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Hadassah To Stock
Fairground Shelves
After months of preparation,
Hadassah members will again
open the State Fairground home
economics building for the receipt
and processing of merchandise for
the Grand Sale, Feb. 3 and 4.
On Sunday, Jan. 6, the unloading
of all neighborhood depots and the
trek to the Fairground will begin.
All help in the moving and process
Center Presents Concert
By Soprano Miriam Root
On Thursday evening, Jan. 10, at
8:30 p. m., the Phoenix Jewish
Community Center will present
Miriam Root, soprano, accompan
ied on the piano by Wallace Horni
brook.
The concert is open to the public.
There will be no admission charge.
Mrs. Root is dedicating the con
cert to the memory of her late hus
band, Ai Root. Her selections will
include a group of Italian songs,
five German Leiders by Hugo Wolf,
a trio of Rachmaninoff melodies
and some representative American
folk tunes.
THE EVENING’S concert will be
the premiere performance, the
first time on any concert stage, of
three French songs written by J.
A. Blaauw, composer and friend
of Mrs. Root, who now resides in
Tucson.
Mrs. Root, a Phoenix resident for
nine years, has appeared in many
productions of the Phoenix Musical
Theater, Shakespeare as well as
Israeli singing groups, and has
made numerous appearances on
television and the concert stage.
SHE HAS HAD featured roles in
productions by Phoenix Little The
ater, Arizona Repertory Theater,
Circle 16 Playhouse, and the Jew
ish Community Center "Players.”
Mrs. Root is on the music faculty
of Temple Beth Israel.
A native of Seattle, Wash., Mrs.
Root majored in music at the Uni
versity of Washington. After six
years studying voice in New York
City, she starred in numerous
roles with the Gilbert and Sullivan
Opera Company.
Hornibrook has recently moved
to Phoenix to organize and direct
a music program for Cross Roads
B'nai B'rith •
Lodges Plan
Gala Donor
The local lodges of B’nai B’rith
are planning a gala donor dinner
on Sunday evening, Jan. 20, at the
Executive House in Scottsdale.
The cocktail hour will begin at
6:30 p. m., followed by dinner at
7:30 p. m. A fur fashion show will
be narrated by Mrs. Al Kessler,
and a mink stole and mink-trim
med sweater will be given away.
Dancing will follpw with music by
Joe Vaccarro’s orchestra.
Mrs. John W. Meyers is donor
board coordinator, and the follow
ing donor board members are
working on plans for the affair:
Phoenix Chapter Mmes. Jack
Feingold, Max Strom, and Al Kess
ler; Edith K. Baum Chapter—
Mmes. Jerry Dreiseszun, Gerald
Brateman, and Zachary Winograd;
Herman Lewkowitz Lodge—Mich
ael Haskes and Hy Rubin; Thun
derbird Lodge—Jerry Dreiseszun,
Ken Gold, and Arthur Lewis.
Reservations may be made by
calling Mrs. Harry Robbins al
AM 5-4066 or Mrs. Winograd at AM
5-5744.
'Raisin In Sun'
Play To Help
Building Fund
A performance of the prize-win
ning play ‘‘Raisin in the Sun” will
be sponsored by Beth El Sisterhood
on Sunday evening, Feb. 24, at the
Phoenix Little Theater at 8:30 p.m.
Donation is $2. Ticket chairman
for the play is Mrs. Meyer Wilkof,
AM 6-4183.
A buffet dinner at Beth El Au
ditorium will be served, starting
at 5:30 p. m. Dietary laws will be
observed. Donation is $3.75. Tick
ets may be obtained by calling the
ticket chairman for the dinner,
Mrs. Robert Schubert, AM 6-5163;
Mrs. Harry Wineberg, Sisterhood
president, YE 9-0214, or Mrs. Wil
kof, AM 6-4183.
Funds raised will be used for
the new Beth El Hebrew School
building at Myrtle and 13th Ave
nue.
ing is volunteer. “We are in need
of donation of heavy-duty trucks,
drivers, and helpers for moving
day,” states Fairground Coordina
tor Mrs. Al Meyer.
IN ADDITION to an appeal for
good used clothing and household
goods, large items such as furni
ture and appliances, used cars and
lawn furniture are urgently need
S ; '£*o*
MIRIAM ROOT
Methodist Church. Before that time
he was minister of music at East
Stroudsburg Methodist Church,
East Stroudsburg, Pa. A graduate
of the Cornish School of Allied Arts
in Seattle and a native of Golden
dale, Wash., Hornibrook appeared
as piano soloist with the Seattle
Philharmonic Orchestra and was
well known as an entertainer and
accompanist in the Pacific North
west.
HE HAS BEEN associated with
the Fred Waring organization since
1950 as accompanist and instructor
at workshops, and as pianist and
accompanist with the "Pennsyl
vanians” on TV, records and con
certs. He toured with concert sing
er Dorothy Sornoff and two vocal
ensembles, "The Carolers” and
"Festival of Song.”
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CASEY DAVID BUTT
Casey Blitt Joins
'Who's Who' List
Casey David Blitt, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Aaron Blitt, 5125 N. 20th
Ave., has been named to "Who’s
Who in American Colleges and
Universities.” His name will ap
pear in the 1962-63 annual direc
tory of distinguished students.
He is chief justice of the traffic
court at the University of Arizona,
Tucson and a member of Blue Key
men’s honorary, vice president of
Tau Delta Phi fraternity, and a
member of the Interfraternity
Council. A senior in liberal arts
premedical, he will enter medical
school in the fall of 1963.
Someone’s Gonna
Dance For Joy
Someone will become the recip
ient of a new 1963 Cadillac DeVille
hardtop or $5,000 in cash
as an extra bit of enjoyment at the
second annual Cadillac Ball spon
sored by Temple Beth Israel Men’s
Club at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel
on Jan. 12.
"Only 250 tickets are being sold
for this spectacular drawing,” said
Program Chairman Don Fann.
Cocktails and the drawing are
scheduled to start at 7 p. m., with
dinner at 8 and dancing until 1 a.m.
ed. There wil] also be a sale of
home-baked goods, and Mrs. Rita
Schlossberg Chriss is in charge
of this phase of the event.
Mrs. Meyer will be assisted by
Mrs. Harry Wolinsky, executive
secretary; Mrs. Ed Dachs, corres
pondence; Mrs. Harry Nystad,
bookkeeping; Mrs. Joseph Wolin
sky, work coordinator; Mrs.
Charles Metchis, Elana Group
chairman; Mrs. Harry Weinberg,
Sabra chairman; Mrs. Samuel
Blair, Sharon chairman; Mrs. Sam
Robinson, Tamar chairman.
Mrs. Yale Stuart is in charge of
publicity; Mrs. Max Kent, pick-up
coordinator; Mrs. Stanford Stone
man and Mrs. Sanford Jacobs,
new merchandise. Harry Wolinsky,
Jack Gonshak and Al Meyer will
set up for the sale. Mrs. Jack
Gonshak is in charge of supplies.
COORDINATING personnel set
up for pre-sale and sale days will
be Mrs. Anne Brodfield. Chairmen
for workdays will be Mrs. Ed
Dachs and Mrs. H. Berger, Sun
days; Mrs. Harry Weinberg, Mon
days; Miss Ann Chamberlain,
Tuesdays; Mrs. Harry Wolinsky,
Wednesdays; Mrs. Sam Blair,
Thursdays; Mrs. Jean Singer, Fri
days. Mrs. Brodfield will handle
transportation problems for work
ers.
The home economics building
will be manned daily, except for
the Sabbath, from 10 a. m. to 3
p. m. There will also be a tele
phone for the receipt of informa
tion calls.
The annual Fairground sale is
the major fund-raising event of the
combined four groups of Hadassah,
and the only event where the ap
peal is not directly for cash funds.
Closet clean-outs will be converted
to medicine for needy Israeli pa
tients.
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JTA News In Brief
DETROIT— Leader of all groups in the Detroit Jewish commun
ity paid tribute to Isidore Sobeloff, executive vice-president of the
Jewish Welfare Federation, on the occasion of his completion or 25
years of service in Detroit. A group of his friends set up an initial
fund of $5,000 for the creation of an Isidore Sobeloff Community
Service Fund. Mr. Sobeloff will designate its use.
ROME—Modern Hebrew will be offered in a governmental public
senior high school as 'an optional language course for the first tame
in Italian history. Registration for the course in the school in Rome
by non-Jewish students was reported heavy.
NEW YORK—An assurance that the Argentinian government
would not welcome any application by George Rockwell, or anyone
else, to hold an international Nazi congress in Argentina was given
by Ambassador Mario Pico, Argentinian representative at the United
Nations, to the World Jewish Congress in New York.
NEW YORK—H. Leivick, considered by most literary critics the
world’s foremost Yiddish poet, died here after a long illness —two
days before he would have celebrated his 74th birthday. Bom Lei
vick Halper, in Igumen, Russia, he came to the United States in
1913 after escaping from Czarist exile in Siberia.
JERUSALEM The first monarch to visit Israel, King Mwam
busta IV of Burundi, was greeted by Mayor Mordecai Ish-Shalom of
Jerusalem with the traditional Jewish bread and salt on a silver
plate.
LONDON —An estimated 1,000 Jews went into hospitals on
Christmas Day to take over the duties of a similar number of
Christians so that the latter could spend the holiday with their fam
ilies. One of the first Jews to volunteer was F. A. Lincoln, an at
torney who initiated the idea three years ago.
TEL AVIV—Six leaders of the American Jewish Committee,
here for an eight-day visit, expressed the opinion that the culture
of Israel "has a very great influence on American Jewish life”
and that they wanted to study that culture at close range. The
group is headed by the organization’s president, A. M. Sonnabend.
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U.J.W.F. Opener
Set For Jan. 17th
Kirsch To Address Dinner
For Advance Gift Donors
Samuel Shapiro, chairman of the Advance Gifts Div
ision for the United Jewish Welfare Fund campaign, has
announced the opening event for the 1963 campaign. The
Century Country Club, 56th and Shea Boulevard, will be
the setting for a dinner for advance gifts donors and
chairmen of key business and professional divisions,
on Thursday evening, Jan. 17. The featured speaker will be Henry
Kirsch, an authority on overseas Jewish relief programs.
The Advance Gifts Committee, under Shapiro’s leadership, includes
Maurice D. Brown, Newton Rosenzweig, Harold Alpert, Samuel Lang
erman, Ben Witten, Aubrey Grouskay, Marvin Mony, Yale Simons, Irv
Pearlstein, Jack Brown, Sam Fineberg, Jerome Smith, Charles Kalina,
Morris Margolin, Maurice Fishman, Jack Vertlieb, Louis Hoffman, and
Mrs. Dasha Todd. Additional members will be announced.
GOAL FOR THE 1963 campaign
is $317,000, representing a 40 per
cent increase over the sum raised
in 1962.
"This increase,” explained Sha
piro, “is necessary because of the
great influx of refugees from Al
geria and other danger points. In
addition, expanded local service
on the part of three local
agencies Kivel Nursing Home,
the new Jewish Community Cen
ter, and the Jewish Social Service
Agency will require substantial
ly larger grants in 1963 in order
to meet their program require
ments.”
KIRSCH, THE guest speaker for
the Advance Gifts dinner, is coun
try director of the Jewish relief
operations of the Joint Distribu
tion Committee in Italy and has
served as director in Morocco. He
is an authority on prob
lems of Jewish needs overseas,
and will speak on the current out
look of immigration to Israel.
Kirsch is an American, a grad
uate of Brooklyn Law School, and
holds a master’s degree in busi
ness administration from New
York University. He has had a
career of specialization in relief
and welfare problems on the trade
union level in various countries
overseas.
United Jewish Welfare Fund is
t> * annual campaign which is con
ducted among the Jewish residents
of Maricopa County on behalf of
65 national, local and overseas
beneficiaries including the United
Jewish Appeal.
Speakers Bureau
Named For Drive
General Chairman Johann S. Ackerman has announced the member
ship of the Speakers Bureau for the 1963 United Jewish Welfare Fund
campaign.
The Speakers Bureau will include Rabbi Maurice Corson, Rabbi
Albert Plotkin, Rabbi Abraham L. Rosenblum, Rabbi Milton Shulman,
Jewish Group
Organizes
At Sun City
When they visited Sun City last
year, Mr. and Mrs. Sol Pion of
Great Neck, N. Y., experienced
"love at first sight” of the famed
retirement community.
But when they inquired about
the Jewish congregation in the
town they were amazed to learn
that there was none. They decided
they wanted to live in Sun City—
but they also wanted to affiliate
with a Jewish nucleus. So they set
to work to organize a Jewish group
to fill the void they found. And
already results have been achiev
ed
ALTHOUGH the Sun City home
they will occupy won’t be ready
until fall or early winter of 1963,
they are already in the Valley of
the Sun, helping other Sun City
residents launch the Sun City Jew
ish Center.
The new group has elected tem
porary officers and held its first
open meeting Dec. 30 in the audi
torium of the Sun City Community
Center. The group is open to all
Jewish residents of Youngtown and
Sun City.
Temporary officers are: Sam
Levy, president; Joseph Gitlin,
vice president for program; Irving
Abrams, vice president for fund
raising; Louis Abramson, vice
president for membership; Joseph
Elcove, treasurer; Mrs. Louis
Abramson, financial secretary;
Reuben Kaplan, house chairman;
and Mr. Pion, Sam Bassman, and
Irving Abrams, ritual service offi
cers.
BOARD MEMBERS are Norman
Coplin, Andrew Hudson, Sidney
Freeder, Thomas Sampson, and
Mr. and Mrs. J. Morrison.
It is estimated that 100 to 125
Jewish families reside in the two
retirement communities.
The new group will meet in the
beginning at the Community Cen
ter, but its members hope event
ually to have a building.
The Pions were in the lingerie
and swimsuit business in Great
Neck, with Mr. Pion designing and
his wife assisting him. Their Phoe
nix address is 525 E. Culver, Apt.
3.
Information about the Sun City
group may be obtained by calling
Levy, 933-0940; Abramson, 933-
1688; or Mrs. Pion, 933-3761.
40th Anniversary
Os Lewkowitz
Lodge Marked
The Past Presidents of Herman
Lewkowitz Lodge No. 960, B’nai
B’rith, will conduct the ceremon
ies in celebration of the 40th an
niversary of the present lodge on
Saturday evening, Jan. 5, at the
Phoenix Jewish Community Cen
ter, 1718 W. Maryland at 8 p. m.
A candle-lighting ceremony, in
which some of the oldest members
of the lodge will participate, will
be a highlight of the evening.
A short formal initiation of new
members will be conducted by
past presidents Philip Barer, Louis
Kanne, Albert Kessler, Milton
Sachs, Sam Schurgin and Nat Sil
verman.
Dancing, with music by Eddie
Winn and his orchestra, and re
freshments will follow. Chairman
of the evening is Past President
Chester Stoloff. Sy Clark is presi
dent.
The community is invited to Join
in this celebration a a guests of the
lodge.
St
Henry Kirsch
and Rabbi Moshe Tutnauer. Also
included in the Speakers Bureau
are Mrs. Joseph Bank, Dr. Ted
Barkin, Mrs. Joseph Gross, Hirsh
Kaplan, Jarril F. Kaplan, Mrs.
Sidney Pickelner, and Albert M.
Stein.
The Speakers Bureau is part
of an overall program of public
relations and interpretation con
ducted on behalf of the 1963 cam
paign. Every Jewish men’s and
women’s organization in the com
munity has been asked to sched
ule a brief presentation at its
general membership or board
meeting in January or February.
In addition to this special panel
of speakers, the campaign office
will make available a special
slide presentation, which will be
geared primarily for worker or
ientation meetings, scheduled to
begin on Jan. 10.
Global Jewish
Head Count:
12,915.000
NEW YORK—The World Jewish
Congress has completed a statisti
cal survey of Jews all over the
world, finding that there are 12,-
915,000 Jews living in 122 lands.
The survey, by the WJC’s Insti
tute of Jewish Affairs, reports that
10 million Jews live in three coun
tries: 5,500,000 in the United
States; 2,200,000 in Israel, and
about 2,300,000 in the Soviet Union
according to figures available fol
lowing the 1959 Russian census.
With the influx of Jews from
North Africa, France has become
the fourth largest Jewish commun
ity in the world with a population
of 500,000 Jews. Next are Argen
tina and Britain, 450,000 each; Can
ada, 250,000; Rumania, 150,000;
Brazil 140,000; Morocco, 125,000;
and the Union of South Africa,
110,000.
The 11 largest communities in
which 12,175,000 Jews live, com
prise 93.7 per cent of the world
Jewish population. There are com
munities of 20,000 to 100,000 in 14
lands, the largest being Iran, about
80,000; Hungary, 75,000; Australia,
70,000; and Uruguay, about 50,000.
Klutznick Quits
Position At U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA)
—The resignation of Philip M.
Klutznick from the United States
delegation to the United Nations
was revealed here.
Klutznick, former national pres
ident of B’nai B’rith and former
general chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal, has been serving
chiefly as the American represent
ative to the U.N. Economic and
Social Council. President Kenne
dy expressed "warm appreciation”
for Klutznick’s services and ac
cepted the resignation "with re
gret.”
Center Offers
Full Facilities
For Meetings
The Phoenix Jewish Commun
ity Center has many meeting
rooms, two lounges, an audito
rium, adjacent Walnut Room,
and a fully equipped kitchen
which offers strictly kosher ca
tering.
Organisations can make ar
rangements for any sise meeting,
luncheon, or dinner.
Facilities are available for cel
ebrating family slmchas.
For information call Sam
Schoffman, business manager, at
264-6151.