Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1997 — Page 10

MU MU.Q,.m.Z Obituaries Norman Rossman, 66, dies; led many Orlando drives ORLANDO, Fla. — Norman Rossman, who served as chairman of United Jewish Appeal drives for a number of years and was a founding member of Temple Israel, died at the age of 66. He was actively involved with AIPAC and at one time personally escorted Sen. Ed Gurney on a visit to Israel. He was a devoted supporter of basketball and was among the ownership group that brought the Orlando Magic NBA team to Orlando. Norman Rossman Fencer Ralph Goldstein dies in auto accident

YONKERS, N Y. — Ralph Goldstein, a member of three U S. Olympic fencing teams, died in an automobile accident outside Bennington, Vt. He was 83 years old and is believed to have suffered a heart attack which led to a head-on collision. His speciality was in epee and his first competition for the U.S. was in the 1948 Olympics in London. He captained the 1960 team in Rome, and participated in many Maccabiahs. He had returned last week from the national fencing championships in California where he was an official. Rabbi S. Auerbach succumbs at age 90

ROCHESTER, N Y. — Rabbi Selig S. Auerbach, who retired after serving for 25 years in Lake Placid, N.Y. died on May 6 at the age of 90. He was the prison chaplain in the Adirondacks as well as chap-

lain at Simmiunt Development Center in Tupper Lake. He spent the last 10 years here where two of his daughters and family live. He was mai^ ried for 62 years to his wife, Hilda.

Lawrence Chalt succumbs at 80

CROYDEN, N.H. — Lawrence Chait, once a legendary figure in the mail order business, died here at the age of 80. He was director of direct mail advertising for Dow Jones & Co., Time, Life, Fortune and R.L. Polk & Co.

before forming his own company in 1957. Since 1990 he had been lecturing and writing on industry trends and teaching at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H.

Irving Oeis, 88, taken by death

NEW YORK — Irving Geis, whose illumination of the wonders of science gave him an international reputation, died at the age of 88. He regularly contributed illustra-

tions to Scientific American on astronomy, astrophysics, geophysics, biochemistry, etc. He illustrated a number of textbooks.

Grace Perlman being mourned

NEW YORK — Grace Kopit Perlman, a founder of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a charter member of its Women's Division is being mourned. She was the

first editor of the Women's Division Newsletter and a chairwoman of its annual Women of Achievement luncheon.

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Berlin Memorial Mystery Person is named; design rejected he js Ro bert S. Rifkind

FRANKFURT — The accepted memorial in Berlin for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust which was to include the 6 million names has been sidelined as the competition for the project's design has been reopened. Sharp disagreement among Jewish leaders and German officials, artists and historians has won their point — the project was too colossal. The design by Berlin artist Christine JackobMarks called for building a slanting stone monument the size of two football fields. The winner and eight run-ner-ups from the previous competition as well as 16 internationally known artists and architects have been invited to submit new entries. A third death at Maccablah TEL AVIV — A third death from the tragedy at the Maccabiah as the bridge over the Yarkon River to the stadium crashed from too much weight over it at one time was Elizabeth Swetsky, of Australia. The Australian team was passing over the bridge at the time. A bridge player on the team, she was 47 years old In addition to the deaths more than 60 athletes were injured when the bridge buckled beneath them. The commission of inquiry leveled criticism at not only the contracting company that built the bridge but also at Maccabiah officials.

Dutch museum to hall Nazism AMSTERDAM — It's difficult to believe but there is a woman in this world who has turned her villa in the Dutch town of Belp into a museum glorifying Nazism. Florentine Rose van Tenningen-Heubel, 83, has gone into it with a vengeance. She has had the columns of her spacious home painted black and red, the colors of the Nazi flag, while crowded in rooms are portraits of Hitler and other top Nazi officials, including one of her husband, a Dutch Nazi, who committed suicide in 1945. She has created a foundation whose goal is turning the villa into a museum and recently told journalist Jack Kooistra that Nazism was a "system of honesty, reliability and ethics."

Rabbi William Berkowitz of New York won the Mystery Person contest as he named Robert S. Rifkind, president of the American Jewish Committee, correctly. However it took all of the five clues of the contest before that designation. The first clue stated that the Mystery Person had served in the U.S. Department of Justice and it and the second clue that the Mystery Person was a member of the board of the Jewish Theological Seminary could not have been very helpful. The same for the third clue which stated that the Mystery Person was a graduate of both Yale and Harvard. The fourth clue, however, was almost a giveaway. It noted that the Mystery Person was the leader of the top American Jewish organization. Then came the final clue which made this almost the easiest Mystery Person contest ever. It related that the

Robert Rifkind Mystery Person was chairman of the board of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights of the American Jewish Committee. So many of the recent Mystery Persons have baffled readers of the P-O that the contest authority must have felt that the clues had been made too difficult.

When 160 Jewish women can find something to do SEATTLE — Whether the 160 Jewish women who showed up for "Turn the Page: an Evening of Jewish Learning" was more or less than was expected, there was no question but that the evening was a big success, according to Tbe Jewish Transcript here. Hosted by the Women's Division of the Federation, many of the workshops focused on spirituality such as an hour of learning with Rabbi Tamara Miller who went through a typical day of prayer or in another workshop where Joyce Shane, principal of the Seattle Jewish Primary School, offered practical suggestions on bringing more Jewish contest in the home, including studying the weekly Torah portion with your family, joining a Jewish book club, sharing Jewish stories, exploring mid rash together, connecting ethical values to Torah, singing Hebrew and Jewish songs, etc., etc. In all there were seven presenters, all of them women, including Rabbi Lisa Gelber, Joanane Katz Glosser, director of education at Herzl-NerTamaid, Rivy Poupko Kletenik, Dvorah Levy, and Rabbi Beth Singer. K/an Continued from page NAT 1 supported by a Federal appeals court on the basis of a technicality with the net result that the Klan should reapply. If it should lose, the Klan has announced it would take its case to the Supreme Court. Cuffley's wife, Sabrina, said the KKK "wanted to be recognized for some good works, to give back a little something to the community." Other states have been confronted with similar situations, including a Pasco County road in Florida and the Klan also is a participant since 1933 of a one-mile stretch of Highway 65 in Arkansas where the state had originally rejected the application but lost out in federal court. Yet in another instance in Florida the Klan lost on grounds that the state could not ensure the safety because disturbances were likely to occur if objectors tried to hamper the cleanup involved . The Klan has promised an appeal but has not as yet done