HUC-JIR Dean
Beth Achim Offeri Allen Warsen Compiles 'Episodes' of His Career
to Explore Jewish `Synagogue Skills' Allen A. Warsen, longtime De- eluded from receiving automotive Melt, •and. that Jew over there is
troit school teacher and historian instruction, such as driving and probably.: eainnunicsiting with the
in Adult Program of Jewish life in Michigan, paused repairing cars, trucks, tanks and Russians.' This was my last day in
Role in America
long enough in his search for his- other vehicles. We were not even that office."
Dean Kenneth D. Roseman of the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish In-
stitute of Religion in Cincinnati,
will address the March 3 session
of the College of Jewish Studies at
Temple Emanu-El at 8:30 p.m.
Dean Roseman, who also serves
as assistant professor of American
Jewish history at
HIJC-JIR, will
speak on "The
Jewish Contribu-
tion to American
Life."
His address,
part of the lec-
ture series which
supplements reg-
ular c 1 a s-s ses-
sions at the Col-
lege of Jewish Rabbi Roseman
Studies, is open to both enrolled
students and all members of par-
ticipating Reform congregations.
The college, sponsored by the
Metropolitan Detroit Federation of
Reform Synagogues, is open for
registration• for the balance of the
spring semester, which concludes
June 2.
Washington-born, Dean Roseman
attended private schools in Swit-
zerland and Greece where his
father was assigned to diplomatic
posts with the U.S. government.
Returning to the United States
in 1957, Rabbi Roseman attend-
ed Oberlin College where he was
awarded the James K. Newton
Prize in Far East History, the
life prize in American history
and was nominated for a Rhodes
Scholarship. He was ordained at
HUC-J111 in 1966.
Listed in "Outstanding Young
Men of America," Rabbi Roseman
is the author of "Dramatic Mom-
ents in Jewish History." He also
has written numerous articles in
secular and scholarly journals.
His lecture may be attended
without charge.
Cong. Beth Achim and its affili-
ates will sponsor an adult insti-,
tute for six successive Mondays
from 8 to 10 p.m. March 1-April 5.
Four courses in synagogue skills
will be taught by Rabbi Milton
Arm and Cantor Simon Bermanis.
The four are: Learning to Read
Hebrew, Rabbi Arm, 8 p.m.;
Learning to Chant a Haftora, Can-
tor Bermanis, 8 p.m.; Learning
Basic Ideas of the Prayer Book,
Arm, 9 p.m.; and Learning the
Sabbath and Holiday Modes and
Melodies, Bermanis, 9 p.m.
Those who wish to enroll in one
or more classes are asked to call
the synagogue office, 352-8670,
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays or
9 a.m.-noon Sundays. There is no
fee.
Isaac B. Singer
Next in Series
of Adas Shalom
Novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer
will speak at the adult study in-
stitute of Adas Shalom Syna-
gogue 8:45 p.m., Tuesday at Hillel
Day School.
His topic will be "The Kabbala
and Man — The Reality of the
Supernatural." •
Singer, author of "The Manor"
and "The Estate," and recipient
of many literary awards,' has been
hailed as "one of the authentically
great writers of our time."
Singer writes in Yiddish and col-
laborates in the translation into
English. Many of his stories deal
with mysticism, legend, the suepr-
natural — a way of life remote
from the 20th century.
Coffee and cake will follow the
lecture. Rabbi Jacob E. Segal
will be moderator.
Singer's lecture will be the fifth
in a 10-week series of the adult
study institute. The series is open
to all.
New York's Aid Saves Old Synagogues
NEW YORK (JTA) — A small
group of Jewish worshipers has
won a battle to continue a syna-
gogue founded by Polish immi-
grants in 1850 at what is now the
edge of a Lower East side low-in-
come housing project. The symbol
of that victory was a mortgage
burning ceremony attended by
Mayor John V. Lindsay and the
New York City Housing Authority
cairman, Simeon Golar, along
with leading rabbis.
For assay" years, Congregation
of the Cities of Sineir and Vilna
flourished at IN Madison St. in
Manhattan. When the neighbor-
hood began to change, younger
esagregants started to move
elsewhere. In 1153, the Public
flossing Authority began coo-
' deasnation proceedings to clear
the way for the federally-aided
LaGuardia houses.
The remaining eongregants made
a decision to try to save the syna-
gogue. They changed its name to
Cong. Beth Haknesses and raised
$30,000 paid to the Housing Author-
BY for a change in plans to allow
the synagogue building to remain
at the site.
Present worshipers are almost
all elderly immigrants. The revi-
•er cougregants total less than
200, and 400 to 500 Orthodox Jews
come to- the rundown synagogue
for High-Holy Day services. None
of the.itslatjacilities of a fully-
functioning synagogue exist.
'Rabbi MOMS Shisgal, who has
served for the past 14 years as
out salary, enlisted oth-
rabbi With
er rabbis- to help raise the money
needed to pay :off the mortgage
but it was a losing effort, even
though the PHA- was reluctant to
foreclose. -
The remaining worshipers had
made periodic payments on the
mortgage until their funds ran out,
forcing the authority to start fore-
closure proceedings in June 1966.
Mayor Lindsay intervened several
times with the housing authority
for extensions on the deadline.
Finally, after protracted nego-
tiations the foreclosure action
was settled on the bolds of an
appraisal of the current value of
the property for $40,000, which
was raised, theueb with diffi-
culty, by the small congregation.
The settlement was approved by
the State Supreme Court and the
U.S. Housing and Urban Develop-
ment department.
Mayor Lindsay made a personal
gift of *250 to the congregation
toward the start of a fund to re-
habilitate the synagogue building.
Reds Say 'Zionists
Burn Synagogue?
PARIS (JTA)—The Soviet news
agency Novosti accused "Zionist
agent provocateurs" of deliber-
ately committing anti-Semitc acts
to further Zionist propaganda.
In an eight page French langu-
age commentary dated Feb. 8
Novosti said that "agents of the
Zionist secret service set fire to
synagogues, violated Jewish ceme-
teries and committed other ignoble
provocations which are now being
exploited by the Zionist propagnda
machine."
Novosti, which carries news of
the Soviet Union for foreign con-
sumption, claimed that the "same
technique has been used by the
Zionists in Iraq, Egypt and Moroc-
co and even in the United States
and Argentina."
Observers here believe the Nov-
osti charges were published. to
counteract the world conference on
Soviet Jewry which opened in
Brussels Tuesday. Novosti claimed
that Dr. Emil Goldstuecker, a pro-
minent Czech Jewish refugee who
fled the 1968 Soviet invasion of his
homeland "wrote anti-Semitic
letters to himself."
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torical data on others to put his
own story into writing — in the
from of a 43-page booklet, "Auto-
biographical Episodes."
allowed to come close to the re-
pair shops. Our only consolation
was that the division had very few
cars, trucks and tanks, but mostly
bicycles and motorcycles and only
a few dozen of these. No wonder
the Nazis had no difficulty con-
quering Poland."
The three Jews, writes Warsen,
were engaged in electrical, canteen
and office work, respectively. "One
day an officer ran Into our office,
all excited and screamed, 'Look
what's happening! The Jews took
over our division.' Pointing at me,
he yelled, 'This Jew took over our
administration, the other Jew took
over our commercial establish-
—C. D.
GLASSMAN OLDSMOBGE
of
Mich-
TA,Ek
igan Jewish Historical Society and
its semi-annual journal, relates
TOWN
some of his activities in bringing
the role of Michigan Jewry to the
public eye, including the erection
of a monument to Ezekiel Solomon,
Michigan's first Jewish settler, at
Ft. Michilimackinac.
The teacher also points out that
he has long advocated the intro-
duction of Hebrew instruction in-
to the public schools.
Although "Episodes" dwells
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in this country, the more inter-
esting portions of his narrative
are in the first pages of the
booklet. Here he describes life
in Poland, where he was born at
the beginning of the century.
Among the incidents Warsen re-
lates are his experiences in the
Polish army as a young man of 21.
One of three Jews in his armored
division, Warsen recalls, "We were
continually singled out for insults
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