OBITS I am available to discuss your pre-planning needs, including guaranteed price arrangements." page 122 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 rit:m `si• -tcrr 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. 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