Ramat!, Marks Tenth Year
as Key Conservative Effort
Gen. Ya
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on Newly-Translated
Scroll of Abraham
Edmund Wilson Writes About Jews,
Education, Presidents, in New Book
Gen. Yigal Yaden, Israel ar-
Edmund Wilson's persona 1 is a tale about the appearance
This year marks the tenth an- and storage and fully equipped chaeologist and former Chief document, "A Piece of My
of a Messiah and of the Prophet
niversary of Camp Ramah, key kitchens where strict kashrut is of Staff of the Israel army, will Mind: Reflections at Sixty,' ' Elijah at a Passover Seder. Of
tell
the
drama-
observed.
Further
available
are
published
by
Farrar,
Straus
&
effort of conservative Judaism
course, there is rejection. But
libraries, crafts, drama, sports tic story of the
Cudahy (101 5th, NY 3), add s the mystical elements enter into
to provide exemplary full Jew-
and music centers, and a quali- newly - deciph-
to his stature. It is another vol - debate. There is a Voice that
ish life for American youth.
fied nurse and doctor on .call at ered Dead
ume that will excite the imagi- tells the false Messiah: "Go back
Sea Scroll de-
The c a m p, sponsored and all times.
nation about this remarkable to your old work. Go on raising
scribing Abra-
operated by the United Syna-
writer and will cause many to money for Israel. Maybe some
Detroit's Rabbi Milton Arm,
gogue of America, has four of Cong. Shaarey Zedek, was ham's sojourn
pause and marvel at the im- good will come of it."
branches - in the U.S. The new- Head Counselor at Ramah's i n Egypt i n
mense field his works embrace •
Educators will find great
est, initiated this summer, is in first site in Wisconsin during lectures at
In his new book, he reminis- value in Wilson's discussion of
the Ojai Valley of' California. its third summer. Reflecting on Hebrew C o 1-
ces about himself and his fam- cultural aspects of our life, of
Three others are in Conover, the tenth anniversary year of lege-Jewish
ily, discusses education, the his personal experiences, of the
Institute
of
Wis.; Lake Como, Pa., and East the camp, Rabbi Arm called
United States, the Presidents mess made of English, of "the
Religion in
Hampton, Conn.
and their standards, the Jews.
Ramah "a bold experiment in New York
use of the English language as
His interesting section, "The an instrument for analysis and
The main aim of Ramah is to summer camping, where formal and Cincinnati,
Jews," contains an analysis of exposition" which, he states, "is
develop youth's full conscious- classes in Hebrew, Bible and Nov. 29 and 30. Gen. Yadin
ness of Jewishness. This objec- Talmud vie successfully with
The 2,000-year old scroll, the interest that has been shown one inheritance from England
tive is effected through stress- athletics for the interest and badly preserved and extremely in Hebrew by early Americans, that we cannot afford to scrap."
ing Hebrew as the basic "living enthusiasm of campers."
Much interest will surely be
brittle, is the last of seven by founders of universities and
language" of camp participants.
While at Ramah, the rabbi scrolls found in caves in the clergymen, by consecrated peo- shown in his evaluation of our
Daily services and study groups noted that "spoken Hebrew was Judean desert south of Jericho ple: "Perhaps the most curious Presidents. He lists the first
of these is the rabbinical meta- seven-Presidents as public-
comprised of students ranging in evidence everywhere. Reli- in 1947.
from elementary Hebrew speak- gious feeling and expression
Its dessicated parchment was morphosis of the Hebrew schol- spirited idealists, and adds the
ers to advanced Talmudic-prob- were warm and spontaneous ... given new life by experts at the ar Calvin Ellis Stowe, the hus- names of the two Roosevelts,
lem examiners, precede the Detroit youngsters who have at- Hebrew University and Gen. band of Harriet Beecher."
Lincoln and Wilson as having
regular athletic activities pro- tended the camp are witnesses Yadin and Dr. Nahum Avigad,
To prove the point that Har- belonged to this type. The "in-
moted by the camp.
to these facts."
both of the Hebrew University, riet herself was "very close to ferior type," he states, were
the Pilgrims' self-identification Harding and Truman, and he
The camp staff includes He-
Rabbi Arm envisions the ex- deciphered it. The scroll proved with Israel," Wilson refers to states that "a third type, clearly
brew scholars and rabbis, a tension of Rarnah's camping to be an apocryphal collection
resident professor and a mem- services from a network of He- of stories, written in Aramaic, her works: "She will, for ex- defined, is the man who neither
ber of the Jewish Theological brew - speaking - and - learning relating to the book of Genesis. ample, open a chapter of 'Po- knows about professional poli-
Gen. Yadin will report on ganuc People' with the state- tics nor understands the prob-
Seminary staff, which is associ- camps to elevated religious
ated with the United Synagogue. school standards. The camp's his findings in an illustrated ment that `Zeph Higgins was a lems of government, but has ar-
Their prime concern is to lec- work will lead to "a greater lecture at the New York School good Jew.' This does not mean rived at a position of eminence
ture, encourage study and degree of Jewish knowledge on Nov. 29. The following day, that the pious Connecticut through achievement in some
further the "heart" of the pro- and living in the Jewish com- he will lecture in the College- farmer was literally of Jewish quite different field: Grant,
blood, but simply that he tried Hoover, Eisenhower."
gram—observance of daily and munity of the future," he feels. Institute in Cincinnati.
The general has a long and to conform to the New England
"A Piece of Mind: Reflections
Sabbath prayers.
"It is not impossible to antici- intimate acquaintance with the version of the Jewish code. at Sixty" is a good, thought-
Ramah is not a Zionist camp, pate a 25th anniversary . of Dead Sea Scrolls. He is the son `Zephaniah Pennel,' she writes inspiring work. It is surely
in that it does not feature a Ramah, when every child en- of the late Dr. E. L. Sukenik, in 'The Pearl of Orr's Island,' among Edmund Wilson's finest
program predominantly revolv- rolled in conservative congrega- Professor of Archaeology at the was what might be called a He- literary' creations.
ing about Israel. It does, how- tional schools throughout the Hebrew University, who was brew of Hebrews. New England,
ever, have Israelis on its staff, country will be expected to at- the first to recognize the im- in her earlier days, founding
Emotion resulting from a
teach Zionist history and con- tend the camp for at least one portance of the scrolls and ac- her institutions on Hebrew
work of art is only of value
stantly consider philosophical summer," says the rabbi.
quired three of them for Israel Scriptures, bred better Jews when it is not obtained by sen-
relations of Israel with Judaism.
than Moses could, because she
Another Detroiter, Ben Weiss, in 1948.
Its main concern is the totality of 2715 Cortland, is a member
read Moses with the amend- timental. blackmail.—Jean Coc-
of Jewish tradition.
ments of Christ. . . ." Christo- teau.
of the Committee of Camp Ra- Detroiters to Attend
logical comment is, of course,
As Dr. Judah Goldin, Dean of mah in Wisconsin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's, not
the Seminary Teacher's Insti-
UJA Conference
DRIVING LESSONS
Wilson's.-
tute, puts it, the camp "wants Another Bible Film Project
A large delegation of Detroit-
7 Lesson Course - $30
youngsters to know what they're
The
eminent
author
states
Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., son of ers, headed by Joseph Holtzman
reading when they say daily the movie pioneer who put Hol- and including several members in "A Piece of My Mind" that
Dual Controls
No Permit Needed
prayers. Not only the literal lywood on the map way back of the recent UJA Overseas "the Hebrew religious concep-
Professional
Instructors
tions,
the imagery of the He-
meaning of the words, but also in 1913, himself a screen-writer Study Mission to Israel, will at-
Day or Evening
the spirit." Dr. Goldin feels that with C. B. Demille, last script- tend the United Jewish Ap- brew scriptures, have been an
Appointments
the fostering of this spirit will ing "The Ten Commandments," peal's annual national confer- element of literature in Eng-
lish
from
the
King
James
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translation on."
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"The Messiah at the Seder"
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Shaping up as one of the most
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Among, Ramah facilities are Brethren" before the cameras, since World War II, the sessions
one acre of ground, half flat, finally discarded Clifford Odets' will give the delegates the op-
half rolling and wooded, per scenario, to hire the younger portunity of hearing from Gen-
Some men ask for a raincoat
camper. There are also a private Lasky to furnish him a brand- eral Yigal Yadin, former com-
lake and waterfront, modern new screen play based on bibli- manding general of the Israel
Defense Forces; Dr. Nahum i" Smart men ask for a
cabins with indoor plumbing cal texts.
Goldmann, chairman of the
Jewish Agency; Avraham Har-
man, former Israel Consul-Gen-
eral in New York and now a !1•
World's Finest Weatherproo
member of the Jewish Agency
Executive in Jerusalem; Wil-
liam Rosenwald, UJA general
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