Women, Beffin Special Gifts Drive

24—Detroit Jewish News

NCRAC-Synagogue Council Release
Codified Views on Religions Issues

Friday, March 16, 1956

Noteworthy Redstone
Architectural Work
Featured in Bulletin

Women's Division special gifts leaders are settling down
to intensive campaigning for the Allied Jewish Campaign,
with a special gifts report meeting set for next Tuesday, 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m., at the home of Mrs. Harold Schreiber, 19360 Renfrew.
Pictured here are, left to right standing: Mrs. John C. Hopp,
Mrs. Sanford Klein, Mrs. Leo Mellen, Mrs. MaXwell Jospey,
Mrs. Harry L. Jones; seated, Mrs. Lewis H. Manning, Mrs.
Henry Newman and Mrs. Maurice Schiller.

Rokeach Aids Homemaker to Plan Passover Menus

A new "8-Day Passover
Menu" folder is offered free by
I. Rokeach & Sons, Inc., manu-
facturers of kosher food and
household products.
Containing complete, well-
balanced breakfast, luncheon
and dinner menus for the entire
week of Passover, with quick-
trick recipe suggestions, two
complete Seder menus and ex-
planations of the traditional

foods used in the Seder cere-
mony, this handy little folder
serves as a. timely aid in help-
ing the homemaker prepare her
advance Passover food order,
and in suggesting a week of
easy, practical and varied
menus.
The folder is tree for the ask-
ing, by writing to I. Rokeach &
Sons, Inc., 133-34 36th Road,
Flushing 54, N. Y.

The Monthly Bulletin, of the
Michigan Society of Architects
features an interesting cross-
section of the work of the Louis
G. Redstone Architects and
much of the outstanding work
of Mr. Redstone and his associ-
ate architect, Allan G. Agree.
Among the buildings fea-
tured are: The Henry Chaney
Branch Library for the Detroit
Library Commission; offices and
distribution center for the
Michigan state Liquor Control
Commission, for which the of-
fice received an Award of Merit
from the Michigan Society of
Architects in 1955; bank build-
ings for the Manufacturers Na-
tional Bank of Detroit; Nursery
School and Maintenance Build-
ing for the Highland Park Board
of Education; interior of Beth
Aaron Synagogue; Northwood
and Cherry Hill Shopping Cen-
ters; and among others, apart-
ment buildings in Tel-Aviv,
Israel, designed in 1934.

Head Of Jewish Small Loan
Fund Gets Bonn Award
BONN (JTA)—Max Nimes-
chanski, chairman of the board
of the Jewish Small Loan Fund
here, has been awarded the
Federal Cross of Merit.

The Synagogue Council of
America and the National Com-
munity Relations Advisory
Council (NCRAC) jointly an-
nounced the publication of a
compilation of their positions on
religion and the public school.
They warned that unwise or
ill-timed actions in regard to
religious intrusions. on puolic
schools "may intensify problems
without producing any positive
results."
The publication is a codifica-
tion of the declarations of prin-
ciple and statements of position
jointly adopted by the two
bodies over the past ten years.
The Synagogue Council of
America comprises the rabbinic
and congregational organiza-
tions of the Conservative, Or-
thodox, and Reform movements.
The NCRAC is the joint
planning and coordinating
agency in the community rela-
tions field for the three national
congregational organizations and
for three major-national Jewish
agencies — American Jewish
Congress, Jewish Labor Com-
mittee, Jewish War Veterans—
and thirty-four Jewish corn-
munity relations• agencies in
communities throughout t h e
country.
Opposition is expressed in the
codification to the • following:

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Teaching in the public school of

"moral and spiritual" values, "ob-
jectives" or "factual" teaching
about religion, or teaching of a
"common core" of religious faith;
Use of public school premises for
religious purposes;
Religious practices or observ-
ances, including jOint religious ob-
servances (Christmas - Chanukah,
Easter-Passover, e.g.) in the public
schools;
Prayer reading or recitation,
Bible reading, distribution of Bibles
or tracts, hymn singing, wearing
of clerical garb by teachers, grant-
ing of credit for religious studies,
taking of religious census of pupils,
holding of public school classes in
religious buildings;
Released time and dismissed time
practices;
Government aid to religiously-
controlled schools.

Regarding the closing of pub-
lic schools on Jewish High Holy
Days, the Synagogue Council
and NCRAC advise against re-
questing that this be done, not-
ing that it is a decision to be
made by the school authorities;
and recommend that it not be
opposed if school authorities de-
sire to do so. They insist that
'Jewish teachers should not be
penalized for absence on such
holidays.

Community Health Week
The health committee of the
Detroit Junior Board of Com-
merce is planning to promote
Community Health Week,
March 18-24, with the theme,
"Know Your Community
Health Resources."

• He Cut Across State and Racial Lines Spoke to People - to report on

the most explosive issue

of the day . • •

SEGREGATION

AN UNFORGETTABLE, DIFFERENT SURVEY

by

JIM BISHOP

(Author of "The Day Lincoln Was Shot")

THUNDER
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The Most Dramatic Story on the Racial Controversy Ever Written

Here is a factual account of how the people most concerned
with the racial problem feel about it. For the first time,
you'll learn what the Negro parent and child want. What
they don't want. Why some are FOR, and some AGAINST
integration.

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