Community Rally March 31 To Hear Noted Jurist
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 1
As interest continued to mount at a rapid pace over the coming United Jewish Fund Campaign, the community rally at the El Cortez Hotel, on Sunday, March 31, at 8 p.m. was announced as the official opening of the 1957 combined Jewish Appeal, according to Dr. Walter Ornstein and Victor Schulman, General Campaign Co-Chairmen.
Headlined by Judge Emanuel Halevy, Chief Magistrate of the Courts in the District of Tel Aviv, the meeting will express San Diego Jewry’s support of the life saving effort of the United Jewish Appeal’s Rescue Fund and of Israel.
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Judge Halevy secured a law degree at the University of Paris, and practiced law before the mixed courts of Egypt. In 1942 he moved to Palestine where he made his permanent home and became an attorney. He was then appointed a magistrate in Jerusalem by the mandatory government, and after the establishment of the State of Israel, his appointment was confirmed. He now has jurisdiction over 30 judges in the courts in the District of Tel Aviv.
President of the Egyptian Immigrant Association in Israel, he has played a major role in the absorption of Jewish refugees from Egypt and Hungary and is completely informed on the entire range of problems confronting the Jewish refugees throughout the world.
The Chairman announced that the kick-off event on March 31 is not a dinner, and admission is open to everyone in the community. Following the meeting a reception will be held honoring Judge Halevy in the same room. everyone is urged to attend.
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Judge Jacob Weinberger to Receive Jewish War Veterans
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 1
San Diego Post 185 and Auxiliary, Jewish War Vets, will honor Judge Jacob Weinberger of the United States District Court at its Annual Installation Dinner- Dance on Saturday, March 30, at 7:00 p.m. to be held at the Naval Officers’ Club, Naval Training Station, 32nd Street near Main. Judge Weinberger will receive the 1956 annual award “Citizen of the Year” for outstanding services in the cause of Americanism and Jewry.
Post 185 has re-elected its 1956 slate of officers. To be reinstalled are: Commander, LaRoy Seckler; Sr. Vice Com., Robert Grossman; JR. Vice Com., Isadore Silberman; Judge Advocate, Ben Snyder; Quartermaster, J. David Brooks; Adjutant, Abraham Sandler; Surgeon, William Mintz; Trustees Charles D. Juster, Martin W. Starr and Ralph Goldstein.
Past Department Commander Harry Apelman will M.C. the Installation Dinner which will feature a Prime Rib Dinner and dancing to the music of the Naval Officers’ Club orchestra. Tickets for the affair are $2.50. For reservations, phone Harry Apelman, AT-2-8146, or Jennie Turner, GR-7-8488.
The meeting of March 12 was featured by a bold and informative address by Dean Sherry, Judge of the Superior Court, on California prisons, mental hospitals and reform schools. judge Sherry, a survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March, engaged in a lively give and take question and answer session on the provocative subject.
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National Council of Jewish Women Hold National Convention in Washington D.C.
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 1
Mrs. Jack Stern, president, and Mrs. Herbert Robbins, acting vice president in charge of education, have been named to attend the national biennial convention of the 64-year-old educational and social service organization on March 17-22.
More than 8000 delegates from all parts of the United States, representing 240 Council sections with a total membership of 108,000 will participate in the 5-day meeting. Senator Herbert Lehman will give the principal address.
The San Diego Section has been advised that it will receive an award for its outstanding 1956-67 membership increase at the awards dinner on March 21. Mrs. Stern will accept the honor for Mrs. Norman Mann, membership chairman.
Throughout the United States, Council sections conduct some 900 local health, recreation and education projects for the aged, children, and other groups with special needss. Locally, Council is well known for its work at the Pediatrics Ward of County Hospital and Senior Adult programs at Edgemoor Farm, Hebrew Home for Aged, and JCC.
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Campaign Worker Institute To Be Held Sunday, Mar 24
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 1
A Campaign Workers’ Institute, expected to draw over 250 men and women volunteers, will climax workers’ recruitment and orientation for the 1957 drive of the United Jewish Fund, according to Rabbi Morton J. Cohn, Chairman of Recruitment and Education.
To be held on Sunday, March 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the San Diego Hotel, the Institute will bring together prominent experts in the field of Jewish community welfare and overseas work.
A feature of the workers’ meeting will be the showing of a shortened version of the Drew Pearson television film on Israel and the luncheon address by Dr. Irving Buckhalter, prominent Los Angeles attorney, recently returned from Israel, who will discuss the needs of the United Jewish Appeal Emergency Rescue Fund.
The morning session will discuss overseas, local and national needs through the regular fund campaign. Eli H. Levenson, National Vice President of the National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, will act as the moderator and present the general background of the 1957 Campaign.
Panelists will include Max Mont of Los Angeles, Area Representative of the Jewish Labor Committee, speaking for National Community Relations organizations, and Ernest Michel, Regional Representative of the United Jewish Appeal, for overseas and Israel. Other areas of Fund work will also be covered by experts in their field.
“The fact that every worker must be fully aware of the needs of the 1957 campaign,” Rabbi Cohn said, “makes the Workers’ Institute of the utmost importance in the success of the drive. Every worker, whether he or she be a solicitor, a captain, campaign leader, or a volunteer in the office, should attend the Workers’ Institute.”
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Religious Leaders Aid Drive
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 1
Bishop Charles F. Buddy of the Catholic Diocese of San Diego, and Dr. Lest E. Bond, President of the San Diego Council of Churches, have accepted the Co-Chairmanship of the 1957 United Jewish Fund, Richard A. Nelson, Chairman of the Division, announced today.
Bishop Buddy has been a Co0chairman in the work of the United Jewish Fund for many years and makes a generous contribution to what he terms “a great humanitarian cause which has helped to save hundreds of thousands of lives.”
Dr. Bond, Pastor of Kensington Community Church, is serving his first year as Division Co-Chairman.
Mr. Nelson further announced that the Christian division would open the drive of the United Jewish Fund with a luncheon in the Cotillion Room of the El Cortez on Monday, April 1.
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Temple Men’s Club Interfaith Dinner
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 1
The Men’s Club of Temple Beth Israel will be hosts at a dinner Tuesday evening, March 26 at 6:30 p.m., to 40 members of the Men’s Club of the First Congregational Church and the First Presbyterian Church. The Interfaith Dinner will be held at the Tempe Center.
The visiting ministers, Dr. Walter Stark and Dr. William D. Livingstone, will joint Rabbi Morton J. Cohn in a discussion of the subject “Where Christianity and Judaism Meet.”
Mr. Alfred Brooks, President of the Temple Men’s Club, announces that the dinner will be $1.50 per plate. Reservations should be made as soon as possible by calling Mr. Brooks, CO-4-0114, or the Temple office, BE-9-0149.
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Registrations Open For Holiday Ranch Camp Jaycee
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 1
The 1957 addition of Camp Jaycee, which is called Holiday Ranch, is open for registrations as of today. The rented facilities of Holiday Ranch, giving the campers a wonderful home base and many facilities, promises to make this year’s experience a very enjoyable and exciting adventure.
A two dollar registration fee is required. Members fee for eight weeks is eighty dollars. Six weeks fee is sixty one dollars. Four weeks, forty-one dollars and a two weeks stay cots twenty one dollars. There is a five percent reduction in fees for two or more children in the family. Another five percent is available for those who pay the full fee before June 1st.
Scholarships for day camp will again be available through the contributions of several Jewish organizations in the community. These scholarships are available to families unable to meet the fee requirements. Arrangements will be held in strict confidence.
A bus pick-up and delivery service has been established well in advance of the beginning of day camp and based on past experience.
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Women Set Face Pace In Pre Campaign Luncheons
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Pages 1, 7
Sparking the 1957 combined Jewish Appeal of the United Jewish Fund, the Women’s Division began to roll as plans were completed for a series of televised luncheons to be held on Tuesday, April 2, for givers of $100 and over.
Off to the finest start in the history of the Women’s Division, the first luncheon for Pace-Setter women, raised over $23,000, a 40 percent increase over 1956 according to Mrs. Lewis Solomon, Women’s Division Chairman.
At the same time, Mrs. Solomon announced that Mrs. Morton J. Cohn, a Women’s Division co-chairman, would be in charge of the series of second luncheons which will be held in the homes of the hostesses.
Luncheon hostesses are Mrs. Maurice Ackerman, Mrs. Robert Epsten, Mrs. Al Steinbaum, Mrs. Harry Farb, Mrs. Leonard Drogin, Mrs. Abe Sklar, Mrs. William Carter, Mrs. George Neumann, Mrs Herbert Eber, MRs. Rodin Horrow, Mrs. Abe Ratner, Mrs. Nathaniel Ratner, Mrs. Isaac Domnitz, Mrs. Gabriel Berg, MRs. Alex Wise, Mrs. George Burnett, Mrs. Lawrry Lawrence and Mrs. Rose Leaf.
The luncheons on April 2 will be televised from KFMB-TV, Channel 8, from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Pace-setter women who attended the first luncheon hosted by Mrs. Jack Binderman, Jr., in the home of Mrs. Carl Esenoff, were: Mesdames Abe Abramson, Maurice Ackerman, Gabriel Berg, Max Brody, Leonard Drogin, Harry Farb, Herbert Eber, Martin Gleich, Max POdell, Murray D. Goodrich, Rodin Horrow, Minnine Harris, Edgar Levi, Max Leopold, Alice Regen, Louis Moorsteen, B.W. Nathan, Julia Neumann, A.P. Nasatir, Walter Ornstein, Milton Roberts, Abe Ratner, Nate RAtner, Abe Sklar, Esther Somer, Max Rabinowitz, Louis Steinman, Sam Sosna, Robert W. Smith, Harry Snyder, Lewis Solomon, Harry Wax, Alex Wise and Betty Teacher.
Besides Mrs. Morton J. Cohn, Mrs. Solomon has as her co-chairmen, Mrs. E. Al Slayen, Mrs. Irving Alexander and Mrs. Herbert Eber.
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Jane Cohn and James Elbogen Exchange Vows in Candlelight Ceremony
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 2
Jane Sue Cohn, daughter of Rabbi and Mrs. Morton J. Cohn, became the bride of James Stuart Elbogen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Elbogen, of Los Angeles, in a candlelight ceremony on Saturday, March 9, at Temple Beth Israel.
The Rabbi, clad in a white vestment, led his beautiful young daughter to the altar, where he performed the ceremony under a heart-shaped canopy of white blossoms. The bride wore an original gown of white peau de sole embroidered with pearls and bugle beads. The softly draped, off-shoulder neckline followed a deep V in back and cascaded in floating panels. Her bouffant skirt swept into a chapel-length train. A lace Juliet cap, embroidered with pearls, held her fingertip illusion veil.
Mrs. Deanne Brown and Mrs. Charles Salik were maid and matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Miss Sue Applebaum of Sharon, Pa., the bride’s cousin; Miss Rochelle Goodrich, and three of the bride’s Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority sisters, Diane Roth, Beverly Hissls, Judy Richter, Gary, Ind., and Leah Gergber, Santa Ana. They wore gowns of lilac taffeta and net, with cotillion length bouffant skirts. Circular veils with large chenille dots formed their headpieces. They carried floral muffs of violets and white feathered carnations.
Robert Elbogen served his brother as best man. The ushers were Morton J. Cohn Jr., who also was the soloist; James Katz, cousin of the bride; Jerome Goldhand, Stephen Platt, Jesse Beim and Lawrence Grossman, all Pi Lambda Phi fraternity brothers of the bridegroom.
800 guests attended the reception and dinner held in the Ball Room of the El Cortez Hotel. Among the out-of-town guests were the bride’s aunts and uncles, Dr. and Mrs. Louis Appelbaum of Sharon, Pa.; Mrs. Joseph Schweid of Detroit, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Zweibach of Los Angeles, and her grandfather, Morris Abraham of Detroit.
Aunts and uncles of the groom who attended the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Tabick, Mr. and Mrs. Link and Mrs. Minnie Schwartzberg, all of Beverly Hills.
After the honeymoon in Las Vegas, Nev., the young couple will reside at 1755 Robertson Ave., in Los Angeles.
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Personals
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 2
Proving to be an orator in our midst is Cadet Captain Melvin Stein, 15, a student at Brown Military Academy, who was named winner of the Pacific Beach Lions Club speakers’ contest. Melvin is the son of Mrs. Ethel Stein.
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Hasta la lumbago to the Irv Kahns and the Jack Gross’, who are touring Mexico by auto. Well, that’s one way to aquire the “forward look.”
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Mr. and Mrs. Simon Glaser have been entertaining out-of-town relatives, who attended the wedding of the Glasser’s grandson, Leonard Lobel, who was married in Los Angeles on Feb. 24. Leonard is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Al Lobel of Los Angeles.
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The social event still paramount inthe minds of many is the Cohn-Elbogen wedding. Among the many friends who traveled to San Deigo was Rose Weinberger, who was also here to help her friend Martha Hollander, celebrate her 80th birthday. Lou Mogy was in quite a dither over Rafter Johnson, a fraternity brother of Jim Elbogen, who holds the world championship in the decathlon and was second in the Melbourne Olympics. Another luminary at the wedding was Pat McCormick, Olympic diving champion.
George Scott and Julius Brown had their own personal pastries –birthday cakes were presented to each in recogntion of attaining a new milestone.
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Mrs. Rudolph Hess wishes to thank her friends for their thoughtfulness during her recent hospitalization.
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Did anyone mistakenly take a hat at the Pioneer Women’s Purim Ball March 9 at Beth Jacob? Call BE-3-8393.
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Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Suckman of New York City have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Levenson for three weeks. They are former residents of San Diego and hope to be back –for keeps — soon.
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Mrs. Sue Greenberg left March 12 for her annual sojourn in New Orleans and Dallas. She stated that she has made this trip annually for the last ten years to visit her son and daughter and their families. Mrs. Gruenberg plans to be gone approximately three months.
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Imagine walking along a main street in Mexico City and bumping into San Diegans. Julia Kaufman met Mr. and Mrs. Yale Rosenstein on Ave. Juarez. While in Mexico she visited Mrs. Sam Rassin’s sister, Mrs. O. Gitlin, who shepherded her ’round the city and took her to a showwer being given by her niece. JUlia also spent an evening with the sister and brother-in-law of Jerry Hess.
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Birthday celebrants at the United Jewish Fund Dinner were Murray Goodrich, Louis Moorsteen and Si Rich. After receiving his own special cake, Mr. Goodrich gave a testimonial to Mr. Moorsteen and presented him with a birthday cake.
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Mrs. Sidney Rosner, of Dallas, Texas, has been a houseguest of Rabbi and Mrs. Morton J. Cohn. She has known Jane Cohn since birth and came to San Diego to witness her marriage.
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Schoenkopf-Gellens Betrothal Told
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 2
Mrs. Archie Schoenkopf announces the engagement of her daughter, Maxine, to Bruce Fisher Gellens, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Gellens.
Maxine is a graduate of Hoover High School, and attended UCLA where she was affiliated with Sigma Delta Tau.
Bruce is a graduate of the Army and Navy Academy at Carlsbad, and attended San Diego State College, where he was a member of Zeta Beta Tau.
No wedding date has been set.
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Yo-Ma-Co News
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 2
It was decided at the last Yo-Ma-Co meeting to again assist the Jewish USO financially and, also, for members to contribute their services, in cooperation with other organizations in town.
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Cradle
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 2
Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Mallinger celebrated the arrival of their second son, Leon Harvey, who was born on Feb. 20. Brother Marc Alan, 2 1/2, welcomed his 7 lbs, 12 oz. playmate.
Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Biales of Chicago. Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Nat Mallinger.
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Betrothal Told
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 2
Mr. and Mrs. Sydney C. Goldstein announce the engagement of their daughter, Ellen, to Edgar B. Wickberg of Bekreley, Calif. He is the son of Mrs. S. Wickberg of Norman, Okla., and the late Ben Wickberg of Oklahoma City.
Miss Goldstein graduated from Hoover High School, received her Bachelor’s Degree from University of California at Berkeley, and did graduate work at the School of Social of Social Studies at Berkeley. At present she is employed at the Fuller School for Retarded Children in San Leandro.
Mr. Wickberg received his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Oklahoma. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the Philippines and was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship in East Asian Studies. At present, he is studying for his Ph.D in far Eastern History at Berkeley.
A late June wedding is planned.
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55th Wedding Marked
Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 2
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Brenes celebrated their 55th Wedding Anniversary, Sunday, March 17, at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, at a Purim Dinner given by the Daughters of Israel. Presdnt were the popular couple’s five children and their families, including Messrs. and Mesdames Ruben Aved, Sam F. Brenes and Wilfred H. Goodman of San Diego and Sy Fein and Irving Brenes of Los Angeles.
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