THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 23, 1952
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Local Zionists Pinch Hit
For Natl. Candidates
(Copyright 1152, Sayan
End of a Road
Sholem Asch seemingly hoped to utilize his recent visit to
Israel as a means of rehabilitating himself in the Jewish world.
But his double-talk there only intensified the question mark about
his religious orientation.
His contention that he was being maligned by Jews for seeking
what he termed a "rapprochement" between "two brothers" was
lacking both in conviction and sincerity. We are all striving
toward the improvement and betterment of Jewish-Christian
relations, but not at the price Asch seems to suggest in his novels
on Christian themes.
Asch said he was "convinced that all our troubles came from
Isolation." Since he made the assertion in connection with what
he complained was the penalty he was paying "for writing my
books." the assumption is inevitable that he intended the term
"isolation" to denote religious rather than social separateness.
Presumably then Asch's cure for this type of 'isolation" is con-
joining with the majority faith and forging a synthesis out of the
historic and basic antithesis. Simply speaking. Asch again advo-
cates the discredited Judeo-Christian equation.
If this great novelist wishes to relinquish, or render innocuous.
the basic tenents of Judaism for the sake of getting along with
the world, it is his privilege to do so whether the motivation is
cowardice or conviction. We to whom "kiddush hashem" is more
than a mere theme for a novel are not prepared to take the road
of least resistance--the road to spiritual and religious perdition.
At Annual Meeting
The three ZOA candidates for
national presidency of ZOA will
be represented by Detroit Zion-
ists at their annual meeting, to
be held Tuesday, 8:30 p.m.. at
Zionist House, Linwood at Law-
rence.
Rabbi Moses Lehrman will be
moderator of the panel, which
will discuss the platforms of the
candidates and the issues of the
forthcoming national ZOA Con-
vention in New York.
Participating in the panel will
be Morris Jacobs, who will dis-
cuss the platform of Rabbi Irv-
ing Miller; Willie Shanfield for
Abe Redelheim and Albert Elaz-
ar for Ezra Shapiro.
Sol Lipsitz, chairman of the
ZOA nominating committee. an-
nounces that election of officers
will be held at the meeting.
Committee reports will also be
heard, and the presidential re-
Nuggets
view will be presented by A. C.
Herman J. Abs, head of the West German delegation at the Lappin.
London conference. made the following remark in a recent con-
versation with Professor Franz Boehm, former chief Bonn dele-
gate to The Hague reparation talks: ''If I win at London and lose
at The Hague. I will have lost a public relations battle."
Candidates for civil service jobs in Israel are busy brushing
p on the Bible. Future civil service tests will be framed to test
At a recent meeting of Kepes
of only the general knowledge of candidates but their specific Family Club. at the home of Mr.
nowledge of modern and ancient Jewish history.
and Mrs. Louis Kepes, 9261
There is only one Jew in Formosa and he is an associate pro- Wildemere, the following offi-
essor of Chinese classical history at the University of Formosa. cers were elected: Henry Kepes.
his curious item is culled from a recent issue of the Jerusalem president; Leo S. Keeps. vice
ost which carried a letter from the 27-year-old Chinese-born president: Mrs. Leo S. Keeps,
cholar whose Levantine ancestry settled in China some two or secretary: Mrs. Norman Ross,
hree thousand years agb.
treasurer; Mrs. Ernest Stecker
Ii is estimated that $100.000.000 have been invested in Israel continues as head of the enter-
y foreign investors. mostly American Jews.
tainment committee.
Plans were made for the barn
dance, Sunday, June 8. 8:30 to
12:30 p.m.. at Van's Barn, 31180
Rabbi Morris Adler. in an in- William Nadler, vice-president: W. 8 Mile. Proceeds will be given
orma.1 visit with the Men's Club Harold Noveck, Edward Robin- to a charitable organization for
Cong. Shaarey Zedek, will at son, secretaries: and Dr. Albert i aid to Israel. The public is in-
:30 p.m., Tuesday discuss in a I Js Altman. treasurer, are the new vited. Call Mrs. Stecker, UN. 4-
9208.
rsonal vein the many personal of ficers •
Elected to the board of directors were
• d informal experiences of rab- Dr.
Henry Berris. Max Bonin, Dr. Harry
inic life. The meeting will be Burnstein. Allen A. Charlip. Ben David-
son. Harry Frank. Harold Kukes. Dr. Max
eld in the social hall.
Hoffman. I. Murray Jacobs, Morris Kar-
In developing his topic. "Post hal. Abe Katzman. Ira Kaufman. Baer
ript to a Year of Preaching". Keidan. Morris Klaus. Oscar Kramer,
Arthur M. Lang. M. Ben Lewis. Dr. Max
he rabbi will present behind the Lichter. George Parzen. Kolman Sachse.
cenes glimpses of his ex- Ben B. Sidlow. Joseph C. Snider, Jack
Warner. Joseph Ziff.
riences.
Honorary board members are Samuel
Installation of newly-elected J. Berke. Dr. Morris M. Burstein. Dr.
Martin M. Cowan. Albert Green. Hyman
fficers and members of the A. Keidan. Arthur Purdy. Joseph Rad-
nor. Abraham Satovsky, Maurice Selig-
- lard will follow.
man. Harry M. Shulman and Norman M.
Carl S. Schiller, president; Snider.
A JTA cable from Tel Aviv
this week brought glad tidings
to William Hordes. well known
community and Zionist leader.
His aunt, 72-year-old Sarah
Hecht. has reached Israel on the
Soviet exit visa Number One and
has, at last, rejoined her family.
She also is the aunt of two other
Detroiters, Mrs. Philip Zimmer-
man and Mrs. Abraham Scheuer.
Mrs. Hecht, whom Mr. Hordes
last saw in 1936 on his visit in
Russia. arrived at the Lydda Air-
port in Israel on an Israeli plane.
The JTA cable reveals that she
received special permission from
Josef Stalin to leave the Soviet
Union.
Mrs. Hecht hits not seen her
two sons, who are members of
the collective settlement Degan-
iah Beth in Israel. for 32 years.
She applied for her , exit visa
two years ago and at the same
time her sons appealed to the
Soviet Legation in Israel to in-
tervene with Moscow to permit
her to emigrate to the Jewish
state.
Upon her arrival at Lydda she
was met by her sons, seven
grandchildren and three great-
grandchildren.
The Hordes family had the
thrill of a trans-Atlantic tele-
phone conversation with Mr&
Hecht between Detroit and De-
ganiah on Monday.
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DR. SAMUEL SCHULMAN. 88.
rabbis emeritus of Temple•
Emanu-El, New York, was hon-
ored at a dinner at which an-
nouncement was made of the
establishment of the Schulman
Publication Fund for Biblical
studies.
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Binetter, Israeli on U. S. Mission,
Dies in N. Y. of Heart Attack
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