rage Eighteen DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Rabbis Frowned on Kol Nidre Rites Together Again Friday, October 1, Ng 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 Custom Built Furniture and Holy Day release, they of- these only shall not be vows." Draperies--Slip Cover s 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- 10350 DEXTER TO. 8-6120 waF: founded by Prof. Kaplan in onstrate interfaith goodwill in 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". • • • 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 WO. 5-2560 After an unsuccessful attempt 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. 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