62 Friday: June 29, 1919

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Prof. Sobeloff Dies

WASHINGTON, D.C. —
Dr. Jonathan Sobeloff, na-
tive Detroiter, professor of
law at Georgetown Univer-
sity Law Center, died June
22 of leukemia. He was 44.
Funeral services were
held Monday at Washing-
ton Hebrew Congregation
in Washington.
"Dr. Sobeloff was a profes-
sor of law at Georgetown
University since 1966. He
was a member of both the
Michigan and District of
Columbia bar associations.
He was graduated with
high honors from Central
High School and the Uni-
versity of Michigan and
cum laude from Harvard
University where he re-
ceived his doctorate in
1958.
While at Central High
School, Dr. Sobeloff won a
$500 prize for an essay in a
contest sponsored by the
AFL-CIO.
An authority on tax law,
he was in demand by
numerous movements
sponsoring discussions on
tax law and he served as
secretary of the American
Israel Tax Law Seminar.

consultant to the U.S.
Treasury.
Dr. Sobeloff is survived
by his wife, Barbara;
three daughters, Judy,
Debbie and Susan; and
his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Isidore Sobeloff of Wash-
ington.
The father of the deceased
was executive vice
president of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation before retir-
ing in 1964.

Arthur Gould

Zionist Tributes to Morris Ben Lewis, 86

Tributes by Zionist lead-
ers to Morris Ben Lewis re-
called his leadership and
deep interest in many
Zionist causes.
Mr. Lewis, who died June
21 at age 86, was an active
leader in the Zionist Organ-
ization of Detroit for many

Archiiect Maxwell Lewis,
Designed Adat Shalom

Maxwell Lewis, co-
founder of King and Lewis
Architects in 1957, died
June 20.
Born in New York, Mr.
Lewis lived most of his life
in Detroit. He was residing
in Florida at the time of his
death. Mr. Lewis retired in
1973 and the business
closed.
Mr. Lewis' firm designed
the Pontchartrain Hotel,
Sheraton Southfield Hotel,
the Honeywell Building and
Adat Shalom Synagogue.
A graduate of New
York University, Mr.

Arthur I. Gould, an attor-
ney with offices in the City
National Bank Building,
died June 24 at age 79.
Born in Boston, Mass.,
Mr. Gould had been retired
a month. He was a charter
member of Temple Israel,
past chairman of the griev-
ance committee of the
Michigan Bar Association,
past master of Perfection
Lodge of the Masons, past
chairman of the arbitration
Committee of the Jewish
Community Council and a
member of the Budget Di-
vision of the Jewish Welfare
Federation.
He leaves his wife, Rose;
At the University of two sons, Richard and Peter
Anna Goldsmith, a
Michigan he was editorial of Winnetka, Ill.; three pioneer in Labor Zionist
director of the Michigan brothers, Carl, Edward and ranks in Detroit, died June
Daily, and at Harvard he Louis, all of Boston; two sis- 22 at age 89.
was editor of the Harvard ters, Mrs. James (Bess)
With her late husband,
Law Review. He was the Misner and Mrs. Michael
Louis, she was actively
author of numerous books (Ann) Cooper of Boston; and . associated with the Poale
on tax law. He also was a four grandchildren.
Zion and gave encourage-
1 ment to many tasks relating
to pioneering efforts for Is-
rael's upbuilding.
• She was associated in the
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ranks of the Farband, the
Jewish National Workers
Suite 865
Alliance, and its school and
in recent years with the
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Lewis was a member of
the Detroit Chapter of the
Michigan Society of Ar-
chitects. He won an Ar-
chitectural Institute of
America Award in 1964
for his design of the
Huron Tower Apts. in
Ann Arbor.
He leaves his wife, Shir-
ley; a son, Dr. Michael of
California; a daughter, Mrs.
Murray (Barbara) Snyder of
West Bloomfield; two
brothers, Theodore and-
Benjamin, both of Albany,
N. Y. ; and three
grandchildren. Interment
Detroit

Anna Goldsmith, Pioneer
in Labor Zionist Ranks

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Budapest Exhibit
of Anti-Semitism

LONDON — Research
into the history of anti-
Semitism is the subject of an
exhibition at the recently
opened Museum of the
Hungarian Labor Move-
ment, in Budapest.
Leaflets, posters and
photographs of the period
following the proletarian
dictatorship, when anti-
Semitism engulfed Hun-
gary ; are featured in one
section of the exhibit.
In another section are
photographs of those who
died as resistance fighters
or because they helped and
persecuted.
The museum is also pre-
paring an exhibition in Au-
schwitz on Nazi activities
before and during World
War II.

Fall Symposium
Set for Israel

Effective date

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years, before his illness sev-
eral years ago. He was
generous to causes for
Zionism and Israel through
the Zionist Organization of
America, was devoted to
Technion and the Hebrew
University, gave schol-
arships to Bar-Ilan Univer-

Please Allow Two Weeks

NEW YORK — The In-
ternational Symposium on
the Treatment of Psoriasis -
Arthritis will take place in
Israel Nov. 18-25.
The object of this sym-
posium is to enable der-
matologists
and
from
rheumatologists
different countries to pre-
sent and discuss recent con-
tributions in the field of
therapy of psoriasis - ar-
thritis diseases.

Farband Labor Zionist
Movement.
Born in Lithuania, Mrs.
Goldsmith lived 70 years in
Detroit. She resided at
20038 Cooley, Detroit.
She is survived by a son,
Morris of Los Angeles,
Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Irv-
ing (Dena) Greenberg; and a
brother, Shaya Winer of
Venice, Calif.

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sity and was active in State
of Israel Bonds.
He also was active in ef-
forts on behalf of Yeshiva
University, Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah, Akiva Hebrew
Day School and- the
Lubavitcher movement. As
a member of Cong. Shaarey
Zedek, which he joined in
1932, Mr. Lewis was the

T. M. Bernstein,
Language Expert

NEW YORK -- Theodore
M. Bernstein, a leading
authority on the use of the
English language, died
June 27 at age 74.
As assistant managing
editor of the New York
Times, Mr. BernAein made
decisions that for two de-
cades were a major influ-
ence on the writing, editing
and-display of the Times.

former head of the order and
decorum committee.

He was a vice president
of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of Detroit and held
membership in Pisgah
Lodge of Bnai Brith.
Born in Lithuania, Mr.
Lewis came to the U,iS. in
1909. He opened his first
pawnshop here as the Lewis
Loan office in 1921 and ,
opened subsequent stores
and offices in 1923, 1936-,
1938 and 1946.
>A Jewish Natiork
forest in Israel will be...c his
name.
Mr. Lewis leaves his wife,
Ida; a son, Morton; a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Robert (Bryna)
Frank; two sisters, Rose_ant.
Mrs. Abraham (Norma)
Htidosh; five grandchildref>
and two great-
grandchildren.

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Former Knesset Speaker
Yisrael Yeshayahu Dies

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Thousands of Israelis filed
by the bier of Yisrael
Yeshayahu in the Knesset
plaza to pay last respects to
the former Speaker of the
Knesset who died June 20 at
age 68.
Mr. Yeshayahu, who was
born in Yemen in 1911 and
immigrated to Palestine in
1929, was buried Thursday
on Mt. Herzl in a plot set
aside for national leaders.
Born in Saana, Yemen,
April 15, 1920, as Yisrael
Yeshayahu Sharabi, he
dropped his last name after
immigrating to then Pales-
tine at age nine. He entered
public life in the Histadrut's
Department for Oriental
and Yemenite Jews which
he headed from 1934 to
1948.
In 1948, he was named
by the Israeli govern-
ment and the Histadrut to
head "Operation Magic
Carpet" which brought
the Jews of Yemen to Is-
rael. He entered the
Knesset in 1951 and dur-
ing the years was fre-
quently in dispute with
the Labor Party leader-
ship over what he termed

NEW YORK (JTA) --A
U.S. Supreme Court an-
nouncement that it would
consider the constitutional-
ity of New York State's Re-
quired Services Law was
called "disappointing" by
Howard Zuckerman,
president of the National
Jewish Commission on Law
and Public Affairs
(COLPA), which has been
representing Jewish day
schools in the much-
litigated issue.
The high court said it
would hear an appeal
against a 1978 ruling sup-
porting the constitutional-
ity of the law filed by the
NEW YORK — Lessing
Committee for Public Edu- Rosenwald, an anti-Zionist
cation and Religious Lib-
erty (PEARL), a coalition of
Jewish, civil liberties and
educational groups.

YISRAEL YESHAYAHU

discrimination against
his advancement be- -
cause he was a Yemenite.
In 1967, Premier Levi
Eshkol named him Minis-_
ter of Posts.
In 1971, he was elected
secretary general of the
Labor Party and in 1972 he
became speaker, _a_post he
held until 1979. He was not ,
selected for the Labor
Party's 1979 election list.
During his lifetime, he
published numerous arti-
cles on the history and
folklore of Yemenite Jews -
and on problems of absorp-
tion into Israeli society.

Anti-Zionist Rosenwald Dies,
Was Noted Art Collector

Jewish Fraternal
Groups Merge_

KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y.
(JTA) — Brith Abraham,
has merged with Bnai Zion
to work together on pro-
grams designed to help Is-
rael, Soviet Jewry, Jewish
education, combat anti-
Semitism, support worthy
charities, etc.
The affiliation will bring
together two of the oldest
fraternal orders in the coun-
try — the 92-year-old Brith
Abraham and the 71-year-
old Bnai Zion.

LESSING ROSENWALD

as evidenced by his
presidency of the American
Council for Judaism, and
the former chair -
o.,
Sears, Roebuck a
died June 25 at age .
As president of the
American Council for
Judaism, a non-Zionist
organization, Mr. Rosen-
wald signed a memorandum
that was submitted to the
United Nations in 1947, be-
fore the creation of Israel,
asserting that the estab-
lishment of a Jewish state
in what was then Palestine
would be harmful to Jews
throughout the world and
would endanger peace and
security in the Holy land.
Rosenwald gave the U.S
government collections of
prints, drawings and books I
now worth more than $35
million.

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