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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 11, 1985
The Family
of the Late
OBITUARIES
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Acknowledges with
grateful appreciation the
many kind expressions of
sympathy extended by
relatives and friends dur-
ing the family's recent be-
reavement.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Kappel and their children,
David Kappel, Mr. and
Mrs. Jerry Kappel and Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Sher-
man, the family of the late
The Family
of the Late
SARAH
KATSER
Acknowledges with
grateful appreciation the
many kind expressions of
sympathy extended by
relatives and friends dur-
ing the family's recent be-
reavement.
.
FRANCES
CUTLER
The Family
of the Late
Acknowledge
with
grateful appreciation the
many kind expressions of
sympathy extended by
relatives and friends dur-
ing the family's recent be-
reavement.
DR. SEYMOUR
SOLOMON
Acknowledges with
grateful appreciation the
many kind expressions of
sympathy extended by
relatives and friends dur-
ing the family's recent be-
reavement.
Yitzhak Ben-Ami dies,
helped found Jewish state
New York — Steel industry
executive Yitzhak Ben-Ami, who
was active in efforts to establish
the State of Israel, died Dec. 31 at
age 71.
Born in pre-state Israel, Mr.
Ben-Ami was educated at the
Herzliya Gymnasium in Tel Aviv
and at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
According to the New York
Times, in 1932, he joined the
Betar movement, a right-wing
Zionist youth organization. In
ensuing years he was associated
with former Israel Premier
Menachem Begin and other fol-
lowers of the Jabotinsky move-
ment, a right-wing Zionist organ-
_ization led by Vladimir
Jabotinsky that endorsed large-
scale immigration to pre-state Is-
rael to force the creation of a
Jewish state.
Mr. Ben-Ami came to the
United States in the early 1930s.
M. Mitteldorf
IN MEMORIAM
.
In Loving
Memory of
In loving memory
of our beloved
OSCAR
RAPPOPORT
HYMAN RIBIAT
ROBERT
Who died Jan. 1, 1983.
Sadly missed and always
will be loved by his family:
wife, Pauline; children,
Ilene and Lloyd; and
granddaughter, Sherie.
Who passed away Dec.
28, 1980, 20 days in Tevet.
Sadly missed and forever
in our hearts. His loving
wife, children, grandchil-
dren and great-grand-
children.
MAUREEN CYRIL
ELLMAN
Jan. 9, 1978
"A sad song to sing."
Remembered and sadly missed by her mother,
Sylvia Stone Ellman and family.
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Marvin Mandel. Mitteldorf, a
former Detroit pharmacist, died
Jan. 4 in Palm Beach Gardens,
Fla. He was 49.
Born in Michigan, Mr. Mittel-
dorf was graduated from Wayne
State University, where he was a
member of Sigma Alpha Mu
Fraternity. He was a founding
member of Temple Judea in West
Palm Beach, Fla., and past vice
president of its brotherhood. He
also was a member of the Ameri-
can Pharmacy Association.
He is survived by his wife,
Sherry; three daughters, Bunny,
Suzi and Marji; his father, Tom
Mitteldorf of Southfield; and a sis-
ter, Linda .Berlin of Southfield.
Interment Florida.
Goldie Slakter
Goldie Slakter, a member of
Jewish organizations died Jan. 5
at age 84.
Born in Utica, N.Y., Miss Slak-
ter lived 50 years in Detroit. She
was a member of Cong. Shaarey
Zedek, Hadassah, B'nai B'rith
and the Sinai Hospital Guild.
She leaves a brother, Albert of
Las Vegas, Nev.; a sister, Eva;
and two nieces.
Joseph Csillag
Joseph Star Csillag, a pharma-
cist, died Jan. 5 at age 90.
Born in Hungary, Mr. Csillag
lived 37 years in Detroit. He sup-
ported the Technion-Israel Insti-
tute of Technology.
He leaves cousins, nieces,
nephews, great-nieces and
great-nephews.
Barna Kiss,
wartime hero
New York — Barna Kiss, who
was cited by Yad Vashem for sav-
ing Hungarian Jews during the
Holocaust, died Jan. 3 at age 72.
Mr. Kiss received the Medal of
the Righteous from Yad Vashem
in 1968 for his wartime efforts.
In 1939, together with Robert
Briscoe and Col. John H. Patter-
son, he founded the American
Friends for a Jewish Palestine to
raise money to support immigra-
tion to pre-state Israel.
Later, he was co-organizer of
the Committee for a Jewish Army
and the Emergency Committee to
Save the Jewish People of Europe,
both fund-raising organizations.
From 1946 to 1948, Mr. Ben-Ami
was exeutive director of the
American League for a Free
Palestine.
He joined the Philipp Brothers
division of the Englehard Miner-
als and Chemicals Corp. in 1958
and remained with it until 1975,
when he retired as a vice
president. The company later
merged with Phibro-Salomon Inc.
Mr. Ben-Ami's revealing arti-
cles on the Altalena incident
made front-page copy in the De-
troit Jewish News several years
ago.
Mr. Ben-Ami was on the ship
Altalena when the Irgun at-
tempted to bring arms to Israel in
June 1948. The vessel arrived
during a cease-fire and its unload-
Yitzhak Ben-Ami
ing was forbidden by the Israel
government. The order was re-
sisted and the ship was destroyed
off the coast of Tel Aviv with some
loss of life.
In addition to his political ac-
tivism, Mr. Ben-Ami was also an
author. His' last book, Years of
Wrath, Days of Glory; Memoirs of
the Irgun, was published in 1983
by Shengold Publishers, Inc. of
New York.
LOCAL NEWS
Classes planned for aged
"How to Improve Your Mem-
ory" will be the topic of a talk to be
delivered at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the
Jimmy Prentis Morris Branch of
the Jewish Center. Geared for
senior adults, the talk will be de-
livered by Dr. Ronald Trunsky,
associate chairman of the de-
partment of psychiatry at Sinai
Hospital.
A follow-up workshop will take
place at 11 a.m. Jan. 22 at the
Morris Branch. For details, call
the Morris Branch, 967-4030. The
project is supported by a grant
from Area Agency on Aging, 1-B.
A class on Jewish literature
will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday
in the library of the Morris
Branch. Chana Klein will be the
instructor. Admission is free, and
all senior adults are invited. For
details, call Judy Blustein at the
branch, 967-4030.
Nurse and gerontologist Judy
Hinman will continue her lecture
Exhibit topic
of Center lunch
The Jewish Community Center
of Metropolitan Detroit will have
a Luncheon in the Library on
Wednesday at 12:30 p.m.
Cyvia Snyder of the Speakers
Bureau of the Detroit Institute of
Art will give a talk and a slide
presentation on "The Precious
Legacy — Judaica Treasures from
the Czechoslovak State Collec-
tions."
"The Precious Legacy" will be
shown at the DIA March 13
through May 5.
There is a charge. For details,
call the Center, 661-1000, ext. 163
or 250. Participants are requested
to bring their own lunches.
series on sexuality at 1 p.m. Jan.
18 in the assembly hall of the
Morris Branch. All seniors are in-
vited free of charge. The project is
supported by a grant from Area
Agency on Aging, 1-B. for details,
call Judy Samson at the branch,
967-4030.
Exercise topic
at health club
Dr. Marvin Weckstein,
psychiatrist, will address the
members of the Women's Health
Club and their guests on "Re-
Creation: Exercise Relieves
Stress" on Wednesday at 11:15
a.m. in the Women's Health Club
Conference room of the main
Jewish Community Center. Ad-
mission is free. Guests will be able
to utilize the health club facilities
on that day only.
For information, call Sylvia
Zukin, director of the Women's
Health Club, 661-1000.
Carpools form
for senior adults
Carpools are forming in the
Oak Park-Southfield areas for the
all new Active Adults luncheon
program at the main Jewish
Community Center.
Active Adults is a two-day-a-
week luncheon program for re-
tired adults. The problem in-
cludes classes and activities,
luncheon, a lecture series and
program potpourri on Mondays
and Thursdays at 10 a.m.
For information, call Julie
Silver at the Center, 661-1000,
ext. 235.