Review of Jacobs' Books Brings
Responses from MI Supporters
Ti vo Americans
Slain. in Israel
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$100 Contributors Make Good Showing
The review of Herman Jacobs'
"We have never considered
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
doctoral thesis on Jewish edu- that JPI, or any phase of it, American consulate here has en-
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cation, published in last week's represents an - answer to the tered the investigation of the
issue of The Jewish News, in- Jewish education needs of the murder of two Americans in this
spired responses from support- entire community. It has de- city. The victims were Zvi Gen-
ers of the Center's Jewish. Par- veloped to meet the specific auer and his niece Deborah
ents' Institute.
needs of a grow) of parents who Genauer.
Mr. Jacobs himself, in a ton g could not accept anY of the
The Israeli police have called
letter to the editor, in which h e range of solutions previously of- On United Nations authorities to
fered
by
the
community,
and
who
expresses appreciation for the
follow up the track of the mur-
generous treatment accorded his are willing to pay the price, in derers which leads to the Arab
book, makes a number of ob- time and effort. of a program village of Beth Iksa, just across
servations. He maintains that h e which emphasizes participation, the Jordan line.
Two hundred and seventy-five Jewish women of Detroit at-
did not "undertake to construe t and attempts to develop a cre- ' Zvi, a rabbinical student at a
a kehillah or to offer an effec _ ative approach to Jewish life." Yeshiva here, and Deborah, a tended the "Big Pay-Off," $100 -minimum gifts bruncheon of the
Allied Jewish Campaign Women's Division. Herman Wouk, whe
tive school system" and that the
New York social worker who
received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "The Caine Mutiny," ad-
subtitle of his dissertation, "A
spent a year in Israel, were rid-
dressed the group. At this affair pledges totalled a 15 per cent in-
Perspective for Modern Times,"
dled with gun bullets. Zvi was
is "not a blueprint, nor even a
found at a table in the kitchen crease over the amount given at last year's affair. Shown at the
truncheon are, left to right, seated, Mrs. ABRAHAM COOPER,
design!'
clutching an open religious book
He denies claiming for JP I MORRIS SPITZER, manager, while Deborah was found shot honorary chairman of the women's drive; Mrs. WILLIAM ISEN-
that it seeks to solve the prob - Detroit Joint Board, ACWA, is a in bed in another room. Three BERG, special gifts chairman; WOUK; Mrs. LEWIS B. DANIELS,
lem facing Jewish education an c 1 member of the arrangements children of Zvi who were sleep- women's drive chairman; and Rabbi MORRIS ADLER of Congre-
declares that he introduced i t committee for the dinner in ing in another room were un- gation Shaarey Zedek; standing, CELIA WEINBERG, executive
director of the division; Mrs. ALEXANDER W. SANDERS, chair-
with other case materials be - honor of UAW - CIO President harmed.
man of general solicitation; Mrs. JOHN C. HOPP, president of the
cause of (quoting the book) WALTER P. REUTHER, to be
His wife and two other chil-
"what they have tried to do and given Saturday night at Latin dren were in Tel Aviv at the Women's Division of the Jewish Welfare Federation; Mrs. HENRY
WINEMAN, honorary chairman; Mrs. HARRY L. JONES; chairman
for what discerning and open- Quarter. Judge George Edwards time. Deborah was due to leave of
special events.
minded observers can find stim- will be toastmaster. Winnie Sha- for the United States shortly.
ulating in their approaches as pero, president, Amalgamated Zvi and his family had been in
To Head N.Y. Post Office
points of departure for other ex- Office Workers, is a member of Israel for the past five years.
18—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
perimentation." His letter con- the reception committee.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Harol•
tinues:
Friday, May 1, 1953
*
*
Lebanese to Censor "Ivanhoe" Riegelman, communal leader,
"As to my conclusions being
A five-year battle to advance For Its' Zionist Leanings'
will become acting postmaster
`unrealistic, ineffective—unac- Jewish rights. through the Unit-
of this city, it became known
ceptable,' I wondered by what ed Nations, has been compiled
LONDON, (JTA)—Hollywood's
logic you could postulate, in your by Dr. Isaac Lewin, Professor of version of Sir Walter Scott's ro- following a visit he paid to Pres-
last paragraph, that the Jewish Jewish History at Yeshiva Uni- mantic novel "Ivanhoe," was ident Eisenhower at the White
educational problems can be versity, in his book "Religious condemned in Lebanon as a sub- House.
solved only by adhering- to tra- Jewry and the e ' '
tle piece of Jewish propaganda.
ditions. by striving for maxi- United Nations" e-- •
The Lebanese Republic's board
ASK FOR
mum attainments, by giving the ecently publish-
of censors has recommended
child the best available instruc- ed by the Re-
that the film be cut before it can
tion in Hebrew, in Jewish his- search Institute
be shown in that Arab land to
tory, in the festival observances for Post- War
delete its "Zionist leanings."
KOSHER DILL & NEW DILL
. when in paragraph 4 you Problems of Re-
Earlier, the Lebanese press had
approvingly. quote from one of ligious
Jewry.
blasted the film for depicting
the numerous authorities I had Dr. Lewin, who
Jews as "admirable, humane
cited that the overwhelming ma- has represented
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and wandered persecuted over
schools, knowing neither Hebrew rael World Or-
TR. 5-4379
the earth."
nor having absorbed enough of ganization at Dr. Lewin
Jewish traditions, values, and the UN's Economic and Social
attitudes to be able to live a Council since 1948, outlines the
Jewish life when they grow old- effort - Co defend Jewish • rights
er.
through the UN charter by tack-
"Granted that for a limited ling such questions as freedom
number of people the (tradition- of religious observance, Jewish
al) system has worked well, that war orphans, deportation of
to the extent that the present Jews behind the Iron Curtain,
system has trained some Jewish- religious discrimination, the right
professional and lay leadership, for education, and a free press
it has done so quite admirably. and other pertinent issues which
But for those larger numbers I arose at the Council's meetings.
for whom the system has not
operated effectively, (e.g., who
BENNY GOODMAN and LOUIS
attend for only a year or two, ARMSTRONG will- present their
‘-■+■4 'i‘
irregularly, learning little) and all-star bands on the Broadway-
for the still greater numbers ' Capitol Theater stage, Saturday,
who never even enter a school, for two performances only, 8:30
how about new approaches? Not p.m. 'and 12 midnight.
mind you, one single approach,
* * *
be it of JPI, or Center-School
MAXWELL
ABBELL, president
er the other types .I analyzed.
of the United Synagogue of
"In writing the dissertation, I America, from Chicago, will re-
admitted to having been im- ceive the National Federation of
pressed in. my research by two Jewish Men's Clubs award at its
phenomena: 1) the enormous 24th annual convention at Kia-
, potential for progressive Jewish mesha Lake, N. Y., from Sunday
educational effort resident in the to Wednesday. Abbell was
selec-
Center movement, and 2) the ted for the award for his devo-
demonstration value of a • proj- tion. to the Jewish Theological
ect like JPI. But nowhere in the Seminary, Rabbinical Assembly
dissertation was it my intention and United Synagogue of Amer-
to advocate a single, particular ica.
type of Jewish education pro-
gram.
"With my remarks added to Library of Congress
yours, the reader can obtain a
more accurate idea of what I Given Bible by JPS
had attempted to achieve in my
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study."
Jewish Publications Society of
Explanation from JPI
America recently presented to
Boaz Siegel, JPI president, in
another letter, writes to The the Library of Congress an in-
scribed edition of a recently re-
Jewish News:
printed Jewish Bible. This edi-
"JPI conducts a program of tion, designed for pulpit and
Informal secular Jewish educa- family use, was first published
tion, Which does not emphasize in 1917 and contains the Scrip-
language, and is not committed tures in English translation of
to any single ideology in Jewish the Hebrew text. The presenta-
life. It's teaching content in- tion was made to the Congres-
cludes holiday observances, Jew- sional Librarian by Lesser Zuss-
tsh history, Israel, the American man, of Philadelphia, executive
Jewish community, etc. It is af- secretary of the Society, and
filiated - with the Jewish Com- two Washington members of the
munity Center.
Society's board of trustees, Mor-
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