62 Fridiy, February 27, 1981 40—BUSINESS CARDS PAINTING & WALLPAPERING Wallpaper Removal Free Estimates Call Mark 589-0269 ATTENTION: I WILL HAUL AWAY THE FOLLOWING ITEMS IN ANY CONDITION FOR FREE: Re- frigerators, stoves, all small appliances, T.V.s, record players, radios, books, clothes, toys & household items. 891-0371 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS VERSATILE sophisticated party music. 272-7586. 55—ART FOR SALE ART — MUST SELL SIGNED ROCKWELL "Horseshoe Forging" "The Wind Up" Reply P.O. Box 1063 Southfield, MI. 48075 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 * * * 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- * 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.