YeshiVa BETH YEHUDAH n-nry nva navvy 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. 14 Tishrei Sept. 27, 2015 Harry Alpiner Seymour Gorman Louis Radine Manuel Rosenthal Jennie Wasserman Phillip Rossen Morris Silverstein Esther Rose Smith 17 Tishrei Sept. 30, 2015 15 Tishrei Sept. 28, 2015 Abraham Applebaum Shhirley Gallison Chana Gershman Barnett Gittleman Gertrude Hyams Maureen Bernice Kleiman Helen Klein Julius Lefton Laela Miriam Saulson Esther Silverman Leon N Cutler Joseph Hess Sadie Kaufman Minnie Kideckel Dora Strom Rothenhaus Simon Shlom William Solomon Rose Weingarden 19 Tishrei Oct. 2, 2015 Henry Benach Isadore Berkowitz Tova Goldstein Berko Iger Robert Jonas Ida Katzman Harry Levin David Levine Bella Raim Isadore Rolnitzky Sol Stein Richard Neal Wayne 18 Tishrei Oct. 1, 2015 Jack Blue-Bluestein Dorothy Bodzin Stanley Brawer 16 Tishrei Sept. 29, 2015 Elizabeth Brown Julius Corman David M. Edelman Harold Kaplan Allen Krakow Harry Levine Celia Margolis Abraham Sender Lipson Tania Saf ran George Raymond Terebelo Fannie Warsen Sam Weintraub Sadie Ettinger Shirley Feldman Jack Franks Harry Nathan Goldman Samuel Granitz William Morris Isenberg Samuel Kief Tillie Koss Sol Kwartowitz 20 Tishrei Oct. 3, 2015 Jack Beckwith Sam Bielewitch Harry A. Davidson Benjamin Eizelman Charles Rubel Harry Wexler Send a tribute in memory of a loved one —Visit www.YBY.org/JNtributes. 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CALL 248.351.5107 Visit theJEWISHNEWS.com 82 September 24 • 2015 jIm Obituaries obituaries Woman Of 1,000 Voices E lizabeth Weiss, 90, of West with books on Jewish history and the Bloomfield, died Sept. 18, Shoah, of which she was a lifelong 2015. student. Mrs. Weiss directed and per- She was born in Detroit in 1925, the formed many of the recorded voices first-born of Rebecca (Rifka) originally for the Kindertransport Quilt exhibit of Nikolaev, Russian Empire, and at the Holocaust Memorial Center. Her Benjamin, originally of Springfield, most recent stage role, at age 88, was Mass. in Yiddish as a grieving mother in the From an early age, her immense Michigan Opera Theatre production of talents as a painter and actress were the Shoah-era opera Brundibar, which apparent. Majoring in commercial was originally performed in Terezin art at Detroit's Cass Technical High concentration camp. School, she used her A lifelong member skill in drawing to serve of SAG and AFTRA, as one of the youngest Mrs. Weiss received the draftswomen during Lifetime Achievement World War II, producing Award from the Alliance plans for fighter plane for Women in Media parts. While studying and was inducted into at Wayne State, she was the Silver Circle of the called to the stage and National Academy Elizabeth Weiss appeared in a number of of Television Arts & c.1985 productions, including as Sciences. For her work on Kate in The Taming of the Shrew and Jocasta in Oedipus Rex. She behalf of Soviet Jewry and lifelong earned her Equity card as an ingenue dedication to Jewish culture and while acting in summer stock theatre causes, she was given Jewish Senior in New York. Life's Eight Over Eighty Award. Yet While appearing as Gwendolen her crowning glory was being the Fairfax in The Importance of Being matriarch of a large and devoted fam- Earnest with the Actors' Company, ily, being blessed with many children, she and her director, Rubin Weiss, grandchildren and great-grandchil- fell in love. They married in 1949 at dren, who will continue being inspired Workmen's Circle in Detroit. Working by her wisdom, wit and warmth. together as radio pioneers, they were Mrs. Weiss is survived by her featured players in The Lone Ranger, children, Leon Weiss and Katrina Challenge of the Yukon and The Green Chestuch, David and Vickie Weiss, Hornet. Her vocal versatility (a news- Debra and Dr. Gary Yashinsky, Mimi paper profile dubbed her "the woman and Jay Kalish, Jonathan and Debbie of 1,000 voices") landed her countless Weiss; grandchildren, Hayley and commercials on radio and TV. Geoffrey Schmidt, Adam Longstreet, Together, Liz and Rube raised five Emily Weiss, Molly Weiss, Natalya loving children: Leon, David, Debra, Weiss, Nicholas Weiss, Phoebe Weiss, Mimi and Jonathan. Their home was Gabriel Yashinsky, Joseph and Jackie a gathering place for fellow actors and Yashinsky, Samuel Yashinsky and his artists, with Liz as the hostess and fiancee, Alyssa Maiseloff, Michael Yashinsky, Benjamin and Sara Kalish, gourmet cook of legendary dinner Samantha Allessandri, Jennifer parties. Her children remember her Kalish and her fiance, Evan Sherman, approaching motherhood with the same passion and creative energy that Alexandra Weiss and Jacob Weiss; she brought to her acting career. great-grandchildren, Lucas and Ryder Her love for the Jewish people Alessandri, Parker Kalish, and Gavin and Yiddishkeit was a pillar of her Schmidt. existence. She spoke a geshmak mam- She was the loving sister of the eloshn and led an Institute of Retired late Robert Elkin and the late Joanne Professionals Yiddish group at the Kinney; the devoted daughter of the Jewish Community Center for many late Benjamin and the late Rebecca Elkin. years. As a Yiddishist, she taught others Interment was at Clover Hill Park her beloved language and was active at Cemetery. Contributions may be the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, made to the Yiddish Book Center, Mass. At the Jewish Ensemble Theater, 1021 West St., Amherst, MA 01002, she performed excerpts of Yiddish lit- www.yiddishbookcentenorg; or erature and poetry, some of which she Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 wrote herself for Reader's Theater, and Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, starred as the matchmaker in Crossing MI 48334, www.holocaustcenter. org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Delancey. Her personal library was filled Chapel. ❑