26—Friday, Dot. 22, 1972

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS I

Rolling in Dough

An Award for Dr. Finkelstein

UJA Mission to Israel, Iran It's a Bagel Madness
Convinces Leader of Need

BY HEIDI PRESS
tracted the Southfield "bagel
A bagel cream puff? This man" to supply them for
delight is made from a toast- their school lunch programs.
ed raisin bagel with a giant Brother Rice,
a
Catholic
scoop of chocolate ice cream school for boys in Birming-
in between the slices.
ham, gets two deliveries a
Sam Anbender, co-creator week.
of the bagel cream puff,
"I enjoy selling bageli to
talked about his experiences the schools," Anbender said.
as the owner of the Detroit "I love to watch the kids at
Bagel Baking Co.
lunch break waiting for my
"I get calls all day long," deliveries."
the 14-year veteran of the
Church groups have found
bagel baking business said. that bagel sales are profit-
"Everyone asks me 'why able for fund-raising activi-
don't you do this or that?' to ties. "I sell my bagels to
my bagels."
church groups with a 'love
One suggestion he did take, thy n e i g h,b o r' policy
in
Mrs. Merle II. Harris (facing camera), chairman of
however, was from a custo- mind," he said.
the women's division campaign of the Allied Jewish Cam-
mer from New York. The
A church in Sterling
paign•Israel Emergency Fund, listens as two immigrants
customer tried Anbender's
to Israel recount their experiences before reaching the
Heights sold 300 dozen as a
Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor emeritus of the Jew-
bagels and on a return trip
fund-raising project after a
absorption center, where they will be helped with housing,
ish Theological Seminary, was honored at the convention
gave him the idea to make
Sunday Mass. Salt bagels
Hebrew instruction and vocational placements.
of the National Women's League where he received the
bagel cream puffs.
made up 80 per cent of the
Mathilde Schechter Award named after the league's
"I tried his suggestion and
Based on her observations,
reported, "People in Ame r- I really liked this new des- total bagel sales in Gentile
founder. Dr. Finkelstein is the second recipient of the
schools.
- Israel's mounting needs
ica
may get the false im
award, the first having been Israel's Premier Golda Meir,
sert," he said.
require increased giving on
pression that the Soviet ran •
who was given the award at the League's jubilee con-
Anbender has five loca-
"It tastes best if the bagel
the part of Detroit women,"
som tax has stopped Jewis h is
vention
in 1966. With Dr. Finkelstein are (at left) Mrs.
tions.
The
newest
opened
last
warmed up first." Anben-
.Mrs. Merle Harris, chairman
emigration.
Sol Henkind, chairman of the Torah Fund Residence Hall
der said that bagels were in- week on Square Lake Rd.
of the Allied Jewish Cam.
patron's division, and Mrs. Louis Goldstein, chairman of
"The truth is that Russian s creasing in popularity in Gen- and Woodward in Bloomfield
paign• Israel Emergency
the Torah Fund,
are coming to Israel at th e tile areas. "In the store at Hills. A new one will open at
Fund women's division, said
same rate as before, abou t 16 Mile and Groesbeck Hwy. a shopping center at New-
while on a UJA women's di-
100 a day," she said. "Th e business has been very good. burgh and Six Mile Rds. in
North Jersey Collects Data on Poor Jews
vision campaign chairman's intellectuals are stopped b
Y It does better than a couple Llvoni
mission to Israel. "We must
PATERSON, N.J. (JTA)— to 50 individuals or families,
the exorbitant tax. Non-edu - of • stores in the Jewish
Anbender
eats
six
or
seven
go beyond the $1,500,000 we sated Jews are coming out
Executives of member agen- among the 25,000 Jews in
areas," he said.
75•ealorie bagels a day. His cies of the Jewish Federation
raised in 1972," she added.
the area served by the feder-
instead. The Jews coming to
"Salt bagels are the most favorites are onion with
After meeting Russian im-
of North Jersey are collect- ation, live below the poverty
Israel from the Soviet Union
migrants on their arrival at are of a lower economic class popular, but we've had a medium hard salami in be- ing information on elderly level.
Lod Airport, and again in and therefore need more wonderful response to cheese tween and also cheese bagels.
Jews in the area to deter-
and raisin bagels, too.
"The bagel industry has
Jewish Agency absorption
mine how many are living
help than the intellectuals,
"Most people there just come out of the basement
iron.
centers and encountering more job training, and more
at or below the poverty level.
, love cream cheese and jam during the last six or seven
LONDON, ENGLAND
them and other immigrants education."
Mark Samoil, assistant fed-
I on bagels. They toast them years," Anbender said. He eration director, said
all over Israel, Mrs. Harris
that
"I met Russian intellectu- more than Jewish people
attributed the increase in
"the poverty among Jews
als and professionals in the do."
sales to advertising, both on has become a controversial
and His ORCHESTRA
absorption centers who em-
Schools around the metro- radio and in the newspapers. subject at national, as well
igrated before the ransom
politan area are getting in-
"We were the first to ad- as local, levels, except may-
was imposed," she said.
volved in the bagel boom.
vertise on radio, he said.
- Doslongter• Stilong n Mutt,
be in the case of some of our
"Their courage and their op-
I. Yom Inthvoduol hrs.
Fraternities and other "Paul Winter from the old elderly population."
timism about their future
groups at Wayne State Uni- WTAK won an award for our
He
asked the executives
Call 557-9332
in Israel is inspiring."
versity can always be found bagel ads."
to check into possibilities
She noted that, "Once we in the lobby of State Hall,
During the Jewish News in- that there are a number of
help them with their initial the English classes building terview, a
customer at the forgotten, isolated or elderly
absorption with housing, He- at Wayne, yelling "Bagels,
Oak Park store complained Jews who are too proud to
brew instructions and voca- bagels for sale."
the teething bagels were hard
complain whose well-being
tional retraining, they will
Livonia Southfield and as rocks.
should be of concern to the
be a great asset to Israel." Berkley schools have con-
"They're supposed to be Jewish community,
"The enormous task of
hard as rocks," Anbender
He estimated that from 40
transporting, housing edu-
said. "Otherwise they will
cating, and providing work
disintegrate into big lumps
for 70,000 immigrants com-
in the baby's mouth."
It couldn't
ing this year, half of them
R u nat
(Oplital G.
There have been many ex-
from the Soviet Union, is far
perimental bagels. Anbender
Hurt
beyond Israel's capacity to
once tried to make a fruit
handle without our utmost
bagel, but it didn't work out.
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financial support in the
For the last couple of years,
OAR PARK
543 3343
U.S.," she said.
Anbender said, he has been
"On top of the immigra-
working on a garlic bagel ,
tion load, there is the urgent
"It's hard to make them,"
need to provide housing for
he said. "I have to keep them
the young couples and for
from contaminating the other
slum clearance to raise the
products."
living standards of the poor
He said it took over two
who live in overcrowded
years to perfect the raisin
flats," Mrs. Harris noted.
bagel. "The first ones we
Before traveling to Israel,
made shrunk and were as
Mrs. Harris visited Iran with
hard as candy," he said.
the UJA mission. In Iran,
Anbender said getting into
she said, "I had my first
the bagel business was a
experience with the work of
challenge,
but there is plenty
Joint Distribution Commit.
of compensation.
tee outside of Israel. If I MRS. BENJAMIN SHERBIN
"You meet a lot of people. 0 -
had gone only to Iran, I
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would consider the trip
Candice Lynn Uday, daugh- It's rewarding to see the re-
worthwhile, T h e terrible ter of Mr. and Mrs. S. suits of what you make. It *
conditions of living in the Richard Uday of Wooclwill gives me a good feeling."

Zan Gilbert

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New AI rs. Sherbin

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Rd., Southfield, became the
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bride of Dr. Benjamin N. Beginners' Hebrew :
Sherbin. son of Mr. and Mrs,
Albert Sherbin of Oldham Set in 3 Locales
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Rd., Southfield, in a Sunday
A thousand common ex- *
ceremony at the Hotel Pont- pressions will be taught to *
chartrain. Rabbi M. Robert participants in beginning *
Syme officiated.
audio-visual Hebrew classes *
The bride's sister Terre scheduled to begin the week *
was maid of honor, and her 0 f Jan. 29 in three locations. *
other sister, Marcey, was
The classes will meet 7-9 * IN
bridesmaid.
P. m. Mondays and Wednes-
Dr. Sherhin's brother, Dr. Id ays at the 10 Mile branch *
Herbert, was best man, and of the Jewish Center. at the *
his other brother, Jerry, was M i h do r o at sha, and at Ilillel Day *

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Ma halleh (ghetto) of Iran
were unbelievable. The Joint
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