Jewish Music Month Program Feb. 12 Will Feature Noted Cleveland Cantor Benjamin Laikin and Jay Ro- senshine, co-chairmen of the Joint Yiddish Culture Commit- tee of the Jewish Community Council and the Jewish Com- munity Center, announced that plans have been completed for the annual Jewish .Music Month program. It will. take place at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, in the audi- torium of the Jewish C o munity Center, Woodward at Holbrook. Wolf Snyder, director of the Jewish Folk School, will serve as chairman. Cantor Saul Ker- shenbaum of the Jewish Com- munity Center of Cleveland, so- loist, will offer liturgical Yid- dish and Israel selections. Julius Chajes will conduct the Center Symphony Orchestra. The Center Dance Group, under Mrs. Fanny Aaronson, will offer Yiddish and Israel folk dances. Jerome Stasson, accompanied by Betty Kowalsky, will be heard in Jewish compositions for violin. Tickets are being distributed by cultural chairmen of the landsmanshaften and societies affiliated with the joint com- mittee. They may also be ob- tained by calling the Community Council, WO. 3-1657, or the Cen- ter, TR. 5-8400. • Purely Commentary By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Once Again: The Problem of Religion in Schools It is regrettable that the 'old struggle of retaining the inde- pendence of our schools from sectarian influences must be con- tinued. A basic principle is involved here and it is not pleasant to be compelled, time and again, to disagree with our Catholic neighbors in an issue which we consider basic to our • American principles. In a recent address in New York, as reported in the New York Herald Tribune, the Most Rev. Joseph F. Flannelly, Auxiliary Bishop of New. York, urged action by Catholics to convince Sen- . ators and Congressmen that "the very first thing they should do is to put religion back into educatic:a." Bishop Flannelly stated: "The men on the Supreme Court are misinterpreting the First Amendment of the Constitution because they have not been edu- cated properly. We have to teach them that the traditional edu- cation • of America is religious. The first education offered in America in Colonial times was by religious groups. The Founding Fathers unlike some men in government today never entertained the idea that God was to be excluded from education." Is it true, as Bishop Flannelly said, that Thomas Jefferson's views on separation of church and state in the schools are being misinterpreted and that what the third President of the United States meant was that he did not want one particular religion imposed on the people, but that he did not intend for religion to be divorced from education altogether? In that case, what did Jefferson actually mean when he wrote into the Act.for Establish- ing Religious Freedom, (passed by the Assembly of Virginia in December, 1785, and approved in January, 1786, the following statement "No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship; Ministry, or place whatsoever; or shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or gdods; nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but all men Mall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion; and the same shall in no wise - .diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities." 2—THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, February 3, 1950 Speakers, Discussion Topics Rosenwald Refutes Listed for NCRAC Conference Charges Against Judaism Council The complete program for the National Community Re- lations Advisory Council Michigan regional conference has been announced by the Jewish Community Council, local NEW YORK (JTA) — "Zion- co-sponsor of the tevent. Meetings will be held at the Jews ism's Jewish nationalism and its ish Community Center on Woodward, on. Feb. 4 and 5. spokesmen" and not the Ameri- Highlighting the conference will be a symposium on the can Council for Judaism have created the issue of "dual loyal- ties" it w a s asserted in an American Council for Judaism statement released by Lessing J. Rosenwald, president. The statement was a reply to recent charges by the National Com- munity RelatiOns Advisory Council. The Council challenged the NCRAC's claims to representing "the overwhelming majority of American Jews." It questioned the NCRAC's right "to establish itself as supreme arbiter and censor, sitting in judgment on American Jews." Charging the NCRAC with confusing the issue, the Council denied that either philanthropic support of Jews in Israel or ob- j ective recognition of Israel's accomplishments a r e involved. "The issues are whether Ameri- can Jews may give such philan- thropy needed by our fellow Jews in Israel and elsewhere, without being coralled as a na- tionality-minority bloc in the United States." The Council ascribed t h e NCRAC's action to "Zionist ef- forts to involve leaders of so- called non - Zionist organizat- ions." The debate will not end with the NCRAC's resolution, the statement asserted. "The American Council for Judaism will meet the challenge of Jew- ish nationalism in the Amexi- can way, in the spirit of democ- racy, with - open discussion and free debate," it added. Jaffe Heads Board Of Merged HUG-JIR CINCINNATI — The complete merger of the Hebrew Union .College of Cincinnati and the Jewish Institute of Religion of New York, which was initiated Those of us who contend that any .attempt to inject religion into the schools will be diminishing, enlarging and affecting the civil capacities of . all pupils hold . the view that Jefferson knew that there are Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Mohathmedan in- terpretations of the Bible and of religion,- and that any effort to inject religion into Our schools will cause friction that will Undermine the basie prinCiples of our deniocracy as they were established and interpreted by the Founding Fathers. President UlySses' S. Grant took a very strong stand against the injection of sectarian teachings in our public schoolS. In an address in Des Moines, in 1875; President Grant declared: 'Let us then begin by guarding against every enemy threat- ening this perpetuity of free republican institutions . . . The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to pre- serve us • . . if we are to have another contest in the near fu- 5 ve ture of our national existence I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side and superstition, ambition, and ignor- ance on the other. The centennial year of our national existence, I believe, is a good time to begin the work of strengthening the founda- tions of the structure commenced by bur pa- triotic forefathers 100 years ago at Lexington. Let us all labor to add all needful guarantees for the Security of free thought, free speech, a free preSs, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and of equal rights and privileges to all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion. Encourage free schools and resolve Gen. U. S. Grant that not one dollar appropriated for their sup- port shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that either the state or the nation, or both combined, shall support institutions of learning sufficient to afford to every child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church, and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate." This statement presents the basic facts in the issue. It does atheism. But it does not countenance that schools should teach any dogmas. There is ample room and time for the teaching of sectarian beliefs in the home, in the religious schools, in the churches. There ought to be no room for sectarianism in the public. schools. This, we believe, was the view of the Founding Fathers of this great republic. This, the records show, have re- mained the viewpoints of our lawmakers from Washington and Jefferson and Madison down to our own time. These, we insist, should remain the cornerstone of our liberties. It does not mat- ter whether requests for governmental support of their schools come from Jewish or Protestant or Catholic groups. They should be denied because they would interfere with our religious free- doms and because they, would serve as means of destroying the wall that has been erected in our democracy between church and state. For the same reasons, sectarian • religious teachings should be barred in our schools- -because they would serve as a wedge to force sectarian teachings into our public school systems. The- basic rights inherent in our traditional freedoms are worth fight- ing for. PT Women Hold Community Clinics ABRAHAM COHEN staff member and now a field representative of the Joint Dis- tribution Committee in Ger- many. The symposium will be featured at 11:15 a.m. Sunday. Religion in Schools The conference will open at 8:15 p.m., Saturday. The opening session will be on "Religion in the Public Schools" and will be chaired by Harry Yudkoff, chair- man of the community relations committee. Participants will be Rabbi Morris Adler, Norman Drachler and Rabbi Leon Fram. The first Sunday session at 10:30 a.m., will be on the subject, "The Impact of. Israel on the American Jewish Community". Chairman of this session will be Julian • Krolik, president -of the Jewish Welfare Fed&ration; and the speaker will be Sidney M. Shevitz, president of the Zionist Council of Detroit. Dr. Haber's address will follow. . That Jewish women may dis- cuss what is needed in the way of community services in their own neighborhoods, the educa- tion committee of the Women's Division of the Jewish Welfare Federation has organized a ser- ies of 19 "Community Clinics" in the Wyoming .area. At the clinic, Jan. 24 at the home of Mrs. Irving Wasserman, Mrs. Isidore Sobeloff was discus- sion leader. Mrs. Julian H. Kro- lik was resource person to an- swer questions concerning com- munal activities. Clinics will be held through February at the homes of the following: Mesdames Charles Abramson, Royal Barnett, Max Derin, Milton Elson, Ben Feld- stein, Louis Goldberg, Oscar Hertz, Sydney Krause, Harry Lichter, Louis I. Linovitz, Sallan Lurie, Arnold Monash, Milton Moss, Charles Perlman, Charles Poplack, Samuel Sandley, Myer Teitelbaum and George Wein- garden. - Mrs. Alexander W. Sanders, education committee chairman, was assisted by Mrs. Louis G. Redstone and Mrs. Samuel Yura . in planning "Community Clin- ics." Honorary Israel Consul Guest Speaker Lunch will be served at 1 p.m. LUXEMBOURG (JTA) — Ed- The speaker at the luncheon ses- mond Marx, chairman of the sion will be Bernard P. Kopkind, Jewish Community in this coun- member of the executive com- try, haS been named honorary mittee of the NCRAC and presi- Israel consul here. Between You and Me . not deny the existence of Higher Powers and it does not approve "Democratization of Germany" featuring presentations by Prof. dent of the New Haven Jewish Wiliam Haber of the University Community Council. of Michigan and Abraham Co- The concluding session of the hen, former Community Council Regional Conference will devote itsef to "Civil Rights and Civil Liberties." This meeting will be chaired by Morris Zwerdling, chairman of the Community Council's legal committee, and participants will include Prof. Boaz Siegel of Wayne University, A. L. Zwerdling and Louis Ro- senzweig. By BORIS SMOLAR (Copyright, 1950, Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Inc.) Communal Currents LESTER A. JAFFE as a modus vivendi by the boards of both institutions on June 16, 1948, became an accomplish- ed fact at the meeting of the consolidated board of governors here. Lester A. Jaffe, Cincinnati at- torney and formerly chairmap of the College's Board of Gov- ernors, was elected chairman of the Hebrew Union College—Jew- ish Institute of Religion. Judge ,Joseph M. Levine of the Magis- trates Court of New York, form- erly chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute, and Frank L. Weil of New York, formerly vice chairman of the college's board, and Herbert R. Bloch of Cincinnati, active com- munal worker and philanthro- pist, were elected vice chairmen. Dr. Nelson Glueck, who was named president of the Hebrew Union College in 1947 and presi- dent of the Jewish Institute of Religion in the fall of 1948 on the retirement of the late Dr. Stenhen S. Wise, becomes offi- cially president of united Col- lege-Institute. Israel Tourist Pamphlet NEW YORK — (1ST) — "Israel Welcomes You", a 34 - p a g e pamphlet containing in forma- tion and regulations for visitors to Israel, was published by the Israel Office of Information: Interesting details can be revealed of the conditions under which the Jewish Agency granted authorization to 10 agencies in the -United States to continue their drives for Israel this year . . . These agencies must take all the necessary steps to assure priority' to the United Jewish Appeal ... The authorization by the Jewish Agency does not represent endorsement' of their program or budget . . . Each of these agencies must indicate in its publicity material that it is conducting its 1950 fund-raising drive with the permission of the Jewish Agency . Audited reports on income and. expenses are to be submitted to the Jewish Agency quarterly .. . Each agency must also submit monthly reports on the trans- mission of funds to Israel, stating the channels used in trans- mission . . . The Agency can withdraw its authorization should these provisions not be fulfilled . . . The Hadassah and the Gewerkshaften Campaign for the Histadrut are to clear with local Welfare Funds in regard to timing of their independent cam- paigns within the local community . . . The Pioneer Women's Organization must not undertake in 1950 any new Israel projects without the prior consent of the Agency ... The Mizrachi Women's- Organization- is not to make any applications to Welfare Funds as long as the Mizrachi Palestine Fund is included in the United Jewish Appeal . . The American Fund for Israel Institutions is authorized to campaign for a goal of $1,900,000 on behalf of eighty-nine Israel institutions, but none of its beneficiary agencies is authorized to conduct separate drives . . . The American Red Mogen Dovid can only conduct a campaign for membership with a $25 limit in membership dues for individuals; group member- ships are not to exceed one dollar per person . . . The Women's League for Israel can conduct its campaign only in the New York area and will make not application to any Welfare Fund outside New York. Linguists Immigrants in Israel now read newspapers and periodicals in about 20 languages . . . Newsstands in Israel carry papers in the following languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish . . . The English periodicals arrive from the United States and Britain; the Yiddish come from the United States; the Russian come from Soviet Russia and New York . . Some immigrants are now asking for periodicals in Turkish, Portugese, Finnish Danish 'argil Chinese . . . The immigration wave from Shanghai brougra' aloza some Chinese women married to Jews.