Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1997 — Page 9

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Albert H. Herzstein, 90, top Houston leader, dies

HOUSTON — Albert H. Herzstein, executive vice president of Big Three Welding & Equipment and of Herzstein Investments, died at the age of 90. His foundation gave $1.1 M. to Congregation Emanu El, of which he was a founder, for a new Religious Education Center. His contribution made possible a new Student Education Center for the Chinquapin School for underprivileged children and a 73,000-square-foot building for the Houston Food Bank. The A1 & Ethel Herzstein Building houses the Jewish Community Center/West Houston, plus there are many other facilities named after him. He received the National Conference of Christian and Jews' award in 1994 and the Maurice Hirsch Award for Philanthropy in 1996. He received an honorary degree from the University of St. Thomas last year.

Adelaide Jablonsky dies; of Yeshiva U. and Stern

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — Adelaide Jablonsky, who was elected to the Broward County Senior Hall of Fame last year and who served for many years on the Broward County Council in the Area Agency on the Aging and was a volunteer psychologist of the Gold Coast Hospice, died five days short of her 85th birthday. Dr. Jablonsky was professor emeritus of Yeshiva University and dean of the Graduate School of Education at Stern College.

Morris G. Levin dies; a Cincinnati leader

CINCINNATI — Morris G. Levin, who has held many leading positions in the Jewish community, including as president of the Federation, died at the age of 84. He was chairman of the Jewish Welfare Fund, the Cincinnati Is-

rael Bonds campaign and president of the local B'nai B'rith lodge among other top posts. He was active also in the general community and in 1977 he was honored by the National Council of Christians and Jews.

Max Cohen, 70, dies at Houston

HOUSTON — Max Cohen, center on the University of Texas basketball team in 194647, died here at the age of 70. He was the former general

sales manager of rad io station KTRH and was a marathon runner and a Little League coach.

Leonard Silver dies at Phila.

PHILADELPHIA — Leonard Silver, co-founder and past president of Beth T'fillah Congregation of Overland park, died at the age of 82. An attorney and a real es-

tate developer, he served as an aircraft gunner and a medic in the Army in World War II, fighting in the Battles of Normandy and the Bulge. He was a liberator of Dachau.

Jacob Snyder being mourned

NEW YORK — Jacob Snyder, former president of the board of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, is being mourned. He was a longtime leader in the Jewish

community here. He was an honorary trustee and former administrator of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York.

Braugher tells Farrakhan view

NEW YORK — The best that Andre Braugher, who participated in the Million Man March and has a role in Spike Lee's film about it, could say about Louis Farrakhan was that "I don't think he speaks for all AfricanAmericans." Interviewed in Parade Magazine, Braugher took shelter by saying "I'm not familiar with Louis Farrakhan's organization" which could be an evasion from someone as popular as he and one who made the trip to Washington to participate. Yet he was enthusiastic about the Washington event. "It was the event itself that had such significance for me. I feel the change inside myself, I sense changes between Ami (his wife) and myself."

Jews would leave France; Front wins LONDON — A reaction that hasn't been heard in Europe and certainly not in France in decades came from one top Jewish civil servant following the election of National Front's Catherine Megret as mayor of Vitrolles. "Sometime I even consider leaving the country," was the view of one top French Jewish civil servant as quoted in The Jewish Chronicle here. The far-right French National Front, headed by JeanMarie Le Pen, won victory in the election for mayor in its fourth city in southern France. Pope gives $50,000 to Sarajevo Jews SARAJEVO — One of the four religious and humanitarian organizations to be rewarded with $50,000 by Pope John Paul II was La Benevolencija, the Jewish community's social aid organization. The other three were Catholic, Muslim and Serbian similar groups. Thailand police buy Israel device . TEL AVIV — Mavix, a firm that provides a digital solution for monitoring traffic, has won a $1 M. contract with the Thailand Police.

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Near riot as Orthodox fight Sabbath traffic

JERUSALEM — Near riots erupted as thousands of fervently Orthodox clashed with police at Bar Ilan St., protesting the traffic on the Sabbath. Bar Ilan is a main artery linking outlying city neighborhoods to the center of Jerusalem. Some 20 demonstrators were detained and about half that number of police were injured in scuffles. The water cannons they had stationed in the area were not used against the protesters. The renewed clashes came after the High Court ruled against closing the thoroughfare. Why they’re churches now, outgrowth of synagogues

BALTIMORE — The news is that the Baltimore Hebrew University will team up with the College of Notre Dame to host a conference that organizers term an experiment in an academic interfaith symposium on the ancient synagogue, yet perhaps that for the first time ever a kosher banquet will be served at Notre Dame is also newsworthy. Dr. Steven Fine, professor of rabbinical literature and history at BHU, pointed out that scholars will explore the cultural interactions in the ancient setting because it was the Greco-Roman synagogue that first established the house of worship as a text-centered, communal learning place. "We have churches only because we first had synagogues," he said. "The church is an outgrowth of the synagogue." According to the Baltimore Jewish Times Lawrence Schiffman of New York University will discuss the patriarchal structure of the ancient synagogue and Dr. Fine the the role of non-Jews in synagogues of Palestine and Babylon.

Rabbi S. Zimmerman is the Mystery Person

No one could name the Mystery Person after five clues, so he can been identified as Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman the new president Of HUC-JIR. The fifth clue, which usually is the giveaway to induce contestants to name the Mystery Person correctly, did not serve although it stated that the Mystery person has been elected to the presidency of a leading Jewish institution of higher learning — in this case HUCJIR. The first two clues as can be expected offer little hope and in this case there were that The Mystery Person was a member of the National Executive Council of the New York chapter of the American Jewish Committee and that the Mystery Person was co-chair-man of the Joint Committee on Outreach of the U AHC and the CCAR. The third clue stated that the Mystery Person was awarded the Sam Beber Distinguished AZA of the Year

Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman for 1979, and the fourth clue that he Mystery Person chaired the UJA-Federation Council. It would tend to throw off any acute guessers, but it took place when Rabbi Zimmerman served Central Synagogue in New York. Of course Rabbi Zimmerman now heads HUC-JIR, and he served Temple Emanu-El in Dallas before being elected to HUCJIR.

Not only Florida, but Tucson too

TUCSON — Not only the Jews of Florida have a complaint about the high price of matzah this Passover—$14.95 for five pounds, but also the

Jews of this city. At Safeway you plunk down only $12.99, but Fry's Food you dig $15.99 for the same five pounds out of your pocket.