36—Frislay, August 7, 1970

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Latest in Sloan Chain

Luxury Theater, the Kingswood, Open

The Northwest area has a new
luxury motion picture theater
facility: the Kingswood Theater,
at Woodward Ave. and Square
Lake Rd., which opened Wednes-
day.
Its opening, keyed to the theme
of the "diamond anniversary thea-
ter," is timed to observe the 75th
year of motion pictures.
The Kingswood is the latest de-
velopment of Suburban Detroit
Theaters, owned by Eugene and
Richard Sloan, operators of 14
other theaters in the Detroit area.
Associated with the Sloans in the
Kingwood, as in several other
theater interests, are Adolph and
Irving Goldberg, who also operate
Community Theaters. Eugene
Sloan is president of the Kings-
wood Theater company as a sepa-
rate entity.
The Kingswood is currently pre-
senting the Walt Disney production
"Beatniks" as its feature attrac-
tion.

In keeping with the diamond
anniversary theme is a display

in the Kingswood lobby of ap-
proximately 75 photographs from
memorable motion pictures. The
display will remain on view for
several weeks.
The basic contemporary design
uses earth-toned face brick exten-
sively throughout the exterior and
lobby. The lobby displays a large
metal wall sculpture by Silas Sean-
del set off by wall drops and ceil-
ing light cells in smoke acrylic.
The light cells are used in the con-
cession area keyed to a large an
tique mirror extending the full

Birth

Aug. 1—To Mr. and Mrs. Barry
Letinsky (Donna Weiss). 2200
Berkley. Berkley, a daughter,
Alisa Beth.

width of the area. There is exten-
sive use of wood paneling in the
lobby, which complements the cus-
tom-made carpet with a color blend
of harvest tones of pumpkin, gold,
rust and brown.
The auditorium itself is designed
to convey a restful atmosphere
with extensive use of fabric and
drapes.
There is parking on three sides
of the theater with access from
Woodward Avenue and Square
Lake Road. The front and side of
the theater building have full
length canopies with extensive
lighting to offer protection from
the weather.
Manager of the Kingswood will
be Richard Ravicchio, who has
managed several other Suburban
Detroit Theaters, and who last
year was named "Showman of the
Year' at the state convention of
National Association of Theater
Owners of Michigan.

Pittsburgh AJCongress
Has Low-Income Housing

PITTSBURGH (JTA)—An 87-
apartment bungalow-style housing
project for low and moderate in-
come families, sparked by efforts
of the Pittsburgh chapter of the
American Jewish Congress, with
seed money from the Pittsburgh
Jewish Federation and federal fi-
nancing, will be opened for initial
occupancy in September. The Met-
ropolitan Pittsburgh Nonprofit
Housing Authority is the sponsor.
The apartments are expected to be
fully occupied by December.

ouncements

July 29 — To former Detroiters
Dr. and Mrs. Ian Hassin (Arlene
Brody) of M i a m i, a daughter,
Dana Robyn.
,
.

July 30—To Mr. and Mrs. How-
July 27—To Dr. and Mrs. Law-
ard Winkler (Karen Wiener), 27281 rence Haber (Barbara Faudem),
Hystone, Fa rmingto n, a son, 4894 Batry. Walled Lake. a daugh-
Steven Bryan.
ter, Jennifer Lynn.

July 29—To former Detroiters
July 23—To Dr. and Mrs. Elliotte
Dr. and Mrs. Jerald Young (Sha- Moss ( Marlene Selig), 24694 Rens-
ron Goodstien) of Rochester, N.Y., selaer, Oak Park, a d a u g h t e r,
a son. Matthew Adam.
Stacey Beth.

July 29—To Mr. and Mrs. Neil
July 23 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Benjamin (Judi Siegel of Muske-
gon). 30882 Oak Valley, Farming- Robert Bachman (Barbara Kauf-
man), 31110 Hunter's Whip Ln.,
ton, a daughter, Erin Leigh.
Farmington, a daughter, Meredith
Paige.
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July 22—To Mr. and Mrs. Gary
Eisenberg (Barbara Hillman). 25881
Ivanhoe, Huntington Woods, a son,
David Abraham.
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July 20—To Mr. and Mrs. Leon-
ard Schwartz (Nita Lowe), 1274
Navarre Pl., a son, Matthew Mor-
ris.

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July 18—To Mr. and Mrs. Max
Gendelman (Sheila Katz), 22180
Ridgedale, Oak Park, a daughter,
Linda Robin.

July 16 — To Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Lampcov (Edythe Gordon), 24751
Church, Oak Park, a son, Marc
Lee.

July 14—To Mr. and Mrs. San-
ford Lakin (Rochelle Barr), 19510
Argyle Cresc., a daughter, Robyn
Lynne.

July 12 — To former Detroiters,
Dr. and Mrs. Martin E. Pearlman
(Elaine S. Friedman), of Durham,
N.C., a daughter, Rebecca Shari.
e •
July 9—To Mr. and Mrs. Brian
Letvin (Karen Glancy), former
Detroiters of Littleton, Colo., a
daughter, Cassandra Lynn.

July 6—To Dr. and Mrs. I. Den-
nis Potocsky (Myra Schulman),
Detroiters now of Ft. Riley, Kan.,
a daughter, Michelle Beth.

Grandchild of Future Analyzed by Historian

What sort of Jews will your
grandchildren be in the year 2000?
Will they be Jews at all? If you're
curious about the generation to
come, the April 1970 issue of Amer-
ican Jewish Archives will surely
interest you. It features an article
with the rather formidable title
"American Jewish Population Stu-
dies Since World War II" by Rabbi
Ronald M. Goldstein, now of Tem-
ple Beth Zion, Buffalo, N.Y. Ad-
dressing himself to the nature,
character and trends of post-World
War II American Jewry as reflect-
ed in some 40 communal surveys,
Rabbi Goldstein attempts to por-
tray the typical young American
Jew of today and to project what
tomorrow probably holds in store.
The typical American Jew of to-
morrow will not wish to move too
far away from the city of his birth.
He will marry but not until he is
over 20 years of age. Like his fa-
ther, the typical Jew of the 1950s
and 1960s, he will want to finish his

education and find a good job be-
fore assuming the responsibility
of supporting a wife and family.
As today, so probably tomorrow
too, widows will outnumber widow-
ers, since married women are and
will continue to be usually stronger
than their husbands. It has been
said—and there is some truth to
the wisecrack — that the beautiful
apartment houses of our large
towns are full of the widows of
dynamic Jewish businessmen.
Most American Jews are in
business or in one or another of
the professions. They are rarely
artisans, rarely blue-collar work-
ers. Most Jews are self em-

will not abandon his desire for
education.

But how Jewish can we expect
the new generation to be, the gen-
eration that will live to usher in the
21st century? Will it be Jewishly
educated? Will its members affili-
ate with synagogues? Today at
least 75 per cent of all Jewish boys
and girls get a formal Jewish edu-
cation of some sort and even study
some Hebrew in a one-day-a-week
or afternoon school. On the East
Coast, at least 75 per cent of all
Jews belong to a religious organi-
zatin, but on the West Coast, with
its many new settlers, over 60 per
cent of the Jews remain unaffilated.
ployed; they like to be their own Quite a number of third-generation
bosses. Most young Jews today Jews are not members of syna-
will graduate from a university; gogues, but this may be due to the
many will go on to do post- fact that they are not yet married
graduate work. The perecentage and prepared to settle down. Mar-
of college - educated Jews is at riage and children make the dif-
least three times as large as the ference. Practically all Jews be-
percentage of college-educated long to at least one Jewish organi-
non-Jews. The Jews of tomorrow zation, and about one-half are
affiliated with at least one non-
Jewish society.
Will the generation of the year
2000 survive as Jews? That de-
pends, in part at least, on what
Rabbi Goldstein calls "outmar-
leather wineskin in our modern riage." His figures, culled from all
wizards."
There is no derth of confusion the surveys he has analyzed, show
in Selzer's book. While there is al- that in the average community to-
ways justification for criticism of day the outmarriage amounts to
power-seekers and power-exerters, anywhere from 6 to 8 per cent,
the extent to which he goes puzzles, though in Washington, D.C., a sur-
confuses, creates doubts — one vey has demonstrated that 18 per
must wonder what has affected cent of the third generation married
him to make him so bitter. out.
In about a third of all inter-
Every conceivable Jewish ex-
perience is utilized by Selzer for marriages, the non-Jewish part-
his book, and like too much spice ner becomes a Jew by conversion.
it nearly spoils the broth. He It is a safe guess that the 1970s
talks about the Khazars, criti. will see a rise in the overall per-
cizes Yehuda Halevi, states about centage of outmarriages. Even
the Chosenness of Israel: "If so, Rabbi Goldstein ventures the
the election of Israel as God's statement that "Jewish identity
Chosen People was a privilege, is strong, that there is a con-
it more often appeared in the scious effort to maintain Jewish
form of an excruciating burden survival."
In addition to Rabbi Goldstein's
instead" and proceeds to add:
"The traditional Jewish commit. essay, the April Archives contains
ment has been to powerlessness Zosa Szajkowski's "Impact of Jew-
. . . To be a Jew means to be ish Overseas Relief on American
afraid" and then he quotes Yev- Jewish and Non-Jewish Philan-
tushenko's powerful Babi Yar thropy, 1914-1927;" Rudolf Glanz's
poem. "German-Jewish Mass Emigration,
One wonders whether Yevtushen- 1820-1880;" and the late Louis E.
ko would have accepted an idea Singer's autobiography telling of
of submission to fear, in an age his trek from White Russia to West
when we wish to drive it out of the Virginia. When Singer started his
compulsions that often degrade. American career as a peddler, his
He is critical of rabbis, he quoits- complete English vocabulary con-
tions the Jewishness of the mod- sisted of two words: "Madam,
ern leaders, in the course of his buy."
exposition he says many accept- American Jewish Archives is a
able things. Yet he is not without semiannual journal published en
confusion in presenting an offering the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew
that could not be accepted in full Union College-Jewish Institute of
measure by Auschwitz survivors. Religion. Prof. Jacob R. Marcus
Perhaps we are mistaking a crafty and Stanley F. Chyet are its edi-
tors.
wizard for a leather wineskin.

Heinrich Heine's Bon Mot Is Author's
Weapon in Battle on World Powers

Michael Selzer, in "The Wine- a
skin and the Wizard" (Macmillan)
fights power. He seeks "voluntary
abandonment of the power we now
'enjoy' and of the security which
it has brought is — at so abysmal
a cost. What is called for is noth-
ing less than the dismemberment
of all those professionally consti-
tuted agencies of our wealth and
influence in the world, through
which we confront the world. We
must learn once again to confront
the world simply as human beings,
exposing our naked and defense-
less humanity to the world to
treat our humanity, and therefore
its own, in whatever manner it
sees fit. It is the validity of man
which we have to assert and pro-
claim, and not viability of the pow-
er-golem behind which we, too,
have hidden ourselves.
This could serve as a general
statement, but the book almost
in its entirety deals with Jewish
history, with the Zionist move-
ment, wit h Israel — and the
criticisms are unbounded. All
the talk is aimed at the powers
the author is frightened by.
His thesis is that "the purpose
of Jewish existence is fulfilled only
through the adversities we experi-
ence as a result of our powerless-
ness," and that, "paradoxically, it
is precisely our powerlesness
which has ensured our survival."
And he suggests "that a renuncia-
tion of power and an understanding
of the hollowness of power-based
pretensions is central to the Jew-
ish tradition."
Selzer, born in India, in 1940, his
parents having fled from Ger-
many; raised in Pakistan, edu-
cated in England, lived in Israel
for four years and became a for-
eign correspondent. He now lives
in this country. He took the title
for his book from Heinrich Heine
who, drawing between himself and
the man of La Mancha, Don Quix-
ote, wrote:
"He mistook a leather wineskin
for a crafty wizard, and I see only

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