On the Record

Earlier. Deadline for July 9 Issue

Because of the observance of the Fourth of July on Monday,
there will be an earlier deadline for editorial copy for the July 9
issue of The Jewish News.
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
All copy for that issue must be in the hands of the editor not
Editor, The Jewish News:.
(Copyright, 1954, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
It is indeed a source of later than at noon on Friday, July 2.
Man of Vision
pleasure and satisfaction to
This week, the world of Jewry marks the 50th yahrzeit of
know that among so many chil-
Theodor Herzl. There are few left who knew Herzl in person,
dren's camps in 'Michigan state
but his reputation has grown with the passing .years. Nature lent
him a colorfulness which harmonized with his mission. With his there also exists the Farband
Camp of the Labor Zionist
pensive eyes, his flowing beard, his impressive stature, he seemed
Movement, located in Chelsea,
like a figure stepped out of the pages of the Bible.
Mich.
The American Zionist Council
WILLIAM H. FINESHRIBER,
Like Moses, Herzl was given to see the Promised Land only
Many parents recognize the
has opened its Midwestern Of-
from a distance. But perhaps he had no need of coming nearer. necessity for a camp that caters Jr., vice president of the NBC
Radio Network, has accepted fice in Chicago and HARVEY
So sharp are the eyes of a genius that they may see from a
distance what ordinary people can only see when it is beneath to the needs of the Jewish child. the chairmanship of the Amer- TRACHTENBERG has been ap-
the nose. Certainly no one could have been more sure of the I am happy to say that Farband ican Jewish Tercentenary Com- pointed AZC a midwestern rep-
creation of the Jewish State than he. He predicted with calm Camp is just such a place. It mittee on radio and television. resentative. * * *
assurance that it would come about within 50 years. It came not only offers the children a One of the committee's func-
full sports and recreational pro- tions will be to advise the Ter-
DENVER—Stanley C. Shubart,
into being 44 years after his prediction.
gram, with swimming, boating,
But Theodor Herzl invented nothing new. The idea of the tennis, hikes, hay-rides, baseball; centenary on the most effective local businessman, was elected
president of National Jewish
restoration of the Jewish state had been with the Jews since the etc., but also incorporates a use of raido and television in
destruction of the state 20 centuries before. Herzl's uniqueness cultural program based on Jew- bringing before the American Hospital at Denver, the free non-
lay in his vision. This ability to penetrate the curtain separating ish history, tradition, Bible, songs public the story of Jewish par- sectarian medi- •
tomorrow so that he could see the recreated state so vividly that and dances. The older group ticipation in Amer i c an life -cal center for
tuberculosis and
he could not fail to become a voice summoning the people to participates in discussion about through three centuries.
* *
diseases.
chest
prepare.
Jewish problems and American
48,
,Shubart,
Over 200 lay and rabbinic.lead-
, We need this quality of vision today as it was needed 50 Jewry in particular.
becomes the
ers
of
American
Reform
Juda-
When
Henry
Morgenthau,
Jr.,
chairman
of
the
Israel
years ago.
Special attention is given to ism paid tribute t a Dr. LOUIS I. seventh and
Bond Organization, some few years back rifling some sands of
the Negev through the fingers of his hand remarked that these the Sabbath. On Friday evening, EGELSON, administrative sec- youngest, head
sands might constitute a chief source of the wealth of Israel, he there pervades the warm atmo- retary of the Union of American of the 55-year-
sPere of the traditional Jewish Hebrew Congregations, for his old institution,
was displaying this quality.
home. The white table cloths, work in advancing the cause of famed for its
troubles
to
be
sure.
But
the
de
Israel is building. There.
greatest trouble is perhaps that we hear too much about the blessing of candles, • Sabbath liberal Judaism during 40 years pioneering
troubles. The great constructive achievements are too little noted. prayers, songs, traditional Kid- of service. At a testimonial din- TB treatment,
We need the Theodor Herzls who can look above the turmoil of dush and congregation services ner at Hotel Plaza, New York, research, rehab-
create an environment where a Dr. Samuel H. Goldenson, rabbi , ilitation and eci-
the day to the Promised Land ahead.
Shubart
Jewish child feels wanted and emeritus of New York's Temple ucatiori. He suc-
'protected.
Emanu-El, delivered the prin- ceeds the late Joseph H. Silver-
In My Opinion
smith, who died in January,
The "Blue White Week" is one cipal address.
Israel's Parliament will lend itself to tragic travesty and un-
shortly after his re-election to
of the major activities in camp
forgivable historic distortion if it votes approval of a bill that
a second term.
life. Campers and counselors
would stamp Yiddish as a foreign language. The millions over
have
a
broad
field
of
self
ex-
the centuries who chanted Talmud and Torah in Yiddish idiom,
Necessity To Salt
the mothers who cradled children to Yiddish tune and cherished pression. Talent and creative
ability are given an opportunity
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
1eitsch-chumesh to pearl, the bards and merrymakers and folk-
The term "Targum" refers to Meat Before Cooking
singers who regaled sad hearts, the magiddim who risked peril to to be shared with others.
one
of the translations of the
Farband
Camp
is
not
only
bring God's word and admonition to the most distant Jewish
The purpose of salting meat
Bible. The word itself comes
nooks, the grandfathers who strove to preserve writ and knowl- an ideal place for children but from an old semitic root mean- is to remove as much blood as
edge, the scholars and saints in their outpouring of law and also offers accommodations and
possible from the meat so that
mercy, the masters of pen who knit legend and folktale and facilities . for adults' who wish to ing to "heap" or "pile up" which
when the meat is cooked the
later
came
to
be
used
for
spend
their
vacation
in,
sur-
essence into a unique monument of creativity, the lovers of Zion
blood shall not be cooked with
who traveled widely foretelling redemption, return and rededica- roundings that are friendly and ; "throwing" or "setting one over
a river." Thus, according to it and eaten with the meat.
tion and the many millions who but recently perished—these warm. There is "Seminar Week" some opinions, it developed that
Basically, the Torah expressly
which is ,a special occasion of
were not of an alien tongue.
the translating from one lan- prohibits the human consump-
The historic process is merciless and there • is perhaps no various activities, lectures, rec-
character-
-
guage to another was
tion of the blood of an animal '
gainsaying the fact that tiny Israel cannot afford the luxury of reation and entertainment.
ized by the word "Targum."
or fowl. This restriction is men-
bilingualism. But neither can it afford the stigma of being
Farb and Camp combines
As early as 900 . B. C. E. tioned in several places in the
meitiless to that tragic tongue. Though not yet as fully culturally pleasure and relaxation with
Aramaic began to be the
knitted as it hopes to be, Israel nevertheless can afford the mag- planned Values of , Jewish edu- popularly spoken language even Bible (Lev. 7:8; Deut. 12:23;
Deut. 12:251. In one of these
nanimity—and, in my judgment, the privilege—of bestowing a cation which the campers like
in Palestine. A situation devel-
special status on Yiddish instead of callously bracketing it with and .look forward to. It is in pped where Hebrew became. the places the Bible offers the fol-
lowing reason: "Thou shalt not
tongues which over the same centuries have been instru- existence for the past 25 years
literary language while Aramaic
ments of .whip and Jewish humiliation.
and is operated on a non-profit became the oral tongue of the eat it in order that it may be
good to thee and thy children
basis.
people. This was due to _the after thee, if thou shalt do that
M.
GOLDOFTAS
`Caine Mutiny' Opens Today at Madison.
influence, both directly and in-
Cultural Director !, directly of the Aramaeans.. which is right in the eyes of the
Farband Camp Their language, Aramaic, spread Lord." -
Columbia Picture's long-await- Caine mutiny and a sea-going
reason inferred from
He- a Another
widely, even amongs t
ed Technicolor production "The snob. Jose Ferrer plays Lt.
Biblical text is the fact that
brews. So great was this influ- the blOod was used for sacrifi-
Caine Mutiny," starring Hum- Greenwald, the court-appointed Flint Also Heads List
phrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van and reluctant defense attorney Of UJA Loan Supporters ence that even some of the cial purposes on the altar and
canonical books in the Bible was dedicated to a higher pur-
Johnson and Fred MacMurray -who cold-bloodedly "torpedoes"
such as Daniel contain passages pose than that of human con-
opens Friday at the Madison Bogart in the court martial- Editor, The Jewish News:
Theater as the big holiday prem- which follows, in order ,to save
I saw the article in your paper in Aramaic. There thus devel- sumption. Another reason given
iere in Detroit. In the support- Maryk from the consequences of where Detroit delivered $2,000,- oped a tendency to familiarize by medieval authorities such as
ing cast are two outstanding his "mutiny." Newcomer Robert 000 to the United Jewish Appeal one's self with the Bible in a Maimonides is that it was once
newcomers, Robert - Francis and Francis plays a junior officer loan flotation, and noted that language which was spoke n a common custom amongst idol-
while May Wynn is his girl, a you mention other communities amongst the masses This was ators to drink the bloOd of
May Wynn.
Aramaic. Thus the first Tar- their sacrifices. Jews were thus
Taken from Herman Wouk's night club singer.
aiding the loan effort including
Pulitzer prize-winning novel by
Since "The Caine Mutiny" Grand Rapids, Pontiac and Bay gums were Aramaic. However, asked to abstain from consum-
the same name, "The Caine Mu- was produced with the coopera- City, with no mention of Flint. they were oral as the rabbis ing blood so as to remove them-
had prohibited the writing o f selves from idolatrous customs,
tiny" reveals the reactions of tion of the U.S. Navy, a tech-
For your information, and I
translations to the Bible
men pent-up in a ship but as nical aide, Commander James C. am sure it was an oversight, 'any
Others have seen a moral les-
since their texts might be af-
one of Wouk's characters says, Shaw, was assigned by Washing- Flint loaned $100,000 to UJA on\
sanctity of the orig- son of temperance in this pro-
forded
the-
"by geniuses to be run by idiots." ton to the production. Exten- May 5. We went along with this inal Hebrew and soon come to hibition. A man- is asked to re=
Battle tensions magnify the na- sive location filming took place project before any other Jewish
replace them. Also , there was frain from consuming the blood
tural clash of varying tempera- at Yosemite National Park, the community in Michigan, even no real standard translation into of an animal or fowl so as not
ments, Humphrey Bogart plays San Francisco Bay Area, and Detroit.
Aramaic until the Targum called to appear barbaric. or glutton-
Queeg, skipper of the USS Pearl Harbor, Honolulu. Portray-
ous. Hygienic reasons have also
Louis Kasle
Onkelos came into being.
CAINE, on and under whose ing the Caine are the destroyer-
President
The Targum Onkelos is the been offered for this prohibition.
The broiling process in itself
decks most of the action takes minesweepers Doyle and Thomp-
Flint Community \Council
most official of the Aramaic
place. Van Johnson, as Maryk, son. Marine Corps personnel as-
translations of the Bible. Its draws the blood out of the meat:
The earth with her bars was author is supposed to be Aquila, Thus the salting process is un-
the rugged executive officer, sisted in the filming of the
seizes command of the ship after Kwajalein battle sequences and about me . . . yet hast thou the prosylite. This is the of- necessary. However, it is cus-
Queeg mishandles her during a the aircraft carrier, Kearsarge, brought up my life from corrup- ficial translation of the first tomary to sprinkle a little salt
typhbon. Fred MacMurray por- was also used for important tion, 0 Lord my God.
section of the Bible, the Five upon the meat before broiling.
—Jonah 2:6 Books of Moses, or the Penta- Also, one is required to wash off
trays Keefer, the "brain" of the scenes in the film.
teuch. Its composition took the blobd that appears on the
place in about the first and sec- surface of the meat.
ond centuries of the common
Stretching the Sabbath
era; although the scholars claim
that its form became final in
"And when he would begin to
the third. century. Some call
this Targum the "Targum Babli" examine each day of his life,
or the Babylonian Targum. So then he used to find that he was
accepted was it that it became indeed right in taking himself
commonly referred to as "our to task for complaining. He
Targum." In view of the fact would make a day by day ac-
that Aramaic translations exist- count as follows: on Sunday and
ed at least in oral and unofficial Monday he still basked in the
forms before this Targum, this afterglow of the pleasure of the
Targum might be a final result Sabbath that had just passed;
SENT ANYWHERE
at an effort to render the Bible and from Thursday onward . he
in a form both readable and already had a foretaste of the
The Gift
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acceptable to the average lay- Sabbath that was on its way,
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Targum considered, that even self from that new source. So
for One
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NAME
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besides reading it in the original week, even if they do happen to
A House-
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Hebrew twice.
be bad ones? ..."
Entire
warming
—jehuda Steinberg,
STATE
ZONE
CITY
Family
"Gedalyahu"—
Present
18—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
19th Century
Friday, July 2, 1954

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