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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Rabbis Frowned
on Kol Nidre Rites
Together Again
Friday, October 1,
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Nidre in the Synagogue, Prof.
U. S. Savings Bonds can
Mordecai M. Kaplan, of the Jew-
be
the
cornerstone of the future
ish Theological Seminary, instead
that
Americans
are
building
of abolishing, cutting or changing
for
themselves.
the formula, added some modify-
NEW
YORK-Jewish
youths
ing clauses which make the for-
mula specific, restricting it to who have registered for the
vows made to the end that we draft or plan to do so, have ask- Happy New Year
might estrange ourselves from ed the Sabbath Observance Coun-
those who have offended us, or cil here, to help usher in Kosher
to the end that we might give kitchens and, Sabbath and Holy
pain to those who have endang- Days off in the army.
UPHOLSTERING
In exchange for the Sabbath
ered us . . . These vows, and
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and
Holy
Day
release,
they
of-
these only shall not be vows."
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This enlarged and specific Kol fer to do their army chores on
Nidre is recited in a few Syna- Sunday, enabling non -.Jewish
gogues that came under the in- buddies who relieve them on
fluence of the Society for the Ad- those days to have Sunday off.
vancement of Judiasm, which This way, they say, they dem-
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Corner Collingwood
action.
1922.
'Kosher Kitchens
in Army Asked
(Continued frOm page 22)
until this one, shall be . . . an-
nulled, made void and of none
• effect. Our vows are not vows".
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DIFFERENT VIEWS
THIS FORMULA is too gen-
eral, and may be made by the
unscrupulous and ignorant to
cover all promises and obliga-
tions.
We do not know when the
.• recitation of Kol Nidre was in-
troduced, but as early as the 9th
century C.E. the Gaonim of Baby- "Gee whiz! My parents are •
lonia, in whom judicial authority coming!" So exclaimed Werner
was vested, called it a foolish Lilienthal, himself an immi-
BERNSTEIN TO DIRECT
custom and did not allow the grant, as he came across the
names of his father and moth-
NEW YORK (Z0A)—Leonard
practice in their academies.
er, on a list of newly arriving Bernstein will assume the ar-
A Gaon of the 10th century de-
clared that the Kol Nidre applied DP's which he was mimeo- tistic directorship of the Pales-
only to those vows which were graphing in the mailroom of tine Philharmonic Orchestra for
extorted from the congregation United Service for New Amer- the 1948-49 season.
in the Synagogue in time of per- icans, Where he is employed.
secution.
Happy reunion took place a
Tell your friends about the
few days later,
A great Rabbi of the 14th cen-
Chronicle — the INTERESTING
tury went to the length of de-
Jewish weekly.
claring that "those fools who, ever, clung to the Kol Nidre. Is
trusting to the Kol Niche, make it its gripping melody, the solemn
vows recklessly" were incapable ceremony . with which it is sur-
rounded that accounts for the
of giving testimony.
In the 13th and 14th centuries Jew's attachment to this legal Happy New Year!
the custom of reciting Kol Aire formula?
In some reformed congrega-
on Yom Kippur Eve was abolish-
ed in numerous communities in tions the Kol Nidre Is substituted
France, in the Province and in by a psalm chanted with the mel-
Spain.
ody of Kol Nidre. Conservative
Opposition also came from the Jewry, however, refused to give
Gentile world. Many courts re- up the Kol Nidre, although, in its
fused to depend on an oath taken traditional wording, it is mislead-
689 GRATIOT
by a Jew, or devised a special ing.
form of oath for Jews on the
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basis that the Jew could not be to abolish the recitation of Kol
trusted because he was released
from his oath by the recitation of
Kol Nidre.
M late as 1895 the question
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