Victims of Rare Disease Seek
Community Funds for Research

Zionists Sponsor
Lecture by Taslitt on
Israel's Christians

Mrs. William Berman has
myasthenia gravis (MG) in com-
mon with 45 other Detroiters
that she knows of.
She would rather not, and
yet she would like to know the
others afflicted here.
According to national figures,
there should be about 100 more
in Detroit. They don't know
why their muscles don't re-
spond, why they have difficulty
in swallowing, why they have
double vision, why their eye-
lids drop, why they feel so
very weak.
The rare disease is difficult
to diagnose. Once it is, a heavy
medication program consisting
of as many as 55 pills daily can
provide relief.
They would find hope and
comfort with the Myasthenia
Gravis Association, Inc., of De-
troit, which seeks funds for
research and for pill bank for
the costly medication. The as-
sociation also seeks the organi-
zational help of outsiders in its
efforts in search of a cure.
The group now consists of
the victims and their families.
Dale Brock„ 8510 McGraw, is
its chairman and there are doc-
tors who give their professional
guidance:
According to Mrs. Berman,

the support of the community
is now needed to establish a
research program in Detroit.
Those who wish to contribute
toward this end may contact
Mrs. Berman, 19342 Montrose,
VE 7-7920.

History and theology are in- Judaism something more than
terlinked in the approaches a boring legacy of conserva-
made by Arthur A. Gordon, in tion remains to be seen. It
"The Natural and the Super- is clear, however—painfully
natural Jew," published by Pan- clear—that if it fails, only
theon Books, to analyze the God (and perhaps always
Israel Honors Memory
Jewish position. It is as an ex- ONLY God) will be respon-
istentialist and theologian as sible for the survival of Jew-
of Unknown Soldier
well as an historian that the ry in the Exile that endures."
The
JERUSALEM, (JTA )
Cohen's contention is that
author lists existential dogmas
Seventh Day of Adar, the tradi-
—the distinction between the "the vitality of Jewish culture
tional birth and death anniver-
natural and supernatural Jew, is to be measured by the in-
sary of Moses, was mark e d
the Exile's significance in the tensity with which it under-
throughout Israel March 3 as
(Exile)
as
a
cultural
galut
takes
consciousness of supernatural
Memorial Day for the Unknown
vocation as a condition of Jew- demand; indeed, as the living
Soldier.
ish existence, the aliveness of of its messianic vocation."
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While he maintains that "the
history to its incompleteness
FOR THE ULTIMATE
role
of
Judaism
in
the
cultural
and the reaffirmation "that the
IN GOOD MUSIC
enterprise
is
not
different
in
Jew is a messianic being for
ISRAEL
I.
TASLITT
whom there is no redemption kind from that of any other
until all history is redeemed,"_ religion, although its role may
Cleveland Jewish communal
And His Orchestra
that the Jew "cannot be a mes- be somewhat less precise and leader and author of a number
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sianist in isolation from the somewhat more oblique and of juvenile books based on the
community of Jews and the tendentious," he utters this Bible, Israel I. Taslitt will be
whole of mankind," that the paean:
"God does not work social presented in a lecture on "Is-
Jewish people's situation "is
Diamonds - Fine Jewelry
rael's Christians: What Is At
fashioned not only by God but change, attend diplomatic Stake?" by the Zionist Organi-
Silverware
by the events of time and his- conferences, listen to political zation of Detroit 8:30 p.m.
invocations, or bother with
tory."
March
26
at
the
Jewish
Center.
grace at charity banquets. He
The author declares at
The latest book of Taslitt,
does not improve good will
once that if these "are authen-
RELY
•GEMOLOGIST
who has lived in Israel, is
rather he works on a universe
ON
tic Jewish dogmas they must
"Faith Walks the Land," a pic-
A
in which society and man torial documentary of contem-
•DESIGNER
have been latent in the past
participate. Society does not porary Christian life in Israel.
against which Jewish thought
•APPRAISER
reject God. The individual
developed and matured. It is
Refreshments will be served
must first turn Him out of at the lecture and the public is
obviously of little interest to
"The Price
his life. It is the insufficiency invited, free of charge, accord-
project a view of Jewish des-
Is Always
of man that he should be un- ing to Judge Ira G. Kaufman,
tiny so at variance with pos-
Right"
able to follow after God. A president of the ZOD.
sibilities present in Jewish
at
Agency
man may follow after his be-
history as to be ludicrously
loved, or seek after beauty,
implausible and tendentious.
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but to follow after God is a De-Stalinization
One to Suit Every Occasion
Undoubtedly my view is a
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task of infinite difficulty. This
harsh view. However, I am
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is a condition of our world— Didn't Include Jews,
afraid less of harshness than
and to such a world the Mes- N. Y. Times Reports
of inauthenticity. I am afraid
siah comes not as reformer.
less of abnormalizing the Jew
PARIS, (JTA)—The situation
"The Jew is the between-
than of normalizing him. This
0 to„ Lasting Honeymoons
of the Jews in the Soviet Union
man,
between
time
and
eter-
...,,,,..
is so because my concern is
is one of the few fields in
nity,
between
the
sadness
of
less with Jewish history as
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*if"
the world and the joy of re- which de-Stalinization does not
such, with the works of the
seem
to
be
in
practice,
the
New
Member
demption. He neither be-
Jewish mind, with the identi-
lieves that in this time and York Times declared in its In-
fication of its peculiar cast
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history has the Kingdom of ternational Edition, in a re-
and accent, its spirit and
God been foretasted nor does view of the 10 years since
force, than with a specific
he know when it is that God Stalin's death.
phenomenon: the Jewish
The review, written by the
appoints this time and his-
OVIAM
mind as it has thought and
tory for redemption. For this Times' Moscow correspondent,
continues to think about its
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reason the Jew is not bound Seymour Topping, said that "no
-supernatural vocation."
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minent
purge
victims,
such
as
ish personalities and their views others would destroy and de-
on Jewry, their status as men, stroy in ages where others the 25 noted writers of the Jew
the role of theologians, the at- create—for he is the leaven ish anti-Fascist Committee"
We Make Our Own Glasses
titudes on science, faith and of history. And this, we who were killed during the
purge
of
Jewish
intellectuals
in
religion. Moses Mendelssohn, would think, is the messianic
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• LATEST DOMESTIC AND IM-
The article noted that, in re-
Zunz, Heinrich Graetz, Samson culture."
PORTED FRAME FASHIONS
"The natural and the super- views of the Stalin purges in
Raphael Hirsch, Ahad Ha-Am,
Simon Dubnow, Chaim Nach- natural Jew are joined in ev- Russia, "a significant silence"
• PRESCRIPTIONS FOR GLASSES
man Bialik are among the noted ery Jew," Cohen insists. "The was maintained on the question
ACCURATELY FILLED
thinkers whose views are taken supernatural Jew may occa- of guilt. Topping wrote that
sionally
forget
that
he
is
also
Stalin
and
his
late
police
chief,
into consideration.
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Cohen concerns himself also flesh and blood; he may detach Lavrenti Beria, are assigned
himself
from
the
world
and
blanket responsibility for the
with the Jewish renaissance in
Germany, with Hermann Cohen, disengage himself from history purges but "little if anything
Lao Baeck, Franz Rosenzweig that he may pursue a path of is said of the other individuals
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Posing the questions: "Can
felt and interpreted only psy-
chologically. The amalgam may the testimony of all truth com-
enjoy metophysical status when pel human decision? Is it pos-
isolated from history and ex- sible that the sense of super-
amined by the religious think- natural vocation—lost as it is in
er; it may enjoy a symbolic rel- the abyss of natural life—may-
evance to history when inter- be renewed?", his answer is:
preted by the eschatologist • as "This question still remains,
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the bearer of meaning in his- and only Jews can answer it."
Since 1926
Arthur A. Cohen comes to his
tory; but it becomes, in its own
right, an historical phenomenon theme with an interesting back-
only when it is considered as a ground as a theologian and
author. A University of Chicago
psychological aberration."
Defining Jewish unique- graduate, he was a Fellow in
ness, the existential co-effici- Medieval Jewish Philosophy at
ent of the rabbinic man, the Jewish Theological Semi-
stabilization of Jewish life in nary. He studied at Union The-
the Middle Ages and the dis- ological Seminary and Colum-
aster in the days of Emanci- bia University and from 1957 to
pation, Cohen turns to the 1961 he was consultant on the
American scene and declares: project "Religion and the Free
"The passion of Judaism was Society" for the Fund for the
adaptation; that passion has Republic. He is a member of
been relieved of its charac- the Church-Slate committee of
teristic frenzy. American Ju- the American Civil Liberties
daism has entered a new Union, is a member of the Jew-
period, in which something ish Publication Society's edi-
\
appears to be happening. torial advisory board, has served
Whether the Jewish genius on numerous other editorial
for religion will display the boards and is now director of
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25 - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, March 1 5, 1963

Jew as History's Leaven, His
Messianic Relation to Culture,
Outlined in Supernatural Study

