;Gains in Women's Advance Gifts Pledges
Augur Well for Campaign, Chairman Feels

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Unprecedented success in
A advance gifts pledges to the
women's
division of the
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Allied Jewish Campaign-Is-
/ rael Emergency Fund —
i .$731,210—was announced by
Mrs. Merle Harris, women's
Idivision campaign chairman.

Mrs. Merle
Harris (left),
campaign chair-
man of the 1871
women's division
Allied Jewish
Campaign -Israel
Emergency Fund,
and Mrs. N.
Brewster Broder,
chairman of pre-
campaign activ-
ities, are shown
with guest speak-
er Rabbi Arthur
H. Lelyveld at
the recent advance
Alfred L. Deutsch.

Mrs. Harris said that, at
it the recent advance gifts
luncheon at the home of Mrs.
Alfred L. Deutsch, the pace
was set for a successful 1973
women's division campaign.
3 - "Our pledges, announced
by those 60 women in attend-
! ance and by some unable to
-.be present that Wednesday,
showed an increase of $75,-
' 000 over last year's advance
gifts luncheon," Mrs. Harris
:said.
The women's division this
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year raised more than $1,-
4 500,000 to aid Jews through-
,- out the world and to main-
.̀ taro local services through
) Federation agencies. More
than two - thirds of this
amount was raised during
it pre-campaign activities last
I year, according to Mrs. N.
Brewster Broder, 1973 pre-
; campaign chairman of the
women's division.
A special announcement of
i a $165,000 contribution from
1 the Bargman Foundation was
made at the luncheon by Mrs.
Broder.
Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld of
Cleveland, guest speaker,
talked of the developing id-
entification which many
American Jews have for the
state of Israel.

ecutive vice-chairman of the
women's fund-raising for the
past two years. A winner of
the Sylvia Simon Greenberg
Award for Women in 1967,
Mrs. Harris has been a year-
round worker in the women's
division for more than 10

years. She is on the execu-
tive committee of the Jewish

gifts luncheon

en's response to the needs of

Israel as stemming from a
"deep psychic sense of pos-
sessiveness, which is the re-

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home of Mrs.

silt of your generous invest-
ment over these past 25
years of Israel's existence."
The appointment of Mrs.
Harris as women's campaign
chairman and of Mrs. Brod-
er as pre-campaign chairman
was made by Samuel Frankel
and Paul M. Handleman,
general chairmen of the 1973
AJC-IEF.
Mrs. Harris has been ex-

Hasidic Singer to Be at Banquet

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Dr. William A. Nolen,
author of the best-seller
The Making of a Surgeon,"
will appear in Shaarey
Zedek Sisterhood's Town Hall
Series 10 a.m. Jan. 3 in the
synagogue. The public is in-
vited. Dr. Nolen's new book,
"A Surgeon's World," was
released last month by Ran-
dom House. A graduate of
Tufts and a fellow of the
American College of Sur-
geons, he practices in Minne-
sota, where he is chief of
surgery at the Meeker
County Hospital. His month-
ly column is published in

Lelyveld termed the worn-

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at the

women's
ekths

OAK PARK NSHEI CHA
BAD STUDY GROUP will
meet 2:30 p.m. Saturday at
the home of Mrs. Harold
Kaplan, 13673 Wales. Rabbi
Joshua Sperka will speak.
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McCall's magazine. Some
series tickets remain. Com-
plimentary continental break-
fast is included with this and
next month's lecture. Sitters
for children over 3 may be

OAK PARK NSHEI CHA-
BAD STUDY GROUP (Nine
Mile area), will meet 2:30
p.m. Saturday at the home
of Mrs. Beryl Shemtov, 14100
W. 9 Mile Rd. Rabbi Shem-
f toy will speak.

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reserved in advance with
ticket chairman Fannie Rob-
inson, 642 - 2790, or co-chair-
men Nancy Baron, 353.3844,
and Rita Keywell, 642-2999.
Sisterhood president is Diane
Shekter. Chairman of the
series is Mettie Baron Golub.

Early Deadline

Because Christmas and
New Year's Day will oc•
cur on Mondays, The Jew-
ish News will have early
deadlines for the issues
of Dec. 29 and Jan. 5.
Copy for those days must
be in The Jewish News
office no later than noon
today and Dec. 29.
The holiday rush makes
It imperative to mail copy
early to meet deadlines.
When in doubt, please
hand deliver.

Ben-Zion Shenker, Hasidic
singer, will be guest per-
former at the annual banquet
of Mikvah Israel and the
Women's Orthodox League
630 p.m., Jan. 7 at Shenan-
doah Country Club.
Born in Brooklyn, Shenkr,
is an alumnus of Mesivta
Tora Vodaath and Brooklyn
College. As a boy he appear-
ed frequently on Jewish radio
and concert stage.
In 1940, he became a fol-

Criterion Club
Plans Parties

Criterion Club, civic, social
and cultural association for

single adults will hold a
Holiday Ball 9 p.m. Saturday
and a New Year's Eve party
9 p.m. Dec. 31 at the South-
field Civic Center, according
to William Fleisher, presi-
dent. Dance music will be
provided by Johnny C and
his orchestra.
The evening will include
mixers, prizes and refresh-
ments.
Tickets for singles and
couples can be obtained at
the dance for the New Year's
Eve party. The Sagitarians
will provide music and there
will be a sit-down dinner and
a bagel breakfast.
For information, call Pearl
Greenstein, 399-3718, or Betty
Weinberg, 559-5175.

!. BETH MOSES SISTER-
HOOD will meet 8 p.m.
Wednesday in the synagogue
social hall. There will be
games and prizes. Refresh-
- ments will be served, and
guests are invited.

lower of the Modzitzer Rebbe
and worked as his music
secretary. He has been col-
lecting and narrating the
music of Modzitz since that
time.
Ile notated 400 melodies,
many previously unpublish-
ed, by the three Modzitz
rebbes. Ile fully mastered
the intricate Modzitz High
Holy Day nusakh and he
served the Modzitz congrega-
tion in Brooklyn as. baal
tefila for six years.
Since 1956, he has collect-
ed, notated, and recorded the
music of Modzitz and his
own compositions. He has
made six records.

LONDON (JTA) — Jewish
women have petitioned rab-
binical authorities to ease

the hardships imposed on
women by the present inter-
pretations of Halakha.
Mrs. Alfred Rubens, past
president of the International
Council of Jewish Women,
told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that petitions on be-
half of 500,000 Jewish wom-
en throughout the world have
been sent to rabbinical
courts, rabbinical organiza-
tion and to individual rabbis.
The petitions charge that
women suffer disabilities
under Halakha with regard
to divorce; halitsa (the re-
lease of a widow so that she
can remarry); polygamy,
where it still exists among
Jews; and aguna, the term
for a woman whose husband
bas disappeared but has not
been declared dead.
They also protested unfair-
ness to women in connection

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Mrs. Esther Zackler (second from right), national
president of Pioneer Women, greets the daughters of the
legendary Yiddish actor Solomon Mikhoels (from left),
Mrs. Natalie Wolfsie and Mrs. Nina Mikhoels, both of
whom arived in Israel this month. With them is Mikhoels'
granddaughter Victoria Mikhoels, murdered during the
Stalin regime almost 25 years ago, had been bead of the
famed Moscow Jewish Theater.

wiht private property.
The petitions asked for a
rabbinical assembly to be
convened to study these prob-
lems with a view to alleviat-
ing the hardships.

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Frki•y, Dec. 22, 1972-25

Women Urge Eased Halakha Rules

Mikhoels' Daughters in Israel

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CLUB TWO, Pioneer Wo-
men, will meet 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday at the Charter
House Apts. club house.
.! President Jeanette Serling
invites friends. Brunch and
a program are planned.
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Welfare Federation's board
of governors.
Mrs. Broder, first recipient
of the Greenberg Leadership
Award established in 1965,
is pre-campaign chairman
for the second consecutive
year. She has been a director
of the women's division since
1962, is a member of Fed-
eration's education planning
and budget division and a di-
rector of the Jewish Family
and Children's Service.
Aiding in the women's
campaign activities are Mes-
dames Paul Borman, David
Pollack, Norman Rosenfeld.
Samuel Schiff and A. Alfred
Taubman, who have been
appointed vice-chairman.

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