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. DAYLWU - tw WEST BY HENRY LEONARD SI DE DISTRICT JWF. KICKOFF DINNER Festival Oddities Jefferson Was B0117 oil Pesach 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. 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