Interesting Facts on Lag b'onier'

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BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX tween the students and thus this
(Copyright, 1957, JTA, Inc.)
day deserved the title of
Lag b'Omer is referred to as "Scholar's Festival."
"The Scholars' Festival" (occur-
It became a tradition in later
ing this year - on May 19) be- times for the students- of the
cause Jewish tradition claims Jewish schools to observe a fes-
that a plague which affected. tival of enjoyment on this day
24,000 of Rabbi Akiba's and thus the title "Scholars'
scholarly disciples ended on this Festival" bore a more practical
day. Thus it was a day for re- basis in actual observance.
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cing among Rabbi Akiba's
joicing
scholars. •
It _ is customary to light
According to an opinion cited candles among some sects on
in the Talmud, Rabbi Akiba's this day for several reasons, in-
students were subjected to the cluding of course, the exercise
plague because they did not of the practice on any Jewish
respect each other. The end of holiday.
the plaque probably restored
The Kabbalists feel that on
mutual respect and concern be- this day a "great light" was
revealed to Rabbi Simeon bar
Yochai. Through this light he
perceived the mysteries of the
divine Revelation of the Kab-
balah. They offer the fact that
it isn't until the 32nd word in
the Bible that we are told that
the Almighty saw the light and
that it was good. This after the
completion of 32 words, upon
approaching the 33rd word, we
come to the knowledge that the
"light is good."
Lag b'Omer is the 33rd day of
the count of the Omer which
begins on the second night of
Jo on Goldmann Hale
the Passover. It was the 33rd
United States Senator Lyndon day out of Egypt for the
B. Johnson, of Texas, Senate Israelites and it was then that
majority leader, will be the they began to feel that the
principal speaker at the Na- light of revelation was some-
tional Rescue Conference of the thing good.
Some claim that it was on
United Jewish Appeal at Hotel
Roosevelt, New York, June 8 this day that the light of day
and 9. William Rosenwald, UJA was evident by longer .than
usual during the time of Rabbi
general chair, announced.
Senator Johnson will head an Simon bar Yochai.
outstanding roster , of distin-
guished speakers at the Satur-
day night dinner meeting. of the
conference. The. two - day ses-
sions will climax a nationwide
effort during the coming weeks
Detroiters were saddened thiS
to convert pledges made to the week at news of the death of
-T1JA's $100,000,000 Emergency Mr. A. J. Hertz, of Milwaukee,
Rescue Fund and regular 1957 Wis., the father of Dr. Richard
UJA campaign into cash. The C. Hertz, spiritual leader of
spedific objective, Rosenwald Temple Beth El here.
said, _is to raise $50,000,000 in
Mr. Hertz, who was 73, died
cash by the time of the Confer- on May 14, in Milwaukee. Ser-
ence so that funds may be avail-. vices and burial will be there
able to transport and resettle today.
refugees to new homes in lands
A native of St. Paul, Minn.
of permanent adoption in Israel, and a graduate of the Univer-
the United States or other free- sity of MinneSota, Mr. Hertz
world countries. -
had been in the insurance busi-
Other speakers featured on nesS in Milwaukee for many
the program include Dr. Lincoln years. He was a member of
Hale, former director Of the Temple Emanuel Bnai Jeshu-
U.S. Point-4 Program in Israel; run.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, presi-
Surviving besides Dr. Hertz
dent -of the World Zionist Or- are Mr. Ilertz'- wife, Nadine
ganization and of the Jewish Rosenberg Hertz; another son,
Agency for Palestine; Reuven Frederick J., a Chicago attor-
Shiloah, Israel's Minister Pleni- ney:, and four grandchildren.
potentiary to the United States;
The family will be at 2508
William Rosenwald, UJA gen- East Belleview Place, Milwau-
eral chairman; Edward M. M., kee.
Warburg, UJA honorary chair-
man; Moses A. Leavitt, execu--
tive vice chairman, Joint Dis- Yiddish Stage
_ Star,
tribution Committee, and Her-; Ex-Detroiter, Dies
bert A. Friedman, UJA execu-
Julids Nathanson, personality
tive vice chairman.
on the JeWish stage for over
four decades, died May 8,, at
his home at Desert Hot Springs,
Calif. He was prominent in the
dramatic and musical comedy
In cherished memory of my fields, and had been credited
dear husband, Phillip Shkol- with -popularizing musical com-
nick, who passed away on May edy on the Yiddish stage.
He retired from the theater
22, 1956.
Sadly missed and always re,- in 1945, --moving to California,
membered by his wife, Tillie where he entered the antique
business. Mr. Nathanson was
Shkolnick.
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the son of Cantor and Mrs.
In loving memory of our be- Simon Nathanson,' who came
loved son, Dr. Usher U. Shapiro, here from Chicago 45 years
who passed away five years ago.
In addition to writing, pro-
ago, on May 19, 1952.
Dear Ush, There is not a day ducing and directing, Mr. Na-
that we do not think of you; thanson starred ih many pro-
Our hearts are always aching; ductions.
He leaves his wife, Ann; a
we will always miss you.
Sadly missel by his parents, brother, Charles, and two sis-
ters, Mrs. Henry Caplan and
Ida and Jake Shapiro.
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Mary Siegel, of Detroit; and
In loving memory of our two other brothers, Sam, of
dearly beloved father, Na- Los Angeles, and Nat, of Chi-
thaniel Forbes, who passed cago.
away on May 1, 1949.
Sadly missed by his children Leader of Post-War Jewry
In German y Dies at 62
and family.
FRANKF RT, (JTA) — Dr.
DR. MAX J. ROUTTEN- Ewald Allsc hoff, chairman of
BERG, rabbi of Temple Bnai the Associati on of Jewish Com-
Shalom, Rockville Centre, has =unities in H esse for more than
been named chairman of the a decade and one of the most
board of governors of the Na- effective figh ters for postwar
tional Academy for Adult Jew- consolidation of organized Jew-
ish Studies -of the :United Syna- ish life in Germ any, died.at the

Sen. Johnson Is
UJA Speaker

Dr. Hertz' Father
Dies in Milwaukee

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Israeli SOccer 'Team
Given Warm Welcome
WASHINGTON,, J T A ) —

Fourteen members of Israel's
championship Hap o e 1 soccer
team were welcomed by Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
who told them that a small
country like Israel can survive
only if* it has a situation with
its neighbors that would assure
peaceful relations.
He welcomed the Israelis on
behalf of the American people
and wished them luck on the
field of play.
Nixon was presented with a
silver-bound Old Testament Bi-
ble and a life-time pass to soc-
cer games in Israel. Members
of the Senate and House joined
in welcoming the Israelis.
On their arrival in New York
a day earlier, Francis Cardinal
Spellman gave a reception for
the team, the first time he had
ever received an Israeli team.
After touring St. Patrick's
Cathedral, 11 members of the
Israeli 'team were ushered into
the Cardinal's Chancellery
where Yehoshua Efron, a play-
er, presented the Cardinal with
a silver-bound Bible made in
Israel.
Itzhak Pinsk, an official of the
Israel Athletic Association,
told the
speaking in
Cardinal that to the people of
Israel he was an "inspiring sym-
bol of a great faith" and in-
vited him to visit Israel. The
Cardinal said he had visited the
country a number of times and
hoped to go back for another
visit soon.
,,- The Israeli team won the
game from an American all-star
squad at Ebbetts Field in
Brooklyn.

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Strictly Confidential

BY PHINEAS J. BIRON
Post Script on Beigin
Menachem Beigin's visit to a
number of American cities re-
presents a supreme effort to in-
form the American Jewish pub-
lic of the aims and policies of
the Herut party in Israel . . .
His appearances, sponsored by ,
the Zionist Revisionists Organ-
ization began - with a New York
debut attended by 2,500 people
at Manhattan Center . . .
Mr. Beigin, a slight most un-
heroic-looking man in his late
30's, received a great ovation
. . . He was introduced by Jo-
seph Schechtman, who we be-
lieve is president of the Revi-
sionist World Organization . . .
Several glasses of water and
tea were placed within Beigin's
reach ... And he made good on
what looked like a prelude to
delivering a marathon speech
by talking over two hours ... In
Hebrew and then English . . .
In the course of the speech,
Beigin assured the audience
that "Jerusalem will. be Israeli"
. . Beigin does not like the
word "retaliation" . . . He pre-
fers "liberation" . . . And he
promised his followers that the
Gaza Strip would be liberated
by the Israeli Army , and that
the policy of "hit and run"
which Ben-Gurion had followed
will be replaced by a policy
of "take and remain." . . . The
of Herut
erut went to great
pains to explain that Herut was
neither militast, terrorist and/
or extremist . . . Herut, he said,
.is for -peace, a peace that we
will have to win from the
Arabs . . . Explaining that
Israel last the war, although
winning the victory, because of

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a weak government, he im-
plied that the time was near
when Israel would have a new
government, presumably a
a Herut government, and that
he expected support from
American Jewry in the same
measure as the present govern-
ment .. .
The over all ImpressiOn Bei-
gin produces is that of a very
confident man- who is convinced
that his party is gaining ground
and that a forecful policy is all
that is needed to get peace .. .
Jordan, he considers, is lost be-
yond hope . . . It is an artifical
state that will have to be di-
vided between Iraq' and Israel
. . . Beigin's speeCh, a well
thought-out, convincing appeal
for votes, erred only in that
American Zionists have no vote
in Israel .. .

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Henriques Coming to
for Israel Bonds

Col. Robert Henriques, noted
military expert, professional
farmer, journalist and 'author,
whose best-selling book, "100
Hours to Suez," analyzes Is-
rael's swift victory in the re-
cent Sinai Peninsual campaign,
will arrive in the United States
this week to participate in the
State of Israel Development
Bond drive.
Col._ Henriques, a British sub-
ject, wrote his book on Israel's,
military operation, which drove
the Egyptian Army out of Sinai
in five short days, late in 1956,
with the official approval of
the Israel government.
The visit to Israel which re-
sulted in "100. Hours to Suez"
was his second in a year.

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