Herschel Bernardi, as Mendele,

Senators . on • the_Spot

ADL Stud i es Proposals for Religion in Schools

Criticized for
Arab Arms. Gifts

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Propos-
als that specific plans be studied
for the teaching of courses "about
religion" as a curriculum subject
in the public schools without
compromising the Constitutional
mandate of separation of church
and state were accepted by the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith.

In Cast of 'Sholem Aleichem Play'

Bernardi As
Mendele

An unusually .talented cast will
bring to life • "The • World of
Sholem Aleichem" at the De-
troit premiere sponsored by the
Jewish Community Center at
8:30 p.m., Nov. 7, in the Detroit
Institute of Arts.
The play, dramatized by Ar-
nold Perl and directed by How-
ard Da Silva, was first produced
in New York where it enjoyed
a 43-week run on Broadway.
Herschel Bernardi, who played
Mendele in the original produc-
tion, heads the cast. Coming
from a long line of Yiddish ac-
tors, he has been on the Yiddish
stage for 15 years, has appeared
in both Yiddish and English
motion pictures, on radio and

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Green

television.
Others in the production are
Gilbert S. Green, who is familiar
to watchers of radio and TV's
"The Goldbergs" as Uncle Soly;
Fritzi Burr, Yiddish Theater
actress and supper club comedi-
enne; Jack Banning, who played
Moishe in the original Broadway
show; Marie. Andrews and George
Tyne, Broadway and stock
theater stars.
Saul Shiefman, member of the
Center's board of directors who
heads the committee, announces
an unusually wide community
interest in the play's presentation
in English.
"The World of Sholom Alei-
chem" consists of three drama-
tized tales: "A Tale of Chelm,"
a folk story; "Bontsche, the Si-
lent," from I. L. Peretz; and
"The High School," from Sho-
lom Aleichem.
Mail orders are being accepted
by the 'Center, 9999 Broadstreet.
A check or money order and
sell-addressed envelope must ac-
company requests for tickets.

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Sen.
Leverett Saltonstall said he had
assumed that money collected
from him and the three other
Senators outside Premier Gamal
Adbel Nasser's office was "for
some charity society" and not fol.
arms, it was reported in Cairo.
Saltonstall told newsmen: "This
little man was speaking in Ara-
bic and we could not understand
what he was saying. We assumed
it was for some charity society
for children or something else."
Saltonstall said he donated one
piastre (3 cents) and the other
three Senators one or two pias-
tres. Saltonstall added: "When we
came out of Nasser's office, the
dwarf asked us to donate more,
but we found out what it was for
and refused to pay."
Earlier, i n a long editorial
stressing the necessity of peace in
the Middle East, the New York
Times castigated the four United
States Senators. The editorial
described the action as "fantas-
tic," and commented: "In thus
playing the good fellow Senators
Kilgore of West Virginia, Mc-
Clellan of Arkansas, Saltonstall
of Massachusetts and Stennis of
Mississippi could hardly have
made a gesture more directly op-
posed to American policy and
American interest in the Middle
East. The money they gave will
help Egypt pay for Soviet arms.
If traveling American Senators
haven't any more judgment than
this, they ought to stay at home."

discuss 'matters of faith in objec-
tive terms."

At a meeting of the ADL exec-
utive, Henry Epstein, Deputy
Mayor of New York and chair-.
man of the ADL national program
committee, declared that the
"ADL is not opposed to further
study of specific plans to deter-
mine whether the objective facts
about religion can be taught to
public school children."

• The League drew a sharp dis-
tinction between "teaching reli-
gion as an instrument of indoc-
trination of sectarian dogma and
the possibility of teaching 'about
religion' as a secular school sub-
ject."
The - ADL executive also: urged
elimination of racial segregation
from all Federal programs, noted
a "marked improvement in the
climate of civil liberties" in the
past year, called on Mississippi
authorities to press for a prompt
solution of the murder of Emmett
Till, 14-year-old Negro boy, asked
Congressional action to support
the Supreme Court's decision on
desegregation of the public
schools and reaffirmed support of
UNESCO.

The executive committee, how-
ever, expressed both its "fears
that teachers are not trained to
teach such courses" a n d its
"doubts whether children in ele- DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-5
Friday, October 28, 1955
mentary grades are qualified to

ews Susceptible To Heart Disease

Scene from "B-ontche the
Silent" in "The World of
Sholom Aleichem."

Council's Next Delegate
Assembly Set for Nov. 21

Samuel J. Rhodes, president of
the Jewish Community Council,
announced that the season's first
Delegate Assembly will be held
on Monday Nov. 21, at the United
Hebrew Schools Branch, 18977
Schaefer.

-NEWARK, N. J. (JTA)—Jews
are far more susceptible to myo-
ar dial infraction—commonly
known as heart attack—accord-
ing to a study released by Beth
Israel Hospital here.
It is believed that the Beth
Israel physicians' study is the
largest published report on the
subject from a single hospital.
The study of the disease, which
was described as the death of a
heart muscle due tb an inade-
quate blood supply brought on by
one of several processes such as
coronary occlusion or coronary
thrombosis, represents the work
of 18 physicians.
It showed that even though
less than 50 percent of all the
patients at Beth Israel during the
seven-year study were Jewish,
almost 77 percent of the patients
with this type of heart ailment
were Jewish.
Dr. I r v i n g L. Applebaum
ascribed the high incidence of
the disease among Jews to two
main factors. The first factor, he

said, was the large number of
Jews who have diabetes, "a dis-
ease which this study shows to
be related to myocardial infrac-
tion." The second, he believes, is
that various sociological pres-
sures . create "certain emotional
states relating to this disease."

Maimonides Hears Report
By Gov. Williams on Israel .

The opening meeting of the-•
Society was
addressed by Gov. G. Mennen
Williams, who, after being in-
troduced by Dr. Louis Kazdan,
program chairman," spoke on his
visit to Israel.
Dr. MOrris Mintz, president of
the organization, presented the
past President's pin to Dr. H.
Herbert • Cohen. Mrs. Max Steiner,
Auxiliary president, reported on
projects of the women's group.
Among the special guests at
the meeting were Mr. and Mrs.
W. K. - Kelsey, Councilwoman
Mary V. Beck and 'Harry Brcl-
lin.

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