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Detroit Synagogues to Sound
Call of Shofar for New Year
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Shetzer Forest Is Completed
With Over 10,000 Trees
The heralding in of the
The Isaac and Simon Shetzer Forest is a reality.
Cantor David Katzman a n d
New Year, 5712, will be observed the Bnai Moshe choir directed Rabbi Benjamin H. Gorrelick
Harry
Cohen, chairman of the Shetzer Memorial
will
preach
on
"Vital
Sources
for
at synagogues in Detroit on Sun- by Nathan Turbow, will chant
Committee, this week announced that more than the
day evening, Sept. 30, and on the services. Auxiliary services Courageous Liv: g" and "The
10,000 trees necessary for the planting of a Forest in
Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 1 and will be condutced by Rabbi Jul- Shofar Sounds the Call for Per-
Israel, on soil of the Jewish National Fund, have been
2. Followin ; • is a list of syna- ius Weinberg, speaking on "The sonal Salvation." Rev. Ellenson
voluntarily ordered and paid for by friends andoadmir-
gogues holding services, t h e Real Tragedy of Our Times" and and Max Kaminsky will serve
ers of the two departed leaders.
times of services and the sub- "Living Concepts for Eternal as auxiliary cantors.
Cong. Beth Tikvah
jects of their respective spiritual Realities." Junio congregation
As of Sept. 10, more than $16,000 was received by -
leaders:
Services at 6 p.m., Sunday; at
will hold separate services, chil-
the
local
JNF office through Mr. Cohen for the Shetzer
8
a.m.,
Monday
and
Tuesday.
Cong. Shaarey Zedek
dren 6 to 12 at 11 a.m., and 13
Memorial Forest. This community will continue to plant
Rabbi Leiter Levin will speak on
Sunday eve services at 5:30 to 17 at 10 a.m.
trees in this Forest in memory of the Shetzers.
"How to Make the Coming Year
p.m. Monday morning at 8 a.m.
Temple Israel
a Sweet One." Cantor 1VIendele
Rabbi Morris Adler will preach
Rabbi Leon Fram and Can-
on "Keys of the Spirit" in main tor Robert Tulman will offi- Stawis will chant the liturgy.
Israel Awaits Visit
Life Begins Anew
Cong. Gemiluth Chassedim
auditorium. Rabbi Max Routten- ciate at service.. at Temple
At
services,
Sunday,
6
p.m.;
berg will talk on "The Moral Israel. Two services, at 7 p.m.
From IV.Y.C.'s Mayor
Monday, 9 :a.m.; and Tuesday
Crisis and Individual Responsi- and at 9 p.m., will be held
7:30 a.m., Rabbi Leo Neuhaus
bility" in the social hall. On Sunday night. Rabbi Fram will
JERUSALEM (AJP) — Mayor-
.will preach. Sermon topics are
Tuesday Rabbi Routtenberg, in lead services on Monday morn-
Vincent
R. Impellitteri and his
"Our Situation" and "The Sig-
the main auditorium, will ing. At Sabbath services, Sat-
wife
were
scheduled to arrive
nificance
of
the
Shofar."
preach "At the Bar of Judg- urday, Rabbi Fram will preach
Cong. Beth Itzchock
here this week for a tour of Is-
ment," while Rabbi Adler, in the on "David and Bathsheba," re-
Rabbi I. Strauss will preach on raeli cities, following a visit to
social hall, will speak on "Why lating discussion to the cur-
"A Time to Remember" and Italy.
We Fail."
rent film.
"The Watchers." Times are 6:30
Cantors Jacob H. Sonenklar
Adas Shalom Synagogue
The mayor, on his first trip to
p.m., Sunday and Monday, and
and Jacob Marcus and the
Services scheduled at 6 p.m., 8:30 a.m., Monday and Tuesday. the Jewish State, planned a tour
Synagogue choir, under the di- Sunday, and at 7:30 a.m., Mon-
Cong. Beth Abraham
of several major cities as well
rection of Dan Frohman, will day and Tuesday. Rabbi Jacob
Rabbi Israel I. Halpern will as many of the collective settle-
chant at all services. At Sab- E. Segal will preach sermons on
bath services Saturday, Rabbi "Morality: Burden or Privilege" officiate at all auxiliary serv- ments.
Adler will preach on "Can We and "Every Man A Judge." Can- ices, assisted by Cantor Henry
He is expected to remain in
Blum. Services are at 6 p.m.,
Return?"
tor Nicholas Fenakel and a choir Sunday and Monday; at 8 a.m., Israel three days before return-
Temple Beth El
trained by Dan Frohman will Monday and Tuesday, in the ing to the Italian mainland and
Services the first evening will chant services.
main sanctuary and at 8:30 hence to the United States.
be held at 7 p.m., with Dr. B.
Auxiliary services to be con- a.m., in the social hall.
Benedict Glazer officiating, and ducted by Rabbi Marvin Weiner
Leo Goldman will preach on
Joseph W. Allen Cong.
at 9 p.m., with Rabbi Sidney and Cantor David Garen. Youth
Rosh Hashanah services at "The Message of Rosh Hashan-
Akselrad officiating, Dr. Glazer services will also be -held as list-
6:15 p.m., Sunday; at 8 a.m., ah." Cantor Shrnoele Karsh wily
will preach at morning services ed in last week's edition.
Monday and Tuesday. Rabbi officiate.
1 Step by .step, she walks into
at 10 a.m. Rabbi Israel Bettan
Cong. Bnai David
David S. Bakst will conduct all
Downtown Synagogue
her new life in Israel with her
will conduct auxiliary services
Services at 6 p.m., Sunday; at
at 7 p.m., Sunday and 10 a.m., 8 a.m., Monday and Tuesday. services.
Now in its 11th year, Down- baby. Behind her, other new-
Cong.
Anshe
Bereznitz
town Synagogue will conduct .1
Monday in the Brown Memorial Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka will
First day evening services at 6 services at the Veterans' Me- .! comers from Romania descend
Chapel. Children's services will preach on "Creative Life—I Visit
be at 2:30 p.m., Monday. Jason Israel," and "A New Life—I Meet p.m., morning services on the morial, with Rabbi Herman the gangplank of the S.S. Tran-
Tickton will direct the Temple the People of Israel." Cantor two following days at 7:30 a.m., Rosenwasser officiating. He sylvania, the ship which t-ans-
and evening services at 6:30
choir at all services.
Hyman Adler and choir directed p.m. Rabbi Leo Goldman will will preach sermons at each ports from 5,000 to 8,0 ,90 Jews
Cong. Bnai Moshe
service: Admission is free.
by Harry Siegel will chant serv-
each month. to Haifa. To keep
Services Sunday at 5:45 p.m., ices. Auxiliary services will be preach on "The Rhythm of Life."
Cong. Shaarey Zion
Cantors
Moshe
Alperin
and
Mor-
and Monday and Tuesday at held in the social hall, and Cyril
Services at 6 p.m., Sunday; at the ship sailing, and to help
7:30 a.m. and 5:40 p.m. Rabbi Servetter will conduct children's dechi Perel will officiate.
7:30 a.m., Monday and Tuesday, these immigrants settle in Is-
Cong. Adas Yeshururi
Moses Lehrman will preach on services.
and evening services the second rael, the United Jewish Appeal
Evening services Sunday, at 6 two days at 6:30 p.m. Rabbi Leol requires $35,000,000 in cash now.
Monday on "Patience in an Era
Beth Aaron Synagogue
p.m. Morning services Monday
of Speed," and Tuesday o n
Services Sunday at 6 p.m., and and Tuesday at 8 a.m. and eye- Goldman will preach on "This
"When the Hour Strikes."
morning services at 7:30 a.m. n ing services at 6:30 p.m. Rabbi Day of Remembrance," at 11 2—THE JEWISH NEW'-
a.m., Monday.
Friday, September 28, 1951
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Purely Commentary
Howdy- Doody-Lone-Ranger-Trained
Americans and Jewish Education
There is no problem more serious than that of the
education of our youth, and the eve of the ushering
in of a new year must be made the occasion for deep
study of the needs which challenge us perennially
but which are becoming more pressing as time goes on.
Your Commentator is indebted to Bennett Cerf's
Trade Winds column in the Saturday Review of Lit-
erature for a portion of an address which was deliver-
ed by John H. Crider, editor-in-chief of the Boston
Herald ; at the 39th commencement of Lesley College,
Cambridge, which has great bearing on all problems
which face educators. Mr. Crider said:
. . However you may quiet the young, I cannot
imagine a tougher time to embark on a teaching
career. I might also add that it's a pretty tough
time to be a parent. Of course, I can only speak for
one parent, but for him I must confess that just
how you do the right thing by your offspring in this
age of radio, television, and automobiles, I do not
know. To the extent that we parents fail to carry
our end of the responsibility, that of you teachers
becomes the greater and the more difficult. In fact,
I don't know how the teachers do even as well as
they do.
Of one thing I am sure—to the extent that our
younger generations become illiterate by way of
disinterest in reading and preoccupation with audio
and nonliterary visual stimuli, the foundations of
OU1• Republic will be weakened. That is, unless the
program content of radio and television is im-
- mensely improved. But even at its imaginable best,
neither of these important media can, in my opin-
ion, take the place of that ability to read and inter-
est in constructive reading which gives to our
young the indispensable sense of political and mor-
al values without which they can be only synthetic
citizens.
It troubles me because I have two boys whom I
have watched growing up, prodded on the one
hand by Ma and Pa to listen to the reading of the
classics and prodded on the other by the fetching
flirtation of radio. We haven't crossed the television
bridge yet, and that, I fear will be the test of our
youngest, a little girl now six. But those boys! It
seems to me they have been cuddling radios in their
arms since they were old enough to understand the
spoken word. My younger boy, now 12, is so ad-
dicted to the Lone Ranger that he will bolt a party,
his guests, or almost Santa Claus in person to keep
his 7:30 date with the Robin Hood of the Western
plains. But then they graduate from such gentility
as the Lone Ranger and become addicted to the
blood and psychopathia of the crime thrillers. As a
matter of fact, I'm somewhat pleased over the new
accent on fantastic stories of Martian wars, inter-
space ships, and other utterly fantastic dream stuff.
After all, if you're bound to have your feet off the
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Education — the Most
By Philip
Serious Problem Facing
American Jewry in 57.12
Slomovitz
ground, you might as well be hanging from a comet!
President Truman saw fit to welcome the observ-
The older boy, now, perilously close to finishing
ance of Jewish Education Month with a statement in
secondary school, went through the same early
which he declared:
exposure to the literary narcotics of radio, and only
"Our Nation today is faced with challenges and
in very recent .years—he is now seventeen—has he
dangers unmatched in its history. In such a period,
read anything substantive in the classical field of
the responsibility which falls upon every American
literature. But, even then, I ant convinced, he has
is indeed a great one. One unfailing source from
read for the most part because he had to, not be-
whiCh each of us can draw the strength to meet
cause he wanted to.
these responsibilities is the great reservoir of faith,
Education, as I see it, is to have the doors open-
human progress and human dignity contained in
ed to the history of our Western civilization as nar-
the ageless reliaious traditions which stems from
rated in fact and fiction and to gain that added
the Prophets of old.
essential of life, the feeling for the good, the true,
"For our children, who must grow to maturity in
and the beautiful, which both the Greek philoso-
a world of ever-present strains and tensions, this
phers and our Christian prophets told us we must
rock of faith is indispensable. Under our American
anchor ourselves to. True, radio and television could
system, it is the responsibility of every parent to .
possibly supplement our basic knowledge of these
provide
his children with instruction in the spirit-
things, but could never replace its source in
ual, ethical and moral values which they must
books .. .
absorb in order to develop as the best kind of
I say that as one who firmly believes in the
American.
potential greatness of our newest communications
"It is for this reason that I welcome the ob-
medium, television. Its possibilities are almost un-
servance of Jewish Education Month by the Ameri-
limited, although, as I have said, even though it
can Association for Jewish Education, and the na-
makes great contributions to the intelligence of our
tion-wide campaign to enroll Jewish children in the
citizenry, even it cannot replace the treasure chest
religious schools of their parents' choice."
of good literature. I think we will have a real and
This is sound advice, but it does not in any way
increasingly difficult problem in rearing young-
remove the new obstacles which are obstructing the
sters who can read well and really enjoy seeking out
road to better educational efforts in the community
the richness, so important to their full development,
at large and more effective Jewish school efforts. We
that can only be found in books. It is difficult to
question the recent statement of the director of the
imagine how a nation of popsicle-sucking, Howdy-
Association for Jewish Education that there is a
Doody-viewing citizens can lead the free World
"greater awareness" on the part of Jewish parents of
through the perilous months and years ahead. It is
their responsibilities for the education of their chil-
up to people like you and me, who are in the busi-
dren. It is our impression that our schools continue -
ness of education, to find some solution to this very
to function as Bar Mitzvah factories and that some-
vital problem . •
thing drastic needs to be done to improve the sit-
uation.
It would be utterly foolish to blame the educators
or community leaders for the declining interest in
Jewish cultural advancement. The difficulties stem
from the home, where there is lesser concern in Jewish
spiritual and educational values, and the home af-
fects the school.
We are now in the process of observing annual
Education Month. While the process of education
and mental well-being; to endow him with a share in
would be an entirely too difficult one—if not an ut-
your joys, memories and associations; to make him a
° valued neighbor and citizen,' to enrich his life with
terly fruitless one—if we were to begin with the adults,
in order to remold the home, we must, nevertheless
the priceless heritage of religion and culture amassed
think of the parent as a means of strenghtening the
in 3,000 years of Jewish creativeness."
interest of the child.
There is the usual appeal—to link the child "with
the richest spiritual treasures of mankind, with the
Education Month should be made the occasiu
ethical and moral foundations of democracy and with
a great effort to enroll more children in our schools,
a religious culture which has ennobled human
to invade the home with the educational message,
society."
bring the adults closer to the cultural needs.
Is this appealing enough? When the Association
No other issue is as pressing as this one. That is
for Jewish Education asserts that "to pass this heri-
why it must be made the subject for discussion and
tage on to your child is to give him strength to meet
planning during the New Year we now welcome.
life's problems . . . ", the question must be posed May 5712 bring strength to our schools, thereby
whether the parent himself possesses pride in a heri- retaining for Jewry the devotion and loyalty Ct
tage, which many are abandoning. children.
The problem being that pressing for the communi-
ty at large, it stands to reason that it is more urgent
when it faces the small sector of American Jewry.,
How 'is this issue to be met? Can it be solved?
"A Call to Jewish Parents" issued by the American
Association for Jewish Education, to inaugurate an-
nual observance of Education Month, lists the rea-
sons for providing children With an effective Jewish
education: "To provide fully for your child's emotional
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