THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW S — Fri day, July 18, 1958- 1 4

Rabbi Wickman Heads Rabbinical Dr. Waksman Retires `Ghana Eden' on Paradise Threshold
from Rutgers Institute
By HERBERT G. LUFT
Florence and finally in Paris
Council; Proposes College Plan
(Copyright, 1958, Jewish Telegraphic and London shows, with her

MIAMI BEACH (JTA) —
Rabbi Emmanuel Blackman of
Far Rockaway, N. Y., who was
elected president of the Rab-
binical Council of America at
its 22nd annual convention here
this week, told the 500 dele-
gates that a comprehensive pro-
gram to promote Orthodox Juda-
ism will be introduced soon on
college campuses throughout
the United States.
Rabbi Rackman, who is also
professor of philosophy and
jurisprudence at Yeshiva Uni-
versity of New York, said the
program, covering all phases of
traditional Judaism, would be
designed to "capture the imagi-
nation and loyalty of Jewish
youth who are groping for the
answers to the ultimates in
life." He added that the asso-
ciation of traditional Judaism
with only rituals and worship
was "a grave injustice to the
totality of Judaism and its uni-
versal outlook."
Asserting that "we must make
the American Jewish community
aware of this ancestral heri-
tage," he said he would name
special committees to activate
members of the Orthodox rab-
binical association for work on
campuses. As part of the ,pro-
gram, he said, the Rabbinical
Council's publication program
will be enlarged for dissemina-
tion among college students and
the organization will also start
adult institutes, retreats for lay-
men and adult summer camps to
further Orthodox Judaism.
A call for the achievement of
spiritual harmony between the
people of Israel and Jews in the
United States and other coun-
tries outside Israel was voiced
by Yaacov Herzog, Israel Min-
ister at the Embassy in Wash-
ington, addressing the conven-
tion.
The convention adopted a
number of resolutions, among
them one calling on the United
States Government to guarantee
Israel's security as a bastion of
democracy in the Middle East,
another appealing to the govern-
ment of the Soviet Union to ex-
tend "full religious freedom and
unfettered rights of emigration"
to the 3,000,000 Jews in the
USSR. Rabbi Emanuel E. Rack-
man, Far Rockaway, N.Y., was
elected president, succeeding
Rabbi Solomon J. Sharman. "-
In a joint statement, the out-.
going and incoming presidents
announced plans for establishing
a "Beth Din," or central rab-
binical court, in this country.
The court will deal with do-
mestic relations problems, such
as marriage and divorce. It will
serve as a "clearing house" in
such affairs, the joint statement
declared, and will concern itself,
among other matters, with fam-
ily status and mixed marriages.
Rabbi Theodore L. Adams,
president of the Synagogue
Council of America, coordinat-
ing body of the Orthodox, Re-
form and Conservative religious
movements, told the closing ses-
sion that "Sunday closing laws
have become a major bone of
contention" between Catholics
and Jews.
He warned that unless some
formula was devised "for safe-
guarding the religious liberty of
sabbath-observing Jews, this is-
sue will become increasingly
volatile in communities all
across the nation."
Dwelling on Israel and Middle
East issues, Rabbi Adams de-
clared that the "Protestant com-
munity approaches this area
with an institutional and theo-
logical set of concepts which
conflict at almost every point
with the Jewish approach." Ile
added that the "Catholic com-
munity, in addition to its special
theological and geopolitical ori-
entation, focuses on such issues
as the internationalization of
Jerusalem, thus leading to an

added dimension of misunder-
standing between Catholics and
Jews."
In calling for a meeting of
leaders of the three faiths to
deal with these issues, Rabbi
Adams pleaded for a "morator-
ium on dissension among re-
ligions in the United States in
order to meet holy obligations in
the nuclear age."
A Rabbinical Council com-
mittee urged that all Jewish re-
ligious and community groups
should be "ever alert" to pre-
serve "religious liberty."
The committee ter med
"highly disturbing" breaches
of the separation principle
being made "by extending a
variety of privileges and
benefits to religious bodies in
the school curriculum, teach-
ing and social programs."
Another committee, in a re-
port to the convention, rec-
ommended that "the Amer-
ican military establishment
give full legal and 'social rec-
ognition to the sabbath as a
holyday of religious signifi-
cance for Jews." The com-
mittee declared it would be
"comparatively easy" for U.S.
military leaders "to grant a
large degree of acceptance"
for Jewish military personnel
to some of the major practices
of Judaism, including the
dietary laws.
In his presidential address,
Rabbi Solomon J. Sharfman
recommended that the organi-
zation make determined efforts
to improve Jewish all-day
schools in every major Jewish
community in this country, de-
velop a nationwide summer
camp and adult institute pro-
gram and that both rabbis and
lay leaders expand adult Jewish
education curricula. He also
urged that young rabbis be en-
couraged to enter rural and
suburban communities and that
pre-fabricated synagogues be
built where • congregations are
unable to erect more costly
structures.
Rabbi Zeev Segal, convention
chairman urged that the United
States Government give the
State of Israel military as well
as economic aid.

U.S. Speeds Up Entry
of Egyptian Refugees

WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles told a press conference
that improvement has been
made in the previous slow pace
of visa issuance under U.S.
emergency immigration legisla-
tion which includes provision of
entry visas to Jewish refugees
from Egypt.
He said delay in granting
visas was at first due to un-
avoidable procedures but that
most of this "red tape" is now
"behind us." He saw the issu-
ance of visas now "in much
better shape."
A bill to facilitate United
States citizenship for Hungarian
refugees who came to this coun-
try as "parollees" after the
1956 rebellion was advanced one
step closer to passage when the
Senate Judiciary Committee ap-
proved the measure. The bill,
already adopted by the House,
would give the refugees perma-
nent residence status dating
back to their arrival in the
country.

United Hias Gets WA
Social Service Award

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
third annual Social Service
Achievement Award offered by
the Social Service Division of
the United Jewish Appeal of
Greater New York was present-
ed to United Hias Service in
recognition of its work in the
speedy emergency resettlement
of refugees from Hungary and
Egypt.

Agency, Inc.)

DR. SELMAN WAKSMAN

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.
(JTA)—Dr. Selman Waksman,
Nobel Prize winning discoverer
of streptomycin and other anti-
biotic drugs and long one of
this country's top microbiolo-
gists, will retire as director of
Rutgers University Institute of
Microbiology, the university's
boar d of governors has an-
nounced.
Proceeds f r o m the sale of
streptomycin and other "won-
der drugs" developed by Dr.
Waksman a n d his associates
have largely supported the In-
stitute of Microbiology, of which
Dr. Waksman was the f i r s t
director.
After his retirement, Dr.
Waksman, who will be 70 next
week, will maintain an office
and laboratory at the Institute.
He plans to continue working
in a number of fields, including
the search for a cancer cure.

HOLLYWOOD — When novel-
ist Budd Schulberg discovered.
Israeli singer Chana 'Messinger
in Lucky Pierre's "Internation-
ale,' a Manhattan night club, to
sign her for the feminine lead in
his and his brother's (Stuart)
first independent motion picture
production, Warner Bros.'
"Across the Everglades," he told
her she had better adopt a more
glamorous stage name. The
Sabra beauty promptly decided
to call herself: "Chana Eden,"
because—as she explained it to
the Academy Award-winning
author—"I'm on the threshold
of Paradise."
The daughter of Rachel and
Menachem Messinger, Israeli
settlers who still live in their
daughter's native city, Chana
was born in Haifa, Nov. 23, 1933.
Her formal education began at
the age of six, when her daily
life was divided between at-
tendance at the French School
Alliance in Haifa, and in the
classes of an English ballet
c o m p a n y. Continuing her
dancing, the young Sabra ma-
triculated at "Bamale," the Com-
mercial College—following her
graduation from the School Al-
liance, but she remained in class
only a short time. Israel's war
of independence was becoming
a full scale operation and volun-
teers were sorely needed, so
Chana enlisted in her country's
Navy.
A chance to sing in a Tel Aviv
nightclub set the pattern for her
entire career. Chana was an
instantaneous success and offers
came to sing in continental
clubs and theaters. She became
a sensation in Rome, Naples,

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Hungarian Refugees
Foster Anti-Semitism

MUNICH (JTA) — An anti-
Semitic publication, printed by
refugees from Hungary of the
fascist Arrow and Cross regime,
has made Munich its new quar-
ters. The publishers, who fled
to Austria in 1944 to avoid cap-
ture by Soviet armies, were for-
bidden to continue publicaton
of "Cel" in Austria.
As part of their • service, the
publishers supply anti-Semitic
material to "old" Hungarian
refugee organizations abroad—
those which draw their member-
ship from the pro-Nazi and
fascist leadership of pre-war and
wartime Hungary.
The trial of Guido Roeder, a
German publisher, and two
others on charges of distributing
anti-Semitic printed material
opened here before the Munich
Circuit Court. Roeder and his
fellow defendants are being
tried on a rarely invoked Ba-
varian statute, the only in any
of the West German states
which makes a punishable of-
fense of the distribution of
literature which arouses racial
hatred'.
Roeder's leaflets created an
international storm two years
ago. At the time he distributed
hs own works linking "the Red
dictatorship" with "J e w i s h
finance," as well as translations
of the anti-Semitic propoganda
of an American hatemonger,
Eustace Mullins.

Dropsie Gives AJC Head
Honorary. Degree

PHILADELPHIA (JTA)
Dropsie College ceremoniously
inaugurated its second half cen-
tury as a chartered institution
of higher learning with Found-
er's Day exercises. Irving M.
Engel, president of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, received
an honorary degree of Doctor
of Humane Letters.

renditions of simple Israeli folk
songs and po polar European bal-
lads, but her sights were set on
America and on a Broadway ca-

reer.

A perfect command of Eng-
lish, French, Italian and Ger-

man in addition to her native
Hebrew and Yiddish was
Chana's greatest asset when she
arrived in New York. After fu-
tile weeks of going from door
to door along agent's row of
Times Square, Chana managed
to gain a hearing on a New
York amateur TV show. This
led to a number of local telecast
and local broadcast engage-
ments and finally a booking at
Lucky Pierre's cafe.

Israel Eases Tariff

Tourists are now allowed to
bring into Israel up to $42 worth
of gifts without paying duty.
(The previous duty-free allow-
ance was $30.) Gifts. over $42
are dutiable, while gifts over
$112 require an import license.

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