YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH I Obituaries School for Boys • Beth Jacob School for Girls • Early Childhood Development Center 15751 W. Lincoln Drive • Southfield, MI 48076 • (248) 557-6750 "The entire world is sustained by the Torah study of young children" 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. 9 Cheshvon October 21, 2007 Yitzchok Baruh Mordechai Bebczuk Ben Dobin Rabbi Samuel M. Fine Shmuel Kahn Yosef Kahn Joseph N. Keidan Hyman Kurchick Chaim Mickel Isadore Pazner William Rottenberg Reuben Sandler Bennie Spitzer Maurice Tachna Henry Taymor Issac Wurm Zelda Baruh Minnie Berman Hilda Feldman Minnie Greenstein Bessie Partovich Fraida Perecman Liba Scher 10 Cheshvon October 22, 2007 Harold M Flusty Sam Freedman Isaac Kaplan Hyman A. Keidan Bernard Pollak Miriam Feldman Toby Matilda Goldfarb Mary Kahrnoff Bessie Storch Klein Leah Lesonsky Rose Leah Lesser Matilda Schwartz Lillian Weingarden Ida Elias Ida Furman Charlotte Hochman Rose S. Rabin Zisel Silverman 13 Cheshvon October 25, 2007 15 Cheshvon October 27, 2007 Jack Blitzer Joseph Burstein Samuel Burns Irwin I. Cohn Joseph Irving Friedman Abraham Diem Samuel Mickelson Norman George 12 Cheshvon Samuel Schwartz Feingold October 24, 2007 Morris Singerman David Goldberg Mayer Cohen Harry Walkon Phillip Lewis Max Efros William Weisz Isadore Shechter Fannie Hubert Alex Joseph Mitchell Stein Ben Matz Rose Kazdan Joseph Wexler Max Rosenbaum Annie Citrin Harry Shafer 14 Cheshvon Lillian Efros Dr. Julian Stern October 26, 2007 Elizabeth Finley Max Taitelbaum Benjamin Bragman Gloria Lea 11 Cheshvon Jack Torch Sam Cohen Frieda Lux October 23, 2007 Morris Weiss David Friedman Marietta Moscovici Philip Berkowitz Ruth Atlas Mason Gantz Pearl Ruffsky Michael Sheldon Gross Goldie Breshgold Lillian Gordon Fannie Zingeser David Lapides Anna Fegelman Nechemia Kirsnianski Charles Lawrence Devora Kazerinsky Jacob Levin Louis Papo Pearl Knoppow Helen Cohn Harry Pfeiffer Naomi Ellias Dallen Yolan Leibowitz Mendel Rabinovitch Elizabeth Leslie Michael Leah Lakritz Donald Schiff Sarah Shirley Tomashoff Rose Wimmer Send a tribute in memory of a loved one - www.DetroitYeshiva.orgaNtributes The * JEWISHOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK'" HOSPICE HEROES MAKE LIFE BETTER Jennifer Tisdale was encouraged by a hospice rabbi's warmth and kindness when her aunt was dying. Then 19, the future rabbi vowed to make chaplaincy work part of her life. Before being ordained, she interned with Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network and completed training in clinical pastoral care. "Every family grabs my heart, and I will be there as long as people need guidance and a hand to hold," says Rabbi Tisdale, of Temple Israel and JHCN. "I became a rabbi to help and to be there when families need spiritual comfort." Rabbi Jennifer Tisdale is me of the Hospice Heroes who 6555 W. Maple Rd. • West Bloomfield, MI 48322 248.592.2687 • vvww.jewishhospice.org Make Life Better 1311370 Monuments & Markers • Monument Duplicating HEBREW MEMORIALS BY: HEBREW MEMORIAL CHAPEL SERVING ALL CEMETERIES (248) 543-3874 Fax #(248) 543-7421 Sanb garob set a pillar upon tier grabe: tbat is( tbe pillar of 3fkarbel'o 5tratir unto tl)it( bap 26640 Greenfield Rd. Oak Park, MI 48237 &mai% ') 8 Expert Consultation - Select Quality Granite MONUMENT CENTER INC. 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Another brother was active in the Reconstructionist Society for the Advancement of Judaism. A sis- ter was employed by the Zionist Organization of America as an editorial associate of the journal the New Palestine and was later active in Hadassah as a chapter president. Mrs. Jacobs was a product of the Hebrew Schools for Girls of the Bureau of Jewish Education in Manhattan. A graduate of Teachers College and Columbia, she also received a master's degree in social work and child development from the University of Michigan and Merrill Palmer Institute. First, she was a high school teacher in historic Seward Park of Manhattan and then became a pio- neer school social worker at Cass Technical High School in Detroit. She was also an editor of two cookbooks as fundraisers: Family Favorites for the Jewish Parents Institute of Detroit's Jewish Community Center and Recipe Roll Call for the Detroit Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Mrs. Jacobs also was a co- editor of The Guide for Jewish Living in Ann Arbor. In addition, she was a charter member of the National Academy of Certified Social Workers, a member of the National Association of Social Workers and was licensed and certified as a social worker by the state of Michigan. Her others affili- ations included being a life mem- ber of Hadassah, a member of the Beth Israel Congregation Sisterhood, Women's American ORT and the Women's Division of the Democratic Party. This was all done on top of all of the care and maintenance of the home and for 15 years as a full-time volunteer assistant at Hillel Day School. Years Of Devoted Service Mrs. Jacobs received the Volunteer Docent award at Historic Kempf House in Ann Arbor in 1989. A gift was given to Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem of an electric bed cradle by the family of Mr. and Mrs. Joe R. Gerson in honor of Mrs. Jacobs' 30 years of service to the Detroit educational system. She was also awarded a Hillel Key by the students of Hillel after her second year as a devoted volun- teer. Mrs. Jacobs is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Eden and Jane Margaret Jacobs; seven grandchildren; 11 great-grandchil- dren. She was the beloved wife of the late Herman Jacobs. Interment at Arborcrest Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the Hillel Foundation of University of Michigan, 1429 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.