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carry a complete assortment of beautiful
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By Nathan Ziprin
A Rabbinic Plague . . .
Mr. X, editor of one of the leading English-Jewish publica-
tions recently told this writer that if Jewish life ever blows up
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in this country, the fuse that will have detonated the explosion
and are guaranteed for their beauty and Kashruth
will have been lit by rabbinic hands. One of the most perceptive
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observers of the Jewish scene, Mr. X was not speaking as a
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prophet of gloom, for his is an entirely positive attitude towards
Jewish _living in the United States. He spoke out of agony and
despair over developments in his own city where, he said, the
fighting among the rabbis of the various shades of religious
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thinking has reached such a bitter crescendo as to trickle down
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to their sheep whose horns are more often locked in battle
than in union. The trouble, he said, did not rest so much in the
fact that the rabbis were airing their ideological or even personal
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differences in public, but that they were doing it in a manner
that was degrading their calling and undermining the confidence
people generally repose in men of the cloth.
MICKEY FREEMAN
I recalled this conversation when I opened my mail one
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morning last week and found a letter from a rabbinical organi-
proudly announces
zation in New York to the city's Mayor about our current contro-
versy whether city hospitals should or should not supply women Mickey Freeman •
with contraceptive knowledge where considerations of health
are involved. The Catholic church was unalterably opposed to at Service Group
For The New Synagogue at
liberalization an the ground of conflict with religious concepts
SCHAEFER at CLARITA (1 Blk. So. of 7 Mile)
The Protestants favored dissemination of such information, Stag Day Sept. 10
though some differed. Jewish rabbinic organizations as a whole
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 at 2 P.M.
The ninth annual Detroit
tried to keep away from the controversy, though two of them Service Group Stag Day will be
The Building Committee
did air their views in public statements, holding that while held all day Wednesday, Sept.
contraceptive devices were contrary to Jewish law they felt 10, at Franklin Hills Country
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considerations of religion must not determine public health Club, announces DSG chairman
policies nor abridge the rights of the non-religious, and that the Jack 0. Lefton.
HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICES at 19161 SCHAEFER,
question of utilizaton of contraceptive knowledge was, therefore,
All men who worked in the
• In the air-conditioned Schaver Audiorium
one to be determined by each individual.
1958 Allied Jewish Campaign
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As a layman, this writer has no intention of either nodding are Detroit Service Group mem-
approval or rejection of this rabbinic outlook, though he has bers and eligible for the fun-
For Information Call: DI 1-9061; UN 4-3392
his own private opinion about the issue. . What has moved us outing, Lefton explained.
to writing this piece was the unhappy and unfortunate decision
"Television star Mickey Free-
of another rabbinic group — and God, what need is there for man, who has appeared on Phil
so many splinter groups within the Orthodox rabbinate — to air Silver's show, Toast of the Town,
its opposing view in public in a manner deserving only of dirty
and the Goodyear Playhouse,
linen and not of a controversy allegedly L'shem' shomayim, for tells us he will preview some
the sake of Heaven. If in its letter to the Mayor the organiza- of the material he plans to use
Registrations for the 1958-59 Term will be taken at
tion had simply formulated its position and laid claim to repre- in night clubs and .on TV next
senting the point of view of Orthodoxy, it would have done what year for us," Lefton said. "His
every intelligent party to a serious dispute is expected to do—
presentation of its case with dignity and objectivity. But by ful- Laugh Spectacular should be
just the thing to cap a memo-
minating and publicly smearing, pillorying and abusing another rable
Sept. 2, 3, and 4 from 7:30 - 9:00 P.M.
day."
rabbinic group — whether deserving of the rebuke or not — this
Lefton
reports
that
golfers
Classes from Kindergarten to 10th Grade
particular Orthodox group has only supplied another fact as
will have the use of the Franklin
a basis for Mr. X's fears.
Limited to 25 Students Each
Hills course from 10 a.m. to
Rabbis in recent months have been in deplorable public
performances. If the plague persists they may some day find 4 p.m. Dinner will be at 7 p.m.
SCHOOL STARTS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
"We want the day to run with-
their followers abandoning synagogues, murmuring "a plague
AT THE VERNOR SCHOOL
out a hitch,", Lefton said, "and
on both your houses."
we need to know how many to
TRACEY AND PEMBROKE
expect." He -Urged DSG mem-
t Session 9-11 a.m.-2nd Session 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
to return their reservation
Orthodox Rabbis Condemn Reform bers
envelopes promptly. "It will be
if those who plan to
Support for Birth Control Measures helpful
golf will jot down the time they
Orthodox Jews are opposed i stated that birth control was expect to be on the course and
to "promiscuous" birth control. compatible with Judaism. Rabbi the notation 'lunch' if they plan
The New York Association of Edward F. Klein, in a sermon to have luncheon at the club,
Rabbis and the Union of Ortho- at Stephen Wise Free Syna- on their reservation envelopes,"
dox Rabbis of the United States gogue (Reform) in New York, Lefton said.
Evergreen Jewish Congregation
and Canada took this stand in stated that the position taken
recent statements arising from by the hospital director was Soviet Repatriation
Religious School
a controversy in a New York "an infringement on c i v i 1
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hospital that refused to give rights."
Under the Direction of Rabbi Hyman Agress
LONDON (JTA) — The pos-
contraceptive devices to a wo-
In
a
letter
to
the
New
York
sibility
of
the
repatriation
of
man patient. Catholics had
Now Accepting
lined up in support of the ac- Times, Rabbi Pinchas Teitz, a more Polish Jews from Soviet
tion, while Protestants and re- member of the Union of Ortho- Russia was seen here in the
Sunday School Enrollments
form Jews denounced the hos- dox Rabbis presidium, vehem- extension of the 1957 Polish-
ently
denounced
the
statement
R
u
s
s
i
a
n
agreement,
under
Pre-Kindergarten thru 10th Grade
pital's policy as an attack on by -
Dr.' Bloom as being contrary which nearly 40,000 Jews have
religious freedom.
to Jewish law (Halakah). He been repatriated to Poland.
CLASSES BEGIN SEPT. 21, 1958
The =New York Boar d of said that reform Judaistic sup-
According to the official
Rabbis, which was supposed to port- for birth control was a
At the Mettetal School
Polish Press Agency, PAP,
represent all branches of Jud- departure from Jewish law.
Edinborough & Vasser
under terms of the new agree-
aism, issued a statement endors-
The New York Association of
Pre-School Registration Will Also Be Held at the School
ing birth control. And Dr. Mor- Rabbis, in an open letter to ment, those wishing repatria-
Sept. 7, 1958-9:30 a.m. to 12:00 Noon
ris J. Bloom, in a sermon, Mayor Robert F. Wagner (a tion can submit applications
up to January 1, 1959, with
Call
Max Pleasant
practicing Catholic) condemned such repatriation to be com-
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the New York Board of Rabbis pleted by the end of March
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(formerly called the New York 1959.
Board of Jewish Ministers) for
the espousal of promiscuous
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contraception. The Association
said that the Board had been
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rejected by Orthodox groups
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and had no right to speak in
the name of Judaism.
CARPETS
19161 SCHAEFER (Near 7 Mile Road)
The Association stated that,
in Orthodox Judaism, the prac-
ACTUALLY
PRE-SCHOOL—AGES 5-6
NURSERY SCHOOL, AGES 31/2 5
tice of contraception is one of
ELEMENTARY
AFTERNOON
SCHOOL
the
three
cardinal
sins,
ranking
HAVE THE
with blood-shed and idolatry in
AGES 7-13
FRAGRANCE
gravity. The Association also
said that in the matters of
OF SPRING!
Jewish law the Board was un-
authorized and incompetent to
speak for Judaism.
MODERN APPROACH
The letter also contained a
denouncement by the Associ-
INTENSIVE TEACHING
ation of other activities of the
HOLIDAYS AND TRADITIONS
Board, which seem to stem
BAR MITZVAH PREPARATION
mainly from the Board's at-
tempts to represent itself as
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spokesmen for all Jews in civic
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and religious matters. The As-
FOR INFORMATION
New term begins: Grade School—Wed. Sept. 3, '58
sociation says that the Board
Nursery—
Thur. Sept. 4, '58
CALL UN 4 - 6319
has not been authorized by any-
Pre-School----
Sun. Sept. 7, '58
one to do so.

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