1958-THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS- 1 0
1958 Jewish Year Book Includes
United Hebrew _Schools Data -and
Figures on Michigan' Population
The American Jewish Year the Jewish population figure
Book for 1958. Volume 59, pub- given fo r Detroit. The 1958
lished by the Jewish Publica- Year Book increases the pre-
tion Society of America and the vious year's figure from 72,000
American Jewish Committee, to 75,000. But there still re-
edited by Morris Fine and mains the belief that our pop-
Jacob Sloan, contains inclusive ulation in this area may be
interpretations of the explosive closer to 85,000-90,000.
Other Michigan population
events on the international
figures given in this Year Book
scene during • 1956-57.
Ranging from armed conflict are: Ann Arbor, 210; Battle
in the Middle East and the Creek, 175; Bay City, 700; Ben-
highly charged political situa- ton Harbor, 830; Flint, 3,000;
tion in that region to the sup- Grand Rapid s, 1,750; Iron
pression of the Hungarian up- County, 161; Iron. Mountain,
rising by Soviet troops, the 104; Jackson, 200; Kalamazoo,
Year Book once again delivers 534; Lansing, 800; Marquette
objective and accurate reports County, 175; Mt. Clemens, 350;
on important developments in Muskegon, 400; Pontiac, 700;
areas of concern to Jews. Port Huron, 146; Saginaw, 440;
Among the informative arti- South Haven, 460.
cies in this volume are Arthur
Hertzberg's exhaustive analysis Printing Human Rights
of religious trends in the
American Jewish community, Violations Questioned
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
including a statistical break-
down of the Orthodox, Con- (JTA)—Secretary General Dag
servative and Reform elements. Hammarskjold declared he was
The present volume also not certain whether many of
offers over 200 pages of in- the 65,000 letters of complaint
tensive examination of key about violations of human
issues in the United States and rights, received by the United
summaries of the major ad- Nations in the last nine years,
vances and setbacks in civil should be made public.
The Human Rights Commis-
rights and civil liberties in the
wake of the Supreme Court sion adopted a resolution—of
segregation decision; an ex- which Israel was a co-sponsor,
ploration of recent develop- and for which the United States
ments in church-state relation- voted—looking toward ultimate
ships; new immigration publication of such complaints
. provisions and their special regarding violations.
Asked whether he favored
effect on Jews; an expose of
anti-Jewish agitation by op- such publication, Hammar-
ponents of desegregation; and skjold said he was not too fa-
information studies of Jewish miliar with the move taken by
education, fund raising, the the Human Rights Commission.
Jewish center movement, social However, he said, aside from
welfare, and other communal the costs that would be involved
in the publication of many of
programs.
the complants, he was not cer-
The survey of Jewish ed-
tain
whether "any useful pur-
ucation, written by Uriah Z.
pose would be served by such
Engelman, includes the fol-
publication. "It could be," he
lowing reference to the
declared, "that publication of
United Hebrew Schools of
Detroit: "Its elementary de- some of that material might not
serve the good of the very au-
partment consisted of seven
thors of those letters. We will
branches, and in 1956 it had
have to take a very careful
an enrollment of 2,506
look at this matter."
pupils . . . As children
ascended the grades their
average length of stay in
school increased. In the first
grade the average length of
stay was ten months; • in the
second grade it was one year
nine months; in the third
grade, two years eight
months; in the fourth grade,
three years one month; and
in the fifth, it was four years
and one month."
There continues to be a
question as to the accuracy of
ORT Starts New Courses
for Polish Repatriates
VIENNA (JTA)—New train-
ing courses for rehabilitation of
Polish Jews repatriated from
the Soviet Union are being
formed by ORT this month in
Warsaw and in Lower Silesia,
where many of the repatriates
are concentrated, according to
a report in the Warsaw Yid-
dish-language newspaper, Die
Folkshtimme.
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Festival Oddities
Jefferson Was
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BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright., 1958, JTA, Inc.)
As we mark the conclusion
of the Passover holiday, it is
still pertinent to recall that
Thomas Jefferson was born
during Passover, on April 13th.
He tried to keep his birthday
secret during his life to prevent
celebrations.
The career of no American
statesman is more in harmony
with the Passover holiday than
Jefferson. Like Moses, who
brought a plague on the first
born in Egypt, Jefferson also
brought a plague on the first
born. As Governor of Virginia,
during the American Revolu-
tion, he was instrumental in
having the laws passed against
primogeniture, the institution
by which the first born inher-
ited all the property. Other
states followed suit.
Henry Adams properly called
Jefferson "the Moses of Democ-
racy."
Dr. Benjamin Rush, who was
a personal friend of Jefferson,
wrote that while Jefferson shun-
ned religion, he did believe in
the Divine Origin of the Sab-
bath. Einstein, too, thought that
the most important contribution
made by the Jews to the world
was the institution of a day
of rest for the workers.
* * *
Who do you think had the
most interesting Seder during
the past week?
Our guess would be: Chief
Rabbi Herzog of Israel. Certain-
ly Rabbi Herzog's was the most
international Seder. He invites
all the ambassadors to Israel
to his Seder.
Last year, the Russian Am-
bassador brought along a Kar-
aite Haggadah. It appears that
Mr. Abramov had been some-
thing of a student of the
Karaites, a small group of whom
still survive in Russia.
* * *
A teacher in an Israeli school
was recounting the story of
Passover, telling how Moses
took the children of Israel out
of Egypt.
One of the little girls spoke
up: "Teacher, you are wrong.
Moses didn't take the children
out of Egypt, He took them into
Egypt."
The teacher had to explain to
the child that she got her
Moses mixed up. Moses took the
children of Israel out of Egypt,
but Moses Dayan took the chil-
dren back into Egypt during
the Sinai compaign.
•
Johnny
Green's
dramatic
score for "Raintree County" has
been named by Downbeat mag-
azine as the best original motion
picture score of the year.
Asks Gentiles End
Missionary Work
Among Jews
Israel, UAR Accept
Peaceful Atom Uses
Parley Invitations
NEW YORK, -(JTA)—The
Christian church should not
conduct missionary activities
among Jews because "they
are futile" and also because
Christianity and Judaism are
enough alike "for the Jew
to find God more easily in
terms of his own religious
heritage" rather than in un-
dergoing "the hazards" of
conversion.
These views were ad-
vanced by Dr. Reinhold
Niebuhr, a leading Protest-
ant theologian, in the April
issue of .CCAR Journal, quar-
terly magazine of the Central
Conference of American Rab-
bis. The conference is the
major body of American Re-
form rabbis. Dr. Niebuhr's
article is entitled "The Rela-
tions of Christians and Jews
in Western Civilization."
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA)—Dr. Sigvard Eklund,
secretary general of the Sec-
ond United Nations Conference
on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic
Energy, announced that Israel
and the United Arab Republic
were among the 55 govern.
ments which have accepted in-
vitations to attend. The con-
ference will be held in Geneva
Sept. 1-13.
Dr. Eklund also announced
that countries which have in-
formed him they will not par-
ticipate include Jordan and
Saudi Arabia.
Summer Jewish Music
Instituted in Israel
American musicians and
musicologists will have the op-
portunity to participate in a
summer institute of Jewish
music in Israel, in July, it was
announced by the department
of education and culture of the
Jewish Agency, sponsor of the
project. Participation in the
seminar, which is patterned
after other Israel summer work-
shops offered by the depart-
ment, is open to cantors, con-
ductors, choir leaders, com-
posers, teachers and others
engaged in the field of Jewish
music.
The seminar is organized in
cooperation with the America-
I s r a el Cultural Foundation.
Harry Coopersmith, the well-
known expert . in the field of
Jewish music, will serve as
coordinator.
Details regarding program
and travel arrangements are
available from the Jewish
Agency, 16 E. 66th St., New
York 21.
Arab Infiltrators Charged With
Killing Two Israeli Civilians
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two
Israeli civilians murdered on a
road- in the Lachish develop-
ment area on the eve of Pass-
over by infiltrators from Jordan
died because they halted their
jeep to give the disguised - Arabs
a lift.
An investigation into the in-
cident revealed that the infil-
trators, dressed in khaki, stood
in the road and flagged down
the Israelis. When the jeep,
later found abandoned near the
b o r d e r, came to a halt, the
Arabs shot the two Jews and
made off with the vehicle. The
same group is belived respon-
sible for thefts and other crim-
inal acts in the area.
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