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The Detroit Jewish News, 1961-01-20

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, January 20, 1961 —

Our Letter Box

I

Saul Raskin's 'New Faces of Israel'
Exhibit Thrills Many Detroiters

Jewish ,Folk Chorus Sets Mid-Winter Concert

The Detroit Jewish Folk Goldfaden, with guest artists
Chorus will present its annual Menasha Oppenheim of New
York and Shoshana Brooks Fried-
Mid-Winter Concert 8 p.m. Jan. man, Detroit soprano.
29 at the Sholem Aleichem Insti-
The Chorus will present a pro-
tute.
gram of Yiddish, English and
Featured will be "Rozshinkes Israeli folk songs. For tickets,
Mit Mandlen," a cantata based call R. Baron, DI 1-9231, or R.
on the best works of Avrum Litt, TO 8-0623:

Says There's Nothing Wrong
importance in the Raskin ex-
With 2 Education Systems.
artist
hibit. The
great
catches the spirit of the en-
Editor, The Jewish News:
vironment and of the people
I read your editorial of Jan.
who make up the pioneering
13 with much interest. I am sure
new state..
that the entire Jewish commun-
"The Hora" is so real that• it
ity of Detroit is prdud of the
is no wonder it was grabbed up
excellent progress being made by
immediately.
our United Hebrew Schools and
"Jaffa Street' perpetuates a
is thankful that we have a
majo
-importance in
Midrasha, which is meeting posi-
tively and co: structively the
usalem,
pressing problem of the shortage
v, in kibbutzi , t the
of qualified religious teachers.
ead Sea; and the fac
of
However, your column took -up
n-
builders of Zion, of ne
the question of Jewish education
dors, of men and worn
d
in general, and I should like to
children — these com
0
make some observations in this
make "The New Face of Sr
regard.
outstanding in all resp ts.
1. ft . gives one a strange im-
Bor. 'n o
ssi
No taste in the world like Wilno Kosher salami
pression to read about a com-
18
•er he
d a a-
—so good, and so good for you! All pure
munal desire for maximal educa-
ion, as-
d' i e h e
SAUL ASKIN
beef, made the famous Wilno way
tion , which refers to its Day
ed rt i
dess and
with the finest of skilfully blended
Schools, the most intensive form
llery, at 2020
Garelick's
He
B 'n and Pa
spices. Tempting, tantalizing-7
of Jewish karaing today, as Livernois,
sently is th
e ork in 1
, and
- that's why Wilno is so
"creating problems." The cur- showplace o ne of the most
d commercial t for a
famous; Try it,
riculum of Yeshivah Beth Yehuda interesting c
ctions of draw-
In 1921
today!
took a
is formulated by Orthodox rab-
lors by one of
At Leading Delicatessens,
estine w h marked
ings most
and dis
wat uished artists
bis; the curriculum of the Hillel the
Supermarkets & Restaurants
i
is life. From
Day School is taken from the. in the world
-year-old Saul
1 Raskin de-
United Synagogue of America, Raskin.
exclusively to
the guiding institution of Con-
"The New
The exhibit
illustration almost
servative congregations . T h e Face of Israel"
enced on
the - field of Jewish
teachers in each institution are SundaY, and on t
• st two
e became famous for his
SALAMI • FRANKFURTERS • CORNED . BEEF BOLOGNA
selected both on the basis of days of the display o
strated editions of the Haga-
qualifications and devotion to worthy art works nearly 2
dah, Pirke Avoth, Tehilim, Sid-
Judaism. What possible reason the 45 available artistic crea- dui.; the Five Megiloth and the
Distributed in Detroit & Michigan by:
can there be for a Jewish com- tions were sold to eager view- Land of Israel, and the Kabalah. Julius Pollak, 7522 Fenkell, Detroit:
Tel: UN 2-5822 "
munity which purports to be for ers. 'Large attendances continue
maximal education to deny its at the exhibit.
rave you noticed the. low, low price o Heinz Vegetarian Beans?.,
Day Schools effective support?
Simultaneous with the dis-
ofewirm
2. We should set the record play of the Israeli drawings,
straight on the Bar Mitzvah ques- Garelick's is displaying the
tion. It is not so long since the impressive, large new volume
majority of our boys_ received one of . Raskin's reproductions of
year or les of Bar Mitzvah prep- works he created while in
aration and our girls a Sunday Israel in 1959. The immense
School program. The United He- book, entitled "Happy the
brew Schools, which had at one Eye That Saw All This," con-
time operated a ten-hour per tains the works currently on,
week program the year round, exihibition at Garelick'a.
The Raskin exhibit will con-
conducted by outstanding teach-
ers, was in a distressing • situa- tinue through Feb. 4. It is o
tion. It was then that Congrega- of the truly significant
tion Shaarey Zedek pioneered events in this community.
with a four-year study require- 84, Raskin continues to s
ment for Bar Mitzvah, which was unmatched skill as an a
then lengthened to five years, and he is the envy of his
One distinguished artist
and extended to. cover Confirma-
tion. It should also be of corn- mented that the day will
- munal interest that • Shaarey Ze- when Raskin originals, i
dek has since discontinued, its ing those now to be se
Sunday School altogether, and Garelicks', will be at a pre
Scenes and people ar
has revised its afternoon school
program so that all boys and
girls start their Hebraic educa-
tion at the age of six. These pi- Committee Maps PI
oneering, efforts helped bring for David Cohen Din
The dinner committee of t
about the rejuvenation of the
United Hebrew Schools and re- Council of Orthodox Rabbis--
cently helped make possible the and Merkaz for the Feb. 27
acceptance of -the Hillel Day event at Holiday Manor to
School by Conservative parents. honor David J._Cohen will meet
Likewise the extensive efforts by 8:30 p.m. Monday at the home
the United Hebrew Schools for of Chairman Harry Gunsberg,
the advancement of Jewish edu- 19945 Prest.
The committee, comprised of
cation has had a happy effect on
our synagogue schools and the leaders in the Jewish commu-
nity and kosher food industry,
entire community.
What I am trying to point out will detail plaris for the coming
VStar tAft
is that there is nothing wrong affair. For information, call
with more than one system of Isador Starr, WE 3-3403,. or
JeWish education in, our com- Ernest Citron, WO 3-8640.
UNATO SAtttel
munity.
Recently
I
chanced
upon
a
The strength of Jewish educa-
' tion does not depend on one. responsum on this subject by
system, but on one goal: the goal Meir of Rothenburg, one of
of greater knowledge and appre- medieval Germany's greatest
ciation of Judaism by our young rabbinic authorities. A partial
—the hope that they. will live translation follows:
"Whoever goes there (to
according to its ideals and values.
Palestine) should be very\ care-
Sincerely yours,
ful to keep himself from any
SHOSHANA WOLOK
kind of sin. He who transgress-
*•* *
es there is punished more
`Holiness and 'Purity'
severely than he would be else-
of Conduct in Israel
where, -because a rebel inside
the palace is worse than a rebel
Editor, The Jewish News:
I am somewhat irritated outside. Even the Gentiles in
when a person who has thrown Palestine see no success be-
overboard religious traditions cause they are sinners. But he
-uses those traditions as a stick who goes there to conduct him-
to beat those who admit them- self in holiness and purity earns
selves bound by them. Ben- unbounded reward — only let
Gurion's teasing of the Dias- him be sure to have means of
- pora's Orthodox Jews for un- support. Since you asked why
willingness to settle in Israel the Babylonian sages did not
a fine meal owes its success to Heinz• Vegetarian Beans.
is such a case. Nevertheless, we settle there, my answer is that Many
After
all,
what's more proteinly delicious than H.V.B.?
must admit that "B. G." has a they were not permitted to do
point — a point, - incidentally, so; as they would have had to
(More H.V.B.) What's easier to prepare? (Just heat and
first made many centuries ago give up their studies in order serve.)What's to keep you from doing it tonight? (Nothing.)
by Judah Halevi in his famous to earn their living."
ALFRED A. GREENBAUM
"Kuzari."
The (;) Seal of The Unioia Of Orthodox Jewish Congregations Of America is on the label,
3330 Fullerton
The problem is far from new.

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