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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, Marc h 15, 1963 --
Jewish Book Council
to Make New Award
Cantors Barkin,
Klein at Bnai
Moshe Fete Sun.
Canton Louis Klein will direct
the Bnai Moshe Choral Ensemble
at the annual Jewish Music
MOnth concert
sponsored by
the syna-
gogue, Sun-
day evening.
The guest
artist at the
concert w i 11
be Cantor Ja-
cob Barkin of
the Concord
Hotel, noted
tenor, who Cantor Klein
will be featured in a program
of folksongs, cantorial and op-
eratic arias.
The youth choir of the syna-
gogue will be directed by Abe
Silver. B e 11 a Goldberg and
Doreen Raskin will be the ac-
companists.
Tickets for the annual con-
cert are available at the Bnai
Moshe office.
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Cantor Klein Edits
'Shirei Tflio' Book
.
NEW YORK—A new annual
award for the best American
non-fiction book of Jewish in-
terest, has been established by
the Jewish Book Council of the
National Jewish Welfare Board
through a grant from the SSCO
Fund Committee, Inc.
Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman of
Congregation Beth Sholom,
Lawrence. L.L, president of the
Jewish Book Council, said that
the new prize, to be called the
Frank and Ethel S. Cohen
Award, will include a citation
and a cash award of $250.
It will be given for the first
time at the Jewish Book Coun-
cil's annual meeting in May
when similar awards will be
made for 1962s outstanding
work of fiction, best Jewish ju-
venile and best works of Jewish
poetry in English, Hebrew and
Yiddish.
Israel Invites
Candidates to Apply
for Nursing. Study
The Ministry of Health in
Israel invites candidates for a
three-years' study course in one
of Israel's 13 schools of nurs-
ing.
Candidates whose applica-
tions will be approved will par-
ticipate in a special ULPAN
(intensive Hebrew-1 a n g u a g e
course) before entering the
school.
There is no tuition fee, and
room and board are provided
free. Minimum required age is
17 years.
For information, apply in
writing only to to the Consulate
General of Israel, 936 N. Mich-
igan Avenue, Chicago 11, Ill.
An attractive 36-page book of
"Songs of Prayer" —"Shirei
T'filo"—has been published by
Congregation Bnai Moshe. It
was compiled and edited by
Cantor Louis Klein, the congre-
gation's Hazzan.
This book, produced for use
by the Bnai Moshe congregants,
includes the musical scores and
the songs used for the Sabbath
—the. Sabbath Eve - and Sabbath
morning hymns—as well as fes-
tival hymns.
Cantor Klein has incorporated
in this brochure a number of
compositions by eminent. can- America-Israel
tors as well as a number - of his
Culture Foundation
own compositions.
His "Shehu Noteh Shamayim" Raises $200,000
is dedicated to the youth and
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
junior congregations of Bnai America-Israel: Cultural Foun-
dation raised more than $200,-
A version of "Ain Kelohenu" 000 for support and maintenance
also was arranged for this book of a network of cultural pro-
by Cantor Klein, in addition to a jects and institutions in Israel
"Haller version and other at its annual dinner-concert
hymns.
here.
Prefacing the book are ap-
More than 1,300 persons at-
praisals and commendations by tended the $150-a-plate dinner
Rabbi Moses Lehrman, Harry J. and paid tribute to Robert W.
Gunsberg and Stephen Lanyi, Dowling, cultural director for
president and vice - president, New York City. He was hon-
and Bernard Sharkey. An evalu- ored by the Foundation for "dis-
ating preface by Cantor Klein tinguished contributions in the
is included in the introductory field of eultural exchange."
messages.
Samuel Rubin, president of the
Foundation, presented Dowling
with a biblical and topographi-
cal history of Palestine written
350 years ago .-in Latin by a 16th
Century Catholic scholar.
A proclamation by Mayor
• Robert F. Wagner was presented
TEL- AVIV, (JTA) — The Is- to the Foundation declaring
raeli Aeronautical Society said March 4-10 "Cultural Exchange
that a "series" of Shavit-type Week." The Foundation's an-
rockets will be used in a special nual budget of $2,000,000 sup-
,space probe project in which the ports 50 cultural projects in
society will cooperate with the Israel, an American-Israel cul-
tural exchange program, and a
Haifa Technion.
Jerome Schafer, president of scholarship program for Israeli
the society, said the agreement artists at home and abroad.
was approved at the final session
of the annual meeting of the so- Anglo-Jewish Leader
ciety held at the Technion in
Haifa. He said also that Tech- Raps Soviet Union
nion scientists were already for Anti-Semitism
working on instruments for the
LONDON, (JTA) — R. N.
project, which will probe the up- Carvalho, president of t h e
per atmosphere. He said tech- Anglo-Jewish Association, as-
nical plans called for recovery serted that the Soviet govern-
of the instruments after launch. ment should realize that the
The Shavit-n is a two-stage determined confinement of a
solid-fuel rocket which was first religious group from contact
launched by Israel in-July, 1961. with those in other parts of the
Though there have been reports world sharing its beliefs was
of plans • for a second launch, "not only cruel but unneces-
there has been no announcement sary."
that a second firing ever took
He also told a meeting of
place.
the association's council that
Russia would commend itself
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A man is forbidden to beget
children in times of famine.
Baptist Church to Plant Grove of Trees in Israel
An Oak Park (Mich.) Baptiit troit, has been launched by the of the church so that the dill-
congregation has chosen tolRev. Dr. Harold P. Warren of dren may watch their progreSs
demonstrate that, it has a corn- the First Baptist Church of Oak in the drive.
munal share With its Jewish Park.
Purchasers of trees are
neighbors in the future of the - The church is well known to awarded certificates and other
Holy Land through the plant- the Detroit suburb's large Jew- tokens of appreciation by Jew-
ing of a grove of 1,000 trees in ish population by a sign bearing ish National Fund headquarters,
Israel.
the word "Shalom" in bold let- 19414 Wyoming, according to
Percy Kaplan, executive direc-
A campaign to accomplish the ters on its facade.
goal, in cooperation with the
A.. "Trees for Israel Service" tor. Dr. Warren explained why he
Jewish National Fund of De- will be held at 7 p. m. March
24 at the church, 24201 Cool- instituted the tree project
among his parishoners.
The Sidney Psalter
idge, Oak Park. Open to the I "The planting of trees has a
public, it will be dedicated to
of
the purpose of planting a grove vital role in the reclamation
Ithe land. We, too, are eager for
in the William Eugene Black-
success and wish to demon-
stone Project in Israel, which iits
strate
our faith by joining with
was established about two years our fellow Jews in helping to
ago with the cooperation of the ensure the full redemption of
Northwest Baptist Church of the nation of Israel.
In 1586, at the age of 32, Sir Chicago.
"It is a positive way by which
Philip Sidney was mortally
Dr. Warren will speak on
wounded in battle, having com- "What Meaneth These Trees?" we can further the cause of
pleted only 43 of his ambitious and participating in the serv- understanding and better rela-
verse translations of the Psalms ice will be Rabbi Milton Arm tioniships between Christians
of David. His sister, the Coun- of Cong. Ahavas Achim and and Jews. We hope that by
tess of Pembroke r later finished Cantor Harold Orbach of Tem- planting trees in Israel we help
the job, and the entire psalter ple Israel. Greetings will be to foster this kindred spirit."
finally circulated, in manu- delivered by Morris J. Brand-
script, among court circles after wine, president of the Jewish
1599.
National Fund of Detroit.
Although it was highly prais-
A number of activities al-
ed by contemporaries, and ready have been started in ad-
probably sung in private devo- vance of the assembly to pro-
tions, the Psalter remained un- mote the planting of trees in
printed until a limited edition Israel among Dr. Warren's
of 250 copies appeared in 182'3. flock and the entire Oak Park
Today, Anchor Books will citizenry. Jewish National Fund
make the complete collection. tree charts adorn classroom
"The Psalms of Sir Philip Sid- walls of the religious school
ney and the Countess of Pem-
Bolivian Jewry
broke," generally available for
the first time. Edited by J. C.
The Jewish Community of
A. Rathmell of Christ's Col- Bolivia, which was settled short-
lege, Cambridge, this paper- ly after the founding of the
bound Anchor Original .will republic in 1825, today num-
contain all 150 psalms.
bers some 4,200 persons, the
In his Introduction, Rathmell majority of whom live in La
goes into the background of Paz with smaller communities
the work, and compares it to in Cochabamba, Oruro, Santa
previous and subsequent psal- Cruz and Tarija.
ters.
Not just translations, but
poems in their own right, the
"Sydnean Psalmes" were eulo-
gized by John Donne in 1635,
and called "a classical model
of the English language at the
time of its culminating perfec-
tion" by John Ruskin two cen-
turies later.
Sidney and his sister suc-
ceeded in recreating the psalms
as Elizabethan poems, and their
efforts are notable for their
vivacity and sense of personal
involvement. Unlike the mon-.
otonous paraphrasing of other
translations, the Sidney Psal-
ter possesses a remarkable
•TOPS IN
variety of stanza forms that con-
form to the nature of their
PERFORMANCE!
subject matter. The poets ex-
with
many
verse
perimented
•TOPS IN
forms and rhyme schemes—
VALUE!
Psalm 119 is represented by no
less than 25 different inter-
pretations by the Countess.
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Seven years her brother's
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