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days later on Friday morning, March 11,
three weeks before his 60th birthday.
Shaarey Zedek’s synagogue was
filled to capacity more than an hour
before the 2 p.m. Sunday
funeral. Loudspeakers carried
the messages and prayers
from inside to those who
packed rooms, lobbies and
the area outside the building.
classrooms at the 10 Mile Jewish
Community Center and nearby B’nai
Moshe Synagogue, embarked on a $1
million school building campaign.
More than $200,000 was
pledged at an October meeting
presided over by school presi-
dent Abe Kasle. Hillel had 265
students at the time, 50 more
than the previous year. Opera
star Jan Peerce came to Detroit
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from New York to perform
Jan Peerce
In 1966, Yeshiva Beth
with Emma Schaver on behalf
Yehudah celebrated the
of the school’s fundraising din-
50th anniversary of its opening in the
ner.
school building of the Mogen Abraham
Becoming Detroit’s second Reform
Synagogue on Farnsworth. Founded by temple in 1941 at its founding,
Rabbi Judah Leib Levin and others in
Temple Israel had a membership that
1916 to provide Sunday and afternoon grew to more than 1,600 members 25
hours to post-bar mitzvah boys, the
years later in 1966. The 25th anni-
school opened with eight students.
versary was celebrated with several
The day school, which began in
events, including a Saturday night
1944, occupied its new Southfield
dinner dance at the Sheraton-Cadillac
Daniel A. Laven Building and Julius
Hotel.
and Alice Rotenberg High School on
Rabbi Milton Arm, who left the
Lincoln in February. Congregation
pulpit of Congregation Ahavas
Beth Jacob-Mogen Abraham relocated Achim in 1964 for a position with the
to the new Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
Jewish National Fund office in New
building and began holding regular
York, returned as spiritual leader of
morning and evening daily services
the same synagogue due to popular
in September. While the new build-
demand. In its 25th year of existence,
ing was under construction, Rabbi
the membership of Congregation
Bakst’s Beth Hamidrash Division took
Gemiluth Chassodim voted to institute
up temporary residence in the Young
mixed seating and change its name to
Israel of Northwest Detroit building on Congregation Beth Hillel.
Wyoming.
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Rabbi Shaiall Zachariash, a native
Jacob Citrin, founder and president of
of Los Angeles who received his rab-
Citrin Oil Company, died at the age of
binical ordination from Ner Israel
Rabbinical College, Baltimore, became 61. From a one-pump service station
in Detroit in 1920, Citrin Oil grew into
spiritual leader of Congregation
Michigan’s largest Standard Oil distrib-
Shomrey Emunah. Rabbi Zachariash
had recently received a master’s degree utor. A past president of Temple Israel,
Cirtin served as treasurer of the Jewish
in education from the University of
Welfare Federation and was active in
Detroit while on the teaching staff of
community affairs.
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah.
Harry Mondry, president and found-
Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper intro-
er of Highland Appliance, died at 67. A
duced the triennial system of reading
leader in the Labor Zionist Movement
one-third of the weekly Scripture por-
and active in Jewish causes, Mondry
tion at services. For a deeper insight
was a member of Congregation
and understanding, Rabbi Schnipper
Shaarey Zedek.
began a half-hour Bible study session
Abe Boesky, owner of Boesky
on the weekly portion at Congregation
Restaurant on 12th Street until 1958
Beth Moses on Evergreen in Detroit.
and manager of the Boesky Restaurant
As the Jewish population continued
at James Couzens near Eight Mile,
to shrink in the Dexter area, leaving
the famous street without a synagogue, died at 70. Jacob Spolansky, former
Congregation B’nai Zion on Humphrey Federal Bureau of Investigation agent
and author of a 1951 bestseller The
at Holmur continued to function on
Saturday mornings and holidays, while Communist Trail in America, died at
hoping to find a buyer for the building. the age of 76. Spolansky, who joined
the FBI after serving in World War I,
After a year and a half of construc-
also was a security consultant for the
tion, Congregation B’nai David com-
National Association of Manufacturers
pleted the last phase of its complex on
and an investigator for a New York
Southfield Road in time for the High
City law firm. He moved to Oak Park
Holidays.
after his retirement and resided on
Hillel Day School, in existence for
nine years and operating out of rented Coolidge.
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