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Norman Moss
Active In JWV-

Norman A. Moss, of Oak
Park, died Nov. 30. He was 68.
Mr. Moss was past com-
mander of Post 716 of the
Jewish War Veterans. He was
adjutant and a delegate to
department conventions for
many years, and spent four-
and-a-half years in the Army
during World War II, serving
in North Africa and Italy.
Mr. Moss is survived by his
wife, Anita; daughter, Sherryl
Adler; sons, David, and Victor
of Bitburg, Germany;
brothers and sisters-in-law,
Nathan and Marilyn of New
York, Herman of California,
Alyce and Sissy, both of
Southfield; brother-in-law
and sister-in-law, Howard and
Lila Poris of New York; three
grandchildren.

Benjamin Matz
Of Matz Clothiers

Benjamin Matz, former
Detroiter of Boca Raton, Fla.,
died Nov. 29. He was 81.
A native of France, Mr.
Matz was a clothier and
tailor. He opened his first
store, Matz Clothiers and
Tailors, on Linwood in
Detroit. He later moved his
shop to McNichols, where he
remained for many years. He
was a member of Con-
gregation Beth Abraham
Hillel Moses and B'nai Israel-
Beth Yehudah.
Mr. Matz is survived by his
wife, Beatrice; daughters
Esther Phillips of Farmington
Hills, Gayle Levine of
Southfield; stepdaughter,
Esther Stotszky of West
Bloomfield; 11 grandchildren;
11 great-grandchildren.

L. Finkelstein,
JTS Chancellor
New York (JTA) — Funer-
al services were held this
past Sunday at the Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America for Rabbi Louis
Finkelstein, the institution's
chancellor emeritus, who
died last week after a long
bout with Parkinson's
disease. He was 96.
Rabbi Finkelstein, who
transformed the seminary
from a rabbinical school to
an institute of higher Jewish
learning, had an impact that
also reached to secular socie-
ty. Among those he brought
to the institute of Conser-
vative Judaism was Chief
Justice Earl Warren, who
spent a Sabbath studying
Torah at the seminary.
So extensive was Rabbi
Finkelstein's influence that
in October 1951, he was the

subject of a Time magazine
cover story. On Jan. 20,
1957, he was to give
a blessing at the second in-
auguration of President
Dwight Eisenhower.
Rabbi Finkelstein, who
was also the seminary's
Solomon Schechter professor
of theology, created the
seminary's Cantor's In-
stitute, the Seminary Col-
lege of Jewish Music and a
West Coast branch that
became the University of
Judaism. He founded, in
1938, the seminary's In-
stitute for Religious and So-
cial Studies, which in 1986
was renamed the Louis
Finkelstein Institute-for Re-
ligious and Social Studies. In
1939, he created the Con-
ference on Science,
Philosophy and Religion.
The son of Rabbi Simon
and Hannah Finkelstein,
Louis Finkelstein was born
in Cincinnati in 1895. When
he was 7, his father as-
sumed a new pulpit in Brook-
lyn's Brownsville section,
and the family moved to
New York.
A 1915 graduate of the •
City College of New York,
Rabbi Finkelstein received
his doctorate from Columbia
University in 1918 and was
ordained by the seminary in
1919.
In 1937, he was named
JTS provost. In 1940, he
became its president. And in
1951, when the post of presi-
dent was abolished, Rabbi
Finkelstein became the
seminary's first chancellor,
which he remained until he
retired in 1972.
In addition to a four-
volume work on the com-
mentary on Leviticus,
known as the Sifra, Rabbi
Finkelstein wrote several
books on the Pharisees, in-
cluding the seminal volume,
The Pharisees: The
Sociological Background of
Their Faith. His other works
include a biography of Rabbi
Akiva, and books focusing
on Saadia Gaon and Jewish
self-government in the Mid-
dle Ages. ❑

Abraham Lincoln's friend-
ship with the Jewish people
is amply recorded by
historians. Less well known
is his support for the idea of
a Jewish national home in
Zion. In a conversation with
Henry Monk, a Canadian
Christian Zionist, in 1863,
Lincoln supported the idea,
quipping that his chi-
ropodist, a Jew, "has so
many times 'put me on my
feet' that I would have no ob-
jection to giving his coun-
trymmen 'a leg up.' "

WE TAKE EXCEPTION
TO WHAT YOUR
MOTHER TAUGHT
YOU.

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In Loving Memory Of
Beloved Wife, Mother and Grandmother

ESTHER
NESSEL

Who passed away December 8, 1990. Sadly
missed and forever in our hearts, she left us with
loving memories we will never forget. Husband
Thomas, daughters Karen, Debra, Michelle and
families.

The Family of the Late

RIVKA.
KUCYKOWICZ

Announces the unveil-
ing of a monument in her
memory 12 noon Sunday,
December 15, at Hebrew
Memorial Park Cemetery
(Lakeside). Rabbi Gold-
man will officiate. Rela-
tives and friends are in-
vited to attend.

In Loving Memory Of
Our Beloved Son

DAVID
JOEL
SHELDON

December 4, 1956 - December 31, 1987

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