Friday, April 4, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Two
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Tribute Is Paid
to Eternal Light
Medical School
Tamed Air Program
Is on WWJ Sundays
IN CALIFORNIA a whole family
hurries out of bed at the un-
godly hour of 7 a.m. on Sunday
morning and quickly, groups itself
around the radio.
In Miami, the radios in a whole
city block are uniformly tuned to
one station and everybody is hud-
dled about his radio. What are
they listening to? What is so
important?
They and five million others
are listening to the "Eternal
Light" broadcast, a unique religi-
ous program prepared by the Jew-
ish Theological Seminary of Am-
erica and presented as a public
service by the National Broadcast-
ing Company.
(In Detroit, it is heard at 8 a.m.
Sundays over WWJ.)
The premiere broadcast of the
"Eternal Light" series was pre-
sented on Sunday morning, Oct.
8, 1944. Listeners who were tun-
ed into the first broadcast were
surprised — and delighted — to
listen to an exciting and success-
ful experiment in the realm of re-
ligious broadcasts.
Instead of the expected sermon,
ritual, and service, they heard
well-known actors in a moving
dramatization of the historic
Touro Synagogue. They heard,
against a background of outstand-
ing music, the thrilling words of
George Washington's famous let-
ter to the Jewish congregation of
Newport, Rhode Island, promising
religious freedom to Jews of Am-
erica: ". . to bigotry no sanc-
tion, to persecution no assistance
. . . there shall be none to make
him afraid."
DR. SAUL ADLER, chairman
of the postgraduate faculty of
medical research and professor
of parasitology at the IIebrew
University, has arrived In New
York to discuss plans for the
establishment of the Hebrew
University and Hadassah Medi-
cal School In Palestine. Adler was
awarded the Order of the Brit-
ish Empire for his services as
medical adviser to British mili-
tary authorities during the war.
wants his non-Jewish wife and his "an outstanding program religi-
children to understand the signi- ously, technically and education.
ficance of Jewish history and Jew- ally. It sets forth little-known but
significant episodes in the long
ish life.
In the same mail came a letter story of the Jewish people and of
from a non-Jewish woman who Judaism, with particular emphasis
said she is married to a Jewish upon their meaning to all man-
man and deeply desired to bring kind, and thus contributes in a
up her children as self-respecting worthy manner to the spread of
and informed Jews. Both letters the ideals of brotherhood and
were from the same address. In mutual understanding."
fact, they were from the same
The Eternal Light presents a
couple. Neither the man nor his dramatic message of religion and
HEARD IN PALESTINE
wife realized that the other had Judaism, but its truths and spirit
THE FAME of the program is
underly democracy and civiliza-
fast spreading across national written.
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tion and are universal in appli-
borders. A Palestinian Jewess,
cation. That is the secret of the
visiting in this country, was so CITED BY INSTITUTE
phenomenal success of this note-
inspired by the "Eternal Light"
THE AWARD FROM the Ohio worthy experiment in religious
series that, upon her return to State Institute for Education by
Palestine, she persuaded Mordecai Radio cited the Eternal Light as broadcasting.
Slotnik, supervisor of Hebrew
programs for the Palestine Broad-
casting System, to have the pro-
gram adapted to IIebrew for con-
PASSOVER GREETINGS . . •
sumption in Palestine,
The Palestine debut of the
"Eternal Light" series occurred
on the anniversary of the mem-
orable day in which an inspired
band of Jewish martyrs revolted
,n bloody Warsaw ghetto.
Significantly the title of the first
adapted program to be presented
in Palestine was "The Battle 01
the Warsaw Ghetto."
Some of the letters inspired by
the program are dramatic testi-
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monies to its effectiveness as a
force for good. One day a letter
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was received from a Jewish man
who requested that he be placed
on the permanent mailing list for
program reprints inasmuch as he
commenting on the program in
her syndicated column, cited the
"Eternal Light" as "unique in that
it is the first broadcast religious
program which is not a religious
service." Few, if any, other re-
ligious programs combine the qual-
ity of drama, music, and religious
education which distinguishes the
"Eternal Light" series.
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faith understanding and tolerance.
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Jewish listeners were inspired
to hear dimly-remembered Biblical
stories and vaguely - understood
contemporary problems raised to
the level of moving drama by
such top-rank actors as Raymond
Massey, Sam Jaffee, Margaret
Webster, and Raymond Edward
Johnson.
Experts have confirmed the
judgment of the "Eternal Light"
fans. The Ohio State Institute
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for Education by Radio and the
National Conference of Christians
GENTILES WRITE IN
THE RESPONSE touched off by and Jews have selected it as "the
the "Eternal Light" series was outstanding religious program on
immediate and overwhelming. A the air." It has been awarded
out-
thousand letters a week poured in- "honorable mention" as an
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