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Vol. 36, No. 27
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1958
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Million-Dollar Contract is Let
Ground Breaking Ceremonies July 13 for New Temple Israel; Structure to be Completed in '59
Contracts for the new Temple Israel building on B. Broad St will be let to Leo E. Ruisinger, Inc., general Contractors,, according to on announcement i>y Jack S, Bosler, chairman- and Ben S. Lurie, vice jdhalnnalt of the Building Committee. Bids were cq^ened pi^lloly on Wednesday, June 25. A special meeting ot the board of trustees of Temple Israel, held last Monday, examined the bids and approved awarding the contract to Ruisinger.
Resler announced that ground-breaking cere¬ monies will take place July 18, at 2 p. m. It is anticipated that the building, including ttie Ro- llglouB School rooms, will he completed hi 16 moiittis ready for ocsoupanoy In early Sept, 1959.
Perclval Goodman, F-AXA. of New York dty, is the architect and Benham, Richards and Arm¬ strong, 1124 Ooodale, are the Besldent Architects of the new building. It will be located on Hie 5400 block of B. Broad St, on tlie south side. Cost of the building, with furnishings and landscapfaig, wUl be approximately $1,000,000.
The pbn Is for a one-story huUdlng, open and airy, with light penetrating everywhere.
The main imprifslon of the exterior is of Jow wings, dominated by a great halt The roof Is lifted toward the main decorative element—the majestic ark wall ot the Sanctuary, which Is expandable to a capacity of 1800. Centrally arranged are two high stone panels which Imply the ten commandments. On them In a flowing bronie sculpture Is represent¬ ed the menorah.
The entrance lobby Is spaelous, with adjoining coat rooms, the administrative offices, gift shop and other services. A lopg wall at the left has a great mosaic decoration dedicated td the festj^vals. That forms the chapel walL Opposite wUl be'a memorial ateove and the main entrance to the social and worship halls.
The lobby Is lit through a glass wall, through which is seen the outside garden area, an enclosed
courtyard 80' x SC suitable for a variety of outdoor functions both secular ahd religious.
There will be a commodious reception |ounge for botl^ the Sanctuary and the social halL The latter will be equipped for dinners, social affairs, school assemblies and for the high holyday ex¬ pansion seating of the Temple. It will have a large stage and the kitchen will be convenient to it A smaller chapel located of( the garden area will seat 80. It is sfanply and delicately treated, with walls in wood and light through stained glass windows, to be reset from the present Temple
The school rooms will have modern Ughing, soundproof and completely equipped. The kinder¬ garten and primary rooms are at the rear, receiv¬ ing the southern sun and opening on playgrounds. The spacious library will be conveniently located and divided for both child and adult use.
Xhe offices form one bank for easy and effi¬ cient iunotlonlng. At one side they overlook the school entrance, at the other the main entrance.
Dr. Jerome D. Folkman Is rabbi of Temple Israel, Joseph Goldman, assistant to the rabbi, and Melvin 8. Harris is ^executive director. Jack S. Resler is honorary president
Officers are Charles Y. Lazarus, president; Herbert Wise, first vice-president; Joseph S. Sum¬ mer, second vice-president; Arthur E. Lool<"Jr, secretary; Herbert H. Schiff, treasurer.
Members of Uie board of trustees are Richard J. Abel, Robert S. ArOnson, David Cheses, Troy A. Felbel, Herbert L. Fenburr.
Marvin Frank, Leon S. Friedman, IMarvln L. Glassman, Allen Gundersheimer, Jr., Raymond Kahn, Irving R. Lackritz, Herbert 8. Levy, Ben 8. Lurie.
Allan L. Meyer, Dr. Harold L Monett, George Nacht Dr. Louis L. Praver, Sol D. Shaman, Mllton Staub, Leonard J. Stem, Isadore Topper, Sol D. Zea
Local Agency Gets Membership in U.S. Family Service Association
Mrs. Harry Goldberg, president I of the Jewish Family Service, an¬ nounced that the Agency was voted a pre-member affiliate of the Family Servioe Association' of America, a national association of private and public agencies con¬ cerned with programs and social services for families and children. The Family Service Assooiation of America serves as a national organization to set standard for the family social work field. There are 264 family service agencies which are members.
Requirements for membership Include minimum standards of agency program, personnel and financial support. The basic services must be family social work. The staff must be profea- sionally qualified and competent¬ ly trained. The agency must have a responsible and active board and a constituency (which is our Jewish community) that under¬ stands and supports the work of the agency.
Several purposes of the Family Service Association of America are the foilovylng:
(1) to promote the development of sound and good family social work practices;
(2) programs of wholesome family living;
(3) guidance in strengthening the Agency's  program;
(4) furnishing the Agency with Its reports and studies;
(5) sharing In the experience of its member agencies by pool¬ ing and distributing knowledge from the entire family service field, offering consultation on agency  matters  through ita  reg¬
ional field staff and through cor¬ respondence.
It has promoted the develop¬ ment of qualified personnel in family casework. The Association interprets to the public the family service movement and edits pub¬ lications for the professional caseworkers and laymen. There is a biennial meeting of the Asso¬ ciation together with workshops open to ail persons, professional and lay, interested in family soc¬ ial work.
The membership In the Associa¬ tion Is an important milestone in the history of the Jewish Family Service, now In Its 60th year of service to the Coiumbus Jewish community. The formal or'gani- zatlon of the Agency was effected December, 1908, and was known as the Federated Jewish Chari¬ ties of Columbus. The name was
MORRIS HORWITZ BACK FROM ISRAEL VISIT
Morris Horwitz returned last week from a five-month visit to the- State of Israel.
While in Israel, he was privi¬ leged to attend the Jerusalem celebration of the 10th annivers¬ ary of the creation of the State, and was the guest of the Mayor of Haifa at the Haifa celebration of the anniversary.
Mr. Horwitz also visited many places of historical and biblical significance, as well as the new developments In the Negev, In¬ cluding the City of Beersheba, the Port  at Eilat,  and  many others.
Mr. Horwitz Is nqw making his home at 80 S. Broadleigh Rd.
changed to Jewish Welfare Fed¬ eration In 1923.
On Aug. 19, 1963, the present name of the Jewish Family Serv¬ ice was assumed. Prior to 1953, the Agency's primary functions were to provide financial assist¬ ance to resettle immigrants. The activities were changed In 19B3 when the Agency was staffed with professional social workers. Its function Is to administer a family service program, dealing with indlviduaJ and family prob¬ lems as well as services for chil¬ dren in their homes, foster homes and adoptions.
The membership in the Family Service Association of America Is one of the major results of the self-study In which the Agency has been engaged for the past two years. The study has also enabled the board and the staff to evaluate its present state of organizations, services and devel¬ opment with a view of improving itself and charting the course for the future.
Justin Slllman is chairman of the Self Study Committee. Offi¬ cers of the board are:
Mrs. Harry Goldberg, president; Sol Morton Isaac, vice-president; Robert Mellman, vice-president; William Wasserstrom, vice-presi¬ dent; Mrs, Jack Resler, secretary; Robert Weiler, treasurer.
The following are board mem¬ bers :
Richard J. Abel, Robert Aron¬ son, Mrs. Leo Elferman, Rabbi Elliot Finkel, Rabbi Jerome D. Poikman, Norman Folpe, Mel¬ ville D. Frank, Mrs. Leon Fried¬ man, I. W. Garek.
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Samliel A. Fryer (left), leading bioeliemitt, is «hown ¦> he preients a check for hia purrhase of $100,000 in Slate of Israel Bonds lo Oscar Salenger, General Chairman of ihe Los Angeles Commillee for larael Bond*. Joining in the presenlalion ceremony it Dr. Avraham Biran (cenler), Consul-Ceneral of ihe Slate of Israel. Mr. Fryer has announced his inlenlion of purchasing ao additional 1100,000 in Israel Bondt before Ihc end of Ihe year.
SAMUEL A. FRYER, LEADING BIOCHEMIST, PURCHASES S100,000 IN ISRAa BONDS
LOS ANGELES—Samuel A. Fryer, one of the leading bio¬ chemists in the United States, last week purchased $100,000 In State of Israel Bonds, and indicated his Intention of making an additional $100,000 purchase before the end of the year.
The big purchase of Israel Bonds by Fryer, noted scientist, was announced by Oscar Salenger, general chairman of the Los Angeles Committee for State of Israel Bonds, at an Israel Bond dinner in Los Angeles. It is the largest single Israel Bond purchase in the history of the Los Angeles community.
In an address at the dinner, Fryer said:
"Israel has compressed a half-century of achievement into her first ten years, but there is still a great deal of swampland to be drained, wasteland to settle, more immigrants to absorb, more homes to build, more factories to erect, more roads to chart. These are all Immediate tasks which must be accomplished during the next ten years.   To do this, Israel needs our utmost support."
Fryer expresses gratitude to the commAinity leaders who have been the pillars of the Israel Bond campaign in Los Angeles—Louis H. Boyar, O. Harry Rothberg, Edward D. Mitchell, Oscar Salen¬ ger, and others. He also paid tribute to Samuel Rothberg, Na¬ tional Chairman for Trustees of the Israel Bond Organization. "The activities of these leaders on both the local and national scenes have been an inspiration to me," he said.
"I have been motivated by a dual feeling of both pride and humility at the miracle which has been wrought by Israel in her first ten years of statehood, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have this small share in the shaping of Israel's future," Fryer added.
Fryer is particularly concerned with the problem of soil Improve¬ ment as a means of Increasing the protein content of grains and vegetables grown In Israel. "The wealth of a nation depends on the health of its people," he de¬ clared in explaining his emphasis on promoting better soil for bet¬ ter food, a condition which he considers essential to Israel's future progress and well-being. Formerly with the Fryer Bio¬ logical Laboratories of Chicago, Fryer has made outstanding dis¬ coveries in the field of restoring mineral balance to soil which, through erosion, has been robbed of chemicals vital to the produc¬ tion of good crops. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem recently dedicated a five-story chemistry building to Fryer'in recognition of his contribution to science and higher learning.
NEWS IN BRIEF
ENVOY IN ISRAEL
United Nations, (AJP — The Chief Rabbi of Luxembourg, the young professorial doctor Charles Lehrman,   has   been   selected   as
] the   Duchy's   Ambassador   to   Is¬ rael.
I    Dr. Lehrman, an author and a
noted   scholar,   has   always   been
Interested In  Israel and in  unity
within world Jewry.
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HAILS SHOLOM ALEICHEM
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP) — The Soviet Weekly — one of a number of periodicals and news¬ papers making up the latest Rus¬ sian "package" sent to some, newsmen here — contains a feature story on Sholom Aleich- em which hails him as a great Jewish   author.
Headed "Sholom Aleichem" in big type and sub-titled "His works Don't (Ctollect Dust on Li¬ brary Shelves,'" the article admits that "his books were read not only by the Russians, but by the Kirghiz and the Kozahs, the Ta¬ jiks and the Ceorgians, the U- krainians and the Byelorussians," adding that "the popularity of this caissic of Jewish literature has not waned."
PIONEER WOMEN'S
ADMINISTRATION
IS ANNOUNCED
Pioneer Women of (::^lumbus announce selection of officers and members of .the C!oordinatlng Committee for the  coming year.
chairman, secretary, treasurer,
Mrs. Mrs. Mrs.
ANNl'AL ELECTIONS AT HEBREW SCHOOL
The annual meting of the Co¬ iumbus Hebrew School will be held Tuesday, 8:30 p. m,, at the Jewish Center, for election of of¬ ficers and the board of trustees.
Members of the board, parents whose children are enrolled In the Hebrew Scliool, and all those in¬ terested In the progress of Jewish education in the community, are invited to the annual meeting.
Officers are: William Klsch; Nathan Lessem Harold Hlilson.
Delegates arc: from Chapter I, Mrs. Harry Preldland, Mrs, I. Hurwitz, Mrs. Joseph Welner; Chapter II, Mrs. Max Block, Mrs. David Paine, Miss Helen Seiden¬ berg, alternate; Sabra Chapter, Mrs. Sam Brenner, Mrs. Allen (Jinsbcrg, Mrs. Les Harris.
Tbe tunction ot the Coordinat¬ ing Committee Is to coordinate the planning and execution of the major fund-raising efforts and joint programs of the three groups. At a conference of the group held June 25, the calendar for the coming year was ap¬ proved.
The first joint function will be a membership affair Wednesday, Sept. 3.
Pioneer Women, the Women's Labor Zionist Organization of Hapoalot (Working Women's Council, which has a membership of over 260,000 Israeli women) supports and maintains child care institutions, day nurseries, voca¬ tional training centers, agricul¬ tural high schools, etc., for the training and education of over 45,000 women, youth, and children, particularly newcomers to Israel.
Pioneer Women also play an active role in American Jewish life by work for Jewish education. Bonds for Israel, United Jewish Appeal, Histadrut, Jewish Nation¬ al Fund, American Jewish Con¬ gress, etc., and on the general scene by an Interest in promoting social legislation and women's rights everywhere.
TO ENTER LEBANON?
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP) — The USSR Missl on to the UN this week released the full text of a Pravdk editorial atttuiklng the West over Hungary and Leb¬ anon and which charged that "Israel troops are poised in readi¬ ness on the Lebanese border."
Tbe editorial, dated June 24, also used statements by the anti- Israel "Friend" of the Middle East, Dorothy Thompson, to jus¬ tify its charges of "war-monger- irig" against the U. S. "She said," wrote the editorial, "that for de¬ cades a factor making for in¬ dustrial boom in the U. S. was expehditure for a shooting war . . . War and war preparations had become America's biggest business ..."
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CONGRESSIONAL  ACTION
NEW YORK, (AJP) — The six major national Jewish organiza¬ tions and 42'l6cal, state and re¬ gional Jewish community i;pla- tions agencies affiliated in the NC!RAC called last week for the enactment at this session of Congress of a bill to establish a "jurisdictional basis" for action by the FBI in cases of bomb¬ ings, by prohibiting the illegal transportation or use of explo¬ sives.
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NASSER TO VISIT ONANA
UNITED NATIONS (AJP) — The Egyptian delegation an¬ nounced this week that President Gamal Abdul Nasser has eiccepted an invitation to visit the State of Ghana in the near future with the view of coordinating relations between the two countries.
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B'NAI B'RITH OIBLS
HAVE HEETINO
JVVY IS
On July 15, Emma Lazarus B'nal B'rith Girl's Chapter will hold a regular meeting at 7:30 in the game room of the Jewish Center.
Miss Lynn Barash, president of the chapter will preside. All mem¬ bers and all girls Interested in joining BBG are invited.
On Aug. 19, 20, 21, the annual rummage sale will be held. All types of nmimage will be accept¬ ed — pots, pans and other house¬ hold Items, as well as clothing and toys.
'INHERIT THE VWN»' AT DENISON THBATEB
GRANVHJB, OHIO-rTbe Deni¬ son Summer Theater ts enacting "Inherit the Wind" as the fourth play of Its 12th season to be stag¬ ed in the blue tent on the Denison) University campus at S:20 p, m. nightly next Tuesday thru SatUf.^' day.
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