National Groups Set Research on
Pre-Handling Animals for Shehita
Feinberg Gift
to Yeshiva School
Livonia Synagogue Signs Cantor Pfeffer
The Livonia Jewish Con-
gregation this week announced
the signing of Philippe Pfeffer,
of 24360 Ridgedale, Oak Park,
as cantor at the synagogue dur-
ing the coming High Holy Days.
Pfeffer, who studied voice in
Belium and France under noted
European tenor, Sandoi Bois-
sier, has sung previously in Van
Den-Nestlei Synagogue in An-
twerp.
A prisoner in a concentration
camp during the Hitler era,
Pfeffer escaped and joined the
French underground. He was a
guerilla fighter in France and
Belgium. .
A master jeweler by trade,
Pfeffer came here after the
war.. In recent years, he .re-
sumed his cantorial training un-
der Cantor Louis Klein, of
ual slaughter, in a _recent wave
of federal and state _efforts to
Pass humane slaughter legisla-
tion. , -
A federal. measure became
law on Aug. 27, 1958. Since then,
usually under sponsorship of
local Humane Societies, humane
slaughter bills have been intro-
duced in 16 state legislatures
and passed in three: California;
Minnesota and Washington.
Local Jewish communal and
religious organizations testified
before legislative committees in
opposition to such legislation,
except in the state of Washing-'
ton, where the Jewish commun-
ity was caught napping and the
CHARLES E. FEINBERG
bill was passed without testi- (right), world-renown author-
mony from local Jewish groups. ity on Walt Whitman from
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
The federal measure and most
Many observant Jews will sit of the state proposals specifi- Detroit, shows a Whitman
signature to Dr. BENJAMIN
on the floor of the- synagogue cally declared Shehita to be FINE,
dean of Yeshiva Uni-
during the Tisha b'Av services, humane, but, in almost all cases, versity's
graduate school of
which will be observed on Wed- the problem of pre-handling education.
donated
nesday evening and Thursday. was treated in such a way as to a Whitman Feinberg
collection, includ
A traditional Jew is regarded carry a threat that Shehita ing several books signed.. by
as in a state of mourning on would 'be impossible. _
the noted poet, to the gradu-
None of the three states which ate center library.
Tisha b'Av because it is the an-
niversary of the destruction of have passed humane slaughter
the Temple in Jerusalem. He measures has created such pre-
thus observes the customs that handling problemi, but the School Bell to Ring
mourners do in the course of threat continues.
for Bnai Moshe
The Joint Advisory Commit-
their period of bereayement.
Since mourners sit on low tee therefore undertook the Classes, Sept. 13
Over 600 students will be ac-
stools or on the-floor as a sym- study, noting that the Talmud
bol of their humility and sunk- bans cruelty to animals in all comodated in the new educa-
en condition, so does the tradi- circumstances, including both tion building of Cong. Bnai
pre-handling and slaughtering. Moshe Religious School, . 10
tional Jew do on Tisha b'Av.
Committee officials pointed Mile Rd. and Kenosha, to open
It is interesting to note that
that traditional Jewish pre- Sept. 13.
the Oriental Jews do not sit on our
of animals for Shehita
The modern school is equip-
the floor, but rather change handling
was
manual
and designed to ped with skylighted roofs in its
their usual seats in the syna- insure that the
animal did not ten large classrooms, roomy
gogue for the day of Tisha
prepared
for desks and pastel walls. Courses
-
b'Av, thus sitting in a differ- suffer in being
'
-
-
will be offered in Jewish history,
ent place from where they usu- Shehita.
automation in pack- -literature, ceremonies and con-
ally sit. This is in imitation of -- in! Modern
houses
has
been
applied
to
the mourner from the time he pre-handling in such forms as cepts, and for students from the
returns to the synagogue after hoisting and shackling for both sixth grade through the tenth,
his seven-day mourning period 'regular and Jewish ritual compulsory Hebrew classes
twice weekly in addition to Sun-
when he changes his seat in the
slaughtering.
day morning gasses. The . 14-
synagogue.
Members
of
the
committee
The Ashkenazic custom thus pointed out that it has never 'member' staff will also include
considers • Jews in the Shivah been established whether such direction in arts and crafts, song
period on Tisha b'Av while the methods of pre-handling are and drama.
Oriental Jew considers him in
Classes meet from 9:30 a.m. to
to the animal. The re-
the period after the Shivah — painful
search study was undertaken to 11 a.m., and from 11 a.m. to
at least as far as sitting on the
12:30 p.m.
this.
floor is concerned, the idea determine
Registration thus far points
If this scientific study finds
being that if he were consid- more humane practical forms to an' enrollment large enough
ered to be in the Shivah period of handling animals for for the -opening of two-classes in
he could hardly be in the syna- slaughter, then the Jewish or- kindergarten, first, second,
gogue at all.
ganizations will recommend the third, - fourth and fifth grades,
* * *
alteration of present methods. announc es Walter -Farber,
Some synagogues put out the
If existing pre-handling meth- school direCtor.
lights' during the evening ser- ods are found to be humane,
Both members and non-mem-
vice.
then the -Jewish organizations bers may enroll children from
Many sources derive this cus- will urge, as in, the case of -4 year of age by phoning TE
tom from the Midrash (Ekah Shehita, that such methods of 4-5897.
Rabbati, 1:1) where the Al- handling also be recognized as
mighty is said to have asked humane in federal • and state Quash Rumors of
the angels: "What does a mor-
tal king do wheri he is in legislation.
Officials of the two agencies Currency Devaluation
mourning?" to which they re- said that the essence of the
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Fin-
plied, "He ie.-extinguishes the problem was the safeguarding ance Minister Levi Eshkol made
ch the Almighty of religious liberty and that it a_,firm denial that the govern-
lamps," to whi
, in turn said "I will do like- was equally clear that the prob- ment intended to devaluate the
wise."
lem, which has a strong anti- Israel pound.
The idea thus is that the ab- Semitic potential, will require
Eshkol told a meeting with
sence of lights in the synagogue the attention of Jewish com- several Israel bankers that
indicates that even the Al- munity -relations agencies for "Much water will flow through
mighty Himself is in a state of
the Jordan to where it should
mourning over the destruction many years. * * *
not flow"—uselessly into the
of the Temple and the disper-
Dead Sea—"before we will con-
Cite NCRAC Director
sion of His chosen people.
sider alteration of .the exchange
Others claim that the reason for Defense of Ritual rate." He added that when -the
is because it indicates that ever
NEW YORK. (JTA) — Jules waters flow where they should
since the Temple was destroyed Cohen,
national coordinator of - flow "namely into the Negev,
the light of the people has been th National Community Rela- then the entire economic pic-
extinguished and we are like a tions Advisory Council, was ture will be different."
people groping in the darkness cited by the Rabbinical Coun-
He pointed' out to the
and looking for the light.
cil of America for his work in bankers that there had been no
coordinating Jewish religious increase in the cost of living
and communal agencies in seek- index for almost a year. He said
ing to protect Shehita in consid- this proved that the - govern-
eration by federal and state ment had succeeded in stabiliz-
legislatures of humane ing the purchasing power of
the Israel pound, making deval-
slaughter legislation.
For the first time science has found
Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, uation unnecessary.
On the Tel Aviv Exchange,
a new healing substance with the as- president of the Rabbinical
. tonishing ability to shrink hemor-
dollars and sovereigns, which
rhoids and to relieve pain without Council, lauded non-Orthodox have been showing upward
surgery. In case after case, while religious organizations, as well
gently relieving pain, actual reduc- as Jewish community relations tendencies in recent weeks,
tion (shrinkage) took place. Most
councils, for joining "in an ex- dropped immediately after Esh-
amazing of all — results were so thor-
kols' statement. Another anti-
ough that sufferers made astonishing traordinary demonstration of
tatements like "Piles have ceased to unified endeaVor" in the legisla- devaluation development was a
e a problem!" The secret is a new
tive hearings. The 'work has rumor that there might be a
healing substance (Bio-Dyne*)—dis -
new issue of government-
lovery of a world-famous research been coordinated by the Joint
lnstitute.This substance is now avail- Advisory Committee of the sponsored debentures, an un-
able in suppository or ointment form NCRAC and the Synagogue likely move if devaluation was
all drug
called Preparation H. *
planned.
arantee.*Q9 Council of America.
k
NEW YORK (JTA) — A re-
search study, sPonsored
American Jewish communal and
religious agencies, is underway,
to determine whether Modern
methods of pre-handling food
animals for slaughter are hu-
mane.
The study, sponsored by the
Joint AdviSory Committee of
the N_ational Community Rela-
tions Advisory Council and the
Synagogue Council of America,
is part of an overall program
to protect Shehita, Jewish rit-
Mourning Custom
on Tisha b'Av
,
Cong. Bnai Moshe. He is mar-
ried, and the father of a daugh-
ter. .
Jerry Friedman, president of
the Livonia congregation, stated
that plans were progressing
well for the holiday services.
Information may be obtained
from Friedman, GR. 6-1722, or
Tzvi Berkal, BR. 3-8032.
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