62 Friday, December 21, 1919 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Judge Gurfein Dies, Ruled Lansky Claims He Stopped Hotel Owner Ben Silberstein, Favoring Pentagon Papers Arms Bound for Egypt in '48 Funded Clinic, Gave Art Gift NEW YORK — Judge LONDON — The author of a book about alleged crime figure Meyer Lansky told the London Jewish Chronicle last week that Lansky used his influence on the New York docks dur- ing Israel's 1948 War for In- dependence to block a ship- ment of arms to Egypt. Lansky was refused im- migrant status by Israel in 1972. According to Uri Dan, an Israeli journalist who co- authored "Meyer Lansky: MEYER LANSKY Mogul of the Mob," Lansky, The success of Zionist set- now 77, also claims to have tlement "will involve in- organized the breaking up evitably the raising of the of meetings of the pro-Nazi present Arab population to German-American Bund in their own material level, the 1930s. Dan says Lansky was only a little after them- selves in point of time, and embittered when Israel re- the consequences might be fused to accept him as an of the highest ,jmportance immigrant. for the future of the Arab Live with wolves, and you world." —T.E. Lawrence will learn to howl. Ben Silberstein, a California hotel and motel owner, who, while living in Detroit, was known for his gifts to city institutions, died Dec. 19 in Los Angeles, Calif. He was 76. A former Detroiter, Mr. Silberstein made a gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1976 of the Artistide Maillol sculpture, "Flora." Recently he gave $250,000 to the Wayne State Univer- sity Medical School for the establishment of the Ger- trude Levin Silberstein Pain Clinic, named in mem- ory of his wife. Mr. Silberstein was graduated from Central High School and earned a law degree from the Uni- versity of Michigan Law School. he In California, bought the posh Beverly Hills Hotel, operated by a son-in-law, who is president of the hotel. Mr. Silberstein owned a chain of hotels and motels under the Vag- abond name. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ivan (Seema) Boesky of New York City and Mrs. Muriel Slatkin of Beverly Hills, Calif. Interment West Palm Beabh, Fla. Joseph Wohl, Aided Seminary NEW YORK (JTA) — Joseph Wohl, founder and president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America's Universal Brotherhood Movement, died Dec. 8 at age 69. For 27 years he had been a member of the seminary's board of directors and in that capacity had chaired major committees in the areas of finance, develop- ment, real estate and build- ing. A major donor to the in- stitution, he endowed scholarships in memory of his father, Abraham, and his mother, Yetta, in addition to major capital gifts to the seminary's building funds. A resident of Old Westbury, Long Island, Mr. Wohl was active in many philanthropic ac- tivities. He was a founder and offi- cer of the Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, a member of the wi board of the United Jesh Appeal, and of his synagogue, the Old Westbury Hebrew Congre- gation. • Moshe Koenig, Led Dutch Jews has something for everyone! To: The Jewish News 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865 Please send a year's gift subscription to: NAME ADDRESS STATE OCCASION: FROM: _ ❑ $15 enclosed Nuremberg Trial Physician Dies BALTIMORE, Md. — Dr. Nolan D. C. Lewis, the psychoanalyst who ruled that 22 top Nazis were "sane and fit for trial" during the Nuremberg trials, died Dec. 18 at age 90. Southfield, Mich. 48075 CITY AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Dr. Moshe Koenig, a lead- ing figure in Orthodox Jewish circles here and for several years chairman of the Amsterdam Ashkenazi Congregation Council, died Dec. 10 at age 75. He was born in Austria, studied at the Orthodox rabbinical seminary in Be- rlin, where he was ordained and later obtained a law de- gree in Frankfurt. He set- tled in Holland in the mid- 1930s. He never practiced as a rabbi but was active in Jewish communal affairs. _ ZIP Major Benjamin Nones came to this country from France in 1777 and im- mediately enlisted. He was cited for gallant action be- cause ". . his behavior under fire . . . has been marked by bravery and courage." Nones became a major and commanded a company of 400 men, many of whom were Jews. Murray I. Gurfein of the United States Court of Ap- peals for the Second Circuit, who rejected the Nixon Ad- ministration's attempt to bar the New York Times from publishing the Penta- gon Papers in 1971, died Dec. 16 at age 72. A War crimes prosecutor at Nuremberg, Judge Gur- fein was, during a nearly 50-year career, a federal and state rackets fighter, a civil and criminal trial lawyer and for the past eight years, a federal jurist on district and appeals count benches in Manhat- tan. During World War II he served as an intelligence officer at the headquar- ters of the Supreme Al- lied Command in Europe and won the Legion of Merit and the Croix de Guerre and was named an Honorary Officer of the British Empire. After the war he was an assis- tant to Robert H. Jackson, the U.S. chief counsel at the Nurem- JUDGE GURFEIN berg war crimes trials. He was a leader of numerous Jewish organiza tions, including 10 years as president of United HIAS Service. In 1970, the Ameri- can Jewish Committee con- ferred upon him the Learned Hand Human Re- lations Award. He was a trustee of the Beth Israel Medical Center and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dead Sea Scroll Authority Sidney Hoenig Dead at 72 NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr. Sidney Hoenig, noted educator, rabbi and authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Sanhedrin, died Dec. 7 at age 72. At the time of his death he was president of the Jewish Welfare Board Jewish Book Council, a member of the JWB board of directors and a member of the JWB Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy. A-former dean of the Ber- nard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies of Yeshiva University, he served on the university's faculty for more than 40 years. He was also adjunct professor of Talmud at Dropsie University. For the JWB's Com- mission on Jewish Chap- laincy, Hoenig edited a prayer book for Jewish personnel in the Armed Forces of the U.S., a High Holiday prayer book and a Passover Haggada. Earlier this year he re- presented the JWB Jewish Book Council at the Second International Book Fair in Moscow. In 1975, Dr. Hoenig was named a Congressional fel- low of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The New York Board of Rabbis named him Chaplain of the Year in 1973. He had been a member of the Joint Distribution Committee's Cultural Committee, the Rabbinical Council of America, the Na- tional Council of Jewish Prison Chaplains and the Society for Old Testament Study. Born in the New York City, Hoenig received the - - Bachelor of Science degree at City College in 1927 and the PhD degree from Drop- sie University, Philadel- phia in 1934. He was or- dained at Rabbi Isaac El- chanan Theological Semi- nary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University, in 1931. Widely known for his writings and lectures, he was the author of numer- ous books. His articles appeared in major Jewish and other schol- arly publications, includ- ing the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Jewish Quarterly Re- view. In his long association with Yeshiva University, Dr. Hoenig was also director of the Department of Adult Education of the Division of Communal Services of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He authored several of the De- partment's "Guide Series" of books. Gloria Davidson Gloria Davidson, a fifth- grade teacher at the Simms Elementary School in Southfield, died Dec. 16 at age 49. A native Detroiter, Mrs. Davidson taught at the school for the past five years. She was a member of Temple Israel and was a teacher in its Sunday school. She resided at 10004 Lincoln, Huntington Woods. She leaves her husband, Kenneth; a son, Alan; two daughters, Karen and Lori; her mother, Mrs. Monica Monheit of Phoenix, Ariz.; and a sister, Mrs. Tom (Re- veena) Ferguson of Phoenix.