Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1994 — Page 6
Gettingers lead shabbaton doings Looking back at ’93:
the year in review
Sta rt the shabbat on Friday, Jan 7, at 5:15 p.m. with services, a delicious dinner at 6:30 p.m. and a look at the future as Rabbi Yisrael Gettinger shares "The Secrets of Building a Jewish Community For To-
morrow."
This presentation will take place at a shabbaton at Congregation B'nai Torah. The Obituaries
event was planned with the participation of the entire Jewish community in mind, said Rabbi Shlomo Crandall. Saturday, Jan. 8, starts with services at 9 a.m. and lunch at noon followed by Miriam Gettinger, who will address "Where Have All the Zaydes Gone? — the Art of Parenting and Grandparenting." A
Joseph Fogle, 75, started rental firm
Joseph Fogle, 75, cofounder of Best Rentals, died
on New Year's Day.
The company was originally The Joseph Fogle Co., a baby supplies company, when it opened 35 years ago, before it expanded to rent party equipment and other goods. The co-founder was Mr. Fogle's brother David
Fogle.
Mr. Fogle was a member of Congregation B'naiTorah and its Men's Club, City of Hope and a former board member and treasurer of the Bureau of Jewish Education. He was an Army veteran of World War
II. He was a drum major in Manual Training High School and a 1939 graduate of Butler University. He was a former member of the Columbia
Club.
Services were Monday, Jan. 3, at Aaron-Ruben-Nel-son Meridiem Hills Mortuary. Burial was in B'nai Torah Cemetery, Rabbi Shlomo Crandall officiating. Survivors are the wife, Abbie Freedman Fogle, a son, Ned Fogle; a daughter, Susan Fogle, and four brothers, David, Nathan, Saul and Dr.
Philip Fogle.
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melavah malkah will be held after shabbat at 8:15 p.m. at the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Crandall, where participants will be able to meet informally with Rabbi and Mrs. Gettin-
ger.
Ratbi Gettinger is recognized as one of today's most prominent young American spiritual leaders. He is a native of New York, has studied in Philadelphia and Israel, and is an eighth generation rabbi. Rabbi Gettinger received his ordination from the renowned Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Hunter at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1980 Rabbi Gettinger became the spiritual leaderof the Hebrew Orthodox Congregation in South Bend. He has founded the all Jewish Day Camp, Camp Shalom and the Kollel Institute in Jewish Studies. In 1988 Rabbi Gettinger opened the first yeshiva in Indiana, which is named after his maternal grandfather, Rabbi Naftali Riff. The following year Rabbi Gettinger opened the yeshiva high school division. The yeshiva continues to grow with students attending from 18 states and four coun-
tries.
Rabbi Gettinger serves as dean of the kollel, president of the yeshiva and is one of the Roshei Hayeshivas. Miriam Gettinger has extensive experience in teaching children at all levels and has been principal of the South Bend Hebrew Day School for the past seven years. She, too, comes from a family with strong rabbinic traditions. She is the granddaughter of Rabbi Leitzer Levin and the daughter of Rabbi Berel Wein. The Gettingers have four children, threeof whom are native Hoosiers. The cost for the Friday dinner, Saturday lunch and refreshments at the melavah malkah is $20 for adults, $10 for children 10 and under. Children 4 and under are free. For more information about the shabbaton or to make reservations contact Congregation B'nai Torah, 317/253-
5253.
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By ED STATTMANN The year just ended included some outstanding events, achievements and changes for the local Jewish community and some of its members. Dr. Harry Wolf got to brag that his son, Dr. David Wolf, went into orbit on the first NASA space mission that included two Jews aboard a shuttle and took along Judaic objects to bring back to the community. The other Jew on the shuttle was veterinarian researcher Marty Fettman. The Jewish Singles got a new full-time coordinator in Marsha Landau. Mayor Stephen Goldsmith got to visit a mayors' conference in Jerusalem. Laura Schloss received a gold medal in a Maccabiah track competition in Israel. Real estate developer Jeffrey B. Cohen became also a wrestling promoter. The Federation began meetings of a committee to consider expansion of the "campus" that includes the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Center. Members of the local community contributed to the success of a major exhibition
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on the Holocaust at The Children s Museum. Ernest Heppner became an author with publication of his book on the Shanghai ghetto Not all the news was happy news, of course. Deaths recorded included those of Shoolem Ettinger, Albert Fischel and former Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation Rabbi (and P-0 columnist) Maurice Davis. Auschwitz survivor Miriam Zeiger, the twin of Eva Mozes Kor of Terre Haute, died. There was rancor and disputation over the city's decision to have a Christmas tree in the City-County Building lobby, but not the menorah that Lubavitch Rabbi Avi Grossbaum wanted to place there. Rabbi Sandra Katz became the rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation in Terre Haute. Estelle Nelson took over as president of the Federation. Robert and Sandra Borns became the major contributors to the Jewish Studies Program of Indiana University, which subsequently was named for them.
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