THE DETROIT JEWIS H NE WS — Fr iday, Ju ne 26, 1959 — 10
Sex in Religion Described in New
Edition of Goldberg's 'Sacred Fire'
Ben Zion Goldberg, one of
the editors of the Day-Morning
J o u r n a 1, son-in-law of the
. famous Yiddish humorist,
Sholem Aleichem, created a
sensation nearly 30 years ago
with his book "The Sacred Fire:
The Story of Sex in Religion."
It was published by Horace
Liveright in 1930. Now it ap-
pears in a revised• edition, il-
lustrated, published by Univer-
sity Books, 101 W. 31st St.,
It is a revealing .work. While
it begins. with explanations of
erotic motives
in primitive
religions, it
covers the en-
tire field of re-
ligious dogmas
•::'and delves in-
145 "'Ito various
types of wor-
t h i p, quotes
multiple stor-
ies of worship
o f divinities,
deals with
Goldberg
marriage and
love, and varied eroticisms.
In an introduction to "The
Sacred Fire," Dr. Charles Fran-
cis Potter, author of several
books on religion, states that
while sexy books sell they be-
come taboo the moment they
are connected with religion.
That is why, he writes, Gold-
berg's book was for many years
an "under-the-countier" title and
practically unobtainable. De-
fending the book's worth, Dr.
Potter states: "The non-religious
person who looks on sex as
'dirty' or a mere emotional
nuisance is missing an aesthetic
value ..." He believes that it
is time to follow Goldberg's
leadership in recognizing the
sex elements in religion and
that "Religion must recognize
its debt to sex in origin and
early development, and restore
it to a place of dignity within
religion, instead of despising
and condemning it."
In "Love in the Synagogue,"
a chapter devoted to a discus-
sion of sex in Judaism, Gold-
berg states that sex "is the ful-
filment of the first divine com-
mand to mankind," relating to
being fruitful and multiplying.
He points out: "Just as it
is sinful to abstain from mar-
riage, so is it unlawful to
live childless in the marital
state. One should not marry a
woman that is too old or too
young to bear children."
He explains onanism, the cir-
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Greece to Retain Law on Heirless
Jewish Property, AJCReports
Radiation Expert
PARIS (JTA) — No action
will be taken by the Greek gov-
ernment to change the status
of OPAIE, the Jewish heirless
property successor organization,
without prior consultation with
the Greek Jewish community,
Zachariah Shuster, European
director for the American Jew-
ish Committee, reported here.
Shuster, who has just re-
turned from Athens, said he
had been given that assurance
by Panayopolis Kanellopoulos,
Greek Deputy Premier. Shuster
met with Greek officials to
check a report that the Greek
government planned to make
substantial changes in the struc-
ture and functions of OPAIE.
Income of the OPAIE now
goes for relief and rehabilita-
tion programs of the 60,000-
member Greek Jewish commu-
nity.
A. Averoff, the Greek For-
eign Minister, and the Deputy
Premier told Shuster that the
attitude of the Greek govern-
ment toward its Jewish citizens
was a friendly and sympathetic
one. The Deputy Premier, who
cumcision rules, laws of clean-
liness for women, the ideal of
love as embodied in the "Song
of Songs" and the love element
linked to the Sabbath.
"The Sacred Fire" is a very
revealing work. Those who seek
information about the sex ele-
ments in religion and who study
this volume objectively will
find it cry illuminating.
Elect Three in Ontario
to Legislative Assembly
TORONTO (JTA) — Three
Jewish members were elected
to the Legislative Assembly of
Ontario in the province's gen-
eral election. All three were
from the Toronto area. One—
Allan Grossman, re-elected in
Toronto-St. Andrew—belongs to
the party in power, the Progres-
sive Conservatives. The other
two are titwly elected and are
Liberals: Vernon Singer for
York-Center and Joseph Gould
for Toronto-Bracondale.
Hebrew University Prof.
William Low is shown in his
radiation laboratory in Jeru-
salem working on experi-
ments relating to the para-
magnetic temperature of li-
quid hydrogen. His research
is a part of the Hebrew Uni-
versity's overall experimenta-
tion program in low tempera-
ture physics.
Woman Labor Leader Writes Fine
Account of Action-Packed Life
Rose Pesotta, a New York
dressmaker who traces her
interesting life story to the Rus-
sian Pale of Settlement and
tells of a life of struggle and
eventual success as a labor
leader, has written a most inter-
esting account of her action-
packed life, in "Days of Our
Lives," published by Excelsior
Press (P.O. Box 259, N.Y. 1).
This story is so popular with
an increasing number of readers
that it has already gone into a
third printing.
The story winds up with the
"making of an American," with
t h e narrator's naturalization
after her settlement in New
York and her active years as a
leader in the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Until reaching that point, she
Court Voids Election
as Bigoted Campaign
PARIS (JTA) — A French
court dealt another blow at
Sen. Ferdinand A u b e r g e r,
whose election to the Mayoralty
of Belle-Rive sur Alliers was
voided by another tribunal for
his anti-Semitic campaign.
The Correctional Court at
Cusset imposed a fine of 530,000
francs ($1,000) on Sen. Auber-
ger for his actions. The court
also ordered him to pay 290,000
francs in damages to the man
whom he defeated in his
mayoralty campaign, Ben Ha-
mou, a Jew.
Auberger's seat in the Senate
is not affected. However, the
French Administrative Tribunal
nullified his election as Mayor
of the little town, after convict-
ing him of conducting his cam-
paign against Amou through
the use of anti-Semitic slogans
and literature.
The decision of the Clermont-
Ferrand administrative tribunal
to annul the Mayor's election
for using anti-Semitic propa-
ganda in his electoral campaign
has provoked particular interest
among Jewish groups in Paris
because, for the first time, the
new French Constitution is in-
voked for the protection of the
rights of Jews and in the fight
against anti-Semitism.
Israel to Favor Foreign
Investors, Knesset Rules
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A gov-
ernment-sponsored bill to pro
vide more extensive concessions
for capital investments in Israel
was introduced in Parliament
by Finance Minister Levi Esh-
kol. He described the measure
as "the most liberal in the
world" among countries with
controlled economy.
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describes the Russian ghetto
life, recalling many interesting
personalities w h o influenced
her thinking and who were in
her family circle.
Family and friends are de-
scribed keenly, and so also are
the Russians of her childhood—
the neighbors in Podolia, the
soldiers who were on their way
to fight against Japan, the
peasants.
Rose Pesotta had good train-
ing in preparation for her
career as a labor leader. Her
father had organized a coopera-
tive matzoth baking bakery
before a Passover and the ex-
ample he set stood his daughter
in good stead in training for
leadership in behald of fellow-
workers.
The autobiography of this
able woman leader indicates
that she had acquired a good
Russian and Hebrew education.
that she learned the histories of
both the Russians and the Jew-
ish peoples and that she bene-
fited greatly from them.
Active in the underground
revolutionary movement, s h e
had a background which en-
abled . her to write authorita-
tively on the matter of a
people's emerging "from chains
to freedom," of Jewry's hopes
for national r e b i r t h, of the
Zionist ideal and the aspirations
of human beings to break
shackles of freedom.
"Days of Our Lives" is an
exciting tale of a new American,
an able observer, a fine delin-
eator of an interesting life and
a devoted worker in behalf of
the labor union movement.
was initiator and author of the
1946 laW providing that Jew-
ish heirless assets should be
used for Jewish victims of
Nazism, said nothing would be
done by Greece contrary to the
spirit of the 1946 law, Shuster
said.
French Statesmen Bid
Farewell to Envoy Tsur
PARIS (JTA) — Leading
members of the French Cabi-
net, former Prime Ministers
Pierre Mendes-France and Guy
Mollet and outstanding scien-
tists and literary figures of this
country, participated in impres-
sive farewell ceremonies as
France bade von voyage to Is-
rael's Ambassador Yaacov Tsur.
Among the prominent per-
sonalities in attendance were
former Ministers Daniel Mayer
and Christian Pineau; Prof.
Rene Cassin, vice-president of
the Council of State; the writer
Andre Maurois; and Francais
Berrin, former head of the
French Atomic Energy Commis-
sion.
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War' with Soviet
NEW YORK — The United
States and its allies are actually
fighting not a "cold war" with
the Soviet bloc but "The Second
One Hundred Years' War" of
modern history.
In this struggle "our spiritual
resources are an unparalleled
asset," Theodore C. Streibert,
former director of the United
States Information Agency and
presently treasurer of the Com-
mittee to Strengthen the Fron-
tiers of Freedom, asserted at
the annual dinner of the Syna-
gogue Council of America, at
the Roosevelt Hotel.
The dinner honored Rabbi
Theodore L. Adams, spiritual
leader of Cong. Ohab Zedek of
New York City, on his retire-
ment from the SCA presidency.
He was lauded in messages
from President Eisenhower and
other national leaders.
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