A Non-Jewish Woman's Love Affair with Israel Cooperation Among Israeli Scientists Commentary, Page 2 T E JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Hanukah Greetings to Jewish . Communities Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOLUME XXXI I — No. 15 100ZirdiVonnShop Everywhere 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 35, December 13, 1957 $5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c 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. , 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.