Theological- Seminary- - Mendes-France Heckled
Large Yeshivah Audience Hang
Open $110,000 Drive At Election Meeting
Pinch-Hitting Goren at Annual Dinner To
- PARIS, (JTA)—Pierre Mendes-
At Dec. 5 Dinner

The advanced publicity had
called for the appearance of Jan
Peerce to headline the annual
dinner and show of the Beth
Yehudah Schoots last Sunday
evening, in the Latin Quarter.
When dinner was over, how-
ever, anil after the 500 people
present had settled back to en-
joy the good natured stories of
raconteur Harry Hershfield, an
announcement was made that
Peerce, leading tenor at the Met-
ropolitan Opera Co., was con-
fined to his bed with a virus.
On stage walked Igor Goren,
Metropolitan baritone, who had
just returned from a concert
tour of the country.
The pinch-hitting Goren soon
captivated the audience with
renditions of the Figaro Over-
ture from. "Barber of 'Seville,"
an aria from "La Traviata" and
"Some Enchanted Evening."
Since his initial announce-
ment that he was a native of
Kharkov, Russia, the audience
had been awaiting the Yiddish
folk songs they expected him
to sing.
And they came next; full of
the nostalgia a young man has
who had come to this country
some 18 years ago. Goren plans
a concert tour of Israel next
September, for which he will
receive no payment.
The evening also provided
warm moments for the family
of the late Saul Sloan, Detroit
builder who died a year ago:
His son, Eugene, accepted a pla-
que for the family in recogni-
tion of elder Sloan's services to
the Yeshivah.
• The dinner served as well as
a sendoff to Rabbi M. J. Wohl-
gelernter, chief administrator of
the Beth Yehudah Schools for
the past 18 years, who will de-
part for Israel in late January
on a 'year's leave of absence to
take up residence in the office
of the Chief Rabbinate.
In a tribute to Rabbi Wohl-
gelernter, Dr. Max Kapustin
said, "We see a man of unusual
gifts of mind and heart, repre-
senting in the texture of his

,

Neutralization of Germany
Urged by World Conference

An historic gathering which
brought East and West Euro-
pean Jews together for the first
time in many years and united
delegations from 13 countries
including Israel and- the United
States, is the subject of a
pamphlet, "We Were There—a
Report on the World Jewish
Conference Against German Re-
armament." Held in Paris, last
June, under the leadership of
Andre Blumel, president of the
Zionist Federation of France,
and a co-worker of Leon Blum
when the latter was Premier of
France, the conference addressed
an appeal to the Geneva powers
for action against the revival of
a German army as a menace to
world Jewry.

Congress Pamphlet Charges
Undermining of Education

A large part of the recent at-
tacks on the public schools has
come from individuals and or-
ganizations who, under the guise
of friendly interest in education,
are actually trying to undermine
its basic principles, the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress declared in
a newly - published manual,
"Crisis in the Classroom."
The recent barrage of criti-
cism from some groups, the AJ
Congress adds, is motivated in
part "by a skeptical attitude to-
ward democracy and the insti-
tutions which perpetuate it."

Connecticut Jews' Appeal
For Synagogues Restoration
HARTFORD, (JTA) — A spe-
cial appeal in behalf of three
Connecticut synagogues that
were badly damaged in the re-
cent floods is being conducted
throughout the state. Louis Fein-
mark, president of the Connect-
icut Jewish Community Rela-
tions Council disclosed here. A
substantial sum has already been
collected but much more is
needed, he said.

personality a rare combination
of features. Scholarly and studi-
ous by inclination, his learning
encompasses the wide range of
`matters of the world and mat-
ters of Heaven.' " •
Other tributes planned for
Rabbi Wohlgelernter before he
leaves are a program by the
Women's Sabbath League, a Hil-
lel Foundation tribute on Dec.
8; a meeting of Kvutzah Ivrith
on Dec. 17 and a joint celebra-
tion by the Men's Club and Sis-
terhood of his synagogue, Cong.
Mogen Abraham.
The dinner Sunday raised
nearly $20,000 to offset the
present $70,000 mortgage and
building fund commitment of
the new Beth Yehudah Schools
building. Contributions may
still be sent to Daniel A. Lav-
en, chairman of the building
fund committee, 15905 James
Couzens.
Judge Nathan J. Kaufman,
chairman of the evening, served
as toastmaster, introducing Ir-
win I. Cohn, who presented the
plaque to the Sloan family, and
Rabbi Wohlgelernter.
Mickey Woolf and his orches-
tra played music for the dinner
and show.

UN Newsletter

The Right to the

By SAUL CARSON
JTA Correspondent at UN

Copyright 1955, JTA

The General Assembly's Social,
Humanitarian and Cultural Com-
mittee has .finally got .down to
reading, article-by-article, the
two draft covenants intended to
put teeth into -the high-sounding
phrases of the Universial Declara-
tion of Human Rights. Right off,
the Committee got snagged on
Article I—a clause identical in
both drafts, granting all peoples
the right of self-determination.
Secretary - General Dag Ham-
marskjold had. warned the com-
mittee against getting itself
snarled on that issue. Israel sup- ,
ported Mr. Hammarskjold. But
the anti-colonial nations—includ-
ing the vociferous members of
the Arab League—were insistent.
Two-thirds of the year's assembly
session is over, and the first ar-
ticle has not as yet been dis-
posed of. In the two covenants,
there are more than 100 articles
to consider—many of them as
controversial as the one dealing
with self-determination.
There is a suspicion here that
some delegations are cynical
enough to want the death of all
Human Rights actions and are
using the self-determination issue
as their club. On the other hand,
the colonial members, backed by
the United States, are also not
free of criticism—since they
would let the Human Rights cov-
enants get tangled in power poli-
tics rather than grant the anti-
colonials the right of self-deter-
mination.
One prominent western diplo=
mat told a well-known Jew here
a few years ago that "now's not
the time to fight for Human
Rights; help you when the
time is 'ripe." This diplomat has
found the time still unripe even
now. He would just as soon let
the committee get involved in
further discussion of self-deter-
mination—so that he need not
face the next article, one dealing
with the right of all peoples to
equal cultural and economic
treatment. He works on fhe prin-
ciple that the obverse of the
right to live is also an inherent
right—that all peoples, rich and
poor alike (to paraphrase Ana-
tole France) have the right to
starve, to be ignorant, to die.

Arrest Nazi for Attempt
On Life of Rabbi in 1938
NUREMBERG, (JTA)—A
judge in Bayreuth has issued a
warrant for the arrest of Ernst
Vollrath, a pharmacist at nearby
•Stadtsteinach and former County
Leader of the Nazi Party at
Meuhlhausen in Thuringia. He is
charged with attempted man-
slaughter because, while helping
to set the Meulhausen synagogue
afire during the November 1938
Michigan's population increase pogroms, he fired two shots at
of more than 10% in the past five the then rabbi of the Meulhausen
years—is the biggest in the Jewish Community, Moses Rose-
Middle
natt.
--- • -

John E. Lurie will be host at a
dinner which will launch the an-
nual campaign of the Detroit
Friends of the Jewish Theological
Seminary, it was announced this
week by Louis Berry and Samuel
B. Solomon, campaign chairmen.
The dinner on Dec. 5 will mark
thP opening of the special gifts
phase of the campaign, for which
a goal of $110,000 has been set.
The figure is part of the national
budget of $3,330,000.
The campaign is sponsored
locally by Congregations Shaarey
Zedek, Beth Aaron, Bnai Moshe
and Adas Shalom, which to-
gether with Cong. Ahavas Achim,
are members of the United Syna-
gogue of America, central body
of the Conservative movement in
the United States and Canada.
Co-chairmen of this year's -
drive are Tom Borman, Theodore
Curtis, Sol Eisenberg, Nathan R.
Epstein, Harold B. Kukes and
David M. Miro.
In addition to the kick-off din-
ner, each synagogue will conduct
-a Seminary Breakfast at its con-
gregation. Beth Aaron will open
the breakfast programs on Dec.
11.
The Seminary is primarily a
rabbinical school and teachers'
institute. Its main buildings are
in New York, with a branch—
The University of Judaism—loc-
ated in Los Angeles.
It also maintains the world-
famous Jewish Museum and
Seminary Library, housing the
largest collection of Judaica in
the world; three institutions of -
religious and social studies, one
each in Chicago, Boston and
New York and only recently es-
tablished a Cantor's Institute.
The Seminary produces the
weekly half-hour radio program.
The Eternal Light, heard in De-
troit at 10:30 p.m., each Sunday,
over radio station WWJ, and a
series of 10 television programs
during the year for."Frontiers of
Faith."
Detroit's Seminary graduates
include Rabbis Morris Adler,
Milton Arm, Benjamin H. Gorre-
lick, Mordecai S. Halpern, Abra-
ham M. Hershman, Moses Lehr-
man and Jacob E. Segal.

France, former French Premier,
was the target of severe anti-
Semitic heckling at an election
of his Radical Socialist Party in
the Paris suburb of St. Denis.
The hecklers were several hun-
dred Poujadists, members of the
anti-tax movement 'sparked by
Pierre Poujade, who has added
anti-Semitism to his political
stock in trade. The newspaper
Le Monde 'hit the anti-Semitic at-
tacks on M. Mendes-France.

First Jewish Cemetery
Dedicated in W. Berlin;
Jews Will Be Reburied

-

BERLIN, (JTA) — The first
Jewish cemetery in the Western
sectors of this divided city was
dedicated here by the Chief
Rabbi of Hesse, Dr. Emil Lichtig-
feld. The new burial site was
purchased from the Berlin mu-
nicipality. It is located of Heer-
strasse, in the Charlottenburg
-section. Some 50 provisionally
buried in non-Jewish Municipal
cemeteries during the past few
years are to be reburied here.
Ever since the 19th century,
the Jewish community of Berlin
maintained vast cemeteries at
Weissensee, the Eastern part of
the city. Burials continued to
take place there all through the
Nazi regime and in the immedi-
ate postwar era. This practice
became difficult in recent yea.rs,
however, after the East-West
split and the 1952 anti-Semite
campaign in East Germany. This
led to the establishment of two
separate communities, with the
one in East Berlin holding title
to the Weissensee burial ground.

"Journalism may kill you, but
it will keep you alive while
you're at it." —Horace Greeley

Temple Israel_Marrieds
Slate Hanukah Workshop

The story of Hanukah, as told
by Dr. Leon Fram, will open the
fourth annual Hanukah work-
shop of the -Young Marrieds
Group of Temple Israel at 8 p.m.,
Tuesday, in the temple youth
hall,
Four do-it-yourself sessions on
home decorations, wrapping of
gifts and children's games, model
luncheon for the holiday and in-
struction in film recording and
photography, will be featured.
Rabbi M. Robert Syme will
conduct a question and answer
period during the social hour
which will conclude the evening.

Adas Shalom Synagogue
Schedules Dinner-Dance

Charles Charlip, president of
the Adas Shalom Synagogue, an-
flounces the appointment Of Ira
G. Kaufman -as overall chairman
for the annual Hanukah Dinner-
Dance to be given in the social
hall on Dec. 11.
Reservations may be made
through Mrs, David Holtzman,
chairman for the Sisterhood, Al
Summer, Men's Club represen-
tative, and Stanton Bocknek,
Married Couples' delegate, or
with the synagogue office, UN
4-7474.

DO YOU HAVE ROOM
in your home for a brother
and sister who need foster
care?
WE PROVIDE
adequate board rates
other incidental expenses.

and

For further information call:
TO 8 - 2490

Jewish Social
Service Bureau

13327 Linwood

Evergreen Congregation
To Discuss 'Look' Article

At the monthly "Ask the
Rabbi" night of the Evergreen
Jewish Congregation, on Dec. 6,
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Kellman, 20300 Patton, Rabbi
Sydney K. Mossman will discuss
the recent Look Magazine article,
"The Position of the Jews in
America." -
The congregation Will meet for
late Friday evening services the
third Friday of each month at
the Esther Berman Bldg., until
its proposed synagogue is built.
Services are conducted by
Rabbi Mossman, with assistance
from Israel Idelsohn, cantor, and
Shy Magy.

TRUE RYE TASTE

s
no II RNe

a . • by MANISCHEWITZ

Adas Shalom Married Couples
Plan Hannukah Puppet Show
The Young Married Couples
Club of the Adas Shalom Syna-
gogue will hold their annual
Hanukah party for paid-up
members and their children on
Dec. 11. The party will feature
a puppet show put on by the
club members.
Miss Martha Griffiths, Demo-
crat and representative for the
17th District, will be the guest
speaker at a meeting on Dec. 14.

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

-

Friday, November 25, 1955

13

SO CRISP IT CRACKLES !

"The Greatest Name in kosher Foods!"

You'll fall in love with their
real rye tang ... because no
other matzo you've ever
tasted tastes like Nosh
O'Ryel. Spread 'em with
cheese ; ; with whatever you
please -- they're the liveliest
snack in town!

...THE ALL NEW
TRUE RYE MATZO CRACKER !

LOOK FOR NOSH O'RYE AT YOUR GROCER'S NOW!

Offer Printing Rubber Stamps

13644

A

L
WE.
5

9
2
6
9

WYOMING at SCHOOLCRAFT

LETTER PRESS • OFFSET

• LETTERHEADS - ENVELOPES
• OFFICE-. FORMS - BUSINESS
CARDS
• WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENTS
STATIONERY - IMPRINTS - Etc.

1

RUBBER STAMPS

• STEEL STAMPS - DATERS
• SEALS - NOTARY and
CORPORATION
• POCKET STAMPS
• ETC.

Also Hebrew and Yiddish Printing
RUSH SERVICE • REASONABLE PRICES • PICK-UP & DELIVERY

