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THE DETROIT JEWIS H NEWS—Friday, August 14, 1959- 1
Cong. Gemiluth Chassodim to Erect Facts on Placing Call America's Rabbi Soloveitchik
Synagogue Building on Greenfield of the Mezuzah Likely Successor to Rabbi Herzog
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
(Copyright, 1959, JTA, Inc.)
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Tel
Aviv's Chief Rabbi Issar Unter-
man requested his supporters
to desist from a campaign to
promote his candidature to suc-
ceed the late Chief Rabbi Yitz-
hak Halevi Herzog.
He also intimated that he
favors the American Rabbi Jo-
seph B. Soloveitchik for the
post. He made known that he
would not 'seek the exalted post
if Rabbi Soloveitchik announced
his candidature.
The succession to the post
occupied by the revered Rabbi
Herzog is thus narrowed down
to the Chief Chaplain of Israel's
armed forces, Rabbi S'hlomo
Goren and Rabbi Soloveitchik:
While.the former enjoys polit-
ical backing and would be wel-
co...led by progressive religious
elements who are alienated
from strict orthodo'xy, Rabbi
Soloveitchik is destined to be
the choice of the rabbinical
circle.
' Comprising two-thirds of the
electors—mayors and heads of
local councils provide the re-
maining third — rabbinical
circles will undoubtedly carry
the day and the next Ashkenazi
Chief Rabbi, may, as in the
past, be drawn from overseas.
In addition to great scholar-
ship, Rabbi Soloveitchik's rich-
est asset appears to be that he
does not seek the post, a rab-
binical personality told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The Bostonian, who heads the
Talmudic Faculty of Yeshiva
University in New York, and
is president of the Halacha
Commission of the Rabbinical
Council of A m e r i c a, was
'sounded out last year about an
interim appointment during
Rabbi Herzog's illness. He then
resisted persuasion, but a depu-
tation of prominent Israel rab-
bis is now drawing up a petition
asking him to yield.
The Mezuzah is affixed to the
doorpost in a slanting position
instead of being placed either
straight, horizontally or ver-
tically.
This decision was the result
of a compromise between the
An achitect's rendering indicates the two units that will views of Rashti and his re-
comprise the new Cong. Gemiluth Chassodim, on which con- nowned grandson, Rabbenu
struction will begin soon in the Northwest section of the city. Tam, the former having con-
tended a different position than
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the latter in regards to the ques-
Construction -will start soon
The synagogue, when com-'
on Cong. Gemiluth Chassodim, pleted, will be a double-level tion as to whether the Mezuzah
which only recently purchased structure, with the lower level ought to be affixed horizontally
a building site on Greenfield partly recessed in the ground. or perpendicularly.
Some moralists have read
and Vassar Dr.
This area will be devoted to
First organized in 1941 by a classroom space, a multi-pur- into this compromise the ideal
group of new settlers from Eu- pose room and a service-utility that a happy home is one where
their is a spirit of compromise
rope, Gemiluth Chassodim will area.
be erecting its first congrega-
The upper floor of the struc- and understanding between
tional homp.
ture is planned to include a what sometimes comes out to be
For many years, now, mem- larger multi-purpose area, to be a difference in point of view
bers have met for daily, sabbath used for religious services, between members of the house-
and holiday services in the D. social activities and, large meet- hold.
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W. Simons Center. In the next ings.
Beth Shalom SChedules
month, services will be con-
The Mezuzah is affixed to
After construction of this
ducted in the Davison Jewish basic unit, an auditorium wing the doorpost on the right as one
`Meet the Rabbi Night'
Center until the permanent syn- will be built, with a planned enters the house. The Talmud
"Meet the Rabbi Night," the
agogue is constructed.
seating of 600 people. Connect- (M-nachoth 34a) derives this
first of two informal meetings
ing the two units will be a com- from the expression "the door-
in the Oak Park Beth Shalom
mon lobby and -lounge, which posts of thy house" • (Deuter- Kaminsky to Chant Holiday membership drive, will be held
is to overlook a patio-type onomy 6:9) to mean "as thou Services for Evergreen
Sunday at the home of Mr. and
comest into the house" indi-
entrance.
Descendant of a line of Pol- Mrs. Joseph Gallen.
Spiritual leader of the syna- cating that, as a person steps ish rabbis, Morris Kaminsky
Rabbi Mordecai Halpern will
gogue is Rabbi Joel Litke, and into the house with his right has been named cantor for the inform residents of Oakland
president is Herman Strass- foot first, thus should the High Holiday services of Ever- and Wayne Counties of serv-
HAMBURG (JTA) — New burger. Alex Roberg is execu- Mezuzah be placed on the right green Jewish Congregation.
ices offered through member-
light may illuminate aspects of tive director; Max Blum, chair- so that the side at which he
ship in the congregation, of its
Cantor
Kaminsky
began
his
Nazi atrocities against Jews and man of the building committee; moves in first should immedi- cantorial training in Europe religious school and social con-
others with the discovery of and Melvin H. Sachs, architect. ately greet him with the word and continued in that service tacts.
of • the Lord written on• that
SS Chief Heinrich Himmler's
similar session will
side in the fOrm of a Mezuzah in several U. S. cities, among be Another
secret diaries. The diaries were 20 Bible Students
held
Aug.
22 in the home of
them
Lima
and
Toledo,
Ohio.
on the doorpost.
found at the bottom of an
For a number of years he was Dr. and Mrs. David Lessem.
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Begin Study in Israel
Austrian lake.
For an invitation to one of
cantor in the Bnai Israel Syn.
It is forbidden to remove the and in the Anshei S'fard Syna- these sessions, s or further in-
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Twen-
Divers, - who have beeli ex-
ploring the bottom of Lake Tpp- ty post-graduate students of va- tefillin while the Sefer Torah gogue in Toledo.
formation about Cong. Beth
litz for the newspaper Der rious American Protestant de- is still in the presence of the
Distribution of High Holiday Shalom, contact the synagogue
Stern, this week came up with nominations arrived in Israel worshippers of the synagogue tickets will be every evening office at LI 7-7970, or Mrs.
Himmler's personal files, his for the first course at the newly- (i.e., before it has been re- from '7 to 9 p.m. at the syna- Irven L e i d e r, membership,
diaries and identity cards. Part established Institute of Biblical placed in the ark).
chairman, LI 6-3408.
gogue.
of the material deals with the Studies in Jerusalem.
It is generally regarded as a
Arriving under the leader- sign of disrespect to reduce
fate of Jews. -Bundles' of count-
erfeit - English fiVe-pound notes ship of Dr. Douglas Young, the one's garb of holiness in front
also were - found. They were American college and seminary of one's teacher or in front of
counterfeited by Nazi engrav- graduates will hear lectures on a Sefer Torah. One should
subjects connected with Bible, rather seek to increase one's
ers during the war.
The salvaged possessions will archaeology and the history of assets of holiness in front of a
be handed over to the Austrian the Middle East by American Sefer Torah.
Ministry of Interior. The con- professors as well as Israel
It is also claimed that the
tents of Himmler's papers were scholars.
process of taking off the tefillin
not• published although it was
A group of 100 boys and girls leaves one bareheaded mo-
indicated that revealing infor- from 12 different countries, mentarily. It is certainly to be
First and only complete
mation was found.
completed Jewish Agency regarded as an affront to the
encyclopedia of garden:
Himmler headed the SS, was courses for youth leaders, while Sefer Torah to be bareheaded
ing and landscaping!
chief of the Nazi Security or- a second group embarked on a in its presence, and thus it has
Over 800 pages . •
ganization, and, at the end of tour of settlements and immi- been forbidden by the rabbis
over 1000 subjects ...
illustrated.
the war, commanded all soldiers gration centers.
to remove the tefillin either in
and police inside • the German
Graduates of leadership the presence of one's teacher or
Reich. He committed suicide courses from halutz and gen- of the Sefer Torah while the
after the British captured him. eral youth movements came latter is outside the ark.
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