Grand Rapids
News Notes
Oct. 17—Temple Emanuel New
Membership Sabbath.
18—USY Sabbath.
19—USY Board.
—Jewish Cultural Commit-
tee, Ahabas Israel.
20-21—Temple Emanuel Sister-
hood Second Best Sale.
22—Bnai Brith Women Menora
Luncheon.
23—Hadassah Board.
24—Daniel Jacobson Bar
Mitzva.
24-25—USY Quad City Retreat
25-26—MSTY Caravan.
How United Jewish Chanties Was Founded
Temple Beth Am will hear a
talk by Mrs. Jacqueline Green-
berg, assistant principal of Fair-
lawn Center, Pontiac State Hos-
pital, following 8:30 p.m. Sab-
bath services today. Her topic will
be "Sex and the Synagogue—
Should Jews Be Involved?"
The United Jewish Charities,
whose 70th anniversary will be
marked at the annual meeting of
the Jewish Welfare Federation,
Oct. 29, owes its origin to Rabbi
Leo M. Franklin of Temple Beth
El.
Jewish philanthropy in Detroit
began in the synagogue. When
Temple Beth -El, Michigan's first
Jewish congregation, was estab-
lished in 1850, its first constitu-
tion made provision for the dis-
pensation of charity to the needy.
For many years the philanthropic
work of the Jewish community of
Detroit was carried on by the presi-
dent and board of trustees of Tem-
ple Beth El.
Mrs. Greenberg has 12 years'
teaching experience with emotion-
ally disturbed children, including
the area of sex education. She is
vice chairman of the Farmington
Youth Guidance 'Committee;
a
member of the Human Sexuality
Task
Group,
a
citizen's
advisory
•
committee for the Farmington
Spectrum 70, sponsored by the Board of Education; institutional
Jewish Cultural Council of Grand representative of the Michigan As-
Rapids, will present the first pro- sociation of Teachers of Emotion-
gram of the series, a performance ally Disturbed Children; and mem-
by "The Israeli Ensemble" 8 p.m . ber of the Michigan Society for
Sunday at Ahavas Israel Syna- ' the Study of Adolescents.
gogue.
She will take up the issues
involved in the current contro-
The committee for 1969-1970 in-
versy over sex education in the
cludes Sol Bach, Mrs. Harvey Bel-
schools and Jewish parents' re-
fer, Rabbi Joel Chazin, Mrs. Phil-
sponsibilities.
more Dennen, Rabbi Frederick
Questions submitted in advance
Eisenberg, Abe Ginsburg, Harold
Heller, Mrs. Morris Kleiman. Mrs. will be considered. The public is
William Krugmen, Sidney Moss- invited. Services are held at the
man, Mrs. Paul Ravitch, Paul United Hebrew Schools Building.
j
Ravitch, Mrs. Leonard Rosen- 31840 W. Seven Mile, Livonia.
zweig, Mrs. Jerome Subar, How-
ard Sutton and Sol Swiss.
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By IRVING I. KATZ
With the growth of the Jewish
community, a number of philan-
thropic societies came into being.
In 1863, nuring the Civil War, the
"Ladies Society for the Support of
Hebrew Widows and Orphans in
the State of Michigan" was or-
ganized by members of .the Beth
El. In 1869, Tempe Beth El and
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
(founded in 1861) organized "The
Gentlemen's Hebrew Relief So-
ciety" which later assumed the
name of "Beth El Hebrew Relief
Rabbi Israel Goldstein Honored
Eighth and 9th graders of
Temple Emanuel Religious School
will use the proceeds from a high-
ly successful hake sale in their
sukka to start a fund for a future
trip to Israel.
A new student at East High is
Zehava Tweig, 16, from Ramat
Gan, Israel. One of 17 students
participating in the Eisendrath-
International Exchange Program.
she is a guest of the Joseph Was-
sermans. Zehava arrived in this
country at the end of June and at-
tended the National Leadership In-
stitute in Warwick, N.Y.. the
Union Camp Institute in Zions-
ville, Ind., where she taught Heb-
rew and gave lectures on Israel.
and the Michigan State Temple
Youth summer conclave in Camp
Waldon. She is assisting in the re-
ligious school of Temple Emanuel
and will be active in Grand Rapids
Temple Youth.
• Train Israel Professionals
to Staff Welfare Agencies
JERUSALEM—"No country. es-
pecially one as young and as small
as Israel, can develop or main-
thin a modern health and welfare
program without a steady supply
of skilled personnel," Harold
Trobe, Joint Distribution Commit-
: tee director for Israel, declared
at the inaugural ceremony of Jeru-
salem's School of Occupational
Therapy, which had moved into
new quarters on Mount Scopus.
The JDC helps support the school
as part of its program to assist
in the recruitment and training of
personnel for Israel's social wel-
fare agencies, Trobe said. The
new quarters accommodate 100
students, half of them in dormi-
tories.
Almost all absurdity of conduct
arises from the imitation of those
whom we cannot resemble.
—Samuel Johnson
These were the major philan-
thropic societies here when Rabbi
Franklin became the spiritual
leader of Beth El in 1899. Although
well intentioned, there was com-
petition for funds and duplication
of services among the Jewish phil-
anthropic societies. Detroit's Jew-
ish population numbered 5,000, in
a total population of 300,000.
One of the first acts of Rabbi
Franklin in the Jewish com-
munity was a call to the lead-
ers of the existing philanthropic
societies for a unification of
their work. At his initiative, a
meeting was scheduled for Nov.
7, 1899, at Temple Beth El, of
above
representatives of
the
named societies. All of the in-
vited societies, with the excep-
tion of the "Ladies Society for
the Support of Hebrew Widows
and Orphans in the State of
Michigan" responded favorably
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to the call,
and the result was
the organization of the United
Jewish Charities which was in-
corporated on Nov. 21, 1899. The
"Ladies Society for the Support
of Hebrew Widows and Orphans
in the State of Michigan" de-
clined to attend the meeting be-
cause they felt that their work
did not duplicate the services
of any of the existing societies.
The United Jewish Charities, De-
troit's first central philanthropic
organization, laid the foundation
for many of the Jewish community
services. It was the predecessor
of the Jewish Welfare Federation,
founded in 1926. The United Jewish
Charities is today the property
holding agency of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation.
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Temple Emanuel Sisterhood is
requesting donations of4 , clothing.
cleaned, pressed and marked with
the size, for its Second Best Sal,
Monday and Tuesday.
• • •
Jack Stevens and David Same
have been designated National
Merit Scholarship semifinalists out
of more than 35,000 Michigan high
school students who competed.
• • •
Society" with both congregations
participating in its work. In 1882H
the "Hebrew Ladies Sewing So- '
ciety" was organized by Beth El,
and in 1889 "The Self Help Circle"
was established by Beth El. In
1892, Shaarey Zedek established a
philanthropic society of its own
and called it "The Jewish Relief
Society."
In New Fall Fashions
from
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Bnai Brith Women will hold its
annual Menora Luncheon 12:30
p.m. Wednesday at Tony Lakos
Restaurant. A skit will follow
luncheon. In the cast are Judy and
Jerry Subar, Shirley Freedlander
and Frieda Shapiro. Jean Feldman
is narrator and Mrs. Shapiro is
skit and lyrics writer.
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'Sex and the Synagogue'
Topic of Discussion at
Beth Am Services
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Rabbi Israel Mowshowitz, left, chairman, board of directors,
International Synagogue, JFK Airport, presents plaque to Rabbi
Israel Goldstein, honorary president, at a testimonial dinner given
by the directors.
Bar-Ilan Researchers Get Ford Grants
RA MAT GAN. Israel—Two Bar Samuel of the Weizmann Institute
Ilan University researchers have in Rehovot, Israel.
been awarded Ford Foundation
Bar-Ilan University was founded
grants totaling 120,000 Israel in 1915 by American Jewish corn-
pounds (534,800) for the 1969-70 munal leaders. Its first class con-
academic year, according to Dr. sisted of 80 students and 19 faculty
Joseph II. Lookstein, chancellor of members. The university's current
the university.
enrollment has reached the 4,500
Dr. Nahman Gather, senior lec- mark and it has a faculty of 600
turer in the department of micro- academicians.
biology, has been granted 31.000
"Bar-Ilan University endeavors
Israel pounds to study "The Enzy- to promote a harmonious develop-
matic System involved in the in- ment of its students through inten-
activation of chloramphenicol and sive studies in Jewish and secular
its implications for drug resistance subjects," Dr. Lookstein stated..
in bacteria."
The university maintains admin-
Dr. Isaac Lewin, senior lecturer
in the department of psychology, istrative offices at 641 Lexington,
New
York, in addition to its mod-
has received an 89,000 Israel pound
grant to study "The chemistry and ern campus in Ramat Gan, the
suburb of Tel Aviv.
physiology of learning. memory
(Former Vice President Hubert
and behavior." Dr. Lewin's grant
H. Humphrey will address the an-
is in conjunction with Prof. David
nual dinner of Detroit Friends of
Bar-Ilan University, at the Shaarey
Zedek, Dec. 3.)
Arab Boycott Office
Ignores Jordan Offense
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EEC Ministers to Air
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — The Arab
Trade Pact With Israel
Boycott Committee, which pub-
lishes a blacklist of countries trad- ; BRUSSELS (JTA)—A proposed
ing with Israel and adopts resolu- preferential trade agreement with •
tions aimed at punishing "offend- Israel is expected to be on the ,
, agenda when the Council of Minis-!
ers. - must now cope with quite a
' ters of the European Economic
paradox.
A leading offender is none other Community convenes in Luxem-
than Jordan where, despite the bourg this weekend.
The Common Market's executive
permanent state of war with Is-
rael, brisk commerce with Israel commission has presented a draft
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pounds each year. The Arab states trade agreement with Israel. The
refuse to take notice, and go on proposal calls for the six member
con venin4 boycott conferences to states to lower traiff barriers by
45 per cent on nearly all Israeli
11011(Itine• so called violators while
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