62 Fridiy, February 27, 1981
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ART — MUST SELL
SIGNED ROCKWELL
"Horseshoe Forging"
"The Wind Up"
Reply P.O. Box 1063
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Signed/numbered Lithographs,
Miro, Vaseraly, Calder, Hunder-
wasser, Rothe. Moderately
priced. Very fine oriental ivory
Chess set. Private collector.
Community
Calendar
Sunday — Bnai Brith
-Vomen meeting, noon.
Tuesday — Bnai Brith
leeting, 8 p.m.; and Beth
rael adult education, 8:20
.m.
Wednesday — FJF
_ommunity relations com-
mittee, 12:15 p.m.; FJF and
Bnai Brith Women, 8 p.m.,
Whiting Auditorium, af-
terglow at' Beech Tree.
Thursday — Beth Israel
Board of Education meet-
ing, 8 p.m.
Purim Festival
at Beth Israel
Cong. Beth Israel will
have its annual Purim car-
- nival 12:15 p.m. March 15
in the synagogue.
The afternoon will in-
clude a costume contest,
luncheon, games and more.
There will be a
costume-making workshop
2:30 p.m. March 8.
The synagogue also will
have a Pesach workshop,
"Ways to Enhance Your
Seder," 8:30 p.m. April 7 at:
the synagogue.
Sisterhood Holds
50th Donor Event
Beth Israel Sisterhood
will hold its 50th donor
dinner 8 p.m. March 21 in
the synagogue.
Sidell Sorscher is pro-
gram chairman. Reserva-
tions are required. For tic-
kets, call Bess Hurand,
239-0549; Pat Fauer, 239-
0585; Florence Berner,
732-6652; or Suzanne
Chimovitz, 732-4529.
Team Victorious
The Flint Jewish Federa-
tion's men's basketball
team took the cham-
pionship of the B division of
the YMCA Inter-Church
Athletic Association. The
club had the best win-Joss
record in the league.
LOUIS MARSHALL
CHAPTER will meet 11:30
a.m. Thursday in the
Zionist Cultural Center.
Brunch will be served at a
nominal charge. Election of
officers will be held and the
annual report will be read
by President Helen Pearl.
Sherry Wasserman will re-
view- "Sophie's Choice" by
William Styron. Guests are
invited. For information,
call Program Director Ei-
leen Israel, 341-2878.
HARRY B. KEIDAN
LODGE will meet 8 p.m.
Tuesday in the Carlyle To-
wers Apts. club room. Greg
Durbin of the Southfield
Police Department will dis-
cuss "Safety in Shopping
Centers and Home Secu-
rity." Wives are invited.
* * *
COUPLETS UNIT will
have a "white elephant" au-
ction 8 p.m. March 7 at the
Franklin Point Apts. club
house. Items must be wrap-
* *
044-0966
Levine, Rodman Co-Chair
Annual BB Presidents Event
UAHC Regional at Flint Beth El
Flint's Temple Beth El
Till host the annual mid-
ichigan Union of Ameri-
an Hebrew Congregations
?.gional Shabat March 13.
Dinner will be served at
15 p.m. and Shabat serv-
will follow at 9. Rabbi
Bnai Brith Activities
53—ENTERTAINMENT
David Hachen, regional di-
rector, will be guest
speaker.
There is a charge. For
reservations by March 6,
call the temple.
Seniors Plan
March Programs
The Senior Friendship
Club of the Flint Jewish
Federation will hear the
People's Jazz Band noon
Thursday in the temple.
Luncheon will be served.
The March 12 meeting
will be a craft day. Debby
Chimovitz will be the in-
structor. Luncheon will be
served.
A Purim luncheon will be
served by the Bnai Brith
Women March 19.
For transportation, call
Stella Koenig, 732-2721; or
Judy Kasle, 767-5922.
David Levine, past
president of the Bnai Brith
Men's Council, and Irene
Rodman, past president of
the Bnai Brith Women'S
Council, have been ap-
pointed co-chairmen of the
March 22 Bnai Brith
Presidents' Brunch at Cong.
Shaarey Zedek.
This is the 15th annual
Bnai Brith Presidents'
Brunch sponsored in coop-
eration with the Jewish Na-
tional Fund of Metropolitan
Detroit. The event also
marks the 33rd year of in-
dependence of the state of
Israel.
IRENE RODMAN
AJCongress
Official to Speak
Phil Baum, associate di-
rector of the American
Jewish Congress and direc-
tor of the Commission on In-
ternational Affairs, will
speak in Flint at 8 p.m.
March 16 at Temple Beth
El.
His talk is sponsored by
the Community Relations
Committee of the Flint
Jewish Federation and is
open to the community
without charge.
Baum, an attorney, will
speak on the "Evangelical
Movement and Its Impact
on the American Jewish
Community."
Road Use Seen
HAIFA (JTA) — Waste
products of coal-fuelled
power plants could be recy-,
cled to provide raw material
for cement, concrete, and
road-building industries,
according to research at the
Technion.
Small Remnant
BERLIN (ZINS) — An
East German Jewish leader
reports that there are only
350 Jews remaining in East
Germany. In the last three
years, however, the com-
munity has refurbished a
synagogue and opened a li-
brary.
was the Bnai Brith
Women's Council president.
She is a past president of the
Louis Marshall Chapter, is
currently the consultant to
Pisgah Chapter, and is on
the board of directors of
DAVID LEVINE
Floyd Bornstein and Eve-
lyn Tichik, presidents of the
men's and women's councils
respectively, will be hon-
ored with gardens to be
planted in their names in
the Bnai Brith Forest of
Peace launched last year in
the Galilee, in Israel.
Lodge, chapter and
unit presidents will be
honored at the brunch as
well as tree and tribute
chairmen.
Levine, who was co-
chairman of the 1978
brunch, has been active for
many years on all levels in
the Bnai Brith Men's Coun-
cil. He is on the board of the
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith and has worked
for many years with the
Bnai Brith Youth Organ-
izations. He was honored
with a garden of trees bear-
ing his name during his te-
nure as council president.
Mrs. Rodman had been
similarly honored when she
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Blood Bank Drive
The Bnai Brith Men's and
Women's Councils will hold
a blood bank rally 5-10 p.m.
Monday and Tuesday at
Temple Emanu-El, Oak
Park.
Midwest Region of Bnai
Brith Women. She has been
a leader in many areas of
Detroit's- Jewish commu-
nity.
Harry Michelson and
Charles Fink are 1981 co-
chairmen of the Forest of
Peace Committee.
For information, call
JNF, 557-6644.
800-Year-Old
Poems Printed
NEW YORK — A collec-
tion of the poems of Isaac
Ben Abraham Ibn Ezra,
edited by Dr. Menahem H.
Schmelzer, has just been
published by the Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America.
The volume, which is
based primarily on a newly
discovered manuscript, con-
tains an introduction and
notes by Dr. Schmelzer, the
seminary librarian. The
manuscript contains sev-
eral 12th Century poems
previously known only
through references in other
works.
RIETS Ceremony
Slated for March
NEW YORK 2--- The
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary
(RIETS) will hold ordina-
tion ceremonies on Sunday,
March 29.
The week preceding the
convocation will be devoted
to lectures, conferences and
luncheons at the seminary,
which is an affiliate of
Yeshiva University.
ped. Light dinner, bever-
ages and dessert will be
provided. Guests are wel-
come. For reservations by
Saturday, call Jan Citrin,
476-3033; or Pam Selis,
534-8219.
* * *
ISRAEL CHAPTER
will have its paid-up mem-
bership dinner 6:30 p.m.
March 12 at the Zionist Cul-
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tural Center. Prospective
members are invited. Dues
are payable at the door. The
Southfield-Lathrup High
School Choralaires will pre-
sent a musical program. For
reservations by Thursday,
call Ann Cutler, 535-3184;
or Lee Robins, 535-6295,
after 5 p.m. Guests are in-
vited to bring mah jongg
sets and other games.
*
Einstein to Cite Bandlead
Eric Rosenow at Bond Event
Bandleader Eric Rosenow
is well known to thousands
of Detroiters. He and his
"Continentals" have been a
familiar presence at wed-
dings, Bar Mitzva and holi-
day dances for more than 28
years.
And then there is his
association with Israel
Bonds: By his account, he
has played for over 300
Bond events.
As a member and twice
past president of Bnai Brith
Albert Einstein Lodge, he is
a long time supporter of the
lodge and chapter's partici-
ERIC ROSENOW
pation in the Bond program.
He has served often as the spent nine years in Shan-
lodge's Israel Bond chair- ghai.
Rosenow married his
man or as a ticket Chairman
for the organization's an- wife Anne in Shanghai in
1946; they immigrated to
nual Bond dinner-dance.
He thus often held a dual Detroit in 1948. Here he
role as, on the night of a found work at the
dinner-dance, he and his Chrysler-Dodge Main
band provided a musical sa- Plant," but also returned
lute to the dinner honoree. to his piano, playing
This year, on May 3 at clubs and bars, giving
Adat Shalom Synagogue, piano lessons.
Of the 10 original men re-
Rosenow will not be
found on the bandstand. cruited for his "Continen-
In tribute to his outstand- tals" in 1953, six are still
ing service to Israel and with him. In addition to the
the Bond organization, regular dates • for Israel
the Oak Parker, a Bonds and others, last year
German-born survivor of alone the band played 21
the Nazi years, will be special concerts in Oak
Park Major Park, South-
seated on the dais as the field Recreation Depart-
1981 Einstein honoree.
ment and Hart Plaza
Chairmen of this year's downtown.
Einstein-Israel Bond effort
Rosenow has been active
are Linda Apfelblat, Henry as a tree chairman for the
Dorfman and Sam Freed- Jewish National Fund. He
man. Lodge president is is on the board of American
Charles Growe and chapter Friends of Magen David
incoming president is Adom and is a past vice
Mania Lesh.
president of Shaarit
The honoree-elect began Haplaytah-Survivors of the
his musical education at the Holocaust. He is a member
piano keyboard when he of the board of the Detroit
was 8-years-old and later Federation of Musicians.
attended Berlin's Stern
For tribute dinner reser-
Conservatory. At age 4, vations, call Israel Bonds,
while visiting in his father's 557-2900.
barber shop, was "dis-
covered" by some profes-
Joe Seltzer,
sional actors. From then
of 'Smith, Dale'
until he was 16, Rosenow
appeared in 26 German mo-
ENGLEWOOD, l ■
tion picture films. Hitler's
Joe Seltzer, who gained
edict forbidding Jews to ap-
fame as Joe Smith in the
pear in German films ended
vaudeville comedy team
what might have been a
Smith and Dale, died Feb.
lifetime acting career. (In a
22 at age 97.
bittersweet experience,
The two comedians
Rosenow was able to view
Charles Marks, who .played
himself in the role of a
the part of Dale — and Selt-
paperboy in "M" - starring zer, met when as children
Peter Lorre when that film
their bicycles collided on
was shown at the Detroit
Manhattan's lower east_
Institute of Arts.)
side. They remained close -
In 1939, Rosenow, then
until the death of Mr. Marks,
23, and his older brother es-
in 1971.
caped the Holocaust by flee-
Playwright Neil Simon:-
ing to Shanghai. Their par-
based his "The Sunshine
ents were able to join them
Boys" play and movie on the
soon after, and the family
Smith and Dale act.