10 . THE DETROIT. JEWISH NEWS Friday, March 13, 1981 Funeral Rite Explained By RABBI SAMUEL FOX (Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.) It is customary to put some grass (torn from somewhere else) or earth over the grave before leav- ing the burial ground at a funeral. Generally it is considered to be a duty of everyone who Life in China Includes Bagels for NY Author NEW YORK — Sidney Shapiro, author of "An American in China," has had to forego many Ameri- can amenities during his 34 years of existence in the People's Republic. But one luxury that the trans- planted Brooklynite refuses to do without is the bagel. Shapiro, described by James P. Sterba in a New York Times feature article as possibly the only Chinese citizen who grew up in the Flatbush section of Brook- lyn, makes the bagels in his home using a recipe for Chinese steamed bread. "I think I started making them during the Cultural Revolution when I was searching for spiritual sol- ace," Shapiro said. Shapiro reports that there is no lox - available in China, but a kind of gouda-like cheese and a salty, pickeled bean curd can be spread on the Jewish delicacy. World Maccabi Leader Dies attends a funeral to con- LONDON — Pierre Gil- tribute some action in the form of participation in desgame, president of the order to honor the dead and World Maccabi Union since to add something to his care. 1973 and its chairman for Those who may not have many years, died March 4. An accomplished horse- had the opportunity of as- sisting in shoveling the man, Mr. Gildesgame joined earth back into the grave the equestrian section of can at least put some Maccabi in London and soon plucked grass or disengaged became the club's chair- earth onto the grave. It has man. After World War II, he also been customary to helped revive the move- pluck some grass and throw ment in Europe and as chairman of the Maccabi it back over one's shoulder. This indicates that the World Union, he traveled living must not become widely helping to found over-possessed with the Maccabi clubs. He was one of the main phenomenon of death and so they toss the architects of the recreated plucked grass over their Maccabia Games in 1950 shoulder as a symbol of and six years later was a co- leaving the idea of death founder of the Maccabi Vil- to the dead who have lage at Ramat Gan. A been "plucked" from this Museum of the History of earth by the hand of the Jewish Sport at the village Almighty while they, the bears his name. He is a descendant of living, return to their concerns and duties Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer, founder of Berlin's Rabbini- among the living. cal Seminary. Some also contend that the vegetative growth of Jacob Berkowitz grass just plucked from the , Jacob Berkowitz, who earth will take root again in another location (i.e., , was employed in the scrap paradise) and thus death is and waste paper business for many years, died March not the end to everything. 5 at age 68. Born in Romania, Mr. Sages rank higher than Berkowitz came to the U.S. prophets, for the power of prophecy does not abide 60 years ago. He was em- with a man every moment, ployed at the Atlantic but the power of wisdom Waste Paper and Metal Co. for 30 years and for the past does. —Zohar six years at the Winston Metal and Iron Co. He held membership in the Brotherhood Lodge of Bnai Brith for many years and was the past_ president of the Livonia Jewish Con- gregation. He formerly was affiliated with Cong. Bnai Moshe. He is survived by his wife, Rose; two sons, Irving and Michael; a daughter, Mrs. Milton (Frances) Goldman; a brother, Louis of Akron, Ohio; and - six grandchildren. DID YOU REMEMBER Thelma Polsky to send someone a gift subscription to The Jewish News? I To: The Jewish News I 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865 I Southfield, Mich. 48075 Please send a year's gift subscription to: NAME ADDRESS I CITY I FOR: STATE state occasion FROM- [1] $15 enclosed ZIP Thelma Polsky, a real es- tate agent at the Center Realty Lathrup office, died March 7 at age 69. Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Mrs. Polsky was graduated from Wayne State University and the University of Michigan, specializing in real estate. She worked for the real es- tate company for 15 years. Mrs. Polsky was a member of the American Jewish Congress, Women's American ORT, Music Study Club, Cong. Shaarey Zedek and its sisterhood, National Council of Jewish Women and Hadassah. She leaves a son, Alex of Long Beach, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Paul (Rima) Rabb of San Diego, Calif.; a brother, Irvin H. Yackness; and three grandchildren. Major newspapers in Israel include the Hebrew afternoon dailies Maariv and Yediot Aharonot (each with a circulation of 225,000) and two ,morning papers, Haaretz (circulation 65,000) and Davar (circula- tion 40,000). International Tributes Pay Honor to Memory of Rose Zuckerman Tributes that assumed an international scale, hun- dreds at her funeral services at Kaufman Chapel Sunday afternoon, paid honor to the memory of Rose Zucker- man, who died March 5 at age 93. Cabled messages of con- dolences included tributes from Israel Prime Minister Menahem Begin, Labor Party leader Shimon Peres, Jewish Agency Chairman Leon Dulzin, Jewish Agency Treasurer Akiva Levinsky and Jewish Agency World President Moshe Rivlin. - An active role emphasiz- ing assistance to survivors from many crises marked the life of the Grand Old Lady whose inspiration to her son, Paul Zuckerman, who attained worldwide recognition in Jewish lead- ership, gained for her the admiration of Jewish 'per- sonalities in this country and'in Israel. Mrs. Zuckerman was born in Constantinople (Is- tanbul), Turkey, was mar- ried there to Joseph Zuc- kerman and they came to Detroit when their son Paul, also born in Constan- tinople, was three years old. With her husband Joseph, who gained wide recognition as an or- ganizer of the leading travel bureau in Detroit, she was active in many areas. The late Joseph Zucker- man was a linguist who mastered 12 languages and he served formany years in important roles as trans- lator in Michigan courts. Mrs. Zuckerman shared that glory with her knowl- edge of eight languages. She was an organizer of Journalist Bernard Postal NEW YORK (JTA) — Bernard Postal, editor, author and publicist whose career in Jewish journalism spanned . more than half a century, died March 5. He was 75 years old. Mr. Postal had been asso- ciate editor of The Jewish Week, an American-Jewish newspaper serving the Greater New York area, for the past 10 years ever since his retirement as public in- formation director of the na- tional Jewish Welfare Board (JWB). In the early 1920s, he was a reporter for the New York Globe and New York World. From 1926 to 1928, he was exchange editor of The New York Times. From 1929 to 1931 Postal was editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily Bulletin. From 1931 to 1938 he was editor of the Jewish Tele- graphic Agency Daily Bulletin. From 1931 to 1938 he was editor of the Seven Arts Feature Syn- dicate and Worldwide News Service. He also edited the Jersey City Jewish Standard from 1932 to 1934, and the Jewish War Veteran from 1934 to 1937. From 1938 to 1946, he was public rela- tions director for Bnai Brith in Washington, D.C., and left to assume a similar position at JWB in New York. He was editor of the monthly magazine The Jewish Digest from its in- ception in 1955. Mr. Postal was co-author of 10 books of Jewish inter- est. Among them were "Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports" (with Roy and Jesse Silver); "And the Hills Shouted For Joy: The Day Israel Was Born" (with Henry Levy); "Jewish Landmarks of New York: An Informal History and Guide," and "Guess Who's Jewish in American His- tory" (both with Lionel Koppman); and "Land- marks of a People: A Guide to Jewish Sites in Europe" (with Samuel Abramson). Another book, "American Jewish Landmarks, Vol. III," which he co-authored with Koppman, will be pub- lished this year by Fleet Press. During the 300th an- niversary of American Jewish settlement in 1954, Mr. Postal was honored by JWB's Jewish Book Council "for his contributions to American Jewish history." Last December, he was pre- sented with the Maggid Award of the American Jewish Public Relations Society. NY, Israel, School Chief Nathan Brown Dies at 68 NEW YORK — Dr. Nathan Brown, a school administrator in New York and in Israel, died March 5 at age 68. Dr. Brown entered New York City's school system as a teacher-in-training in 1937 and then rose through the administrative ranks to become a principal and dis- trict superintendent. In 1966, he was named executive deputy superin- tendent of schools then superintendent and prom- oted to acting superinten- dent in 1969. From 1965 to 1970, he was adjunct profes- sor of administration and guidance at Hunter College. He also was the director of the department of human resources management and development at the New School in Manhattan, .a post he held since 1976. In Israel, Dr. Brown served as president of the Shenkar College of Fashion and Textile Technology in 1971 and again from 1973 to 1976. ROSE ZUCKERMAN the Jewish Women's Euro- pean Welfare Organization whose rescue work of bring- ing scores of orphans to this country from Europe during and after World War I gave status to the compassion of scores of local women who dedicated themselves to the rescue activities. Tributes to her were in evidence in front page announcements in the Is- rael press, English and HebreW, and in British and French circles. Locally as well as in the world capitals, there were expressions of appreciation which were marked for many years, during her re- sidence in the Borman facility of the Detroit Jewish Home for the Aged. Her son, Paul, visited her there several times a week and with his wife Helen, vis- ited his mother im- mediately upon his return from the frequent visits to Israel, London, Brussels and Paris, where he attended world assemblies in behalf of the United Jewish Appeal and the Jewish Agency. In addition to the causes she championed, Mrs. Zuc- kerman held membership in the Jewish National Fund, was a board member of the United Hebrew School Woman's Auxiliary, was active in tasks for the Jewish Welfare Federation and Allied Jewish Cam- paign and the Sinai Hospi- tal Guild. Besides her son Paul, Mrs. Zuckerman leaves two more sons, Victor and Emanuel; a sister, Zelda Evans; seven grandchgirlderaetn- great- and nine grandchildren. . Anne Hochstein, of Jewish Week WASHINGTON (JTA) — Anne Hochstein, associate publisher of The Week, died March 7 ate 52. She was the wife of Joseph Hochstein who pub- lishes the American Jewish weekly and , was the news- paper's comptroller and business manager. Mrs. HOchstein was born in New York City and pur- sued a career in airline and advertising and public rela- tions. She served in those capacities with Avianca, the Colombian airline; Na- tional Airlines and Alitalia. The Hochsteins were mar- ried in 1962 and lived in Washington.