22 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, July 5, 1963 -- Gross-Stern En pw rent pn t rr I d MISS SHERREE GROSS At a recent dinner party for the immediate family, Mr. and Mrs. David Gross of Indiana Ave : announced the engagement of their daughter, Sherrie Mae, to Norton Stern, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Stern of Indiana Ave. A February wedding is planned. Israel's Red Cross Gets Resuscitators for Beach Patrols Resuscitators and other first- aid equipment have been sent by American Red Mogen Dovid to the Israel Red Cross Service, Magen David Adorn, for use by the Magen David Adorn Beach patrols. Magen David Adorn lifeguards and patrols are now on duty at all approved swimming beaches in Israel. The new equipment was re- quested after a recent major bathing tragedy involving a party of 42 girls aged 14-18 from the Beth Yaacov Orthodox Teacher's Seminary School at Be'er Ya'acov. The students went swimming at an unguarded beach and, in a series of trage- dies in which one girl after an- other tried to help her friend, nine persons lost their lives. Prompt arrival of a Magen David Adorn emergency unit re- sulted in the rest of the swim- mers being saved. Artificial re s piration had to be used on 14, all of whom were soon out of danger. Magen David Adorn crews from a number of centers responded to the alarm. . American Red Mogen Dovid for Israel, whose headquarters are at 50 W. 57th St., New York, is the supply and support wing of Magen David Adorn. over Lf 49 years of • RUG IN CUSTOM CLEANING • Repairing• Relaying WALL-TO-WALL CARPET CLEANING Leader's experts profession- ally dean your carpets in your home with Bigelow's ex- clusive Karpet-Kare method. CASH & CARRY—SAVE 20% eagle CARPET CLEANING CO. 8700 LINWOOD 543400 `Faith and Prejudice' Acclaimed as Contribution to Understanding National Protestant religious leaders and the executive vice president of the American Jew- ish Committee joined in ac- claiming as a major contribu- tion to inter-religious under- standing "Faith and Prejudice," a book which examines the problems of religious, racial, and ethnic prejudice in Protes- tant religious education. The statements were made at the Yale Club in New York in connection with the publication of "Faith and Prejudice" by Dr. Bernhard E. Olson, by Yale University Press. Participating in the session, chaired by Chester Kerr, direc- tor, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., were: Dr. John C. Bennett, Dean of Faculty, Union Theological Seminary; Dr. C. Ellis Nelson, director of religious education, Union Theo- logical Seminary; Dr. Olson; Dr. John Slawson, executive vice president, American Jewish Committee; Dr. Paul Vieth, Horace Bushnell, Professor of Christian Nurture, Yale Univer- sity Divinity School. "Faith and Prejudice", which reports the findings of a seven- year self-study carried out at Yale Divinity School to deter- mine how outside groups such as Cathlics, Jews and Negroes are portrayed in Protestant lit- erature, is a comprehensive ex- amination analyzing four cur- ricula each representing a char- acteristic Protestant viewpoint: fundamentalism, classical con- servatism, liberalism and neo- orthodoxy. The Yale project is one of three independent self-studies of religious educational mate- rials stimulated by the Ameri- can Jewish Committee, pio- neer human relations agency, as part of its program to fur- ther understanding among re- ligious groups. A Catholic self-study at St. Louis Univer- sity has just been completed. The study of Jewish texts at Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in Phil- adelphia is nearing comple- tion. "Faith and Prejudice" reveals that Protestants tend to think of prejudice almost exclusively in racial terms, seldom conceiv- ing that religious prejudice may exist as well. The book isolates the themes which give rise to the most neg- ative references to Catholic and Jews. For Catholics, these themes include the Reforma- tion, past persecution of Protes- tants by the Catholic Church, and anxieties about the Church's attitudes toward freedom and power. For Jews—with whom Protes- tant materials reveal a higher degree of preoccupation than any other outside group — the problem themes are the Cruci. fixion, the conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees, Jewish resistance to conversion. Some textbooks, "Faith and Prejudice" states, ref e r to - Jews and Judaism without distinguishing between Bibli- cal times and the present day. Thus, statements made about some Jews in the first cen- tury tend to be carried into the present and applied to all Jews. "Faith and Prejudice" shows that Protestant materials dis- play a wide range of treatment of those subjects which are most telling in their effect on Jews. In relating the Crucifixion, for example, one denomination studied cautioned its students: "Feelings of hate and acts of violence (against the Jew) have a long history. Their roots are deep and widespread." The text added: "There is one branch among these roots which it is especially important for Christians to discover; and strange as it seems, this branch grew from the Old Story of Sal- vation. In that great story the Jewish , people were accused of having killed the Son of God. Such an accusing attitude to- ward the Jewish people is sure- ly not a fitting part of the Christian gospel." In 43 per cent of the les- sons of one denomination and 36 per cent of the lessons of another, variations of the generalization are that the Jews crucified Jesus. At the same time, refutation of the charge is also found in all curricula but one. Two interpretations of the same passage in Christian scrip- ture illustrate the radically dif- ferent treatment accorded by different denominations. To one group, the cross is a particular judgment upon Israel, and the Jews are labeled "obstinate and faithless" in the lesson com- ment. However, another denom- ination interprets the same passage as a revelation of God's grace and judgment upon all mankind, firmly rejecting a nar- row, anti-Jewish interpretation. Commission Seeks to Restore Jewish `Gold Rush' Graves PITTSBURGH, (JTA)—Leon- ard Weitzman, a veteran Pitts- burgh Jewish communal worker, has been named a member of the Commission for the Preser- vation of Pioneer Jewish Ceme- teries and Landmarks of the West. The commission was organized to • acquire title, restore and provide for the perpetual main- tenance of a number of long abandoned Jewish cemeteries rediscovered in the Mortimer Lode country of California and Nevada. The burial grounds at- test to the major participation of Jews in the pioneering days of the Gold Rush but, over the years as the gold ran out, the area was abandoned and revert- ed to nature, along with its tem- porary homes and its burial grounds. Weitzman came across the cemeteries on a trip West and was shocked at the condition of the graves and the inaccessabil- ity of the cemeteries. Mean- while, California Jewish leaders also had been acting to develop some organized effort to restore the graves and out of this grew the commission. It will function as a branch of the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Oakland, Calif. Bar Mitzvahs Mr. and Mrs. Albert Okun 24280 Cloverlawn, Oak Park, an- nounce the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Gary Mitchell, will be ob- served at Sabbath services 9 a.m. Saturday at Cong. Gemiluth Chassodim. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Sol Goldberg of Prairie Ave. announce the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Ronald Sanford Farber, on Saturday, July 6th. Services at Adas Sha- lom Synagogue, followed by a brunch in Springles Patio Room. • * * The Bar Mitzvah of Steven Zolkower will be observed at Sabbath services Saturday at Young Israel of Oak-Woods. Jill Haron to IfTed Shevard Goldstein Rockefeller Honored for Part in UJA Drive NEW YORK, (JTA)—Gover- nor Nelson A. Rockefeller, who joined 100 Jewish community leaders in launching a summer- time telephone drive on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, received an award citing his leadership in UJA's cause. The presentation was made at New York UJA campaign headquarters by Jack D. Weiler, a chairman of the New York United Jewish Appeal trustees. The "Person-to-Person" session at which it took place was one of the major events of the 25th annual New York UJA drive, now in progress. The UJA award presented to the Gover- nor expressed "appreciation of his distinguished efforts on be- half of UJA as an individual, MISS JILL HARON as Governor, and as first chair- Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Haron man of New York's Non-Secta- of Kentfield Ave. announce the rian Community Committee for engagement of their daughter, UJA." Jill Eileen, to Shevard Gold- stein, son of Mrs. Goldie Gold- Idleness causes tediousness.— stein of Oak Park and the late Kethuboth 59 Ben Goldstein. The prospective bridegroom is a senior at Wayne State Uni- versity. A Dec. 22 wedding is planned. * * * U. S. Jews Won't Lose Cultural Identity—Sachar ST. LOUIS, Mo., (JTA)—Dr. Abram Sachar, president of Brandeis University, said that "Jews will not lose their cul- tural identity in the United States unless the nation first loses its democratic way of life." Addressing the annual con- vention here of Bnai Brith Dis- trict Two, attended by some 500 delegates from seven states, Sa- char said that, in his opinion, the greatest threat to Jewish culture today exists in Latin America, where Anti-Jewish and neo-Nazi organizations are rife. Label A. Katz, president of Bnai Brith, called for Congres- sional backing for President Kennedy's proposed civil rights bill, which he said comprised "some practical measures that codify our moral principles as a democratic nation." goandations by Corsets-Brassieres Expertly Fitted * 1,, * N I. 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