H' 'N Thursday, March 6,1980, Adar 18, 5740, The Jewish Chronicle of -9 J Desegregation & the Schools esegregation and the Pitts­ hand were Father John "Unger, but to encourage peaceful im­ and synagogues for discipline, D burgh Public Schools—how Dean of the Catholic Central plementation of such a plan when support, and guidance." to do it smoothly, peacefully, Deanery of Pittsburgh; The Rev. adopted and to encourage con­ Alexander The school desegregation issue efficaciously? Seabrook, represen­ stitutional rather than destructive has torn many ting the Episcopal Diocese cities apart, That is the question—and has on action on the part of parents and disrupted neighborhoods, and af­ Christian Social Relations; Dr. school persons." fected the been the question before the Harold Scott, Executive lives of both school nation for nearly a quarter of a Presbyter Each clergyman spoke of the children and their families. Care century, Dr. of the Pittsburgh moral and and consideration Walter Jacob of Presbytery; and Rabbi Jacob of ethical problems of all the Rodef Shalom, reminded a press the Pittsburgh Rabbinate. facing a city of varied religious elements of society here must be conference here with five other in- groupings when wrestling with given consideration and no child, terfaith leaders who jointly called • Each addressed the press con­ this divisive issue. black or white, should not be for peaceable implementation of ference, with both the There denied or deprived of quality print and was concern that quality education. whatever desegregation plan is the broadcast news media out in education be made available to finally out into effect here in Pit­ strength on one of the most ten­ every child in every neigh­ The clergyman espoused no tsburgh, which is approved by particular "ways the State Human Relations sion-laden news and human in­ borhood. or means", but Com­ terest stories swirling around Pit­ they did urge wise application, mission. tsburgh and many other They were clear and careful not obedience to the law, and goodwill American cities trying to recon­ to espouse any particular plan or cooperation of any approved plan. They set up an Interfaith Com­ cile the, various human, parental, any particular method. All communities and neigh­ mittee to this very purpose. legal, social, and educational con­ borhood's parents and children cerns involved. Their aim was to "make people have a great stake in the preser­ Convener of the Pittsburgh aware that the religious com­ religious leaders press conference Aim of the religious vation of communal peace as the leaders in munity is present in the whole process unfolds. AH take care! on desegration was Bishop Roy C. setting up an Interfaith Com­ process of desegregation." Fur­ Nichols of the United Methodist mittee was "not to support a par­ ther to urge the people of Pit­ The leaders could not ask for Church. Other clergy leaders, on ticular plan or course of action, tsburgh "to turn to their churches more; the community at large can do no less. • , The neighborhood of nostalgia First of a Two Part Series By SUE MALONEY Pittsburgh, 1910. William Magee was mayor. Although the area was The population was 533,905 of whom 25,000 were mostly Jewish, Italians lived Jews. Escaping bloody pogroms and shtetl pov­ on Washington Street and a erty in Europe, Jewish immigrants few blacks on Wylie Avenue. sought sanc­ Residents could safely stroll tuary in the Steel City. Although most of the new­ down Fifth Avenue at any hour. comers were penniless, they ^Editor's were Note: Sue Maloney industrious and their is the former public relations There were no bars. Eight dreams drove them on. director of Vocational Rehabi­ synagogues were scattered One of these was Abraham litation Center, located in the around the district. Home, Lewis Kelson. A young man Uptown area described in this business and temple were in­ with thick, dark sideburns article) termingled. On Satur­ worn long in the Jewish day—the Sabbath—shops tradition, he strode up Fifth were closed and men in Avenue past the wholesale European Jews to Pit­ striped prayer cloths walked • district where Mitapolsky,. tsburgh." down the street. Because one of Pittsburgh's Soon Abraham fell in iove Jewish law forbids riding on wealthiest merchants, had with Bessie, a dark haired the Sabbath, homes were his dry goods store. beauty. At their wedding, near synagogues. Around him, Jewish res­ friends gathered .round, Since Jews were escaping taurants served chopped toasting mazel tov to the new persecution as well as star­ liver and noodle kugel. Fifth couple. They had three girls vation, their scholars SOCIAL Avenue High School with its and two boys. Their son Jack arrived with them on the hub of the area was the Irene Kaufmann Settlement. (Kush) tall Gothic spires and tile was born in 1918. crest of the immigrant wave, illness and Phil's music In 1945, Kush took over the surrounding areas were tur­ roof beckoned him on. With Bessie's help offering leadership to the business were part of the delicatessen with his ning black. In 1949 there menu. The restaurant He turned up Logan Abraham opened his own community. By 1932, there brother. When his father, were only 206 Jewish Street, glowed with a patina a curving roadway restaurant in 1930. Five were 150 Jewish of Abraham, died four years children left in the Hill filled memories polished with pushcarts loaded years later he opened a large organizations in Pittsburgh. by later, Kush and Betty, whom District compared to 6,000 in with generations of families silk and calico dresses next one on Fifth Avenue across The Irene Kaufmann he had married, moved to 1924. Kush and Betty moved Set­ sharing triumphs and to carts of plumbing fittings from the high school. tlement House, the the apartment over the out to the South Hills in 1952 social tragedies over bowls of bor- store. and hardware. Wagons with Bessie hub for the area, sponsored so their children would grow Kelson and other scht. up in a good pins, shawls and pans jam­ housewives shopped on sport events, dances, Slowly, the metamor­ neighborhood. med the street while barrels Logan and Clark streets English-speaking classes Many patrons came from phosis began. First, the Then the film industry of herring lined the curbs, where the smell of bulkies and the first kindergarten in the film exchange located on residents who supported the died because of television and crates of chickens mingled with the odors of Pittsburgh among its ac­ the Boulevard of the Allies. area began to move out to competition, the invention of squawked in the chicken, freshly killed by the tivities. When young Kush Over 150 companies, such as Squirrel Hill and East End nonflammable film and the background. shoichet's razor under Kelson wasn't playing foot­ United Artists and Warners, because they wanted to im­ centralization of the kosher ritual. ball, he was eyeing a pretty had representatives in the prove themselves through business in other parts of Old men with long white area beards Roving young girl, Betty, who had who talked about ex­ education and better en­ town. The big buildings with sat on stoops, and photographers citing new releases like vironments. sons and grandsons waited harangued shoppers to buy lively gray eyes and a quick their tremendous vaults on cheap smile. "Love Finds Andy Hardy" . were sold to Duquesne the trade. tintypes while with Judy Garland. As early as 1940 Fifth mothers, fathers and grand­ Kush and Betty attended Avenue High School and University and'WAMO radio Abraham was home. among others. These were his people run­ parents gossiped about Fifth Avenue High School children, jobs, education and which was 90 percent Jewish ning the shops and peddling ailments. produce. Although there Down at the Pearl in the twenties and thirties. were Theater on Fifth Avenue, Leading educators, 155 mills and 77 mines families were in Pittsburgh, few Jewish enthralled by businessmen and musicians Shirley Temple in "Little were graduated from Fifth immigrants were miners or Miss Marker." millworkers. Abraham Avenue, including former Jewish 1 Chronicle dreamed of having his own On Lower Fifth Avenue Mayor Cornelius Scully, Judge PITTSBURGH, store or restaurant. there were over 145 Anne X. Alpern, Coun­ BOARD OF TRUSTEES wholesale businesses. Many ty Commissioner Cyril PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE PITTSBURGH JEWISH After finding a waiter's job PUBLICATION AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION people started out as ped­ Wecht, violinist David GERALD OSTROW, President at a 31S S. BEUEFIELD AVE.. PITTSBURGH, PA 15213 nearby restaurant, he dlers, pushing their carts Rubinoff and industrialist took PHONE 617-1000 a room in one of the around the city. Others Samuel Levinson. Stanley Levine, Vice Fns. dank, crowded tenements began working for their Albert W. Bloom, Executive Editor Robert Paul, Treasurer which lined When school was out, Kush the streets relatives in the Fifth Avenue Mrs. Bui Reicher, Secretary surrounding Fifth Avenue. crossed the street to Albert D. Zecher, Business Manager neighborhood. Kelson's Delicatessen where Philip Baskin In Joel Roteman, Assistant Editor Harold Bigler the tenements, refugees Merchants would come his family lived in an apart­ struggled Ruth Altshuler, Asst. Business Manager Harvey J.Eger to find jobs, from as far away as Erie to ment over the store. In the Master a new Combining Th« American Jewlih Outlook Mrs. llene Fineret language and buy goods. Since there were restaurant, his father had Preserve family traditions. and tt» J*wl»h Criterion Dr. Ellen Frank' no blue laws, Sunday was four waitresses and two Their social, economic the Dr. Michael Friedberg and best'day of the week. busboys to help serve 200 Personal needs Dr. Stanley A. Hirsch were met by persons a day. SUBSCRIPTION: $10 in Pennsylvania, $11 elsewhere 'he Federation of Jewish As businesses prospered, Mrs. Seymour Klein Newstand Price: 25 cents per Philanthropies formed in some people left the Kelson's was more than a copy Jerome Lieber !912 to "coordinate family tenements and moved to station to refuel bodies it S.COIK) doll ppthw poH KtKbtinjIi, P«iuyf<«M Eitluii.. Casey Heuman services needed by the large elegant homes on the Bluff was the of right to Ji«Iik TibgrapUe Igtney nd Fntvre S«r»ic« Mrs. Donald Robinson immigration of Eastern or to Dinwiddie Street. Upper Fifth Avenue. Izzy's 16-The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh, Thursday, March 20,1980, NisanS, 5740 Reform Rabbinate's The neighborhood of nostalgia Passover statement Second of a Two-Part Series BySUEMALONEY (Editor's Note: The following is a Passover statement by Rabbi The wholesale district also began to slide down­ Walking towards- Down­ ,'Editor's Note: Sue Maloney Walter Jacob as representative of the Reform rabbinate of hill. Robert Comins, who started a wholesale town the tempo of the avenue is the former public relations Greater Pittsburgh.) footwear changes after passing director of Vocational Rehabi­ business in 1921 where Chatham Center Magee As we celebrate Passover, we think again is today, exlains why. "When the blue laws tigh­ Street. There are few litation Center, located in tke about Israel and the Near East. vacant stores and .empty Uptown area described in this The crises this tened up, we lost some of our best customers." lots. Retailers like Kadet article) year are Afghanistan and Iran, but they also add He felt what really hurt the Photo have renovated their to the woes of Israel and will make it more diffi­ wholesale district was rede­ stores, enticing Downtown cult for that reason to attain a lasting peace. On velopment. §irl with Farrah Fawcett executives to shop there. Association, Junction House .,„„ „ , hair and a gypsy scarf These stores this Passover we pray that "Mayor Davy Lawrence- Wouse -s enading. Her offer per­ was a source of job referrals, and his bunch had grand , Wack sfeirt fe gHt sonalized services and low health services, recreation efforts in that direction will ' prices. soon encompass all the na­ high, perhaps too high, and, ideas. They said the {ront and her gflver shoes and education programs. tions of the Near East. without doubt, some will In the shadow of the leave Israel or the United Lower Fifth flash like searchbeams in Avenue beside the night. United States Steel Building Passover, as an historic' States disappointed; that Downtown.. Instead, they is Black people need work to holiday, a remnant from the commemorates the should not surprise us. This wanted to get rid of us and Jumping the curb, two past—the wholesale district. lift up the face of the com­ most significant and vivid has happened put in motorcyclists skid to a halt munity, according with every fancy stores." ~ At Charles to the event of our past. In this wave of immigrants, and it Klein Co., bishop. "You must have a celebration we are not dif­ should not which has been in business practical approach. During lead us to for over ferent from any other people diminish our efforts on their 60 years, owner my 42 years in this city, I who recall distant heroism behalf. Louis Frischman says, "We learned by watching the "with fanfare and feelings of whereoccupy the wholesalers would thp d dp(. naraHine bv in still enjoy a nice business. As we-turn toward renewal one entire building ""5 dudes parading by . in Jewish people who settled triumph. with a parking lot. Then We handle people from three this area. The Jewish people for ourselves in the United white su'ts and big hats. or four states." We have gone further by States, Lawrence died in 1966 and When taught me a great lesson and we realize that the the sun comes up, the blacks using this holiday, not only to principle problem is a lack of the redevelopment plans the night people fade, Wholesaler Bill Lipsitz of should follow recall the past glory, but for religious with him, leaving the NBZ Clothing claims the their pattern." present-day affiliation and From under the saggi renewal. We strong meaningful ties with wholesale area unfinished. awning at Kelson,s Catering, gross sales on this block have sought to use this compare with any block the synagogue which can Architect Frank Lloyd Upper Fifth Avenue looks Bishop MacLioyd will festival to revive our interest provide a sense of deeper Downtown. One of the few . in the broad problems of our Wright came to Pittsburgh like a'graveyard. The crum- young men left on the street, never know if the blacks purpose for us and our to render an opinion on the bling buildings resemble rejuvenate the area. He people as well as the issues children. Bill depends on small mer­ died which trouble us as in­ area between Bigelow faded markers in an unkem- chants for the .bulk of his of a heart attack last spring. dividuals. Jewish charities and con­ Boulevard and the Boule- pt cemetery. The windows at business, not the general Junction House closed last cern foi- world Jewish vard of the Allies. Said Wri- Fifth Avenue High School, public. summer. As we look at the broad problems are important ght, "Burn it." The 1968 race which closed in 1976, are Jewish scene we realize that -riots almost did For almost half a century, elements in our life, but that that. Star- shuttered, refusing to look at Kush Kelson—still problems faced for the last is not enough; only ting in Kelson's block where the surroundings, one man took notes on the a decade worship chameleon-like popular figure in the neigh­ remain very much and education has kept us windows were smashed, the Its gabled dormers reach neighborhoo- with us; we cannot surren­ d. Bishop Clifford MacLloyd borhood of f his alive from generation to violence flamed to the Hill for the sky to escape the forefathers—feels the der to weariness. Hundreds" generation. District, burning it out. dirt. hoped his observations Fifth of thousands of Soviet Jews would help blacks to Avenue area is a potential Many For Sale signs are taped still yearn for freedom. Ob­ If we take Passover displaced people quarantine notices on economically revitalize goldmine. taining their release from seriously, it 'will not only moved down to the Fifth storefronts. themselves and the area. mean a Avenue area. Empty lots the Soviet Union remains dif­ Seder at home, but pockmark the area, their tall The black Bishop was ficult; nor is it easy to reset­ also an earnest pilgrimage Meanwhile, the riots left grasses executive director and foun­ He emphasizes, "It's the to sheltering wihos by main link between tle them in the West. the synagogue to seek _ the smell of fear floating day and drug addicts at der of Junction House on the downtown renewal and reemphasis of with the stench of smoke corner of Fifth and Pride. Pittsburgh and Oakland." Their expectations are our night. Crumpled newspapers religious roots. through the area. Merchants blow across the -littered And for him and many Pit- A nonprofit organization tsburghers, it's didn't rebuild. Customers street, stirring up fetid air working with the United also the decreased while the crime heated by poverty and gar- Senior Citizens Economic main link to their American What Morsels These rate rocketed, bage. Roots. Kelson's Restaurant held out until fall, 1977. Then Kush served his last corned beef sandwich. To him, the state liquor store across the ' street was the final blow. WALT HARPER • KEN NY KARSH • ERIC KLOSS "It's a wino haven." By NORM A B ARACH, JTA Food Editor Although he still runs a catering service at the same Passover is once again in the offing. The West location, he feels the neigh­ Orange Chapter of American Mizrachi Women borhood has deteriorated in­ has reprinted this year its "Passover Feast II", to a picnic place for in hard cover. ______,,______prostitutes and a dumping ground It is available for $8.80, or iVz Ibs. chopped meat for crime. Center; $9.50 if speedier delivery is salt A policeman who has desired, by writing to Mrs. oil patrolled Upper Fifth Susan Lando, Avenue for 30 years agrees. iSHallerRd., :?*' \ Peel zucchini and cut into "It's two-three pieces, not the best neigh­ West Orange, , : \ depending borhood. It's not bad in the N.J. 07052. on length of squash. Use a daytime. Since Fifth Avenue The book in­ teaspoon to hollow out the closed, purse snatches have cludes many center. Dice it up with the decreased. But at night you Vegetable as onion and fry in oil. Place the have a lot of felonies, assault well as non- hollow squash in frying pan and battery cases and armed matzo meal to brown on all sides. When robberies." ','.-, •;..• browned, recipes. It is »» „ " . remove from also a useful Mrs- Barach pan. Also remove • fried on­ On Marion Street, a gray GO haired woman sits on a m volume ion and squash and set aside. CO for the rest of the folding chair in front of her WALT HARPER • KENNY KARSH • ERIC KLOSS year. Here are two recipes Mix the chopped meat, stoop. Above her blue and from the book: salt, fried onion and squash white shapeless dress, her~ mixture together. Stuff the dark eyes are bitter. "I've Carrot Kugel hollow squash with it. Place been here for 75 years. It in a flat pan. With the re­ used to be beautiful," she maining meat, form into 4 eggs, separated remembers. "But today you meatballs and place around could put gasoline on it and 1 2 cup sugar stuffed squash. Add one inch burn it up. And I'll help 1 cup grated, raw carrots, of water to pan and the rest you." Kenny Karsh • March 23 tightly packed of the oil left in the frying Why doesn't she move? ',4 cup shredded apple pan. "Where the hell >j cup red wine you going to ''2 Cover with tight lid or foil go? My rent here is cheap. tsp. grated lemon peel It's all I can afford. Eric Kloss-Apr iM9 and cook on top of stove over But 2 tblsps. lemon juice there's Vacup potato starch. medium heat for one-half no law here. I won't hour. Remove lid and bake go out at night for a million Beat yolks with sugar un­ in 350-degree oven for an dollars. The only way I til light. Add grated carrots, additional 30 minutes or un­ would feel safe is if I had two shredded apple, wine, lemon til most of the 1'quid is absor­ 44'sonme." juice, lemon peel and potato bed. Drive down Fifth Avenue starch. Blend well. Beat egg past All Concerts Begin at 8:00 p.m. whites stiff Dinwiddie at 1 a.m. on a and fold in. Pour warm night. The lights are into well greased, 1 '/2-quart JEWISH COMMUNITY casserole. Bake at 375 de­ flashing at Red's Bar. A grees for 35 minutes or un^ prostitute stands in the mid­ til done. Serve hot or cold. dle of the street, stopping Serves 6. traffic. Her short pants, halter and spiked heels are Morris Kaufmann Auditorium . 315 S. Belief ield Avenue . Oakland Free Recorded reflected in the head lights. Stuffed Zucchini Legal Information The night promises rain, if Call 621-6500 Today for Tickets 3 large zucchini squash 47V8000 not customers. 1 large onion In the next block a white