THE EUCLID AVE. TEMPLE BULLETIN , OHIO

OPENING FRIDAY EVENING SERVICE

OCTOBER 29th, 1948

NEW STARTING TIME FOR SERVICES -8:15 P. M.

In response to many requests, the late Friday Evening Services will here­ ~fter begin at 8: 1 5 P. M. This will allow more time to reach the tem,ple for the beginning of the service. Services conclude at 9:30 P. M.

RABBI BRICKNER will speak IIHOW DOES ONE MAKE UP ' ONE'S MIND FOR WHOM TO-VOTEJII-or liTHE VOTER'S DILEMMAII

- A NON-POLITICAL SERMON -

This service will mark th~ beginning of the 24th year of Rabbi Brickner's ministry here. Rabbi S. M. Si lver w ill conduct the service and read the Torah.

AN ONEG SHABBAT WILL FOLLOW IN ALUMNI HALL

Sabbath Morning Services ;n the Chapel 11 A. M. to 12 Noon. An Hour of Insp:ration in a Beautiful Sanctuary.

Torah Portion: " Bereshit", Genesi s 1,1 -6,8; Haftarah: Isaiah 42.5-43.11

I Vol. XXVIII Cleveland, Ohio, Od ober 29, 1948 - Tishri 26, 5709 No.1 Pa ge Tw o T HE EUC LI D AVENUE TE M PLE

EUCLID AVENUE TEMPLE BUllETIN SISTERHOOD ITEMS Published Weekty f rom Oct. to May at S. E . CO!. Members ar e still talking about the Euclid Ave. and E. 82nd St., Cleveland 3, OhlO CEdar (}862·3. Subscril'tiQn S(}C per Annum. stirring talk by Dr. Mau'dce N. Eisen­ Affil iated with the U n ion of American Hebrew drath, president of UAHC, with its trib­ Congregations. ute to the national influence of our con­ BARNETT R. BRICKNER, Rabbi gregation and our rabbi . .. The Cook­ SAMUEL M. SILVER, Assistant Rabbi and Editor book will soon be ready and all are urged lIBBI E l. BRAVERMAN, Educational Director to sign up 'as pat rons with Mrs. B. Wal­ BERNAR D I. PINCUS, Executive Secretary der, chairman of the committee . . . Our Residence: RA . 8507 compliments to the faithful Red Cross F: ntercd as second <:lass matter, April ~th. 1926 gr'oup, headed by Mrs. Samuel S. Rosen­ ,t the Post Olfice. Cleveland, OhlO \I " der the Act of i\iarch 3rd, 1879. berg, who kept up their work all sum­ mer . .. Sewing got off to a wonderful start last Tuesday morning as Chairman HIGH HOLY DAY E CHOES Mrs. Morris Schuster p'resided over her More worshippelrs than ever before. in busy flock for the first time. Be sure our history attended the recent HIgh to come next Tuesday morning, and re­ Holy Day Services. The exc~llent de­ member that a kindergartner is on hand corum prevailing at the f·ou~ slm~ltane­ to look after the "small fry" ... Reserve ous services and the two chIldren s ser­ Tuesday, Nov. 23, the date of the next vices was due to the efficiency of .our meeting, when Eunice Podis will con­ Usher:;;' 'Committee, headed by WIlham certize . . . Bear in mind that all month­ Hosenfeld and the Ushers' Corps, head­ ly meetings begin at 1 :30 p. m ... . Our ed by Bu;t Spiegle and including Sidney thanks to the Oct. 19 hostesses who A Deutsch, Arthur Elsoffer, George helped Tea Chairman Mrs. E. M. Bloom F~ankel Herman S. Goldsmith, Herbert and Hospit ality Chairmen Mrs. Alvin A. Grodin, J . W. Grodin, Leo Gro~s man, Grossman and Mrs. Albert Heller: Mes­ Milton M. Halle, Allen Kichler, RIchard dames Alvin Spiegle, B. Kane, E. Kauf­ Kichler Daniel Krall, Dr. Mich·ael Krall, man, Julius Matz, B. Katz, Sanford New­ Robert'L. Lewis, Gerald J. Miller, Wil­ man, J'ack Schulman, B. Zipser, M. Les­ li.am Rosen feld, Jr., Robert S. Roskoph, sem, A. uldauer, Charles F risch, J . Leo E Rossmann, Robert S. Schwach­ Kronheim, Arthur Glick, Herbert Ros­ ter, H~rbert L. Sinek, Paul M. Spitz, enblatt, Irving Sugarman, Albert Weiss, Roland Tronstein, Arthur and Sanford Henry Burger, Ted Spilkla, David Coh­ Simon, Harry L. Wolpaw, M. Howard en, Lester Friedman, Max Price, M. Win­ Wyman, Lorry Bleiweiss and Anita ograd, Joseph Kreinberg, Russell Koh­ Rehmar. ner, Louis Lurie, S. Simon, M. Saks, E. I. Schlafman 'and E. Rosenfeld. FU N 0 S The following co ntributions have been received CLEVELAND MEETING OF JDA TO du ring the past week : SURVEY 194'9 FUND PROBLEMS BERKOWITZ FUND: Mr. and Mrs. J oseph W einberger in honor of the 50th ~vedding anni­ Third annual meeting of the National versary of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kaufman. Council of the Joint Defense Appeal will GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP F U ND : Dr. and be held in Cleveland, Nov. 19-21. ~lrs. Louis Rubin in memory of Edna A. F reed· lander. Several hundred JDA Council mem­ BIRDIE B. LOWITT FUND: Mrs. S. G. bers, all of them local community lead­ F romson, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. F romson. M r. and ers, will meet to hammer out the 1949 M,s. M. L. Fromson in memory of Alex Bern· budgetary needs for ADL and the Amer­ stei .1; J. G. and Stanley Lowitt in memory of Alex Bernstein. ican Jewish Committee. JANICE SHAW FUND: Mrs., Herman H. "JDA leaders will act as a committee Berk in memory of Adolph Berk, Sanford Garber, of 'auditors to chart the cost of fighting Abraham Tucker and I. Sorkin. bigot'ry in the ," said LEON4RD B. GANGER FUND : Mrs. S. G. l~r o mson. M r. and Mrs. R. E. Fromson, and Mr. Abram S. Berg, Jr., conference chair­ and Mrs. M. L. Fromsol1 in memory of Leonard man. " We will examine defense needs, Canger. community allocations and agency dis­ ,F R ,\ YE R BOOK FUI\'D : M rs. J ack Shulman bursements...... all the hard business reali­ and M rs. Harry R. Portugal in memory of thISRAEL By Alvin Rosenfeld thening of relations between the home Tel Aviv-The Goldbergs, Frankfur­ and the Religious School was taken re­ ters, Rosensteins-yes, even the Rosen­ cently when a P,arent-Teachers' Associ­ feIds-are beginning to dissapear from ation was formed , Under the stimulus Israel. of Qtto J. Zinner, our president, an or­ That is, their names are. For now ganizing committee met this summer th'at the have a land and a living and, several other meetings have since language of their own, people here are been held. sloughing off the Galuth (exile) names. Thus, this country-whose people had The Sisterhood and the Men's Club no last names when Israel was a n'ation have helped in the creation of the or­ 2000 years ago--is getting around to ganization which, all parents will be what Britain ~\Il1 d Fra,nce did in the late asked to join. Officers pro tern are: Middle Ages. Mrs. Raymond Metzner, Mrs. Julius The Israeli Army general staff has M'atz and Mrs. Dan Kronheim. Hebraicized itself. The Postmaster Gen­ eral has a ' new name. So has Israel's At a meeting last Tuesday, room moth­ envoy to Washington, while the Israeli ers we're introduced, a constitution was delegate to the United Nations bas tak­ considered and the year's program dis­ en a new first name and is pondering cussed. the problem of a surname. The District Immigration Qffices, Thanks were extended by Mrs. Sig­ which register new names for a small mund Braverman, educational drector, fee, are crowded daily with hundreds of to the mothers who provided the chil­ citizens, each clutching a piece of ' paper dren with a reception after the Succoth on which old and proposed new names Service: Mesdames Reuben Glazer, Em­ are printed. ery Green, M'ax Amdur, Hyman Green­ Each piece of p,aper rep'resents hours of careful thought and research into the field, Ted, Spilka, Joseph Gage, William , Bible or other Hebrew sources'; -"-- Waxman, Morton Goldheimer, S,am Levy, Leon Turkenitz, 49-year-old merchant; Irving Sugarman and Louis Moss. was first in line at the Tel Aviv immi­ gration office today. The question of his new filrst name was easy; the Hebrew CLEVELAND INSTITUTE for Leon (lion) is Ariah. But his sec­ QF JEWISH STUDIES ond name, of Russian' origin, has no dis­ cernible meaning. He had to cast about The Cleveland Institute of Jewish for an entitrely different sort of name. Studies, affiliated with the Bureau of He's a round ~f' ace, stout-bodied, jolly Jewish Education, will open its 1948-49 sort of person, and he finally hit on the season the week of Nov. 1. Courses in name of Gil, which means happiness. Hebrew for both beginnt:rs 'and more ad­ "It suits me," he' 'said. vanced students will be offered. There Turkenitz, 'or Gil, was born in Pales­ will also be courses in Bible, Hebrew tine but never thought of changing his Litel'ature, both of the latter in English, name until the Jewish state was born. the Story of Zionism, Jewish Beliefs and Next in line was G~szel Klepfisz, 29- Practices and a number of other courses. year-old news dealer. In Poland, his family had always called him Joshua, a Members of the staff include Nathan good Hebrew name. But his second Brilliant, Bernard Levitin, Arthur Ko­ name me'ans a kind of codfish, and the latch, Meyer Kogen, Rabbi Jack Her­ Hebrew word for fish is Dog. man, Yetta Lamdin, Joseph Lifshitz, "For a long time I didn't know what Shifra Rosen and Ida Yetl'a. to do," he said. "Then I remembered by brother M9she, who died fighting the For detailed information concerning I 'Arabs, and 11IY ~ister Liebe, who was courses and days of instruct~n, write to killed by the Nazis. I took the first part Ben Levine, registrar, Institute of Jew­ of each name' and ' f'ormed' t he Hebrew ish Studies, 10501 East Blvd. word Moshli, which means 'my proverbs.' You know, like in King Solomon's prov­ erbs in the Bible. CQNDQLENCES" Then came Fridel Ianchelevici, 33- Qur heartfelt sympathy is extended year old soldier from Romania. to the bereaved family of Marie Spitz. (Colltinued on Page 5) Page Four TH E EUCLID AVENUE TEMPL E YO(JNG PEOPlE'S CONGREGATION Who said there was nothing new un­ OUR OWN WHO'S WHO der the sun? Technically, the answer to Until our elections, the following pro t hat question, if you remember your Bi­ tem officers and Steering Committee ble, is Koheleth, in the Book of Ecclesi­ leads the YPC: Joseph -Persky, presi­ astes. dent; Eugene Bondy, first vice presi­ But Philosopher Koheleth coined that dent; Mrs. Robert Bachman, second vice aphorism before the formation of the president; Mrs. Daniel Verne, secretary; Young Peoples' Congregation, the first Joseph Babin, treasurer, land Mrs. Nel­ full-fledged religious and cultur-al group son Stern, recording secretary. Steering of its kind in a Reform temple. Committee: Mrs. A'rnold Aaron, Mrs. Hartley A. Bergman, Richard Bernon, Our congregation was almost literally Mrs. lac Geller, James Kane, Alvin Ken­ born "under the sun," for all last sum­ dis, Ivan Miller, James H. Miller, Jr., mer, while others were relaxing and va­ Stanford ' Newman, Arnold Rosenberg, oa,tioning, our Steering Committee was Mrs. James Ruekberg, Milton J. Selker, gathering regularly to hammer out polio Elmer Shaprro, Robert Strauss, Mrs. cy, our publicity Committee was pre­ Jack T. Temin and Nelson Stern. paring 'a brochure, our Budget Commit­ tee was grappling with allocations, our Social Committee was planning that wonderful September dance at the Mid­ IInntuUf,cin9- Day Club, ou'r Cultural Committee WIIS formulating the program, our Ritual FI RS T M E E TI N G O F Committee was prep-aring for the Hil("h Holy Days and, above all, our indefa­ THE COUPLES' CLUB tigable Membership Committee was way­ laying, phoning and calling upon Con­ A Discussion of Basic Judaism a nd firm

NEW NAMES SPROUT IN NEW seph . M. Proskauer, president of the Americ·an Jewish Committee, asserted LAND OF ISRAEL here tQday that Jewish peol>le in this (Continued from Page 3) country should manifest a patient, be­ "Fridel cQines from the German word nevolent and utterly sincere ap·proach to for peace," he said, "and SQ my first the problems 'Of Israel." name will be SholQm, the Hebrew wQrd Mr. Proskauer, a former Supreme f.or peace. The rOQt 'Of my second na~e Court Justice in New York, tQld 125 is the Yiddish name Yanchel, whIch Jewish leaders, comprising his execll­ means Jacob. Therefore, my surname tive committee, that the AJC "could sub­ will be Jacobi." scribe to the principle that as Jews and Many other s have found that virtually as Americans, we wish the State of Is­ literal translations turn out fine. Thus, rael well." Berg Berger or Bergman (from the "We shall do what we properly can do lGer~an for mountain) become Harari tQ assist it; but we are nQ Israelis-we (from the Hehirew root Hal', or moun' are Americans. Our loyalty is to this tain); GQldberg (mount of Gold) be­ country alone, and our relations to Is­ comes Harpaz, Freund (German for rael must necessarily be governed by friend) becomes Yidedi, Salzman (salt these truths," he said. man) becomes Malchi, Rosen becomes In stressing the p

THE HIGH COST OF LIVING CONGRATULATIONS " Mother, guess what! My Sunday School books for this year cost $4. Isn't To Dr. and Mrs. Al Marcus on their that awful? questioned one of Temple 25th wedding anniversary. Rodeph Shalom's children. To Mrs. Rose H. Hiller on the birth of " Well, let's think it over," replied the two grandchildren. Marjorie Sue Mason thoughtful mother. "We pay $.3 for and Marc Evan Miller. each music lesson, each week, and usu­ To Mrs. Emanuel M. Hart on the en­ ally buy several pieces of music a month g'agement of her s~n , Phil J., to Adelle besides. Sister takes dancing lessons Hoffman. ,and in addition to the cost of her les­ To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T. Gaines on sons, we buy her costumes for her re­ the marriage of their daughter, Renee citals. Those two new books which we Y., to Stanford A. Wallace. bought you last week, "Fun With Sci­ To Leonard Apfel on his marriage to ence"-cost $2 each. They're nice ad­ Shirley Weiner. ditions to your library-but then I was looking at your Religious School books To Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mattlin and and they are nicely illustrated and will Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Rogen on the mar­ be welcome additions to your library, ri,age of thei-r d'aughter, Charlotte Ann, to Allan S. Blank. too. No, I think $4 for books f~r Reli­ gious School for the whole year is in­ To Mr. and Mrs . Harry L. Baker on expensive." the engagement of their daughter, Bev­ " You're right, Mother," the little fel­ erly Jane, to Alan Robert Cohen. low replied and then sheepishly added, To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Palay on the "and the teacher said we could even sell birth of a daughter. them second-handed at the end of the To Mr. and Mrs. E. J . Rosewater 011 year, but I think I would like to keep their 50th wedding anniversary. these books on my library shelf."-Ro­ To Mr. ,and Mrs. Phillip Lewis on their deph Shalom Bulletin, Philadelphia. 50th wedding anniversary.

AIu.-:-..ni.PAt;t;~~Lq~ and~ance I THE FOURTEEN ERRORS OF LIFE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 , 8:30 P. M. To expect to set up our own standard ALUMNI HALL of right and wrong and expect every­ b9dy to conform to it. To try to measure the en ~ oyment of others by our own. To expect uniformity of opinion in this w~rld . To look for judgment and experience in youth. . To el,1deavor to mold all dispositions alike. Not to yield to unimportant trifles. JACK G. DAY To look f~r perfections in our own ac­ Democratic Candidate for U. S. Congress tions. To worry ourselves and others about what cannot be remedied. Not to alle-vi'ate if we can all that needs alleviation. Not to make allowances for the weak­ nesses of ~thers. To consider anything impossible that we cannot ourselves perform. To believe only what our finite minds can grasp. To live as if the moment, the time, SEN. ALLEN N. CORLETT the d'ay were so important that it would Republican Candidate for Re-Election to live forever. ' the Ohio State Senate To estimate peo'ple by S'Dme outside Member: SOc Non-Members: $1.00 quality, for it is that within which makes the man.-London Standard.