Bessie Halpern, Mother
of Beth Shalom Rabbi
Bessie E. Halpern, mother of
Rabbi Mordecai S. Halpern of
Cong. Beth Shalom and widow of
Rabbi Abraham Halpern, spiritual
leader for 44 years of Cong. Bnai
Amoona, St. Louis, died Sunday
in St. Paul, where she was living
with a daughter.
Mrs. Halpern, 78, bad cofound-
ed with her husband the kosher
kitchen of the Jewish Hospital of
St. Louis and personally saw to
the maintenance of kashrut there.
She was a member of-the Daugh-
_ ters of Israel and Mizrachi, Re-
ligious Zionist Organization, and
on the board of the sisterhood
of Bnai Amoona.
Born in Lithuania, Mrs. Halpern
lived in St. Louis 45 years. When
her husband died in 1962, she
moved to St. Paul.
Surviving besides her son are
two daughters, Mrs. Harry (Fay-
ga) Gordon of Mamaroneck, N.Y.,
and Mrs. Bernard (Laeh) Raskas
of St. Paul, and eight grandchil-
dren.
Abraham Weiss,
Rabbinics Scholar,
Yeshiva Professor
JERUSALEM — Dr. Abraham
Weiss, a rabbinics scholar for 40
years who served on the faculty of
Yeshiva University for 27 years
until retirement in 1967, died Oct.
4 here at age 75.
Since 1967 he was professor of
Talmud at Israel's Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity. Funeral services were
held in Jerusalem. The eulogy was
given by Israel's minister of reli-
gion, Dr. Zerah Warhaftig.
Dr. Weiss had , taught at Yeshiva
University's Bernard Revel Gradu-
ate School since he came to the
United States in 1940.
He was the author of 10 ma-
km works on the nature and de-
velopment of the Talmud. While
at Yeshiva University, he edited
Hcreb, a scholarly journal pub-
lished in Hebrew.
Born in Austria-Hungary, he re-
ceived a PhD degree from the
University of Vienna in 1921 and
was ordained at the Rabbinical
Painting is the intermediate Seminary in Vienna in 1922. He
somewhat between a thought and taught and was later rector of the
Institute of Jewish Science in War-
a thing.—Sydney Smith.
saw from 1928-39.
In honor of his four decades of
pioneering scholarship, colleagues
and
disciples at Yeshiva University
The Family of the Late
in 1964 contributed essays for an
- MORRIS (PAUL)
800-page jubilee volume, dealing
with his contribtions to talmudic
YAMPOLSKY
scholarship. At the 1967 commence-
Wishes to thank Rabbis
ment of Yeshiva he was -awarded
L. Levin and L Halpern,
an honorary doctor of Hebrew let-
C a star Ackerman and
ters.
relatives and friends for
attending the recent un-
Gitai, Israeli Architect
veiling.
HAIFA—Prof. Munio Gitai, who
designed the library and archive
of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, died
at the end of September, at age 61.
He was a member of the faculty
Mrs. Morris Dorn
of architecture and town planning
at the Technion, Israel Institute
- Sister of the Late
of Technology.
Yad Vashem is the world center
MAX SCHNEIDER
established for the memorialize-
Acknowledges with grate-
don of the victims of Nazism
ful appreciation the many
and the study of the Holocaust.
kind expressions of sym-
Prof. Gitai was born in .Poland
pathy extended by relit-,
and came to Palestine in 1934.
does and Mends daring
Among his many outstanding de-
her family's recent, be-
signs were a housing project for
reavement.
army officers, a rehabilitation
center for the blind in Eiryat
Motzkin near Haifa, the Institute
for Judaic Studies at the Hebrew
University and the hydraulic la-
boratory at the Technion.
The Family of the Late
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JEROME - F.
SIMON
Acknowledges with grate- .
ful appreciation the many
kind expressions of sym-
pathy extended by refs
lives and friends during
the family's recent _be-
reavement.-
OBITUARIES
MARIE AGHABABA, 18105 Mey-
ers, died Oct. 8. Survived by her
mother, Mrs. Rachel Aghababa;
and four sisters, including Victoria
and Emily and two in Israel.
* • •
ELLIOT R. BARAK, 12914 Wales,
Huntington Woods, died Oct. 9. He
leaves his parents, Dr. and Mrs.
Sidney Barak; a sister, Shelley;
and his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Meyer Weingarden and Mrs.
Rose Barak.
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MURRAY FALKOFF, 17001
Maryland, Southfield, died Oct. 11.
He leaves a son, David; a daugh-
ter, Gayle; one brother and two
sisters. • •%•
HARRY HERMAN, former De-
troiter of Van Nuys, died Oct. 12.
Survived by his wife, Ethel; and
two sons, Sidney and Basil. Inter-
ment California.
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SAMUEL J. KATSER, 19358
Stoepel, died Oct. 11. He leaves
his wife, Mignon; a son, Arthur;
two brothers and two sisters.
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DR. AND MRS.
SIDNEY BARAK
and the Grandparents Mr.
and Mrs. Meyer Weingar-
den,„the treasurer of our
Yeah/oath, upon the loss
of their- belowed son and -
grandsoa, Diet Barak. -
May they be comforted,
among the mourners of-
Zion in Jerusalem.
Millet
. _ L. Abrams
Dorfman, Mrs. Garfield -(Irene)
Calcaterra and Mrs. Sidney •(Ger-
trude) Rosenzweig; one brother,
one sister, four grandchildren and
five great-grandchildren.
• • •
HINDA MANSON, 6091/2 E. Wil-
liams, Ann Arbor, died Oct. 3.
She leaves her father, Morton C.
Manson of Rochester, N. Y.; and
one brother. Interment Rochester.
• • •
JACK ROTHENBERG, former
Detroiter, of Miami Beach, died
Oct. 9. He leaves a son, Martin;
two daughters, Mrs. Frank
(Edythe) Morg a no and Mrs.
George (Esther) Karber; one sis-
ter, nine grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren. Interment De-
troit.
• • •
MATTHEW SCHREIDELL, 20811
Kipling, Oak Park, died Oct. 11.
Survived by his wife, Jeanette; a
son, Barry, two daughters, Mrs.
Mark (Nancy) Morganroth and
.11.1, and two brothers.
• • •
SIMON SHLOM, 19100 W. Seven
Mile, died Oct. 11. Survived by his
.wife, Sarah; two sons, Irving and
Philip; three daughters, Mrs. Yetta
Sallan, Mrs. 'Nathan (Bertha)
Novograd and Mrs. William A.
(Winifred) Borkin; 16 grandchil-
dren and four great-grandchildren.
• • •
LOUIS TOBIN, 13811 Allan, Oak
Park, died Oct. 11. Survived by his
wife, Jennie; four sons, Albert of
Decatur, Ga., Harold, Morton and
Marshall; a daughter, Mrs. Donald
(Florence) Nitzkin; 17 grandchil-
dren and one great-grandchild.
Bernard Marks,
Food Broker
Bernard L. Marks, president of
Marks and Georgens, Inc., food
brokers, died Oct. 9 at age 45.
Mr. Marks, 5190 Longmeadow,
Bloomfield Hills, was a lifelong
resident of Detroit.
He was a member of the Detroit
Association of Grocery Manufac-
turers, the Detroit Food Brokers
and National Food Brokers asso-
ciations.
He also belonged to Temple Is-
rael; Brandeis Lodge of Bnai Brith,
Oak Park Lodge of the Masons,
Crescent Shrine Club, Moslem
Temple, Standard City Club and
Knollwood Country Club.
He leaves his wife, Phyliss; two
sons, Sherwin and Paul; and a
sister, Mrs. Marilyn Vaughn of
Indianapolis.
Arnold Kosarin, 76,
Arkos Firm Head
Arnold A. Kosarin, founder and
president of Arkos Manufacturing
Co., which was acquired by the
DORA LAZAR, 20001 Braille,
American Standard Corp. in 1965,
died Sunday at age 76.
‘died Oct. 10. She leaves three
Mr. Kosarin, 17181 Pontchartrain,
daughters, Mrs. Harry (Ruth)
was a mechanical engineer and re-
mained with American Standard
as a consultant until his death.
He was a charter member of
Temple Israel, a member of the
Economic Club of Detroit and on
Seymour Wedes, owner of the
the charter committee of the Haifa
Jewel Box, 20727 Wyoming, Royal
Institute of Technology in IsraeL
Oak Township, was shot to death
Born in Russia, Mr. Kosarin was
Tuesday in the holdup of his
a 45-year resident of Detroit. He
jewelry store. •
is survived by a son, Basil; a
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Mr. Wedes, 52, died in an ap-
daughter, -Mrs. Irwin (Edith)
parent shootout with a bandit,
FRANCES WAX of Toronto Gottlieb; a brother, Joseph of
according to police. His wife Anne died Oct. 13. She leaves her hus- Buenos Aires; and seven grand-
was present at the time of the band, Joseph; three sons, Dr. children.
shooting, but was unhurt. The Sheldon, Howard and Dr. Fred-
Wedes' watchdog also was shot rick; a daughter, Mrs. Marshall
Nothing can be so deceiving as
and killed by the gunman, who (Corinne) Wise, and a brother,
a photograph.
—Franz Kafka
fled with money and -jewels.
Joseph Frankford, both of Detroit;
A native Detroiter, Mr. Wedes, two sisters and five grandchildren.
23,161 Parklawn, Oak Park, leaves Interment Toronto.
in addition to his wife, two sons,
Mark and Kenneth; a daughter,
Laura; and a sister, Mrs. Robert Rabbi Hyman Hirsch
Rabbi Hyman, J. Hirsch, Brook-
(Mildred) Greenley.
lyn rabbi for some 30 years and
During the coming
week Yeshiva Beth .
father-in-law
of Detroit Rabbi Jack
Sadye Cohen, 71,
Yehuda
win observe
Goldman; died Sunday at age 68.
the Yahrs•it of the
Active Club Woman
Rabbi Hirsch, who often visited.'
following
deported
Sadye Cohen, Detroit club wom- here, was'a writer and lecturer as
friends, with the
an• died Monday at age 71. Mrs. well as rabbi. In later years, he
traditional Memorial
Cohen, a resident or Borman Hall; retired from the rabbinate to go
Prayers, recitation of
was a member of Temple Israel,
Kaddish and study-
It is easy to stand a pain but Hadassal; American Jewish Con- into business. He was a' native of
ing . of Mishnayes.
Hungary.
difficult to stand an itch.
gress, United Hebrew Schools, Na-
liebarw Civil
—Chinese Proverb. tional Council of Jewish Women,
Surviving besides his, daugh-
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Stanley Brewer
Sinai Hospital Women's Guild and ter Liela Goldman here, are his
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Samuel Zeide
the North End Clinic.
wife, Rose; four sons, Rabbis Me-
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Seymour M. (Muriel) Israel and Moses and Lazer ,of Lakewood,
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Mrs. Donald W. (Fayette) Loria; N.J,; two brothers and 18 grand-
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Sam
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brothers,
Irwin
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Dr.
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HAROLD
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Jeweler, Killed
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Minette Miller, managing editor
of the Legal Chronicle for 15 years,
died Sunday at age 53.
Mrs. Miller, 8900 E. Jefferson,
was a lifelong resident of Detroit.
She is survived by two sons, Ron-
ald of Milford and. Samuel; her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hor-
owitz; two sisters, Mrs. Hy Eis-
man and Mrs. Max Trager; and
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