THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Youth News I
'Good to Be a Jew Again,' Teen
Says After Eastern Europe Tour
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Comparing the Eastern the congregants wept as
European Jews who hide they read the passages
their Jewishness with Is- describing the destruction
raeli Jews who practice of the Temple, seeming to
their religion openly, a De- relive that experience.
troit teenager said referring
While in Eastern Europe
to Israel that it "was nice to she and her group visited
go somewhere to he a Jew Auschwitz, Birkenau, Ther-
again."
esienstadt and others. She
Andrea Tarnoff. 18-year- said the group became so
old (laughte• of Mr. and emotional that no one could
Mrs. George Tarnoff of talk, but everyone made
Marlow Pl., Oak Park, notes in their diaries which
talked zthout her experi- they discussed afterward.
en•es on a United Syn-
In Israel at the Yad
agogue Youth-sponsored Vashem memorial to the Six
tour of Eastern Europe and Million, she said the group
Israel from which she just had a similar emotional ex-
returned.
perience. "We ran through
Miss Tarnoff, who spent because we (as Jews)
six \veeks this summer on couldn't take it." She said
the ITSY tour as its central many of the tour members
region representative, said were ill when they left the
she could not wear her Star monument.
of David openly in Eastern
:Miss Tarnoff, who plans
Europe as she could in Is- to major in special educa-
rael. She said in Romania, tion at Michigan State
Poland, Russian and Czech- University in the fall, said
oslovakia, Jews practiced she had a crash course in
their religion in secret and Yiddish prior to the tour.
were reluctant to talk to
An active member of
American tourists for fear Cong. Beth Shalom, she
of arrest by government learned of the tour at an in-
agents.
ternational USY conven-
She related an incident tion. After her sisters and
which took place in a Len- others, who had previously
ingrad synagogue, on joined the tour told her
Tisha b'Av. Her group, about it. she applied and
comprised of about 20 per- qualified:
sons, brought copies of the
Book of Lamentations for Bnai Moshe Youth
that observance and the
congregants read by can- Advisers Named
dlelight since the gabai (a
Cong. Bnai Moshe's youth
Jewish,
government
department announces it
agent) preferred to turn
has added two advisers to its
out the lights. She said
staff.
BBYO
Activities
DISRAELI CHAPTER,
Bnai Brith Girls, has 're-
scheduled its third annual
"Skating Scramble" for
Muscular Dystrophy for 7
p.m. Wednesday at the
Ambassador Roller Rink in
Clawson. There is an admis-
sion charge. For informa-
tion, call Phyllis Kiaper,
851-4228.
. . .
Garden to Honor
Late AZA Member
Dora Savage Chapter,
Bnai Brith Girls, has estab-
lished the Richard Kamen
Garden of 100 trees in honor
of its former "beau" who
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died earlier this month.
Rich was a past president
of Herzl Chapter, Aleph
Zadik Aleph, and was on his
i chapter's executive board as
first vice president. He had
been a member of Herzl
AZA, Windsor, for four
years.
Persons wishing to con-
,
tribute to the garden, are
asked to write Richard Ka-
men Garden, Jewish Na-
tional Fund, 22100 Green-
field, Suite 102, Oak Park,
48237. For information, call
T .— -I., XT,.,
They are; Joyce Epstein,
who will supervise Giborim
United Synagogue Youth
and Story Hour for pre-
schoolers, and Ron Anstan-
dig, senior USY adviser.
Returning are Sharon Lan-
dau, Kadima adviser; Steve
Kideckel, Halutzim USY
and Story Hour (7-9 year
olds) adviser; and Mark Ei-
chner, junior congregation
adviser.
Hartley Harris is youth
coordinator for the junior
program. For information
on the senior group, call
Ron, 968-1146, or for youth
program information, call
Hartley, 968-3563.
DeMolay Youth
Plan Open House
Mosaic Chapter, Order of
DeMolay, will hold a "Get
Acquainted Night" 7:30 p.m.
Thursday at the Southfield
Masonic Temple, 26595
Evergreen.
Boys between the ages of
13 and 17 are invited to at-
tend along with their par-
ents and friends. A slide or
movie presentation will be
proceeded by games and re-
freshments.
For information, call Nat
Pernick, 356-3380; Henry
Fuller, 626-8729; or Alan
Finkelstein, 557-2624. The
Friday, August 22, 1975 47
Financier Benjamin Levinson
By 1957, the company
was servicing more than
$100 million annually in
government insured mort-
gages. Levinson forMed
Franklin Mortgage in
1958.
Benjamin Levinson, a
leader in movements to
spearhead ecumenism and
in cementing Christian-Jew-
ish relations, as well as a
major participant in move-
ments to encourage support
for Yeshiva University and
other traditional Jewish
causes, died Aug. 15 at age
70.
A recipient of awards
from Yeshiva University,
friend of Presidents Roose-
velt and Truman and an as-
sociate in political tasks
with President Johnson
win he was U.S. Senator,
Mr. Levinson was a charter
member and co-founder in
1942 of the Michigan Citi-
zens' Council which formed
for the purpose of encourag-
ing citizens to vote on pri-
mary and election days and
to further exercise their
privileges as citizens.
He received four testi-
monial resolutions from the
city of Detroit during the
administrations of Mayors
Albert Cobo and Louis Miri-
ani and three times was
cited in congressional reso-
lutions. He was awarded a
tri-religious honor from
Maryglade College of which
he was a benefactor.
Mr. Levinson was a
mortgage banker, serving
first as president of Michi-
gan Mortgage Corp. and
later as president of
Franklin Mortgage Co.
In addition to numerous
citations from veterans or-
ganizations, Mr. Levinson
also was honored by several
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Cost of Operation
BEERSHEBA — More
than $16,000 has been raised
in a campaign to send a
three-year-old Beersheba
boy to PariS for surgery on
a disfiguring facial birth
defect which also affected
his vision.
A large portion of the- .
money to send Gil Hertz for
the highly specialized crani-
ofacial dysostosis surgery
was raised after an article
appeared in the Jerusalem
Post.
Dr. Paul Tessier, author-
ity on the surgical technique
which bears his name, has
agreed to operate without a
fee; El Al has given the fam-
ily free passage; and the
government has waived the
travel tax.
UJA Planning
1976 Campaign
NEW YORK — Execu-
tives of major community
campaigns met recently as a
group ‘vit • United Jewish
Appeal General Chairman
Frank R. Lautenherg, to
chart the UJA's 1976 na-
tional fundraising cam-
paign.
The meeting marked a
new level of cooperation and
exchange among- commu-
nity leadership and the
UJA. Stressing that goal
setting and cash collection
would remain items of the
highest priority during the
coming- year. the g-roup, un-
derscored the iMportance of
a cohesive, well-informed
n ,t irtn;,J~(rirlrtt
shill
Mr. Levinson is survived
by his wife, Clara; a son,
Franklin; a daughter, Mrs.
Judith Michaels; and three
grandchildren.
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religious and fraternal or-
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tions in their behalf.
A member of Bnai Brith
and numerous other Jewish
organizations, he was re-
ceived in private audience by
Pope John in 1960 as a re-
sult of his work for paro-
chial schools in the Detroit
Archdiocese.
Mr. Levinson was a type-
writer salesman when he
came to Detroit in the 1930s,
but soon switched to the
mortgage loan field. He and
three others formed Michi-
gan Mortgage in 1945 and
flourished in the postwar
building boom by processing
GI and FHA mortgages.
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