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Maccabiah
Draws 1,500
MONTREAL (JTA)—Some
1,500 boys and girls were par-
ticipants in the largest Mac-
cabiah Jamboree this year
from July 30 to Aug. 2 in
the Fitzroy Harbor Park,
Ottawa region.
The jamboree was organ-
ized by the youth and heha-
lutz department of the cana-
dian Zionist Federation under
the direction of Haim Ha-
ham, its national director.
The jamboree provided for
a series of important sport
activities. In addition, a team
of six Israelis, specialists in
music and dance, offered in-
structions in arts to the
young campers.
The jamboree brought to-
gether for the first time
young Jews from across
Canada in a spirit of unity
and Jewish identification.
Double Bar Mitzva
Ceremony in Haiti
STAMFORD, Conn. (JTA)
—Religious history was made
in the island of Haiti in July.
For the first time in the
annals of that Caribbean is-
land a rabbi officiated at two
Bar Mitzva ceremonies.
Veteran residents vaguely
recall that sometime in the
past a Bar Mitzva took place,
but without an ordained
clergyman. But last month
Rabbi Samuel Silver of Tem-
ple Sinai, Stamford, Conn.
conducted two separate wor-
ship services. At each of
them a youngster partici-
pated in the service and re-
ceived a blessing from the
officiant.
The first Bar Mitzva was
for David Fleischmann, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold
Fleischmann originally from
Germany. Since fleeing Hit-
ler, the Fleischmanns have
resided in Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands and the Do-
minican Republic.
The second 13-year-old to
be Bar Mitzvaed was Rich-
ard Salzmann. son of Mr.
and Mrs. Otto Salzmann. The
Bar Mitzva's father, who
came to Port au Prince from
Vienna several decades ago,
is a prominent businessman
and is a cousin of Rabbi
Silver. Attending both events
was the Israeli ambassador
to Haiti, Zeev Bashan. The
entire embassy staff was also
on hand.
With about 20 Jewish fami-
lies residing in Haiti there is
no Jewish congregation and
no regular worship services.
Rabbi Silver sent the young-
sters their assigned readings
in writing and on tape. The
boys were tutored by Samuel
Cohen, a former Israeli who
now resides in Haiti.
Scholarships Given
by Canadian Fund
TORONTO (JTA) — The
Canadian Foundation for
Jewish Culture has awarded
14 graduate fellowships to
pre-doctoral students and one
grant-in-aid to a scholar in
Jewish studies for the 1974-
75 academic year.
According to Mrs. Gerda
Frieberg, acting foundation
president, two of the grad-
uate fellowship recipients are
women.
It's loose conduct that gets
many people in a tight spot.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Rabbis to Memorialize Yiddish Tribute to Rabbi Segal Planned 18—Friday,
August 9, 1974
Rabbi Jacob E. Segal will Julius Allen, Tzvi Berkal,
Literary Figures Slain by Soviets be honored at a dinner cele- Max Biber, Charles H. Char- * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Today and Saturday sever-
al of the Jewish community's
Sabbath services will be de-
voted to commemorating and
observing the 22nd anniver-
sary of the deaths of 24 Yid-
dish literary figures who
were murdered by Soviet au-
thorities on Aug. 12, 1952.
Their deaths marked the
culmination of the destruc-
tion of the Soviet Union's
Jewish cultural elite during
the "black years" of 1948
through 1952. In all, more
than 400 Yiddish writers,
painters, actors, and musi-
cians perished at Stalin's
hand during this period.
Rabbi Irwin Groner of
Cong. Shaarey Zedek will de-
vote his sermon to memori-
alizing this bleak yahrzeit
(anniversary). In addition,
Rabbi Groner will release
the text of a letter which he
and the leaders of the con-
gregation have sent to Anat-
oly Dobrynin, Soviet ambas-
sador to the United States,
Protesting continued official
harassment of two prominent
Soviet Jews, Alexander and
Nina Voronel.
Other Detroit area rabbis
who plan to mark this yahr-
zeit are Israel Halpern of
Cong. Beth Abraham Hillel;
Jacob E. Segal of Adat Sha-
lom Synagogue; A. Irving
Schnipper of Cong. Beth
Moses; David A. Nelson of
Cong. Beth Shalom; and M.
Robert Syme of Temple
Israel.
The writers who were
purged 22 years ago repre-
sented the cream of Russian
Yiddish culture which flour-
ished after the Soviet state
was founded in 1917. In the
wake of the Russian Revolu-
tion, Jews were given full
and equal rights as Soviet
citizens. "The Declaration of
Rights of the Peoples of Rus-
sia," signed by V. I. Lenin
`Non-Essential'
Building 'Stopped
by Israeli Govt.
in November 1917, swept
away all disabilities from
which Jews had suffered dur-
ing centuries of Czarist rule.
Within a short span of time
under the new regime, 11
daily Yiddish newspapers
and about 60 weekly and
monthly political, cultural,
and scientific journals were
established. There were 40
Jewish theaters, Jewish
schools of drama in Moscow
and Kiev, and numerous Yid-
dish - language publishing
houses printing dozens of
books in editions of more
than 1,000,000 copies.
Stalin's purge of these 24
writers was a severe blow to
Jews in the Soviet Union,
and Russian Jewish culture
has never fully recovered.
There are today outlets for
Yiddish literature and news
reporting, but they are strict-
ly controlled and directed
toward furthering the politi-
cal ends of the Soviet govern-
ment.
Named Seminary
Vice Chancellor
NEW YORK—Rabbi Stan-
ley J. Schachter has been
named _ a vice chancellor of
the Jewish Theological Semi-
nary of America. His op-
pointment was announced by
Dr. Gerson D. Cohen, semi-
nary chancellor. Rabbi
Schachter joined the semi-
nary administration in the
brating his 35 years in the
rabbinate 7 p.m. Sept. 8 at
Adat Shalom Synagogue.
Cocktails will be served at 6.
Rabbi Segal, who came to
the Adat Shalom pulpit in
lip, Robert S. Dunsky, Albert
Farber, Mrs. David Feld,
Cantor Nicholas Fenakel,
Joel Gershenson, Milton Gil-
man, Mrs. Frederick Gold,
Harry J. Goldberg, Max H.
Goldsmith, Mrs. Sol Ham-
merstein, Mrs. Philip Hell-
man, Rudolf Leitman, Mrs.
Samuel Linden, Mrs. George
Liss, Mrs. Berton London,
Allan Nachman, Mrs. Harvey
Nussbaum, Saul Rose, Mrs.
Marvin Rosen, Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald Rosenbloom, Rabbi
Seymour Rosenbloom, Mrs.
Robert Ruch, Rudolph Shul-
man, Mr. and Mrs. Asher
Tilchin, Cantor Larry Vieder,
Philip T.. Warren and Mrs.
William Zimmerman.
For reservations, call the
synagogue, 851-5100.
RABBI JACOB SEGAL
* TO OUR WONDERFUL *
Mother & Grandmother
BELLE
COHEN
*ON YOUR 70th *
* BIRTHDAY
Love *
Your Children *
* And Grandchildren
** * * * * * * * * * *
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1946, has inspired several of
his students to pursue careers
in Jewish leadership educa-
tion and clergy. He was a
founder of Hillel Day School.
Ordained as a rabbi in 1939
at the Jewish Theological
Seminary, Rabbi Segal was
awarded an honorary doctor
of divinity degree three years
ago by the institution.
Co-chairmen of the dinner
tribute are Samuel Frankel
and Sol Eisenberg. Associate
chairmen are Samuel Hecht-
man, David Pollack and
Robert Ruch.
The dinner tribute commit-
tee includes Norman Allen,
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Rabbi Stanley Schachter
fall of 1972 as assistant
chancellor and lecturer in
liturgy. He took charge at
that time of the seminary's
public relations and develop-
ment program. In his new
post, he will continue these
responsibilities, and in addi-
tion will have a central role
in the over-all administration
of the seminary's educational
activities.
Rabbi Schachter was or-
dained by the seminary in
1955. After serving for two
years as a chaplain in the
United States Navy, he went
to Kansas City, Mo., as as-
sistant rabbi of Beth Sha-
lom Congregation. Prior to
returning to the seminary,
Rabbi Schachter was spir-
itual leader of Congregation
Ner Tamid in Chicago, Ill.,
a post which he filled for
11 years. He is a native
of Philadelphia, and received
his undergraduate education
at Temple University in that
city.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Unless
there is a change in the gov-
ernment's policy, visitors to
Tel Aviv will find several
huge construction projects
standing unfinished in the
middle of the city.
The government's decision
to freeze all non-essential
building as part of its new
economic policy has left the
new Tel Aviv bus station with
only 1 1/2 floors built.
In the center of Allenby
Street, one of the city's main
business areas, only the first
three to four floors of a huge
14-story shopping center-
hotel-office building complex
is completed.
Several similar projects,
which were also being built
with foreign investments,
also stand half completed.
However, local contractors
have decided to continue
working until they receive an
official notice ordering them
to stop.
They are demanding con-
tracts for new' immigrant Synagogue on Stamp
housing to replace the con-
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A
struction projects they must
postage stamp showing the
now abandon.
Sephardic synagogue in Am-
sterdam is to be issued next
Minimize your own troubles year on the occasion of the
— leave the worrying to 700th anniversary of the syn-
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