Emanu-El Services Logotherapy: Prof. Y. E. Frankl's P sychiatric Idea About 'The Mind'
By MARGUERITE KOZENN CHAJES
human soul is as if he would really disappeared from the
in New Building
EDITOR'S NOTE:: Considerable attention is being given in psychiatric
scene. Also the Catholic church
have saved a whole world."

High Holy Day services of
Cong. kmanu-E1 will be held
this year in its nearly-com-
pleted building on 10 Mile, be-
tween Coolidge and Greenfield,
in Oak Park.
These will be the first serv-
ices held in the newest of the
Detroit area temples. The serv-
ices • will be conducted by
Emanu-El's new spiritual
leader, Rabbi Milton Rosen-
baum.
The congregation in only a
few years of existence has
grown to a membership of 400
families. Membership includes
worship at religious services,
Sunday school, adult education,
community service and fellow-
ship through the Sisterhood,
Men's associafion and youth
group.
Emanu-El currently is en-
gaged in a drive to increase
its membership by 100 families
by the Holidays. Persons in-
terested in attending Reform
services and enrolling their
children in the religious school
should contact the temple of-
fice, LI. 7-5015.

circles to the latest book on the subject, "The Doctor and the Soul: An
Introduction to Logotherapy," by Dr. Viktor E. Frankl, published by
Knopf. The book is described as "a new approach to the neurotic person-
ality that emphagizes man's spiritual values and the quest for meaning
in life." Marguerite Kozemi Chajes, the author of this article, met Prof.
Frankl during her recent concert tour in Vienna. Mrs. Chajes states that
efforts are being made to bring Prof. Frankl for a lecture in •Detroit and
that it will he sponsored by a leading congregation in this city. Mrs.
Chajes stated upon her return from Vienna that Dr. Frankl, who is hailed,
as the successor of his teacher Sigmund Freud, nevertheless contradicts
him. "Frankly," she stated, "he is for religion and fortifies its feelings
when dealing with patients who are believers. Freud, on the other hand,
called religion and God something for naughty children and nothing more.
Prof. Frank! survived Ausschwitz and Theresienstadt and worked together
with Dr. ,Leo Baeck, former Chief Rabbi of Berlin, for the morale of the
inmates in the concentration camps."
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Norman Vincent Peale wrote
in the Woman's Home Corn-
panion:
`.`Logotherapy is a new idea
sweeping this country_ and the
world. And in a dozen years
from now this will be recog-
nized as the greatest advance
made in a century in the old art
of treating and curing human
souls."
' Logos means "the mind" in
Greek, and the new treatment
is stressing the fact that the
mind must renew spiritual re:-
vival and bring about a recon-
ciliation between the psychia-
trists and the ministers of re-
ligion, who have been estranged
because of Freud's teachings.
That new outlook and its im-
measurably valuable methods
for helping mentally distressed
people or even so-called well-
balanced persons, comes.' also
from Freud's home town Vi-
enna. Its initiator is Prof. Viktor
E. Frankl, a 53-year-old leading
neurologist, who was a disciple
of Freud and Adler.
Prof. Frankl was imprisoned
in Ausschwitz and Theresien-
stadt, because he, is 'Jewish, and
has witnessed "humanity" and
human dignity at its lowest. He
.saw the Nazis with their most
immoral, most unethical and
most anti-religious and inhu-
man actions, and he• also

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Bnai David School
Opens in Oak Park

Cong. Bnai David, offering
midweek Hebrew school classes,
a Sunday school program and
consecration courses for boys
and girls 5 to 15, is currently
taking registration. -
The school will begin Sept. 9,
at the Francis Scott Key School,
Jerome and Rosemary, in Oak
Park.
Rabbi Hayim Donin, in issuing
the announcement: for the school,
stated that Jewish education
provides children to be better
prepared to live up to the
noblest and highest ideals of
our faith. It must begin early,
be intense and long enough to
develop proud Jews.
Information on transportation
Or registration may be obtained
by calling the synagogue office,
TO. 8-8776, or Mrs. Edythe
Emery, school registrar, LI.
4-4864.
The congregation is currently
building new quarters on South-
field and 91/2 Mile Rd. in South-
field Township. Reductions in
school tuition fees are granted
to congregational members.

Beth Yehudah Slates
Limited Holiday $eating

A limited number of seats are
yet available for High Holy Day
services in the recently redeco.
rated building of Cong. Beth
Yehudah, 17556 Wyoming.
The seating committee meets
from 7 to - 9:30 p.m., Monday to
Thursday, and from 9 a.m. to
1 p.m., Sunday, to • distribute
tickets.
Services will be Conducted by
Rabbi Joshua Spiro in the air-
conditioned sanctuary. He- will
be 'assisted by special cantors.

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Beth Abraham Announces
Sept. 1 Selichot Service
Rabbi Israel I. Halperif and
Cantor Shabtai Ackerman, as-
sisted by a full choir, will cele-
brate the ushering in of the
High Holy Day season with
traditional Selichot s e r v ices
11:45 p.m., Sept. 1, in the newly-
completed sanctuary, 7 Mile and
Greenlawn. The public is invited
to attend. No cards of admis-
sion are needed.

30 Catholic Priests from
17 Countries Visit Israel
`JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Thirty
Catholic priests who are mem-
bers of the faculty at a French
Biblical archeological school in
the Old City of Jerusalem,
crossed into Israel for a visit.
The rparty included priests who
are nationals of 17 countries,
including the United States, Hol-
land, Germany, Poland, Viet
Nam and the Philippines.

Better to yield when it is
folly to resist, than to resist
stubbornly and be destroyed.
—Aesop

No Fear of Reform,
Shapira Tells Mizrachi•

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV—Religious Jewry
in. Issiael does not need to fear
the Reform movement, Minis-
ter of Religion Moshe - Shapira
declared Tuesday in a speech
before the second national con ;
ference of Poale Mizrachi.
Women Workers' Association.
Mr. Shapira, leader of the
religious bloc in the govern-
ment coalition, told his audi-
ence, referring to current at-
tempts to establish a Reform
temple in Israel that the Re-'
form movement had no footing
in this country.
The Cabinet member stressed
that religious Jewry must give
a hand to the important task
of strengthening_ Israel and to
the ingathering of exiles. He
said Israel's security was rapid-
ly increasing . and described the
armY- • as strengthened and
alerted.
"The day is near," he ex-
claimed, "when Israel's enemies
will have to think twice before
attacking Israel."

watched the victims of those
concentration camps in their
most destitute hours. It was in
these concentration camps, that
Frankl started to doubt about
Freud's major theories. Freud
had attributed a dominant role
to the sex factor, and also his
judgement on the place of re-
ligion in life did note--seem to be
correct. His belief was that re-
ligion, was an "obsessional neu-
rosis" and that ethics ought to
be built up on other founda-
tions. Frankl, after tests of
many years and based on his
vast experiences, is today advo-
cating a conciliation of psychol-
ogy and religion. His theory and
therapy, which includes all, the
thoughts of the older schools,
complements them by treating
conscious disbeliefs of the neu-
rotic, who suffers from spiritual
need, from lack of convictions
about his "raiosn' d'etre" (pur-
pose of life) and often from the
longing for religion.
In the" American Journal of
Psychotherapy, Frankl's work
has been recognized and ac-
claimed.
Dr. K. R. Menninger, the di-
rector of the educational depart-
ment of the Menninger Founda-
tion admitted: "Perhaps , it is
true that we psychiatrists are so
afraid of endorsing religiosity
or encouraging hypocrisy that
we 'sometimes unwittingly con-
tribute to the shyness of our
patients in respect to such
thoughts and communications.
If so, Prof. Frankl's work should
alert us to missed • opportuni-
ties . . "
Logotherapy treats the God-
Shyness of modern man and
stresses a deep respect for hU-
man dignity. Frankl speaks fre-
quently about the wisdom of the
Jewish Sages which taught its
importance with these words:
"He who destroys only one
human soul is to be considered
as if fie had destroyed a whole
world—while he who saves one

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Frankl's therapy is today suc-
cessfully used in Israel in con-
nection with the health educa-
tion of iaewcomers, mainly from
North Africa. Their religious
background demand a deep and
sympathetic understanding for
their beliefs and subsequent ad-
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them, in spite of their sincere
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Frankl's new methods are of
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mane work.
Dr. Peale, who invited Frankl
to • address the Protestants in
New York last year, might be
right in his prediction, that Lo-
gotherapy will gain in popular-
ity as time goes" by, and will
make the people realize that
God, who was once the conso-
lation of the suffering, has not

looks for the conciliation of
Psychotherapy and religion, and
recognizes the great contribu
tion of Prof. Frankl. (The Je-
suits brought him to Argentina
last year for a number of lec-
tures in Catholic universities!)
As his teacher Freud, Frankl is
a great and unique son of our
people. He is trying to restore
the place of faith and religion
in our minds, which could lead
to a betterment of mankind and
the solution of our problems:

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Orthodox Back Fight
On Reform Judaism

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The an-
nual convention of the Poale
Agudath Israel, Orthodox labor
organization, concluded with a
resolution calling upon religious
party representatives in Parlia-
ment and in municipal councils
to continue their fight against
the introduction of Reform
Judaism in Israel.
Other resolutions called upon
the Western Powers to use their
influence with Arab countries
to gain access for Jews to the
Wailing Wall and other Jewish
Holy Places now in the hands
of Arabs. The convention ap=
pealed to Orthodox Jews out-
side of Israel to come and settle
in Israel.
A proposal that the Poale
Agduth affiliate with the Zion-
ist organization was left for de-
cision by the Council. The con-
ference rejected a suggestion of
full organization merger with
Agudath Israel, but adopted a
resolution calling for coopera-
tion with that body in special
fields such as education and re-
ligion.

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