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Aid Kushner Won Acclaim
As Archivist And Artist

Aid Kushner, who died Dec.
4 at age 76, had a record of
three special achievements.
He was an associate archivist
of Temple Beth El, rendering
important services in these
efforts as an associate of his
wife, Miriam.
As a Detroit Lions trainer,
Mr. Kushner gained recogni-
tion in the field of sports.
In Jewish congregational
circles, he created an impor-
tant artistic field by creating
replicas of synagogues. The
display of such reproductions
of former sanctuaries of Tem-
ple Beth El drew national at-
tention to his skills and
similar reproductions were on
display elsewhere, including
Baltimore and neighboring
communities.
Mr. Kushner began his
association with the Lions in
1934 as an assistant trainer
and equipment manager. He
later became a trainer.

During World War II, Mr.
Kushner served in the Navy

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and was a chief pharmacists's
mate. He later worked for
Sears, Roebuck and Co. and
retired in the 1970s, but con-
tinued to work part-time for
the Lions. One of his jobs was
to hand letter victory game
balls, an assignment which
began in 1930.
Mr. Kushner organized an
off-season basketball team of
Detroit Lions in the 1930s. It
was called "Abie's Babies."
A graduate of Eastern High
School, he never played foot-
ball and never went to college
full time, but took a few
courses at Wayne State
University and the Universi-
ty of Michigan. He had a
wealth of information about
the Lions and was interview-
ed by George Plimpton when
the author wrote his book,

Paper Lion.

Besides his wife, Miriam,
Mr. Kushner leaves two sons,
Rabbi Steven and Rabbi
Lawrence; a sister, Betty; a
brother, Ben; and five
grandchildren.

Simon Weber, Longtime
Editor Of The 'Forward'

New York (JTA) — Simon
Weber, a veteran Yiddish
journalist who was editor of
the Forward for 18 years un-
til his retirement last May,
died Dec. 1 at age 76. He had
been associated with the For-
ward for nearly 50 years.
At the time of his death he
held the title of editor
emeritus of the paper, which
changed from daily to week-
ly publication in 1985.
Born in Stasher, Poland,
Mr. Weber wrote for Yiddish
newspapers and periodicals in
Warsaw before coming to the
U.S. in 1928. He left almost
immediately for South
America to work for Yiddish
newspapers in Buenos Aires.
Mr. Weber returned to the
U.S. in 1936 and worked as ci-
ty editor of the Freiheit, then
the Yiddish-language organ
of the Communist Party. He
quit after a year because he
objected to its politics and
went to work for the Yiddishe
Welt, a daily published in
Philadelphia.
He joined the Forward staff
in 1939, working his way
from reporter to assistant ci-
ty editor, city editor and final-
ly chief editor of what was
then the largest Yiddish dai-
ly newspaper in the world.
Mr. Weber's professional
journalistic career had a

Detroit beginning. He was ac-
tive here in the 1930s in Yid-
dish journalism and he was
an organizer of the liberal
Yiddish school system here.
Mr. Weber was a close
friend of novelist Isaac
Bashevis Singer. When
Singer won the Nobel Prize
for literature in 1986. Mr.
Weber accompanied him to
Stockholm.

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Arab Doctors
Train In Israel

Jerusalem — One hundred
Arab doctors from Judea and
Samaria are participating in
an in-service training pro-
gram — the first of its kind —
being conducted by the
University Institute of
Postgraduate Medical Educa-
tion. The institute is a joint
project of the Hebrew
University-Hadassah Medical
School. The Hadassah
Hebrew University Medical
Center, and Kupat Cholim,
the sick fund of the
Histradrut General Federa-
tion of Labor.
The doctors participating in
the program include both
general practitioners and
specialists, working within
clinics and hospitals

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