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 IS THE TIME TO Place Your New Year Greetings in THE JEWISH NEWS "Aguczz, Holiday Issue Sept 21 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. / There's no better way to say EHAPPY NE"' .9 EAR B to all your relatives and friends Draw ing by Menahem Begin and Yossi Ste rn. 62 Friday, July 20, 1919 • The Jewish News 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865 Southfield Michigan 48075 Gentlemen: -- . and family Mr. and Mrs. V Please insert my New Year Greeting Address City State Zip Code Check Enclosed (circle one) $7.50 — $12.50 — $17.50 — More Son INNEN 10111k I aft 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.