Hollywood Told Divorce Causes Hurried Marriages Blamed by Rabbi EVEN LEADERS in IIollwood are becoming concerned over the problem of divorce The Motion Picture Magazine in- vited Monsignor Sheen of the Ca- tholic University Dr. Harry Emer- son Fosdick of Riverside Church, and Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein to discuss this question in the March issue. Dr. Goldsteins statement follows: • "First the facts. A report re- cently issued by the Bureau of Statistics of the Federal Govern- ment discloses that in 1937 the courts in the United States grant- ed 249,000 divorces; and in 1945 allowed 502,000. • • • DISTRESSING PICTURE "In 1937 there was one divorce Page Five • DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, April 4, 1947 Ranks With Einstein escape when it no longer serves their advantage or purpose. "And too many think of mar- riage as nothing more than a bio- logical adventure, transient in na- ture, from which they may retreat whenever the transitory excite- ment subsides. I have moved my office front 3365 Cortland to 131 West Lafayette, Transportation Building, Rm. 1015, Telephone RA. 3993 Appointments by telephone can be made to see me at my residence 2660 Tuxedo, TOwnsend 9-7748, on Sundays and Evenings "MARRIAGE we must remem- ber, is a comradeship and is based upon a community of interests that can be cultivated not only from day to day but from year to year. "In Jewish law and in Jewish literature, the term for marriage is Kiddushin. This term is de- rived from the Hebrew word Kodosh, which means holy. "Marriage, according to Jewish teachings and ideals, is therefore a sanctification of our experience together. Marriage at its highest is a spiritual relationship sanc- tioned by the state and sanctified by religion. - "It is only when marriage ach- ieves this high level that it hal- lows life and turns the human heart into an altar of holy fire and the home into a sacred shrine. 9 Passover Greetings • LINWOOD WINDOW SHADE American - European - Pales- tinian Correspondence Office COMPANY 11828 Linwood Ave. * * • GARDNER WHITE CO. Furniture 6309 MACK AVE. 7000 FENKELL AVE. 5607 W. FORT ST. 1 4 1 5 5 GRATIOT AVE., near 7 Mile Road "TO THE DEGREE that they discredit marriage by their own conduct, to that degree they con- tribute to the demoralization and LINA STERN is the leading disintegration of our social life. Jewish woman scientist in the To the degree that they make Soviet Union and ranks with their marriage a comradeship, as Albert Einstein among the was that of Madame Curie; or a world's top scientists. 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