YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH School for Boys • Beth Jacob School for Girls • Early Childhood Development Center 15751 W. Lincoln Drive • Southfield, Ml 48076 • (248) 557-6750 : "11 "The entire world is sustained , the Torah study of yourteiW During the coming week, the students of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will study in memory of the following departed friends. In addition, Kaddish will be said during the daily minyan. Tamuz 15 / July 4 Tamuz 17 / July 6 Samuel Gluck Dorothy Goldstein Leon Kersh Ida Lowenstein Alfred Mitteldorf Pinchas Schwartz Ida B. Shayne Elliott Dov Strom Lena Waldman Sam Boesky Aranka Breuer George Walter Fischer Samuel R. Greenbaum Helena Anna Helszewska Daniel I. Lambert Lofty Partovich Joseph Bernard Raim Dr. Morton Simon Jean Stalrit Isadore Morris Taylor Nathan Unrot Dave Weiner Tamuz 16 / July 5 Lillian Beal Anna Celia Dear Joseph Freed Seymour Gallant Louis Jack Goldberg Estelle Kaplan Eva Levine Fannie Markowitz Hyman Milinsky Rebecca Plotnick Risha Gitel Rosen Irving York Tamuz 18 / July 7 Louis Kozel Sally Lemberg Sam Stein Ethel Waldman Tamuz 19 / July 8 Hyman Kowal Ida Litvin Julia Pleasant Annie Samet Hilda Schuman Folksinger Of Gold Tamuz 20 / July 9 Esther Brown Siegfried Hess Max Karol Irving M. Moskovitz Oscar Sherman Edith Strom I 21 / July io Phoebe Budnick Lena Firestone Samuel Glickman Bessie Horowitz • Benjamin Krass Bernard B. Weinberg Wilder Tamuz Harry Feldman Elias Herman The Family of the Late BRENDA F. GLICKMAN Announces the unveiling of a monument in her memory at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 11, 2004 at Clover Hill Park cemetery. Rabbi Krakoff is officiating. 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In 1973, Sherner corn- Jewish Telegraphic Agency posed "Let It Be" — "Lu Yehi" — an Israeli version of the famous Beatles Jerusalem tune, to inspire optimism in an t was a sign of the importance Israel demoralized by the heavy loss- of Naomi Shemer to Israel's es of the Yom Kippur War. national psyche that the singer- Following the assassination of songwriter's death relegated the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Rabin, in 1995, Shemer translated inside pages of the nation's newspa- American poet Walt Whitman's "0 pers. Mrs. Sherner is best known for Captain! My Captain!" into Hebrew, writing the song "Jerusalem of put it to music and dedicated it to Gold." Rabin's memory. The June 26, 2004, death of The messages of Sherner's songs Israel's national folk musician at the still hold currency in Israel today. age of 74 from cancer, spurred Israeli Her songs enjoyed a revival in public Prime Minister Afiel Sharon to open sing-alongs after the outbreak of the his weekly cabinet meeting with a current Palestinian intifada in eulogy and the Education Ministry September 2000. to order all schools to Sherner won the pres spend an hour in the tigious Israel Prize in classroom remembering 1983 just a year after Shemer. speaking out against the "Using marvelous government's evacuation lyrics and melodies, she of Sinai settlements as succeeded in connecting part of Israel's peace US to our roots, to our accord with Egypt. The origins, to the beginnings award was a sign that of Zionism," an emo- Shemer's popularity tional Sharon said at the spanned even fierce cabinet meeting. "Today, political differences. when we part with Shemer was born in Naomi Shemer Naomi Shemer, we bow 1930 in Kibbutz our heads in sorrow and Kinneret. She began are grateful for the wonderful gift playing piano at age 6, and she was Naomi gave us." writing songs in her 20s. She studied Best known for "Jerusalem of at music schools in Tel Aviv and Gold," or "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav," Jerusalem, but returned to her kib- a paean to Israel's capital written butz roots in the army, spending her shortly before Jerusalem's Old City years of compulsory military service was liberated by the Israelis in the as a musical coordinator for shows 1967 Six-Day War, Shemer penned put on by the Nahal Corps at new and performed countless songs that settlements and kibbutzim around captured the national mood and the country. drew on her kibbutz upbringing, Set She went on to write dozens of to guitar, the melody of "Jerusalem Israeli favorites as well as numerous of Gold" and the haunting descrip- children's songs. tions of Jerusalem's ancient edifices Her last work, composed as she lay resonated for Jews worldwide. In the dying of cancer during the last two Soviet Union, it inspired hope years, was a tribute to Israeli astro- among Jewish refuseniks. naut Col. Ilan Ramon, who died in "It was the most Israeli thing we 2003 in the breakup of the space could think of, and we knew that in shuttle Columbia. Israel the song had become some- Shemer was buried at Kibbutz thing of a national anthem," recalled Kinneret, her birthplace, overlooking Natan Sharansky, a former Soviet the lake about which she wrote so political prisoner and now Israel's many songs. She is survived by her Minister for Diaspora Affairs. husband, the poet Mordechai The song (Al Hadvash Ve'al Horowitz; two children and four "Of the Honey and the Haoketz" crrandchildren. I DAN BARON Local, Same Day & Nationwide Delivery — Bee Sting" --- spoke of the joy and