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Plea to Ease Duties of Rabbis
Voiced at Rabbinical Convention
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Ben-Gurion Pledges Free Education for Israel
(Direct JTA TeIetYPe Wire
to The Jewish News)
He said the main challenge tional needs could be drawn
was that of lifting the educa- from Jewish communities in
MIAMI BEACH, (JTA) — An learning the Hebrew language."
JERUSALEM — Prime Minis- tional levels of youths coming
appeal to synagogue leaders, to "For more than 3,000 years," ter David Ben-Gurion pledged from oriental countries. He the free world.
"Jewish youth could be drawn
relieve the rabbi from vario us Rabbi Smith maintained, "the Tuesday that Israel would pro-
added "he believed that teaching to Israel if we know how to
business administration, fun d- Jewish people the world over vide free secondary schooling
personnel
for
Israel's
educa-;
reach
them." he concluded.
raising and public relation s had retained its identity and within five years and free uni
duties, so that he might devot e heritage, not because of language versity education within 10
years.
more of his time and energy to but because of the close p
s irit
ua 1
Speaking at a Teachers Union
spiritual matters, was made a t ties of the Torah, which has
the 26th annual convention of guided the Jewish people in their convention, the Prime Minister
the Rabbinical Council of Amer i- chain of Jewish unity and con said Israel's minimum goal must
ea by the organization's p a s
tinuity. Unless the young Jews - be a university education for
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president, Rabbi Theodore L. of Israel and America are im all Israelis able to benefit from
Adams, of New York.
bued with the realization that our - it In spelling out these goals,
AS LOW AS
"Lay synagogue and communi- bond of unity rests in the spirit- he urged a "permanent revolu-
ty leaders," he asserted, "are re- ual obligations which we share, tion in our lives against the
established facts."
ducing the power of the rabbi in that bond will be jeopardized.
AS LOW AS
He stressed that "all of our
the purely religious areas of
Recent
events
in
the
Soviet
past
achievements
were
due
to
Jewish life. The control of re-
AS LOW AS
ligious policies is constantly be- Union have indicated "a strong a rejection of what then passed
direction toward Soviet anti- for reality and on our insistence
ing transferred from the rabbis
Plus the equiprnent of your choice
Semitism in a vast area of Rus- on fighting for the ideal."
to the lay leaders.
sian economics, political and
See Barney Teal, Mgr., personally
He urged the teachers to "set
"Synagogue leaders should
social activities," it was a personal example" and not
relieve the rabbi of such fun-
chaited here.
I imitate "higher income groups,"
ctions as business awhwiwistra-
The charge was voiced by Rab- in an apparent reference to the
tion, fund-raising and glorified
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that he can be restored to a of the convention. He called up- led a wide range of profession-
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position of deep spiritual dis- on the U.S. Government "the als including teachers to strike
tinction, authority and per- United Nations and leaders of during the past year.
"The fateful question facing
suasiveness. The hope for a all major faiths to speak out
truly creative resurgence can- against the continued suppres- us is what kind of a people
not rest with narrow `organi- sion of Jewish religious and cul- will be living here in 20 years,"
he told the t ea chers. The
zation men.' It must be based tural activities in the USSR.
answer, he said, lay in educa-
on the consecrated commit-
At an earlier session, Ameri-
ment of intrrriduals of high can Jewry was called upon by tion.
ethical and religious eminence, several of the speakers to give
such as the rabbi."
The 1962-63 appropriations for
"greater and more meaningful"
Rabbi Harold H. Smith of Chi- significance to Sabbath observ- the operation of the Michigan
cago sharply criticized the recent ance. Americans were reminded Department of Mental Health
"dialogue" held in Jerusalem be- of the meaning of the Sabbath by facilities, clinics, research a n d
tween American Jewish and Is- Rabbi Nachman Rabinovich of training programs are approxi-
raeli leaders, who had discussed Charleston, S. C.; Rabbi Zal- mately $10.000,000 less than the
the relationships between Israeli man I. Posner of Nashville; and amount of money requested by
and American Jewries. He chal- Rabbi Irving Filler of Brooklyn. the department to provide serv-
lenged one conclusion resulting Rabbi David Shapiro or Milwau- ices and facilities for the state's
from that "dialogue." which. he k ee scored what he called "the mentally ill and retarded.
said, held that "Israeli-American ersatz methods which have been
Jewish ties could be re-empha- f ormuated for the observance of
sized through the simple process the Sabbath."
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Orthodox Rabbis Convention Calls
for Closure of YMHAs on Sabbath
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
I the U.S. armed forces to recog-
I nize Saturday as a legal day of
MIAMI BEACH — A resolu - !rest for all observant Jews, just
tion calling upon all Jewish Fed
as Sunday is recognized legally
erations in the country to hal t as a day of rest for Christians.
the opening of YMHAs and YW
•
HAs on the Sabbath was adopted
here Wednesday at the closing Rabbinical Council
session of the 26th annual con-
vention of the Rabbinical Council Asks JFK to Lead
of America.
I Crusade for Morality
Such closures on the sabbath, I MIAMI BEACH, (JTA) — Rab-
the 800 orthodox rabbis at the bi Charles Weinberg, president
six-day parley declared. would of the Rabbinical Council of
"avoid the violation of a sacred America. urged this week that
tenet of Judaism."
President Kennedy convene a
The convention adopted a num- - White House summit" confer-
ber of other resolutions. One re- ence of clergymen of all faiths,
quested the government of educators and public opinion
Argentina to suppress all anti- leaders to mobilize the American
Semitic incidents and to afford people "in a great crusade for
full protection to the Argentine public morality."
Jews. Another called upon the
Rabbi Weinberg made the
State Department to "make proposal in addressing the open-
every effort to protect American ing session of the 26th annual
firms and businesses from the convention of the association of
fury of the Arab boycott and to Orthodox Rabbis here.
withhold aid from the Arab
Asserting that the United
states as long as the boycott States was "undergoing a very
exists."
powerful moral decline," Rabbi
Other resolutions requested Weinberg said that it was "a
that the Department of Justice most disheartening fact that
add the name of George Lincoln church and synagogue member-
Rockwell's American Nazi party ship has been rising phenomen-
to its list of subversive organiza- ally in the past decade, without
tions; called upon the Post Of- a corresponding decrease of inci-
fice Department to ban all hate dents of moral debasement, civic
literature from the U.S. mails, degr e d a tion and political
and requested that Congress en- bribery."
act a civil rights law safeguard-
He said such a White House
ing" the basic rights of all our conference should "also grapple
citizens to vote in all state and with the crucial issue of peace
federal elections."
in a world beset with the grave
A further resolution called dangers of nuclear destruction
upon the American Jewish com- and decimation."
munity "to intensify the various
He also appealed to heads of
campaigns for the United Jewish rabbinical colleges and semi-
Appeal, State of Israel Bonds and naries to induce their graduates
the investment of private capital to accept rabbinical positions
in Israel."
throughout the United States "to
The closing session elected alleviate the serious shortage of
Rabbi Abraham N. Avrutick, of rabbis in this country."
Congregation Agudas A c h i m,
He said such graduates were
Hartford, Conn.. as president. to being deterred from the pulpit
succeed Rabbi Charles Weinberg because local Jewish communi-
of Malden, Mass, who was elect- ties "have shunted" rabbis into
ed honorary president.
"public relations, fund - raising
In his acceptance address Rab- and counseling."
bi Avrutick called upon Con-
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