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Joseph Gruss
New' York (JTA) Joseph
Bruss, a leader in endowing
Jewish education in
America, died at his home of
heart failure. He was 91
years old.
Mr. Gruss, together with
his late wife Caroline,
endowed Jewish education
programs throughout the
United States and support-
ed other Jewish causes, as
well.
A financier, Mr. Gruss
used a fortune he amassed
from oil and gas and stock
market investments to ben-
efit Jewish institutions.
The son of a grain mer-
chant, Mr. Gruss was born
in Lbob, then Poland, where
he attended secondary and
business school and worked
as a banker.
After World War II, Mr.
Gruss founded a Wall Street
firm, Gruss and Co., which
engaged in arbitrage and
corporate mergers, chiefly in
the oil and gas industries.
From the 1950s to the
1970s he was involved in
the exploration and develop-
ment of oil and gas, mainly
in Texas, Oklahoma,
Wyoming and West
Virginia.
He and his wife became
involved in Jewish philan-
thropies in the 1970s.
Mr. Gruss established a
scholarship fund for gradu-
ates of Jewish day schools
and yeshivas to study for
degrees at the New York
Fashion Institute of
Technology.
He was member for 23
years of the board of
trustees of Yeshiva
University. In 1976, the uni-
versity established the
Caroline and Joseph S.
Gruss Institute in
Jerusalem.
In 1986, the Grusses
established the Joseph S.
and Caroline Gruss
Monument Fund for inter-
est-free loans for the con-
struction and expansion of
yeshivot and day schools.
In 1990, Mr. Gruss found-
ed the Caroline and Joseph
S. Gruss Life Monument
Funds Inc., which provides
various scholarships and
grants for schools, immi-
grant students and special
education.
He also bequeathed large
amounts of assistance to
Soviet Jews in Israel.
In 1989, Mr. Gruss
pledged $20 million for
housing for Soviet Jewish
olim, to be matched by
Israeli government funds.
In 1990, he endowed the
Soviet Jewry Zionist Forum,
which helps the settlement
of former Soviet Jews in
Israel.
Mr. Gruss was buried on
the Mount of Oives, in
Jerusalem, alongside his
wife, who died in 1987.
Mark E. Klinger, Managing Funeral Director
Rabbi Lifshitz
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Serving the
entire
Detroit
Jewish
community
with dignity,
tradition and
compassion
since 1916.
Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz, 86, of
New York, died June 30.
Rabbi Lifshitz, a leading
professor of Talmud in New
York, was also the president
of the Suvalki Benevolent
Society in the United
States. He served as presi-
dent of Ezras Torah, the
international relief organi-
zation, and was on the pre-
sidium of the Union of
Orthodox Rabbis of the
United States and Canada.
Rabbi Lifshitz is survived
by his wife, Tzpora; daugh-
ters, Shulamith Kaminetcky
of Jerusalem, Sara Stein of
Wickliff, Ohio; 16 grandchil-
dren; numerous great-
grandchildren.
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Samuel Melton
New York (JTA) Samuel
Melton, a Columbus, Ohio,
industrialist who gave mil-
lions to Jewish education,
died of cancer July 1 at the
age of 93.
He turned an education in
engineering and business
into a genius for manufac-
turing that enabled him to
earn a fortune, which he
gave away to Jewish educa-
tional endeavors.
Born in Austria-Hungary
in 1900, Mr. Melton immi-
grated with his family to the
United States and was
raised in Toledo, Ohio. He
graduated from Ohio State
University in 1923.
Mr. Melton then went
into manufacture of pipe fit-
tings,
When he was 29, he
founded a second manufac-
turing firm in Detroit.
In 1959, Mr. Melton sold
his companies and threw
himself into a second career
of giving away most of the
money he earned.
Actually, that career had
begun in 1951, with the
founding of the Samuel
Mendel Melton Foundation,
which provides for religious,
charitable, scientific, liter-
ary and educational purpos-
es.
A kibbutz nursery school
in Avdon, on Israel's north-
ern b6rder, was recently
established with help from
the foundation.
He founded the Melton
ebrew
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