THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Bar-Han Leaders, Zionists
Pay TribUte to Dr. Lookstein
' Phillip Stollman, global
chairman of the board of di-
rectors of Bar-Ban Univer-
sity, leaders in world
Zionist movments, Jewish
Welfare Board and Joint
Distribution Committee
leaders, as well as heads of
many civic movements,
joined in paying tribute to
the memory of Dr. Joseph
Lookstein who died July 13
at age 76.
Stollman recalled the
numerous times Dr. Looks-
tein had participate& in
functions of Detroit Friends
of Bar-Han University and
expressed gratitude for the
assistance Dr. Lookstein
had given the university,
_ the Religious Zionist
Movement and other causes
in the many years he had
served the American' and
world Jewish communities.
Rabbi Lookstein was the
senior rabbi of Cong.
Kehilath Jeshurun in New
York.
Rabbi Lookstein had
been president of the
Synagogue Council of
America and served as
president and later
chancellor of Bar-Ilan
University in Israel. He
also was a professor of
homiletics and rabbinics
at the Rabbi Isaac Elcha-
DR. LOOKSTEIN
nan Theological Semi-
nary of Yeshiva Univer-
sity in New York.
Dr. Lookstein was the
dean of the Orthodox rabbi-
nate in America; a leader of
Mizrachi, .the religious
Zionist organization; a past
president of the Rabbinical
Council of America and of
the New York Board of
Rabbis.
He also was for many
years a leader in the Rab-
binical Council of the Union
of Orthodox Jewish Con-
gregations of America, the
American Zionist Council,
the Commission on Jewish
Chaplaincy of the National
Jewish Welfare Board and
Judah A. Richards Succeeded
Father at Information Bureau
the Gustav Wurzweiler
Foundation of the World
Council on Jewish Educa-
tion.
Born in Russia, Rabbi
Lookstein was educated
at City College and
Columbia University in
New York and at Yeshiva
University. He was or-
dained in‘1926 and served
as assistant rabbi at
Kehilath Jeshurun under
his 'grandfather, the late
Rabbi Moses S. Mar-
goliei. He assumed the
pulpit on the death of
Margolies in 1936.
As a leading Jewish
educator, Rabbi Lookstein
was a founder and principal
of the Hebrew Teachers
Training School for Girls,
now the Stern College for
Women at Yeshiva Univer-
sity. He also founded the.
Ramaz School, a leading
Jewish day school in Man-
hattan.
Phillip, Frieda and Max
Stollman were in the dele-
gation of Metropolitan De-
troit representatives who
attended the funeral service
at which the eulogies were
read by Dr. Norman Lamm,
president of Yeshiva Uni-
versity, and Dr. Lookstein's
son, Rabbi Haskel Looks-
tein.
Judah A. Richards, a
leader in the public rela-
tions agencies and an active
participant in national
Jewish movements, died
Saturday at age 66. Funeral
services were--held in New
York Sunday.
Surviving are his wife,
Ruth; a son, Jonathan; a
daughter, Mrs. Michael
(Judith) Orenstein; two
brothers, David and Joe; a
sister, Mrs. Myron
(Ruth)Eisenstein; and two
grandsons.
His major interest was
the chairmanship of the
Jewish Information Bureau
to which he succeeded its
organizer, his father, the
late Bernard G. Richards.
His father, known nation-
ally by his initials BGR, was
the most noted of Jewish ar-
chivists. He was a pioneer
Zionist leader and with the
late Supreme Court Justice
Louis D. Brandeis and the
late Dr. Stephen S. Wise„
was an organizer of the
American Jewish Congress.
Mr. Richards' involve-
ment in Zionist affairs
started in his childhood
as a member of Young
Judea, later heading
Masada chapters in New
York. _
He was a vice president of
the Long Island Region of
the Zionist Organization of
JUDAH A. RICHARDS AND
BERNARD G. RICHARDS
America and a member of
the national administrative
committee until 1950, when
he and seven past
presidents split to form the
Committee for Progressive
Zionism, which later be-
came the American Jewish
League for Israel founded
by Louis Lipsky. He was a
secretary and at the time of
his death a vice president.
He was representative to
the American Zionist Fed-
eration from AJLI and a di-
rector of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund.
He was affiliated with
the Israel Maritime
League, heading its
American section. Mr.
Richards was a delegate
to the World Confedera-
tion of United Zionists,
Bnai Zion, Hadassah
the League for Israel a.
to all the World Zionist
Congresses held in Israel.
He was a lover of the seas
and an ardent sailor.
Andre Narboni WZO Leader
JERUSALEM (JTA)
Andre Joseph Narboni,
head of the Sephardi and
Oriental Diaspora Depart-
ment of the Jewish Agency
and member of the World
Organization
Zionist
Executive, died July 13 at
age 62.
Mr. Narboni immigrated
to Israel from Algeria in
1962, after playing a lead-
ing role in Algerian and
North African Jewish af-
fairs. He was one of the
founders of the Zionist
youth movement in Algeria -
and represented Algerian
Jewry at several Zionist
congresses.
In 1965, Mr. Narboni be-
came a full member of the
Jewish Agency Executive,
in which capacity he took
interest in the Oriental
Jewish communities both in
Israel and in the Diaspora.
He became head of the
Sephardi and Oriental
Diaspora Department when
it was founded in 1972.
An Artist in His Own Right
NOW
From the Israel Digest
minister with the depart-
JERUSALEM — What ment's materials com-
began as an informal pre- memorating Jerusalem
sentation, ended as a lesson Day. Included in the mate-
rials are a selection of draw-
in creative expression.
- ings of Jerusalem by Stern,
Last month, two members whose book "The People of
of the staff of the WZO.In- the Book," was published
formation Department, this spring.
Moshe Hovav (electronic
In the course of the
media), and Arieh Livney
(audio-visual), accom- conversation, as Begin
panied Jerusalem artist looked through Stern's
Yossi Stern to Prime Minis- artistic impressions of
the city, he remarked that
ter Begin's office.
they are truly an indica-
The purpose of the visit _fion of God's gift. We all
was to present the prime have 10 fingers," the
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prime minister re-
marked, "but when
Yasha Heifetz puts his
work on a violin, he
makes beautiful music. If
I try to play, all that re-
sults if cacophony."
You are also an artist,"
Stern told the prime minis-
ter.
Begin drew a line which
roughly resembled a cursive
"S." Stern completed the
drawing, turning Begin's
line into a dove with an
olive branch above the city
of Jerusalem.
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Pictured above is the drawing-by Israel Prime Minister Menahem
Begin, which began with a curved line, and was embellished upon by
Israel artist Yossi Stern, who turned the line into a picture of a dove
with an olive branch in its mouth
...... above the city of Jerusalem.