weizmann Institute
caught a buffalo for us, maybe we
may passing what time it was.
of Science, received the Royal of the Bnai Brith
would
be a hippie. But we don't
Described
in
New
Book
When the man told him it was
Society of Health Gold Medal at Billet Foundation
like to ask anyone for quarters.
half past four. he got up quickly.
Doubleday's "New Directions in
ceremonies in London. The award at the University
"I never work after four," he
Biblical Archaeology," edited by
was presented to Dr. Sabin, guest of Michigan. A
said.
David Noel Freedman, dean of
of honor at the annual dinner of certified mar-
INTRODUCING
-Such - schnorrers earn our re-
faculty
at
San
Francisco
Theologi-
riage
counselor,
the Royal Society of Health, by
spect.
We see they regard schnorr-
OUR
cal Seminary and a general editor
Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, presi- licensed by the
ing in a business-like way. They
of
the
Anchor
Bible,
and
Jonas
Michigan
Board
dent of the Royal Society, in rec- ;
C. Greenfield. professor of Semitic have dignity.
ognition of Dr. Sabin's contributions , of Marriage Coon
No one could have greater dig-
languages at Berkeley. presents a
in the field of health, including the : selors, he has de-
representative view of the latest nity than the American schnorrer,
grees
from
New
development of the live oral polio
works of eminent archaeologists Choni, who died several years ago
York University, Dr. Jacobs
vaccine bearing his name.
in Israel. Choni was not opposed to i
CALL TODAY
Columbia, the Graduate School for and linguists.
* •
Among the latter are William F. labor. He thought it was all right
FOR APPOINTMENT
Jewish Social Work and Wayne
ROBERT L. LITTMAN, a mem-
Albright, leading Orientalist who for other people. He always took
ber of the Michigan and New York
made archaeology into a science: up the cudgels for the unions and
s * •
bars, has become a member of the
G. Ernest Wright of HarvarcL`head none was more severe in condemn-
Dr. JOSH GELLER, Northwes- of the American School of Oriental ing scabs than he. But Choni be-
law firm of David R. Kratze,
Jerome B. Greenbaum and Robert tern High c oo _ assistant princ i- Research; and Yigael Yadin, well- lived that it was not meant for him
L. Littman in the Penobscot Build- , pal and summer faculty member known for his roles in the Masada to dirty his hands with work. He
ing and on W. 10 Mile Rd., South- of Eastern Michigan University, excavations.
was always a gentleman. On the
has had an article on "Adolescent
field.
In a dozen essays, the contribu- birthday of the distinguished
Ethnic
and
Democratic
Attitudes
* *
tors tell of recent archaeological American Zionist lady, Mrs. Archi-
studio of photography
EDWARD GORDON of North , as Related to Attendance in Com- finds that give flesh and blood to bald Silver, he sent her a beautiful
19492 Livernois Avenue
, bouquet of flowers—Collect.
American L'fe Assurance Co., was munal, Congregational Day, and the historical biblical accounts.
Closed Mondays
awarded the Chartered Life Under- Public Schools" published in the
"New Directions" provides a
The Jewish attitude toward the
writer Club's designation at na- fall issue of "Journal of Jewish
schnorrer is a two-fold one. On
comprehensive survey of the
the one hand, there is a strong
tional conferment exercises of the Communal Services." Another on
work being done in the major
instinct against the humiliation
American College of Life Under- "The Impact of Jewish Education
area of biblical archaeology and
FOR AMERICA ,:
of
having to accept assistance.
I
on
Jewish
Youth"
will
be
publisn-
writers in Washington, D.C.
research, evaluates the recent
There is the old Yiddish song,
ed in January in "Synagogue
AND FOR YOU
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finds and offers a prognosis for
"ABI
NISCHT
GELD
ZU
BETTEN
Schools."
the future. By retracing the
EDGAR B. SPEER, president.
HAT ER GETAN ZIGEL KNET-
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course of a theological idea, it
Sign up for
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U.S. Steel Corp., has been named
A
50-year-old
Jewish
trial
lawyer,
examines
the
impact
of
the
dis-
Rather than beg money, he
U. S. Savings Bonds,
recipient of the 1969 American
coveries, the effects of their
would work at brick-making or
Jewish Committee Human Rela- SIDNEY R. ROEBUCK, has been
New Freedom Shares
theories and models on knowl-
any form of menial labor. On the
tions Award, it was announced by appointed a provincial judge for
edge of the biblical world and
George S. Moore, chairman of the Toronto area. His appointment
; brought to five the number of Jews
thus on the whole basis of the
First National City Bank.
Professional Entertainment
'serving on the bench in this area.
Judeo-Christian civilization.
• * *
The others are Joseph Addison,
It provides an index, a glossary,
State Representative ALBERT
Charles Drukarsh, Carl Waisberg a bibliography and 51 photographs
A. KRAMER attended a seminar
and David Venek.
of digs, objets d'art and manu-
for legislators who work in the
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scripts. 6‘
field of insurance, Oct. 1-3, in New
MARSHALL
W.
TURKIN,
man-
York. Kramer is chairman of the
House of Representatives commit- ager of the Cleveland Orchestra's Art Scholarships Given
Blossom Music Center, will suc-
tee on insurance.
ceed Howard Harrington as gen- in Krajenke Contest
* • *
547-0896
545-2737
Five scholarships to the Charles
CONRAD E. KLUGER, a Cali- eral manager of the Detroit Sym- McGhee School of Art were award- –
phony Orchestra upon Harring-
fornia banker, has been appointed
ed in the Krajenke Buick Inc. Art
president of the First Israel Bank ton's retirement at the end of 1969. Scholarship competition, it was an-
and Trust Co. of New York, it was
nounced by "Babe" Krajenke,
announced by chairman, Dr. Y.
president of Krajenke Buick.
Foerder, board chairman of Bank
The winners are Carol Williams.
Leumi le-Israel. Kluger succeeds
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