54 Friday, Februar); 4, 1977
THE'liETIthiT JEWISH NEWS
Promise for Jewish National Home
in Palestine Overrules 1936 Events
Gertrude Wineman, Leader in Jewish Ranks
Gertrude F. Wineman,
for many years a leader in
the women's ranks of the
Detroit Jewish commun-
ity, died Feb. 1 at age 87.
panied European pog- have arisen around
roms were not present in Haifa: Kiryat Chaim,
Eretz Israel.
Kiryat Moshkin and
TEL AVIV — Forty
Ashe said he was sure Emek Zevulun.
years ago, when bloody the Jewish population
"On my last visit I did
events occurred in Eretz could end the bloody not dream that in Kiryat
Israel, the famous writer events by its own forces. Chaim I shall be received
Shalom Ashe and his But the sense of respon- by 8,000 beautiful Jewish
wife visited the country. sibility for an historic children. I never ex-
As a correspondent of the mission for the Jewish pected such building and
Yiddish daily "Haynt" in people all over the world development like the Har
Warsaw I was requested dictated that the Jewish Hacarmel, in Natanya,
by the editor to accom- population of Eretz Israel Rehovot, Petah Tikva
pany him.
restrain itself, keep pati- and in the Sharon.
Shalom Ashe told me ence and leave the ac- "My eyes were filled
that one could not com- tions against the Arab with tears of joy when I
pare in any way the marauders to the British saw the growing Jewish
events in the country mandatory power.
industry in Haifa and
with the barbaric perse-
He said at that time around Tel Aviv. I am
cution of Jews in other that the Arabs will come . sure that this country
countries. Everywhere to the conclusion that Will be able to absorb mill-
Jews are persecuted and they cannot liquidate the ions of Jews, when it will
murdered because they Jewish population. Their turn its barren soil into
are weak, but in Eretz Is- terror methods would not fertile areas and a
GERTRUDE WINEMAN
rael they are attacked be- deter the Jewish people, paradise."
Mrs. Wineman, who for
cause they are strong.
nor make the British re-
Shalom Ashe was in-
The Arabs, facing the voke their promise to vited to give a speech -in a many years shared top
tremendous reconstruc- promote a Jewish Na- kibutz in Emek Jesreel. leadership in women's
tion work of the Jewish tional Home in Eretz Is- The kibutz offered him a, ranks in civic and Jewish
people, were afraid that rael. fee of 21/2 Pounds for the affairs with the late Dora
the Jews might rule over
He also pointed to the journey and appologized Ehrlich, became a leading
them. It was easy to incite Arabs who saved many that they could not pay for figure in Michigan in the
the ignorant Arab masses Jewish families, heroically his speech. Ashe refused Travelers Aid. She was
against the Jewish popu- from certain death. "This to accept the travelling the first president of the
Detroit Branch of
lation.
gives me hope that the day expenses.
Travelers Aid and was a
The attacks of the Arabs will come on which the
He and his wife went in
did not deter the Jewish Arab masses will under- a taxi from Haifa to life member of its board.
She was among the first
population from continu- stand the blessing which Tiberias via Nazareth.
ing to build and develop the Jewish people bring to When they passed an women to win the Fred M.
Butzel Award of the
the country, by which the them," Ashe said.
Arab town, Arab
Arab population also pro-
Shalom Ashe told me he youngsters stopped the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, receiving the co-
fited.
found Eretz Israel diffe- taxi.
veted honor in 1962.
Ashe said that the re- rent from his trip of eight
Ashe got out and de-
Having headed the Wo-
sults of attacking Jews years before. It takes
manded that the taxi be men's Division of the
was different in Eretz Is- months to see all that is
rael.
built and created. Tel allowed to pass. "We are Jewish Welfare Federa-
Fear, despair and res- Aviv has become a met- in a town and not in a wild tion and the Allied Jewish
ignation which accom- ropolis. New settlements desert," he shouted. The Campaign in the early
youngsters started to
throw stones at the car.
Fortunately, a British Raymond Kanfer
policeman appeared.
Raymond Kanfer, who
Ashe asked him to in- headed the Kanfer Con-
tervene. He introduced struction Co., died Mon-
himself and warned that day morning after a pro-
he would write in news- longed illness. He was 54.
papers about this inci-
A native Detoiter, Mr.
dent. The British police- Kanfer was a 1943
man entered the taxi and graduate, of the Univer-
it left the place safely.
sity of Mi
chigan College
of Engineering. He was
When Shalom Ashe was
asked whether this would a lieutenant (j.g.) in the
interfere with his plans to Navy during World War
settle in Eretz Israel, he
He was a member of
answered categorically:
"No, I have already de- Cong. Beth Shalom and
was affiliated with lead-
cided to settle here . . ."
ing engineering profes-
sional organizations. Mr.
Shalom Ashe and Moshe Ron
Kanfer resided at 12719
Postal Employee
Vernon, Huntington
Wins Sabbath Case Woods.
He leaves his wife, He-
NEW YORK (JTA) — len; a daughter, Susan; a
Jewish National Fund Plants
The United States Civil son, Marvin; and a sister, -
Service Commission has Mrs. Edward (Alice) Lutz.
New Forests in Southern Israel ruled
that the Bloomfield
JERUSALEM (JTA) — consist of forest thinning Post Office in Connecticut
discriminated against Toots Shor Dies,
The Jewish National and general mainte-
Robert Sasportas, a Sab-
Fund is presently plant- nance.
bath observer, by firing NY Restaurateur
ing forests over some
Between Ibdim and
him from his job as a tem-
NEW YORK — Re-
10,747 dunams (2,687 Sederot, a new outdoor
porary postal assistant in nowned restaurateur
acres) in the south of Is- recreational forest park
December, 1975 because Toots Shor, whose res-
rael.
is being set up with picnic
he could not work past
taurant became a gather-
This takes in about half sites and 18 planned
sundown on Fridays, ac- ing place for sports fig-
the land designated for physical fitness installa-
cording to Sidney Kwes- ures, entertainers and
afforestation during tions.
tel, president of the Na- newsmen, died Jan. 20 at
1977. The JNF said that
The park is being set up
tional Jewish Commis-
age 73.
special emphasis in the by the sports authority in
sion on Law and Public
During Prohibition, he
urrent program will be cooperation with the
Affairs.
worked in speakeasies
I laced on preventing ero-
JNF.
The hearing examiner with some of the none-
sion.
In the area of Raffah and
ordered that Sasportas be too-respectable charac-
In the vicinity of Be'eri
given full back pay for the ters of the era. When
1,000 dunams (250 acres) north Sinai, emphasis is
unworked period of his whiskey became legal, he
of trees are to be planted also to be placed on ero-
sion prevention, such as temporary job.
reached for respectability
along wadi banks.
checking
of
sand
dune
Postal officials admit- by opening a restaurant
Near Dorot-Ruhama,
1,500 dunams (375 acres); movement and creation of ted that Sasportas told on 51st St. and Sixth Ave.
them of the Sabbath con- in New York. His old pa-
Telamim, 350 dunams (88 wind breaks through tree
flict when he was hired, trons followed him and
acres) and at Tequema,350 planting.
but insisted they were the spot became the
dunams.
Some half of the plant-
unaware of the Friday gatherinc, place of sports
Other afforestation ings in the area will be at
evening problem.
and Broadway figures.
works in the area will Yamit.
BY MOSHE RON
Special Israel Correspondent
to The Jewish News
years of fund raising here,
she also was for many
years among the top five
women contributors.
Active in efforts for the
United Jewish Appeal,
Mrs. Wineman was a
member of the seventh
UJA Mission to Israel in
1960 and on subsequent
trips she brought back ar-
tifacts which she dis-
played in her hOme.
Mrs. Wineman joined
her late husband, Henry,
the first president of the
United Foundation, in ef-
forts for the charity. She
also was affiliated with
the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, Sinai Hospi-
tal, the Children's
Bureau, the Army-Navy
Committee of the Jewish
Welfare Board, the USO,
the Council of Social
Agencies (of which she
became vice president)
and the Detroit Chapter
of Hadassah.
She also was a former
member of the executive
committee of the national
Women's Division of the
UJA, a .member of the
board of the Jewish Ser-
vice Bureau and was ac-
tive in efforts for the
Fresh Air Society.
She leaves a son, James
H.; a daughter, Mrs. Ar-
thur Q. (Mary) Davis of
New Orleans, La.;
grandchildren and
great-grandchildren. .
Samuel Lieberman Dead at 81,
Active in Communal Affairs
Samuel Lieberman, re-
tired owner of Wholesale
Furniture Mart, died Jan.
30 at age 81.
A native Detroiter, Mr.
Lieberman founded his
Gratiot Ave. business in
1920 and closed it in 1961.
He was a past president
of the Hebrew Free Loan
Association, a charter
member of the Detroit
Lodge of Bnai Brith, a
50-year member of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek and
served- on many commit-
tees of the Jewish Welfare
Federation and the
Jewish Community
Council.
Mr. Lieberman was a
member of Union Lodge of
the Masons, Michigan
Soverei g n Consistory-
Moslem ''Shrine, a board
member of the Detroit
Science Museum Associa-
tion and the Caravan
Shrine Club.- He also-was
the current president of
the Factfinders Club of
Detroit.
Mr. Lieberman, who re-
sided at 23300 Providence
Dr., Southfield, leaves his
Maurice I. Krauss
Maurice I. Krauss, a
pharmacist for more than
50 years, died Feb. 1 at
age 73.
Born in Camelstown;
Pa., Mr. Krauss lived 65
years in Detroit. He was
the manager of the Cun-
ningham's Drug Stores
for 40 years, having been
the manager of the
Schaefer and McNichols
Ayes. store from the
1940s until the 1960s and
later manager of the
Grand River Ave. and
Farmington Rd. store
until his retirement in
1975. He was a member of
Perfection .Lodge of the
Masons. -
Mr. Krauss, who re-
sided at 16500 North Park
Dr., Southfield, leaves a
brother, Burnett J.; and a
sister, Mrs. Irving (Brin-
nie) Rubin.
Soviets Reject
Blame for Riots
HELSINKI - (ZINS) —
Soviet press reports have
rejected charges that
recent food riots in
Egypt were Conimus-
nist-inspired. The reports
blamed Western inves-
tors for widening the gap
between rich and poor in
Egypt.
wife, Libbie; a son, Edwin
of Dallas, Texas; a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Marilyn
Woldbott; two brothers, .
SAM LIEBERMAN
David of Los Angeles,
Calif., and -Burton of Dal-
las; two sisters, Mrs.
Leonard (Harriette) Si-
mons and Mrs. Hyman
(Elizabeth) Kaplan of Be-
very Hills, Calif.; and
three grandchildren:
Sam Hochberg, 70
Sam Hochberg,
haberdasher and partner
in the former Custom
Shop on West Adams,
died Feb. 1 at age 70.
Born in Russia, Mr.
Hochberg lived 58 years
in Detroit. He was a part-
ner in the store from 1941
to 1960. He was retired.
He served with Patton's
army during World War
II and was one of the first
to help liberate the
Dachau concentration
camp. He was awarded
the Bronze star and oak
leaf cluster.
He
leaves
three
brothers, Morris of
Brooklyn, N.Y., Eddie of
the Bronx and George;
two sisters, Mrs. Lillian
Friedman of Brooklyn
and Mrs. Rose Silberstein
of Los Angeles, Calif.7'
nieces and nephews.
The Families
of the Late
ZELDA
MARKZON
and
HARVEY
MOORE
Acknowledge with
grateful appreciation
the many kind expres-
sions of sympathy ex-
tended by relatives
and friends during the
families' recent be-
reavements.