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Rabbinical Leaders Address Centennial Service

Worshippers Hear Highlights
Of Temple Beth El History

Descendants of the founders of Temple Beth El, other
hundreds of members of the congregation and many his-
torically-minded persons from the community worshipped
together last Friday night at the 100th anniversary service
of the Temple. The congregation approximated 1400.
For that important occasion, the congregation invited

local, state and national leaders
of the rabbinate to participate_
in the service. Speakers of the
evening were Dr. Jacob R. Mar-
cus, president of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis;
Dr. Jonah B. Wise, rabbi of Cen-
tral Synagogue, New York, and
son of -Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise,
founder of Reform Judaism; and
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, who has
been Temple Beth El's spiritual
leader for the past nine years.
The invocation was given by
Rabbi Leon Fram of Temple Is-
rael, who was formerly director
of education at Beth El. Rabbi
Morton M. Applebaum of Flint
gave the benediction. Other plat-
form. guests were the officers of
the congregation: Nate S. Shap-
ero, president; David Wilkus,
vice president, and Lawrence
Michaelson, treasurer; and from
ecu t state communities, Rabbis
Alfred Friedman of Lansing;
Samuel Umen of Muskegon; San-
ford E. Sapperstein of Pontiac;

Frank F. Rosenthal of Jackson;
Detroit's conservative Rabbis Ja-
cob E. Segal, Morris Adler and
Moses , Lehrman had been in-•
vited to participate, but were
unable to attend. Rabbi Adler
had been invited to deliver the
benediction.
Capsules of Temple Beth El's
history were included in Dr.
Marcus' talk. He recalled, among
other significant events, that
the Central Conference of Amer-
ican Rabbis was founded at a
meeting at Beth El in 1899. He
also discussed the role of the
Jewish family as American cit-
izens, and cited the Lehman,
family, of which Senator Her-
bert H. Lehman is perhaps the
best-known, as an example.
Dr. Wise, who was speaker at
Beth El's 75th anniversary, de-
voted his talk to reminiscences
of his father, - who spoke at
Temple Beth El when it ded-
icated new synagogues in 1861

and 1867. He emphasized the im-
portance of lay leadership in
American Judaism.
The concluding address was
given by Dr. Glazer, who spoke
of the "psychological security"
afforded by the synagogue, par-
ticularly such a strong commun-
ity force as Temple Beth El has
come -to be, calling it "A_ symbol
of sanity in our modern society."
Jason H. Tickton, music direc-
tor of the Temple, directed the
choir, expanded to a double
quartet for this occasion, in two
anthems, "Fear Not 0 Israel" by
Spicker, and "Our Pious Fathers
Built This Shrine," by Grauman,
the latter particularly appropos.
Following the service, the offi-
cers and directors of the Beth El
sisterhood were hostesses at a
reception in the Franklin Mem-
orial Hall.
On Saturday morning, the
children of the Beth El School
of Religion helped celebrate the
centennial by presenting an
elaborate pageant, with Mrs.
Jason Tickton directing the jun-
ior and senior high school choirs.

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Israel Planting Plans

A four-year plan for the ex-
tension of fruit tree plantations
has been drafted by Israel's
Ministry of Agriculture. Grape-
vines, fruits, olives, subtropical
plants and citrus will be -plant-
ed on 57,000 dunams of land.

Danger of a new Israel-Arab
war persists in the Middle East,
Dr. J. C. Hurewitz, formerly of
Palestine, specialist in the State
Department and . the Office of
Strategic Services, said in a re-
port on "Crisis in the Arab East"
published by the Foreign Policy
Association. Dr. Hurewitz, lect-
urer on Middle East history at
Dropsie College, Philadelphia,
was political affairs officer at
the United Nations Secretaries
last year.
Reporting that the Arab
League countries are now en-
- gaged in an arms race with Is-
rael. Dr. Hurewitz declared:

The most pressing need in
the Arab East today is to reach
a formal peace settlement in
Palestine. The present armis-
tice agreements have merely
stopped the war. They have
not solved definitely the ques-
tion of Israel's boupdaries or
of the disposition of the Arab
• fragments of Palestine, let
alone the questions of the
Arab refugees in Jerusalem. As
long as these questions remain
unsettled the danger of _re-
newed fighting will presist."

Pointing out that British in-
fluence in the Middle East has
swiftly declined since the end
of World War II and character-
izing United States policy in
that area as "fumbling," the re-
port stated that "any weaken-
ing of British power in Arab
lands without a strengthening
of United States influence must.
from Moscow's point of view,
bolster the Soviet position."
The report disclosed that the
communist parties in the Arab

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world, which numbered only 35,-
000 members at their greatest,
have grown smaller since the
Soviet Union endorsed the par-
tition of Palestine.
Defeat in the Palestine war
has "seriously undermined the
influence" of the Arab League
in world politics, Dr. Hurewitz
reported. His report traced the
effect of the Palestine war on
each of the Arab League coun-
tries—Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Le-
banon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq and
Jordan.

The Knesset also heard a re-
port asking its approval of a
plan which would permit the
reorganization of the Palestine
Potash Co. on a basis which
would give Israelis majority
control of the enterprise and
the Israel government a share
in the corporation. The Parlia-
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ment's three-month interim
budget request.

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Friday, March 31, 1950

RABBI SIDNEY AKSELRAD (at the pulpit) conducted the Sabbath eve ritual at the
100th anniversary service of Temple Beth El. Also on the platform are the guest speakers,
of out-state congregations.
service participants, officers of the congregation, and rabbis
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