62 Friday, January 13, 1984

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Business Briefs

Jeffrey S. Hoffman,
former Detroiter of Cleve-
land, Ohio, was promoted to
associate consultant in the
actuarial and benefits unit
of Towers, Perrins, Forres-
ter and Crosby, Inc., in its
Cleveland regional office.

* * *

Applegate
Square
Shopping Center will hold
its annual "Silly Saturday"
sale on Saturday from 10
a.m. until 10 p.m., with sav-
ings up to 75 percent off
selected merchandise.

* * *

Berlin's Children's
Wear at Orchard Mall, is
having a sidewalk sale
featuring 50 percent off
selected merchandise. Leo
Berlin has served three
generations with brand
name merchandise at dis-
count prices.

Bulk Food Warehouse,
27885 Orchard Lake Rd.,
Farmington Hills, offers
salad dressings, Greek and
French pastries, gourmet
foods, many kosher foods
and everyday grocery needs
at up to 40 percent less than
packaged products. A
variety of soup mixes, candy
and spices can be purchased
in any quantity. Hours
are Monday, Friday,
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday,
9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Sun-
day, noon to 5 p.m.
* * *
Mary Glancz, European
facial and cosmetics salon,
102 Pierce, Birmingham, is
offering a 25 percent off spe-
cial on all salon services and
cosmetics through March
19, with the coupon in to-
day's Jewish News. For ap-
pointment, call the salon,
642-6787.

50th Anniversary Couples
Can Still Get Free Portrait

Photographer Leo Knight
is continuing his special
offer of a free photo portrait
and black and white photo
for • publication in The
Jewish News to couples who
are celebrating their golden
wedding anniversaries.
Since making the offer in
November, more than a
dozen couples have availed
themselves of the service.

An 11" x 14" color portrait
is offered free to the celeb-
rants, and a 5" x 7" black
and white glossy photo-
graph also is provided to be
included with a story in a
future edition of The Jewish
News.
Knight's studio is located
at 26571 W. 12 Mile, South-
field. For an appointment,
call the studio, 352-7030.

* * *

Meat Dealers Pick Officers

Allan A. Cohen of New
Orleans Kosher Meat Mar-
ket was re-elected president
of the Detroit Area Retail
Kosher Meat Dealers Asso-

Zaire Diplomat
in Israel Has
Financial Woes

TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Zaire's Ambassador to Is-
rael M',Bude-Nsomi Lob-
wanabi is financially em-
barrassed. He is in arrears
in the rent for the embassy
premises in Tel Aviv. Eight
members of the embassy
staff, including two Israeli
employees, have not been
paid their salaries since
September.
Other Zaire staff mem-
bers have been forced to
move from the posh Her-
zliya suburb to cheaper
quarters in Tel Aviv.
Lobwanabi says the diffi-
culty is temporary. He said
that when he requested
funds from his government
last September, he was re-
minded that the Zaire fiscal
year begins only on Jana 1
and that no money would be
forthcoming until then.

ciation at its recent meet-
ing.
Elected with him were:
Philip Swarin of Singer's
Kosher Meat Market, vice
president; Jack Cohen,
Cohen and Son Kosher
Meat Market, treasurer;
John Katz, Harvard Row
Kosher Meat Market, secre-
tary; Jack Miller, North-
gate Kosher Meat Market, a
member of the board and in
charge of advertising.
Eugene Feldman of
Dexter-Davison Kosher
Meat Market and Zelman
Cohen of Lincoln Kosher
Meats were elected to the
executive board.
Harry Levitt was re-
appointed business agent.
Allan Cohen was named the
association's delegate to the
Jewish Community Coun-
cil, and Levitt was named
alternate delegate.

One explanation given in
the Talmud for covering the
Sabbath table with a white
cloth says the custom is a
reminder of the manna that
covered the desert during
the children of Israel's
exodus from Egypt.

(Readers Forum)

Materials submitted to the Readers Forum must be brief.
The writer's name will be withheld from publication upon
request. No unsigned letters will be published. Materials will
not be returned unless a stamped, self-addressed envelope is
enclosed.

Emma Lazarus'
`New Colossus'

Editor, The Jewish News:
It was good to see that, in
your issue of Dec. 2, you
were returning to the sub-
ject of the centennial of the
'composition by Emma
Lazarus of her sonnet, "The
New Colossus," now per-
manently associated with
the Statue of Liberty. Yours
has been one of the few
Jewish publications in our
country to note this impor-
tant anniversary.
The appreciative article
by Dr. David Geffen, sent
out by the World Zionist
Press Service, however, has
a few errors of fact that re-
quire correction.
The introduction states
that Emma Lazrus' "sister
prohibited the inclusion of
`anything Jewish' in her col-
lected writings (1889)."
That is not true. The 1889
edition contained two vol-
umes, which I have before
me. Volume two has all her
Jewish poems and transla-
tions of Spanish Jewish
poets. Dr. Geffen was prob-
ably misled by the mis-
statement in the
"Encyclopedia Judaica."
Bedloe's Island, on
which the Statue of Lib-
erty was placed, was re-
named many years ago as
Liberty Island.
Emma Lazarus' family
was both Sephardic and
Ashkenazic: her father,
Moses, was Sephardic; her
mother, Esther Nathan,
was Ashkenazic. The mis-
take of calling the family
only Sephardic arose from
the fact that the family was
affiliated with the Sephar-

AJCongress Has
Interfaith Unit

NEW YORK (JTA) —
The establishment of an In-
stitute for Jewish-Christian
Relations to promote
broader interaction be-
tween Jewish and Christian
scholars and clergymen on
theological issues, an out-
growth of earlier efforts by
the American Jewish Con-
gress in that field, was an-
nounced by Henry Siegman,
AJCongress executive di-
rector.
Siegman also announced
that the institute's director
is Dr. Michael Wyschogrod,
professor and chairman of
the philosophy department
at Baruch College of the
City Univeristy of New
York. The new institute will
be affiliated with the AJ-
Congress.

dic congregation in New
York, Shearith Israel. The
fact is that since 1728, the
majority of the members of
Shearith Israel have been of
Ashkenazic background.
George Eliot's "Daniel
Deronda," which greatly
influenced Emma Lazarus,
was published in 1876, but
there is no evidence that she
read it in 1876, as Dr. Gef-
fen says. The first evidence
we have of her reading it is
in the dedication of her
verse-play, "The Dance to
Death," which she wrote
about 1879. This play, by
the way, has never been
produced; perhaps in this
centennial period, some
theater company director
will read the play and de-
cide to stage it.
The sonnet, "The New
Colossus," was written not
in December, as Dr. Geffen
states, but on Nov. 2, 1883.
In the November 1983 issue
of our magazine, Jewish
Currents, we reproduced on
our front cover her own
manuscript copy of the
poem, clearly dated in her
own hand, Nov. 2, 1883.

Morris U. Schappes,

Editor, Jewish Currents

Arab Youths
Are Sentenced

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
military court in Nablus
imposed prison sentences of
2 1/2-4 1/2 years on five Arab
youths convicted of throw-
ing Molotov cocktails at Is-
raeli vehicles and at the
home of a local Arab sus-
pected of collaborating with
the Israeli authorities.
Meanwhile, Israeli
soldiers erected barricades
at the entrance to
Bethlehem University
Tuesday after reports that
outsiders planned to enter
the campus to incite disor-
der among the students.
The barricades were re-
moved by noon.

Other
Deaths

Harold Hill, execu-
tive vice president of the
American Committee for
the -Weizmann Institute of
Science, died recently at age
57.

Rabbi Abu-Hatzeira Dies

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Rabbi Yisrael Abu-
Hatzeira, spiritual leader of
Moroccan Jews around the
world and revered in all Or-
thodox circles, died Jan. 8 at
age 94.
Called "The Baba Salli,"
he was a scion of the famous
Moroccan rabbinical family
of Abu-Hatzeira, a grand-
son of Rabbi Yaacov Abu-
Hatzeira whose grave in
Egypt is still a holy site re-
vered by Jews and Moslems
alike.
Rabbi Yisrael Abu-
Hatzeira was widely held to

be a mystic figure and a
"miracle worker." Orthodox
Jews in Israel and abroad,
Sephardim and
Ashkenazim alike, would
consult him on medical
problems and personal mat-
ters.

His son, Rabbi Meir
Abu-Hatzeira, alxo re-
nowned and revered in Or-
thodox circles, died two
weeks ago. Among his
nephews is Aharon Abu-
Hatzeira, the Tami leader
and former Israel Minister
of Religion.

Bonds Official Albert Lipton

Albert Lipton, city direc-
tor of State of Israel Bonds
in Detroit from 1974 to
1981, died Dec. 31 at age 64.
A native of New York,
Mr. Lipton was a pioneer
staff member of the Israel
Bond Organization, start-
ing in 1951 as a city man-
ager in New Orleans, La.,
followed by other assign-
ments in the New York,

Robert Patt

Robert Jonathan Patt, a
former Detroiter who was a
practicing attorney in Bos-
ton, Mass., died Jan. 9 at
age 34.
Mr. Patt resided in
Jamaica Plains, Mass., at
the time of his death. He
was graduated from the
University of Michigan and
the New England School of
Law.
He was a member of the
Massachusetts Bar Associa-
tion.
He leaves his wife, Carol
Pine; two brothers, Daniel
E. of Huntington Woods and
Dr. Michael A. of Troy; a sis-
ter, Mrs. Sal (Judith) Her-
man of Southfield. Inter-
ment Detroit.

New Jersey, Massachusetts
and Ohio areas.
He resigned in 1962 to
enter private business, but
returned to the organiza-
tion in March 1964 and was
assigned to the Chicago, Ill.,
office.
He became city direc-
tor in Toronto in July
1966 and in 1974 came to
Detroit. Since 1982 until
his death, he was the city
director in the Chicago
office.
Mr. Lipton is survived by
two sons, including Dr.
Marc Lipton of Reis-
terstown, Md.; and a niece,
Rhoda Goldstein of Long Is-
land, N.Y.

The Shorr and Fenton
Families acknowledge
with grateful apprecia-
tion the many kind ex-
pressions of sympathy
extended by relatives
and friends during the
families' recent be-
reavement on the loss of

HERMAN
SHORR

The Family of the Late

JACK LITINSKY

Acknowledges with grateful apprecia-
tion the many kind expressions of sym-
pathy extended by relatives and friends
during the family's recent bereavement.

Belle, Barry, Sandy and Donna

Ida Dawes Sandler wishes to express her
hearfelt thanks to family and friends for the
kindness and generosity shown her on the
recent death of her husband

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