3 TR ofriDETROIT H Nov. 3, 1972 Turover's Banquet Slated for Sunday Detroit Jewish Agency Performs Mitzva f r Wayfaring Strangers Turover Aid Society will celebrate its 63rd annivers- ary with a banquet 6:30 p.m. Sunday at Cong. Bnai Moshe. Master of ceremonies Na- than Samet will present the entertainment. Dinner and dance music will be provided by Rosenblatt's orchestra, with Irene Pianin as vocalist. Chairman of the banquet is Mrs. Ben Grant, and Mrs. Julius Honeyman is co- chairman. Guests will be welcome. For reservations, call Mrs. Grant, 342-6250, or Mrs . Iloneyman, 398-2627. Young Adults Invited to Socialize at Center Jewish young adults age 18-24 are invited to 8 p.m. Wednesday socials at the Jewish Center. Center mem- bership is not required. For information, call Michael Berkowitz at the Center, 341- 4200. Arils 411.- Oct. 28—To Dr. and Mrs. William H. Michaels (Sheri Whitefield), 25160 Grand Concourse, Southfield, a son, Eric Andrew. • • • Oct. 25 — To Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Bobcat( (Andrea Gold), 6440 Rutledge Park, W. Bloomfield, a daughter, Lori Nichole. • • • Oct. 21 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sher (Suzanne Ko- sofsky), former Detroiters of Scottsdale, Ariz., a son, Bradley David. • • • Oct. 18 — To Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Ernst (Jean Ellen Bar- rer), 16718 Greenview, a son, Jachary J. • • • Oct. 18 — To Dr. and Mrs. Steven C. Gross (Susan Smith), 23300 Providence, Southfield, a daughter, Jess- ica Sara. • • • Oct. 16 — To Mr. and Mrs. Zvi Burstyn (Margie AdelS- berg), 1445 l'elissier, Wind- nor, a son, Jaron Bernard. • • • Oct. 11 — To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis James Lautin (Amy Wolf), 12934 Vernon, Hunt- ington Woods, a daughter, Leslie Lynn. - • RABBI LEO GOLDMAN F . ',err Se, Ira Rohe! lloatni•Is LI 2-4 444 and alarm.. LI 1-9769 RABBI S. ZACHARIASH Specialized MOHEL In Horne or Hospital 557-9666 [ REV. SIDNEY RUB E Mohel 358-1426 or 357-5544 1111 1,11 i 11111 Rev HERSHL ROTH c..4..d Mokel 557-0888 OP.. a a '4710 By CHARucyrrBIN Ile wandered in off the street, a bewildered little old man, w h o somehow had found his way to the Jewish Welfare Federation building in downtown Detroit. Staff members could get little information from him, but learned, eventually, that he was a resident of a con- valescent home in New York. It took a phone call to the home — "Oh, so that's where he is," they said with little surprise — and some arrangements with Travel- ers' Aid, and soon the gentle- man was on his way back to New York. Apparently., it was learned here, he takes an annual, un- authorized trip as his way of saying "don't fence me in." This was only one of the little emergencies that crop urn in 'the working day of Helen Samberg, intake aide for the Jewish Family and Children's Servic e, who staffs the House: of Shelter. The latter is a Federation agency that draws little at- tention — probably because the number of cases it han- dles is miniscule compared with the work, say, of the Jewish Family and Chil- dren's Service. And its clients n e v e r stay long enough to sing its praises. They are the transients, the usually middle-aged to elderly men whose rootless lives have been' a series of disappointments and fears— fear of facing reality in one place, of settling down with a family and a job. There always have been Jewish transients. The Jew- ish House of Shelter was er by staff at the Federa- tion building, by Downtown Synagogue or by other sources. After the customary inter- view, she arranges for the "tourist" to be put up for a maximum of three nights, with meal tickets and bus fare for the duration of that stay — about $12 to $15. While she insists that every man is entitled to be treated with dignity, "I try to im- - iress on him that we would rather not see him hack in the very near future." Those who are in the know realize full well what she means. "They're kind of mother less cases," she said. "A lot of them are borderline, men- tally, but that's riot to say hey all have a low IQ. They're non-rehabilitative; they'll never change. If they don't return after years and years of pattern. I assume they've died or they're get• tine a subsidy. "I'll never forget when I was new on the job, and an 80-year-old man came in. His walk was so sprightly, and his face so shiny. He said he was here on business, and he needed some help. I thought it ought to be a casework thing; maybe we could do something to change around his life," But her boss saw things differently: "How old is this man?" he asked. "And how do you think he survived before you came along?" Mrs. Samberg "nev- er forgot that lesson." One of her favorite visit- ors — "one of the biggest and best pathological liars I've ever seen — looks like something out of 'Fiddler on the Roof.' lie calls himself 'Rev' and wears a yarmulka under his fedora. When I founded in 1902 as a lodging place for poor Jews, its ben- efactors the members of an Orthodox synagogue who be- first saw him, I was de- lieved in the principle of lighted. And he knew it. He "hakhnosas orkhim," care gives me this buba meisa for the wayfarer. about how he had just re- In 1929, the House of Shel- turned from Israel, where he ter received a subvention had buried his wife, and he from the Jewish Welfare had no money left. • Federation, and in 1931 it "Over the pa s t seven joined Federation as a con- years, he's returned regu- stituent member. At t h e larly, and each time f ask height of the Depression, the him, routinely, 'Have you a agency handled the Kosher wife?' lie answers the same Kitchen and gave food and way: 'Have I a wife? I just shelter to unattached resi- buried my wife in Israel, dent men. and I have no money left From 1936 until its sale seven years ago, there was She worries about them a house on Taylor Ave., when they don't return — where refugee families also like the dapper fellow in his were given temporary quar- mid-70s who uses three ters. names ("he has trouble re- But, eventually, the build- membering which name he ing became both a mainten- t old me last") and wears ance and a security problem. four watches ("heaven With its sale, the agency knows where he got them"). started to place transients in Although they're drifters, the Toiler liotel, which to many maintain a measure of this day has an arrangement dignity and manage to look with Federation to provide the part of the business- such accommodations. man they say they are. Mrs. Samberg said the M o s t, however, describe only requirements for a t hemselves as unemployed transient seeking aid are d ishwashers who have seen that he he Jewish, that he b etter timl's. While here, be from another city and t hey will pick up a little that he have no means of work, primarily distrubuting support. hoppers' handouts. She must take their word They survive this way in for all three, "but there are ach city, going from North ways of knowing," she said. n summer to South in win- Mrs. Samberg has come to t er. "I should have a suntan know these men over the Ike some of these fellows seven years she has been h aye," Mrs. Samberg said. with the program, and she • 'Weeks can go by and I'll has an obvious fondness for n of see any of them. But many of them hen, with summer coming Those who have been here o n, they'll drop in. After before — and most have — t heir three days in Detroit, head straight for Mrs. Sam- t hey'll somehow get the fare berg's office. The first-time t o the next clty.' ers are referred to her, eith- At one time, there were Miss Weiss to IVed Mr.Mark Gorchoff similar houses of shelter in Washington, Philadelphia Chicago and Cleveland. I n most cases, the program i s dwindling, just as it is here. Why the number of tran sients has diminished (i O 1961, there were 80; in th e nine months of 1971-72, then e were 32) is a combination of sociological phenomena With the decline of railroad 'n^_ and motorists' fear o f nicking up hitchhikers, drift ers are finding it increasing ly difficult to get from town to town. Jewish transients once could find easy access to synagogues located in De- troit. However, as the com- munity has become subur- ban, there are fewer oppor- tunities for a stranger to be the 10th man in a minyan. Although the agency has altered its direction some- what since the founding of "Ilakhnosas Orkhim," the principles behind it and the kind of leadership drawn to the House of Shelter still have much in common. Mrs. Morris Dorn and a small but I cried." (Although the House of Shelter building no longer exists, Rabbi Gruskin, chap- lain to the Jewish patients at area mental hospitals, continues to bring patients to Detroit for a mammoth Pe- sah luncheon, "sail smoothly" through the new session of Congress in 1973. Happy Birthday Sheryl MISS CORINNE WEISS 30 Immigrants, Most From Russia, in U.S. NEW YORK (JTA) — United Hiss Service report- ed Monday that 30 Jewish immigrant s, constituting nine family units from East- ern Europe, arrived at Ken- nedy Airport on six separate flights last week. Of the 25 from the Soviet Union, 12 came through the U.S. attorney general's pa- role authority. Three came from Hungary and two from Poland. Art Linkletter Says "lust 2 seeks left to enroll in our dance CI ' Ohio State University. A June wedding is planned. BARBARA M. SILVER- STONE, for 18 years a social worker, teacher, consultant and administrator in the so- cial service field, has been named director of the sociaal service department for the Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged, New York. Art tinkletterSchools 23805 Evergreen, Southl ield 351-1215-588-0300 HICK STEIN firemen.. A complete musical package for you, potty . Feararingz • DICK STEIN • Jeep Smith • %fort Little • Shelf" lee • ■ Ioddi • Dun les,ien From One to Any Number of Entertainers. Call us and we will discuss Your Entertainment Needs 547-2770 ••11..... the %rein. H as - • .. &len and Marta Latitin Are stork happy to announce the their new sister arrival of Leslie Lynn Mr. and Sirs. Dorn, House of Shelter President Barney Barnett and other officers of the agency, as well as past President Jerry Bielfield, with preserving the aims of the House of Shelter. The transients no doubt are unaware of the names behind t h e philanthropy that sustains them on their occasional visits to Detroit. But they do know it's a community with a heart. Mother. Dad and Brother Stewart White Mr. and Mrs. Milton Weiss of Franklin Hills Dr., South- field, announce the engage- ment of their daughter Cor- inne Sue to Mark Gorchoff, son of Mrs. Peg Gorchoff of Columbus and Mr. Seymour Gorchoff of Sarasota. Miss Weiss graduated from Eastern Michigan University and Mr. Gorchoff is complet- ing his masters degree at sponsored • •• by the Cooperative Council of the League of Jewish Wo- men's Organizations. The House of Shelter women's auxiliary participates in this event.) Mrs. Samberg credited WASHINGTON — Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, predicted to a conference of Jewish educators convened by the legislative commis. sion of Agudat Israel of America that federal in- come tax credits for non- public school parents will dedicated women's auxiliary New Psychiatric Unit have augmented the agen- Recalls Arnkoff Role cy's work, fulfilling their The late Dr. Harry Arn- task with a dedication bord- koff's contributions to mental ering' on religious zeal. health care at St. Joseph They have performed Mercy Hospital, Pontiac, are other mitzvot as well. cited in a plaque mounted in Mrs. Samberg recalled her the new 33-bed psychiatric first week on the job—Pesah care unit opened at the hos- week when "Rabbi (Solo- pital last week. Dr. Arnkoff, a staff mem- mon) Gruskin brought 29 people from the mental hos- ber from 1940 until his death pitals to stay at the House in 1969, was credited with of Shelter. We found room having planned and spurred for the transients elsewhere, efforts for the unit. He was but for 11 days these pa- the hospital's chief of staff in 1960 and elected president tients lived like Jews. "For 11 days, the women's of the Oakland County Medi- cal Society in 1963. auxiliary provided three His widow was present for meals a day. Everything Was absolutely kosher, and there ' the dedication. were white tablecloths. It was really something to see; Nonpublic Schools Assured Tax Credits October 11, 1972 E x p ectin g? Expert mer• in Metereity feshien THAT SILLY GRIN S ALE First Anniversary Free Gifts Door Prizes For the 'thole Month of November • Underpants 79' ea. • Handbags 20% off By Cane.* Free Linger:. Support Hose $4.88 & $5.88 Weekly Special MATERNITY DRESSES 1/2 OFF 1799 COOLIDGE, BERKLEY Hrs. Fri. 11 - 7 Burger Chef is Doily 11-5 nest door to us 3911-1065 Master Charge BankArnstricard