THE DETROIT JEWI SH NEW S — Fri day, May 8, 1959-1 4
Deadline Nears for Registration
for WSU Old Testament Conference
Shecter Family
Gives 40 Volumes
to JNF Library
Maariv Memorial Service for
Rabbi Hershman on May 26
Monday is registration dead- both the clergy and 1 a i t y.
line for the Wayne State Uni- Checks for registration should
A big assist to the newly-
versity Conference on Old Testa- be made payable to Wayne
organized
library of the Jewish
ment Studies, which will be held State University and sent to
National Fund Council of De-
Congregation Shaarey Zedek will pay tribute
Dr.
Spiro,
Semitics
Dept.,
at the University May 18 and 19.
troit was given this week by the
to the memory of Rabbi Abraham M. Hershman on
There is a $5 registration fee Wayne State University, Detroit
family of Nathan H. Shecter,
2.
For
further
information,
call
Tuesday
evening,
May
26.
for the Conference and a $2
which presented the library
Dr. Spiro, TE 3-1400, Ext. 540.
Rabbi Morris Adler announced this week that
charge is made
with some 40 volumes from the
a special Maariv Service is being planned in Rabbi
for each of two
late communal leader's collec-
luncheons in the
Israeli Poet Here Hershman's memory, at 8:30 p.m. on May 26.
tion.
program.
Detailed plans for the service will be announced
Most of the volumes are in
The concluding
for
Yiddish
and
in
next
week's
issue
of
The
Jewish
News.
Yiddish,
and represent research
lecture in the.
works publish ed by VIVO.
program will be
Others are written by Israelis
Hebrew Lectures
given by Dr. Wil-
describing the Jewish state and
liam F. Albright Albright
Shlomo Shenhod, considered
by Jews from Poland and East
at 8:30 p.m., May 19, in the one of Israel's most distin-
Europe, who died during the
large auditorium of the Detroit guished young poets, will be in
Hitler era.
Institute of Arts, and, as part of Detroit this weekend to address
the Walter and Lea Field two meetings—one convened by
The JNF library was created
parent
body
about
the
presi-
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Semitic Lecture Series, will be Yiddishists, the other by the Union of American Hebrew dential aspirations of U.S. Sen. only a few weeks ago, when a
free and open to the public Hebrew-speaking Kvutzah Iv- Congregations was attacked edi- John F. Kennedy, of Massachu- resolution was drafted to estab-
without prior registration. Prof.
lish such a project in conjunc-
torially by a publication called setts, a Catholic.
Albright will speak on "T h e rith.
Stating that it was "mystified" tion with the JNF education
Church
and
State,
the
official
This
evening,
Shenhod
will
Dead Sea Scrolls and the New
speak at an oneg shabbat at organ of Protestants and Other by the alleged attack from a department.
Testament."
The action was decided upon
Americans United for Separa- Jewish source, Church and
The Conference will begin at the Sholem Aleichem Institute, tion of Church and State.
State termed the UAHC "a when constant requests were
under
auspices
of
the
Institute,
10 a.m., May 18, with a keynote
In an editorial entitled "Why small, splinter group and not received for information on
address by Prof. Albright on Farband and Workmen's Circle.
of Reform Jews." Israel and the work of the Jew-
He
will
lecture
and
read
from
Bite Your Friends?" the publi- representative
"The Age of the Patriarchs and
(It actually is the central body ish National Fund.
cation expressed indignation of
the Ancient Near East." "The his own works in Yiddish.
Reform Judaism, and repre-
Books referring to Zionism,
At the meeting of the Kvut- over what it termed an "attack" sents about 1,000,000 Jews.)
Role of Moses in the History of
Jewish problems as they par-
by
the
UAHC,
which
has
dif-
Israel" will be discussed at the zah Ivrith, Saturday night, in
The publication said: "Still, ticularly relate to Israel, and
luncheon session, presided over the Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg., fered with the publication's
we cannot understand why even other volumes pertaining to
by the Rt. Rev. Msg. Carroll F. Shenhod will deliver a Hebrew
so inconsequential a Jewish community matters may be sent
Deady, and Prof. E. A. Speiser address on "The War of Inde-
group as this would feel called to the JNF office, 18414
will speak on "Three Thousand pendence as It Is Reflected in Re-Elect Benj. Siegal
Years of Biblical Research" at Hebrew Poesy."
to Head Beth Abraham. on to supply the Catholic press Wyoming, or call UN . 4-2767,
with quotes against the Protes- for information.
a lecture that evening.
Shenhod is one of the rare
Benjamin Siegal was re-
The following morning at 10 poets who writes with equal elected president of Beth Abra- tants and Other Americans Unit-
a.m., the discussion will center facility in both Yiddish and He- ham Synagogue for the 1959-60 ed for Separation of Church
on "The Nature and Rise of brew. His recent appearance in year at last week's annual con- and State."
The editorial continued: "The
Prophecy." The luncheon dis- New York before the Hebrew gregational meeting.
cussion will be presided over by and Yiddish P.E.N. Clubs was
facts are that the POAU has
Also
re-elected
were
Henry
the Rt. Rev. Bishop Emrich, of widely acclaimed.
KOSHER MEATS
Pokart and William Genser, strongly supported the Jews in
the Episcopal Diocese of Mich-
When Kol Israel, the official vice presidents; Dr. Harry New- many religious-rights situations.
and POULTRY
igan. At 2 p.m. "The Old Testa- government radio in the Jewish man and Jacob Greenberg, sec- We have espoused Federal aid
ment and the Dead Sea Scrolls" state, opened the formal cele-
to
prevent
recurrence
of
such
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will be the topic of considera- bration of Israel's 10th anni- retaries. Dr. Robert Schlaff was atrocities as synagogue bomb-
tion. Prof. Albright's lecture at versary last year, Shenhod's elected treasurer.
ings. Now this. Do these He-
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Named as members of the brew leaders know who their
8:30 p.m. will conclude the Con- poem, "The Radiating Griefs,"
board
of
trustees
for
three-year
ference. All sessions, excepting was set to music to initiate the
terms were Harry Saltzman, friends are?"
Prof. Albright's lecture, will be year-long festivities.
William Gutman, Louis Last
held in the WSU McGregor Con-
Now on a tour of the United
THE ODESSA PROGRESSIVE AID SOCIETY
ference Center, Ferry at Second. States, he is being sponsored and Irving Schlussel. Pokart
Wilt sponsor
Biblical scholars who will par- by the Yiddish Culture Con- serves as chairman of the board.
A Cultural Evening, Dedicated to the
ticipate in this Conference, gress.
hailed as one of the most im-
100th ANNIVERSARY of SHOLEM ALEICHEM
Evergreen Cong.
portant and significant of its
SATURDAY, MAY 9th, 9 P.M.
to Install Silverman
kind, are, in addition to Prof. Beth Aaron Re-Elects
at 17556 WYOMING AVENUE
Albright, Professors Ephraim
Isadore Silverman has been
Guest Speaker — A. BERNIKER
Speiser, Marvin H. Pope, George Liberson as President elected by members of the Ever-
Refreshments Served
Members and Friends Invited.
At the 15th annual meeting green Jewish Congregation to
E. Mendenhall, the Rev. John L.
Walter Litt, Chairman
.1. Meeron, President
McKenzie, David N. Freedman, of Beth Aaron Synagogue last serve as president for the 1959-
Harold L. Ginsberg, Frank M. week, William I. Liberson was 60 season.
Cross and Abram Spiro, chair- re-elected unanimously to serve
Silverman and other newly-
. a second term elected officers will be installed
man of the WSU Semitic.
ESTIVE LUNCHEON
as president of by Rabbi Hyman Agress, spiri-
Languages and Literature Dept.,
ASHION
SHOW
t 0\01
under whose auspices the Con-
t h e . congrega- tual leader of the synagogue,
ABULOUS DOOR PRIZES
ference is being presented.
tion.
at a special late Friday evening
Dr. Spiro reported this
TUESDAY, MAY THIRTEENTH
Serving with service on May 22.
week that the conference
I him will be J.
Serving with Silverman in the
KNOLLWOOD COUNTRY CLUB
plans have been acclaimed
12:30 P.M.
'Harris, J. new administration will be
enthusiastically in many
Braver and Franklin Levy, vice-president;
Sponsored by DETROIT LEAGUE, iNHAC,
quarters. He said that Bishop
Morris Fenk- Morrey Kanter, treasurer; Sam-
Emrich has invited all the
Jewish National Home for Asthmatic Children
' ell, vice-presi- uel Wilner and Meyer King,
ministers in the Episcopal
dents, M. Sil- secretaries; and Harry Shiovitz
Children's Asthma Research Institute and Hospital
Diocese to be his guests at
- verman, treas- and Hy Kinzer, trustees.
For reservations, dial
all sessions and luncheon
Liberson urer; Morris
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meetings. Similarly, he re- Buch, Avery Shapiro and Joseph
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ports, Congregation Shaarey Sulkes, secretaries.
Zedek and Temple Beth El
Three-year board terms will
have ararnged for members be served by Charles Anchill,
of their teaching staffs to
Ben Drapkin, Morris Litvin,
participate in all the sessions Max Kaminsky, Sam Loberman
and that Jewish social work- and Hyman Margolis.
ers will take part in the two-
day programs.
Afternoon Hebrew chool
The Conference is open to Warn Turkish Jewry
Church-State Group Hits UAHC
Stand on Candidacy of Kennedy
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ISTAMBUL, (JTA)—Turkish
Jewry was cautioned against
Christian efforts of proselytiza-
tion being made in this country.
The warning was issued by
Chief Rabbi Raphael Saban in
a Passover message prepared
for reading in all synagogues in
the country.
A libel suit against the anti-
Semitic weekly Hur Adam was
filed here by the Turkish Jour-
nalists Association, alleging
"grave slander" because the
periodical has c h a r g e d the
Turkish press with being "a
tool of Jewish plots against
Islam."
In its suit, the association
declared that Hur Adam charges
"have caused deep regret in
urkish
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