BRETTON WOODS, N. H.
(JTA)—The 70th annual con-
vention of the Central Confer-
ence of American Rabbis con-
cluded here with the election of
Rabbi Bernard Bamberger, of
New York, as president.
No action was taken by the
eonvention on the major issue
of establishing a code to guide
Reform Jewish religious prac-

without a binding code of re-
ligious practice as contrasted to
Orthodoxy.
Maintaining that revelation
has two meanings, 1. The indi-
vidual religious experience of
divine presence and 2. The pro-
found religious experience of an
entire group, expressed in laws,
Dr. Petuchowski stressed the
primacy of the group experi-
ences.
"What is it that makes the
so-called Law of Moses any
more divine than say, the Code
of Hammurabi?" he asked. "It
is here that we come to the
community aspect of revelation
as law from Heaven, in contrast
to revelation as mere divine ex-
perience. -
He admonished the conven-
tion to rediscover the source for
a guide to modern Reform Jew-
ish concepts of revelation. "The
recovery of the revelatory oc-
casion and idea, is that basis on
which alone our deliberations
on guides, and practice. can be
meaningful," he said.

BONN (JTA) — Dr. Nahum 1,700.000 individual restitution
Goldmann, 'president of the claims by Nazi victims. Sixty
Conference on Jewish Material percent of these claims are
Claims Against Germany, ex- Jewish. At the present pro-
pressed satisfaction with the cessing rate, about 700,000
results of conferences which claims will not have been han-
he held last weekend with died when the German restitu-
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, tion law expires in early 1963.
West German Finance Minister Following his talk with
Franz Etzel, and the premiers Dr. cGoldman, Chancellor Ade-
and finance ministers of all the nauer announced that the Bonn
states in the West German Fed- government was determined to
eral Republic. complete compensation for the
The talks dealt with speeding Nazi victims "as quickly and as
up the processing of about well as possible."

to Council Post

CHARLES WEINSTOCK

LittmattReplaces
rs.-c:tor
Sobel as-Dit
of Michigan ADL

Sol I. Littman. a former
Nebraskan. has been named
successor to Dr. Morton J. Sobel
in the post of director of the
Michigan Region of the Anti-
' Defamation League.
Announcement of Littman's
appointment was made by Mrs.
Samuel S. Aaron. state chairman
of ADL's regional advisory
board. The new directorf or-
RABBI B. BAMBERGER
merly occupied a similarrposi-
Dr. Abraham F. Citron will tion as director of the plains
flee. Discussions at the conven-
offices in
tion developed no support for assume duties on July 6 as di- States Region, with
rector of community relations Omaha. Neb.
such an official guide.
In his previous capacity.
and research for the Jewish
The convention overwhelm- Community Council. His ap- Littman was responsible for the
ingly defeated an executive pointment was
ADL program in Iowa. Kansas.
board amendment to the CCAR announced by 1
Nebraska and Western Missouri.
constitution which would have Lawrence W
He also served as consultant to
the human relations commis-
prevented members of the or- Crohn. Council
sions of Iowa and Kansas..
ganization of Reform rabbis president, and
Born and educated in Toronto.
from joining other national rab- Boris M. Joffe,
Ont., Littman holds a BA de-
binic organizations.
executive di-
gree from the University of
The delegates heard a report rector.
Toronto: Following service with
Prior to ac-
on Reform Judaism in Israel.
the Canadian Army Medical
Rabbi Jacob Shenkman, Amer- cepting the De
corps. he did graduate work and
ican director of the World troll post. Ci-
served as an instructor at
Union for Progressive Judaism, tron was exec
Washington State College and
reported that the American utive director
the University of Wi.sconsin. He
board of the World Union. with of the Jewish
j holds higher degrees in sociol-
which the CCAR is affiliated. Community
. . ogv and social work.
Dr. Citron
has accepted main responsibility Council of
Before joining the ADL staff.
for cooperation with Israel's Peoria. Ill. Born in Peoria. he . Littman did Work at interracial
burgeoning Reform movement. attended the public schools of settlements. farriily case Work
He said that small Reform con- that city and completed part of and group work..
gregations function in Tel Aviv his college work at Bradley
He has served as secretary of
and Haifa and with interested University. He received his doe- the Iowa Committee on Discrim-
individuals and groups else- torate from Columbia University ination in Higher Education.
In the field of social psychology. organized the Human Relations '
where.
Citron is a former teacher in Clearing House in Omaha and
The formation of a Jewish so-
eiety with Orthodox. Conserva- the Peoria public schools. From was an organizer of the Plains •
tive and Reform representation 1951 to 1954 he was field direc- States Regional Conference on
for the.specific purpose of pro- for of the American Jewish Con- Human Relations in Education.
pagating Judaism was disclosed gress and was located for part i Littman also has been a eon-
at the convention. The new of that time in Detroit. He was - sultant to the Iowa Governor's
body. called the Jewish Infor- married to the former Shirlee Commission on Human Rights.
mation Society. is made up of Oberman of Peoria. They have . K a n s a s Anti - Discrimination
prominent laymen and rabbis. two children. Commission and the Omaha
Mayor's Committee on Human
Its headquarters is in Chicago.
Relations. after . urging the
and its activities are confined to Many Jews at Gentile
creation of each group. lie also :
the Chicago area. but it is ex-
Montreal Finds has lectured extensively at: col-
pected that branches will be Schools,
MONTREAL (WJA)—A sta- leges throughout the four-State
opened in other cities.
Earlier. there was consider- tistical study on Jewish children area
While he worked as a one-man
able discussion for and against i in the Protestant Schools of
;
Greater
Montreal
in
the
period
office
in Omaha. Littman will be
the establishment of a guide to from 1878 to 1958 has been aided here
by Michael A. Gaines.
Reform Jewish practice. The
remains assistant Michigan
500 rabbis attending the conven- ;completed by the Canadian Jew- who
regional director.
tion also heard a presentation of lish Congress.
Littman's wife. Mildred. also
of
the
number
It
shows
that
of
divine
relation,
a concept
is a practicing social case work-
Jewish children attending the er The couple has two Ichil-
drawn from rabbinic sources.
Dr. Jakob J. Petuchowski of Protestant schools of the city dren. Deborah. 10. and Nina. 4
the Cincinnati faculty of the increased from 77 in 1878 to a
Hebrew Union College-Jewish peak of 14.134 in 1924. and fell Chicago
t - , Economic Parley
Institute of Religion. seminary to an alltime low of 8,590 in to Launch Fall Bond Drive
of Reform Judaism. told the 1942. Since then there has been
The fall campaign for State
rabbis "to seek to rediscover an increase to a new peak of
of Israel Bonds will he launch-
the occasions and ideas of group 16.836 in 1958.
In 1924 Jewish children form- ed at a national economic con-
revelation." as at Sinai, as a
precondition to meaningful dis- ed the majority in 11 of the 66 ference for Israel at Chicago's
Protestant schools in Greater Hotel Sherman, Sept. 18 to 20,
cussion of "guides."
it was announced by Dr. Joseph
In a century and half of re- Montreal: in 1958 they formed
-J. Schwartz. vice-president of
ligious life in America. Reform the majority in 18 of the city's the Israel Bond Organization.
Judaism has always operated 89 Protestant schools.

Name D r. Citron

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5 — THE DETRO IT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, July 3, 1959

Adenauer Promises Dr. Goldmann Speed-Up
in Processing War Claims of Nazi Victims

Reform Rabbis Elect Bamberger;
Reject Code on Religious Practice