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VOL.XVI
Health Club
Schedules Tour
Os New Facilities
Invitations have been sent to every Jewish family in the Phoenix
area, inviting them to tour the facilities of the Health Club on Sunday
afternoon, Dec. 9, from 2 to 8 p. m. at the Phoenix Jewish Community
Center.
In addition to viewing the 10 separate rooms—which comprise an
- overall area of 14,000 square feet
Sen. Douglas
Meets Press
Here Dec. 9
SEN. PAUL DOUGLAS
Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois
will meet the press in the persons
of three Washington correspond
ents who will put him “on the
spot’’ at Temple Beth Israel
Forum on Sunday, Dec. 9, accord
ing to Chairman Gilmore G. Kahn
weiler.
The program, “Break the News”
brings to the Temple platform at
3310 N. 10th Ave., besides Doug
-4 las, John C. Metcalf of the Chi
cago Sun-Times, Daily News Syn
dicate and Washington news analy
st, Neal Stanford, Washington dip
lomatic correspondent for the
Christian Science Monitor, and Lu
cian C. Warren, Washington cor
respondent of the Buffalo Courier
Express and president of the Na
tional Press Club.
In an unrehearsed interview, the
press panelists will go after the
“big story,” and will not hestitate
to put the senator on the “hot
spot” whenever possible. The au
dience will take over the questions
at the finish of the press confer
ence.
Dr. Ralph Bunche on “The Unit
ed Nations . . . Success or Fail
ure?” appears on the Temple plat
form Jan. 27, and on Feb. 10 “Are
We Winning the War of Ideas?”
will be discussed by Dr. Albert
Burke, scientist, economist, and
expert on world affairs.
Some series tickets are still
available at the Temple office.
Beth Hebrew Joins Ranks Os
United Synagogue of America
The Board of Directors of Beth
Hebrew Congregation, 333 E. Port
land, voted unanimously to join
the ranks of the United Synagogue
of America, it was announced by
Harry J. Weiss, president of the
Congregation.
The United Synagogue of Amer
ica is a major arm of the Conser
vative Movement in Judaism now
comprising about 950 affiliated
congregations in the United States
and Canada as well as congrega
tions throughout the world includ
ing Great Britain, Israel and the
Latin American countries, with a
total membership of about 1,500,000
families.
THE CONSERVATIVE Movement
was organized about 65 years ago
in New York to enable all Jewry
to stay within traditional Judaism
in our modem society. Its aim is
to unite the people in prayer which
is meaningful to contemporary
Jewry and adaptive to its needs.
The emphasis on prayer is “qual
ity” rather than “quantity.”
With the establishment of the
Dr. Solomon Schecter Seminary,
now The Jewish Theological Semi
nary of America in New York
City, an institution of higher learn
ing and training center for Conser
vative rabbis; the National Wom
an’s League; the National Federa
tion of Jewish Men’s Club; and
the Rabbinical Assembly of Amer
ica, the movement provides all
facets of Jewish activities, religi
ous and social.
The movement further evolved
by the organization 15 years ago
of United Synagogue Youth and
branches of higher learning, like
the University of Judaism on the
West Coast as well as the establish
ment of a number of camps known
as Ramah, under the supervision
Every other Friday except monthly PHOENIX, ARIZONA, December 7,1962
July, August. $3.50 per year. 126 E. Roosevelt.
and which include an Olympic-size
handball court, an active exercise
room, a passive exercise room,
four massage rooms, shower room,
locker room, wet steam room, dry
steam room, health bar, lounge
and sleep rooms the visitors will
be able to watch exhibitions of ju
do, karate, tumbling, hand balanc
ing, weight lifting and wrestling.
THE HEALTH Club will official
ly begin its operations on Monday
morning, Dec. 10. Men’s days are
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays
and Sundays. Women’s hours are
all day Tuesday and Thursday.
Sol Fisher has been engaged as
masseur and Mrs. Sadie Gander as
masseuse. Both have had consider
able experience and have come to
the Center Health Club highly
recommended from the leading
spas and clubs in the country.
Members of the Health Club
Committee will be on hand to fur
nish membership information and
to answer any questions about the
equipment and operation of the
club.
Chairman of the Health Club
Committee is Marvin Mony. Serv
ing with him are: Dr. Avi Ben-Ori,
William Bobier, Joseph Burdman,
Seymour Clark, Jerry Dreiseszun,
David Don Fann, Floyd Fann, Sam
Fineberg, Shiel Gayler, Dr. and
Mrs. Philip Kantor, A. Alexander
Katz, Lew King, Elliot Konick,
Frank Lewis, Harry Nathanson,
Dr. Mel Pollack, Julius Rose,
Sandy Rothstein, Kenneth Sadick,
Bud Singer, Arthur Schwartz, Irv
ing Smith, Stanley Stein, Charles
Tenenbaum, Harold Tenenbom,
Harold Toback, Paul Weinzer, Al
lan Weiss.
EVERYONE WHO has been
shown through the Center Health
Club is impressed with its facili
ties and beauty. A basic colori
scheme in muted blue-greens is
carried out in all phases of its
decor, walls, carpeting, furniture,
tile, flooring and marble accents.
Dark walnut paneling has been
used in the entry way and lounge,
providing a warm contrast for the
cool “blues” used in other areas.
“We wanted the health club to
have an air of attractiveness that
would be pleasing to both men and
women. We feel that we have
achieved those results,” said
Mony.
Rabbi To Lecture
Rabbi Albert Plotkin will lecture
on “Reform Judaism in Transi
tion” at Har Zion Synagogue on
Wednesday, Dec. 19, at 9 p. nu
The lecture is one of a series. It
traces the beginning of Judaism
through its development as a re
ligious civilization.
of a National Camp Ramah Com
mission.
The motto in Conservatism is:
“Unity in Diversity.”
Dr. Ahraham L. Rosenblum,
spiritual leader of Beth Hebrew,
who is a member of the Rabbini
cal Assembly and leader within
the Conservative Movement, de
clared: “The membership at Beth
Hebrew Congregation are looking
forward enthusiastically for renew
ed strength, vitality and growth,
and hopefully and trustingly join
the ranks of the many by joining
the great and ideal endeavors of
the United Synagogue of America.”
Cantor Appointed To New
Superior Court Judgeship
Irwin Cantor has been appointed by Gov. Paul Fannin to one
of two new judgeships in Maricopa County Superior Court. His term
begins Jan. l and extends until the bench
position can be filled at the 1964 general I * s - ' ’
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Cantor, who was president of Temple H '0; i
Sholom for three years, was born in By *
Peoria, 111., and obtained his iggpL;
degree from Bradley University and his
law degree from the University of Illinois.
He and his wife, Alena, who also is a H f
lawyer, have three children. ' s
He was an assistant Phoenix city at
torney in 1951-52 and an assistant attorney ,fSMMA M
general in 1953-55. Since that time he has :
been in private law practice. Since 1959 B ; -
he has been one of the three Arizona I, 18,
members of the National Commission on ■
Uniform Laws.
He is a member of B’nai B’rlth, the
Masonic Lodge, and the Elks. CANTOR
The two new judgeships were created by the Maricopa County
Board of Supervisors.
Rabinowitz
Testimonial
Dinner Set
A Testimonal Dinner will be
held honoring Joseph Rabinowitz
on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 6:30 p. m.
in the Ramada Room of the Ra
mada Inn, 3825 E. Van Buren.
Phoenix Bikur Cholim has ar
ranged the testimonial to honor
Rabinowitz, “who has done so
much for his community and espe
cially for the sick, aged
and the infirm.” The dinner
“will be one way in which all of
us who have worked with him can
show him our affection and appre
ciation,” said Isaac Chriss, presi
dent of Phoenix Bikur Cholim.
Philip Chapman, educational di
rector of Temple Beth Israel, will
be master of ceremonies: Hirsh
Kaplan, Kivel administrator, will
speak and Cantor Maurice Chesler
will sing. The dinner, at $5 per
plate, will be strictly kosher.
“We hope every one will come
and celebrate this worthwhile oc
casion with us and help us to honor
Joseph Rabinowitz” said Chriss.
No Action
On School
Aid Taken
WASHINGTON (JTA>—The 64th
biennial national convention of the
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congre
gations of America declined to
take a definite position on the
question of federal aid to religi-*
ous schools with the adoption of a
resolution citing the “variety of
views” which made it “difficult”
to reach a consensus at the conven
tion.
The resolution called for forma
tion of a special committee which
will report to the Union’s execu
tive committee. Officers and dele
gates who had differed on the issue,
compromised in the resolution and
urged the convention to emphasize
the areas of accord rather than
those of dissent.
The convention also adopted a
resolution which advocated adop
tion of a moment of “silence” for
devotion at the beginnings of ses
sions every day in public schools.
In this period of silence children
would think in terms of their indi
vidual faiths and pray in silent
levotion.
'Peace Library'
Will Pay Tribute
To Mrs. F.D.R.
WALTHAM, Mass. The 72,000-
member National Women’s Com
mittee of Braideis University has
announced plans for the creation
of a "peace library” in memory
of Eleanor Roosevelt, late trustee
of the liberal arts university.
Mrs. Philip Rosenfeld of Wash
ington, D. C., president of the
Women’s Committee, announced
there was “a spontaneous desire
on the part of the entire National
Board to have the Women’s Com
mittee set up a memorial as a
tribute to this outstanding woman
Who was universally loved and re
spected. The books in this new
collection will all be devoted to the
field of peace, a cause which was
Mrs. Roosevelt’s lifetime concern.”
The committee will designate a
section of the library to house the
collection.
A minimum goal of 10,000 books
has been set for the collection, in
which 120 chapters of the Women’s
Committee will participate.
Former Official
Heads AJC Unit
NEW YORK (JTA) Theodore
Tannenwald Jr., prominent New
York attorney and former special
assistant to the U. S. secretary of
state, has been named chairman
of the Israel Committee of the
American Jewish Committee. A
M. Sonnabend, AJC president, an
nounced here.
Tannenwald has held various
government posts since 1942 includ
ing his most recent appointment in
1961 as a member of President
Kennedy’s Task Force on Foreign
Assistance.
The AJC’s Israel Committee cov
ers a wide range of issues dealing
with the Middle East. To further
these endeavors, the AJC recently
established an office in Israel.
Veterans Auxiliary To Honor
Jacob And Lillian Lagman
Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary
No. 194 will honor Jacob and
Lillian Lagman at the Arizona
Manor, 24th Street and Camelback,
at 7 p. m. on Sunday, Dec. 16.
Rabbi Albert Plotkin will be guest
speaker, and there will be a musi
cal program.
Mrs. Lagman has received nu
merous awards, including the Mar
ian Feffer Award for Community
Service in 1956 from Phoenix Sec
tion of N.C.J.W.; Vave Commit
tee five-year award in 1958; gold
pin and life membership, City of
Hope; 10-year service pin from
JWV Auxiliary; and, in 1960, a
plaque given to her and her hus
band Jacob for service to hospital
ized veterans, from JWV Post 194.
TWO YEARS ago on her way to
the Veterans Hospital, Mrs. Lag
man and a friend were struck by
a car. Mrs. Lagman was gravely
injured suffering three broken
ribs, internal bruises and a skull
fracture which fogged her mind.
She did not remember her name.
They know her name, however,
at the induction canteen where she
was a volunteer hostess for five
years; at the Phoenix Indian Cen
ter where she delivered freshly
laundered clothes she collected
from her friends; and at the USS
Arizona Foundation, where she
worked without pay every Thurs
day because she felt the world
should not forget those who died
at Pearl Harbor.
Kivel Home guests would ask
for Lillian Lagman, whose visits
on Wednesdays brightened their
Second class postage
naid at Phoenix. Aril,
Local U. J. A.
1963 Goal Set
At $317,000
The Board of Directors of the Jewish Community
Council at its meeting on Nov. 27 approved the recommen
dation of its Goal Setting Committee of a “must” cam
paign goal of $317,000. The Goal Setting Committee,
headed by Sam Fineberg, chairman, consisted of: Johann
S. Ackerman, Harold H. Alpert,
M. D. Brown, Mrs. Joe Gross,
Louis Hoffman, Jarril F. Kaplan,
Mrs. Joe Lagman, Samuel Langer
man, Mel Myland, Samuel Shapiro,
Nat G. Silverman, Philip W. Tax
man, and Newton Rosenzweig.
THE COMMITTEE held three
meetings during October to develop
its recommendation.
On Oct. 18 the committee review
ed budget requests of all local and
national agencies and approved the
1963 budgets of the Jewish Com
munity Council. On Oct. 23 the
committee met with representa
tives of the United Jewish Appeal,
including Melvin Dubinsky of St.
Louis, national U.J.A. campaign
co-chairman. A full hearing on the
U.J.A. requirements for 1963 was
presented and discussed.
On Oct. 28 the committee met in
executive session and approved
the overall requirements of all ben
eficiaries and worked out a pre
campaign agreement with the
U. J. A.
FINEBERG, chairman of the
Goal Setting Committee, summar
ized the decision in favor of a sub
stantially increased campaign goal
by pointing to the serious prob
lems which face us both at home
and abroad.
He said, “Our expanded popula
tion has placed a heavy burden
on our Jewish Social Service Agen
cy and our Jewish Community
Center which makes It necessary
to give them both substantial in
creases in their allotments for
1963, in order to handle the in
creased pressures for service.”
Overseas the major emergency
continues and requires assistance
to refugees fleeing from lands of
danger, particularly in North Af
rica. Fineberg reported that more
than 100,000 Jews have fled Al
geria during the last 90 days, cre
ating a severe burden on the Unit
ed Jewish Appeal rescue program.
“MORE MONEY must be made
available to care for these and
other refugees escaping from be
hind the Iron Curtain,” added Fine
berg.
President Samuel Lange rman,
commenting on the decision to seek
40 per cent more in 1963, asked
every Jewish resident to re-exam
ine his own level of support for the
65 vital Jewish causes. Every man
and woman in our community will
be asked to give a minimum of 40
per cent or more above his or her
1962 gifts in order to- enable Phoe
nix to meet its Jewish communal
responsibilities.
United Jewish Welfare Fund is
the annual campaign which is con
ducted among the Jewish residents
of Maricopa County on behalf of 65
national, local, and overseas bene
ficiaries, including the United
Jewish Appeal.
week. At the State Hospital there
are patients who cannot recall
their mothers’ names who keep
asking, “How’s our Lil?”
AND SHE IS well remembered
at the Veterans Hospital here.
Since, 1951 she has volunteered
eight hours every Monday with a
few exceptions when she herself
was ill.
She was an escort in the out-pa
tient clinic and Gal Friday to the
mentally disturbed. Every Satur
day, Lil worked in the mental
war’d. She would try to see every
patient and ask if she could write
a letter for him, buy a gift, or
bring a book.
She has improved slowly and
steadily these past two years.
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Cadillac Ball
Plans Made
“We suspect there are many,
many folks anxious to win a new
1963 Cadillac DeVille hardtop, or
$5,000 in cash,” Don Fann ex
claimed, “hut only 250 tickets are
being sold for this spectacular
drawing.”
Fann, an automobile dealer and
program chairman of the second
annual Temple Beth Israel Men’s
Club Cadillac Ball, expects the
Jan. 12 dinner-dance affair to
“top” last year’s gala event. The
Arizona Biltmore Hotel will be the
scene of the drawing combined
with cocktails, programmed to
start at 7 p. m., dinner at 8 and
dancing ’til 1 p. m.
“The winner need not be pres
ent,” Fann added. “We are confi
dent there are many of our friends
who will have had a good chance
to rest up after New Year’s Eve
celebrations to join with us for
what we feel will be one of the
Valley’s most memorable Saturday
night functions.” Fann invited
Men’s Club members and their
friends to call him for more in
formation at CR 9-3541.
JTA News
Briefs
STOCKHOLM—The Jewish com
munity here joined in the observ
ance of the 80th birthday of King
Gustav VI Adolf with a reception
in honor of the occasion and the
announcement that it had planted
a forest in Israel in his honor.
WASHINGTON Retired Su
preme Court Justice Felix
Frankfurter has asked Israeli
Education Minister Abba Eban
to arrange for the bequest of the
Justice’s library to the Hebrew
University.
Justice Frankfurter made the
request when Eban called on
him during the education minis
ter’s visit to Washington. The
Frankfurter law library is one
of the largest private libraries on
law and politics in the world.
PARIS—The launching of a new
Israel 23,000-ton luxury liner, the
S.S. Shalom, at the Chan tiers de
l’Atlantique Shipyard at St. Naz
are, was reported here. The ves
sel, which will be delivered late
next year for service with the
Zim-Israel Navigation Company of
Haifa, will be the largest in Is
rael’s merchant fleet.
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