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USSR Scientists at Kiryat Hadassah I Set Cornerstone
f or Destroyed
Rashi Synagogue

Ag round the

A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
WORMS, (JTA) — In the News-Gathering Media.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

presence of Christian and Jew-
United States
ish clergymen, political leaders
and representatives of several
NEW YORK—Abraham A. Redelheim, president of the
German Jewish communities, Zionist Organization of America, announced the establishment
the cornerstone for the recon- ? f an Aliyah department to furnish information and guidance
struction of the famous, old o prospective immigrants to Israel. . . . A new psychiatry
"Rashi" Synagogue was laid r esearch wing at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of
here with impressive cere- Yeshiva University was established as result of a $250,000 gift
monies.
by Mr. and Mrs. David Schwartz. . . . Amsterdam will be the
The original "Rashi" Syna- scene of a series of meetings of top Jewish leaders in January
gogue, built early in the 12th and February to plan an international conference on Jewish
Two Russian scientists took time out from sessions of the
Century, was believed to have education, Dr. Nahum Goldmann informed the North American
Biological Standardization Conference in Jerusalem to inspect
been the oldest Jewish house executive of the World Jewish Congress Philip Klutznick,
the $25 million Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center,
of worship in Europe. It was chairman of the Presidents' Conference of 18 national Jewish
now being built at Kiryat Hadassah (Hadassah Town). Pictured
named for Rabbi Solomon ben organizations, said that the conference, as constituted last
(left to right), are Dr. Jack Karpas, deputy director-general
Isaac, known as "Rashi," fa- A pril, "carrying on its tasks in the field of American Jewish
of the Hadassah Medical Organization; Prof. A. Olitzky, of the
mous Jewish expounder of the r nterests concerning Israel and related matters, is now fully
Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, and his wife,
Bible and the Talmud, who n egularized." . . . Israel will start to produce its own nylon
Dr. Zehava Olitzky, as they showed the smiling Russian scien-
studied here in his youth. The ext May, it was announced at a meeting of shareholders of the
tists, Dr. Natalia Khmenko and Dr. V. Blagovitchensky, around
ogosin Industries. . . . Support by Jewish organizations through-
the Medical Center, due for completion next year.
synagogue was destroyed by
0
the Nazis during the infamous ut the world for alleviation of the "tragic plight" of Jewish
y outh in Moslem countries was urged at a conference on problems
"Crystal Night" of 1938.
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The synagogue will be re- f Jewish education in Arab countries sponsored by Ozar
built in the style of the origi- E atorah, the Society of Jewish Youth Education in the Middle
ast and North Africa. . . . The Zim liner, SS Israel, which
nal 12th Century structure
which had been designed by f as damaged in a collision in New York harbor Oct. 29, sailed
In the summer of 1957, Dr. believed in the continuance
the same architects who de— a or Haifa with 200 passengers and resumed trans-Atlantic service
Kurt Schubert, professor of of bodily existence.
fter having missed one round trip. . . . The American Jewish
signed Worms Cathedral.
C
Jewish religion and culture at
Considerable importance is
Among. the speakers at the 0 ommittee announced that it was initiating a long range series
the University of Vienna, de- attached in this book to the ceremonies was Rev. Hermann I th f studies, financed by a $250,000 foundation grant, .to explore
livered a series of lectures on "identities, similarities and dif- Maas, noted German anti-Nazi 1 ec e effects of prejudice and discrimination upon the nation's
the texts of the Khirbet Qum- ferences between the teachings and friend of the Jews, who
onomy and its manpower resources and other aspects of
ran, before his university's fac- of the Qumran community and was the first German invited human relations, the grant having been given by the Maurice
ulty of arts and sciences. He those of the New Testament." officially to visit Israel after and Laura Falk Foundation of Pittsburgh and the research
also lectured on the Dead Sea We are told that "the messianic that State was established in project to be known as the Maurice Falk Studies. . . . Private
S c r o 1 15 before the Austrian groups may, to the extent that 1948.
U. S. investments exceeding $3,000,000 in 1959 in Israel indus-
Zionist Federation they stood in common opposi-
He said that
at the newly-re- trial, agricultural and commercial enterprises and $2,800,000
The texts of his lectures are tion to Pharisaism and Sad- built "Rashi" Synagogue is be- additional commitments for investments in 1960 have been
summed up in a volume, 'The duceeism, be regarded as a mg reconstructed at public ex- , a n a e y the Palestine Economic Corporation, New York; it was
Dead Sea Community," trans- unity precisely because of their pense as .a symbol of German lb y nounced at the annual dinner of the 34-year-old company
lated by John W. Doberstein common Messianic expectation expiation of the "wrongs coin- "p Joseph Meyerhoff, president, who was presented with the
and published by Harper. In and despite their inner differ- mitted against the people of di EC Man-of-the-Year" award by Edward M. M. Warburg, a
rector and vice-president of PEC . . . The American Jewish
German it originally appeared ences," but that for the New God." Worms, which had a pre- C >ngres
s urged a series of legislative actions to strengthen
under the title "Die Gemeinde Testament 'these g r o u p s are war Jewish population of 1,100, ci
vii
rights
and asked the Democratic Party to support proposals
vom Totem Meer." interested solely because of has only two Jewish families to
exempt from the New York State Sunday closing laws
Prof. Schubert contends that their expectation of the Mes- as permanent residents now.
pe rsons observing a day other than Sunday as their Sabbath
the scrolls' discoveries "are un- siah."
. . Israel Rogosin was awarded a scroll for his $250,000
questionably of the- utmost im-
Dr. Schubert contends that U.S. Bible Contest
co ntribution
to the building fund of the Hebrew Home and
portance for the history of Jew- "the similarities in style be-
pital of ew Jersey . . . Announcement was made here by
Set
for
May,
1960
ish religion in the period from tween the Gospel of John and
the Chicago firm, Fairbanks, Morse & Co., of its entrance into
The first nationwide American a
200 BCE and 100 CE." He adds the Qumran texts are so strik-
venture with the Israel government for the construction of
in his preface that the scrolls ing that a close connection can- Bible Contest will take place in plants to convert sea water into fresh water by a process devel-
May,
1960,
it
was
announced
`open up hitherto undreamed-of not be denied." He also states
oped by Dr. Alexander Zarchin, of Tel Aviv, whose machine
perspectives, and yet they ought that 'the teachings of the here by Dr. Samuel M. Blumen- freezes sea water into a vacuum forming pure water crystals.
field,
head
of
the
Department
not to be over-rated."
apostle Paul also show many
DENVER—Dr. Morris Fishbein told the Intermountain
Declaring that "it is certain parallels to those of the Qum- of Education and Culture of the Jewish News that "today, any qualified Jew who wants to be a
Jewish
Agency,
which
spon-
that the Dead Sea community is ran Essenes."
sors the project in cooperation doctor will.have no trouble getting into medical school". . .
a group which is paradigmatic
Turning to a discussion of with the Israel Bible Society of
Europe
of the Messianic movement of the Qumran community in re- Jerusalem.
PARIS — Representatives of major Jewish immigration
the Judaism of that time," he lation to rabbinis in, the
All schools and youth organ- agencies were assured by two key Argentine government officials
states: 'The only thing we can author- points out that "Phar-
izations who wish to enter con-
assert with approximate cer- isaism avoided the dangers testants are invited to submit that Argentina was taking steps to liberalize immigration policies
tainty is that some—but by no which were inherent in the their applications to the Ameri- con connection with World Refugee Year. . . . The JDC has
tributed 1,000.000 francs for the victims of the flood disaster
means all—of these books were sectarian attitude of the Qum-
can Bible Contest Committee in Frejus . . . Tanayofis Kanellopoulus, Greek Deputy Prime
rejected by Phariasaic and Sad- ran Essenes. Both the Qum- 16 E. 6'6th St., New York 21, di
Min ister, pledged in a talk with Zacharian Shuster, European
ducaic Judaism." Yet he says ran Essenes and Pharisaism not later than Nov. 15.
ector of the American Jewish Committee, that the Greek
that the Dead Sea texts "con- thought of theMselves as a
The first American Bible gov ernment will not make any significant changes in the structure
stitute the best source we have penitential movement; but Contest, which follows upon the of the existing Jewish Heirless Successor Organization of Greece,
the OPAIE, and that he would take personal initiative in having
so far for the religious and while the former required too widely hailed success of a num- his
historical understanding of the much of men, the latter was her of Bible quizzes being held dea government take action on legislation on declarations of
milieu of the New Testament." able to invest the Mosaic law in Israel, aims to promote
of h the without which OPAIE cannot claim clear title or dispose
In his discussion of the
eirless Jewish assets . . .
into a new actuality which greater interest in the reading
texts of the s c r o 11 s, Prof.
was comformable with the and study of the Bible among Ass LONDON—R. N. Carvalho, president of the Anglo-Jewish
Schubert comes to the con-
()elation, denounced the attitude of the Romanian govern-
diaspora of J u d a i s m. The young people throughout the
clusion that 'the expanded
Qumran Essenes, because of United States and seeks to ment toward Jewish emigration and its recent punishment of
canon of the people of
their immediate expectation strengthen the role of Bible Jews for "old, trumped-up crimes" of Zionism and interest in
Khirbet Qumran thus brought
of the approaching end of the studies in the school curricu- Israel as a "deplorable, frustrating situation" .
about the delimitation of the
world, were capable of the lum.
Israel
more circumscribed canon of
most extreme religious exer-
Dr. Azriel Eisenberg. execu-
JERUSALEM—In a debate in the Knesset, Rabbi Jacob'
our Hebrew Bible."
tions, but as the end was de- tive vice president of the Jew-
He believes that the age of . layed again and again they ish Education Committee and Toledano, Minister of Religious Affairs, asserted that Israel's
the scrolls predate the present probably came to a rather former president of the Na- hot climate produces a more rapid development in girls, and he
urged that the minimum marriage age for them be set at 15
era. He gives an account of the inglorious end in the Jewish- tional Council for Jewish Eclu- bu
his proposal was opposed by Pinchas Rosen, Minister of
scrolls' discovery, of the exca- Roman era of A.D. 66-70. The cation, has accepted the chair- Just
ice, who argued that the present age of 17 be retained, the
vations in the monastery ruins Pharisees, however, reckoned manship of the project. Lead- exce
ption under 17 being in force for girls who are 'pregnant....
of Khirbet Qumran and offers with the reality of this world ing rabbis, educators, and Bible
Canada
historical data about the prede- from the beginning and there- experts in the United States
cessors of the Essene commun- fore its continuing existence and Israel have agreed to serve
OTTAWA—Israel's exports to Canada during the first six
months of this year increased by 50 per cent over the same .
ity where the scrolls were dis- could not shake them. Phar- as sponsors and consultants.
period last year, it was indicated by the Dominion Bureau of
covered.
isaism combined the messia-
Statistics, a total of $1,465,000 worth of Israel products, including
Dr. Schubert's work assumes nic idea with the idea of Technion Lecturer
oranges and unset diamonds, having been sold to Canada from
importance in his treatment of election and thus f ound a
Jan. 1 to June 30.
the origin of the Essene com- meaning and a purpose for on Loan to Ghana
TORONTO — Michael Rubinstein, president of the Jewish
G. Kassiff, lecturer in the
munity. His analysis of the dif- Judaism in a world which
ferences between the classical from a purely external point highway and soil mechanics di- Labor Committee of Canada, addressing the 25th anniversary
accounts of Essenism and the of view is still in a desperate vision of the Technion in Haifa, conference of the organization, charged that racial discrimination
will join the growing list of in housing is still widespread in Canada and denounced dis-
Qumran texts and his discus- state." •
Israel experts aiding African criminatory policies of some real estate owners . .
sion of the community theology
Prof. Schubert's views on the
WINNIPEG—The Manitoba Royal Commission has recom-
and eschatological expectation antiquity of the scrolls corre- countries. He leaves shortly to
mended that private schools be given government grants to
of the Essenes of Qumran are sponded with those of many assume a one-year position in help
meet their operating and capital costs, and if the provin-
scholarly and will enlighten other scholars. His interpreta- the Kumasi College of Tech-
cial
government
adopts the proposals, it will cover half the
nology
in
Ghana-.
even the average lay reader.
tions of many historical factors
Kassiff will assume a post as operating costs of the day schools operated by the Talmud -
Among the interesting relating to the scrolls assume
Torah and the Yiddish I. L. Peretz school here.
eschatological points indicated more than ordinary signifi- senior lecturer in soil mechanics
at
the
invitation
of
Kumasi
Col-
Latin America
in Prof. Schubert's study is cance, so that his 178-page hook
that though they reckoned on is certain to be rated among lege. Last year, Gedalya Wise-
RIO DE JANEIRO—A special postage stamp commemorating
man
of
the
same
division
filled
the
1
00th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig Zamenhoff, the
the passing of the body it- the more important on the
a similar post, and has recently Polis h Jew who created the universal Esperanto language, who
self the Qumran Essenes subject.
returned to Haifa. was born Dec. 15, 1859, will be issued this month in Brazil.

Khirbet Qumran Story Related in
Schubert's 'Dead Sea Community'