THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, July 22, 1960

Start Miami Test Case
on Relicrion in Schools

Dr. Tuvia Bar-Ilan to Be Stollmans' Guest for a Week

Phillip Stollman, national
chairman of the American Com-
mittee for Bar-Ilan University,
announced this week that Dr.
Tuvia Bar-Ilan, director-general
of the university, located in Ra-
mat Gan, Israel, who arrived in
New York yesterday, will be the
guests of the Stollmans in their
summer home, for a week, com-
mencing on Aug. 4.
A function at which he will
speak at the Stollman home is
being arranged for Aug. 7.
Son of the noted Zionist
leader and one-time president
of the World Mizrachi Move-
ment, the late Rabbi Meir Ber-
lin Bar-Ilan, in whose name the
Ramat Gan university was es-
tablished, Dr. Bar-Ilan now is
one of Israel's leading edu-
cators.

Born in Germany, in 1912, Dr.
Bar-Ilan has been in Israel
since_ 1923. He holds a B. Ch. E.
degree from the Brooklyn Poly-
technic Institute. He received
his Ph. D. degree from the
Hebrew University in 1940.
He was a research worker on
the staff of the Sieff Research
Institute in Rehovot and co-
authored articles with Profs.
Chaim Weizmann, E. D. Berg-
man and L. Haskelberg.
He served in the British army
in the last war, was a member
of Haganah since 1935 and com-
manded a scientific Hemed
corps at Jerusalem during the
1948-1949 fighting.
A director of the Yarden
Plastics Co. in Tel Aviv, Dr.
Bar-Ilan founded several plas-
tics concerns in Israel. He is
active in many public and scien-
tific projects and is a leader in
Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi.
* * *

ecutive director of Bar-Ilan,
lauded Mrs. St011man's "achieve-
ments in starting a national
women's division in Detroit. 4
He said that charter date for
both life members or regular
members will be extended until
a national women's division
luncheon in Miami Beach in
February, 1961. All charter life
members will have their names
inscribed on a plaque at Bar-
Ilan University.
Fifty-six other women joined
as regular members at last
weeks' meeting, sending the
total membership of the Detroit
chapter to the 200 mark.
Chief Petty Officer Kathryn
McBride, U.S.N., became a
charter life member. She at
tended as a guest of Mrs. S. L.-
A. Marshall, also a charter life .
member.

MIAMI, (JTA) — A major ejected from the school Bible-
test case in which a number of reading trial for shouting that
religious practices in the public she would not want her child to
schools of Dade County, Florida, see a portrayal of Christ's
are being challenged by four crucifixion.
The woman, who refused to
parents, three of them Jewish,
started in Circuit Court here identify herself, made the out-
and is expected to last at least cry as an 18-year-old high
one week. The American Jewish school graduate was testifying
about a school Easter assembly.
Congress is backing the case.
Donald Crocker said the pres-
The case marks the first time
in American jurisprudence that entation featured the represen-
a whole constellation of reli- tation of a boy being nailed to a
gious practices in the public cross and dying.
Crocker, who said he prac-
schools has been attacked in a
single suit. Previously, individ- tices no religion, told the court
ual practices such as Bible he had asked to be excused
reading, prayer recitation and from such assemblies. but his
hymn singing have been chal- homeroom teacher told him "he
had orders to get everyone
lenged in the courts.
But the Miami case - will test there."
Objection is also expressed Kibbutz Movement
the legality of eight different
religious practices. The four by parents to the placing of Asks USSR Permit
The CARIBE MOTEL
parents seek an injunction religious and sectarian symbols
Bar-Han
Division
PROVIDES YOUR
Jews'
Emigration
against the Dade County Board (crosses, crucifixes) in assem-
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
Enlists
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Women
OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS
of Public Instruction that will bly halls, classrooms and other
The Jewish News)
require the school board to dis- parts of the public school
WITH . . .
TEL AVIV.—The convention As Life Members
premises;
the
conducting
of
re-
continue these practices:
CONVENIENT LOCATION
Eighty - two Detroit women
ligious and sectarian exercises of Kibbutz Hameuchad, the sys-
Woodward near 7 Mile Rd.
1. The regular reading of and processions at school gradu- tem of collective settlements were installed as charter life
Minutes away from everything
verses from the Bible in as- ation ceremonies; the conduct- sponsored by the Achdut Haa- members of the National Wo-
semblies and classrooms.
LUXURIOUS ROOMS
ing of a religious census among voda movement, concluded here men's Division of the American
2. Explanation, comments and public school children to ascer- Tuesday with resolution calling Committee for Bar-Ilan Univer-
• Phones • Air Conditioning
• Complete Kitchens
expansion by teachers on verses tain their own religious affilia- on the Soviet Union to demon- sity at a garden party hosted by
• Wall-to-Wall Carpeting
of the Bible following such tions and those of their parents; strate its understanding for the Mrs. Max Stoilman at the Stoll-
COMPLETE
reading.
and the imposition of a religious peculiar position of the Jewish man summer home in Pontiac.
ACCOMMODATIONS
3. Distribution of the Bible test for teachers and other em- minority and to enable Soviet The 196 persons who attended
AT NO EXTRA COST
and other religious and sectari- ployees of the public school Jews to emigrate to Israel if the reception were addressed by
• Parking
an literature among the chil- system as well as the use of re- they wish it.
• TV and Radio
Meir Vidar, midwest director of
• Continental Breakfast
dren attending the public ligious criteria in the employ-
The convention decided to es- the Israel Government Tourist
schools.
PHONE
ment and evaluation of teachers tablish Israel's first kibbutz on Office.
4. Use of public school facili- and other employees.
Vidar said that Bar-Ilan's
TO. 8-2662
the
shores
of
Red
Sea
in
the
ties for Bible instruction after
These practices, according to Eilat area. The delegates called American-patterned campus at
school hours.
an American Jewish Congress on the government and the min- Ramat Gan has become "a
Moderate
The school board will also be spokesman, are "unlawful in-
major tourist attraction in Is-
Rates
required to discontinue the fringements upon the religious istry of agriculture to ensure rael." He praised the American
Start at
regular recitation of the Lord's liberty of the school child, and the development and broaden- University in Israel as "a dis-
Prayer, other religious and sec- as such are un-Constitutional. ing of the kibbutz movement by tinct contribution to Israel's cul-
$8.00
tarian prayers, grace, and the At the same time, they are supplying it with water and tural life as well as to its
land
as
well
as
with
adequate
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regular singing of religious and divisive — tending to set child
limited sources of higher edu-
sectarian hymns at assemblies against child along religious financial aid.
Woodward
cation."
The kibbutz organization de-
and within classrooms.
Near 7 Mile Road
Gerald Schwartz, national ex-
lines — and psychologically - cided to abolish all hired labor
The parents also demanded harmful to children whose reli-
in
its
collective
settlements
and
the discontinuance of religious gious beliefs or lack of such be-
holiday observances in schools, liefs are different from those industrial enterprises run by
such as Christmas programs in- being promoted by the teacher the settlements. Asserting that
SERVICE STATION
the kibbutz movement was the
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cluding Nativity plays, pageants and the school."
Old phonographs Converted to Stereo
BLACK & WHITE
way to fulfill the aims of social-
and scenes as well as instruction
"Religion in the home, in the ist zionism, the convention
in the dogma of the birth of church and in the synagogue
Christ; Easter programs includ- serve incomparably to ennoble blamed the difficulties of the
ing Resurrection; and Hanukah the spirit of mankind. Religion movement on the general de-
programs, including the lighting in the public schools, however, crease in pioneering spirit which
resulted in "concentration in
of candles.
serves only to harass, hurt and
Meanwhile, one of Tuesday's dislocate children of minority the cities and the desire for
witnesses, Lois Milman, 17, was faiths and to impair wholesome easy earnings."
The convention called for ac-
harassed by threatening tele- classroom relationships," the
tion to settle youth in border
phone calls and was discharged AJC spokesman emphasized.
MOTOROLA
from her job as a grocery store
"The injury done by sectari- areas by means of obligatory
checker.
anism in the schools is thus agricultural service. The dele-
MUNTZ
The Jewish teen - ager had directed both against the basic gates also called for more co-
SERVICE STATION
complained bitterly on. the wit- principle of religious liberty as operation between the kibbutz
• Dumont • Silvertnne
• Magnovox •Westinghouse
ness stand against being forced guaranteed by our Constitution movements of Mapai, Mapam
PH I LCO
• V-M
• Crosley
to listen to classroom prayers and against the innocent child and Achdut Haavoda for the
• Hot Point • Olympic
Airline
•
• Webeor
invoking the name of Christ.
forced to participate in religious benefit of Israel labor.
Miss Milman testified she was practices that contradict and
compelled to listen to classroom countermand everything he has Amateur Baseball Day
INC1.1 1938"
.
The Detroit Amateur Baseball
prayers offered to "the God of been taught at home or at his
W ittteeen
EMERSON
on
Dexter Sal es & Service Gu ararn
Federation will hold its 44th
the Gentiles." She said she house of worship."
ALL
Re i p93a8i.,rs
11565
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•
LICENSE
No.
216
annual Amateur Day at Briggs
found such expressions as "In
Stadium, Sunday, as a double-
Jesus Christ, our Savior's name, Brand American Nazi
"SINCE
■
PHONE
header, the scheduled first
we pray," personally "extremely
Party Subversive, JLC game starting at 12:30 p.m.
offensive and sectarian!'
A 17-year-old . Jewish girl, Urges Justice Dept.
Carol Robin, who testified, was
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Hope
subjected to threatening tele-
phone calls at her home, her that the American Nazi Party.
father told police, after she had will be branded by the United
testified against religious prac- States Department of Justice as
a subversive organization was
tices in Dade County Schools.
A woman spectator was expressed in a communication
addressed to the Department
by Adolf Held,' national chair-
BUY NOW DURING REDFORD man of the Jewish Labor Com-
RAMBLER'S STATION WAGON - mittee.
Held pointed out evidence
SELL-A-BRATION
A number of properties are listed on the 1960 tax rolls as OWNER
that the American Nazi Party,
led by George L. Rockwell, is
NEW 1960
UNKNOWN. If you have failed to receive your tax statement, please
"foreign dominated."
"The American Nazi party
request duplicate by phone, WO 5-4200, Extension 551, by mail, or in
does not deny its affinities to
person
at the City-County Building as interest must be added if not paid
German nazism. It wears the
uniform designed by the Nazis.
by August 31, 1960. TO FACILITATE PHONE CALLS IT IS REQUESTED
It condemns American demo-
THAT THE WARD NUMBER AND ITEM NUMBER BE KNOWN.
ONLY
cratic ideologies in the same
PRICE
tone and with the same, alpha-
COMPLETE DELIVERED PRICE
bet employed by the Nazis.
INCLUDING:
"It uses the same salute as
All Taxes, License, Title
and All Factory Equipment at
the Nazis, and its official in-
signia is the one designed by
EDFORD
the Nazis. We do not know what
other evidence is necessary,"
INAMBLER
CITY TREASURER
the JLC leader stressed in his
GRAND RIVER BETWEEN
letter to the Department of Jus-
6 MILE & EVERGREEN
tice.

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