10 Friday, December 30, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FIRESTONE • JEWELRY U holesnle Ilinnuntdv & Jew•lr, Renumnling. fincriry • 'Itch Hemprinie SUITE 318 ADVANCE BLDG. 23077 Greenfield at 9 Mite (313) 557-1860 vets/es...Deep .11 Ni n e Campaign Division Chairmen Appointed to 1978 Communal Drive Leadership Positions ■ 111•Neep DRIVE A CAR or SEND YOUR CAR TO ANY STATE I.C.C. License MC125985 DRIVEAWAY SERVICE /".. 4713 Horger at Michigan Ave. P.O. BOX 1264 Dearborn, Mich. 48126 Tel. 584-5000 ■ 1. nilinlilliaii110111111111111111111 111111111111111MINWEIli11411111111 01111.1111114 ittkAJ GILES STOLLMAN . WHEN YOU'RE ON THE MAIN FLOOR AT MODERN... shopping for office supplies and equipment, come up and have a look at our UPSTAIRS! You'll find the finest in furnishings for nome and office, sofas, chairs, paintings & graphics, lamps, clocks, interior design service and much more. All that, and weekly specials like this: "UPSTAIRS" SPECIAL 25% to 50% SAVINGS ON ALL IN. 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He and his wife Jane chaired the De- troit Service Group mission Ever since New Year's Eve, Doug Hoffman has been trying to get himself back in shape for his big "Hangover Sale". Save up to 50% off Doug's fine selction of designer clothes - Suits, sportcoats, pants, shirts, sweat- ers and topcoats - Everything is on sale! Take advantage of Doug Hoffman's fantastic "Hangover Sale". It's like giving your closet an Alka- Seltzer! Sale begins January 3rd. Mon., Thurs., & Fri 9:30-8:30 Tues., Wed., & Sat 9 - 30-5:30 SHERMAN Stollman, co-chairman of the Real Estste Division for the previous two Cam- paigns, is a member of Fed- eration's culture and educa- tion budget and planning division. Thomas I. Klein will head the new Food and Services Division. Chairman of the Food Division in 1977, he is a member of the boards of the Jewish Welfare Feder- ation, United Jewish Chari- ties, Jewish Community Center and Detroit Service Group. He also served for three years as a member of Federation's executive com- mittee. The Metropolitan Division will be led by Jerome B. Greenbaum, associate chairman of the division during the past three Cam- paigns. Greenbaum, mho formerly served as the Met- ropolitan Division's special gifts chairman, is a mem- ber of the Detroit Service Group board. to Israel in October. Robert Naftaly is chair- man of the Professional Services Division. He serv- ed as - co-chairman of the Professional Division in 1977 and as vice chairman in previous years. He is a member of the boards of the Jewish Community Council, the Jewish Community Cen- ' ter and the Jewish Welfare Federation's national agencies budget and plan- ning division. He is a mem- ber of the Anti-Defamation League national executive commission. Dr. Conrad L. Giles, a co- chairman of the Profes- sional Division in 1977, will head the Professional Health Division. Former chairman of the medical physicians section, he is on the boards of the Jewish Welfare Federation, United Jewish Charities and Fresh Eight parlor meetings in Air Society. Dr. Giles is the homes of prominent chairman of the Feder- community leaders will be ation's community services held during the next two budget and planning divi- months on behalf of the Al- sion and a member of the lied Jewish Campaign-Is- JWF executive committee. rael Emergency Fund. Joseph Orley will head the Campaign leaders have an- Industrial and Automotive nounced. Division for the second The first meeting is year. He was co-chairman scheduled for Jan. 11 at the of the division in 1976 and Franklin home of former associate chairman in 1975. Campaign General Chair- Orley serves on Feder- man Irwin Green. Guest ation's collection review speaker will be Howard L. committee. Adelson, professor of his- The Real Estate and tory at City University of Building Trades Division New York. Dr. Adelson. will be led by Lester S. who recently met with Is- Burton and Bernard Stoll- raeli leaders, will discuss man. Burton, a pre-Cam- the latest developments in paign associate chairman the Middle East. during the 1977 Campaign, Subsequent parlor meet- is chairman of the Tama- ings will be held weekly rack Hills Authority and through March 1. serves on the boards of the General Campaign Chair- Jewish Welfare Federation men are Philip T. Warren, and Jewish Home for Aged. and Phillip Stollman. Campaign Parlor Meetings Set ORT School Shows Students' Work • NEW YORK—ORT-Na- Among student works tanya has organized a show- shown were a computer ing of work by its advanced memory system, an ad- students. With a graduating vanced telephone central class that included 14 engi- system and a small auto- neer-technicians in.electron- matic meteorological sta- ics, 20 engineer-technicians tion. in electricity and 19 in pre- cision mechanics and auto- mation, the school has an Bak was a family of Jew- enrollment for the 1977-78 ish printers of Ashkenazi academic year of 183 post- origin, who lived first in baccalaureate students. Venice and later in Prague. Temple Beth El S witch to R eform Recalled By IRVING I. KATZ Temple Beth El was organized in 1850 by 12 German-Jewish families as an Orthodox congregation. Agitation for ritual reforms started, however, a few years after the organization of the congregation and by 1856 the liberal members succeeded at a stormy congregational meeting to pass a new constitution and by-laws, containing ideas of Reform Judaism. This action was no doubt the result, among or things, of the influence Rabbi Isaac M. Wise of Cincinnati, the founder and master builder of American Reform Judaism, through his pers(--cial visits to many communities and his weekly newspaper, the Israelite. and its German supplement, Deborah. In Beth El's 1856 constitution and by-laws, written in German, the seventh principle stated: "The congregation shall, in all its religious observances, pay due attention to the progress of the age, and maintain the respect due to !ustoms or laws handed down. to us by our pious fathers. In cases of innovation, this congregation shall attempt to remain in unity with the majority, at least, of the American congregations, and shall always attempt to produce uniformity in the American synagogue." The adoption of this principle divided the congregation into a majority favoring reform and a minority which remained loyal to traditional Judaism. The controversy continued for five years. In order to bring the matter to a head. the traditionalists succeeded to call a meeting of the congregation in 1860 where the legality of the 1856 constitution and by-laws was debated at length. The outcome was a defeat for the traditionalists, for the majority reaffirmed the ideas of Reform Judaism. The final break between the traditionalists and the reformers came the following year, in 1861, at the dedication of Beth El's Rivard -St. synagogue, when organ music and a mixed choir was introduced at the Shabat services, an innovation contrary t - - traditional Judaism. Seventeen members- withdrew from Beth El and organized Cong. Shaarey Zedek, a traditional synagogue, which is today one of the largest Conservative congregations in the country. A year after the split, in 1862, Beth El adopted a new constitution and by-laws (revised German version) which paved the way for the introduction of many reforms and the official alignment of Beth El with the Reform Jewish movement.