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VOLUME XXXI I — No. 15

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Another Religious Controversy in Israel

Issue in Cabinet Over New
Immigrants' Christian Wives

Pontiac Community Merges
Campaigns, Social Services
With Detroit's Federation

Integration of the Jewish Federation and Council
of Pontiac with the Jewish Welfare Federation of De-
troit was announced this week by Dr. Harry Arnkoff
and Judge Theodore Levin, presidents of the two or-
ganizations.
Members of the 200 Jewish families in Pontiac will
participate in the 1958 Allied Jewish Campaign as resi-
dents of the Greater Detroit area served by the Jewish
Welfare Federation and its 13 local member agencies.
Full integration, approved by the Pontiac and De-
troit Federation boards, follow a year of interim co-
operation in fund-raising and in exploration of the ex-
tension of local services by the Fresh Air Society, Camp
Tamarack, the. Jewish Community Center, the Jewish
Family and Children's Service, Hebrew Free Loan and
the Jewish Home for Aged.
In anticipation of the formal integration, a num-
ber of Pontiac leaders were elected to board member-
ship of the trade and professional division of the De-
troit Service Group Board in the recent biennial elec-
tion. Dr. Samuel J. Chafets and Dr. Benjamin Bisquier,
1957 Pontiac campaign chairmen, were elected to the
overall board of the Service Group.
Announcing plans for integration., Judge. Levin and
Dr: Arnkoff called attention" to the mutual advantages
of recognizing that the movement of Jewish population
redefines the area of the organized Jewish community
beyond the formal municipal boundaries.
The board of the Pontiac Federation will continue
primarily as a liaison body in implementing the co-
ordination.
I Plans for the allocation of Allied Jewish Campaign
funds will be made at the annual Jewish Welfare
Federation pre-campaign budget conference, at the Ten
Mile Road Jewish Center, on Sunday, Dec. 22. Pontiac
leaders will participate in this conference. Judge Levin
will preside, and reports will be submitted by chairmen
of four campaign sections.

JERUSALEM (JTA)--Premier David Ben-Gurion conferred with leaders of
the parties in his coalition government in an attempt to fashion an accord on ques-
tions which threaten the continuity of the present cabinet.
The issues involve the general authority of the rabbinate in the personal
affairs of the Jewish population. They h ave been thrust into the limelight by the
controversy over the integration of about 900 Christian wives of newly-arrived Jews
from Poland and also by the resentment over the fact that an uncircumcized child
of an immigrant was buried last week in a section of a cemetery away from other
Jews.
During his meeting with leaders of the United Religious Movement—Mizrachi
and Hapoel Hamizrachi—Premier Ben-Gurion was told flatly that they will resist any
attempt to undermine the rabbinate's authority on matters affecting religion and the
issuance of birth, marriage and death certificates. They asserted that there is no dis-
crimination or coercion by the rabbinate with regard to the Christian wives of Jew;
. ish immigrants.

The Premier also met with leaders of the leftist groups in his cabinet, as well
as with Progressive Zionists. These partners in his coalition government requested
complete abolition of military rule in the Arab-populated border areas. Military rule
in these areas has been diminishing progressively, but the coalition parties apparently
feel that the time has come for abolition of all restrictions.
The discussion between Ben-Gurion and the religious leaders on one hand
and with the leaders of the other groups on the other are expected to continue
throughout the week. It is understood-that the leftist groups in the cabinet—Mapam
and Achdut Avodah—are also requesting the appointment of their members to Israel's
foreign service.

A call for a "holy war" against the Conservative movement was voiced by Rabbi Morris
Sherer, executive vice president of the Agudas Israel of America, at a meeting here of repre-
sentatives of the world organization from eight c ountries.
Rabbi Sherer told the conference that the Conservative movement, which recently announced
a decision to set up world headquarters in Jerusalem, is a greater danger to Orthodox Jgdaism
than Reform.
The. 45 delegates resolved to "alert world Jews and especially the Jewish community of
Israel" to the Conservative decision to establish here a world council of Conservative synagogues.
Rabbi Sherer said the danger from Consery ative Judaism sprang from the fact that it adheres
to more of the traditions of Judaism and thus may confuse and mislead the people, particularly
in Israel which, he said, was undergoing a religious revival.

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Town Council Reverses Rabbinical Edict on Child's Burial

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

TEL AVIV—The Pardess Hanna Town Council voted Wednesday to reinter remains of a
child of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother after rabbinical authorities refused to permit
the burial in the Jewish cemetery. This issue was involved in the Cabinet crisis.
The child, Aharon Steinberg, 5, had been denied burial in the town's cemetery by the local
rabbinate because he was not considered Jewish, but burial was accorded him just outside
the cemetery limits.
The city council, with one member dissenting, voted that the body should be reinterred in
the new municipally-controlled cemetery with a All burial ceremony. The Council resolution
expressed "abhorrence" over the handling of the situation by the local rabbi. The religious
member of the Council defended the rabbi, ass erting that he 'iad acted according to religious
procedure in ordering the burial to be outside the Jewish cemetery.

New Illanukah
Candelabriim
From Israel

Moshe and Meir Nuttman,

two

glass-blowing craftsmen from the

Lyi

workshops of the Weiznrnn Institute
of Science at Rehovoth, have created
a novel Hanukiah. • It consists of
four separate groups of figurines,
molded on a glass base made of lime-
soda glass, manufactured from sand
mined in the Negev. The figurines
are in pyrex glass. The central motif
of the array, which shows a remark-
able attention to pictorial -detail, is
"the spirit of the dines." The Nutt-
man brotheit say that they wanted
to show how the martial valor of the
Maccabees has inspired every sub-
sequent generation of the Jewish
people throughout the world, espe-
cially in recent times. Consequently
the figurines are clhd.in apparel re-
lating to differeitt epochs of the past
Jewish history. Male and female alike,
they hold a weapon—spear, scimitar,
broadsword or mace—in one hand, in
the other a candleholder. The single
figure is the shower, the candle

which lights the others.