50—BUSINESS CARDS

FLASH! Remodeling contractors.
Exterior and interior repairs. Tile
floors and walls. Inside Birch
and stone work. GR 4-3695, KE
2-5344.

WHY DO IT YOURSELF?

When you can have expert car-
pentry work done reasonably.
Rec. rooms and attic rooms spe-
cialty. No job too big or small.
Free estimates cheerfully given.
TY 7-7758, LI 5-4035.

EXPERIENCED dressmaker willing
to go to your home or my home.
Alterations for adults and chil-
dren. Call TO 5-2929.

PAINTING and decorating. inside
and outside. Free estimates. Rea-
sonable. TO 7-1937.

DRAPERIES
CUSTOM MADE

$3.00 per width lined or unlined.
Your measurement and mate-
rial. Pick up and delivery on
$50 CT more. Crendilion and
weights f u rnish e d. Excellent
work. WE. 3-5773.

PAINTING and decorating, wall
washing. first class work, work
myself. UN 3-6307, Sabo.

55—MISCELLANEOUS

BLACK PERSIAN COAT, mink
trim, excellent condition. Moving
south. Sacrifice. Gray cloth win-
ter coat, size 14. TO. 6-2923.

STUDIO COUCH, S25; feather com-
forter, brown & pink satin, S15;
boy's winter jacket. ivy\tleague,
size 20 like new. $10. Outgrown
suit gray ivy league size 20.
Lady's ice skates size 9 $5 & $2.
UN 1-6668.

57—FOR SALE: HOUSEHOLD
GOODS AND FURN!TURE

5 ROOM furniture and household.
Excellent condition. Leaving town.
WE. 3-1761, 4004 Duane.

GERMAN CHINA
(Rosenthal)

12-piece setting plus 'extra serv-
pieces. Moving out of town.
Sacrifice for quick sale. 5200 or
best offer. TU 4-9872, 10 till 4,
Sat. evening or Sunday, SL
4-9980.

FINE CONTEMPORARY
FURNITURE

Unusual dining table and chairs,
Herman Miller Chairs, paint-
ings, ceramics, glassware, wal-
nut built-in desk, G.E. electric
stc've, ref., washer. Shown this
Sunday only. 11-5 only. 26410
Huntington Rd., Huntington
Woods.

Urge Germany to Speed
Processing of Claims

FRANKFURT (JTA) — Un-
less efforts are made to speed
up the processing of individual
claims, the German indemnifica-
tion program will not be com-
pleted on schedule in 1963,
Prof. Norman Bentwich de-
clared here at a reception mark-
ing the tenth anniversary of
the United Restitution Office.
Prof. Bentwich said that the
Jews were impressed with the
fact that the Bonn Government
and its leaders, including Pres-
ident Heuss and Chancellor
Adenauer, have placed the foun-
dations of the German restitu-
tion program on moral footings.
Present at the reception were
a number of German Federal
and state government leaders.
Organized 10 years ago in
Britain by attorneys affiliated
with the Council of Jews of Ger-
many, the URO now has offices
in 14 countries, in addition to
its • office in Germany, and is
pressing more than 220,000
claims in behalf of 125,000 vic-
tims of the Nazis.

Ask Austria for Last
Restitution Change

VIENNA (JTA)—A delega-
tion of the Federation of Aus-
trian Jewish Communities called
on Chancellor Julius Raab, De-
puty Chancellor Bruno Pitter-
man and Finance Minister Rein-
hard Kamitz to ask for a final
amendment of Austria's restitu-
tion law which would compen-
sate all victims not indemnified
heretofore.
Chancellor Raab offered the
delegation top figure of 10,000,-
000 schillings ($400,000) to
cover this amendment.

Pfeffer Lists Changes in American Cultural Competition

Changes that take place in
America's cultural patterns and
values and the creative forces
that distinguish this country's
competitive elements are out-
lined in "Creeds in Competi-
tion" by Leo Pfeffer. Published
by Harper, this book deals with
the various religious patterns—
with issues involved in the
separation of the church and
state, with censorships and blue
laws, with birth control, public
versus parochial schools, com-
munism, Zionism and other
issues.
An interesting start is given
the author's thesis by his ex-
planation of the evolvement of
Christmas and Easter as offi-
cially r e c ognized holidays,
marking a vast change from the
colonial New England times
when the celebration of Christ-
mas was a criminal offense.
* 4: 4:
The Puritans made it a
punishable offense to celebrate
Christmas, but in the 19th cen-
tury Christmas was made a legal
holiday. Similarly, many other
changes are in evidence in this

land: Pfeffer asserts, for ex-
ample, that anti-Catholic bigo-
try has ended in this country;
that the defeat of Alfred Smith
for the Presidency in 1928 was
not anti-Catholicism, since any
other candidate on the Demo-
cratic ticket would have been
defeated in that year; and the
fact that Senator John Kennedy
was preferred for the Vice
Presidential nomination on the
Democratic ticket by the South-
erners is given as an indication
of a radical change in American
thinking.
But "the disappearance of
anti-Jewish bigotry as a factor
in public affairs is less obvious."
Pfeffer states, although he adds
that "here too it is safe to sug-
gest that bigotry and predudice
are no longer very important in
Christian-Jewish relationships."
*
Describing the changes that
have taken place in religious
spheres, Pfeffer asserts that
Judaism has adjusted itself to
secular-humanist culture and
that American Jews are "pro-
bably the most secularist" of all

Strictly Confidential

by PHINEAS J. BIRON

Farewell to Jean Jaffe
A brief item on the obituary
page stared at us . . . Jean
Jaffe, Jewish journalist, died
suddenly on a little freighter,
plowing from Hong-Kong to
India . . . That same day one
or two old acquaintances men-
tioned to us the sad news and
then went on their way . . .
That was all . . . And the next
day nobody remembered Jean
Jaffe . . She was a rare
human being . . . Not scintil-
lating or especially witty, al-
though there was quiet humor
in her comments on people and
events.
A good friend of ours, Ger-
shon Swet, the dean of Yiddish
and Hebrew journalist in this
country (he writes also in
German and Russian) wrote a
tribute to Jean . . . He called
her a real reporter and that
title she surely deserved . .
Born in Russia she had spent
most of her life in the United
States working first for the
"Tageblatt" and later for the
"Day" . . . She was a compe-
tent newspaperwoman with a
fluent style . . . Her pieces, no
matter what the subject mat-
ter, were always informative
and interesting.
Jean was a small girlish-
looking woman . . . If you did
not know her well you might
have been inclined to regard
her as a mouse-like shy per-
son for she belonged to the
introverts who smile sadly in-
stead of arguing . . . Her news-
paper career stretched over a
period of close to 40 years .. .
She knew all the outstanding
world and those who knew her
personalities in the Jewish
loved her . . . She was one
of the late Dr. Weizmann's
favorite reporters.
Jean loved her profession
. . . While most of her col-
leagues in the Yiddish press
consider themselves a u t h o r s
who from behind their desk
condescend to write about'news
events that reach them long
after they occur, Jean was a
good reporter who went after
the news . . . She loved a
change of scenery and did not
mind inconvenience . . . She
covered most of the big stories
in Israel, Europe and of course
in the United States . . . Her
last assignment was to Japan
. . . She had been. intrigued
by the stories of mass-conver-
sions of Japanese to the Jewish
faith and she was curious to
see for herself . . .
There was a time, a decade

or more ago, when a group
of Jewish newspapermen met
regularly once a week at a
friendly dinner . . . It was a
sort of round table get-together
to exchange views and to re-
lax . . . In the group were
the late Jacob Fishman, editor
of the Jewish Morning Jour-
nal, Meyer W. Weisgal, Joe
Brainin, Henry 1VIontor, Maur-
ice Samuel arid Jean Jaffe .. .
We remember Jean's unob-
trusive yet warm presence . . .
She was a keen observer of
human behavior . . . She would
suddenly whisper, "you see that
man over there, he reminds me
of an owl." . . . She never
laughed out loud or showed
demonstrative enthusiasm . . .
We always had the impression
that there was a deep sadness
within her, a sadness which
colored her thinking on almost
everything and reinforced, as
it were, the futility of life in
general . . .' Her passing away
far from the small circle of
her intimate friends was rather
appropriate . . . She just van-
ished . . .
There was no long illness
which would have embarassed
her . . . She died in harness
on an assignment that no other
Yiddish journalist would have
undertaken under the same
conditions . . . In the years to
come when we will think of
the Yiddish press and the men
and women who represented it,
Jean Jaffe's sadly smiling face
and her warm personality will
haunt us . . . There are so few
comp e t en t journalists, who
without pretentions do a useful
job . . . She, Jean Jaffe, was
one of these few . . .

The Baraitha

Baraitha is a collective name
given to all the laws not in-
cluded, or statements omitted
from the Mishnah. It means
"external" or "extraneous."
These laws and statements are
found scattered throughout the
Talmud, being quoted by nu-
merous rabbis. Any statement
by the rabbis of the Tannaitic
era, not found in the Mishnah,
is usually classified as a "Ba-
raitha." Later scholars, who
lived during and after the time
of Rabbi Judah the Prince,
sought to bring these state-
ments to the attention of schol-
ars and schools so that the
statements of the Mishnah
could be further corroborated
and explained as well as ap-
plied more scientifically to any
problem at hand.

faiths; that Jews "probably have
the greatest faith in democracy,
not only in political society but
in the world of religion and
morality."
"Most Jewish organizations
are not happy about the in-
creasing religious coloration of
governmental action," Pfeffer
writes in relation to the new
trends, such as the insertion of
the "under God" phrase in the
Pledge of Allegiance. He con-
tends that no protests were ex-
pressed publicly on this ques-
tion by Jews. He may be wrong
on this point, since there was
at least one comment on this
issue—by this reviewer, in re-
lation to a study of the subject
by Dr. Norman Drachler, the
view having been inserted in
the Congressional Record by
Rep. Louis C. Rabaut, the spon-
sor of the "under God" resolu-
tion that was adopted unani-
mously.
Jewry as an adherent to the
idea of the public school system
is analyzed by Pfeffer, thus:
"The J e w i s h immigrant,
and his children on attaining
adulthood and parenthood,
would have been other than
human if they had not seen
in the American public school
system a precious gift to be
passionately protected a n d
preserved. It is chiefly for
these reasons that the Ameri-
can public school system finds
its staunchest defenders with-
in the Jewish community."
The interest that now is be-
ing shown in the Day School
idea, and the discussions about
parochial schools, are enlivened
by the cons and pros outlined
by Pfeffer on these issues. "The
major defense of the parochial
school, lies in the concept of
cultural pluralism," he states.
While there is growing support
for religious day schools, he
states there is agreement "that
desirable as Jewish religious
schools are, they should not be
financed out of the public
treasury."
Pfeffer discusses such issues
as birth control, the ban on
contraceptives, Americans' at-
titude on Zionism, the fight
against communism and many
similar issues, in their relation
to the major faiths in this
country.
He declares that "the most

important consequence of cul-
tural comoetition is change."
He states that "there is noth-
ing invidious" in such
changes, and he adds that
whatever happens will jusify
this American experiment.

His theses are thought-pro-
voking, and his book clearly and
fearlessly approaches the major
issues that have been in evi-
dence in this country as a result
of competitions in and among
creeds. -- P. S.

Hebrew Corner

Heichal Shlomo

Translation of Hebrew Column
Published by Brit Ivrit Olamit.

In one of the main streets of
Jerusalem, not far from the cen-
er of the city, stands a large
new building. From the roof of
the building, built in the form
of a dome, almost all Jerusalem
can be seen, as well as large
sections of the Old City. This
is Heichal Shlomo—one of the
finest and most important build-.
ings erected in recent years in
the capital city.
The central institutions of or-
ganized religions life in the
State are to be found in Heichal
Shlomo. Here the two Chief
Rabbis of Israel—Rabbi Yitz-
hak Hale v y Herzog, Chief
Rabbi of the Ashkenazic Com-
munity, and Rabbi Yitzhak
Nissim, Chief Rabbi of the Sep-
haradic Community—sit. Here
are (to be found) the Rabbinical
Courts, a large library, an In-
formation Section, a Synagogue,
etc.

The Religious Information
Section fulfils an important
function. Tens of letters from
all parts of the world come
to this Section every month,
with various questions on reli-
gious matters. A group of
Rabbis and scholars deals with
every question, to which it re-
plies in a competent and clear
manner.

Heichal Shlomo was erected
by the well-known English
Zionist, Yitzhak Wolfson, and
the building is named after his
late father. This is a very im-
portant contribution, adding
much not only to the beauty of
Jerusalem, but to its status as
the spiritual center of the Jew-
ish people.

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