16 Friday, March' t4, THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS SPECIAL BY JACOB R. MARCUS American Jewish Archives NOTICE PAY 1974 AND PRIOR YEARS CITY OF DETROIT REAL AND PERSONAL DELINQUENT PROPERTY TAXES NOW__- INTEREST IN THE AMOUNT OF 1/2 OF ONE PER- CENT PER MONTH WILL BE ADDED TO ALL DELIN- QUENT TAXES FROM THE DUE DATE OF EACH TAX YEAR. EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 1975, AN ADDITIONAL PEN- ALTY IN. THE AMOUNT OF 1% PER MONTH WILL ALSO BE ADDED NOT TO EXCEED 25% OF THE TAX. RICHARD J. VERLINDEN - New Attorney General Has Rabbinical Ancestry TREASURER CITY OF DETROIT ' Edward Hirsch Levi, nominated by President Gerald Ford, has just been confirmed by the Senate as Attorney General of the United States. He is the first Jew to service the cabi- net in that office, though not the first Jew to be con- sidered for the post, since Woodrow Wil§on - had thought of nominating Louis D. Brandeis, but had taken no action because Brandeis, still in his pre Zionist phase, was deemed a radical. 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Wise in New more, Einhorn, an outspo- York, Hirsch was unques- ken anti-slavery man, was tionably American Jewry's compelled to flee to Phila- leading rabbinic fighter delphia. Three years before his against the social ills of the death in 1879, Einhorn Gilded Age. Hirsch's father was Dr: preached at the centennial Samuel Hirsch, who had of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. It was charac- received his PhD degree from Leipzig and became teristically a powerful ser- chief rabbi of the Grand mon praising America for Duchy of Luxembourg. its egalitarian ideals but The elder Hirsch, one of denouncing the' country's the outstanding Reform growing religious bigotry rabbis of Europe, an active and its corruption in high leader in the continental places. One of Einhorn's daugh- conferences, which helped bring the new liberal ters 'married - Emil G. theology to birth, was Hirsch, the new attorney called to Philadelphia general's Levi's grand- when he was already past father. Thus Samuel Hirsch and David - Einhorn, two of the age of 50. This religious radical, the great figures in Euro- who in 1869 presided over pean liberal Judaism, are the first left-wing rabbini- both great-grandfathers of cal conference held in Edward H. Levi. Edward H. Levi is fully America, was- not disinc- lined to hold religious serv- able to stand on his own two ices on Sunday and was feet. His eminent career at - called to Philadelphia when the University of Chicago — his friend Rabbi David EM-. which he served - as _law school Dean and university horn moved to New York. He led Baltimore's liberal prOvost as well as president Har Sinai Congregation be- — has made this -abun- dantly clear. But surely it ginning in 1855. Here, in his new Ameri- can be only a source of can home, he established added strength for him to be the monthly German lan- 'able to look back to a family guage Sinai, undoubtedly in which ''includes a learned its day the country's most father, an illustrious grand- learned and liberal Jewish father, and two remarkable periodical. When the Civil great-grandfathers, all not- War broke out and pro- able rabbis. Ex-Israel Theater Heads Jailed for Embezzlement 31313 Northwestern Hwy. • e•aLtrii.. • who came from a notable co- lonial •family, had married out of the faith, and was not a member of the Jewish community. Edward H. Levi, presi- dent of the University of Chicago since 1968 and a member of Chicago Sinai Congregation, can claim no colonial ancestry, but does come from one of the most remarkable rabbinical fami- lies in all American Jewish history. Edward's father, Rus- sian-born Rabbi Gerson Benedict Levi, received his early schooling in Glas- gow, Scotland, and settled in Chicago as a Reform rabbi and became known as an accomplished He- braist and Semitist. Gerso'n's father-in-law, Emil G. Hirsch, rabbi of the Sinai Congregation, was one of the most distinguished and most scholarly rabbis of -his day. For many years he also served as professor of Jewish studies at the Uni- versity of Chicago. Emil G. Hirsch was a great orator, an editor of the Reform Advocate, and an outstanding Jewish reli- gious liberal. He preached on Sunday only, usually to a packed house. It was he who wrote Re- form Judaism's social jus-. tice plank at the famous Pittsburgh Conference of TEL AVIV (JTA) — Three former directors of - Habim.a, Israel's national theater, were sentenced to prison terms by a district court here after their con- viction on charges of embez- zling more than IL 500,000 ($83,000)1rom the theater's funds. between 1962-68. Asher Sherf, who was the administrative director of the famed company and al-_ legedly received the largest share of the embezzled funds, was sentenced to six - Financier Helps Technion Project HAIFA — Aaron Gu- -twirth, international finan- cier who has substantial investments in several sec- tors of the Israeli economy, was recently honored at the Technion — Israel-Institute of Technology in ceremonies marking the completion of the third and fourth build- ings in the Gutwirth Science Based Industries Centre at the Institute. Gutwirth and his wife participated in the corner- stone laying at the fifth building in the complex, and the awarding of 17 research grants and scholarships to outstanding Technion re- searchers, graduate and undergraduate students. years imprisonment; three of 'which were suspended, and fined IL 94,000. Abraham Ninio, 57, a stage direct6r, actor and former member of Habi- ma's directorate, got a three-year-prison term of which two years were sus- pended and was fined IL 43,000. The third defendant, Mrs. Bat Anii Elyashiv, 63, an actress and former mem- ber of the directorate, drew a three-year .suspended- sentence and an IL 85,000 fine. Implementation of the sentences will be held up pending appeal. A scandal in another area emerged when Tzvi Alderotti, chairman of the board of directors of Ami- dar, the state-owned hous- ing company, submitted his resignation to Housing Minister Abraham Ofer. His resignation followed charges of forgery and theft on the part of the company's treasurer. Alderotti said that while the alleged crimes were per- petrated by another individ- ual, he considered himself morally respOnsible ins the eyes of the public. Amidar is a holding company that con- trols flats allocated to new immigrants. 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Smaller 'fuel quotas are being issued and the army is also making an effort to conduct more ad- vance training programs for officers in Israel instead of sending personnel abroad. -- Fewer newspapers and magazines will be distrib- uted and the army's own publications will be reduced in number. The Army Broadcasting Service, Galei Zahal, has been ordered to cut down expensive pro- gramming. Old City Explosion JERUSALEM (JTA) — An explosive charge deto- nated at Herod's Gate out- side the old walled city. No injuries were reported. •••••••• • •••••••••• 342-7800 or,399-8333 We Buy Surplus Equipment • • • • • • • •