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April 24, 1981 - Image 27

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1981-04-24

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Synagogue Council Will Honor
Three as Gemilut Chassadim

NEW YORK — Benard L.
Maas and Jack Shenkman
of Detroit and Louis Kasle
of Flint will be the reci-
pients May 21 of the "Acts of
Kindness Award" (Gemilut
Chassadim) of the
Synagogue Council of
America.
A reception in their honor
will be held in the Michigan
Inn at 4:30 p.m. May 21.
Chairman of the tribute to
the three leaders is Mrs.
>amuel Hamburger. Robert
Steinberg, past president of
Cong. Shaarey Zedek, is
associate chairman.
Maas headed the build-
ing fund campaign of Tem-
ple Beth El 11 years ago and
was chairman for many
terms of Beth El's finance
committee.
A longtime member of

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BENARD MAAS

its board of trustees, he
was responsible for
endowing the Benard L.
Maas Chapel at the tem-
ple. Several years ago he
commissioned Gordon
Phipps to create a memo-
rial window entitled "The
Three Patriarchs" at
Beth El.
In Detroit, he is a patron
of the Fresh Air Society and
its Camp Tamarack. He is
active on behalf of the
Jewish National Fund, Is-
rael Bonds and the Allied
Jewish Campaign. In
Jerusalem, Maas endowed a
window for his native state
of Indiana in the John F.
Kennedy Center of the
Jewish National Fund
Building.
Shenkman is a past
president of the former Beth
Aaron Synagogue and the
United Hebrew Schools of
Detroit. He serves on the
board of overseers of the
Jewish Theological Semi-
nary and is a member of its
prestigious Ambassadors
Group.

House at the University
of Michigan.
Kasle was a state chair-
man of the Israel Bonds
campaign for many years,
and served as chairman and
subsequently honorary
chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal in Flint for
almost 10 years.
He has served both as
president of Cong. Beth Is-
rael and of the former Flint
Jewish Community Council
(now Flint Jewish Federa-
tion). He is an overseer of
the Jewish Theological
Seminary in New York and
JACK SHENKMAN
was honored by it in Miami
for of research. Rabbi
in 1968 when he received its Mandelbaum is
annual National Commu- president-emeritus of the
nity Service Award.
Jewish Theological Sem-
Kasle has served con- inary and former
tinuously since 1951 as the president of the
chairman of the Israel America-Israel Cultural
Bonds campaign in Flint. Foundation.
He is a member of the advi-
The Synagogue Council of
sory committee of the Mott America is the national
Community College Board coordinating agency for the
of Trustees. He has served Conservative, Orthodox
locally as the president of and Reform rabbinic and
the Zionist Organization of congregational organiza-
America and is a member of tions. Constituent agencies
both the Flint Institute of are: Conservative: Rabbini-
Arts and the Flint Institute cal Assembly and United
of Music.
Synagogue of America; Or-
Addressing the event thodox: Rabbinical Council
on May 21 will be Rabbi of America and Union of Or-
Bernard J. Mandelbaum, thodox Jewish Congrega-
executive vice president tions of America; Reform:
of the Synagogue Council
Central Conference of
of America and its three- American Rabbis and the
Union of American Hebrew
Convicted Mayor Congregations.

Friday, April 24, 1901

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Jewish Family
Temple Topic

Temple Beth El's Fourth
Tuesday Series will have a
program 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
in the temple. Dr. Bernice
Iznor, psychiatrist; Alan E.
Waldman, educational di-
rector of the temple; and
Marvin S. Waits, executive
director of the temple, will
speak on "Education — The
Jewish Family."
Josephine Bloom is
chairman of the series.
There is no admission
charge. The public is in-
vited.

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Former Knesset member
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Shmuel Rechtman was re-
leased from prison last
week, two months earlier
than the due date, after
being granted a pardon by
President Yitzhak Navon.
Rechtman, sentenced for
accepting bribes while
mayor and sentenced to 3 1/2
years in prison, was par-
doned because of ill health.
Acting on the advice of the
health minister, Navon said
in the pardon he was also
taking into consideration
Rechtman's "exemplary be-
havior" while in prison,
teaching other prisoners
and helping to train them
for a life outside.
Rechtman was warmly
greeted when he returned to
Rehovot. Many residents
said they would vote for him
again as mayor. "He did a
good job and has paid the
penalty," residents noted.
Rechtman still insists he
was not guilty of accepting a
bribe in the form of an
apartment from a builder to
whom he granted a special
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