Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1981 — Page 20

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|lndiana Pioneers ! Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht

a Dr. Morris Feuerlicht, rab- ° bi of the Indianapolis Hebrew g Congregation for more than ^ 40 years, was a national £ leader who helped to put the ■g Jewish community of Indiaj napolis “on the map.” He ® knew many of the public fig- « ures of his day, and was aci- tive in social service and in5 terfaith work. - BORN IN HUNGARY in 2 1879, Feuerlicht was brought S here as an infant. In 1901, he o was a member of a graduag ting class of 10 at Hebrew Union College. His first rabbinic post was in Lafayette. In 1904 he joined IHC as associate rabbi, and in 1907 he became full rabbi. Two years later, he married Mildred Mayerstein, who had been in his first confirmation class at Lafayette. Rabbi Feuerlicht incited many prominent citizens to address the pulpit as guests, including David Lloyd George and Chaim Weizmanrt. In social service work, he was at various times the president of the Children’s Aid Society, president of the Indiana State Conference of Charities, and a member of the State Board of Charities. For 22 years, he taught a course on the essentials of Judaism to graduate ministers at Butler University School of Religion. During World War I, he served as Jewish chaplain at Fort Harrison. DURING THE EARLY 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was a major political power in Indiana. Rabbi Feuerlicht traveled throughout the state,

MORRIS FEUERLICHT .. .fought against Klan speaking to civic groups on the danger of the Klan. He took part in joint protest meetings with Protestant and Catholic clergymen, and even became involved in an interim Marion County election. Unfortunately, the Klan won, but by the mid-1920s, the organization was on the decline. In 1944, after several years of intense activity to help the war effort, Feuerlicht retired from active duty as rabbi. He now became Rabbi Emeritus. He died in November 1959 at age 81. His descendants include daughter Catherine Cohen, grandson Ralph Cohen, Granddaughter Mrs. Margie Kaplan, and several greatgrandchildren.

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Newcomers Neil Kraft Neil Kraft, new Hebrew teacher at both North Central High School and the Bureau of Jewish Education, is an extremely qualified Jewish educator. Still a young man, he has studied at Spertus College of Judaica in Chicago, Oxford Center for Post-Graduate Hebrew Studies in England, Boston Hebrew Teachers College, and Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. HE INHERITED his love for Jewish education from his parents, who met at Boston Hebrew Teachers College. Before coming here, Kraft taught in Massachusetts, Illinois, and Cincinnati. He first visited Indianapolis last year to take part in a Jewish College Day at tiie bureau. On his short visit here, he met many of the city’s community leaders, was impressed with our Jewish institutions, and became friendly with one of the teachers at the bureau and with Dr. Uri Korin. Kraft really enjoys teaching at North Central, as he is able to work with the students five days a week. Quite a few non Jewish students are in his class, he says. NEIL IS NOT related to the Kraft family here in town. Overseas Brunch Held At Terre Haute TERRE HAUTE - The an nual Overseas Brunch of the Federation of Jewish Women was held at the United Hebrew Congregation on Tuesday, Oct. 13. Mrs. Mickey Kor, vice president for overseas activities, presided. A collection was made for Hadassah activities. The town does not have a separate Hadassah organization. A skit on Russian Jewry was also presented. The cast included Mrs. Stanley Dreyfus, Max Hinstandig, Robert Fortner, Sam Schnitzer, Harvey Seidenberg, Alex Stern, and Mrs. John Trout.

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DR. ABE AND ALICE MAX, FORMERLY of Indianapolis, now of Rehevot, Israel. Dr. Max is head of his town’s Conservative congregation, and a consultant for RCA, preparing the Israeli recording industry to meet the challenge of digital recordings. Story was in last week’s P-O. Development Town In Israel Wants To Know Us Better

(Continued From Page 1) receive subsidized ballet lessons. Part of the benefit of the program is the integration of the town’s 80 percent Sephardic children with its Ashkenazim. Indianapolis has built a weaving factory to help relieve the pressure on the town’s 300 unemployed mothers. Once profits pay for the machines, the plant will be turned into a co-operative venture, owned by the ladies with profits divided evenly. THE SENIOR Citizens’ center is currently in a stuffy, one room shanty. The only activity for the men is a few domino and backgammon sets. For the women, only doll-making. The kitchen has no oven, and no room. Allegra Kopp is director of the center. “We have no facilities for the most rudimentary needs of the aged and we dream of having a building with a treatment room. A treatment room would be of great comfort to the elderly but a properly equipped one would cost more than this whole building is worth,” she says. In the future Indianapolis

will be building that new center with a treatment room. The Israeli government matches all Project Renewal cultural funds with its own funds for building. Because of Indianapolis, an energetic movement is afoot to make Bet Shemesh look better. Whole neighborhoods have changed appearance in the

last year.

Geula Buta, a local women, notes that, “everything has changed. They’re making Bet Shemesh pretty.” THE PROBLEM IS NOT

enough people in the town know who it is that cares. Indianapolis is terribly shy about introducing itself, but Haim Sororo says a lot of people are waiting to meet people from the city in America that is doing all this good work for Bet Shemesh. (Editor's note — David Kleiman, president of the Indianapolis Jewish Welfare Federation, says that the lack of contact between the two cities "is a concern of ours too. We have formed a committee to deal with missions to Israel. One of the special projects will be a delegation

to Bet Shemesh.")

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