'71 'hill rUTAIW ; 8 Friday, October 7, 1977 ••• • I MOVING? Accolades for Louis Berry as He Celebrates 75th HOUSEHOLD SALES • IN YOUR HOME ESTATES LIQUIDATED • THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ••d IRENE EAGLE 626-4769 626-8907 persons camps and their evacuation. shortly after World War II, Berry began to devote himself to tasks of rescuing Jews. During the war he. together with such national leaders as Dewey Stone, Abraham Feinberg. noted Zionists and others joined in securing and financing ships that took Jews out of the displaced persons camps for settle- ment in Palestine which Louis Berry will be joined by his wife Vivian on a visit to his birthplace in London. where he will mark his 75th birthday on Oct. 10. In his adopted city and state, where he has lived since emigrating in 1922, spokes- men for scores of causes to which he has made notable contributions, many of which he has helped to make great progress, will join in greeting him in appreciation for his many tasks for the Jewish community. - In the era of the displaced His career began as a toy houses. From there it was a salesman for People's Out- real estate success story. fitting Co. Then he found a Now the president of Inter- job sweeping floors for national Hotels. Inc.. which Isaac Schetzer of the dry runs a chain of more than 10 goods trade. Berry gradu- hotels from coast to coast. ated to salesman, first he also was president of the working on a street car Fisher and New Center route and then via a Model buildings. T. His son, Harold. and now In 1938. Berry bought his grandson Lawrence, join first two old apartment him in the family Boris Smolar's 'Between You ... and Me' Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA • (Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.) LOUIS BERRY was soon to become Israel. Together with the late Joseph Holtzman, Berry visited the European DP camps and Palestine, and upon their. return they com- menced their appeals which contributed toward raising the standards of giving to the United Jewish Appeal and to other causes in — behalf of Israel. Born in Liverpool, Berry, the oldest of six children, emigrated at age 20. His father, a cabinet maker, had died when Louis was 16, yet young Berry managed to bring the rest of the chil- dren to the United States within six years of his arrival here. JEWISH NATIONAL FUND 22100 Greenfield Road Oak Park, Michigan 48237 968 - 0820 . - OVel - Tamaroff invites -you to order lour 1.97S Buick. now • for early- delivery. Tarnaroii is the er this area. Buicks Sale Lead ow why. Our customers kn Good selection of Beck p Tel ad just south of 12 Mile a 'Telegr opposite-"Twelve Mail Phone 353-1300 .,/ '...'• , • ::•.. / • ':'/•+;'' /;V %•e•,•''- 4 • .562:,), THE SCHOOL SEASON: The new Jewish school year is bringing intensified demands for increased allocations from Jewish federations for Jewish education, especially for the growing number of Jewish all-day schools. Allocations by federations for Jewish education now exceed $20 million a year as•compared with $11 million 10 years ago. The school season opened with more than 500 all-day schools functioning in various parts of the country, in addi- tion to afternoon and weekend schools. About 460 of the day schools are under Orthodox auspices, 50 are part of the Con- servative movement, and a few are conducted by Reform temples which finally came to recognize the necessity of Jewish day schools in the programs of strengthening Jewish identity and continuity. The Jewish all-day schools offer a combined curriculum of religious and secular studies. Although the number of Jewish all-day schools is increas- ing—with some non-Orthodox parents preferring to give their children a general and Jewish education in a Jewish atmosphere rather than in integrated municipal schools— such schools face financial difficulties. They depend prima- rily on incorne from tuition. and they suffer from mounting inflation. ACCENT ON DAY SCHOOLS: . At a "mini plenary ses- sion" of the American Jewish Committee, Yehuda Rose- nman, director of the organization's Jewish Communal Affairs Department, asserted that the Jewish day school. through high school, represents the best model available today in Jewish education. He urged that the Jewish com- munity give Jewish education not just "priority" but the "highest priority" in budgeting for local needs. He forcefully explained to his audience that the Jewish day school provides many of the ingredients essential to identity formation, and that it is a total educational expe- rience, integrating in an effective way Jewish and secular learning. He even advocated the establishment—at least regionally—of Jewish high schools of excellence to attract gifted and motivated youth to prepare them for Jewish leadership. Such a call coming from the American Jewish Committee is a far dry from the time when Americanized Jews—some of them second and third generation Americans—were fear- ful that Jewish day schools might become "ghetto schools." The march of time has shown that pupils who graduated from Jewish all-day high schools have made the best stu- dents in colleges and universities, excelling in general edu- cation while possessing a fundamental Jewish education. In the opinion of AJCommittee's director of Jewish com- munal affairs, Bar Mitzva and Bat Mitzva and confirmation must cease to be the termination of Jewish education and become its commencement. Competent researchers have established that 3,000 hours of Jewish schooling is the min- imum threshold for effective Jewish schooling in order to have a serious impact on Jewish identity. EDUCATION FOR ADULTS: The largest single institution propagating Jewish education in the United States today is the synagogue-affiliate afternoon or Sunday school. This type of school cannot meet the minimum of 3,000 hours of Jewish education needed as a requisite for any permanent impact. Statistically, the family and Jewish schooling have an approximately even — 50-50 — influence on identity forma- tion of children. An apostasy study, sponsored by the AJCommittee and directed by Prof. David Kaplovitz of Columbia University, found that the more cohesive the f am- ily is, and the better the relationships between parents and between parents and children, the greater the Jewish iden- tity of the children. The AJCommittee, therefore, also urges improvement of adult Jewish education and involvement of parents in the Jewish school program by requiring that they study min- imally on an adult level the material covered by their children. - enterprise. Other business interests include a directorship of Winkelman Stores, Inc.. and the presidency of the Berry Foundation, of which he is founder. He is a member of the United Jewish Appeal National Campaign Cabinet and boards of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Weizmann Institute of Sci- ence. Joint Distrubition Committee. American ORT Federation, Development Corp. for Israel and United Service for New Americans. Locally, he is on the boards of the Jewish Wel- fare Federation, Sinai Hos- pital, Jewish Home for the Aged, Detroit Service Group (past president) Clover Hill Park Cemetery and Hillel Foundation. Berry has been chairman of the cash mobilization committee of the Allied Jewish Campaign; chair- man of the building fund at Cong. Shaarey Zedek; and chairman of the Allied Jew- ish Campaign. He received the Butzel. Award in 1971 and Louis Marshall Award of the Jew- ish Theological Seminary of America. He is a founder of the Greater Seminary of Jewish Theological Semi- nary of America, and the Berry Forest in Israel was established in 1967. In May 1973, Berry received the sword of Hagana Award from the state of Israel. presented by Abba Eban. That fall he was chairman of cash mobiliza- tion for the Allied Jewish Campaign during the Yom Kippur War. In June 1975 he and his ion. Harold, jointly received the American Jew- ish Committee Human Rela- tions Award. 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