16 Friday, October 14, 1983

51—MISCELLANEOUS

Amtrak tickets to any-
where on East coast (in-
cluding Florida).
Big discount — best offer
— must sell.
348-2982

ATTENTION:
'Two round trip tickets to
San Diego — $500. Oc-
tober.

968-6187 after 6 p.m.

53—ENTERTAINMENT

VERSATILE sophisticated party
music. Call 893-9667.

BIRTHDAY PARTIES
And other Special Occasions.
273-8718
Clowns, juggling, magic,
music dance, Puppets,
balloon sculpture.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

53—ENTERTAINMENT

FLUTE & GUITAR DUET
Available for all occasions.
Classical, pop and jazz.
Presently performing at
Money Tree.

Call Michael

345-4365

This Space
Reserved for
Your Ad

Call 424-8833

"I LIKE A GERSHWIN TUNE"
Vintage piano/vocal styl-
ings in the Bobby Short
manner.
Need a piano? I'll bring
mine.

646-9531

CARTOONS
CARICATURES
BY

Jai US
293-1723

FOR ANY OCCASION

54—CEMETERY LOTS

Six cemetery lots.

CREATIVE CARICATURES

By BONNIE

557-7582

Adat Shalom Cemetery.

Reasonable.

Call George Weingarden

354-1338

Rishon le Zion School Opens
Amid Protests from Parents

TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
newly instituted junior high
school opened in Rishon leZ-
ion last week after a.
month's delay due to
strenuous objections by
local parents to the educa-
tional reform aimed, among
other things, at integrating
pupils of Ashkenazic and
Sephardic backgrounds.
Education Minister Zevu-
lun Hammer ruled last
month that the reform
would be implemented in
Rishon le Zion, south of Tel
Aviv. It has been operating
smoothly in the rest of the
country since . the school
year began.
Most pupils reported to
their classes last week
which cover the seventh,
eighth and ninth grades.
But some parents held out,
sending their youngsters to
primary schools which now

end with the sixth grade.
Teachers, including many
who oppose the reform,
obeyed the Ministry's or-
ders and did not report to
those schools.
Although not men-
tioned publicly, the dis-
pute centers around the
busing of children which
is required because
junior high schools draw
their student bodies from
larger areas than the
local primary schools.
This means that children
of Oriental background
and lower economic
status will share classes
with those of Western
families who are gener-
ally more affluent.
The Attorney General
has ruled that legal action
could be taken against pa-
rents who refuse to conform
to the new system.

Sainthood Step for Arab Nun

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Sis-
ter Miriam Bawardi, a
Christian Arab nun who
died ; , 1 Bethlehem 86 years
ago, will be beatified by the
Roman Catholic Church
next month, the first native
of the Holy Land to receive
the blessing in more than
1,000 years.
According to Greek
Catholic Archbishop
Maximus Saloum, Pope
John Paul II will issue his
pronouncement on the an-
niversary of her death
which occurred Nov. 13,
1897, at the age of 33.
Beatification is the first
step toward sainthood.
Sister Miriam was prop-
osed for beatification by the
: mother superior of the

Carmelite convent in
Bethlehem several years
ago, supported by the Latin
and Greek Catholic pat-
riarchs. A Papal emissary
later reported favorably to
the Vatican.
Sister Miriam was born
to poor parents in upper
Galilee and took her
vows after becoming the
victim of an attempted
rape and murder. She
was a novitiate in France
and, on her return to
Palestine, established
Carmelite convents in
Nazareth and Bethlehem.
She lived a life of asceti-
cism, helping the poor and
afflicted. She was credited
with having performed two
"miraculous" cures.

Decade of Civic-Protective Work
Evaluated at Dinner Citing Kushner

For the nearly 200 who
participated in expressing
appreciation for the labors
here of Alvin L. Kushner, as
executive director of the
Jewish Community Coun-
cil, the dinner at Adat
Shalom Oct. 6 was occasion
for review and evaluation of
the civic-protective ac-
tivities under Kushner's di-
rection during the last 10
years.
Judge Avern Cohn, presi-
dent of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, emphasized in
the first of the series of ad-
dresses in Kushner's honor
the JCCouncil motto, taken
from Psalms, "Behold how
pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity." He
stressed that the local ac-
tivities served an important
function in striving for just
rights for this democrati-
cally - attuned society.
Mrs. Marian Shifman,
past president of the
JCCouncil, toastmastering
the event, reviewed the
Kushner record of numer-
ous services and leadership.
As president of the
JCCouncil i David
Lebenbom joined in
commending Kushner
and later in the program
presented to him more
than a score of illumi-
nated messages and
proclamations issued by
the mayors of all cities in
the Detroit area, their
councils,-as well as for-
mal greetings from the
governor and legislature
of Michigan.
Especially impressive
was the address of Horace
Sheffield, founder and pres-
ident of Detroit Association
of Black Organizations.
Sheffield's review of ac-
tivities to solidify best rela-
tions between faiths and
races in Detroit was an im-
pressive analysis of the good
relationships in the estab-
lishment of which Kushner
was given noteworthy cre-
dit by Sheffield.
There was a very interest-
ing reminder of an histori-
cal factor in Detroit Jewry
in Sheffield's address. De-
scribing his many experi-
ences in behalf of good rela-
tionships with Jewish rep-
resentatives, especially
Kushner, Sheffield also re-
called his youth and men-
tioned that he had served in
the capacity of turning
lights off and on at the Be-
gole synagogue on the west
side of Detroit, in the War-
ren area. He did not men-
tion the fact that he was a
"Shabbos Goy" but the im-
plication was evident.
What his reference did
was to refer to a synagogue
long forgotten; only one per-
son in the audience, Albert
Rosenblum, was fully aware
of the early existence of the
Begole Synagogue.
As Rosenblum related,
his parents were
pioneers in the Begole
Synagogue in the early
1920s.
Emanuel Zippori, counsul
general of Israel in the
Midwest, spoke about the
dedicated manner in which

Jewish Community Council President David
Lebenbom holds the Michigan Senate -resolution hon-
oring Alvin Kushner's 10 years as executive director
of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan
Detroit. Kushner, at right, was honored this week at a
community-wide dinner.

Kushner created links bet-
ween Michigan and Israel
in providing informative
means of keeping the Israeli
image on a high level of dig-
nity.
Judge John H. Shepherd,
former JCCouncil presi-
dent, added to the encomia.
Albert D. Chernin, execu-
tive vice president of the
National Jewish Commun-
ity Relations Advisory
Council, brought greetings
from national leaders and
their commendations for
Kushner's work.
The services rendered by
Kushner in keeping mem-
bers of Congress aware of
Michigan Jewry's deep in-
terest in and concern for Is-
rael's security was outlined
by former Congressman
William Brodhead.
Added to the thrills of

the evening for the hon-
oree was the toast given
him in behalf of the
JCCouncil staff by Pat-
ricia Liss.
Kushner's brief response,
in appreciation for the en-
comia, was an emphasis on
continuity of his communal
labors.
Rabbi
Stanley
Rosenbaum gave the open-
ing prayer and recited the
Hamotzi.

* *

Begole Synagogue
Record:
The Story of a Merger

The reference to "The Be-
gole Synagogue" by Horace
Sheffield at the dinner hon-
oring Al Kushner inspired
search for that synagogue's
background.
Miriam Kushner, who

supervises the Temple Beth
El archives, located the his-
torical data, which was out-
lined in "Inventory of the
Church and Synagogue
Archives of Michigan," pub-
lished in 1940 with the
cooperation of religious
leaders like the late Rabbis
Leo M. Franklin and Ab-
raham M. Hershman, and
others who represented all
religious ranks. The Begole
Synagogue is recorded as
follows in these records:

"West Side Hungarian
Hebrew Congregation (de-
funct), 1924-1929, 6306 Be-
gole Ave., Detrbit. Or-
ganized 1924. First and only
synagogue, 6306 Begole
Ave., dedicated 1924; frame
structure. Services con-
• ducted by visiting rabbis. -
Merged with East Side
Hungarian Hebrew Con-
gregation to form the De-
troit Hungarian Hebrew
Congregation in 1929. Re-
cords could not be found.

"Detroit Hungarian Heb-
rew Congregation (defunct),
1925-1935, Detroit. Or-
ganized 1929 through
merger of East Side Hunga-
rian Hebrew Congregation
and West Side Hungarian
Hebrew Congregation. Ser-
vices-conducted on holidays
only, in Beth Tikvah Syna-
gogue by Rabbi Abraham
Schechter, 1929-1935.
Merged with Bnai Moshe
Congregation, 1935."

Anti-Zionists Mark Anniversary

CHICAGO — The board
of directors of the American
Council for Judaism is
celebrating the 40th an-
niversary of the anti-Zionist
movement.
Its president, Clarence
Coleman, said, "When the
organization was estab-
lished 40 years ago we were
committed to the positive,
primary goals of furthering
and implementing the in-
tegration of Americans of
Jewish faith fully into the
civic, cultural and social life
of the United States and

preserving the faith of
Judaism as a religion of
universal values and in-
sights.
"Other Jewish organiza-
tions at the time might .be
correctly described as 'nega-
tive' in that they were de-
fending against discrimina-
tion or the abuse of the
rights and freedoms vou-
chsafed by. American demo-
cracy."
The terms "positive"
and "negative" came to
be reversed, however,
Coleman explained, as

Prominent Jewish Canadian
Irked by Hertzberg Snub

TORONTO (JTA) — A
leading figure in the Cana-
dian Jewish community has
publicly resigned as a
member of Beth Tzedek
Synagogue, the country's
largest Jewish house of
worship, because of its re-
fusal to permit Rabbi Ar-
thur Hertzberg to speak on
its premises under the spon-
sorship of the Peace Now
movement.
In a public letter to The
Canadian Jewish News,
Harry Steiner, who is a na-
tional officer of the Cana-
dian Jewish Congress and a
former national president of
the Labor Zionist move-
ment of Canada, deplored
the decision of the
synagogue to bar its
facilities to Rabbi
Hertzberg, a leading figure
in the Conservative United

Synagogue with which Beth
Tzedek is also affiliated.
Steiner reported that
after a lengthy discussion
with representatives of
Beth Tzedek about Rabbi
Hertzberg, "I realized I was
dealing with people whose
opinions could not be mod-
ified . . . I resigned my
membership in the
synagogue — a sad and
painful decision after an af-
filiation of 25 years."
Steiner is active in vari-
ous Jewish communal, edu-
cational and Israeli causes
and, in addition to his other
affiliations, is a former
chairman of Toronto's
Board of Jewish Education.
Hertzberg is a member of
the World Zionist Organiza-
tion - American Section and
a former president of the
American Jewish Congress.

the rapidly-evolving
movement of political
Zionism grew to be the
central issue in American
Jewish life. "If you were
for political Zionism —
and all the term implied
— you were 'positive' and
if you were against it, on
philosophical grounds,
you were 'negative.' Not
only negative but follow-
ing the creation of the
state of Israel in 1948 —
then and now referred to
as the 'Jewish state' —
you were presumed to be
opposed to the state itself
and hostile to our co-
religionists who chose to
dwell there.

"Of course, political
Zionism isn't synonymous
with the state of Israel; the
state represents the culmi-
nation of the political and
secular goals of the Zionist
movement. But Zionism has
grown into an active force
seeking to influence the
lives and institutions of
American Jews. Unlike
many other movements
which center on our religion
and its institutions, the goal
and direction of political
Zionism is toward the in-
gathering of world Jewry
into a single place — the
modern state of Israel."

The beginning of intelli-
gence is discrimination be-
tween_the probable and im-
probable, and acceptance of
the inevitable.
—Ibn Gabirol

