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Windsor. Council Head I Jerusalem Official
In U. S. Bond Drive
To Assume Duties as
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
Canadian ORT Director
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Miriam's

Friday, 'May 1, 1953.

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BBG Goes Collegian
To Explain Activities

Detroit Windsor Council of
Bnai Brith Girls will sponsor its
University Day Sunday, at the
Woodward Jewish • Center. The
program will include classes on
all phases of BBG activity, an
honor award luncheon, a "Prom"
and "graduation."
Jean Brindze will serve as uni-
versity president; Phyllis Hel-
man, dean of students; Mau-
reen Pritz, dean of social work;
Janice Cohen, dean of home
economics; Shirley Fealk, dean
of classes; and Ilene Stotzky,
dean of public affairs.
Registration begins at 9:30

a.m.

Lynn Bari, Lloyd Nolan Star
In UJA Campaign Film

"Deeds and Dreams," starring
Lynn Bari, Lloyd Nolan and
Gene Evans and produced, at
Hollywood's Universal - Interna-
tional Studio, under the direc-
tion of Frederick de Cordova,
will be released this month to
5,000 communities participating
in the 1953 United Jewish Ap-
peal.
The movie, which has a run-
ning time of 12 1/2 minutes, is on
16 mm sound prints. It tells of
an American couple who refuse
to participate or contribute to
the UJA, and the dream of the
husband, which leads to a quick
change of mind.

NEW YORK — Dr. Avraham
Morris B. Seidelman, director Biran, District Commissioner of
Our Boys
of the Windsor Jewish Com- Jerusalem, arrived here Tuesday
munity Council, will leave on to help in the Israel bond drive.
and Girls
May 22 to assume new duties He will visit a number of Jewish
communities in this country.
as the national director of Can-
Dr. Biran, who was a member
form the basis for our celebra- adian ORT (Organization f o r
Hello Boys and Girls:
of the Israel-Jordan Armistice
tion
of
Lag
b'Omer.
Do you go to Hebrew or re-
You're probably wondering Rehabilitation through Tr a i n- Commission, is a well known
ligious school? Then you are a
archeologist. He is a former
what
that Hebrew name means. ing).
Jewish scholar,' and next Sun-
Seidelman, who will make his member of the staff of the
Actually,
it
is
just
the
date
on
day is dedicated to you. Sunday
office in Montreal, already has American School of Oriental Re-
is Lag b'Omer, which is known the Hebrew calendar. Lag stands attended a briefing session with search in Jerusalem and parti-
for
the
Hebrew
letters
"lamed"
as the scholar's holiday. Al-
Dr. William H a b e r, of Ann cipated in numerous archeologi-
though not too widely celebrat- and "gimel" which. have a nu- A r b o r, national president of cal expeditions in the Middle
merical
value
of
thirty-three.
ed in this country, it has impor-
American ORT. He also will East.
tant historical significance, and Omer is the Hebrew word for a meet with ORT officials in New
A native of Israel, Dr. Biran
sheaf
of
barley.
I'm sure you'll want to know
received his advance education
York
before
arriving
in
Mont-
In ancient times, when our
about it.
in the United States, first at the
real.
of Pennsylvania and
Lag b'Omer is a day on which people were mostly farmers, they
During his three years as head University
celebrated
the
spring
grain
har-
at John Hopkins. He re-
we recall the heroic struggle of
of the Windsor Council, Seidel- then
vest
by
bringing
an
"omer"
of
ceived his Master's degree and
Bar Cochba and his followers
an of- man aided in planning for a Ph. D. at the latter institute.
who fought against • the tyran- barley to the Temple, as on
the
new
community
c
e
n
t
e
r,
for
nical rule of the Roman em- fering of thanksgiving,
pire, almost nineteen hundred second day of Passover. Seven which .a drive will begin this
years ago. Bar Cochba and his weeks from that day, they cele- fall.
He also helped to consolidate
revolutionaries were very brave, brated Shevuot. And the forty-
but their small army was hard- nine days in-between were and/or incorporate into the
ly a match for the well-equipped known as "omer" or "sephirah" Council program the Vaad Ha-
days. ("Sephirah" means "count- Yeshivoths, Jewish Family Serv-
Roman soldiers.
The Memory of Pesach
ice, Jewish educational system,
Region after region of Pale- ing.")
Goodies Will Not Last
Lag
b'Omer,
therefore,
is
sim-
and
provided
closer
cooperation
stine—which had been freed by
For Shevuot
Bar Cochba—were recaptured by ply the thirty-third day of the with t h e general community
through the Windsor Commu-
the Romans. Finally, the Jewish counting of the "Omer."
Send
nity Chest and Council.
soldiers were forced into the
The End of the Plague
small city of Bethar. They held
Legend tells us that, during
As Canadian director of ORT
out for many months, but the the days of the Bar Cochba re- his task will be to make Can-
Romans at last brought in bat- volt, a great epidemic of sick- ada's Jews more aware of the
tering rams and broke down the ness ran through the country. It ORT program of maintaining a
walls. That was the end of the is said that 24,000 men died. network of 270 schools in Israel,
Food Certificates Now !
last struggle for a free Jewish But on Lag b'Omer, the plague Europe and North Africa. Can-
Call or Write
nation until modern times.
miraculously halted, and that is adian ORT is financed by the
Myra
Richardson
one reason for celebrating this Canadian Jewish Congress.
Scholars As Heroes
day.
Labor
Zionist
Office
Several
events
are
planned
by
The soldiers were not the only
Another legend deals with
heroes of the struggle against Rabbi Simeon. Because he dis- the Windsor community, both
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Rome, however. The conquerors obeyed the. Roman rules against Jewish and general, prior to
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had decreed that all Jewish teaching the law, his life was Seidelman's departure.
practices must be abandoned, in danger. So he fled to a cave
including observance of the in the mountains of Galilee. For
sabbath and t eaching of the 13 years he lived in this hide-
Torah. But since teaching Jew- out. Each year, on Lag b'Omer,
ish law to children is one of the his students visited him. They
greatest of the Biblical com- were disguised as hunters, to
mandments, there were brave fool the Romans.
rabbis and teachers who carried
That is why Lag b'Omer is
on "underground" schools.
known as the "scholars' holi-
One of the greatest of these day." Now, how will you, as
was Rabbi Akiba. Another was scholars, celebrate? Very often,
Simeon bar Yohai. There are teachers and students plan pic-
many legends surrounding these nics or outings for Lag b'Omer.
two teachers, and some of them 'Games, pageants, even bow and
arrow contests are held..
In Israel, these outings are
often completed by huge cvnp-
fires. Thousands gather about
them to sing and dance and
hear again the legends of Bar.
Cochba, Rabbis Akiba and Rabbi
Simeon bar Yohai.
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