THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

10 Friday, November 30; 1919

Mrs. Sydney Allen Dies,
From Epic to Intimate:
Israeli Rosh Yeshiva Due
Longtime Campaign Worker
His Style
at Reception in Farmington Kramer Changes
Phyllis Z. Allen, who for during the directorship of
tact and all the lovely songs

Friends of Ponevez
Yeshiva will host Rabbi Ab-
raham Kahaneman,
president of the yeshiva, at
a-gathering 8 p.m. Wednes-
day in the home of Dr. and
Mrs. Arnold Zuroff, 31455
Franklin Fairway, Far-
mington Hills.
Today, the Ponevez com-
plex, extending from Bnai
Brag to Ashdod, is corn-
prised of more than 1,200
students in the main
yeshiva; 600 young boys
and girls in the Batay Avoth
"Children's Village"; and
about 200 girls in the Com-
mercial School in Ashdod.
Rabbi Kahaneman will

Abracadabra, in Kabala,
was a magic letter formula
which was used - for the cur-
ing of diseases. The word
apparently comes from the
Aramaic and refers to the
formula of the physician
Serenus Sammonicus who
lived in the Third Century.

By HERBERT G. LUFT

•

(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)

RABBI KAHANEMAN

give a detailed report on the
activities to date and will
also outline plans for the
growth of the yeshiva and
its multi-faceted complex. A
film of the annual Yaarchei
Kallah "Torah Seminars"
featuring a glimpse of the
roshei hayeshiva, will be
shown that evening. The
public is invited.

HOLLYWOOD
CELIA LOVSKY, former
wife of Peter Lorre, died
quietly, almost unnoticed in
Hollywood last month. Born
in Vienna in 1897, she re-
ceived a scholarship at the
age of 15 and in her earlier
years appeared on the stage
in Vienna, and later worked
for such directors as Max
Reinhardt and Leopold
Jessner.
She met Lorre after he
had made his auspicious sc-
reen debut in Fritz Lang's
psychological murder story
"M" and zoomed to stardom
in Berlin.
LEE STRASBERG, the
79-year-old theater man,
portrays an aging, upright
citizen in his late 70s who
has spent a lifetime in
Brooklyn, in the dramatic
film, "Boardwalk," in which
he shares star billing with
Ruth Gordon as his ailing
wife.
"FIDDLER ON THE
ROOF," the screen musical
of the early 1970s, has been
reissued with a few minor
cuts but with the main story
of Tevye and his family in-

and dances. It is amazing to
see how brilliantly the
Chelm stories by Sholem
Aleichem were interwoven
by Josef Stein's book, by the
lyrics of Sheldon Harnick
and the Jewish-flavored
original musical score by
Jerry Bock that catches the
essence of life in the pale of
settlement of Czarist Rus-
sia.
STANLEY KRAMER'S
35th film as a producer,
"The Runner Stumbles,"
turns from the epic frame of
his earlier pictures to the
intimate relationship of two
people thereby exposing a
conflict between religious
vows and human emotions.
The "runner," is a Catholic
priest mortally in love with
a young novice who has
come to his parish. Based on
an actual court case of half a
century ago in which the
clergyman is falsely ac-
cused of murdering the nun,
the story was dramatized by
Milan Stift who reportedly
spent 12 years writing his
play before it went on to
Broadway and enjoyed over
1,000 productions in the
United States and overseas.

Apathy Is Posing Significant
Threat to Los Angeles Jews

THE
JEWISH NEWS

JOSEPH
STONE
11-27-78

If I had one lifetime wish, one dream that
could come true, I'd pray to God with all my
heart for yesterday and you. If teardrops
were a stairway and memories were a lane,
I'd walk all the way to Heaven, dear Joe,
and bring you home again. Remembering
you today and always, your wife, Bernice;
daughters, Maxine and Brenda, and
grandchildren.

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Jewish neighborhoods were
contributing to the assimi-
lation of the nearly half-
million Jews of Los Angeles.
The Sandberg-Levine
study, based on door-to-
door interviews, was
conducted over a period
of a year, with 413 re-
spondents selected scien-
tifically.
The study challenges a
number of stereotypes, in-
cluding: "Jews are wealthy,
most Jews are merchants
rather than salaried em-
ployees, Jews are politically
radical, Jews are clannish,"
said Dr. Levine, professor of
sociology at the University
of California at Los
Angeles.
-The study was funded
with a grant from the Cen-
ter for the Study of Contem-
porary Jewish Life of the
University of Judaism.

In Memory Of

as a gift this

CITY

LOS ANGELES — A de-
clining rate of affiliation
and involvement in Jewish
religious and secular organ-
izations is a significant
threat to the future of the
Los Angeles Jewish com-
munity, according to a
by
study
two-year
C.
Neil
sociologists
Sandberg and Gene N.
Levine.
This poses a serious chal-
lenge to the survival of Jews
as a people because a com-
munity cannot continue
without strong linkages to
the institutional systems
that have sustained it over
generations," said Dr.
Sandberg, director of the
Western Region of the
American Jewish Commit-
tee.
The study also found that
intermarriage, a reduced
birth rate and the decline of

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Your memory to us is a keepsake with
which we will never part. Though God has
you in his keeping we still have you in our
hearts.
Sadly missed by children, Jack Geliebter,
Belle Bassin and Ida Schwartz; and
grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

more than 40 years was an
active worker on behalf of
the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, died Nov. 27 at age
82.
Bpi in Chicago, Mrs.
Allen lived most of her life
in Detroit, prior to moving
to Palm Beach, Fla. She
earned a degree in piano
and voice from the Detroit
Institute of Musical Art.
Confirmed at Temple
Beth El, Mrs. Allen sang in
the temple choir and had
been active in temple activi-
ties for many years.
She was one of the or-
ganizers of the Michigan
Association for Emotion-
ally Disturbed Children,
a cause that has been ab-
sorbed by the United
Foundation.
A charter member of the
Tuberculosis and Health
Society, she was chairman
of the first Cinderella Ball
for the agency, was the or-
ganizer of its women's group
and assisted in securing for
the cause a mobile unit. She
was an honorary board
member of the Tuberculosis
and Health Society.
In the 1930s, Mrs. Allen
was the pianist at Allied
• Jewish Campaign celebra-
tions. At victory dinners,

Dr. John Slawson, and in
the years when her late
husband, Sydney, chaired
Campaigns, she accom-
panied the volunteers at
victory dinners playing
"Happy Days Are Here
Again" and other songs
applicable to Campaign
successes.
Mrs. Allen was a fellow of
Brandeis University and
with her late husband, she
established a dormitory at
the university in Waltham,
Mass. While in Florida
ing her winter vacation:_
Mrs. Allen held member-
ship in the Palm Beach
committee for Brandeis
University.
She was a board
member of the Jewish
Community Center
Mothers' Clubs. She was
a member of the Jewish
Welfare Federation capi-
tal needs committee,
served on the Sinai Hos-
pital Guild and helped
organize and direct its
gift shop. She also served
on the women's advisory
board of United Commu-
nity Services.
She leaves a son, Jay; a
brother, Elmer Zuckerman;
and two grandchildren.
Interment Detroit.

Pioneer Rahel Ben-Zvi Dies,
Led Many Israel Movements

JERUSALEM — Rahel first Hebrew socialist
Yanait Ben-Zvi, a pioneer periodical in the country,
in the pre-World War I wave "Ahudt" (Unity), and a
of Jewish immigrants to printer's union. The pub-
pre-state Israel and wife of lication appeared until
the second president of Is- 1915, when it was closed
by the Ottoman gover-
rael, is dead at age 93.
Mrs. Ben-Zvi was among nor, Jamal Pasha.
the founders of Hashomer,
A student of agriculture,
the Hagana, Histadrut and Mrs. Ben-Zvi established an
the Labor Party. Born in the --agricultural school for girls
Ukraine, Mrs. Ben-Zvi in 1920 and in 1948 was the
came to Israel in 1908 and guiding spirit behind the
developed a friendship with agricultural school and
a pioneer and historian youth village in Ein Kerem.
named Avner, an alias of
In the 1920s and 1930s,
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the man
she became active in the
she married.
She was a founder of the women's labor movement,
Rehavia Gymnasia, where went abroad on fund-
she taught, but also swept raising and other party mis-
the floor when necessary. sions, and played an active
The school was later named role in the Hagana.
In 1978, she was awarded
for her husband.
In 1910, she and Ben- the Israel Prize for her long
Zvi, who were active in years of service." She was
Poalei Zion, founded the the author of two books.

Publisher Elias Jacobs Dies

Elias Rex Jacobs, found-
ing editor and publisher of
the Buffalo Jewish Review,
died Sunday.
He had a close association
with Detroiters and was
here oil many occasions for
journalists' conferences.
For 50 years editor of the
paper he founded, he was a
pioneer in the founding of
the American Association of
English Jewish newspapers
and served as secretary of
the national association for
15 years, before its name
was changed to the Ameri-
can Jewish Press Associa-
tion.
He abandoned the law,
having earned a law de-
gree, for journalism, and

was a leader in the
Jewish field. He was a
master of Hebrew
Yiddish and was hono.
by his community on
numerous occasions, "in
recognition of his contri-
butions in the field of
education."
A master storyteller, he
was known for his humor as
well as communal commit-
ments.
His wife, Ida, accom-
panied him on scores of Is-
rael and European trips and
on missions for Jewish
causes in this country. He
also is survived by his son,
Israel, of Schenectady,
N.Y.; and two
grandchildren.

