54 Friday, November 2, 1919 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Programs for Sephardim at Yeshiva U. Described LARRY FREEDMAN rchestra and Entertainment 647-2367 By HEIDI PRESS Rabbi Solomon Gaon, head of the World Sephardi Federation and director of Yeshiva University's HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mother & Gramma Faye Love 4 Rae, Jean, Sandy, Alyse, Jeff Natalie, Sidney, Renee, Alan FINALLY after 9 weeks my hospital confinement due to my recent illness and subsequent surgery is over. Because of all the expressions of love, warmth and encouragement from my dearest relatives and literally hundreds of friends this acknowl- edgement of my thanks and gratitude is com- pletely necessary. While my recovery is not yet complete I am on my way and hope to see you real soon. My Complete Love IRV COHEN Sephardic studies program since 1964, was in Detroit last week to visit its Sephardic community. Rabbi Gaon talked about the Sephardic studies pro- gram at Yeshiva University and said that a bachelor's degree in Sephardic studies is offered. Ladino or Judeo-Spanish, the Sephardic counterpart of Yiddish, also is taught at the university. He esti- mated that about 170 per- sons were involved in the Sepahrdic studies program. He said that a goal of his visit to the Detroit Sephardic community was to help "re- establish" it. Asked how he planned to do this, he said he would help the Sephardim try to find a place of worship of their own. On the High Holi- days, the Sephardic Community of Detroit had been using the Zionist Cultural Center. Rabbi Gaon said he was "not trying to separate the Sephardim from the Ashkenazim" and said he was impressed by the sup- port the Ashkenazic com- munity lent its Sephardic counterpart. . He lauded the Yeshiva University program of Sephardic studies. He said an aim of the program is "to produce rabbis to be brought up in the spirit of the Sephardic tradition. "Yeshiva University is the most suitable place for Sephardim (in America) to find a haven to be brought up and educated," he said. Rabbi M. Mitchell Serels, assistant director of the Sephardic studies program at Yeshiva Uni- versity, who is touring the U.S. with Rabbi Gaon said that there was a "re- naissance of Sephardic culture" in the U.S. caused by immigration, Jewish Center Focal Point of Wide Range of Events Jack Bressler was in- stalled as the president of the Jewish Community Center Businessmen's Club particularly by that of Iranian Jews. Detroit's Sephardic com- munity is comprised of about 100 families, who came from or are descended from persons from Spanish-speaking or Arabic countries, whose ancestors were expelled during the Spanish Inqiusition and were dispersed to Africa, Asia and pre-state Israel. For the Finest Wedding and Bar Mitzva Album Call WINER And Associates 357-1010 THE CENTRAL HIGH CLASS '49 Had A Smashingly Great 30th REUNION .. . My Thanks To A Super Committee, They Are: Sally Levine Adell Ozrovitz Dorothy Tendler Renei Gerger Faye Rycus Joan Danto Dick Rycus Shirley Becker Barbara Kay Sharon Winkleman Mel Durbin Lois Zamler Annette Schriber Joe Cohen Fred Schriber Miles Brasch Nadine Miller Beverly Sachs Gertrude Garber Lillian Aichenbaum Eileen Burke Thank You Thank You Thank You .RE-EfEe t EDWARD F. STEIN, CHAIRMAN